1 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: I began this podcast series, Love Someone, so that I 2 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: could have longer, more meaningful conversations than on air radio 3 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:18,799 Speaker 1: programming allowed. On the radio, I can talk for three, 4 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:22,759 Speaker 1: maybe four minutes to somebody, But in this podcast, I 5 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: can talk as long as they want to talk. We 6 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:31,639 Speaker 1: can share inspirational thoughts, we can encourage people. We can 7 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 1: talk about things that matter. Specifically, we are here to 8 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 1: inspire people to take their gifts, their talents, their skills, 9 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: their insights to make this world a better place. Today's 10 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: guest is the embodiment of that mission. Adasa Oscar Grammy 11 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:58,280 Speaker 1: and Golden Globe recipient, Platinum selling artists and the voice 12 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 1: of Dolores Madrigal in Encanto, has just released a book, 13 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: Love Keep Showing Up. In her books, she shares her 14 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: resilient and inspiring journey through music through motherhood. She has 15 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: a huge family, through faith through hardship. Born to immigrant 16 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: Colombian parents, Adasa grew up with a strong work ethic, 17 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 1: learning early that success in the field of music took 18 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:32,559 Speaker 1: a lot more than just talent. That success was because 19 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: of grit, faith, and a whole lot of improvising. Together 20 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: with Gabriel Candiani, her husband, and music director. She worked 21 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,039 Speaker 1: hard in paid her dues on stages in Texas and 22 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: Mexico before landing her first solo record deal. It was 23 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: from this launch pad that her career took off, and 24 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: she found herself performing alongside and collaborating with musical legends 25 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: including lin Manuel, Miranda in Rique, Iglesias, Sierra, Missy Elliott, 26 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: and others. She was living the dream until her life 27 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 1: took a detour. She came down with COVID, and that 28 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: COVID left her paralyzed from the neck down. Adasa faced 29 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: her greatest challenge, Unable to even care for herself, let 30 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: alone sing, she felt like everything was slipping away. But 31 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: in those darkest moments, she and her husband, along with 32 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 1: the seven children they have clung to their faith, to 33 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: the laughter, and the unshakable belief that God was still 34 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: directing their lives. What followed was proof that God's timing 35 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: is always perfect. From relearning patience and resilience to performing 36 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: live with the Incanto cast of the Oscars and sharing 37 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 1: her voice on stages across the US and around the globe, 38 00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: Adasa's journey has been anything but predictable, with unexpected messes 39 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 1: undeniable miracles, and inspirational music. Love keeps showing up as 40 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:14,119 Speaker 1: a story of resilience, divine timing, and how love, family, 41 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: and faith can carry us through life's hardest seasons. 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This is my first time meeting you. 77 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: A lot of the guests I have on here because 78 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 1: I've been doing this for years and years, are people 79 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: that I met, you know, twenty years ago, fifteen years ago, 80 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,160 Speaker 1: But this is the first time I get to meet you, 81 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 1: and I'm so blessed, I'm so honored, so welcome. 82 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 3: I'm grateful to be here as well with you. So 83 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 3: this is going to be a fun conversation. 84 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: It's going to be an enlightening conversation because the notes 85 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 1: that I got, the information I have you are a walking, 86 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:17,799 Speaker 1: talking miracle. 87 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,600 Speaker 2: Tell us your story. 88 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 3: Well, I grew up wanting to sing, and just being 89 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 3: born was quite the ordeal. I was born at eight months. 90 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 3: My mom was told she would never have children, and 91 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 3: there she had my sister, and then they told her 92 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 3: you should never again have children. She actually flatlined with 93 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 3: my sister while giving birth to her. And then I 94 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 3: came along just a few months later. And so from 95 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 3: the beginning of my life, I've always had like this 96 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 3: determination of like, I know what I want to do. 97 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 3: I want to be a singer, I want to do 98 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 3: this and that. And when I watched The Little Mermaid 99 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:51,840 Speaker 3: for the first time when I was nine years old, 100 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 3: I knew that that's what I want to do. I 101 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 3: wanted to be part of that world, and I made 102 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 3: it like my complete phoneous as a kid. But I 103 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 3: had a lot of health problems. I had liver. 104 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:05,919 Speaker 2: Issues from being premature. 105 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 3: Yes, so I was in and out of hospital since 106 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 3: I was very, very young, and so was it was 107 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 3: hard on my family because it was a lot of 108 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 3: trips to just being able to stay alive even once 109 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 3: I was born, and then I was told I wouldn't 110 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 3: have children, and then I got blessed with six amazing 111 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 3: kids that I gave birth to, and my husband and 112 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 3: I have become a happy family of seven. And it's 113 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 3: not without its turmoils and its ups and downs. 