Natalie Farrell's journey transcends the boundaries of the stage, as she recently took to the virtual airwaves as a featured guest on "Spark.N.Stride," hosted by retired Air Force veteran Mach Ortiz. This burgeoning podcast is a dedicated platform for insightful discussions encompassing wellness, mental health, resiliency, and personal development. Its growing popularity attests to its ability to connect with and inspire its audience.
In this enlightening episode, Mach and Natalie engaged in an authentic and profoundly introspective conversation that explored her remarkable musical journey. They ventured back to the genesis of Natalie's passion for music, reminiscing about her early days performing gigs throughout the vibrant landscapes of New Jersey. From these modest beginnings, the conversation seamlessly evolves to the present, with Natalie's most recent accomplishment, her EP titled "MANTRA," now occupying a prominent position in her artistic catalog. During their conversation, listeners are provided with a vivid insight into the evolution of her artistry and the profound, emotional undercurrents flowing through her latest EP.
Their candid conversation ventures far beyond music, as both Mach and Natalie bravely allowed themselves to become vulnerable, sharing their personal life journeys. This vulnerability underscored the immense value it holds, serving as a powerful catalyst for personal growth and resilience. Their stories vividly illustrated how embracing life's challenges and setbacks can lead to transformative change. Their shared experiences shed light on the capacity not just to bounce back from adversity but also to flourish within it.
Mach and Natalie's willingness to open up and share their life stories enriched the podcast episode immeasurably. Their dialogue offered a wellspring of inspiration and insight for their listeners, a poignant reminder that amidst life's intricate twists and turns, the profound opportunity for personal growth, resilience, and the discovery of inner strength awaits.
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Natalie Farrell's journey transcends the boundaries of the stage, as she recently took to the virtual airwaves as a featured guest on "Spark.N.Stride," hosted by retired Air Force veteran Mach Ortiz. This burgeoning podcast is a dedicated platform for insightful discussions encompassing wellness, mental health, resiliency, and personal development. Its growing popularity attests to its ability to connect with and inspire its audience.
In this enlightening episode, Mach and Natalie engaged in an authentic and profoundly introspective conversation that explored her remarkable musical journey. They ventured back to the genesis of Natalie's passion for music, reminiscing about her early days performing gigs throughout the vibrant landscapes of New Jersey. From these modest beginnings, the conversation seamlessly evolves to the present, with Natalie's most recent accomplishment, her EP titled "MANTRA," now occupying a prominent position in her artistic catalog. During their conversation, listeners are provided with a vivid insight into the evolution of her artistry and the profound, emotional undercurrents flowing through her latest EP.
Their candid conversation ventures far beyond music, as both Mach and Natalie bravely allowed themselves to become vulnerable, sharing their personal life journeys. This vulnerability underscored the immense value it holds, serving as a powerful catalyst for personal growth and resilience. Their stories vividly illustrated how embracing life's challenges and setbacks can lead to transformative change. Their shared experiences shed light on the capacity not just to bounce back from adversity but also to flourish within it.
Mach and Natalie's willingness to open up and share their life stories enriched the podcast episode immeasurably. Their dialogue offered a wellspring of inspiration and insight for their listeners, a poignant reminder that amidst life's intricate twists and turns, the profound opportunity for personal growth, resilience, and the discovery of inner strength awaits.
Doing Good and Doing Well: Inspiring Helping Professionals to Become Leaders in Their Organizations https://a.co/d/4Ov5WG4
https://sparknstride.com/
http://instagram.com/spark.n.stride?igshid=zddkntzintm=
https://www.youtube.com/@spark.n.stride
Natalie, how are you?
Speaker 1:I'm good much. How are?
Speaker 2:you. Welcome to Sparking Stride.
Speaker 1:Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2:I have been listening to your music for about two weeks Exhale. Ah, my favorite, oh my God, my absolute favorite. I'm glad I'm glad that's awesome.
Speaker 1:That is, that's literally the my debut single and what kind of got me started on this journey of music and the Natalie Farrell thing. And man, there's a whole story behind that actually. Um, I was definitely at the time I was actually doing open mics and gigging with an old coworker actually out in Trenton, and I migrated over to the Jersey Shore, started in the Highlands and I went to an open mic at this place called the Chubby Pickle.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I went by myself. I brought my guitar, I said I'm just going to go out on a whim and see what happens. And I met my now guitar player, matt Fernicola, there and said do you want to improv? Do you want to just jump up and start singing something? And I had never done that before, and part of me was like absolutely not, thank you, though. And the other part of me was this is like I like this, experimental things like that, like it kind of gets something going in my head when it comes to music, and I was. I was very like let's do it, let's try it and see what happens.
Speaker 1:And long story short, exhale came out of that improv, and I voice memoed almost everything Every open mic I went to and the performance live. I always voice memoed, and I brought it home, and it rearranged a couple of lyrics here and there, and, before I knew it, it was pretty much the same exact song. The same night I met my guitar player we just improv did and then went into the studio and recorded it. Wow, and that's it.
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Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you, so check this out.
Speaker 2:So I have this thing that I do and when I'm like thing with, like rappers, singers, the whole thing, I always wonder to myself, right, like number one, like how do they come up with the idea for whatever it is, the lyric, the song, the rap song, whatever it is Gotcha? So I guess, aside from that, I'm always interested in knowing when did someone realize, or where did the spark like the spark, or the realization that, hey, I can do this?
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. Since I was a kid, since, I was like a baby.
Speaker 2:Tell me about that.
Speaker 1:Oh man, um, I don't know, maybe I was about three years old. I have a sister, who's Thank you, um she. I have a sister, she's four years older than me and, um, my parents put her in like dance lessons and beauty pageants and stuff like that and, um, I don't know, I was always admiring that and always thinking like I could do that. Um, and for me, the dancing was really what kind of started it all out?
Speaker 1:Um, I was just always in the back dancing watching all the other students dance and do ballet and all this stuff, and I was like I could do this, I really want to do this, and then, before I knew it, I I was watching the movie Selena actually, or maybe four or five, and I remember J Low obviously playing Selena's role and I loved everything about J Low at that time already Um, and just the feeling of her getting on stage in the beginning, when she's going on like the the chariot with the horse and everything just feeling the beautiful the audience and just that feeling alone, kind of like, really resonated with me at such a young age and I said this is something I really want to do, like this is like I want to be on the big stage, I want to hear my voice, I want to hear people react to, like, what I have to say.
