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Hi everyone and welcome to the Kayden Gordon Show, today's Best Couch Remix. This week with me graduating and everything going on, we are going to be doing some amazing interviews.
We are going to be bringing back Ricky Yvette, Westmoreland, Jordana Bryant, and our good friends Sonny Morgan and Mark Nohmore.
So please, I hope you enjoy the show and I hope you have the opportunity to take a minute and listen to one of our awesome reruns. So you're listening to the Kayden Gordon Show, today's Best Country Mix.
Hello and welcome to the Kayden Gordon Show, today's Best Country Mix. And joining me right here today is Ricky Westmoreland. Ricky, how are you?
I am incredible. How are you?
I am doing awesome. Thanks for taking the time to come on with us today. We appreciate it.
My pleasure. Absolutely my pleasure.
So kind of tell us a little bit about yourself to get started.
A little bit about myself. Okay, well, okay boys and girls. Well, my name is Ricky Yvette Westmoreland and yeah I use my full name for my branding and my, because I just I'm in love with my name.
It's like the coolest name to me but anyway. So, um, but yeah I'm Ricky Yvette Westmoreland. Really quickly just, I am an actress, first and foremost, and I'm primarily, mostly known for my work on the viral inspirational series Darn Man Studios.
I've done about 94 or so videos on that platform in the last four years which I've just recently left so I'm mostly known for that as far as my acting work goes. But I'm also, I'm also a survivor of abuse and trauma.
And I have a background in trans personal guidance coaching and so I've recently just launched and embarked on my own vision called Ricky's World experiential entertainment therapy, which embodies all of that and characters and, and that's coming as well but so I just basically I enjoy
using my art for, you know, making a difference for cultivating growth in the world and so that's about it. I'm here, chilling with Kaden and we're ready to do this. Let's rock it out.
Awesome so kind of take me to the beginning like, what kind of got you into acting.
What got me into acting. Okay, well, okay. So this is kind of you guys will, for those who follow me they'll see that I actually have the whole story of how Ricky's World was born and actually started when I was little.
I have. I was always considered this creepy little kid my sister told me like like not too long ago she's like you used to creep me out as a little girl.
But I,
I used to like.
I used to basically get up and you know everybody, all the kids doing their own thing but I had this was very introverted very shy kind of, you know, withdrawn but since I was a toddler I get up in the middle of the night, sit in the dark and escape
my imagination into all these different worlds and realities and I will be like, you know, be these characters in my mind I'll be you know sometimes sitting up with a baby doll or I'm from the Midwest, Ohio, so there was this late program that when TV used to go off TV
used to go off back then gave away my age.
But, um, so yeah back then before TV went off I used to watch this program called the night owl theater and theater. And so, um, they would show all these cool otherworldly movies with aliens all kinds of things and so, you know, I'd scape into night
and I'd out theater and or sneak in, sit in the dark and escape and travel into other worlds and always acting things out and that was always growing up acting things out in the mirror and my imagination I love like cool trippy eccentric movies kind of got that from
my daddy.
And, you know, so it was always kind of in me to love to be some kind of character. And so then you know my first actual acting job can I was always too shy and didn't have really the confidence to like literally try to pursue anything, and it wasn't really
considered a reality, you know, a realistic thing where I when I was growing up you know it's like, even though we're watching it on TV and it's real for people that's the weirdest thing right. It's like not a real thing yet we're watching a movie where it's a real thing
for somebody. So weird. So, anyway, anyway.
Yeah, I just basically I ended up getting my first gig for someone I met on Facebook, Darryl McCullough was up there.
I'm holiday lie. So, I did terrible to me as my first time ever doing a film but it was like, I actually love this, and I can take that little girl and live out all these things and so I did another film. And these were in Ohio, in the indie films and then
I came to LA about eight years ago, finally just went full on I came here to start my own YouTube channel to where I can integrate all these things didn't work out I ended up with Darryl which is great and here I am I'm just, I've dove in now it's like the little
girls living all these little dreams and all those things I'm finally getting to do it.
That's awesome and the fact they've been with him for such a long time and you leaving them, how does that make you feel like are you, I'm sure you're sad about it.
Um, well yeah it was, it was hard to, I mean I had several days of crying. I went through a lot of emotional changes with the that decision, but it was a coming decision I had actually been sitting with it for a while.
And there's so many people that I love. So it was really heartbreaking.
