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Boots, Babies & Balancing It All: Shea Fisher - put a little song in the mix! · Inside The Moms Club

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  Speaker 1: Hi, Welcome to inside the Mom's Club, where being a
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  Speaker 1: mom is the coolest place to be. Here in the
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  Speaker 1: Mom's Club, we believe that what embarrasses you now will
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  Speaker 1: make a great story later. And let's face it, you
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  Speaker 1: don't laugh sometimes you're gonna cry. Join us in having
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  Speaker 1: a good laugh together. I'm Monica Samuels. You are now
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  Speaker 1: inside the Mom's Club, your private destination for all things mom. Welcome,
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  Speaker 1: Mom's Welcome inside the Mom's Club. I'm your post, Monica Samuels,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm here with my lovely co host, Julie Orkid. Hi,
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  Speaker 1: how are you pick hi, Jackie lately? Because your youngest
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  Speaker 1: daughter is graduating hmmm from high school.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of things happening. And like I
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  Speaker 3: said last year, we've done the podcast for a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: May is not really what I would It's the busiest
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  Speaker 3: month for a mom. So it's mom madness. May is
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  Speaker 3: mom madness. So I have been m I a so,
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  Speaker 3: but it doesn't mean I haven't been thinking about you know, well, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know we did, and you're right about May. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's why they put Mother's Day in May.
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  Speaker 4: M hm.
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  Speaker 1: And kind of like sort of closer to the middle.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: So while you're feeling stressed and you're like, I'm so unappreciated.
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  Speaker 1: This is terrible. Then you know they drop you a
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  Speaker 1: flowers rose or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they're like, hey, I got fifteen minutes
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  Speaker 3: for you on Sunday? Do you want to get ice cream?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, it's I mean, it's it's fine. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not complaining, and it's so.
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  Speaker 1: And you for you, you've got what prom?
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  Speaker 3: Or I have prom? And this pre prom party is
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  Speaker 3: over the top. We threw a party last Sunday night
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  Speaker 3: that went till one in the morning, and it was
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  Speaker 3: Greek themed. So I was feeling a little crazy dressed
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  Speaker 3: like that. The boys were in togas. It was a lot.
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  Speaker 3: It was a lot, but it's so fun. And you
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  Speaker 3: think about when they're like this short period of time.
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  Speaker 3: I have two daughters. They're both amazing, But you think about, like,
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  Speaker 3: you've spent so much time being a mom and then
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  Speaker 3: you are gonna you are too are flying the nest
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  Speaker 3: and what are we gonna do?
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  Speaker 1: Yeap, so you'll be an empty nester.
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  Speaker 3: I mean you're trying to be an empty nester. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the youngest one just does.
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  Speaker 1: He got an apartment, but he does his things are there,
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  Speaker 1: but he's not. He's still with me, which I love. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know.
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  Speaker 3: But I reached out for help to find out what
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to do next.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's it is interesting because like our friend Jennifer
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  Speaker 1: last year, she was lamenting what am I gonna do
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  Speaker 1: with all this time? And now she's traveling all over
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  Speaker 1: the place. I don't you never see her. She was
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  Speaker 1: in California last week and now she's in Virginia. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean she never home.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think that really you have to reach, like you
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  Speaker 3: have to go back to who you are as a
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  Speaker 3: person and what do you love that brings you joy
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  Speaker 3: and what do you want to pursue and have some
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  Speaker 3: you know, I had a lot of fun raising the kids,
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  Speaker 3: but what are you going to do when they're not around? So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, as my daughter told me yesterday, who you'll
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  Speaker 3: see today?
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  Speaker 2: She was like, maybe you just.
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  Speaker 3: Don't understand when you I don't have a lot of
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  Speaker 3: time off and like letting me know what adulthood is alike.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, been there, know exactly what you're saying. So,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm grateful to see her.
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  Speaker 2: But I did. Do you want to hear what I'm
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  Speaker 2: doing Wednesday?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I actually hired.
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  Speaker 2: A medium psychic.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa I did. It's not the first time I've done this.
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  Speaker 1: Last time we were here, some psychic sought you out
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  Speaker 1: at a restaurant.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, don't look at me, I can feel
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  Speaker 3: the hair.
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  Speaker 1: Have you had some light shining on your head or
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  Speaker 1: something like that? And gave you a card and her
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  Speaker 1: name was clairvoyant Monica.
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  Speaker 3: It was so crazy. I was like, Monica, look at
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  Speaker 3: her name and she was like, you, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what it is, but you need to call me. And
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  Speaker 3: I haven't forgotten about her. But I didn't hire her.
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  Speaker 3: I hired this other lady out of Austin because I
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  Speaker 3: like to do things face to face. I love good conversation.
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  Speaker 3: I like to like pick up on people's body language,
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  Speaker 3: like what you're doing right now with your Like why Julie.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no no.
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  Speaker 1: How do you hire a psychic? Like how do you
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  Speaker 1: pick you?
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  Speaker 2: Pay her money?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: I know that, Like how do you choose?
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  Speaker 3: Well you actually get a reference from somebody who's been
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  Speaker 3: to someone because there's a lot of like fakers out there,
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  Speaker 3: and so I wanted somebody authentic. So I really researched
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  Speaker 3: her and two or three people that have been to her.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just excited. I mean, who knows. Like, obviously I
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  Speaker 3: need help to figure out what my next act is
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  Speaker 3: or how I want to recreate or go back to
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  Speaker 3: what I was doing, whether I mean by trade, I'm
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  Speaker 3: a nurse, and so do I want to travel? Do
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  Speaker 3: I want to do another mission trip that's a lot
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  Speaker 3: lot longer? Do I want to find a talent, which
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  Speaker 3: I'm fifty four. I still haven't found what that talent is.
