WEBVTT - Maddie & Tae (Part 2) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.600 And we're back. We are here with part two of 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:07.200 Maddie and te Oh my gosh, how great was part one? 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:10.320 Did you not freak out hearing about their souls, their hearts, 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:13.680 how they've navigated this industry being a woman, how they 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:17.840 deal with stress. They are so real, so authentic, and 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:21.240 their music that they just created is the best, most heartfelt, 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:23.720 soulful music they've ever made. So get excited. Here is 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:28.680 part two of Maddie and It's Maddie and I talked 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:30.720 about this movie all the time, but inside out, Yes, 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:35.400 you know your kids movie. You have to. So it's 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:37.640 a movie and it's basically about this girl and all 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.879 of the emotions that live inside your head. Sounds so crazy. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:45.560 I don't have a different So it's like all it's 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:47.720 like animated and it's all the little like emotions in 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.240 your head, so anger, um, happy, sad, hungry, like whatever. 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:56.960 And for me, it's easy for me to kind of 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.440 go inside because I can't if someone says something to 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.080 me and I need to respond in a very mature 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:06.720 kind smart way, like I can't do it right away. 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:08.600 I have to think about it. I have to think 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.800 of the best route, like I analyze every situation, I'm like, Okay, 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:13.520 I could say this, but then it might lead to this. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:15.440 I could do this, but then it might lead to that. 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:17.319 So I literally, in my mind, I have to go 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.560 down every road and what it would look like long 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:21.960 term before I react to anything. I wish I did 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:28.880 that just kidding things, I'll just say it with a 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:32.920 smile though. But in the fault and that is it 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:36.240 can make people think that I'm disinterested or that I'm 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.160 not hurting because a lot of the times you probably 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.360 thought that I'd like, I don't feel the same way 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.440 as you know. I knew, but I was just like waiting. 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.000 But yeah, so a lot of the times it can 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.240 make people think that I'm just like really upset or 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.280 really angry or I don't care but really has exploded. 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.320 In reality, I've exploded, and once I figure out which 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.520 lane I'm going to take, then I will react. That's awesome, though, 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.600 really I do that I have to. I don't think 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.840 about like I'm so quick to just like like say 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.720 what ever I feel like I need to say. I 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.520 have learned from my path though that I'm trying to 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.520 be more like that where I know that if I 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:16.919 feel resistance or anger. I cannot respond because I always 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.480 respond so much more harsh than I think I am 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.240 when I respond, and then I'm like, then I have 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:23.799 to like undo it. And then when I was trying 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:25.639 to tell them anyway is void because now I'm on 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:27.880 the only thing I'm trying to do now is apologized. 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.079 You see, I've had to find like filters in people 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.840 like our manager. I will like filter things through her. 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.280 I'll filter things through her sometimes and just be like 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:38.520 or even like my boyfriend, I'll just be like, Okay, 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.400 how should I word this to where I get my 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.240 point across? But I don't upset and accustomed to everybody, 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:46.960 which is so good because I have learned. My sister's 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.600 sister in law says it. She says, you're right, you're rude, 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.280 you're wrong. Like if you're right but you're rude, then 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.560 you're wrong totally, and so like that is what I 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:59.320 learned that recently. It's kind of you learned that. I 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.320 just learned that, like like in in my household, and 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.400 let me tell you, like, I had a great childhood 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.760 and my parents are amazing. We love that, but we 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.519 all have stuff. Even if you're the best your parents 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.040 are doing the best thing can but they're still gonna 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:14.120 and kids, and I'm going to object that it's just 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.800 the way. It's just that's how it all goes. But 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.160 like my the household that I grew up, and it 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.120 was like, um, if you felt some kind of way, 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.760 you just said it like it was like I mean, 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:27.640 it was either like you were really really quiet and 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.160 you just like let someone just have like someone was 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:31.880 just telling you like it was and you just kind 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:33.640 of sat there and took it, or you were the 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.400 person where you're just saying so like I that like 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.080 I don't know, just seeing learning kind of like filter 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.800 it in a way where we're getting as lightly. But 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.400 even as a family, my little sister and I, my 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:47.480 mom and my dad, we've all learned how to filter 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.200 things to where because me and my dad are very 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.760 like I don't know what the actual like what's the 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.000 phrase where it's just like both alphas or something kind 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:56.960 of like hardhead or like you both just like say 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.560 it how we just say it how it is and 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.080 it's comes from a place of love. But yeah, very 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.160 very blunt, like not careful with what we say at all. