Rachel Reinert

could be adult content. This episode is Rachel Reiner and she is the beautiful, gorgeous brunette from the band Gloriana. We talk all about what life was like in the band, how they won their the American Music Award Breakthrough Artists in two thousand and ten against Lady Gaga. They're huge hits, one of my favorite songs ever, kissed You good Night. And we talked about what life is like for her post breakup. This is the first interview she did when

she broke up with Corriana. So, y'all welcome Rachel. Okay, Hello, Rachel. How do you say your last name? Rein? Because I thought it was hard. Yeah, it's okay. Heart's good to Rachel. We're here with in her lovely house with her ukulele. So I'm gonna say a word, and you say the first thing that comes to your mind. Okay, okay, sexy time tattoos. Eight, I've got eight of them. You have

eight tattoos, little ones. I have one here, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and then I technically have seven because I had one removed, So you move on my forearm. When I was eighteen, I was on the road with Gloriana and I decided in Vegas to get a tattoo of a music note, and then it turned out horrible, so later on I was like, I'll just add wings to it, and then it got it was horrible, so where it was on my forearm, so oh my gosh. So they really did

a great removal. Yeah, so it works. It works because I got my first one, and Michael, my husband, wrote grateful in his hand writing cute. But originally when I first got it, it was immediate regret, like, oh my god, I ruined my body, like that life is over. I called my dirt Hodges and I was like, how do I get this thing off? Because I'm not going to I love it now but instant regret. Yeah. Yeah, so they numb you at the place that I went to.

And and the only thing is that it just takes a really long time because you have to wait like six weeks in between each process. So how long I think I went through about ten different treatments, So it took about a year to get it completely off. Yeah girl, you can't even tell thanks, we have seven point five well yeah, yeah, yeah, and it goes okay, crush, oh Dave girl. I put him in here because I saw that you loved. I love Dave girl. Do what do

you love about him? His hair just everyway, it's so funny, and he's really smart, and he just is such a lover of music and the knowledge of music and he spreads that and I just adore that. And it's just his energy, his aura, um, you know, the he's just a funny, cool guy and he's such a well rounded musician and a great songwriter and I just admire everything about that. I totally agree. Yeah, I loved a girl.

He's awesome. Okay, wine uh boxed, clearly, box girl. I am like when I'm home for some reason, you know, just because typically, um, if I get a bottle of wine. I'll only drink like one or two glasses and then it just goes bad because I'll forget about it, or you know, I'll leave town or whatever. So it's just easier for me to get that because I know I can keep it for a long time. And you get like four bottles in one box, so you don't really have to keep running back to the store and doing

all that. So it's conveniens. What's your favorite cocktail? Oh? Um? Actually, and there's like no sponsorship whatsoever, but you would think that there is because I talk about it all the time. But I love the deep Eddies Ruby red grapefruit grapefruit vodka with love soda. That's it. That's all you need. I think it's the best things because you don't have to have a mixture because it's sweet. Yeah, it's perfect, it's really but it's not too sweet, so that's the

good part about it. I'm going to steal that you Blacktack cocktail. I'm telling you you're going to go through those bottles because they're like, it is so good. It's a good go too. It's very refreshing too. I love that. Okay, disgusting, Oh uh, chewing with your mouth open and I can't take it. It's really bad, that's true. Yeah, I hate that and smacking. Yeah, just about thing you're looking. Just know you want? Yes, you need some at the dining table? Yes,

eat lightly? Yeah, okay, dog, I wish I had one, want one so bad? I do? I do, I have three. I'll give you one, okay, seriously, I just just drop it off. I got an extra one and you can have her. She's great potty train. That would be perfect. I seriously want one, and I've been thinking about it a lot, so I hopefully maybe this year I might. I might do it. Come over me, what you think? Okay, okay, must oh, I'm must oh. Gosh what hair spray? You

have great hair. You look like there's hair spray in it. The hairspray that I use. I love it because it's it gives me flexibility. But for some I don't know, it's like a security blanket. For me because I really like the bumble and bubble in a red can. It's amazing because it looks like you literally have no hair spray. I like, and I honestly it's like every day I have to just even just like a little missed, just to make myself feel complete, you know what I mean.

If I don't have that, it's like I'm just not going to get through the day and be all right totally. I hear you, well, looks thank you. I was gonna ask you dave girl, but you've already said he's your crush. Yes, okay. So I also saw you talk about this close talkers. Oh my god. Yeah, just keep a distance. People get

up in your girl sometimes. Yeah, you know, and I'll tolerate it, but it just like it freaks me out because you know, it's like you just I don't know, it's like you just get kind of you don't want to smell each other's So how much space is is appropriate? This is a great space right here. So like you think like an arms length way someone, Yeah, give yourself an arms like arms length is great. I agree. Just smell each other's breath, catch the spits right exactly exactly.