Speaker 1:I want them to be influenced by what I'm singing and saying. And I don't know it, just it was something in me since day one that said, like I can do this, I'm capable of doing this, I know I could do this. Um, I'm pretty much from when I was really young until I was about seven years old, then moved to New Jersey, originally from Brooklyn, but before that, every summer we'd be at, like, the community pool and I was always. I always try to put on a show for people and try to like say I could sing, I could do this, but when you're that small of a child, you know it doesn't really come off the same way.
Speaker 1:Um, and then, yeah, by the time I was seven years old and I moved to New Jersey, um, I think I was feeling a little uneasy from from moving away from my family, because we all grew up like in the same apartment complex and everything and starting this suburban life. Um, and I turned to singing more and dancing more, um, so much so that I made my mom get me like mirrored closet doors so I could practice dancing and singing and stuff. And, um, I think they started to notice how serious I was taking it. And then we started doing church talent shows. Um, I picked up the guitar at age 13 and the ukulele and then by the time I was in high school I was in like four or five different choir ensembles. Um, I graduated with a plaque, uh, for my senior award and and got some scholarship money out of um the choir classes. And, yeah, I went on to I got my associates in like liberal arts, but I did the option with music.
Speaker 1:So I studied music while I was even in college and, um, yeah, the rest is history from there.
Speaker 2:So, but since day one yes. We're going to, we're going to, we're going to start peeling that onion back a little bit, I'm sure so um so how did you learn how to write music? Um, because that's different, right Like one thing is one thing is being inspired hey, I can do this, of course. Dancing in front of the mirror, closet doors.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Another thing I put in pencil paper.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely Expressing yourself.
Speaker 2:that way, I'm not very familiar with how to write music.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean honestly, I'm taking all these classes and I feel guilty saying it, but I'm still trying to figure it out, Um, because I'm very self taught at the end of the day. Um, I think it started really with like poetry writing when I was younger, um, and then it just turned into wanting to make it lyrics and and kind of put an idea of of the sound behind it. But I couldn't figure it out, which is why I picked up the guitar. But even so, I would. I picked up the guitar, the ukulele, and I only learned maybe like the easy chords, like E chord or the C chord and G chord and all this stuff.
Speaker 1:Um, and thanks to YouTube at the time, I went on and started finding different musicians online and just took different sounds and kind of incorporated it into my own, at least starting out. I mean the songs I wrote when I was 13,. I don't sing and play Um, so it was just like an easy start kind of thing. Um, it's easier when I have my guitar player, my band, with me. Um, for the most part, they create the music, or up until my most recent EP, actually, they created the music and I created the lyrics and the word. I'm looking for the melody.
Speaker 1:The melody Okay, and um, and then we'd push everything together. We'd go into a studio, I tell them like where I want more harmonies or how I want this to sound, and I would kind of like navigate everything, and then we'd finalize it together and then that would be us writing a song, pretty much Um. In this case, with my latest EP, I think it was a lot of working with a different producer this time breaking that down, um sending different songs of what I'd want be, want it to be heavily influenced by um, the concepts of the songs and stuff, and then sitting in the studio watching him create and produce in front of me, and then we kind of start putting the song and the lyrics and the melodies together at that point. So there's so many different ways to do it really.
Speaker 2:I'm so intrigued and I'm so envious, oh my God, cause I wish I could do that Like I wish I could play an instrument, I think you can.
Speaker 2:I'm so intrigued right because I come from a family of musicians and my family grew up in Puerto Rico. Humble beginnings, um, everyone in my family, like my mother's, brothers and sisters, they're all guitar players and singers. So amazing and I grew up with this harmony and this uh energy in the home. The holidays were the most beautiful times that I remember, no matter how poor we were, cause we were poor, but you know, a pot of rice, some red beans some roasted chicken in the oven and a lot of guitar playing a lot of Bacardi, some dominoes Amazing.
Speaker 2:And um, we grew up in Brooklyn too. We grew up in Williamsburg, the old Williamsburg, not the new Williamsburg, the old one.
Speaker 1:But uh, we were from Bensonhurst, Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're very familiar. But uh, and my grandma, this house, we would stay up to like six in the morning, so it was just an all out guitar playing session. I love it, you know banjo, just the whole thing right. And um, I just always for some reason I just couldn't get it, I couldn't figure out, it just didn't.
Speaker 2:it wasn't something that came natural to me but, um, but my mom was one of one of the better guitar players in the family. They're all good, yeah, but, but my mom was, uh, it was just amazing to watch her play and it would just take her to places that I was just like man, like I want to go there, you know.
Speaker 1:I know I get what you mean. Like take me Did she did? Was she self taught or self taught Okay.
Speaker 2:Self taught.
Speaker 1:I gotcha, so it's still in you. You got something in you.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's in me. Oh it's in me. I'm such a passion for music, you know, um, but yeah, I just just to see her in her, in her comfort zone and knowing what what she was good at, and she was good at playing a Latin guitar, a Spanish guitar, you know, and she had this beautiful voice.
Speaker 1:She's passed away, but, um, she's definitely left a legacy for sure, absolutely, and I'm sure everything that you're doing now is what impacts. You know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So in your way, that's kind of what she's, in my opinion, I think, showing you that, even though it's not the guitar, it's this, it's what you've created, and it probably gave her the same feeling while playing the guitar that this gives you that feeling, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more so and that makes it even more unique.
Speaker 1:If you ask me yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I just you know, I always think about like all these, uh, these artists and these, these classic songs that we all know and I'm, you know, I'm sure we could kind of get into it a little bit. But just how did that magic happen in the studio with the producer Right, like I've always thought to myself, like think of any classic song that comes to your mind.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I always think to myself like who was in the room when that happened.
Speaker 1:Of course. Yeah, you always wonder like what, what created that sound at that moment? And? And what, what made it what it is today? It had to be something going on in that studio, for sure.