You know, at some level, you know looking at the whole picture, as far as my career, my lifestyle my well being and all these other things I just really realized I needed to take a different direction to help in my career expanding it into the direction I
wanted to go. And having my own voice, having my own creative control over my work and writing my own stories in a very different way.
And still making an impact and a difference but then you know and as far as, you know, there, there's this kind of thing that happens and I'm all about being honest and keeping it classy baby.
There's this thing that, you know, and I'm grateful for everything. But one of the struggles as an actress that I had run into commonly was the success of the platform tends to people tend to parallel with that with the success of your personal life,
the success of your financial status and just, you know, social status or social publicity does not mean the same in your, in your, in your lifestyle your livelihood your pocket.
Sometimes when you realize you know you got to kind of change things up you got to make different moves to kind of survive a little bit better make more money and things like that you know because I constantly found myself in a state of struggle and some like
I'm like, I'm going to change it up and I got to just bring me out, you know, I wasn't, and I like some roles outside of that I wouldn't get booked for certain things because I'm not really seen outside of a certain particular character or cast type,
and so I'm like okay I got to break free of that, but I was trying to do that under the platform, but it's massive that is still overshadowed everything and I'm like okay for this aspect, I gotta just, you know, and I realized some of it is starting from scratch
but, you know, we have journeys, we begin to take them you're grateful for everything that they bring you, and, you know, and it's going to make space for other actors that want to enjoy the platform and, you know, and I'm doing my thing so yeah, I won't, you know,
there's a lot that I just I considered a lot. So many different things, my career, my vision, my well being and all these other things and to really come to that decision so so yeah.
Yeah, it still hurts sometimes I think about it, you know, but, you know, everybody know I love you, I love you all.
Yeah. That's mainly the key there, making sure that you know that you love them that's the whole point you know.
And I honestly congratulate you on everything that you're doing as well it's awesome that you got to be able to make your own platform you've got a little experience from it and now you're moving on a bit better and bigger things that's awesome.
I appreciate it. Well, it's not bigger. Yeah, well,
I will say that Dara is an incredible entrepreneur how he was a, I don't, I've never seen it. That's one thing, it's like I literally was part of the pioneering talent of an empire that in four years.
It's just like, billion 30 billion views.
And millions and millions of scriber subscribers to be a part of the pioneering talent I mean I was actually the first actress ever hired on the cinematic video so a lot of people want to know that.
Oh really, wow. Yeah, it's the first on the first. Yeah, the original OG.
But yeah but um, and and I say that with the deepest humility and gratitude, you know, because I was in Hollywood, not really anybody I'm very green.
And they are they gave me an opportunity, and they kept calling me back and.
So, I'm extremely grateful for that so, and just you know but the witnessing and of the unfolding of the journey and how it just kept growing and growing and then, and you know I was bringing in my friends before the you know there's casting and stuff
and it's like, you know, hey, there's this you know so literally seeing everybody that's come in and it's like, if I can watch an empire grow and I'm part of that pioneering talent well I can take from, you know, the mentorship
of that and and and try to see how I can, you know, build into my own empire as well. So, yeah.
Totally and what was like the experience between you and Darman like was there like you guys got to talk a lot or not really or.
Okay, so in the beginning.
I was a junior, so, um, that was incredible to me but like Dar, it used to they used to shoot the videos. So, the studios came like after coven and all that but before that the videos we were shooting them.
They were downtown at the watermark in the penthouse. He was running live glam a makeup company owned so he was pretty successful with lime glam that makeup company which he used to pay for producing these videos the cinematic videos.
He had done some other style videos prior to that like animation talking didn't really work out so they decided he decided, I'm going to do cinematic videos and hire actors and then that's when I first came in and then they hired someone to play my daughter,
based on how we look the like and whatnot but um, but he used to be more involved.
Because he was always there, working with the company. Plus, he was also living out of another penthouse there so he was always, you know, he was always kind of in and out location he always stopped by like coming greet us in the lobby it was very family oriented
it felt great.
And that was when it was a two man crew. It was a two man crew back then it was a producer and a director. We would do so the gorilla shooting because we would shoot downtown.
Oh man, the in the middle of the night sometimes so four in the morning.
See Ali's.
Sometimes by skit row and you know it'd be like, like one I was like in the scene and I'm crying and I'm like, I'm moaning there's tears pouring and I'm just like, oh so deep into it in my.
I just saw something in my peripheral right and peripheral does it right. And it's like slowly like nearing me because you know we were pretty we were not too far from skit row and so it's coming and I just happened to glance over tears and snot.
And it's this massive cockroach.
