July 26, 2021 • 8 mins
On this episode of the Cody Cast podcast, country star Gabby Barrett is living the dream. The “I Hope” singer has two number-one singles under her belt, a new baby, and a new tune that she is really proud of!
Listen in with Cody Alan to hear the brand new mom share her favorite part about being a mom and tell all about what inspired her upbeat, empowerment anthem, “Foot Prints On The Moon.”
PLUS: Gabby shares advice for anyone out there who is struggling to overcome the doubters, skeptics, and pessimists.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Cody Cast, Cody Allen's podcast. She is a
brand new mom, got old baby at home. We'll talk
about that. Plus she's got to number one singles I
hope a breakthrough crossover, worldwide smash and of course the
Good Ones number one as well. Her new single Footprints
on the Moon, all about inspiring you to become the
(00:22):
best you can be and not believing any of the doubters.
Ladies and gentlemen. Gabby Barrett is on the phone. Hey,
how you doing. I'm doing great. How are you doing? Okay?
I mentioned the new song, Footprints on the Moon. I've
been watching, of course, like everyone else, to billionaires taken
off and flying into space, Bezos and Richard Branson recently.
(00:44):
So would you ever go into space? No? No, I
don't think I could do it. I can't. I'm I'm
a very cluster bomous person, so I don't think I
could get in a rocket ship or anything very small
and too Yeah, I don't. I don't think so that
would be really cool, but I'll just I'll just stay
(01:06):
down here and saying footprints on the Moon forever. Yeah,
that's a good idea. I think it's a little sketchy too.
I don't think i'd ever do it either. Um, if
you were to follow your footprints like around town, Um,
where would they most likely lead? There? Where you live
in Texas? Probably Okay loves Mexican food, so probably a
Mexican food restaurant or yeah, a water Burger or a
(01:30):
Chicken Express. Chicken Express, I think is a This thing
is well and it's very delicious. Sweet tea Chicken Express. Yeah,
you know the sweet there, right, I've heard about it.
I think I have not tried it, but I have
heard about it. It's a legendary. So please, next time
(01:51):
you go, do the chicken, the fries, and the sweet tea.
Trust me on this one. When it comes to the song,
it really is about reaching for the stars, chasing dreamed.
I love the cinneament of the whole song, and it's
one of those like you want to get amped up
and go do something after you hear it? Is that
kind of why you wanted to release it? Yeah, so
Footprints on the Moon. Yet it's very dream centered, encouraging,
(02:15):
uplifting song. Um. The main reason, well, there's a few
main reasons. So one of the reasons why I definitely
wanted to release it is because with my first three
singles it's kind of like, I really want people to
get to know me through my music. I like my
music to be very genuine to me in my life,
and so with I Hope, it was very UM heartbreak
(02:39):
and loss and then good ones was finding hope, being married,
all that good stuff. And then the next part to
me is this encouraging UM trying to be uplifting part
of myself as well too. People that maybe in that
same spot that I was in at a time when
I was shooting for a very large dream that nobody
(03:02):
believed in. Everybody not everybody literally, but a lot of
people were very negative through school, through I mean everywhere
and anywhere that I went, and it was difficult and
I wish I had a song like this to listen
to um at the time that I was going through that,
and so anybody else is going through it, I wanted
to really sit for them to help them in any way. Yeah.
I think it's so positive and I love the line
(03:24):
everybody says that you can't till you do, and I
feel like, oh, yeah, that was my version. Yes, I
feel like you probably could come across like you said
a lot of doubters there, like American Idol Days or whatever.
People said, you can't do it. But how did you
battle that when your face with that sort of like
struggle in your head. Yeah, well, I'm a very um
(03:46):
face center person, So I rely on the Lord a lot,
and I read the Bible a lot, and that UM
really helped me UM get through that type of stuff
because I'm not finding my identity and myself that I'm
finding it in the large this and so that helped
me a lot. With any negative stuff, that's where I
would run back to UM and that always uplifted me
(04:08):
as well as I used any negativity that I got,
I just kind of switched it in my head to
positivity like field of fire, UM, just to keep going forward,
you know, instead of letting it drag you backward. It
was like anything negative that got thrown at me. You
can imagine somebody like having a weight around their waist
and trying to be dragged backwards. But you're leaning forward
(04:30):
and you're and you're digging your heels and and keep
moving forward. And that's kind of like what I was doing.
And I'm very blessed to now be be sitting here.
So everybody has everybody has hater, so tho. I do
love that advice though, and I think that's really helpful,
like just sometimes a matter of just putting one step
in fro front of the other, um, and moving forward
(04:50):
with what you believe. It's a great lesson also to
pass on to your daughter. So congratulations on a Baila man.
And we've talked a little bit about her. Um. I
love the name. It's it's so southern and cool. I
love it. Thanks. I came up with it in an
airport one day, so I was just I liked the
name Bailey. I like the name Bailey. But I was like,
(05:11):
I've I've heard a few people named Bailey, and so um,
I was like, what's a little bit different from Bailey?
