Rebecca Sweet

This lady truly lives up to her last name and is the sweeeeeeeetest! She launched a blog "Sweet Ladi Jane" that covers food, fashion, travel and art.... And it's amazing. By launching the blog she also overcame one of her greatest obstacles, dyslexia. And her biggest supporter and cheerleader is her amazing Hubby Phillip Sweet, who is 1/4 of Little Big Town. Rebecca is truly a ray of sunshine and is using her life and blog inspire the world with her passions and story. She also talks all about how cool life is on road w her daughter and all the kids of Little Big Town. #carolinehobby #podcast #littlebigtown #nashville #hyper

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Carola. She's the queen of talking. He was so your man.
She's only is actually got the snoop on on the
on side. No one can do with Clid Caralam Carola.

(00:29):
No one can do with Clie Carol Carola. Hey, y'all,
welcome to Hyper Caroline Hobby. I am your host, Caroline Hobby.
I know music, I know people, and I know the
questions do you want to ask? So let's get hyper
heads up. These are adults having adult conversations, so there
could be adult content this episode. I have the sweetest

(00:55):
soul joining me, Rebecca Sweet. I love this woman. She
is an incredible heart, an incredible soul. And she has
a blog called sweet Lady Jane Lady is with an
eye and it's talking about food, fashion, travel, and art.
She loves farm to table food. She has so many
great recipes, all sorts of great gift ideas. And this
blog was a huge deal to her because it helped

(01:16):
her overcome one of her greatest obstacles, which was dyslexia.
So this blog really put her out there, got her
out of her comfort zone, and she's had so much
victory from it, personal victory, and it's been so well
received and her story is amazing. She's also married to
Philip Sweet from a Little Big Town, one of the
four members of a Little Big Town, and we talked

(01:37):
all about their beautiful love story, their sweet love story,
and how life is on the road Little Big Town.
It's pretty freaking awesome. So y'all welcome Rebecca Sweet. So
I'm here with Rebecca Sweet and she lives up to
her name Sweet because you're the sweetest. I really think
you are the sweetest. I don't know, maybe it's just
when I'm around you that's a kind of me. And

(02:00):
we have to comment on your hair because it is
looking bomb. I just did this two days ago, so
it's kind of terrifying, but it was fun. I just
wanted to be bold. What you said bold, it's so bold,
and it's your skin tone, so it's kind of how
don't we described this color? I guess it's like a
true red. Amanda at Lee Edwards, she's the one who

(02:20):
was like, did it once. We kind of baby stepped
me into it the first time, and then when I
came back, I was like, Okay, let's do it go
big or go home. Yeah, I love it. She went there.
It was awesome. She's kind of obsessed with curly hair,
so she's been really helping me embrace my curly hair.
And then I love embrace the color that it's mine
and I love it. I don't think you should ever
change you. I would say this color forever. Yeah, okay, amazing.

(02:43):
Now I just need a convertible. Yeah, yes, exactly, totally
didn't at the top down exactly. Okay, So I'm gonna
start with a little rapid fire. Okay, So well, actually
these are just some questions. So answer first thought that
comes to fine. Okay, if you had a time sheen,
would you go back in time or would you visit
the future? And why? Where would you go? Oh? I

(03:04):
would go back in time to the forties. I love
the forties the speakeasies and the hair dues and yeah,
and it's kind of romantic because it was kind of
like dangerous but like not dangerous like during prohibition and stuff.
I would just love to see that. That would be amazing.
Oh you would look great? Is that like flapper? Yeah? Yeah,

(03:25):
like great Gatsby, you know. Or cigarette smoking is really cool? Yes,
and like the long like cane ones, you know, that
would be really fun to do that Okay, love what
always brings a smile to your face, Philip, he really does.
You're sweet angel husband. Yeah, he's just such a good
guy and sweetest and he just always believes in me.

(03:46):
I mean, anytime I get passionate about a project or
even a house project or sweet Lady Jane, he just
always believes in me and takes me there and pushes
me and doesn't let me like just hang myself or
let me, you know, have doubt self doubt. So it's
kind of amazing. It's so good. I know, sometimes I'm like,
I don't know if I deserve you. You do, you

(04:10):
know you're not. And we're gonna come back to But
your husband is in a little big town and he's amazing,
is amazing. And you also said sweet Lady Jane's that's
your blog when you're gonna talk all about But you
guys are the sweetest couple and I think people live
up to their names. That's so sweet. We live. I mean,
we've been married for ten years and so we just
wanted to love each other forever and to be that

(04:33):
couple to gross our grandchildren. Now, we wanted to be
like on the front porch drinking dirty martinis and like
making out. Making out Is that a conscious decision? Because
some couples get into this thing where they start like
picking at each other and they kind of keep score
and then all of a sudden, you see a couple
there they're always bickering and that's not you, guys. But
that was a choice. I mean, yeah, it definitely is

(04:54):
a choice. I mean, we definitely argue, but I mean
it's just the way we kind of take a break.
It's our process. We learned to communicate. We always are
constantly learning different ways to communicate, and even as we
grow older, that changes to you know, your feelings change,
and so as long as you keep in touch with
each other and be best friends, then you can be
that way. I still like him a lot too cool.

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Do you feel like you are love him more now
than you did ten years ago? Yes, Oh definitely, because
I mean he helped me grow so much, and ten
years ago I was a little more cocky, a little
more obnoxious, you know, and he loved me through all that.
Loved you get some wisdom, yeah, without shoving it down
my throat, which was kind of amazing. He let me

(05:38):
learn on my own terms, in my own pace. And
didn't judge me for making my mistake or you know,
be like you're such an idiot. He never said that.
I'm sure you've helped him grow too. I don't know
you have. That's beautiful. I think the only thing I
do is helping with his technology, your tech having. I
like technology a lot. I do. I do. I built

(05:59):
a little big town an app one time years ago
because I just it's fun. It's just fun to kind
of look at. I don't know how to code or
anything that far, but I just really enjoy that. It's
that's interesting. You're like a rocket scientist. It's fascinating. Well
in my former life, right right, you know, yeah, I
think that's great. You're like a sexy rocket scientist. I
like that. That's what we should be for Halloween. And

(06:21):
you could have Philip dressed up as like a Bunsen burner,
you know, exploding. That would be amazing. We do have
themed Halloween's at our house every year. It's kind of
hilarious when you're the first Halloween that we had our
daughter Penelope, he was a big bad wolf. I was
little bo peep and she was my sheep. It was
really hilarious. Oh my God, she was the cutest sheep ever,
little lamb, Little Lamb. Okay, so what makes you the angriest?

