July 19, 2025 • 15 mins
We go back for the classic replay to our very first episode of Music Saved Me hosted by Lynn Hoffman with the legendary artist, Wynonna. She shares her deeply personal story about the healing power of music and she truly embodies what this show is all about.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Music Saved Me. Musicians on Call is a charity that
is perfectly aligned with the mission of this podcast, delivering
the healing power of music since nineteen ninety nine. Why
not become a volunteer or a supporter by going to
Musicians on Call dot Org.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We had no neighbors, we had no TV, no the telephone.
If it hadn't been for the guitar, I honestly don't
know what I would have done with my life, and
it saved me.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
This podcast is called Music Saved Me, and on each
episode we'll look at a musician, will delve into their story,
their deep connection to music. We'll talk with their fans everyday,
people with their own story to tell me about how
music has saved them in challenging times. I'm Lynn Hoffman,
your host for the Music Saved Me podcast. I'm honored
(00:48):
to take you on the journey of musicians and their
fans who can say that music saved them On this
episode of Music Saved Me. Our guest is one of
the most respected and awarded musmusicians in music. She has
had nineteen number one singles, including those of the Jets,
making her one of the best selling country artists of
(01:09):
all time. Now, when you can reduce a person's name
to just one word that tells you something of their stature,
you'll learn more of the character and resilience of Why Nona.
Thank you so much for coming on the show. Let's
get right into it. Tell us why is music so
important to you?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Wow, that is quite a question right out of the gate.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
My name is my known Ellen Judd. I was born
Christina Claisimonela in nineteen sixty four, and I started playing
guitar when I was eight years old. I think out
of loneliness and feeling very different in my family. I
didn't feel like I belonged anywhere. I was a misfit,
and I think music saved my life in so many
ways that I still feel that today. I started playing
(01:55):
music because we lived in the middle of nowhere. My
mother had a thing about living out in the country.
We had no neighbors, we had no TV, no telephone.
If it hadn't been for the guitar, I honestly don't
know what I would have done with my life, and
it saved me.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So it sounds like you really knew at a young
age why music was so important to you.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yes, it was, Joni Mitchell. Yes, nineteen. Somewhere around nineteen
seventy one or nineteen seventy two, I discovered Joni Mitchell,
and I learned every word. I learned every note. I
played the guitar and people would ask me to play
music at parties and family get togethers, and I became
(02:36):
known as the girl with the guitar.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
So why did Joni Mitchell's music speak to you, do
you think?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I think because I was so lonesome and her voice
was so comforting to me. It was like someone in
my family speaking to me. I just felt this personal
connection with it. And to this day, Joni is one
of my favorite heroes of all time, and I met
her recently. We became bonded for life, and she literally
(03:04):
saved my life. I don't know again what would have
happened to me if it hadn't been for music. I
would have either probably been incarcerated or not alive. I
was a bit of a wild child in terms of
spirit not doing illegal activity, but I was definitely the
emotional one in the family and I had I really
(03:25):
felt like I had nowhere to go because I didn't
feel understood and I didn't feel like I fit in anywhere,
and music gave me a place to belong.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yes, a sense of belonging is so important, especially when
you're young. Were there any other musicians or artists that
really resonated with you at that time.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yes, Bonnie Rait and Linda Ronstatt, and Emmy Lou Harris,
any woman who had been through hell and sang about it.
I was drawn to them. Aretha's voice is one of
the first voices that I remember being attacked too. In
a primal way. I was taken by her voice. It
(04:04):
just took me somewhere, not of this world. And the
women really spoke to me more so than anyone because
of the fact that I was so young and becoming
a young woman myself. I was drawn to Linda Ronscatt.
She was beautiful, the way she sang her songs, it
was like power, of.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Course for you, especially someone growing up so isolated. I mean,
this had to have deepened your appreciation even further for music.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
To the point where I didn't know what I was
going to do with my life. If I wasn't going
to be in music, I didn't want to be here.
And it was that deep was I did really well
in school and I was a good kid. I just
felt again I was so spiritually defined by the music,
and the music swept me away, and it took me.
