hey guys for today's video podcast which
by the way I'm so excited I can post one
again spend forever
I think August was the last one we
posted I'm going to invite my friend
Katie today so we're going to talk a lot
about some really cool things she is one
of those people you would imagine
meeting in Nashville she's part of the
music industry here she's trained a lot
of singers that you've probably heard
before and it's just cool because she's
a vocal coach and she tours and she also
does vocal producing here in Nashville
so really cool and it's interesting to
hear her perspective when it comes to
personal style because we talk a lot
about that here on this channel but
she's going to talk about it in regards
to the voice a lot so that came up a lot
today and I just wanted to share her
with you guys because she's been just an
awesome friend so let's get started
yeah
da Vinci that's like when we've talked
about names for like what I like to have
as an artist one yeah
da Vinci has been like a last name idea
for a while because of different reasons
one of them being my my
great-grandfather came over from Italy
and his last name was Leonardo oh yeah
and he never knew that he had a daughter
but they we found we tracked him down
like after he had already died and
everything he had died from diabetes
much like my mom my grandmother and my
mom has diabetes oh really I have to be
careful yeah but anyways they were all
in the medical field my grandmother was
in medical field they were so similar
even the way they wrote was exactly the
same their eyes are the big brown eyes
is from him and get out yeah like we
have his documents for like his passport
and everything anyways that's like one
of the things is that when my grandma
had Alzheimer's she thought that his
last name was da Vinci and she like told
everybody at the rest home have you been
like you know what part of Italy though
yeah it's like they came out of Naples
okay that's where they departed but they
were from a little medieval town called
Pietro Melara okay and I don't know I
just always wanted you to go see it's
right that's a beautiful name yeah so my
aunt goes to Italy probably six times a
year she so her first husband was
horrible abusive verbally emotionally
just drug addict just terrible second
has been you know God can God does
redeem all things
and he's just doctor like more just like
reserved in every single way but she's
been like gets him out of his comfort
zone but Italy has always had her heart
so she's like almost fluent in Italian
yeah but she when she would start going
over there she wouldn't stay at hotels
she would stay there's like this thing
online where families will host you and
so that's how and she's made so many
friends all over Italy yeah so y'all
should go yeah with her or she can send
like you information of a family to stay
with so you can see that region yeah
well if the Talbots ever want to come
with us
when we travel yeah yeah Zonk out a
toddler yeah we'll have to just be like
okay what private jet can we borrow but
we're good okay so we're gonna start
with some liberals
[Laughter]
no I think it's really fun know whenever
I'm in a lesson with you like the first
time that we did a lesson and we made
like all those noises and fun sounds I'm
like oh we're definitely going to be
good friends literally make the weird
noises I I will always remember my first
lesson calling my mom before it and been
like there's no way on God's green earth
I'm gonna make these noises and Tre and
I'm teaching them and doing them every
single thing I know my son doesn't do
right I've heard him every now and then
it's great too cuz I've got the
recording so well I'll be just doing at
my house and stuff and I'm like my
neighbors are definitely not ever gonna
talk to Ethan at least I didn't live at
Worthen well the ways were literally so
thin than one complain about that place
they were Syria and I'm over here like
luckily on one side this guy Andy he was
he's such a good neighbor he was so
funny so he was cool with it
yeah but we'd never talked to our other
neighbors because I just they avoided us
whenever the crazy cat lady I guess hey
I don't think you can actually move to
Nashville though and not expect loud and
crazy like right was the first thing
about when we were here it was our first
night we moved from like are quiet
Virginia Mountain to like all the sirens
and the trains and just you know the
commotion of a big city and and we're
like okay so this is it right it is it's
so crazy when you're used to being out
there yeah and then like you're in the
hustle and bustle of it all
yeah it's unique but I've I love it like
it's fun the pace of it and also just
like how tighten it Nashville seems yeah
like you guys have talked about that too
with how with music like the music
community seems to be really tight-knit
yeah it's so it's so tight in like a
good way but then also if you're kicked
out if you're out out like I've got to
work hard to get back in sure but I know
that we pretty sessions yeah absolutely
yeah that one singer that you showed
that you're coaching who was 15 yeah 14
4 it's crazy right yeah she was like
Katie can we work on this run from
burlesque and I was like yeah cuz I've
never seen the movie actually yeah it's
hard to pull it up on YouTube and it's
you know Christina Aguilera doing one of
her crazy runs and I was like okay here
we go and had to slow it down to like
ear it out on the piano so I start
slowing it down for her cuz you can on
the YouTube like go to the settings and
do a slower mode which breaks a lot and
so she like did the first one and I was
just like Madden you're nuts this is
amazing yeah so we had fun yeah I was
like we were all we're just being divas
today just doing licks and runs that's
amazing like so fun I don't know like it
wasn't even expected either to hear how
she could just like hit all of those
different notes - and her mix was good
you learned a lot about from yeah so
where you can I mean you can speak to it