(06:47):
What makes me the angriest? Sweet? Still get angry? You
know what would make me angry is if you mess
with my husband or my baby. Don't family, don't mess
with your flock. It's just no, don't mess with my flock.
I just don't like that. Like it's especially with Philip
and Penalpe that they are so sweet and they I
want to protect that. That I just get that makes
me fired up. You know. Yeah, that would definitely push

(07:09):
my button for sure. Yeah, Mama hand. Other than that,
I'm pretty easy going. Yeah, okay, Yeah, I thought there
wouldn't be much that made you angry. I just don't
mess with my dude. Okay. What is one song that
reminds you most of your life? Oh? Or one song
to describe your life? To describe my life. That's a

(07:30):
tough one. That's a good one. I feel like there's
like a couple of you know how you feel like
there's theme songs in your life. There's moments of those
like there Walking in Memphis is a big song which
Philip will die laughing when he hears this part why
Walking in Memphis, Because well, my dad and I used
to listen to that song all the time. I was
born in Memphis, so but we grew up. I grew

(07:50):
up here, and so we used to dance to that song,
and you know, I just thought it was some song
that my dad and I was special between us. And
when Philip and I were kind of talking and you know,
he was asking me out on a date, I was like, Okay,
I'll go out on a date with you if you
can play Walking in Memphis for me. If you learn
how to play that, I would go on a date.
Relations He like busted it out right there. So you're like, okay,

(08:12):
let's just walk down. Okay, let's just yeah, literally, because
weren't you the intern? Didn't you tell me that y'all
have like a really du story. It is a scandalous
of a love story, but it's a true love story.
And how did it go down? Okay? So since I
grew up here in Nashville, I started Sony Music Nashville
in the basement when I was fourteen, and so anything

(08:32):
I could an intern, yeah, well I was. It was
technically like part of a high school program like kind
of like an internship, seeing how it goes and stuff
like that. But that was when Mike Krasky and Alan
Butler were the heads of Sony and I went to
high school with their sons, so we were all friends.
And I just really wanted to be on the business

(08:53):
side of the music industry because I loved being around
creative people and passionate people. And if I was going
to have to work a desk job for the rest
of my life, it had to be with passionate people.
Just couldn't do it anither way. So I went to college,
came back home, and that's kind of when everything in
Nashville was kind of up in evil and you know, um, well,
Sony Music Nashville, you know, Alan and Mike and a

(09:17):
lot of the heads like ended up losing their jobs
and they were kind of not sure what was going
to happen with country music, if they were going to
move to New York or l A or just yeah.
I mean, it was kind of scary for my little
hometown because that's all that there was was country music,
country music. They were just getting it rid of it
all together, you know how they turned those tables right.

(09:37):
It was kind of crazy. So Mike Craskey opened up
an independent label called Equity Music Group. So of course
I went baying on his door, and I was like,
please don't have a job, Please cant have a job.
You know, well, I'm going to school and all this
that and the other. And I got a job working
for the label and management. So I kind of got
to see both sides of it all, and I really

(09:59):
kind of help, you know, with everything, paying bills, getting contracts,
driving the artists around this note the other, and every
time I would see Philip, I would just get these butterflies.
But I swore to myself I would never date an artist,
like even when I was a teenager, like just I'm
not going to do it. You know, why do people
swear to them? Because I did that to myself too.

(10:19):
I was like, I'm not going to date an artist,
but I secretly knew I was because they're the most
creative and passionate. Yeah exactly. It's like almost like I'm
not going to touch the hot stove. You know. I
think we had these images that they couldn't be faithful,
or they could be committed or want a family right,
or how do you have a normal life and it
is obtainable, you know, but it's definitely about that right guy,

(10:41):
you know. And he would always try to like make
my lunch when I was supposed to be making his lunch.
I was like, dude, you're not supposed to do that.
Like I am so long. I was there for a
year and was flirting with you. Oh yeah anytime you
saw me, like for me, and I was like booking
his airline tickets and stuff like that, and I'm like, oh, yeah, okay,
you can't be flirting with me. Donave me trouble. And
um in Mike Crest he had threatened fill up too,

(11:04):
and Jimmy and any male around me he was like daddy,
you know, like don't touch her, like she's off, Like yeah, yeah.
I was a little like kind of like the daughter
of the label. Like they just everybody wanted to make
sure that I was safe and you know, well taken
care of which I was stilling them in. Um the
long story short, they little Big Towns tour manager at

(11:28):
the time called me and asked me to bring a
snake from Nashville to Memphis, like a snake the like
the snake that um it connects the stage. I was
like yeah, sorry, and nothing's too far out right, what
kind of a snake instead of a cake? A little
Britney spears action. I mean, I could happen. Karen might

(11:54):
have to take his anex holding his snake. But right,
but anyway, so it's a piece of gear that connects everything,
you know, on the stage to the front of house
and out to the audience. So I was like sure.
You know, at the time, I'm trying to pay my
bills and they offered me money to do it, so
I was like okay. But the whole way there, I'm
like calling all my girlfriends and like, I know he's

(12:14):
going to be there, and I know he's going to
dry and flirt with me. And I remember I had
texted him something and he never responded, like a funny joke,
he never responded. So I was like, Okay, he probably
thinks he's so much cooler than I am, so forget him, right,
And I get there and I'm sitting on his bus
and I'm like see him on like the bus monitor camera,
like walking to the bus and I just grab a

(12:35):
newspaper and I'm like, m like so interested in what
this paper has. Amazing, So what you were like what
you do about all about the news? Right then? Like
you didn't even see him come in. You're too busy. Yeah,
I'm too busy. And so he comes up and he
actually like, I'm so sorry I didn't respond to your text.
And I was like, crap, he caught my bluff, you know,

(12:57):
like like he's gonna he's not trying to play games. No, yeah,
he was not trying to play games. And so towards
the end of the night came and I had to
drive back to Nashville and he was like, you can't
drive home by yourself. And I was like, I drove
here by myself. I'm a big girl. It's not that far,
you know, I can handle it. And he's like, well,
why don't I just ride with you? And I'm like, okay, sure,
are you like dying inside dying body? Butterfly? Now it's

(13:21):
probably more than butterflies. Now, that's nerves, like intense, Like
I'm like, is my face red? Like, oh my gosh,
don't fall, don't fall, you know, And also like that's
a long time with just someone in a car, like
a lot of communicating that's going to happen here, right
And I'm like and I'm working for the label still.
It was just all sorts of So then he pulls
his bag to my car and he gets in, and

(13:43):
I feel like this is a good line, you know.
I was like ready for it. I was like, well,
I just want to let you know. If you think
that I'm that kind of a girl, you need to
get back on your artist bus and we can forget
this even happen. And I appreciate you. You're concerned, you know,
so you just put it out there. Yeah, and he
passed that I trying to hook up with you? Yeah right,
and yeah, have you fats me on the shoulder and
he goes, well, I'm glad you got that out of

(14:04):
the way. Oh my god. So he's just been super
cool from the startper cool from the start. And then
literally I'm glad you got that out of the way.
It was just okay. And then two months from then
we were engaged. A year later we were married. And
then so you'll make out on that car, right, Yeah
we kind of did. Yeah, totally totally. But it definitely

(14:24):
made me breakfast too. It was really so like a
makeout shack out. It was like he was really sweet
because we got there so I ended up being hey,
but you're telling it. It's all about the way it's presented, right,
Because I also said I would never marry an artist,
and I did that, right, So you know, I guess

(14:45):
I should stop saying I'm not going to do it,
because then usually I did it. Yeah, because it's really
in your heart what you wanted to do, right, But
you just want to be respected and you want to
be well treated, right. And I was giving up a
lot like dating him too, because then I would never
be taking seriously in the industry. Again. I didn't want
to be that girl either that you know, dated a
bunch of artists or like I really and I was