Speaker 1:I mean, there are some songs that that I've written in the past I don't think nearly as close as like, uh, the Marvelettes from, you know, Motown, or the Beatles, like all of these, like legendary, iconic, um musicians from our past that, have you know, influenced us to that point. But like there's still little moments for me where I'm like, wow, I think if had things not gone the way it did in that studio session, I don't think we would have had what we have now. And you're right, it's. It's very intriguing to kind of think about that, because sometimes that will influence this, at least in my opinion. The musician themselves Well, this artist heavily influenced me. What were they going through when they went into the studio? What? What impacted them, what made their emotions kind of arise and put all of that energy into that recording? And it's just, there's, there's a lot to think about when it comes to the studio recording aspect, for sure. 150%.
Speaker 2:Like Natalie, like I'm not, I'm not trying to like kiss your ass, Like you're good. Like you're good, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1:Like I love your music. I'm like wow.
Speaker 2:And I've been like reaching out to people. I'm like, hey, do you, do you know, do you know about this? And they're like yeah, like where have you been? I'm like dude like like, why am I getting put onto this Like later on? You know like, because I know you've been, you've been working at this for how long now.
Speaker 1:I would say about seven or eight years now.
Speaker 2:Phenomenal dude. Yeah, I'm trying to end counting.
Speaker 1:It's not ending, no phenomenal.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean, natalie. Like how does a young girl who's like, interested in maybe following your path, right? Where does the part where you're interested? You have this passion. You're learning how to write. Where do you? How do you bridge the gap to actually getting into a studio?
Speaker 1:Definitely so, I think. Personally, for me it took the networking aspect and in this case meeting my guitar player, matt for Nicola, was really really helpful. Matt is an all around outspoken guy. He has met so many different faces of the local music industry at least, and Matt's really kind of inspired me in that aspect to continue to write music, since we wrote Exhale together. So we started recording at Matt's home recording studio and from there down the road I met my now bass player slash husband, lou Pannico.
Speaker 2:Wow, okay, I didn't know he was your husband.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're bass, lose your husband.
Speaker 2:How did I not piece that together?
Speaker 1:We try to keep it separate.
Speaker 2:You're doing a great job. Well, thank you yeah.
Speaker 1:I like the. We both. We're both musicians, we're both very type A, dominant personalities, and I think it's healthiest if we keep things separate. Okay, I mean, it doesn't make sense because he plays in my band, but it's a strict like. This is my thing, this is what we're going to do and vice versa with his situation.
Speaker 2:But yes, and he has no problems falling in line.
Speaker 1:I mean in the beginning of course there's always a here or there, but you know, no, he's great, he's very supportive, he's very helpful when asked, he gives great ideas and opinions and, no, overall a really great guy.
Speaker 1:But it just adds to the dynamic of the band.
Speaker 1:I mean there is me, Matt for Nicola, and now my husband, Lou Panico, and again, we're all very, very type A personalities and some people say that might be too many cooks in the kitchen, and from time to time it is, but I think at the same time it's it's that strong chemistry that really brings so much to the table that we all have different ideas. It feels nice that in my particular project, especially for what was called such a male dominated industry for so long, like now, I have a band to where I am the front lead woman and I do get to make the calls and I do get to really put out there what I want heard and the feeling I want to kind of transcribe onto the listener and really hit home if that makes sense. But I'm going a little bit off track here as far as getting into the studio. I mean there's so many different aspects in so many different ways. It just so happened to work out for me that I met my now band members, who were already 10 steps ahead of me.
Speaker 1:But it could be as easy as going to your local music shop and, you know, meeting people there. There's always like cork boards where you could find recording sessions or go and get it professionally recorded. You could learn about recording and then, you know, try to look into building your own home recording studio. There's so many different routes that you could actually take. I just think I lucked out when it came to my experience in particular. Wow.
Speaker 2:On your new EP. What's your favorite song?
Speaker 1:On my new EP. On my new EP mantra.
Speaker 2:How'd you come up with that name, by the way?
Speaker 1:Oh man, I've been literally like I don't know what happened over the last few years, pandemic or not. I've just really gone into this like spiritual awakening.
Speaker 1:I guess you could say, and I've been doing a lot of meditating every morning, morning affirmations, and, most specifically, I use mantras when I meditate and mantras when I'm doing my early morning journal writing, and it got to a point where it was really really like signifying like what I was going through in my life and what I was manifesting and what I was feeling and I would follow.
Speaker 1:That mantra would follow me throughout the day. I would like have it stuck in my head. And at that point the single off of the EP call, also called mantra, was the first song I started recording and me and my producer, russell Hayden, decided that we wanted this concept to be all about like this is my mantra I could do whatever I want, I could do it how I do it. I'm that boss babe, I'm that boss bitch. I could create the life that I'm creating now and it's only going to get better from here. And like nobody's going to put me down on that. And yeah, I'm mantra just kind of, I guess, became the EP name after that. It started with that concept.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much and we're just getting started and it well, that's great.
Speaker 1:But yeah, it just kind of it worked its way from there and I'm a per se. A per se, I'm a person with with anxiety. So I think going into meditating and doing the mantras and doing yoga and going for walks and stuff really helped that anxiety. And I wanted that to kind of be like on the back end, a significance for me to kind of remember. And seeing the word mantra just kind of symbolizes the strength that I have grown and continue to grow during this time period for myself.
Speaker 2:When did you realize that you had anxiety?
Speaker 1:So I was. I was actually diagnosed with moderate depression, severe anxiety, when I was 19, 20 years old and then I didn't take it as as seriously back then as I as I do now, although, ironically, I think I had more therapy back then and all that stuff. Where is now the meditating and everything that I'm doing now is kind of my form of therapy. I think it felt real again, I want to say, coming out of the pandemic and learning to socialize with others again and be on stage again. And actually during the pandemic in 2020, I actually also lost my voice.
Speaker 1:Like physically I couldn't speak or sing, and I think that started to build on my anxiety again, aside from not really talking to people the way we normally do. And it got to a point where I went to a year's note throat doctor. They said you have muscle tension dysphonia, which is pretty much the vocal cords and the muscles around your vocal box get very, very tight and it gets to a point where it's very difficult to to speak or sing without feeling like you're trying to push as hard as you can, and I think in the back of my head, the anxiety started to grow bigger and bigger of is this a permanent thing?
Speaker 1:Is this a moment of? Am I going to have to give up music? Am I going to have to give up singing? Am I going to be able to speak the same? There are moments where the only way I could actually talk to you was if I was talking like this, because it would help the vocal box in some sort of weird way, but it was actually harming me more.