more than I could yeah just the blending
of chest voice and head voice it just
you know sometimes you get it's easy to
get locked into that which with her
specifically it's been fun because she
is so young so she's able to break those
habits like the bad habits sooner than
us starting as adults or even speakers
if we're speaking bad and/or we have a
poor like talking voice like just really
weak or too big so it's been fun with
her because she's just all about just
anything theatric and big and she just
goes for it no matter what she has no
fear of messing up oh yeah so it's been
really fun and she just locks into that
and when she does her eyes just light up
like the best feeling ever
yeah in her face yeah so you were around
that age too though right when you
started I was 17 yeah so I was always
singing in my bedroom my mom would
always have to come back and I'd turn it
down yeah and so I was singing and then
I started lessons with Brett who was my
mentor and the coach that I studied
under Brett Manning when I was 17 mm-hmm
and so I went in being like I have a
Mariah Carey song I want to sing and he
was like okay and then I was just trying
to sing big you know I'm just trying to
yell it and then with his technique he
was able to show me it doesn't have to
be so hard to sing it he I saw a video
of him saying he has the highest male
voice I think I've ever heard crazy he
gets his result oh yeah
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like when I was when I was at the studio
on music row teaching you'd be going in
the halls and especially on a good vocal
day of course you're just hearing like
we sound like a zoo just like noises
yeah everywhere but he'd be like Katie
I mean Dyke do some crazy whistle tone
and I'm like alright you're over 50 and
your voice is just be he's he's the
master of the voice he'll always be him
and Seth Riggs Seth is who he learned
from okay and was mentored by and he
taught Michael Jackson Whitney Houston
Courtney Love all you know so many
voices I think he's still coaching as
well but but Brett added in more of like
an edge coordination that we've worked
on before that helps get a delicate
sound with the voice a delicate
coordination so I Brett will always be
the master of the voice to me yes yes
incredible well it's it's unique to like
you know we talked a lot about like
those weird sounds and stuff but it all
is too like you're you know how to make
those sounds when you're little yeah and
so it's just a matter of applying it
yeah into whatever you're singing
exactly yeah exactly it's just you're
not only gonna use one part of your
voice like you have these you have these
vocal chords that have all sorts of
coordination up and down yeah and so we
don't just talk in like one part right
down here you know you use like all of
it and obviously it's kids we're like
all emotion yes mom mommy I see you have
your Baba he's 18 months now he's 22 my
oh my god okay 21 okay yeah he turns to
and yeah yeah that's cool I love it and
hate it all together he's awesome was so
fun he has so much like energy to like
obviously little kids a lot of time
- but yes like so much though like
compared to like even some of my
nephew's that well I guess the nephews
I'm thinking they always have they've
always had so many older siblings that
probably wear him out within a few hours
yeah
and Elijah doesn't he just goes he just
goes it goes and it goes which is great
it makes me know that he's just very
healthy yeah just let your kids eat dirt
and they'll be wrong I believe in that I
lose the immune system yeah I saw where
he was seeing the trains with his sitter
yes and he was like just starstruck like
complete liar bird y'all y'all will be
invited to his birthday yeah and I have
the whole choo-choo train lay figure it
out I'm having baked on eight have y'all
been there yet no no we've sleepin know
where we've been oh my gosh it's like so
good um their rice krispie treats and
their cinnamon rolls and then their
everything is so good there but they
have these amazing cake designers there
so everything for his birthday will be
choo-choo yeah everything happy birthday
we could have them all coordinated so
I'll be the caboose right on their back
[Laughter]
yeah well i think for me i love dolly
too because like her voice almost sounds
like a train so with the train train
song that we first practiced yeah I'm
like Zac her voice sounds like a train
and she's like he's like yeah oh my gosh
you're right it's just so cool it is
because you know if you think about it
like singing is a monologue on pitch
it's acting on pitch
so you mimic these these sounds I mean
from the beginning of time people just
they hear something and they repeat it
and they might think where does that
where is that placement in my voice of
like even like a bird or a siren of wait
wait wait wait wait okay there's like a
pure head voice sound yeah you know so
you bring in all these sounds just from
the world and you mimic them and it's
the same thing like even with acting
with tones and sure and phrases you did
some acting too right like you took
acting classes and yeah can you tell me
more about that so much fun yeah that
for one think that's the first thing I
started on because I just wanted to be a
performer yeah so bad and so I realized
when I started acting when I was 16 just
because I did plays during high school
and everything like that I loved it so
much yeah and it just helped me for me
as a teenager it's actually almost like
going to therapy because I was able to
become like put my emotions of whatever
I was feeling into a scene and I had a
really great coach at that point in
Brentwood who would just help me feel
safe of doing that so then when going
out to LA when I was 20 doing all these
little I did like just a little plays
with some friends and then did some
short films and then you know fast
forward ways I did a short film here and
it's just so much fun it's just being
able to become another character you
