Speaker 1: De Hello, my friend, and welcome back to another edition
Speaker 1: of Love Someone, my podcast. I have had such a
Speaker 1: great time this year doing these podcasts. I love talking
Speaker 1: to people on the air, but when you hear a
Speaker 1: call on my radio show, it's usually only two or
Speaker 1: three minutes long, and sometimes people have a lot more
Speaker 1: to share than we can cram into two or three minutes.
Speaker 1: And so we decided to do these podcasts so that
Speaker 1: I could talk to people in depth about things that matter.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: There are some podcasts that are political in nature, some
Speaker 1: all about sports, some about cars. There's some really amazing
Speaker 1: podcast out there. I mean, anything you are interested in,
Speaker 1: you can find a podcast about. But what we focus
Speaker 1: on is talking to real people about ways to make
Speaker 1: a real impact in the world. A lot of times
Speaker 1: we wait for someone else to fix it. We wait
Speaker 1: for the county to fix it, or the state to
Speaker 1: fix it, or the government to fix it, or the
Speaker 1: church to fix it. We wait for other people to
Speaker 1: step in and fix huge problems climate change, pollution, animals
Speaker 1: dying off and becoming extinct, human trafficking something we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about today. We're waiting for somebody to fix
Speaker 1: these things. But in reality, we have to be the
Speaker 1: change that we want to see in the world. We
Speaker 1: have to be willing to step outside of our comfort
Speaker 1: zone and make a difference, make a difference in our
Speaker 1: corner of the world. A day in the studio with
Speaker 1: me is a woman who has been doing that for decades.
Speaker 1: It's hard to believe, but Natasha Bettingfield has been singing
Speaker 1: and speaking out against human trafficking for a couple of
Speaker 1: decades now, which is really weird because she's so young,
Speaker 1: and so beautiful and so so sassy. If you met her,
Speaker 1: if you were to meet her, you would think she
Speaker 1: was probably twenty twenty one years old. But she's been
Speaker 1: around the block three times, maybe four. And today she's
Speaker 1: going to spend some time talking about her new music,
Speaker 1: talking about her baby, talking about her family, talking about
Speaker 1: her brother who is a dear, dear friend, Daniel Bettingfield,
Speaker 1: and talking about human trafficking. It's a bigger problem than
Speaker 1: most people know. It's one of those dirty little secrets
Speaker 1: we don't want to talk about. When people talk about slavery,
Speaker 1: they talk about slavery.
Speaker 3: In the past tense.
Speaker 1: Did you know there are more people enslaved today than
Speaker 1: at any other time in the history of our world.
Speaker 1: Natasha is going to shed a little light on that.
Speaker 1: But before we get started in this wonderful conversation, I
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Speaker 1: More, saving more doing with me in the studio is
Speaker 1: somebody that I have known from a distance, for probably
Speaker 1: twenty years eighteen years.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: I have seen pictures of you at a hospital bedside
Speaker 1: when you were nurturing somebody back to health.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: But this is the first time I met you face
Speaker 3: to face.
Speaker 2: That's amazing because you are really great friends with my brother.
Speaker 2: I Yeah, and he loves you.
Speaker 3: I love your brother like my own child.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I truly he feels that the same with you.
Speaker 1: When I met him, there was such an instant connection.
Speaker 1: By the way, for those of you, for those of
Speaker 1: you listening to this broadcast, I'm talking with Natasha Battingfield.
Speaker 3: Hi, who's gorgeous.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: You are just naturally beautiful. And we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about your new music. You're going to talk about your
Speaker 1: old music. We're going to talk about your new baby.
Speaker 3: We're probably going to talk.
Speaker 1: About your mom and her ministry and what you do
Speaker 1: was stopping child trafficking and sex trafficking.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk about all of.
Speaker 2: That, right, and my brother, but we're gonna lead with
Speaker 2: the brother like it's also a thing. Actually had two
Speaker 2: hits before I did in the world.
Speaker 1: Two amazing hits and amazing world tour. Daniel Beddingfield, who
Speaker 1: is one of the most talented human beings I have
Speaker 1: ever met.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean, I like he like when you see
Speaker 2: him on stage, he makes so much sense because on
Speaker 2: stage he's just he is. On off stage, he's a
Speaker 2: larger than life character.