Speaker 1:According to my speech pathologist, I ended up doing speech therapy for what was supposed to be six months for only four months. I was discharged after four months. I released a single called Keep Me Close at the end of that year, which strongly signified everything that I had gone through and how I'm still keeping myself close and I'm never going to give up on myself, and I think that helped me power through my anxiety, but still sticks with me because it's not fully gone away. For the rest of I have to deal with it for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1:There's still vocal exercises I have to do from time to time. Sometimes I'll drink too much alcohol and it'll dry out or it'll kind of enhance it, I mean wine or whatever.
Speaker 2:I never thought of that Anything acidic or it could really trigger it sometimes.
Speaker 1:Wow, yes, that's why yoga and stretching and working the muscles and stuff that I do every day. Even during meditation, I'll move my head around and stretch a certain way. The stretching helps. But getting back to what you said, I think that started the anxiety and kind of spiraled its way into what are people going to think of me and all this other stuff which I'm still working on at this point.
Speaker 1:I'm still human. I'm still going to feel like there's eyes on me sometimes, especially as a performer and a singer. I'm trying to work on that now, to realize well, what is inner mirror work? What is making you feel that way? Why is it making you feel that way? Is it something that you've inserted into your own mind? Or is it something that is not your problem and is somebody else's own insecurity that is now being reflected onto you? So I think about these things all the time, but I still deal with anxiety on a day-to-day basis, for sure. Wow, but I'm okay with it.
Speaker 1:I think that makes me who I am and I think that helps me continue to grow, not only as an artist or a musician, but as a person too.
Speaker 1:To pretty much answer your question, much Rely On Me is my favorite song off of the EP mantra.
Speaker 1:I think it's hard to explain because a lot of people will see it as a love song and me being there for somebody my partner who might have fallen in some sort of way emotionally, and it's really a letter from my future self to my past self and I think it really shows and sets an example for those who for so long kind of felt bad or guilty about their past selves or didn't like who their past selves were. And I think I felt like that for the longest time and I think I needed to take a moment, actually thanks to my producer, prasul Haydn. He said if you were to write a letter to your past self and really be there for her, what would you say? And that song was pretty much the letter and that really hits home with me and I really, really hope that it hits home for other people too, feeling the same exact way about how they could be feeling for themselves, whether it's now or the past, or for whatever experience they may be going through.
Speaker 2:Wow, yeah, did you write that like in the studio or did you write that like at home?
Speaker 1:So me and my producer, russell Haydn, actually wrote the song together. He kickstarted it for me, he we talked about the concept and I told him you know that this would be a great concept and he started, I believe, verse one, and we kind of just went back and forth and then by the end of it, because it was actually the last song we recorded before we submitted the EP for distribution At this point he was onto his next project and I was trying to finalize this and get all of the content going for the EP. So I just recorded at my home recording studio, sent it over to him, he finalized the edits and that was pretty much it.
Speaker 2:Such a beautiful song.
Speaker 1:Okay, but the question is what is your favorite song off of the EP?
Speaker 2:There's a few. I don't want to piggyback off of what you just said, but mantra is what's been like ringing in my ear. If that's like, I hope no one takes offense to that.
Speaker 1:No, I gotcha I just don't know.
Speaker 2:You got to be careful, like they'll blow you up in the comments.
Speaker 1:They're like what does he mean by that?
Speaker 2:You know, ringing in the ear, you know I have tendonitis or whatever, but in any case it's mantra. You know, what's super cool too, natalie, is the imagery, the imagery of like your videos. I'm like dude, like who is how involved are you in the imagery of your music?
Speaker 1:So this was unique because I had an image in my head of the color palettes that I really wanted and just the overall like story, dreamy feeling, like when you're listening to the song.
Speaker 2:But it's cool as hell. I'm sorry. Thank you no no, definitely.
Speaker 1:It was great because we actually we did a music video for the single off of the EP Mantra Mantra and there's a music video out now on YouTube and all of the color palettes in this place perfectly just was. It was just a great example of everything that was in my head. And what I found ironic was, obviously I went on like Pure Space and I tried looking for locations. Me and my producer, russell Hayden, were going through looking at locations together and I found this particular place, just to find out that I had actually been following this girl on Instagram for years like maybe almost three or four years now and I saw her create this space, like she builds this space from the ground up, and I think her image for so long just became that like mantra look and theme for me. Now, when I actually found it on Pure Space, I was like this is a sign Like I've been following this girl in a non-creepy way, but like seeing her create this masterpiece of just beautiful colors and dynamic and femininity and power and I loved everything about it that I just I was like I need to do this, I definitely need to go forward with it. I sent it to my producer, russell, and he said let's do it.
Speaker 1:And Russell Hayden also produced and directed the music video, so I think he kind of put his own. I gave him some ideas for the color palettes and everything, and he put his own twist into it as well and kept it very simplified, which I really liked also. Yeah, so I think really the girl that I've been following has really influenced me as far as the color palette goes. I believe her Instagram handle is Dreamloft Studios and her name is Rachel Martino. She's a fantastic home decor designer and this just gave again like Boss Bitch femininity powerhouse, even Barbie vibes, like it was amazing.
Speaker 2:And she's local. She's local to New Jersey.
Speaker 1:She's in the New York area. I wanna say Kings County, Brooklyn area.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so she's, but it's. I mean, honestly, the drive was pretty easy for me coming from Central Jersey, Jersey Shore, whatever you wanna explain it, but what about you? What about this setup that we're sitting in right now?
Speaker 2:You need to tell me about it, thank you. So this used to be my master bedroom before we did the addition to my home. And the color scheme for spark and stride, if you notice, like the colors in here are the colors that you would see when a spark is ignited. I like that Right, so it's like the off-grades home, the R&G kind of color or whatever right, yeah, definitely I love it.
Speaker 2:Thank you. So, and again, it comes from the idea of being sparked or staying sparked, right, so it's funny, right? Cause, like, how do you stay sparked? Cause a spark is just, it's a flash, it's a one-time thing, exactly, but then it's the flame that takes over, right, of course. So the spark is to continuously stay motivated and to continuously stay thinking. Gotcha Stride is how do you take those ideas, those goals, and how do you put that forward? How do you put that in motion? A lot of times, we'll come up with ideas, we'll come up with something and I've shared this many times on the podcast but you tend to tell the person or the people closest to you and, unfortunately, sometimes they just don't see it and your spark can get dimmed and go out, right? So the idea is to stay sparked.