114 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: But so what you're telling me is you come from 115 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 1: a long line of women who say, here, hold my 116 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: microphone while I show you. 117 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 3: Well, it's more like Heavenly brother says, don't worry about it. 118 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 2: I got you, I got you, I got this. 119 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 1: So you were born premature health problems, like was it 120 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: trips to children's hospital in the middle of the night 121 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: your entire life? 122 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, absolutely, No eating chocolate, no eating meat, 123 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 3: like it was just very controlled diet. And on top 124 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 3: of the fact that I would you know, I would 125 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 3: throw out or sometimes I'd even go into convulsions because 126 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 3: of just my liver couldn't process like the fats. And 127 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 3: so that was hard on my family because you know, 128 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 3: it was just long nights, long weeks sometimes in the 129 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 3: hospital that I had to spend and my mom was 130 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 3: a nurse, so she would be able to check in 131 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 3: on me. But yeah, I got to know a lot 132 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 3: of my nurses on a first name basis. 133 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 1: Wow, and here you are. How many children did the 134 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: Lord bless you with? After being told you shouldn't have kids? 135 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 3: We are a blended family of seven. 136 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:41,840 Speaker 2: How old? What of the age range? 137 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 3: Well, the eldest will be thirty two. Our eldest my 138 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 3: husband and I, she will be twenty eight this year. 139 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 3: And then we have a sixteen year old, a fourteen 140 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 3: year old who will be fifteen boy, so fifteen year old, 141 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 3: sixteen year old girl, fourteen year old boy, a thirteen 142 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:04,199 Speaker 3: year old girl, nine year old girl, six year old girl. 143 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 3: So yeah, the eldest one is a boy, and then 144 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 3: my eldest with my husband is a girl. So yeah, 145 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 3: it's lots. 146 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,439 Speaker 2: Of kids, lots of laundry, endless. 147 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 3: Loads of laundry. I think my Watcher and Dry are 148 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 3: probably asking for help. Please. 149 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, good for you. 150 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: So your mom, your wife, you love the Lord and 151 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:29,440 Speaker 1: you love to sing. But your miracle that blows me 152 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:33,679 Speaker 1: away is that you thought everybody thought you were down 153 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: for the count. 154 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 2: Tell me what happened with the paralysis. 155 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 3: Well, I stepped away from music after ten years, ten 156 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 3: plus years of my husband and I just touring the 157 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:48,680 Speaker 3: world and opening for Daddy Yankee and doing songs with 158 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 3: Pitbull and Missy Elliott. And I told him I have 159 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 3: a feeling that our family, you know, there's still some 160 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:55,679 Speaker 3: spirits that are going to join us. And we knew, 161 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 3: like it was a miracle to have our first I 162 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:00,200 Speaker 3: didn't even buy a crib when we had her, and 163 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,839 Speaker 3: so I just said, you know, let's just focus on 164 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 3: our family and our kids. And we did, and then 165 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 3: the Lord started multiplying our family. And then I decided, 166 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:11,680 Speaker 3: you know what, I want to step away from touring. 167 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 3: And he was like, what are we going to do? 168 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 3: That's like what we've been doing for the past ten years. 169 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 3: So that was hard because we were like, we had 170 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 3: to shift our whole entire income in our livelihood up 171 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 3: until then. So he started focusing on film and TV music, 172 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 3: and then I just started really like honing down on 173 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 3: scriptures and spending time with the kids and becoming more 174 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 3: of a homemaker, which I still cannot bake the perfect 175 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 3: bread loaf, still working on it. But and then my 176 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 3: husband wanted. He's like, honey, you are so into the 177 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 3: scriptures and you pray and listen to talks walking around 178 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 3: the house. The Lord's going to call you for something. 179 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 3: I'm like, babe, are they already settled down? I'm like, 180 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 3: I retired from music by then we had the that 181 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 3: was we were on baby number five six, and so 182 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 3: we went to Miami on a trip after our last baby, 183 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 3: and he's like, you know, listen, take a break, and 184 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 3: we usually trouble with our gear, and then when we 185 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:04,840 Speaker 3: were in the hotel, he's like, oh, the light looks great. 