January 2, 2020 • 46 mins
Kelly is joined by Brittany Aldean and surprise guest, her husband and country music super star, Jason Aldean. The couple gives very honest answers about their love story and how the unconventional way they got together has actually made them stronger as a couple, although it hasn’t been easy. Britt gives her top baby delivery tips and tells how being a mother has changed her. She also shares the advice Jason gave her about her relationship with his daughters from a previous marriage.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is Kelly Henderson. Thank you for checking out
the Bobby Bones Show podcast. I wanted to share an
episode with you guys of my podcast called Velvet's Edge
with Kelly Henderson. Velvet's Edge is a podcast that explores
inner and outer beauty and is based on my lifestyle website,
Velvet's Edge dot com. I love exploring these topics with
some of my friends in the music industry, which are
relationships that I've made over the past fifteen years of
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being a hair makeup artist and stylist here in Nashville.
I recently sat down with Brittany and Jason al Dean.
They gave me some very honest answers about their love
story and how the unconventional way that they got together
has actually made them stronger as a couple. Brittany also
gives her top baby delivery tips and tells how being
a mother has really changed her. If you liked this episode,
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I would love for you guys to come and check
out more episodes. Just subscribe on Apple podcast, listen on iHeartRadio,
or wherever you listen to podcast. Here's my episode of
Velvet's Edge with Kelly Henderson with Brittany and Jason Alden, Well,
this is a pleasant surprise. This is like two for
the press of one. I know, we kind of do
everything together. Yeah, along, I'm just along for the ride.
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I guess I have three because we have a little
navy here too, join us. I might have to check
out here. She starts getting loud, but right now she's cool.
It's so good. You know, what I was thinking about
whenever I first started thinking about doing a podcast with
you was just how wrong I had you when I
first met you, you know, and we've talked about that
a little bit, and I was thinking about this, probably
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because of the way you guys got together. It was
like a little unconventional. But now that I like see
this is years later, and it's so cool to me,
Like you said, you do everything together, but you guys
truly are really in love. Yeah yeah, I mean, I
mean we really do. This morning we were talking, it's
just like we really are like best friends and everything together,
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and and you know, and I may not get how
people probably took that up at the beginning, you know,
and I wasn't the best look for either one of us,
but you know, at the end of the day, it's like,
you know, we we knew there was something, yeah, something
that was pretty undeniable there, and um, I don't know,
it's been you know, like I think we both kind
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of probably hated the way it started, but you know,
at the end of the day, like I wouldn't change
the outcome of it at all. Yeah, that's a hard thing.
You're like me, and I would change so many things.
But then yeah, because what if it didn't turn out
the way, would you be where you are? Exactly? So obviously,
I you know, I mean both of us feel this way,
but we would have done things completely differently. However, we're
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very happy that the outcome is what it is and
now we have these two beautiful babies and weird. Yeah,
she's like, what's up. Yeah, we are sincerely best friends
and I don't know. It's one of those things where
I we actually talked about this last week, like I
wish everybody could experience. I love this, like, yes, because
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we love each other so much that it makes me
sad for people who are, you know, maybe in a
situation where they don't feel that way or right, maybe
they just haven't met that person yet or whatever. And
I just want this love for everybody. I actually don't
think a lot of people do. You know, do you
think that y'all got closer though because you had to
only rely on each other? I do, you know. I
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mean I think when we first, you know, started dating
and things like that, it was just, you know, everybody
just kind of you know, saw or heard whatever they
thought was the deal, you know at that point, like
there's no sense in going out and trying to defend
anything or you know, because I mean I think you know,
we knew that. It was like man, that's you know,
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it's just not a good look for you know, us.
But like I said, I mean it's pretty undeniable. And
I think for us it's just like we really did
kind of only have each other, you know, I you know,
going through stuff like that, I mean, you lose a
lot of friends, and you lose yeah really and people
are just not you know, some friend some people cool,
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and you know a lot of people aren't, and you
know you just kind of start to weed those people
out a little bit. And you know, we just kind
of found ourselves just hanging out with each other, you know,
and doing things and and kind of surrounding ourselves with
people that, um, you know that we enjoyed hanging out
with that. We didn't feel like we're judging, you know,
judged us because of of things like that we had
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done or you know, how we got together or whatever.
But um, you know, and I definitely think it made
us a lot tighter and and um probably why now
we still you know, pretty much everything we do, we
like to do stuff together. Yeah, she went on a
girl's trip not too long ago, and she's like, I
really want you to come on my girls trip, but
all my all my girls are gonna be all my
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girls are gonna be mad that they're there, you know.
But it's it's literally how it is, you know, and
and it's you know, I love it. I think people,
you know, I think sometimes people are in a relationship
and and you know, they love person, But I think
that's that's different than being like truly like in love
with some other best friends best friend, person that you
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were meant to be with, and um, you know, and
I feel like, I mean not to sound like a
Hallmark card here, you know, I feel like that's kind
of what we found. And you know, it was. It
was really kind of an eye opening thing for both
of us, even though nobody else kind of knew, you know,
how to take it at the time. We we always
knew you knew, Yeah, we knew immediately, you know, And
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that's kind of why it went down the way it did.
Why what what did you know immediately? What did you feel? Well?
I don't know. I was always the kind of person
I feel like a lot of girls maybe like this
where you know, I did what I wanted and if
the man didn't follow suit and buy, yeah, you know,
it was kind of like it's my world, you kind
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of live in it. And yeah, I was a little
bit of a brat and just like in that selfish
stage in life. And then you're also really young tonight.
I was like twenty five. Oh wow, what I didn't
know that some seven years? Oh my god, over seven. Yeah,
I did not realize that. Yeah, but I was just young,
you know. Yeah, And so it was kind of like
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I I did what I wanted, and if the guy
wasn't really down with what I wanted to do, then okay,
you're out next, you know, like you And then I
meet him and I'm like, this is the worst situation.
Every steer the heck clear right, And then all of
a sudden, I found myself like crying over this man,
and I'm going, Okay, what the heck, I do not
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cry over a guy? Yeah, so stupid, you know. And
I tried to deny it for so long and then
obviously crap hit the fan with us and and it
was even you know, I was like, why am I
even upset? You should just so move on. But it
was just like this internal thing of I don't know,
I just couldn't, like I couldn't and you know, I
don't know. I mean, we've we broke up a couple
of times too. People don't know that we got together
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and then we ended up breaking up a couple of times,
and just at the beginning, well just but I think
in the beginning, and I think just because it was,
you know, there was so much kind of going on
at the beginning of our relationship, and just it's like
you're almost like a lot of cases, you're kind of
doing things not necessarily maybe that you want to do,
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but more because you feel like it's right, it's what
people kind of expect you to do, you know, and
it just I don't know, it was just a It's
just kind of one of those things that in the beginning.
It was tough, you know, I mean it's it's always
tough I think for for people when they're coming out
of a relationship anyway and getting into a new relationship,
that's always tough in itself. And then on top of
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that you add just all the other stuff that went on,
and it was just it was a little a little crazy.
Plus it was long distance. She was where were you, Britt.
I was in laved In La, Okay, and he was
obviously in Nashville. So yeah, it was just tough. That's
so much like and just timing is terrible. Yeah, yeah,
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so you know, it was it was just a lot
of those kind of things that were going on, and
you know, ultimately it was like, you know, somehow we
would find a way to like back in touch and
check on each other, and then that would lead to
you know, us sort of talking again. And it was
you know, it was never anytime we broke up. It
was never for very long or you know, really if
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I would use to use the term broke up, but
it was more of like everything against you though, did
you Yeah, both people were awful, you know, like his
career was a little bit on the line. It was
like Hey, you know, whatever you do, don't talk to
this person. And it's like, well crap, yeah that's who
I want to talk to, you know, or whatever. So
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it was just one of those like I shouldn't be together,
but we wanted to. It was it was it was
just a was just a weird time, you know. It's
just it was kind of starting a relationship that was
just you know, I don't know, just had every reason
to fail, you know what I mean. And and I
think everybody kind of expected that, oh, this is just
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sort of a you know, this is going to be
like a flash in the pan kind of thing. You know,
just all that stuff, and you know, we kind of
knew better and it just I don't know, it was
just but it was a tough way to start a relationship.
So we definitely went through some ups and downs in
the beginning and h you know and again, and I
think going through that stuff kind of just made us tighter.
And you know, I mean, I stay all the time
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now people can throw whatever they want at us, like
there is nothing good, nothing you can throw at us.
That that's you know that we haven't seen at this point.
So what was the moment that you were like, all right,
we're doing this, like you really just decided to lean in,
do you remember, I don't know, or was it just
over time? It kind of just was so natural y'all
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couldn't get away from each other. I mean, he obviously
had things on his end to handle, ye, which he did,
and then I think it was just like, all right,
let's give it a try, you know, and see how
it And we went in a little blind. I mean,
there was no guarantee obviously that we were going to
be together. I mean I could have left a week
end and he could have done the same, and it
was just like, let's just take the gamble, you know.
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And yeah, I think at some point it was just like,
all right, you know this is this is not gonna
be easy, you know, and and you know we're gonna
We knew we were gonna kind of go through some
you know, some some judgment some judgmental things for people,
and oh yeah, for sure still oh oh yeah. So
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but I think at some point we kind of just
you know, told each other like this is you know,
we knew what we were in store for at that point,
and it's like, you know, but I don't know, I
just feel like if you want to be with somebody
and like you're worried about you know, people not listening
to your music because you know you're with this part, Like,
to me, that's ridiculous. So and you know, and I
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was just like, man, it's my personal happiness to me
is worth you know, way more than money or whatever.
You know. It's it's like you can have all the
money in the world, but if you're not truly happy,
like what do you really have a miserable existence? Though? Right?