You can still hear me, I can still hear you, perfect, okay. And music, oh um, the first thing that comes to mind, Vinyl. I mean, and I've got a huge collection over there. I've been really lucky to inherit. My dad's yeah, it's my dad's. So dad's a big music person. Yeah yeah, and he and and my mom too, but really mostly my dad really influenced a lot of you know, the seventies rock and country, uh, you know music sick that

I grew to love. And you know, they had a really well rounded, uh collection of music that they introduced me to as a kid. So the musicians, no, no, nobody, nobody in my family except for me as a musician. Where'd you get your love? I have no idea. I just I started singing when I was really really little, and I the first piece of music that I ever got was a cassette tape of Cheryl Crow's All I Want to Do? So did that set the tone for

your musical? Completely? Completely? It was the only song that I wanted to listen to, and I learned every single word and I sang along to it, and that was just really the beginning of everything for me. And I was always singing along to the radio, always doing that, always performing for everybody. Just I was just a weird kid. But he went to performance school. I did, Yeah, at like seventh grade. Yeah, that's when I first started out. Well, actually,

I did a lot of community theater up until that point. Oh, okay, so where I lived. Yeah, so theater is the beginning of it. Yeah, acting and sing, singing, all of it. And I loved musicals and I originally really thought that I was gonna go to New York and go and do Broadway. Really and somewhere along the way between when I got accepted into the Performing Arts school for the musical theater department. This is in Florida. This was in California.

So you left your family in Florida, so we moved we I was born in Florida, and then we lived in Marietta, Georgia, until I was five, and then we moved to California. Um. And it was that a coincidence or to help you pursue your career. It was just my dad got a job out there, and I actually

so if we could go all the way back. Um. I. So I was big into music, big into singing, and so my mom started putting me into local community theater and I got scouted by this agent after one of the shows when I was like six, and my mom drove me up to this agency and I sang for them, performed for them, and they signed me that day and and yeah, and so I got one commercial. Which one it was for I don't know if anybody remembers it, but it was for Hills Department Store and it was

with Brett Butler from the show Grace under Fire. Oh my gosh, did you feel like you had made it? It was a wild experience for me because I was so little. I was like seven, you know, and so it was just such a crazy time. But because I was traveling to Los Angeles a lot, so my mom

would drive me. It was it would take like two hours to get to Los Angeles and I would go on all these auditions and I was missing school and all that, and so she decided to kind of pull me out of it and just let me focus on doing theater. And so I I did theater for about ten years where I lived, and then I got into the performing arts school, and then I just started to pick up the guitar and started playing that. And I was really big into poetry. I was probably about twelve

or thirteen at that time. Yeah, and then I had poetry and I decided to start putting the two together and started writing my own songs. And then I became friends with this dance teacher that I had, and he was like, you have such an amazing voice. And I have this friend who has a recording studio set up in his garage, So on the weekends and during the summer, I would go over there and we would write and

I would record these garage studio demos. Yeah. And so then I had this other friend who UM, her brothers went to high school with my brothers, and she kept talking about all these trips that she would make to Nashville. And she was a singer songwriter too, and she and I became super close, and she was like, why don't you come with me sometimes? So I was about sixteen at that time, and so I convinced my parents to let me go with her because she was eighteen, she

was two years older than me. On your own, did yell to we? We came to Nashville, and I met with her publisher and I ended up landing a publishing deal with him when I was sixteen. And so at that point I was like, Okay, I gotta leave the performing arts school and that whole idea behind, and I want to be in Nashville. I want to do this um. And so I convinced my parents to let me graduate a year early, finish up school through independent study, and I moved out here right away when I was seventeen,

So you were graduated from high school. Okay, So I want to back up a little bit, because getting a publishing deal is really difficult. That basically means you are a great songwriter and that someone believes in your songwriting ability enough to sign you invest money in you because they think you're talented to get one of those at sixteen. And I had no idea. I had no idea. I was just like cool, you know, also right, And I didn't realize it at the time that that was, you know,

a pretty big deal. Had you written all these songs by yourself that you've got the most of them? Yeah, and he and then he started to put me with all of these different co writers. And one of the first major co writers that I started working with this this was actually before he even had a single hit, was Josh Osborne and we did a lot of work together and huge, yes, yes, he's amazing. And so that was really the beginning of it for me. And so I really was on this path to to be a

solo singer songwriter here in town. And then somewhere along the way, I ended up with the opportunity to join a band, and that that band was Gloriana and that today Mike and Tom find you on myself they did, Yeah, that happened. So I had a page with this music that I'd been writing and recording here on my Space

was happening. Back on my Space was happening, and um, I had my songs up there, and they were searching through all of these Nashville girl artists and I think that they typed in a few different because you could type in like influences and it would pull up the people that had written those specific influences, and I think

