Mark Haney: Yes, this is the Mark Haney show.
Mark Haney: Today is going to be a phenomenal day.
Mark Haney: You know, this show is all about
Mark Haney: entrepreneurship, and today we have
Mark Haney: somebody on the show that is a color, an
Mark Haney: entrepreneur.
Mark Haney: She's entrepreneurial but she's a vocalist
Mark Haney: and she's a rising star, and it's what
Mark Haney: we're doing here on our show is talking
Mark Haney: about winning and how to win, and today we
Mark Haney: have Kristen Brown who is winning.
Mark Haney: She is now on the Voice, which is a TV show
Mark Haney: that is very, very popular, and she is
Mark Haney: continuing to march along that path.
Mark Haney: Now, what you may not know you may have
Mark Haney: heard of Kristen Brown from the Voice, but
Mark Haney: what you may not know is that her dad and I
Mark Haney: are actually buddies.
Mark Haney: I've known him, I've known Kent since
Mark Haney: second grade, and when I started my show,
Mark Haney: he was sitting right there and he said you
Mark Haney: want a radio show, mark?
Mark Haney: And I said sure, I do.
Mark Haney: How do you do that?
Mark Haney: And he said it all up with some other
Mark Haney: people for me.
Mark Haney: Anyway, long story short, I've known
Mark Haney: Kristen a long time and we've seen her
Mark Haney: progress.
Mark Haney: In the first year we started the show was
Mark Haney: in 2015.
Mark Haney: And she came on the show as a probably a 17
Mark Haney: year old, 15 year old, something like that.
Mark Haney: You were in high school with a couple of
Mark Haney: other girls and then later you did some.
Mark Haney: You'd actually help me with a video for
Mark Haney: Riley, my granddaughter, and so we have a
Mark Haney: little clip that's going to sort of set up
Mark Haney: the show going to play on the monitor
Mark Haney: behind us.
Mark Haney: So, scott, we roll that clip.
Mark Haney: Oh, this is exciting.
Mark Haney: And here's Mark, and welcome back.
Mark Haney: That song in the background is Friday Night
Mark Haney: Light, my new favorite song.
Mark Haney: This is so cool.
Mark Haney: Well, we are here, honored to have the
Mark Haney: girls from Auburn Road here on the show.
Mark Haney: We have Kristen Brown, paxton Martin and
Mark Haney: Alicia Paulson.
Mark Haney: Kristen, is this a business or is this just
Mark Haney: you guys doing this for fun?
Mark Haney: What inspires you?
Kristen Brown: You know it really is a business, but I
Kristen Brown: mean we love what we do, so that's what
Kristen Brown: makes it all worth it.
Kristen Brown: But I mean we, when you start saying when
Kristen Brown: we started out we thought it was just, you
Kristen Brown: know, saying you record, you're done.
Kristen Brown: But there's so much more to it.
Kristen Brown: Like with writing songs, with you have to
Kristen Brown: be your own splits for after you write it,
Kristen Brown: for who gets paid, what.
Kristen Brown: You have to make sure everyone has their
Kristen Brown: input in on everything.
Kristen Brown: There's a lot of opinions and there's just
Kristen Brown: a lot that goes to it Photoshoots, making
Kristen Brown: sure everyone has everything together for
Kristen Brown: whatever you're going to do.
Mark Haney: Three and oh say this is on our show.
Mark Haney: They say this is like a type machine выпуск.
Speaker 3: Can you turn it up, scott?
Speaker 3: Oh, you're insane.
Speaker 3: Stay with your friends when everybody's
Speaker 3: giving in.
Speaker 3: This one's for the girls whoever got a
Speaker 3: pocket heart, who pushed the punch of these
Speaker 3: stars you're beautiful, no matter how.
Speaker 3: This one's for the girls yeah, we're all
Speaker 3: the same inside, same inside, someone got a
Speaker 3: knife.
Speaker 3: This one's for the girls who never had a
Speaker 3: broken heart, who pushed the punch of these
Speaker 3: stars You're beautiful, no matter how.
Speaker 3: This one's for the girls who never had a
Speaker 3: broken heart, who pushed the punch of these
Speaker 3: stars you're beautiful, no matter how.
Speaker 3: This one's for the girls.
Mark Haney: This one's for the girls, this one's for
Mark Haney: the girls.
Mark Haney: Oh, thanks, guys.
Speaker 4: We're in the holiday season and some of my
Speaker 4: first gigs were at your family.
Speaker 4: Christmas party when I was maybe 10 years
Speaker 4: old, I'd come with like little karaoke
Speaker 4: tracks and I'd sing at your family parties.
Speaker 4: And so to go from that to now being here
Speaker 4: and this year being on not just Team Gwen
Speaker 4: but also Team Legend on the Voice, like
Speaker 4: it's been an absolute dream.
Speaker 4: And every step I keep thinking how is it
Speaker 4: going to get better?
Speaker 4: And it does, and it's so exciting.
Mark Haney: So in that last show there was kind of a
Mark Haney: twist at the end.
Mark Haney: A legendary twist?
Mark Haney: Tell us about that.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, okay.
Speaker 4: So when I knew I was singing this One's For
Speaker 4: the Girls Every single time, even in
Speaker 4: rehearsal with Wynonna like you saw Gwen
Speaker 4: cry, you saw Wynonna cry I would keep
Speaker 4: getting emotional during the song one,
Speaker 4: because the line of this one's for the
Speaker 4: girls who dream with everything they have.
Speaker 4: That's been me my entire life.
Speaker 4: I want it so bad and I love music and I
Speaker 4: love country music, and so it was just
Speaker 4: being there.
Speaker 4: I'd get kind of caught up in the moment of
Speaker 4: being in that dream.
Speaker 4: And then I would also think about, you know,
Speaker 4: all the young girls that I've been able to
Speaker 4: teach, like Riley and all of her friends,
Speaker 4: and some of you guys who are out there
Speaker 4: today.
Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness, like I.
Speaker 4: Just that's who I would think about
Speaker 4: whenever I got to the chorus and there was
Speaker 4: a little girl in the front row who was
Speaker 4: their age and I saw her and I was like,
Speaker 4: okay, I have to sing it to her.
Speaker 4: I thought maybe I'd sing it in the camera,
Speaker 4: but I saw her and I was like the message is
Speaker 4: for her, and so I sang that breakdown
Speaker 4: chorus to her and then I broke down.
Speaker 4: So it all happened at the same time and so,
Speaker 4: you know, I didn't know how it would go.
Speaker 4: And then, when she announced that Cara had
Speaker 4: won and she was so deserving Cara's
Speaker 4: phenomenal I thought, I really thought I
Speaker 4: was going home.
Speaker 4: I didn't think there were any steals
Speaker 4: available.
Speaker 4: We all kind of tried to guess, you know
Speaker 4: what's available, who could steal, who's
Speaker 4: not, and as far as I knew, they were gone.
Speaker 4: So when I was in the middle of giving my
Speaker 4: grand son off, that was when he pressed the
Speaker 4: button, and the look on my face is because
Speaker 4: I had no idea.
Speaker 4: I thought that was it, and so to then hear
Speaker 4: that sound go off, see the steal, it just
Speaker 4: hits you.
Speaker 4: I'm here for another week.
Speaker 4: I get to sing again and I get to fight to
Speaker 4: sing again and again and again, and so it
Speaker 4: was insane.
Mark Haney: I cried the rest of the day, but so amazing,
Mark Haney: well, very inspirational for all of us.
Mark Haney: Again to watch it again, it's still
Mark Haney: inspirational.
Mark Haney: What did the little girl in the front row
Mark Haney: that you were singing to?
Mark Haney: What was her reaction?
Speaker 4: Oh, that's what made me cry.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I walk over to her and she's just
Speaker 4: looking up at me like I can't believe she's
Speaker 4: making eye contact with me.
Speaker 4: Is that what's happening?
Speaker 4: And then her mom started to cry.
Speaker 4: And all of my students' moms know if the
Speaker 4: moms cry, I'm a goner, like if I'm done.
Speaker 4: And so the mom started to cry.
Speaker 4: The little girl was so excited and then I
Speaker 4: just lost it.
Speaker 4: I couldn't keep it together anymore.
Mark Haney: Oh well, you are here, you're back in town,
Mark Haney: and so I understand, though, that you teach,
Mark Haney: but you've had mentors along the way, up to
Mark Haney: and including here on the Voice, so maybe,
Mark Haney: if you don't mind, sharing with us, maybe
Mark Haney: the importance of mentors, who has been
Mark Haney: really instrumental in your career, and
Mark Haney: even on the Voice?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think that having a mentor
Speaker 4: for anything that you do, whether it be
Speaker 4: music, business, anything they're really
Speaker 4: important to have, because, I mean, we're
Speaker 4: not meant to walk any of these paths by
Speaker 4: ourselves If we're always meant to have
Speaker 4: somebody to help show us our way, and
Speaker 4: that's what we all aspire to do for the
Speaker 4: next people behind us.
