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Speaker 1: Cary Line. She's a queen and talking, so she's getting

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Speaker 1: No one can do we quiet cary Line. It sound

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Speaker 1: like carolne Ready said. Join. I'm so excited to hear

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Speaker 2: Thank you says thank you for calling me. I'm so

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Speaker 1: You were just on my radar because we're both from Texas.

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Speaker 1: We kind of you went to UT.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the real UT, the other UT.

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Speaker 1: I mean everyone in Tennessee is like UT.

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Speaker 2: You have to be careful who I say that around.

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Speaker 2: But you know, but they're both orange, yes, which is

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Speaker 2: actually convenient. So you went to the University of Texas.

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Speaker 2: I did, and I am from Texas, and you moved here.

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Speaker 2: You and George moved here. George Burge is your husband.

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Speaker 1: He's had a couple number ones just recently, and his

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Speaker 2: Uh huh what Yeah, it's called Ride Right to Ride,

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Speaker 2: so good Ride Ride, I think my favorite song he's

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Speaker 1: At least really Ride Right.

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Speaker 2: I love that very I know I can be soft spoken,

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Speaker 2: so I'll try and see your beautiful face too.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, but when did y'all move here?

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Speaker 2: We moved in fourteen, twenty fourteen, so we have now

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Speaker 1: Remember the first time we met with well of Asano's Pizza. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I do know, Amanda, How did how did we meet?

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Speaker 1: Because Amanda's like, you gotta meet George and Kara. They're

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Speaker 1: Okay, but he's actually like a jit golfer.

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Speaker 2: He played at golf. He played at Texas for a year,

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Speaker 2: and I did the Palm Squad at Texas for a year.

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Speaker 2: It's like the cheerleader. Yes, they're the cheerleaders that were

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Speaker 1: Stop it. I mean, very sexy, but we both like

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Speaker 2: that where y'all miss fun? Yeah, freshman in college.

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Speaker 2: No, we met through mutual friends at parties and mixers,

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Speaker 1: So that were We're like, oh, this is the guy.

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Speaker 1: Little bit about George that You're like, I want to

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Speaker 1: He told me he was smart man.

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Speaker 1: So he said I love you, and You're like, thank you, Yeah, and.

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Speaker 1: So when did he realize because he goes to college

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Speaker 2: Well, probably when he realized he wasn't gonna be able

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Speaker 1: Okay, but did he realize it was he always singing?

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Speaker 1: I mean at five years old to say like I'm

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Speaker 2: Well, no, he was still working. He was still in corporate.

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Speaker 2: His manager was like, I want to sign you. I

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Speaker 1: It was a label Sony, So they auditioned. They got

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Speaker 2: It happened quick. There was one song they were all

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Speaker 2: We were just learning. The buzz happened fast, so like, huh,

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Speaker 2: He did not get signed to Sony. Okay, they passed

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Speaker 2: Yes, because of this, it was like this you nobody,

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Speaker 2: I remember when Amanda was like, you need to come

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Speaker 1: I just Amanda and Bill are in a thousand horses.

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Speaker 2: And it was like, oh my gosh, okay, I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: Were you like all four Georgie's dream? Were you like,

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Speaker 2: I'm here for it.

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Speaker 1: You're here, You're a perfect you'reving wife of an adventurous

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Speaker 2: I mean, I worked for this is so cute. I

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Speaker 2: It actually worked out. I remember leaving the building that day.

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Speaker 1: I feel like there's a common theme of just like

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Speaker 1: I just love like your whole perspective on all this.

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Speaker 2: I love that. I love that and I definitely feel that.

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Speaker 2: But we just like, yeah, we have a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that's just y'all's demeanor?

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Speaker 2: His version of fun has like changed too, But like

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Speaker 1: For his career, So yeah, how does he entertain with

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Speaker 2: He does drink? He doesn't. He's not like a non

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Speaker 2: Everybody wants like a shot of tequila on the bus,

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Speaker 2: So it's really funny. They they were very good team.

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Speaker 1: That's good. That's good to have a cut.

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Speaker 2: He comes home and he's like ready to you know,

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, let's pour a glass of wine. Finally,

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Speaker 1: Okay, So kids, y'all had your oldest was born super young.

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Speaker 2: That season was, that's fair.

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Speaker 2: my brother in law was like in job transition and

439
00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:31,560
Speaker 2: they fell in love with Franklin. After like coming and visiting,

440
00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:33,919
Speaker 2: they were like, we're going to get an apartment and

441
00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,399
Speaker 2: just see how long we want to stay. And I

442
00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,200
Speaker 2: mean my family, like my parents were like, you can't

443
00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,680
Speaker 2: take the grandkids out of Texas, like nobody lives in Tennessee.

444
00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:45,919
Speaker 2: And at the same time, George was like, and I

445
00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,400
Speaker 2: think I'm going to be a country singer one day,

446
00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:50,520
Speaker 2: so we might also go there.

447
00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:54,119
Speaker 1: So they Franklin first, Yes, oh you're s same mo.

448
00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,600
Speaker 2: The same year that we moved, they moved in like

449
00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:01,520
Speaker 2: I want to say it was September of twenty fourteen,

450
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,120
Speaker 2: and like by the end of the year we were

451
00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:08,119
Speaker 2: in Nashville. We moved like the week of the Cmas.

452
00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:11,520
Speaker 1: Really yeah, and so brother in law just fell in

453
00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 1: love with me and they never went back.

454
00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:18,000
Speaker 2: They've never left Franks No shocked. I know my parents are.

455
00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,679
Speaker 2: They've all gone through it. My parents are divorced and

456
00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:24,200
Speaker 2: so they've been caretakers for their spouses and like they

457
00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:27,800
Speaker 2: haven't been in a position to just up and move. Okay, Okay,

458
00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:30,800
Speaker 2: is it just you and your sister and my brother

459
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,800
Speaker 2: and my brother's in Texas, still in Houston, Okay, but anyway,

460
00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:39,160
Speaker 2: so my sister was here, and that is huge trying

461
00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,440
Speaker 2: to remember I was what I was showing you before.

462
00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:45,880
Speaker 1: I wish I could remember anything. Kara, we were talking earlier.

463
00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:47,720
Speaker 2: We're oh, pre me, That's what it was.

464
00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,160
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you remember. I'm like forty two years old,

465
00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:54,600
Speaker 1: but feel one hundred too much in this brain.