(15:06):
kind of looking for something to put my life my
future together, like kind of over dating casually and stuff
like that. But I was also okay with being by
myself to know that's when it happens. Because I was
even ready to like never get married, you know. So
I even told Philip that, like in that first month

(15:27):
of dating, I was like, I don't really I'm not
really interested in getting married, and you know, I feel
like I can have a great life being me and
having a partner and not have to do that kind
of a thing, and and then later on I was like,
of course I told the one guy that I actually
want to marry that I don't want to get married.
I think that's what we always do though, especially when

(15:48):
you're in your twenties, you know, and you're trying to
be like cool, this is who I am. Cool, Like
you're not going to like take a measure to me
and just letting you know I'm an adult adult. Yeah,
and I make the rules. Oh what is that? A
pretty woman? And I say who I? I say that.
It's like, it's just I'm a walking contradiction, I guess

(16:10):
with But yeah, oh my gosh. I wouldn't change it
for the world. And you know, I have to play
hard to get right. He can't just have everything right.
He can't be sweet and adorable and charming charming. Yeah right, yeah, exactly.
How has it been being married married to a musician?
Has that worked out for you? Oh? I love it.
I mean my house is always full of music, and

(16:32):
it inspires my daughter to be in the arts and creative,
and I just it's enjoyable. It's fun to watch because
I'm not necessarily the art, you know, into music musician
kind of thing. But you are very creative, But I'm
very creative. I'm just more in a different way. And
I just love hearing him play different instruments and I
think it's really cool. Sometimes on stage he's literally is

(16:55):
playing the guitar and playing the piano at the same time.
I'm like, how do you do that? How is that possible?
He plays with his years up here in this hand
on the piano. It's crazy. I have that kind of
He's a freaky anomaly anything. He'll grocer out his gray hairs,
even growing blonde. It's really obnoxious. So we've been looking
for the perfect specimen and we found him. It's your husband,

(17:16):
but I think it's both of you. Guys. It's okay.
So if you're a superhero, what powers would you have? Oh,
if I was a superhero, I would I guess to
change somebody's heart, Like, you know, there's so much gosh, Okay,
I want to drop the mic on that one, of course,
I mean, you are the sweetest person. Well, there's so

(17:36):
much like going on in the world, and not to
bring it to the depressing point, but it's like, just
if you could literally just touch somebody and change their
mindset about the world, that would be a cool superpower
because then we wouldn't have all this hate going on.
You know, why do you think all this hate is
going on? I think it's a miscommunication. Yeah, and I

(17:58):
think unfortunately, you know, I love social media, but there
are some downsides to it. And sometimes what it is
is that people don't take responsibility for the things that
they put out there, and they think, oh, well, it's
just my opinion. I can say whatever I want to. Well,
people listen to your opinions when you put it out there,
whether it's right or wrong. And I think teaching that

(18:19):
social responsibility to people, it's just spreads like why wild
thought fire, you know, and everybody likes a little drama
and controversy, and but it's snowballs. It's snowballs and people. Yeah,
it's unfortunate, but I think it's important to just start
talking about it and that it isn't against all of us.

(18:39):
We're all in it together, you know. Yeah, I mean
we've got to do something about it. Yeah, in like
fifty years where they won't be like a white European
person genetically, you know what I mean, Like we'll just
all be a big blend of people. It's gonna be
so criss cross, so we'll I'll just be a bunch

(19:01):
of MUDs, which I love mutton. They have a lot
less health problem, like more adapted. It's the way nature intended,
if you think about it. I agree. You don't see
other animals asking each other about their genetic backgrounds exactly.
I love that great superpower. Thanks. Okay, And if you
could choose one celebrity to trade lives with, who would

(19:24):
it be? And why? Oh let's see, maybe just for
a day, maybe not permanently. Love her. She's the best
legs everybody And every time I see or do a
photo shoot or anything on Instagram, I'm like, I would
love to spend a day in your life. Yeah, she's
just one. Yeah. What would it be like to be
a supermodel? I know, right, Yeah, that would That's always

(19:46):
fascinating to me. I would want to be a fly
on the wall, even like backstage and hear what they
talk about and they're all there's just all of them,
you know, just like this heard of like the most
gorgeous women, these legs and they just hang out together. Yeah,
it's kind of incredible, it is, And I would just
want to like try on one of the clothes, even
though it wouldn't be able to fit into it. But well,
I mean, if you're class for the day, it will

(20:08):
fit like a love. But you are smoking, so I
love your body. I'm smoking in my own way right exactly.
You got your own thing going make you okay. So
I'm going to get into this now. We've talked about
how you are in Nashville Native. How did you decide
that you wanted to stay? Did you always know you
wanted to be in Nashville because you're like an O G.
I mean, people call me the unicorn. It's kind of funny. Yes,

(20:29):
there's not many like original Nashville Native people. You know.
The funny thing is when we were growing up, there
wasn't a whole lot here. I mean, we didn't have
a professional football team. We didn't even have a professional
team at all. Are you kidding? No? I think I
always joke make a joke that we had wrestling like
on Friday nights and they had midget wrestling even and
like that was like the big hype to do or

(20:49):
drive down Second Avenue. And that's when Second Avenue was
two lanes, like one going one way and one going
the other. Wow, and it has exploded. That whole part
of Nashville's exploded. Yeah, it's unbelievable. I mean it used
to be this little town of nowhere because Atlanta was
so big that if you were going to go in
the South, you would go to Atlanta. I'm not Nashville.
How did Nashville blow up? I think it just kind

(21:10):
of I think country music definitely helped Nashville blow up.
I mean it has always been the heart of this town,
and I mean the people were, you know, supported by
that industry, and so when the Dixie Chicks came out,
Faith Hill and Tim McGraw and those you know records,
really yeah, it kind of blew it out of the water.
I mean, Tim and Faith are such a gorgeous human beings,

(21:32):
and the Dixie Chicks were just, you know, you've never
heard of a girl band harmonizing at that time, and
they were just selling big numbers like pop. So it
kind of changed that perception. And then the show Nashville,
I think, really helped to show that it's not just
like an but it's not but it's not at all. Know,

(21:54):
but we all used to tease that we want to
get out of the small town and be like, I'm
never going to live in Nashville. My parents live here,
you know, And then you go away to college and
you realize what a cool and special place this is.
There's just something about so special you, just the people,
even the people who move here and lived here for
ten or fifteen years. It's just it's contagious. The I

(22:15):
guess what do you call it? The aura or the age?
You know? I feel that same way. Yeah, it's welcoming.
Everybody's always welcomed, and you can say hey or yeah,
sit down at a bar and make a new friend.
I don't feel like it's a competitive town. I feel
like people compete with themselves and everyone here is a
dreamer and everyone here is trying to accomplish these awesome passions.