know just and I'm all about
vulnerability right yeah I think it's
such a beautiful thing I think there's a
strength than that for everybody so yeah
it it was very fun sure and it helps
with singing too because it helps you
not worry so much and care so much and
it's just like okay I'm gonna do this
and we will just see how it goes yeah
yeah it's like which self will I be
today yeah like um what James is always
asking which one are you gonna be today
well it's the 28th day of the month
but that's definitely true of like both
with music or even with fashion like I
think it's interesting how a lot on the
channel and everything we talk about
finding your personal style when it
comes close but that's what's so unique
about your vocal coaching and the way
that you sing yourself like you're more
about finding your own style yeah never
in any of the classes have you been like
you are a soprano and you will sing
right way right you're very much about
finding your own style yeah definitely
yeah which I love how you tie that into
fashion because even with artists
working on finding their style as a
singer and just in the whole picture as
an artist they have to know it even
their fashion style is because if it
doesn't match their sound and their
voice it's gonna be hard for an audience
to take that in visually mm-hmm so I
think you and you do such a good job
with that because there's so many
different there's so many options out
there to where sometimes it can feel
overwhelming and I think maybe the same
with singing yeah so many genres so many
voices and we have everything at our
fingertips with our phones so when it
comes how you do everything of making it
like simple with fashion because you
make it easy for people people watch you
and it's just like I was watching you
with a girl friend of mine last night
and she was and she's like a toughy when
it comes to fashion stuff yeah she's
like this girl knows what she's doing
she's like she makes it so easy it was
the the latest video you posted up with
oh sure yeah yeah and it was just so
good of making it so simple of how to
fit your body type with with fashion
yeah I like it your own I think that a
lot of times people are told kind of
like you know with classic old-fashioned
like question
singing they could tell you exactly
I mean I'm speaking like as a beginner
yeah they might tell you exactly how to
sing and there's like blanket statements
and those a lot of that with fashion too
like exact hem links that you should
follow in exact ways that pettite should
dress or whatever yeah
and it really isn't so much about that I
mean obviously first it has to be what
you're confident in and then it moves
into different things like what is the
most flattering for my own body style
because it's so different
yeah and not like every girl is
different like finding jeans can be
really fired because they're all just
different people yeah completely yeah
completely and you see a pair out you
know I always think of looking at
someone that like a fashion icon that I
admire so much but they're you know if I
try something I'll never forget I was
like 20 and it was Hilary Duff it was
something that she was wearing I liken
like a award show or something and I got
a similar style dress to that yeah I
mean when I was 20 I was just in that
young awkward like didn't know who I was
as a person in my fashion I tried the
same style dress on and it looked
horrible but I still wore it because
Hilary Duff were something like that but
yeah just I realize like it just didn't
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like it you know bringing that back to
music - like that is so similar to the
different things that you've said -
where it's like you know cuz I find a
lot of inspiration by people who aren't
necessarily who I would sing like like I
love Lana's Lana Del Rey's songs and but
I you know - to sing just like her or
whatever isn't just write and write
there's so many carbon copies of you
know different singers out yeah there
are there are and I think the best thing
that you can do as a singer for anyone
who wants to sing is you have all of
your influences and and they have all of
theirs - but they honed into who they
are as a person and just what they want
to say as a singer and then just they
it's you can take in a little bit from
each influence but not become one of
that because I mean God gave you your
voice specifically for you you know it's
not supposed to sound like this or be
like this
to be exactly how it is so take care of
it and learn how to flourish it and grow
it sure you know and be confident in it
yeah um you know and like it's so cool
because I was you know we were sitting
right here at this table a couple months
ago and I was like I can't sing hi at
all as we like do the warm-up you're
getting literally almost to a double
high C and liberals and then you got
whistle tone like what in your second or
third lesson apparently your little is
way we're showing me this song they're
like she goes really high
yeah like Bethany you just hit that you
just did like a step or two above yeah
well to preserve it to I think is
important like how you can show somebody
how to preserve their voice is is great
because like I've wondered that like
even because I've you know aside from
just making weird warm up voices
sometimes just to make life a little
lighter I'll just be like I'm like I
hope that I'm not ruining this well as
long as you know it feel strain or hurt
you know it's the same thing if you're
working out and you're like I want to
I'm gonna go a little bit harder today
like do a little bit of a tougher
workout and if you feel strain in your
body where there's hurt you know then
you stop it's the same thing with the
voice you know if you're feeling that
strain or you're feeling tightness where
you can't get anything out you know
otherwise if you just sometimes the best
thing for us to do is just sing without
caring yeah you know that's it that's a
