Ever found yourself drawn into the mesmerizing world of independent music? Well, you're definitely in for a treat! We are joined by podcasting extraordinaire, Kaden Collins, who takes us on an inspiring journey through his world of audio magic, ignited by the loss of his beloved grandmother and fueled by his yearning to make a difference in people's lives.
We dig into the life-altering moments that podcasting has brought into our lives, featuring a particularly memorable experience with the rising music star, Danny Stephanetti. We had a good chuckle over Joe his manager where pink sunscreen being mistaken for chapstick is hilarious. And a heartwarming love story involving one of our hosts - Kaden. And guess what? We've got plenty more where that came from! A lighthearted and entertaining chat about our personal achievements had us reminiscing about the comedic genius of our manager, the hilarious mishaps that have graced our lives, and an embarrassing childhood injury of our musician friend Kaden.
Rounding off our enriching rendezvous, we tapped into the profound influence of music on our lives. Reflecting on the soothing power of melodies and rhythms, we explored how music can heal us emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually. We also delved into our guest Kaden's tale of overcoming adversity to pursue his passion for entertainment. It's a touching reminder to always be grateful and acknowledge those who lend us a helping hand. So, if you're craving an enticing mix of heartwarming stories, laughter, and a deep-dive into the world of podcasting and music, you won't want to miss this episode!
Ever found yourself drawn into the mesmerizing world of independent music? Well, you're definitely in for a treat! We are joined by podcasting extraordinaire, Kaden Collins, who takes us on an inspiring journey through his world of audio magic, ignited by the loss of his beloved grandmother and fueled by his yearning to make a difference in people's lives.
We dig into the life-altering moments that podcasting has brought into our lives, featuring a particularly memorable experience with the rising music star, Danny Stephanetti. We had a good chuckle over Joe his manager where pink sunscreen being mistaken for chapstick is hilarious. And a heartwarming love story involving one of our hosts - Kaden. And guess what? We've got plenty more where that came from! A lighthearted and entertaining chat about our personal achievements had us reminiscing about the comedic genius of our manager, the hilarious mishaps that have graced our lives, and an embarrassing childhood injury of our musician friend Kaden.
Rounding off our enriching rendezvous, we tapped into the profound influence of music on our lives. Reflecting on the soothing power of melodies and rhythms, we explored how music can heal us emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually. We also delved into our guest Kaden's tale of overcoming adversity to pursue his passion for entertainment. It's a touching reminder to always be grateful and acknowledge those who lend us a helping hand. So, if you're craving an enticing mix of heartwarming stories, laughter, and a deep-dive into the world of podcasting and music, you won't want to miss this episode!
All right, we are live. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Healing Vocals, the podcast about music, good deeds done in the world, all the wonderful artists, everything that's done out there in the music world. Music is very, very healing and we talk about that and we introduce artists and music and producers and creators to our show. So welcome. We have a special guest today. His name is Kayden Collins and Kayden runs another podcast, so welcome, Kayden.
Speaker 2:Well, it's great to be here. Thank you so much for having me and I'm looking forward to our conversation. We just spoke yesterday. I had you on my show yesterday, so thank you for having me on. It's an honor and I can't wait to hear your fantastic questions.
Speaker 1:Absolutely Kayden. Kayden is the host of the KGC show and he has an interesting story about how he got into this. Kayden, can you tell our viewers a little bit about you, what you do in your podcast and your music?
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I'll tell you about the podcast. I got into podcast February 2020 after the death of my grandmother. It took a beating on me, it took a beating on my family and it really affected everyone around us. Well, I didn't wanna sit around and have a pity party all pity for me, sad situation and everything and I wanted to take my pain and inspire somebody that they can do what I'm doing or what we're doing here today. And so I remember the day she passed away.
Speaker 2:You know, I sat down and wrote a podcast and a few days later, kenny Rogers passed away and so I did another one of those and you know, I never really got into interviewing. You know I thought about just really cool, stupid little things, but you know, I never knew. Back in 2020, I didn't know the direction that I wanted to go with the thing, and it took a lot of praying. It took a lot of you know, but then there was a magical guy who came into my life. His name was Jeff Panzer and Jeff is a legendary producer. I mean, he man.
Speaker 1:He is.
Speaker 2:MTV. You know, everybody knows Jeff Panzer if you're a director and if you don't shame on you, that's all I gotta say that dude is class all the way and I love him for that. But you know, jeff Panzer got a hold of me one day and you know my original podcast name was the Spokane man podcast. Jeff Panzer calls me up one day I know original right and that Jeff Panzer calls me up one day and he goes hey man, what's Spokane using you to use their name in your show? And I said nothing. You kind of got me thinking, jeff, and he goes why don't you change it? You know you think you're some type of Spokane. What if you move away? He can't be known as a Spokane man.
Speaker 1:That's true.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so I, you know, I said well what do you?
