004 • Michael W. Smith
Instrumental with Dave & JJ Heller
JJ Heller
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Michael W. Smith has created an incredible legacy and it was a joy (and a little bit surreal) to sit down with him a couple weeks ago and have a conversation about where he's headed and where he's been. I had no idea how instrumental his wife Debbie was in launching his career… and the way he talks about her is the sweetest!
He's a multi-Platinum artist, best-selling author and acclaimed actor who continues to live out his dream; he releases new music regularly and performs around the world to sold-out crowds of loyal and inspired fans.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm J.J. Heller, and this is Instrumental, a show about the big and small moments that shape our lives. |
| 0:08.2 | In every episode, my guest and I start near the end of their story and work our way back to the beginning. |
| 0:15.1 | I hope our conversation reminds you that every second matters, because none of us knows which moment will be the one |
| 0:22.0 | that changes everything. |
| 0:28.3 | Welcome, everybody, it's JJ. |
| 0:33.9 | And Dave, and I can't believe the guest that we got on this week's episode. Yeah, we really tricked him into coming on to our show. |
| 0:41.9 | I was like, have you heard of JJ Heller? She's really famous. We have none other than Michael W. Smith. |
| 0:50.4 | The Michael W. Smith. On this episode. Not the Michael Q. Smith. |
| 0:55.0 | I don't know who that is. |
| 0:57.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:58.0 | We didn't want to settle for Q. |
| 1:01.0 | Nope. |
| 1:02.0 | We went all the way to W. |
| 1:04.0 | I know for me, I grew up in a home that wasn't real big on music. |
| 1:11.9 | I mean, my dad loved the Beatles, which was awesome. |
| 1:14.9 | But then all the other music that we listened to was kind of slower Christian music. |
| 1:21.3 | Yeah, my parents listened to a lot of praise and worship music, this stuff that you would sing in church. |
| 1:27.7 | Which was fine, but not super exciting for a kid. |
| 1:31.2 | Yes. |
| 1:31.9 | We both kind of had a similar experience where one day our parents bought the cassette tape for Michael W. Smith. |
| 1:40.2 | We're old. |
| 1:41.1 | Yeah, a little bit. |
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