WEBVTT - Kelly Lynn Janson 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:16.200 Carolam. She's a queen of talking. He was song. She's 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:18.440 on the inside. She got the scoop on the law. 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:28.480 On the one side, no one can do within quiet. Caralam, Carolam, 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:36.640 no one can do within quiet? Back Caralam Carolin. I'm 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.519 so excited about this episode of Get Real. I have 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.519 my friend for over ten years, Kelly Lynn Jansen, joining me. 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:47.000 She's married to Chris Jansen. She is such a powerhouse. 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:49.919 She's a mom to four kids, amazing kids. They take 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:52.760 the kids on the road. She is a manager, she 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.920 manages Chris. She is a songwriter. She's had cuts with 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.000 Chris and other artists. She's a publisher, has a co 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:03.360 venture blushing company that she runs. She does it all. 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:07.000 I'm telling you, Kelly is a machine. She's so much fun, 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.440 she's so faithful, she's got the best perspective on life. 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.160 Wakes up every day just thinking life is a gift, 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.800 soaking it up, living into the fullest. I love Kelly 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.480 so much. We've truly been friends for over a decade 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:20.399 and she's just one of my favorite people. She's so 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.160 fun and so funny, is so great. So get excited 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.080 for this episode and prepared to be inspired because she 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:30.960 is so inspiring here she is hey, hey, hey, hey, 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.080 oh my gosh, one of my favorite people, Kelly, like Jansen, 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.440 You're one of my favorite people. This is the coolest 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.800 thing that you're doing, by the way, Like it's so 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.680 awesome to focus on the wives and the women behind 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:49.160 these awesome artists. I watched shirts with Caroline. Her instagram 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.920 is hysterical. It's so great. It's I watched everything. I'm 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:56.000 like obsessed, and so Michael and I over Christmas, we 0:01:56.120 --> 0:02:01.040 literally just dug into Caroline's instagram the crying yes. So 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.400 her frett husband would be so mad at me, like Luke, 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:05.960 Brian is so cool and like Carol, you're so funny, 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.000 and she doesn't care. She gets every single person or 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.960 a family like with a blowhorn. I'm scared my mom 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:13.520 would have a heart attack and die on me. My 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.360 husband would run chase me down, like, oh my god. 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:18.600 He would not think it was funny. I don't think. 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.720 I don't know. I'm like, how do I become my crpet? 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:22.480 Then she has all these great sports to play along 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.440 and they kind of get annoyed, but then they die laughing. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.440 It's hilarious. I loved watching it said, thanks, Caroline, and 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.200 that kept me entertained over the holidays. It's so frantic 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.440 with all this stuff going on during Christmas. So you're right. 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.400 I watched it too. I think a lot of people did. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.320 It's pure comedy relief. But this is cool what you're doing. 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.239 I love it. Well. Thanks. So I've been doing the 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.799 podcast a whow But I started um on Wives this 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.040 year and actually does Heart last year last at the 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.520 end of last year, and I just was like, Okay, 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.120 this is really a sweet spot because all these artists, 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.920 these men artists are so fantastic, but the women who 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:59.080 are beside them and helping them fuel of this business, 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.640 keep their lives running are so fabulous and so interesting. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:04.400 I was like, who does I want to know about them? 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.920 I do, I don't know about it? So cool. I 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.040 love that and it has been It's been great because 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.000 I've been able to see the other wives that because 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.040 we're always out on the road. We're running. Everybody's going 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.799 different circles, so we don't always get to visit. I mean, 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.560 we're by the time someone else is getting to a festival, 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.680 we're leaving, or vice versa. I've seen you out on 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.600 the road several shops in the night, just like passing 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.560 the planes in the air buses, um broken down. I 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.679 don't know. Yeah, because y'all do planes, trains and automobiles. 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.360 You know what. We do whatever we gotta do to 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:37.840 get to the show. But um, this year, UM we 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.320 travel all the time, and we tour all the time 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:44.200 because Chris is the live performer and that's um, you know, 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.840 getting out to the fans. So whatever we have to 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.040 do to get there. But we found that the plane 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.920 is way better. It just is so that we can 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.640 still have it right. Oh no, no, no, no, But 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.520 he did get his Yes, he did work on that 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.680 for a little while and then things got too crazy 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.320 and too busy and he needed his rest. You can 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.920 get an airplane fining, yeah no. And he was only 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.880 flying single engine and I need two engines. It's very scary. 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.960 So you know, we have great pilots and um they're amazing. 