really good thing too mm-hmm but again
if you do feel like I can't get anything
out you're like you know then stop yeah
just see I know yeah it's just so much
fun you know like it's one of those
things where to practice with it is like
you look down and it's like three hours
have passed because it's just been fun I
know it really is fun I love that you
have that like it's I think that's why I
love
I'll always love working one-on-one with
people because everyone's experience is
completely different it's one thing to
warm up a group online who are there
around the world or whatever but and you
have that one-on-one you get to see the
personal reaction of like what's going
on in their mind and their spirit in
their voice it's just a it never gets
old you know whether you're 14 whether
you're 42 or whether you're 30 yeah it's
just so much fun because yeah you see
the pure joy like music is it brings
about joy it brings healing sure it is
fun yeah it's so fun so who have been
like your favorite singers would you say
that I've worked with sure or just
singers in general both okay both
singers in general I'm gonna have to say
Roberta Flack is a favorite of mine um
she just has that voice that's just so
easy but she's the one who does the
first time ever I saw your face and I
saw her at the Schermerhorn
here in Nashville with the symphony and
that's how you say it right I that's how
I heard a composer saying okay very
little but he said it he said it that
way yeah I'm just following I think the
key is to say it fast yeah she was 76
years old and she's saying she was just
incredible so she's a voice that I've
always loved Celine Dion hands down I've
just seen her to like be a life changed
and old school Mariah for sure hmm you
know those first three records are some
of my favorites Whitney and then I love
people like Kurt Cobain and Bob Dylan
that you wouldn't think of our great
vocalists but they're just so real that
and they're just iconic voices so I
would say those and then what I've
actually my favorite students is me well
obviously you kidding there is this man
and free
who actually has Parkinson's disease and
he has taken lessons here and there
throughout the year I'll probably take
like you know maybe five or six lessons
he's on my warm-up group as well he
might be in his 50s or 60s but his he
does vocal lessons to help strengthen to
keep strengthening his talking voice so
it's still shaky of course because it's
hard when your muscles are just going
lacks like that yeah I mean you can't
control him yeah but his amazing grace
is one of my favorite I mean makes me
tear up every time I hear it because
like you hear his just like his heart in
it and so that's always something that
just sticks with me because it reminds
me it's not just about a career it's
like about the voice you know but
otherwise I have a handful of the ones
that I love working with when it comes
to just you know where their career is
going how much they're loving it and
what their voice can do yeah so you
mentioned Celine Dion yeah you went to
very concert and I literally I told
James I was like this is the best night
of my life I was like I love you I loved
getting married to you I loved having
our son I love those days in those
nights from like Celine Dion has like
taken the cake for a little bit yeah it
was so so fun and she for one thing she
she's very strict on her like her vocal
regimen her like just her routine and
life like she works around her voice
mm-hmm so I've heard she has not called
me specifically and told me these things
but I have heard and she I mean she was
effortless like her confidence and like
who she was as a woman and then her
voice was just like she was hitting
these notes that I was with my best
friend Kirsten yeah and here we just
grew up listening to her like you know
we'd call each other on the phone when
she was playing on 107.5 of the river
and we both like sing along to her
that's just what we would do yeah and
I sure Bethenny she was so good she was
so good yeah I was like I I need to see
this every day of my life but it also I
went home and I was like okay for the
artists that written that I work with
that really want to take their careers
to that level mm-hmm I was like it's
seeing that was a game-changer because
she for one thing you know she started
before you know Internet was what it is
and where are where the music industry
is now and that you know so it does make
it tough but she's withstood the test of
time in that sense and just stayed so on
top of her game and yeah you know you
have these artists that are kind of
coming and going so I left being like
okay tell them some my singers that are
really in it for like full-time career
of like you got to step it up like the
routine has to be there so that you can
withstand you know the test of time yeah
you know because it's crazy also you
were on the jumbotron
I went which was also a big highlight
there is this guy that was dancing on
the screen and he was a fabulous dancer
he was amazing he did a really good job
yeah but I looked over to Kirsten I was
like someone has to battle him like
someone just has to battle him and
Bethenny if I did nothing else in life I
definitely would want to be someone's
backup dancer oh yeah like that's my
that would be the career that I just
never did that I would just like it's
just a fantasy of mine yeah and so
Kirsten was like we'll get up and do it
yeah like okay so I just got up and then
they hand over to me and of course like
dream came true
where I was up there and then he was up
there and then they had a side-by-side
for a little bit which was really fun
and then Kirsten she's a little bit
reserved sometimes at first yeah but
once I got her up and dancing I couldn't
get her to stop it was so fun so
literally I got to dance on the
Tron with my best friend since five and
just literally go crazy and be up there
it was so funny I was having students
text maybe like Oh Miss Talbot
and then of course the next day I was