466
00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:56,880
Speaker 2: Okay, well, but you look twenty five.

467
00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:01,120
Speaker 1: Remember I told you that ques canvas skin Allen over there,

468
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 1: She's got me on a skin regime. Gorgeous, Thanks you gorgeous.

469
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,400
Speaker 1: You know I feel good. I feel insane in the head,

470
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:08,359
Speaker 1: but I feel good.

471
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:12,280
Speaker 2: I know if I can get past my just brain fog,

472
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:17,400
Speaker 2: it's my sleep if I good taking from a person

473
00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:20,520
Speaker 2: not consistent, Okay, I'm.

474
00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:25,040
Speaker 1: Just shout out to magnesium because I literally could not

475
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 1: sleep at all. I was taking unisalm every night because

476
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,760
Speaker 1: I was like I the same thing. I was waking

477
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,760
Speaker 1: up not sleeping ruine my day. One day I didn't

478
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:35,439
Speaker 1: sleep at all, and I just like dropped Sunday off

479
00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,720
Speaker 1: at school with Michael and I just started bawling in

480
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:39,879
Speaker 1: the car and I'm like, I just can't go to

481
00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:44,360
Speaker 1: sleep again. My brain is razy. I'm laying on the pillow, exhausted,

482
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 1: cannot go to sleep, and it is the most frustrating thing.

483
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,040
Speaker 1: And I feel like a lot of women have this. Yeah,

484
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 1: I just can't chet my brain off. I'm taking magnesium

485
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:54,680
Speaker 1: because I was so desperate, and I was like, I

486
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 1: cannot be addicted to unison. Like, I'm not going to

487
00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:00,320
Speaker 1: take a sleeping pill every night. Game changer, game, you.

488
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,000
Speaker 2: Just calm like the whatever.

489
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 1: I take a pill. It's five hundred pilograms. I don't

490
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 1: even know what kind it is, not usually magnazium. Yeah,

491
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,400
Speaker 1: it has changed my life. Okay, and I am someone

492
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 1: who cannot.

493
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 2: Sleep, all right, so I will report back take it

494
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:17,720
Speaker 2: because I am on a journey right now.

495
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,400
Speaker 1: And it's a natural. It's natural.

496
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,920
Speaker 2: It told George just like, I'm going to the store

497
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,159
Speaker 2: to get a pillow and I don't know if it's

498
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,119
Speaker 2: going to cost twenty dollars or if it can to

499
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,640
Speaker 2: cost like two hundred and fifty dollars, but I need

500
00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:30,680
Speaker 2: a new pillow or I won't sleep again.

501
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 1: You need magnesium.

502
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,399
Speaker 2: And he was like, well, I don't think it should

503
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 2: cost two hundred dollars. I mean large scale for pillows.

504
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,080
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, so try magnesium.

505
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 2: I'm going to put that, put that in the notes.

506
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:43,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I would do it. I'd get okay and

507
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:43,640
Speaker 1: try it.

508
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 2: Have calm like the tub of the powder that you

509
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,560
Speaker 2: can like mix up at night. I've used that one sometimes.

510
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,119
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I know a pill will

511
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 1: straight up work, okay, and it's a game changer, okay, Okay,

512
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 1: So magnesium.

513
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 2: So so you guys, pree me, yeah, baby. And his

514
00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 2: name is George, George George James. He's technically not a

515
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 2: junior because they all have different middle names, but they're

516
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 2: all Georges in our family, and they all go by George.

517
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 1: Love that George and George, lots of them.

518
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:13,879
Speaker 2: And so I was probably pregnant before any of my

519
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,360
Speaker 2: friends too, just because I didn't have a ton of

520
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 2: friends that were, you know, married earlier. And I feel

521
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:25,639
Speaker 2: like it's very Texas. And so when Gee was born,

522
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:30,360
Speaker 2: I had a blood clotting disorder and he was growth restricted.

523
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 2: So it was like a combination of a few things,

524
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,679
Speaker 2: and so he basically just stopped growing at three pounds,

525
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 2: and we tried to leave him in as long as

526
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 2: we could, and then I would just go for like

527
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,959
Speaker 2: scans every few days and that's very fortunately he was.

528
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 2: It wasn't like a super traumatic delivery because it wasn't

529
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 2: like I was rushed into a c section. But he

530
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 2: was so little that I couldn't be induced to like

531
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:59,679
Speaker 2: try and deliver him. So he was just teeny tiny.

532
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 2: I remember I went for one of my scans and

533
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 2: they were like, all right, today's the day, and he

534
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 2: was born, like I think three hours later.

535
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 1: How many weeks were you?

536
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 2: I was thirty four weeks Okay, there was trying to

537
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 2: make it to thirty five. He just hadn't grown to

538
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,120
Speaker 2: thirty four weeks. He had stopped growing. So it's called

539
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 2: iugr anyway, So was that he was itty bitty, And yes,

540
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 2: it was just a really anxious season. Like we didn't

541
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 2: We were very lucky, like my mom and my mother

542
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 2: in law both came to Nashville and helped take care

543
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:35,120
Speaker 2: of us. But I mean, George is trying to figure

544
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 2: out his career. He's traveling all the time, Big George,

545
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 2: He's traveling a lot. You know, he was doing all

546
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 2: that radio tour stuff.

547
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 1: Man early in his career, it was, and he's gone.

548
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 2: He was gone a lot.

549
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 1: So you're at home in his little George. Is he

550
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,920
Speaker 1: like having is he having to have special thing?

551
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 2: No, he didn't have to have any surgeries. Like fortunately

552
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 2: he was very healthy. There's still like you can't leave

553
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,919
Speaker 2: the Nike you until they there's like three criteria. They

554
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 2: have to like maintain their temperature, nurse on their own,

555
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 2: or feed on their own, and then they have to

556
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,879
Speaker 2: be over four pounds. He could do everything, he just

557
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 2: wasn't four pounds. Like, he was so tiny. So the

558
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 2: day we brought him home, I mean he was like

559
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,399
Speaker 2: this way. It was like having a little tiny puppy.

560
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 2: I mean I could burp him with my hand, I

561
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 2: would hold his whole body. He was so little. But

562
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 2: that came with a lot of anxiety and a lot

563
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 2: of like I didn't have mom friends yet. So we

564
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,879
Speaker 2: ended up moving to live a lot closer to my

565
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 2: sister and that was a blessing. And yeah, then it

566
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,199
Speaker 2: all kinda I kind of came out of the woods.