Speaker 4: And so, you know, even right now, as I was
Speaker 4: prepping to go on the Voice, local musician
Speaker 4: Kevin Marcy he's been amazing, Kevin's done
Speaker 4: everything, and so I would send him a
Speaker 4: message and say is this normal?
Speaker 4: Should I be doing this?
Speaker 4: What should I do?
Speaker 4: And he's been a great help with that.
Speaker 4: You know, even all of my coworkers where I
Speaker 4: work at Voice Academy were all musicians.
Speaker 4: We all have each other's back.
Speaker 4: And my boss she's known me since I was
Speaker 4: eight years old.
Speaker 4: She was who did this for me, and so I would
Speaker 4: text her while I'm at the show, going am I
Speaker 4: doing this right?
Speaker 4: Does this sound okay?
Speaker 4: And like my own vocal coach that I have now,
Speaker 4: jamie Templeton, it takes a village to do
Speaker 4: it.
Speaker 4: And so then, going into the Voice to have
Speaker 4: those mentors be Gwen Stefani is really a
Speaker 4: sentence, I mean.
Speaker 4: And so that was phenomenal and I feel like
Speaker 4: the first moment I met Gwen, I felt like
Speaker 4: I'd known her for a million years.
Speaker 4: She just has that heart and that energy
Speaker 4: about her and she would always say, like
Speaker 4: I'm here for you, like it is part of a TV
Speaker 4: show, but we're gonna give you the best
Speaker 4: performance that we absolutely can and I
Speaker 4: wanna give you all the information that I
Speaker 4: can give you.
Speaker 4: And that's just been the most amazing gift
Speaker 4: to hear what she has to say, cause she
Speaker 4: knows quite a bit.
Speaker 4: So it's something that I'm really grateful
Speaker 4: for the mentors that I've had and I really
Speaker 4: hope that I am doing half of that for the
Speaker 4: students that I get to meet.
Mark Haney: Well, Martina McBride, when she heard you
Mark Haney: sing that song or helped you, what was that
Mark Haney: so?
Speaker 4: the Martina McBride thing.
Speaker 4: That kind of surprised me.
Speaker 4: So I had just watched the episode and I was
Speaker 4: on Instagram, as you are, and I just opened
Speaker 4: Martina McBride's page.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, she has a story up.
Speaker 4: I wonder what that is.
Speaker 4: And it's the video of the song.
Mark Haney: Oh, wow.
Speaker 4: And I was like, okay, cool, so Martina saw
Speaker 4: it.
Speaker 4: That's awesome, cause you know I love
Speaker 4: Martina.
Speaker 4: I've always looked up to her and I really
Speaker 4: look up to Carrie Underwood and Carrie
Speaker 4: Underwood looks up to Martina.
Speaker 4: It's a family tree of music and so, to see
Speaker 4: that it was super surreal, I called my dad
Speaker 4: right away.
Speaker 4: I'm like look at Martina's Instagram page.
Kristen Brown: That's awesome.
Mark Haney: Okay.
Mark Haney: So, yeah, you teach lessons.
Mark Haney: Yeah, riley, my granddaughter took lessons
Mark Haney: there for a while.
Mark Haney: But you, here in the audience we have some
Mark Haney: of your other people that you know that you
Mark Haney: some students talk to us about that and
Mark Haney: does teaching it?
Mark Haney: When you teach, obviously you're getting
Mark Haney: something out of that, but does it make you
Mark Haney: feel like you need to be better if you're
Mark Haney: going to be teaching it?
Mark Haney: I mean, or something like that, like you
Mark Haney: learn through the teaching too.
Speaker 4: It's really fun because with each
Speaker 4: individual student comes in, while I hope
Speaker 4: that I'm able to teach them as much as I
Speaker 4: can, they also teach me a lot because none
Speaker 4: of them are the exact same.
Speaker 4: I always say I don't teach in a cookie
Speaker 4: cutter way.
Speaker 4: Everybody's different and so it's just one
Speaker 4: of those things where, when they come in,
Speaker 4: they tell me what they want to do.
Speaker 4: I try to help them avoid the road bumps if
Speaker 4: they can, and try to help them through all
Speaker 4: the hard parts and make the easy parts even
Speaker 4: more special to them.
Speaker 4: Let them know that they're extremely
Speaker 4: special, that their talent is unlike
Speaker 4: anybody else's, no matter the level, no
Speaker 4: matter what they do.
Speaker 4: They're their own unique person and they
Speaker 4: need to be proud of that.
Mark Haney: Yeah, and, by the way, to the studio
Mark Haney: audience that is behind me right now,
Mark Haney: there's going to be Q and A for you at the
Mark Haney: end, so be thinking of a thinking her dad
Mark Haney: will want you to try to stump her.
Mark Haney: So try to come up with a really tough
Mark Haney: question for Kristen.
Mark Haney: Okay, so everybody's going to need one.
Mark Haney: If you're shy, I'm calling on you first.
Mark Haney: Oh, it's like school.
Mark Haney: I love it.
Mark Haney: So, highlights of the career Okay, we got
Mark Haney: the voice.
Mark Haney: This is, I assume this is the highlight.
Mark Haney: This is like, but you're still going.
Mark Haney: You're on this ascent.
Mark Haney: You're a rising star, but I know you opened
Mark Haney: for Toby Keith.
Mark Haney: One time, stacy and I and our friends went
Mark Haney: out and watched you Talk to us about some
Mark Haney: of these milestones along this career that
Mark Haney: got you to this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I've been really, really lucky
Speaker 4: with the things I've been able to do.
Speaker 4: I remember opening for Toby Keith, for
Speaker 4: Rascal Flats, morgan Wallen, like all those
Speaker 4: guys.
Speaker 4: Kind of back pre pandemic was when all that
Speaker 4: was happening and really able to gig a lot
Speaker 4: was on a radio tour as the shutdown was
Speaker 4: happening, and so that was cool, to kind of
Speaker 4: get a taste of what that was.
Speaker 4: You know, had a song on CMT which was
Speaker 4: unreal, and then the pandemic hits and all
Speaker 4: music shuts down.
Speaker 4: But then I actually self produced my first
Speaker 4: Christmas song and it was the first song
Speaker 4: that I did completely on my own, and so I
Speaker 4: hired all the musicians, I wrote the song
Speaker 4: myself, I edited the music video, got it
Speaker 4: all distributed.
Speaker 4: I really I tried to go the business route.
Speaker 4: I went I'm gonna figure out how this works
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna do the research and I'm gonna
Speaker 4: get it done.
Speaker 4: And the idea for it came probably September
Speaker 4: 30th.
Speaker 4: The song was out by the day after
Speaker 4: Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4: And so everything was done.
Speaker 4: It was a very quick turnaround, but it's
Speaker 4: something that I look back on, and it's not
Speaker 4: even just that I'm so proud of the song,
Speaker 4: which I am, but I'm proud that I was able
Speaker 4: to do all of that myself.
Speaker 4: I was able to figure it out and be the
Speaker 4: business woman that way.
Mark Haney: Well, I remember I was going through my
Mark Haney: text when I texted you earlier and did you
Mark Haney: do some of that at Pottery World right down
Mark Haney: the street?
Mark Haney: Did you do a part of the video?
Speaker 4: down there.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, so the video is actually filmed
Speaker 4: on Black Friday, so the day that the song
Speaker 4: came out.
Speaker 4: It was 30 minutes before Pottery World
Speaker 4: opened.
Kristen Brown: They said you have 30 minutes to get this
Kristen Brown: done, I think I connect you with the
Kristen Brown: Pottery World people you did.
Kristen Brown: It was amazing, it was funny.
Kristen Brown: My dad.
Speaker 4: I was like I really love this set that
Speaker 4: they've got going over at Pottery World.
Speaker 4: I wonder if I could get in.
Speaker 4: He goes.
Speaker 4: You know who to call, right?
Speaker 4: Did you call Mark?
Speaker 4: I was like you're right.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it was 30 minutes before they
Speaker 4: opened.
Speaker 4: They said you have this much time to get it
Speaker 4: done.
Speaker 4: We shot it super quick.
Speaker 4: There's even a piece of.
Speaker 4: If you watch the video, there's a piece of
Speaker 4: black cardboard behind the fireplace
Speaker 4: because we forgot that you could see
Speaker 4: through it into the next set.
Speaker 4: So we're like, okay, we have to make it
Speaker 4: look like a living room.
Mark Haney: But it was amazing.
Mark Haney: That's awesome.
Mark Haney: Okay, so I'm imagining the life of a
Mark Haney: emerging star is chaotic, but I'm also
Mark Haney: imagining you connect to an audience.
