July 18, 2025 • 38 mins
Stefanie Michaela is the epitome of perseverance in the music industry and has a passion for music! Tune in as we chat about her latest single and lots more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, guys and gals, this is Stephanie Michaela and you're
listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety
eight point one, your Bay Area broadcasting network and stream
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Always a busy day
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at Kcpeck music. Well, I tell you what I got
this music that I got to really educate you guys
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on today because I'm always getting all types of inquiries
here and learning about new artists as we speak, and
the place to be joined by another and becoming artist
in their own right out there, Stephanie Mikaala to the
backstage past, Stephanie, how.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
You doing great?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Excited got it as well. It's always great to learn
about new talent.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, let's learn a little bit about your backstory too
as far as this artistry, and people always say, why
did I go into this? What was my purpose? What
was the game plan behind it? A bug had to
bite early on too. At the same time, whether it
was family related or you picked up a guitar or
just singing lessons at a young age or learned to
sing in church. Talk about that backstory and of course
looking back on becoming an artist and taking me on
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through that journey a little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Oh wow, this is a long journey it was.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I started my love for music at a super young age,
I would say, like two. I started just kind of humming. Well,
my parents would tell me all this. Obviously I don't remember,
but you know, when I was younger, I'd always hum
songs and makeup songs to my animals and.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
All that kind of started at a young age.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And then as the years went on, it was the
school performances and like the talent shows and all of that,
and I kept getting that feedback from everyone at the
schools and from the parents and the kids, and that
kind of drove me because I became known as the
littlest girl with the biggest voice. So that kind of
gave me the confidence as a kid like to have that.
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And then as the years went on, with all the
help with vocal coaches and my parents really pushing me
towards what they thought I had at a young age
of talent, I wound up at a boarding school it
was called Idole Wild Arts Academy for my senior year
of high school to really hone in on like musical
theater because I did musical theater and pop music. I'm
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kind of skipping around here, but I want to don't
want to make it too long for you. And then
from there I wound up going to Boston Conservatory for
a little bit for musical theater. I wound up leaving
there because I still didn't want to folks solely on
musical theater. I wanted to do pop music and do
my work on my own album. So I moved back
home and I started doing my pop music and pursuing
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that majorly and kind of did all that and really
loved doing the studio work, which I had done when
I was younger as well, but I really focused on
it in my early twenties. And then as time went on,
there were situations that I was in and it wasn't like.
I started to learn more and more about the music business,
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and I wasn't really sure if it was going to
be the right fit because I started trusting all these
people that were promising all these things in the music business,
and this is saying that they were going to help
me with this and that I don't know. I was
so trusting at that age, and I thought I would
get to where I needed to be at that age
and kind of didn't work out at that time, so
I took a step back and I realized, hey, you
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know what, maybe I shouldn't be doing music, and maybe
I should just try to find something else to focus on,
which is super hard obviously when you have a passion,
and I kind of realized, wait, maybe I need to
like come up with another game plan here. This isn't
working how I thought. I mean, when you're young, I
feel like there's a lot of people that think, Okay,
if I do this, maybe I'll be famous, and for
the wrong reason I think I was.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
I had the love of music.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But I also thought if I trusted this person and
that person, they would get me.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
There was a shortcut or something. I don't know what
I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
However, I took a step back, started doing I just
went to college for communication studies and started a family.
And as the years went on, I started getting sad
when I would think about music. And I do have
five kids now, so I have five kids, and it
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started to like come up a little bit like I
would hear people sing or I would just hear songs,
and it started to make me sad. And my kids
really didn't know how much singing I had done in
the past. So long story short is, my daughter was
on the internet like searching up my name and she
found some of my older music on there and kind of,
you know, realize that I did it actually did it
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when I was younger, So anyway here I am. I
want up back in a situation. I feel like this
is like the ongoing story and you to take a break,
but I want up in a situation in a recording
studio a few years ago because I was helping a
producer out here with his library and kind of was
going to do demo work with him, and I started
getting that feeling again that, oh my gosh, I can't
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believe I put this aside for so long and tried
to focus on something else, because when you have a passion,
you shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Let it die.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So I got back into music again and I decided
to create start creating a whole new Stephanie Mikayla with
all the experiences that I've had in between, with a
break in between.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
It's that kind of.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Because I did the same thing there six years ago,
and I compared this to be an artists. Although I'm
not an artist, you can't say I can sure host
the radio show. When it comes back to it, it's
like when you find that passion that you know that
you're good and you want to share a skill with
somebody else or a talent. Once you found why doesn't
everything else take care of itself?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, yeah, I just I I didn't realize I should have,
but I just felt like it was such a hard
business and there was no way to have a family
and try to pursue music heavily. I just didn't know
the balance. And plus I had gone through so many
experiences that I didn't believe that there was a way
to do it in a way that I could have
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a family and feel comfortable and just like, in a
way that was legitimate and real and wasn't false hopes.
So it was just it was just bizarre kind of
how it came into play, Like my kids' schools started
to find out that I was a singer, so they'd
ask me to do sing it functions there. So little
by little I started fulfilling that passion again. But then
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when those functions were over, I would be sad again
because I wasn't fully immersed in that music world anymore.
So I said once I my mom. Actually she's always
my biggest fan. She was talking to a friend who's
also in the entertainment business and said, hey, you know what,
my other friend is looking for a singer to work
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in a studio. And just help him, you know, with
demo work and organizing his library. Would Stephanie be interested.
So that's when my mom's like, you got to try it,
just like at least just just try it and see
what it's like again. And so when I started creeping
back in there, which I just said earlier, I just
started feeling that overcoming that oh my gosh, I cannot
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believe that I that I haven't been doing this instead
of trying to find something else to fulfill that passion.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
It just wasn't working for me.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
It's so nice to incorporate music and just what you
love into your family life too, because it brings a
whole different dimension to relationships in general familyship ament.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
On that point, yes, we'll send that.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It really does bring a whole different dimension to it,
and you get a chance to share it with your
loved ones. And now I've got a little girl growing
up now, about to go into kindergarten, so the fun
age like five going on six years old. So then
you start going get to share this with her and
leave my legacy behind. She can take over the business
and do whatever she wants to do one day when
I'm gone. So this is a great story.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
That's well.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I knew you were gonna be a perfect fit as
a guest here on the backstage pass again, kyb in
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Speaker 5 (08:46):
And your list your songs quick with them jug and
journ list my time we don't get enough of and
let you step inside and get out of my way.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Closing you staking your lane.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Enoughs enough, un sir, the.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
N in lass I'm staying. I'm bobbing no one at
the type you can.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Bear to the bags closing you ride, staking your lane.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
No.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Now that I.
Speaker 10 (09:26):
Found everything and everything, everything that I love and I need.
Speaker 11 (09:35):
And I'm going to do all the.
Speaker 12 (09:41):
Want it true.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Your such a joke, always keeping me in left big
rich dead book.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Hate to see that. I'm happy. You're sweet, sweet be
ben shelp me out of the taste.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
Cuse there you on a ride, stagging your lane.