(22:36):
But it's never like I want to win and with
this person to love. Ever, I don't get that vibe
at all. No, I don't either, And honestly, like it
was kind of shocking when I've gone to other wordships
with Philip that weren't country music based, and just to
see the drama and how so and so's dressing room
can't be next to so and so and and in

(22:57):
country music, I feel like we're all just happy to
be in wonder seeing room because we're all in they're
drinking together anyways, so exactly, you know, and it's a
big family and everybody's cheering each other on. And I
think that's so important for a community of music, you know,
an artist, to just have that support group. And it's amazing.
I totally agree. I love it. So let's talk about
your blog, Okay, sweet lady Jane, yes to tell me

(23:21):
what that name, the origin is, where it came from,
and tell me about the blog I stopped your blog.
I love it. There's so many amazing things in there's
so many amazing recipes to thank you. Yeah, I didn't
realize how like farm to table you were, and how
like you love this one little place to get your
own vegetables. Talk to me about your heart and it
started um with kind of conquering an issue of fear. Um,

(23:48):
So Philip actually figured out that I'm dyslexic. How did
you figure this out? And tell me what it's like
living with dyslexia when you have no idea that you
have it. It was incredibly hard. Um. Growing up, I
knew that we all, my whole family did and my
mom did, especially she's a teacher, and you know, she
did the best she could help me. But dyslexy is
really something that one in five people have, and every

(24:10):
dyslexic dyslexic is different. So I don't see letters backwards.
I like flip when I'm writing. I have to be
aware of how I flip the sentence. So like an example,
so like you know you have like the beginning of
a sentence and then comma the end of the senence,
Like I'm Rebecca Sweet and my blog is banging, so yeah,

(24:31):
it would be like I would flip it. I would
be like my blog is like I sometimes just flip that,
or I omit words that don't have visuals like the A.
So everything is a picture for you. Everything is tied
to a sensory. So when I read, I have to
have it read to me and I have to be
touching the book for me to really comprehend it and
not have to sit there for thirty minutes on the

(24:53):
same paragraph, like really struggling with it. Yeah, it's kind
of I'm exploring it a lot, but figured it out.
He actually this is how gentle he was about it too.
Um he found a documentary that Richard Branson and Charles
Schwabs did called Rethinking Dyslexia, and he's like, this looks
really cool, and Richard Branson's in it, let's like check

(25:13):
it out. I literally bawled through the whole thing and
I was like, I'm not crazy. This is exactly how
I feel. He just knew. I think he just knew.
He's just so intuitive. And when I would ask him
to spell things like phonics don't make sense to me
at all, Like to me, it's my logic kicks in
and A sounds like an A like not at all,
Like that doesn't compute with me at all, So sounding

(25:37):
words out, none of that makes sense to me. So
writing a blog would be very hard. Then if you
have a hard time with senate structure and like, how
did you? How do you do it? So I have
to be a little patient with myself. Um. I definitely
have a journal that I carry around a lot that
if you looked at it probably looks like foreign language
because it's just scribbles. And then I take that and

(25:58):
I write. And I also have this app of my
commuter called grammatically, and it shows me what is wrong
with the sentence and why so I'm actually like kind
of having to relearn how to the English language because
now I'm aware that I'm dyslexic, so now I know
how I learned, So now I have to go back
and put those fundamentals into my brain. It's kind of intense,

(26:21):
but it's it feels good, like because I'm not scared
anymore and writing such a big scared Yeah did you
were you? Nervous with words? Nervous with words? Um? I
have seven years of college and no degree because I
would just get so frustrated with school because no teacher
could help diagnose you. I mean my English teacher and Auburn.

(26:41):
The whole reason why I left Auburn University was because
I was in English class really trying like my best,
going to the writing lab. I've never missed a class.
I mean even if I was sick, I would still
be there because she gave quizzes, so I needed all
the points I could possibly get, knowing that my grade
heavily dependent on the paper at the end of the semester. Well,

(27:04):
had my mom helped me. She has an English master's
you know, like proof read it and all this stuff.
And my mom when she would proof read it. She
would never like fix it for me. She would do
the same thing like grammatically does, like take a little
comment note and explained to me that it was wrong,
but not fix it. So my teacher had a program
that could see all that. Well, she tries to turn

(27:25):
me in for plagiarism and I'm trying, like how frustrating?
Is this so frustrating? And I got a hundred on
all my quizzes. I mean technically before that paper, I
had an a failed. You gave me a c wow.
And that's probably really traumatizing too, because you're trying your
hardest and then all of a sudden, it's like I

(27:46):
don't know what to do. And if I'm putting all
this effort into it, is this how my life is
going to be? Like if I put this much effort
and I'm I know, I'm doing my best, but it's
not your best, it's my best. It's defeating, so defeating.
It just was I didn't think I could ever conquer it.
I never thought I would ever be a writer, but
I always wanted you to be a writer. Writer. Yeah, gosh,

(28:11):
that next you want to cry? I love And it's
like so freeing. It's like getting to the top of
that mountain and still seeing another mountain, but you're like, yes, yeah,
I'm gonna climb that mountain to you, you know, And
what an inspiration to your daughter show. I mean, I
get so emotional I hit thirty and everything. I'm like,
there's like a puppy, like a Sarah McLachlin puppy commercional like, well,

(28:32):
it's like it's so inspiring to see people take things
that are feeling impossible and conquer him. Yeah, it is
such a great thing for Penalpi and I too, because
I like about her and I just relationship is. I'm
the mom that admits that I have flaws to her.
I tell her that I made that I'm telling you
not to do it because I made that mistake, or

(28:54):
I'm telling you to pay attention to this because I
wasn't aware of it. You know, like I really try
to help her under stand that. It's not just because
I'm mom. Yeah, I'm trying to show her how the
world works, and that is my job and to protect
her and to keep her safe because when she's eighteen,
ye on your own, you know, like Mama can't save you.

(29:16):
Has she received this parenting. Does she understand, Yeah, because
she feels like I respect her because I do respect her,
and so it kind of helps that mutual respect. And
you know, I mean she's still sassy to me, but
that you treat her like a human, treating her down
to Yeah, because I couldn't stand that when I was
a kid, and I think a lot of parents it's
easy to say that because it's hard. It is frustrating

(29:38):
in those moments when they're not doing what you're saying
or asking and they're like why why, and you're like,
I guess I sets up, you know, like you have
to take the time, you have to breathe, take a
step back. I mean, kids do push your buttons. They're
supposed to push your boundaries to you know. So it's good,
it's good. I like our relationship. She's my little buddy.
That's awesome. She's a little crazy pants sometimes for sure.

(30:00):
Well you gotta have a little crazy right. Okay, So
let's talk about this little homestead place that you go
to where you do a lot of your food blogs,
because I love that you are also intentional with food,
Like that doesn't surprise me because you're an intentional person.
But I do love food and everything you make it

(30:21):
seems like it's like coming from nature, like whole products. Yeah,
I definitely try to do. I think it's super important
to use the healthiest option. I mean, even when you're
making a sweet, you still want it to be healthy
because cancer so rampant, and there's so many you know,
philosophies out there why or what but and all of that.