Speaker 1: He is he's But did you ever see Mozart Amadaeus
Speaker 1: when they were saying, just take it's too busy, take
Speaker 1: some of those notes out.
Speaker 3: It's like, I can't take notes out of a song
Speaker 3: amazing that is created. I can't. I can't be less
Speaker 3: I am. This song is is what it is. I think.
Speaker 2: I think Daniels people, I know, white people love to
Speaker 2: categorize and to contain, to label, to contain. It's impossible
Speaker 2: to do that with him.
Speaker 1: He's It's impossible to do it with anyone, but especially
Speaker 1: with Daniel exactly.
Speaker 2: And he was my older brother. That's what I grew
Speaker 2: up with him, and I grew up just like learning
Speaker 2: everything off him. He's very generous and he taught me
Speaker 2: how to sing. And he was a staff from the
Speaker 2: moment he was born.
Speaker 1: And I knew you were going to be very famous, Natasha,
Speaker 1: because when I met Daniel, he was a teenager. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh wow, he was not yet twenty and you were
Speaker 1: a kid, and he was saying, he said to me,
Speaker 1: if you think I'm talented, wait until you hear my
Speaker 1: little sister.
Speaker 2: Isn't that that's amazing?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, but but you're in the spotlight
Speaker 1: right now. He goes, I know, I know, I know,
Speaker 1: but wait until you hear my little sister.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. That's so beautiful to hear that. Because he
Speaker 2: he like taught me everything I know. And he was
Speaker 2: hard on me sometimes, like he like he was like
Speaker 2: he had to high standards. Yeah, but that's why because
Speaker 2: he saw me as he knew what I was capable love,
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: And was it hard like a dad to me? Well,
Speaker 1: he's I don't know if he's like, but he is.
Speaker 1: He is a force to be reckoned with for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's genius. And uh and I knew that I was
Speaker 1: going to love you because just all the lovely things
Speaker 1: he said. But he shared pictures of you with me
Speaker 1: for years and he shared your mom with me.
Speaker 2: That's so cool, isn't that?
Speaker 3: So he did.
Speaker 1: Daniel was very kind and when he saw the energy
Speaker 1: level of my two young children, they were like, you know,
Speaker 1: five and six or something ridiculous younger than that.
Speaker 3: They were, you know, in diapers or something.
Speaker 1: When when we first met and he came to the house,
Speaker 1: I have the house where my studio is now, and
Speaker 1: I had a trampoline in the yard and he played
Speaker 1: on that trampoline for hours with my children. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he saw that my boys had some unique character traits.
Speaker 1: He said, please call my mother's Please call my mother.
Speaker 1: She's such a good counselor, and she's such an expert,
Speaker 1: and she helped me to navigate and to avoid letting
Speaker 1: the doctors put them on medicine all of his young life.
Speaker 1: I never want allow the doctors had a sense to
Speaker 1: put him because because of in part of your mom,
Speaker 1: what your mom taught me, and she's sent me literature
Speaker 1: and had me read books and learn about the you know,
Speaker 1: the side effects of the medication to fix Adhd.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, I'm Adhd. I don't want to fixed.
Speaker 1: It's what allows me to to juggle my life and
Speaker 1: live my life.
Speaker 3: So but your mother is lovely.
Speaker 2: Thanks, I think I did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and now you're a mom.
Speaker 2: I'm a mom. And I waited a while like I
Speaker 2: had like full already full career, like I have this
Speaker 2: married for ten years and then I just had a baby,
Speaker 2: and it's amazing. I don't know why I was waiting
Speaker 2: so long.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you this, Natasha Beddingfield, who's had
Speaker 1: how many hits and great success and you're beautiful?
Speaker 3: How much more full.
Speaker 1: Is your heart, your life, your soul since becoming a mama.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's incredible, It's absolutely incredible. And I also
Speaker 2: feel so much more in touch with people in general
Speaker 2: because I know now what people go through and what
Speaker 2: it takes. And my little son is such a joy.
Speaker 3: So what's his name?