Cheryl Crow was actually one of them. And so they found me and they listened to my songs and they really liked what they heard, and they said, Hey, we're going to be new to town and we'd love to meet up with you sometime and you know, right and whatever, and so I thought, okay, you know, and we had a mutual friend, a guy named Chris Gardner who went to Vanderbilt, and my brother knew him through Vanderbilt because my brother went there right right, Because I mean, that's

kind of scary they found my totally totally creepy, totally weird. Um. But yeah, so that's that's how that whole thing got started. And then they moved in with you. Yeah for a little while. Yeah, for for about six months in my apartment. It was crammed. It was like, you guys, have to

find your own place. Um. But but it was good because I think for us at that time, we didn't really know each other that well, and so we got to work a lot, and then on top of that, we got to really know each other, and you know, it was good practice for being on a bus together for what would be the next eight years. Wow. So you kind of just not accidentally but like you weren't seeking out a band. Band kind of just it just happened. Yeah, And so did you kind of just believe that was

your destinated field hymistry musically? It was? It was. And I think for me, to the fact that I did that was so good for me because I was so green in so many ways, and we we all got to learn so much together about about the business and just about ourselves. And I do truly believe that that was how it was supposed to be, That was what was meant to be, and you guys had quite a bit of success along the way. You picked up a fourth Cheyenne, Yes, and she had her own reality show

on MTV for a minute Cheyenne Yeah. Okay, So how did y'all meet her? And how did that come about? Trying to be Fleetwood Mackie? You know, that was definitely one of the influences. And I think you know what happened with all of the was we've been playing a lot at um, you know, Third and Lindsley back when it was the old Third and Linsley and and I remember seeing her out in the crowd and she came up to us and we talked for a while afterwards,

and then it just kind of naturally came together. And it made sense too, because she had a lot of experience, and she had a great fan base, and you know, she was very interested in all of it, and so you know, we thought that it would be a great addition, you know, and it was when it was. And so when that you know, sort of fell apart and she left, I think that it made us all stronger and we learned a lot from that experience as well. And um, you know, we ended up having our our biggest song

of our career after all of that, Yeah, yeah, it did. Yeah, So I think, you know, everything happens for a reason, everything works out the way that it's supposed to. And and you know her, that was her journey with the band was supposed to end at that time. Was she with you guys? She was with us for about three and a half, almost four years, and Gloriana the band was eight years total. Yes, okay, so while you guys were touring, you toured with Taylor Swift for two years.

Oh my gosh, what was that? Like? Amazing? She's she's incredible and I mean, like I really truly believe that she has earned everything that she's gotten and she deserves it. And she she was such an amazing influence, you know, to see how how she is with her fans. Incredible, absolutely incredible and really just takes the time and never tires from it. And not only that, but just an incredible songwriter. And it really is. Yeah, and it's like you can't you can't argue with it. You know. Her

vision is so clear too. She's so confident and she has been from such a young age, from the very beginning, because you all were with her kind of in the beginning. Yeah, we were with her on her first major headlining arena tour. And how did that come together? Um? I guess that she had heard our first single, wild at Heart and I remember when that came up, such a fun song. Yeah, and she really liked what she heard and she wanted us to be a part of the tour. And she

was so supportive. And you know, as far as when you're the opener for the opener on a tour like that, you know, the expectation is very low and should be very low as far as you know what you get and treatment and all of those things. And she went so above and beyond and and really became a friend. And um, you know, she took such good care of us and really supported our band and supported the song and you know, you couldn't ask for more. Did you

guys have slumber parties? Uh? We we did to some degree. You know, she she had her own bus with her mom. Um. I actually ended up doing most of my slumber parties with Kelly because she had her bust completely to herself. Kelli Pickler was opening was the second okay, and y'all became great friends. We became really good. Yeah. Yeah, I remember I follow you. I've always followed you guys on social media, and you would like totally hang out, matching tattoos. Yeah.

