Best of - Naomi Judd: Dream Chaser

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🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

As a tribute to Naomi Judd, who died on Saturday night at the age of 76, we are re-posting our episode from 2017. Ms. Judd's life and storied career had more ups and downs than a rollercoaster, as she talked about here. For eight glorious years, she and her daughter Wynonna were the biggest country music sensation of the 1980's, with fourteen number one hits, sold-out stadium tours, and too many rhinestones to count. But Naomi's life before and after was far from glamorous. Her early years in a small-town Kentucky were tumultuous and at times traumatic. She struggled as a young single mom on welfare. But singing transformed her relationship with Wynonna, and took them to the heights of the music industry. As she shared in this conversation, however, a devastating case of Hepatitis brought it all crashing down, then eventually led her to a place of tremendous insight and gratitude. Naomi Judd died just one night before she and Wynonna were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Her death was announced by her daughter, actress Ashley Judd, who wrote on Twitter: “We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness.” (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2017-2022

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0:00.0	Reading about Naomi Judd's life can give you vertigo.
0:03.7	She's had more deep down low points than a country song
0:07.6	and more high points than the Appalachian Mountains
0:10.8	where she was born.
0:11.9	Along that roller coaster of a journey of course, in What I'm trying to tell you characters is that we are not magical beings.
0:27.0	You're not born with your destiny stamped on your forehead.
0:31.0	We crawled over a broken glass to get here here and you know how we did it?
0:35.1	We didn't let anything stand in our way or anybody.
0:38.8	They're my guardian, I know they can see.
0:47.6	Every step I take, they are go for me.
0:55.0	I'd not know where I'm going,
0:59.0	but I'm sure where I come from.
1:05.0	They're my guardian angels.
1:11.0	And I'm there special walk.
1:14.0	Naomi Judd's guardian angels and whispering demons on this episode of what it takes.
1:20.0	A podcast about Passion, Vision, and perseverance from the Archives of the Academy of Achievement.
1:27.0	I'm Alice Winkler.
1:29.0	Adam Aye, this child is gifted, and I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
1:35.0	If you have the opportunity not a perfect opportunity and you don't take it you may never have another job.
1:41.0	It all was so clear.
1:43.1	It was just like the picture started to form itself.
1:46.2	There was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth,
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