April 22, 2025 • 15 mins
Upcoming Artist Laura Williams joined the Christian Music Bros Podcast to share her inspiring journey in the world of music. In this episode, she opens up about her early influences, the challenges she faced while pursuing her passion, and the moments that strengthened her faith along the way. Laura discusses the importance of community in her artistic growth and how her music reflects her spiritual journey. Listeners will get an inside look at her creative process and the message she hopes to convey through her songs. Her story is a testament to perseverance and faith, making this episode a must-listen for anyone interested in the intersection of art and spirituality.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello, everyone, Welcome back to the Christian Music Risk Podcast.
I'm your only host, Brendan. It's great to see you
all back again. We're about three days from February, which
is crazy. Believe at the time of recording this, you're
probably watching this in February and you're like, what are
you talking about? But I'm recorded this in January, so
jokes on you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
But my birthdays at this month, so you might see
new episodes come in. You might not. I might take
the month just to post all the old episodes.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I've recorded two months ago, and I'm really bad at posting,
even though we post every week. I have like eight
episodes I still haven't posted. But on the right side
of that, I have eight more new episodes record. I'm
excited for you guys to see someone Jeremy Rosardo coming up.
Jamie McDonald's coming up, John Wessi Honeker who was free
Chitney Worship.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Is coming up. I'm excited for you guys see what's next.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I do have a special artist that I've been working
with who's been on mainstream radios. He's been on Winter
Jam and I can't really go into details. I got
an answer from the management team. They say, don't let
me know if he's available, so I can't really see
the name because I don't want to say, yes, that's happening,
but something you might kind of work into. And thanks
again for tuning into this podcast and a great journey
so far. This is like episode one eighteen or something
(01:12):
like that.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I lost track.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I can't count that far in my hands anyway, So
thank here for tuning in. And we're gonna start this
week's episode with Laura Williams here, So I'm gonna let
Laura introduce herself.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Hi. Everyone, my name's Laura. I'm a twenty one year
old Christian music artist from Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
That's van And that's so really cool because I don't
get much people from the East hoist whenever I'm trying
to schedule these interviews are like I'm in Central tom
I'm like I'm in Eastern tim and it throws me
off for the time loop and then like, uh okay, yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Something I learned. It's like you always have to specify
the time zone now, like it's.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Crazy, exactly like Notre Dame, I met with someone from
Cali and I'm like ten o'clock. Word like, yeah, ten
o'clock words. I texted my tent. They're like, oh, we've
at ten o'clock that time. I'm like yeah, He's like
I'm in Cali. That's like seven am here. I'm like, oh, sorry, bro. Anyway,
thank you for joining.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Me, Laura course happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And everyone else watching this, please do remember if you
like what you're hearing the like follow and subscribe to
the channel and follow Laura's pages. Will get a little
more into Laura's music and everything. But I feel like
what you're hearing, follow her and support her as well.
I want's just start nice and easy for you today.
Can you tell us a little bit about your music background,
like how you got started into music?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah. Absolutely. Singing has felt just as an eight to
me as eating, sleeping, breathing, Like it's just kind of
always been my thing. I grew up in a big
Christian family and it was just always Laura there she
goes again, singing. She won't stop, you know, all the
time everywhere. So it just from very early on it
felt like God's calling over my life. Like it was
(02:46):
just like stamp Domini from the beginning. But I was
able to actually enter into it as a career. My
senior year of high school, I was really struggling where
I was going to go to college. I worked really
hard in high school to get good grades so I
could get scholarships and go to college, Like that was
just the obvious next step. And I was good at
(03:07):
school and I loved science. I was going to be
like a science major. So it's like a really big
change from you know, singing and stuff like that. But
I mean throughout all of my years it was just
like singing being a music artist writing. It was just
like rooted in me. And I remember doing a lot
of praying my senior year, like God, like how Like
(03:29):
I remember one time I said, God, how is this
not your plan for my life? Like here I am
applying to all these colleges. I'm going to commit and
go off and do these things, like it's going to
take a miracle to be a singer, And that miracle
did end up coming for me. April of my senior year,
I was praying once again, you know, eight months of
(03:50):
where am I going to go? What am I going
to do? And I was just prayer, journaling, and I
prayed God just put my music career in your hands,
whether it's what I want or not. I hadn't really
prayed about it in a while. I just thought there
was no chance. God is so good. In that night,
I got sort of reached out to by this agency
(04:11):
and they were like, we wanna, we want to take
you under our wing, and we want to guide you,
and we want to help you into this industry full time.