186 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 3: When we record this video for the song you've made, 187 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 3: And we did, and then we posted it on our 188 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 3: YouTube channel. It did not have a lot of abuse. Honestly, 189 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 3: it was like three hundred abuse. But one of them 190 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 3: was Disney and so they came and asked me if 191 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 3: I would like to audition for an undisclosed role. Now 192 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:22,079 Speaker 3: that was like full circle moment. You know, I had 193 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 3: grown up with this desire and this love of wanting 194 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 3: to be part of Disney, even if it wasn't just 195 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 3: as an extra, because that's the dream. That was my dream, 196 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 3: was to be an extra, and then they asked me 197 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 3: to be a part of the project. Now, during the 198 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 3: audition process, I was feeling a little sick and I 199 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 3: thought I was just pregnant. Like I was like, oh, 200 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 3: this is you know what it's been before. But my 201 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:43,959 Speaker 3: family and I had had COVID and so we lost 202 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 3: our sense of smell, of taste. It was hard on 203 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:47,679 Speaker 3: our lungs, and so I said, you know what, let 204 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 3: me just go and get a blood test. And it 205 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 3: was literally the night after my callback, and I was 206 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:57,479 Speaker 3: on cloud nine, but I was feeling this like puky dizziness, 207 00:11:57,520 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 3: and so I told my husband, you know what, I'm 208 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 3: just going to go to the er real quick. And 209 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 3: he's like, I'll come with you, and I'm like, nah, 210 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 3: stay home with the kids, you know you can. I'll 211 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 3: be home in a couple hours. You know, I'll get 212 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 3: a blood test. And then when I went in, I 213 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 3: started losing the ability to walk, and then I started 214 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 3: slurring my words, and then they gave me a medicine 215 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,079 Speaker 3: to see if they would help me with my symptoms, 216 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 3: and within minutes after that, I was paralyzed from the 217 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 3: neck down. Right before I hit full paralysis, I was 218 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 3: able to like dial with my like the side of 219 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 3: my hand to my husband, and I could barely say anything. 220 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 3: And this was after I had just done the audition 221 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 3: of a lifetime the night before, and I thought I 222 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:39,560 Speaker 3: was going to die. I just felt like I couldn't breathe. 223 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:42,079 Speaker 3: My whole body wouldn't react. So no matter how much 224 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 3: I thought, like, I'm going to make my legs move, 225 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 3: my arm is going to move, it wouldn't. And so 226 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 3: they did MRIs and CT scans and blood work, and 227 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 3: at one point I just told them and I want 228 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 3: to go home if I'm going to die, I don't 229 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 3: want to die here because they wouldn't let my husband 230 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 3: in because of the COVID restrictions, and I'm like, I'm 231 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,079 Speaker 3: not going to die like this. So I signed myself out. 232 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 3: We went home. My husband came to pick me up, 233 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 3: and I had to leave the car there at the 234 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 3: hospital because I drove myself there, and then he had 235 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 3: to wheel me out in a wheelchair and then I 236 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 3: went home and I wrote my will. We had some 237 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 3: friends from church sign it as my witnesses, and then 238 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 3: I waited for death and that was it, Like I 239 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:20,439 Speaker 3: thought I was going to die. 240 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:25,319 Speaker 1: So the friends that came to sign, I know, they 241 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 1: did some heavy, heavy laying on of hands and anointing 242 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: and praying. 243 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 3: It was extreme, honestly. They were all looking at me 244 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 3: and I just I could barely. I could barely say anything. 245 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 3: And I was signed to them like want this, want 246 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 3: me please? And my husband helped me type it up 247 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 3: and I said goodbye to my kids and everything. And 248 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:52,079 Speaker 3: then we had a member from our church who came 249 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 3: over and I didn't know because he was in my 250 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 3: visiting ministering teacher. And then he's like, you know, I 251 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:59,319 Speaker 3: am an EMT. You look like you might be having 252 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:01,599 Speaker 3: symptoms of possibly a stroke. Why don't we go to 253 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 3: Vanderbilt Hospital? And because we live in Nashville, Tennessee, And 254 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 3: so he drove us in his truck and we were 255 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,319 Speaker 3: there another fourteen hours. He was sitting outside with my 256 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:14,199 Speaker 3: husband during the whole ordeal, and it was I mean, 257 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,839 Speaker 3: just as a reminder of how horrible we survived. I 258 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 3: think as a society and just as a community. These moments, 259 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 3: there were no beds, so everybody that was in the 260 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 3: er was in a chair with a paper with the 261 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 3: letter and a number, kind of like our rooms, because 262 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 3: there were no rooms. So that's how they would tend 263 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 3: to us, just sitting in the hallways of the hospitals. 