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  Speaker 1: But well what if she says, you know, it's pole dancing,
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  Speaker 1: It's really mean, you know, why do whatever she says?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I'm good at it, Monica, and you just don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's too Yeah, I mean I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't think the kids would have appreciated that when they
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  Speaker 3: were younger.
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  Speaker 2: This is what my mind.
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  Speaker 3: Good luck with this, Thank you all. You know, I'll
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  Speaker 3: report back you do you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Do you mean to have it all figured out? Though?
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  Speaker 1: Oh I do, of course. Well I don't need that.
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  Speaker 2: I already know what I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think raising kids, you take a little break you
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  Speaker 3: take a little stop and we have somebody today who
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  Speaker 3: knows a little bit about yeah doing it.
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  Speaker 2: All she does.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get right to it, I guess to Ditt is
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  Speaker 1: an Australian born Texas based singer songwriter who has a
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  Speaker 1: new single out take Me Back to Texas. So we're
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  Speaker 1: both Texans. Were very excited about that, which was co
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  Speaker 1: written with Grammy Award winning Jesse Joe Dillon and Karen Rochelle,
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  Speaker 1: who is Garth Brooks longtime Harmony singer.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: After taking a few years off to focus on her family,
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  Speaker 1: business and personal growth, our guest is making her return
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  Speaker 1: to the country music scene with this heartfelt anthem blending
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  Speaker 1: nostalgia and her deep lover Texas roots. Please welcome Shave Fisher,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the moll Welcome Shame and we forgot to.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you for having me. What an introduction?
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  Speaker 1: Wow you yes, well, I like I'm known for my introduction,
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  Speaker 1: so welcome. But I left out you have three children?
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  Speaker 3: Three?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I have a eight going on thirteen year old,
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  Speaker 5: I have a six year old and I have a
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  Speaker 5: three and a half year old. So I have two
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  Speaker 5: girls and a boy.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow, wild times right.
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  Speaker 5: And you're yeah, it keeps me really busy. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I really don't. Honestly, I don't need sleep much. I
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  Speaker 5: just never have, and that I'm really lucky because if
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  Speaker 5: I needed to sleep, I'd be in trouble because I
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  Speaker 5: go to bed about midnight every night and I'm up.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, obviously the kids can't use their own toilets.
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  Speaker 5: They have to come to my bathroom to go party,
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  Speaker 5: so multiple times a night. Still, I was like, I thought,
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  Speaker 5: when they reached two or three, You're meant to like
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  Speaker 5: sleep again, and that's just not the case. But it
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  Speaker 5: is okay because I love coffee and I do just fun.
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  Speaker 3: I love it well, get it well, So let's start.
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  Speaker 1: Let's I want to hear about your journey because it
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  Speaker 1: started in Australia, So tell us about growing up in
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  Speaker 1: Australia and how you went from Australia to Texas and
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  Speaker 1: music story.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, I'll try and keep it short because can
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  Speaker 5: get long winded. So originally I'm from Australia, even though
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  Speaker 5: my accent now is just a little bit confused. People
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  Speaker 5: have no clue where I'm from most of the time.
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  Speaker 5: But lived in Australia and my parents are both Australian
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  Speaker 5: champion rodeo athletes. My dad was an Australian champion bull rider.
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  Speaker 5: My mom was an Australian champion bowery. So so from
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  Speaker 5: the time I was born, we were out competing on
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  Speaker 5: the road and the Rodier circuit. And when I was
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  Speaker 5: I always I always liked music. I just I was
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  Speaker 5: very outgoing as a child. When I was nine years old,
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  Speaker 5: my parents moved, actually moved to the US. Then my
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  Speaker 5: dad was on the professional bull riding tour and he
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  Speaker 5: was forty years old, still rodeoing on the pro circuit,
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  Speaker 5: which was super inspiring as a kid. So we lived
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  Speaker 5: here in the US for a couple of years. That's
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  Speaker 5: kind of where I first got my introduction to Texas.
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  Speaker 5: And then we moved home to Australia when I was
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  Speaker 5: nearly twelve years old. Went back to normal life there,
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  Speaker 5: rodeoing the things we always did. I started entering some
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  Speaker 5: talent quests, but but honestly I.
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  Speaker 2: Never won they.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if they just I sounded different, I
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  Speaker 5: looked different. Everything I did was different. I didn't like it.
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  Speaker 5: But I will say that my parents always taught me
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  Speaker 5: as a little girl that being different is what makes
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  Speaker 5: you unique. So actually kind of drove me, even as
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  Speaker 5: a twelve thirteen year old girl. That made me be like, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: clearly I'm not going to win here, but I still
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  Speaker 5: need to enter for the exposure and the practice. But
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  Speaker 5: it really it didn't cut me deep that they thought
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  Speaker 5: I sucked. I didn't care. So then I just decided
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  Speaker 5: I'd start to sing the national anthem at rodeos, and
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  Speaker 5: that's what I did. We'd be competing at the rodeos,
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  Speaker 5: I'd be seeing the national anthem on a horse. And
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  Speaker 5: when I was fourteen years old, this is back in Australia,
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  Speaker 5: I was like, I still remember it like it was
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  Speaker 5: just day. I was at a rodeo and there's a
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  Speaker 5: big tourbus that pulls in and I said, in a
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  Speaker 5: big stage get set up, and there was a big
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  Speaker 5: country music concert going on. I said to my dad,
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  Speaker 5: I was like, you think I can go knock on
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  Speaker 5: that toolbus door and just see who it is and
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  Speaker 5: see if they need a support act. And obviously most
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  Speaker 5: parents would be like, you're crazy, You're fourteen years old.
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  Speaker 5: This is not going to go to plan. But my
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  Speaker 5: Dad's like, sure, what's the worst thing the person can
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  Speaker 5: say no, so security was a lot less back then.
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  Speaker 6: I did it.
