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Rachel Man's in the house in the podcast house today,
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you're watching the Christian Music bro podcast. It's great to
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see everyone's face. Rachel, thank you for joining me today.
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Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited
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and I'm excited to have you here.
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We have a lot to talk about and we're going
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to try to get as many questions as we can
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in the time that we have together today. And Rachel,
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for you're a newer artist, can I tell us a
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little bit about how you got started music? Like what
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a little bit about your journey, like how did you
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start doing music? And then what maybe you go into
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Christian music like having a fake faith allvent and see
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your music.
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Yeah, So I started singing at the age of seven,
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so I've been doing it forever.
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I loved singing, I saying.
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Actually, first my first solo was ten years old, singing
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a Michael deb Smith's song called Somebody Love Me. And
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you know, I was singing in front of all my friends,
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so it was kind of like a ten year old kid.
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They were all like ha ha ha, you know, but
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I loved it so much. You know, I just love singing.
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So I started singing at a really young age.
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I sing in school.
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I went to a Christian school growing up, So I
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sang at my school again in front of all my peers.
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You know, when you sing in front of like when
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you're in high school or like a you know, a
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teenager and you're singing in front of your friends, you
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know they they'll laugh at you.
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So it was good.
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You know, it's good for me because I learned not
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to laugh as people were laughing. So I had to,
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you know, learn. You know, I learned a lot of
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stage things, even like in school singing in front of
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my peers. And so I started singing in school. I
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sing at church. I did a lot of plays, I
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did a lot of things like that. But I always knew,
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like my even as a young girl, like I knew
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that I wanted to sing Christian music because you know,
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I grew up in a Christian household. I grew up
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in a Christian home, and that's what the music that
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I listened to was Christian music. So I always knew
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that I wanted to do something in that arena.
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And so I'm just very thankful because you know.
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I it could be very to give up, and you know, gosh,
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it's you know, if you look at the world around you,
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you know all these other artists, and you know, it
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could you could just feel like a number. But you
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know what's cool is that God doesn't look at us
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as just a number. He looks at us as very
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unique and that we all have a calling and a plan.
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And so I just used that for me as I
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know that God has a calling on my life.
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We all have one, and while I'm on this earth,
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I want to use my giftings to do what He's
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called me to do. So that really gives me the
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drive to keep doing it.
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That's really exciting.
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Do you have any musical inspirations that made you, Like
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you said, you like church music and you grew up
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going to church and everything, but yeah, any inspirations that
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inspired you more than like you said you covered to
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Michael W.
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Smith song like, was he one of your inspiration?
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Oh? Yeah, so I grew up.
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He was The first concert I ever went to was
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when I was nine years old. I went to the
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Michael one of Michael Smith's concerts of Pitsacola, and I
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loved it. I mean, I mean that's what I grew
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up listening to Michael W. Smith Whiteheart I don't know
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if you ever remember who they were, but they were
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like a rock band.
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They're so good.
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Yeah, Petra grew up listening to them, you know, So
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that's kind of like I grew up, you know, listening
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to that sound, you know, as a as a kid,
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because that's kind of what was out, you know, Michael A. Smith,
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Petra Whiteheart, that was kind of what was popular. So
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that's really what I grew up listening to. But you know,
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I love all music. I mean I love gospel, you know,
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you know, some good R and B sounds, you know,
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I just I love music, Like I'm just a very
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big fan of music. But what if you're going to
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be in my car, you're gonna hear me listening to
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like gospel, you know, Christian, Like, I'm gonna be listening
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to that because that just lifts me up, you know,
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it uplifts me.
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So I want to listen.
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To that, right And with all these like music inspirations,
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you name some legendary bands like Petra Whiteheart, Michael W. Smith,
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you are currently you work all Nathan from Plus one
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about how that experience has been with you.
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Yeah, so that's been really cool.
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So he was one of those people that I was like,
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oh my gosh, Nathan when I first started working with him,
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this is like a long time ago. I met them
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a long time ago, he and his wife. So I
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grew up listening as well to Plus One, like when
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I was in high school, like that was like the popular,
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like you know, Plus ones and stuff like that. So
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I grew up, you know, I listened to them a lot,
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you know, and I just still love their music, you know.
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And so Nathan, I met him several years ago, and
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you know, we got together, started working on some music,
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and it's been really fun. He's a great guy. I mean,
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Nathan is like he's awesome. He's a great guy. You know,
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he loves the Lord. He's got a family, he's a
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great dad. You know, he's married, he's got you know.
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But he's the on top of that though, like he's
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so talented, and I think, you know, when you work
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with somebody that does such a good job like he does,
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like he does a fantastic job with what he does.
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So that's why I want to keep working with him,
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because I just keep saying, like Nathan.
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Let's do another song, Let's do it. So working with
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him has been really.
