June 23, 2025 • 49 mins
Meet country singer, mom of two, and certified multitasking queen - Shea Fisher. From the stage to sports mom, Shea shares how she balances motherhood, music, marriage to a rodeo legend--and keeping her sanity in the process. So grab your coffee (or wine-we're not judging) and join us for laughter, a few real talk moments, and a whole lot of heart. Because every mom deserves a backstage pass!
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hi, Welcome to inside the Mom's Club, where being a
mom is the coolest place to be. Here in the
Mom's Club, we believe that what embarrasses you now will
make a great story later. And let's face it, you
don't laugh sometimes you're gonna cry. Join us in having
a good laugh together. I'm Monica Samuels. You are now
(00:36):
inside the Mom's Club, your private destination for all things mom. Welcome,
Mom's Welcome inside the Mom's Club. I'm your post, Monica Samuels,
and I'm here with my lovely co host, Julie Orkid. Hi,
how are you pick hi, Jackie lately? Because your youngest
(00:58):
daughter is graduating hmmm from high school.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, there's a lot of things happening. And like I
said last year, we've done the podcast for a little bit.
May is not really what I would It's the busiest
month for a mom. So it's mom madness. May is
mom madness. So I have been m I a so,
but it doesn't mean I haven't been thinking about you know, well, you.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Know we did, and you're right about May. I think
that's why they put Mother's Day in May.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
M hm.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And kind of like sort of closer to the middle.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So while you're feeling stressed and you're like, I'm so unappreciated.
This is terrible. Then you know they drop you a
flowers rose or whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, I mean they're like, hey, I got fifteen minutes
for you on Sunday? Do you want to get ice cream?
I don't know, it's I mean, it's it's fine. I'm
not complaining, and it's so.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
And you for you, you've got what prom?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Or I have prom? And this pre prom party is
over the top. We threw a party last Sunday night
that went till one in the morning, and it was
Greek themed. So I was feeling a little crazy dressed
like that. The boys were in togas. It was a lot.
It was a lot, but it's so fun. And you
think about when they're like this short period of time.
(02:14):
I have two daughters. They're both amazing, But you think about, like,
you've spent so much time being a mom and then
you are gonna you are too are flying the nest
and what are we gonna do?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeap, so you'll be an empty nester.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I mean you're trying to be an empty nester. Well, yeah,
the youngest one just does.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
He got an apartment, but he does his things are there,
but he's not. He's still with me, which I love. Yeah,
I mean, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
But I reached out for help to find out what
I'm going to do next.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, it's it is interesting because like our friend Jennifer
last year, she was lamenting what am I gonna do
with all this time? And now she's traveling all over
the place. I don't you never see her. She was
in California last week and now she's in Virginia. Yeah,
I mean she never home.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I think that really you have to reach, like you
have to go back to who you are as a
person and what do you love that brings you joy
and what do you want to pursue and have some
you know, I had a lot of fun raising the kids,
but what are you going to do when they're not around? So,
you know, as my daughter told me yesterday, who you'll
see today?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
She was like, maybe you just.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Don't understand when you I don't have a lot of
time off and like letting me know what adulthood is alike.
And I was like, been there, know exactly what you're saying. So,
but I'm grateful to see her.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
But I did. Do you want to hear what I'm
doing Wednesday?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Oh yeah, I actually hired.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
A medium psychic.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Whoa I did. It's not the first time I've done this.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Last time we were here, some psychic sought you out
at a restaurant.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I was like, don't look at me, I can feel
the hair.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Have you had some light shining on your head or
something like that? And gave you a card and her
name was clairvoyant Monica.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It was so crazy. I was like, Monica, look at
her name and she was like, you, I don't know
what it is, but you need to call me. And
I haven't forgotten about her. But I didn't hire her.
I hired this other lady out of Austin because I
like to do things face to face. I love good conversation.
I like to like pick up on people's body language,
like what you're doing right now with your Like why Julie.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
No, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
How do you hire a psychic? Like how do you
pick you?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Pay her money?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I know that, Like how do you choose?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well you actually get a reference from somebody who's been
to someone because there's a lot of like fakers out there,
and so I wanted somebody authentic. So I really researched
her and two or three people that have been to her.
I'm just excited. I mean, who knows. Like, obviously I
need help to figure out what my next act is
or how I want to recreate or go back to
(04:52):
what I was doing, whether I mean by trade, I'm
a nurse, and so do I want to travel? Do
I want to do another mission trip that's a lot
lot longer? Do I want to find a talent, which
I'm fifty four. I still haven't found what that talent is.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
But well what if she says, you know, it's pole dancing,
It's really mean, you know, why do whatever she says?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Maybe I'm good at it, Monica, and you just don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Well that's too Yeah, I mean I.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Don't think the kids would have appreciated that when they
were younger.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
This is what my mind.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Good luck with this, Thank you all. You know, I'll
report back you do you?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Do you mean to have it all figured out? Though?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh I do, of course. Well I don't need that.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I already know what I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I think raising kids, you take a little break you
take a little stop and we have somebody today who
knows a little bit about yeah doing it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
All she does.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Let's get right to it, I guess to Ditt is
an Australian born Texas based singer songwriter who has a
new single out take Me Back to Texas. So we're
both Texans. Were very excited about that, which was co
written with Grammy Award winning Jesse Joe Dillon and Karen Rochelle,
who is Garth Brooks longtime Harmony singer.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
After taking a few years off to focus on her family,
business and personal growth, our guest is making her return
to the country music scene with this heartfelt anthem blending
nostalgia and her deep lover Texas roots. Please welcome Shave Fisher,
Welcome to the moll Welcome Shame and we forgot to.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Thank you for having me. What an introduction?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Wow you yes, well, I like I'm known for my introduction,
so welcome. But I left out you have three children?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Three?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah, so I have a eight going on thirteen year old,
I have a six year old and I have a
three and a half year old. So I have two
girls and a boy.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Oh wow, wild times right.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
And you're yeah, it keeps me really busy. I mean,
I really don't. Honestly, I don't need sleep much. I
just never have, and that I'm really lucky because if
I needed to sleep, I'd be in trouble because I
go to bed about midnight every night and I'm up.
I mean, obviously the kids can't use their own toilets.
They have to come to my bathroom to go party,
so multiple times a night. Still, I was like, I thought,
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when they reached two or three, You're meant to like
sleep again, and that's just not the case. But it
is okay because I love coffee and I do just fun.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I love it well, get it well, So let's start.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Let's I want to hear about your journey because it
started in Australia, So tell us about growing up in
Australia and how you went from Australia to Texas and
music story.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Yeah, okay, I'll try and keep it short because can
get long winded. So originally I'm from Australia, even though
my accent now is just a little bit confused. People
have no clue where I'm from most of the time.
But lived in Australia and my parents are both Australian
champion rodeo athletes. My dad was an Australian champion bull rider.
My mom was an Australian champion bowery. So so from
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the time I was born, we were out competing on
the road and the Rodier circuit. And when I was
I always I always liked music. I just I was
very outgoing as a child. When I was nine years old,
my parents moved, actually moved to the US. Then my
dad was on the professional bull riding tour and he
was forty years old, still rodeoing on the pro circuit,
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which was super inspiring as a kid. So we lived
here in the US for a couple of years. That's
kind of where I first got my introduction to Texas.
And then we moved home to Australia when I was
nearly twelve years old. Went back to normal life there,
rodeoing the things we always did. I started entering some
talent quests, but but honestly I.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Never won they.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I don't know if they just I sounded different, I
looked different. Everything I did was different. I didn't like it.
But I will say that my parents always taught me
as a little girl that being different is what makes
you unique. So actually kind of drove me, even as
a twelve thirteen year old girl. That made me be like, Okay,
clearly I'm not going to win here, but I still
need to enter for the exposure and the practice. But
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it really it didn't cut me deep that they thought
I sucked. I didn't care. So then I just decided
I'd start to sing the national anthem at rodeos, and
that's what I did. We'd be competing at the rodeos,
I'd be seeing the national anthem on a horse. And
when I was fourteen years old, this is back in Australia,
I was like, I still remember it like it was
just day. I was at a rodeo and there's a
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big tourbus that pulls in and I said, in a
big stage get set up, and there was a big
country music concert going on. I said to my dad,
I was like, you think I can go knock on
that toolbus door and just see who it is and
see if they need a support act. And obviously most
parents would be like, you're crazy, You're fourteen years old.
This is not going to go to plan. But my
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Dad's like, sure, what's the worst thing the person can
say no, so security was a lot less back then.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
I did it.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Knocked on the two bus door. The gentleman came to
the door. His name was Steve Ford. He was a
famous singer in Australia, and of course I led off
with the line of Hi, I'm Shay and my dad's
Eddie Fisher, Australian Champion bull rider, because I had to
have a little bit of like recision and I was like,
do you have a support act? And he was like, well,
my support act actually got stick wow, and he's like
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but he's like, but where's your band? And I thought
we had karaoke tracks. So he was so nice. He
agreed to let me perform before him, but he put
me on two hours before he went on, and there
was like three people in the crowd and my parents
were two of them. That's okay, but I performed like
there was ten thousand people and he actually must have
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been watching me from his tour bus and he actually
found my parents after he got off stage that night
and asked them if I wanted to do the next
shows with him because his the country music concert was
following these big rodeos that we were competing at and
so my parents let me continue on the road with him,
and after about three or four shows, he asked my
parents if he could be my manager, and if he
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asked me to be on his Australian tour. And I'm
telling you, like, I didn't grow up musical. I just
I was probably I don't know, I just did not
have the experience most people did. But I was willing
to work hard, and he took me on his Australian tour.