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  Speaker 5: Knocked on the two bus door. The gentleman came to
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  Speaker 5: the door. His name was Steve Ford. He was a
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  Speaker 5: famous singer in Australia, and of course I led off
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  Speaker 5: with the line of Hi, I'm Shay and my dad's
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  Speaker 5: Eddie Fisher, Australian Champion bull rider, because I had to
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  Speaker 5: have a little bit of like recision and I was like,
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  Speaker 5: do you have a support act? And he was like, well,
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  Speaker 5: my support act actually got stick wow, and he's like
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  Speaker 5: but he's like, but where's your band? And I thought
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  Speaker 5: we had karaoke tracks. So he was so nice. He
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  Speaker 5: agreed to let me perform before him, but he put
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  Speaker 5: me on two hours before he went on, and there
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  Speaker 5: was like three people in the crowd and my parents
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  Speaker 5: were two of them. That's okay, but I performed like
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  Speaker 5: there was ten thousand people and he actually must have
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  Speaker 5: been watching me from his tour bus and he actually
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  Speaker 5: found my parents after he got off stage that night
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  Speaker 5: and asked them if I wanted to do the next
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  Speaker 5: shows with him because his the country music concert was
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  Speaker 5: following these big rodeos that we were competing at and
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  Speaker 5: so my parents let me continue on the road with him,
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  Speaker 5: and after about three or four shows, he asked my
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  Speaker 5: parents if he could be my manager, and if he
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  Speaker 5: asked me to be on his Australian tour. And I'm
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  Speaker 5: telling you, like, I didn't grow up musical. I just
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  Speaker 5: I was probably I don't know, I just did not
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  Speaker 5: have the experience most people did. But I was willing
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  Speaker 5: to work hard, and he took me on his Australian tour.
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  Speaker 5: At the time, I didn't have any original songs, so
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  Speaker 5: I would just sing all the songs and get this
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  Speaker 5: his crowds. I'm fourteen. Keep in mind, his crowd are
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  Speaker 5: like drinking, partying, having a good time, and I'm this
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  Speaker 5: little fourteen, fifteen year old girl up on stage singing
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  Speaker 5: like I'm here for the party of Gritchen Wilson. I've
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  Speaker 5: never even had a beer like everyone, you know, like
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  Speaker 5: just having to play all these songs that people at
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  Speaker 5: a bar would want to listen to, and I just
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  Speaker 5: I listened. Now I'm thinking, oh my gosh, my parents
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  Speaker 5: let me sing this stuff. What was I singing about?
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  Speaker 5: I didn't even know. But I eventually we wrote my
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  Speaker 5: first album together and then my parents and my manager
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  Speaker 5: actually paid for my first album together. We flew to Nashville,
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  Speaker 5: recorded it, went home, and then I got signed to
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  Speaker 5: a major record label, which was wild because it wasn't
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  Speaker 5: like the US where there's like a bunch of labels.
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  Speaker 5: Record labels are few and between in Australia, so then
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  Speaker 5: it just kind of it was. It was crazy. I
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  Speaker 5: mean I came from humble beginnings. Keep in mind as well,
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  Speaker 5: my parents worked really really hard. They did they did well,
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  Speaker 5: but we never went without. But we did not have
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  Speaker 5: extra you know, we still had to be careful about
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  Speaker 5: what we spent and things. But you know, when I
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  Speaker 5: got that record deal, I'm finishing high school. This at
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  Speaker 5: this time, I'm sixteen, I'm finishing high school, and I
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  Speaker 5: wasn't the cool girl at school. It's amazing when you
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  Speaker 5: get a record deal and you're on stage, how people
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  Speaker 5: want to be your friend.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, huh oh oh interesting, Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 5: So I was tearing finishing school. My first album, y'all.
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  Speaker 5: I had three number one songs with my first album,
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  Speaker 5: which was just wow, mind blowing because like it just
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  Speaker 5: got thrown into it so so fast and so fun.
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  Speaker 5: But my manager was it helped because my manager was
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  Speaker 5: cheering and well known, so then I was at I
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  Speaker 5: was in front of big crowds from day one. Luckily
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  Speaker 5: I liked being on stage, so they say, you know,
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  Speaker 5: fake it till you make it, and I felt like
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  Speaker 5: I kind of was doing that the whole time, trying
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  Speaker 5: to like keep up with everything that was happening. And
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  Speaker 5: then when I was so when I was twenty years old,
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  Speaker 5: I remember being in Australia at a rodeo. Again, I
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  Speaker 5: still rode already, though I was singing, just because it
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  Speaker 5: was what I'd like to do when I had time off.
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  Speaker 3: Well what was that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm curious about I know now we're now were
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  Speaker 1: you stopped here when you're twenty? So we're going to
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  Speaker 1: go on, But I'm curious about something because I being
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  Speaker 1: from time from Dallas, and we are, and if you're
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  Speaker 1: familiar with Dallas, you know how Dallas is. And so
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  Speaker 1: my husband was not from Texas. So for our very
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  Speaker 1: first day, he was going to fly in and take
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  Speaker 1: me somewhere and he thought what better place to take
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  Speaker 1: a girl from Texas on her first date than the
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  Speaker 1: fort Worth Rodeo. And I knew nothing about rodeo yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like zero, and all I remember about it was some
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  Speaker 1: there was a monkey.
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  Speaker 3: Well there's Dallas was a different.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Dallas is very like Cosmopolo. And we don't Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: I guess they Dallas says. People don't even know they're
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  Speaker 1: in Texas. I mean we I would stunned when I
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  Speaker 1: got to the University of Texas and found out, Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I really this is part of Texas because like Dallas
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  Speaker 1: is Dallas. So but I knew nothing about the rodeo
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  Speaker 1: and you're the cultural I mean you grew up with
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  Speaker 1: the rodeo, did you. That's when you really watch that
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  Speaker 1: rodeo perform. You know what they do?