And I was sitting on the ground on top of a cardboard box. Yeah, it's like, man I freaked out and then the producers like trying to get it.
You know it's like a middle of the night, probably like three four in the morning.
And, you know, it was just like, it was just the it was so it was like very adventurous there was a one shoot we went around afterwards the, the, the food that we had for the shoot we were handing it out to the homeless.
It was a very incredible experience, especially in the beginning.
And, you know, and then when we were over the lobby like I said Darv was always in and out. He talked he would used to invite us to like celebratory dinners and we'd all shoot the breeze have restaurant, you know, gather at a restaurant and get together.
But now it's so massive.
We don't, we didn't see him much anymore. But understandably I mean, you know that's like, how often did you know if like, well, just in comparison Walt Disney for instance how did he go to the park regularly now.
I mean you can only you know do so much so the growths been crazy.
And then if he did kind of pass by through the set or whatever. He was always pretty friendly. You say hello to everybody, you know, and stuff like that.
So, yeah, yeah.
I don't know.
Did I answer your question. I talk. I mean, rambling okay.
No, it's all good. Yeah, you pretty much answered my question there I think you did really well with it so.
So if you could act with anyone that you have not acted with before, or if you have acted with them before. Again, who would you choose and why.
Oh, let me tell you something.
Viola Davis, number one, Viola Davis, I love me somebody Viola I love you.
I love feeling. I'm in love with emotions and feeling and I like that's what I used to do when I did my transpersonal guidance coaching with people. I help people through the process feel through their emotions that may in our society we tend to tell people,
there's this big thing with encouraging people to suppress their emotions to suppress their feelings, you know, get over it or don't get caught up in your feelings and it's like no.
You need to learn to have a healthy relationship with your feelings, because that is another we appreciate the five senses but that's another sense that we don't tend to see as a sense and that's how I view it in my world perspective, you know, so I believe in having
a healthy relationship with your feelings and cultivating that relationship so that you know how to act within them practically Viola has this incredible way of engaging in these emotions in a very organic and beautiful way.
And bringing that out, so that your experiences experiencing it so viscerally and tangibly. And it's just brilliant how she just carries and brings these things into the stage you can feel it.
And I love to feel and I love to make people feel stuff to always I don't know about curse words I like to make, I like to make people feel
Viola she can really help take me there even further into those depths. So, you know, I hands down, I think she could help me arrive in places of, you know, as an actor that would take me, who knows where, you know, and she's so down to earth.
And real I love her story her struggle story. I can relate, you know, in a lot of ways to some things that she talks about. And so, I just, I love her.
No, I agree with you. I want to say I know who you're talking about name sounds familiar can't put a face to it.
Absolutely. So, um, do you have any advice for those who might want to start acting but doesn't really know how to or is kind of nervous to start.
Oh, you know what.
I think what's interesting about these decades that we go through with technology is that all the actors just just think first think about this all the actors that you might know and love that you think are incredible.
When I first started they probably were crappy. The thing is you don't have probably any footage of that. But nowadays, the newer actors, they might likely have some footage out there and you'll see you'll see their growth over time,
but my thing is, we all start somewhere. Now you can more document, like some of the newer actors their growth over the years, because we have more video and things like that we capture indie things but auditions we share.
But you start from somewhere but my thing is don't judge yourself.
Just dive into that and dive into your experience.
If you're embarrassed, you don't want to be around people do it in the mirror, dive into that experience and fully feel it.
That's where I say, I believe that we get more courage to do things when we feel the experience of it and that experience feels. We've gone through that and we feel okay, we realize we're still here.
Everything's fine after that. So, walk yourself, imagine that experience in the mirror in your private area that you're performing in front of a bunch of people and feel what it might feel like to be embarrassed and be get comfortable with that,
so that when you actually do it.
Give me wait for that.
Like a fire truck or something.
Yeah, yeah.
I think it's gone now.
Okay, I hope everybody's okay for whatever that is. Yeah. Um, so yeah.
So, yeah, create, create an imaginary imagined experience for yourself to run it through yourself, so you can kind of embody that put it in your muscle memory your spirit your mind and all of that to be okay with it.
Do an audio, do an acting video, there's social media do a real, put it out there, get some feedback on it, and see how you feel. And, you know, we have the opportunity to try things out on social media that we didn't have before.
You just had to go to do an audition and see how it goes but now you can you can try things out, check with your audience, get your feedback from your friends and, and, you know, there's so many sources online if you want to grow you want to learn the process
go to YouTube, learn about what people tend to do to get into acting there's so many resources there, because I think there used to be one way to get into this industry.