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.320 And it just allows to have to be at home 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.960 or with your children, and for him to also do 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.840 songwriting and for us to have some form of normal 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:29.640 life because otherwise conscious we do we try to get 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.279 back to our gain and get out so you're in 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.960 your own bed every night pretty much unless we're playing 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.800 on the West coast. So like this past week, Um, 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:42.800 we did four shows. We did Butte, Montana, UM, Wyoming, 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:49.000 and we were in Cheyenne, Butte Airway Heights, Washington, and 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:53.120 UM one more I can't remember Utah, and so those 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.600 were pretty far apart, and we flew and then we 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.400 stayed out on the West coast. There would have been 0:04:58.400 --> 0:04:59.920 no way to come home. Yeah, so if you're on 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.240 West Coast, you pretty much stay out there. You do 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.000 a long run there. But we take our kids and 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.479 we just do hotels and we experience it and we 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.080 try to like, since we're homeschooling, I'm trying to teach 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:14.920 them things as we go. I won't know, but I 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.160 can't at least teach them what city we're in and 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.440 a few facts. I mean, I'm definitely not that. Yeah, 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.000 education is probably not one of my strong suits. Whatever 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:24.920 you are, like you know how to make it happen, though, 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:26.880 But I try to teach them how to count money 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.279 and like how to count change and like we do 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.680 things on the plane and um, and how to go 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.400 have your dreams. Like you're great at that absolutely, and 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.040 that you can do anything in this world you want 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:37.960 to do if you just put your mind to it. 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.599 It's America. It's it's such a wonderful country. We have 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.640 so many opportunities, and I think every day that we 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:47.120 wake up is a huge blessing and the sky's the 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.120 limit in that way. Even because we've known each other 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.479 for what like fourteen a long time, they don't tell 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.520 our don't tell on us like we're still what do 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.400 you mean we're still hanging out over at Belmar. We 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.120 couldn't even drink when we met. What we're talking about 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:03.719 weren't even legal. We I've known you and a single mom, yes, 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:09.160 making furniture whatever I had to consulting, corresponding on my 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.080 TV show, a TV show. I mean, you have always 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.440 been such a hustler, such a go getter, such a dreamer, 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:17.920 and you have always, even when you're a single mom, 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.599 doing all these jobs making an end to me, You've 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:23.720 always had this like incredibly optimistic attitude. You've never been like, 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.240 oh poor me, look at all this I have to 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.719 handle by myself. You've always been like, no, I'm going 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:30.840 to make I want to do it. Yeah, where did 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:35.279 that come from? Because not everyone responds to say situations 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.920 that are maybe more like, you know, being a single mom. 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:39.840 Not everyone handles it the way you would have. Well, 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.240 I just I always try to look at the cup full. 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.960 And I have healthy children. And even if I didn't 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.839 have like a cool partner to raise them with or whatever, 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:53.800 and I was a single mom, that's okay. I have 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.600 these children and they're such a blessing. And every minute 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.120 getting to do the things I did with them, drive 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.880 them to school, take them, get their clothes, get their braces, 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.400 work really hard to put food on the table, whatever 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.039 I had to do. It was like, yes, I'm so lucky, Like, 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.680 look at my kids, like they're amazing. There's such a 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:15.080 gift from God. And I mean, oh my gosh, Graham 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:18.640 and I grew he's so Graham's my oldest so Graham, 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.480 and then I have Shell and she's in college at 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.080 ut those are the ones that Chris says his bonus 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:28.720 kids and yeah, but like they're my life. Oh, he's amazing. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:30.200 That was one of the biggest things I fell in 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.840 love with him. When we first dated. He looked at 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.000 me and I was like, wait, let's just have fun 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.760 and he's like, no, I love you. And I was like, well, wait, 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.800 I have children and those children are my life. And 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:45.560 he was like, great, I love kids, and he was like, 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.680 no problem, and um I was like, well I'm a 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.080 little bit older than you. Yeah, no problem. Love that. 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.480 Don't ever bring it up again. And so from that 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:57.480 moment on we were like in. My kids adored him, 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.720 and soon after obviously they met him, and it wasn't 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:04.840 too much longer after that Chris asked of them two 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:09.720 if he could marry me, and I had no idea. 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:14.160 And then they helped pick out the ring and he 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.440 tells us a great story and this was This gives 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.240 me chills to every time I hear it, because this 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.240 is the kind of human he is just as as 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.400 a human and he was just born with such a heart. 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:27.040 And he always says, those are my bonus kids. I'm 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:30.760 their stepdad, but I stepped into their life. They're not 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.400 step kids. They didn't step into mine. I stepped into theirs. