Brandi Carlile
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Umbrella
4.6 • 69.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 143 minutes
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Summary
Brandi Carlile (Returning to Myself, By the Way, I Forgive You, and The Story) is a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, producer, activist, and author. Brandi joins Armchair Expert to discuss being a feral kid in rural Washington, navigating her father’s alcoholism, and being denied baptism by her church as a teenager. Brandi and Dax talk about building a career through relentless hustle, working with Rick Rubin and T Bone Burnett, and bringing Joni Mitchell and Tanya Tucker back to the stage and studio. Brandi explains how marriage equality changed her life, why she holds special respect for elders in the LGBTQ community, and how faith, family, and service continue to shape her worldview.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert. |
| 0:02.9 | I'm Dan Shepard. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Joy and Billy Padman. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi. |
| 0:05.7 | My voice broke there. Let's leave it. It's very, because it's a ding, ding, ding. Oh my gosh, it's a ding, ding, ding to the episode. It is. Her voice breaks in one of her most famous songs. Really good job. Brandy Carlisle. Brandy Carlisle is an 11-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, |
| 0:23.6 | and producer. Her albums are, by the way, I forgive you, in these silent days, the story, |
| 0:29.8 | returning to myself, currently on the human tour. For dates and tickets, go to brandy carlyle.com. |
| 0:40.5 | Guys, I loved her. This was such a fun. |
| 0:45.4 | Yeah, I really, really loved her. And she sings for us. Yes, she sings for us. Please enjoy Brandy Carlisle. This podcast is brought to you by Squarespace. I feel like Spring always does this |
| 0:51.4 | thing where you realize you've been thinking about something for a long time. |
| 0:54.8 | And suddenly it feels like, okay, maybe I actually do something with it. |
| 0:58.9 | Totally. It's less pressure, but more like readiness. |
| 1:02.3 | Yeah, like you've been sitting on an idea or a project or even just a perspective you care about. |
| 1:06.3 | And now you're like, maybe this deserves to exist somewhere outside of my own head. |
| 1:10.2 | In May being Mental Health Awareness Month, there's already this broader conversation happening. |
| 1:14.4 | People are more open, more curious, more willing to engage. |
| 1:17.3 | Which is where something like Squarespace comes in. It makes that jump from idea to actual |
| 1:22.3 | thing feel way less overwhelming. You can build a site that looks good, works well, and |
| 1:27.3 | actually reflects |
| 1:28.3 | what you're trying to put out there. And it's not just hypothetical. Wabiwob literally used |
| 1:32.7 | Squarespace to build our site. Yeah. And Wabiwob is not trying to spend 40 hours figuring out |
| 1:37.5 | web design. It just worked. Which is kind of the point. So if you've been sitting on something |
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