Speaker 2: His name is Solomon, and he's almost two. Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: going to be two in three months. And I mean, man,
Speaker 2: I can't imagine, Like that's a hard thing. Like when
Speaker 2: you open your heart to love, is that you can lose,
Speaker 2: something can happen, Like you know, you can lie awake
Speaker 2: thinking of the terrible things that can happen to your child.
Speaker 2: You don't want to focus on that stuff, of course,
Speaker 2: But like I feel like I never, really I didn't
Speaker 2: want to love somebody that much? Is it terrible? Like
Speaker 2: I would keep I kept my heart a bit closed
Speaker 2: because I didn't.
Speaker 3: Want It's not terrible. It's true.
Speaker 1: You know, why would we purposefully set ourselves up to
Speaker 1: be crushed like that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's love and that there's the thing is
Speaker 2: you're not living life if you if you close down.
Speaker 2: And I think I guess I was living a bit
Speaker 2: closed down. So for me, now that I've opened up
Speaker 2: to having this little being in my life who I
Speaker 2: can't control, I can't predict. I can just love and
Speaker 2: hear you love me. But I feel like there's a
Speaker 2: new flow in my life. It's it's really interesting, like
Speaker 2: there's just this energy.
Speaker 3: So tell me how that translates in your music, because
Speaker 3: now you've got a new song out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I signed a record deal, I got offered
Speaker 2: a deal, I left my label, and then I got
Speaker 2: offered this amazing indie deal by Linda Perry, and we
Speaker 2: wrote She's Incredible, And this album just came together in such.
Speaker 3: A talk about genius.
Speaker 2: Just felt like, yeah, such a genius too. And the
Speaker 2: flow was just not try hard, and you as you
Speaker 2: hear the album, you can hear it's not. It just
Speaker 2: isn't try hard. And a lot of pop music you
Speaker 2: can get in that zone where you start being safe,
Speaker 2: where you're like, oh, this is a guaranteed hit, Like,
Speaker 2: no one can guarantee a hit, but you start kind
Speaker 2: of writing a bit like that with these kind of
Speaker 2: executive label people, like saying what people want.
Speaker 1: Have you seen the video it was on YouTube? It's
Speaker 1: gone around social media where two guys play every song
Speaker 1: that's been a hit in the last five years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they all sound like the same.
Speaker 1: Quote, the exact same two And I'm like, whoa, you
Speaker 1: don't even realize how formula.
Speaker 2: Like so formulaic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everything has become.
Speaker 2: And it's just staying in a save zone. And I
Speaker 2: mean that's just you're You're not growing if you kind
Speaker 2: of do that.
Speaker 1: So, so tell me about roll with me, tell me
Speaker 1: about some of the songs.
Speaker 2: Okay, so roll with me. What's fun about this album
Speaker 2: is it is really fun, but I also got to
Speaker 2: talk about some of the stuff that really matters to me.
Speaker 2: For example, so there's a song called Hey Papa, which says,
Speaker 2: hey Papa, what's the news? What's going on in the world?
Speaker 2: This is there's some crazy stuff like every time you
Speaker 2: wake up in the morning, every time I wake up
Speaker 2: in the morning, I look at my phone and then
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, what bad news am I going to
Speaker 2: see as well, Like I'm almost afraid to look at
Speaker 2: my pon.
Speaker 1: You know how you unfollow people that are I have
Speaker 1: this stuff. I have unfollowed a lot of news feers
Speaker 1: that used to come into my phone because I would
Speaker 1: wake up and then I would be instantly terrorI exactly
Speaker 1: terrified or in a negative kind of not that I
Speaker 1: don't want to be aware of what's going on, but
Speaker 1: I can't be inundated every day with negativity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's there's the first line of songs. There's
Speaker 2: kids and guns. Starting out so young, we normalize and
Speaker 2: empathize and then hold our hands over our eyes, so
Speaker 2: like this, it's like this, there's been so many gun
Speaker 2: shootings this year. When you hear about so many, it
Speaker 2: almost desensitizes you and you can end up like just
Speaker 2: like burying your head under the blankets and just not
Speaker 2: even doing anything about it. And so it's great because
Speaker 2: I never really talked about stuff like that in my
Speaker 2: last albums. They were all just about personal like relationships
Speaker 2: and stuff and fun things.