At the time, I didn't have any original songs, so
I would just sing all the songs and get this
his crowds. I'm fourteen. Keep in mind, his crowd are
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like drinking, partying, having a good time, and I'm this
little fourteen, fifteen year old girl up on stage singing
like I'm here for the party of Gritchen Wilson. I've
never even had a beer like everyone, you know, like
just having to play all these songs that people at
a bar would want to listen to, and I just
I listened. Now I'm thinking, oh my gosh, my parents
let me sing this stuff. What was I singing about?
(11:53):
I didn't even know. But I eventually we wrote my
first album together and then my parents and my manager
actually paid for my first album together. We flew to Nashville,
recorded it, went home, and then I got signed to
a major record label, which was wild because it wasn't
like the US where there's like a bunch of labels.
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Record labels are few and between in Australia, so then
it just kind of it was. It was crazy. I
mean I came from humble beginnings. Keep in mind as well,
my parents worked really really hard. They did they did well,
but we never went without. But we did not have
extra you know, we still had to be careful about
what we spent and things. But you know, when I
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got that record deal, I'm finishing high school. This at
this time, I'm sixteen, I'm finishing high school, and I
wasn't the cool girl at school. It's amazing when you
get a record deal and you're on stage, how people
want to be your friend.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I was like, huh oh oh interesting, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
So I was tearing finishing school. My first album, y'all.
I had three number one songs with my first album,
which was just wow, mind blowing because like it just
got thrown into it so so fast and so fun.
But my manager was it helped because my manager was
cheering and well known, so then I was at I
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was in front of big crowds from day one. Luckily
I liked being on stage, so they say, you know,
fake it till you make it, and I felt like
I kind of was doing that the whole time, trying
to like keep up with everything that was happening. And
then when I was so when I was twenty years old,
I remember being in Australia at a rodeo. Again, I
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still rode already, though I was singing, just because it
was what I'd like to do when I had time off.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Well what was that?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Well, I'm curious about I know now we're now were
you stopped here when you're twenty? So we're going to
go on, But I'm curious about something because I being
from time from Dallas, and we are, and if you're
familiar with Dallas, you know how Dallas is. And so
my husband was not from Texas. So for our very
first day, he was going to fly in and take
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me somewhere and he thought what better place to take
a girl from Texas on her first date than the
fort Worth Rodeo. And I knew nothing about rodeo yeah,
like zero, and all I remember about it was some
there was a monkey.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Well there's Dallas was a different.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, Dallas is very like Cosmopolo. And we don't Dallas.
I guess they Dallas says. People don't even know they're
in Texas. I mean we I would stunned when I
got to the University of Texas and found out, Oh yeah,
I really this is part of Texas because like Dallas
is Dallas. So but I knew nothing about the rodeo
and you're the cultural I mean you grew up with
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the rodeo, did you. That's when you really watch that
rodeo perform. You know what they do?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Well, not only that a picture of you on your
website like you can ride girl up at this point.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Did you do rodeo too? I mean yeah, I think
gave me the ability to you know what I can now,
I can sing, I can go perform. Yeah, because it takes,
especially at fourteen years old, to go knock on a door.
You had to have a lot of inner self confidence.
Did you learn from your parents? I mean, were you
part of that scene that your parents were in and
you just if you can roll, yes, stare you can?
Speaker 5 (15:18):
I mean I won my first barrel race when I
was I want to say I was seven. My mom
said I wasn't a horse from as far as I
could remember. But as I got older, like obviously, I competed.
I won the rookie titles. I made the Australian National
finals several times barrel racing and breakaway roping. So honestly,
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my goal free music was to move to America and
make the American NFL like rodeo was my passion. That's
what I seen myself doing until the music opportunities came along.
I actually, and so weird to me to say it,
was actually the first girl in Australia to make the
junior bull riding finals. Okay, wow, I rode junior bulls well,
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but I did so, Yes, I think I liked the challenge.
I was always very sporty athletic. Anything that seemed a
little bit far fetched for me was challenging. I wanted
to try it. I always had the mentality of obviously,
I didn't want to fail. I was all about winning,
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but I wasn't afraid to fail while I was trying
to get to the winning. So you know, with the
bull writing story always makes people chuckle because in the
junior events, the boys can do the boys can do
the girls events plus bull riding, so they always had
an advantage. With the end of the year, they have
like the all around award to the most points, and
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I was always winning everything I could win, but I
didn't have the points from the bull writing, so I
never won the all Round and it annoyed me, and
I said to my dad one summer, I said, surely, like,
it's what can I aull?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Right?
Speaker 5 (16:56):
And my Dad's like, I don't know, Let's go check
the rule book. So he literally went and checked the
real book. I'm thirteen, thirteen, I think, and doesn't say
girl boy. So my dad actually did instructionals, so he
had a bucking machine at home. So that entire summer
we practiced, and the very first rodeo I entered, I
remember the boys looking at me and like chuckling, like
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you could tell they were like, this is the dumbest
thing we've ever seen, Like what is she doing? And
then I got second the first time I entered, and
then after that the guys are all my best friends,
and I was just one of the boys hanging out,
you know, behind the bucking shoots, but it was just
funny because they used to that first one. They were like,
this is not going to go well, and then they
got their butts kicked.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I mean, so you have an incredible grit and this
is what I love about your story. So I do
have a question. Though I have listened to your albums
and your songs, I have a couple of favorites. Take
me back to Texas Don't Rush is beautiful. I thought
that was pretty too. And so but your first album
did someone who inspired this? Did someone break your heart?
What is the story behind that? Because like, really, like
(18:03):
you have this quote that says, never too late to
pursue what sets your soul on fire, and so I
think that is kind of like you're going back to that.
But I want to know a little bit about the
history of the music.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
And yeah, so you know, when I started writing my
first album, I was, to be honest, fourteen years you were.
I hadn't had a ton of heart break. But I
will say you can write a heartbreak song based upon
other heartbreaks. You can have heartbreaks in friendships, you can
share breaks so many other areas of life. So for me,
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I was able to draw off those experiences. I'm not
gonna lie. I might not have told my parents, but
obviously I had crushes when I was young and half breaks,
you know, they didn't whatever, So I had experienced that.
But it also was co writing with my manager was
what he was fifteen years older than me, so it
was co writing. So I was able to base of
a lot of experience there of like, how can we
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take this and turn it to this As I grew
as a songwriter. Obviously my first album, I look at
the songs now and I think, wow, these were kind
of pretty basic. But at the time it worked and
it's what those young girls wanted to hear. It just worked.
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But the more I started songwriting my album two and
then my new music, I'm like, okay, these songs were therapeutic.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
You know.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
I was able to write. Obviously, if you're going to
be in a relationship with anybody who writes songs, I'm sorry,
you're going to have songs written about you.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
And I know that some of my exes are very
aware well that song specifically about me. So yes, I've
used my own experiences as well as other people's experiences
in life.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
But I liked how you mentioned heartbreak like, it can
be about anything. It doesn't have to be about you know,
a girl, a boy, or you know, some type of
love relationship. It can be about so many in life,
and so, I mean, I think that's really cool that
you mentioned that.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I like that well in the heartbreak aspect, drawing from
your ex's like if if you have really tragic, horrible things,
that the beauty of that is they would never want
to admit that was them. Right, So I've got good
material and you don't have to worry about being suit
or anything.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Yeah yeah, well, I mean legally you can write about
whatever you want. Now, if you were going to put
their their name and their home address, it might be different.
But you know, the funnest part for me was with
songwriting and being creative that way. I loved making the
music videos. I loved these songs come to live and
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you can hear a song, but then if you watch
a good music video, you're like, oh that's what they mean. Yeah, yeah,
much sense now. So I always would write songs thinking about, oh,
this is what this music video will look like, and
that that was always so much fun. Because I also
pre singing, I did a lot of acting, So I
wasn't sure if life was going to I was going
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to be more on the acting roles or if I
was going to be singing. I always I always liked
being in front of the camera, and I think it's
the same thing with Rodeo. I liked being on the
on the stage, whether it's on the stage in the
arena or singing or acting. I just that was just
my personality.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Do you see yourself acting again?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
I do. I knew if the opportunity came up, yeah, absolutely,
if Yellowstone calls me, which they're no longer on, but
if one of their.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Serious things might be, you don't know, you never know what, No,
I would.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Be totally down for it. I used to do a
lot of acting when I was younger, like or it
nearly was on the Saddle Club. Lots of shows that
I was had opportunities to be with. But you know,
it's it's just you kind of have to pick a path,
and I couldn't do too many things. I was very
very good at athletics growing up. I got asked to
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train for the Olympics team when I was fourteen in
the two hundred hurdles and triple jump, but that was
the same time I was stepping into music, and I
just knew that, like committing to that to train the Olympics,
that's a four year commitment, and I didn't want to
sprain my ankle two weeks before and have spent that
whole whole time and not have a creator then step
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into So.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
You can be good at multiple things. You have to
pick what you're passionate about, though, and what makes most sense.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Well, we're good with a lot of things now. So
you took time off, so you got married to someone
who's also in rodeo.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Yeah, so let me so the story. So it was
twenty I'll just make it super quick though. When I
was twenty, I got a call from a record label
in America. I was not trying to get a record deal.
I literally got a call from a label who had
heard my songs in the studio in Nashville, because all
of us Ozzie's go to Nashville to record. Sure, they
heard my song and then they called me and they
asked me if I would like to fly over. They
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said in two weeks to talk funny record deal. And
I was like, I mean, we'll go and see. So
my dad, my mane flew over, sat down. They're like, okay,
we're going to sign you to this record label. You
have two weeks to fly home. We need all your
band members to move to the US as well, and
then you're going to start radio tour in three weeks
like that quick. I was twenty and so my my
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ausie band all guys move. We runted a house seven
seven guys and it was great. I was such a
tom boy. Hit the road for three months, touring, radio, touring,
my single got released to radio, was doing fabulous the
first few weeks, and then my record label shuts down.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Oh yeah, So that's the part where you have to
like pivot or understand, you know, what are we going
to do next? And honestly, like you can do so
many things, Like I'm just like overwhelmed with everything that
you mentioned.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
But let's talk about the hardest.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Job of all a mom of three kids.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Right, So where does that come into your career?