And, and then there was just Hollywood, it was pretty hard to get into but now I think that there's so many avenues to get into it.
And if you just push yourself into that experience you're creating yourself, you're, you're, you're moving into it without realizing it in a whole different way.
But from the mirror to social media to reels, the independent industry is a huge area into that industry, where,
you know, that wasn't available before, and you got you have so many resources available. So just if you're afraid.
Don't be afraid. If you're afraid and you want something directly for me go watch some of my watch my my now the film the story was great holiday lie was great.
But you'll see the difference in my acting like that I really kind of sucked a little bit here and there.
But you know what, you have to not just you just kind of do it, and be okay with that and if you don't like it. Be okay with it.
The biggest thing is you've accomplished something and you've broken a cycle you've broken a chain. That's what matters and it's, you're walking yourself into a whole new beautiful beautiful journey and so just focus on your journey, your growth, you're
doing it and you're living life and not thinking through life and pulling yourself back from life as you live in it, you know, so, yeah.
Just take advantage of the resources, give it some chest test tries out you might realize I don't really like this after you do a few reels.
And then that'll give you your answer, you know, doesn't take a huge investment just to get your fillers out there to try it first, and then if you really love it, then you can start really getting more serious and getting
into the whole getting headshots and seeing where you can, where you go to audition there are a lot of places where you audition online like backstage.com and things like that.
Dar is known for giving a lot of first opportunities to new people so they're posting all the time as well that might be an avenue to kind of get a taste, you know, just when crew work.
That's where I, when I came to LA I jumped into production work because I wanted to know how the whole thing worked a little bit more. So, my first job I got in LA, when I moved here, I got off of Craigslist.
I jumped on Craigslist. I know a lot of people don't trust Craigslist but I believe in high discernment and high intuition and you'd be okay.
You know so, yeah, but there's there's a lot of things, just fill it out, see what you feel comfortable with, you know.
Totally and where can people find you on social media platforms if they want to give you a follow Ricky.
On social media. All right, daddy, you can find me on, I don't know.
You can find me on, well I'm my biggest, most active area is Instagram, or IG, which I do reels more regularly.
Little short skits and I come in.
No, it's busy out there.
Okay, so I do reels, skits, little encouragement messages and encouragement but that's where I do most of my stuff.
But Ricky's World will be airing on YouTube.
So I highly recommend if anybody can go there, go to Ricky's World and subscribe on YouTube, because I got some incredible stories coming through that platform, stories that are born from just my imagination from when I started as a little girl so I think you guys will enjoy that journey with me,
hopefully, or you know be honest with me tell me the truth so I can keep growing I love to grow, you know.
So, Instagram, YouTube, Ricky's World, Ricky Yvette Westmoreland, and also my website.
It's in construction, being expanded but right now, if anybody's looking to book me for an acting gig.
I do read, I do meet and greets I do cameos I have a lot of characters that I play that are self authored by myself, I have there, they're going to be on my website soon but I do monologues like monologues like performances characters I have like one is named Josephine Brown
and I'm a black revolutionary from 1972.
And, and, and I have this Ruthie, she's an elder who's 110 years old lady, you know, she likes to talk to the children.
And then I have, you know, vampire have like, I have a superhero character I have lots of characters so there's a lot of people.
So, yeah, if you want to book me for any of the characters being greets monologues, a film project, or whatever just visit my website it's www Ricky the nomadic actress calm, Ricky the nomadic actress, because I travel around and perform, or just visit
the world.com, they both go to the same place so and Ricky is our Iki. So, just for those who don't know. So yeah, does that help.
That helps completely. Thank you so much I appreciate that.
So, is there anything that I forgot they like to mention before we go today.
I think I kind of squeezed it in at the end like oh I didn't mention my characters.
Yeah, I mean just that you know like, also known as Ricky, the nomadic actress for those who might not know nomad is a person who tends to be a little location independent, I'm not a full time, I don't.
Well, I'm not looking to be a full time nomad.
Lately I have been.
That's another story, I got coming to y'all soon.
Yeah. But I like exploring and traveling around because it inspires me to create. And so I'll be going like to Arizona soon, sometime, like, later in the month and I'm looking to do meet and greet there, and maybe a couple live performances of my characters,
and I just kind of nomad around I'm, I have a van that I've. I'm in my van you see behind me.
Yeah, so I basically, I did a little self build in here to support my nomadic travels, where I.