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:37.559 I'm the stepdad. They're the bonus. They're like such a blessing. 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:39.720 So he talks about that, and he wrote a song 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.440 called Holding Her about all of us, but what a 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.600 blessing And going back to just waking up every day 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.480 and looking at your blessings, looking at the fact that 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.320 we all woke up today. It may not be perfect, 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.520 but we woke up. And you're gonna have obstacles. I 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:58.360 mean everything there. Every day, you're probably gonna get hit, 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.880 smack dab in the face with something. I mean, there's 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.720 gonna be someone that doesn't like you. There's be someone 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.560 who says something bad about you. There's gonna be um, 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.000 I mean, you stump your toe or I don't know, 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:14.600 like silly stuff. Well I don't even have any Like 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.800 most people are independent contracts, but you're always dealing with something. 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.440 There's always gonna be a bus that breaks down. There's 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.640 always gonna be a plane that the heat goes out. 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.559 There's gonna be but hey, we gotta plane. Ye, look 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.000 at the good side. I don't care if it's cold, 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.480 I'll get an extra blanket. Um. Every day in this 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.280 world we live in, there's gonna be obstacles. God says 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.480 that like nothing's ever perfect. It's just what you make 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:41.120 of it. And whatever he throws at me, Like, I'm 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.800 gonna deal with it. I'm gonna. We all are. We 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.160 don't really have a choice if if we get but 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.320 you don't do the woe is me thing, You're never upset. 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.200 Where did that mentality come from? Is it from your 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.840 I don't have time? I mean, who's got time to 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.040 feel sorry for their self? Right? Like? Who has time? 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:57.920 And I tell my kids this all the time. I 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.960 gets so held up though on past you can't. You 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.600 just have to find another way to go around. And 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.320 you have always done that well. I mean it's kind 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.480 of like a challenge. I remember having a coach in 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.320 high school. I was a cross country runner, and it's 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:15.440 like no paying, no gain. You have to put in 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:19.199 the work, you have to never quit, and then no 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.520 matter what, there's always a way around it. If if 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.760 I mean pretty much anything in our life, there's gonna 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.240 be a way to get around it. And I'm not 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.400 saying you're always going to get everything you want, because 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.880 I definitely probably had some dreams that I didn't get 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.120 like all the way like what I wanted, but I 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.559 think I did because I've found something in me that's like, Wow, 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:43.439 what more could I have? Four healthy kids, a beautiful, 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:49.439 amazing husband, you know, And that's all I really need 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:53.120 is that is God and my kids and my husband 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:57.400 and family and friends and these amazing fans that we 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.280 meet out on the road, and the topic you're getting 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.920 to live a life of pursuing a dream with your 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.320 husband that you guys are both so invested in, which 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.439 I mean, how blessed is that. It's such a blessing. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.720 It's such a blessing. I mean, I never dreamed in 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:10.720 a million years. This isn't what I set out to do. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.960 Also manage right, Well, I'm his manager, which is okay, 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:18.600 so how did that? And I'm the one who said, okay, 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.079 so here's what happened. Like we didn't plan this at all, 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:25.520 like we um, Chris is super talented. I've said that 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.280 and I'll say it again and again and again. I 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.040 believe in him a lot. I saw his talent and 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:31.760 I was just like, oh my gosh, you're so incredible. 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.160 And he was going through a time where he had 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.520 just gotten out of a business record deal. He um 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:41.040 actually know the record company had decided to it went away. 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.760 It folded. Yeah, that good work, honest work. It went under. 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.000 There was there was no more label, so he was 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.280 just kind of stuck in the paperwork. And I was like, 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:56.720 you're so talented. You just step on any stage, whether 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.760 it's on a corner of a road. If you pick 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:01.880 up your guitar and perform, people are going to come 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.920 and watch you body experience when he plays, like every 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:08.160 part of his body is moving. And no matter what, 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.360 whether you're stuck in a record deal that's out of 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.280 business and there is no label like the fans and 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.120 the people will come to see you. They want to 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.920 see So who were out touring and we're just doing 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.280 it on our own. We had a great booking agent 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.520 and we were playing festivals and fairs and and we 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.880 had been saying he's going to have a record coming out, 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.520 but then the label folded. Well, the fans don't understand 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:32.440 that they want to hear music. So um, he was 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.000 just writing as a songwriter, having a great time. He 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.360 actually had written this song and he he was hoping 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.080 Blake Shelton or Tim mcgrawl or Luke Bryan would cut 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.720 it because we had just gotten his first big cut 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.360 with Truck Yeah and bought our house the Truck Yeah. 