Speaker 1:I like that.
Speaker 2:Stay motivated, stay thinking.
Speaker 1:That's really inspiring. I love that. Thank you Absolutely.
Speaker 2:So that's how this came to me and this came to me as cliche as it may sound, it came to me in a dream. I grew up in Brooklyn. The notorious BIG was a big influence to me Puff Daddy, Brother, Love Diddy, what he did with Bad Boy in the mid-90s Cause I grew up seeing this. I grew up as a young kid picking up the Source magazine, picking up the XXL, and I just didn't. You know, I was young at the time, I was like in my teens, I was maybe like 14, 15 years old when this stuff is going on and I just remember always thinking to myself like I seen people of color being successful and a space that they created.
Speaker 2:And that's always stayed with me and I've always dreamt and strived to have that for myself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's powerful, thank you, and it's sparking stride, and there's a lot of things that I have that I envisioned for sparking stride, but ultimately, whatever it is that I'm able to accomplish, I want to give back to the next generation, to the upcoming generation of creator, the next generation of podcaster, the next generation of singers, musicians, authors, motivators, whatever's going to come after us. I want to be able to say that I had a part in that by you left a legacy in some sort of way.
Speaker 1:I could totally relate to that, and I feel like we have a lot in common too. We're both Puerto Rican, we're both from Brooklyn. I grew up with JLo and P Diddy Ashanti that whole kind of vibe too, and even my mom growing up has always instilled in me you show power because you're Puerto Rican.
Speaker 1:There is a different type of, not to say that obviously there's so many different types of cultures and race, ethnicity, all this stuff. It's just growing up in that home, like you said, filled with lots of music and a lot of family members, that put a spark in you. Maybe it's very. You can't help but think. With that kind of influence you want to leave a legacy and I couldn't agree more with that. I think I've said since day one I don't know what I'm doing with this music thing right now. I just know that hopefully one day I could leave a legacy for the next generation and society to kind of grow and be impacted by whatever I'm capable of doing in this timeframe.
Speaker 2:I feel like you're in my head, because one of the things I wanted to ask you is how do you view your legacy in music? And you're kind of like You're pretty much answering it right there, right.
Speaker 1:Definitely. I mean, I feel like I feel like I'm still trying to figure it out, but the more I grow, the more I start to understand it. I mean, I think it's a huge thing now, especially these days. It's healthier, now that we're all talking about mental health and stuff.
Speaker 1:And I think you could relate with me on the factor of that we should be talking about this more and that this is a wellness thing. That, rather than something to look down upon, and if I could put the two together music and wellness, or some sort of way to have the next generation feel like wow, my mental health feels so much stronger and healthier from listening to this music, and I'm sure there's other artists who could do the same thing, it's going to come down to.
Speaker 1:Well, what can you do differently, natalie, and I think that's what I'm still trying to figure out now, but I'd like that to be a role in my legacy.
Speaker 1:I think I'd like to do so many different things. I mean, there's I tell my husband all the time I love music, but I also would love to do charity, work for animals and all this other stuff. Like, what can I do to combine all of that to leave a legacy? And I'm still trying to figure that out because I don't know, my personality is all over the place and just wants to do 10 million things at once and it could get a little manic. But but does that make sense to you? I mean, what gives you that and what makes you feel like I need to leave a legacy? What is it that you would want to leave?
Speaker 2:So for me it's so I've already. So, Natalie, this is my second career, right? Because my first career was my military career, which I did 24 years in the Air Force. Amazing, Several different positions that I held over those 24 years deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq, like tons of different things and I think the legacy that I leave for my military career is all of the folks that I impacted in a positive way, For sure, All of the folks that I mentored, all of the folks and all of the folks that mentored me, right. So I believe strongly that my legacy in terms of my military career is all the lives that I touched. One of the things I did as part of my service in the military is I was an Air Force recruiter. So you know, you can Not you in general, but like sometimes, I got you.
Speaker 2:Folks you know, you think military or you think like a recruiter, you think it's like the guy who's just the guy or girl who's getting you on the bus. It's a little bit deeper than that, right? Because the folks who go on to serve the nation in the capacity of service, in terms of legacy, the lives that you touch, the lives that you impact through your mentorship, through your leadership, and whatever it is that they go on to do right, whatever the positive accomplishments that they have, I feel like that's where my legacy lies. Now, fast forward Current day, starting a production company, spark and Stride, starting a podcast, going into documentaries and short film my legacy here. I hope to ultimately, again, like we said before, lead the way for the next generation. Absolutely Show them and assist and mentor and give folks a positive space to learn and move forward Along with that.
Speaker 2:It's what I do for my daughter. I try my best to lead by example and I want my daughter to grow up knowing that there's endless opportunity for whatever it is that she wants to accomplish right, because she's seen her father do it right. Her father did it and my hope is that she surpasses me. That's what we all want from our kids right For them to surpass. And, ultimately, my daughter was asking me today. She's like what do you want me to do when I grow up? And I said, baby, I just want you to be happy, that's it. Whatever it is you do in life, I just want you to be happy. But, natalie, what you were saying before was that, in terms of mental health, you were piecing together mental health and music, right, yeah, and I think that I feel strongly that music is one of those things that is universal. It just makes you feel a certain way, right, 100%. So I'm going to share this with you.
Speaker 2:There's very little that I'll cry about, and it could be from my childhood trauma, past trauma, military deployments. It could be from a bunch of different things, right, but it's very hard for me Call it emotionally disconnected. But there's three things that get me sentimental, and it's family, innocent women and children and elderly men crying For some reason. If I see an elderly man telling a story or something, or like a military documentary, and someone's reliving a battle or something like that, and they get emotionally teared up for some reason, that just breaks me. I just lose it, right. I do want to tell you something. So I went to a convention. I went to a podcast convention last week and one of the things through networking that I heard was to transition yourself into this new space that you want to be in by getting rid of the things that are taking up space that are not in this season.