It's a, it's a kind of a partial conversion it's not finished but I mean this, I love to go in nature, camping, whatever I love to spend time alone with the birds, the bees, the animals, the trees.
I love to be here hippie spirit but um, but yeah so my van, I like have a wardrobe station and have like, you know, so I can do video blogs, whatever but I can do my characters on the road.
I have the thing I built in the back I have a bathing station if I just want to camp, whatever.
Yeah, I'm kind of a hippie.
But yeah so I'm a nomad in that sense. I do, you know, aim to have a home permanent home dwelling, you know, in one spot.
So it's not like I'm looking to be like this whole full time nomad kind of thing but it's primarily the nomadic travels for when I'm doing my work, you know my acting and exploring.
So that'll be shared on Ricky's world on my YouTube channel as well as I go around. Ricky the Nomadic Actress guiding you along all the adventures of Ricky's world so yeah.
That's awesome. And I would like to thank Ricky for taking the time to come on the Kayden Gordon Show. Today's Best Country Mix we appreciate your time so so much.
Thank you. All right, peace, love and shade butter baby.
Hello and welcome to the Kayden Gordon Show today's Best Country Mix, and we have a very special guest with us today joining me is Jordana Bryant, how are you?
Hey, I'm good. How are you?
I'm doing wonderful. Thank you so much for being here today.
Oh my gosh, of course I'm excited to be here.
So kind of tell everyone a little bit about yourself and how you got into music.
Yeah, for sure. So, growing up, I always heard music around the house my dad played in a bunch of bands when he was growing up in a bunch of country and rock bands and he was a lead guitarist in those so he would always kind of just be playing the guitar around the house.
And I can't exactly remember when but I had a certain point I think I just started singing out these like random melodies and lyrics. And I wouldn't really call those songs but I think they were kind of the start of my love of songwriting, before I even knew what songwriting was.
And I just, I just fell in love with it and so you know when I was really little I would always just be singing around the house, much to my brother's annoyance.
And then I want to say when I was 10, my dad, my dad started teaching me guitar after I got a guitar for Christmas. And so I started learning guitar and that really opened up songwriting for me because I feel like just hearing you know getting to play around with all the chords,
it would kind of inspire you know just melodies and lyrics from that and so I spent the next few years just, you know, writing songs in every free moment I had. And then, when I was 14 I believe I started posting a few, you know, covers and originals on YouTube and Instagram
and a few of those, you know, picked up and so producer who saw them, Seth Mosley invited me to come down to Nashville to, you know, record a few songs and get to meet him and that was awesome it was such a blast.
And Seth and I kind of instantly connected there some people who you kind of just walk into the room and you feel like kindred spirits like you know you know you just, you know, and that was kind of like me and Seth, and he was just always so supportive of what I wanted to say in my music.
But right after that COVID hit so we were kind of stuck in Pennsylvania and couldn't really get out to Nashville for a while so I took that time to really just, you know, dive into posting and I was posting every night going live on Instagram every night and I just found it was such an awesome way to build a community.
And I love getting to every night go on and talk to people and, you know, play whatever songs they asked and answer questions and just it was, it was just really a community and I love that because I feel like songwriting at its core and music at its core is a way for people to connect.
And so that was just a really awesome experience and I was able to build my following up and get to share my music with more people and and I just love that and then this past fall late I think like late summer early fall I won't say like around September, I started writing
writing a bunch with Seth and another producer and writer Zach Kale, and we started working on a project together. And so we were writing a bunch. And we you know, we wrote this song called Guilty with, you know, Zach, Seth and Allison and me and it was such a fun right it was one of those
going in to the right I kind of had this idea that what if we wrote this song that's, you know, a love song but use the word guilty where it's like guilty typically has a darker meaning but make it you know super fun and have that contrast, and it was just like the, you know, I think it was like a six hour right and it just like flew by and
it was just you know one of those a lot of times after right I feel like you go back you're like, I love this but what if we tweak some of this stuff and for guilty was really weird just after the right we were like, No, I don't think we should tweak any of it it just feels right.
And so that song I just released last Friday, and yeah and so I'm really really excited about that one it's just like a super you know uptempo love song and I feel like it's so high energy which is, and you know optimistic and stuff and I feel like that's a lot of who I am as a person
and you know, and an artist, and also I feel like I'm really glad that it's you know out because I feel like it's everyone kind of just, I don't know I feel like everyone gets afraid of telling someone that they're into them and life's just too short to waste time
you know not saying if you're into someone and you know, and so I feel like I just wanted to write a song that's hopefully that hopefully can inspire some people to be bold and just tell someone if they're into them.