Like I think for me anyway, it was just kind
of a point of like, you know, I didn't I
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just kind of got to a point where I didn't
really care what people thought about decisions I made in
my personal life. It's like, if you want to if
you're a fan of my music, cool, and if you're not,
that's fine too. But I'm I'm gonna be happy when
I'm off stage because I'm off stage more than I'm
on stage, you know. And and that was kind of
the point for me where I decided to like go
full throttle and like just see what happened, you know.
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I remember that was kind of what happened for me because,
like I said, I didn't know what to think about
Britt when she came out, had known Jason longer, and
I was I had gone through my own personal stuff
at that point, and you're just you do I hate
that I did that, but I did do it, and
I've told you about that. Yeah, But for me, the
biggest thing has been over the years just truly seeing
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how you guys are together, and it just speaks for itself.
I don't think you have to explain it. And um,
you know, I never fought people for feeling a certain
way in the beginning by any means, because if it
were my friend, or if I was an outside or
looking in, I'd be going, this is not okay, this
isn't cool, just like who's this girl? You know, which
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it's not my place to say, but you just think
to a situation, okay, you'd be feet or baby or
something she just wants to talk to. But no, I
completely get it. I mean I say that still to
this days. You know, if I was looking in from
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the outside, I would probably have my own opinions on it,
and they wouldn't be good. I get it. Um, But
you know, until you're in a position like this, it's
kind of hard to judge it because you just don't
really know totally. Well, I don't think either one of
us ever thought, like, you know, like I never thought
I would jump into a relationship like that. And it's
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not easy. You don't plan it out. It's not something
that you just you know, it's sort of the path
you want for yourself. I mean, you know, it just
it just happens. And when things like that happened, you know,
it's it's unfortunate. There's no easy way to to kind
of break that news or for it to come out,
you know, And um, I don't know, it's I don't know.
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It's just not what I would have planned out for myself,
for her or anybody. So I mean I definitely get
you know, why we got some of the backlash we
got him, And I mean I don't really understand why
we still get it so much, just because it's been
like at this point, I'm just kinda like get over it.
But um, you know, I can definitely understand the initial
backlash and people feeling the way they did about it,
and um, you know, like she said, I mean, we
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would probably be the same way or if I saw
somebody be like man, it happened to my friend, I'd
be I get it, you know, but you know, it
just it wasn't planned out, you know, it just kind
of happened to way it did. And not that that's
an excuse or whatever, but it's it's just a truth.
You just can't help who you love. I think it's
that easy. Let's talk about more positive things because now
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you guys have been together for seven years and we
have navy just crawling Oliver Jason, right, Daddy's girls. Yeah,
so it's two you have two kids? Yeah, well you
have four total? Ye, but two under? What? Two? Hunder? Two? Oh?
My god? You know what I love you is because
right before we started this, you were telling me about
having a baby. Yeah, You're like, you're just shooting straight
like straight up. I was listening to Bruno Mars when
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she came out. Yeah, okay, why you have to tell
the people, educate the people. So basically, like, there's a
lot of things during labor that people don't say, yeah,
you know, they it seems scary and whatnot. But the
things that I feel like you should actually worry about
her life, you don't think about it. Being super silent
in the room, I would have never thought about that,
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and um, you know my husband being right there and
right doctors and look yeah, I like and I made
him stay up yeah by my face. Yeah, don't you
dare even the doctors like it's such a beautiful thing. Look,
I'm like, don't you put the fear of God in
here before? Like, don't you dare look down there? Please? Um?
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And for some people that's cool. Just for me, no,
I'd rather, you know, not him not see that. Um,
so I had a playlist going. What was on this playlist? Oh,
Beyonce for sure. Of course. She realivates me beyond I
mean that makes sense to me. It's like the most powerful.
She gets me motivated and anything that's like makes you
want to push. Yeah, you know what I mean a
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workout mix, because you really are Seu said, maybe came
out in two songs. Yeah, eight minutes, eight minutes, but
she came out to Bruno Mars. I'll never forget it.
I feel like that's why she's always gonna have a
good attitude. Bruna Mars is so happy. Yeah, I didn't
have all that during Memphis took twenty nine minutes, but
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he was also nine and a half pounds she does, huh,
But then she was seven to twelve. That's why she
came out so quick. Probably she's just yes a little.
I mean she is the cutest. So her demeanor you said,
is just super chill and so chill and happy. And
she's looking at her you say that she's precious. And
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I don't know if it's you know, the difference in
a girl and a boy. But Memphis is off the walls. Yeah,
he is crazy man, into everything, so much energy from
the second he gets up. I mean he's just running crazy.
And then she's just chill. She'll just sit in a
seat and watch and watch play with like a little something.
I mean, she's just easy. The difference in them, too,
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is it's insane and I don't know if it's that's typical,
but for them, yeah, that's how it is. Did you
always know you wanted to have kids? No? I really
thought I did. But then I also my personality. It's
kind of like I don't know if I'm going to
be able to be with someone that like I get
a little bored. Oh yeah, I just yeah, You're like,
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maybe not for me. I don't know, because you know,
it's kind of hard, especially twenty five. Before I'm met him,
I didn't know anybody that I would want to have
children with. I guess maybe I should put it that way.
And then it made more sense when I met Jace
that I did want them because I wanted to share
that experience with somebody that I loved. And so yeah,
eventually I knew I wanted children, and then as soon
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as I made that decision, it was all I thought about. Really,
it just consumed me. And we started the in vitro
process and everything, and it consumed I mean, it's all
I talked about. It is really annoying for him, probably,
but you know, like my life was filled with shotting
and in appointments and failed attempts and hoping and waiting
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ye happening in the roller coaster of emotions and everything,
and it just consumed me for about a year over
a year, a year and a half probably. So that
was with Memphis, right, because I actually remember we were
at the a CNS one year and you were doing
shots and like it was intense. It is. We talked
about this before too, but I'm on hormones for the
egg freezing, and I was just telling it, like I
literally just started crying yesterday. Yeah, did you do that? Yeah?
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And I was I thought Jason was always like, oh great,
you're gonna be a nut job, you know. And I
actually want to chime in on that. Jason was she
I pleaded the fifth whatever. It's I mean, I'll say this, man.
You know women who go through you know, the IVF process,
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I mean I have a whole new respect for that
just because I mean I saw what she went through
every night and just getting ready and then you you know,
you got through all this stuff and then it fails,
you know, and then it's like months of that, and
then it's like a whole another month of getting ready
to go, and then it fails again, and you know,
it's it's heartbreaking. Man. It's like, you know, it just
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kind of emotionally took a toll on her and and
you know, just I don't know, it's just really tough
to to watch. And then you know, it was like
finally when she got pregnant with Memphis, it was such
a I don't know, just it just made it that
much better. You know. It's just like because you had
gone through a little bit of that heartache with with
trying to to to get pregnant and then all of
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a sudden, you know, it's like every time I was
like no, no, no, and then all of a sudden
she was. And then you're like scared that you know,
something's gonna get messed up, and so, you know, until
it reaches a certain point jump during the pregnant. Yeah,
I was so nervous. I was like, okay, it took
me so long to get yeah with him, what if
something were to happen? And then your mind just goes
crazy places, like you know, until you're out of the
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first trimester, you know, you worry to death and then
and I still worry, just you know, normal mom things.
I feel like it started then and it probably won't
ever end. But yeah, it was just it was a
hard process. And then we decided to try for navy
so immediately after because we didn't know how long it
was going to take because it took so long to
get pregnant with him, right, you know, so um we
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started he was about four months old, really, yeah, and pregnant.
Well you got pregnant last right, yeah, because I ended
up having endometriosis, right, you did, and had How painful
was that? It was very painful, very it was awful.
So did you just think pregnancy was terrible? Pregnancy with
him was great. I had a great one with him.
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I could have I always said this during the time.
I wasn't nauseous. Really, I could have run a marathon basically.
I mean I was a massive I had forty extra
pounds just on my stomach. I mean it was very uncomfortable.
But her pregnancy, I was sick for almost twenty weeks,
I mean bad. Yeah. Um, so the pregnancies were so different. Yeah,
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you know, and and I had horrible skin. I just
did not feel, you know, that glow that didn't happen
for nothing months. The people who were always like I
loved being pregnant, I'm like, how they love being pregnant
in the beginning, you know what I mean, like because
that's when you're sick. Well, I mean like, but before
you get like really big, because the last I feel like,
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once you had a little bit of a belly, I
feel like six months, seven months, like this funny, yeah,
it's cute still six seven months, and then eight months
is like yeah, and then you're pushing tip. I've never
seen somebody that was excited to be pregnant at eight
or nine months now. Ever, yeah, you included ready. It
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just is not comfortable. And yeah, and I had like
she was sitting on a nerve, so my back pain
was bad. I mean, it was just all I was
just uncomfortable all the time. It's a beautiful thing. It
is because you feel the baby and everything in such
a blessing. And obviously after trying for so long, it's
so beautiful. And I would do it. I would do
it more. I would do it again. But I'm out.
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I'm out of the game. This is off the market.
The market man shops closed. How do you feel like
I'm being a mom has changed you? I'm way more selfless, okay,
you know because I feel like your days obviously when
it's just you or you, when you're so much time
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what everyone always tells me, Yeah, what do you want
to do today? You when you go to lunch, you
want to get the mall, You want to write right around,
you want to whatever. I don't know, it just is
not about you anymore, I mean ever, no, Yeah, which
it's great though, what do you mean it's great? Like
I look so there the highlight of my day. Yeah,
when Memphis, for instance, when he wakes up from a nap.
I mean, I'm like counting down the minute. It's like,
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I'll go get him. Everybody's like trying to, you know,
be the other person to the room to get the baby. Yeah,
it's funny. It's like when they're not at the house too.
You know. It's just like my Memphis favorite person in
the world is probably my dad. Oh really yeah, so
his pappaw and he so my dad will take him
sometimes he'll go spend the night with my dad and
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and man, it's so weird when he's not at the house.
