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Lady A’s Hillary Scott Chases Her Dream For Her Daughters

Lady A’s Hillary Scott has three little girls, whom she would love to stay home with all the time, but she actually feels like she would be doing them a…

Lady A's Hillary Scott Chases Her Dream For Her Daughters
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Lady A's Hillary Scott has three little girls, whom she would love to stay home with all the time, but she actually feels like she would be doing them a disservice if she didn’t chase her dream and follow her passion to make music.

Hillary told us, “I feel like I’m being pulled by both my arms and I’m a perforated page. That’s how it will always be [between] the pull of parenthood and the pull of a calling and a dream that we’re so blessed to be able to chase and do and call our career. It’s very, very right on the surface and raw.”

At the same time, she knows that what she feels is what millions of other people feel, whether they have to leave their kids for eight hours or eight days because of their career. And for Hillary, pursuing her dream and living out her passion is also a part of being a good parent, she says, “It’s hard to leave them when they’re your world, they’re your responsibility, but wanting them to understand because we have children, to raise them up to be good humans, that this is a part of life and to chase a dream and want them to find the same thing.”

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.