like I can't move not 21
oh yeah I mean you guys would call each
other up and sing her songs and then
you're both on the jumbotron several
times dancing at John's concert like
they were like I you know the cameraman
were like this is a Celine Dion concert
but Katie's here well I would like to
thank that crazy blonde here let me get
her it was so fun it was just it was
every we had sushi that night it was
perfect everything was like yeah it was
so much fun and then the word courage
was on the screen too is like two nights
before your like courage is my word of
the year yeah which I didn't even think
about I didn't put two and two together
and actually until you pointed it out so
thank you for that wise realizing your
favorite night I had to do with the word
that you're doing do you have a word
this year do you do words at all this is
the person like I did one last year but
I forgot my I haven't really thought of
like one word but for me I love to make
all my New Year's resolutions but not
just then like I look at it daily yeah
okay so that's the big goal you know and
I'll make a big goal for like one I
don't know how to do yeah for 20-25 time
break it down into little tiny chunks
that I think I can control on a daily
basis yeah or whatever or yearly and
then I'll just check those off every
year yeah make a little paragraph at the
end of the year what we did and it's
like you're really organized about what
happening I need to I need to do that
that's amazing it's encouraging because
so many dreams end up being realities
yeah or sooner than I ever thought
because 2025 might be very generous
compared to what could actually be
happening yeah intentional about it
absolute
no I agree 100% yeah we're doing vision
boards tonight okay have you got a
vision board before haven't so we're
doing it based on like our calling and
what we love to do yeah
and what we feel very fulfilled in and
like you know who we want to do life
with and everything versus just like
goals and amounts of things sure you
know what I'm excited about it yeah have
to have y'all over it yeah so is it you
and James you're doing that together
that's so cool yeah
like to do that as a couple is really
good yeah mr. Furst you're doing it well
you know how it goes you guys are so
cute though like you're a great couple
and I just feel like
zsa-zsa has the brightest future to have
a vocal coach from and then like a
musician well-rounded musician to like
as a dad and like what are these getting
abilities all into it yeah and thrive
more than I can even imagine or he is
going to loathe it
you know I you know I just but with how
much he loves music as just a little one
even whether it's like a few people have
been like Kati he's singing just kind of
going around like you know but he would
do it keep it on a melody or he keeps
beat really well and then he hears you
know a movie with whatever song comes on
The Polar Express the hot hot hot hot
chocolate oh yeah I started that he's
jumping like this high up into the air
yeah and loves and he always goes to
James it's guitar too and so it's gonna
be fun to see what that turns into yeah
you know but so what are his go twos
like Polar Express Polar Express yeah
well anything with you to write anything
with choo choo yeah obviously
of course outside he would rather just
be outside which I love but yeah during
the winter that can be tricky you know
because in the summertime rain or shine
you can be outside doesn't matter if
you're getting rained on
yeah he likes mallanna now to which I
found a new love for because I watched
it once I always thought it was great
but I didn't watch it with a child you
know yeah I just watched it when I was
pregnant and just needed to sit in bed
and watch and amazing music in that one
and the colors are so beautiful so he
loves that and then he loves there's
just one educational video that has like
the ABCs colors nursery rhymes and then
like we do these short 10 commandments
oh cool yeah yeah he loves to yeah but
he gets up and dances when the music
goes on I say dances he does like this
like modern like like stomp thing you
know like look at you and like do a
stomp and I'm like are you got to
breakdance
I love his new hello it's just yeah I
don't know I was like well you can't do
this as a teenager because that's not
gonna be good yeah he just goes into
this he wants to dance he puts on a show
yeah which is hilarious when he calls
his Papa's pop-pop which is the
grandpa's on both sides he does the same
thing and he just got laughs just got
laughs breathe breathe but you know I
prayed for joy so I take why don't take
responsibility for that because that's
all God but I definitely will say that I
prayed for joy and God answered that
prayer yeah but didn't yeah he was like
I'm giving you all the joy he's just the
happiest kid you know right he's so
happy everyone you know like of course
he's little so if he ever has like a
little bit like meltdown like we all do
we just hide it yeah yeah exactly near
that age you know obviously there's some
times but like he's an angel like
there's I don't know he can do no wrong
in my eyes well thank you he does have
his little meltdowns of course and I'll
be like I feel the same way yeah I'm
you you're not alone yeah but usually
it's you know he's getting especially
since James tours a lot he's getting to
the point where he recognizes and like
knows he's gone and misses him yeah so
he's a little bit sensitive when I'll
walk out the door even if I'm just going
outside for something real quick or
James goes outside because he's thinking
you know you're leaving for a little bit
so I think he's starting to understand
or grasp the time a little short as they
go through these mental leaps yeah like
it seems like you know zero to two is
like the time where you're growing the
most as a person ever oh right
yeah so much emotionally like there's so
many milestones that they go through
which is really cool to see as an adult