It was fun because we were together every day for so long. You know, Um, so I I missed those days, you know, from time to time, but you know, we would run into her out on the road and we would end up on the same bill as her, and so it was like, it's just one of those friendships, yeah, Kelly, And it's just one of those friendships where you know, we don't really see each other all the time. We don't really talk all the time. You know, we do from time to time, but when we do see each other,

it's like no time that has passed, you know. It's just kind of one of those relationships. She's such a great person. Yeah, she is. Yeah. I love that I've gotten to know her through her show, which you need to come be on. Yeah all right, Okay, So after Taylor Swift, then you met Kelly Pickler. You guys, Gloriana one lot of awards, like you guys won that what was it, the American Music Award break Through Artists in two thousand tens. Yes, Okay, that's a big deal, because

that's all genres, right, it was a huge deal. It was really cool. That's insane. I'll tell you that. I actually don't even have my my physical award. Somebody stole it from me. I still have no idea. Who have no idea? Can you get another one? You need that? Apparently it's really hard to get to get your award back when something like that happens, come in your house. It was never it never reached my house. It was stolen in the mail. It was stolen off of our bus.

It was yeah, it's it's fine. You know. That sucks. I have it in my heart, but I mean it would be nice to have the hardware. Yeah. Yeah, that was a wild night. But you know, I think in some ways it's sort of karmic because right after we

won the awards. So when you when you win an award like that, they give you a prop award, you know, so you don't have the actual one typically yeah, um, because they wait to get your name engraved in it, because they don't at least for those yeah and so and so we had the proper award, and they were like, you have to give the proper award back. You know, if if you guys get this award, you have to

give the prop back. I'm like, okay, And so right after we wanted, I stuffed it in in my purse and we took it and we went and like had a big huge hotel party celebration this whole thing, and you know, passed it around and whatever. And it was kind of my fault. Yeah, and we've gotten a lot of trouble. We gave it back, of course. Um, but yeah, I guess maybe that was my my karma for stealing the pro. Yeah, I was were you guys nominated against? Um? I believe it was. I know it was Lady Gaga.

You guys are up against Lady Gaga, Drake and it was somebody else. I can't remember. It was so long ago. Was about against Lady Gaga and Drake and crushed it. Yeah. Can you believe it was fan voted? You know? And so I think it goes without saying that country music fans are amazing and very dedicated, and we had some fans that would just sit on their computers all day and night and just vote, vote, vote, vote vote. Yeah,

so you have a big fan base. Did Gloriana have a lot of fans that loved you guys totally, totally, very dedicated, very supportive, very loving, and you know, throughout this whole process of me no longer being with Gloriana just showed me um an incredible amount of support and love because it was scary for me to make that decision and then to put that out there, you know, and not know what was going to come back. And so I I was just overwhelmed with the outpouring of

love and support and you know, just super grateful for that. Okay, So you have a statement which I thought was so well put, and I want to read when you left Gloriana. Okay, and right before you guys left, though, you guys had a monster hit which we talked about. Actually, I want to talk about your statement, but then I want to say you said trouble. First, you guys had kiss You good Night, Yes, which was a huge song for y'all, went to number two. I mean that video I watched

like a hundred times you did. It was so good. That song spoke to me. I loved it so much. It was a great song. It was a great song. I changed your career completely completely and and you know, we had some songs that did pretty well prior to that, but when you have a hit song like that, you just feel a big energy shift and you just feel that love and um, you know, we we were very blessed to just be on an incredible ride after after that song did what it did. And then you guys

put out Trouble, which you said was revenge. Did he? Yeah? Yeah, okay, we have details. You know. It's when you're when you're just in your twenties and you're dating and you're kind of gathering all these different experiences. Um, you know, I think a lot of especially girls end up with the bad guy just ends up being a cheater and just not not a good dude, not who you think that they are, and um, you know, I think it was just kind of a fun way of expressing myself. Do

you think the guy knows it's about him? Oh? Yeah, he totally knew it was about him. Yeah yeah, yeah. Have you had some crazy excess completely? Yeah? I've had some good ones too, but but yeah, okay, yeah, especially when you're a creative type, do date creative type guys? I have found myself to be more drawn to that. Yes, and with that comes potentially crazy totally, but you know

that's artists. You know, we're all sort of nuts. So because I think to have the creative side, you also have to have the wild imagination, Yeah, which, if not tamed, can lead to totally totally craziness. Yeah, exactly, exactly have you tamed your creative mind? I would say that I'm kind of somewhere in between, you know, because I definitely love to tap into all of those emotions and you know, that's that's where great songs come from, is you know,