It's so quiet, you know what I mean. It's like
you're just like, man, this is so weird. Yeah, it's
so weird when he's not there. Great, what do you
want to do? Watch? Yeh wanna Yeah? And then it's
dead silent. You're like, this is boring. The next day
we're like, all right, let's go get them. Ye come
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pick them up? Yeah? Really are you still going on
the road as much as you wear ab it now?
So now with the two little ones, I was so
sick with her. Yeah. You know, when you have babies,
there's a huge difference in having their stuff at the
house and having them in their crib versus having them
in their crib on the bus, which is a bunk, right,
you know when you hit a pothole and then I'm like,
oh my gosh, it's right, or you know it's louder
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I don't I mean log going on on the road. Yeah,
And then sometimes we're so close that the bus is
so close to the venue that if it's say an amphitheater,
the music's out doors so you can hear it through
the bus. And so then I'm like, they're not going
to sleep walk so much going on that. A lot
of people make it work and we do it or
I'll go out with them a few times a year.
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But it's tough. Yeah, it's different. I mean she was
out pretty much all the time before you were out
all the time at the beginning. It's just it's just tough.
I mean then you know them meant the especially because
he's running around, you know, so you stick him on
a you stick him on a bus all day for
three or four days. I mean he's he's starting to
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go a little stair crazy. So it's just you know,
she still comes out like whenever she can, but not
as much as she was a couple of years ago,
before he was born. Yeah, it's just it's just too much.
And Jason had two kids before. So how often do
you guys have them? Every other week? Yeah, every other
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week we get them. We actually just had them this
past weekend, and um, you know, so and and it's
it's been a cool dynamic the fact that Keeley's the oldest,
she's sixteen, and Kendall's twelve, and and so you know,
they come over to the house and you know, at
this point they're kind of like built in babysitters. They
helped out a ton with the little ones, and and
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and you know they love them to death too. So
it's been it's been cool, you know, because that's those
are the kind of things that could go either way.
You know, could be a lot of jealousy, there could
be whatever. And they really are really sweet kids and
and love seeing the babies. You can tell when they
come in really yeah, hey guys, where's the babies? I
mean immediately. Yeah, it's been really cool to kind of
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watch that happen and and see that there's not that
sort of weird divide you know, yeah, divide between them,
and it's um, you know, it's it's cool and they help.
And in Memphis, I mean he's I mean as soon
as they come in, I mean he lights up. And
you know that probably his second and third favorite people
as his older sisters. Yeah. So um, but it's it's
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been cool to see it. So what is that process? Like,
I'm also dating someone now with kids and we haven't
gone through the like introduction yet. It's hard, right, tough,
It's it's not an ideal situation. I get right, obviously
that wasn't on my checklist are things I want to
know one, But you know, you make the best of
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like what it is. And he actually gave me great
advice in the beginning because it was really tough, and
especially being twenty five and one of being seven one
week eleven, You're like, what do you do? I mean,
I don't know. I've never had children and all of
a sudden they're like grown children and I don't know
how to do um And he just said, you know,
you have the opportunity to really impact their life and
be such a positive influence in these girls' lives. And
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it's true. And I kind of had to take it
that way and say, you know, I'm not their mom.
I am never going to be there, right, I do
not try, right, Um, I just try to be there
for them as a you know, parental figure, I guess,
but also a friend in a sense, and like I
just went them happy at the end of the day.
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I mean, I just provide everything that they need and
you know, nice to them and yeah, and I you know,
and I told her when we started dating too, you know,
I was like, I mean that was you know, I
don't have many deal breakers, but that was one. I
was like, of course, well, this is a package deal.
You know, they kind of come along with this deal
one and you know, into her credit. It's like for
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somebody that had never been in that situation or you
know whatever. I mean, I think she was getting into it,
not really knowing what she was getting into, but it
kind of didn't matter. And you know, she we wanted
to be together, and it was like if you love them,
I'm gonna love them, and you know, and it was
really I don't know, I mean, it's definitely I think
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took some getting used to for her, just the fact
of like this whole new dynamic to her life. But
you know, going from basically being a stepmom to two
kids to not worrying about anybody but yourself really, so
now all of a sudden, you know, being a step
parent to two kids and you're not the priority, Like
that's a weird. I think that's so weird. When you
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start dating someone, you're so focused on each other and
like immediately you realize, like, oh my god, I'm never
going to be number one. You never starting. It's hard
coming from single life or like being with totally somebody
who's around your age, who has the same you know,
like kind of yeah, you who obviously for the most part,
doesn't have children. I mean I never dated anyone with children,
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So going from those kind of relationships to a relationship
with someone who did, it's just it was hard because
once again you had to be very selfless and realize,
you know, well, you know, Sunday through Wednesday, we've got
the girls, so they have school and they have all
these things, and you're like, you're like, oh god, yeah,
something you never had to think about. Yeah, yeah, would
you take one to school while I take the other
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or make them breakfast and get up and you're like, wow, yeah,
you know ball games that they're playing in and go
go see him play and it's just you know, it's
a lot, and it was stuff that you know, I
was kind of used to doing already, but she hadn't
really done that yet, right, Like I had dogs, right
what I mean which is something? I mean something, but
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it's something. But and she kept saying, you know, that's
what she kind of compared everything too, and I'm like,
it is like, it's see where you're coming from, but
it is nothing at I love my bulldog so much.
He was my he was your baby. I had at
nineteen when I was nineteen, so he had been through
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all the moves with me and so much stuff in
my life. And I'm like, you know, I don't know
what having a child is like, but if it I
love the child half as much as I love my bulldog.
That I'm good. And she's like, that's the most ridiculous
I've heard. Well, that's the only love I know right
as far as well and if people understand, like Britty
loves animals, you love animals, I mean, I mean I
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need therapy. Yes, I loved what you posted on Instagram
the other day, Jason about it was some meme of like, yes,
what did it say? It? Well, something about like I
had put out somebody had put out it's you know,
a ton of season right now, yeah, beer, And somebody
put out some some corn for the deer, and and
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somebody had spilled out with the corn that said it's
a trap, yeah to you know, not eat it. And
I'm like, this is exactly what she was. Yep, I know.
I like to sabotage a little bit. I went, I
went hunting one time, and she sprayed her channail perfume
all over my hunting clothes so the deer would smell.
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Yet yes, wow, because it's like, yes, I don't I
never thought I would be with a hunter ever in
a million. You couldn't have paid me, paid me like
there's okay um, And then I of course end up
with one. So it's literally like you just cannot predict
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who you're gonna be with or what that's gonna look like,
because when it happens, it just happens. It happens, and
it's a lot of times what she would least expect.
I'll say that exactly, like, in so many ways the
opposite of what I would have thought. Right, you know,
in the situation, I guess maybe you are right, She's
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parties over here, two people pay attention to me. I know. Um,
so I always tell my friends that who are still single.
I'm like, you know, it's funny. It'll be when you
least expect it at a random event or party or
like somewhere gas station. I mean, who knows, and all
of a sudden you're like, what the heck where did
this come from? Yeah? Yeah, no idea that it's going
(31:14):
to be like this. Don't you think though, that the
person being kind of opposite of you it challenges you
to grow, Like that's been my experience at least. Yeah,
it's been really good for me, it's been. He's been
good for He's very calm, cool and collected, and I'm
high energy and just short fused. Yeah, in a sense,
like it doesn't take much for me to just lose it.
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And I think that's like the geminimy a little bit.
But he's good for me because he looks at me like, okay,
are you done pitching your damn fit? Like calm down,
and it's talking about this rationally. Yeah you're right, okay, sorry,
yeah right, Yeah. I mean, well, you know, she's just
one of those people. It's like the least little thing.
She kind of goes off on a rant and I'm like,
right on a scale at one to ten, this is
(31:57):
like a negative two, Like this is really a big
deal that you just really making it Like, you know,
we've had some like problems. This is all I have
to put it into perspective. But it's good for me. Yeah,
And then there's sometimes I feel like I don't know, Yeah,
what does she bring to you, Jason? No, Well, the
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thing I think with me is like, you know, I
was always and still kind of am in a lot
of ways, but really private. And I was just very
private person and just you know, I felt like I,
you know, played shows and the things people saw when
I was in public or interviews or something that was
kind of their thing, and then when I was away
from all that, my time was kind of my time totally. Yeah,
(32:40):
And it was just my way of kind of separating
all that stuff and kind of cutting it off. Yeah.
So I was just kind of always like that, and
you know, with her, I think she's done really good.
It's sort of showing me a different side of that,
kind of helping me come out of that a little
bit and be more willing to like share you know,
personal life stuff with with people, whether it be on
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social media or just whatever. You know. Her thing was like, man,
you have like this great personality, but you don't really
let people see it. You know, you're funny and yeah,
and you know, and so I think for me, she
was good in a sense of like, hey, you know,
it'll be great for you to for people to see
this other side that they never get to see. That
it's part of the reason that you know, she was
(33:24):
attracted to whatever, and it's like nobody gets to see
that stuff. So that things like that, I think is
where she's kind of helped me sort of come out
of my shell a little bit as far as that goes,
and not be so protective of my personal life and
personal time and things like that, because you know, it's
just it's weird because when you you know what, like
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for me, when my career hit all of a sudden,
it was like everything you did was under the microscope
and people, you know, judged everything you did and they
wanted to know everything that was going on. And I've
just never I was just never wired like that in
the beginning, you know, And for me, it was like
this is what I do, and I enjoy it, but
when I'm done, you know, I kind of just I
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kind of shut all that stuff. It was kind of
just a way for me to cut it off and
sort of separate the two a little bit. And you
know when she kind of helped to kind of open
my eyes to the fact that people are, you know,
really into you know a lot of people, whether some
of them may be negative, but a lot of people
for good reasons or just interested in, you know, in
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your personal life. And it kind of lets them see,
like like I said, aside of me that they probably
didn't get a chance to see before. So I think
that was good. Don't you think it's a way to
connect with people too, because you're I mean, even the
stuff you guys have gone through is what a lot
of people probably go through or just surprised actually our
situation that happened obviously when we got together. So many
people would write to me or come out of the
(34:51):
woodworks and say, you know, I've been through something similar
and nobody even knows and yeah, it's such a struggle
for me or it was, or you know, I've been
through similar situations or whatever, and you would actually be
shocked at how many people are just in internal battles
and stuff with themselves and they don't even speak on it.