Speaker 3: So now that you've been married ten years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now I've had a kid, and now I
Speaker 2: care about things more. But I feel like I've got
Speaker 2: a microphone in front of my face, and I have
Speaker 2: the freedom because I'm in an indie label too, and
Speaker 2: I'm working with someone who also cares about that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff too. So I just I feel that's quite
Speaker 2: a release for me because I've definitely had that thing
Speaker 2: that a lot of women feel if I mustn't be
Speaker 2: that angry woman or I mustn't be like, I mustn't
Speaker 2: rock the boat. So yeah, it's great.
Speaker 3: So let's rock a few boats.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's rock a few boats and talk about another thing.
Speaker 1: I know you're passionate about trafficking. Trafficking, Yes, that rocks boats.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know why, because we love to celebrate that
Speaker 2: we're a free society. We love to you know, England
Speaker 2: and America, that we have democracies and that we abolished slavery.
Speaker 2: But the problem is that a lot of the companies
Speaker 2: that we buy all our products from are not accountable
Speaker 2: and they don't check and they poposedly stay ignorant about
Speaker 2: the fact that they use a lot of slave labor
Speaker 2: to make all of their products.
Speaker 3: And yeah, nobody wants to believe that.
Speaker 2: No, but this is shocking. There's more slavery today than
Speaker 2: there ever was. When I'm crazy and we celebrate anti slavery.
Speaker 1: I go to West Africa at least twice, sometimes three
Speaker 1: times a year, and I go to the slave castles
Speaker 1: where humans were exported as chattel sixty million, wow, over
Speaker 1: the course of three hundred years. And I see people weeping,
Speaker 1: I see people crying. I see people going back to
Speaker 1: the roots and trying to wrap their head around it.
Speaker 1: And I stand there screaming. But it's going on today,
Speaker 1: right right, There are more slaves today. There are more
Speaker 1: people being trafficked today than ever in the history of
Speaker 1: our world.
Speaker 2: And then we celebrate things like fourth of July Independence Day,
Speaker 2: and we talk about the amazing constitution, and we talk
Speaker 2: about all these freedoms that we.
Speaker 1: Have while we neglect to pay attention to the fact
Speaker 1: that thousands of children go missing every year. That's right,
Speaker 1: tens of thousands of human beings are trafficked, not just
Speaker 1: across state lines, but country to country.
Speaker 3: There's a whole network.
Speaker 1: And when you go up and down the corridors on
Speaker 1: either coast, there's people every day being trafficked through the
Speaker 1: truck driving stops. You know they're in they're enslaved.
Speaker 3: And we close our eyes.
Speaker 2: And because it's in a different country. But it's not
Speaker 2: it's not you're right, it's not you're right. It's right
Speaker 2: here too, right because people can't see it, like people
Speaker 2: like to focus on the nice and fluffy and like,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you a funny example my mom, because she
Speaker 2: found out about that a lot of chocolate companies use
Speaker 2: labor to make the chocolate. And when you talk to them,
Speaker 2: they're like, they're like, oh, we don't we can't really
Speaker 2: tell you, know, they they purposely don't know about it.
Speaker 1: We outsource our chocolate exactly, yeah, exactly, No, we just
Speaker 1: buy it in bulk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, own the excitations.
Speaker 2: So she told us, she told she did a press
Speaker 2: release instead that our family are all fasting chocolate. Well
Speaker 2: she didn't check with us, and chocolate happens to.
Speaker 3: Be my favorite food.
Speaker 2: And I was like, I'm sorry, mom, I'm not fasting chocolate.
Speaker 2: Pick another, Pick another food.
Speaker 3: There are chocolates though you can find.
Speaker 1: There are there are fair trade, fair trade chocolates, so
Speaker 1: they're delicious, especially dark.
Speaker 2: But this is why it's so hard. It's because we
Speaker 2: love we love you know, we love our mobile.
Speaker 1: We don't want to know that our soccer balls that
Speaker 1: our kids are kicking around were sown by four year olds.
Speaker 3: Exact want to know exactly.
Speaker 1: That the jeans that you're wearing are sown by men
Speaker 1: and women imprisoned for not violent crimes, and they're making
Speaker 1: twenty five since an hour two to make the jeans
Speaker 1: that you're wearing.