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Where does that?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You know?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
So when I when the record label shut down, obviously
I stayed in nashvill a little bit, but I started
venturing to Texas more because I that felt more like
home because I had grown up there a little bit
when I was younger, and then I met my husband,
who is a world champion rodeo athlete, Tyson Durfy, at
Houston Rodeo. Oh yeah, I was doing modeling for a
brand there and I met Tyson there, and you know,
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I was you know, it took him like a year
to get my phone number. I was very just was
in the headspace to want to commit to a He
was a good guy, a good nice guy, and I
was not used to that type of relationship, and I
knew that's the marrying type, and I just wasn't. I
just couldn't commit. For the first year, I was like, no,
but I don't want you to leave like I want
you to stay there waiting.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I want you to stay in my safety bucket until
we're ready.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
And then we got we we got married, and then
we always said we wanted to wait five years. We
waited three and we had our first little girl. And
but you know, my parents always told me that kids
shouldn't change your life. They change they come into your
life and they just do what y'all do if you
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let it happen that way. So our children have always
traveled the world with us. They're international travelers. We take
them everywhere. We've literally within eight years, and I don't
I'm not saying this is a good thing. I think
it's great when people can leave their children. But we've
only left our kids for three nights and eight years.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Oh I love that. So you remain a family and
you just do it your way. I mean, listen, you
and Beyonce, she's traveling with these kids all over the place,
and yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
So yeah, it's important for me to have these memories
with the kids. Sure, and you know they're doing this.
They handle it well. They know how to handle themselves
in situations with you know that most kids aren't allowed
to go to But don't get me wrong. My child
still had to write I will respect my parents thirty
times on a piece of paper last week.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yes, well, oh my god, I love that. Can I
do that to my adult children, like, yeah, that would
be great.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Kids, But they still need they still need to be
brained back in at times.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Of course, of course we have some women who can
relate to that totally.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
We've got one who's doing an amazing job, Kimberly.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I mean, well, and let me introduce them. They are
all zoomer moms Welcome, Zoomer moms welcome to sing here. Yeah, well, ladies,
I don't know how all of us can compete. I
mean rodeo writing and singing and acting. I mean, it's
all exceptional. It's not a competition, that is true. Well,
(26:39):
let me introduce our first one. Kim, welcome to the
Mom's Club. Can you tell us your name a little
bit about yourself.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Yeah, my name is Kimberly. So I have a three
year old daughter, and then I have a she's one
in a month.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
I'm trying to get her to sleep right now.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
You're doing a great job. I think you've accomplished it
almost almost almost.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
So, Yeah, such an amazing story. My daughter is obsessed
with horses, and so I guess what would you recommend
for a mom of a horse lover how to get
her involved in horse riding or rodeo or anything like
that if you're not from that industry or you know,
(27:21):
if you don't have any I've never I mean I've
ridden a horse like once or twice, but he is obsessed.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Yeah, Kim, that's okay, even if you're not from that
I have a lot of friends that knew nothing about horses,
just love them. But you know, there's a lot of
ability in different areas to do riding lessons. Now finding
a really good group of like a like a saddle
club almost they have where you can go and they
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own the horses. I don't recommend trying to figure out
how to buy one and stable and do all that.
It's very expensive and there's a lot of responsibility that
comes with it. But taking your child and doing saddle
club and different life essence like that and let you
know if it's something that like you know, some people
financially kind of board that too. And I've always had
friends of like, hey, if you're going to join this,
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you're going to do these are your chores. This is
the bucket money you're gonna get that's going to go
towards paying for your riding lessons, because obviously it's not cheap.
But I will say having a child that that is
involved in horses at any point brings so much responsibility,
And I really think it's what kept me out of trouble,
(28:29):
having having that responsibility and knowing that I'm taking care
of this massive animal that's listening to me. So I
do think it's amazing I would say saddle club. I
mean to start with, go to the saddle club bards
and offer to help clean the stalls. Let her just
be around the horses and then and then see if
if she wants the commitment to go riding and do
all of that. But but I do think that it's
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it's a good thing to have your kids in.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, Julie can appreciate this too because she loves horses. Yeah,
and she made me ride one and when we were
in and you we have some embarrassing video of me
to get off the horse.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
It's I was like Monica, people people are watching get
off Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Other shamefulne It's amazing. I ever got off the words.
I'm sure the horse. The whole time was thinking you
put this lady, yeah, crazy lady on my back because
I'd like.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
To know riding through Scotland is going to be my
next trip. So I think horses teach kids respect and
like you said, you're in charge of this large creature.
You have to respect the animal and they'll give you
love back. I mean, there's so many lessons and horses.
But anyway, I could go on for that, but up
for hours.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Janine, Welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us your name
and a little bit about.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Janine from Austin, Texas. And I am the mother of
a thirty four year old and a stepmom of a
forty year old and have two grandsons. And when I
was a kid growing up, we always had horses, So
my dad had a walker and we had basically horses.
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We rode in the boots and saddle rodeo every Friday night,
and so I did barrel.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
And flags h So I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
So that was my upbringing.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
And I was just curious about your kiddos because I'm
hearing three things from you as far as your background,
and it's it's it's horses, sports and music. What direction
do you see your kids.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
Each leaning's Do they have those interests right questions?
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Yeah, that's a you know, that's a really good question
for me. I like to let our children try all
different things. Obviously, you always want them to full on
your footsteps, but a lot of pressure comes with that,
having to follow in the footsteps of somebody else who's
had success in a different area. So honestly, if our
son wants to be a baseball player, I'm totally okay
(30:51):
with it. If he doesn't want to rodeo like my husband,
I'm I'm fine with it. But we let them try things.
We let them try two max. Three things to juggle
at a time. That's a lot. I don't want to
get too many things going at once. One thing I've
noticed is with horses, because we live on sixty eight,
is we have a bomb. We have horses, but their
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personalities are all different. Every morning when I go ride
horses when the girls are at school, I go ride
my horse because I still do compete some I take
my son with me and I lead him beside me,
so he loves it. But now my oldest loves to
ride that. She doesn't love the responsibility that comes with
all saddling the horse, all of that. But what I
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try to tell her is, hey, if you don't want
to do this other stuff, you don't get rewarded to
go and do that like you have to. It's a
whole package deal. So we have one that's very invested
in basketball and volleyball, and she's very good. My son,
he's three, he wants to do everything Chris. And then
my middle daughter, she loves horses. I could see that,
(31:53):
but the girls I will say. The girls are very,
very musical, but I try not to put too much
pressure on it. Everywhere we go, before we leave someone's house,
they ask if they can sing a song they wrote
for the people, So they ready at six and nine,
making everybody sit there and watch them. And these songs
they write aren't just three minutes long, right right, balance.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
You're gonna get the ten minute version.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
So do you see besides your solo career, do you
see like a mother daughter? Do you know in your
future are you gonna.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
I know I will be the mom manager because I
know the industry well enough now I feel like, honestly,
God kind of put me in the industry. I really
do believe that one of my kids is going to
be in that industry and I will be able to
guide them and help them. Nobody wants to see if
by the time they're seeing Nobody wants to see a
fifty year old woman up there with two cute girls
like I'm gonna let my girls do it. They can
(32:47):
be a duet and then I'll be behind the scenes
being there their manager slash. I don't know stylists, whatever
that looks like, but but obviously I'll be involved that
that's what they choose to do. Yeah, and that's you know,
give them the opportunities where I can.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Abby, Welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us your name,
where you're from, and a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
My name's Abby. I'm from San Francisco and I actually
used to be a nanny, uh, which is fun and
I really loved being able to give the kids back
at the end of the day. That was like, but
I'm actually really fascinated by like the Australian country music
scene and sort of like what is the difference between
(33:30):
that and like obviously like our own country scene here
in uh, the US.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
So, you know, nice to meet you. I think that's
amazing that you're we're a nanny because obviously I can't
do everything alone, so I have a fabulous brand slash
Nanny that helps me with the kids as well. So
it's such a huge role you're raising you know, you're
helping raise people's kids. So that's amazing. But you know,
today's time, the internet and social media have made it
(33:59):
such a small world. So in Australia, we play a
lot of American country and it's very crossover. When I
first started, it was probably seventy percent Australian country thirty
percent American. But now like currently, right now on the
Australian charts, I'm only with my new single, I'm one
of three Australians that are even on the top thirty chart.
(34:22):
That's how much American music is in Australia right now,
which is great. But at the same point, I'm like,
I feel like the chart should be should should bring
in more Australians. Personally, I feel lucky that I'm on
the charts, but yeah, it's it's really changed a lot.
We have a lot more festivals and a lot more
American acts coming over.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
I love that We've also seen a lot of.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Australian acts come over and sign record deals in the
US and do really well. So the Internet and streaming
makes it just like a one world. No't matter where
you're from anymore. It's like when I was very very
Australian back in the days, I still sung with A
ten and twain. People laugh in interviews, They're like, you
sound Texas, but but you're Australian. I'm like, oh.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Yeah, I notice when we say the word Australia, all
of a sudden, your accent goes back to the country,
and then I was like, it's it.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah, But when you're in Australia, to say, do you
say y'all, say y'all? Have you adopted? Not you got y'all?
Have y'all in there?
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Well, when I'm in Australia, I really try hard and
when I do Australian interviews to focus on sounding Australian. Yeah.