It was just for us, you know. I mean, and
I remember saying this at one point, you know, I
mean stuff like that's I mean, it's tough to go
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through anyway, but when you're when you're going through it
in the public eye, I can't. I mean, it's really
it's really tough. At that point. It's like I challenge
you to think about something that you've been through that's
been a little bit quote unquote controversial in life, a
little situation, yeah, and then intensify that times a million
and everyone know about it. And when everybody and you're like,
(35:39):
well this sucks, and how do you not like get
in your own head about all of that? Like what
am I doing? You know, like really beat yourself up.
It's just that thing too of like once something like
that comes out, you know, and you know, it's like
once a headline's out there, it doesn't matter what follows
it for the next ten days. Like once that initial
that initial thing that comes out is what people are
(36:00):
gonna remember, right, you know what I mean, So you
know you can try and do damage control, and that's
what I said earlier, like you know, I didn't even
try and like put the flame out at that point.
It was just like it is what it is, and
I'm not going to change anybody's opinion. It hard, was
that though, because I would for a long time, you
know what I really want to I know, so for
(36:21):
me to have to sit there and not just claws
come out and go crazy was was really hard. But can't.
But I also knew that it wasn't gonna it wasn't
gonna change. It actually only makes it worse, which I
thought I learned too. It's hard. It does feel the fire,
so you I guess it's hard. But the best way
to handle it is just not really speak on it.
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But then it's just hard to sit back and take it.
Of course. That's just I mean with anything. Yeah, well
I think it's just human nature. You know. It's like
if somebody comes out and punches you in the nose,
you you want to punch back. I want to, Yeah,
I want to defend so and that's kind of where
you want to go with it, really of me for sure,
And it's just I just feel like with social media anymore,
(37:02):
I mean a lot of what you're dealing with them.
There is just you're never gonna win those battles anyway.
So it's just like old, leave it half. These people
probably weren't fans of mine anyway. So right, I'm sitting
here arguing with somebody that didn't like me to begin with.
Like right, exactly, And honestly, no matter what you do,
you can't change people's minds a lot of startin. I mean,
we could do a million charity events and do all
(37:23):
the things, and it's still going to say, well, Jeter,
you don't lack them. Of course, that's what I was saying.
For me, the best thing was is y'all just living
your life. And then it was like, oh, like I
get it now, you know what I mean, Like it
was just obvious. Yeah, yeah, are you guys going to
bring back the carpool karaoke thing? We were actually, as
a matter of fact, we were filming some of it today. Yeah.
(37:45):
I was like, maybe just put it in the kids,
you know. I would just set up in the windshield
and initially he's like, oh, cheered, why do we have
to do this? And then I edit it down and
it Yeah, yeah, we were. We were filming a few
things on the way end today. Just get the kids
in on it. It's been a whole but we haven't
done it forever and she just happened to say it today.
That funny you said that, But and it's funny because
we like such different kinds of music. We're just so
(38:07):
opposite in everything, right, But then our bands are just things,
you know. The reactions are my favorite part. Like watching
one of you react to that. I'm like, if you
could be a fly on the wall in our house,
I can only Actually we have am We just got
a nanny recently, and she the other day was like,
I will say this about y'all. I am always entertained.
(38:27):
She's like, there's never realized. You kind of need to realize.
But that's what they like in our house. I mean,
like the banner that we have, like we're doing the karioke.
That's kind of how we are all the time, right,
So it's it's pretty entertaining, and I think we just
kind of entertain ourselves about doing it right. And then
like when you get somebody else there, like the nanny,
she's just like she's never like, what's it's always usually
(38:48):
boring at my jobs, but you guys are to each
other too, which is funny because and there's not really
a filter. So right, I'm like, I hope you don't
get offended easily because we do say that he's really funny.
She she's like, really funny and inappropriate, inpropriate. But that's
what that's how we are. So we can when can
(39:08):
we expect this next video? We need to I don't know,
we gotta well, I'm putting it into the universe. Yeah,
I do it all right. The problem is usually she
puts me in control of the songs. Yeah right. It
makes it funny though, because usually I don't agree with
her like this. Really yes, play me on the way over,
(39:29):
which is my thing. I mean that's good. Yeah. See, yeah,
we should have a couple of drinks and then do
oh my god, oh god, that would get really funny.
That don't be good. Don't get me wine, don't get
me tequila. It's funny, man, I'll start drinking a little bit. Yeah.
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I have hard time remember in words of songs, so
so it might not work my own song yeah yeah,
so no, even my shows and stuff. I'm always like,
I try and keep it together until after the show,
and then I kind of cut loose, I get out
there and drake too much before the show. I can't
remember anything, even your own songs, that's all, forget how
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to play them on guitar. Years later you're they're like, wait,
what does this Forget the words the Hicktown I've been
playing for fifteen years? He had one too too many
to cue God Guilty, Guilty, Okay, well so you also,
I know you guys need to go, So I'm gonna
wrap it up, but I want to tell everyone your
Instagram has become like a full business for you. I
feel like it's at Brittany Alden maybe um maybe approves. Yeah,
(40:38):
it has. And it's shocking what you can do with
social media. It's insane, right, And I know you know that.
I mean, yeah, gosh that and you know the reason
I love it for so many reasons. But it allows
me to be home and travel with Chase, right, and
it makes it easy in that aspect, but also the
guy's kind of the limit. And I do know that
eventually one day Instagram is going to be maybe no
(41:01):
longer around, It's going to be new platforms, and so
I'm going to utilize this from life can and you know,
maximize it and while it's still here and I'm able
to so and I love it, and it just I
have such a following and some really cool I guess
you say fans out there. I know they're fans of Jason,
and I guess by default they are of mine too,
(41:21):
And it's just really they've helped me create businesses and
it's been pretty neat and awesome. Well and and like
I said, the best part is that you know, I
travel so much, so it frees her up to be able.
I mean she can post pictures or do stuff she
needs to do on the road with me. Yeah, we
can have the kids out there, and like it's it's
great for that. And then you know when she gets
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to kind of pick and choose the stuff she she
wants to company she wants to work with and U
and now you have your own line. Yeah, I have
my own line, UM, which is kind of taken a
little bit of a backseat. I just started UM a
line with shoe Dazzle, so and I am so excited
about The shoes are phenomenally I mean I'm when they
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show up with these, I get to help pick out
and design and stuff. It's two of shoes got delivered
our house within about a week and a half. Now
is that got a dream? Literally? I can't think of
anything better. But yeah, so you're a big part of
the design process and picking out fun When will that
(42:26):
be coming out? It is currently Actually I launched my
new November December line today. Yeah, it's on Instagram and
the links in the biobes so people can shop. Okay,
it's fun. It's just really cool. I just think that
the social media, it's a I have a love hate
relationship with it. Well of course, you know, and yeah,
as do we all. Yes, but as far as work
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goes and career aspects, Hey, we're trying to conduct an interview,
I don't really care. Um. I just think it's really
great for people being able to start their own businesses
who would be able to maybe otherwise or just make them.
It makes it easy to stay home. How important was
that for you to have your own thing? So important? Really? Um?
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And as you know, when I first got with Jason,
I was like, you know, I'm a workaholic. I really am,
and I like to have my own People wouldn't know
that about you. I've always worked like three jobs and
because I like to pay for my own things. I've
worked my way through college. I went out of state
and paid one hundred grand for college and I did it.
And I just paid off my student loans by myself. Yeah,
she wouldn't let me have. She wouldn't let me pay it.
(43:31):
But here's one that we first met. We would like,
I don't know, we'd like get go to dinner like whatever, yeah,
and and it was like, you know, I would get
up to go to the bathroom or something and come
back and she would have like already paid for our meal.
Like she was adamant about that stuff. Even though how
cool was that for you? Though, because wouldn't most girls
just be like, oh, I want to date with Jason Haldane.
(43:53):
Well it was cool, but it was kind of annoying too,
because it's like, you know, it's like, I'm I took
you to dinner because I want to buy your dinner.
Understand the bathroom and you're gonna pay for you Yeah.
I just I'm not the kind of person to say, hey,
you know, can I borrow twenty bucks to go away?
There is no that would be torture for me. Yeah,
I mean I refuse, And like when it's Christmas time,
I want to buy him something with my money. And
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I'm I just I love to work and I love
to feel like I have my own And I always
say this, like, and he knows this, like, I want
to be with you, but I don't need to be
with you. So I don't never think that like I'm
here for the wrong reasons, because that is not the case.
And so I have built my own separate deal and
it's so gratifying for me, and I feel like it
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helps for you to have your own sense of independence
in the relationship too, because I feel like we depend
on somebody financially. It's such a weird dynamic changes, and
you know, there's obviously circumstances with people who that's just
how it has to be and that's fine. But for
me personally, I'm gonna do what I can to make
my own. Yeah, you know, I love that about you.
Thanks well. You guys can check it all out at
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brittany al Deane and obviously at Jason Alden on Instagram,
or you can go see a show or all the things.
Thank you guys so much for being here. Thank you
for having us. So I didn't even know I was
going to be here. I came to babysit. Actually I
was like hey, and then we just handed in one.
It is he glad to be here. Thanks, and do
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some more karaoke videos for us, all right? That is
that is what I'm holding y'all too. Here you we'll
do it all right. Thank you guys for listening. This
is Kelly Henderson and you've been listening to the Velvet's
Edge podcast. I truly believe that every one of us
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Hey, this is Kelly Henderson. Thank you for checking out
the Bobby Bones Show podcast. I wanted to share an
episode with you guys of my podcast called Velvet's Edge
with Kelly Henderson. Velvet's Edge is a podcast that explores
inner and outer beauty and is based on my lifestyle website,
Velvet's Edge dot com. I love exploring these topics with
some of my friends in the music industry, which are
relationships that I've made over the past fifteen years of
(00:22):
being a hair makeup artist and stylist here in Nashville.