Speaker 3: We don't want to think about them.
Speaker 2: I don't think about it right now. I don't.
Speaker 3: I truly don't want to think about it. No, I
Speaker 3: know I don't, but it's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh it's it's such a horrific, pervasive problem and
Speaker 1: nobody wants to talk about it. But you're you and
Speaker 1: your mom and my brother and my brother.
Speaker 2: And there's a company that I've been so the name
Speaker 2: of the ministry that well, my MoU's ministry is called
Speaker 2: it's a charity called Global Angels, but she works very
Speaker 2: closely with Stop the Traffic. And then there's another one,
Speaker 2: a guy called justin Dylon, and his charity is called
Speaker 2: Freedom f R d M, Freedom No Vows, And what
Speaker 2: he does is he works on talking with companies to
Speaker 2: keep them accountable because companies have realized, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: we are going to be in trouble when people figure
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 3: People figure out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's just like the organic food, Like if
Speaker 2: there's enough demand for something, then suddenly you see a
Speaker 2: whole aisle full of organic food. And so his thinking is, look,
Speaker 2: if companies could know like that this is important to people,
Speaker 2: that's where our power is, you know, because these companies
Speaker 2: are just doing what they think people will accept. I
Speaker 2: talked to my friend who runs the charity Freedom that
Speaker 2: I mentioned, and he said that, like, we did a
Speaker 2: documentary together called Call and Response, and this is about
Speaker 2: ten years ago, and we were talking about this issue
Speaker 2: because nobody knew about it ten years ago. There's definitely
Speaker 2: a lot more awareness. But what he said is that
Speaker 2: in England and in Australia, there was a law past
Speaker 2: that makes companies have to be responsible for what at
Speaker 2: least on with this level with you know, with companies,
Speaker 2: at least they have to be responsible for the people
Speaker 2: who work for them into making their.
Speaker 3: Products so that they're paid a fair wage.
Speaker 2: Yes, so it's an act that was passed that makes
Speaker 2: it legal that they have to. So that's just good
Speaker 2: news because we are making progress and that pressure from
Speaker 2: the public does actually work. And so that's the kind
Speaker 2: of stuff that we need to see happen in America.
Speaker 2: And I think that one of the things that I
Speaker 2: you know, people are strung so hard. Everyone listening here,
Speaker 2: we all have our own issues that we're dealing with,
Speaker 2: not to mention let's talk about all the stuff that's
Speaker 2: happening in other people's lives, but also our own lives.
Speaker 2: I think it's sometimes we just get overwhelmed and people
Speaker 2: feel apathetic, like my voice doesn't count. So something that's
Speaker 2: important to me is that people that my music would
Speaker 2: encourage people to feel like their voice counts and that
Speaker 2: you should. We all need to get involved. And we
Speaker 2: are in a democracy, and basically people love to take
Speaker 2: people's power away and to make you feel like you're
Speaker 2: just nothing and that you just don't have a voice.
Speaker 2: But we do have a voice, and so the more
Speaker 2: active we get, the more it can change can happen.
Speaker 3: Amen. Amen to that. So we're bouncing around here, but
Speaker 3: let's get back to roll with me.
Speaker 2: I love it, thank you. Let's bring back to my album.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bring it back to your album because I want
Speaker 1: to learn more. I want to hear more about some
Speaker 1: of the singles that we're going to be hearing from there.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah, okay, roll with me? How to get
Speaker 2: its name? I wrote a song called Rollskate with Linda
Speaker 2: Perry and it's about just being in London growing up
Speaker 2: and roller skating. We talked about all these you know,
Speaker 2: like big world life changing things that terrible, but it
Speaker 2: is just great to have music that makes you feel good.
Speaker 2: And one of the things that I loved being in
Speaker 2: London was roller skating growing up with my brother who
Speaker 2: we've talked about, Daniel, and he would be roll skating
Speaker 2: and I'd be trying to catch up with him, and
Speaker 2: it's great.
Speaker 3: Finds no way to catch up with your brother.
Speaker 2: No, he's he is, He's larger than life. I can
Speaker 2: never catch up with him.
Speaker 3: No, not on.