Speaker 13 (10:08):
Stagging your lane.
Speaker 10 (10:14):
Now that A found everything everything, everything that I love
and Dunney, and I'm going to do.
Speaker 14 (10:27):
That.
Speaker 12 (10:30):
What it's true, Your deppense, you can feel them like
I do. Big Jesus, big pens making everything come true.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Letting you step aside and get out of.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
My way of closing you own ride, stagging your.
Speaker 11 (10:52):
Lane, stagging your lane. Hold then hold nay, hold that,
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hold that, hold and hold nay, hold that up, hold
hold the old nail. Hold then up, hold that held
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then hold the nail hold then up.
Speaker 15 (11:53):
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Speaker 4 (12:30):
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Speaker 2 (12:51):
Your kyb A ninety eight point one, your Bay Area
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reck We. I'm looking forward to that one too. Always Sunny,
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great guest to have here on the Backstage Past. So
let's talk about this one, Stephanie. I love it because
it gets to the point stay in your Lane. It
came out May sixteenth, the Ships of course.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
So staying your lane is like it sums up So
when you become a mother and you have a family
and you're just kind of doing your thing, people don't
really expect.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Like you to come back with your passion.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Almost it's almost like they're a little shocked or they're like,
how can you manage how can you manage family and
trying to pursue a career in the music business. How
can you do all that? Especially after you know I
took a long break? How could you do that? So
with all the judgment that goes on where people don't
really know who you who, like what really goes on
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unless they're living in your shoes.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
So I was so.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Fed up with people in people's business and not staying
in their own lane. And I just found myself always saying, like,
why are people judging what anyone else does? If they
took that energy that they spend on judging others and
applied it to their life and maybe focused on a
passion for themselves, they would be bettering themselves and taking
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that energy and becoming like a great version of themselves
versus these gossips, like everyone's gossiping. So I wanted to
write a song that was like, stay in your lane,
you do you, and all do me, and.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Look how far we will get if we do that.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I just am so passionate about people finding something for
themselves and not just getting stuck in the routine because
it's so easy to do, and I was doing that.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I was stuck in the routine.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I was mad and sad, all these emotions that I
didn't have a passion. I had nothing to turn to
aside from obviously my beautiful family, and it takes a
lot of work to raise a.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Family and all that.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
But you have to find something, I believe, just an
outlet for yourself. It doesn't have to be full time,
but whether it's you want to go play basketball a
couple times a week, you want to go on hikes,
you want to write a book, whatever it is that
you can turn to that fulfills you inside. So you
don't get stuck in the rut and the drama and
the gossiping because it doesn't you know good.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
So everyone has to stay in their lane.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
And that was what I felt at that moment getting
back into this.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
It's like, stay in your lane.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I'm finally going to do something for me and incorporate
that to make me. I want my kids to see this.
I don't want my kids to not know that I'm
a singer.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
It was sad. I felt so sad about it.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
It was just I'd be singing in my bathroom because
it always sounds good in the bathroom, and I just
admit that's where I just it was so sad, so
I didn't realize how much I needed it. So I've
never felt so fulfilled at this moment. I mean, there's
a lot that goes into this is I'm not going
to sugarcoat any of it.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
It's like I said, it's a lot of ups.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
And downs, and you're nervous to put music out and
hope people like it. I don't know, but it's worth
it because you're doing what you love.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
You just got to enjoy the moment.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Enjoy that ride too.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
You're right, Yeah, it's definitely Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Many times and said to ourselves too, is this worth
the ride? Can we do this? Can we keep it going?
Speaker 10 (16:20):
Here?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
The people we love that motivate us the most beside ourselves.
I think that's one of the biggest things to look
at too. Hey, coming up August first, which is crazy.
We're already halfway through July and we're talking about August
coming up now, and with the third quarter now of
twenty twenty five, which seems like it's one of the
fastest years we've ever had. I guess as you get older,
they just continue to fly by better with time. Speaking
of that particular song right there, which is for what
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we're talking about right now, is getting this fast part
of the year going forward and talk about this one
coming out August first.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Oh my goodness, I am so excited for the world
to hear better with time. This is like kind of
in the same realm of like staying your lane, and
there's no time better than the present. There is no
expiration date on your potential. You can like by being
it doesn't there's no age limit. Do what you love
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and as long as it keeps that passion going and
fulfills you, why not this as we get older because
of all the experiences, I feel like it wasn't meant
to be years ago when I was really involved with music,
it wasn't meant to be. Because now all the experiences
that I have have only made my story better. And
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I'm so grateful to have all this now behind me
and to be able to put it into song, into
words and for people to kind of get oh wait
a minute, you know what, She's right like, I'm not
going to let anything stop me. We're only going to
get better with time. So that's what it's about. Don't
let anything stop you and just no judgment. Try not
to get suckered into everything on social media and looking
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at this and comparing, because that's what's going to pull
you back.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
So I want to.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Get a little bit of backstory on the artists that
shaped you growing up, no matter what genre of music,
What were you kind of dialed into at a young age,
even as I said young adult and now it's your currnage.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Well, I grew up listening to Whitney Houston, Tony Boxton,
Mariah Carey.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
It was all that. That's what I love that pop
R and B sound because I really felt like you
could always hear their lyrics.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
They were super emotional the way they were singing, and
I knew that I could be that kind of emotional
singer as well, so I took that on. I feel like,
for sure that style is more you can feel the
feeling in my lyrics, I feel like, and I hope
that others feel that as well and can really hear
the lyrics and know how like can understand what the
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story is.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
And I always felt like I did as a kid
with them as well.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I was very into Babyface and even Boys to Men,
just all that soulful, really heartfelt music.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Love those artists, great choices right through too, you knowing
the good taste of growing up, especially Whitney Houston.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, of course, of course, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
We got a chance to play another one here too
on the show against Stephanie Michaela. Give her a follow
across all these social media out there. It's in my
c h A E l A and Stephanie s T
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things here for you on which is great. Another single
that came out here earlier this year found in you here.
It is from Stephanie Michaela. The Backstage Past, k y
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Speaker 3 (19:35):
Back in the Flash, stay tuned.
Speaker 18 (19:51):
John and swimmn. Christian does your head as.
Speaker 19 (20:01):
Father, I would have left to close the door, the
door if I would have found someone like you by
wepping somebody else says fool, somebody's fool.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
If fine love is like the patient time the one home,
not me, and I always.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Buy my side, and no where enough life for you
want mine?
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Then I'd be searching high in Lord mine. Or that
I confound you.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
The constrain, the live breaks, I never knew the mea.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
You give me the clearity. It took some time to
believe it. Oh that again his world see the mom.
I'm loyalty.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
So loyally.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
How manyies more this time? Still fun the symphies of
line and I'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Fun.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Love is like the patient can the world that is had?
Speaker 10 (21:31):
Not me?
Speaker 6 (21:33):
And I always buy my side, And no when life
knowing who one line, there I be searching high in
Lord mine. Oh that I come found you?