You know, we've worked with these artists et cetera, et cetera,
And it was just the real deal. And I knew
it was God's plan for me because the timing was
just crazy. And they were like, you could do any
(04:32):
genre you want, but we do see you as a
Christian artist. And I was like, okay, God, like I see,
I see you're doing. But at the time, my heart
was really set on pop music. I loved writing pop,
singing pop. I'm very much like a lyrical, poetic writer
musically that like Razy Abrams, Olivi Rodrigou type of vibe
and so our news was a big decision choosing this genre.
(04:55):
So the summer after high school, I took the time
to really pray and reflect on the decision, and I
deferred from college right away. I am the most indecisive
person in the world. But I knew that this was
God's plan and path for me. And I realized two things.
One God's plan for me was way better than anything
I thought that I was gonna want. And Two, no
matter what I wanted to do in my life, I
(05:16):
wanted to show people who Jesus is. And that's really
the line that inspired, Like that exact line inspired my
debut single, Who Jesus Is, which it was just crazy,
was my first write ever in Nashville post The Voice.
After The Voice, I was on The Voice season twenty
four and I went to Nashville for the first time
after that, and I got to write this incredible song
(05:39):
with AJ Pruis and Paul Duncan and it was just crazy.
But yeah, so then that happened, and now we're graduated
high school, committed to this full time singing three hours
a day, six days a week, posting on social media consistency, consistently,
and trying to you know, build my artistry in my brand.
Then The Voice found me, which was incredible, and that
(06:01):
was like all of twenty twenty three. The Voice just
so incredible and such a God filled experience too, and
that really helped start my career. And then after the Voice,
I was just I picked up guitar and I was like, well,
I gotta I gotta learn this so I can go
out and getting in performed anywhere and everywhere. And that's
what I did and released two Jesus Is my first song.
Just released my second song Hurts right now. So yeah,
(06:23):
it's just been a really incredible journey. It's been ups
and downs, but like just just staying on this path
as long as the Lord has me on it.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
So yeah, and that's really cool being on the Voice
and everything, and you're releasing music under early, Like you said,
you have two singles.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Now, do you have any fun stories about any of
those singles?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Ah? Well, Who Jesus Is is really like a testimony
of kind of my life and how I got here.
And there is a funny story about Who Jesus Is. Actually,
it was the I had never been in a co
write before ever, I had never been to Nashville. It
was my very first day. It was the very first
(07:03):
song that we wrote and that I ever wrote and
a co write, and that doesn't happen, like you don't
really usually release the very first song you ever write
in a co write, but it was the same day,
so we wrote who Jesus Is? The same day that
my blind audition aired on The Voice. I was in
Nashville and my best friend who her name's Lizzie. She
(07:25):
actually brought me back to the faith. I fell away
for a while and she was like the main person
who brought me back. She's in Nashville right now, so crazy,
like God's crazy things. Now I'm in Nashville. My best
friend brought me back to the faith. I'm going to
write a Christian song and do that with my life.
And my blind audition is not only airing that night,
but they leak it early, so we're on the way
(07:47):
to the right and I'm like scrolling on TikTok. I
open TikTok and I see myself like in my blind audition.
I'm like, what wait, what is happening. She's sitting next
to me. I'm like, Lizzie. They posted my blind audition early,
like they only choose one to post early, like early
for each Bland Edition episode. And I was like, oh
my gosh, I get the Butcher's mine, and like it
definitely gave me a confidence was going into the right like, hey, guys, like,
(08:09):
look at this. They just posted my my Bland audition.