Speaker 1: Roller skates unless you, you know, had roller skates that
Speaker 1: had like a jet pack on the side.
Speaker 2: That you yeah, and he might say that I'm amazing,
Speaker 2: that I'm better than him, but it's not true. He's
Speaker 2: actually the most talented person I've ever met.
Speaker 1: Have you seen those jet ski things, those jet packs
Speaker 1: that you can ride above water on.
Speaker 2: Yes, funny enough. My sister wrote there's a there's a
Speaker 2: whole commercial with those in them that she wrote the
Speaker 2: theme tune to really writer. My sister is also, I
Speaker 2: have to say, also the best songwriter and singer in
Speaker 2: the world. So wait till you.
Speaker 3: Hear that's what Daniel said about you now, your.
Speaker 1: Sister Nicola, Yeah, just like your folks just have like
Speaker 1: major talent DNA.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I don't know what was
Speaker 2: going on, but my brother also I have two a
Speaker 2: brother and a sister, who are both incredible singers. But
Speaker 2: I think that if you have, if you kids need
Speaker 2: creative stuff, if if kids have access to learning how
Speaker 2: to do like music, if kids are brought up around music,
Speaker 2: then I think that all kids are musical. But everyone is.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: After raising as many as I've raised, I can tell
Speaker 1: you that is no. Oh yeah, several of my children
Speaker 1: are very very musical, and some are theatrical, and some
Speaker 1: have the dance gene and can dance like rhythm rhythm,
Speaker 1: and some aren't. And there's a verse that says train
Speaker 1: up a child and the way they should go, and
Speaker 1: they are old, they will not depart from it. And
Speaker 1: most people take that to mean train up a child
Speaker 1: in a church or in a particular religion, and I
Speaker 1: agree with that. I think that you need to give
Speaker 1: your children a firm foundation moral kindness and morals and
Speaker 1: a moral compass and saying. But I also think it
Speaker 1: means train up a child in the way they should go.
Speaker 1: They individual, They every I believe every child has gifts
Speaker 1: that are unique to them in different measures, in different combinations,
Speaker 1: and my one of my most important jobs as a
Speaker 1: parent is to find what that is and then train
Speaker 1: them up.
Speaker 3: In it.
Speaker 1: So that when they are old, they will be true
Speaker 1: to to who they were meant to be. And some parents,
Speaker 1: you know, say you're going to be a lawyer, or
Speaker 1: you need to be a doctor. But if you see
Speaker 1: in your son a passion for music, I know you're
Speaker 1: going to sign them up for drum lessons, yeah, guitar
Speaker 1: lessons or piano lessons, or if you see.
Speaker 2: You're right. A lot of people try and actually like
Speaker 2: the kids. They try and give them opportunities they never had.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, you know, like they never got to
Speaker 2: go to college. They're like, you will go to college,
Speaker 2: or you are going to be a football player, or yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that's important not to do that.
Speaker 1: But if you see that your son loves to kick
Speaker 1: a soccer ball around exactly, yeah, then it's your responsibility
Speaker 1: to make sure yeah they're fair trade soccer ball, that
Speaker 1: it gets on the field and learns how to kick
Speaker 1: a soccer ball. So so, speaking of kick it, tell
Speaker 1: me about cause we've been like that.
Speaker 3: We've been kicking it with you before any other regio station.
Speaker 3: I might, I might add.
Speaker 2: I kick it. That's the single. It's like not even
Speaker 2: a typical pop song. It's it's definitely like but this
Speaker 2: something about it that has just got this energy and
Speaker 2: it's talking about making a relationship last. How do you
Speaker 2: do it? You do?
Speaker 3: How do you do it?
Speaker 2: You've done it for ticket has a few meanings. We
Speaker 2: actually google kick it because it's kind of a cool
Speaker 2: word and it means hanging out exactly, but it also
Speaker 2: means like letting go of stuffly, kicking, yeah exactly, or
Speaker 2: kicking of football. But like my husband, he was great,
Speaker 2: he said, actually, yeah, you know you when you when
Speaker 2: you make a relationship last, you have to do the
Speaker 2: things that are fun that you used to do. You
Speaker 2: have to hang out with each other's put.