(04:53):
It took me. I was fourteen years old in Marin
County outside of San Francisco, where I just got Bonnie
Rait and I just went way, way deep into Bonnie
and she saved my life.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So as you further developed your career and became a songwriter,
how did that deepen your love of music?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I think when you're born poor and you have so little,
you dream really big. And I would literally be in
the wilderness. We had no TV, no telephone, and I
would literally sit on the front porch and play my
guitar and I would well be watching, for instance, the
sun go down, and I wrote a song called Lazy
(05:34):
Country Evening, and I would just sit there and strum
the guitar or something to do. And if it wasn't
for that, I don't know what would have happened. Again,
because I was so defined by the notes that I
was singing as well as the notes I was playing
that it gave me an identity, and songwriting became a
(05:55):
way out of the reality of being with a single
parent on welfare. We're talking food stamps. We had so little,
we raised a garden and we wrote songs about our pets.
I remember writing a song about one of our cats
and thinking what I thought about it was a natural progression.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Well as a cat lover. Thank you. So writing songs
is a very personal thing. Did you keep you know,
with everything going on in your life at that time too,
did you keep writing those songs in private or did
you share it with the world.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I never thought of sharing it with the world. It
was such a personal thing. It's almost like if you
keep a diary, you know, you think about that and
you have a lock on the diary. I remember having
a diary and with the lock. Yeah, it was very personal.
It was just a way for me an event. My
mother is very high spirited, she's a perfectionist. She's very strict.
(06:51):
Actually and I are very very different. Even when I
was little, I knew that we were very different from
each other, and I felt very lonely. I was a
girl that had a lot of spirit, and I didn't
know what to do with that spirit. So I wrote songs.
But the songs to me were so personal that I
wasn't going to share my diary with anybody.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I know that's going to be one of the hardest
things to do as a songwriter, is to share your songs.
Why have you chosen to be so transparent about the
trials and tribulations in your life?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
That is a great question. I think it's who I am.
I've been this way my whole life. My mom said
I was not a good liar, and she said that
I always told on myself. And I think it's because
of my grandmother. My grandmother raised me with the sense
of you know, the whole thing of grandparents have a
way of guilty and shaming you into the reality of
telling on yourself and getting right with God. And I
(07:45):
think it had to do with that. And I think
I've been this way my whole life. And look, I
was eighteen years old when I made it, and the
fans were my family then and they are today. I
spend more time with the fans and I do most
of my family. And I think they allowed me to
be who I am in such a way that it
gave me permission to tell the truth.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
You see.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
It's that honesty and authenticity that connects why Nonah so
beautifully with all her fans. Check this out she.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Has an inspirational voice and her relationships and it brings
that out in the songs and the way she sings.
You know, you can tell it comes from the soul.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So why Noah? Music has always been a huge force
that has guided you through your life. Besides music, what
else guides you in life?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Wow? I'm currently looking at my baby girl. I have
a granddaughter. Her name is Khalia. Oh, and she looks
at me, and she looks right through me. You know
how kids look right through you? Yes, and they give
you a sense of hope. She's definitely very high on
my list of priority and the things I think about
the most, and how to be a good grandmother, that's one.
(09:04):
My animals they keep me honest because they don't give
a crap. Or sometimes they do give a crap and
you have to clean it up. I have animals. I
have forty animals here on the farm. Wow. We raise
a garden that's about as real as it gets. The
dirt heaps me honest, and the farm keeps me hoping
because when you grow things on the farm, it gives
(09:25):
you perspective that you don't get in the city.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
That is true. What is your view on the power
of music and religion, or the power of music fused
with spirituality.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Well, to me, it's spirituality. I think I was raised
with the religion and I ran from it when I
was eighteen years old. I was raised very strict Baptist,
and I don't know that God is that strict in
terms of the religion part of it. So to me,
it's spirituality. There's religion and then spirituality. I think the
spirituality comes from opening yourself up so deeply to the
music and it just brings out something that you can't
(09:58):
get anywhere else. You know, you can't buy this stuff.
I know that show business the use of today, think
that it's a lot more, you know, available, but sometimes
you have to get really humble to do your best work.