And it was really special too because she was the
first person to hear who Jesus is with me and
she was the one who you know, brought me back
to Christ and it was just it was just such
a cool, like full circle moment. And hers right now
is definitely on the the more sad side. But that
(08:31):
was on my last day of rites in that same week,
and we wrote it with Jonathan Gamble and Benjie Cowort
and man was I remember Benji said like, let's write
songs that are so good that they have to be
played on radio, you know, because there there's kind of
like the stigma, like you want to be able to
play it on radio and all these things. And I
(08:52):
was kind of in my head about that, and he
was like, let's write a song so good that it
has to be played on radio. And I was like, wow,
Like I love that mindset, you know, just like pouring
your heart out into the music and letting God kind
of lead you. And that song was sort of written
about a time in my life where I knew Jesus,
I knew he had a plan, I knew I wanted
to follow that plan, but at the same time, I
(09:13):
was so heartbroken, so hopeless, had no strength. So it's
just like this duality, this paradox of like, hey, God,
I trust you, but like I can't. I'm out for
the count right now. And that was actually three weeks
before I left for the Voice, I got broken up
with and that song was really kind of inspired by
that time of like, oh my goodness, God, like I
(09:35):
thought I was we were gonna get married, Like, you know,
I am so heartbroken right now, but I'm just gonna
I'm gonna keep walking blindly with you. And that's kind
of how it hurts right now. Was put out into
the world, and it is really it reflects every single
hardship that I feel like I've ever experienced, like that
duality of trusting Jesus but also being in deep pain
(09:57):
and just being honest with him and crying out to
him and not holding back, you know, because he can
handle it.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So yeah, flash hard or not only twenty twenty five.
I have This episode releases February twenty twenty five, probably because,
like I said, I'm really late at posting episodes.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Sorry, audio, It's you still get an episode a week.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Jesus, I know I've been as some episodes in there
with I want to see it now, just be patient,
he'll come. Yeah, life's all about patients. They have any
plans for this year? At least this, I should say.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Oh my goodness, God has really been like crazy blessing
me this year. I feel like twenty twenty four was
definitely a harder year for me. And during the fall
of twenty twenty four, I felt like, I don't know,
I just felt like things were about to pick up,
Like I just felt like a stirring in my spirit,
and I was like, oh, like, what's going on? Like
(10:48):
I've been, I've been really I think, you know, I'm
I'm definitely like, uh, proud of myself for the patients
that I feel like I had exercised since I started
this whole thing. But I just felt like there were
something like going on. I was like, Oh, what's happening.
I couldn't quite put my finger on it. And then
this year started and it's been a crazy whirlwind. Who
(11:09):
Jesus Is was added to K Love's Future Hits station,
which was the coolest thing ever to experience. I was
actually in the car on the way to New Jersey
with my family, with my sisters and my mom to
visit my aunt, and we were like, oh my gosh,
it's crazy. We like took a selfie and like I
posted on Instagram like our live reaction to this, and
(11:29):
it was just so cool. And then I also started
to tease Hurts right now in the fall, and it
got this like crazy reaction on socials and so we
were like, oh, let's release this as soon as possible,
and so that came out January tenth, and wow, like
just like seeing the impact that that song has had,
it's just like confirmation to me, like that, hey, like
(11:50):
it is in my wheelhouse to write these songs that
are unconventional, write these songs that can really reach people
that aren't always you know, happy side of the faith
walk and stuff like that. So yeah, it's just been
really cool and I'm doing I got booked for Soul
Fests this year, which is really cool. It's like one
of my first big Christian festivals. And I have a
couple others in the works that I'm hoping for and
(12:12):
some other really big things I can't talk about yet.
I wish I could, but yeah, twenty twenty five. I
feel like it's gonna be a big year. I'm going on.