Speaker 11 (21:50):
No, we're fool, don't you?
Speaker 6 (21:52):
So then we come loose? Oh then we have been
dreaming Bee home half of the soul and a chance
and a rail.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
A phone.
Speaker 13 (22:09):
No, love is love the patient cime, the one that's
home on to me and night always buy my side.
Speaker 14 (22:21):
I no.
Speaker 19 (22:24):
Live my ib searching time love sign all the phone.
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Speaker 3 (24:00):
I mentioned it came out earlier this year too, and
just a great.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Spin on this one too, because it's really at least
it summed up life for me in a way that
just resonated all the way with me.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Yeah, I mean, that's the basis of how I got
started back into music. It's the foundation of my love
with my husband and the driving force, the push. You know,
If I didn't have that push and the support, like
we talked about from our family, it's I don't this
wouldn't have been possible. So you never know in life
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why someone is placed in front of you and if
that's going to need to be the right path, and
you choose that path, and I just feel like things
all fall into place and they happen for a reason,
And I'm so grateful to that relationship because it's that
support system. Like we said, there's not a lot of
people in life that are going to always be there
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and root for you. And when you find that community
of people, whether it be you know, one person too. People,
it's everything because we want to surround ourselves with people
that are going to be so happy for all the
good and the bad moments. They're going to be there
for you, and I want to do the same for others.
So just being able to have that, that's what it is.
You found that person and they are here to lift
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you up. And that is why we started with that single.
It was like the love that I have and now
I have created this family and the support and now
I have five kids running around and they inspire me
and I inspire them. And the diligence like they have
with their sports and that kind of drove me too.
I was like, oh my gosh, they're putting in so
much time and I can do the same thing too,
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and then together we can all share our love for
our passions together. I think it's so great for family
and your immediate family especially to see that you have
a passion.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
It drives them even more too. I mean it works
both ways, it sure does.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah. I love how you released it on Valentine's Day too.
That's always special to you out there.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
I know, I know it's great the.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Special holiday too.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Also, let's talk about another one to get better with time?
Is it gonna be the latest single coming out August?
The first to make sure you guys go stream that
across all the DSPs out there. Sometimes this comes out
following Founding You There at the end of March March
thirty first talk about this one for us.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Sometimes it's special too, It's like that is it kind of.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
When I wrote that, it was like questioning, like when
you're in relationships, you sometimes don't always feel heard. So
I wanted to make it like not everything is perfect
in anyone's life, and I don't want to come across
as that at all. That's definitely not what I'm trying
to say. And I want to express to everybody that
we all go through so much in life, and that's
why I'm here. I want to share it with others.
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I'm like, I love to listen to other people. I
want them to listen to me. Sometimes it's about sometimes
you're in a relationship with whether it's your spouse or
whatever it is, sometimes you feel like you express.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
So much and you get so little in return.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
So you got to really try to create these relationships
where it's kind of an open book and you're able
to talk freely with one another. So I've always tried
to be a great listener and i want the same
in return, because it's so nice to have those kind
of relationships. So sometimes it's more about that when you
feel alone and you feel like you're expressing so much
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and the other person's kind of covering their ears, going
la la la la la, like they don't hear you
or they don't want to hear you. So in the song,
there's a lot of la la las and about feeling alone.
So that's what that song is about. It was just
about relationships and not feeling completely heard all the time.
So each song really is taking you through the newest
Stuffanie Mikayla chapter that I feel like I've created from
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all these past experiences, and I'm hoping that the next
go around, I really can delve deep into the other
stuff that I've gone.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Through to get to this place.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I just like people to I want them to be
able to really relate and know that we're real people
and we're not here to sugar coote anything, and I'm
definitely never going to do that. I'm just going to
give it ron Reel and help people like it.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Ron Reel those two words out there, two that make
music what it is these days out there too. Again,
give her a follow across all those DSPs out there,
Stephanie Michaela. All the music can be found out there too,
wherever your your favorite downloading platform is out there for
all these streaming music. And Bettered with Time comes out
August first, the next single and in this catalog of
songs from Stephanie Michaela.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
All right, let's have all the photos.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
We close the show because I love this too, and
I love throwing this in the conversation from time to
time out there because I'll pick apart and even if
somebody is not like a huge sports fan, I can
always say, you know what somebody you know is or
you had family do it too.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Whether it's college or pro, whether it's your.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Your kids, husband, things like that. What's the teams in
the Michaela household. I'm just curious.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
It's Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, that's all it is.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Like we I don't I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Even understand, like I try, but it's every night my Okay,
So I have five kids, So I have my fourteen
year old daughter.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Then I have two sets of twins. So I have
eleven fourteen year old daughter.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Then I have my eleven year old boys, two boys,
and then my seven year old boy.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Girls. Now, the two eleven year old boys are so obsessed.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
With sports, and our dinners consist of talking about who
traded this on this team, who did on this, And
I'm like, that's when I'm like, la, la, la, la la.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
I'm trying to understand.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I do love basketball, though I've gotten really into it,
but that's literally all that goes on here is Lakers,
like fake NonStop.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
That all happened in my household. Tickets, we got to basketball, baseball,
all those teams, so you.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Got it all going on. We're like la uh fastball
now see.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I'm a Rockets fan definitely, so they just like over
the young Talent just finished second seed in the West,
won fifty two games with the Young Core. So we're
fighting between the San Antonio Spurs and the Rockets in
my household. So it's kind of the West and I
and who the little one should root for, And then
of course baseball is the Astros would have a problem there.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Then football.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
She's a Cowboy fan and I'm an Arizona Cardinal fan,
so it's it's a yeah, two way street there, so
it's a sometimes give a take. But like I said,
we have our certain channels and streaming stuff we watch
there too, and we have our reasons for liking the team.
I was going to ask one of your kids too.
Hopefully we'll see how this goes. But Lebron James make
them back. Lakers may not. There's teams that want to
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look at his services and must acquire him, so I know,
I know the family does not want to lose Lebron James.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Right, No, No, that's like even my seven year old
can like barely understand basketball, but he's like Lebron Lebron
every minute, le Bron Lebron.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Here's a big poster on.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
His wall in his room of Lebron and he doesn't
really know who he is. But that's how obsessed they are.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Yeah, yeah, that's so funny, but it's nice. I'm the
only one who does music out of all my kids.
Think one of the five would want to do it.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
But yeah, following your footsteps, all right, Cooking in the household,
take out, What do you like to cook, What do
you like to eat as a family or separately, what's
kind of on the foody list.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Well, we always try to. I grew up always having
family dinners. I felt like that's so important, so we try.
We really try to sit down and talk about our day,
and like all I mean, I think it's so important
to really go around the table and talk about the
best part of your day the worst part of your day.