Speaker 1: The time in, fall in love again, falling in love
Speaker 1: especially when you have a toddler.
Speaker 3: Is it hard to date your husband?
Speaker 2: It really is. There's a book called What's It Called?
Speaker 2: And Baby Makes Three, which is actually kind of an
Speaker 2: awesome and it talks about how like you have to
Speaker 2: keep your relationship strong that's because that's important for your kid.
Speaker 2: It's so sweet. Oh my gosh. Like I was away
Speaker 2: from my husband for a week with my son. He
Speaker 2: was touring with me in Germany, and when we got
Speaker 2: back all together, like we're lying in bed, he's lying
Speaker 2: in between us, and he was like, Mama, dadda mama,
Speaker 2: Like he was like, he was so excited. He's only
Speaker 2: got a few words, but he was so excited.
Speaker 1: About the fact that we were all together, all together,
Speaker 1: and he was relishing that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Natasha, hold that thought.
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Speaker 1: this podcast possible. Welcome back to Love Someone with Delilah.
Speaker 1: Today we're talking with Natasha Beddingfield and we continue our
Speaker 1: conversation now. So when you had your child, did you
Speaker 1: suddenly understand your mom a lot more?
Speaker 2: I did? I did, And I felt so much grace
Speaker 2: up and so much gratefulness, and also just thought about
Speaker 2: single mothers and how like just incredible women are and
Speaker 2: how incredible bodies are. And I felt more love for
Speaker 2: my body and acceptance.
Speaker 1: And I called my mom when my son was about
Speaker 1: a week old to do and I said thank you.
Speaker 3: He said for what I said, for everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had no idea how much you loved me
Speaker 1: until now.
Speaker 2: And I also I also like say, I just say
Speaker 2: thank you to my son, like I like that he
Speaker 2: I love the idea that he chose me maybe somehow,
Speaker 2: like he like chose me as his mom or God
Speaker 2: chose me as his mom. But I God love the
Speaker 2: whole world. Oh yeah, And I just I just want
Speaker 2: to have gratitude, even if I feel anxiety or like
Speaker 2: that I might mess up as a mom or whatever.
Speaker 2: I just try and be grateful of like thank you
Speaker 2: for each moment, and.
Speaker 3: You will muster, I will. I know you're human.
Speaker 2: Well. One of the songs actually on the album is
Speaker 2: called King of the World, and it's actually saying that
Speaker 2: around my son. I feel like I'm king of the world.
Speaker 2: Like I feel like he sees me right now in
Speaker 2: that infant stage, he sees me as like.
Speaker 3: Enjoy it because when they hit nineteen fourteen.
Speaker 1: Fifteen years old, all of a sudden, you become a
Speaker 1: big dummy head.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: And I've got friends who have teenagers. So I like
Speaker 2: hear all those stories and I'm like, somebody told me, like,
Speaker 2: you know, there's so much cynical stuff, but like basically
Speaker 2: your job apparent, you're just letting them down slowly. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you want the things back in life. You've got
Speaker 2: all this, Natasha Bettingfield.
Speaker 1: You've got all these videos, you've got all this history.
Speaker 1: You've filled stadiums, Your brothers filled stadiums. I'm sure your
Speaker 1: sister's filling stadiums. You've got thousands of followers, I'm sure
Speaker 1: on social media. But when your kid hits fourteen or fifteen,
Speaker 1: you will not be cool.
Speaker 3: I know it's crazy.
Speaker 1: No, that's that's just and you'll get mom and it
Speaker 1: becomes like a three syllable word mom.
Speaker 2: To kiss them and it hugs them.
Speaker 1: Mom, Like what yesterday I was your superhero?
Speaker 3: Yeah, king of the world.
Speaker 2: That's why. Like I'm like I say to my husband,
Speaker 2: I'm like, give you mama cuddle right now, Like tell
Speaker 2: her something nice. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Natasha betting Field, thank you for spending this time here
Speaker 1: in the studio with me. I know that your music
Speaker 1: is available everywhere. I am glad you're back in the studio.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're recording again, but I'm really really glad
Speaker 1: that God is blessing you and your husband and your
Speaker 1: baby and your life. Thank you for coming and spending
Speaker 1: time here on love someone with the Limah