I recently sat down with Brittany and Jason al Dean.
They gave me some very honest answers about their love
story and how the unconventional way that they got together
has actually made them stronger as a couple. Brittany also
gives her top baby delivery tips and tells how being
a mother has really changed her. If you liked this episode,
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I would love for you guys to come and check
out more episodes. Just subscribe on Apple podcast, listen on iHeartRadio,
or wherever you listen to podcast. Here's my episode of
Velvet's Edge with Kelly Henderson with Brittany and Jason Alden, Well,
this is a pleasant surprise. This is like two for
the press of one. I know, we kind of do
everything together. Yeah, along, I'm just along for the ride.
(01:08):
I guess I have three because we have a little
navy here too, join us. I might have to check
out here. She starts getting loud, but right now she's cool.
It's so good. You know, what I was thinking about
whenever I first started thinking about doing a podcast with
you was just how wrong I had you when I
first met you, you know, and we've talked about that
a little bit, and I was thinking about this, probably
(01:29):
because of the way you guys got together. It was
like a little unconventional. But now that I like see
this is years later, and it's so cool to me,
Like you said, you do everything together, but you guys
truly are really in love. Yeah yeah, I mean, I
mean we really do. This morning we were talking, it's
just like we really are like best friends and everything together,
(01:51):
and and you know, and I may not get how
people probably took that up at the beginning, you know,
and I wasn't the best look for either one of us,
but you know, at the end of the day, it's like,
you know, we we knew there was something, yeah, something
that was pretty undeniable there, and um, I don't know,
it's been you know, like I think we both kind
(02:14):
of probably hated the way it started, but you know,
at the end of the day, like I wouldn't change
the outcome of it at all. Yeah, that's a hard thing.
You're like me, and I would change so many things.
But then yeah, because what if it didn't turn out
the way, would you be where you are? Exactly? So obviously,
I you know, I mean both of us feel this way,
but we would have done things completely differently. However, we're
(02:35):
very happy that the outcome is what it is and
now we have these two beautiful babies and weird. Yeah,
she's like, what's up. Yeah, we are sincerely best friends
and I don't know. It's one of those things where
I we actually talked about this last week, like I
wish everybody could experience. I love this, like, yes, because
(02:55):
we love each other so much that it makes me
sad for people who are, you know, maybe in a
situation where they don't feel that way or right, maybe
they just haven't met that person yet or whatever. And
I just want this love for everybody. I actually don't
think a lot of people do. You know, do you
think that y'all got closer though because you had to
only rely on each other? I do, you know. I
(03:18):
mean I think when we first, you know, started dating
and things like that, it was just, you know, everybody
just kind of you know, saw or heard whatever they
thought was the deal, you know at that point, like
there's no sense in going out and trying to defend
anything or you know, because I mean I think you know,
we knew that. It was like man, that's you know,
(03:39):
it's just not a good look for you know, us.
But like I said, I mean it's pretty undeniable. And
I think for us it's just like we really did
kind of only have each other, you know, I you know,
going through stuff like that, I mean, you lose a
lot of friends, and you lose yeah really and people
are just not you know, some friend some people cool,
(04:01):
and you know a lot of people aren't, and you
know you just kind of start to weed those people
out a little bit. And you know, we just kind
of found ourselves just hanging out with each other, you know,
and doing things and and kind of surrounding ourselves with
people that, um, you know that we enjoyed hanging out
with that. We didn't feel like we're judging, you know,
judged us because of of things like that we had
(04:23):
done or you know, how we got together or whatever.
But um, you know, and I definitely think it made
us a lot tighter and and um probably why now
we still you know, pretty much everything we do, we
like to do stuff together. Yeah, she went on a
girl's trip not too long ago, and she's like, I
really want you to come on my girls trip, but
all my all my girls are gonna be all my
(04:44):
girls are gonna be mad that they're there, you know.
But it's it's literally how it is, you know, and
and it's you know, I love it. I think people,
you know, I think sometimes people are in a relationship
and and you know, they love person, But I think
that's that's different than being like truly like in love
with some other best friends best friend, person that you
(05:08):
were meant to be with, and um, you know, and
I feel like, I mean not to sound like a
Hallmark card here, you know, I feel like that's kind
of what we found. And you know, it was. It
was really kind of an eye opening thing for both
of us, even though nobody else kind of knew, you know,
how to take it at the time. We we always
knew you knew, Yeah, we knew immediately, you know, And
(05:29):
that's kind of why it went down the way it did.
Why what what did you know immediately? What did you feel? Well?
I don't know. I was always the kind of person
I feel like a lot of girls maybe like this
where you know, I did what I wanted and if
the man didn't follow suit and buy, yeah, you know,
it was kind of like it's my world, you kind
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of live in it. And yeah, I was a little
bit of a brat and just like in that selfish
stage in life. And then you're also really young tonight.
I was like twenty five. Oh wow, what I didn't
know that some seven years? Oh my god, over seven. Yeah,
I did not realize that. Yeah, but I was just young,
you know. Yeah, And so it was kind of like
(06:11):
I I did what I wanted, and if the guy
wasn't really down with what I wanted to do, then okay,
you're out next, you know, like you And then I
meet him and I'm like, this is the worst situation.
Every steer the heck clear right, And then all of
a sudden, I found myself like crying over this man,
and I'm going, Okay, what the heck, I do not
(06:33):
cry over a guy? Yeah, so stupid, you know. And
I tried to deny it for so long and then
obviously crap hit the fan with us and and it
was even you know, I was like, why am I
even upset? You should just so move on. But it
was just like this internal thing of I don't know,
I just couldn't, like I couldn't and you know, I
don't know. I mean, we've we broke up a couple
of times too. People don't know that we got together
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and then we ended up breaking up a couple of times,
and just at the beginning, well just but I think
in the beginning, and I think just because it was,
you know, there was so much kind of going on
at the beginning of our relationship, and just it's like
you're almost like a lot of cases, you're kind of
doing things not necessarily maybe that you want to do,
(07:16):
but more because you feel like it's right, it's what
people kind of expect you to do, you know, and
it just I don't know, it was just a It's
just kind of one of those things that in the beginning.
It was tough, you know, I mean it's it's always
tough I think for for people when they're coming out
of a relationship anyway and getting into a new relationship,
that's always tough in itself. And then on top of
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that you add just all the other stuff that went on,
and it was just it was a little a little crazy.
Plus it was long distance. She was where were you, Britt.
I was in laved In La, Okay, and he was
obviously in Nashville. So yeah, it was just tough. That's
so much like and just timing is terrible. Yeah, yeah,
(07:59):
so you know, it was it was just a lot
of those kind of things that were going on, and
you know, ultimately it was like, you know, somehow we
would find a way to like back in touch and
check on each other, and then that would lead to
you know, us sort of talking again. And it was
you know, it was never anytime we broke up. It
was never for very long or you know, really if
(08:21):
I would use to use the term broke up, but
it was more of like everything against you though, did
you Yeah, both people were awful, you know, like his
career was a little bit on the line. It was
like Hey, you know, whatever you do, don't talk to
this person. And it's like, well crap, yeah that's who
I want to talk to, you know, or whatever. So
(08:42):
it was just one of those like I shouldn't be together,
but we wanted to. It was it was it was
just a was just a weird time, you know. It's
just it was kind of starting a relationship that was
just you know, I don't know, just had every reason
to fail, you know what I mean. And and I
think everybody kind of expected that, oh, this is just
(09:02):
sort of a you know, this is going to be
like a flash in the pan kind of thing. You know,
just all that stuff, and you know, we kind of
knew better and it just I don't know, it was
just but it was a tough way to start a relationship.
So we definitely went through some ups and downs in
the beginning and h you know and again, and I
think going through that stuff kind of just made us tighter.
And you know, I mean, I stay all the time
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now people can throw whatever they want at us, like
there is nothing good, nothing you can throw at us.
That that's you know that we haven't seen at this point.
So what was the moment that you were like, all right,
we're doing this, like you really just decided to lean in,
do you remember, I don't know, or was it just
over time? It kind of just was so natural y'all
(09:45):
couldn't get away from each other. I mean, he obviously
had things on his end to handle, ye, which he did,
and then I think it was just like, all right,
let's give it a try, you know, and see how
it And we went in a little blind. I mean,
there was no guarantee obviously that we were going to
be together. I mean I could have left a week
end and he could have done the same, and it
was just like, let's just take the gamble, you know.
(10:06):
And yeah, I think at some point it was just like,
all right, you know this is this is not gonna
be easy, you know, and and you know we're gonna
We knew we were gonna kind of go through some
you know, some some judgment some judgmental things for people,
and oh yeah, for sure still oh oh yeah. So
(10:26):
but I think at some point we kind of just
you know, told each other like this is you know,
we knew what we were in store for at that point,
and it's like, you know, but I don't know, I
just feel like if you want to be with somebody
and like you're worried about you know, people not listening
to your music because you know you're with this part, Like,
to me, that's ridiculous. So and you know, and I
(10:50):
was just like, man, it's my personal happiness to me
is worth you know, way more than money or whatever.
You know. It's it's like you can have all the
money in the world, but if you're not truly happy,
like what do you really have a miserable existence? Though? Right?
Like I think for me anyway, it was just kind
of a point of like, you know, I didn't I
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just kind of got to a point where I didn't
really care what people thought about decisions I made in
my personal life. It's like, if you want to if
you're a fan of my music, cool, and if you're not,
that's fine too. But I'm I'm gonna be happy when
I'm off stage because I'm off stage more than I'm
on stage, you know. And and that was kind of
the point for me where I decided to like go
full throttle and like just see what happened, you know.