I agree with you 100% I think it's one of those things where, you know, you're giving the voice to the person that that someone likes or whatever that way they're not physically saying it but they are in a way because it's going through the music aspect of things.
Yeah, definitely.
And I have to say, you did you and everybody did amazing on guilty you guys did awesome.
Thank you so much. Thank you. You are most welcome. And recently I know you didn't mention this but you actually signed with Riser house entertainment.
Yes, I did. Good. So tell me a little bit about that like how are you feeling now that you're with a label company.
It's really awesome. Just like I felt connected to Seth when I walked in the room first time that was exactly how it was walking into Riser house, the whole team I mean Jen the head of the label, but everyone else at the label to it's just like I really instantly
connected with them felt so much like a family. And, and so it was it's I'm super excited to go working with them I before signing I had a bunch of meetings with Jen and I played a ton of my songs, and it was just really awesome to, you know,
because she really just wanted to put out music that was stuff that I cared about saying and I feel like that's really, really awesome and I'm really grateful to have found people that, you know, really want to help me share my voice with the world, and I'm super excited to be working with them
I think it's going to be a really fun journey.
Absolutely, you know it's one of those things where when you find the right people that actually want to listen to you and your ideas and your thoughts and, and they're so supportive of you, I think it's super important to remember that and keep them in your life that's for sure.
Definitely, definitely is.
So if you could do a duet or collaborate with any singer who would you choose and why Jordan.
That's a good question. Um, there's so many but I would say if I could do a collab. It would probably be Carrie Underwood I want to say, or Taylor Swift, I don't know.
Yeah, I like their, first of all their music is incredible but I love how they just really feel like so authentic in their music and that makes it so relatable for everyone that's like you can you know you can hear their song and instantly be like, yes I'm not seeing that but like
and that's not about my life but it could be, and like, I feel like that's really incredible and I just I mean Carrie Underwood has this insane voice that is like, you know, you could die hearing it it's amazing.
And Taylor Swift you know her writing style is just so it's insane it's so authentic and relatable for people and I love that so I'd say probably one of those two.
Definitely. I know you are just approaching your end of the year at high school and then you're going to be going into college, how do you feel about that that's awesome at 16.
Thank you. Yeah, I'm really excited I'm counting down the days. I mean it's definitely I love school and I love learning, but sometimes it's a little bit hard when Oh absolutely manager is texting me in the middle of biology and my phone is like,
pinging every two minutes or like, you know, my little like team group chat they're all like talking, guys in class, my teachers gonna start yelling at me. But, you know, I'm very excited to be I only have like a month left so I'm looking forward to that and I'm really excited to be moving to Nashville
because it's been a dream line for a long time so it's really awesome to, you know, see it almost come to be. Totally totally and what college are you going to what are you going, I know you're going into music but what exactly are you going in for.
Yeah, so I'm going to be going to Belmont, and, and I'm going to be studying music business there. Music business.
Yeah, so I'm really excited for that but, you know, right now I definitely want to put my focus 100% into my music so as I'm figuring out those plans, which you know we're still trying to figure out right now.
I definitely want to put my music first and you know not do something that's gonna, you know, take away from that.
Yeah, completely and you know, I'm super excited because you know Nashville is going to be a awesome opportunity for you.
How long have you been in Pennsylvania for my whole life. Oh, okay.
I'm up here and you know with Tiana I love it. It's, but I'm definitely looking forward to being in Nashville it's just Nashville I don't know I feel like anyone who lives there will tell you it just has like a certain energy that's like, it's always going and people are always what I love
like honestly one of my favorite things about it is everyone is so nice. Like, you, you know, you could walk down the street and say hi to 1000 people and you know 999 of them would say hi back and start telling you their life story and just be like, you know,
it's like, I don't know people are just so nice and I love that and I love that you know your neighbors there and that you, you know, build this community that I just find that really incredible.
That is very incredible. I know that you just signed with Ryzer house some do you have any other projects that you plan on putting out any new music anything like that in the near future.
Yes, definitely. So I just released a song guilty and we're working on some more songs that are going to be coming out really soon and they're all going to be part of a bigger project that we're going to release in a few months.
Wonderful, wonderful. And I know that you wanted to play guilty for us for those who have not heard it yet. This is an amazing song. I'm going to kind of let Jordana tell you a little bit about it and we can get going.
Thank you. Yeah, I'm super excited.