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  Speaker 3: Well, not only that a picture of you on your
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  Speaker 3: website like you can ride girl up at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Did you do rodeo too? I mean yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: gave me the ability to you know what I can now,
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  Speaker 1: I can sing, I can go perform. Yeah, because it takes,
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  Speaker 1: especially at fourteen years old, to go knock on a door.
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  Speaker 1: You had to have a lot of inner self confidence.
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  Speaker 1: Did you learn from your parents? I mean, were you
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  Speaker 1: part of that scene that your parents were in and
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  Speaker 1: you just if you can roll, yes, stare you can?
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  Speaker 5: I mean I won my first barrel race when I
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  Speaker 5: was I want to say I was seven. My mom
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  Speaker 5: said I wasn't a horse from as far as I
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  Speaker 5: could remember. But as I got older, like obviously, I competed.
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  Speaker 5: I won the rookie titles. I made the Australian National
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  Speaker 5: finals several times barrel racing and breakaway roping. So honestly,
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  Speaker 5: my goal free music was to move to America and
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  Speaker 5: make the American NFL like rodeo was my passion. That's
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  Speaker 5: what I seen myself doing until the music opportunities came along.
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  Speaker 5: I actually, and so weird to me to say it,
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  Speaker 5: was actually the first girl in Australia to make the
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  Speaker 5: junior bull riding finals. Okay, wow, I rode junior bulls well,
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  Speaker 5: but I did so, Yes, I think I liked the challenge.
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  Speaker 5: I was always very sporty athletic. Anything that seemed a
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  Speaker 5: little bit far fetched for me was challenging. I wanted
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: to try it. I always had the mentality of obviously,
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: I didn't want to fail. I was all about winning,
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: but I wasn't afraid to fail while I was trying
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: to get to the winning. So you know, with the
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: bull writing story always makes people chuckle because in the
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: junior events, the boys can do the boys can do
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: the girls events plus bull riding, so they always had
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: an advantage. With the end of the year, they have
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: like the all around award to the most points, and
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: I was always winning everything I could win, but I
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: didn't have the points from the bull writing, so I
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: never won the all Round and it annoyed me, and
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: I said to my dad one summer, I said, surely, like,
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: it's what can I aull?
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: And my Dad's like, I don't know, Let's go check
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: the rule book. So he literally went and checked the
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: real book. I'm thirteen, thirteen, I think, and doesn't say
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: girl boy. So my dad actually did instructionals, so he
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: had a bucking machine at home. So that entire summer
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: we practiced, and the very first rodeo I entered, I
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: remember the boys looking at me and like chuckling, like
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: you could tell they were like, this is the dumbest
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: thing we've ever seen, Like what is she doing? And
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: then I got second the first time I entered, and
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: then after that the guys are all my best friends,
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: and I was just one of the boys hanging out,
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: you know, behind the bucking shoots, but it was just
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: funny because they used to that first one. They were like,
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: this is not going to go well, and then they
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: got their butts kicked.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, so you have an incredible grit and this
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: is what I love about your story. So I do
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: have a question. Though I have listened to your albums
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: and your songs, I have a couple of favorites. Take
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: me back to Texas Don't Rush is beautiful. I thought
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: that was pretty too. And so but your first album
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: did someone who inspired this? Did someone break your heart?
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: What is the story behind that? Because like, really, like
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: you have this quote that says, never too late to
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: pursue what sets your soul on fire, and so I
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: think that is kind of like you're going back to that.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: But I want to know a little bit about the
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: history of the music.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: And yeah, so you know, when I started writing my
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: first album, I was, to be honest, fourteen years you were.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: I hadn't had a ton of heart break. But I
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: will say you can write a heartbreak song based upon
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: other heartbreaks. You can have heartbreaks in friendships, you can
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: share breaks so many other areas of life. So for me,
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: I was able to draw off those experiences. I'm not
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: gonna lie. I might not have told my parents, but
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: obviously I had crushes when I was young and half breaks,
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: you know, they didn't whatever, So I had experienced that.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: But it also was co writing with my manager was
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: what he was fifteen years older than me, so it
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: was co writing. So I was able to base of
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: a lot of experience there of like, how can we
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: take this and turn it to this As I grew
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: as a songwriter. Obviously my first album, I look at
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: the songs now and I think, wow, these were kind
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: of pretty basic. But at the time it worked and
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: it's what those young girls wanted to hear. It just worked.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: But the more I started songwriting my album two and
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: then my new music, I'm like, okay, these songs were therapeutic.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: I was able to write. Obviously, if you're going to
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: be in a relationship with anybody who writes songs, I'm sorry,
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: you're going to have songs written about you.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: And I know that some of my exes are very
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: aware well that song specifically about me. So yes, I've
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: used my own experiences as well as other people's experiences
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: in life.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: But I liked how you mentioned heartbreak like, it can
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: be about anything. It doesn't have to be about you know,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: a girl, a boy, or you know, some type of
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: love relationship. It can be about so many in life,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: and so, I mean, I think that's really cool that
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: you mentioned that.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I like that well in the heartbreak aspect, drawing from
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: your ex's like if if you have really tragic, horrible things,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: that the beauty of that is they would never want
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: to admit that was them. Right, So I've got good
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: material and you don't have to worry about being suit
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: or anything.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, well, I mean legally you can write about
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: whatever you want. Now, if you were going to put
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: their their name and their home address, it might be different.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: But you know, the funnest part for me was with
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: songwriting and being creative that way. I loved making the
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: music videos. I loved these songs come to live and
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: you can hear a song, but then if you watch
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: a good music video, you're like, oh that's what they mean. Yeah, yeah,
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: much sense now. So I always would write songs thinking about, oh,
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: this is what this music video will look like, and
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: that that was always so much fun. Because I also
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: pre singing, I did a lot of acting, So I
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: wasn't sure if life was going to I was going
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: to be more on the acting roles or if I
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: was going to be singing. I always I always liked
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: being in front of the camera, and I think it's
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: the same thing with Rodeo. I liked being on the
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: on the stage, whether it's on the stage in the
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: arena or singing or acting. I just that was just
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: my personality.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Do you see yourself acting again?