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I remember that was kind of what happened for me because,
like I said, I didn't know what to think about
Britt when she came out, had known Jason longer, and
I was I had gone through my own personal stuff
at that point, and you're just you do I hate
that I did that, but I did do it, and
I've told you about that. Yeah, But for me, the
biggest thing has been over the years just truly seeing
(11:55):
how you guys are together, and it just speaks for itself.
I don't think you have to explain it. And um,
you know, I never fought people for feeling a certain
way in the beginning by any means, because if it
were my friend, or if I was an outside or
looking in, I'd be going, this is not okay, this
isn't cool, just like who's this girl? You know, which
(12:16):
it's not my place to say, but you just think
to a situation, okay, you'd be feet or baby or
something she just wants to talk to. But no, I
completely get it. I mean I say that still to
this days. You know, if I was looking in from
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the outside, I would probably have my own opinions on it,
and they wouldn't be good. I get it. Um, But
you know, until you're in a position like this, it's
kind of hard to judge it because you just don't
really know totally. Well, I don't think either one of
us ever thought, like, you know, like I never thought
I would jump into a relationship like that. And it's
(13:02):
not easy. You don't plan it out. It's not something
that you just you know, it's sort of the path
you want for yourself. I mean, you know, it just
it just happens. And when things like that happened, you know,
it's it's unfortunate. There's no easy way to to kind
of break that news or for it to come out,
you know, And um, I don't know, it's I don't know.
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It's just not what I would have planned out for myself,
for her or anybody. So I mean I definitely get
you know, why we got some of the backlash we
got him, And I mean I don't really understand why
we still get it so much, just because it's been
like at this point, I'm just kinda like get over it.
But um, you know, I can definitely understand the initial
backlash and people feeling the way they did about it,
and um, you know, like she said, I mean, we
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would probably be the same way or if I saw
somebody be like man, it happened to my friend, I'd
be I get it, you know, but you know, it
just it wasn't planned out, you know, it just kind
of happened to way it did. And not that that's
an excuse or whatever, but it's it's just a truth.
You just can't help who you love. I think it's
that easy. Let's talk about more positive things because now
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you guys have been together for seven years and we
have navy just crawling Oliver Jason, right, Daddy's girls. Yeah,
so it's two you have two kids? Yeah, well you
have four total? Ye, but two under? What? Two? Hunder? Two? Oh?
My god? You know what I love you is because
right before we started this, you were telling me about
having a baby. Yeah, You're like, you're just shooting straight
like straight up. I was listening to Bruno Mars when
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she came out. Yeah, okay, why you have to tell
the people, educate the people. So basically, like, there's a
lot of things during labor that people don't say, yeah,
you know, they it seems scary and whatnot. But the
things that I feel like you should actually worry about
her life, you don't think about it. Being super silent
in the room, I would have never thought about that,
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and um, you know my husband being right there and
right doctors and look yeah, I like and I made
him stay up yeah by my face. Yeah, don't you
dare even the doctors like it's such a beautiful thing. Look,
I'm like, don't you put the fear of God in
here before? Like, don't you dare look down there? Please? Um?
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And for some people that's cool. Just for me, no,
I'd rather, you know, not him not see that. Um,
so I had a playlist going. What was on this playlist? Oh,
Beyonce for sure. Of course. She realivates me beyond I
mean that makes sense to me. It's like the most powerful.
She gets me motivated and anything that's like makes you
want to push. Yeah, you know what I mean a
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workout mix, because you really are Seu said, maybe came
out in two songs. Yeah, eight minutes, eight minutes, but
she came out to Bruno Mars. I'll never forget it.
I feel like that's why she's always gonna have a
good attitude. Bruna Mars is so happy. Yeah, I didn't
have all that during Memphis took twenty nine minutes, but
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he was also nine and a half pounds she does, huh,
But then she was seven to twelve. That's why she
came out so quick. Probably she's just yes a little.
I mean she is the cutest. So her demeanor you said,
is just super chill and so chill and happy. And
she's looking at her you say that she's precious. And
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I don't know if it's you know, the difference in
a girl and a boy. But Memphis is off the walls. Yeah,
he is crazy man, into everything, so much energy from
the second he gets up. I mean he's just running crazy.
And then she's just chill. She'll just sit in a
seat and watch and watch play with like a little something.
I mean, she's just easy. The difference in them, too,
(16:37):
is it's insane and I don't know if it's that's typical,
but for them, yeah, that's how it is. Did you
always know you wanted to have kids? No? I really
thought I did. But then I also my personality. It's
kind of like I don't know if I'm going to
be able to be with someone that like I get
a little bored. Oh yeah, I just yeah, You're like,
(16:58):
maybe not for me. I don't know, because you know,
it's kind of hard, especially twenty five. Before I'm met him,
I didn't know anybody that I would want to have
children with. I guess maybe I should put it that way.
And then it made more sense when I met Jace
that I did want them because I wanted to share
that experience with somebody that I loved. And so yeah,
eventually I knew I wanted children, and then as soon
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as I made that decision, it was all I thought about. Really,
it just consumed me. And we started the in vitro
process and everything, and it consumed I mean, it's all
I talked about. It is really annoying for him, probably,
but you know, like my life was filled with shotting
and in appointments and failed attempts and hoping and waiting
(17:38):
ye happening in the roller coaster of emotions and everything,
and it just consumed me for about a year over
a year, a year and a half probably. So that
was with Memphis, right, because I actually remember we were
at the a CNS one year and you were doing
shots and like it was intense. It is. We talked
about this before too, but I'm on hormones for the
egg freezing, and I was just telling it, like I
literally just started crying yesterday. Yeah, did you do that? Yeah?
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And I was I thought Jason was always like, oh great,
you're gonna be a nut job, you know. And I
actually want to chime in on that. Jason was she
I pleaded the fifth whatever. It's I mean, I'll say this, man.
You know women who go through you know, the IVF process,
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I mean I have a whole new respect for that
just because I mean I saw what she went through
every night and just getting ready and then you you know,
you got through all this stuff and then it fails,
you know, and then it's like months of that, and
then it's like a whole another month of getting ready
to go, and then it fails again, and you know,
it's it's heartbreaking. Man. It's like, you know, it just
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kind of emotionally took a toll on her and and
you know, just I don't know, it's just really tough
to to watch. And then you know, it was like
finally when she got pregnant with Memphis, it was such
a I don't know, just it just made it that
much better. You know. It's just like because you had
gone through a little bit of that heartache with with
trying to to to get pregnant and then all of
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a sudden, you know, it's like every time I was
like no, no, no, and then all of a sudden
she was. And then you're like scared that you know,
something's gonna get messed up, and so, you know, until
it reaches a certain point jump during the pregnant. Yeah,
I was so nervous. I was like, okay, it took
me so long to get yeah with him, what if
something were to happen? And then your mind just goes
crazy places, like you know, until you're out of the
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first trimester, you know, you worry to death and then
and I still worry, just you know, normal mom things.
I feel like it started then and it probably won't
ever end. But yeah, it was just it was a
hard process. And then we decided to try for navy
so immediately after because we didn't know how long it
was going to take because it took so long to
get pregnant with him, right, you know, so um we
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started he was about four months old, really, yeah, and pregnant.
Well you got pregnant last right, yeah, because I ended
up having endometriosis, right, you did, and had How painful
was that? It was very painful, very it was awful.
So did you just think pregnancy was terrible? Pregnancy with
him was great. I had a great one with him.
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I could have I always said this during the time.
I wasn't nauseous. Really, I could have run a marathon basically.
I mean I was a massive I had forty extra
pounds just on my stomach. I mean it was very uncomfortable.
But her pregnancy, I was sick for almost twenty weeks,
I mean bad. Yeah. Um, so the pregnancies were so different. Yeah,
(20:35):
you know, and and I had horrible skin. I just
did not feel, you know, that glow that didn't happen
for nothing months. The people who were always like I
loved being pregnant, I'm like, how they love being pregnant
in the beginning, you know what I mean, like because
that's when you're sick. Well, I mean like, but before
you get like really big, because the last I feel like,
(20:56):
once you had a little bit of a belly, I
feel like six months, seven months, like this funny, yeah,
it's cute still six seven months, and then eight months
is like yeah, and then you're pushing tip. I've never
seen somebody that was excited to be pregnant at eight
or nine months now. Ever, yeah, you included ready. It
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just is not comfortable. And yeah, and I had like
she was sitting on a nerve, so my back pain
was bad. I mean, it was just all I was
just uncomfortable all the time. It's a beautiful thing. It
is because you feel the baby and everything in such
a blessing. And obviously after trying for so long, it's
so beautiful. And I would do it. I would do
it more. I would do it again. But I'm out.
(21:38):
I'm out of the game. This is off the market.
The market man shops closed. How do you feel like
I'm being a mom has changed you? I'm way more selfless, okay,
you know because I feel like your days obviously when
it's just you or you, when you're so much time
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what everyone always tells me, Yeah, what do you want
to do today? You when you go to lunch, you
want to get the mall, You want to write right around,
you want to whatever. I don't know, it just is
not about you anymore, I mean ever, no, Yeah, which
it's great though, what do you mean it's great? Like
I look so there the highlight of my day. Yeah,
when Memphis, for instance, when he wakes up from a nap.
I mean, I'm like counting down the minute. It's like,
(22:21):
I'll go get him. Everybody's like trying to, you know,
be the other person to the room to get the baby. Yeah,
it's funny. It's like when they're not at the house too.
You know. It's just like my Memphis favorite person in
the world is probably my dad. Oh really yeah, so
his pappaw and he so my dad will take him
sometimes he'll go spend the night with my dad and
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and man, it's so weird when he's not at the house.
It's so quiet, you know what I mean. It's like
you're just like, man, this is so weird. Yeah, it's
so weird when he's not there. Great, what do you
want to do? Watch? Yeh wanna Yeah? And then it's
dead silent. You're like, this is boring. The next day
we're like, all right, let's go get them. Ye come
(23:04):
pick them up? Yeah? Really are you still going on
the road as much as you wear ab it now?