Even if you don't feel like talking, at least you're
there so we can discuss. We do every Tuesday night, we.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Do Taco Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
So we love tacos and nachos, so we do like
a big taco Tuesday and then my parents come over,
so that's really fun. I love dessert so much. I
love M and ms peanut butter m and ms, so
that's like a must. And everybody knows that I need
the big giant tubs that they have like smart final,
(32:00):
Like we stack all the pan trees, like layers of
the m and ms can get enough. So that's it's like,
tacos are a favorite, Eminem's for me and Sour Patch
Kids for the kids. And then my husband doesn't like
dessert really, so I'm all alone in this.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
A little bit of sweet and salty right there, story
right there?
Speaker 14 (32:19):
What?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah, she loves on the dessert side of things too
as well. I gotta do this one here. Pizza is
a big thing for me. Once a week we'll do
like the pizza night. Do the same thing you're doing
around the dinner table.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Talk about this.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I just recently got into this company called Marco's down here.
It's like a Texas pizza chain too, but they've got
like Hawaiian pizza and the chicken can actually go on it,
and you can actually change up a bunch of toppings
on there too.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
For pizza. What do you like on your your pizza?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I like barbecue chicken pizza, barbecue chicken pizza because then
they put like cilantro on it. I feel like with
the cilantro and the barbecue chicken.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
So good.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
We so we only have do you guys have stone
fire grill out there?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
We do? There's one? Oh in San Antonio, Texas.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Oh good?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
So I remember, and then I worked for many moons
ago and it was actually the thinnest crust I think
I ever had. But uh, we had a California pizza
kitchen that came through San Antonio when I lived there
for a few years. So I got to work with
that in the big chain out in California there too,
of course, and there were some other little local, you
know hotspots here too.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
And I love pasta.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
It's hard to put that down, like spaghetti or chicken
alfredo or just something like that.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
And you know, I put my green stuff in.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
It too, because because I've been on this like a
little bit of say, a little bit of it health
kick and then of course couple of cheap days uh
during the week too. But I'm on this protein kick
right now, chicken and of course fish and things with
high protein besides shakes and things like that. So that's
my whole deal there. Anybody in the family love the
gym fitness?
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Oh my gosh. Me and my husband, yeah, we love
working out.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
It's my husband gets up at lake four in the
morning to go run and work out and then he
goes plays basketball.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
But because that's his.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Passion, so I like to I like to make sure
and if he doesn't do it, he's grumpy. See that's
the example of why it's not the working out I'm
talking about the well, he's grumpy if he doesn't work
out too.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
We all are because we needed if we're used to it.
But with the basketball. He's grumpy.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
He had to take some time off because he had
a knee injury and he was grumpy. So that's the
reason why passion is what it does to you.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
It changes you. But yes, we love to work out.
We're outdoor.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
We like to be outdoors and do fun things with
the kids when we can. And we have animals, so
that's fun. We have four dogs, so they incorporate, you know,
into the chaos and swim in the pool.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
So that's it.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Yeah, make messes in the kitchen all day long with
their water, but it's okay because they're so cute.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
They're cute. They have fought out there too the same time.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Yes, yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
I love it and we'll do this one.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
So if you never got back into music or was
there something before it too, they always say we get
followed that trail, follow that passion. But had you never
become a working musician, what other career path or path
would you follow.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I always wanted to be a makeup artist. I just
like to make people feel their best. So it was
always like, if it's not if it's not music that's
going to make someone feel a certain way, I would
like to make them feel like just good about themselves.
And I feel like makeup can do that and it's
just a simple little application and it can change how
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you how you feel in the confident, your confidence. I'm
all about like feeling confident and and just good about yourself.
It changes everything. You walk with your shoulders back and
ready to conquer, and that's that's when you when you
feel good about yourself. It just is a game changer,
and that ties back into doing something for you.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yes, shoulders, I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I hope I've had good posture. I've been, but maybe
I'm not confident right now during this interview. But yeah,
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
I'm excited about, uh, everything that's going on.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
I never know what's gonna happen with each song, so
it's exciting and nerve racking at the same time.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
But we're doing it for the love of music.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
It's great music and you can hear all those great
passions and of course the confidence in the music too,
and the lyrics kind of bust them out, resonating with fans.
I know it's been a great star already too, and
I love that we have a chance to share these
great songs across all the DSPs, and of course here
on the shows Kate.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
YBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Broadcasting Network, our friends at iHeartRadio Podcast of course, the
Sports Guys podcast dot com, and of course out there
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Stay in Your Lane is the current single across all
the DSPs, and then Better with Time comes out August
the first. So great to get to know you, the
story behind it and the staying true to your passion
and what you love the most. And hey continue success
in this going forward.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
I know it's a rough career.
Speaker 13 (37:02):
As it is.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
I'm in this game called radio, so I know how
artists feel all the time when it comes to music.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
But I know you're going to do very well. Good
head on your shoulders, and we appreciate you being with us.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
I really appreciate it as well, and I hope everyone
can love the music as much as I do and
find a place in their heart that where they can
relate to it.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
That's the goal.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
That is really the golt, no doubt about it too.
We love it so much to get out there. Hope
you guys love the show out there too. We're back
with more great shows coming up over the next few
weeks before we depart on vacation there the last week
of July, hanging out in Corpus Christy, Texas, one of
my favorite cities down there too, and of course we'll
start August again with more shows coming up here on
the backstage, past high school football around the corner too
as well right here on the Sports Guys podcast dot Com.
(37:44):
Some Lamar Cardinal action too as well with Lamar University,
and a whole lot more with our team coming out
there and grab it some of those scores out there.
With the football season, you gotta love it out there,
Fantasy leaks kicking off here in a few weeks, and
NFL training camps opening up over the next two weeks
out there too.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
We're back in a great artist.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network
and our friends the sports Guys Podcast dot com, iHeartRadio podcast,
and THWN dot org.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
We'll see you guys on the flip side. God bless
take care. We'll see you soon.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Hey, y'all, this is Nashville recording artist Karen WALDERP and
you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass on ky
b N ninety eight point one, your Bay Area broadcasting network,
and at the Sports Guys podcast dot com.
Speaker 11 (38:29):
Stream the show anytime on iHeartRadio podcast and at THHWN
dot org
Hey, guys and gals, this is Stephanie Michaela and you're
listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety
eight point one, your Bay Area broadcasting network and stream
anytime on iHeartRadio podcast and on the Sports Guys podcast
dot com and on THWN dot org.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Always a busy day
and of course getting ready for vacation. You're truly going
to go down to Corpus Christy for a few days
and enjoy that with the family and then come back
the week of August fourth and enjoys some more shows.