I'm not saying people judge, but you're an Aussie, you
live there for twenty years. They don't really want to
hear you sounding American. And I know I have a
(35:41):
quite a strong American accent at times, so I really
try and focus on over exaggerating my auzsiness when I.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Want to hear your aussy roots. Come on, yeah, like
that's it.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
And speaking of that, have you and Keith Urban discussed
at all or anything? There's a success story in the
I just have.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
To get through Nicole and be like, Nicole, come on,
that's right, eat you out with your husband? Come on? Please? No.
But we have a few connections there, like people that
know people, and I've been around keep a couple of times.
He's an amazing human being. I have a couple of
(36:21):
friends in the industry, like Walker Hayes. My next single
I wrote with Walker instance, there's a couple of people
I've thought about maybe doing a duet with. What does
come challenging in today's time any artists that signed a
record deal, if you want to do a duets, very
it's not really up to the artist. It's up to
the record label that they're signed to. So it's a
little bit trickier when they become as signed artist. Like
(36:43):
if Walker Hayes had have been if we could have
done a duet three years ago when he wasn't signed,
but now he signed, he has to get approval from
so many people. So it makes it.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Interesting insight to the industry that I like hearing. I mean,
I love learning about that because you're right, it's not easy. Yeah,
like yeah, So anyway, Well, we also have with us
today the cutest occasionally zoomer daughter.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
On the month of Mother's Day, we have a Zoomer daughter, Georgia.
Welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us your name, where
you're from, and a little bit about yourself and.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
How much you love your mom.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
You getting mom. Yes, it's nice to meet you.
Speaker 8 (37:29):
I had a question about how your parents got into
the rodeo being Australians and is that is that a
big industry or like a a thing that they were doing.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
How did they get into that? You know, that's actually
a really good question. I think both of my parents
didn't have a whole lot growing up, and then they
realized they could win prize money. That drove them to
lone's skill. And they both were from quiet country out
back towns, so they just you know, the boys thought
(38:01):
it was fun. They were either like on dirt bikes
or riding a bull. You know, it was just they
did they meet through that medium? Yeah, they actually did.
My parents met at sixteen, and from what I've heard,
my parents were more on the wildest side when they
were younger, and then at like twenty one, they both
found Jesus and became like more straight laced. But yeah,
(38:21):
so they met at rodeos and they traveled together a lot,
I mean around the world rodeoing, even at a young
age before us kids came along. But you know, my
my parents really were the ones that taught me to
dream big and that you're going to fail, you just
how you pick yourself up from it. They were very
(38:43):
supportive with anything that we wanted to do in life,
which was nice because there was a lot of crazy
ideas that I had. But you know, they were going
to let me try it and then probably no, I
was going to fail at certain things, but weren't going
to tell me, no, We're going to let me figure
that out myself. I actually, growing up, had a disabled
sister who was mentally and physically handicapped, so her brain
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only developed to a three month old and when she
was born there was only five people in the world
that had this disability. I don't it's one of those
big long names. But when so, she was four years
younger than me. So when my parents had my sister,
they were at the prime of their rodeoing and doing
all their stuff. You know, they hadn't they had an
(39:28):
infant for eighteen years. She was meant to live till five,
and she lived till eighteen. So my parents they never
put her in like public education because obviously like that
was just someone the babysitter because she couldn't comprehend anything.
But yeah, I mean I watched my parents give my
sister a bottle and wake up three times a night
(39:49):
for eighteen years. So they literally had a newborn for
eighteen years, so you know, they missed out on a
lot of like things like going to the movies or
date nights and stuff. But we never missed out kids because,
like I said, we moved to the US when I
was a kid, we traveled the world. Still, my parents
just made it work. Even with my sister being handicapped.
They were still going to keep like chasing their dreams
(40:11):
and goals, and we all just went with. I remember
when I first got into music, both of my parents
couldn't come to my events like when I was younger,
because you know, you know, festival's not somewhere you take
my sister. It's just not really kind of so I
had one either or of my parents would come to
(40:32):
things like that. But you know, when my sister passed away,
my mom I was talking to my mom about it
and she said it had been eight She's like, movie
theaters are so different now. It had been eighteen years
since my parents went to year. Wow.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
So you had a really tremendous example, yes, through your parents.
I like when I first was hearing your story, like wow,
she does all these things, I mean, and just keeps going.
And you have you had a great example for that. Well,
tell us a little bit about your single, take me
back to Texas and love It. What part of Texas
do you live in?
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Where are you?
Speaker 4 (41:08):
Where you?
Speaker 5 (41:08):
Yeah, so I'm in the country part, not Dallas. I'm
close to Fort Worth. Oh, I'm in Weatherford and we
have sixty acres on the Brass River. And like I
said earlier, my husband's are rodeo athlete, so obviously we
need land and and horses and cattle and so forth.
But you know, when I wrote this song, So when
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I when I originally was was signed in Australia singing
I want my cowgirl hat on stage in my boots,
I was, I was a cowgirl. But when I sign
my record deal in the US, my record label wanted
me to get rid of the hat and the boots
and wear high heels and they are no fun to
walk in. Yon. Yeah, well you're not used to it anyway.
But so when I was writing this song, obviously it
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was the it was the missing of Texas and my
cowgo roots almost more than like a guy. But I'll
be I had met my husband, so there was there
was that that part of the love story in the single.
But you know, going out and chasing my dreams at
nineteen and leaving everything behind that I knew that was
(42:13):
comfortable to me, and you know, realizing like just even
if I hadn't really had huge success straight away in Nashville,
I think I always would have ended up in Texas
because I just I just felt out of place, you know,
lived in the city that just wasn't who I was.
So this song was written in a place of missing
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my roots, who I was at the time, my boyfriend
in Texas. You know, it was it was heartfelt me
and for me, I've always tried to release my songs
are normally being pretty upbeat, just a couple of slow
songs I've released and taking taking that gap from the industry.
I didn't really know which of these ten songs to
(42:56):
release first, but this one, for some reason, just just
said to me like this showed the journey I'd been
on the last ten years and also showed a more
mature side of myself as a songwriter. So I thought
it was probably more appropriate to come back into the
industry rather than like my next singles like sexy Cowgirl
fun But I'm like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
And you wrote it with Grand Award winning artists as well.
Speaker 5 (43:20):
Jesse. Yeah, but you know, when I wrote this song,
here's the thing which is so cool about Nashville. When
I wrote this song, Jesse was just Dean Dillon, who's
a famous songwriter, his daughter. She hadn't had hits. We
were just songwriting in a room and having a good
time as girls. But now seeing how far she's come
is just so amazing. I mean, all these singles, even
(43:41):
like that next one too, that I wrote with Walker Hayes,
Like Walker was barely paying his bills and couldn't really
even feed his family when he wrote this. Yeah, and
no record label wanted him in town. And now he's
a superstars. So you know, it's always you always got
to keep in mind you got to be nice to
every person in life because you don't know, you don't
know what the future holds people that you cross.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
I think that is incredible advice.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
You know what, Everyone that comes on this show, everyone
is amazing. As we say, he're on the Mom's and
I tell every one of them, you should write a book.
Speaker 5 (44:12):
You should write a book because.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
You've got good you got good story.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
And that's and what you just said as you're coming up,
you don't know who's gonna like right next to you.
Speaker 3 (44:23):
They may you know, listen, I'm grateful you never gave
up because I think there you are. The best is
yet to come.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
So I think that is what we look forward to.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
So where can people find you on social media?
Speaker 5 (44:37):
Like?
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Where can all the moms out there find you?
Speaker 2 (44:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (44:41):
Well, I'm very involved in social media, and I will
just say I don't know if we're living on time
or anything, but I will just say, you know, I
have like a love hate relationship with social media. I
love it.
Speaker 4 (44:52):
I know that.
Speaker 5 (44:53):
I just like to tell people that. I guess having
a daughter that's nine. Now, obviously she's not on social media,
but I know at one point she will be. Like
there's so much pressure that comes to people from social
media because they think what they see on social media
is what everybody wakes up looking like and what they
do day to day. So they you know, they put
these people on a pedestal and they judge themselves or
(45:16):
what they see in the media, and it is not
anything like that. It's just not realistic. I really try
to post, like I try and show the good with
the bad, but you know, I'm on Instagram. You know,
it's great. I have, you know, a bunch of followers,
so I love catching up with everybody there. I have Facebook,
my website and so forth. But just know, like, social
(45:38):
media is just not a place to like, you know, oh,
what her body's like is what mine should be like.
You don't know if people could just self filters than
photoshop and it's it's incredible what you see behind the
scenes and the industries of life. If only people knew
what they're seeing is not the truth.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
I never take the positivity out of like and you
know what I mean, all of social social media. I
agree with you one hundred and fifty percent. I love
the connection though, of everything with social media that you
can pick up and you take, you take out you
know what you can and you leave the rest because
the rest is not real life. So thank you for
(46:16):
seeing that. But what is your handle on Instagram?
Speaker 1 (46:19):
We're doing knowing that you're very authentic too, I'm sure
people will want to.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
She's like, I'm going to look it up. Yeah, so
I know what it is.
Speaker 5 (46:26):
Okay, it's under Shaye Fisher. Music is my age.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
Yeah, I love, love love your single and I can't
wait for more.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Exactly Yeah, check out take me back to Texas.
Speaker 3 (46:39):
That's right, and I'll be doing that tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
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Speaker 2 (48:23):
Like, okay, I like that.
Speaker 1 (48:25):
Yeah, absolutely, I wish I had it when I was
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maybe my grandchildren someday. I don't know exactly. Anyway, it
has been so much fun as always Julie and completely inspired.
Speaking of social media, we can't fail to mention that
we are on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and all of that
(48:48):
at Inside the Mom's Club, Yes, where we do fun
videos and show clips from the show and come up
with and Julie's job is to find it inspiring quotes
to post up there. You won't find any yet because
she's not.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
That's probably for it in the beginning of the show job,
so look for.
Speaker 1 (49:07):
Those as well well. We will see you next time, ladies.