So now with the two little ones, I was so
sick with her. Yeah. You know, when you have babies,
there's a huge difference in having their stuff at the
house and having them in their crib versus having them
in their crib on the bus, which is a bunk, right,
you know when you hit a pothole and then I'm like,
oh my gosh, it's right, or you know it's louder
(23:27):
I don't I mean log going on on the road. Yeah,
And then sometimes we're so close that the bus is
so close to the venue that if it's say an amphitheater,
the music's out doors so you can hear it through
the bus. And so then I'm like, they're not going
to sleep walk so much going on that. A lot
of people make it work and we do it or
I'll go out with them a few times a year.
(23:48):
But it's tough. Yeah, it's different. I mean she was
out pretty much all the time before you were out
all the time at the beginning. It's just it's just tough.
I mean then you know them meant the especially because
he's running around, you know, so you stick him on
a you stick him on a bus all day for
three or four days. I mean he's he's starting to
(24:09):
go a little stair crazy. So it's just you know,
she still comes out like whenever she can, but not
as much as she was a couple of years ago,
before he was born. Yeah, it's just it's just too much.
And Jason had two kids before. So how often do
you guys have them? Every other week? Yeah, every other
(24:30):
week we get them. We actually just had them this
past weekend, and um, you know, so and and it's
it's been a cool dynamic the fact that Keeley's the oldest,
she's sixteen, and Kendall's twelve, and and so you know,
they come over to the house and you know, at
this point they're kind of like built in babysitters. They
helped out a ton with the little ones, and and
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and you know they love them to death too. So
it's been it's been cool, you know, because that's those
are the kind of things that could go either way.
You know, could be a lot of jealousy, there could
be whatever. And they really are really sweet kids and
and love seeing the babies. You can tell when they
come in really yeah, hey guys, where's the babies? I
mean immediately. Yeah, it's been really cool to kind of
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watch that happen and and see that there's not that
sort of weird divide you know, yeah, divide between them,
and it's um, you know, it's it's cool and they help.
And in Memphis, I mean he's I mean as soon
as they come in, I mean he lights up. And
you know that probably his second and third favorite people
as his older sisters. Yeah. So um, but it's it's
(25:35):
been cool to see it. So what is that process? Like,
I'm also dating someone now with kids and we haven't
gone through the like introduction yet. It's hard, right, tough,
It's it's not an ideal situation. I get right, obviously
that wasn't on my checklist are things I want to
know one, But you know, you make the best of
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like what it is. And he actually gave me great
advice in the beginning because it was really tough, and
especially being twenty five and one of being seven one
week eleven, You're like, what do you do? I mean,
I don't know. I've never had children and all of
a sudden they're like grown children and I don't know
how to do um And he just said, you know,
you have the opportunity to really impact their life and
be such a positive influence in these girls' lives. And
(26:19):
it's true. And I kind of had to take it
that way and say, you know, I'm not their mom.
I am never going to be there, right, I do
not try, right, Um, I just try to be there
for them as a you know, parental figure, I guess,
but also a friend in a sense, and like I
just went them happy at the end of the day.
(26:41):
I mean, I just provide everything that they need and
you know, nice to them and yeah, and I you know,
and I told her when we started dating too, you know,
I was like, I mean that was you know, I
don't have many deal breakers, but that was one. I
was like, of course, well, this is a package deal.
You know, they kind of come along with this deal
one and you know, into her credit. It's like for
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somebody that had never been in that situation or you
know whatever. I mean, I think she was getting into it,
not really knowing what she was getting into, but it
kind of didn't matter. And you know, she we wanted
to be together, and it was like if you love them,
I'm gonna love them, and you know, and it was
really I don't know, I mean, it's definitely I think
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took some getting used to for her, just the fact
of like this whole new dynamic to her life. But
you know, going from basically being a stepmom to two
kids to not worrying about anybody but yourself really, so
now all of a sudden, you know, being a step
parent to two kids and you're not the priority, Like
that's a weird. I think that's so weird. When you
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start dating someone, you're so focused on each other and
like immediately you realize, like, oh my god, I'm never
going to be number one. You never starting. It's hard
coming from single life or like being with totally somebody
who's around your age, who has the same you know,
like kind of yeah, you who obviously for the most part,
doesn't have children. I mean I never dated anyone with children,
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So going from those kind of relationships to a relationship
with someone who did, it's just it was hard because
once again you had to be very selfless and realize,
you know, well, you know, Sunday through Wednesday, we've got
the girls, so they have school and they have all
these things, and you're like, you're like, oh god, yeah,
something you never had to think about. Yeah, yeah, would
you take one to school while I take the other
(28:25):
or make them breakfast and get up and you're like, wow, yeah,
you know ball games that they're playing in and go
go see him play and it's just you know, it's
a lot, and it was stuff that you know, I
was kind of used to doing already, but she hadn't
really done that yet, right, Like I had dogs, right
what I mean which is something? I mean something, but
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it's something. But and she kept saying, you know, that's
what she kind of compared everything too, and I'm like,
it is like, it's see where you're coming from, but
it is nothing at I love my bulldog so much.
He was my he was your baby. I had at
nineteen when I was nineteen, so he had been through
(29:08):
all the moves with me and so much stuff in
my life. And I'm like, you know, I don't know
what having a child is like, but if it I
love the child half as much as I love my bulldog.
That I'm good. And she's like, that's the most ridiculous
I've heard. Well, that's the only love I know right
as far as well and if people understand, like Britty
loves animals, you love animals, I mean, I mean I
(29:30):
need therapy. Yes, I loved what you posted on Instagram
the other day, Jason about it was some meme of like, yes,
what did it say? It? Well, something about like I
had put out somebody had put out it's you know,
a ton of season right now, yeah, beer, And somebody
put out some some corn for the deer, and and
(29:51):
somebody had spilled out with the corn that said it's
a trap, yeah to you know, not eat it. And
I'm like, this is exactly what she was. Yep, I know.
I like to sabotage a little bit. I went, I
went hunting one time, and she sprayed her channail perfume
all over my hunting clothes so the deer would smell.
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Yet yes, wow, because it's like, yes, I don't I
never thought I would be with a hunter ever in
a million. You couldn't have paid me, paid me like
there's okay um, And then I of course end up
with one. So it's literally like you just cannot predict
(30:34):
who you're gonna be with or what that's gonna look like,
because when it happens, it just happens. It happens, and
it's a lot of times what she would least expect.
I'll say that exactly, like, in so many ways the
opposite of what I would have thought. Right, you know,
in the situation, I guess maybe you are right, She's
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parties over here, two people pay attention to me. I know. Um,
so I always tell my friends that who are still single.
I'm like, you know, it's funny. It'll be when you
least expect it at a random event or party or
like somewhere gas station. I mean, who knows, and all
of a sudden you're like, what the heck where did
this come from? Yeah? Yeah, no idea that it's going
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to be like this. Don't you think though, that the
person being kind of opposite of you it challenges you
to grow, Like that's been my experience at least. Yeah,
it's been really good for me, it's been. He's been
good for He's very calm, cool and collected, and I'm
high energy and just short fused. Yeah, in a sense,
like it doesn't take much for me to just lose it.
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And I think that's like the geminimy a little bit.
But he's good for me because he looks at me like, okay,
are you done pitching your damn fit? Like calm down,
and it's talking about this rationally. Yeah you're right, okay, sorry,
yeah right, Yeah. I mean, well, you know, she's just
one of those people. It's like the least little thing.
She kind of goes off on a rant and I'm like,
right on a scale at one to ten, this is
(31:57):
like a negative two, Like this is really a big
deal that you just really making it Like, you know,
we've had some like problems. This is all I have
to put it into perspective. But it's good for me. Yeah,
And then there's sometimes I feel like I don't know, Yeah,
what does she bring to you, Jason? No, Well, the
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thing I think with me is like, you know, I
was always and still kind of am in a lot
of ways, but really private. And I was just very
private person and just you know, I felt like I,
you know, played shows and the things people saw when
I was in public or interviews or something that was
kind of their thing, and then when I was away
from all that, my time was kind of my time totally. Yeah,
(32:40):
And it was just my way of kind of separating
all that stuff and kind of cutting it off. Yeah.
So I was just kind of always like that, and
you know, with her, I think she's done really good.
It's sort of showing me a different side of that,
kind of helping me come out of that a little
bit and be more willing to like share you know,
personal life stuff with with people, whether it be on
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social media or just whatever. You know. Her thing was like, man,
you have like this great personality, but you don't really
let people see it. You know, you're funny and yeah,
and you know, and so I think for me, she
was good in a sense of like, hey, you know,
it'll be great for you to for people to see
this other side that they never get to see. That
it's part of the reason that you know, she was
(33:24):
attracted to whatever, and it's like nobody gets to see
that stuff. So that things like that, I think is
where she's kind of helped me sort of come out
of my shell a little bit as far as that goes,
and not be so protective of my personal life and
personal time and things like that, because you know, it's
just it's weird because when you you know what, like
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for me, when my career hit all of a sudden,
it was like everything you did was under the microscope
and people, you know, judged everything you did and they
wanted to know everything that was going on. And I've
just never I was just never wired like that in
the beginning, you know, And for me, it was like
this is what I do, and I enjoy it, but
when I'm done, you know, I kind of just I
(34:07):
kind of shut all that stuff. It was kind of
just a way for me to cut it off and
sort of separate the two a little bit. And you
know when she kind of helped to kind of open
my eyes to the fact that people are, you know,
really into you know a lot of people, whether some
of them may be negative, but a lot of people
for good reasons or just interested in, you know, in
(34:29):
your personal life. And it kind of lets them see,
like like I said, aside of me that they probably
didn't get a chance to see before. So I think
that was good. Don't you think it's a way to
connect with people too, because you're I mean, even the
stuff you guys have gone through is what a lot
of people probably go through or just surprised actually our
situation that happened obviously when we got together. So many
people would write to me or come out of the
(34:51):
woodworks and say, you know, I've been through something similar
and nobody even knows and yeah, it's such a struggle
for me or it was, or you know, I've been
through similar situations or whatever, and you would actually be
shocked at how many people are just in internal battles
and stuff with themselves and they don't even speak on it.
