WEBVTT - WYNONNA 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.280 You know, one of the things I love most about 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:25.200 my job. I could just call my friends at any time. 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:31.800 Some are celebrities, most are not. However, when someone is 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:35.960 a true friend, you can call them anytime. In fact, 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.040 I am going to call a true friend one of 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.960 the three or four people who has been the biggest 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:48.839 support to me since I lost my son Zach in 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:53.840 October of twenty seventeen, when Noah Judd has gone above 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.760 and beyond to love me, to bless me, to support me. 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:00.360 And I'm going to call her right now. Helped me 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.000 through the darkest moments of my life for sure, And 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:06.360 right now I'm in a caller just to say thank you. 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:13.600 Let's see if she answers, well, how much trouble are 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:14.840 we going to get ourselves in? 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.240 Are so professional? 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:24.880 I sweetie? Hi, hi, ne fun before we get into anything. 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.319 I bought you all the time, like all the time. 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:28.280 Thank you. 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:31.560 I got the sweetest card today. One of my listeners 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:33.840 sent me this card. And I don't know if I 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.000 got lost in the mail, but the post date was 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:40.240 some time ago, and it was just, you know, one 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.319 of those cornies were done thinking of you cards, And 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.319 then she wrote inside she said I've never met you, 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.560 but I I listened to you talk about your kids 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.560 on the air, and ten years ago I had a son. 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.000 I named him Zach because your son sounded like so 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:55.760 much fun. 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:04.560 I just, man, isn't it amazing how God will reach 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.800 through to us through stuff like that? And we just go, Oh, 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:11.400 for God's sake, yep, just out of the blue, why 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.680 don't you just throw me on the ground and stomp 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.400 on me? And yay, I love this kind of I'm like, 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:20.280 probably you, I love that stuff, but it just completely 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:21.040 annihilates me. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:22.440 Yeah, it's slaysia. 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:25.240 I call it devastatingly beautiful. 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:30.440 Yes, it was devastatingly beautiful, and just what an honor that. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.760 You know, you never know, you never know who's listening 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:36.880 or how it touches them. But she said all your 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:41.160 Zach attacks stories over the years, she said, I purpose 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.799 in my heart when I got pregnant, if I ever 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:45.840 got pregnant and I ever had a son, I wanted 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:46.600 a Zach attack. 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.600 Hey, you never know. God uses us as a messengers. 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.200 You know. I wrote in my book that being born 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.120 with the show off gene can be tremendous, But when 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.680 you're not born with the talent gene, or you don't 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:04.239 wreck recognize what your talent is. It can be quite troublesome, 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:10.760 you know, because typically kids get attention either from sports 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:15.440 or from some gift like being in band or being inquired, 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:20.280 you know, And I couldn't do any of those things. 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.720 I had discovered my gift, but nobody else quite appreciated it. 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:27.960 I mean, I had discovered I could talk, you know, 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:32.880 before before I was two years old. I was I 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.880 was walking up to complete strangers in stores and carrying 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:39.400 on long conversations with them, much to my mother's dismay. 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.600 So I had kind of discovered my gift, but nobody 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.640 else really valued it or appreciated it for a while. 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.520 Do you know that the only real job I ever had, Delilah, 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:53.720 I got fired for talking too much about insurance and 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.200 I would call people. First of all, I would apologize 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.080 because I knew I was interrupting their dinner, because that's 0:03:58.080 --> 0:03:59.720 when they wanted me to call, because they knew they'd 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.640 be home. And then I started to talk to them 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.440 about Jesus and love, and I got fired for talking 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:06.040 too much. 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:10.680 But how old were you? 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:11.800 Why? 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:13.720 No, no, when you knew that you knew that you 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:18.000 knew that God had given you not just this gift 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:21.919 of music, but the desire to use your gift to 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:22.920 change the world. 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:27.640 Wow. Well, there are movies, you know, back when we 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.080 did these things called home movies, and we had this 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.520 camera that was not on our phone, and. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:36.320 Your dad or your mom would hold it and it 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:37.400 would get shakier. 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.480 They're the best. They're the best movies. And they're that beautiful, 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:46.360 crazy color. You know what I'm talking about. 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.880 Yeah, somewhere my sister has a few. 