Speaker 2:I've built my kind of career around this man. You're kind of tearing it down and he goes no man, I'm not tearing you down, I'm just, you know, I'm just building you up, you know, and I'm trying to rebrand you and brand your name as what he told me. He said, you know, spokane's never going to pay you, so don't use their name. But he said, you know, you got to make a name for yourself, cause what if the people watching your interviews wants to know about you? You know yeah, and so he goes what are your initials? And I said KGC. And he goes man, you should do the KGC podcast and eventually use or drop out the last name podcast. And I just said back to him the KGC show. And he goes great. And from there, you know, we got our first guest on, danny Stiffenetti, who wow, that's incredible she just won a Josie Music Award.
Speaker 2:She was nominated for six but walked away with one. William Lee Golden and the Golden's won one. So congratulations, william Lee and Chris. And you know all of this cause. You were there, weren't ya?
Speaker 1:I was there. I saw it all live, got to meet a lot of cool people. A lot of people came up to me from Nashville and the music world hugged me. Hadn't seen them in years. Yeah, absolutely. It was fantastic to see all the wins for these independent artists. So, thank you. The Josie Awards we plan on being entered next year. So, yeah, some of my artists that I have.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:For those of you that don't know, I'm Dr Mary Anderson. For those of you that are watching my show, that may be new to my show, or you've hung around for a while this whole couple of years I appreciate all the fans, everybody that watches the show. I'm also an artist manager and a family nurse practitioner, a podcaster, so I also manage artists. So it's I do it all, as you found out yesterday. So thank you guys so much for watching All the viewers that are on right now on Facebook. We thank you YouTube. We thank you Twitter. We thank you. Thank you guys so much for that.
Speaker 2:Joe, what's up, buddy? I knew you'd try to hey Joe.
Speaker 2:Joe. He wanted me to text him a link and I was in the middle of all this, so but I knew he would find it my buddy, joe Mahalix in here and he kind of did this to himself or something. But Joe is one of the best artists around, and I'm not just talking about singer. Joe actually does wood paintings and he does a bunch of wood paintings For different people. He did a Pittsburgh Steelers one, he did one for our mutual friend Brett Allen Morgan. He did one for that.
Speaker 1:He was Joe's saying that he was nominated for Independent Country Music Award. Congratulations. He was nominated for a King Eagle Award in Nashville. That is awesome, joe.
Speaker 2:Congratulations. We all deserve another two because, Joe, he opened. He got the privilege and honor of lifetime to open for Charlie Daniels.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness, that I did not know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Man, that's so cool.
Speaker 2:He doesn't really talk about that, but Joe. But Joe's one of the greatest talents and he's right outside of Pennsylvania. He's one of my best friends and, honestly, joe picked me up when I was in a dark place and I owe so much to Joe and his wife, susan, and his granddaughter and his family. I love them so much.
Speaker 1:Awesome, I love you.
Speaker 2:I love you right back, buddy. You're a good dude.
Speaker 1:Very cool, very cool. It's so cool to see everybody coming on here. We should have a bunch of more people here shortly. So, caden, tell me a little bit about what the best moment has been for your podcast. Something that maybe you've experienced that's pretty cool, or something that happened like once in a lifetime, or you're just like Mary this is the coolest thing that's ever happened.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, getting them talked and hanging out with William Lee Golden has been nice. You know I love talking with William Lee. That dude, he is hilarious and everybody in their own way has been a very important piece to my show. But if you were to pin me down to say what has been the most life-changing podcast you've ever done was a young girl by the name of Danny Stephanetti. There's a lot of reasons why I choose Danny is because, danny, she came from Perth, australia, and she has spent 20 years making it in the music industry.
Speaker 2:And I remember, I remember I was at this exact house. I was actually sitting in this exact spot, right here, and I got a phone call from Jeff Panger one day and Jeff calls me and he goes hey, you ready to interview the next big thing. So I take off and I run across the street I mean I book it to my house and he goes, no, not today, we're going to call you. And he made me think we were doing a podcast right then and there. And but you know, to watch Danny's career and so many people you know take off, you know, not because of the podcast, but because you are the one that to give them their first not bright, but you're. You were their first ever podcast and you know you started out with them, believing in them, and you know, you get it.
Speaker 1:I do. I do have a good friend by the name of David Bradley and he does a lot of the podcasting for the CMAs and he started him. Him and I started out about the same time and our podcasting styles are a little different. I'll have to introduce you to him. He's a great guy but he's come out to some of my artists concerts and we keep up with each other every now and then and texts and we've met at a couple of places. Dustin Spears concerts have been one of them. We've both interviewed Dustin but he always tells me you know, when you believe in an artist and and you put your best foot forward with them and you follow them and see them grow and you can have them back on your show, it means a lot to that artist.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, and you know there's been a lot of talent that's come through my doors not all my show, not just music, but I remember we had Dave Higbee on a show and his name is do be Dave in the business, and do be Dave got the name because he loves the do be brother so much and but no, I've opened my door doors to comedy now. So we're going to start accommodating some show and we're also looking for inspiring stories on the, on the podcast as well, because you know I have a story myself that we can get into it and if you would like.