Like I said, guilty is just like I feel like it's a little crush anthem which I feel like we all kind of need every once in a while. Yeah, I just hope it kind of inspires some people to be bold and tell someone if they're into them.
And, you know, promise coming up for those people.
I've been working way too hard to act like I don't care.
I'd be.
I'm guilty.
Yeah.
These words.
I was buying.
They all know I'm guilty.
You stuck in my heart guilty of one of the arms one kiss one call one phone.
I'm guilty for all of those times. I was walking right by.
I'm guilty.
That was awesome. That was awesome. Thank you. Thank you so much. You know the difference between actually listening to the physical song and you doing it acoustically.
I think that there's a complete difference with it, but it's awesome. It sounds very different and I like that.
You're very welcome. And I have been following you for a while on social media, which is awesome. I've actually seen you grow. So it is awesome to actually see you with a label and everything. So it's awesome.
Thank you so much. Your support means a lot. You are most welcome. So kind of walk us through like, I mean, maybe not like a typical but like a day to day basis for you.
Yeah, for sure. Um, it really varies. But I'd say my typical day to day is waking up and getting ready for school. And then usually I'll respond to some comments before you know before school or post a little story or something. Then I go to school and
during the day, usually when I have like my free period I'll be editing like a video or something. And once I get back home, I usually have you know call, usually I'll have like a call with my label or you know my PR team or something like that, or my manager.
And after that, I am usually you know editing some videos and posting some stuff. And sometimes I'll also have a co write on after school it depends on you know whether I doing the zoom on because not as many people do zoom ones but still when we're trying to like
write up a song or something if I'm you know not in town, sometimes we'll still have some zoom co writes. And, and after that all you know do some homework I have all, you know, do some vocal practice. I sometimes I'm like practicing for some shows like right now,
I'll be sometimes I'm like figuring out my setlist for a show that I'm doing with restless road on May 20 in DC so I'm getting you know trying to figure out what songs I want to do for that and block all that stuff out.
And, and then it'll just be kind of you know I feel like a mix of, you know, small stuff that I'm, you know, figuring out my team like text, you know, emailing them back have we figured out this thing have we gotten this out.
And so that's usually my day to day when I'm home in Pennsylvania and then when I'm in Nashville it's definitely different. Usually I have some meetings I'll go into the studio for a few hours to either write or record.
You know sometimes I'll have like a writers round that I go to and play a few songs, and yeah I mean it feels like I don't really have a very typical day to day kind of thing based on the day but those are a lot of things that I'll be doing in my day to day.
Yeah, I wouldn't really call it typical either. That's why I was kind of like do I call it that do I not call it that like, how do I word it you know.
Yeah, let's say it's like one day that that yeah that that is a possible day.
And it's one of those things to like it can change like in the industry that not only urine but also I'm in you know like when I do interviews, writing back to people emailing. It's one of those things where it can just change you know so it's like, exactly, you know, be like, oh, by the way, you have this thing going on tonight, and I'm like, oh cool.
Maybe a little notice would have been nice there.
But, you know,
But we'll make it work right absolutely you know we'll make it work as long as I don't have anything going on I'll do it I'll be there you know.
So what do you like doing outside of music do you have any hobbies interests anything like that.
That's a good question. Um, I don't know I mean as far as some like hobbies, I love baking. Um, I, I love playing tennis.
And yeah I just love hanging out with my family and my friends.
It's funny I like, I was thinking about this a few days ago that I was like I speak to my manager like more than I do my best friends.
But, um, it's just like because I don't go to school with either of them so I don't see that all the time.
You know, but I love whenever I have some free time getting to hang out with them and you know catch up.
Well in this industry you got to keep updated with your manager you got to keep him in the loop of things.
Yeah, yeah.
And not only you guys could be talking about anything I mean you know that's I love that how you guys have that really close relationship with each other.
That's awesome.
That is really cool. So do you have any advice for anyone that might want to start singing but doesn't really know how to start or what people will think or anything like that?
Yeah, totally. I mean, when I first started posting I was just going to a new school. I was really afraid people are going to find it and be like this is so weird like why is she posting this why you know like what like who does she think she is.
But honestly, who cares, whoever is going to like, you know, make comments or judge you is not someone you need to be friends with, you know, and so I just you know and also I was really afraid of people, even who I didn't know, commenting and stuff on my videos.