Mark Haney: I'm trying to think like what the most
Mark Haney: rewarding piece of this is?
Mark Haney: The way you connected to that little girl
Mark Haney: and connecting to an audience.
Mark Haney: How would you describe that as relates to
Mark Haney: sort of this notoriety that's emerging?
Mark Haney: What's the most special part of this thing?
Speaker 4: I mean everybody's goal when they go into
Speaker 4: wanting to have a career in music.
Speaker 4: You know we all have the cliched, the
Speaker 4: cliche dream of we wanna be like the Taylor
Speaker 4: Swift and the Beyonce.
Speaker 4: We would love that level of a career but
Speaker 4: truly, at the end of the day, outside of
Speaker 4: making music and loving that aspect of it,
Speaker 4: I would rather have a bunch of interactions
Speaker 4: at my shows, getting to be one-on-one with
Speaker 4: the people who are touched by my songs, who
Speaker 4: relate to my songs.
Speaker 4: That's your community, versus just being
Speaker 4: widely known a little bit.
Speaker 4: I'd rather have those personal, intimate
Speaker 4: moments and that's why I love to perform
Speaker 4: live and I really love to get to talk to
Speaker 4: people after shows.
Speaker 4: I maybe talked to them too long, but it's
Speaker 4: fine.
Speaker 4: It's one of my favorite things.
Speaker 4: That's what makes it worth it.
Mark Haney: Okay, so I wanna dive a little bit deeper
Mark Haney: into what inspired you as a young person or
Mark Haney: what guided you, and I know a father's
Mark Haney: relationship is unique.
Speaker 4: My dad is fantastic.
Speaker 4: I mean, both my parents are so supportive
Speaker 4: in terms of my music and they always have
Speaker 4: been.
Speaker 4: And it's been really fun because with my
Speaker 4: dad being in bass fishing country music and
Speaker 4: bass fishing practically the same thing.
Speaker 4: It's the same world and so, but it was fun
Speaker 4: because you know my dad doing his radio
Speaker 4: show with media nonstop.
Speaker 4: I was able to really start to do media
Speaker 4: training at nine years old and he would
Speaker 4: help me learn how to not be afraid of a
Speaker 4: microphone, how to reiterate a question in
Speaker 4: your answer, how to really go about all the
Speaker 4: little things as I was growing up.
Speaker 4: So I got to grow up in it and grow up in
Speaker 4: the confidence of knowing how to do it and
Speaker 4: having just.
Speaker 4: I had parents who would pick me up every
Speaker 4: time it didn't go well and say, okay, it's
Speaker 4: all right, we can make it better, it's
Speaker 4: gonna be fine next time, but I truly have
Speaker 4: the most amazing support system.
Mark Haney: So we talked about your dad.
Mark Haney: Give me an example of what your mom will do
Mark Haney: to pick you up or support you in some way.
Speaker 4: My mom is my biggest cheerleader oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: So, like where my dad is always like you
Speaker 4: know, you're doing a great job he'll give
Speaker 4: me more of the constructive criticism.
Speaker 4: My mom is the one who, without a doubt,
Speaker 4: every single time, is like I love it, it's
Speaker 4: great, I support you, like, whatever
Speaker 4: decision you make.
Speaker 4: So they're a great combo deal, cause, like
Speaker 4: my dad sees it from the business side and
Speaker 4: my mom goes off of what does she feel from
Speaker 4: the music, and so it's really cool to be
Speaker 4: able to have both of those perspectives.
Mark Haney: Yeah, and I've known your.
Mark Haney: Like I mentioned, I've known your dad for
Mark Haney: since second grade.
Mark Haney: Your mom I've known.
Mark Haney: I didn't know her as well, but they lived
Mark Haney: around the court.
Mark Haney: Your mom and her family lived around the
Mark Haney: corner.
Mark Haney: I think they still live in that.
Mark Haney: She still lives in that house, your grant,
Mark Haney: her husband was the umpire of my little
Mark Haney: league and he had a.
Mark Haney: Really I don't know if you remember him
Mark Haney: well, cause I know he's not alive anymore,
Mark Haney: but he had a very loud demeanor when it
Mark Haney: comes to ringing somebody up when they
Mark Haney: struck out.
Mark Haney: He did.
Mark Haney: I didn't like the sound of that when I
Mark Haney: struck out.
Mark Haney: He probably never did that to you, but he
Mark Haney: was known in our circles as you know,
Mark Haney: somebody that was a tough umpire.
Speaker 4: Very much and he was so funny because his
Speaker 4: whole thing was.
Speaker 4: He supported my music like no other, but he
Speaker 4: was absolutely terrified of me going into
Speaker 4: the music business.
Speaker 4: He was like it's scary out there.
Speaker 4: You're not wrong, but I love this so much
Speaker 4: and he would, he would get on board.
Mark Haney: So and I think today's the anniversary of
Mark Haney: your dad's parents death.
Speaker 4: Yeah, same day, different years.
Speaker 4: It's so crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm actually wearing her necklace
Speaker 4: today too.
Speaker 4: That's funny.
Speaker 4: You say that.
Mark Haney: Wonder what they would be, what they're
Mark Haney: thinking Over the moon?
Speaker 4: over the moon.
Speaker 4: I mean it's so funny because we all, my
Speaker 4: cousins and I we all talk and I'm a
Speaker 4: spitting image of my dad's mom and so
Speaker 4: everyone's always like, oh well, you
Speaker 4: probably would have been the favorite
Speaker 4: because I was the only one that she didn't
Speaker 4: really get to meet.
Speaker 4: And so they're like it would have been
Speaker 4: Kristen, of course it would have.
Speaker 4: And then, you know, I did get to meet my
Speaker 4: grandpa cause I was born early and so I got
Speaker 4: to.
Speaker 4: He got to meet me right before he passed,
Speaker 4: and so I just know they would be front row
Speaker 4: living for this.
Speaker 4: They would have been yelling when they
Speaker 4: thought that I was going home on.
Mark Haney: Monday night.
Mark Haney: Well, I think your your dad's mother yeah,
Mark Haney: she's more stern, but her dad Bill.
Mark Haney: He was a base little late coach for us and
Mark Haney: just the nicest guy in the world.
Mark Haney: I think he would be like super supportive
Mark Haney: Maybe like your mom oh absolutely.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Mark Haney: Okay, so I want to open it up to our
Mark Haney: audience, hey guys, and there are I don't
Mark Haney: know 15 people in our audience.
Mark Haney: It just feels like a Taylor Swift concert,
Mark Haney: cause there's a lot of young girls here.
Mark Haney: We got Rocco in the front row though.
Mark Haney: Rocco, you want to start us off, rocco,
Mark Haney: with a question?
Mark Haney: You got a question.
Mark Haney: You don't have a question?
Mark Haney: I sure don't.
Mark Haney: What's your razor hand in?
Mark Haney: All right, stacey's got a question.
Mark Haney: Have you been recognized in public?
Speaker 4: from your parents.
Speaker 4: You know it's so funny I haven't my parents
Speaker 4: have which is really, which is something
Speaker 4: else.
Speaker 4: They're like, oh, your daughter's on the
Speaker 4: boy.
Speaker 4: I was like I did all the work.
Speaker 4: What the heck?
Speaker 4: I was actually shopping with one of my best
Speaker 4: friends a couple of weeks ago and we had
Speaker 4: been through a few stores in downtown.
Speaker 4: Sack out of nowhere she just goes.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm really disappointed in our
Speaker 4: town watching NBC, cause we've been in four
Speaker 4: stores and no one's noticed.
Speaker 4: I was like it's fine, we're good.
Speaker 4: So not yet, but I don't know, maybe what
Speaker 4: it's coming.
Mark Haney: What's it feel like, though?
Mark Haney: To have a fan club building and emerging.
Speaker 4: It's so cool because it's I mean, I've been
Speaker 4: really lucky to have my fan base locally
Speaker 4: from my hometown and that's a love that is
Speaker 4: unreal.
Speaker 4: But it's cool to have people from all over
Speaker 4: the country now messaging me and saying how
Speaker 4: like this one's for the girls had they
Speaker 4: related to that.
Speaker 4: I have a lot of high school girls who are
Speaker 4: messaging me saying that it touched them
Speaker 4: and affected them, and so that part's been
Speaker 4: really, really fun.
Mark Haney: That's great.
Mark Haney: Who else has a question?
Kristen Brown: All right, yeah, what moment in your life
Kristen Brown: did you think like wow, I meant to sing.
Mark Haney: I'm gonna repeat that question too, just
Mark Haney: for the podcast, because I don't think they
Mark Haney: heard you.
Mark Haney: What moment in your life and I didn't hear
Mark Haney: the rest of it either did you, Did I?
Kristen Brown: realize that I had to sing that that was my
Kristen Brown: thing, oh, that you had to sing.