Speaker 1:Stop. I was listening to a podcast this morning on something similar to that Like how to declutter your space, to literally declutter your mind and make room for new. I don't even know how to explain it, but what you? Just said it kind of just hit home with me from what I was listening to today.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God, please keep going. I have to know where we're going. So I'm cleaning up my closet I'm actually preparing for us to have this conversation so I'm decluttering, moving things around and so forth. So actually, I want to share something with you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're just so cute. It's amazing how like it's life right before your eyes.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:With your loved one, your partner, and creating this family too now, and like you're just expanding and it continues and life continues and you have that time to be with your partner again and it's like it's just a full circle moment in a way. But it's so heartfelt and it's so like, oh my God, thank you. I don't even know what to say right now. It's like ugh, I mean, I could only imagine like how you're feeling and how this is inspiring for you, but also just so like deeply heartfelt cause it's like it's a family empowered and just like love empowered and all that stuff. I'm still in the beginning stages, but it's not. A day goes by where me and my husband talk about having kids and stuff soon, and it's that same thought process, like okay, so this is gonna happen, and then, before I know it, they're gonna be going to college and then, before I know it, they're gonna be having their own kids and then, before I know it, I'm getting to know my husband again. It's just this whole thing. It's crazy, it's wild.
Speaker 2:And that's music, that's the beauty of music. It's such a healing thing.
Speaker 1:It's a feeling, it's much like the process of life. Music is not tangible in the aspect of how it makes you feel. I don't know how to explain it. Like sure it could be tangible with the vinyl record or a CD or X, y and Z, but it's that feeling and that experience it gives you, whereas I think a lot of that like where does music? What category can music fall into outside of experience? You know what I mean. Like sure it could be a hobby, it could be this, it's not, though. It's really really not. It's the best category to put it in is life experience. If you ask me if that makes sense.
Speaker 2:So, natalie, like I'm literally like cleaning out a closet and this song comes on and I just lose it, I lose it and I go upstairs and you know my wife is she's not. You know she's a tough cookie and she's kind of like what's wrong with you? What's like what happened. Who died?
Speaker 1:You walk up to her and you're like, can you just hug me? Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2:Because they know me to not like that, doesn't? You know what I mean, yeah so I'm really glad we were able to share that. I love that you.
Speaker 1:Thank you for sharing that with me. Are you kidding me? It's these experiences and these moments that, like, I really really value, and it's these kind of people that cross our paths, that you really connect with and really have that chemistry and experience with that really makes it takes life on a different path, and sometimes for the better, I like to think. For the most part for the better. Yeah, dude like I think I don't know what do you think, Dude?
Speaker 2:like, let me bring my heart rate down a little bit. I think, though, natalie, I think what's if I could share anything with you or let anything resonate with you after today, is that I think it's important for you to understand that you have that power. You have that power.
Speaker 1:Now you're gonna make me cry. Please Don't do that to me. I'm sorry, dude. No, you're good. Thank you, though. I'm so sorry, dude. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2:You have a talent, you have a voice and you have Thank you. You have this natural thing that you can affect people in that way.
Speaker 1:Thank you. I appreciate that you know what.
Speaker 2:I mean, so we're not ending the podcast.
Speaker 1:I was just no, I appreciate it. I hope we're not ending the podcast like thank you so much.
Speaker 2:Thank you, and we're back. Eyes are dry.
Speaker 1:Eyes are dry, so is my mouth. Yeah, just kidding. Cheers, naz, cheers.
Speaker 2:Natalie, what would you say is like what do you feel is your greatest accomplishment thus far in your career?
Speaker 1:Ooh, that's a good question. I think my biggest accomplishment so far was who was this last year? Yeah, last year, 2022,. I played at PNC Bank Arts Center and opened up for George Thoreaugood and Sammy Hagar.
Speaker 2:I saw that in your bio. Yes, dude, that's awesome Now.
Speaker 1:It was amazing, for sure.
Speaker 2:There is. I don't know if it's an EP or anything, but there's like a live right. Was that as very park live?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's something different. That's something I wish we had gotten it live, but it was such a last minute gig, wow. But it was a great experience. I think it was very unreal at first and then it became very, very real, but that's what made it just feel so successful. It was like wow, I could now say that I had done this and the experience was effortless. It didn't feel like like I plan a lot of shows and a lot of like my EP release shows, or sometimes I've done like theme release shows and I've literally played like several different hats throughout the night where it could get really, really overwhelming. But that's also what I like about it. This show was just show up open for these guys. They're very iconic, legendary artists and I got to meet Sammy Hagar. Unfortunately, I didn't get to meet George Thoreau Good, but Sammy Hagar was amazing. We had some of his tequila, wow okay, good.
Speaker 1:And it was just. It was an awesome, awesome experience and I think because it was so impulsive in very last minute, it made it that much more exciting. It was just me and my guitar player, matt Fernicola. Okay, and I remember graduating high school and having my high school celebration at PNC Bank Art Center. I graduated Old Bridge High School, so we graduated with a big number of students.
Speaker 1:And that was the last time I was physically on the PNC Art Center stage. So being on the stage again, and this time like seeing me, like on this big screen on both sides and just hearing my voice echoing throughout, like the venue, it was amazing. And then even Sammy standing guard, like just watching during our sound check, I think it was just. It was just an amazing. I can't even begin to explain, but I hope to have more experiences like that. I think that's one of the things, as I was when I was a kid. I always said like I want to take on the big stages. I hope maybe, like Natalie Farrell, will take on MSG one day or just yeah, like stuff like that.
Speaker 1:It's just, and I love the performance aspects because I get to create and do what I want with the performance. I can make it as theatrical as I want to and as animated as I want to. And I think that's also why it was just as much of a successful experience with PNC Art Center, because it gave me the mindset to really look at a stage that big and go what can I do with this? And now it's almost like I'm planning for when I do get back on a big stage. So that's the empowering, accomplished moment I think I've had. But what about you?
Speaker 2:Wow, before I answer your question, just real quick, before I lose my train of thought, because I am going to answer your question.
Speaker 1:I got you.
Speaker 2:How many times do you think you passed the PNC prior to that? How many times you think? Because we pass it all the time on the part Like drove by? Yes.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, way too many, way too many times, To the point where it's like well over 60, 70, maybe even 100. Let's just say 100.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I could confidently say that for sure You've been up and down on that parkway the. Garden State Parkway, passing that PNC All the time. Now you pass it and you're like dude. I did that. Yes, yes, it's gotta be a different feeling. It's a different feeling every single time.