Speaker 1:But I would love to hear it. My viewers love stories. Go for it. The floor is yours.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, growing up, growing up in Seattle Washington, you know, like Stevens area, you, when you go through what I went through as a baby, you know, eight months of your first eight months of your life is born in a hospital and you, you're so young that you don't remember everything, but there are some things in life that stick with your lifelong and you got to learn how to look past those obstacles. Joe Bonzo the Oaks said it the best, he said there's always going to be life obstacles hitting at you. You know, you got to look to overcome them and you can't let a, you can't let the obstacles get to you, and that's true with everything. But anyway, I was born in Seattle Washington, you know, and I was, you know, very sick when I was a baby, I, you know. But I died a couple of times and the doctors were able to save me and, you know, because I was so young that they were able to do that.
Speaker 2:So, you know, I had all my medical procedures. You know the doctors were actually going to stop at 10 if I didn't make it to 10, you know, if I, if they tried to run back to life 10 times and then after the 10th time they'd give up. But you know I had an obligation out through all life and this kind of ropes back into your first question that you asked me how I got started in the podcast and when I was a little kid I always knew that I wanted to be in an entertainment industry at some sort. Whether I was standing on my this is a true story and I would stand on my family's kitchen table playing Jason Aldean's big green tractor, you know some of my childhood friends will remember that one. Or you know when I would do Elvira by the Oaks and high school. You know, and people would.
Speaker 1:Elvira.
Speaker 2:Everybody knows that song you can't go. Yeah, she was a nice movie, but that also was a great, great song to you and but no man, when you. I always wanted to do something in the entertainment industry and I never, kind of I never wanted to be a roadie, I never wanted to be out on the road, you know traveling but I also had a desire in my heart to help people as well and and I wanted to do that. So I said, what can I do?
Speaker 2:And it was Joe Rogan was just taken off, joe and the whole Tiger King and that whole thing. They all started going haywire and I kind of I looked back at that podcast thing and I said let me try and get into that. And, like I said, I recorded my first step in children 2020 out of my grand, the death of my grandmother and I've been. I caught the bug that day and ever, ever since, I've pushed on and, per se, persevered, met some great people along the way and there's a lot of people out of help me get here, to why I'm out here today and, yeah, I've come a long way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. Looking back at some of your podcasts and hearing your stories, you definitely have come a long way. I'm so proud of you for that. You keep pushing, you keep pushing, absolutely you keep doing, you and keep doing. You know, if you love something and you make it into a career, you're never going to work a day in your life.
Speaker 2:That's right. That's right and that's some of the best things you can. That's some of the best. That's the best way you got to look at life. If you love everything that you do in life, You're not just, you're not, You're not a pre well, not appreciative of everything, but you enjoy life. There's so much negativity in the world that we can't just stop and take a deep breath and tell ourselves everything's going to be okay. You know, because everything will be.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, Absolutely With your podcast guests. I know you asked me this yesterday, so I'm going to ask you what kind of special things have you been doing on your show? I know I do something where I kind of turn the interview around, but what have you been doing?
Speaker 2:Well, I do rapid fire questions that close out the show. I enjoy doing those because I think it kind of brings it all together and it kind of Sure, it's a fun way to close out a great time that we've had.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. Do you give back to the community and how do you do that?
Speaker 2:Well, I do. You know, just here in a few days I got my high school innovation high school. I'm very involved in everything that they do and so they have a big old. They're doing a big old concert down there and I'm going to go surprise all the kids and say hi to everybody and donate about. I'm not going to say it on here, but I'm going to be doing stuff to help out that school and give back. I got a story about that high school and that high school is Pride schools and Innovation High School. On my graduation day, jeff, I got a phone call and on my phone it said unknown caller. It said unknown caller on my phone here and I knew exactly who it was. So I pick it up and it was Jeff Panzer on the other side and he goes, hey what's up, man and he?
Speaker 2:goes. I got a guest on the other line. He wants to wish you congratulations and all I hear is this Okay, congratulations, man. It was William Lee Golden and Jeff Panzer had told me to wish Congratulate me, very congratul On graduating. And you know they didn't have to do that but they did and I'm thankful for them, because I'm thankful for everything that has happened with my podcast and with me kind of growing up in that high school, because as a kid my parents struggled to find the right education and but it wasn't until this school that I was a founding member of came along and gave me that kind of. They weren't really so much teachers as they were kind of mentors. And you know guys like Dario Romero he actually played for the Miami Dolphins. He would be great on your show. Let's see if I can make that happen.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you heard it here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll get Dario. If Dario follows me on Facebook, he'll see it. Dario, get your butt on this show. Yeah, but Shisha I'm not Shisha Washington, I said her last name, but Charlie Coffin, sean Hoof, brian McDonnell you know, the list goes on and on. You know Jackie, you know Mac everybody you know that has helped, that was there for the time I was there. Cassie, everybody that was there when I was there and we still keep in contact. That's cool. It's like a family.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's really cool. That is by far the coolest thing I've ever heard. Man, that's awesome. So we know you get back to the community and I just want to thank you for that and everything that you do and that's such a cool event going down to the high school. I give you high fives for that, man. High fives. Yeah, you're high fives there. So you also play music, is that correct?
Speaker 2:Well, I do. Yeah, I can make sounds come out of a guitar. No, I enjoy the musical aspect of it. You know I enjoy playing the guitar and I enjoy writing music and playing music, and you know I enjoy music. You know I'm going to quote one of the greatest guys to ever speak this sentence in this what I'm about to say to this podcast. His name is William Lee Golden. I'm about to quote the greatest, one of the greatest quotes he's ever said he's awesome.