the stories and all of that. But as far as like who I am, just on a personal level, I'm find myself to be pretty normal. What does normal mean to you? Normal means like I'm a homebody and you know, I have a great group of friends, and I surround myself with people that I've known for a very long time as well. I'm very family oriented. Um, you know that's that comes first and foremost. And um, you know, I love to cook and I love watching The Bachelor,

and I'm actually pretty boring. Did yeah on Emily Maynard season the batch arette? Yeah, did you find out any dirt on how the shows run? No? Not really, I mean I think for the most part. You know, when you see all those characters, those crazy characters, you kinda have to be a little bat shipped to go in the Bachelor, I think so I would have done it Twinter Baby. It's so funny too, because it's like it's such a train wreck A lot of the time. I just can't stop watching, and I just love it. How

many girls fighting for attention of one dude? How are you? How can all those people like the same guy. I don't know, And I don't know how they all can like kiss the same person and that, you know, if I were the Bachelorette and then like to have like to be like kissing like six or seven people all in the same night, I would just feel so weird. I'd be like, yeah, I need to go like brush

my teeth in between. Maybe that's just like my O C D. But I don't know, like stop, yes, yes, I mean O C D all around the house is I'm a little psycho mo every day? I okay, So for Christmas. For Christmas, I told my dad, I was like, I want one thing and one thing only, and I want this cordless Dyson that the best thing ever write the best thing. Ever, I do it every day. Nothing gets me more excited than than that vacuum. I mean nothing, How psycho is that it's unreal Like I'm obsessed and

min tot pink too. It's hot pink like. It gives me that surge of like probably how you feel like on a first date or something like when you're cleaning and you see it and you look around me. Your house looks good, girl, it is shiny, spit expan sells amazing. It's always like that anything I'm telling you, I'm like, O C D. Psycho. How often do you vacuum every day? Do you wake up first thing? Not first thing? But you know, especially now that I've got that little Dyson's,

it's amazing. It's a game changer. I'm so I literally like I could talk ever, I could talk whatever it is and the cord. Yeah, but like I said, a pretty normal Hey, you know you like a clean house. I like, that's what kind of cuisine do you like to cook? Oh? Gosh, I like to do like a lot of different things. I like to do. Um, you know, I I do a really good pecan chicken. Actually, yeah, that's like what everyone's favorite is. I guess of mine. But I do like a lot of crop pot stuff too,

because that's just easy. Um, a lot of Italian food, Mexican food, all kinds. What's your heritage? Um, I am mostly German. I'm a little bit, a little, little, little tiny bit Native American, um, Cherokee and Irish English. You got a little smart sport, Yeah, a little bit of everything everything. Okay. So when you left Gloriana, which was hung ago with that officially, uh, it was is December thirty one of two thousand fifteen. This is your statement.

When I thought was so cool, I knew that this would be one of the biggest and bravest decisions of my life. I joined the band when I was just eighteen years old, and I fully and I fully dedicated eight years of my life to being a member of Gloriana. I had an unwavering commitment to the band, even though I had always dreamt of pursuing a solo career. One day, I just finally reached a point where I really could no longer ignore was in my heart. I felt as

though I had completed my journey with Gloriana. I knew it was time to get out of my comfort zone. And everything I've known for so long, push myself and pursue a different creative path. So tell me about this new creative path and what Rachel Reinert's solo career looks like and how life has been post Coriana. Yeah, so I'm still very much, very fresh. Yeah, it's still very fresh, and I'm still very much at the beginning stages of everything. Um. You know, so I think for me creatively, I'm I'm

still sorting through all of that. Um, but I love the seventies influence, so I'm thinking that it's going to have a lot of that in a really organic feel. And then you know, as far as the songwriting goes, I'm going to do my best to really I just want so badly to have a hand in every song that goes into into my first solo album, So I want it to be really personal. Um. So that's really

my priority at this point. And um, you know, I think I think since all of that came out, Um, you know, my life for the last eight years was go, go go, and it's been a little bit slow for me, and it's been a little bit of Okay, I gotta just be comfortable with taking my time and getting all of that together and getting it right, um, you know. And and as far as everything goes, it's going to be all new people and experiences and um and a

new team for me as well. And so I think it's just kind of getting it all together and to give my time with that and being okay with that. So, like you said, being okay with that because it's so crazy to go from a hundred to like back at zero. But do you think sometimes some of the most amazing growth happens in those times? It does? And I that's that's the mindset that I have to stay in, you know, because I think for me too, it's all this pressure