Speaker 1:I mean it's one of those things where you'll never look at the venue the same way. It's almost like when you work at a place you're like I can't look at it the same way anymore because I worked there.
Speaker 2:But this is like a good way of saying it.
Speaker 1:Some jobs are like it's all right. This in particular, it felt like that. I was like I'll never look at it the same way, even like the Garden State Parkway signed for and how they always show what's coming up at the PNC Art Center. I just always look at it as like I played there. I did that and it was an awesome experience and I know what backstage looks like. I know these people that were very welcoming and it was just awesome. I had my own trailer which, like at the time, I was like that's a big deal for me. Now it's like all right.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's a trailer, You'll live, but those moments yeah.
Speaker 1:Those little moments it makes you feel a little more accomplished, you know.
Speaker 2:I think for me, one of my biggest accomplishments in terms of the podcast right is being recognized, which was wild at the airport because I'm wearing like my spark and stride t-shirt. I'm like, if I'm not gonna wear my merch, who's gonna wear it? Right somewhere in it, and somebody came to me and was like are you much from spark and stride? I'm like took my headphones off. I'm like I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:Like, are you much?
Speaker 2:I'm like, yeah, they're like dude. Your episode with you know well which one was it. I forgot exactly which one it was, but something regarding like wellness and like anxiety man, I can't think of which one exactly was, but in any case, this guy's like dude, that was amazing Nice. It really hit home for me, of course.
Speaker 1:Thank you.
Speaker 2:Please keep going. Yeah, I'm like, wow, this is wild.
Speaker 1:Those moments you like.
Speaker 2:I don't have a thousand followers on Instagram, but this guy recognized me. Like that's wild, you know.
Speaker 1:No, but that makes it's still impactful, you know, especially for what you're continuing to create and it's showing, it's influencing people, and you don't even know it yet, or you're just starting to figure it out now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I just love it, I love it because you should of course I'm enjoying myself and I think it's important. You know what I mean. So, natalie, what's the first concert you ever went to?
Speaker 1:Oh my God, first concert I ever went to, bamboozle 2007. I should not have been there. I was 13 years old. What stands out about it?
Speaker 2:Like what do you remember the most about?
Speaker 1:it, my favorite band, paramore, headlined.
Speaker 2:Let's get into it.
Speaker 1:I, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2:Paramore, by the way, is an amazing band, oh my God, amazing band Don't even get me started. They're I mean overall the band they've just.
Speaker 1:They've been together for so long. They're dynamic, they're chemistry. It really shows in their music, in their performances. I've seen them like twice in the last year and seeing them so early on, at the highlight or like the climax of their career early on and she was maybe only 17, 18 at the time it was really empowering for me as a singer, really empowering for me as a 13 year old to see this powerhouse small girl jumping around and really commanding the stage and really getting the crowd to be so like into it. And I remember the crowd. There must have been about like 15,000 people in the crowd. It was intense and I had never been to a music festival in my life. I actually lost my friend and I was done.
Speaker 1:In the middle of the crowd I met two random people who were super nice. They were like we'll barricade you, we'll put our arms up and we'll, you know cause. They were doing the surf crowd waves which I never experienced at that time and each time, like somebody would go on top, you'd fall over and they said when you're ready and you're done, we're gonna, we'll get you out. And I didn't think anything of it. I was like how are they? I don't know how they're gonna get me out and at that moment I remember we got knocked over and I got crushed. It was to the point where I was feeling anxiety and I was like I need to get out of here.
Speaker 1:And I said I'm done and they immediately lifted me up, like I felt like I was being elevated off the ground and before I knew it, I just felt hands like pushing me forward towards the stage. And that was the first moment I like laid eyes on, like Helly Williams and the rest of the band, and I just like the music grew louder because now, like you're up top and you're floating closer to the music and it was just like watching her rock out and jump around and dance and like it was just like an experience. I was like experiencing through her that I knew I wanted right away and I knew she was gonna impact me and so was the rest of the band and that was my first ever concert. I went home definitely crying.
Speaker 1:I lost hair extensions, I was this emo MySpace girl back then and I'm surprised I didn't lose my fans and overall it was the experience was still worth it. It was definitely worth it Cause I found my most influential band through that show. I mean, I've definitely heard of them prior, but that was like I got to see them and see it happen and I crowd surfed. So that's something.
Speaker 2:I've never had to crowd surf before.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think I maybe crowd surfed one other time. That's it.
Speaker 2:But this one, particularly, first one memorable, yes, very memorable and it was just amazing.
Speaker 1:I even remember when the security guard put me down and they normally like rush you away from like the stage and stuff like that. I just stood there and I just like looked and I was like this is wow and I think they didn't say anything to me because like I was like 85 pounds, so can wet 13 year old girl Like I was just like this is so amazing and I think after like a minute or so I was like you gotta get out of here.
Speaker 1:I was like okay, and then I was done. I was like I don't need to go back and see the rest of the show. I had like my fix. I got my experience and I went looking for my friend after that. That turned into a whole different experience throughout the rest of the night, but I got what I came there for.
Speaker 2:No, 100%, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:Yes, of course.
Speaker 2:My first concert that I actually paid a ticket for and actually went. It was the hard knock life tour at the Coliseum. You're kidding? Yeah, it was DMX Jay-Z the Locks. I wanna say Busta Rhymes. I mean, I was in my element. I was like oh my God, this is amazing.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, what did that feel like for you.
Speaker 2:It was incredible, and let me just tell you something. So at the time, Jay-Z, DMX, these guys are. They're still my idols to this day Of course. But the performance that DMX gave. I mean he had you amped up. No pun intended for the shirt shout out to Amp Fitness.
Speaker 1:I love it. Yeah, shout out to.
Speaker 2:Amp Fitness. But it was, you were amped up, you were. Then he had you crying because he was like reading passages out of the Bible. It was just you went through like an emotional roller coaster. It was incredible. It was definitely an era Like that era of hip hop. For me was just absolutely amazing. And for me to be able to like I bought my ticket, like I went it was my first concert.
Speaker 1:You still have the ticket.