Speaker 1:We love William.
Speaker 2:William Lee Golden. Go get his book Behind the Beard for Christmas. His name was WilliamLeeGoldenBookcom. If you're on it autographed, he's not wanting me to do that. Love you, golden. But anyway, william Lee said this. He said that music is more than just a healing power. It actually music is a part of the healing body and it helps you in every which way emotionally, mentally, physically and even spiritually. You know, when there are people who can't walk, who try and take their first steps, they might be doing it to music. Now, there's a message in every song, but just because there's a message, that doesn't mean it's good, you know. But you know, emotionally we can all heal from music. We can use healing power and yeah, you know that is so true.
Speaker 1:I was watching a segment that Nick Bushner put out I don't know Nick and his manager, kenny Miles, and he was in the hospital playing for somebody and I can tell you who it is. You guys can look it up. But music does have healing powers and I actually did a huge research paper with my doctorate, my PhD, with music, because I love music so much. It's won many awards and it showed the healing power of music. So, for those of you that don't know, I'm also a professor. I have 10 degrees. I have a doctorate degree, a master's degree, 10 nursing degrees, a PhD, a doctorate of nursing practice and one of the things that I actually you're like, goodness Mary, what else are you going to do over here? What?
Speaker 1:You're like so I don't want to. You're so cute, I love you. I love you.
Speaker 2:Hey Mary, you're showing me up on things now.
Speaker 1:I don't know about that. I don't tell a lot of people what I do, but yeah, I got to get my butt in there now. Oh gosh, no man. I spent 15 years in school, so it took a long time to get those degrees and y'all. If you're in college and you're listening to this and you're like, what's the point? There's a point Stay in school. Get it done, get it done Follow your dreams. You never know where it's going to take you.
Speaker 2:I'm telling y'all Stay in school, or else you're going to end up, like us, on a podcast.
Speaker 1:Well, wait a minute. I went to school. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding Funny guy there, mr Clayton Funny guy.
Speaker 2:Funny guy. That's the thing is. Whatever I'm doing, I try and incorporate a good laugh into a podcast or even into a live show, because the world is so dark and we do very much complaining, little less laughing, and I think it's time that we flip that to where we do very little complaining and very more laughing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely. That paper that I wrote for my doctorate degree, my PhD y'all. It is published. You can find it on academiacom. It's under Dr Mary Anderson.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so what I did was I took music and I put it in this device. It's called the DreamPad and it's put into a little pillow and there was a whole bunch of people that were having trouble sleeping with anxiety getting to their appointments, and I allowed them to listen to this little device with their type of music and it vibrated the inner ear and it relaxed you. Within seconds your anxiety went down, your blood pressure went down. All kinds of biomarkers they call them biomarkers they went down so that it showed immediately the effects of music. So I'm a big component of music healing. A lot of them were able to. After months of being on this, they were able to get off their anxiety meds, they were able to sleep better, their depression decreased, and this is just by using this little DreamPad pillow with music that again vibrated the little bone in your inner ear, y'all, and relaxed you, and also it had a healing effect and a psychological effect like you talk about.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, those results are published. You guys can look that up. It's a pretty cool thing, but I'm a big component of music healing. I've heard a lot of people talk about how music saved their life, especially with addictions. Music is really healing psychologically too, so that's. One good thing about my podcast is that I bring a medical aspect to the world's issues or problems or a way of explaining. So yes, that has been wonderful.
Speaker 2:And you do a really good job at it too. I've been a fan for a while now and I've got to watch you grow and you're just a blast to watch and I'm honored to be here, thank you. We have become buddies over the past couple of days now and I remember when I called you and I told you what you need. I remember our first conversation I don't know what time of the day it was, but I remember I called you and I remember how much of an impact that that phone call had on you. And I remember I remember leaving that phone conversation and I said there's a reason why God put her in my life is because she needs she needs a test dummy.
Speaker 1:You're very. Should we tell them what we're doing? Should we tell her audience what we're doing?
Speaker 2:I think we can. I think we can Not go too far into it, but yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, we're doing a collaboration together.
Speaker 2:We are writing a song and we're gonna place that out as a single together or maybe what I might, and we have another event coming up to that you guys need to be on the lookout for your boy, caden here might be on the move somewhere. We might be Not moving but we might. We might be seeing hey to a few state friends of mine over there and the great state of Florida. I don't know what we got plan.
Speaker 1:Never know. Y'all stay tuned, follow us, y'all follow us.
Speaker 2:I got family yeah, my family smart. I have a lot of crap, ton of family and a crap to different states, so Traveling's not that hard. I just go say, hey, I'm gonna go see Uncle Larry and go do it.
Speaker 1:In the event, yeah, come on, let's, let's. Hey, I get phone calls all the time sometimes. Mary, can you be here when tomorrow?