567
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 2: But that that was a hard season.

568
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: Were you scared when you got pregnant again or was

569
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 1: there yes, can you like take take something to Yeah.

570
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 2: I was on a lovenox injection. I think it's called lovenox, right, Yeah,

571
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 2: fact check that a blood dinner basically like you just

572
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,919
Speaker 2: give yourself a shot in the stomach every day and

573
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 2: so that mm hmmm yeah, and I don't do that

574
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 2: very well. I do not do needles well. So I

575
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 2: had to learn that. And Luke was fine. He was

576
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 2: delivered and fully you know, grown and everything. He was fine.

577
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: What was Did you have anxiety at the second one

578
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: or were you like a lot calmer at that point?

579
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 2: Yes, I think I not not near as bad as

580
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 2: the first time around, because I mean, oh my god,

581
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 2: the first time around, talk about not sleeping. I remember

582
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 2: having like the reoccurring trauma that I thought I lost

583
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 2: my baby, like or that like I was nursing and

584
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 2: fell asleep or like that. I would like wake up

585
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 2: sweating and patting the sheets and like he's in the

586
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 2: basinet right next to me. I know, I was like

587
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 2: some weird weird I.

588
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 1: Wouldn't put sunny to sleep without the outlet on her foot.

589
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 2: I didn't even have that when she was born. Okay,

590
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 2: I don't know how.

591
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 1: I was so worried that she was going to die

592
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,679
Speaker 1: all the time, like just constantly. It was just so

593
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:01,160
Speaker 1: much stress.

594
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 2: Did you monitor keeping noises of my gosh, the nick you.

595
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, and you have that haunting your mind.

596
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and you always had the reassurance that like

597
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 2: there was a nurse close by when they were in

598
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 2: the nick You, right, and then they came home and

599
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 2: it was like everything was so scheduled, like he ate

600
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 2: at eight eleven, two and five, and like it was

601
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 2: I already had all this milk because I had been,

602
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 2: you know, pumping and making sure that it was all

603
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 2: like scheduled. And then with Luke, we had to just

604
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 2: kind of we're like, oh my god, they just let

605
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:31,360
Speaker 2: us take this baby home.

606
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: I know, like, just let you leave.

607
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 2: I need to grochure again, like our instructions.

608
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: So you kind of actually felt like you were kind

609
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: of getting a little like it felt a little stable

610
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: with the nick You in a way because you had

611
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: to support.

612
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,479
Speaker 2: Oh I cannot imagine. Also, like if I had to

613
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 2: do nick You and I had another child. I've had

614
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 2: friends go through that where I'm like, oh my gosh.

615
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 2: We were so blessed. We lived right there by Saint Thomas,

616
00:28:55,960 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 2: like we were downtown, and I just waited that spit

617
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 2: all day long for a month. Like if I had

618
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 2: another child, I wouldn't have been able to do that.

619
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 2: Thank God that you know, so we survived it and

620
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 2: that that was a tough season.

621
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: But now, and what would your takeaway about life from

622
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: that season?

623
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 2: I guess just looking back and seeing like my younger self,

624
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 2: I had no clue and I just figured it out

625
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 2: as like we grew together. We grew together, and we

626
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 2: matured together in so many different ways that like I

627
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 2: can look at it young mom, that's like super anxious

628
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 2: and like I recognize it and I see myself and

629
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 2: I'm like, gosh, well, look at how much I've grown

630
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 2: since this, So like you just developed that like maternal intuition,

631
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 2: not even maternal but like as a parent, like you

632
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 2: just God gives you what you need. And true it's

633
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 2: hard to like see that when you're in it. And

634
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 2: I think even that's true now, I know that in

635
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 2: five years, ten years from now, wherever we are in

636
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 2: our careers, that like we'll think that same thing looking

637
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 2: back at like this version of us. But it is

638
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 2: kind of sweet to look back and be like, oh

639
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 2: my gosh, look at what we did, like good for us,

640
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 2: and we did together like kill each other, right you were,

641
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 2: you know, our marriage survived it?

642
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: Or how did your marriage survives, because that can be

643
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 1: a very trying time. How did y'all come together instead

644
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 1: of tear apart?

645
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 2: You know, George is a great dad, Like he's he's

646
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 2: a great husband. He's just a good dude. And he's

647
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 2: not telling me to say this, but I do.

648
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 1: Think he kills I wait for you when you get home. Yeah,

649
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars villain.

650
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of our friends that like probably

651
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 2: just struggle in their roles of like parenting and like

652
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 2: who does what? And I'm staying at home now. For

653
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 2: a long time I was working, I did real stay.

654
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: Yeah was that fun in Nashville?

655
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 2: Yes, I loved it. I loved loved it, and I'm

656
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 2: like I still would love to, but he's never home,

657
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 2: so it doesn't really work with our house very well.

658
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 2: You could always come back to it if you want

659
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 2: to do. My kids need me less and less and

660
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 2: that kills me. No, But I'm like, once they're older,

661
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 2: I would I'll probably got back to that. But anyways,

662
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 2: I feel like George did. George and I both we

663
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 2: always support each other when we're home and we're together

664
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 2: and it's like, yeah, this is normally all my load

665
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 2: that I do when you're gone and you're on the road,

666
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,959
Speaker 2: but when you're here and you're home, like he cooks

667
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 2: dinner and he helps, like he does a lot of

668
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 2: the stuff with the boys, and he wants to put

669
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 2: him to bed and wants to do the give me

670
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 2: a break too. So I feel like we just see

671
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 2: each other and we support each other's needs, Like he

672
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 2: sees me and he knows me so well to know

673
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 2: what I need and vice versa. Like I know he's

674
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 2: exhausted when he gets home, and I know how horrible

675
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 2: it is to sleep on a bus or travel or

676
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 2: take three flights in a you know, four days. And

677
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 2: I'm like, I see that. Not everybody sees that. And

678
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 2: then I'm like, yeah, it looks like he gets to

679
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 2: be home all day and have two days off, and

680
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 2: I'm like, he never gets days off. So so.

681
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: When he okay, so y'all move to Nashville, you does

682
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: he quit his corporate altogether when he gets the manager

683
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 1: and says move to Nashville. So, y'all are just like

684
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: taking a to jump back into this part of the story.