that I've put on myself about okay. You know, I'm sure people are expecting to hear something from me really really soon, um you know, and I just have to let that go because I'd rather it be right than it be rushed, you know, So whether it be right, yeah, So that so it's I just I hope that everybody stays patient with me and allows me to kind of you know, suss through this whole creative process and get everything together and get it right, um, you know, and

then it'll it'll come together when it's supposed to. So have you started the songwriting process. I have. I've already got a good handful of songs the really excited about. Yeah, so you said seventies influence. What does that sound like? Is that like like Stevie Navy? Yeah? Yeah, so you love that by Yeah? I do? I do? Okay. Do you have favorite songwriters that you like to write with in town? Oh? Yeah, I I you know, I've I've

been so lucky, especially you know, being with Gloriana. I got introduced to a lot of incredible people, and um, Ross Copperman, John Knight, Um, Jimmy Robbins my friend, yeah yeah. And then my my, my dear friend, Alyssa Bonna Gura, who we were just talking about, who you know, she's She's so cool and so sweet, and she and I became great friends because our boyfriends are in the same

band and what's that been shut up? They're called Tyler Bryant The Shakedown, and they're amazing rocking They're so talented and and so she and I hit it off right away, and we started working together and writing together, and we have an amazing musical chemistry. And people say that about her. She she really is like she's she's like a freak. She's so good, you know. So it's it's it's awesome working with her, you know. So I feel really lucky.

So do you have any idea what team you're going to put together or is that just you're gonna let it happen organically, just gonna let it all happen organically. I think I'm just really open. I'm open to all kinds of different things because, you know, right now at this point, like I don't I don't have a tour to be on. I don't really have like a schedule. Just crazy because you've had one for eight years. Yeah, for so long, since I was a teenager, you know.

And so for the first time in my life, I'm just open to all kinds of different opportunities and possibilities, and and I'm I'm just allowing myself to kind of go on this journey. Has that taken a mental adjustment to wake up and be like, Okay, I'm a blank slate today? Totally. I've been freaking out. I've been a disaster. You have what is your breaking out that you like eight times a day while I'm crying, where's my tour manager? Yeah, it's it's been. It's it's been good for me, it's

been it's been a humbling experience. It's good to be humbled. Yeah, what have you learned in this moment? Like you said, humbling? What has humbled you? Um, you know, just really having to be patient. You're probably having to just really trust

yourself and your instinct completely. Sometimes that is terrifying completely, Yeah, because you're just going on your own guidening light and trusting that it's exactly And it's not like I had like some master plan in place, you know what I mean, Like, Okay, the day that I'm out of this band, now like here we go. You know, I I knew what I wanted to do, but I knew that it would take time and that I just would be a total rebuild

for me. Um, you know, willing to rebuild completely. Yeah, so you're willing to do all the hard work for the solo career. Girl, that's amazing. It's hard work. And we're kind of talking before we started interviewing. You believe in the universe, and like, do you believe that things are drawn to you? And like what you put out

there you go by totally. I'm so big into that, and like the funniest thing for me is just like the little stuff if I'm riding on an airplane or if I'm in a public place, you see how like frustrated people get at other people. And you know, even just if you're driving in your car and if if

somebody does something to upset you. I always like try to make a point to not get angry or honk the horn or flip somebody off or you know, add any any more negative energy into it, because I think even just putting those little things out there, it all comes back to you, um, you know, and it just

perpetuates more more of that, you know. And so it's it's like every day, you know, if you wake up every day feeling like I'm tired, or you hit your you know, toe getting out of bed, and then the rest of your day just kind of spirals, um, you know. So I try to make a point to every day, you know, wake up happy, being a good headspace and think about what it is that I want to accomplish, and you know, just really take every day one day

at a time. But um, you know, just always generate more positivity because I think that that all comes back I totally agree. You know, so that's conscious living. I can never say that word correctly. Conscious conscious consciously, I don't know. I can't say it either. How did you learn to live consciously? Because I feel like so many people let the day happen, then let life happen to them, like you have to think about it to live consciously. Yeah. Well,