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: I do. I knew if the opportunity came up, yeah, absolutely,
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: if Yellowstone calls me, which they're no longer on, but
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: if one of their.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Serious things might be, you don't know, you never know what, No,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: I would.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: Be totally down for it. I used to do a
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: lot of acting when I was younger, like or it
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: nearly was on the Saddle Club. Lots of shows that
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: I was had opportunities to be with. But you know,
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: it's it's just you kind of have to pick a path,
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: and I couldn't do too many things. I was very
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: very good at athletics growing up. I got asked to
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: train for the Olympics team when I was fourteen in
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: the two hundred hurdles and triple jump, but that was
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: the same time I was stepping into music, and I
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: just knew that, like committing to that to train the Olympics,
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: that's a four year commitment, and I didn't want to
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: sprain my ankle two weeks before and have spent that
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: whole whole time and not have a creator then step
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: into So.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: You can be good at multiple things. You have to
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: pick what you're passionate about, though, and what makes most sense.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Well, we're good with a lot of things now. So
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: you took time off, so you got married to someone
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: who's also in rodeo.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so let me so the story. So it was
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: twenty I'll just make it super quick though. When I
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: was twenty, I got a call from a record label
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: in America. I was not trying to get a record deal.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: I literally got a call from a label who had
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: heard my songs in the studio in Nashville, because all
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: of us Ozzie's go to Nashville to record. Sure, they
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: heard my song and then they called me and they
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: asked me if I would like to fly over. They
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: said in two weeks to talk funny record deal. And
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: I was like, I mean, we'll go and see. So
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: my dad, my mane flew over, sat down. They're like, okay,
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: we're going to sign you to this record label. You
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: have two weeks to fly home. We need all your
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: band members to move to the US as well, and
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: then you're going to start radio tour in three weeks
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: like that quick. I was twenty and so my my
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: ausie band all guys move. We runted a house seven
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: seven guys and it was great. I was such a
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: tom boy. Hit the road for three months, touring, radio, touring,
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: my single got released to radio, was doing fabulous the
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: first few weeks, and then my record label shuts down.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, So that's the part where you have to
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: like pivot or understand, you know, what are we going
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: to do next? And honestly, like you can do so
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: many things, Like I'm just like overwhelmed with everything that
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: you mentioned.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: But let's talk about the hardest.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Job of all a mom of three kids.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Right, So where does that come into your career?
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Where does that?
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: So when I when the record label shut down, obviously
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: I stayed in nashvill a little bit, but I started
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: venturing to Texas more because I that felt more like
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: home because I had grown up there a little bit
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: when I was younger, and then I met my husband,
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: who is a world champion rodeo athlete, Tyson Durfy, at
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: Houston Rodeo. Oh yeah, I was doing modeling for a
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: brand there and I met Tyson there, and you know,
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: I was you know, it took him like a year
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: to get my phone number. I was very just was
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: in the headspace to want to commit to a He
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: was a good guy, a good nice guy, and I
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: was not used to that type of relationship, and I
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: knew that's the marrying type, and I just wasn't. I
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: just couldn't commit. For the first year, I was like, no,
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: but I don't want you to leave like I want
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: you to stay there waiting.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: I want you to stay in my safety bucket until
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: we're ready.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: And then we got we we got married, and then
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: we always said we wanted to wait five years. We
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: waited three and we had our first little girl. And
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: but you know, my parents always told me that kids
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: shouldn't change your life. They change they come into your
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: life and they just do what y'all do if you
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: let it happen that way. So our children have always
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: traveled the world with us. They're international travelers. We take
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: them everywhere. We've literally within eight years, and I don't
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: I'm not saying this is a good thing. I think
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: it's great when people can leave their children. But we've
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: only left our kids for three nights and eight years.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Oh I love that. So you remain a family and
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: you just do it your way. I mean, listen, you
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: and Beyonce, she's traveling with these kids all over the place,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: and yeah.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: So yeah, it's important for me to have these memories
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: with the kids. Sure, and you know they're doing this.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: They handle it well. They know how to handle themselves
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: in situations with you know that most kids aren't allowed
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: to go to But don't get me wrong. My child
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: still had to write I will respect my parents thirty
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: times on a piece of paper last week.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Yes, well, oh my god, I love that. Can I
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: do that to my adult children, like, yeah, that would
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: be great.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: Kids, But they still need they still need to be
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: brained back in at times.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Of course, of course we have some women who can
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: relate to that totally.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: We've got one who's doing an amazing job, Kimberly.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, well, and let me introduce them. They are
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: all zoomer moms Welcome, Zoomer moms welcome to sing here. Yeah, well, ladies,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know how all of us can compete. I
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: mean rodeo writing and singing and acting. I mean, it's
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: all exceptional. It's not a competition, that is true. Well,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: let me introduce our first one. Kim, welcome to the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Mom's Club. Can you tell us your name a little
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: bit about yourself.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, my name is Kimberly. So I have a three
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: year old daughter, and then I have a she's one
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: in a month.
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: I'm trying to get her to sleep right now.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: You're doing a great job. I think you've accomplished it
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: almost almost almost.