264 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 3: And after many hours, more blood tests, more CT scans, 265 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 3: and everything under the sun, the neurologists came and told me, 266 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 3: I'm so sorry, but with all of the unknowns of COVID, 267 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 3: you know, we don't know if or when these symptoms 268 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 3: will pass. We can run a spinal tap and see 269 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 3: if it's keyon Beret syndrome, but other than that, there's 270 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 3: nothing we can do. 271 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: So what did it turn out to be? Did they 272 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 1: ever figure it out? And how long were you that 273 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 1: way it? 274 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 3: Honestly, it was about six to eight weeks. That was 275 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 3: the most intense of it. 276 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 2: And did you go home? 277 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 3: I did? I did. After that, I again signed myself 278 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 3: out against doctor's orders because they were like, you were 279 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 3: going to have to take full liability of your own 280 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 3: life if you sign yourself out, and I decided to 281 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 3: go home. And so day after day I would wake 282 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 3: up and then ask why is this happening? Like why? 283 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 3: And I would cry, and when I couldn't cry, would 284 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 3: just stare at the ceiling and just like be in thought. 285 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 3: Like I was reading my scriptures, I've been paying my tiethings, 286 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 3: I've been going to church, I've been doing the lessons 287 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 3: with the kids. I'm like trying to be an upstanding citizen. 288 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 3: Why now why me? And then I stopped asking why, 289 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 3: stopped giving myself a pity party about it, and then 290 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 3: I decided that I was going to be quiet and 291 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 3: just ask one question, is what do I need to 292 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 3: learn from this experience? And that's when everything shifted. When 293 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 3: I started asking what and my husband started praying our 294 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 3: ward started fasting for us and praying for us. And 295 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 3: it was in one particular day that it was the breakthrough, 296 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 3: and it was like, miraculously, I started feeling a little 297 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 3: bit better. And we started trying different things like if 298 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 3: I drink milk, does it give me paralysis? If I 299 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 3: eat you know, meat, is it everything? Like we got 300 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 3: to a point that I wasn't eating any food, Like 301 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 3: we started fasting and then I started including things and 302 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 3: at first I was just drinking a shake that was 303 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 3: literally gluten free, eggs free, dairy free. I mean, it 304 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 3: was giving me alive, but little by little I needed 305 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 3: to get more nutrition and figure out what would work 306 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 3: and what wouldn't. And that's when we started just including 307 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 3: just little things, a little bit of a fruit here, 308 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 3: or does oatmeal'll do it? And then so I was 309 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 3: vegan for a while. Then we started going pescatarian and 310 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 3: then I now I'm back to normal. But it was 311 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:10,879 Speaker 3: a few weeks of touch and go, and during the 312 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 3: time that I still thought I was going to die, 313 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 3: During the moments that I would wake up one day 314 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 3: and sometimes feel my legs and sometimes wouldn't, the paralysis 315 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 3: would be so intense that I barely could breathe. So 316 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:23,679 Speaker 3: it was just like like tiny breads is all I 317 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,159 Speaker 3: could take. So I thought I would die if I 318 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 3: was paralyzed. When I was sleeping, I thought I'm going 319 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 3: to die when I sleep, So every night I would 320 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,440 Speaker 3: just pray. I would kiss my kids, I would hug 321 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:34,879 Speaker 3: them as if it would be my last day, and 322 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,360 Speaker 3: hope I would wake up the next morning. And when 323 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:38,919 Speaker 3: I did, I'm like, Okay, I'm going to do whatever 324 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 3: I can. And the little time that I have with 325 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 3: the little effort that I can give, And so every 326 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:48,439 Speaker 3: day became very deliberate, very I don't know, it became richer, 327 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 3: and I understood the whole thing with good, better and best. 328 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 3: I understood that there was a lot of good things 329 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 3: that I would fill my day with, but I only 330 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 3: had time and space for the best things. 331 00:17:58,320 --> 00:17:58,679 Speaker 2: Amen. 332 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 3: I was always filling every moment of the day with 333 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 3: what I thought was important. And when I could no 334 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 3: longer sing and when I could no longer walk, then 335 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 3: I understood that the moments that were important was just 336 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:13,200 Speaker 3: to watch my kids smile at each other, to help 337 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,199 Speaker 3: one another, to accept help from my community because I 338 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 3: was always I got this kind of woman. You know, 339 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 3: I'm a Latina. I do everything in my house. Nobody 340 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 3: cleans my house, nobody needs to bring a meal. I'm 341 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 3: the one taking meals. And having to accept help that 342 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 3: was hard. I'm so grateful for my family and church 343 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 3: and my community because they showed me love in such 344 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 3: a deep way and never made me feel bad for 345 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 3: the fact that I couldn't do anything. And I also 346 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:45,119 Speaker 3: needed to understand that there were lessons that I needed 347 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 3: to learn. And what I feel like is that I 348 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 3: got a fast track to the lesson. And so now 349 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,880 Speaker 3: I live my life with a lot more gratefulness. I'm 350 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 3: a lot more humility, and I understand I'm a child 351 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 3: of God. That's the biggest lesson, and he loves me 352 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 3: regardless of what I can do. And my value was 353 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 3: so tied to that before that moment, I was. My 354 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 3: value was I can sing, i can cook. I'm a 355 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,679 Speaker 3: mo know. That's what makes me valuable. And when I 356 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 3: got sick, I literally told my husband, I feel like 357 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 3: I'm just ahead in a bed. I'm useless, Like what 358 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 3: good am I to anyone? All I'm going to do 359 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:26,680 Speaker 3: is be a weight around everyone's neck. And that's what 360 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 3: I understood, that I didn't need to do anything and 361 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:31,919 Speaker 3: I need to be anything, and I didn't need to 362 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 3: have some grand talent to be acknowledged as worth something. 