because it just reminds you of it helps
you just put a lot of things into
perspective and remember things you know
in these little ones sometimes they'll
get overwhelmed and they just need to
rest like sitting and rest a little bit
or be yelled and I think as adults we
need that too whether it's like just
sitting down and resting and the hustle
and bustle of everything more literally
just walking over to our spouse and be
like I just need to be held for a second
there's nothing wrong with saying that
you know and but I think we just think I
can do it I'm like you know because we
can do it but rest and everything is
okay too because so it's really cool the
1 2 2 1 2 3 is it's amazing
yeah there's days where I would say
there's days where it's hard but it's
really not it might be like two minutes
here and there where it's like you're
dealing with a tough attitude just
because they're so stubborn because
they're realizing their independence but
it's not hard yes it's amazing it's so
worth it
sure yeah that's amazing a cup of coffee
can't write you worked as Starbucks to
than you I did we rehearsed I think even
what were the years that you worked
there 2006 to 2008 2009 okay oh yeah mid
2009 cool yeah you were there
mm this is I usually don't give my age
but it was gonna really
I started a long baby in 2005 and then I
ended up leaving in 2007 okay yeah we
have overlap a little bit yeah but you
left I was fired oh yeah I was I was I
was kindly dismissed but I had mono so
okay yeah yeah yeah yeah it worked out
you know it always does yeah it does
with stuff like that
it does it really does yeah it like
helps you sometimes I think I know in
that sense for me I needed to go
elsewhere because it led me to so many
of my close friends out that are still
out in LA and some of them even live
here and it really just was that a great
shift in life for me so it was cool how
that worked out yeah so like what was it
like living in LA for you and what did
you do there like what was that whole
experience well I mean it was amazing
because just being like young 20s I
always lived at home until I was 20
because I was working at Starbucks and
working a few other jobs like riding
horses for people in Franklin and
knowing that I wanted to make it out to
LA so I could do singing and acting
because that's because it national I
hadn't really popped and this it did
music country or country music wise and
Christian music but I wanted that pop
R&B stuff which is all out in LA yeah so
I was working Starbucks to pay the bills
and then a lot of crazy just moments of
meeting people that had a huge impact in
my life and you know got to sing for
some really amazing people and this guy
Parise saw me walking on the street and
was like hey of course I'm like this
little girl from the south been like no
you do don't holler at me Yeah right and
he was like no you live in my building
and I was like really right and he was
like yeah it's like I see you walking in
with that with Brandi and I was like oh
okay that not was the friend I was
living with and so he's got to talking
and he was with his business partner was
Mike who is the baritone and boys to men
and I and like two weeks later I was
singing for Mike in the studio in North
Hollywood and I was singing in India
every song and then a song of mine that
I wrote back back back in the day which
is probably still on MySpace somewhere
like who even knows and so just things
like that happened like yeah just
randomly and it was always people when I
was just walking people would stop and
talk and I would just they were in the
industry of some sort in some way and
but were safe you know I was never in
harm's way till later so I was
bartending and just got into that scene
of like oh this isn't the best but it
was it was an awesome time because I was
able to you know I actually praised my
parents because they did a really good
job of I think raising all their kids
and my siblings because we we dispersed
all over the world and we still I think
it's really important when you go to a
big city you know coming from literally
a farm to going to a city like LA it's
just really important to know who you
are and to be grounded in that because
if I wasn't it would have been a whole
different story you know but I loved all
the opportunities I was a yes person out
there I'm just saying yes to
opportunities and if I didn't feel safe
in it it would end quickly yeah but I
met a lot of great people out there you
know I I wouldn't live there again um
especially raising a family I like how I
was raised in a smaller town the
Nashville is not small anymore
ya know it is what
it is crazy but even Franklin saw small
with how much it's grown sure but I
don't regret a thing it was so fun yeah
it was just so fun and I really met some
you know I call them lifers the friends
that I met out there yeah sure yeah it
was so fun yeah
so you mean Brandi like the Cyrus yes
yeah version of yet Brandi's that is
Cyrus yes she's old school I her and I
grew up riding horses together yeah so
we've known each other since we were 10
and so when Miley was still doing Hannah
Montana
it was Brandi our friend from high
school Michelle and then Kirsten
actually yeah since five we've done a
lot together we've covered a lot of
ground together yeah but we all moved
out there yeah and Kirsten was out there
for a year and a half
Michelle was out there for three months
and then you know of course I stayed for
almost about four or four and a half
years and then of course Brandis always
been back and forth she does DJ stuff
now so she's always traveling like crazy
but it was fun it was you know they're
an amazing family they're so full of so
much talent so much love you know and it
was it was fun to in a blessing to be in
with someone who was high up in the
industry like crazy but it was just good
family yeah yeah yeah that's awesome
like it's a really unique experience I
think that a lot of times like taking
those leaps when you can when I did my
