Rachel Platten
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97 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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how productive were you when you only had a 30 minutes to be very productive verse when you had nothing going on and you had all day very productive but there's a time you're gonna crash at some point yeah yeah okay you're doing that every day i crashed this morning but um taylor taught me taylor swift taught me when i fight song was exploding and we were like and i met her and i was like i don't know what i'm doing i have to be in paris and then japan and then i don't i don't know how to do this and she said you aren't gonna have days off you are gonna have moments off you're gonna you're gonna
Draw all your energy back in in moments at a time. So that's one thing. Like I can't look right now at my calendar. My calendar is insane. I cannot look at it for the next three months. It is packed every day. It's insane.
It's a season. It's three months. Exactly. Exactly.
I'm all in. My husband and I are all in. We have everyone around us supporting us. saying yes to everything. Yep. So that's where I'm at right now. It's just a season. I've been doing this long enough to know now this isn't forever. This is right now. I also have incredible moments off and days off and weeks off because of the career I chose.
So there will be a lull and I will get to be around my babies all day long and it will be delicious. Okay, that's my one thought. And then the other thought I have is that my spiritual practice has been absolutely essential in keeping my energy up. I didn't have this tool before. I didn't have this deep connection to God before. And now that I do, I literally give it to God.
I literally say, you do it. I write. I want to show you what I write.
I make a checkmark for God. And before a show, I do it. Before something I'm scared of, before a day, before an intense performance, I literally write a list of what I'm scared of. I made this up. I don't know if this is like, people are going to listen and be like, what the hell is she talking about? But I want you to imagine three columns. The first column...
I write down all my fears and all my worries and all my stress. The second column, I write down my job. And I write like, okay, I'll tell you, I'll give you an example. Let's say I was doing one about the Lewis podcast. I'm nervous. I love Lewis. This podcast is huge. I want to do a good job. I want people to, I want to come off well. I want people to go listen to my music.
I want to be successful, right? What is my job? My job, what God tells me my job is, is to breathe, be in the moment, give it to him and have fun. That's it. That's my job. And then I write the third column, what's God's job? And on God's column is everything.
Everything.
Make it go so well. Make me adorable, hilarious, funny, charming. You do it. And then, like, make it the most successful pod. Make Lewis love it. And, like, whatever. God has all this to do. And then I make a checkbox for him. And I crack up. And I write on it. Go, God, go. Yay, God. Don't worry. You can do it, God. And I cheer him on. It's, like, ridiculous. It's, like, so ridiculous.
And then I crack up because I look at my job versus God's job and I'm like, oh bro, you have a lot of work to do. I'm gonna go chill, but good luck to you. And then I come back and I remember to check him off and I give him A pluses and I'm like, very good job. And I like give him stickers and he has not failed me ever. And that's what I do for energy.
I don't have to do anything. I have to show up. I have to show up and I have to be the clearest vase that I can. God is the flowers. My job is literally just to be the clearest vase for people to see them. And that's hard work. It takes hard work to be a clear vase, but I can do that. I can't shine and shimmer. I can't guarantee people will love me.
I can't be delightful and perfect and pleasing, right? But I can do my work to be a clear vase. I can meditate. I can do my breath work. I can have therapy. I can work out. I can keep my body healthy. I can keep my mind healthy. That's my job in being a clear vase, right? And the pressure's off other than that. My job is not what people are going to think of me.
My job is not how am I going to come off? What is the success going to be? What is the result going to be? It is literally just to be the best version I can.
In the middle of the darkest depression. when I had no other choice.
Yeah, a couple years ago when I was completely at a loss on my knees in the studio that you came to a couple times on my knees in the middle of the night at 2 a.m. My baby had had 105 degree temperature that night. She was two months old. My husband had a passing a kidney stone. I wasn't sleeping. I was absolutely at the lowest. My uncle just died. I was at the lowest I've ever been in my life.
I was terrified. I didn't know how to keep going. And I screamed on the floor of my studio, mercy, mercy, I'm done, mercy. And this song came out of me. This song, Mercy, came out of me at two in the morning, like all at once, this rush.
this answer of of music I Felt a presence that I never felt in my life and I've always written With something but I didn't know what it was that was flowing through me and that night I knew without a doubt that that beautiful piece of art came through that pain there had to be something bigger than me in this world that was listening and And from then, I just was so hungry for it.
And I sought it out and I asked and I searched and I implored God, keep showing yourself to me. Please, please, please keep delighting me, keep helping me, keep healing me. And he did over and over. And music came, music came, music came, like so much music.
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