But truthfully, and this is something that like, I feel like is so like simple but it's something you would never think of but if you don't like someone like if you see someone's video and you don't really like what they're doing or you don't love their voice, you're just going to squill past like
you're not going to take the time to write a mean comment if someone's really taking the time to write something not nice about your video, then it's not about you it's something it's like their own internal issues and I think just realizing that and trying not even to read it, because, you know,
I feel like sometimes, like I see these paragraph comments and I like, you know, we'll let myself start reading it and then I can't stop and like, you never feel better after reading those.
Yeah. I'd say honestly, most people who see your stuff are going to be really supportive like they're going to be a few people who aren't. Yeah, most people are going to be really supportive, because like what you're doing takes courage, it takes a lot of courage and, you know, just that fact
that you're on your own is really incredible and so I would say definitely try posting some stuff social media incredible in that you have an essence of stage in front of the world that you can get to connect with people who don't even live in the same state, right, you know, and that's really awesome and I feel like it's such a great way to connect with people and to build a community so I would definitely say, you know, try posting some stuff.
Because that's how you got on here and that's how a bunch of people saw you by just, you know, posting your talent. So, thank you. Yeah, definitely social media is so it's such an awesome tool now you know it's how I feel like so many artists get to really build, you know, build their music and get to share it with more people.
I agree and you know it's one of those things to like here in the radio station world you know I meet all these different artists and stuff. And like you know it's the opportunity to you know play their music like guilty I played many times on my show, just so you know.
You are very welcome. And I actually I saw one of your your fans comments asking if you're ever going to be heard on radio station I kind of laughed internally I was going to be like hey listen here, but at the same time I was like I'm not going to do that I'm not going to take away her spot.
And I think I ended up deciding to do it but you know it was one of those things where. Yeah, so I kind of had an internal laugh about that and the fact that they're like oh where can we hear it and you know this, just the fact that it's just awesome.
I know that is that's really awesome. Yeah. So, I know you write a lot of music about you know like you and your like different relationships and stuff but if someone was to kind of like write a song about you about your life, what do you think it would be about.
That's a good question. I've never heard that one before.
I guess if I was right if someone was writing like a whole life story thing.
Because, as a little kid, I was very shy like wouldn't talk to a waiter shy like make my brother ask for water for me shy, like I just, I was terrified of talking to anyone I was like, I don't know, I just really got in my head and I would like rehearse things that I was going to say before I said that I was, you know, but I think
when I got older I kind of just realized that like life is too short to waste time being afraid of what you want and you know of what you want and not going for it and so as much as I like it scared me to, you know, talk in front of people like let alone sing in front of them.
I think I just, it was really something that I cared about doing and I love doing and in the end that was more important to me than my fear of you know was and so I think if someone was going to write a song, it would, you know, be about trying to, you know, conquer those fears and just be, you know, your
authentic self and be you know, do what you want with your life and you know, get to find your voice I guess.
Well said, well said. Where can people find you on social media platforms if they want to follow you if they're not already.
Yeah, definitely. So both on Instagram and TikTok. My username is Jordana.briant. YouTube if you just search Jordana Bryant, you'll find it and in case you don't know how to spell that that is Jordana, J-O-R-D-A-N-A, Bryant, B-R-Y-A-M-T.
So, yeah, that you can find me on, you know, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, all socials, Facebook, Twitter, those I don't really post on as much but I still do post on them.
And I also have some music out on Spotify, like my song Guilty that just came out so, you know, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Pandora, all of that. And if you want a simple you know link to it all if you just go to my website, that's all linked there so that's Jordana Bryant.com, J-O-R-D-A-N-A, B-R-Y-A-M-T.com.
And yeah, if you go there you'll have all the links to Spotify, socials, Apple Music, all of that stuff. Wonderful and I highly encourage you check out her. She's awesome. You have a great voice.
Thank you so much. You are most welcome. Thank you. I really appreciate that.
Once again, you're very welcome. So is there a message that you would like to give your fans or anyone listening or watching this Jordana?
I would just say to everyone who's listening to Guilty, thank you so much. It's really meant the world to me and it's made me so happy. It's made my heart so full to see, you know, you guys really relating with the song and that the song is resonating with you.
And that just means the world to me. And to anyone who hasn't heard it I'd say please listen to it. Yeah.
It means the world to me and thank you so much for having me on tonight. I've had a blast talking with you.
You're most welcome and again I would like to thank Jordana and Brian for taking the time to come on the Kayden Gordon Show. Today's Best Country Mix. We really appreciate your time so much.
Thank you so much. It's been a blast.
We'll be back soon on the Kayden Gordon Show. Today's Best Country Mix.