685
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: So he's just gonna take this leap of faith because like,

686
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: no money's coming in yet like it's not like he

687
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:34,959
Speaker 1: has does have a publishing deal.

688
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 2: So that Austin house that we flipped, yeah, thank god

689
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 2: you sold it.

690
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: We sold that for like double the value, and that's

691
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: what you lived off of.

692
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 2: Yes, we doubled the value of that house.

693
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: And it was like, ee, haul, let's do this.

694
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 2: Thank God for his dad and his uncle that we're

695
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 2: putting in all this like labor and helping us because

696
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 2: we had no clue that like that investment would have

697
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 2: just added such a tremendous value the real estate. And

698
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 2: Austin went crazy.

699
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: You flipped the house, moved and couldn't live and survive

700
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: off of that.

701
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 2: Yep, I moved here. Yeah.

702
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: Did you quit your job too?

703
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 2: Yes?

704
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: So y'all both were jobless.

705
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 2: Well, I immediate. I already had a job lined up

706
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 2: before we even got to Nashville.

707
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: Good for you, care.

708
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 2: I was like, no, I gotta work. Well, we got

709
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 2: to do something.

710
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 1: Yeah job.

711
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 2: I worked for a recruiting company and it was horrible,

712
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 2: and I remember being like, I'm not a quitter, so

713
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,719
Speaker 2: this is a new job and I can't quit. Now

714
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 2: what am I going to do? And I knew from

715
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 2: the first few weeks I was like, I'll never be

716
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 2: happy here. This is just not my speed. This is

717
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 2: different kind of recruiting than what I was doing back

718
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 2: in Austin. So how did you stick it out? Let's see.

719
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 2: I remember I quit on my birthday.

720
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 1: Good for you.

721
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 2: I quit on my birthday. And it was like you

722
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 2: because it was sales basically cold calling recruiting. You don't

723
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 2: like give a two weeks, you just get to leave.

724
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 2: And so I was like, well, I think I might

725
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 2: just do it today then, and I went to the

726
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 2: zoo with my sister and I was like, oh, this

727
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 2: is so fun. I just like left that day and

728
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 2: I remember, so that was March Care. So I only

729
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 2: worked there for like, yeah, not even five months. And

730
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 2: then I started real estate, and by the grace of God,

731
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 2: all of the people that I worked with in that

732
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 2: job were ready to buy their first homes because they

733
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 2: were all making money and they were like young, and

734
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 2: so I became like the first time home by our specialist.

735
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 2: It's just my thing, and it was great.

736
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 1: And I tell you, God is setting you up though,

737
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: because all these experiences are like compounding upon each other

738
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: and they all work together. Yeah, Like even like George

739
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: working at his corporate, but then playing his gigs and

740
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: like everyone coming to watch him. That created this buzz.

741
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,800
Speaker 1: It's like nothing has been for not I know.

742
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 2: I love. I loved doing this because it's not often

743
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,240
Speaker 2: that you like go through these early faith Like especially

744
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 2: George when he's interviewing, he doesn't like cover those little

745
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 2: details everybody wants to know about, you know, the next

746
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 2: song around me. I don't care, right, I don't want

747
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 2: to know a crazy whole story. How did we get

748
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 2: here and how'd it all work together?

749
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: You know, because it does so.

750
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 2: You many little things had to happen.

751
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 1: You had the job you hated, but it got you great.

752
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 2: I mean, I want to ask nobody would have called

753
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:16,800
Speaker 2: me to buy a house because I didn't know anybody.

754
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: And then everyone old you, so how many houses you self? Yeah?

755
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 2: I wish I knew, but like I don't know. I'm

756
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 2: telling you. Out of that company alone, it was probably

757
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 2: like over fifteen.

758
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: Holy cow, so you're probably like the all star real

759
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 1: estate agent too.

760
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 2: It was. It was wonderful. And then I joined a

761
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 2: company that I love and I still like value those

762
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 2: relationships so much. But I was like one of their

763
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,879
Speaker 2: youngest agents and so they were like, oh, if you're

764
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,800
Speaker 2: looking at East Nashville, it's up and coming, call Kara.

765
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 2: So then I was like the East Nashville girl for

766
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 2: a long time. I was like, this is so funny?

767
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: Was it so fun like doing going and looking at

768
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 1: I love looking at houses too, Yes, I also do

769
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: it for fun.

770
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 2: And I tried, like I still. I guess it was

771
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 2: really COVID that I stopped. Were full time, I would

772
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 2: like try and do part time in real estate. It's

773
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 2: hard to do part time to do it really well,

774
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 2: just because the market's changing so much and like you

775
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 2: have to be available all the time. So the busier

776
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 2: that George got, the harder it was for me to

777
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 2: just drop what I was doing and go work an

778
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,879
Speaker 2: open house on the weekend or go show property when

779
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 2: I've now got two young kids. So then I stopped

780
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 2: after COVID and all that, and then he kind of

781
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 2: started his career over again and got busy.

782
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,240
Speaker 1: Did you stop working before George went viral?

783
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 2: No? I was still working then, Okay, So George, I

784
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 2: was all liked, I can't believe it, Like it's so funny,

785
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 2: you know, Like that's the first song called beer Beer

786
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:50,439
Speaker 2: Truck Truck Beer, beer truck truck. He hates talking about it, wow,

787
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 2: but truly like we wouldn't be here without say talk. Yeah.

788
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: So that's when TikTok was taking off. Yes, So he

789
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: just hopped on board TikTok yeah and started posting songs.

790
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 2: He went on a writer's retreat in Texas and.

791
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: They because COVID shut the world down, so he kind

792
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: of stopped touring up. Everything was sort of at a stop.

793
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 2: Yep.

794
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: Anyway, so he was now he was like, Okay, let

795
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: me just see what this time.

796
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 2: I'm saying this right? Clay Walker told George he was like, man,

797
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 2: if there's any advice you need to get on TikTok.

798
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,800
Speaker 2: He was like, Clay Walker, I know, was like, listen,

799
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 2: you could play your songs, you know, maybe once a

800
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 2: week at a gig to five thousand people, or you

801
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 2: could get on the internet right now and like hundreds

802
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 2: and thousands of people couldn't see it.

803
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 1: So why Walker?

804
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 2: And he was like, all right, man.