And I was like, what about Bailey Baila? And I'm like, Baila,
that sounds weird or is it fun? And then I
put it down my phone and I got and when
I first found out said I was pregnant, I was
talking to Kate about names and I said Baila and
he was like, oh, I love that. And there is
(05:35):
what's been your favorite part of being a mom? So far?
Favorite part? Favorite part? Right now? I would be watching
her try different food um so she's so used to,
you know, the taste of milk that it is just
so funny getting to see her try like the foods
that we eat every day and they're just you know,
willy nilly, and her her reaction is just hilarious when
(05:58):
she really likes it, or I get all wide, or
when she makes a sour faces where she's going to
throw up because she doesn't like it um or and
also just them looking at stuff, like looking at a
ball with colors in it and they're so like amazed,
just stuff like that. It is so cool because I
kind of just look at her and I'm like, I
(06:18):
wonder what you're thinking, like when you're seeing this for
the first time. So it's has it been a difficult part?
What's been the most difficult thing You've had to sort
of adjust and figure out? Sleep? Sleep would definitely be that. So,
I mean, it was it's one thing to you know,
not get sleep from having four a employs and running
(06:41):
and doing this all the time because I don't know,
it was just very high energy as to what you
were going to do, Like when I would have to
wake up and get on flights and do all that
you knew that you were you were going to do
a show, and it was high energy, so it kind
of kept you like going. But you're not having a
concert when you have a child. You're not having I
throw in a party when you're changing a diaper. So sleep,
(07:04):
um was has been a big thing. And sleep, you know,
not getting an esthlete definitely takes a toll off the
human body, so it's difficult in motherhood. But it's all,
you know, the blessing right on real quick as we
wrap here. I know you're a baker, and believe it
or not, I guess you know Fall will be here
(07:24):
in just a couple of months. So what are your
favorite things to bake when it comes to wa when
you think about autumn and fall, Thanksgiving and you know
all the holidays coming up, what are your favorite recipes? Oh?
I can't wait, I can't wait. What you're just saying?
That made me so excited to fall? And my favorite
so well, I think everybody knows here. I'm gonna turn
(07:46):
this around and ask you to guess what if I
could bake something for fall, what would you guess, Cody
that the number one thing for fall baking? What comes
to you, right, I would think like maybe pumpkin bread,
am I, Oh my gosh, you were so close. The
pumpkin pie. Pumkin pie, right, so pumpkin pie. Yeah, I'll
(08:09):
definitely be making lamp get that pumpkin pie, the and
the Chicken Express, a sweet teath, a couple of things.
Next time we catch you up. Yeah, get some sleep,
yeah absolutely, yea good catching up. Thank you for calling.
Thank you. This has been Cody cast to subscribe now
on iTunes listen anytime on the I Heart radio app.
Cody is heard on hundreds of radio stations across America
(08:32):
and seen on CMT hot Tony Countdown every weekend. More
go to CMT Cody dot com
Welcome to Cody Cast, Cody Allen's podcast. She is a
brand new mom, got old baby at home. We'll talk
about that. Plus she's got to number one singles I
hope a breakthrough crossover, worldwide smash and of course the
Good Ones number one as well. Her new single Footprints
on the Moon, all about inspiring you to become the
(00:22):
best you can be and not believing any of the doubters.
Ladies and gentlemen. Gabby Barrett is on the phone. Hey,
how you doing. I'm doing great. How are you doing? Okay?
I mentioned the new song, Footprints on the Moon. I've
been watching, of course, like everyone else, to billionaires taken
off and flying into space, Bezos and Richard Branson recently.
(00:44):
So would you ever go into space? No? No, I
don't think I could do it. I can't. I'm I'm
a very cluster bomous person, so I don't think I
could get in a rocket ship or anything very small
and too Yeah, I don't. I don't think so that
would be really cool, but I'll just I'll just stay
(01:06):
down here and saying footprints on the Moon forever. Yeah,
that's a good idea. I think it's a little sketchy too.
I don't think i'd ever do it either. Um, if
you were to follow your footprints like around town, Um,
where would they most likely lead? There? Where you live
in Texas? Probably Okay loves Mexican food, so probably a
Mexican food restaurant or yeah, a water Burger or a
(01:30):
Chicken Express. Chicken Express, I think is a This thing
is well and it's very delicious. Sweet tea Chicken Express. Yeah,
you know the sweet there, right, I've heard about it.
I think I have not tried it, but I have
heard about it. It's a legendary. So please, next time
(01:51):
you go, do the chicken, the fries, and the sweet tea.
Trust me on this one. When it comes to the song,
it really is about reaching for the stars, chasing dreamed.
I love the cinneament of the whole song, and it's
one of those like you want to get amped up
and go do something after you hear it? Is that
kind of why you wanted to release it? Yeah, so
Footprints on the Moon. Yet it's very dream centered, encouraging,
(02:15):
uplifting song. Um. The main reason, well, there's a few
main reasons. So one of the reasons why I definitely
wanted to release it is because with my first three
singles it's kind of like, I really want people to
get to know me through my music. I like my
music to be very genuine to me in my life,
and so with I Hope, it was very UM heartbreak
(02:39):
and loss and then good ones was finding hope, being married,
all that good stuff. And then the next part to
me is this encouraging UM trying to be uplifting part
of myself as well too. People that maybe in that
same spot that I was in at a time when
I was shooting for a very large dream that nobody
(03:02):
believed in. Everybody not everybody literally, but a lot of
people were very negative through school, through I mean everywhere
and anywhere that I went, and it was difficult and
I wish I had a song like this to listen
to um at the time that I was going through that,
and so anybody else is going through it, I wanted
to really sit for them to help them in any way. Yeah.