video about like what would I tell my 20
year old self it was a lot about you
know if you can like whenever that time
is in your life where you feel that
independence that you might not have one
day to go and try things and take risks
or just take time to learn like you have
those opportunities yeah and that's
really rare and important and something
that you'll treasure even if it's not a
forever thing totally and I don't think
to expect somewhere to be forever is the
best way to enjoy it the most I think so
too
yeah that's very well put cuz we I feel
like we put a pressure on ourselves
to have it figured out yes such a young
age yeah and you know I I think it's
really important for us to also not be
afraid of failing I don't think there's
a thing such as failure you know you do
say right about that yeah like you try
you you try and you do it you try and
you still succeed because you're trying
yeah I know when I was little like I
would use art as my outlet kind of like
you did with you know acting and
everything music yeah and just to be
able to my art teacher taught me like
the most valuable lesson in the third
grade which is I'm like I'm just really
trying I really can't make this work and
she's like throw it out it's okay dry
yeah and obviously she probably didn't
think of it that much because I was in
the third grade you know like throwing
out a third piece of art isn't like no
but the fact that she did that allowed
me later in life when I'm talking with
clients and they're like we poured X
amount of you know thousands of dollars
or millions or whatever it is into this
project like we have to make it work and
it's like well you could take a fragment
of it and might turn into something else
yeah they did that with was it slack the
app slack they did that okay where it
was gonna be this huge like game or
something okay and then they turned into
sweat slack is today just by taking the
little more so salad yeah salvageable
product yeah yeah how amazing is that
though that you have that instilled in
you like third grade yes
that's an awesome yes those little
moments that we hold on to yeah that
it's like my mom even in high school
when I was a junior I was just because
I've always been more artsy and reading
and comprehension was never fully my
thing even though I would want it to be
yeah you know she always told me she
goes Katie grades don't define you just
make sure you're doing what you're
called to do
you know Winston Churchill felt she was
like Winston Churchill failed eighth
grade three times I didn't know that
yeah and he's Winston Churchill yeah an
idol of mine here yeah I just you know
look up to ya and such a bulldog of a
man and talk about which self to be no
he has yeah exactly
so it was really cool to UM you know
those moments are impactful and I think
it's good to to remember those yeah it
was so good of your teacher to say that
yeah I want to get the foam in this but
I also know Cara Lee not do that
Bethenny I cannot do it yeah buy flowers
and I'll keep flowers good for a week
but when I comes to I mean even on James
nice first day he brought me fake
flowers because I just do not have a
green thumb
yeah growing up on the farm I can keep
animals alive well that's good but
plants and you don't your plants are
just so pretty thank you this one's fake
by the rest of them I mean that one
the monstera it's huge gorgeous it's
also the one that suffers the most
because I have to cart it into the
kitchen and water it there and then
bring it back out like a day or two
later and it's just not gonna get
watered all this yeah yeah really so
good water too
mm-hmm thank you obviously I'm like
going straight to the coffee yeah I
thought it was Monday today did you
I thought it was Monday today and
yesterday I thought was Tuesday
I'm extremely only this right I don't
know what's happening
well trash makeup is tomorrow yeah and I
don't know why the other day they picked
it up a day before just randomly I'm
like what are you doing like no
rodent-like thing I know that I wonder
if it was like a specific or was it the
trash guys or it was a same thing
I love being with you it's really funny
because we can we can like honor and
complain about the trash guys that's
right yes they don't hate you come till
tomorrow I know we're already prepared
to be 80 yeah we really are
fully complete we're gonna have we're
gonna go back out to the country yes and
we will sit on our porches having our
coffee and we can do the vocal exercises
as loud and family I'll need it yeah be
wobbly yeah yeah there are problem
there are two sweetest old men that just
everyday they set out by the pasta place
oh really yeah and they just they just
sit there and it's through all seasons
you know kind of like the guys on that
old short film that Pixar made where
they're doing chess like two old men
playing oh yeah yeah yeah yeah and you
see them throughout the different
seasons your attention isn't yeah and by
yeah I love their pasta over there too I
wonder if that just been their spot like
I've always thought about doing I
thought it'd be so fun I've always
thought this for since I moved back from
LA but there's so many faces of
Nashville when it comes to people that
have just been here since they I mean
born and raised here you know and have
seen so much of the city change yeah and
then you know the homeless and then
those who have done the building and
architecture here from way back in the
day to now or even the mom-and-pop shops
that have been around I think it'd be so
fun to like get pictures of them and put
it into like a coffee book mmm like
coffee table book and just to have like
the faces or the people of Nashville and
it's the people that like built this
city you know I feel like we'd I wanted
to do that their faces would have been
so different than now yeah like because
the city seems very different or
obviously it's gonna evolve and change
as the city grows fast but yeah that
would be awesome yeah I think you want