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: So, Yeah, such an amazing story. My daughter is obsessed
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: with horses, and so I guess what would you recommend
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: for a mom of a horse lover how to get
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: her involved in horse riding or rodeo or anything like
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: that if you're not from that industry or you know,
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: if you don't have any I've never I mean I've
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: ridden a horse like once or twice, but he is obsessed.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Kim, that's okay, even if you're not from that
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: I have a lot of friends that knew nothing about horses,
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: just love them. But you know, there's a lot of
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: ability in different areas to do riding lessons. Now finding
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: a really good group of like a like a saddle
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: club almost they have where you can go and they
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: own the horses. I don't recommend trying to figure out
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: how to buy one and stable and do all that.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: It's very expensive and there's a lot of responsibility that
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: comes with it. But taking your child and doing saddle
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: club and different life essence like that and let you
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: know if it's something that like you know, some people
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: financially kind of board that too. And I've always had
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: friends of like, hey, if you're going to join this,
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: you're going to do these are your chores. This is
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: the bucket money you're gonna get that's going to go
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: towards paying for your riding lessons, because obviously it's not cheap.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: But I will say having a child that that is
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: involved in horses at any point brings so much responsibility,
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: And I really think it's what kept me out of trouble,
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: having having that responsibility and knowing that I'm taking care
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: of this massive animal that's listening to me. So I
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: do think it's amazing I would say saddle club. I
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: mean to start with, go to the saddle club bards
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: and offer to help clean the stalls. Let her just
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: be around the horses and then and then see if
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: if she wants the commitment to go riding and do
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: all of that. But but I do think that it's
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: it's a good thing to have your kids in.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Julie can appreciate this too because she loves horses. Yeah,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: and she made me ride one and when we were
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: in and you we have some embarrassing video of me
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: to get off the horse.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: It's I was like Monica, people people are watching get
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: off Yeah.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Other shamefulne It's amazing. I ever got off the words.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I'm sure the horse. The whole time was thinking you
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: put this lady, yeah, crazy lady on my back because
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I'd like.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: To know riding through Scotland is going to be my
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: next trip. So I think horses teach kids respect and
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: like you said, you're in charge of this large creature.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: You have to respect the animal and they'll give you
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: love back. I mean, there's so many lessons and horses.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: But anyway, I could go on for that, but up
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: for hours.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Janine, Welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us your name
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: and a little bit about.
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: Janine from Austin, Texas. And I am the mother of
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: a thirty four year old and a stepmom of a
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: forty year old and have two grandsons. And when I
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: was a kid growing up, we always had horses, So
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: my dad had a walker and we had basically horses.
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: We rode in the boots and saddle rodeo every Friday night,
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: and so I did barrel.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: And flags h So I didn't know that.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: So that was my upbringing.
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: And I was just curious about your kiddos because I'm
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: hearing three things from you as far as your background,
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: and it's it's it's horses, sports and music. What direction
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: do you see your kids.
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: Each leaning's Do they have those interests right questions?
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a you know, that's a really good question
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: for me. I like to let our children try all
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: different things. Obviously, you always want them to full on
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: your footsteps, but a lot of pressure comes with that,
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: having to follow in the footsteps of somebody else who's
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: had success in a different area. So honestly, if our
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: son wants to be a baseball player, I'm totally okay
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: with it. If he doesn't want to rodeo like my husband,
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: I'm I'm fine with it. But we let them try things.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: We let them try two max. Three things to juggle
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: at a time. That's a lot. I don't want to
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: get too many things going at once. One thing I've
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: noticed is with horses, because we live on sixty eight,
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: is we have a bomb. We have horses, but their
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: personalities are all different. Every morning when I go ride
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: horses when the girls are at school, I go ride
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: my horse because I still do compete some I take
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: my son with me and I lead him beside me,
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: so he loves it. But now my oldest loves to
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: ride that. She doesn't love the responsibility that comes with
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: all saddling the horse, all of that. But what I
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: try to tell her is, hey, if you don't want
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: to do this other stuff, you don't get rewarded to
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: go and do that like you have to. It's a
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: whole package deal. So we have one that's very invested
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: in basketball and volleyball, and she's very good. My son,
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: he's three, he wants to do everything Chris. And then
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: my middle daughter, she loves horses. I could see that,
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: but the girls I will say. The girls are very,
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: very musical, but I try not to put too much
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: pressure on it. Everywhere we go, before we leave someone's house,
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: they ask if they can sing a song they wrote
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: for the people, So they ready at six and nine,
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: making everybody sit there and watch them. And these songs
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: they write aren't just three minutes long, right right, balance.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: You're gonna get the ten minute version.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: So do you see besides your solo career, do you
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: see like a mother daughter? Do you know in your
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: future are you gonna.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: I know I will be the mom manager because I
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: know the industry well enough now I feel like, honestly,
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: God kind of put me in the industry. I really
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: do believe that one of my kids is going to
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: be in that industry and I will be able to
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: guide them and help them. Nobody wants to see if
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: by the time they're seeing Nobody wants to see a
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: fifty year old woman up there with two cute girls
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: like I'm gonna let my girls do it. They can
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: be a duet and then I'll be behind the scenes
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: being there their manager slash. I don't know stylists, whatever
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: that looks like, but but obviously I'll be involved that
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: that's what they choose to do. Yeah, and that's you know,
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: give them the opportunities where I can.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Abby, Welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us your name,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: where you're from, and a little bit about yourself.
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: Hi.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: My name's Abby. I'm from San Francisco and I actually
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: used to be a nanny, uh, which is fun and
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: I really loved being able to give the kids back
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: at the end of the day. That was like, but
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: I'm actually really fascinated by like the Australian country music
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: scene and sort of like what is the difference between
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: that and like obviously like our own country scene here
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: in uh, the US.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: So, you know, nice to meet you. I think that's
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: amazing that you're we're a nanny because obviously I can't
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: do everything alone, so I have a fabulous brand slash
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: Nanny that helps me with the kids as well. So
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: it's such a huge role you're raising you know, you're
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: helping raise people's kids. So that's amazing. But you know,
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: today's time, the internet and social media have made it
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: such a small world. So in Australia, we play a
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: lot of American country and it's very crossover. When I
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: first started, it was probably seventy percent Australian country thirty
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: percent American. But now like currently, right now on the
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: Australian charts, I'm only with my new single, I'm one
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: of three Australians that are even on the top thirty chart.