We appreciate the time that you've spent with us today.
We know your me time is precious and valuable. Thank
you for spending it with us. Don't forget our motto.
Our motto is, ladies, if you don't laugh, sometimes.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
You are gonna cry.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
So keep laughing. We will see you next time inside
the Mom's
Speaker 3 (49:28):
Club, all right,
Hi, Welcome to inside the Mom's Club, where being a
mom is the coolest place to be. Here in the
Mom's Club, we believe that what embarrasses you now will
make a great story later. And let's face it, you
don't laugh sometimes you're gonna cry. Join us in having
a good laugh together. I'm Monica Samuels. You are now
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inside the Mom's Club, your private destination for all things mom. Welcome,
Mom's Welcome inside the Mom's Club. I'm your post, Monica Samuels,
and I'm here with my lovely co host, Julie Orkid. Hi,
how are you pick hi, Jackie lately? Because your youngest
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daughter is graduating hmmm from high school.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, there's a lot of things happening. And like I
said last year, we've done the podcast for a little bit.
May is not really what I would It's the busiest
month for a mom. So it's mom madness. May is
mom madness. So I have been m I a so,
but it doesn't mean I haven't been thinking about you know, well, you.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Know we did, and you're right about May. I think
that's why they put Mother's Day in May.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
M hm.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And kind of like sort of closer to the middle.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So while you're feeling stressed and you're like, I'm so unappreciated.
This is terrible. Then you know they drop you a
flowers rose or whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, I mean they're like, hey, I got fifteen minutes
for you on Sunday? Do you want to get ice cream?
I don't know, it's I mean, it's it's fine. I'm
not complaining, and it's so.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
And you for you, you've got what prom?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Or I have prom? And this pre prom party is
over the top. We threw a party last Sunday night
that went till one in the morning, and it was
Greek themed. So I was feeling a little crazy dressed
like that. The boys were in togas. It was a lot.
It was a lot, but it's so fun. And you
think about when they're like this short period of time.
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I have two daughters. They're both amazing, But you think about, like,
you've spent so much time being a mom and then
you are gonna you are too are flying the nest
and what are we gonna do?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeap, so you'll be an empty nester.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I mean you're trying to be an empty nester. Well, yeah,
the youngest one just does.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
He got an apartment, but he does his things are there,
but he's not. He's still with me, which I love. Yeah,
I mean, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
But I reached out for help to find out what
I'm going to do next.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, it's it is interesting because like our friend Jennifer
last year, she was lamenting what am I gonna do
with all this time? And now she's traveling all over
the place. I don't you never see her. She was
in California last week and now she's in Virginia. Yeah,
I mean she never home.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I think that really you have to reach, like you
have to go back to who you are as a
person and what do you love that brings you joy
and what do you want to pursue and have some
you know, I had a lot of fun raising the kids,
but what are you going to do when they're not around? So,
you know, as my daughter told me yesterday, who you'll
see today?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
She was like, maybe you just.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Don't understand when you I don't have a lot of
time off and like letting me know what adulthood is alike.
And I was like, been there, know exactly what you're saying. So,
but I'm grateful to see her.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
But I did. Do you want to hear what I'm
doing Wednesday?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Oh yeah, I actually hired.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
A medium psychic.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Whoa I did. It's not the first time I've done this.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Last time we were here, some psychic sought you out
at a restaurant.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I was like, don't look at me, I can feel
the hair.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Have you had some light shining on your head or
something like that? And gave you a card and her
name was clairvoyant Monica.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It was so crazy. I was like, Monica, look at
her name and she was like, you, I don't know
what it is, but you need to call me. And
I haven't forgotten about her. But I didn't hire her.
I hired this other lady out of Austin because I
like to do things face to face. I love good conversation.
I like to like pick up on people's body language,
like what you're doing right now with your Like why Julie.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
No, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
How do you hire a psychic? Like how do you
pick you?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Pay her money?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I know that, Like how do you choose?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well you actually get a reference from somebody who's been
to someone because there's a lot of like fakers out there,
and so I wanted somebody authentic. So I really researched
her and two or three people that have been to her.
I'm just excited. I mean, who knows. Like, obviously I
need help to figure out what my next act is
or how I want to recreate or go back to
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what I was doing, whether I mean by trade, I'm
a nurse, and so do I want to travel? Do
I want to do another mission trip that's a lot
lot longer? Do I want to find a talent, which
I'm fifty four. I still haven't found what that talent is.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
But well what if she says, you know, it's pole dancing,
It's really mean, you know, why do whatever she says?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Maybe I'm good at it, Monica, and you just don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Well that's too Yeah, I mean I.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Don't think the kids would have appreciated that when they
were younger.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
This is what my mind.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Good luck with this, Thank you all. You know, I'll
report back you do you?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Do you mean to have it all figured out? Though?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh I do, of course. Well I don't need that.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I already know what I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I think raising kids, you take a little break you
take a little stop and we have somebody today who
knows a little bit about yeah doing it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
All she does.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Let's get right to it, I guess to Ditt is
an Australian born Texas based singer songwriter who has a
new single out take Me Back to Texas. So we're
both Texans. Were very excited about that, which was co
written with Grammy Award winning Jesse Joe Dillon and Karen Rochelle,
who is Garth Brooks longtime Harmony singer.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
After taking a few years off to focus on her family,
business and personal growth, our guest is making her return
to the country music scene with this heartfelt anthem blending
nostalgia and her deep lover Texas roots. Please welcome Shave Fisher,
Welcome to the moll Welcome Shame and we forgot to.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Thank you for having me. What an introduction?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Wow you yes, well, I like I'm known for my introduction,
so welcome. But I left out you have three children?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Three?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah, so I have a eight going on thirteen year old,
I have a six year old and I have a
three and a half year old. So I have two
girls and a boy.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Oh wow, wild times right.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
And you're yeah, it keeps me really busy. I mean,
I really don't. Honestly, I don't need sleep much. I
just never have, and that I'm really lucky because if
I needed to sleep, I'd be in trouble because I
go to bed about midnight every night and I'm up.
I mean, obviously the kids can't use their own toilets.
They have to come to my bathroom to go party,
so multiple times a night. Still, I was like, I thought,
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when they reached two or three, You're meant to like
sleep again, and that's just not the case. But it
is okay because I love coffee and I do just fun.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I love it well, get it well, So let's start.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Let's I want to hear about your journey because it
started in Australia, So tell us about growing up in
Australia and how you went from Australia to Texas and
music story.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Yeah, okay, I'll try and keep it short because can
get long winded. So originally I'm from Australia, even though
my accent now is just a little bit confused. People
have no clue where I'm from most of the time.
But lived in Australia and my parents are both Australian
champion rodeo athletes. My dad was an Australian champion bull rider.
My mom was an Australian champion bowery. So so from
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the time I was born, we were out competing on
the road and the Rodier circuit. And when I was
I always I always liked music. I just I was
very outgoing as a child. When I was nine years old,
my parents moved, actually moved to the US. Then my
dad was on the professional bull riding tour and he
was forty years old, still rodeoing on the pro circuit,
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which was super inspiring as a kid. So we lived
here in the US for a couple of years. That's
kind of where I first got my introduction to Texas.
And then we moved home to Australia when I was
nearly twelve years old. Went back to normal life there,
rodeoing the things we always did. I started entering some
talent quests, but but honestly I.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Never won they.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I don't know if they just I sounded different, I
looked different. Everything I did was different. I didn't like it.
But I will say that my parents always taught me
as a little girl that being different is what makes
you unique. So actually kind of drove me, even as
a twelve thirteen year old girl. That made me be like, Okay,
clearly I'm not going to win here, but I still
need to enter for the exposure and the practice. But
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it really it didn't cut me deep that they thought
I sucked. I didn't care. So then I just decided
I'd start to sing the national anthem at rodeos, and
that's what I did. We'd be competing at the rodeos,
I'd be seeing the national anthem on a horse. And
when I was fourteen years old, this is back in Australia,
I was like, I still remember it like it was
just day. I was at a rodeo and there's a
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big tourbus that pulls in and I said, in a
big stage get set up, and there was a big
country music concert going on. I said to my dad,
I was like, you think I can go knock on
that toolbus door and just see who it is and
see if they need a support act. And obviously most
parents would be like, you're crazy, You're fourteen years old.
This is not going to go to plan. But my
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Dad's like, sure, what's the worst thing the person can
say no, so security was a lot less back then.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
I did it.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Knocked on the two bus door. The gentleman came to
the door. His name was Steve Ford. He was a
famous singer in Australia, and of course I led off
with the line of Hi, I'm Shay and my dad's
Eddie Fisher, Australian Champion bull rider, because I had to
have a little bit of like recision and I was like,
do you have a support act? And he was like, well,
my support act actually got stick wow, and he's like
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but he's like, but where's your band? And I thought
we had karaoke tracks. So he was so nice. He
agreed to let me perform before him, but he put
me on two hours before he went on, and there
was like three people in the crowd and my parents
were two of them. That's okay, but I performed like
there was ten thousand people and he actually must have
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been watching me from his tour bus and he actually
found my parents after he got off stage that night
and asked them if I wanted to do the next
shows with him because his the country music concert was
following these big rodeos that we were competing at and
so my parents let me continue on the road with him,
and after about three or four shows, he asked my
parents if he could be my manager, and if he
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asked me to be on his Australian tour. And I'm
telling you, like, I didn't grow up musical. I just
I was probably I don't know, I just did not
have the experience most people did. But I was willing
to work hard, and he took me on his Australian tour.
At the time, I didn't have any original songs, so
I would just sing all the songs and get this
his crowds. I'm fourteen. Keep in mind, his crowd are
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like drinking, partying, having a good time, and I'm this
little fourteen, fifteen year old girl up on stage singing
like I'm here for the party of Gritchen Wilson. I've
never even had a beer like everyone, you know, like
just having to play all these songs that people at
a bar would want to listen to, and I just
I listened. Now I'm thinking, oh my gosh, my parents
let me sing this stuff. What was I singing about?