(30:42):
But beyond that for me, is it really does taste better.
You have kind of to train yourself if you don't
grow up healthy and whole. It's a new You have
to train your tastes fresh. Yeah, it's interesting and then um.
Philip was also a big inspiration about food because he
grew up on welfare. So he grew up on a
welfare He grew up on a wellfair girl. Are you

(31:04):
serious of the American dream? He is the American dream,
single parent, household, five children. How did he get here?
I don't know. I keep telling Laurie McKenna that he
needs to She needs to write a song called I
shouldn't be here with him, because it is it. He
technically statistically should not be where he's at, that positive

(31:26):
inspired person. His mom had a theater in Arkansas, and
he would play music and he can. I mean he
can read music, but he can't. I can read music
better than he can. Yeah, totally by your He he
won't admit this, but I think he has perfect pitch.
It's crazy. He's like a savant superhuman. He's a savant superhuman,
but he doesn't It's like he doesn't know it. It's
really weird. Well, and that's the thing too, Like you

(31:49):
guys are a celebrity power couple. Honestly, you are so sweet,
but no one would know because the way you guys
interact with people is so well, humble and kind. Just
like said, I love that song too. Um. You know,
I think our philosophy has always been, um, we want
to feel comfortable in our skin, and if that's empowering

(32:11):
to somebody or make somebody else feel good, then that's
kind of like the point. You know, it just feels
good to be together, and it feels good to be me,
and it feels good to be him. So when that
kind of unites, it just oh man, we're just trying
to get ahead, you know, you're just trying to do
your deal. We're just trying to get to the point

(32:31):
where we're staying in rocking chairs with dirty martinis, grossing
our grandchildren out. That's just like the ultimate goal and
just have a great, beautiful life together. It's interested in food. Yeah,
he's super picky about food, which he has every right
to be picky about food. And he like healthy food,
loves healthy food, he loves any food. I mean, he

(32:52):
really is a foodie, an authentic foodie. He it will
ruin his day if you have a better dish than
he does, like kind of a thing so to happen
and you have a better dish, oh, he pounds. It's
really sad. You have to share it with him. You
just like dish and he thinks you've got a good one,
and then if it's not good, he'll be super sad,
super sad. No, it's like it's kind of sad and

(33:12):
you're like, oh honey, it's okay, order it, you know,
or he'll order, you know, several appetizers just because he
wants to try umph. You know. Like I will say,
Michael's kind of like that, my husband. He loves he
wants it all because he just doesn't want to miss
something that could be right. Maybe that's a musician thing
because they travel so much and they're in that restaurant
in that moment. Yeahs interesting, Maybe that's what it is.

(33:36):
And I also wanted to Penelope to know, um where
her food came from. I thought, I think that's really important,
you know, to teach our kids. It's a lot. It's
kind of a dying thing, this farming, and it's unfortunate.
You know, everybody thinks in airloom tomatoes should look perfect,
and they don't. You know, like you cut that spot
off and eat around it, you know. Or so farmer

(33:56):
Stephen out there and then Nina who works out there,
they have just been so inspiring. It's that same thing
and being around passionate people. They're passionate about what they
do and there's a science behind it all, and but
it looks so effortless, Like there's a field of wildflowers
just to keep the weeds down, and you're like, that's amazing.

(34:16):
I would have never thought to plant wildflowers to keep
weeds up. I bet you're going to have one of
these one day, huh. I kind of want one really bad.
It's kind of my therapy. I got that vibe when
I was like stalking a hardcore I was like, this
is where you are, like in your happy place. Yeah,
like your you love nature and look connecting with your
hands in the dirt. Yeah, And I think it's that

(34:38):
and being around somebody who's passionate about it. So because
I learned something new and I can teach that to Penelope,
And it's just fun to see them and all of
us get out there together and get our hands dirty.
Especially the first time they ever met me. They were
kind of like, she's not gonna get her hands dirty,
like no way, And I was like, Okay, what are
we doing? And so they put me in the chicken

(34:59):
coop and we cleaned it out. They literally thought I
was not going to touch any of the chickens or
any of the poop or anything like that. How do
you find this place? Um? This is funny, So since
I grew up here. Um the gentleman who owns it Andy,
he also owns Puckets. Oh Cool, one of the coolest
local joints in Amazing. Yeah. Every Sunday when I was
a kid, we used to go out to Leaper's Fork
and get a cheeseburger. It's so fun out there, so

(35:21):
fun out there, Franklin, that whole area. Leb's Fork is
like out of a movie. It's seriously and everybody's just
so sweet and down home, and you know there's a
guy in overalls and a John Deer hat in every corner.
You know, it's just really special place. And so they
got opened or acquired at the mansion I think several
years ago, and then opened up homestead manner, and then

(35:43):
the farm. It's still new, but it definitely supports the kitchen.
But then they have other farms kind of help get
a little bit more beefed up. But can you like
buy vegetables from there? Yeah, they have a farmer's market
every Wednesday. They even have mimosas, have a mimosa bar.
It's amazing. It's so amazing. And um, do you like
to Molly's Love to Molly Homemade Real to Molly's. This

(36:07):
guy he has four huge pots and sometimes six, he'll
make two extra ones and they sell it like that.
They're so good and they're like in the husk and
everything and the restaurant husk. Yeah, in the corn husky. Yeah,
it's amazing. This makes me want to move out this
direction towards, like you know, because like that whole area,

(36:28):
it is very more like farm to table I feel like,
very local, which I love. And they're just the people
who are there just amazing, Like Rory Jury and Rory
they used to go there all the time and he
still goes out there with their little girl and he's
such a ray of sunshine. You've seen him, Yes, Joey
and Rory for everyone listening, they are the most beautiful,
inspiring love story ever ever. Rory is the husband and

(36:53):
he's been his wife. Joey passed answer, Yeah, a horrible
battle of cancer and he documented it and there's a
movie coming out about it right Yeah. And I think
he's writing a book too. And he has such a
light about him. I can't explain it, but if you
ever see him in person, there's just like it's like
looking at an angel. There's just such a little glow
about him. And the way he talks about her and

(37:15):
his journey, it's like his journey is not over and
he wants to tell their story and hopefully find a cure.
But even better than that, I think he wants to
just help somebody feel better about if they're going through it.
You know, it's he's just a special person to have
the ability to have that kind of like wisdom and
knowingness when you're in that kind of pain, Like his

(37:38):
faith is strong, strong, because I'd be pretty angry, pretty
devastated to think you have to go the rest of
your life without your soul mate, especially when you have
a beautiful baby and you know that baby is going
to ask questions later and to have to relive that
would be I think the most difficult thing to do,
you know. But he's amazing, so he's up there too.

(37:59):
And then you know the little moms that have canning
stuff and then you can get your meat up there.
They even have bison. How great. So you're just eating
like the most natural no hormone, no hormone. So what
do you like to cook? Like when you do your blogs,
how do you decide what you want to cook? Have
you always grown up cooking? And you also do cocktails? Yes,

(38:23):
because well I come from a Portuguese Irish family, so
we love get togethers and they always involve cocktails, and
you have to Yeah, it's just it's just the way
it was. We didn't necessarily like cook all the time,
like during the week, because my parents both worked jobs.
Sometimes my mom had two or three jobs, Like, they
just worked really hard for my brother and I to
have a very comfortable life and we definitely did. Yeah,

(38:47):
they're really great people. What a blessing to have parents
like that. Yeah, it's super was And so my dad,
he definitely is the party guy. And you know, so
he would plan these nights of cooking, like especially Chinese,
so he loves Chinese Chinese. He makes the best eggirls ever.
I wrote about it on the blog and the recipes
up there. It's so good. They're like little burritos. They're amazing.