363 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:40,119 Speaker 3: And to God, we're all worth everything. And I wish 364 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 3: this on no one, but if people were to be 365 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 3: able to understand without having to walk the walk of pain, 366 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 3: of how important we each are and how great we 367 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:56,199 Speaker 3: are to even our families and our communities, regardless if 368 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 3: we can move a finger or not, we would love 369 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:02,119 Speaker 3: life a little bit more and feel sorry for ourselves 370 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 3: a little less. 371 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 2: A lot less probably. 372 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,120 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I honestly, I don't feel sorry for myself anymore. 373 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 3: I what I understood is, yeah, I broke some dishes. 374 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 3: Yeah I couldn't do these things. But then I see 375 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 3: the relationship my kids have with each other, how tight 376 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 3: knit that became. And there is trauma in the family 377 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 3: still because of it, because you know, they had to 378 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 3: see me in such a way. But it also brought 379 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:29,200 Speaker 3: them an understanding of this life is temporal, but families 380 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:30,919 Speaker 3: are forever, because I would tell them that I'm like, 381 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 3: if I were to die, it's like I'm in another room. 382 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 3: I'm not gone forever, because that's the beauty of the Gospel. 383 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:42,399 Speaker 3: If we truly believe that we can be with heavenly 384 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 3: Father one day, it means that we're eternal beings, and 385 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 3: so we're having an experience in this world. This is 386 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 3: a temporal experience, but we're eternal. So I would tell 387 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 3: them that, don't forget, I'm just going to be in 388 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 3: the other room. And one of the experiences that brought 389 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:59,160 Speaker 3: me to that was the last time we went to Disney. 390 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 3: Because we now have very separated ages in our kids, 391 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 3: so not everybody just writes the teacups. So the last 392 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,879 Speaker 3: time we went to Disney, the older ones wanted to 393 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 3: go on the exciting rides, you know, down the mountains 394 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 3: in the water, and the little ones were very little, 395 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 3: and they're like, we just want to write tea cups. 396 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 2: We want to go to it's a small world. 397 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:20,159 Speaker 3: Now, we want to go to a small world and 398 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 3: just go on the little rides. And so for about 399 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 3: three hours we were separated, and then they came back 400 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 3: and they're like, you should have been there. It was 401 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 3: so much fun, and the little ones were telling them 402 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 3: of how much fun they had. And then I said, 403 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 3: this is what eternity is going to look like. One day. 404 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:37,679 Speaker 3: We're going to wake up and we're going to say, man, 405 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 3: I know you left before this happened, but I just 406 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 3: got to tell you how fun this was, and it's 407 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,439 Speaker 3: going to be an exciting moment. So never forget that 408 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 3: I'm just on the other side of the park. I'm 409 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 3: just in another room, and soon enough we'll see each other. 410 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,720 Speaker 3: So that was a big comfort to understand that even 411 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 3: though I was given more time, and trust me, I 412 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 3: do not waste it. Every day, I say, what more 413 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,159 Speaker 3: could I have done that. If I wake up tomorrow, 414 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 3: I can still do And then I feel inspired and 415 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 3: then I go, Okay, I'm going to be a little better. 416 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 3: I'm gonna do a little more or I'm going to 417 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 3: call that person because I feel inspired to do so 418 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 3: and I don't know why. So I follow a lot 419 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,400 Speaker 3: more of Heavenly Father's promptings, and I understand that he's 420 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 3: at the wheel, so I don't have to worry as 421 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 3: much because before I thought it was up to me, 422 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 3: you know, my success or my demise or everything. You know. 423 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:22,920 Speaker 3: Now I just know I can do all I can 424 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 3: do and then He'll fill in the rest. 425 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:29,159 Speaker 1: I can do all things through God, who strengthens me. 426 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 1: The key to that is so long as it's things 427 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 1: in His will. 428 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 3: That was the hard lesson. 429 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 2: That was the hard lesson. 