Speaker 2:Oh, geez, okay, yeah, yeah well, no, I did call you yesterday on your birthday and and I did sing you a song and and Joe, joe loves a good Rodney Carrington tune I'm not gonna name you the name, but it's a Rodney Carrington tune and I called him yesterday and you know, after everything Joe's ever done for me in my entire life, it was the least thing I could do and I hope I put a little birthday smile on his face and I could hear him laughing on the other end of the phone. I sang a maximum.
Speaker 1:So, joe, how was it? How was the birthday song? He tell us.
Speaker 2:Joe will tell you. He'll tell you it was amazing. He'll tell you the pop. What he told me was what he told me it was the best part of his day is what he told me, and he had Wendy's for dinner.
Speaker 1:He made my day. That's awesome.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Joe has a band too, is that right?
Speaker 2:Well, joe's that. Well, joe Go, he plays music too. He played for Charlie. Well, he, like I mentioned earlier you, he opened for Charlie Daniels and it's called the smoking Joe in the Wild Horse Saloon band and they're, you know, they I think they got a Couple shows coming. But yeah, I could tell you from just knowing Joe and knowing he's a big music guy and he, he, you got to get him on your show too, because Joe, he would be a Joe, would make everybody's podcast better. I say everybody, the three, guys do well.
Speaker 2:You probably won't do it today, but uh.
Speaker 1:Probably not cuz.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but no, he actually. You know, we have a mutual friend. His name is Brett Ellen Morgan and he has a. He has like 30 different shows and and, uh, he, he plays songs on that show and he shows off some of his artwork that he does On the show as well. So you got to get him to show off some of his artwork, cool range day.
Speaker 1:All right, joe, I'll hold you to that. So, caden, what has been? I heard you're a funny guy. We already know that you ever played a joke on somebody.
Speaker 2:Well.
Speaker 1:I mean, come on, you can talk about it, let's talk about it. I think it'd be fun. I Can't you did not tell me to say that I.
Speaker 2:Can't say that I can't. I can't answer that question. I'll put Okay, well, you know, I like to play jokes. To where I'm, you know, I Never come a question I couldn't answer. But you know my my jokes are pretty stupid and they're they're pretty dry sense of humor, so I don't really play many jokes.
Speaker 1:I Will tell you a joke that I well I got somebody played on me. It's pretty funny actually. Um, if you tell me one years, Well is it PG?
Speaker 2:Well, I can tell you an embarrassing story. I can tell you that Well, hold on.
Speaker 1:Is Joe shaking his head? I'm not sure about that one.
Speaker 2:Well, it was when I was younger. It actually had my sister had a pink little scooter and we used to live on kind of like a hill and and I remember I got on on that scooter and it was one of those small ones. He's saying tell it, I'm gonna tell it, cuz what Joe wants, but Joe gets, cuz I should show them a hollercraft there, buddy. Anyway I Was. Anyway, I went down the hill and it was so small I Put my tooth through my lip and we went to the hospital and and the doctor I'll never forget this as long as I live the doctor tells me don't eat the glue on your lips because they weird it, because it was too.
Speaker 2:It was, I think it was. They say it was too put together for it needed to be stitched or something like that. And so I said okay, and sure enough, I went home really really hungry and Nothing to do, 715 the next morning. It stayed on for about 24 hours. I Took it off and I ate it. My mom comes down, she goes Where's the glue? And I said Down here you can get it back about two hours. And she, she panicked, and then we ended up going back to the hospital.
Speaker 1:Was it toxic.
Speaker 2:What's that?
Speaker 1:Was it toxic? Oh, I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't remember it. It was so long ago, that's all I could remember. You know my mom's I guarantee my mom's listening to this, and she she's probably like you don't remember that.
Speaker 1:Well, see, the doctor, I'm just here. Remember anything that they did?
Speaker 2:Well, I remember I Don't remember anything after that, but I remember they glued it back together and you know, I remember, I'll tell you this injury I got stitches in my finger because my uncle well, he's not really my uncle, long story anyway my biological father.
Speaker 2:Joe said we don't let him around. We're that much anymore. We've. He's right about that. We really don't that. Were boxing that. Let me tell you this, troy. Oh, I Was cutting something and I was cutting a box and I was trying to put pack stuff in there and I remember I cut my that that's my leg open. No, you're not, you're not just kidding, you know. You meant that I. I was cutting the box and I cut it the wrong way and I diced my finger open and.
Speaker 2:Yeah, little less to say. I haven't cut a box since that day.
Speaker 1:We don't let him around knives either, huh Joe.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, we really don't do anything. Yeah, but I'm a, I'm a ramblin, I'm a really dangerous guy in a small body, so you got to tame me down just a little bit.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean I'm glad you, you, you recovered I.
Speaker 2:Guess.
Speaker 1:I got to tell my story now. But yeah, you know I'm. They don't let me around knives either, or Let me go downstairs by myself anymore, because I tripped and fell once and knocked myself out for A good hour and the neighbor found me. So I'm not allowed to go downstairs by myself anymore. I have glasses and I guess it was. It went from a warm room to a cold room and, you know, fogged up my glasses and I fell. Yeah, but yeah, they, they were like you knocked yourself out. I'm like, really I don't remember it. Yeah, it wasn't. My poor dog ran outside and laid on top of me and wine for an hour to some. Okay, that's, that's a little funny now, but it wasn't funny at the time. Yeah, so I mean, there we go. That's an embarrassing story for me, yeah what.