I've had a lot of influence. A lot of it comes from my mom, and I think it comes from, you know, spending my formative years in California where a

lot of people think like that. And you know, I've I've read a lot of books I I like, uh, The Secret Secret and Dr Wayne Dyer and you know, he's an amazing writer, and just you know, all these different people who had that way of thinking, and I've adopted that into my life, and um, you know, I think a lot of that also kind of helped me to make this decision and to be brave in that and to teach you to trust yourself, trust myself, and to follow my heart and you know, to to just believe,

which is terrifying. I mean, I feel like I try to live consciously also, but when you take these big risks, you really do have to have a faith in something that Okay, I'm like taking a risk and yeah, trusting that it's going to work out. Yeah, totally. But what however it works out, you know it's gonna be fine because you're choosing to always see the positive exactly. I wish everyone did that. Yeah, I thought the world would

be happier. Yeah, I do. And you know, I'm such a firm believer that everything works out as it should and everything, um, you know, happens for a reason. And and you know, I can I can tell you so many things that have happened in my past that at the moment I may not have known, like why is this happening? This is so horrible, But then you know, somewhere further down the line, you look back and you go, oh, okay,

there was a reason for that. That's that's that's why, because it brought me to this other place, you know, this other point in time, this other better thing, you know. So it's like trusting in God and all of that too. You know, are you religious? Are you just spiritual? More? I would say that I'm a more spiritual person. I was raised Catholic when I was a little kid. Um, yeah, yeah, I went to Catholic school and all girls. Yeah, but

but I'm I'm a very I lean more spiritual than anything. Okay, So has your faith been a part of your musical career the whole time? I think so? Yeah, Yeah, yeah, I think so. I think just you know, really, all that it comes down to for me is is you know, being a good person, and you know, being good to other people, and you know, just really being loving and believing in love and and that's what it's really all about for me. So obviously you're amazing with your fashion,

like you're out that you have one right now? This necklace is stupid, It's so pretty. Where do you get your style influence? Um? I think that a lot of it probably comes from I see I'm just gonna sound like I'm repeating myself, but I I love like that seventies vibe, you know. So I like a lot of vintage things. I like a lot of a lot of stuff in my house is antique. Um, you know, so

I think it comes from that. And then also, um, you know, I really like the just the bohemian you know kind of style, and you see a lot of it in magazines and you know, on Instagram or or whatever, you know, and so I take a lot from that as well. So Stevie's one of your style icons. Sex to Current Day is one of your style icons. I really like Nicole Ritchie's style. I think she's got a

lot of cool um uh, you know, just choice. She blends sophistication with all the totally totally also, thanks, thank you. So what are you most excited about with this fresh slate? I think, just for me, it's it's like you said, it's just a new start. It's a new beginning, it's a new adventure, it's a new chapter, you know. And and uh, it's it's just a completely different thing for me that I haven't experienced, you know. And it's challenging.

But but that's what I wanted. I wanted. I wanted to feel challenged again, and I wanted to feel excited about something again, and and I wanted to push myself. And so I think it's just getting out of my comfort zone and really just embracing that and growing as a human being and as an artist. So that's that's that's really it. That's all. You just want to grow. I just want to grow. Growing is exhausting, Yeah, it's

it's so exhausting. Yeah, luckily, you know, I'm I'm at a point in my life like where I feel like I can I can do that. You know, I don't really have, um, you know, anything else to worry about other than just being able to put everything into this and focus on that. So this is a season of Rachel, like you're dis going to zero in on who you are emotionally, musically, the whole package. This is your year. Well that sounds so selfish, and yeah, I think that's

a good thing. You have to take the time to really get to know who you are. Not that you have other experiences, but but knows who I am on my own exactly. You know. I kind of feel like that's the same for me. This is the first time I've ever been so low, and it's great to discover yourself totally as a total individual totally. And look at you. I mean, you're doing amazing. I mean to be a Rachel Reyner. I don't mean that part seriously. You're a badass.

You're a badass chick, thank you, And you're an inspiring woman. You're hiring your kind, You're beautiful, you're talented, and you believe it's it's all going to work out perfectly for you. You want to just move in, you can just like help me up every day. We can vacuum. I'll bring my vacuum dog and dog. I got you cover perfect. Okay. So, do you have any like crazy stories you can share with me, a road story or a crazy fan or something,

bizarre crazy stories or just cool stories. Yeah, I really believe unless well, well, I mean we so I've been lucky enough that I got to, you know, perform at the White House. I think it was. Yeah, I think it was back in two thousand and ten. What president for Obama? I'm very p Yeah, yeah, right, obviously. Yeah, so, I mean that was an amazing experience. And then yeah, so we got to meet him and then it was

like all of these other artists. It was Stevie Wonder and John Legend and I have a crush on John Legend Christy Tigan. Aren't they you them as a couple, They're so great. We actually so we this is a

funny story. So we wrote in the same limo as as him over to the White House right before the performance, just chilling in the limo, hanging out in the in the limo with him, and uh so his name on the list because you know, it's obviously very tight security, but his his name isn't really John Legend, I know, which all of us were like what it's like, it's something really ordinary. I forget what it is. It's something like, um, John Stevens or something like that. That's not it, but

it's it's something very ordinary like that. And so he hands over his I D. But on the list, I think it had him listed as as John Legend, and so he hands over his I D. And they're like, no, you know, this isn't the same, that's not the same last name. It was like this whole ord dude, John Leglie. We're all sitting there just like it's John Legend, Like what what you know? We're all like freaking out or like just go the limb. You know. It was pretty funny.