430 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 3: That was hard because even though I was like, Okay, 431 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 3: I'm ready for this cup to pass, it wasn't like instantaneously, 432 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 3: I'm back to normal and everything is good. No. It was. 433 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 3: It was a hard roadback. When I finally, you know, 434 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 3: went through that time of we're finding what works. I'm 435 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 3: not dead, and every day it would feel like my 436 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:59,119 Speaker 3: spirit was like hanging on by a thread. You know 437 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 3: during those moments is when we get the call congratulations 438 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,360 Speaker 3: you got the part. And my husband was like, you 439 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 3: can't take this and I told him, like he put 440 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 3: his hand over the phone and said, you call him 441 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 3: if I'm dead, I'm taking this. And he's like, well, 442 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 3: get it together. I want to doctor out. So that 443 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,479 Speaker 3: was it. But you know, finally after he negotiated and 444 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 3: talked to them about you know, what we're required and 445 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 3: if we were going to go and do it in 446 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:27,679 Speaker 3: LA and they're like, no, because of code restrictions, you 447 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 3: can do it from your studio in Nashville. Then finally 448 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 3: it got to where, you know, Jamie Sparrow Roberts herself, 449 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,399 Speaker 3: the casting director for Disney, was like, okay, can I 450 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,919 Speaker 3: speak to us? And my husband's like, that's a great question. 451 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 3: Let's find out. 452 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,159 Speaker 2: Let's go find out together. Let's go see if your 453 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 2: lendons are working today. 454 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 3: And all I could say was thank you so much. 455 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 3: When do I start? And like almost passed out on 456 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 3: the floor. And that's when they said, you know, three weeks. 457 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 3: And it was like training like Rocky, but like in 458 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 3: slow motion, very slow. It was very it was hard, 459 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:14,239 Speaker 3: and finally the day came and I was ready to go, 460 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 3: and I and I sat there and I did the reading, 461 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 3: and then I had the experience with lin Manuel Miranda 462 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 3: and him directing me for the song that broke records. 463 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 3: You know, we don't talk about Bruno, and and finally, 464 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,399 Speaker 3: after recording all of that, I'm like, I need to 465 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 3: come clean because I up to then I. 466 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,119 Speaker 1: You got it recorded, okay, Now they had. 467 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,719 Speaker 2: A little secret. I neglected to tell you anything. 468 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,640 Speaker 3: And then I did tell the casting director and they 469 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 3: were so gracious and so kind because they were so supportive. 470 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 3: And when the time for the purple carpet came that 471 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 3: looks like literally a picture out of like high school graduation. 472 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 3: When my smile from me to ear it was because 473 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,679 Speaker 3: I called them and I told them I can't get vaccinated. 474 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,159 Speaker 3: My doctor will not off on it because of the 475 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 3: fact that I had gone through this incredible ordeal physically. 476 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,440 Speaker 3: My doctor was like, you are not ready. We don't 477 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 3: even know why you're functioning, but let's not mess with 478 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 3: it right now. And so I had to call them 479 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 3: and I told them and Yvet medi Nowitch was one 480 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 3: of the producers. She's like, let me, let me take 481 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 3: this up up the pipeline. We'll see, just give this 482 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,159 Speaker 3: over to me. And they were so gracious because they 483 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:26,639 Speaker 3: figured out a way for me to be able to 484 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,920 Speaker 3: be there. I mean I was in an isolated room 485 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 3: away from everyone and tell that picture till we walked 486 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 3: that purple carpet. But they were so gracious and treated 487 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 3: me with such love and kindness, and I was able 488 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 3: to be there on that premiere. Now, after that, I 489 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 3: was able to get vaccinated once I was fully able to, 490 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 3: and went on, you know, to do the oscars and 491 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 3: do American Idol and all of that. But that day 492 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,080 Speaker 3: meant so much for me to stand there with my 493 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:55,120 Speaker 3: Familia Madrial because it truly felt like my family had 494 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,360 Speaker 3: my back, my Disney family, and I was so grateful 495 00:25:58,359 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 3: to them. 496 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: Story chatting with Adasa today, hearing of her incredible, inspiring journey, 497 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,200 Speaker 1: will have a little more time with her after I've 498 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:13,440 Speaker 1: told you about one of my Cherish podcast sponsors. 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That needs to be 518 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,680 Speaker 1: the movie of them calling you while you're in bed 519 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,160 Speaker 1: agantc and your husband's like, Uh, what are. 520 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 2: We gonna do here? 521 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,200 Speaker 3: I know, and I help foreign to have optives in 522 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,119 Speaker 3: vocal range and yet for the movie. Even when I 523 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 3: was recording, all I had was that range. That was it. 524 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,919 Speaker 3: That's all I could really give in that moment, and 525 00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 3: it just so happened to be those notes that worked. 