I think it's so positive and I love the line
(03:24):
everybody says that you can't till you do, and I
feel like, oh, yeah, that was my version. Yes, I
feel like you probably could come across like you said
a lot of doubters there, like American Idol Days or whatever.
People said, you can't do it. But how did you
battle that when your face with that sort of like
struggle in your head. Yeah, well, I'm a very um
(03:46):
face center person, So I rely on the Lord a lot,
and I read the Bible a lot, and that UM
really helped me UM get through that type of stuff
because I'm not finding my identity and myself that I'm
finding it in the large this and so that helped
me a lot. With any negative stuff, that's where I
would run back to UM and that always uplifted me
(04:08):
as well as I used any negativity that I got,
I just kind of switched it in my head to
positivity like field of fire, UM, just to keep going forward,
you know, instead of letting it drag you backward. It
was like anything negative that got thrown at me. You
can imagine somebody like having a weight around their waist
and trying to be dragged backwards. But you're leaning forward
(04:30):
and you're and you're digging your heels and and keep
moving forward. And that's kind of like what I was doing.
And I'm very blessed to now be be sitting here.
So everybody has everybody has hater, so tho. I do
love that advice though, and I think that's really helpful,
like just sometimes a matter of just putting one step
in fro front of the other, um, and moving forward
(04:50):
with what you believe. It's a great lesson also to
pass on to your daughter. So congratulations on a Baila man.
And we've talked a little bit about her. Um. I
love the name. It's it's so southern and cool. I
love it. Thanks. I came up with it in an
airport one day, so I was just I liked the
name Bailey. I like the name Bailey. But I was like,
(05:11):
I've I've heard a few people named Bailey, and so um,
I was like, what's a little bit different from Bailey?
And I was like, what about Bailey Baila? And I'm like, Baila,
that sounds weird or is it fun? And then I
put it down my phone and I got and when
I first found out said I was pregnant, I was
talking to Kate about names and I said Baila and
he was like, oh, I love that. And there is
(05:35):
what's been your favorite part of being a mom? So far?
Favorite part? Favorite part? Right now? I would be watching
her try different food um so she's so used to,
you know, the taste of milk that it is just
so funny getting to see her try like the foods
that we eat every day and they're just you know,
willy nilly, and her her reaction is just hilarious when
(05:58):
she really likes it, or I get all wide, or
when she makes a sour faces where she's going to
throw up because she doesn't like it um or and
also just them looking at stuff, like looking at a
ball with colors in it and they're so like amazed,
just stuff like that. It is so cool because I
kind of just look at her and I'm like, I
(06:18):
wonder what you're thinking, like when you're seeing this for
the first time. So it's has it been a difficult part?
What's been the most difficult thing You've had to sort
of adjust and figure out? Sleep? Sleep would definitely be that. So,
I mean, it was it's one thing to you know,
not get sleep from having four a employs and running
(06:41):
and doing this all the time because I don't know,
it was just very high energy as to what you
were going to do, Like when I would have to
wake up and get on flights and do all that
you knew that you were you were going to do
a show, and it was high energy, so it kind
of kept you like going. But you're not having a
concert when you have a child. You're not having I
throw in a party when you're changing a diaper. So sleep,
(07:04):
um was has been a big thing. And sleep, you know,
not getting an esthlete definitely takes a toll off the
human body, so it's difficult in motherhood. But it's all,
you know, the blessing right on real quick as we
wrap here. I know you're a baker, and believe it
or not, I guess you know Fall will be here
(07:24):
in just a couple of months. So what are your
favorite things to bake when it comes to wa when
you think about autumn and fall, Thanksgiving and you know
all the holidays coming up, what are your favorite recipes? Oh?
I can't wait, I can't wait. What you're just saying?
That made me so excited to fall? And my favorite
so well, I think everybody knows here. I'm gonna turn
(07:46):
this around and ask you to guess what if I
could bake something for fall, what would you guess, Cody
that the number one thing for fall baking? What comes
to you, right, I would think like maybe pumpkin bread,
am I, Oh my gosh, you were so close. The
pumpkin pie. Pumkin pie, right, so pumpkin pie. Yeah, I'll
(08:09):
definitely be making lamp get that pumpkin pie, the and
the Chicken Express, a sweet teath, a couple of things.
Next time we catch you up. Yeah, get some sleep,
yeah absolutely, yea good catching up. Thank you for calling.
Thank you. This has been Cody cast to subscribe now
on iTunes listen anytime on the I Heart radio app.
Cody is heard on hundreds of radio stations across America
(08:32):
and seen on CMT hot Tony Countdown every weekend. More
go to CMT Cody dot com
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