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:54.920 Yeah, And I am seen coming behind. We had this curtain, 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.800 I'll never forget it, this cream colored curtain, and I 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.200 had to come behind the curtain every time my mother said, 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:03.720 you would not just stand there and perform, You had 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:07.080 to come behind this curtain. And I go, really, and 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.880 so of course I'm loving every minute of this story. 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.520 And she says I was three, so I must have known. 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.039 And she has a picture of me holding a guitar 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.839 at age three. And I hear from an aunt who's 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:23.520 no longer with us, saying, you used to sing when 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.599 you were three, like you were on Broadway. And I 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.440 would just tackle and love the three year old thing 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.560 because I'm like I could could not even dress myself, 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:34.520 but I could sing. 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:35.159 But you could sing. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.919 It must have been three. I knew at nine or 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.360 eight when I knew Delilah, that I knew that I 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.920 knew that I knew, and I was in the wilderness, 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:44.480 and I knew that that was what I was going 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.919 to do. At three is when I think I started 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:51.160 to play and become that person. And so I think 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.920 there's a two time thing where physically I realized eight 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:55.719 or nine I was going to do it, but by 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.280 three I was in. 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.880 And you you were a young teenager when you actually 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.080 saw that dream start to come true. 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:08.200 I had no idea. Listen, I graduated from high school 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.720 and I was thrown out of the house. I think 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:14.800 I was around I put this in my book, and 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.440 people are like, your mother threw you out of the house, 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.640 and they go, yep. And I was living with a 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:25.720 woman cleaning houses. And I came back to Nashville and 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.760 my mom said, you know, nope, you're not moving back in. 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.960 And I went and stayed with this friend of mine 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.160 and his wife. And next thing I know, I've got 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.159 a record deal and I'm eighteen, and I have no 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.080 idea what's going on. The reason I say, all this 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.040 is because for throwing me out, is because we were 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.400 not connected at that time, and yet we got this 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.320 record deal, which is kind of ironic because we weren't talking. 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.680 And I think if it wasn't for music, I would 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:54.359 not have a relationship with my mom today. Like you 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:56.120 hear a lot of people talk about, you know, I'm 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.280 not close to my parents. We only see each other 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:02.640 once a year. I honestly don't remember even talking to 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.640 mom except for, hey, we're going to do this audition 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.159 at RCA. I was eighteen years old, mining my own business, 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.920 going to you know, get a normal job, and I 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.800 was working for this temporary service at the time called 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.920 Jane Jones. And I've seen people who worked there. They 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.320 come to shows and they go, we just loved you 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:23.960 and we just remember you being such a bright light 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.080 and so talkative and so friendly, and I go, yeah, 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.400 and I got fired for it, but now I get 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.400 paid for it, and they just love me and laugh 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.320 and it's on. You know, it's just wonderful. Listen. I 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:38.600 was eighteen, Delilah, and I had no clue, no rehearsals, 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:42.320 no lead up to, no time to prepare. No we 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.640 didn't even have outfits. We had to wear our own 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.240 personal clothes on our first album cover because we didn't 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:49.360 even have outfits. 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.600 You had a gift that could not be denied. Like 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.120 you said at three years old, you're hiding behind the curtain. 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.640 And in my book One Heart at the time, I say, 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:02.760 and I believe that everybody has a gift, but a 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.880 lot of times we don't recognize it, or in my case, 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.360 nobody else saw the value in it. 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.520 Right. Well, you know I have a saying because I 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.120 have a lot of these, being on the road for 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:18.720 thirty five years. Fruit ripens early, fruit ripens late. Whenever 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:19.960 it is ripe. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.880 You pluck it with me on the phone line. Is 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.520 a very surprised why Noah Jada called her out of 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.520 the blue, just because she's blessed me so much. We're 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:32.040 talking life, We're talking love. We're talking about getting through 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:36.520 the darkness, the storms of life. Just a reminder, I 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.960 want to tell you that this podcast is made possible 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:44.320 by my friends at the Home Depot. Whinonah was a 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.440 friend who helped me through the darkest hours. The Home 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.480 Depot is a friend who helps me through everything else. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.319 They have everything else I need in life. To keep 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:59.400 my farm and my household moving. So thank you to 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:03.160 the Home Deal PEP and all the support they've given 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.680 me over the years. So what would you say to 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:10.520 a young person who doesn't know what their gift is 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:12.760 or how they can use it to change the world. 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:17.040 See, you're talking to a fifty four year old woman 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.480 who has plenty of experience and wisdom like you do. 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.440 Because of our situation and how much we've traveled and learned. 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:28.439 I think we are born. I believe in nature and nurture. 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.480 For instance. I believe that we're born with that gift. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.840 I didn't go to college to learn to sing. You said, 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.800 you came out of the womb talking and ready to 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.840 You know, you never knew a stranger. I think people 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.720 have a gift and they have to go and nurture it. 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.120 For instance, me, I spent a lot of time alone, 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.760 and so I played the harmonica just because I was 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:52.480 doing hard time, and playing harmonica was the way I 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.719 passed the TI. I'm no TV, no telephone. Like I 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.480 don't know if you were talking into a mic that 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.800 was your hairbrush when you were ten, I don't know. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:01.600 I will tell you this, and this is what I 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.680 tell people everywhere. And by the way, I'm starting a 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.839 mentorship program. I have one here in Nashville at Belmont University. 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.800 I've actually started a mentorship program because a lot of people, 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:18.400 the millennials, want to be famous, but they don't really 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.880 want to work at it. Like for me, I rode 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:25.920 in a car for a year meeting radio station people 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.040 before we ever got played on the radio. Do you 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.800 see what I'm saying. I mean, we worked it campaign. 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.480 You know, you're on the campaign trail getting these radio 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:36.760 people to know who you are to get played and 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:38.880 put on the playlist. This is back in the days 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.959 when we still did that, before it was automated, and 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.679 you know, there were real people at the radio stations. 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.280 And so I think what I'm saying is that when 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.440 when you asked that question, the first thing I think 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.040 of is and I told a girl this the other day, 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.679 because look, I've done things at the boys. I'm getting 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.760 ready to be on a mentor show with Shanaiah and 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.560 we're talking to these new talented people that are the 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:05.120 next generation of greatness, and I tell them, go and 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:09.000 sing at every single thing you can because you never 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:13.600 know where your miracle is going to happen. For instance, 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.920 I would not guess in a million years that my 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:21.280 job came from my mother being a nurse and that 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.520 her patience father was a producer. Do you see my 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:28.120 point there? I think that I would think that playing 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.880 a club or you know whatever. But I think people 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.960 think that you're supposed to be a contention on a show, 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:40.160 or be the top of your you know, class in 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.679 the choir department of the art. You know, blah blah, no, no, no, no, no. 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:47.640 God is in the big and the little stuff. Don't 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:54.079 underestimate showing up for your miracle in a parking lot. 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.200 I'm serious. I've had more conversations. I just had the 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:01.080 most beautiful conversation with this guy in a grocery store 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.199 on Aisle twenty. I think I remember saying twenty It 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.400 must stand for something, because this was a really, really 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.719 heavenly conversation. You never know where you're gonna meet up 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.439 with God and he's gonna go bam here. It is. 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:15.920 So when I tell people here's what you do. You 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:20.960 save your money, get a good lawyer, do not work 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:28.200 with your family. You know that might laugh at me, Deliah. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.520 You know, my social media director is my sister. 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.640 I know that, But what I mean by that is, 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:38.880 for instance, Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift worked with her parents. 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:43.640 I know too many stories about girls in my world 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.640 in the eighties that like Lianne, she works with her 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.720 dad and stuff, and it doesn't always pan out. Well, 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.640 it does for some people. But I just would suggest 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.480 getting someone who's objective, because as parents, we have a 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.560 blind spot for our kids. You know that, we just do. 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.040 And when I say that, I don't mean because I'm 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.880 bashing mom or anything we were meant to sing together. 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:09.559 I'm talking about working with managerial stuff. Money, Money changes everything. 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.080 You know this they took you. Never give money to 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.560 your family, never be co dependent and help an addict, 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.160 and blah blah blah. We know the rules. But what 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.719 I'm saying is I would tell a kid right now, 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:22.920 and I do when I talk to these kids, I say, 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:28.560 hone your craft, do not fart around and be famous 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:33.160 and get hair extensions and look beautiful and Instagram. Who cares. 