Speaker 4: That's a really good question, first of all,
Speaker 4: 10 out of 10.
Speaker 4: You know the joke answer that I always give,
Speaker 4: which is kind of still half true when I
Speaker 4: realized I couldn't kick a ball or play any
Speaker 4: sports.
Speaker 4: We were really limited on what we could do
Speaker 4: at that point.
Speaker 4: But you know, I always I don't know what it
Speaker 4: was.
Speaker 4: I always grew up loving to sing and to make
Speaker 4: music and my mom, even in a baby book when
Speaker 4: she was pregnant with me, she says every
Speaker 4: time I play music she gets really into it.
Speaker 4: I think she might be a musician or a
Speaker 4: producer or something.
Speaker 4: So it's weird that she put that down.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so the Disney princess songs got
Speaker 4: me hooked, and then you know, taylor Swift
Speaker 4: after that.
Mark Haney: So here we are.
Mark Haney: You did musical theater too, didn't you?
Speaker 4: I did love musical theater.
Speaker 4: I did the princess party birthday thing for
Speaker 4: a while, so I got to keep doing that as a
Speaker 4: job while still singing country music.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 4: It was a great time.
Mark Haney: Sounds like a great job.
Mark Haney: Okay, who else has got a question?
Mark Haney: Okay, yeah, right.
Kristen Brown: Is there good?
Speaker 4: food backstage.
Speaker 3: Good food backstage.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, okay, so they have these
Speaker 4: breakfast burritos that okay, I'm going to
Speaker 4: let you guys in on a little secret.
Speaker 4: So they would make these breakfast burritos
Speaker 4: before we would go on stage and there were
Speaker 4: people who would take a couple extras and
Speaker 4: they'd keep putting them in their purse and
Speaker 4: we'd eat on them for a couple of days.
Speaker 4: Or leading up to being able to actually go
Speaker 4: on the show, cause when you go, do any of
Speaker 4: your filming with your coach, they'd also
Speaker 4: have those breakfast burritos and you'd
Speaker 4: just watch people loading up those veggie
Speaker 4: burritos in their bag and then just putting
Speaker 4: it on their shoulder and leaving, and
Speaker 4: they're eating it for at least a week.
Mark Haney: It was great.
Mark Haney: That's cool, great question.
Mark Haney: Yes, I've been the back there.
Speaker 3: Who's your favorite coach?
Mark Haney: Favorite coach.
Speaker 3: Well, now, I have two.
Speaker 4: That seems so wrong to choose.
Speaker 4: They were all.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 4: They're all so, so nice.
Speaker 4: At this point I've spent the most time with
Speaker 4: Gwen, but then, on the same hand, john
Speaker 4: saved my life from having to come home, so
Speaker 4: I feel like it's an impossible choice.
Speaker 4: They're all really amazing.
Speaker 4: I just you know I have to stick with my two,
Speaker 4: but Nile and Reba are so incredibly nice as
Speaker 4: well.
Speaker 4: You know, nile's been one of my biggest
Speaker 4: cheerleaders on the show and he's not even
Speaker 4: my coach, so you got to love them.
Mark Haney: Well, you can tell, like when Reba, even on
Mark Haney: that video there, but before too, on the
Mark Haney: previous show, you could tell by the look,
Mark Haney: the look on in Reba's eyes, how much she
Mark Haney: respected you.
Mark Haney: And yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4: She's so kind, and then I mean to have the
Speaker 4: Queen of Country music.
Speaker 4: When I did my blind audition, what I
Speaker 4: remember I was a little blurry because I
Speaker 4: was so nervous, but she told me I did the
Speaker 4: Carrie Endwood song, justice.
Speaker 4: I was like that's all I needed.
Speaker 4: I can go home now.
Speaker 4: Make please, let that air so I can make
Speaker 4: that my ringtone.
Mark Haney: Well, gwen just played locally.
Mark Haney: I saw her on a billboard in Rockland the
Mark Haney: other day.
Mark Haney: Did you go see her or connect with her when
Mark Haney: she was in town, or can you talk about that?
Mark Haney: So here's the thing.
Speaker 4: I wasn't here.
Mark Haney: Oh.
Speaker 4: I was in Oklahoma playing Reba's restaurant.
Speaker 4: Oh really, Jordan Rainer from.
Speaker 4: Team Reba so it's so funny Everyone was
Speaker 4: like your team, gwen, I'm sure you went and
Speaker 4: you, you saw her.
Speaker 4: I was like, no, I was in a Toca, oklahoma.
Speaker 4: But I mean, as she gets a chance to come
Speaker 4: back, I'd love to see her and chat with her
Speaker 4: and watch one of her shows Because, you
Speaker 4: know, I mean it's Gwen Stefani.
Speaker 4: I want to watch that happen, but I didn't,
Speaker 4: I couldn't, I didn't want to be like, hey,
Speaker 4: gwen, what's up?
Speaker 4: Like I don't know.
Mark Haney: She's really great.
Mark Haney: Yeah, your mom and dad probably want a
Mark Haney: backstage pass, oh of course they did,
Mark Haney: absolutely.
Mark Haney: All right, any more questions?
Mark Haney: Yeah, jill.
Kristen Brown: Well, I did go see Gwen, as she was back.
Kristen Brown: I have no doubts it was so ridiculously fun.
Mark Haney: We're so proud of you.
Kristen Brown: Thank you Say.
Kristen Brown: I got to see you when you were with Auburn
Kristen Brown: Road, when you were staying here.
Mark Haney: Yes, oh my gosh, that's right.
Mark Haney: Yeah, there's another event.
Mark Haney: I forgot about that and, by the way, this
Mark Haney: is Joe Galdos speaking, so make sure I'll
Mark Haney: repeat a little bit, just because the mic,
Mark Haney: the mic want to make sure the mic picks it
Mark Haney: up.
Kristen Brown: How can we support you as your community?
Mark Haney: Oh.
Kristen Brown: Is this show live?
Speaker 4: Like are you using?
Speaker 4: Ok, so some of the show is pre-filmed, some
Speaker 4: of it's pre-filmed and some of it's live.
Speaker 4: Right now the show's on hiatus.
Speaker 4: Everybody goes home after playoffs.
Speaker 4: The PAs get to go on vacation, they get to
Speaker 4: do whatever they want to do, and then
Speaker 4: everybody regroups for lives, and so right
Speaker 4: now we're going into playoffs.
Speaker 4: The playoffs have already been filmed.
Speaker 4: I know all the things.
Mark Haney: Isn't that?
Speaker 4: crazy.
Speaker 4: I know I've had to know Since I got back
Speaker 4: from.
Speaker 4: Well, once I got back from filming
Speaker 4: everything when the show went on hiatus, I
Speaker 4: just had to know that I was team legend and
Speaker 4: not say anything.
Speaker 4: That was crazy.
Mark Haney: Yeah, I could only imagine.
Speaker 4: It's a really hard secret.
Speaker 4: I felt like Hannah Montana forever.
Mark Haney: I was like, oh, they can't know.
Speaker 4: But you know, the best thing right now is
Speaker 4: I'm loving getting to come out and perform
Speaker 4: for my community.
Speaker 4: A lot of people do think the show is live,
Speaker 4: so whenever I'm trying to get gigs going on
Speaker 4: out here, they're like you're not here,
Speaker 4: you're there.
Speaker 4: I am very much here, so I would love to
Speaker 4: keep performing.
Speaker 4: Get to vote on the next one.
Speaker 4: That's what we can get.
Speaker 4: My vote party is going.
Speaker 4: Yes, so the lives are voting and then the
Speaker 4: playoffs.
Speaker 4: It's up to our coach still.
Speaker 4: So everybody pressure John.
Mark Haney: Is there anything beyond, let's say, on
Mark Haney: digital media or voting, that you could use
Mark Haney: from your community?
Mark Haney: That was sort of Jill's other half, of
Mark Haney: course, you know I mean the main thing
Mark Haney: right now.
Speaker 4: Going into Christmas time, I would love if
Speaker 4: everybody could play my Christmas song
Speaker 4: support your local musicians.
Mark Haney: You can buy the Christmas song, you can
Mark Haney: stream it at your Christmas parties.
Speaker 4: It's a bit of a cheer drinker, so prepare.
Mark Haney: There's one.
Mark Haney: What's the name of the song?
Speaker 4: It's called Christmas Spirit.
Speaker 4: The music video is up now.
Speaker 4: I'm only 6,000 views away from it being
Speaker 4: 100,000 views, so I'm hoping to cross that
Speaker 4: threshold this year.
Mark Haney: Maybe not right this minute, but would you
Mark Haney: be up for singing something on this show?
Mark Haney: Absolutely so I'll put that in your mind,
Mark Haney: in case it's the Christmas song or
Mark Haney: something else that you might want to sing.
Mark Haney: Obviously, there's no.