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.680 And he's saying it was Tim mcgrawl's one of his 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.240 fastest moving singles. And Chris Co wrote that with the 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.640 low Cash Boys friends for a long time. Oh yeah, 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.599 And and at the time, we were just pregnant with 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.520 our first baby, and we were like, um, it was 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.960 such a blessing because that as a songwriter, when those 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.240 guys get cut by other artists, it provides an income 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.480 and that was much needed at the time. And God's 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.679 timing is always perfect, it really is, like right when 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.280 you're like at this point, you're like, how or end's 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.160 gonna meet? What's gonna happen? So it happened. Always happens. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.760 So literally, we were just trucking right along. I was 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.560 working a couple of day jobs, two or three actually, 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:27.760 and and furniture everything. Yeah, Like I said, anything to 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:32.920 make money, yeah whatever, like making payton furniture, running two 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:36.440 junk stores and buying it and refurbishing it, antique malls 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.400 like whatever. Like every little bit of money adds up 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.400 and it helps. And it's like I always tell my 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.280 kids this, I'm like, there's always a way to make money. 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.000 There's somebody that will call you to work by the hour, 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.280 to pick up pine cones in their yard, to do anything. 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.200 But anyway, at the time, I wasn't doing that. I 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.080 was doing furniture and I had a couple of gigs 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:57.600 and it was amazing and um, Chris was writing songs 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.080 and he wrote this song too that I was just 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.480 like blown away. So um, we put them up on 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.720 iTunes and Bobby Bones played one of them and what 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.560 happened to be buy Me a Boat and that song 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.520 that's like you hear that song one time and it's like, 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.600 obviously it's been a humongous It was huge. It was 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.320 a big, big, big day for us. And did it 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.600 go instantly went to number one on iTunes when we 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.040 had a record deal or anything? Oh yeah, we had nothing. Yeah, 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.800 we know we did a record Actually, catbirds eat for 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.920 an artist because now here's your song on iTunes number one. 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.160 You don't have a record deal, so now you kind 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.800 of get to like have the record labels coming for you, 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:40.360 a look, correct. So we had like ten or twelve 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:44.080 opportunities right there, like that first week, and that's the 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.720 greatest feeling it was. It was overwhelming, and honestly at 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.520 the time we were kind of like, oh, wow, how 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:52.920 do you make a decision. We were so happy to 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.000 just have a song that fans could buy on iTunes 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.320 and things were so great and we had no one 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:00.320 telling us what to do or how to do it. 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:04.280 We're just yeah, like this is such a blessing. But anyway, 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.920 long story short, we ended up signing at Warner Brothers 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:08.880 or Chris ended up signing at Warner Broth. I didn't. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:14.920 I don't sing, definitely, so when when I suppose signed Chris, 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:18.440 it was amazing. Chris Lazy over there is fantastic and 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.520 the rest is history. I mean they've had a wonderful 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.960 working relationship. We're in the deal, there's new single coming out. 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.880 Life is so good. And yes I do manage because 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.480 Chris is one of those artists. He loves making the music. 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.720 He's so talented at it. He loves writing it, he 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:38.400 loves being creative. So he wrote, produced, co produced, wrote, 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:43.520 and um obviously performs and tours all the music. And 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.640 he doesn't have time to schedule anything. So basically, as 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:50.040 a manager, I just approve things, say yes we'll use 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.480 that picture, Yes we'll do that show, Yes we'll do that. 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.720 So it works well because I mean it's basically the 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:59.440 same thing you do UM at home keeping up with 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.360 your house, Like you schedule things, you schedule the babysitters 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.000 or you schedule the people to come fix the Does 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.160 he weigh anything or is he just trust you completely? 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:11.480 He pretty much, he trust me completely. He anything musically 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.640 is all Chris. But he doesn't deal to details. But 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.840 as far as the simple details or the complicated stuff 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.760 that yeah, all that So it works fine, it works 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:27.240 really good actually, and we're very very blessed. And um 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.920 we traveled together, we pray together, we sleep together, we 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.680 do everything together. We raise our kids together. How do 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.200 you guys, that's a lot of together and so how 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.160 do y'all like, are y'all one of those couples that 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.960 just always is like thriving together? Do you ever need 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.280 a loane time? Or like how do you create balance? 