Speaker 1:I didn't yeah, what?
Speaker 2:What's embarrassing about that one?
Speaker 2:Cuz I'm young and I shouldn't be falling downstairs and knocking myself out well, you know it, get hurt is a part of life, you know, you know you get hurt all throughout your life. And you know, you, you have stupid surgeries. And then you, you know, if you're blessed never have had a surgery. Your praise God. Thank you, lord. You know, but I've had 11 surgeries, and out of all my 11. Yeah, out of all my 11 surgeries. You know I'm not too old to remember all of them, but they're they're not a lot life-lasting, like you know, maybe some long problems here and there, but I try and keep take care of myself. Joe has a funny story.
Speaker 1:Should we let him on the podcast to tell it?
Speaker 2:I don't think you'll feel come on screen, but I'll guarantee you can. You can share it on the screen when you Put it in the comment section like guarantee you go for it, joe.
Speaker 1:Hey, wait, wait, save it for my show, save it for my show.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I said for a show, joe. Well then, you might forget it.
Speaker 1:I mean, well, we have come to the part of my show when you get to ask me questions, you get to interview me. It's kind of a fun thing that we do. You can ask anything, nothing's off limits, go for it.
Speaker 2:I know the. I know the people that I have on all the platform for. I know the kind of crowd we had today. I know not to ask any stupid questions, but I'll ask you this question what has been the highlight of getting to do yourself?
Speaker 1:Hmm, I, that is a tough one. Nobody has asked me that yet. Let me think I think it would be getting invited to the AMAs and the Josie Awards. I say that because I don't consider myself a celebrity or anything. People are like Mary, you are. I'm like. No, I'm not. I promise Getting to walk the red carpet. People know who I am. I'm shocked. I feel like I'm going to pass out. I was on the red carpet for the Josie Awards. I had people yelling my name. You know who I am.
Speaker 2:I just got into the red carpet. I think that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:My goodness, you know, the first time somebody asked my autograph I was like I'm not famous enough. They're like, yeah girl, I watch you all the time. I think that's been the highlight, just realizing that, you know, I've reached a lot of people. I touch a lot of people's loves, Not only artists because, I do manage artists. I think you feel the same way, right.
Speaker 2:Like it, you know, whether it be with music or whether it be, you know, with the podcast, you always go into the mindset of is can this affect somebody? Can this, you know? What can I do to inspire somebody? You know, and with every song that you sing, with every podcast you do, with every book you write, you're inspiring somebody because you. That's because you have to start from somewhere.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And you're gonna, you tell them through your music, your podcast, your books, your anything that you do, is you say, hey, I've been able to, you've been able to make it this far. I'm sorry, let's go further.
Speaker 1:Joe.
Speaker 2:What did Joe say?
Speaker 1:Oh Joe, you poor thing. I'm sorry y'all.
Speaker 2:I'm just.
Speaker 1:I'm just reading this. Sorry, joe out. Hey oh my God, okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry y'all. This never happens to me. Joe, I'm gonna read this yeah, put it up here. Oh my gosh. Okay, he says he had I never crack up. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Okay. He said I had chapped lips and found I had chapped lips.
Speaker 2:You want me to? Yeah, I had chapped lips and I found a cheap. And I found a chapped stick in the nightstand. I was going to sleep and so I put a bunch on. I woke up the next day and my wife was laughing at me. The tube I thought was chapped stick was bright pink sign of screen. So I had pink all around my mouth. I've known you for how long and I've never heard that story. You just stare at now. Wow.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm picturing this.
Speaker 2:Well, you got a picture of the type of guy Joe is. You know, joe, that's my manager right there. That's Joe Mahalic, right there for you. He walks around with pink chapped lips all day.
Speaker 1:At least it wasn't super glue.
Speaker 2:Well.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's true.
Speaker 2:He would have preferred it either way.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry to interrupt you, though I love you, joe, you're a good man.
Speaker 2:Joe, you're a good man. Thank you for putting up with me as much as you do, man.
Speaker 1:And what cadence was saying. If we can get back to that, I'm sorry to interrupt you. That was so rude.
Speaker 2:It was funny. You know Joe's a I call him a musical and comedy genius because he tells me some stories that you know he's family.
Speaker 1:Joe, I can't wait to hear more stories. Okay, we're gonna have a comedy hour with you, Joe.
Speaker 2:He has a lot of stories from the road. He has a lot of stories from the road and he won't. Well, you probably do too.
Speaker 1:I can tell you all some stories.
Speaker 2:I can't hear your stories. I can't hear you. I got a nephew and me and that nephew are kind of peas and queues, but that little gives me in trouble. Yeah, never mind, I'm not gonna. I can't talk about my nephew because then I might end up breaking you like Joe broke you, and I can't do that again.
Speaker 1:I've never laughed. I've never y'all broke me. My audience knows they're like she can keep a straight face through anything. Listen if I can keep a straight face through Dustin Spears taking off his shirt and on my show. Yes, that really happened. He was promoting his new song, titty Tattoos, and he thought it would be fun if we got views if he took his shirt off of my show. I got this video. I don't know here, uh-uh. No, don't take off your shirt no, uh-uh. You don't want to.