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.640 And I think are okay with that. No Okay, no, 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.480 but I absolutely not. No. I learned that, like when 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.480 I moved to Nashville, was on my own, I was like, 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.200 I can't just sometimes, and that's like another thing where 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.080 it's like your soul where it's like sometimes, um, you know, 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.880 she's upset about something and it's like making me angry, 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.520 Like what she's going through is making me angry. Sometimes 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.400 I have to be like, Okay, don't react with anger, 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:29.360 like just be encouraging and keep your own personal things 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.799 about this situation. Like you know, if she's having something 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:35.280 with someone it's hard about to get but to her, 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.160 I can't be like I'm gonna go creaking cam hard 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.560 because that's putting negative energy. It's just feeling the negativity. 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:43.680 So I have to like take a minute because like 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.240 me and my dad were just so just like ready 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.920 to freaking roll whenever, like if someone is going to 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.000 mess with someone that we love your family, we're on yeah, 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.000 And so I have to be like, Okay, it's like 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.839 it's all good, you know, but it's so hard to 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:01.360 do that. So I just so funny. Guys, speaking of this, 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.240 how do you all maintain your friendship? Because to me, 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.839 you'll seem like you're the best of most best of friends, 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.040 amazing friends. How do you make that work? Because so 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:14.120 many groups duos are together and then they go through 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:15.960 all these things, they have, all the success, they have, 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:19.760 all these in the entertainment industry, it's just a crazy ride. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.240 So how do you, guys maintain your best friendship? I 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.960 think a lot of it has to do with everything 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.640 we've been through because we share struggles with someone, like 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.960 actually everyday struggles going through the exact same thing. It 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.680 just brings you closer. But also I think when we 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:39.480 met when we were fifteen and sixteen, our initial connection 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.840 was like, let's be best friends. Let's go to lake, 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.520 let's hang out, let's make custom phone cases. Like yeah. 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.200 Every summer until we moved to Nashville, we would just 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.200 like go to let's go get chick FLI and so 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.680 you get into the movies like did that or chick 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.280 fil A meals into a movie theater. We lived life 0:05:55.600 --> 0:06:00.160 as best friends before we it was actually professional all 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.279 the time. We're a duo and we were making music together. 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.440 We were creating music together, but we were all we 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.680 were still friends, like we did friend things. It was 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.440 never we weren't like here you'd be with her and 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.920 y'all sing together. It was like yeah, and there was 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:16.000 never like who's the bigger star? And to do it 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:20.360 because people type A type just worked like it just 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.640 was like it just makes sense, like yes, But also 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.400 I think like respect is so important. Like I feel 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.400 like sometimes if you feel like someone's not understanding you 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:33.960 or disagree, if you don't disagree, it's not more healthy. 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.279 You have to disagree and you have to not see 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.880 eye to eye on everything. But when that happens, you 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.720 have to figure out okay, Like and with me being 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:45.039 so like just ready to rock and roll, I'm like, okay, 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.280 how is she feeling about this? Like is this something 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.720 that I can do? You have to intentionally think of 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.279 totally or like if it's something that she like, and 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.240 we have kind of a golden rule where it's like 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.720 if it's something that we're each really passionate about, and 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:01.160 if it's like passionate negatively or positively, will communicate like, hey, 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.640 I really am not feeling this, and I'll be like okay, 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.919 you know, like maybe it was something that I, you know, 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:10.160 was interested in, but not that interested in. Not to 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.600 upset her, it's not worth it, but if you were 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:16.320 strongly yes, and you'd be like okay, exactly, and you 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.200 don't cry wolf. You don't like say you're really passionate 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.200 about something if you're not, because so you make it count. 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:22.520 So you're not gonna say this means the world to 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.640 me if you Totally totally, because there's been times where 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.680 like a sponsorship made like I I related to it, 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.360 remember that, yeah, And I was like, I really want 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.000 to do this. I feel so passionate, and he was 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.320 like I do not have the connection and I can't 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.720 go to these events and pretend like I have a connection. 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.480 And I was like, oh, I really want to do this. 