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.080 And all of you know what? There's so much balance. 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.920 I don't even I mean basically I think, um, well, 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:53.960 he has a couple of things he does that I 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.480 am like, yeah, I'm good, I'm not going. One is 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.960 hunting and being outside in the woods and hanging out 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.960 with our son, like both boys actually Jesse and Graham 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.200 go with him hunting and like that's their favorite thing. 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.840 Our four year old loves to fish. Chris does that, 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.959 so they have like their farm stuff they do and 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:17.560 then um, I run off, Gosh, just five minutes to 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.600 go do my nails or whatever. So we have like 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.199 our alone time that we have our own things we 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.520 like to do. But traditionally he loves to sit out 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.639 by the fire when we're home, and we like just 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.640 being home because we're never home. So when you spend 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.919 four or five nights out on the road, when you 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:39.200 get home, you just kind of chill and he sits 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.159 out by the fire when it's not raining. We've had 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.960 so much rain lately. Goodness, I'm so excited just to 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:49.120 see a little son and um, and then with kids, 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:51.880 I mean, you know, you've got Georgia wanting to play 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:55.240 date and um, homeschool teachers coming in and out and 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:59.200 just a lot going on. But um, we balanced really well. 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.640 We we do turn off our phones and turn off 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.440 the music and turn off the show and just kind 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:12.119 of have quality husband wife time. But it's normally maybe 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.119 midnight or going to bed when we crawl on the 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:16.800 bed at the end of the day, and our kids 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:20.040 are usually in the room with us. So when you 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.120 have a four year old and a seven year old, 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.400 they both want to be in the bedroom with you. 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.520 Like you work so hard your entire life to get 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:31.760 like your house, like your dream home. Or whatever, and 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:36.440 literally they've never slept upstairs in their beds. No, we're 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.959 all in one room in one bed, and you know 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.280 it's okay because having the older kids, it flies by 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.560 so fast. Tell me about that, Like, what have you 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:48.360 learned from being a parent and kind of having like 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:50.800 you had a Shell and Graham who are now in 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:55.000 super young Literally right out of high school, I had Graham, 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:58.440 and then I had Shell, and um I was a 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:02.119 single mom super young, and then when Chris and I 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:04.600 got married, it's like I sort of started over. So yeah, 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.960 there's quite a bit of age difference between the one 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.560 in college obviously, and then Georgia in UM first and 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:15.040 second grade, and then Jesse in preschool. So, so, what 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.280 have you learned from now Shaw and Graham then being 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:19.160 older and adults now would be able to take care 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.680 of themselves. What have you learned about that time? How fast? 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:24.439 I've learned that it flies and you can't stop it, 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.040 and that this life we live is so precious, and 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:30.120 that every minute of these children when they come in 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:35.360 with um the sweetest little notes from preschool, and when 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:39.480 they have that sweet innocence of Christmas and Santa Claus, 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:41.159 and when they want to wake up at four and 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.080 five thirty to get up for Santa. It's okay, just 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:47.359 do it because it flies so fast. And when you 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:49.520 have to send that first one off, and I'll start 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:51.920 crying just thinking about it. But like when Graham left 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:56.080 to go um to college, it was just like no, 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.440 like like, you know, you have these children their whole 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:01.440 entire life, and then all of a sudden they're ready 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:03.800 to fly. And I mean I was sad, but I 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:08.199 will never forget. I was coming home from dropping Graham 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:10.440 off in his dorm at college because he played football, 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:14.280 and we found out I was pregnant with my next boy. 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:17.359 So I think I think I was either pregnant with 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:19.359 Jesse or George. I can't remember, but I was No, 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:21.520 it would have definitely had to been Jesse, I think. 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:26.520 So Anyway, another full blessing in my life that I'm 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:29.879 so thankful for, because I'm so thankful to have fallen 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:33.040 in love with Chris, to have gotten an opportunity to 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:37.160 have an amazing husband and be madly in love with him, 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:41.639 and to get to experience parenting with him. And what 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:44.159 does parenting like with Chris? And honestly, every kid is 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:48.280 so different I don't even know that raising one when 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:52.080 you're super young, and then raising even more now. I 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.840