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I didn't even know. But I eventually we wrote my
first album together and then my parents and my manager
actually paid for my first album together. We flew to Nashville,
recorded it, went home, and then I got signed to
a major record label, which was wild because it wasn't
like the US where there's like a bunch of labels.
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Record labels are few and between in Australia, so then
it just kind of it was. It was crazy. I
mean I came from humble beginnings. Keep in mind as well,
my parents worked really really hard. They did they did well,
but we never went without. But we did not have
extra you know, we still had to be careful about
what we spent and things. But you know, when I
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got that record deal, I'm finishing high school. This at
this time, I'm sixteen, I'm finishing high school, and I
wasn't the cool girl at school. It's amazing when you
get a record deal and you're on stage, how people
want to be your friend.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I was like, huh oh oh interesting, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
So I was tearing finishing school. My first album, y'all.
I had three number one songs with my first album,
which was just wow, mind blowing because like it just
got thrown into it so so fast and so fun.
But my manager was it helped because my manager was
cheering and well known, so then I was at I
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was in front of big crowds from day one. Luckily
I liked being on stage, so they say, you know,
fake it till you make it, and I felt like
I kind of was doing that the whole time, trying
to like keep up with everything that was happening. And
then when I was so when I was twenty years old,
I remember being in Australia at a rodeo. Again, I
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still rode already, though I was singing, just because it
was what I'd like to do when I had time off.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Well what was that?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Well, I'm curious about I know now we're now were
you stopped here when you're twenty? So we're going to
go on, But I'm curious about something because I being
from time from Dallas, and we are, and if you're
familiar with Dallas, you know how Dallas is. And so
my husband was not from Texas. So for our very
first day, he was going to fly in and take
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me somewhere and he thought what better place to take
a girl from Texas on her first date than the
fort Worth Rodeo. And I knew nothing about rodeo yeah,
like zero, and all I remember about it was some
there was a monkey.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Well there's Dallas was a different.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, Dallas is very like Cosmopolo. And we don't Dallas.
I guess they Dallas says. People don't even know they're
in Texas. I mean we I would stunned when I
got to the University of Texas and found out, Oh yeah,
I really this is part of Texas because like Dallas
is Dallas. So but I knew nothing about the rodeo
and you're the cultural I mean you grew up with
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the rodeo, did you. That's when you really watch that
rodeo perform. You know what they do?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Well, not only that a picture of you on your
website like you can ride girl up at this point.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Did you do rodeo too? I mean yeah, I think
gave me the ability to you know what I can now,
I can sing, I can go perform. Yeah, because it takes,
especially at fourteen years old, to go knock on a door.
You had to have a lot of inner self confidence.
Did you learn from your parents? I mean, were you
part of that scene that your parents were in and
you just if you can roll, yes, stare you can?
Speaker 5 (15:18):
I mean I won my first barrel race when I
was I want to say I was seven. My mom
said I wasn't a horse from as far as I
could remember. But as I got older, like obviously, I competed.
I won the rookie titles. I made the Australian National
finals several times barrel racing and breakaway roping. So honestly,
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my goal free music was to move to America and
make the American NFL like rodeo was my passion. That's
what I seen myself doing until the music opportunities came along.
I actually, and so weird to me to say it,
was actually the first girl in Australia to make the
junior bull riding finals. Okay, wow, I rode junior bulls well,
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but I did so, Yes, I think I liked the challenge.
I was always very sporty athletic. Anything that seemed a
little bit far fetched for me was challenging. I wanted
to try it. I always had the mentality of obviously,
I didn't want to fail. I was all about winning,
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but I wasn't afraid to fail while I was trying
to get to the winning. So you know, with the
bull writing story always makes people chuckle because in the
junior events, the boys can do the boys can do
the girls events plus bull riding, so they always had
an advantage. With the end of the year, they have
like the all around award to the most points, and
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I was always winning everything I could win, but I
didn't have the points from the bull writing, so I
never won the all Round and it annoyed me, and
I said to my dad one summer, I said, surely, like,
it's what can I aull?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Right?
Speaker 5 (16:56):
And my Dad's like, I don't know, Let's go check
the rule book. So he literally went and checked the
real book. I'm thirteen, thirteen, I think, and doesn't say
girl boy. So my dad actually did instructionals, so he
had a bucking machine at home. So that entire summer
we practiced, and the very first rodeo I entered, I
remember the boys looking at me and like chuckling, like
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you could tell they were like, this is the dumbest
thing we've ever seen, Like what is she doing? And
then I got second the first time I entered, and
then after that the guys are all my best friends,
and I was just one of the boys hanging out,
you know, behind the bucking shoots, but it was just
funny because they used to that first one. They were like,
this is not going to go well, and then they
got their butts kicked.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I mean, so you have an incredible grit and this
is what I love about your story. So I do
have a question. Though I have listened to your albums
and your songs, I have a couple of favorites. Take
me back to Texas Don't Rush is beautiful. I thought
that was pretty too. And so but your first album
did someone who inspired this? Did someone break your heart?
What is the story behind that? Because like, really, like
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you have this quote that says, never too late to
pursue what sets your soul on fire, and so I
think that is kind of like you're going back to that.
But I want to know a little bit about the
history of the music.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
And yeah, so you know, when I started writing my
first album, I was, to be honest, fourteen years you were.
I hadn't had a ton of heart break. But I
will say you can write a heartbreak song based upon
other heartbreaks. You can have heartbreaks in friendships, you can
share breaks so many other areas of life. So for me,
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I was able to draw off those experiences. I'm not
gonna lie. I might not have told my parents, but
obviously I had crushes when I was young and half breaks,
you know, they didn't whatever, So I had experienced that.
But it also was co writing with my manager was
what he was fifteen years older than me, so it
was co writing. So I was able to base of
a lot of experience there of like, how can we
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take this and turn it to this As I grew
as a songwriter. Obviously my first album, I look at
the songs now and I think, wow, these were kind
of pretty basic. But at the time it worked and
it's what those young girls wanted to hear. It just worked.
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But the more I started songwriting my album two and
then my new music, I'm like, okay, these songs were therapeutic.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
You know.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
I was able to write. Obviously, if you're going to
be in a relationship with anybody who writes songs, I'm sorry,
you're going to have songs written about you.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
And I know that some of my exes are very
aware well that song specifically about me. So yes, I've
used my own experiences as well as other people's experiences
in life.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
But I liked how you mentioned heartbreak like, it can
be about anything. It doesn't have to be about you know,
a girl, a boy, or you know, some type of
love relationship. It can be about so many in life,
and so, I mean, I think that's really cool that
you mentioned that.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I like that well in the heartbreak aspect, drawing from
your ex's like if if you have really tragic, horrible things,
that the beauty of that is they would never want
to admit that was them. Right, So I've got good
material and you don't have to worry about being suit
or anything.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Yeah yeah, well, I mean legally you can write about
whatever you want. Now, if you were going to put
their their name and their home address, it might be different.
But you know, the funnest part for me was with
songwriting and being creative that way. I loved making the
music videos. I loved these songs come to live and
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you can hear a song, but then if you watch
a good music video, you're like, oh that's what they mean. Yeah, yeah,
much sense now. So I always would write songs thinking about, oh,
this is what this music video will look like, and
that that was always so much fun. Because I also
pre singing, I did a lot of acting, So I
wasn't sure if life was going to I was going
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to be more on the acting roles or if I
was going to be singing. I always I always liked
being in front of the camera, and I think it's
the same thing with Rodeo. I liked being on the
on the stage, whether it's on the stage in the
arena or singing or acting. I just that was just
my personality.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Do you see yourself acting again?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
I do. I knew if the opportunity came up, yeah, absolutely,
if Yellowstone calls me, which they're no longer on, but
if one of their.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Serious things might be, you don't know, you never know what, No,
I would.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Be totally down for it. I used to do a
lot of acting when I was younger, like or it
nearly was on the Saddle Club. Lots of shows that
I was had opportunities to be with. But you know,
it's it's just you kind of have to pick a path,
and I couldn't do too many things. I was very
very good at athletics growing up. I got asked to
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train for the Olympics team when I was fourteen in
the two hundred hurdles and triple jump, but that was
the same time I was stepping into music, and I
just knew that, like committing to that to train the Olympics,
that's a four year commitment, and I didn't want to
sprain my ankle two weeks before and have spent that
whole whole time and not have a creator then step
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into So.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
You can be good at multiple things. You have to
pick what you're passionate about, though, and what makes most sense.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Well, we're good with a lot of things now. So
you took time off, so you got married to someone
who's also in rodeo.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Yeah, so let me so the story. So it was
twenty I'll just make it super quick though. When I
was twenty, I got a call from a record label
in America. I was not trying to get a record deal.
I literally got a call from a label who had
heard my songs in the studio in Nashville, because all
of us Ozzie's go to Nashville to record. Sure, they
heard my song and then they called me and they
asked me if I would like to fly over. They
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said in two weeks to talk funny record deal. And
I was like, I mean, we'll go and see. So
my dad, my mane flew over, sat down. They're like, okay,
we're going to sign you to this record label. You
have two weeks to fly home. We need all your
band members to move to the US as well, and
then you're going to start radio tour in three weeks
like that quick. I was twenty and so my my
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ausie band all guys move. We runted a house seven
seven guys and it was great. I was such a
tom boy. Hit the road for three months, touring, radio, touring,
my single got released to radio, was doing fabulous the
first few weeks, and then my record label shuts down.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Oh yeah, So that's the part where you have to
like pivot or understand, you know, what are we going
to do next? And honestly, like you can do so
many things, Like I'm just like overwhelmed with everything that
you mentioned.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
But let's talk about the hardest.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Job of all a mom of three kids.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Right, So where does that come into your career?