526 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 3: And you know, that performance. Even when I hear it 527 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 3: back now, I can hear the I can barely make it. 528 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 3: But I'm going through this and I'm gonna If this 529 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 3: is the last thing I ever sing in my life, 530 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:10,679 Speaker 3: I'm going to do it. 531 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 2: You know, I'm gonna give it my all. 532 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,399 Speaker 3: It might all is definitely there forever and ever in 533 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 3: that song and in those words. 534 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how many times my children have 535 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:27,640 Speaker 1: played that song over, oh man, and over and. 536 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,399 Speaker 2: Over and over and over and over and over and 537 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:30,360 Speaker 2: over and over. 538 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 3: Oh well, it's a blessing for me to be able 539 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 3: to share this story. I don't know, I didn't know 540 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 3: in that moment why, but I will say this. I 541 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 3: was in the Christian closet my whole entire career because 542 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 3: I was so afraid to step on anybody's toes, to 543 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 3: offend anybody, to get blacklisted, to get you know, shunned 544 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 3: from the industry, that I never really shared my testimony 545 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 3: out loud. I was so scared. But one thing that 546 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 3: this experience did give me was I know who says 547 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 3: my life and I know who gave me extra time. 548 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:03,160 Speaker 2: Amen. 549 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 3: His hand was in every single step of me being 550 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 3: able to be here. To the contrary of wanting to 551 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 3: shy away, I say it and I hold it like 552 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 3: a banner because I know that he was holding me 553 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 3: up even when I was scared to share my testimony, 554 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 3: but even more now he's like, what are you going 555 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 3: to do with the time you were given? And I'm 556 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 3: not wasting it? And that is one thing that I 557 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 3: want to share with anybody listening. If you're afraid of 558 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 3: not living your dreams, is because you follow God. Let 559 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 3: me tell you the easiest way for you to be 560 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 3: able to fulfill the measure of your creation is to 561 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 3: follow him, because the best is yet to come when 562 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 3: you actually follow the path that he sees as the 563 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,520 Speaker 3: best for you. I mean, come on, He's known you forever, 564 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 3: even more than us as parents have known our children. 565 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:49,200 Speaker 3: He's known us. 566 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 1: He saw us before he farmed us, before he knits 567 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 1: you together in your mother's way. 568 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 2: How mind boggling is that. 569 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 3: It's amazing, not just new at loved us. Yes, so 570 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 3: then why do we have to be scared when even 571 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 3: the trials of our life come through. He's just saying, 572 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 3: I need you to become a little stronger. So now 573 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 3: I see life as a gym. I see it when 574 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 3: trials come. I go, oh, I've been playing with these 575 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,680 Speaker 3: twenty pound weights long enough. He's putting another twenty on 576 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 3: because he thinks I can handle it. All right, let's 577 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 3: bring it on. Now? Did I bring this on myself? 578 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 3: Let me think no, Okay, you know what I mean, 579 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 3: because there's things that we bring upon ourselves that he's like, Look, 580 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 3: I didn't tell you to step on that puddle. I 581 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 3: didn't ask you to step on the puddle. Look at 582 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 3: my baby's over here, I know. 583 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 2: Tell him to come up here so I can. 584 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 3: Say, Hi, this is Jasmine. 585 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:42,640 Speaker 2: Hi beautiful, this is me. Uh Hi. How old are you? Girls? 586 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:44,560 Speaker 3: Six? Nine? 587 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 1: She's nine, six and nine? So at home right now, 588 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: I have a six year old, she has a six 589 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 1: year old TiO she's in school right now. And I 590 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,040 Speaker 1: have a ten year old wild child, my son and 591 00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 1: eleven year old granddaughter. So uh, if you guys were here, 592 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 1: you guys could hang out and play and dance and 593 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: sing that song. You know that song we don't talk 594 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: about Bruno Brune No, no, no. Do you guys know 595 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: what a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful mama the Lord gave you girls. 596 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,960 Speaker 3: No, don't think he gave me the most wonderful, wonderful kitties. 597 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 3: Now that I really enjoy to the fullest of the 598 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,480 Speaker 3: experience of having children because I know how tender it 599 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 3: is and how quickly it fades. I enjoy every single 600 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 3: moment of it. 601 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 2: So love keep showing up. Where can folks find it? 602 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 3: You can find it in Barnes and Noble Desert Book 603 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:44,520 Speaker 3: as well as Amazon. 604 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 2: Amazon, That'll bring it right to your door, to. 605 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,800 Speaker 3: Your door, come on, I mean, how much easier is it? 606 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,640 Speaker 3: But I share pictures of the different blessings that I've 607 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 3: had along the way of being able to be with 608 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,680 Speaker 3: Susan Egan and being on tour with her in Tighte Pay, Taiwan. 