I think the best work comes from this tour, for instance,
because it breaks me. It literally opens me wide open.
(10:19):
When I'm on stage and I'm singing to thousands of
fans who are singing back to me so loudly that
I literally have to take a physical step backwards because
it knocks me over and something happens in that moment
because it's so much bigger than yourself. You know, you
can't take credit for it because it's happening in spite
of yourself. You might be the starter of it, but
(10:40):
it certainly goes somewhere that you're not in control of,
and it just makes you go, WHOA, I am not
in control after all? I thought I was, but I'm not.
That's pretty humbling.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah, sure is. Do you visualize your fans and particular
struggles that you know they may be dealing with more so.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Than ever before. I've always been a visionary. I was
born with a gifting that has allowed me to visualize,
and I take very very I take it very seriously.
If it wasn't for visualization, I don't know that I
would be here today. Because there are times when I
feel absolutely like I can't do something and I will
close my eyes. I did it on the airplane the
(11:21):
other day, back from Mexico. I was doing a show
with Brandy Carlisle, and I was on the airplane and
I was thinking about this tour, and I was thinking
about how vulnerable I feel, and sometimes I don't feel
like I'm my best I'll be honest. I wake up
and I don't know that I'm feeling as secure or
as capable, and all of a sudden, I'll just visualize
(11:41):
myself on the stage being very capable, and you have
to do that. It's what carries you through all the
insecurities because this business is not an easy business. It
takes you away from really who you are at times.
You know, the professional part of it and the success
part of it. You know, that's not really who I
am authentically. I'm a farm you know. I'm a farmer
at home. And then I get my clothes packed and
(12:03):
I put on my undergarments and I spray my hair
with sparkles, and I go out there and I'm the
ambassador and I have to visualize otherwise I don't think
that I would be able to make it on my own.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
It's such a powerful tool. Well, here's another of why
Nona's fans to prove that amazing connection between artist and
fan Wanona's music.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
I grew up my mom listened to it on the radio,
So her music takes me back to like road trips,
and I don't know, it's just something we would sing
along to their's song. I know where I'm going, like,
I don't know. Graduating high school, I definitely thought I did.
I still have no idea what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I love that. Oh, I can't believe the time goes
so fast. Whinona. But in closing, this is specifically talking
to the musicians and songwriters and future superstars listening to
you right now on how to stay on their path
no matter what the challenge. What advice would you give
to them, especially when it comes to music saving their life.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I think one of the things that I do that
helps me is I stay away from social media and
I don't compare myself to other people because that's really
easy to do, and when I compare myself to other people,
I get very, very very discouraged. I would say also
too that if you play an instrument, which always helps me.
Playing guitar is literally part of my body. It's just
(13:26):
I've been doing it for fifty years. I've been playing
guitar for fifty years. I would say, write songs, because
that's really about as honest as you can get. I
would say, get really honest with yourself and ask yourself
what is it that you want? You know, do you
want to be famous? And if it's that, that's going
to be quite a struggle because that changes like the weather.
(13:47):
You know, the same part comes and goes. I would say,
find somewhere authentic, whether it's church or singing in clubs.
If you want to get a band together and just
play music, play wherever you can, whether it's a county
fair or you know, on your street. I always tell
people sing and play as much as possible. And show up.
(14:11):
That's one of my biggest things is showing up even
at the worst day. Is I show up and I
just go from where my gut takes me. I would say, also,
following your gut, that's a huge thing for me. I
say yes and no. I go into a room and
I literally close my eyes and I sit down and
I ask myself, is this something that you really want
to do? Does it make sense? And I would say,
(14:34):
listen to your gut more, and let's don't let the
world define you. Never let anyone tell you who you are.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Gosh, that is so true.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Never.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
My mom always used to say, don't ever let anyone
make you question your own integrity. Kind of close, but
not exactly what you said, but similar mine. And thank
you so much. It's been such a pleasure having you.
If there's a takeaway here for you musicians out there,
remember show up, play, play, play and listen to your gut.
Whona Judd, a portrait in resilience, authenticity, transparency, sharing her
(15:08):
bond with her audience on this episode of Music Safety.
