Hi everyone I'm Brine Brown and this is unlocking us.

Okay, I'm losing my mind. In this conversation I am talking to the one and only Dolly Parton.

Global Superstar, Musician, actress, performer, a performer, business woman, leader,

superhero icon.

Wow, I've said this about one other person maybe

that they say don't meet your heroes,

but whoever said that had not met Dolly Parton because she has been so

important to me in my life and you'll hear about why and it's not it's hard stuff actually she

Some of her music was banned by my family, actually my great aunt, who had all of her albums when I was growing up.

I couldn't listen to several of them because she dealt with such controversial issues.

And so I never thought of her as anything but a really serious person.

I think I thought she was maybe a preacher when I first heard her music.

But I talk with her in this episode about her new book,

Dolly Parton Song Teller, My Life in Lyrics. And how her life is a songwriter and a

storyteller has been really driven by empathy and a calling that she feels to connect with people

and to shine a light on shame to create more love, more belonging.

It is such a beautiful book to y'all. It's just a coffee table book. It's huge. It weighs 500 pounds, but it's so beautiful.

Amazing photographs. She tells the story behind every song even when it's just heart-wrenching.

You know, photos of receipts where she wrote the lyrics on the back of a receipt, you know, in a car.

One of the things that I did along with my team that helps me prepare for the

podcast is we read the books all in different places of course because we're

distanced but we read the book and listen to the songs as we were reading about them and it was just an amazing experience.

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