Do you know Aspire Women's events, they're like they're out
of I believe it's Arizona, and they're like associated with
Elevate Christian Music Festival and they kind of tour around
(12:34):
the country and stuff. And I'm gonna be on tour
with them a little bit in March when I'm doing
some other awesome women's conferences, and so yeah, I'm just
kind of whenever God brings an opportunity, I just try
and jump on it. And yeah, so it's it's I'm
excited to see where things go.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
That's so exciting to hear.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And if if anyone who's watching streaming just put me
on in the background just or just common through. Oh look,
my sys, make sure to check out Laura's music if
you see her coming in like that so fast, come
check her out and everything. And what I'm getting from
a lot of this conversation is every time you're in
a car, you get good news.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So maybe you should just live your life in a car.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Wait, so true, Like you know what, I think I
might have.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
To we just have a few extra minutes with you,
or I should say eyes have extra minutes. I used
to say we because I used to be plural brokes,
but now it's just one single.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Bro But do you have anything you want to talk
about or have anything you want to share?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Man? I just I want to encourage anybody who's listening, Like,
if you're in a period of your life right now
where you feel like you're surrounded by You're surrounded by
everything God. You know, you're surrounded by Christians, you go
to church, all these things, and yet you're in a
season of your life where you're feeling so distant from
(13:56):
God and you're feeling hopeless, and you're feeling almost a
shame that you're feeling this this doubt and this lack
of faith. I want you to be encouraged because so
many people have been there, and I think that it's
easy to kind of get caught up in the Christian
image and things like that and forget that we're still human.
(14:19):
And Jesus never asked for that perfection. He just asked
for for your heart and for you to just be
before Him and don't feel like you have to, uh,
you know, do all these things to to please God
and and to be a good Christian. And don't get
wrapped up in the works. And you know that's that's
(14:40):
a big uh description really of hurts right now. My
song is just kind of like this honest conversation with
God about being in a season of isolation, grief, sorrow,
suffering while still being a follower and a believer of Jesus.
It's kind of like that paradox. So if you're struggling
(15:02):
in any way in anything along those lines, no matter
what it is that you're going through, I would love
to hear if that song helps you in any way,
encourages you in any way, because that's what it's for
and that's what it's all about.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
So yeah, that's inxaiting and everyone who's listening or streaming
or watching. Again, like I said, I don't like it
with all the options because there's eight hundred thousand options scrolling, tweeting,
it's tweeting and something I don't even know. But anyway,
shout out Laura's music. She has a lot of big
plans for everything. Laura. I want to thank your time
for joining me today. It was great to talk with
(15:36):
you and hear everything about your singles, how your music
background and future events and those who are watching.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
We'll see you next time on the Christian Reserves podcast,
and we'll take care of everyone.
Hello, everyone, Welcome back to the Christian Music Risk Podcast.
I'm your only host, Brendan. It's great to see you
all back again. We're about three days from February, which
is crazy. Believe at the time of recording this, you're
probably watching this in February and you're like, what are
you talking about? But I'm recorded this in January, so
jokes on you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
But my birthdays at this month, so you might see
new episodes come in. You might not. I might take
the month just to post all the old episodes.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I've recorded two months ago, and I'm really bad at posting,
even though we post every week. I have like eight
episodes I still haven't posted. But on the right side
of that, I have eight more new episodes record. I'm
excited for you guys to see someone Jeremy Rosardo coming up.
Jamie McDonald's coming up, John Wessi Honeker who was free
Chitney Worship.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Is coming up. I'm excited for you guys see what's next.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I do have a special artist that I've been working
with who's been on mainstream radios. He's been on Winter
Jam and I can't really go into details. I got
an answer from the management team. They say, don't let
me know if he's available, so I can't really see
the name because I don't want to say, yes, that's happening,
but something you might kind of work into. And thanks
again for tuning into this podcast and a great journey
so far. This is like episode one eighteen or something
(01:12):
like that.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I lost track.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I can't count that far in my hands anyway, So
thank here for tuning in. And we're gonna start this
week's episode with Laura Williams here, So I'm gonna let
Laura introduce herself.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Hi. Everyone, my name's Laura. I'm a twenty one year
old Christian music artist from Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
That's van And that's so really cool because I don't
get much people from the East hoist whenever I'm trying
to schedule these interviews are like I'm in Central tom
I'm like I'm in Eastern tim and it throws me
off for the time loop and then like, uh okay, yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Something I learned. It's like you always have to specify
the time zone now, like it's.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Crazy, exactly like Notre Dame, I met with someone from
Cali and I'm like ten o'clock. Word like, yeah, ten
o'clock words. I texted my tent. They're like, oh, we've
at ten o'clock that time. I'm like yeah, He's like
I'm in Cali. That's like seven am here. I'm like, oh, sorry, bro. Anyway,
thank you for joining.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Me, Laura course happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And everyone else watching this, please do remember if you
like what you're hearing the like follow and subscribe to
the channel and follow Laura's pages. Will get a little
more into Laura's music and everything. But I feel like
what you're hearing, follow her and support her as well.