Thanks for joining us, I'm Lin Hoffman.
Music Saved Me. Musicians on Call is a charity that
is perfectly aligned with the mission of this podcast, delivering
the healing power of music since nineteen ninety nine. Why
not become a volunteer or a supporter by going to
Musicians on Call dot Org.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We had no neighbors, we had no TV, no the telephone.
If it hadn't been for the guitar, I honestly don't
know what I would have done with my life, and
it saved me.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
This podcast is called Music Saved Me, and on each
episode we'll look at a musician, will delve into their story,
their deep connection to music. We'll talk with their fans everyday,
people with their own story to tell me about how
music has saved them in challenging times. I'm Lynn Hoffman,
your host for the Music Saved Me podcast. I'm honored
(00:48):
to take you on the journey of musicians and their
fans who can say that music saved them On this
episode of Music Saved Me. Our guest is one of
the most respected and awarded musmusicians in music. She has
had nineteen number one singles, including those of the Jets,
making her one of the best selling country artists of
(01:09):
all time. Now, when you can reduce a person's name
to just one word that tells you something of their stature,
you'll learn more of the character and resilience of Why Nona.
Thank you so much for coming on the show. Let's
get right into it. Tell us why is music so
important to you?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Wow, that is quite a question right out of the gate.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
My name is my known Ellen Judd. I was born
Christina Claisimonela in nineteen sixty four, and I started playing
guitar when I was eight years old. I think out
of loneliness and feeling very different in my family. I
didn't feel like I belonged anywhere. I was a misfit,
and I think music saved my life in so many
ways that I still feel that today. I started playing
(01:55):
music because we lived in the middle of nowhere. My
mother had a thing about living out in the country.
We had no neighbors, we had no TV, no telephone.
If it hadn't been for the guitar, I honestly don't
know what I would have done with my life, and
it saved me.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So it sounds like you really knew at a young
age why music was so important to you.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yes, it was, Joni Mitchell. Yes, nineteen. Somewhere around nineteen
seventy one or nineteen seventy two, I discovered Joni Mitchell,
and I learned every word. I learned every note. I
played the guitar and people would ask me to play
music at parties and family get togethers, and I became
(02:36):
known as the girl with the guitar.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
So why did Joni Mitchell's music speak to you, do
you think?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I think because I was so lonesome and her voice
was so comforting to me. It was like someone in
my family speaking to me. I just felt this personal
connection with it. And to this day, Joni is one
of my favorite heroes of all time, and I met
her recently. We became bonded for life, and she literally
(03:04):
saved my life. I don't know again what would have
happened to me if it hadn't been for music. I
would have either probably been incarcerated or not alive. I
was a bit of a wild child in terms of
spirit not doing illegal activity, but I was definitely the
emotional one in the family and I had I really
(03:25):
felt like I had nowhere to go because I didn't
feel understood and I didn't feel like I fit in anywhere,
and music gave me a place to belong.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yes, a sense of belonging is so important, especially when
you're young. Were there any other musicians or artists that
really resonated with you at that time.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yes, Bonnie Rait and Linda Ronstatt, and Emmy Lou Harris,
any woman who had been through hell and sang about it.
I was drawn to them. Aretha's voice is one of
the first voices that I remember being attacked too. In
a primal way. I was taken by her voice. It
(04:04):
just took me somewhere, not of this world. And the
women really spoke to me more so than anyone because
of the fact that I was so young and becoming
a young woman myself. I was drawn to Linda Ronscatt.
She was beautiful, the way she sang her songs, it
was like power, of.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Course for you, especially someone growing up so isolated. I mean,
this had to have deepened your appreciation even further for music.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
To the point where I didn't know what I was
going to do with my life. If I wasn't going
to be in music, I didn't want to be here.
And it was that deep was I did really well
in school and I was a good kid. I just
felt again I was so spiritually defined by the music,
and the music swept me away, and it took me.