(39:09):
And he just would have such a fun time. And
those are fond memories growing up of trying a new
recipe and just kind of see what happens or what's
in there. Such a unifying thing. Yeah, and if you like,
if you're angry and you cook, it's gonna taste angry. Really, yes,
I'm telling me about this. It's really weird, Philip actually

(39:30):
kind of because you know, one time I came home
and I was just frustrated and traffic was bad, and
you know, and I was trying to rush and it
was school night and trying to hurry herr Harry, and
felt was like stop or if it's gonna taste like that.
And it's the truth. If you think about it, anything
you touch, you know, there's a reaction to it, right,
like wow. Yeah, so that's why they say put your

(39:50):
love into it and like you can taste the love. Yeah,
it's true. It's really true. Actually, I thought a lot
about how energy affects everything, but I have never thought
about it in cooking. Yeah, it definitely does. Like, you know,
if you love what you're doing, people are going to
be like, oh, I love this, and you can taste
the love. You can taste it, you know, and it
makes you feel good. That's soul food, yeah, exactly, because

(40:13):
like if someone that you love has made this food,
you know that and that that sounds like a moment
for me, right yeah. See, and it's amazing. And I
really wanted to learn how to cook too for Philip,
like since he you know, I didn't have to worry
about food. I mean, I could eat whatever I wanted
to when I was growing up, and even when we
went to the grocery store, it was not a problem.
If you wanted to box the lucky charms, you had

(40:33):
a box of lucky charms, you know, And he didn't
have that same luxury. So I really wanted him to
be able to come home and have his wife cook
him a nice meal. It's like a love language, you know,
like it's a way to be like I love you
or you you know, like I just love all the
love you guys have in your life. It's it's important
feel it, like I have. I wanted to cry like

(40:53):
three times. I'm talking about so sweet because there's so
much love that radiates not just from you, but the
family all create the way you are expressing yourself through
your blogs, music, like, there's so much it's important to us.
You know, I feel like you radiate that constantly. It's
I mean, it's what started our relationship. I mean everybody
thought we were probably crazy when we first started dating,

(41:15):
because you know, he was an artist, and there's an
age difference and this that and the other, and he
was so much further in his career and I wasn't.
And but you know what, we overcame all those odds
because we loved each other. And you know, I even
had several friends when we first got married, like you know,
what if this doesn't last, and I'm like, well, it
would be worth the years that I'm with him, like
it just was worth the gamble to me. So you know,

(41:40):
it's faced off of love. That's just what it continues
to be. And that's what I want. That's what I
want for Penalpi to. I want her to find that
one guy that loves her and treats her the way
that Philip treats me. And she has that example, and
I had that example with my dad. My dad loves
and so does my mom. But I'm a daddy's girl.
I mean, sorry, Mom, Okay, So back to cooking. Dad cooked.

(42:05):
You love the kitchen cocktails like so you just have
always loved the experience of cooking and sharing meals and
joy yeah around it all. And then that's actually like
kind of ties to Sweet Lady Jane. So my last
name is sweet and then lady I just got and
when I spell it with an eye, I know, Okay,
I love the I so like a little flair. Yeah, well,
Penelpi's name spelled with an eye, so it's pny yell

(42:27):
o p i instead of an ee. It's the Greek
way and um, there's also a bakery called Sweet Lady
Jane in l A that took the y so I
went with I yeah, but you know I like it.
It's bold, yeah exactly, that's how you are. Thank you.
And then Jane, Um, I'm the only girl in six
generations to be born and my dad's out of the
family until my little cousin, Mackenzie, who is um let's see,

(42:51):
she just turned thirteen, so she's my little baby. I
love her. Um. So she's Mackenzie Jane, and then Penelope Jane,
and then my grandmother's Betty Jane. And then so it's
just the middle name, you know, and it comes with
an attitude and assassin it is. Yeah, so it's like
but it's also lady, so there's like some reference there.

(43:14):
I can have fun, but it's with an eye yep.
So I'm gonna have I'm gonna have fun, be bold,
red head, and I'm going to express myself exactly. But
you might let a bad word slip here and there,
and it's okay, mean as you should. It feels better sometimes.
Always it's such an accent piece of just like I
love a little a little color in my conversation me too.

(43:36):
It always helps, especially when you mean something. Yes, and
besides it exactly so on your blog, you have food
you have travel, you have great gift ideas, like you
did a great Father's Day package on the awesome were
gifting love language it is, Yes, you're a gift giver
that Yeah. I really like to think about that moment
when they open it and are like I really wanted this.

(44:00):
Like I love that moment. It's awesome. That means like
the world to me. So you spend a lot of
time on gifts, So everyone make sure you check out
the gift section because they are very well thought out.
I thought that when I was looking at them, like
this a great idea. Yeah. I always need ideas for gifts.
You know, it's it's kind of fun. It's just fun
to go out and shop and you know, even on
the road, I like to do it and hold on

(44:22):
to it or you know, especially antiques. I love antiques.
I have an obsession with that. Yes, I love it.
I would City Farmhouse UM is one of my favorite
places to go. They have a pop up shop to
twice a year. That's incredible. Yep um. She has a
storefront in the factory. Her name's Kim and turned her husband.

(44:42):
She finds these incredible pieces that you just wouldn't even
believe she's impressive. And then um, twice a year she
has pop up shops where all these other antique places
from around the country come and how fun. It's super fun.
To let me know when this comes to town. It's
an October. You can have to come with me, Okay, right,
I would love to come. It's super fun, so fun. Yeah,

(45:03):
so you're a block. Focus is on food travel because
you travel with a little big town a lot, yep,
which and that's awesome. And Penelo becomes then all the
kids come, Yeah, we all all you'all have kids, yes,
you know, thankfully I got a great husband. But he
also has really wonderful bandmates. They all get along, right, Yes,
it's just so crazy. That's hard to think that four
people can get along, and they really do. They really do.

(45:24):
I mean they really work together, and they really are
very loyal to the four of them. I mean, like
they talk and they made the commitment to each other
about family and how important that was for them, and
they want a families on the road. Yeah. Yeah, Karen's
Kiki and Kimberly's Burly or Kim or you know, like

(45:46):
in the Penelope was bob Bops, which came from Daisy,
which is Kimberly's little girl. They kind of raises like cousins.
They act like siblings a lot um. Daisy definitely takes
on the role of Elvis, and i'll Be takes on
middle and Elijah is definitely the baby boy. There's three kids,
so you all just have one, but it's almost like
no one's an only child. It's the best of both worlds.