I want's just start nice and easy for you today.
Can you tell us a little bit about your music background,
like how you got started into music?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah. Absolutely. Singing has felt just as an eight to
me as eating, sleeping, breathing, Like it's just kind of
always been my thing. I grew up in a big
Christian family and it was just always Laura there she
goes again, singing. She won't stop, you know, all the
time everywhere. So it just from very early on it
felt like God's calling over my life. Like it was
(02:46):
just like stamp Domini from the beginning. But I was
able to actually enter into it as a career. My
senior year of high school, I was really struggling where
I was going to go to college. I worked really
hard in high school to get good grades so I
could get scholarships and go to college, Like that was
just the obvious next step. And I was good at
(03:07):
school and I loved science. I was going to be
like a science major. So it's like a really big
change from you know, singing and stuff like that. But
I mean throughout all of my years it was just
like singing being a music artist writing. It was just
like rooted in me. And I remember doing a lot
of praying my senior year, like God, like how Like
(03:29):
I remember one time I said, God, how is this
not your plan for my life? Like here I am
applying to all these colleges. I'm going to commit and
go off and do these things, like it's going to
take a miracle to be a singer, And that miracle
did end up coming for me. April of my senior year,
I was praying once again, you know, eight months of
(03:50):
where am I going to go? What am I going
to do? And I was just prayer, journaling, and I
prayed God just put my music career in your hands,
whether it's what I want or not. I hadn't really
prayed about it in a while. I just thought there
was no chance. God is so good. In that night,
I got sort of reached out to by this agency
(04:11):
and they were like, we wanna, we want to take
you under our wing, and we want to guide you,
and we want to help you into this industry full time.
You know, we've worked with these artists et cetera, et cetera,
And it was just the real deal. And I knew
it was God's plan for me because the timing was
just crazy. And they were like, you could do any
(04:32):
genre you want, but we do see you as a
Christian artist. And I was like, okay, God, like I see,
I see you're doing. But at the time, my heart
was really set on pop music. I loved writing pop,
singing pop. I'm very much like a lyrical, poetic writer
musically that like Razy Abrams, Olivi Rodrigou type of vibe
and so our news was a big decision choosing this genre.
(04:55):
So the summer after high school, I took the time
to really pray and reflect on the decision, and I
deferred from college right away. I am the most indecisive
person in the world. But I knew that this was
God's plan and path for me. And I realized two things.
One God's plan for me was way better than anything
I thought that I was gonna want. And Two, no
matter what I wanted to do in my life, I
(05:16):
wanted to show people who Jesus is. And that's really
the line that inspired, Like that exact line inspired my
debut single, Who Jesus Is, which it was just crazy,
was my first write ever in Nashville post The Voice.
After The Voice, I was on The Voice season twenty
four and I went to Nashville for the first time
after that, and I got to write this incredible song
(05:39):
with AJ Pruis and Paul Duncan and it was just crazy.
But yeah, so then that happened, and now we're graduated
high school, committed to this full time singing three hours
a day, six days a week, posting on social media consistency, consistently,
and trying to you know, build my artistry in my brand.
Then The Voice found me, which was incredible, and that
(06:01):
was like all of twenty twenty three. The Voice just
so incredible and such a God filled experience too, and
that really helped start my career. And then after the Voice,
I was just I picked up guitar and I was like, well,
I gotta I gotta learn this so I can go
out and getting in performed anywhere and everywhere. And that's
what I did and released two Jesus Is my first song.