to hear about their stories you know
if it's a paragraph of what they love to
do and it was a specific spot that's now
this you know yeah right I think it'd be
so interesting yeah like that's one of
the fun things about having one of the
older houses - oh I bet yeah
I mean you have an older house - like we
both have fat yeah I don't know it's
interesting taking care of it and like
making sure cuz you know there was one
of the guys that mode last summer a rock
went through that one of the back
windows oh and I was like hey but you
know like just you know that that was
probably not a good story because my
point is my point is I like it it's gone
like once that's gone yeah forever yeah
so a book like that would also be true
of like you know you have their chance
to tell their stories now yeah
yeah I hate that about your window
though that's hideous
yeah yeah you know it happens yeah it
was one of the wavy glass ones - so it
was kind of like oh yeah but you know at
the same time we rent so it's more like
no how dare you do this to their house
for tech yeah I think you're protecting
your safe place in your home but also
theirs as well yeah oh in the history of
it yeah yeah but yeah there's so many I
think this part of town too has done
such a great job with keeping some of
the old homes alive you're storing them
true cuz there's even we need to do a
whole day actually I say a whole day
it's gonna be a lot longer than a whole
day we need to do a whole weekend of
just some of the historic places in
Nashville like the churches and even
gosh some of the churches downtown for
sure then some of the specific homes and
like the manors that are around here and
then in downtown Franklin of course with
all the Civil War history richness Jase
carton plantation Carter house you know
it's it's crazy when you study and you
go around down there and you're like wow
that general was like shot there and
it's like there's you know dominoes
right there
yes but but we should do it we should do
like a national history tour - that is
so fun yeah double date weekend yes busy
often and we have to eat all those
places - right yeah I come from a town
that's like really historic there's one
area that still is very preserved so
like I'm from winston-salem North
Carolina and there's one there's Old
Salem and they were so proud of
themselves because Jeff it was George
Washington toured there once on like one
of his campaigns or whatever yeah and
George Washington was like so shy like
he never spoke one thing because his
teeth his dentures would literally pop
out of his mouth get out yeah so hid out
like he was the most humble you know be
he's a human so he's not perfect right
being that I'm not glorifying him but
like he was a very humble person and
like he just was so painfully shy Wow
and so when my town like which in
Mayberry sense you know if Danny
Griffith would have been like so proud
to have the president come by my gosh he
I was always like oh my whole life I
heard that I read his biography and he
never left the tavern because he didn't
want the parades and the flutes and but
he just was like no no so like my town
really embarrassed him like oh they were
like he came glorifying another visit
yeah in it yeah I mean I guess I could
understand it because if he never went
out then
Wow I don't think I realize that about
his shine yeah mm-hmm that's cool yeah I
love the history up in that part of the
country - yeah like North Carolina
Virginia like oh yeah is some of the
oldest yeah Tennessee is just as old in
a sense I mean that was kind of like
part of North Carolina
right at that time right I don't want to
be quizzed on to something no I mean
either because I was about to chime in
about Alvin York but here we are talking
about like 1700s versus like is it
Friday obviously I can't get my days
baby so I think mentally I'm just ready
for the weekend
yes knows a mom we don't get a weekend
but it still feels good that it's the
weekend the routine is so necessary
doesn't matter you know yeah with what
you you are doing or like you know now
I'm moving into a full-time of this and
it's like I don't know what data is
either or not ly but no it's okay like
you okay you'll have about two o'clock
[Laughter]
yeah that's okay that's all that matters
I can probably have water cuz I've been
drinking coffee my entire from the city
Nashville is so good all right well
before our voices go yeah is there
anything that I could bring up like
where can people find you online yeah
all those things
well I'm merging everything into the
volkl app collective when it comes to
YouTube which is with my business
partner
I'm hey we chase work yeah with Jason
yeah my best friends as well so that's
on the vocal lab collected when it comes
to YouTube and everything will be doing
vocal tips and like reaction videos yeah
which I'm excited about to get into
because I've done vocal tips before but
um you know doing some reaction videos
will be fun yeah
and then you know Instagram just the
Katy Katy I have it tatted on me
actually cuz I thought that'd be really
like really swag it is when I was 23
yeah little did I know I'd be Katie
Talbot yeah
so it'd be Katie it was a foreshadow
yeah if you haven't met your husband yet
you know just go get a tattoo don't do
that don't do that but ya be Katie
Talbot cool yeah this was so much fun
yes I'm he was not doing this every
single day you are welcome
this is fun just getting bossy in
conversation yes you can just keep doing
it until we're 80 and yeah I'm down yeah
I'm down then we'll do it in the middle
of this field yeah right where we won't
even know where it is aesthetically I
think that could really work yeah yeah
in the midst of Montana say we won't
even know where it is and I just need
some is really big it is Hugh yeah so
huge we won't know but we won't know but
we'll have some bison thanks for having
me this is so much fun yes hopefully you
guys enjoyed our little girl chat and
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