(46:09):
On the road they have siblings and then at home
they get to be the only kid. It's kind of incredible. Yeah,
I know, I'm like, I want to be I want
to be you want to be you. Life is so
but you know what, you guys have gone with the
flow of your life, Like I feel, there's no resistance,
like you guys embrace it all you have to. I mean,
otherwise I don't want to do it this way, and

(46:30):
I don't want to raise my kid on the road
and put up a fight about it. But I feel
like it's not worth it that you fight harder than
than it is just to go with it. And you know,
the experience of these kids are getting to see it's
kind of incredible. And they've been to almost well, Daisy
has been to every state but Alaska and um, and
I'll be in Elijah. I've been to every state but

(46:51):
Hawaiian Alaska. So I mean that's incredible. And they're not
even in double digits yet. So yeah, it's kind of amazing.
I never left Nashville except her to go to the beach,
you know, to get a Panama City on springbreak, you know,
life experience. I wonder what they're gonna be after seeing
all these options. They're such smart little cookies. Yeah, they

(47:13):
really are. They really don't see male, female color, any
of that stuff, like you know, but all these best
friends besides Daisy and Elijah is a boy um Dylan,
and they are like tight little buddies, and so it's yeah, yeah, yeah,
I think a proud mommy moment was for me when
I felt like I was doing something right. Was her

(47:36):
last birthday. We took her to Disney World and we
took her to the bipity boppy Bootlan and they dress
them all up, so she wanted to be Jasmine and
then she goes, Mommy, I want to go get my
picture taken with Chewbacca. I was like, you got it. Yeah,
you just like to play a girl. You don't care
what it is. She left Star Wars Barbies American girl doll.
If it's a toy, she loves us. Yeah, I love that. Yeah,

(47:57):
it's really kind of neat. But I think it's because
growing up on the road, you just every walk of life,
the road especially it was a tour because there's so
many crew, so many people that are on the road.
It's like a whole world. Yeah, it is every walk
of life. And a lot of those crew people have
seen them grow up. And even if they don't necessarily
work for a little big town anymore, they might work
for Luke, who a little big towns out with. Now

(48:19):
our very first bus driver when the girls were babies
is out there, Reggie, and you know, he can't believe
how big the girls are getting. So it's a little
bit of a family reunion too. And those are the
constants for them, is those people out there and the
bus life, and so it doesn't really matter that the
outside environment is changing. It really doesn't affect them. It's
kind of crazy, isn't everyone, My husband, they're just getting

(48:43):
going in their thousand horses. You've been in after a
long time. But isn't it amazing so many people are
like how can you live this life? Is it overwhelming?
Isn't it hard? But like to me, is it hard
in general? Beautiful though the experiences in the community, Well,
life is hard in general, no matter where you're raising
your baby. I mean, if it was just a choice
I made, you know, like when Penelby was born, I

(49:06):
had a choice to sit at home by myself, why
Philip was out on the road with George straight for
two months with a new baby, or hop on that
bus and have another new mom that's literally across the
bus hallway from me, and you know, to be able
to ask Karen, hey, can I just go potty by
myself really quick? And we watch her and they would
you know, It's like it was. It is a family.

(49:28):
We do take care of each other, and that's what's
so nice about it. I mean, it's kind of a
blessing to have Philip, but it's definitely blessing to have
his bandmates too. Yeah, they're great. People are all on one.
We used to all be in one. It's a lot
of people on one. The girls used to share a bunk.
We split a bunk in half and patted them all out.

(49:48):
And this is the I will never forget this Daisies
our little gymnast. She she literally has had abs since
the day she was born. She's just so fit and
little muscles on her legs. She's adorable. Um morning we
had the divider and the girls kid pop their little
heads out when they you know, were awake and stuff.
Well one morning we thought, gosh, they're sleeping in and
they're being so quiet, and all of a sudden we

(50:10):
hear this, like Daisy had swung herself over into penalpes
bunk and we hadn't didn't hear it because she's like
just some muscles. Oh my gosh, we have no like Kimberly.
And I was like still like trying to wrap her
head around, like how did she do that? Oh my god?
She was our little gymnast for sure. So they were

(50:32):
just in there playing, having a gret fund a slumber
party like that girl I always like, have it built
on slumber parts. Yeah, they always think it's a sleepover.
So yeah, and now it kind of breaks out to like, um,
every family gets half of a bus, so like to bus. Yeah,
Like Kimberly's on the bus with the Westbrooks, So it's
like the Schlapman's the Westbrooks are on one bus, but
like Kimberly has the bat calf and the Westbrooks at

(50:54):
the front, and then they kind of share the lobby,
you know, like the front room, you know, and then
Philip and I have a back of a bus, and
then our tour managers out there and security and camera
guy and you know stuff that. Yeah. Yeah, and the
kids bounced between buses and you know, they think it's
all theirs. Yeah, I love this. They like bust have
been the sound check and they're like, we're here when

(51:15):
I grew up, I want to be a kid a
little bit time to that sounds like a lot of fun.
It's super fun. They have a great time, and you know,
I'm thankful that Philip and Karen and Jimmy and Kimberly
have created that environment for all of us and everyone
wants that same thing. Yeah, it's nice. It's really nice. Okay,
So how did all y'all's life's change when Girl Crush hit?

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Because that, like change the world, did change the world.
It was for me. This is what I love about
being a wife and being on this side is watching
something like that happen, especially to those four people, and
but even the controversy that it caused, and then the
way that they handled it was just so amazing because
I would just be like, tell that person, you know,

(51:58):
like I can't even believe that they can hear this,
or you know, no one can still believe that it
didn't go to number one, number one, No, it died
number two? Are you kidding me? But it's like the
most monster song. It broke a fifty three year sales
record and didn't go number one. But that's what I
love about Little Big Town is like, that's that, that's

(52:19):
so them. Everybody thinks Boondocks went number one and it
didn't know it went number nine. Really the same thing.
To Bring It On Home was the highest one until
Pontoon and it was number four, so that was the
first number one. Pontoon was Wow, that's crazy. So I

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love I love the Little Big Town is that story.
You know, like that they just keep going and they
just keep pushing on. And they actually inspired me a
lot with Sweet Lady Jane in the way that I
run my blog and my business is just to be
patient and just to take the high road and you know,
just put your nose to the grind and when you
look up, you're going to be some pressed and then

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just put it right back and just keep going, and
it's inspiring. They I am lucky to see how that
they run a well oiled machine. So it's yeah, yeah,
I mean they definitely yeah the high road for sure.
I mean they always are just such great examples of
that I need to learn more about. No, you have
and I think you though in your journey, the fact

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that you are conquering your greatest fear and you are
being the most vulnerable, exposing the most vulnerable part of
yourself and putting it out there, which is an interesting feeling.
But it's it's like the scariest but the most free,
right yeah, because you know, if you think about it,
we're judged every day by no matter who you are.

(53:43):
When you're walk into the grocery store, if you're in
your workout close, you know, somebody's like going at you
like my hot cheese or work out close, you know,
so it's not any different. And I think when you
make it an even playing field in your mind, then
it becomes not so vulnerable and it just becomes like, well,
if that's their opinion, then they don't have to read it,
you know, like or if they love it, then they
can read it, you know, share with your friends and

(54:04):
stuff like that. So I really truly am out there
to conquer a fear and to that your main goal,
to conquer your fear and to really like have something
of mine that was creative, my own creative space. You know,
I'll be one day is not going to be here
and not need me as much, you know, like in
that sense, and so I really wanted to have something
that was mine for that reason. So like your outlet, Yeah,

(54:27):
definitely my outlet. That's amazing. I don't know who's here,
but somebody's at my house. Hello, Hello, Hey, Hayden, Hey, Okay,
how's it going, tigerl She picked me up some boots,
sweet assistant Hayden. What kind of boots you get from him? Line?
You might want to go get them because they're like
two hundred dollars, you see, they're thigh high black boots. Girl,

(54:49):
No joke, I love him line, it's like him line.
Who owns that? Mary? It's not Hollywilliams. She does. She
does h Audrey And I love Holly too, Yeah, I
love Holly's got a great story, you man. Yeah, she
needs to write a book. I'll read that book. That
horrible accident. Yeah, she needs to write a book. Man.
She's like old country Nashville. Not just country, yeah, just