805
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: How is he friends with Klay Walker? Just through the

806
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: music community to Clay just they hit it.

807
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 2: He had to write sat up with him during COVID

808
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 2: Love Clay Walker and I remember because he was like,

809
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 2: we had a basement room that he would write in.

810
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:52,879
Speaker 2: He's like, all right, I'm going on to zoom. I'm

811
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 2: gonna see I'm writing with Clay Walker. Like on, did

812
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 2: y'all have Clay Walker? As much as I love klay Walker?

813
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: There was this woman and there was this man. Are

814
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,840
Speaker 1: you kidding me? Came onto my life?

815
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know some of his best like mentor friends

816
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:07,840
Speaker 2: are klay Walker and Gary Allen.

817
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: I mean, do you love Gary? And you said Toby

818
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 1: Keith too? Well?

819
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, his first label was under Toby Keith's record label

820
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,800
Speaker 2: Stop first second that was the second record label.

821
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: Dang, what's those are some serious mentoring.

822
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 2: I know he has been with Gary Allen. He went

823
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 2: on tour with Gary Allen. I think that was early

824
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:34,359
Speaker 2: in the George I think early in his so low

825
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 2: cleer and then we I remember, yeah, he plays a

826
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 2: lot of golf with Gary. They just played golf this week.

827
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:43,879
Speaker 1: Look at God.

828
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's become like a good friend. Okay.

829
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: So he went viral and what does that mean? What

830
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: does and people see this.

831
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 2: Song he had started a there was a viral. I

832
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:10,399
Speaker 2: think he was literally searching like country music viral and

833
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 2: it was this girl that was making fun of country music,

834
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 2: and she's like, it's all beer beer truck truck and

835
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 2: girls and tight jeans, and so he made like a

836
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 2: little duet to it, where he's like, I kind of

837
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,720
Speaker 2: like that, maybe I could write a song like stop

838
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:28,399
Speaker 2: joking around about how country music is not with this girl.

839
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 2: Well not you know how like TikTok you like respond

840
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 2: to it. Yeah, So he actually wrote a song that

841
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 2: sounded like a real song you'd hear on country radio,

842
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 2: and it's like it ain't all beer and so he's

843
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 2: singing that lyric and it went viral. Like he ended

844
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 2: up having I have no idea millions, hundreds of thousand.

845
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:55,320
Speaker 2: I don't know what viral is, but like he literally

846
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 2: got a record deal because of it, and so Toby Keith,

847
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 2: he ended up like going into the studio with this song,

848
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 2: giving this girl writer's credit. She's a writer, yes, because

849
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 2: it was like her line, and then they turned it

850
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 2: into a song and released it.

851
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 1: Is she on the song?

852
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 2: No, but she she's like a real teacher somewhere. No,

853
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 2: they've never met in real life drop it, but have

854
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,359
Speaker 2: spoken several times, and she like.

855
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:19,399
Speaker 1: Joked that she's on the song.

856
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 2: She like reached out to him the first time she

857
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:23,839
Speaker 2: got like her first royalty check.

858
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,359
Speaker 1: Oh so wild, come on.

859
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 2: So anyways, people loved it and then he had loved

860
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,879
Speaker 2: it did well Okay, I mean I don't know, but like, yeah,

861
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 2: it was a dream dwell. It wasn't like a radio

862
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 2: single or anything.

863
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 1: It was that he signed with Sign.

864
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 2: Then he got signed to No because that the I'm like,

865
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 2: how many labels? It's a long, a longing when you're

866
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 2: in this music industry. It's then he went to Records,

867
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 2: which is where he's at now, and that was as

868
00:40:54,640 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 2: a solo artist where Records Nashville, and so yeah, he

869
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,839
Speaker 2: was like literally getting calls from record labels being like

870
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 2: we've heard you're not you know, because now he's he

871
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 2: was not in a band anymore. He was really just

872
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 2: kind of pursuing this society thing, figuring out like do

873
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 2: I even have the energy to like start this again

874
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 2: over from the beginning and like rebrand completely to go solo.

875
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: I mean that's scary when you've been in a duo

876
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 1: and like have to start something because he's starting over.

877
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,840
Speaker 2: I know, and it's you. I mean, that was a

878
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 2: long I think at that point it was the seven

879
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 2: years so he's like, financially, is it going to make

880
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 2: sense to like start this over. Do we have enough

881
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 2: time to like make this work to support our family

882
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 2: and or do I just need to go, you know,

883
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,799
Speaker 2: sell real estate with you or something. So we were

884
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 2: kind of at a crossroach trying to figure that out

885
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 2: and and it worked out.

886
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 1: Okay. So he got the record deal from Beer Beer

887
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:56,799
Speaker 1: Truck Truck. Yes, still on that same record.

888
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:58,400
Speaker 2: Deal with Records, Yes.

889
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: And so now then he on to have two number one.

890
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 2: I hope, I'm saying all the story.

891
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 1: We think this is how it went. We are almost sure.

892
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 2: Yeah. So his number his first number one was mind

893
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 2: on You okay, and that song I want to say

894
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 2: they both technically went number one in the same year,

895
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:17,879
Speaker 2: which was not.

896
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: So this worked out. As soon as he got a Sola,

897
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: it was like boom.

898
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, it really kind of took off. He was on

899
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 2: some great tours and that's where got Garry Allen came in,

900
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 2: or Garry Allen was before it was a little earlier.

901
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 1: But what tours did he go on?

902
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 2: He was on tour with Sam Hunt, with Park of

903
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 2: My column, Oh.

904
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,439
Speaker 1: My God, and Luke Brian and your son's name is Luke.

905
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 1: So I saw you'll have pictures of George and Luke

906
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:42,439
Speaker 1: and George and Luke.

907
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 2: Isn't he great?

908
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: Because like you got to George and we love.

909
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 2: Luke, like he's become such a good friend, and I'm like,

910
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 2: what are the chances of George and Luke? Like I

911
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 2: think I always make cheesy jokes. I think one of

912
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 2: the first times I met Luke Brian, I told him

913
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 2: I was like, we named her son after you, did you?

914
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 2: And he looked at me like I was serious, and

915
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,760
Speaker 2: I was like, I've had a lot of people probably

916
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 2: actually do that. It's like I was joking but kind

917
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 2: of funny.

918
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: So so he went on tour with Sam Hunt. Mm hmm, wait,

919
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:12,439
Speaker 1: who'd you say after that?