Speaker 2:I wish I did. I do have all of the magazines, all of the XXLs and source magazines that I purchased in that era. I still have those and I still have all the cassette tapes from the music that I purchased back in that era. But something just came to my mind. We've been going back and forth. This has been just absolutely amazing. I wish the people listening or watching can feel the energy in this room right now. Because, it's just, it's pure and it's I just it's ours.
Speaker 2:Yes, I agree, it's our energy right and we're gonna share it with the folks that are watching this right.
Speaker 1:That's the best way to do it.
Speaker 2:But, natalie, throughout your journey, throughout your musical journey, from staring in the mirror, the closet, mirroring doors, dancing watching Selena, to where you are now, where do you think your resiliency was challenged the most when you continued your life as?
Speaker 1:a bandit. What's your miljard degree from? Maybe? Genre and so on.
Speaker 2:That was a hard thing to do Withunity when you grow up? No-transcript.
Speaker 1:Um, wow, I feel like. I have an idea, but I'm like taking it in right now.
Speaker 2:The reason why I'm asking is because resiliency means so much. It's absorbed differently for different people. It means different things, right? So I'm just, I'm just curious.
Speaker 1:Um no, I get it Definitely.
Speaker 2:I think it's, and I don't mean to cut you off, I just think that in this conversation that we're having is very easy. It's so fluid the conversation, that it appear it can appear that your journey has just been very easy, yeah, and that your resiliency has a has not been tested.
Speaker 1:I got you.
Speaker 2:And I just cannot believe that to be so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got you Definitely Um. I think it's been tested a number of times for sure. Um, I I think starting with from the age of 13 to 14, um, I was definitely heavily bullied growing up. Um, this is also something I I've never really talked about until now, so I'm still trying to take it all in Um. But yeah, I was. I was heavily bullied on um, how I looked, how I spoke, um, I had my house eggs. I had people jump me, like it was.
Speaker 1:It was an experience enough to, at the moment, want to crawl back into your shell and never want to come out. Um, but I think something inside of me said I need to prove all these people wrong. I need to prove that I am better than what they're putting me out to be and I am stronger and I can dominate in my own powerful way and I'm more than capable and more than deserving and I'm more than worthy comparison to them. Um, and I think that's what kick started everything for me to push with music. I think I pushed, even academically. I like it was just all around, like I need to prove something to somebody and once I did, it was. It was very euphoric feeling at the moment. But then it turned into I don't want to prove something to somebody else, I need to prove something to me. Um, and I think I carried that with me until I was about 16 because, um, growing up in Brooklyn, the first six or seven years of my life, um, my dad worked, um in the evenings and my mom worked like weird shifts and my grandmother took pretty much took care of me and my sister and six or seven other neighborhood kids and um, she was a big influence of mine and she was very influencing in the aspect of she was the first one to manifest my music career and like who I would be when I grow up and how big of a star I would be and all this other stuff. And um, and I spoke to her even when I moved to Jersey up until I was about 16.
Speaker 1:Where, unfortunately, she passed away and um, that was a moment for me. That was um, that was I'm no longer doing this for her, I need to start doing this for myself. And um, a piece of me kind of I've always said went with her. But now I look back at it and um, I'd like to say she gave me that piece back because I think I've overcome the feeling of loss and grief and to be able to now say I'm doing it for myself is probably the biggest and most rewarding thing I could say, which I wouldn't have said maybe even two years ago. I was very doubtful and there's still moments where I still doubt myself and not as proud of myself, but I think that was the biggest moment of resilience and saying that I'm I'm more than capable of doing anything.
Speaker 1:Um, and then again, when I lost my voice in 2020, I think that was just the cherry on top. I think it was a brief moment of is this over? And then it was. No, we've gone through this before. We've dealt with, you know, falls and and overcoming and like we're going to get through this again. Hence, I was discharged in four months instead of six, and I pushed through to record a song by the end of the year and I was ready to be back to performing in less than three months of being discharged.
Speaker 1:So, um, it seems easy or it seemed that way, but there's there's definitely there's things behind closed doors that I'm learning to be more open about, especially as, um, an artist and a musician who wants to be more outspoken. I think I'm. I'm just finally starting to break that wall and I'm still trying to be okay with it. I think I've broken the wall and I'm still a bit disappointed. I'm still with it. I think I've broken the wall and I'm still adjusting to being okay with it, but the wall is down. So that's. That's step one of resilience, if you ask me.
Speaker 2:Wow, Natalie, thank you for sharing that. That was powerful and I think there's there's a young girl out there somewhere that's going to see that on a real or on YouTube. It's going to resonate with her and it was powerful, Thank you. Thank you for being so open to you know, um, if you would allow me to, I would like to add on to the manifestation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the manifestations. Yeah, I want to, I want to add on to that.
Speaker 2:I love it so let's manifest you and I okay that when you get your first Grammy. I just want to be backstage. Of course, oh, my God and I would like uh invite to the after party. Yeah, come on. Come on. Yes, we're going to do it All right, we're manifesting all of that, okay.
Speaker 1:I have no problem with that whatsoever it's. It would be amazing to say right now that that will happen in the near future and that we'll be experiencing that together Absolutely Freaking Lately. Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 2:I want to be conscious of your time, Right? I think? I'm not sure how long we've been going at this, but it's I want to be. I think you have rehearsals later today, so I just want to be mindful of that, so. I appreciate it, hey Natalie, but before we get out of here, before we wrap this up, please Plug how we get you booked. Your Instagram handle anything that you want, my audience and your platform. Let's combine it all together. Let's get both ecosystems together.
Speaker 1:I love it. Yes, um, so you could check me out on Instagram under Natalie, with two E's and ATA L I E E underscore Farrell, f A R R E L L. You could find me on Facebook under Natalie Farrell music. Same thing on Spotify, itunes, apple music pretty much any main mainstream platform. Um, and if you're interested in booking me at your venue, you could book me by sending an email to Natalie Farrell music at gmailcom.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much again, Natalie. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being so open with your story, your journey, your resiliency. It was amazing.
Speaker 1:Thank you as well. Thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 2:I'll be backstage when you get your first Grammy. I love it. I look forward to it. Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1:We'll have some red wine in the back.
Speaker 2:Cheers to that Salud Stay spark.
Speaker 1:Hey.