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:41.640 But I was like, you know what, She's right, Like 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:46.680 we're a united team, and like we have to treat everything, 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.000 every every song we put out, every event that we 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.600 go to, any podcasts that we choose, like everything needs 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:56.680 to be like cohesive and it's not like she's dragging 0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:00.720 me or I'm dragging her fully invested. Yeah, totally. That's 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.960 another thing I've been learning in this Influencer series is 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:08.600 being an authentic brand, which you guys you're great thing 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.320 about that too, Yeah, being authentic. Talk to me about 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.760 how you guys show up every day authentically and how 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.240 that means sometimes turning things down. Yeah, I'm saying no, 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:17.880 it's a really big part of it. I think actually 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.040 when there's money attached, Like what if there's money attached, 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.840 how you've turned down a big amount of money a 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.200 lot of times because it just wasn't right because it's 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:27.920 true to our brand? Yeah, I tell me why that's 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.520 important to you guys. For us, I feel like from 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.839 day one, especially even with our music, writing our music, 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.079 it was like, are we really going to be the 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.440 girls that's stand up on stage and sing songs that 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:42.760 we don't feel a personal connection to because that's potentially 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:44.920 going to ruin our lives? Like so many people do 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.520 that right now. It's so sad. It makes you not 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.080 like music an exactly, and it just seems to us 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.640 like a miserable way to live. Like if we're going 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.760 to be artists, why not be artists and Maddie and 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:59.240 Tay individually, like bring our actual soul's hearts into it 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.160 rather than just viewing it as a career, Like it's 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.360 our lives, it's everything, you know what I mean? Like 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.040 because with you too, like you are your brand, you 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:09.880 know what I mean? Like you are selling yourself. Like 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.720 like you know, a person at I don't know, a 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.839 jewelry store is selling their jewelry and so when they 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.080 go home, if they didn't sell a piece of jewelry, 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.720 it's like, oh, you know someone. But if people aren't 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.520 investing in you, you're actually it's like a personal hit 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:29.520 where you're just like like essentially preach to an audience 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:33.440 about something that we don't which do so much sense. 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.200 And that is the thing is like you guys are 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.200 a brand but also your humans, and you are sharing 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.520 your heart and soul at the end of the day, 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.000 that is what people are buying into because regular people 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.120 don't know that there's a huge machine running this and 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:49.720 pupping stuff out money. But really so that it's up 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.000 to you guys to make sure that that's like consistent, 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.440 consistent in your your truth because otherwise people could force 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.640 that on you. Well. And this is the thing. So 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.600 like with any influence and we've heard this too, because 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.240 like we just got into like the influencer world and 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:08.640 everything it's wild. But I will say like the minute 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:11.200 that you just take one thing that doesn't make sense, 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.120 you're going to start taking more things that don't make sense, 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.240 and then the brand that you've worked so hard for 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.360 is not going to be what you So it's just 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.120 like get watered down and people are not gonna listen 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.679 to what you have to say because they're like, I'm 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:26.600 just doing this because it's yeah, it's like, are you 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.600 gonna like do fifteen punches? Are you gonna pack a 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.040 giant punch and just go for it a couple of times? 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:37.280 Make it, make it and just don't get sloppy, like, 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.440 because there's so many times where both of us are like, man, 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:41.880 we could use the money, can use that, Yeah, we 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.600 could use that cash, and then we're just like, it 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.360 depends on what you want. If you are just trying 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.760 to capitalize on what you're doing right now, do everything. 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.400 But if you're trying to build a longer you know, 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.320 if you're trying to have that longevity, like know your 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:59.000 worth and know like sometimes there's not a price that 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:00.960 can make something makes Just because you say no to 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.960 an opportunity now that may seem like it could launch 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.199 your career but it doesn't feel right, doesn't mean that 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.120 the opportunity in a different way is going to come 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.520 later that makes more sense. So you kind of have 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:12.240 to trust in the process and that God's going to 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.520 make the opportunity and trust your Have you figured out 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.679 that your gut is more on that you think it is. Yes, 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:18.880 And I want to talk to about that because you 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.800 said if you feel like it isn't wrong wrong either. 