Speaker 1:I still can't believe Dustin did that. Lord, dustin Spears is a funny guy. He's a good musician, but he's a funny guy and if y'all have never watched him he will make you burst out laughing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, mary, you don't have to worry about me not taking off my shirt, because there's nothing you want to see here. I promise you it's all bad.
Speaker 1:I don't want to see anything, dustin, you started a trend, buddy.
Speaker 2:Love you, buddy. Yeah, I'm not taking my shirt off him. I'm not here, or I'm not. Burt Kreischer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he actually said that. He said we're going to start a trend and I've had a lot of guests come on that watch the podcast and they're like, can we take our shirt off like Dustin Spears? See, dustin, I know you're watching. You're out there watching me. I watch his live stuff and he watches mine, and every time he's in town we try to get together and play pool.
Speaker 2:Shut up. Bailey Zimmerman. Before I forget Bailey, I know you watch these.
Speaker 1:What's up dude, you know.
Speaker 2:Bailey, bailey Zimmerman, I know you watch these, man. I love your music, morgan, I'm not sure if you do, but I love your music too, and it being on here for me to meet you whenever, and let's make it happen, sorry.
Speaker 1:You'll heard it Y'all. Bailey Morgan, if y'all are watching this, y'all will get in touch.
Speaker 2:Kade girl.
Speaker 1:Let that be on, you know, for Kaden to meet y'all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and if I got Kaine Brown, woo, would I have a woman who, if I got Kaine Brown to meet my woman, she would throw herself on the ground, she could die a happy girl right there and that's. You know she's my best friend. You know she gets better looking every day. That's the one that you saw in the film and you know we have a really funny love story that. I've never seen a girl, so you better tell it you better not tell it if she don't want you to.
Speaker 2:You know what? She's never going to watch this. So you know you never know. I hope I don't.
Speaker 1:Don't get in trouble, you being a doc.
Speaker 2:Don't get in trouble for me. I know how.
Speaker 2:I can outrive her. I've been smart when you have a girl from like Kade, who's a different person, anyway, so I'll tell you how we met. You know, she had a mean one night. I was this was April, the 12th 2023. And I remember that day because that was the day my life changed forever. That was the day that I knew I could believe in love again was that day, and I will never forget.
Speaker 2:I was not sharing this part of the story. I was at a store and I was getting a few things and I had happened to have a pen there and I was. You know, I got recognized in the store, so I was signing some things and then some lady walked over me and stuff like that happened. So as I'm walking out, I get a notification on my phone and it's for an app called Snapchat. Now, I use Snapchat, you know, cause all my high school friends have had it, so I, you know, I've talked to all of them on there and, you know, on Facebook or something, but anyway. So I get this alert on my phone and I answer it. I pick it up and it's her username.
Speaker 2:So I had her back. I don't think anything of it. She started texting me and I was like, okay, I kind of like you. And then she goes. And then the next thing that made me fall in love with her she says spoke in Washington. I hate that place. I'm like, oh lady, after my own dreams. And so we got together too. We got together the next day on her dad's birthday and we've been together eight months on the 13th of December, and she's my best friend, she's my come on.
Speaker 1:Very cool.
Speaker 2:She's just like Joe, she's just like you, she's just like. She's just one of the people and I know I got to give a few shout outs and, by the way, she was one of those, the ones that I had to give a quick shout out to. I had to give a shout out to Joe. You, mary, thank you so much for everything you've been doing and what you're going to do. And once I thank you to Jeff Panger for helping me get this far. I can't get here without you, buddy, I love you. I couldn't have got here as far as you. William Lee Golden for believing in me. I love you. William, danny, steph and Eddie for just congratulations to you on your podcast or your career growing and getting better every year and every day. Really, there's never a bad song you can't play, that's true. Got to give a shout out to Corinne Ali Newton, dale, houston.
Speaker 2:Ron Moore Jr. He is a fantastic painter with Parkinson's disease, and if you've seen some of the artwork that Ron has done, you need to get him on your show ASAP. Ron is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet and he has a story of his own and some of the paintings that he has will make you cry and they've made me tear up. A few of them have, and that's the talent that Ron, or Jr Ron Johnson with On Fire Concerts, which you probably met at the Josies, and all the guys out there at the Josies Tony was it Tony Brown, I think his name was out there Epic Roxy going back a little bit quicker, for me, epic Roxy, she's always promoting us. You've probably seen her in the past couple of days on your Twitter thing. George W Martinez and Valerie, kate Staten, rick Erkman, christine Miller, steven Astro so many great people that I follow. And another podcast that I'm gonna get to be on here in a few weeks is a buddy of mine and he has a podcast and is one of the best ones to get on. If you're a big country music fan, an independent country music fan, he's one of the best podcast stations in the nation.