Just released my second song Hurts right now. So yeah,
(06:23):
it's just been a really incredible journey. It's been ups
and downs, but like just just staying on this path
as long as the Lord has me on it.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
So yeah, and that's really cool being on the Voice
and everything, and you're releasing music under early, Like you said,
you have two singles.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Now, do you have any fun stories about any of
those singles?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Ah? Well, Who Jesus Is is really like a testimony
of kind of my life and how I got here.
And there is a funny story about Who Jesus Is. Actually,
it was the I had never been in a co
write before ever, I had never been to Nashville. It
was my very first day. It was the very first
(07:03):
song that we wrote and that I ever wrote and
a co write, and that doesn't happen, like you don't
really usually release the very first song you ever write
in a co write, but it was the same day,
so we wrote who Jesus Is? The same day that
my blind audition aired on The Voice. I was in
Nashville and my best friend who her name's Lizzie. She
(07:25):
actually brought me back to the faith. I fell away
for a while and she was like the main person
who brought me back. She's in Nashville right now, so crazy,
like God's crazy things. Now I'm in Nashville. My best
friend brought me back to the faith. I'm going to
write a Christian song and do that with my life.
And my blind audition is not only airing that night,
but they leak it early, so we're on the way
(07:47):
to the right and I'm like scrolling on TikTok. I
open TikTok and I see myself like in my blind audition.
I'm like, what wait, what is happening. She's sitting next
to me. I'm like, Lizzie. They posted my blind audition early,
like they only choose one to post early, like early
for each Bland Edition episode. And I was like, oh
my gosh, I get the Butcher's mine, and like it
definitely gave me a confidence was going into the right like, hey, guys, like,
(08:09):
look at this. They just posted my my Bland audition.
And it was really special too because she was the
first person to hear who Jesus is with me and
she was the one who you know, brought me back
to Christ and it was just it was just such
a cool, like full circle moment. And hers right now
is definitely on the the more sad side. But that
(08:31):
was on my last day of rites in that same week,
and we wrote it with Jonathan Gamble and Benjie Cowort
and man was I remember Benji said like, let's write
songs that are so good that they have to be
played on radio, you know, because there there's kind of
like the stigma, like you want to be able to
play it on radio and all these things. And I
(08:52):
was kind of in my head about that, and he
was like, let's write a song so good that it
has to be played on radio. And I was like, wow,
Like I love that mindset, you know, just like pouring
your heart out into the music and letting God kind
of lead you. And that song was sort of written
about a time in my life where I knew Jesus,
I knew he had a plan, I knew I wanted
to follow that plan, but at the same time, I
(09:13):
was so heartbroken, so hopeless, had no strength. So it's
just like this duality, this paradox of like, hey, God,
I trust you, but like I can't. I'm out for
the count right now. And that was actually three weeks
before I left for the Voice, I got broken up
with and that song was really kind of inspired by
that time of like, oh my goodness, God, like I
(09:35):
thought I was we were gonna get married, Like, you know,
I am so heartbroken right now, but I'm just gonna
I'm gonna keep walking blindly with you. And that's kind
of how it hurts right now. Was put out into
the world, and it is really it reflects every single
hardship that I feel like I've ever experienced, like that
duality of trusting Jesus but also being in deep pain
(09:57):
and just being honest with him and crying out to
him and not holding back, you know, because he can
handle it.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So yeah, flash hard or not only twenty twenty five.
I have This episode releases February twenty twenty five, probably because,
like I said, I'm really late at posting episodes.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Sorry, audio, It's you still get an episode a week.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Jesus, I know I've been as some episodes in there
with I want to see it now, just be patient,
he'll come. Yeah, life's all about patients. They have any
plans for this year? At least this, I should say.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Oh my goodness, God has really been like crazy blessing
me this year. I feel like twenty twenty four was
definitely a harder year for me. And during the fall
of twenty twenty four, I felt like, I don't know,
I just felt like things were about to pick up,
Like I just felt like a stirring in my spirit,
and I was like, oh, like, what's going on? Like
(10:48):
I've been, I've been really I think, you know, I'm
I'm definitely like, uh, proud of myself for the patients
that I feel like I had exercised since I started
this whole thing. But I just felt like there were
something like going on. I was like, Oh, what's happening.