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: That's how much American music is in Australia right now,
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: which is great. But at the same point, I'm like,
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: I feel like the chart should be should should bring
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: in more Australians. Personally, I feel lucky that I'm on
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: the charts, but yeah, it's it's really changed a lot.
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: We have a lot more festivals and a lot more
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: American acts coming over.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: I love that We've also seen a lot of.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: Australian acts come over and sign record deals in the
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: US and do really well. So the Internet and streaming
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: makes it just like a one world. No't matter where
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: you're from anymore. It's like when I was very very
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: Australian back in the days, I still sung with A
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: ten and twain. People laugh in interviews, They're like, you
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: sound Texas, but but you're Australian. I'm like, oh.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I notice when we say the word Australia, all
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: of a sudden, your accent goes back to the country,
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: and then I was like, it's it.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, But when you're in Australia, to say, do you
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: say y'all, say y'all? Have you adopted? Not you got y'all?
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Have y'all in there?
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: Well, when I'm in Australia, I really try hard and
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: when I do Australian interviews to focus on sounding Australian. Yeah.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: I'm not saying people judge, but you're an Aussie, you
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: live there for twenty years. They don't really want to
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: hear you sounding American. And I know I have a
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: quite a strong American accent at times, so I really
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: try and focus on over exaggerating my auzsiness when I.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Want to hear your aussy roots. Come on, yeah, like
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: that's it.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: And speaking of that, have you and Keith Urban discussed
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: at all or anything? There's a success story in the
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I just have.
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: To get through Nicole and be like, Nicole, come on,
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: that's right, eat you out with your husband? Come on? Please? No.
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: But we have a few connections there, like people that
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: know people, and I've been around keep a couple of times.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: He's an amazing human being. I have a couple of
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: friends in the industry, like Walker Hayes. My next single
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: I wrote with Walker instance, there's a couple of people
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: I've thought about maybe doing a duet with. What does
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: come challenging in today's time any artists that signed a
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: record deal, if you want to do a duets, very
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: it's not really up to the artist. It's up to
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: the record label that they're signed to. So it's a
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: little bit trickier when they become as signed artist. Like
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: if Walker Hayes had have been if we could have
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: done a duet three years ago when he wasn't signed,
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: but now he signed, he has to get approval from
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: so many people. So it makes it.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Interesting insight to the industry that I like hearing. I mean,
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: I love learning about that because you're right, it's not easy. Yeah,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: like yeah, So anyway, Well, we also have with us
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: today the cutest occasionally zoomer daughter.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: On the month of Mother's Day, we have a Zoomer daughter, Georgia.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us your name, where
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: you're from, and a little bit about yourself and.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: How much you love your mom.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: You getting mom. Yes, it's nice to meet you.
• 37:29
  Speaker 8: I had a question about how your parents got into
• 37:33
  Speaker 8: the rodeo being Australians and is that is that a
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: big industry or like a a thing that they were doing.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: How did they get into that? You know, that's actually
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: a really good question. I think both of my parents
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: didn't have a whole lot growing up, and then they
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: realized they could win prize money. That drove them to
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: lone's skill. And they both were from quiet country out
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: back towns, so they just you know, the boys thought
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: it was fun. They were either like on dirt bikes
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: or riding a bull. You know, it was just they
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: did they meet through that medium? Yeah, they actually did.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: My parents met at sixteen, and from what I've heard,
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: my parents were more on the wildest side when they
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: were younger, and then at like twenty one, they both
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: found Jesus and became like more straight laced. But yeah,
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: so they met at rodeos and they traveled together a lot,
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: I mean around the world rodeoing, even at a young
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: age before us kids came along. But you know, my
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: my parents really were the ones that taught me to
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: dream big and that you're going to fail, you just
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: how you pick yourself up from it. They were very
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: supportive with anything that we wanted to do in life,
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: which was nice because there was a lot of crazy
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: ideas that I had. But you know, they were going
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: to let me try it and then probably no, I
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: was going to fail at certain things, but weren't going
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: to tell me, no, We're going to let me figure
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: that out myself. I actually, growing up, had a disabled
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: sister who was mentally and physically handicapped, so her brain
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: only developed to a three month old and when she
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: was born there was only five people in the world
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: that had this disability. I don't it's one of those
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: big long names. But when so, she was four years
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: younger than me. So when my parents had my sister,
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: they were at the prime of their rodeoing and doing
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: all their stuff. You know, they hadn't they had an
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: infant for eighteen years. She was meant to live till five,
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: and she lived till eighteen. So my parents they never
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: put her in like public education because obviously like that
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: was just someone the babysitter because she couldn't comprehend anything.
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean I watched my parents give my
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: sister a bottle and wake up three times a night
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: for eighteen years. So they literally had a newborn for
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: eighteen years, so you know, they missed out on a
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: lot of like things like going to the movies or
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: date nights and stuff. But we never missed out kids because,
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: like I said, we moved to the US when I
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: was a kid, we traveled the world. Still, my parents
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: just made it work. Even with my sister being handicapped.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: They were still going to keep like chasing their dreams
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: and goals, and we all just went with. I remember
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: when I first got into music, both of my parents
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: couldn't come to my events like when I was younger,
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: because you know, you know, festival's not somewhere you take
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: my sister. It's just not really kind of so I
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: had one either or of my parents would come to
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: things like that. But you know, when my sister passed away,
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: my mom I was talking to my mom about it
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: and she said it had been eight She's like, movie
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: theaters are so different now. It had been eighteen years
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: since my parents went to year. Wow.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: So you had a really tremendous example, yes, through your parents.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: I like when I first was hearing your story, like wow,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: she does all these things, I mean, and just keeps going.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: And you have you had a great example for that. Well,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about your single, take me
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: back to Texas and love It. What part of Texas
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: do you live in?
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: Where are you?
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: Where you?