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Where does that?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You know?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
So when I when the record label shut down, obviously
I stayed in nashvill a little bit, but I started
venturing to Texas more because I that felt more like
home because I had grown up there a little bit
when I was younger, and then I met my husband,
who is a world champion rodeo athlete, Tyson Durfy, at
Houston Rodeo. Oh yeah, I was doing modeling for a
brand there and I met Tyson there, and you know,
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I was you know, it took him like a year
to get my phone number. I was very just was
in the headspace to want to commit to a He
was a good guy, a good nice guy, and I
was not used to that type of relationship, and I
knew that's the marrying type, and I just wasn't. I
just couldn't commit. For the first year, I was like, no,
but I don't want you to leave like I want
you to stay there waiting.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I want you to stay in my safety bucket until
we're ready.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
And then we got we we got married, and then
we always said we wanted to wait five years. We
waited three and we had our first little girl. And
but you know, my parents always told me that kids
shouldn't change your life. They change they come into your
life and they just do what y'all do if you
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let it happen that way. So our children have always
traveled the world with us. They're international travelers. We take
them everywhere. We've literally within eight years, and I don't
I'm not saying this is a good thing. I think
it's great when people can leave their children. But we've
only left our kids for three nights and eight years.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Oh I love that. So you remain a family and
you just do it your way. I mean, listen, you
and Beyonce, she's traveling with these kids all over the place,
and yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
So yeah, it's important for me to have these memories
with the kids. Sure, and you know they're doing this.
They handle it well. They know how to handle themselves
in situations with you know that most kids aren't allowed
to go to But don't get me wrong. My child
still had to write I will respect my parents thirty
times on a piece of paper last week.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yes, well, oh my god, I love that. Can I
do that to my adult children, like, yeah, that would
be great.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Kids, But they still need they still need to be
brained back in at times.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Of course, of course we have some women who can
relate to that totally.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
We've got one who's doing an amazing job, Kimberly.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I mean, well, and let me introduce them. They are
all zoomer moms Welcome, Zoomer moms welcome to sing here. Yeah, well, ladies,
I don't know how all of us can compete. I
mean rodeo writing and singing and acting. I mean, it's
all exceptional. It's not a competition, that is true. Well,
(26:39):
let me introduce our first one. Kim, welcome to the
Mom's Club. Can you tell us your name a little
bit about yourself.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Yeah, my name is Kimberly. So I have a three
year old daughter, and then I have a she's one
in a month.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
I'm trying to get her to sleep right now.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
You're doing a great job. I think you've accomplished it
almost almost almost.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
So, Yeah, such an amazing story. My daughter is obsessed
with horses, and so I guess what would you recommend
for a mom of a horse lover how to get
her involved in horse riding or rodeo or anything like
that if you're not from that industry or you know,
(27:21):
if you don't have any I've never I mean I've
ridden a horse like once or twice, but he is obsessed.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Yeah, Kim, that's okay, even if you're not from that
I have a lot of friends that knew nothing about horses,
just love them. But you know, there's a lot of
ability in different areas to do riding lessons. Now finding
a really good group of like a like a saddle
club almost they have where you can go and they
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own the horses. I don't recommend trying to figure out
how to buy one and stable and do all that.
It's very expensive and there's a lot of responsibility that
comes with it. But taking your child and doing saddle
club and different life essence like that and let you
know if it's something that like you know, some people
financially kind of board that too. And I've always had
friends of like, hey, if you're going to join this,
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you're going to do these are your chores. This is
the bucket money you're gonna get that's going to go
towards paying for your riding lessons, because obviously it's not cheap.
But I will say having a child that that is
involved in horses at any point brings so much responsibility,
And I really think it's what kept me out of trouble,
(28:29):
having having that responsibility and knowing that I'm taking care
of this massive animal that's listening to me. So I
do think it's amazing I would say saddle club. I
mean to start with, go to the saddle club bards
and offer to help clean the stalls. Let her just
be around the horses and then and then see if
if she wants the commitment to go riding and do
all of that. But but I do think that it's
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it's a good thing to have your kids in.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, Julie can appreciate this too because she loves horses. Yeah,
and she made me ride one and when we were
in and you we have some embarrassing video of me
to get off the horse.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
It's I was like Monica, people people are watching get
off Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Other shamefulne It's amazing. I ever got off the words.
I'm sure the horse. The whole time was thinking you
put this lady, yeah, crazy lady on my back because
I'd like.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
To know riding through Scotland is going to be my
next trip. So I think horses teach kids respect and
like you said, you're in charge of this large creature.
You have to respect the animal and they'll give you
love back. I mean, there's so many lessons and horses.
But anyway, I could go on for that, but up
for hours.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Janine, Welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us your name
and a little bit about.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Janine from Austin, Texas. And I am the mother of
a thirty four year old and a stepmom of a
forty year old and have two grandsons. And when I
was a kid growing up, we always had horses, So
my dad had a walker and we had basically horses.
(30:00):
We rode in the boots and saddle rodeo every Friday night,
and so I did barrel.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
And flags h So I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
So that was my upbringing.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
And I was just curious about your kiddos because I'm
hearing three things from you as far as your background,
and it's it's it's horses, sports and music. What direction
do you see your kids.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
Each leaning's Do they have those interests right questions?
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Yeah, that's a you know, that's a really good question
for me. I like to let our children try all
different things. Obviously, you always want them to full on
your footsteps, but a lot of pressure comes with that,
having to follow in the footsteps of somebody else who's
had success in a different area. So honestly, if our
son wants to be a baseball player, I'm totally okay
(30:51):
with it. If he doesn't want to rodeo like my husband,
I'm I'm fine with it. But we let them try things.
We let them try two max. Three things to juggle
at a time. That's a lot. I don't want to
get too many things going at once. One thing I've
noticed is with horses, because we live on sixty eight,
is we have a bomb. We have horses, but their
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personalities are all different. Every morning when I go ride
horses when the girls are at school, I go ride
my horse because I still do compete some I take
my son with me and I lead him beside me,
so he loves it. But now my oldest loves to
ride that. She doesn't love the responsibility that comes with
all saddling the horse, all of that. But what I
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try to tell her is, hey, if you don't want
to do this other stuff, you don't get rewarded to
go and do that like you have to. It's a
whole package deal. So we have one that's very invested
in basketball and volleyball, and she's very good. My son,
he's three, he wants to do everything Chris. And then
my middle daughter, she loves horses. I could see that,
(31:53):
but the girls I will say. The girls are very,
very musical, but I try not to put too much
pressure on it. Everywhere we go, before we leave someone's house,
they ask if they can sing a song they wrote
for the people, So they ready at six and nine,
making everybody sit there and watch them. And these songs
they write aren't just three minutes long, right right, balance.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
You're gonna get the ten minute version.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
So do you see besides your solo career, do you
see like a mother daughter? Do you know in your
future are you gonna.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
I know I will be the mom manager because I
know the industry well enough now I feel like, honestly,
God kind of put me in the industry. I really
do believe that one of my kids is going to
be in that industry and I will be able to
guide them and help them. Nobody wants to see if
by the time they're seeing Nobody wants to see a
fifty year old woman up there with two cute girls
like I'm gonna let my girls do it. They can
(32:47):
be a duet and then I'll be behind the scenes
being there their manager slash. I don't know stylists, whatever
that looks like, but but obviously I'll be involved that
that's what they choose to do. Yeah, and that's you know,
give them the opportunities where I can.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Abby, Welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us your name,
where you're from, and a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
My name's Abby. I'm from San Francisco and I actually
used to be a nanny, uh, which is fun and
I really loved being able to give the kids back
at the end of the day. That was like, but
I'm actually really fascinated by like the Australian country music
scene and sort of like what is the difference between
(33:30):
that and like obviously like our own country scene here
in uh, the US.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
So, you know, nice to meet you. I think that's
amazing that you're we're a nanny because obviously I can't
do everything alone, so I have a fabulous brand slash
Nanny that helps me with the kids as well. So
it's such a huge role you're raising you know, you're
helping raise people's kids. So that's amazing. But you know,
today's time, the internet and social media have made it
(33:59):
such a small world. So in Australia, we play a
lot of American country and it's very crossover. When I
first started, it was probably seventy percent Australian country thirty
percent American. But now like currently, right now on the
Australian charts, I'm only with my new single, I'm one
of three Australians that are even on the top thirty chart.
(34:22):
That's how much American music is in Australia right now,
which is great. But at the same point, I'm like,
I feel like the chart should be should should bring
in more Australians. Personally, I feel lucky that I'm on
the charts, but yeah, it's it's really changed a lot.
We have a lot more festivals and a lot more
American acts coming over.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
I love that We've also seen a lot of.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Australian acts come over and sign record deals in the
US and do really well. So the Internet and streaming
makes it just like a one world. No't matter where
you're from anymore. It's like when I was very very
Australian back in the days, I still sung with A
ten and twain. People laugh in interviews, They're like, you
sound Texas, but but you're Australian. I'm like, oh.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Yeah, I notice when we say the word Australia, all
of a sudden, your accent goes back to the country,
and then I was like, it's it.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah, But when you're in Australia, to say, do you
say y'all, say y'all? Have you adopted? Not you got y'all?
Have y'all in there?
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Well, when I'm in Australia, I really try hard and
when I do Australian interviews to focus on sounding Australian. Yeah.
I'm not saying people judge, but you're an Aussie, you
live there for twenty years. They don't really want to
hear you sounding American. And I know I have a
(35:41):
quite a strong American accent at times, so I really
try and focus on over exaggerating my auzsiness when I.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Want to hear your aussy roots. Come on, yeah, like
that's it.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
And speaking of that, have you and Keith Urban discussed
at all or anything? There's a success story in the
I just have.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
To get through Nicole and be like, Nicole, come on,
that's right, eat you out with your husband? Come on? Please? No.