Coming up over the next few weeks. Texas country and
nationale recording artist Sonny Sweeney going to be dropping by
talking about her new album. We are presented by our
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It's done corrected with respect. Give brend a call seven one, three,
eight nine zero twenty five fifty one in our friends
at Kcpeck music. Well, I tell you what I got
this music that I got to really educate you guys
(01:03):
on today because I'm always getting all types of inquiries
here and learning about new artists as we speak, and
the place to be joined by another and becoming artist
in their own right out there, Stephanie Mikaala to the
backstage past, Stephanie, how.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
You doing great?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Excited got it as well. It's always great to learn
about new talent.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, let's learn a little bit about your backstory too
as far as this artistry, and people always say, why
did I go into this? What was my purpose? What
was the game plan behind it? A bug had to
bite early on too. At the same time, whether it
was family related or you picked up a guitar or
just singing lessons at a young age or learned to
sing in church. Talk about that backstory and of course
looking back on becoming an artist and taking me on
(01:41):
through that journey a little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Oh wow, this is a long journey it was.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I started my love for music at a super young age,
I would say, like two. I started just kind of humming. Well,
my parents would tell me all this. Obviously I don't remember,
but you know, when I was younger, I'd always hum
songs and makeup songs to my animals and.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
All that kind of started at a young age.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And then as the years went on, it was the
school performances and like the talent shows and all of that,
and I kept getting that feedback from everyone at the
schools and from the parents and the kids, and that
kind of drove me because I became known as the
littlest girl with the biggest voice. So that kind of
gave me the confidence as a kid like to have that.
(02:28):
And then as the years went on, with all the
help with vocal coaches and my parents really pushing me
towards what they thought I had at a young age
of talent, I wound up at a boarding school it
was called Idole Wild Arts Academy for my senior year
of high school to really hone in on like musical
theater because I did musical theater and pop music. I'm
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kind of skipping around here, but I want to don't
want to make it too long for you. And then
from there I wound up going to Boston Conservatory for
a little bit for musical theater. I wound up leaving
there because I still didn't want to folks solely on
musical theater. I wanted to do pop music and do
my work on my own album. So I moved back
home and I started doing my pop music and pursuing
(03:11):
that majorly and kind of did all that and really
loved doing the studio work, which I had done when
I was younger as well, but I really focused on
it in my early twenties. And then as time went on,
there were situations that I was in and it wasn't like.
I started to learn more and more about the music business,
(03:31):
and I wasn't really sure if it was going to
be the right fit because I started trusting all these
people that were promising all these things in the music business,
and this is saying that they were going to help
me with this and that I don't know. I was
so trusting at that age, and I thought I would
get to where I needed to be at that age
and kind of didn't work out at that time, so
I took a step back and I realized, hey, you
(03:51):
know what, maybe I shouldn't be doing music, and maybe
I should just try to find something else to focus on,
which is super hard obviously when you have a passion,
and I kind of realized, wait, maybe I need to
like come up with another game plan here. This isn't
working how I thought. I mean, when you're young, I
feel like there's a lot of people that think, Okay,
if I do this, maybe I'll be famous, and for
the wrong reason I think I was.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
I had the love of music.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But I also thought if I trusted this person and
that person, they would get me.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
There was a shortcut or something. I don't know what
I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
However, I took a step back, started doing I just
went to college for communication studies and started a family.
And as the years went on, I started getting sad
when I would think about music. And I do have
five kids now, so I have five kids, and it
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started to like come up a little bit like I
would hear people sing or I would just hear songs,
and it started to make me sad. And my kids
really didn't know how much singing I had done in
the past. So long story short is, my daughter was
on the internet like searching up my name and she
found some of my older music on there and kind of,
you know, realize that I did it actually did it
(05:04):
when I was younger, So anyway here I am. I
want up back in a situation. I feel like this
is like the ongoing story and you to take a break,
but I want up in a situation in a recording
studio a few years ago because I was helping a
producer out here with his library and kind of was
going to do demo work with him, and I started
getting that feeling again that, oh my gosh, I can't
(05:25):
believe I put this aside for so long and tried
to focus on something else, because when you have a passion,
you shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Let it die.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So I got back into music again and I decided
to create start creating a whole new Stephanie Mikayla with
all the experiences that I've had in between, with a
break in between.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
It's that kind of.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Because I did the same thing there six years ago,
and I compared this to be an artists. Although I'm
not an artist, you can't say I can sure host
the radio show. When it comes back to it, it's
like when you find that passion that you know that
you're good and you want to share a skill with
somebody else or a talent. Once you found why doesn't
everything else take care of itself?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, yeah, I just I I didn't realize I should have,
but I just felt like it was such a hard
business and there was no way to have a family
and try to pursue music heavily. I just didn't know
the balance. And plus I had gone through so many
experiences that I didn't believe that there was a way
to do it in a way that I could have
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a family and feel comfortable and just like, in a
way that was legitimate and real and wasn't false hopes.
So it was just it was just bizarre kind of
how it came into play, Like my kids' schools started
to find out that I was a singer, so they'd
ask me to do sing it functions there. So little
by little I started fulfilling that passion again. But then
(06:51):
when those functions were over, I would be sad again
because I wasn't fully immersed in that music world anymore.
So I said once I my mom. Actually she's always
my biggest fan. She was talking to a friend who's
also in the entertainment business and said, hey, you know what,
my other friend is looking for a singer to work
(07:12):
in a studio. And just help him, you know, with
demo work and organizing his library. Would Stephanie be interested.
So that's when my mom's like, you got to try it,
just like at least just just try it and see
what it's like again. And so when I started creeping
back in there, which I just said earlier, I just
started feeling that overcoming that oh my gosh, I cannot
(07:32):
believe that I that I haven't been doing this instead
of trying to find something else to fulfill that passion.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
It just wasn't working for me.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
It's so nice to incorporate music and just what you
love into your family life too, because it brings a
whole different dimension to relationships in general familyship ament.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
On that point, yes, we'll send that.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It really does bring a whole different dimension to it,
and you get a chance to share it with your
loved ones. And now I've got a little girl growing
up now, about to go into kindergarten, so the fun
age like five going on six years old. So then
you start going get to share this with her and
leave my legacy behind. She can take over the business
and do whatever she wants to do one day when
I'm gone. So this is a great story.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
That's well.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I knew you were gonna be a perfect fit as
a guest here on the backstage pass again, kyb in
ninety eight point one, your bag Area Broadcasting Network, the
Sports Guys podcast dot com, and our friends at iHeartRadio Podcasts,
and of course anytime out there at THWN dot orget.
Time to stay in your laying here it is the
backstage pass with Brandon and Stephanie Michayla. Crank up the
radio until you're gonna love this one here it stay tuned.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
And your list your songs quick with them jug and
journ list my time we don't get enough of and
let you step inside and get out of my way.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Closing you staking your lane.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Enoughs enough, un sir, the.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
N in lass I'm staying. I'm bobbing no one at
the type you can.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Bear to the bags closing you ride, staking your lane.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
No.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Now that I.
Speaker 10 (09:26):
Found everything and everything, everything that I love and I need.
Speaker 11 (09:35):
And I'm going to do all the.
Speaker 12 (09:41):
Want it true.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Your such a joke, always keeping me in left big
rich dead book.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Hate to see that. I'm happy. You're sweet, sweet be
ben shelp me out of the taste.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
Cuse there you on a ride, stagging your lane.
Speaker 13 (10:08):
Stagging your lane.