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.080 It feels like a huge opportunity, but your gut is 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.800 saying like, don't do it and trust us the right 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:28.720 one's going to tell how do you But how do 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.400 you know how to trust your gut? Because I feel 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.640 like and I wanted to since we're hopefully talking to 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.400 women and the everyday woman who's trying to find herself especially, 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.040 how do you know how to listen to your gut 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:41.520 and how do you know how to how to have 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.880 the confidence to move forward and with your gut? What's 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:47.480 the difference between emotions in your head and your gut feeling? 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.360 For me, I don't trust my gut. I trust God. 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.360 I can't do you know He's got um for me? 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:56.400 Have you guys ever seen there's like a split pole 0:11:56.440 --> 0:12:01.959 where it says, God calms you, the devil bushes you. God, Um, 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.079 I know what you said, encourage, use you. The devil 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.160 like makes you feel it's like a separate yeah. Yeah, 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.360 and it's for me. I've lived by that because whenever 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.840 I'm trying to make a decision or I'm just going 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.000 through something, if I feel this way about it, then 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:15.520 so if you feel like so, you feel like the 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.960 devil would be like anxiety, resistance, stress, um, like it 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.720 doesn't match yourself. Yeah, and if that line up with 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.360 my beliefs and morals, and I trust that God's going 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.160 to give me peace, And if I have peace about something, 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.840 then I trust that that's God's like for mind or 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:32.720 like you're on my path. So if you have peace, 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.920 if it flows easily, there's no resistance, if you feel 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.200 like it matches your personal moral code, then you can 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.280 move forward. And if if I'm not sacrificing your things 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.280 of others or myself or doing any harm, Okay. So 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.960 that's a very basic way to break down God gut No, 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:53.520 God mine is like all intertwined because I like to 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:55.560 be like weird. I love it because we're getting to 0:12:55.600 --> 0:13:00.160 give both perspectives. So like the introvert next year, I know, 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.880 but for me, like I talked to God like he's 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.640 my best friend. So like in the car, I'll be like, hey, God, 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:15.280 it's me, Mattie. You're trying to help, but I am like, 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.280 I've had really weird things. I'll have to tell you 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.000 this one day because it's too long a story that 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.000 I've had moments where like I will feel like the 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.439 Holy Spirit telling me to tell someone something and I 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.040 will get the courage to say it and it's exactly 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.480 what the person needs to hear. Or weird stuff I've had, 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.240 like dreams, like premonition stuff where things came and break 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.640 that down because I feel like, is that basically do 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:37.079 you feel like it's a Holy Spirit when all of 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:38.920 a sudden you're just going about your regular day and 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.120 you get like this random thought that comes in your mind. 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.199 You weren't thinking about someone else, but the specific message 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.120 what it is? That is for me, that's what it is. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.800 Because some people like so my grandma, she's really spiritual, 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.080 and she has to have three confirmations, so like three 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.080 confirmation confirmations. So for example, just a quick little story, 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.840 my grandma wanted to start volunteering at a hospital and 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.679 I have three conversations, I know, and so she was like, 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:03.319 you know, I had I was talking to God and 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:04.520 I was praying about it. And so I kind of 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:06.280 had the thought and I popped in my head and 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.880 then U my aunt called her and she's like, Mom, 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:10.559 you should really, like you know, this is like a 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.800 day after like, Mom, you should start working at the hospital. 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.240 I think it'd be fun. And she and you're not fun, 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.160 but you're you're so good that confirmation number one. That 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.240 was number two. Number two. God kind of already put 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.280 it in her heart, and the first one was her thought, yes, 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.240 she was then two conversations from other one and then 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.280 another one where one of her friends from Bible study 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.800 was saying, like, Hey, you should really come volunteer at 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.880 the hospital with me. I'll get you all hooked double lunch. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.600 She's like, okay, like three confermations, So I'm going to 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:39.320 add to my my check. And sometimes it's just like 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.360 you just kind of have to, like you have. I 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:45.000 feel like in this society we all can do not 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.800 do well listening, like we're trying to fix anything so much. 