I'm mean they ended up letting him and it was just like a mix up. But it was Oh he was so cool and she was I mean, she was just stunning. Yeah. Yeah, she wasn't in the limo at that point for some reason. She met us over there, but she was very beautiful. Um. I didn't really talk to her and this was actually before she really became Yeah, hugely famous in the last few years, but really not so much then. Um, I guess she was like for modeling,

but now she's like really everyone knows who she is. Yeah, but um, yeah, everyone was just super sweet. As Seal was there. Um that's where we met Nick jonas Jordan's sparks. Yeah, all these people performing and it was it was a really really special night, you know, and that was really cool. That's some of the things about music is it takes you places that you could never really. Yeah. I never would have thought like, oh, I'm going to go to the White House and perform for a president, you know,

had never even crossed my mind. So it's pretty clear on the Bachelorette do crazy stuff. We we got to do a lot of really amazing things, so I I'm so grateful for that. Did you guys go overseas? We did? Yeah, we did a lot of stuff overseas. We um went and did a whole uh Middle East and Europe tour for yeah, for Navy Entertainment, And we got to fly out onto these two aircraft carriers out in the Persian Gulf, and I mean it was it was such a wild

experience and we were for sure. Yeah, yeah, you know in the Middle East. I mean it was it was pretty intense. Um, but you know, you go and you see what it was. It was hard. It was a really hard trip. It was about two weeks altogether. And you know, you see how these people, these men and women who are sacrificing everything for us, they worked so hard and it's endless and you know they they just all do it with such a positive attitude and it

really gives you such perspective, you know. And so so we got to do that. We went to Dubouti, Africa, We went to Signella, Italy, and then with Taylor Swift, we went to Australia. So we we got to go around the world. That's incredibly cool. That's really incredible. Yeah. Okay, So I like to end my interviews with a little thing called leave your Light and basically just give me some inspiration that's either inspired you or that you live

by or inspiring someone else. Oh okay, I gotta think about this, Okay, I think, you know, as far as just for me, you know, deciding to make this conscious, conscious, conscious decision to to do what I'm doing um, so much of that had to revolve around having a vision. And I think, just know what you want to do.

You don't have to know the how you're going to do it, and just focus on that end result and focus on you know, what it is where, where it is that you want to end up, and what it is that you want to do, and just really see that, believe that and feel that. So you see you visualize, yes, you visualized the end. Yeah, and then just work towards that. I do. Yeah. So you think you need a clear picture, you have to. I don't even feel it, you know, I feel it. It's already yours exactly. And live your

life as it is, you know. And honestly, a lot of that's a lot of what I have done, you know, and didn't even realize that I was doing it when I was younger, when I was a little girl, you know, And that's what led me to this point in time, you know. And I always saw this. I always saw it, Yeah, entertaining, singing, writing, and look at you now, look at your girl. Well we'll see. Oh you got it. You got that. That's gonna be great. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Rachel.

Rachel Reiner and ever'll be looking for music from her coming soon, but whenever it's right, yes, right, not rush. One of these days it's gonna be Thank you my girl, Carola. She's a queen of talking. He She's only got the scoop no one can do with Caralam Caral. I hope that you guys loved hearing from Rachel Reiner. She's such an angel and anything she does is going to be amazing because she's a star. Next week, I have a treat for you, guys. I have a freaking power couple,

Georgia Middleman and Gary Burr. They are two of the best songwriters in Nashville. Gary is in the Songwriter Hall of Fame. He has written over thirty two top forty hits, twenty four top ten hits, four teen number one hits, including I Try to Think About Elvis by Patty Loveless, one of my favorite songs, and What Mattered Most by Ty Herndon, Oh my God, that's my favorite. Georgia wrote I'm In for Keith Urban and together they are in a band with Kenny Loggins called Blue Sky Blue Sky Writers.

If that's not cool enough, Gary also plays with Ringo Starr and Carol King, that's just the tip of the iceberg of their story, so you're not gonna want to miss all of the adventures they have to talk about their life. It is so interesting and they are so much fun. And make sure to subscribe on iTunes and leave some comments. See you next week. I