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Listen, Honey! Y’all know I was heading to the beach for a birthday vacation, right? Well, Lucy, Dylan and I met up with Hannah and James at Panama City, Florida last week and had the best time. It was a little cooler than beach weather so we really just hung out and let the kids run around, but sometimes that’s just what you need to restore your soul, right?

We’re at home this week and honestly, I am beat. But I figured it was a good idea to record a little at home episode to fil...

Listen, Honey! Y’all saw on social media back on Valentine’s Day weekend I was at the Bulls, Bands and Barrels event in Lexington, Kentucky, watching both western sports like bull riding and barrel racing, and amazing live music (Dylan Gossett and Tyler Nance were at this one). I’d been to a previous stop of the BBB tour in Huntington, West Virginia because my buddies in The Creekers were playing there.

Well, while I was in Lexington at AllTech Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park, I sat down with Bulls, Bands and Barrels founder and CEO Hu...

Listen, Honey! It’s far too long to have waited without a good catch up episode so we’re back at the house this week. But don’t worry! I’ve been recording some fun interviews for the podcast the last two weeks, so all this busy is going to amount to something good.

I told y’all last time that I was hoping for a quiet snuggle-time Valentine’s Day (which is mine and Dylan’s anniversary) with my Cheesecake Factory while Lucy slept. Well, it all happened the way I’d hoped. 

BUT …

We woke up th...

Listen, Honey! One of my online and offline besties Hannah Taylor drove eight hours from South Georgia to join me in Nashville to record an episode of the podcast. You may know her as @lilyloutay, the New York Times bestselling author of Measure With Your Heart, an amazing cookbook that makes her DE-licious Southern recipes part of your recipe archive, too. 

Y’all?! My girl was on The Today Show for this book! She’s famous!

Hannah lives in a lake house with her husband James (yes, James Taylor, but not that James Taylor) and her t...

Listen, Honey! We’re back at the house for another catch-up episode of the podcast. Snowmageddon is over (can I get an “Amen!’) and we’re thawing out. We had one day that got into the 60s this week and, honey, I am ready for summer NOW!

All that anticipation got me looking at my calendar and y’all have been inviting me to some events. June 13 I’m heading to Wise, Va., for the Kentucky-Virginia District Fair. July 17-18 I’ll be at the Master Musicians Festival in Somerset, Ky. And then in October, I can’t wait to go to...

Listen, Honey! The second of our recent Nashville episodes is live today and honey, we’re visiting with the queen of Southern characters, actor and comedian Andi Marie Tillman. If you don’t follow her on TikTok, we’ll I’m not sure what rock you’re livin’ under, but it’s heavy, honey.

We even had a little ad-lib gossip session during the episode just for y’all. It was so much fun!

Andi Marie does a lot of short-form character skits on the social media channels, but provides her fans and followers with longer form skit...

Listen, Honey! We are at the house for this episode. I’m telling y’all, I’ve done set up a home studio so we can do more podcast episodes. Now, I don’t know what I’m doing, so these first few from my new home studio aren’t going to win any awards for movie making, but honey, we’re going to do some more catching up, more often now.

The worst part was I was trying to set all this up with a day or two left before Kentucky got struck by Snowmagedon 2026. Oh, we got snowed...

Listen, Honey! I told you all I had some good episodes coming for you from our visit to Nashville recently. Well, strap yourself in for the first of them because in this episode of Listen, Honey! I go deep with the hysterically funny Danae Hays. 

She is a side-splitting comedian who is going out on tour again this year. She’s playing the Ryman Auditorium in March and I may have to reschedule my birthday beach vacation to go. Why? Because if this conversation was any judge, I’m going to have to see how many people will...

Listen, Honey! I have arrived, y’all! I recently spent several days in Nashville experiencing Music City for the first time. As y’all probably saw on TikTok and Instagram and other places, I was recording future episodes of Listen, Honey!, as well as one other surprise episode of a brand new podcast I’ll tell y’all about in a second.

But first, let me tell you, I loved Nashville! Now, I don’t think I could live there. Too many streets. Too many cars. Too many lights.

But y’all, I got to hang out wit...

Listen, Honey! Y’all know one of my favorite things this past year was going to hear my buddies The Creekers play live! If you don’t know, The Creekers are a country and bluegrass band from just over the hill in Leslie County, Kentucky. They blew up this summer on TikTok when their song “Tennessee” took off as a viral sound clip. And it led them all the way to a big-time record deal with Warner Records.

I met Tanner Horton, Allen Hacker, Ashton and Jagger Bowling, Scott Sutton and the fabulous Anna Blanton first at Manchest...

Listen, Honey! There’s no person closer to Appalachian Royalty these days than author Silas House. From his award-winning novels to writing Grammy-nominated music video screenplays, he stands out as one of the more accomplished intellectuals from our neck of the woods.

Honestly, y’all, when he said he’d join me for the podcast, I had to have a sit down. Y’all don’t know how exciting this was.

Silas was the Poet Lauret of Kentucky from 2023-2025. He was recently named Appalachian of the Year in a poll conducted by the folks at the App...

Listen, Honey! It’s Christmas time and there’s no time of the year that’s more fun and festive, but also more busy and stressful. Instead of having a guest this episode, I thought I’d just share some things I’m thinking about as the holidays get closer. I touch on everything from my favorite Christmas music to telling my parents if they’re buying toys for my daughter, they’d better be intending on keeping them at their house!

I’ve got some good shop local recommendations for y’all close by, but even if you’re not, ple...

Listen, Honey! When you put three strong mountain women who like to talk in the same room with microphones, you get a podcast episode that never ends. I sit down this week with two women who are near and dear to my heart, y’all. Crystal Booth, who is @missfizz_ on TikTok, and Brandis Bradley, who is @makeupartistatlaw there, came by the Listen, Honey! Studio to talk about everything. And I mean Every. Thing.

Before I try to remember all the things we covered, let me brag on my girls for a minute. Crystal is a licensed es...

Listen, Honey! We might be just three episodes in here on the podcast, but this special Thanksgiving week episode is something special. I sit down with my good friend Nicholas Jamerson, the lead singer of Sundy Best and successful solo artist who has become the voice of a generation for mountain folk. 

His new album The Narrow Way is amazing. He told us about the long process to make it and talked about how it was a dark journey but a catharsis in dealing with loss, adulthood … just life. 

But we had just a good conv...

Listen, honey! This weekend in the Smoky Mountains was anything but cozy – we shopped ‘til we dropped, hit up Dollywood, ate way too much good food, and packed in all the family time we could. In this episode, I catch y’all up on the trip, chat about my favorite moments and talk about how I’m somehow already over Halloween and ready for Christmas.

Some more of what you’ll hear:

We went to Dollywood … OMG?!? Pumpkins everywhere! Dolly does it up right.

And then, honey … we need to talk about Halloween. So I do. And t...

On the inaugural episode of Listen, Honey!, I sit down with my friend, Curtis Koons, a triple board-certified medical provider from Kentucky, to talk about his incredible journey – from growing up in the holler to graduating medical school at the University of Kentucky. Curtis shares what it was like leaving home at a young age, building his career in medicine and what it means to come full-circle while serving his Appalachian community today. 

Curtis is an anesthesiologist and owns and operates Bluegrass Precision Wellness on top of being a practicing doctor. They are one of my partners and...

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