920
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 2: Parker McCollum, Parker McCollum, and then Luke Bryan and now

921
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 2: Luke Bryan is on his all amazing artists and amazing

922
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 2: like cruise. I mean, he was so blessed, Like I

923
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 2: didn't really know because I've heard some horror stories that like,

924
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 2: you know, if you get on the wrong tours that

925
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:33,800
Speaker 2: you and you're just the opener for the opener or whatever,

926
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 2: it can be kind of rough. And he've just like

927
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 2: met so many great people. They were all like so

928
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:43,280
Speaker 2: awesome and took care of their people and their openers.

929
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 2: And and now he's on his own headlining tour, his

930
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 2: very first headlining tour, and it's going so well, and

931
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 2: it's like selling out these venues and we're pinching ourselves

932
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:57,280
Speaker 2: like it is Cara awesome.

933
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 1: Okay, but this is what I'm saying. It sounds to me.

934
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: I know you'a have had hard trials and tribulations, but

935
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 1: it sounds to me like you always come back to

936
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 1: just like appreciation and fun. Yes, is that like a

937
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 1: common thing, Like even when it's harder, like okay, but

938
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 1: we're still having fun. We're still doing that.

939
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 2: Have you? You also need to do this with George,

940
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,879
Speaker 2: but like one hundred percent you would get that from

941
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 2: his energy too, Like there's not much that really bothers him.

942
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 2: You never see George angry? How I mean I have

943
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 2: because I see the like hard parts of this industry.

944
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,880
Speaker 1: But how does he keep his his cheerful disposition.

945
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 2: He just doesn't take it too seriously?

946
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 1: Where does that come from?

947
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 2: I mean he does, he works hard, He works harder

948
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 2: than anyone in his position or else. It wouldn't have worked.

949
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 2: Like there's so many reasons why that you know, he

950
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 2: just he just kept going. But I feel like he

951
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:50,399
Speaker 2: has always had a really fun light to him that

952
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 2: like people feel that and they know that he's he's

953
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 2: not only fun to be around, but that I mean

954
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 2: he's genuinely like good taking care of his people and

955
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 2: making sure he's leading in the you know, leading his

956
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 2: people in the best way.

957
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 1: So that goes is that God.

958
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 2: At the center?

959
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:13,839
Speaker 1: So is God like a huge thing for you guys?

960
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 2: Yes?

961
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:15,320
Speaker 1: Is that the foundation?

962
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 2: I mean, our leading, most important priority is is God.

963
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 2: And our family and our boys are feeling that, and

964
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 2: I feel like we're doing a good job at teaching

965
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 2: them that. And the more we've grown and leaned into

966
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 2: our faith, the more doors have opened. In a way

967
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 2: that was like, you know, you can try as hard

968
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 2: as you can to do all the right things and

969
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 2: like work and take every gig and opportunity and travel,

970
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 2: but like he was just exhausted by the end of it.

971
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 2: And I think there was like a lot of maturity

972
00:45:54,880 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 2: when he went from post COVID just trying to trust

973
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:04,439
Speaker 2: not only himself, but like lean on his faith too.

974
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 1: Instead of just willing it himself with his human spirit

975
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: and determination, being like, I'm actually gonna just like turn

976
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: this over to you guy. Yep, that's a big moment.

977
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 2: It's a big shift. M h.

978
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: Everything shifts after that. Do you think, yeah, he really

979
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 1: made that shift? Yes, how did you do that? You know?

980
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 2: I said, I want you to bring him in? You

981
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 2: really do? Part of me was like, he's home today.

982
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 2: Should I tell Caroline that George should come because I

983
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 2: feel like you'd love talking to him too.

984
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: Yeah. That's a big moment to be able to like say, Okay, yes,

985
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: I I am determined and I'm a human and I

986
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 1: have these dreams that don't make them happen, but actually

987
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:44,319
Speaker 1: I'm going to turn this over to God.

988
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:46,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and I might not know what it

989
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 2: looks like because I think for a long time he

990
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 2: would try and craft like I'm doing this to end

991
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 2: up in this version of what I feel like successes,

992
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 2: but really, like, what is success to us now? And

993
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,359
Speaker 2: is that so different than what you were trying to

994
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 2: fit make fit five years ago, ten years ago or whatever?

995
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:12,439
Speaker 2: And if I'm being honest, I just feel like we've

996
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 2: had this conversation very recently. We're like this is success.

997
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,719
Speaker 2: I don't know what we're chasing anymore. Like we have

998
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 2: everything that our hearts want, Like we have safe, healthy children,

999
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 2: we have a healthy marriage, Like we have each other,

1000
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 2: that we are like known and seen and understood by

1001
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:34,839
Speaker 2: each other, and like we have a support system around us.

1002
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 2: So like, honestly, we figured out enough. And my husband

1003
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 2: is very driven to like make sure that we have security.

1004
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 2: He is often like anxious, Like all he wants is

1005
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 2: to know that like, Okay, I want to know that

1006
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 2: I've worked hard enough to like take care of my

1007
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 2: family so that we can have the luxuries like we're

1008
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 2: getting to live. And I just want to make sure

1009
00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 2: that there's enough longevity so that we can do that,

1010
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 2: so he doesn't have to tour when he's, you know,

1011
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:05,839
Speaker 2: sixty years old, play to empty bars anymore. He's like,

1012
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 2: as long as I can get to the point where,

1013
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 2: you know, I feel secure enough that like this career

1014
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 2: worked and provided for my family in a way that

1015
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 2: like I can feel peaceful and feel like we didn't

1016
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 2: just burn through, you know, money on all these stupid

1017
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:24,399
Speaker 2: things in our thirties. But and I feel like we're

1018
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 2: getting to the point where it's like Okay, this is

1019
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 2: working and I really trust him and he's made great

1020
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 2: been just like a great leader for our family and carah.

1021
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,920
Speaker 1: So yeah, what a ride, thank you, I mean, but

1022
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,280
Speaker 1: what a ride for you to be so supportive, because

1023
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:48,280
Speaker 1: not all spouses and partners can go along with this life,

1024
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 1: you know, but you seem like you're made for it

1025
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: just as much as he.

1026
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 2: Is, I hope, So, I mean, yeah, I think so.

1027
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:56,960
Speaker 1: The fact that you're so willing to just be in

1028
00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,839
Speaker 1: the season, Yeah, trust it, like let one thing lead

1029
00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:01,359
Speaker 1: to another, you know.