Speaker 10 (10:14):
Now that A found everything everything, everything that I love
and Dunney, and I'm going to do.
Speaker 14 (10:27):
That.
Speaker 12 (10:30):
What it's true, Your deppense, you can feel them like
I do. Big Jesus, big pens making everything come true.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Letting you step aside and get out of.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
My way of closing you own ride, stagging your.
Speaker 11 (10:52):
Lane, stagging your lane. Hold then hold nay, hold that,
(11:18):
hold that, hold and hold nay, hold that up, hold
hold the old nail. Hold then up, hold that held
(11:43):
then hold the nail hold then up.
Speaker 15 (11:53):
Hey, guys and gals, this is Nashville recording artists Celeste
Kellogg and you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Past
podcast on KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area
broadcast team network. Stream the show anytime on iHeartRadio podcasts
and at the Sports Guys podcast dot com and on
TWN dot org.
Speaker 14 (12:16):
The Caiden Gordon Show is a two hour show playing
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Speaker 16 (12:20):
So check it out at the Caidangordonshow dot com.
Speaker 14 (12:23):
Again, that is the Cadangordonshow dot com.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
What's up, y'all?
Speaker 17 (12:30):
This is Nashville recording artist Brook Eden and you're listening
to the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety eight
point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network. Listen anytime on
iHeart Podcasts and at the Sports Guys podcast dot com
and on THHWN dot org and beck he.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Your kyb A ninety eight point one, your Bay Area
Broadcasting Network and of friends, the Sports Guys podcast dot com,
a grand slam of music and sports anytime iHeartRadio podcast
and of course THHWN dot org out there. Of course,
Sonny Swaeney coming up next week here on the show.
I remember Nashville recording artists Big in Texas Country. A
new album comes out August, the first cold rhyme Stone
reck We. I'm looking forward to that one too. Always Sunny,
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great guest to have here on the Backstage Past. So
let's talk about this one, Stephanie. I love it because
it gets to the point stay in your Lane. It
came out May sixteenth, the Ships of course.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
So staying your lane is like it sums up So
when you become a mother and you have a family
and you're just kind of doing your thing, people don't
really expect.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Like you to come back with your passion.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Almost it's almost like they're a little shocked or they're like,
how can you manage how can you manage family and
trying to pursue a career in the music business. How
can you do all that? Especially after you know I
took a long break? How could you do that? So
with all the judgment that goes on where people don't
really know who you who, like what really goes on
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unless they're living in your shoes.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
So I was so.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Fed up with people in people's business and not staying
in their own lane. And I just found myself always saying, like,
why are people judging what anyone else does? If they
took that energy that they spend on judging others and
applied it to their life and maybe focused on a
passion for themselves, they would be bettering themselves and taking
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that energy and becoming like a great version of themselves
versus these gossips, like everyone's gossiping. So I wanted to
write a song that was like, stay in your lane,
you do you, and all do me, and.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Look how far we will get if we do that.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I just am so passionate about people finding something for
themselves and not just getting stuck in the routine because
it's so easy to do, and I was doing that.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I was stuck in the routine.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I was mad and sad, all these emotions that I
didn't have a passion. I had nothing to turn to
aside from obviously my beautiful family, and it takes a
lot of work to raise a.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Family and all that.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
But you have to find something, I believe, just an
outlet for yourself. It doesn't have to be full time,
but whether it's you want to go play basketball a
couple times a week, you want to go on hikes,
you want to write a book, whatever it is that
you can turn to that fulfills you inside. So you
don't get stuck in the rut and the drama and
the gossiping because it doesn't you know good.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
So everyone has to stay in their lane.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
And that was what I felt at that moment getting
back into this.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
It's like, stay in your lane.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I'm finally going to do something for me and incorporate
that to make me. I want my kids to see this.
I don't want my kids to not know that I'm
a singer.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
It was sad. I felt so sad about it.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
It was just I'd be singing in my bathroom because
it always sounds good in the bathroom, and I just
admit that's where I just it was so sad, so
I didn't realize how much I needed it. So I've
never felt so fulfilled at this moment. I mean, there's
a lot that goes into this is I'm not going
to sugarcoat any of it.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
It's like I said, it's a lot of ups.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
And downs, and you're nervous to put music out and
hope people like it. I don't know, but it's worth
it because you're doing what you love.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
You just got to enjoy the moment.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Enjoy that ride too.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
You're right, Yeah, it's definitely Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Many times and said to ourselves too, is this worth
the ride? Can we do this? Can we keep it going?
Speaker 10 (16:20):
Here?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
The people we love that motivate us the most beside ourselves.
I think that's one of the biggest things to look
at too. Hey, coming up August first, which is crazy.
We're already halfway through July and we're talking about August
coming up now, and with the third quarter now of
twenty twenty five, which seems like it's one of the
fastest years we've ever had. I guess as you get older,
they just continue to fly by better with time. Speaking
of that particular song right there, which is for what
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we're talking about right now, is getting this fast part
of the year going forward and talk about this one
coming out August first.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Oh my goodness, I am so excited for the world
to hear better with time. This is like kind of
in the same realm of like staying your lane, and
there's no time better than the present. There is no
expiration date on your potential. You can like by being
it doesn't there's no age limit. Do what you love
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and as long as it keeps that passion going and
fulfills you, why not this as we get older because
of all the experiences, I feel like it wasn't meant
to be years ago when I was really involved with music,
it wasn't meant to be. Because now all the experiences
that I have have only made my story better. And
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I'm so grateful to have all this now behind me
and to be able to put it into song, into
words and for people to kind of get oh wait
a minute, you know what, She's right like, I'm not
going to let anything stop me. We're only going to
get better with time. So that's what it's about. Don't
let anything stop you and just no judgment. Try not
to get suckered into everything on social media and looking
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at this and comparing, because that's what's going to pull
you back.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
So I want to.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Get a little bit of backstory on the artists that
shaped you growing up, no matter what genre of music,
What were you kind of dialed into at a young age,
even as I said young adult and now it's your currnage.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Well, I grew up listening to Whitney Houston, Tony Boxton,
Mariah Carey.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
It was all that. That's what I love that pop
R and B sound because I really felt like you
could always hear their lyrics.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
They were super emotional the way they were singing, and
I knew that I could be that kind of emotional
singer as well, so I took that on. I feel like,
for sure that style is more you can feel the
feeling in my lyrics, I feel like, and I hope
that others feel that as well and can really hear
the lyrics and know how like can understand what the
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story is.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
And I always felt like I did as a kid
with them as well.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I was very into Babyface and even Boys to Men,
just all that soulful, really heartfelt music.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Love those artists, great choices right through too, you knowing
the good taste of growing up, especially Whitney Houston.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, of course, of course, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
We got a chance to play another one here too
on the show against Stephanie Michaela. Give her a follow
across all these social media out there. It's in my
c h A E l A and Stephanie s T
E F A n I E. So we even spell
things here for you on which is great. Another single
that came out here earlier this year found in you here.
