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Missed Opportunity With Singer Songwriter Bryan Olsen From NBC's The Voice · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: And what you don't have access to are my missed opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the show prep was completed. The conversation didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: Missed Opportunity is a lost piece of history. It's like
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  Speaker 1: a message in a bottle that's been tossed out to sea.
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  Speaker 1: It is time to locate a destination. This week, we're
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  Speaker 1: putting focus on my missed opportunity with singer-songwriter Brian Olson.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Olson. You know the name. You probably still know
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  Speaker 1: the face. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, but living in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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  Speaker 1: He learned early on in his life that to be
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  Speaker 1: part of the musical path, it required a pursuit for
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  Speaker 1: dreams that involved odd jobs and the payoff, an unexpected
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  Speaker 1: call to join the rock band Newsboys. Oh, yeah. Brian
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  Speaker 1: Olson was signed to play guitar for this international tour,
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  Speaker 1: and it didn't take his focus off VOTA, V-O-T-A, his
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  Speaker 1: own band known for supporting various causes, including school shooting
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  Speaker 1: victims and fighting against human trafficking. This dude is really
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  Speaker 1: into human effort and bringing peace to other people's lives.
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  Speaker 1: The band Voda recorded music designed for the causes, raising
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  Speaker 1: over $ 80, 000, part of those proceeds going toward saving the
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  Speaker 1: lives of nearly 700 women in Nepal. As Brian grew
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  Speaker 1: closer to 50, he knew it was time to fully
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  Speaker 1: activate his ambitions, which led him straight to NBC's The Voice. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the invitation to share a conversation with Brian Olson arrived
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  Speaker 1: on March 20th, 2024, over two years ago. Less than
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  Speaker 1: 12 hours later, my name appeared next to Brian's name.
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  Speaker 1: And then it was gone. He became a missed opportunity. Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: He was the very first voice that everybody was talking
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  Speaker 1: about when it came to the brand new season of
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  Speaker 1: NBC's The Voice. From the very beginning, Bryan set himself
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  Speaker 1: apart from the others. A blistering blind audition, becoming the
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  Speaker 1: very first artist of the season, number 25, to earn
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  Speaker 1: the coveted playoff pass. It gifted him with a chance
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  Speaker 1: to skip the knockout rounds. And once he returned to
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  Speaker 1: the live show, he didn't let anyone down. His goal
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  Speaker 1: was to make Africa from the band Toto his own song.
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  Speaker 1: When the performance ended, every judge was on his side.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up next, my questions, my statements for Brian Olson
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  Speaker 1: from NBC's The Voice. Hey, welcome back to Missed Opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: These are the questions and the statements that were written
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  Speaker 1: in 2024 for Brian Olson from NBC's The Voice. He
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  Speaker 1: is this week's missed opportunity. What are you leaning on
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to creating a full journey right now?
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  Speaker 1: The competition seems a lot more like a collaboration here
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  Speaker 1: in 2024. What is this like to be with so
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  Speaker 1: many creative people that are pretty much on the same
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  Speaker 1: level you are or you're learning new things? Making a difference.
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  Speaker 1: This is in your heart pretty deep, dude. Making that
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  Speaker 1: difference in life starts with self. How did you do it? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you got the call. Joining the news, boys. I know
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  Speaker 1: you still feel it deep inside your soul. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that was an international tour. Talk to me about VOTA, V-O-T-A,
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  Speaker 1: and I spell it out because I want listeners to
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  Speaker 1: go and Google you. VOTA. This has got to be
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  Speaker 1: one of the greatest things that I've ever heard of
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  Speaker 1: with you supporting the community rather than vice versa, the
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  Speaker 1: community supporting you. Where do you see music growing to?
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  Speaker 1: Because we are in this AI generation and there are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fake songs out there. Being part of
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  Speaker 1: this modern day music scene inside some of the craziest times.
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  Speaker 1: As a songwriter, what are you feeling? You didn't let
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  Speaker 1: a separation of low moments take you down. You've learned
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  Speaker 1: how to get back up on your feet and wipe
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  Speaker 1: the dirt off your knees. Growing up in Hartford, Connecticut,
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  Speaker 1: then moving to Lincoln, Nebraska. That's a culture change. What
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  Speaker 1: did you learn musically? Being part of of Team John Legend.
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  Speaker 1: You know he's all about speaking from the soul and
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  Speaker 1: you already have that nailed. What are you learning from
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  Speaker 1: this little connection together that is going to further everything
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  Speaker 1: in Voda as well as your own personal life? We
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  Speaker 1: got to talk about PostNBC's The Voice. How do you
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  Speaker 1: expect to promote yourself? Are you digging in deep? Are
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  Speaker 1: you hiring people? How is it that you're going to
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  Speaker 1: find yourself on the upper level of the next journey?
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  Speaker 1: And the final question, creative determination. It's very real with you.
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  Speaker 1: How do you stay focused? Missed opportunity. It is a
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  Speaker 1: lost piece of history. You now know the questions, so
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  Speaker 1: let's locate the answers. The door is always going to
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  Speaker 1: be open. If you are Brian Olson from NBC's The
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  Speaker 1: Voice or know him, please have him reach out to
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  Speaker 1: me at arrowc at gmail.com. That's A-R-R-O-E-C at gmail.com. And
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  Speaker 1: as always, be brilliant.