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:49.960 And for me, I'm like I don't want to listen 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:51.440 to what God has to tell me. I want to 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.960 fix whatever the situation is that he has me, And 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:55.600 like I just want to fix it and I want 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.360 to listen to what the real solution is. But it 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:00.280 is tricky being like a woman of God out in 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.320 this industry. I would like to say, how do you 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.720 navigate that? Because I do feel like, Okay, social media 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.400 has been positive and negative. Negative in the comparison game 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:14.880 has skyrocketed, but positive positive in also the real side 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:18.240 has skyrocket because now like you guys can directly tell 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.720 us how you're feeling. You can show yourself with no makeup, 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.360 you can show yourself doing whatever, Whereas before we would 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.160 have never gotten to see that. We're just saying you're 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:28.560 perfectly created pictures and that that's photoshopped and touched and 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:30.920 you're just saying. But now with social media, you guys 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.320 can actually let us into your personal life, which is 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:37.880 the benefit. But how do you And so because of that, 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.000 I feel like people's faith is starting to pop up 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.720 more because people are talking about uncomfortable to more comfortable. 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.160 How do you, guys define faith and how do you 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.880 how do you work your faith into this career? Man? 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.120 There's times where just with writing songs, we incorporate it. 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.840 But the biggest thing for us is like we are 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:58.840 not going to be the girls that are like you 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.200 should be a Christian and God is real and Jesus like, 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.600 we're gonna be really kind and like let our actions 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.520 speak for, you know, our words, Like if we're judging them, 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:10.400 we're not doing it right. Yeah. Well, and some people 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.080 they're like, why are you all so happy all the time? 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.440 Why are you so positive? I'm like, Jesus man, he's 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:18.520 a good friend, you everything, but just like letting your 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.240 actions speak for you know. But then this is the 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.680 thing because it's like you know, being in the Bible Belt. 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.040 I guess you can say in Nashville everyone you can 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.920 get so skewed if people other people. I feel like 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.640 religion is one thing and spirituality that is one thing. 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.640 So we're on the spiritual spectrum like religion, Like we're 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.520 not going to judge you, Like if I exclude you, 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.040 I'm gonna wear a bikini because I want to wear 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.200 a bikini, and I'm not gonna like sometimes like us 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.200 and sometimes I drink wine. But I feel like Jesus 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.400 sex and more marriage and I'm still going to happen exactly. 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:51.720 Jesus still loves you. It doesn't matter. It's like how 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:53.720 a lot of the times people can view having a 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:57.000 relationship with God as oh they're perfect, yeah, because stuff 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.680 at that, But in reality, we're like the most way 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.960 for a fact, that's why we need him, you know 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:03.720 what I mean. So I don't Yeah, I feel like 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.119 for us, like might I said, playing those seeds instead 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.800 of like shutting trees down people's you never want to 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.639 be because that's a turn off. A turnoff man. Yeah, 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:16.440 I ad the perfect Like, well, that doesn't help anyone 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:18.159 to put out there that you're perfect, Like how is 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.640 that going to help anyone? Know? Well, and that's why, 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:22.840 like we put out a video at the beginning of 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.240 this year on YouTube and just kind of explain to 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.360 our fans, like, hey, this is why it's taking so long. 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.480 We had a label change, and it's been really rough, 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:31.840 like trying to put out new music. And I like 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.240 went through a really hard depression whenever the label shutdown 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:39.240 because my purpose was so attached To explain that a 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.879 little bit, So my purpose in life was attached to 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.240 my job. I totally get that. And so successes we 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:50.280 got when I felt like my purpose was being taken away, 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.560 which was my job, not my not my heart exactly. Um, 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:56.360 I was like, you know what am I doing here? 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.400 Like what like, what am I contributing to the world? Like? 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:01.960 And I felt worthless. Yeah, I felt like I had 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.000 no worth. And I literally would look in the mirror 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:05.800 and not recognize who I saw. I was just like, 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.120 who is this girl? I'd be like, I don't like her, 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:12.040 she's like broken and just and then now and what 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.600 she had, her special spark is not gone. So you're working. 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.639 And then once I like unwinded that thing where I 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:20.760 was like, how did you unwind it? Oh? Girl? I 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.840 was like, honestly, like a couple months ago. I like 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.840 a lot of women, especially look in the mirror every 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.640 day and they're like, who are you? What are you doing? 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:33.080 Where's your purpose? This at least once a week for me. Yeah, 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.840 it's always kind of always like girls, came on, come on, 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.120 come on, It's so nice to hear that you guys 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.280 feel that way too all the time. Like there's so 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:43.879 many times where both of us like I just feel 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.800 like this small or like we'll be I don't know, 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:48.800 the comparison game, and I'll just look at her and 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.399 she's just like you are your own God created you. 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:55.280 Just yeah, yeah, we always say nobody's going to steal 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.360