It is from Stephanie Michaela. The Backstage Past, k y
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b N ninety eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network,
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Speaker 3 (19:35):
Back in the Flash, stay tuned.
Speaker 18 (19:51):
John and swimmn. Christian does your head as.
Speaker 19 (20:01):
Father, I would have left to close the door, the
door if I would have found someone like you by
wepping somebody else says fool, somebody's fool.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
If fine love is like the patient time the one home,
not me, and I always.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Buy my side, and no where enough life for you
want mine?
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Then I'd be searching high in Lord mine. Or that
I confound you.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
The constrain, the live breaks, I never knew the mea.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
You give me the clearity. It took some time to
believe it. Oh that again his world see the mom.
I'm loyalty.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
So loyally.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
How manyies more this time? Still fun the symphies of
line and I'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Fun.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Love is like the patient can the world that is had?
Speaker 10 (21:31):
Not me?
Speaker 6 (21:33):
And I always buy my side, And no when life
knowing who one line, there I be searching high in
Lord mine. Oh that I come found you?
Speaker 11 (21:50):
No, we're fool, don't you?
Speaker 6 (21:52):
So then we come loose? Oh then we have been
dreaming Bee home half of the soul and a chance
and a rail.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
A phone.
Speaker 13 (22:09):
No, love is love the patient cime, the one that's
home on to me and night always buy my side.
Speaker 14 (22:21):
I no.
Speaker 19 (22:24):
Live my ib searching time love sign all the phone.
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Speaker 3 (24:00):
I mentioned it came out earlier this year too, and
just a great.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Spin on this one too, because it's really at least
it summed up life for me in a way that
just resonated all the way with me.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Yeah, I mean, that's the basis of how I got
started back into music. It's the foundation of my love
with my husband and the driving force, the push. You know,
If I didn't have that push and the support, like
we talked about from our family, it's I don't this
wouldn't have been possible. So you never know in life
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why someone is placed in front of you and if
that's going to need to be the right path, and
you choose that path, and I just feel like things
all fall into place and they happen for a reason,
And I'm so grateful to that relationship because it's that
support system. Like we said, there's not a lot of
people in life that are going to always be there
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and root for you. And when you find that community
of people, whether it be you know, one person too. People,
it's everything because we want to surround ourselves with people
that are going to be so happy for all the
good and the bad moments. They're going to be there
for you, and I want to do the same for others.
So just being able to have that, that's what it is.
You found that person and they are here to lift
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you up. And that is why we started with that single.
It was like the love that I have and now
I have created this family and the support and now
I have five kids running around and they inspire me
and I inspire them. And the diligence like they have
with their sports and that kind of drove me too.
I was like, oh my gosh, they're putting in so
much time and I can do the same thing too,
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and then together we can all share our love for
our passions together. I think it's so great for family
and your immediate family especially to see that you have
a passion.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
It drives them even more too. I mean it works
both ways, it sure does.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah. I love how you released it on Valentine's Day too.
That's always special to you out there.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
I know, I know it's great the.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Special holiday too.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Also, let's talk about another one to get better with time?
Is it gonna be the latest single coming out August?
The first to make sure you guys go stream that
across all the DSPs out there. Sometimes this comes out
following Founding You There at the end of March March
thirty first talk about this one for us.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Sometimes it's special too, It's like that is it kind of.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
When I wrote that, it was like questioning, like when
you're in relationships, you sometimes don't always feel heard. So
I wanted to make it like not everything is perfect
in anyone's life, and I don't want to come across
as that at all. That's definitely not what I'm trying
to say. And I want to express to everybody that
we all go through so much in life, and that's
why I'm here. I want to share it with others.
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I'm like, I love to listen to other people. I
want them to listen to me. Sometimes it's about sometimes
you're in a relationship with whether it's your spouse or
whatever it is, sometimes you feel like you express.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
So much and you get so little in return.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
So you got to really try to create these relationships
where it's kind of an open book and you're able
to talk freely with one another. So I've always tried
to be a great listener and i want the same
in return, because it's so nice to have those kind
of relationships. So sometimes it's more about that when you
feel alone and you feel like you're expressing so much
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and the other person's kind of covering their ears, going
la la la la la, like they don't hear you
or they don't want to hear you. So in the song,
there's a lot of la la las and about feeling alone.
So that's what that song is about. It was just
about relationships and not feeling completely heard all the time.
So each song really is taking you through the newest
Stuffanie Mikayla chapter that I feel like I've created from
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all these past experiences, and I'm hoping that the next
go around, I really can delve deep into the other
stuff that I've gone.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Through to get to this place.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I just like people to I want them to be
able to really relate and know that we're real people
and we're not here to sugar coote anything, and I'm
definitely never going to do that. I'm just going to
give it ron Reel and help people like it.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Ron Reel those two words out there, two that make
music what it is these days out there too. Again,
give her a follow across all those DSPs out there,
Stephanie Michaela. All the music can be found out there too,
wherever your your favorite downloading platform is out there for
all these streaming music. And Bettered with Time comes out
August first, the next single and in this catalog of
songs from Stephanie Michaela.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
All right, let's have all the photos.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
We close the show because I love this too, and
I love throwing this in the conversation from time to
time out there because I'll pick apart and even if
somebody is not like a huge sports fan, I can
always say, you know what somebody you know is or
you had family do it too.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Whether it's college or pro, whether it's your.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Your kids, husband, things like that. What's the teams in
the Michaela household. I'm just curious.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
It's Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, that's all it is.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Like we I don't I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Even understand, like I try, but it's every night my Okay,
So I have five kids, So I have my fourteen
year old daughter.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Then I have two sets of twins. So I have
eleven fourteen year old daughter.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Then I have my eleven year old boys, two boys,
and then my seven year old boy.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Girls. Now, the two eleven year old boys are so obsessed.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
With sports, and our dinners consist of talking about who
traded this on this team, who did on this, And
I'm like, that's when I'm like, la, la, la, la la.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
I'm trying to understand.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I do love basketball, though I've gotten really into it,
but that's literally all that goes on here is Lakers,
like fake NonStop.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
That all happened in my household. Tickets, we got to basketball, baseball,
all those teams, so you.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Got it all going on. We're like la uh fastball
now see.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I'm a Rockets fan definitely, so they just like over
the young Talent just finished second seed in the West,
won fifty two games with the Young Core. So we're
fighting between the San Antonio Spurs and the Rockets in
my household. So it's kind of the West and I
and who the little one should root for, And then
of course baseball is the Astros would have a problem there.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Then football.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
She's a Cowboy fan and I'm an Arizona Cardinal fan,
so it's it's a yeah, two way street there, so
it's a sometimes give a take. But like I said,
we have our certain channels and streaming stuff we watch
there too, and we have our reasons for liking the team.
I was going to ask one of your kids too.