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.880 Let's not do Facebook, baby, Let's do face to face. 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.440 In other words, go and sing at the next open 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.440 mic night. Because let me tell you something. I just 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.240 did one and you know who was there some big 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:51.560 guy with a big name, who has a million dollar everything, 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.760 who is now signing us up for fifty shows because 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.800 he saw us at this sort of po dunk. I 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.520 guess we'll call it that. I see it as God 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.680 shows up everywhere. But my point is a person of 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.719 my caliber, they would say, listen, I'm singing at an 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.440 open mic night, and this guy happened to be there. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.240 You see my point. So it doesn't have to be 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.760 a world renowned anything. God will meet you in the field, 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:21.240 in the wilderness if you will. So I would say, 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:25.720 hone your craft because in my generation, my darling, we 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.000 had to sing it twenty five times. We did not 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.560 have the box to put it through to make it 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:34.360 sound beautiful. We had to sing it from our tone. 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:39.120 Now, so if somebody is listening to this podcast and 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.360 they're saying, don't I don't even know what my talent is. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.000 I can't. I don't have a voice like Delilahs to talk. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:48.960 I don't have a singing voice like Whynona's to sing. 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.840 Right right, Okay, this is what I'm going through right 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:57.240 now with my daughter. She is like me times a million. 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:01.440 She's got all the resources. What I mean is technology. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.920 I didn't have anything Delilah. I had a guitar, I 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:08.920 had a record player. I don't remember having anything like 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:12.000 the web or the tools that these. You know, you 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.680 see these things advertised, and I think it might be 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.640 an age thing for me now, because I go, what 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:19.600 the heck is this? Oh? This is how to play 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.880 the guitar in five easy lessons. Really really, but you know, 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.240 I don't know anything about that. But here's what I 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:33.080 tell people. If you will slow down long enough to 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.720 see the flutter of the wings, you will see your angel. 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:38.880 And I tell people this and I cry and I 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.280 get emotional, and I think, you know what, We move 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.560 too fast and we miss it. So what I tell 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:49.600 kids is slow down, turn off the electronics, go take 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.720 a walk in the wilderness. I had a girl come 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:55.840 to the farm and she had five dozen eggs and 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.400 she said, I just need to scream and throw these 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.480 eggs at the tree and find out what God has 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.880 for me. And I said, go for it. And she 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:08.000 found her answer in the wilderness. And that's what I 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:13.040 tell people. Slow down, get right with yourself, get quiet, 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:17.800 listen to your inner voice. What is your joy? Follow 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:22.520 your bliss? If you love to paint and I'm doing 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:24.320 this with my daughter. I said, I want you to 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:28.160 start writing things down, Grace. I want you to literally, 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.160 because she's like, Mom, you know Elijah's this because Elijah's 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.920 been doing his career since he was seventeen. He's got it. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:35.760 He knows what he's wanting to do for the next 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:39.720 fifty years. Not everybody's in that place. But she's like, 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:41.640 I'm not really sure because I love so many things. 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.320 I said, Grace, you might end up doing four things 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.440 in your lifetime. You don't know. But get by yourself, 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.840 get quiet and listen to your inner voice. What is 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.840 it telling you? And she said, be creative? And I said, 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.120 what does that look like? She said, that's the next step. 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:58.320 So I think my point is it's not going to 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:02.120 happen like a big, bright bolt, a lightning bolt. It 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.640 might start off really quiet. It might say, you know what, 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.639 why don't you show up tomorrow at Starbucks. You're going 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.240 to meet somebody there, and you might end up meeting 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:16.320 somebody who needs help being an intern at a record label. 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.240 You never know. So I think getting quiet, I think 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.600 we moved too fast. We have too much noise in 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.399 the world. I just wrote a song called the world 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:31.080 yells God whispers, ooh ooh. I really I'm walking that 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.080 right now. And I talked to Jane. I think Jamie 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:35.760 knows too when she came to see me. I just 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.280 love that woman. She's amazing. 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:39.800 She is amazing. 