Mark Haney: Well, you've got a couple of your students.
Mark Haney: Maybe they could be your background singers.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's happening, no pressure.
Mark Haney: But we got this and you know it's fun
Mark Haney: actually.
Speaker 4: Ooh, I haven't said this anywhere.
Speaker 4: It could be fun.
Speaker 4: So then I have the Christmas song that's
Speaker 4: out now, and so I'm hoping people will
Speaker 4: listen to that and support me come to live
Speaker 4: shows.
Speaker 4: But at the top of the year I'm actually
Speaker 4: releasing my very first mainstream single,
Speaker 4: so it's not gonna be a holiday song, it's
Speaker 4: gonna be one that you can play all year
Speaker 4: long, but I just took pictures of the cover
Speaker 4: art for all that last week.
Speaker 4: It's going literally in an hour to go
Speaker 4: record the song of the backing tracks all
Speaker 4: Luke Bryan's band.
Speaker 4: It's been in the works for a while, but
Speaker 4: yeah, so when that comes out we should
Speaker 4: definitely all meet up again.
Mark Haney: We'll have another one of these.
Mark Haney: I love it, though.
Mark Haney: Perfect Now is it a breakup song?
Mark Haney: You mentioned Taylor Swift earlier and
Mark Haney: she's got a lot of breakup songs.
Mark Haney: From what I hear, she does.
Speaker 4: You know, just one or two really is what I
Speaker 4: can think of this one.
Speaker 4: It's fun.
Speaker 4: The song idea actually came from I'm a big
Speaker 4: fan of the TV show Nashville and so I was
Speaker 4: watching it and there was a part of the
Speaker 4: storyline I just really liked and I thought
Speaker 4: there needs to be a song kind of about this,
Speaker 4: and so that's where that song came from.
Speaker 4: It wasn't even like my own personal
Speaker 4: experiences, but I always have fun writing
Speaker 4: from TV and movies.
Mark Haney: So it's probably get a little bit of a love
Mark Haney: song.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 3: You're gonna have to wait and see oh secret
Speaker 3: love it.
Speaker 4: I'll start teasing it soon, okay.
Mark Haney: I love it.
Mark Haney: Okay, any other questions from the audience?
Mark Haney: Yes, go ahead.
Mark Haney: What?
Speaker 4: inspired you to join the voice, oh so.
Mark Haney: What inspired her to join the voice?
Speaker 4: It's really funny.
Speaker 4: So I actually had tried out for season 23.
Speaker 4: It didn't go well.
Speaker 4: I submitted an audition and I got a no
Speaker 4: really really fast and I took it kind of
Speaker 4: hard, but I thought you know what it's fine,
Speaker 4: I'll try again another time.
Speaker 4: And on my 24th birthday last year, an ad
Speaker 4: came up on my Instagram.
Speaker 4: I feel like Instagrams really should
Speaker 4: sponsor this at this point, because I
Speaker 4: mentioned them a lot.
Speaker 4: So an ad came up and it was promoting the
Speaker 4: open call and there was gonna be one on my
Speaker 4: birthday and I thought I don't have to get
Speaker 4: dressed up twice, let's just knock this out
Speaker 4: and see what, like I don't lose anything in
Speaker 4: trying.
Speaker 4: Only thing I could do is gain something
Speaker 4: from it.
Speaker 4: And I submitted the audition and it worked.
Speaker 4: And then I did a few more preliminary
Speaker 4: rounds and I found out at the beginning of
Speaker 4: the year of this year that I would be
Speaker 4: getting a blind audition and I had to be
Speaker 4: really quiet about it.
Speaker 4: I found out my song in May, had to be quiet
Speaker 4: about it and I could announce it in
Speaker 4: September.
Mark Haney: So the build up the application or the
Mark Haney: audition tape or whatever, and then it's
Mark Haney: still really competitive because there must
Mark Haney: be thousands of people competing with you.
Speaker 4: I never know what they're looking for.
Speaker 4: You know, every season's different, and so
Speaker 4: I had kind of hoped, with Reba being a
Speaker 4: coach, that they'd lean into that country a
Speaker 4: little bit, and so the song that I sang for
Speaker 4: my first audition was Stand by your man,
Speaker 4: and it was just one that I was like yeah,
Speaker 4: that's a little classic.
Speaker 4: I was like you know what I'm gonna give
Speaker 4: them, that classic country with the Keri
Speaker 4: Underwood belts that I love to do.
Speaker 4: And so that's what I submitted and it ended
Speaker 4: up working.
Speaker 4: I got sick for the second round of
Speaker 4: preliminary auditions.
Speaker 4: We still made it through.
Speaker 4: I don't know what happened but, it worked
Speaker 4: out.
Speaker 4: So yeah, if you guys see it on Instagram,
Speaker 4: go for it, you got this.
Mark Haney: That's awesome.
Mark Haney: Okay, what else?
Mark Haney: Yeah, Rocco's got a question.
Mark Haney: Now he found one Like where's the voice
Mark Haney: like at?
Speaker 4: So the voice is at the universe.
Speaker 4: You know where Universal Studios is, so
Speaker 4: it's on the Universal lot.
Speaker 4: So whenever we would drive to the show we
Speaker 4: could see the Hogwarts Castle.
Speaker 4: I didn't even see that until Battles.
Speaker 4: We were there for how many times during
Speaker 4: blinds and someone pointed it out.
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 4: That's the Hogwarts Castle?
Mark Haney: That's kinda cool.
Mark Haney: So that's Southern California right, yeah,
Mark Haney: so it's not a quick flight from here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's only an hour.
Speaker 4: So it was funny.
Speaker 4: We'd actually everybody from the show,
Speaker 4: we're all from different parts of the
Speaker 4: country and for the first little bit, when
Speaker 4: we got back for Battles, I was so tired and
Speaker 4: I didn't know why and I was just like
Speaker 4: walking around.
Speaker 4: I'd leave my room pretty late and I told
Speaker 4: everyone I'm exhausted and they go, it's
Speaker 4: okay, it's that jet lag.
Speaker 4: And I was like, yeah, it's the jet lag from
Speaker 4: Sacramento to Southern California.
Speaker 4: You're right, you got me.
Speaker 4: So I lean into that hoping.
Mark Haney: Did you make any close friends while you
Mark Haney: were here?
Mark Haney: I?
Speaker 4: made a lot of really good friends.
Speaker 4: That's the really fun part about this
Speaker 4: season especially.
Speaker 4: Everyone always says we're a family, but we
Speaker 4: really are.
Speaker 4: You live with these people for months at a
Speaker 4: time and they're the only people in the
Speaker 4: world that know exactly what you're going
Speaker 4: through.
Mark Haney: Who's the weirdest one?
Speaker 4: Oh well, you know, just because she's one
Speaker 4: of my very best friends, I can pull her
Speaker 4: like she's not weird, she's the funniest
Speaker 4: person I've ever met.
Speaker 4: I'm really close with Jordan Rainer of Team
Speaker 4: Reba, with the shades and the hat.
Speaker 4: She's one of my really really good friends.
Speaker 4: And then Dylan Carter, also from Team Reba.
Speaker 4: I had a lot of Team Reba friends.
Speaker 4: Dylan Carter was also a really really good
Speaker 4: friend of mine.
Speaker 4: He still is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so much fun because then they're
Speaker 4: all like your neighbors.
Speaker 4: I said it was the closest thing probably to.
Speaker 4: I didn't go to college, go to college, but
Speaker 4: I thought that might be the closest thing.
Speaker 4: It was where everyone's coming over into
Speaker 4: your room and then going oh, but I have an
Speaker 4: early film day tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm in the afternoon.
Speaker 4: Well, let's get dinner after.
Speaker 4: Like it just felt cool.
Mark Haney: That's awesome.
Mark Haney: Okay, other questions?
Kristen Brown: Yeah, ash, so we're living in like a dorm
Kristen Brown: style living experience.
Speaker 4: We are in a hotel, so we're hotel living.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were the sweet life of Zack and
Speaker 4: Cody for real for a little bit, but it was
Speaker 4: so much fun.
Speaker 4: You know it becomes your home.
Speaker 4: It becomes your home away from home.
Speaker 4: You know where everything is, you know
Speaker 4: everything about it, and so you all just
Speaker 4: get to hang out by the pool together, get
Speaker 4: to know each other, go out to dinner and it
Speaker 4: was funny.
Speaker 4: The majority of the time we didn't even
Speaker 4: talk about music, we just talked about what
Speaker 4: your life was back home.
Mark Haney: Well, it sounds like it's really really fun,
Mark Haney: but there has to be some part that is like
Mark Haney: not fun or super stressful.
Speaker 4: I mean, you are singing for your life every
Speaker 4: single day.
Speaker 4: And so your main thing is you're wanting to
Speaker 4: keep you're not just your vocal health, but
Speaker 4: your actual health.
