From One Tree Hill to Nashville: Jana Kramer's Journey :: Ep 71 Try That in a Small Town Podcast

Try That in a Small Town Podcast · Sep 1, 2025 · 1h 6m

Jana Kramer, the actress, singer, podcast host, and mother joins us to pull back the curtain on the entertainment industry's less glamorous realities and share how she's found her authentic voice through it all.

Jana's story begins with remarkable determination – handing her headshot to a soap opera actor while waitressing in Detroit, then convincing a casting director she lived in New York to land her first role. This fearlessness carried her through roles on Friday Night Lights and One Tree Hill before an unexpected pivot to country music during a writers' strike revealed another dimension…