It was just for us, you know. I mean, and
I remember saying this at one point, you know, I
mean stuff like that's I mean, it's tough to go
(35:13):
through anyway, but when you're when you're going through it
in the public eye, I can't. I mean, it's really
it's really tough. At that point. It's like I challenge
you to think about something that you've been through that's
been a little bit quote unquote controversial in life, a
little situation, yeah, and then intensify that times a million
and everyone know about it. And when everybody and you're like,
(35:39):
well this sucks, and how do you not like get
in your own head about all of that? Like what
am I doing? You know, like really beat yourself up.
It's just that thing too of like once something like
that comes out, you know, and you know, it's like
once a headline's out there, it doesn't matter what follows
it for the next ten days. Like once that initial
that initial thing that comes out is what people are
(36:00):
gonna remember, right, you know what I mean, So you
know you can try and do damage control, and that's
what I said earlier, like you know, I didn't even
try and like put the flame out at that point.
It was just like it is what it is, and
I'm not going to change anybody's opinion. It hard, was
that though, because I would for a long time, you
know what I really want to I know, so for
(36:21):
me to have to sit there and not just claws
come out and go crazy was was really hard. But can't.
But I also knew that it wasn't gonna it wasn't
gonna change. It actually only makes it worse, which I
thought I learned too. It's hard. It does feel the fire,
so you I guess it's hard. But the best way
to handle it is just not really speak on it.
(36:41):
But then it's just hard to sit back and take it.
Of course. That's just I mean with anything. Yeah, well
I think it's just human nature. You know. It's like
if somebody comes out and punches you in the nose,
you you want to punch back. I want to, Yeah,
I want to defend so and that's kind of where
you want to go with it, really of me for sure,
And it's just I just feel like with social media anymore,
(37:02):
I mean a lot of what you're dealing with them.
There is just you're never gonna win those battles anyway.
So it's just like old, leave it half. These people
probably weren't fans of mine anyway. So right, I'm sitting
here arguing with somebody that didn't like me to begin with.
Like right, exactly, And honestly, no matter what you do,
you can't change people's minds a lot of startin. I mean,
we could do a million charity events and do all
(37:23):
the things, and it's still going to say, well, Jeter,
you don't lack them. Of course, that's what I was saying.
For me, the best thing was is y'all just living
your life. And then it was like, oh, like I
get it now, you know what I mean, Like it
was just obvious. Yeah, yeah, are you guys going to
bring back the carpool karaoke thing? We were actually, as
a matter of fact, we were filming some of it today. Yeah.
(37:45):
I was like, maybe just put it in the kids,
you know. I would just set up in the windshield
and initially he's like, oh, cheered, why do we have
to do this? And then I edit it down and
it Yeah, yeah, we were. We were filming a few
things on the way end today. Just get the kids
in on it. It's been a whole but we haven't
done it forever and she just happened to say it today.
That funny you said that, But and it's funny because
we like such different kinds of music. We're just so
(38:07):
opposite in everything, right, But then our bands are just things,
you know. The reactions are my favorite part. Like watching
one of you react to that. I'm like, if you
could be a fly on the wall in our house,
I can only Actually we have am We just got
a nanny recently, and she the other day was like,
I will say this about y'all. I am always entertained.
(38:27):
She's like, there's never realized. You kind of need to realize.
But that's what they like in our house. I mean,
like the banner that we have, like we're doing the karioke.
That's kind of how we are all the time, right,
So it's it's pretty entertaining, and I think we just
kind of entertain ourselves about doing it right. And then
like when you get somebody else there, like the nanny,
she's just like she's never like, what's it's always usually
(38:48):
boring at my jobs, but you guys are to each
other too, which is funny because and there's not really
a filter. So right, I'm like, I hope you don't
get offended easily because we do say that he's really funny.
She she's like, really funny and inappropriate, inpropriate. But that's
what that's how we are. So we can when can
(39:08):
we expect this next video? We need to I don't know,
we gotta well, I'm putting it into the universe. Yeah,
I do it all right. The problem is usually she
puts me in control of the songs. Yeah right. It
makes it funny though, because usually I don't agree with
her like this. Really yes, play me on the way over,
(39:29):
which is my thing. I mean that's good. Yeah. See, yeah,
we should have a couple of drinks and then do
oh my god, oh god, that would get really funny.
That don't be good. Don't get me wine, don't get
me tequila. It's funny, man, I'll start drinking a little bit. Yeah.
(39:50):
I have hard time remember in words of songs, so
so it might not work my own song yeah yeah,
so no, even my shows and stuff. I'm always like,
I try and keep it together until after the show,
and then I kind of cut loose, I get out
there and drake too much before the show. I can't
remember anything, even your own songs, that's all, forget how
(40:13):
to play them on guitar. Years later you're they're like, wait,
what does this Forget the words the Hicktown I've been
playing for fifteen years? He had one too too many
to cue God Guilty, Guilty, Okay, well so you also,
I know you guys need to go, So I'm gonna
wrap it up, but I want to tell everyone your
Instagram has become like a full business for you. I
feel like it's at Brittany Alden maybe um maybe approves. Yeah,
(40:38):
it has. And it's shocking what you can do with
social media. It's insane, right, And I know you know that.
I mean, yeah, gosh that and you know the reason
I love it for so many reasons. But it allows
me to be home and travel with Chase, right, and
it makes it easy in that aspect, but also the
guy's kind of the limit. And I do know that
eventually one day Instagram is going to be maybe no
(41:01):
longer around, It's going to be new platforms, and so
I'm going to utilize this from life can and you know,
maximize it and while it's still here and I'm able
to so and I love it, and it just I
have such a following and some really cool I guess
you say fans out there. I know they're fans of Jason,
and I guess by default they are of mine too,
(41:21):
And it's just really they've helped me create businesses and
it's been pretty neat and awesome. Well and and like
I said, the best part is that you know, I
travel so much, so it frees her up to be able.
I mean she can post pictures or do stuff she
needs to do on the road with me. Yeah, we
can have the kids out there, and like it's it's
great for that. And then you know when she gets
(41:43):
to kind of pick and choose the stuff she she
wants to company she wants to work with and U
and now you have your own line. Yeah, I have
my own line, UM, which is kind of taken a
little bit of a backseat. I just started UM a
line with shoe Dazzle, so and I am so excited
about The shoes are phenomenally I mean I'm when they
(42:05):
show up with these, I get to help pick out
and design and stuff. It's two of shoes got delivered
our house within about a week and a half. Now
is that got a dream? Literally? I can't think of
anything better. But yeah, so you're a big part of
the design process and picking out fun When will that
(42:26):
be coming out? It is currently Actually I launched my
new November December line today. Yeah, it's on Instagram and
the links in the biobes so people can shop. Okay,
it's fun. It's just really cool. I just think that
the social media, it's a I have a love hate
relationship with it. Well of course, you know, and yeah,
as do we all. Yes, but as far as work
(42:47):
goes and career aspects, Hey, we're trying to conduct an interview,
I don't really care. Um. I just think it's really
great for people being able to start their own businesses
who would be able to maybe otherwise or just make them.
It makes it easy to stay home. How important was
that for you to have your own thing? So important? Really? Um?
(43:10):
And as you know, when I first got with Jason,
I was like, you know, I'm a workaholic. I really am,
and I like to have my own People wouldn't know
that about you. I've always worked like three jobs and
because I like to pay for my own things. I've
worked my way through college. I went out of state
and paid one hundred grand for college and I did it.
And I just paid off my student loans by myself. Yeah,
she wouldn't let me have. She wouldn't let me pay it.
(43:31):
But here's one that we first met. We would like,
I don't know, we'd like get go to dinner like whatever, yeah,
and and it was like, you know, I would get
up to go to the bathroom or something and come
back and she would have like already paid for our meal.
Like she was adamant about that stuff. Even though how
cool was that for you? Though, because wouldn't most girls
just be like, oh, I want to date with Jason Haldane.
(43:53):
Well it was cool, but it was kind of annoying too,
because it's like, you know, it's like, I'm I took
you to dinner because I want to buy your dinner.
Understand the bathroom and you're gonna pay for you Yeah.
I just I'm not the kind of person to say, hey,
you know, can I borrow twenty bucks to go away?
There is no that would be torture for me. Yeah,
I mean I refuse, And like when it's Christmas time,
I want to buy him something with my money. And
(44:14):
I'm I just I love to work and I love
to feel like I have my own And I always
say this, like, and he knows this, like, I want
to be with you, but I don't need to be
with you. So I don't never think that like I'm
here for the wrong reasons, because that is not the case.
And so I have built my own separate deal and
it's so gratifying for me, and I feel like it
(44:37):
helps for you to have your own sense of independence
in the relationship too, because I feel like we depend
on somebody financially. It's such a weird dynamic changes, and
you know, there's obviously circumstances with people who that's just
how it has to be and that's fine. But for
me personally, I'm gonna do what I can to make
my own. Yeah, you know, I love that about you.
Thanks well. You guys can check it all out at
(44:58):
brittany al Deane and obviously at Jason Alden on Instagram,
or you can go see a show or all the things.
Thank you guys so much for being here. Thank you
for having us. So I didn't even know I was
going to be here. I came to babysit. Actually I
was like hey, and then we just handed in one.
It is he glad to be here. Thanks, and do
(45:20):
some more karaoke videos for us, all right? That is
that is what I'm holding y'all too. Here you we'll
do it all right. Thank you guys for listening. This
is Kelly Henderson and you've been listening to the Velvet's
Edge podcast. I truly believe that every one of us
has a little velvet and a little edge, so it's
so important to remember that to be strong, you must
be soft too. Thank you so much for sharing in
(45:42):
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