Speaker 2:And then I got a shout out to my family. I would not be here today if it wasn't for the good Lord above and my family, my mom, my stepdad, my grandpa, my sisters like I mentioned, my girlfriend everyone in their life, whether I've met you or not, has impacted me in some way, and so to everyone that has impacted my life in some way, some way. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and, mary, I love you so much and thank you so much for bringing people together and doing what you do best here on your show. You are a healing voice, you're a healing power to so many of us and we look to you for the light, and incredible light that you bring to our show.
Speaker 2:And I just wanted to say thank you so much for everything you do and how honored I am to be here on your show here today. I'm sorry if I'm talking too much, but I'm just so honored and thank you for the privilege for letting me cut one of your songs. I heard it, ladies and gentlemen, yesterday for the first time and I said, ask, mary. I didn't say, hey, good song, I said I'm cutting that song.
Speaker 1:Thank you.
Speaker 2:It's the best thing I've heard since. Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. That era of country music it made me think of that music and I just want to say thank you so much for what you do for independent artists yourself, and you're a bright light and you've got to keep going to shine that light for more people like me and the podcasters coming up, and you're my inspiration. So I got to thank you and put you in the shed as well, miss Mary.
Speaker 1:Thank you. You've just brought tears to my eyes. Thank you, mr Caden. You were totally awesome. And to everybody out there listening, all of our viewers, anybody that does music, anybody that does podcasting, just anybody, any one of our fans, caden's fans, y'all don't ever give up. You just keep following your dreams, because life is too short. You got to do what you love.
Speaker 2:Hey, I just got something right here on my Twitter. I know I shouldn't be looking at my phone, but that's fine. Thank you to the people over at Radio WIGWAM. Thank you so much for the like on our podcast here today. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1:Thank y'all. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2:And absolutely. Yeah, I just while you were saying that I was listening to you, but I just saw that pop up on my phone. I was like I don't got to say that, miss Mary.
Speaker 1:So Very cool. I wondered if they put you and I on to talk.
Speaker 2:Well, we would love to that, promoting this podcast. And thank you guys, you know, thank you Mary for just having a platform, you know, because it's not every day you get a musician, a podcaster and a doctor.
Speaker 1:That's true.
Speaker 2:You're three in one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's true, people are shocked. I don't know why they're shocked, but they are. Well, thank you so much for being on this show, and is there anything you want to close out to say to our viewers? It's just been a privilege having you here and thank you for what you're doing for the community the music and the podcasting community and you were also bright light, and don't you let that go out. You keep pushing, you keep doing what you're doing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm going to say this to close out If you ever have a dream, if you ever have an aspiration in life, as a wise man by the name of Jeff Panger once told me and I'm here to tell you you can't look back at those memories that you know that you got to look back at the positive memories that have got you to where you're at here today. We all have a story. We all have something we're known by. We're all kind of given a nickname, so to speak, and I want to give one more quick shout out to my sister. Her name is Shailen Wolfe. There's a quick reason I'm giving that in particular sister a shout out.
Speaker 2:She wrote a tattoo. I got a tattoo in my very first ever one. I went to my sister and I said I want something. Actually, I told her what I wanted. I got KGC on my own, and the reason I got KGC was to thank every single one of you who have helped me get this far, because I could not have done it alone. It takes a whole team to get me to where I'm at here today. I can assure you right here, right now, that I am here because of all of you. You guys have helped me in so many more ways than one. So thank you from the bottom of my heart and America. Just because the world is so dark, just because everyone is hurting, can you help motivate people, so to speak? Wolfe's Motivation is key in everything that we do. Be a shining star in your life so you can be a shining star to other people.
Speaker 2:And we can really get stars back up in those we can get stars.
Speaker 1:Amen. I could not have said it better myself. Kaden Collins, y'all, y'all, go watch the show. It's the KGC show and thank you so much for being on my podcast. It has been a pleasure. And thank you so much for all the beautiful words. Right back at you, buddy, right back at you and let's just keep in touch and y'all you will be hearing from us very soon. Within this next coming year, we'll release our duet, our single. I'm looking forward to that. That's something Joe probably didn't know.
Speaker 2:Well, I.
Speaker 1:Hello Joe.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know if Joe's still here or not. I think he got tired of me. I run my mouth too much. He has the ability to tune me out. I'll be doing a Facebook live show. I'll be doing a Facebook live show and he'll be commenting and commenting and everything. And you don't hear from him for a while and you say, joe, you go to sleep about five comments later. No, I'm still here, he's still there. Yeah, he was waking up from his nap.
Speaker 1:Uh-oh Joe.
Speaker 2:Uh-oh, joe, he's gonna call me, but no, thank you, mary, for everything that you do here and thank you so much for the positivity and the impact that you have, and it's been an honor for me to be here today. Thank you guys all for watching and we gotta do this again sometime. It was a blast.
Speaker 1:You were always welcome. Once you're a part of the Healing Vocals family, you can come back as much as you want. So definitely, we should give viewers an update here, probably about another month or two. So thank you so much. This is Dr Mary Anderson closing out the show with Healing Vocals podcast and artist management. Thank you all so much for watching. It's been a pleasure. Go look us up. Go look up the KGC show. Y'all watch Kaden. He's brilliant at what he does. So thank you so much.
Speaker 2:Thank you, Mary.
Speaker 1:Sign in off.
Speaker 2:See you later.