Hopefully we'll see how this goes. But Lebron James make
them back. Lakers may not. There's teams that want to
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look at his services and must acquire him, so I know,
I know the family does not want to lose Lebron James.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Right, No, No, that's like even my seven year old
can like barely understand basketball, but he's like Lebron Lebron
every minute, le Bron Lebron.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Here's a big poster on.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
His wall in his room of Lebron and he doesn't
really know who he is. But that's how obsessed they are.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Yeah, yeah, that's so funny, but it's nice. I'm the
only one who does music out of all my kids.
Think one of the five would want to do it.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
But yeah, following your footsteps, all right, Cooking in the household,
take out, What do you like to cook, What do
you like to eat as a family or separately, what's
kind of on the foody list.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Well, we always try to. I grew up always having
family dinners. I felt like that's so important, so we try.
We really try to sit down and talk about our day,
and like all I mean, I think it's so important
to really go around the table and talk about the
best part of your day the worst part of your day.
Even if you don't feel like talking, at least you're
there so we can discuss. We do every Tuesday night, we.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Do Taco Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
So we love tacos and nachos, so we do like
a big taco Tuesday and then my parents come over,
so that's really fun. I love dessert so much. I
love M and ms peanut butter m and ms, so
that's like a must. And everybody knows that I need
the big giant tubs that they have like smart final,
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Like we stack all the pan trees, like layers of
the m and ms can get enough. So that's it's like,
tacos are a favorite, Eminem's for me and Sour Patch
Kids for the kids. And then my husband doesn't like
dessert really, so I'm all alone in this.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
A little bit of sweet and salty right there, story
right there?
Speaker 14 (32:19):
What?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah, she loves on the dessert side of things too
as well. I gotta do this one here. Pizza is
a big thing for me. Once a week we'll do
like the pizza night. Do the same thing you're doing
around the dinner table.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Talk about this.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I just recently got into this company called Marco's down here.
It's like a Texas pizza chain too, but they've got
like Hawaiian pizza and the chicken can actually go on it,
and you can actually change up a bunch of toppings
on there too.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
For pizza. What do you like on your your pizza?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I like barbecue chicken pizza, barbecue chicken pizza because then
they put like cilantro on it. I feel like with
the cilantro and the barbecue chicken.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
So good.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
We so we only have do you guys have stone
fire grill out there?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
We do? There's one? Oh in San Antonio, Texas.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Oh good?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
So I remember, and then I worked for many moons
ago and it was actually the thinnest crust I think
I ever had. But uh, we had a California pizza
kitchen that came through San Antonio when I lived there
for a few years. So I got to work with
that in the big chain out in California there too,
of course, and there were some other little local, you
know hotspots here too.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
And I love pasta.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
It's hard to put that down, like spaghetti or chicken
alfredo or just something like that.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
And you know, I put my green stuff in.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
It too, because because I've been on this like a
little bit of say, a little bit of it health
kick and then of course couple of cheap days uh
during the week too. But I'm on this protein kick
right now, chicken and of course fish and things with
high protein besides shakes and things like that. So that's
my whole deal there. Anybody in the family love the
gym fitness?
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Oh my gosh. Me and my husband, yeah, we love
working out.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
It's my husband gets up at lake four in the
morning to go run and work out and then he
goes plays basketball.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
But because that's his.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Passion, so I like to I like to make sure
and if he doesn't do it, he's grumpy. See that's
the example of why it's not the working out I'm
talking about the well, he's grumpy if he doesn't work
out too.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
We all are because we needed if we're used to it.
But with the basketball. He's grumpy.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
He had to take some time off because he had
a knee injury and he was grumpy. So that's the
reason why passion is what it does to you.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
It changes you. But yes, we love to work out.
We're outdoor.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
We like to be outdoors and do fun things with
the kids when we can. And we have animals, so
that's fun. We have four dogs, so they incorporate, you know,
into the chaos and swim in the pool.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
So that's it.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Yeah, make messes in the kitchen all day long with
their water, but it's okay because they're so cute.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
They're cute. They have fought out there too the same time.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Yes, yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
I love it and we'll do this one.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
So if you never got back into music or was
there something before it too, they always say we get
followed that trail, follow that passion. But had you never
become a working musician, what other career path or path
would you follow.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I always wanted to be a makeup artist. I just
like to make people feel their best. So it was
always like, if it's not if it's not music that's
going to make someone feel a certain way, I would
like to make them feel like just good about themselves.
And I feel like makeup can do that and it's
just a simple little application and it can change how
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you how you feel in the confident, your confidence. I'm
all about like feeling confident and and just good about yourself.
It changes everything. You walk with your shoulders back and
ready to conquer, and that's that's when you when you
feel good about yourself. It just is a game changer,
and that ties back into doing something for you.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yes, shoulders, I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I hope I've had good posture. I've been, but maybe
I'm not confident right now during this interview. But yeah,
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
I'm excited about, uh, everything that's going on.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
I never know what's gonna happen with each song, so
it's exciting and nerve racking at the same time.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
But we're doing it for the love of music.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
It's great music and you can hear all those great
passions and of course the confidence in the music too,
and the lyrics kind of bust them out, resonating with fans.
I know it's been a great star already too, and
I love that we have a chance to share these
great songs across all the DSPs, and of course here
on the shows Kate.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
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Speaker 2 (36:24):
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Music Kasebech dot com. Make sure you guys go give
her or follow Stephanie McKayla across all the DSPs out there.
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Stay in Your Lane is the current single across all
the DSPs, and then Better with Time comes out August
the first. So great to get to know you, the
story behind it and the staying true to your passion
and what you love the most. And hey continue success
in this going forward.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
I know it's a rough career.
Speaker 13 (37:02):
As it is.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
I'm in this game called radio, so I know how
artists feel all the time when it comes to music.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
But I know you're going to do very well. Good
head on your shoulders, and we appreciate you being with us.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
I really appreciate it as well, and I hope everyone
can love the music as much as I do and
find a place in their heart that where they can
relate to it.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
That's the goal.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
That is really the golt, no doubt about it too.
We love it so much to get out there. Hope
you guys love the show out there too. We're back
with more great shows coming up over the next few
weeks before we depart on vacation there the last week
of July, hanging out in Corpus Christy, Texas, one of
my favorite cities down there too, and of course we'll
start August again with more shows coming up here on
the backstage, past high school football around the corner too
as well right here on the Sports Guys podcast dot Com.
(37:44):
Some Lamar Cardinal action too as well with Lamar University,
and a whole lot more with our team coming out
there and grab it some of those scores out there.
With the football season, you gotta love it out there,
Fantasy leaks kicking off here in a few weeks, and
NFL training camps opening up over the next two weeks
out there too.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
We're back in a great artist.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting Network
and our friends the sports Guys Podcast dot com, iHeartRadio podcast,
and THWN dot org.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
We'll see you guys on the flip side. God bless
take care. We'll see you soon.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Hey, y'all, this is Nashville recording artist Karen WALDERP and
you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass on ky
b N ninety eight point one, your Bay Area broadcasting network,
and at the Sports Guys podcast dot com.
Speaker 11 (38:29):
Stream the show anytime on iHeartRadio podcast and at THHWN
dot org
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