609 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 3: We're all going to be going on a Disney cruise 610 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 3: in August, so that's going to beautiful to be able 611 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,360 Speaker 3: to be on stage with her again. Jody Benson, you 612 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 3: know the one who literally shaped the dream of my childhood. 613 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,600 Speaker 3: When I finally met her, I was like, you're just 614 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,560 Speaker 3: as amazing as I always wish you would be. She's 615 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 3: so sweet and kind and Leen Manol Miranda working with 616 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 3: Yvet Merino, one of the producers with Byron Howard Jared Bush. 617 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:26,600 Speaker 3: So I talk about a little bit of everything and 618 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 3: also the ups and downs. You know, there was a 619 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 3: moment in my life when I was young and I 620 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,240 Speaker 3: was naive, and I thought, you know, I wanted to 621 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 3: end everything because I had a very abusive boyfriend relationship 622 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 3: and you know, things that you get to in youth 623 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 3: that you shouldn't but it just you think you are 624 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,760 Speaker 3: ready to handle big boy things and big girl things, 625 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 3: and that moment in time, I just wanted to end 626 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 3: it all. But I noticed now that if I would 627 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,480 Speaker 3: have succeeded in that attempt at ending it all, I 628 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 3: would have missed out on the best, best moments of 629 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 3: my life. And so if anybody struggling, just know that. 630 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,760 Speaker 3: But this is your cliffhanger moment right now. Is the 631 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 3: moment where you're going to determine whether you want to 632 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,640 Speaker 3: turn that page. And I hope that you do, because 633 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 3: life is worth living and even these trying times that 634 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,400 Speaker 3: feel so overwhelming will pass. And one day, you'll notice 635 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 3: that that was a wave that you got to surf, 636 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:17,800 Speaker 3: but that you can come on the other side. You 637 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 3: can go on dry ground and you can look back 638 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,200 Speaker 3: and say, wow, look how far I've come, and feel 639 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 3: good that you hung in there just a little bit longer. 640 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:28,480 Speaker 2: All right, go love on your babies. 641 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:33,320 Speaker 3: Thank you, Delilah, thank you. And you know, I will 642 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:37,040 Speaker 3: say this life is beautiful, it's wonderful, and being a 643 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 3: mom has a roller coaster ride ahead of anyone. But 644 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,120 Speaker 3: you know, not a lot of people want to take 645 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,640 Speaker 3: that roller coaster ride, but it's the easiest way for 646 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,440 Speaker 3: us to understand how much Heavenly Father loves us and 647 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:53,040 Speaker 3: our potential. They are my biggest, biggest lesson and my 648 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 3: biggest cheerleaders as well as the most inspiring thing in 649 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,920 Speaker 3: my life. So I'm grateful for them and for my husband, 650 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,200 Speaker 3: who is He's amazing. He's an angel. So thank you 651 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,760 Speaker 3: so much for your time and blessings to everyone out there. 652 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:12,040 Speaker 1: God bless you love, keep showing up, music, messes, and miracles. 653 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 1: The book by Adasa was released earlier this month on 654 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:20,400 Speaker 1: April seventh. It's been wonderful spending time with Adasa today 655 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,880 Speaker 1: and hearing a little of her remarkable journey in her faith, 656 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,440 Speaker 1: but I recommend you get the book and dive into 657 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:30,680 Speaker 1: it for the full retelling. It has QR codes that 658 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,799 Speaker 1: allow you to listen to twelve original songs that make 659 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:39,400 Speaker 1: reading the book and immersive musical experience. You can find 660 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:43,920 Speaker 1: Love Keep Showing Up at Amazon or Bookshop and many 661 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,680 Speaker 1: other book retailers. You can also get it through her 662 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 1: website adasa Dashofficial dot com, adassa Dashofficial dot com, or 663 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,919 Speaker 1: you will find even more information on this gorgeous, oh 664 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:04,240 Speaker 1: my gosh, so beautiful, talented, faith filled singer, daughter, wife 665 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,319 Speaker 1: and mother. Keep up with Adasa and all she has 666 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,840 Speaker 1: going on through her social media channels at adasa official 667 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:16,600 Speaker 1: page on Facebook and at Adasa Official on TikTok, Instagram 668 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 1: and YouTube. Are we yet done with the April showers? 669 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:25,000 Speaker 1: Are the mayflowers on their way? Or have they already 670 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:29,839 Speaker 1: arrived in your gardens and life? Adasa's story tells us 671 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,920 Speaker 1: to live life in full bloom at all times. I 672 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:37,080 Speaker 1: hope it has inspired you to do so. There are 673 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:41,200 Speaker 1: so many things outside of our control, our health, so 674 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,160 Speaker 1: many things we cannot control. What's going on in the 675 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:48,960 Speaker 1: world right now, but faith, hope, trust, Those are things 676 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,719 Speaker 1: that can only be taken from us if we allow it. 677 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:56,200 Speaker 1: As April falls away and May opens in front of us, 678 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,359 Speaker 1: I hope you feel refreshed, renewed, and ready to greet 679 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,680 Speaker 1: each day, willing to mine all the goodness that each 680 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,920 Speaker 1: twenty four hours has to offer. Let hope bloom in 681 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:13,640 Speaker 1: your heart and share it with others.