Speaker 4: You know, I got a little under the weather
Speaker 4: the week of blinds and that was terrifying
Speaker 4: to me and it was really just because of
Speaker 4: stress.
Speaker 4: I mean, you want it so bad?
Speaker 4: Luckily it was all really supportive
Speaker 4: environment, even my parents.
Speaker 4: They'd say I want to make sure you're
Speaker 4: enjoying this and I'll say I am, but I am
Speaker 4: stressed out all the time.
Speaker 4: But then once you get on the stage you can
Speaker 4: kind of channel those nerves down.
Mark Haney: How do you channel them?
Mark Haney: Do you have a breathing technique or
Mark Haney: something else you do, cause we all you
Mark Haney: know when you ever we have to get up in
Mark Haney: public speak, or something like that, we've
Mark Haney: got to do something to be ready.
Speaker 4: You know, during blinds I decided the
Speaker 4: chairs were empty until they proved me
Speaker 4: otherwise, cause you just see the back of
Speaker 4: the chairs, I was like there's no one in
Speaker 4: them.
Speaker 4: But if they turn around, then, great,
Speaker 4: awesome Proved to me that there's someone
Speaker 4: in there.
Speaker 4: And so that was my strategy for blinds.
Speaker 4: I actually would try to not look at them,
Speaker 4: and then I'd like use my peripherals and
Speaker 4: I'd see Gwen Stefani and I was like cool
Speaker 4: and I walked the other way and then I was
Speaker 4: like I looked over and I saw Reba and you
Speaker 4: hear in the in my blind audition, you just
Speaker 4: hear me kind of go like what I'm singing.
Mark Haney: That would be that time.
Speaker 4: But then even for battles, it's just you.
Speaker 4: You do dress, rehearsals and stuff.
Speaker 4: So I try to visualize everything and go.
Speaker 4: Okay, visualize standing on the stage,
Speaker 4: visualize walking out there, and every time
Speaker 4: I would my heartbeat would go really fast.
Speaker 4: Just visualizing it, you'd be like and so
Speaker 4: then, by the time I got there, I didn't
Speaker 4: feel that anymore, which was interesting.
Speaker 4: But then this one's for the girls.
Speaker 4: I was just like don't cry, don't cry, don't
Speaker 4: cry, and that didn't work.
Mark Haney: Oh yeah, well, I mean, it's such an it can
Mark Haney: be such an emotional song, but you played
Mark Haney: through the emotion without you know having
Mark Haney: it affect your voice.
Speaker 4: Thank, you, oh my gosh, in a negative way
Speaker 4: to me it was like probably helpful.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, it was the.
Speaker 4: It was so difficult because I knew I was
Speaker 4: going to cry.
Speaker 4: I was really hoping I didn't.
Mark Haney: but that's what I was thinking when you
Mark Haney: were just singing a second ago.
Mark Haney: I thought I was going to cry.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know it's something about that
Speaker 4: song.
Speaker 4: Martina knew what she was doing.
Mark Haney: Yeah, yeah, any other questions, anybody
Mark Haney: who hasn't asked one yet?
Mark Haney: But keep going.
Mark Haney: Who wants to ask?
Mark Haney: Anyone want to make sure?
Mark Haney: Okay, yeah, go ahead, isabel.
Mark Haney: When was the last time?
Speaker 4: that you filmed.
Speaker 4: Oh, and the last time we filmed, I want to
Speaker 4: say the end of filming, and I can say this
Speaker 4: because this was like you could get tickets
Speaker 4: to go when it was in the time.
Speaker 4: I want to say it was filmed end of
Speaker 4: September, I think it was.
Speaker 4: I think that was when it was.
Speaker 4: We all came home in October.
Mark Haney: Okay, not too long yeah.
Speaker 3: Not too long.
Mark Haney: Yeah, right.
Speaker 4: Do they provide the clothes or do you?
Speaker 4: This is my favorite question and everybody
Speaker 4: always asks.
Speaker 4: So some of the pieces for when we're
Speaker 4: meeting with our coaches, some of those are
Speaker 4: ours.
Speaker 4: So when I met with Gwen for my battle, that
Speaker 4: was my whole outfit.
Speaker 4: I was very proud of it.
Speaker 4: But otherwise they do shop for you.
Speaker 4: I wish that was in my closet already.
Speaker 4: Most of that was for blinds.
Speaker 4: It was the only thing that's not mine was
Speaker 4: the shirt.
Speaker 4: But for battles and the knockouts and then
Speaker 4: going into playoffs, those outfits they do.
Speaker 4: You give them kind of a vision board of
Speaker 4: what you like and then they they buy you
Speaker 4: all the clothes and it's the best day of
Speaker 4: your life.
Speaker 4: You look at a rack and you just try on
Speaker 4: clothes all day.
Speaker 4: It's really fun.
Mark Haney: Are there so you get the clothes?
Mark Haney: Are there other kinds of sponsors, sort of
Mark Haney: opportunities that you get?
Mark Haney: That is like almost like fringe benefits.
Speaker 4: You know that'd be really cool.
Speaker 4: But mainly, you know we just, we go in, we,
Speaker 4: they dress us for everything, but then it's
Speaker 4: really just back and forth.
Mark Haney: You have to get back to clothes.
Speaker 4: No, oh, good it's so fun and it's so funny
Speaker 4: cause there's a closet at my parents house
Speaker 4: right now that has that shirt.
Speaker 4: It has the dress that I wore in battles.
Speaker 4: It has the pantsuit that I wore in
Speaker 4: knockouts, it has the outfit I'm not going
Speaker 4: to reveal for playoffs and it had my Gwen
Speaker 4: sweatshirt and my John jacket.
Speaker 4: But I had to hide the John jacket cause no
Speaker 4: one knew yet, so it's all just like locked
Speaker 4: away.
Mark Haney: But I'm looking back there for Elvia.
Mark Haney: Where's she at?
Mark Haney: Oh, there, she is, right there.
Mark Haney: You don't have a question, oh yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, um, I love that just from the
Speaker 4: Prospect of a parent, but also, like as a
Speaker 4: teacher it's kind of what I try to think
Speaker 4: about it when I go into helping the kids
Speaker 4: what, how can I help make their parents job
Speaker 4: easier going into this?
Speaker 4: Um, the best piece of advice I can give is
Speaker 4: make sure you're surrounding your, your kid,
Speaker 4: with people who you trust and that you love,
Speaker 4: and that you get really Good vibes from.
Speaker 4: That's the most important thing, because
Speaker 4: that's gonna help shape who they are, not
Speaker 4: just as an artist but as a person, and so
Speaker 4: you want to make sure you're surrounding
Speaker 4: them with people that believe in them, that
Speaker 4: give them the right advice that pushed them
Speaker 4: to be better at their craft, and who are
Speaker 4: honest with them about their craft.
Speaker 4: Um, and just making sure, like they, they
Speaker 4: know that they love it, that they know who
Speaker 4: they are, because this business has a
Speaker 4: tendency of trying to tell you who you are,
Speaker 4: and so if you go into it knowing who you
Speaker 4: are and the music you want to make and the
Speaker 4: message you want to send, there's really
Speaker 4: nothing that can stop you then then just as
Speaker 4: on, from the parent side, supporting them
Speaker 4: and being there when inevitably they will
Speaker 4: fall down every now and then.
Speaker 4: But you know, that's the differences, the
Speaker 4: ones that make it get back up.
Mark Haney: But being there for them is the best thing
Mark Haney: and there's people that Love to sing and
Mark Haney: that you that I'm sure you've taught over
Mark Haney: the years that that love it, want to do it,
Mark Haney: but they're maybe not as gifted are there.
Mark Haney: Are there areas to steer them within
Mark Haney: entertainment or within, let's call it, the
Mark Haney: industry that can be real productive for
Mark Haney: them?
Speaker 4: You know it's so funny.
Speaker 4: I just had this conversation with the
Speaker 4: student, not even 24 hours ago, because
Speaker 4: they were talking to me.
Speaker 4: They're a little younger and they were
Speaker 4: talking to me about what they wanted to do
Speaker 4: and I told them you know, everybody wants
Speaker 4: to be the Beyonce, everybody wants to be
Speaker 4: the Taylor Swift and sell out the stadiums,
Speaker 4: but Realistically, there's only a small
Speaker 4: amount that can do that part, but there's a
Speaker 4: huge amount that can write the songs, that
Speaker 4: can be a part of a team that writes the
Speaker 4: songs, that can produce the songs.
Speaker 4: We need more women producers like.
Speaker 4: We need that out there.
Speaker 4: The men are fantastic.
Speaker 4: We need more of the women.
Speaker 4: You can write songs, you could produce them.
Speaker 4: You could be a videographer for music
Speaker 4: videos you can like.
Speaker 4: There's so much.