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I'm in the country part, not Dallas. I'm
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: close to Fort Worth. Oh, I'm in Weatherford and we
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: have sixty acres on the Brass River. And like I
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: said earlier, my husband's are rodeo athlete, so obviously we
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: need land and and horses and cattle and so forth.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: But you know, when I wrote this song, So when
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: I when I originally was was signed in Australia singing
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: I want my cowgirl hat on stage in my boots,
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: I was, I was a cowgirl. But when I sign
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: my record deal in the US, my record label wanted
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: me to get rid of the hat and the boots
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: and wear high heels and they are no fun to
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: walk in. Yon. Yeah, well you're not used to it anyway.
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: But so when I was writing this song, obviously it
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: was the it was the missing of Texas and my
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: cowgo roots almost more than like a guy. But I'll
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: be I had met my husband, so there was there
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: was that that part of the love story in the single.
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: But you know, going out and chasing my dreams at
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: nineteen and leaving everything behind that I knew that was
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: comfortable to me, and you know, realizing like just even
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: if I hadn't really had huge success straight away in Nashville,
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: I think I always would have ended up in Texas
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: because I just I just felt out of place, you know,
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: lived in the city that just wasn't who I was.
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: So this song was written in a place of missing
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: my roots, who I was at the time, my boyfriend
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: in Texas. You know, it was it was heartfelt me
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: and for me, I've always tried to release my songs
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: are normally being pretty upbeat, just a couple of slow
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: songs I've released and taking taking that gap from the industry.
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: I didn't really know which of these ten songs to
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: release first, but this one, for some reason, just just
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: said to me like this showed the journey I'd been
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: on the last ten years and also showed a more
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: mature side of myself as a songwriter. So I thought
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: it was probably more appropriate to come back into the
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: industry rather than like my next singles like sexy Cowgirl
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: fun But I'm like, yeah.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: And you wrote it with Grand Award winning artists as well.
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: Jesse. Yeah, but you know, when I wrote this song,
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: here's the thing which is so cool about Nashville. When
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: I wrote this song, Jesse was just Dean Dillon, who's
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: a famous songwriter, his daughter. She hadn't had hits. We
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: were just songwriting in a room and having a good
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: time as girls. But now seeing how far she's come
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: is just so amazing. I mean, all these singles, even
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: like that next one too, that I wrote with Walker Hayes,
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: Like Walker was barely paying his bills and couldn't really
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: even feed his family when he wrote this. Yeah, and
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: no record label wanted him in town. And now he's
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: a superstars. So you know, it's always you always got
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: to keep in mind you got to be nice to
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: every person in life because you don't know, you don't
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: know what the future holds people that you cross.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: I think that is incredible advice.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: You know what, Everyone that comes on this show, everyone
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: is amazing. As we say, he're on the Mom's and
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: I tell every one of them, you should write a book.
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: You should write a book because.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: You've got good you got good story.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: And that's and what you just said as you're coming up,
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: you don't know who's gonna like right next to you.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: They may you know, listen, I'm grateful you never gave
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: up because I think there you are. The best is
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: yet to come.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: So I think that is what we look forward to.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: So where can people find you on social media?
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: Like?
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Where can all the moms out there find you?
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm very involved in social media, and I will
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: just say I don't know if we're living on time
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: or anything, but I will just say, you know, I
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: have like a love hate relationship with social media. I
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: love it.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: I know that.
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: I just like to tell people that. I guess having
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: a daughter that's nine. Now, obviously she's not on social media,
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: but I know at one point she will be. Like
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: there's so much pressure that comes to people from social
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: media because they think what they see on social media
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: is what everybody wakes up looking like and what they
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: do day to day. So they you know, they put
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: these people on a pedestal and they judge themselves or
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: what they see in the media, and it is not
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: anything like that. It's just not realistic. I really try
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: to post, like I try and show the good with
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: the bad, but you know, I'm on Instagram. You know,
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: it's great. I have, you know, a bunch of followers,
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: so I love catching up with everybody there. I have Facebook,
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: my website and so forth. But just know, like, social
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: media is just not a place to like, you know, oh,
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: what her body's like is what mine should be like.
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: You don't know if people could just self filters than
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: photoshop and it's it's incredible what you see behind the
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: scenes and the industries of life. If only people knew
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: what they're seeing is not the truth.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: I never take the positivity out of like and you
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: know what I mean, all of social social media. I
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: agree with you one hundred and fifty percent. I love
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: the connection though, of everything with social media that you
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: can pick up and you take, you take out you
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: know what you can and you leave the rest because
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: the rest is not real life. So thank you for
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: seeing that. But what is your handle on Instagram?
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: We're doing knowing that you're very authentic too, I'm sure
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: people will want to.
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: She's like, I'm going to look it up. Yeah, so
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: I know what it is.
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: Okay, it's under Shaye Fisher. Music is my age.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love, love love your single and I can't
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: wait for more.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: Exactly Yeah, check out take me back to Texas.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: That's right, and I'll be doing that tomorrow.
• 46:41
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  Speaker 1: maybe my grandchildren someday. I don't know exactly. Anyway, it
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  Speaker 1: has been so much fun as always Julie and completely inspired.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of social media, we can't fail to mention that
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: we are on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and all of that
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  Speaker 1: at Inside the Mom's Club, Yes, where we do fun
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  Speaker 1: videos and show clips from the show and come up
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  Speaker 1: with and Julie's job is to find it inspiring quotes
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  Speaker 1: to post up there. You won't find any yet because
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  Speaker 1: she's not.
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  Speaker 3: That's probably for it in the beginning of the show job,
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  Speaker 3: so look for.
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  Speaker 1: Those as well well. We will see you next time, ladies.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate the time that you've spent with us today.
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  Speaker 1: We know your me time is precious and valuable. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for spending it with us. Don't forget our motto.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Our motto is, ladies, if you don't laugh, sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: You are gonna cry.
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  Speaker 1: So keep laughing. We will see you next time inside
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: the Mom's
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  Speaker 3: Club, all right,