1030
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 2: Well, And I think, like I said earlier, he sees

1031
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 2: me and like we know each other so well. He

1032
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,680
Speaker 2: just caters to my needs too, Like we both need

1033
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 2: each other where we need to be supported, and that's

1034
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 2: not always the same every single year. So like the

1035
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 2: way I needed to feel supported and loved when I

1036
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 2: was a new mom looked a lot different than than now.

1037
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 2: I just need to feel kind of independent and not

1038
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:28,359
Speaker 2: a mom all the time. But like he's really good

1039
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:32,360
Speaker 2: at at you know, taking care of me and vice versa,

1040
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:36,759
Speaker 2: because that's what works. Otherwise we would just like miss

1041
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 2: each other because he'd be exhausted when I'm you know,

1042
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,799
Speaker 2: like I said, earlier. He's always coming home and ready

1043
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 2: to recharge, where I'm like, hey, I need to get

1044
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 2: out of this house. So like we kind of have

1045
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:54,919
Speaker 2: to balance for each other and see where we're at.

1046
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: So what would you say now that you've been on

1047
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: this journey for what fifteen years just almost like a

1048
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: long time looking back to your younger self? What would

1049
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:06,280
Speaker 1: you tell your younger self?

1050
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 2: Oh like, oh my gosh, wait till you see this,

1051
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:18,240
Speaker 2: because we would have had no idea. What would I say.

1052
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 1: To my own? What absice would you give a younger self?

1053
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 2: I would tell myself it's I've always been a Christian

1054
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:30,399
Speaker 2: and a believer, like since I was saved at church

1055
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,280
Speaker 2: camp in middle school when I was, you know, probably

1056
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 2: twelve years old. But I would just tell myself, lean

1057
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 2: into my faith first before you try and figure it

1058
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 2: out on your own, because that's where I really truly

1059
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 2: have found peace. And I've gone through seasons where I'm like,

1060
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:50,840
Speaker 2: I'm super anxious because i have a new baby and

1061
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:53,279
Speaker 2: I'm still learning how to do all these things, or

1062
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 2: I'm still trying to make friends, or I'm trying to

1063
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 2: figure out my career or trying to figure out how

1064
00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 2: to make money. But whenever I truly felt like connected

1065
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 2: in my spiritual life, in my relationship with Jesus, that's

1066
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,880
Speaker 2: when I really experienced peace of like. But it doesn't

1067
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 2: matter if we don't get to this level of what

1068
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 2: we call success, because we could live anywhere as long

1069
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 2: as I can feel peaceful and know that in my heart,

1070
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:25,280
Speaker 2: I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be and I'm serving

1071
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:27,880
Speaker 2: in a way that you know, God needs me to.

1072
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 2: And that might be my family, it might be my friendships,

1073
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 2: it might be something much bigger, and I don't know

1074
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 2: what that's going to be. But I think once I

1075
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 2: prioritized my relationship with God, it just got easier and

1076
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 2: it felt so less intimidating.

1077
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 1: You know, I love that, Gara. So what's on the

1078
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 1: bucket list? Are you just flowing?

1079
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 2: We're about to go to Australia? What? Yeah? With our boys? Yes?

1080
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: And I are they so excited?

1081
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 2: They can't be more excited because I don't really I

1082
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:09,879
Speaker 2: haven't gotten to like travel like this much, like very

1083
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 2: rarely left the country other than like a few tropical vacations.

1084
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 2: So we're super excited. He's playing CMC Rocks, which is

1085
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:22,879
Speaker 2: in Brisbane, apparently there's a bunch of country festivals over there,

1086
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:25,840
Speaker 2: and where are you going March ninth?

1087
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:27,280
Speaker 1: Oh Ji?

1088
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 2: So I am like in planning mode. I'm having so

1089
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 2: much fun. I'm anxious about flying so far with my kids.

1090
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 2: I mean, I told George, I think about the flight

1091
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 2: as much as I think about the trip. It's a

1092
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 2: fifteen hour flight from LA, so first we gotta get

1093
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 2: to LA and then over the ocean for fifteen hours.

1094
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 2: But we're we'll go and like it's been two weeks

1095
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 2: and I'm so excited.

1096
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, and the boys are going to love it.

1097
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:04,920
Speaker 2: Yes, I can't wait. Yeah, we're going to do like

1098
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 2: the Sunshine Coast is like a bunch of beach towns,

1099
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 2: so that's probably what I'm most excited about. But we're

1100
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:11,959
Speaker 2: flying into Sydney, so we're going to see the big

1101
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 2: city and like the harbor, and we're going to go

1102
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 2: to the Australia Zoo.

1103
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:19,880
Speaker 1: So super exciting.

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00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 2: Yay, I cannot wait. And then after that we're almost

1105
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 2: like to summer.

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00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 1: Can you believe it?

1107
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 2: It all happens so fast, and I am just so

1108
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:30,800
Speaker 2: ready for it to be summer. My kids love school,

1109
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 2: but I'm like you know, I don't like having a schedule,

1110
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:35,840
Speaker 2: so old what grades are then they're in first and

1111
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 2: third person?

1112
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, then just freedom of no schedule.

1113
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:44,319
Speaker 2: Freedom of no schedule, and I cannot wait.

1114
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:47,719
Speaker 1: And y'all, tour is a family too, ye cry.

1115
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 2: As much as we can over the summer. And then

1116
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 2: like with a lot of weekend runs, it just depends.

1117
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,319
Speaker 2: Like these bigger tours that he was on, they were

1118
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:57,759
Speaker 2: great to travel with family because I'm like, we could

1119
00:53:57,760 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 2: meet him in a big city and then just bus

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00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 2: home or something, even if we could only take two

1121
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 2: nights to be there for the weekend. So that's and

1122
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 2: then all try and do the same thing. Like when

1123
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:09,240
Speaker 2: I can get away just me for a few days,

1124
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 2: it makes it so much easier. Okay, So I said,

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00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 2: only have my sister here. Recently, George's sister also moved here. Girl,

1126
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 2: you are living right, and she's living with us right,

1127
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 2: it's so great.

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00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:25,839
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you've been.

1129
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 2: So that's Katie, George's sister, and and we're trying to

1130
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 2: convince her to stay in Nashville.