Speaker 4: You can be a stylist for the entertainment
Speaker 4: industry you can like.
Speaker 4: You could shop music.
Speaker 4: You could be in radio.
Speaker 4: You could do anything.
Speaker 4: There's so many avenues for it.
Mark Haney: Well, in terms of the, the men in let's
Mark Haney: talk country music for a second.
Mark Haney: Is that more dominated by men?
Mark Haney: Because you hear about Taylor Swift and
Mark Haney: she's obviously a Super star, maybe bigger
Mark Haney: than any of the guys, yeah, but there's.
Mark Haney: There's, from a quantity standpoint,
Mark Haney: there's more guys with popular songs or
Mark Haney: more popular men's songs.
Speaker 4: You know it's so funny because I feel like
Speaker 4: it kind of goes in, it swings a little.
Speaker 4: So in the 90s you had more of a female
Speaker 4: driven country music world with the shanias
Speaker 4: and the martinas and trisha and everybody
Speaker 4: that it was very female driven.
Speaker 4: We've slowly kind of turned the other
Speaker 4: direction and now it's more of a male
Speaker 4: dominated industry.
Speaker 4: And that's not saying the men don't deserve
Speaker 4: to be there.
Speaker 4: They work, they work super hard and they
Speaker 4: deserve everything that they work for.
Speaker 4: But there are also a lot of women that work
Speaker 4: really hard and deserve everything they're
Speaker 4: working for.
Mark Haney: So riley and one of her friends and stacey
Mark Haney: and I and we went and saw morgan wallin and
Mark Haney: we've been to a few concerts together.
Mark Haney: Who's your favorite male Country artist?
Mark Haney: Because you mentioned morgan wallin earlier
Mark Haney: and I'm like oh, I knew that guy.
Speaker 4: He was really nice.
Speaker 4: You know, we, um, we opened from right when
Speaker 4: he was doing up down with for to george
Speaker 4: align, and so he wasn't the big star yet.
Speaker 4: Whiskey glasses hadn't been released.
Speaker 4: It was ace of spades in sacramento and I
Speaker 4: remember, um, the main act can get both
Speaker 4: dressing rooms if they want it.
Speaker 4: And we were opening at the time and we're
Speaker 4: like, oh god, what are we gonna do?
Speaker 4: It's friday night in sacramento.
Speaker 4: We have to go somewhere else to get ready.
Speaker 4: That's gonna be so difficult.
Speaker 4: And he was like, oh, they're girls, give
Speaker 4: them the room with the door, we'll take the
Speaker 4: lounge and like it was just really cool.
Speaker 4: His whole team stood on the side of the
Speaker 4: stage and gave us high fives as we walked
Speaker 4: off.
Speaker 4: They were great.
Speaker 4: Um, I haven't been to one of his concerts
Speaker 4: since then.
Speaker 4: He's, you know, in the stadiums and
Speaker 4: everything now, but at the males.
Speaker 4: I'm a really big christapleton fan.
Speaker 4: I think his music is phenomenal and his
Speaker 4: vocal is amazing.
Speaker 4: Like I'm definitely a stapleton gal who,
Speaker 4: besides taylor swift?
Mark Haney: is taylor swift your favorite is in terms
Mark Haney: of the women, or the current women, or is
Mark Haney: there somebody else you?
Speaker 4: know I love taylor for everything that she
Speaker 4: does.
Speaker 4: I have a signed taylor swift photo in my
Speaker 4: room at my parents house.
Speaker 4: Um, I went to a concert and I was about
Speaker 4: riley's age and um, it was the speak now
Speaker 4: concert and she walked by and I held her
Speaker 4: hand and then the next day I learned how to
Speaker 4: play guitar.
Speaker 4: And I'm just saying I think the two might
Speaker 4: be.
Speaker 4: The magic touch exactly and like first song
Speaker 4: I learned how to play was our song.
Speaker 4: I was like, wow, it just works so perfectly.
Speaker 4: So I love taylor.
Speaker 4: Uh, big carry underwood fan love her.
Speaker 4: And then I'm a really big ashley mcbryde
Speaker 4: fan.
Speaker 4: Like I think people are kind of sleeping on
Speaker 4: ashley mcbryde.
Speaker 4: She's phenomenal.
Speaker 4: Her and brandy clark write some serious,
Speaker 4: amazing songs.
Mark Haney: Right any other questions from the audience?
Speaker 4: Yes.
Mark Haney: Oh, who did you want to be your coach?
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 4: So when I went into the audition I was
Speaker 4: definitely it's funny, everybody, as we're
Speaker 4: prepping for the Blinds, we all say we just
Speaker 4: need one, like just anyone that wants us,
Speaker 4: they can have us.
Speaker 4: And so we all had, like the people that you
Speaker 4: know we would love to have, pick us.
Speaker 4: Um, I went into it Really going you know,
Speaker 4: if I get reba, if reba turns, I'm going on
Speaker 4: team reba, nothing will stop me.
Speaker 4: And then they tell you, before you walk out
Speaker 4: there, they said make sure you listen.
Speaker 4: If they turn, listen to what they tell you.
Speaker 4: They could change your mind.
Speaker 4: And I thought that was a lie and it was not
Speaker 4: a lie.
Speaker 4: I, I went on the stage and they were
Speaker 4: talking to me.
Speaker 4: They actually cut a lot of Gwen's pitch,
Speaker 4: didn't air.
Speaker 4: Um, so she was talking, she had plans laid
Speaker 4: out, she had everything that she wanted to
Speaker 4: do, she had walked up to me, she had paced
Speaker 4: back and forth, she was fighting really
Speaker 4: hard.
Mark Haney: I could tell how serious she was about
Mark Haney: everything very serious.
Speaker 4: And then she turned so fast that I was just
Speaker 4: kind of like I felt drawn to her, I felt
Speaker 4: like I had known her and then so then I'm
Speaker 4: standing there going.
Speaker 4: I had a plan Um, what am I doing?
Speaker 4: And you have 10 seconds to dictate your
Speaker 4: entire life?
Speaker 4: Um, and I just remember thinking I have to
Speaker 4: trust my gut.
Speaker 4: I, it's gotten me this far, I have to
Speaker 4: listen to it.
Speaker 4: And so I went with Gwen.
Speaker 4: Oh, what Grib is fantastic.
Speaker 4: Um, but I went with Gwen going.
Speaker 4: You know, I just felt connected to her.
Speaker 4: But also battles were the next round and I
Speaker 4: figured there's gonna be a lot of country
Speaker 4: girls on team reba.
Speaker 4: And so I'm like I might stand out a little
Speaker 4: on team Gwen, I don't know, um, but yeah,
Speaker 4: it was a little strategy, but mainly just
Speaker 4: the draw to her.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I threw my plan out the window,
Speaker 4: my goodness.
Mark Haney: That's awesome.
Mark Haney: Any other questions Yo Stacy I have a
Mark Haney: question about balance.
Kristen Brown: So you have all of these balls in the air,
Kristen Brown: you're traveling, you're doing performances
Kristen Brown: all over and you're still a very young
Kristen Brown: woman, and so how do you balance your
Kristen Brown: professional life, you know, with your
Kristen Brown: personal life and really keep it real?
Speaker 4: um, it's a great question, you know, and
Speaker 4: it's it's a funny question.
Speaker 4: Literally on my way here, I got a text from
Speaker 4: one of my very best friends in the whole
Speaker 4: world, with Thanksgiving being next week,
Speaker 4: everyone's coming back into town.
Speaker 4: He sent me a text and it was the most
Speaker 4: Realistic text for anybody who's friends
Speaker 4: with me right now and it said what's your
Speaker 4: 10 day schedule?
Speaker 4: What's your next 10 days worth of time?
Speaker 4: Because I, like I just I'm not the kind of
Speaker 4: person right now who you could go.
Speaker 4: We're going out tomorrow.
Mark Haney: We're going to dinner tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Does that work, like I?
Speaker 4: Just it doesn't work.
Speaker 4: Uh, because I still work Three days a week
Speaker 4: teaching, and those are full days, and then
Speaker 4: I'm trying to record and get everything all
Speaker 4: set up.
Speaker 4: Um, luckily, you know, I I have a boyfriend
Speaker 4: who comes to all my shows and helps tear up,
Speaker 4: sit down, so I get to see him then, and my
Speaker 4: parents come to all the shows.
Speaker 4: Um, I try to sleep.
Speaker 4: That's a goal, um, but I mean, I spend a
Speaker 4: lot of time in the car and I spend a lot of
Speaker 4: time just I write all my music actually in
Speaker 4: the car, I write while I drive, and then I
Speaker 4: just put it some music later, so I'm never
Speaker 4: not working.
Mark Haney: You just do like a voice recorder?
Mark Haney: Yeah, voice memo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I get a lot of ideas while I drive
Speaker 4: and I just hum out melodies and when I get
Speaker 4: home I'll pull out my guitar and then
Speaker 4: that's typically how the songs are written.