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:44.160 I say, tell your daughter to get really quiet because 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.679 we move so fast. I was going to do a 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.359 video recently and they said, well, we have to change 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:53.080 angles every three seconds. I said, excuse me, Like that's 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.479 how like distracted we are because we have to have 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.600 something move every three seconds or we get bored. The 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.080 thing for me right now is that these kids move 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.879 at such a fast pace that I wonder sometimes they 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.560 if they don't just walk by the person that they 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.000 were supposed to meet that could have changed their life. 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:16.639 I'm speaking with Whyona jud who embodies the idea of 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:21.040 changing the world one heart at a time. She was 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.200 called to be in the public eye at a very 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:28.200 young age, and yet she has somehow remained in her heart, 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:31.760 a simple country girl who loves and laughs and extends 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.400 her love. Why Nonah, thank you for being here, Thank 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:38.920 you for being present, for being grounded and being present. 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:41.639 The thing for me right now is that these kids 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.959 move at such a fast pace that I wonder sometimes 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:50.280 they if they don't just walk by the person that 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.520 they were supposed to meet, that could have changed their 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.960 life because they were not paying attention to meat. Like 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.679 at Christmas time, I won't shop anymore because I had 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.360 a really interesting experience where this fifteen year old kid 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:05.000 didn't even see me, ran right into me and busted 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.320 all my packages. And I looked at him like he 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:11.240 wasn't looking at life because he was looking down at 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:15.359 his phone, and he didn't even care and kept walking, 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.640 didn't even help me pick up my packages, And I went, 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.960 you know what, where's the humanity in this? I just 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:24.159 got really sad, and I thought, gosh, that wouldn't have 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:28.040 happened in my generation, just because you know, and I 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.720 can't fault him because we've helped him. You know. We 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.040 blame society, but we are society. 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:34.280 We are society. 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:37.800 Yeah, So I think what I tell kids is how 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.600 to find your gift. I'll tell you what do some 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:43.400 workshops he might want to try that. I told my daughter. 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:48.240 I said, let's get you into I don't know, spend 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:53.040 a week in a baking class. Why don't we try this? 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.280 Why don't we try that, try a few things and 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:58.640 see if it sticks. She goes, I love kids. I said, well, 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:02.640 then maybe just follow your bliss. What do I tell kids? 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:05.239 I say, follow your bliss? What make What is it 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.000 that Vince Gill told me? And I think this is 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:09.959 brilliant And I'll end it with this. He said, it 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:15.520 best pick something that you love doing so much that 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:19.280 you would do it for free. Keep doing it so 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:24.520 much that you get so good at it that people 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:25.520 will pay you for it. 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:29.240 Awesome, And Vince Gill told you that. 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:34.200 I think that's one of the most brilliant things I've 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:34.760 ever heard. 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:39.080 Well, why no not, go be brilliant, Go mentor go bless, 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:44.440 go sing, go do everything that you do so well, girlfriend, 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.960 you've got You've got the voice of an angel. You 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.480 know they have auto tune and auto this and aut 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:54.040 of that now, But when you open your mouth and 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:59.680 let God's love flow through you, heal hearts, you change lives, 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:03.560 you inspire. You got me through more dark nights than 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:06.840 you will ever ever, ever ever know, just listening to 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:09.440 your music, and so thank you, thank you. 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:16.159 Thank you. I adore you like I adore you in 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:20.520 a way that's family. Beyond just two alpha chicks hanging 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:24.439 out at an event. I have always felt connected to you, 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:27.400 and I think what you're doing matters, and I think 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:31.600 people who are lonesome, don't we have a pandemic in 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:35.200 this country of loneliness. I think your voice coming through 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:39.119 the darkness. Literally, someone in their car hearing your voice 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:43.360 sometimes is the only Bible they will ever read. No pressure, 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:48.399 I have no pressure you. I think you're literally what 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:52.320 keeps people from losing their minds. So together you and 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:55.720 I are really something, and I'll help you in any 0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:59.399 way I can anytime, because I want to help this 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:06.320 next generation understand that what's real is more powerful to 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:09.680 me now, more so than ever. 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:13.639 On that note, I have to say, between you and 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:16.840 me and God, if I didn't have your music last year, 0:22:16.880 --> 0:22:18.840 I wouldn't be alive today. 0:22:19.080 --> 0:22:21.840 Music's a healer, my dear, and what we're doing matters, 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:25.119 and I thank God for you, and our friendship is 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:29.280 so sacred, more so than ever before, because I'm getting 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:31.080 to the point where I like my animals a lot 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:32.080