I couldn't quite put my finger on it. And then
this year started and it's been a crazy whirlwind. Who
(11:09):
Jesus Is was added to K Love's Future Hits station,
which was the coolest thing ever to experience. I was
actually in the car on the way to New Jersey
with my family, with my sisters and my mom to
visit my aunt, and we were like, oh my gosh,
it's crazy. We like took a selfie and like I
posted on Instagram like our live reaction to this, and
(11:29):
it was just so cool. And then I also started
to tease Hurts right now in the fall, and it
got this like crazy reaction on socials and so we
were like, oh, let's release this as soon as possible,
and so that came out January tenth, and wow, like
just like seeing the impact that that song has had,
it's just like confirmation to me, like that, hey, like
(11:50):
it is in my wheelhouse to write these songs that
are unconventional, write these songs that can really reach people
that aren't always you know, happy side of the faith
walk and stuff like that. So yeah, it's just been
really cool and I'm doing I got booked for Soul
Fests this year, which is really cool. It's like one
of my first big Christian festivals. And I have a
couple others in the works that I'm hoping for and
(12:12):
some other really big things I can't talk about yet.
I wish I could, but yeah, twenty twenty five. I
feel like it's gonna be a big year. I'm going on.
Do you know Aspire Women's events, they're like they're out
of I believe it's Arizona, and they're like associated with
Elevate Christian Music Festival and they kind of tour around
(12:34):
the country and stuff. And I'm gonna be on tour
with them a little bit in March when I'm doing
some other awesome women's conferences, and so yeah, I'm just
kind of whenever God brings an opportunity, I just try
and jump on it. And yeah, so it's it's I'm
excited to see where things go.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
That's so exciting to hear.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And if if anyone who's watching streaming just put me
on in the background just or just common through. Oh look,
my sys, make sure to check out Laura's music if
you see her coming in like that so fast, come
check her out and everything. And what I'm getting from
a lot of this conversation is every time you're in
a car, you get good news.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So maybe you should just live your life in a car.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Wait, so true, Like you know what, I think I
might have.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
To we just have a few extra minutes with you,
or I should say eyes have extra minutes. I used
to say we because I used to be plural brokes,
but now it's just one single.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Bro But do you have anything you want to talk
about or have anything you want to share?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Man? I just I want to encourage anybody who's listening, Like,
if you're in a period of your life right now
where you feel like you're surrounded by You're surrounded by
everything God. You know, you're surrounded by Christians, you go
to church, all these things, and yet you're in a
season of your life where you're feeling so distant from
(13:56):
God and you're feeling hopeless, and you're feeling almost a
shame that you're feeling this this doubt and this lack
of faith. I want you to be encouraged because so
many people have been there, and I think that it's
easy to kind of get caught up in the Christian
image and things like that and forget that we're still human.
(14:19):
And Jesus never asked for that perfection. He just asked
for for your heart and for you to just be
before Him and don't feel like you have to, uh,
you know, do all these things to to please God
and and to be a good Christian. And don't get
wrapped up in the works. And you know that's that's
(14:40):
a big uh description really of hurts right now. My
song is just kind of like this honest conversation with
God about being in a season of isolation, grief, sorrow,
suffering while still being a follower and a believer of Jesus.
It's kind of like that paradox. So if you're struggling
(15:02):
in any way in anything along those lines, no matter
what it is that you're going through, I would love
to hear if that song helps you in any way,
encourages you in any way, because that's what it's for
and that's what it's all about.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
So yeah, that's inxaiting and everyone who's listening or streaming
or watching. Again, like I said, I don't like it
with all the options because there's eight hundred thousand options scrolling, tweeting,
it's tweeting and something I don't even know. But anyway,
shout out Laura's music. She has a lot of big
plans for everything. Laura. I want to thank your time
for joining me today. It was great to talk with
(15:36):
you and hear everything about your singles, how your music
background and future events and those who are watching.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
We'll see you next time on the Christian Reserves podcast,
and we'll take care of everyone.
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