Speaker 4: Um, but I mean, the balance part's really
Speaker 4: really hard.
Speaker 4: You have to be okay with giving up Some
Speaker 4: things that a lot of people wouldn't be,
Speaker 4: but that's part of it.
Speaker 4: You, you get in what you, you get out what
Speaker 4: you put in, and so it's one of those kind
Speaker 4: of things.
Speaker 4: Um, I wouldn't, I wouldn't take back
Speaker 4: anything.
Speaker 4: I don't regret anything and I have a nice
Speaker 4: support system of friends who support me,
Speaker 4: believe in me and understand when I say,
Speaker 4: hey, I can't go do this, I can't go do that,
Speaker 4: and yeah.
Speaker 4: So it's hard but it's possible.
Mark Haney: We're lucky that you came on the show for
Mark Haney: sure, so excited.
Mark Haney: I am so excited, uh, but you've had the
Mark Haney: same boyfriend for quite a while.
Speaker 4: Yeah, four years.
Mark Haney: Oh, wow, okay, is he ecstatic about this?
Mark Haney: So supportive and really excited.
Speaker 4: It was a really hard secret for him to keep
Speaker 4: because he obviously knew Um, because you
Speaker 4: know I can't just leave for two months,
Speaker 4: yeah exactly, and I'm like where did she go?
Speaker 4: so he's been so, so supportive about it and
Speaker 4: um, you know he he doesn't do music, it's
Speaker 4: not his thing.
Speaker 4: Um, he's in finance, he's very reserved and
Speaker 4: very quiet, but he's very good at the.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go pack up her stuff.
Speaker 4: Why she doesn't meet and greet or do stuff
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 4: So he's very put a studio in our house.
Speaker 4: So like we took um oh old laundry room and
Speaker 4: took the door off of the closet, put foam
Speaker 4: pads on it, he put lights in the top and we
Speaker 4: just set up a home studio.
Speaker 4: So now I can work there.
Mark Haney: Oh, that's so cool.
Mark Haney: Other questions no, oh, oh, there we go.
Mark Haney: Yeah, especially for the gender who?
Kristen Brown: are looking maybe to get into something
Kristen Brown: like this.
Kristen Brown: You've done obin rows work with the group
Kristen Brown: and then, of course, now you're individual.
Kristen Brown: Um, what are some of the highlights?
Kristen Brown: Maybe, uh, one or the other.
Speaker 4: The benefits Absolutely, and it's cool
Speaker 4: because they're both so different, but at
Speaker 4: the end of the day, you're in both, so
Speaker 4: there's a little little Fluck of yourself
Speaker 4: in both of them.
Speaker 4: But I would say with a group, if you play
Speaker 4: with a group, it's really cool just to get
Speaker 4: other perspectives.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's like anything in business,
Speaker 4: like the more brains you can get on a
Speaker 4: project, the more ideas come and everybody
Speaker 4: inspires everybody else and so it becomes a
Speaker 4: collaborative process.
Speaker 4: Uh, and that was so fun and I had such an
Speaker 4: amazing time getting to work with those
Speaker 4: girls and make the music that we did, and
Speaker 4: then Going solo, I was able to then take
Speaker 4: everything that I had learned in a group
Speaker 4: and what that did was it solidified all of
Speaker 4: my confidence in my own decisions, because
Speaker 4: then it's just you and so you go.
Speaker 4: I've done this before, but you just didn't
Speaker 4: do it all before, so it's just adding a
Speaker 4: little bit of the extra weight, but you get
Speaker 4: to go.
Speaker 4: I think I know what I want to do this time
Speaker 4: around.
Speaker 4: I know the vision I see for myself.
Speaker 4: Um, and you can still like.
Speaker 4: We talked about mentors.
Speaker 4: You can ask the mentors if you're going in
Speaker 4: the right direction.
Speaker 4: You should never be on your own, um, but
Speaker 4: yeah, it's cool, cause you just kind of get
Speaker 4: to play around with how you want to control
Speaker 4: your own life at that point.
Mark Haney: Okay, so two final questions, and then
Mark Haney: we'll let you sing a song.
Mark Haney: Um, you know how to do that, no problem.
Mark Haney: Okay, so, uh, number one, what question did
Mark Haney: we not ask you that, like we should have
Mark Haney: asked?
Mark Haney: And then, uh, also just sort of the, the
Mark Haney: words of wisdom to the aspiring uh artist
Mark Haney: um, what would you tell her or him if he's
Mark Haney: on his way up the?
Speaker 4: um.
Speaker 4: So this is the shameless plug for the thing
Speaker 4: we said.
Speaker 4: What didn't we ask?
Speaker 4: Um.
Speaker 4: If you want to follow me online, you can
Speaker 4: find me at Kristen Brown music Um.
Mark Haney: Kristen Brown music that's on like
Mark Haney: Instagram.
Speaker 4: Instagram, facebook, everything.
Speaker 4: I tried to keep it really consistent.
Speaker 4: Um.
Speaker 4: And then, top of the year, I have I have a
Speaker 4: website.
Speaker 4: It's Kristen Brown official and you can see
Speaker 4: where I'm playing in the area.
Speaker 4: Um.
Speaker 4: I have an announcement coming out tomorrow
Speaker 4: in terms of shows which will be really,
Speaker 4: really cool.
Speaker 4: So keep an eye out for that Um.
Speaker 4: But everything's kind of happened at the
Speaker 4: top of the year.
Speaker 4: We're going to get merch out, we're going
Speaker 4: to do all the things.
Speaker 4: So check out the website for that Um.
Speaker 4: And then, in terms of just advice, for
Speaker 4: anybody male, female who wants to get into
Speaker 4: this um, I would say it's worth it.
Speaker 4: It's a hundred percent worth it to follow
Speaker 4: what you love, whether or not it gets you
Speaker 4: to the maximum stardom you want to do, and
Speaker 4: whether not even just music business, any
Speaker 4: business in general.
Speaker 4: If it's what you love, it's a hundred
Speaker 4: percent worth it to try.
Speaker 4: You don't lose anything in trying it.
Speaker 4: You would just know that you did it.
Speaker 4: And if it doesn't work out now you know.
Speaker 4: But if it works out, you get to live that
Speaker 4: dream.
Speaker 4: So don't be afraid to just take that leap
Speaker 4: of faith.
Speaker 4: It's terrifying, it's not easy, but it will
Speaker 4: be the best thing you ever did.
Mark Haney: A hundred percent worth it If you try.
Mark Haney: What a great mantra.
Mark Haney: Um, okay, so if you decided what you want
Mark Haney: to say, what do you want me to sing?
Mark Haney: Oh well, I, it's almost Christmas time, but
Mark Haney: I wanted you to do with what audience?
Mark Haney: What do you?
Mark Haney: Uh, country song, country song.
Mark Haney: Okay, riley say the country song.
Mark Haney: So okay, pick one out.
Mark Haney: Hmm.
Speaker 4: I might just do it.
Speaker 4: Okay, pella, is that what's happening?
Mark Haney: Yeah, I guess.
Mark Haney: So we don't Sure we don't have any birthday.
Mark Haney: She could sing a happy birthday, oh
Mark Haney: birthday for.
Speaker 4: Riley, yes, hmm, all right, I'll do one
Speaker 4: that I know you guys are going to at least
Speaker 4: know.
Speaker 4: I'm going to back this up a little, because
Speaker 4: we know how that goes.
Speaker 4: Um, we'll do it.
Speaker 4: Okay, pella, why not?
Speaker 3: dry light and cracks across the skies.
Speaker 3: Those stone clouds gather in her eyes.
Speaker 3: Her daddy was a mean old mister.
Speaker 3: Mama was an angel in the ground.
Speaker 3: The weather man called for a twister.
Speaker 3: She pray blow it down.
Speaker 3: There's not enough rain in Oklahoma to wash
Speaker 3: the sins out of that house.
Speaker 3: There's not enough wind in Oklahoma to rip
Speaker 3: the nails out of the past.
Speaker 3: Shatter every window till it's all blown
Speaker 3: away.
Speaker 3: Every brick, every bar, every slamming door
Speaker 3: blown away.
Speaker 3: Tell there's nothing left standing, nothing
Speaker 3: left yesterday.
Speaker 3: Every tears song twists, ski memory.
Speaker 3: Blown away, blown away, blown away, blown
Speaker 3: away.
Mark Haney: We are blown away.
Mark Haney: Definitely blew us away today.
Mark Haney: Kristen Brown, Kristen Brown music.
Mark Haney: We are so lucky to have you in our world.
Mark Haney: Thanks for taking an hour out of your day
Mark Haney: in this really hectic time.
Mark Haney: So we love you, Thank you.
Speaker 4: Love you guys.