(04:53):
It took me. I was fourteen years old in Marin
County outside of San Francisco, where I just got Bonnie
Rait and I just went way, way deep into Bonnie
and she saved my life.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So as you further developed your career and became a songwriter,
how did that deepen your love of music?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I think when you're born poor and you have so little,
you dream really big. And I would literally be in
the wilderness. We had no TV, no telephone, and I
would literally sit on the front porch and play my
guitar and I would well be watching, for instance, the
sun go down, and I wrote a song called Lazy
(05:34):
Country Evening, and I would just sit there and strum
the guitar or something to do. And if it wasn't
for that, I don't know what would have happened. Again,
because I was so defined by the notes that I
was singing as well as the notes I was playing
that it gave me an identity, and songwriting became a
(05:55):
way out of the reality of being with a single
parent on welfare. We're talking food stamps. We had so little,
we raised a garden and we wrote songs about our pets.
I remember writing a song about one of our cats
and thinking what I thought about it was a natural progression.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Well as a cat lover. Thank you. So writing songs
is a very personal thing. Did you keep you know,
with everything going on in your life at that time too,
did you keep writing those songs in private or did
you share it with the world.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I never thought of sharing it with the world. It
was such a personal thing. It's almost like if you
keep a diary, you know, you think about that and
you have a lock on the diary. I remember having
a diary and with the lock. Yeah, it was very personal.
It was just a way for me an event. My
mother is very high spirited, she's a perfectionist. She's very strict.
(06:51):
Actually and I are very very different. Even when I
was little, I knew that we were very different from
each other, and I felt very lonely. I was a
girl that had a lot of spirit, and I didn't
know what to do with that spirit. So I wrote songs.
But the songs to me were so personal that I
wasn't going to share my diary with anybody.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I know that's going to be one of the hardest
things to do as a songwriter, is to share your songs.
Why have you chosen to be so transparent about the
trials and tribulations in your life?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
That is a great question. I think it's who I am.
I've been this way my whole life. My mom said
I was not a good liar, and she said that
I always told on myself. And I think it's because
of my grandmother. My grandmother raised me with the sense
of you know, the whole thing of grandparents have a
way of guilty and shaming you into the reality of
telling on yourself and getting right with God. And I
(07:45):
think it had to do with that. And I think
I've been this way my whole life. And look, I
was eighteen years old when I made it, and the
fans were my family then and they are today. I
spend more time with the fans and I do most
of my family. And I think they allowed me to
be who I am in such a way that it
gave me permission to tell the truth.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
You see.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
It's that honesty and authenticity that connects why Nonah so
beautifully with all her fans. Check this out she.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Has an inspirational voice and her relationships and it brings
that out in the songs and the way she sings.
You know, you can tell it comes from the soul.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So why Noah? Music has always been a huge force
that has guided you through your life. Besides music, what
else guides you in life?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Wow? I'm currently looking at my baby girl. I have
a granddaughter. Her name is Khalia. Oh, and she looks
at me, and she looks right through me. You know
how kids look right through you? Yes, and they give
you a sense of hope. She's definitely very high on
my list of priority and the things I think about
the most, and how to be a good grandmother, that's one.
(09:04):
My animals they keep me honest because they don't give
a crap. Or sometimes they do give a crap and
you have to clean it up. I have animals. I
have forty animals here on the farm. Wow. We raise
a garden that's about as real as it gets. The
dirt heaps me honest, and the farm keeps me hoping
because when you grow things on the farm, it gives
(09:25):
you perspective that you don't get in the city.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
That is true. What is your view on the power
of music and religion, or the power of music fused
with spirituality.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Well, to me, it's spirituality. I think I was raised
with the religion and I ran from it when I
was eighteen years old. I was raised very strict Baptist,
and I don't know that God is that strict in
terms of the religion part of it. So to me,
it's spirituality. There's religion and then spirituality. I think the
spirituality comes from opening yourself up so deeply to the
music and it just brings out something that you can't
(09:58):
get anywhere else. You know, you can't buy this stuff.
I know that show business the use of today, think
that it's a lot more, you know, available, but sometimes
you have to get really humble to do your best work.
I think the best work comes from this tour, for instance,
because it breaks me. It literally opens me wide open.
