Amy Grant
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
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4.7 • 990 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Rachel. If you're in LA, listen up because we're coming to town. And soon, on Thursday, May 7th, we're going to tape an episode of Wildcard live on stage at the Crawford in Pasadena. And the phenomenal Tracy Ellis Ross will be my guest. She's the kind of person who reminds you how much life is out there for the taking. |
| 0:24.8 | There are still a few tickets left at laus.com slash events. |
| 0:28.1 | Come, it's going to be so fun. I'd love to see you there. |
| 0:32.1 | What's something you've come to peace with? |
| 0:33.3 | Time. |
| 0:45.5 | If you're trying to create a lovely garden, which I am, that is what I'm truly trying to do at 65, for the first time, like soup to nuts beginning to end. |
| 0:47.6 | And it's like, man, nature went. |
| 0:49.2 | It doesn't matter how hard you work. |
| 0:52.9 | There's so many things you can't control. |
| 0:58.4 | The weeds will come back. But it's just like the joy in the process. |
| 1:00.6 | That's got to be enough. |
| 1:03.4 | I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Wild Card. |
| 1:05.8 | The show where cards control the conversation. |
| 1:12.9 | Each week, my guest answers questions about their life. Questions pulled from a deck of cards. |
| 1:19.2 | They're allowed to skip one question and to flip one back on me. My guest this week is Amy Grant. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm just looking at all those people in the audience. A lot of them, you know, if they're not coloring their hair like I am, it's gray. |
| 1:28.0 | And they're my contemporaries. And I thought, it's gray, and they're my contemporaries, and I thought, |
| 1:33.6 | am I doing us all a disservice by not writing about what life feels like now? |
| 1:38.3 | Lots of people have tried to tell Amy Grant who to be over the course of her music career. |
| 1:43.9 | Sometimes the criticism comes from people who think she's singing about God too much, and sometimes it's from people who say she's not singing about God enough. |
| 1:47.7 | But as someone who has followed Amy Grant's career since I was a kid, |
| 1:51.0 | singing her songs in church, to me she's always seemed like someone who knows exactly who she is |
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