(55:12):
country history, but like Nashville history. They've been their family
has been around, you know, for generations. So but they've
seen a lot. Okay, so there's some local storees inline
is hot. So what are you looking forward to with
your blog? And what are you looking forward to with
your future? Like I love vision boards, like where you
see your life, Like, what do you see your life

(55:34):
in the next five tin? Just what do you see
your future with your endeavors in your life. I really
want sweet Lady Jane to become bigger, you know, like
even with employees or even the reach and even what
I'm doing, not just I mean the basis of it
will always be the blog, but I really want to
expand into a jacket. I have an idea of her

(55:55):
jacket that kind of like a Pink Ladies jacket, Like
I would give you one and Karen one, and and
they all have HB on it. Oh my gosh, how
cool that? Which could be head, boss or head depending
on how you want to take For sure, I would
say head bitch, But what a great idea for a jacket.
Every woman would love that. Yeah, and kind of like

(56:16):
it's almost like my way of thanking them, but also
like kind of branching out into that world because I
love fashion too. I mean sometimes I have to google
how to pronounce the word, but I'm working on that.
But I really do appreciate it. I mean it's artwork too,
and it's a creative space. And you know, Alexander McQueen
is one of my favorites just because of how dramatic

(56:37):
he is and his opposites of life and death and
stuff like that is kind of fascinating to me because
he just seems like a very interesting soul and you know,
like there's a lot, there was a lot going on
up there, you know, and you want to grow it,
grow it big worldwide, like yeah, and cocktail mixes, and

(56:57):
you know, I really just want to be a providing factor,
not only for myself but for my family and be
inspiring to my daughter too, Like I want her to
feel like if she doesn't fit into this corporate world,
that she can create her own space. And that's what
I had to do. So I'm creating my own space
and I want to be successful in doing that, you know,
and I want to be like the female Richard Branson

(57:18):
or something amazing like that, see it, you know, And
this close to him sometimes I'm like trying to rub
them for good. Yeah I can, I can. I have
you met my husband? Kind of look like, my gosh,
she's gotten that before. It's really funny. That's funny. We
went to a party after the Grammys, um this past year.
I have tell the story because you'll crack up. So

(57:39):
our managers friends with UM Justin Bieber's manager, so we
got invited to his after party. So we were all
kind of like, oh, this will be great people watching, right,
and we're just so not used to paparazzi being there,
right and like blinding. So I step out of the
car and they're kind of like who's this, you know,
And and Philip gets out and they're like Wichard parents

(58:01):
and Gradid parents and and we just all started busting
out laughing. And you're like he's like, hey, thank you, yes,
put my tab on his tub, send him the bill.
That's hilarious. Oh my god, it was funny. It was
quite funny. You know. They're just trying to get a reaction,
and half of those coopers who don't even know who
who anybody is anyways, they're just snapping, you know, they're

(58:23):
trying to get a bite. Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of funny. Okay,
So I'm gonna wrap up everything else. I missed that.
We need to talk about anything else. You want to,
like talk about sweet Lady Jane or what I'm what's
going on. I love your stuff too, It's so fun
and it's so perfect. I love your name too, it's
so eye catching and thanks so perfect. Well, I think
that's why I like I'm drawn to you because I

(58:44):
love that you're just like an innovator and you're just
doing your own thing and you're putting yourself out there,
and it's a little scary to do that. Like when
I started this podcast, I was a little nerve wracking
because it's like what everyone thinks, I'm stupid, No, but
you're not. You're so entertaining. That's what I love about
it too. And the people that you've interviewed, You've gotten
this great stuff out of them, and your questions are
very thoughtful and I love it. This was fun. Anytime

(59:06):
you want to come hang out with me, you are
always welcome. Girl. Well, I love hanging out with you. Well,
you're so inspiring, and that's the kind of people like
to interview, are people who are inspiring the world, because
that's what needs to be heard and seeing more of it.
I hope that that's the goal to you know, it's
just to be inspiring to Penelope and other people out
there who might have a challenge, even if it's not dyslexia.

(59:28):
You know, I encourage you to explore it and figure
out and don't be scared of it. You look, you's
right in the eyes. And this is the scariest thing
part of my life. And I'm going to expose it
to everyone because I'm an intelligent human being and I
will fix this. You know. That just inspires me to know.
In so and there's a will, there's a will, there's
a way. You don't face it, you can't fix it,
so you know, and it will chase you, it will forever,

(59:52):
it will. It will chase you until you look at
it in the eyeball. And now I don't feel so,
you know, I kept going back to college, kept going
back to college and trying to get that agree. And
now that doesn't mean as much to me as before,
because now I feel like I've conquered what we're trying
to do with college exactly. Like I'm still learning and
I'm still reading books and educating myself. So I'm okay

(01:00:13):
with not having that piece of paper, you know. Yeah,
So I like to wrap up with leave your Light.
So just give me some inspiration. How you have been inspired,
how you inspire people, like just leave light? I like that.
I like leave light. Um, so I would encourage people, yeah,
to face their demon and follow their dreams. And you

(01:00:36):
know what, we live in a great country where you
can do that. You're the only person stopping you is you.
You know, Philip is a great example of that. Little
big towns a great example of that. Great example of
you are too. I mean you grew up in the industry,
in the music industry too, and you know, to do
something that's so amazing you and yours and it feels
good to tip of your life. Yeah, and it's authentic

(01:00:58):
to you. And so I just encourage people to do that.
And dreams do come true, you just have to follow them. Yeah,
stay at it. When it gets doesn't mean it will
be easy. It won't be and it won't be, but
it wouldn't be worth it. If it was, it wouldn't
be fun. You know, I think you're the most perfect
person ever. You really are. You're so sweet. I love

(01:01:19):
this interview and you needs to check out your blog
all the time, Sweet lady Jane. Pleased do all sorts
of great stuff up there constantly. I mean, so many
things to learn from you. You're growing and I love
it and it's mine. It's my little baby, it's your baby,
and it's a beautiful baby. Thank you a great job.
Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thanks for having
me to thank you for doing this. You're the best

(01:01:39):
ever time by Rebecca. Sweet everyone, thank you Carola. She's
a queen of talking and she's on the side got
the snoop on side no one can do with caral care.

(01:02:05):
I hope you were inspired by Rebecca. I know she
inspires me and I am just so glad that I
got to have a chance to interview her. She's such
an incredible woman and she's doing so many incredible things.
Make sure to check out her blog, Sweet Lady Jane,
it's so good. Next week I have Stormy Warren joining me.
This dude is incredible. I was so star struck the

(01:02:27):
first time I met him ten years ago and Key
West at a songwriter festival because I grew up watching
him on G A C. To me, he was like
the face of country music. He introduced every music video.
He was all over Nashville, he was all over G
A C. And it was kind of surreal when I
met him. And it's crazy because now he's been a
friend to me for about ten years and he's always
been the kindest person. He's offered me so much wisdom

(01:02:49):
about how to grow my hosting career, tips on how
to be a better host, he shared his story, and
it's just a real big privilege and honor for me
to have him join me next week on Hyper So
y'all make sure and tune in. And he has his
own show on Serious on the Highway and it's so good.
It's the morning show a Stormy Warren and he's incredible.
So make sure to tune in next week and subscribe

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