(10:19):
When I'm on stage and I'm singing to thousands of
fans who are singing back to me so loudly that
I literally have to take a physical step backwards because
it knocks me over and something happens in that moment
because it's so much bigger than yourself. You know, you
can't take credit for it because it's happening in spite
of yourself. You might be the starter of it, but
(10:40):
it certainly goes somewhere that you're not in control of,
and it just makes you go, WHOA, I am not
in control after all? I thought I was, but I'm not.
That's pretty humbling.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah, sure is. Do you visualize your fans and particular
struggles that you know they may be dealing with more so.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Than ever before. I've always been a visionary. I was
born with a gifting that has allowed me to visualize,
and I take very very I take it very seriously.
If it wasn't for visualization, I don't know that I
would be here today. Because there are times when I
feel absolutely like I can't do something and I will
close my eyes. I did it on the airplane the
(11:21):
other day, back from Mexico. I was doing a show
with Brandy Carlisle, and I was on the airplane and
I was thinking about this tour, and I was thinking
about how vulnerable I feel, and sometimes I don't feel
like I'm my best I'll be honest. I wake up
and I don't know that I'm feeling as secure or
as capable, and all of a sudden, I'll just visualize
(11:41):
myself on the stage being very capable, and you have
to do that. It's what carries you through all the
insecurities because this business is not an easy business. It
takes you away from really who you are at times.
You know, the professional part of it and the success
part of it. You know, that's not really who I
am authentically. I'm a farm you know. I'm a farmer
at home. And then I get my clothes packed and
(12:03):
I put on my undergarments and I spray my hair
with sparkles, and I go out there and I'm the
ambassador and I have to visualize otherwise I don't think
that I would be able to make it on my own.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
It's such a powerful tool. Well, here's another of why
Nona's fans to prove that amazing connection between artist and
fan Wanona's music.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
I grew up my mom listened to it on the radio,
So her music takes me back to like road trips,
and I don't know, it's just something we would sing
along to their's song. I know where I'm going, like,
I don't know. Graduating high school, I definitely thought I did.
I still have no idea what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I love that. Oh, I can't believe the time goes
so fast. Whinona. But in closing, this is specifically talking
to the musicians and songwriters and future superstars listening to
you right now on how to stay on their path
no matter what the challenge. What advice would you give
to them, especially when it comes to music saving their life.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I think one of the things that I do that
helps me is I stay away from social media and
I don't compare myself to other people because that's really
easy to do, and when I compare myself to other people,
I get very, very very discouraged. I would say also
too that if you play an instrument, which always helps me.
Playing guitar is literally part of my body. It's just
(13:26):
I've been doing it for fifty years. I've been playing
guitar for fifty years. I would say, write songs, because
that's really about as honest as you can get. I
would say, get really honest with yourself and ask yourself
what is it that you want? You know, do you
want to be famous? And if it's that, that's going
to be quite a struggle because that changes like the weather.
(13:47):
You know, the same part comes and goes. I would say,
find somewhere authentic, whether it's church or singing in clubs.
If you want to get a band together and just
play music, play wherever you can, whether it's a county
fair or you know, on your street. I always tell
people sing and play as much as possible. And show up.
(14:11):
That's one of my biggest things is showing up even
at the worst day. Is I show up and I
just go from where my gut takes me. I would say, also,
following your gut, that's a huge thing for me. I
say yes and no. I go into a room and
I literally close my eyes and I sit down and
I ask myself, is this something that you really want
to do? Does it make sense? And I would say,
(14:34):
listen to your gut more, and let's don't let the
world define you. Never let anyone tell you who you are.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Gosh, that is so true.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Never.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
My mom always used to say, don't ever let anyone
make you question your own integrity. Kind of close, but
not exactly what you said, but similar mine. And thank
you so much. It's been such a pleasure having you.
If there's a takeaway here for you musicians out there,
remember show up, play, play, play and listen to your gut.
Whona Judd, a portrait in resilience, authenticity, transparency, sharing her
(15:08):
bond with her audience on this episode of Music Safety.
Thanks for joining us, I'm Lin Hoffman.
Host
Lynn Hoffman
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