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Cool, and you just released a song unfiltered? Can tell
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us a little bit about that song, Like there's any
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where we were working with Nathan, Like what inspired that song?
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Yeah? What was on your heart while you wrote the song?
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So I actually wrote that song about ten years ago.
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Can you believe that? In Nashville?
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So I wrote it with three other co writers and
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we actually wrote the song initially. My friend Christina, she
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we wrote the song. We all co wrote on it,
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but we actually wrote on it for her because she
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was going to do an album and she wanted to
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do one, and so she wanted to do this song
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about being vulnerable in front of God, and we came
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up with the Unfiltered song, which which is really cool
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because like I feel like now in our world today,
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there are so many more filters, Like back in twenty fifteen,
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we were starting to learn about putting a filter on
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a photo, right, but now there's so many more filters,
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and so the song has more you know, obviously several
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can have several meanings being unfiltered in front of God,
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but also we understand filters. You know, we're always trying
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to put a filter on something because we want to
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look our best and we want it to look our best.
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And the cool thing about the song Unfiltered is like
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God wants us to be unfiltered in front of him.
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He wants us to be our truest self, you know,
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if we're going through something, we can let him know.
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And I told this to somebody before. He already knows
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it anyway, so you're not hiding anything from him. He
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knows it anyway. So it's okay to share what's in
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your heart to him and be yourself and be your truest,
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authentic self, you know, in front of him. And that's
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where I really feel like healing can begin is when
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you truly like confess like hey I'm going through something,
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God help me through it, or just hey God, I
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need you, you know. So that's what we wrote and
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the reason why we came up with Unfiltered is we
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want to be truly unfiltered before God.
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That's exciting.
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And for those who are watching, listening, streaming, whatever you're
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doing with this podcast, and if time, check out Rachel
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Man's song Unfiltered.
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It's a great song.
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It's on Spotify. I Spotify, so I always bring on Spotify.
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I don't forget about you too, Apple.
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Cool, but I always right, that's right, it's out there too.
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When when I was diving on their Instagram when we
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first started talking, like a few weeks ago, when we
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were setting everything up, your bias is Carrie Underwood CMT Awards.
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What does that mean? I'm just curious.
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What Underwood unfiltered?
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And it's like, no, that can't be it. So now
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it's like.
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No, no.
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So I was asked to sing with Carrie Underwood on
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the CMT Awards and so I did. And so that's
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kind of what I put in my bio is like
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kind of something that I've been able to do that
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was really fun, and that was actually really fun. It
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was at the bridgtone Arena in Nashville, and you know,
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I got to spend several days at the arena. You know,
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we did a practice and then uh, the night of
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the awards, I got to hang out backstage the whole
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night and just like all these artists were back there,
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even non country artists were there.
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So that was kind of fun.
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I got to meet a lot of people and got
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to get a lot of photos. So it was just
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like a really fun It was a lot of fun.
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So I just put that in my bio because it
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was something I was able to do.
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I just was like, wait, write the song with Like
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that's what works.
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Hey, I'd be cool. She can she can co write
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a song with Yeah, right, I should.
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I should. Probably.
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The problem is they give you like a tiny little
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space to write something, and you don't have enough time
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to explain what you mean. So, hey, it's a good
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topic of questions, right.
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Exactly.
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Yeah, feel luck.
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But what have you been learning in this new new season?
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Your mus are like, like you just released on filtered
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after ten years, you're working on new music, like a
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new song side with Nathan from.
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Plus one to Everything. Why have you been learning in.
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Like this season, like spiritually, creatively or personally? Is there
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anything that you've done learning?
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So I think I'm just learning to trust God. I
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think any artist, you know, they you know, when you're
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putting yourself out there, you know you have to be
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you can be very vulnerable to because you're just basically saying, hey,
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here here's a song that I came out with.
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I hope you like it.
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You know, there's gonna be people who like it, people
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who don't like it. But I honestly think like in
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this season, especially I'm just trusting God, Like God.
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Whatever you want to do with this.
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You know, I'm just being I'm being the vessel You've
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told me to do it, So I'm just being faithful
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to what you said.
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So now it's up to you God, to do whatever
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you want to do.
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And then I'm I'm also asking God to show me,
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like God, Okay, give me ideas, give me, give me
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ideas of like how to get this out here. And
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it's amazing sometimes I get these like little pops of inspiration, Hey,
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you should do this, And there's other things that I'm
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thinking about that I need to do, and I've already
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thought in my mind. You know, I've Okay, that's a
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good idea, and I know that that's like God helping
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me think of some ways to get it out there.
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So I think just in this season is just trusting
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God because it is a faith walk doing music and
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just trusting Him every step of the.
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Way him into that and it's you're going to fall
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and trust God and everything. And there's so many paths
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and with many there's many pathways you can get to
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odd like either going to church, free and model. There's