But we have a few connections there, like people that
know people, and I've been around keep a couple of times.
He's an amazing human being. I have a couple of
(36:21):
friends in the industry, like Walker Hayes. My next single
I wrote with Walker instance, there's a couple of people
I've thought about maybe doing a duet with. What does
come challenging in today's time any artists that signed a
record deal, if you want to do a duets, very
it's not really up to the artist. It's up to
the record label that they're signed to. So it's a
little bit trickier when they become as signed artist. Like
(36:43):
if Walker Hayes had have been if we could have
done a duet three years ago when he wasn't signed,
but now he signed, he has to get approval from
so many people. So it makes it.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Interesting insight to the industry that I like hearing. I mean,
I love learning about that because you're right, it's not easy. Yeah,
like yeah, So anyway, Well, we also have with us
today the cutest occasionally zoomer daughter.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
On the month of Mother's Day, we have a Zoomer daughter, Georgia.
Welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us your name, where
you're from, and a little bit about yourself and.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
How much you love your mom.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
You getting mom. Yes, it's nice to meet you.
Speaker 8 (37:29):
I had a question about how your parents got into
the rodeo being Australians and is that is that a
big industry or like a a thing that they were doing.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
How did they get into that? You know, that's actually
a really good question. I think both of my parents
didn't have a whole lot growing up, and then they
realized they could win prize money. That drove them to
lone's skill. And they both were from quiet country out
back towns, so they just you know, the boys thought
(38:01):
it was fun. They were either like on dirt bikes
or riding a bull. You know, it was just they
did they meet through that medium? Yeah, they actually did.
My parents met at sixteen, and from what I've heard,
my parents were more on the wildest side when they
were younger, and then at like twenty one, they both
found Jesus and became like more straight laced. But yeah,
(38:21):
so they met at rodeos and they traveled together a lot,
I mean around the world rodeoing, even at a young
age before us kids came along. But you know, my
my parents really were the ones that taught me to
dream big and that you're going to fail, you just
how you pick yourself up from it. They were very
(38:43):
supportive with anything that we wanted to do in life,
which was nice because there was a lot of crazy
ideas that I had. But you know, they were going
to let me try it and then probably no, I
was going to fail at certain things, but weren't going
to tell me, no, We're going to let me figure
that out myself. I actually, growing up, had a disabled
sister who was mentally and physically handicapped, so her brain
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only developed to a three month old and when she
was born there was only five people in the world
that had this disability. I don't it's one of those
big long names. But when so, she was four years
younger than me. So when my parents had my sister,
they were at the prime of their rodeoing and doing
all their stuff. You know, they hadn't they had an
(39:28):
infant for eighteen years. She was meant to live till five,
and she lived till eighteen. So my parents they never
put her in like public education because obviously like that
was just someone the babysitter because she couldn't comprehend anything.
But yeah, I mean I watched my parents give my
sister a bottle and wake up three times a night
(39:49):
for eighteen years. So they literally had a newborn for
eighteen years, so you know, they missed out on a
lot of like things like going to the movies or
date nights and stuff. But we never missed out kids because,
like I said, we moved to the US when I
was a kid, we traveled the world. Still, my parents
just made it work. Even with my sister being handicapped.
They were still going to keep like chasing their dreams
(40:11):
and goals, and we all just went with. I remember
when I first got into music, both of my parents
couldn't come to my events like when I was younger,
because you know, you know, festival's not somewhere you take
my sister. It's just not really kind of so I
had one either or of my parents would come to
(40:32):
things like that. But you know, when my sister passed away,
my mom I was talking to my mom about it
and she said it had been eight She's like, movie
theaters are so different now. It had been eighteen years
since my parents went to year. Wow.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
So you had a really tremendous example, yes, through your parents.
I like when I first was hearing your story, like wow,
she does all these things, I mean, and just keeps going.
And you have you had a great example for that. Well,
tell us a little bit about your single, take me
back to Texas and love It. What part of Texas
do you live in?
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Where are you?
Speaker 4 (41:08):
Where you?
Speaker 5 (41:08):
Yeah, so I'm in the country part, not Dallas. I'm
close to Fort Worth. Oh, I'm in Weatherford and we
have sixty acres on the Brass River. And like I
said earlier, my husband's are rodeo athlete, so obviously we
need land and and horses and cattle and so forth.
But you know, when I wrote this song, So when
(41:30):
I when I originally was was signed in Australia singing
I want my cowgirl hat on stage in my boots,
I was, I was a cowgirl. But when I sign
my record deal in the US, my record label wanted
me to get rid of the hat and the boots
and wear high heels and they are no fun to
walk in. Yon. Yeah, well you're not used to it anyway.
But so when I was writing this song, obviously it
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was the it was the missing of Texas and my
cowgo roots almost more than like a guy. But I'll
be I had met my husband, so there was there
was that that part of the love story in the single.
But you know, going out and chasing my dreams at
nineteen and leaving everything behind that I knew that was
(42:13):
comfortable to me, and you know, realizing like just even
if I hadn't really had huge success straight away in Nashville,
I think I always would have ended up in Texas
because I just I just felt out of place, you know,
lived in the city that just wasn't who I was.
So this song was written in a place of missing
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my roots, who I was at the time, my boyfriend
in Texas. You know, it was it was heartfelt me
and for me, I've always tried to release my songs
are normally being pretty upbeat, just a couple of slow
songs I've released and taking taking that gap from the industry.
I didn't really know which of these ten songs to
(42:56):
release first, but this one, for some reason, just just
said to me like this showed the journey I'd been
on the last ten years and also showed a more
mature side of myself as a songwriter. So I thought
it was probably more appropriate to come back into the
industry rather than like my next singles like sexy Cowgirl
fun But I'm like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
And you wrote it with Grand Award winning artists as well.
Speaker 5 (43:20):
Jesse. Yeah, but you know, when I wrote this song,
here's the thing which is so cool about Nashville. When
I wrote this song, Jesse was just Dean Dillon, who's
a famous songwriter, his daughter. She hadn't had hits. We
were just songwriting in a room and having a good
time as girls. But now seeing how far she's come
is just so amazing. I mean, all these singles, even
(43:41):
like that next one too, that I wrote with Walker Hayes,
Like Walker was barely paying his bills and couldn't really
even feed his family when he wrote this. Yeah, and
no record label wanted him in town. And now he's
a superstars. So you know, it's always you always got
to keep in mind you got to be nice to
every person in life because you don't know, you don't
know what the future holds people that you cross.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
I think that is incredible advice.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
You know what, Everyone that comes on this show, everyone
is amazing. As we say, he're on the Mom's and
I tell every one of them, you should write a book.
Speaker 5 (44:12):
You should write a book because.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
You've got good you got good story.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
And that's and what you just said as you're coming up,
you don't know who's gonna like right next to you.
Speaker 3 (44:23):
They may you know, listen, I'm grateful you never gave
up because I think there you are. The best is
yet to come.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
So I think that is what we look forward to.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
So where can people find you on social media?
Speaker 5 (44:37):
Like?
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Where can all the moms out there find you?
Speaker 2 (44:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (44:41):
Well, I'm very involved in social media, and I will
just say I don't know if we're living on time
or anything, but I will just say, you know, I
have like a love hate relationship with social media. I
love it.
Speaker 4 (44:52):
I know that.
Speaker 5 (44:53):
I just like to tell people that. I guess having
a daughter that's nine. Now, obviously she's not on social media,
but I know at one point she will be. Like
there's so much pressure that comes to people from social
media because they think what they see on social media
is what everybody wakes up looking like and what they
do day to day. So they you know, they put
these people on a pedestal and they judge themselves or
(45:16):
what they see in the media, and it is not
anything like that. It's just not realistic. I really try
to post, like I try and show the good with
the bad, but you know, I'm on Instagram. You know,
it's great. I have, you know, a bunch of followers,
so I love catching up with everybody there. I have Facebook,
my website and so forth. But just know, like, social
(45:38):
media is just not a place to like, you know, oh,
what her body's like is what mine should be like.
You don't know if people could just self filters than
photoshop and it's it's incredible what you see behind the
scenes and the industries of life. If only people knew
what they're seeing is not the truth.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
I never take the positivity out of like and you
know what I mean, all of social social media. I
agree with you one hundred and fifty percent. I love
the connection though, of everything with social media that you
can pick up and you take, you take out you
know what you can and you leave the rest because
the rest is not real life. So thank you for
(46:16):
seeing that. But what is your handle on Instagram?
Speaker 1 (46:19):
We're doing knowing that you're very authentic too, I'm sure
people will want to.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
She's like, I'm going to look it up. Yeah, so
I know what it is.
Speaker 5 (46:26):
Okay, it's under Shaye Fisher. Music is my age.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
Yeah, I love, love love your single and I can't
wait for more.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Exactly Yeah, check out take me back to Texas.
Speaker 3 (46:39):
That's right, and I'll be doing that tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
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Speaker 2 (48:23):
Like, okay, I like that.
Speaker 1 (48:25):
Yeah, absolutely, I wish I had it when I was
a tween. But oh well, that ship has sailed unsaid,
maybe my grandchildren someday. I don't know exactly. Anyway, it
has been so much fun as always Julie and completely inspired.
Speaking of social media, we can't fail to mention that
we are on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and all of that
(48:48):
at Inside the Mom's Club, Yes, where we do fun
videos and show clips from the show and come up
with and Julie's job is to find it inspiring quotes
to post up there. You won't find any yet because
she's not.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
That's probably for it in the beginning of the show job,
so look for.
Speaker 1 (49:07):
Those as well well. We will see you next time, ladies.
We appreciate the time that you've spent with us today.
We know your me time is precious and valuable. Thank
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