1131
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 1: She came here for she married single.

1132
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:40,760
Speaker 2: She's single, so she's like in your house, very fable bachelorette.

1133
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,240
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you're so listeners.

1134
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:46,399
Speaker 1: Lucky though, to have her living with you, we would

1135
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: enjoy and.

1136
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 2: Her Golden retriever. Stop it that I'm obsessed with.

1137
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.

1138
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:53,239
Speaker 2: Yes, I can love her dog.

1139
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 1: And does she just like love the boys.

1140
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 2: Yes, it's just wonderful and it's so great for her

1141
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 2: to be part of their lives in the season, she's

1142
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 2: her godmother and like it's I hope I'm speaking for Katie,

1143
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 2: but I feel like it's as fulfilling for her as

1144
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:10,240
Speaker 2: it is for them. And it's just it's been.

1145
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:11,759
Speaker 1: Really specially special time.

1146
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 2: And she won't live with us forever. She's probably about

1147
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:17,319
Speaker 2: to get her own place, but she came here and

1148
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 2: she's she's like finished her master's and occupational therapy and

1149
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 2: so now you know, it depends on where she finds therapist. Yes,

1150
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:28,279
Speaker 2: you got to change that. I'm going to reach out

1151
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:30,240
Speaker 2: to her. You got to connect with Amanda because doesn't

1152
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 2: she work in the nick You.

1153
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:34,799
Speaker 1: Might have had so many amazing jobs. I don't know.

1154
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 2: I just remember maybe her telling me her friend in

1155
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 2: the neck you she probably has a lot of When

1156
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,359
Speaker 2: she was in there, there was an occupational therapist would

1157
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:45,319
Speaker 2: come like Ben to his little foot and it was

1158
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:47,920
Speaker 2: like this big and I was like, well, that's the

1159
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:50,800
Speaker 2: sweetest job ever. I want that job.

1160
00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: And now your sister in law is an occupational therapist.

1161
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 2: Hoping she finds a job in Nashville instead of Austin

1162
00:55:57,680 --> 00:55:59,880
Speaker 2: and we will convince her to stick around.

1163
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 1: Seriously, she needs stop to me.

1164
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay.

1165
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:05,239
Speaker 1: I always wrap up with leave your light and it's

1166
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,480
Speaker 1: just super open and unless is there anything else we

1167
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 1: need to share? Am I missing anything? I don't think

1168
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:11,960
Speaker 1: so okay, yay, just I just love your life. I

1169
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: love your inspiration, I love your I love your ability

1170
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:18,440
Speaker 1: just to flow and find joy and fun. Like I

1171
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 1: would say, finding the fun and the joy in all

1172
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 1: situations is a common theme with you and George. Yes,

1173
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 1: I love that and has carried you through. It's like

1174
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 1: blessed you though. You know, having fun isn't just like

1175
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: partying and like raging. It's like actually just enjoying the

1176
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 1: season that you're in for what it is like I'm

1177
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 1: telling you, like hearing you say that, like all the

1178
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 1: corporate people came to his shows and then you're selling

1179
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:43,440
Speaker 1: all your corporate people houses it's like right, finding that

1180
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 1: fun in anything, it just carries you through. And what

1181
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 1: what a thing for us all to remember, honestly, like,

1182
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: have fun with your life. We're here, have fun, yes,

1183
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 1: Like let it be fun. Yes.

1184
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 2: I try and teach that to my kids, and I

1185
00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:59,879
Speaker 2: feel like they're they are figuring it out, not only fun,

1186
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:02,279
Speaker 2: just and I feel like that comes from gratitude, yeah,

1187
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:08,200
Speaker 2: like just being so aware of how blessed we have

1188
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:12,880
Speaker 2: been and how we can pay that forward. And like

1189
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 2: I tell my boys, just love like Jesus. Yeah, lesson,

1190
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:17,400
Speaker 2: if it's a hard day, just try and be a light.

1191
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 2: Just be just love like Jesus. Okay, And I feel

1192
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 2: like I feel like it's working.

1193
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 1: So that leads me to my last question, which is

1194
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 1: leave your light and it's just dropping some inspiration. What

1195
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: do you want people to know?

1196
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:37,280
Speaker 2: I want people to know about me.

1197
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 1: Or about or you or just like if you're going

1198
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: to drop some inspiration to sum it up, like what

1199
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 1: do you want to leave what kind of like nugget

1200
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:46,320
Speaker 1: do you want to leave with people?

1201
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:50,120
Speaker 2: I would say, let me think about it.

1202
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:59,919
Speaker 1: No pressure, this is the moment, Kara. It all hinge

1203
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 1: is upon this, Okay.

1204
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:08,440
Speaker 2: I would leave with I think staying connected in my

1205
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:14,440
Speaker 2: marriage has been probably the most important thing in this career.

1206
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 2: But also like that is my life and that is

1207
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 2: who I am as a mom and as a wife.

1208
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:25,320
Speaker 2: Just staying connected seeing my spouse and my family and

1209
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:29,960
Speaker 2: my children for their needs and like making sure that

1210
00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 2: everyone feels seen and loved has really like worked for

1211
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:38,720
Speaker 2: us and has you know, supported us. And I think

1212
00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:42,600
Speaker 2: that comes from our faith. That just putting my relationship

1213
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 2: with God and first, and you know, making sure that

1214
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm led and prayerful and just leading

1215
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 2: in gratitude and everything that I do I love.

1216
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 1: That does not work, That's wonderful here, Birge, thank you

1217
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:01,640
Speaker 1: so much for joining me. Where can everyone keep up

1218
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:03,200
Speaker 1: with you? And George because we need to follow his

1219
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:04,840
Speaker 1: career as well. Where can we keep up with all

1220
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 1: social I.

1221
00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:07,880
Speaker 2: Think I'm at Cara Burge k A R A B

1222
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:10,760
Speaker 2: I R B I R G E G E and

1223
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:13,280
Speaker 2: George Burge Okay, George, Okay.

1224
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 1: A new song forere George is.

1225
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:17,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's called Ride Ride Ride. It's out and it's

1226
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 2: already like on the charts.

1227
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 1: Yes it is, Yes, it is.

1228
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 2: Somewhere in there. I can't remember.

1229
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on. This was so but I'm

1230
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 1: so glad to reconnect.

1231
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 2: With you too. This was so fun.

1232
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:37,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay bye