Hey, everybody, welcome to the dream big podcast. I hope it's been a good week. And

sometimes this is good to take a pause and think about something beautiful, like some beautiful

music, maybe a new artist that you haven't heard of before. And I'd like to introduce

Sarah Kroger, who's doing some great music. Sarah, welcome to the podcast.

Thanks, Bob. Thanks for having me. Excited to be with you guys.

Oh, yeah, I'm just so glad you're on. Tells for people that haven't been exposed to you and

your music yet. Tell us about you. Yeah. Well, I grew up in the Catholic church. My parents are

both music ministers from the time before I was born. So always grew up going to church,

singing in children's choir, musical family. We would, oh my gosh, we would have these dinners

where we would listen to La Miserable like a full blast in my house and just sing all over the

house and just very musical musical family grew up with it. But really, as a teenager,

had a deeper conversion my faith through worship music and I've never looked back since, really.

It's been quite the journey. But yeah, just full-time worship leader, songwriter artist.

And yeah, why did you decide to do this? Because you could like be running a small country somewhere.

And the arc for like sometimes you're doing music and Nashville and you're just doing your fast

because you feel like this is what your heart beats. But it's actually for people that aren't in

the business. It's actually could be kind of rugged. What are some of the challenges with being

an artist that's doing this professionally? Then sometimes people wouldn't be thinking about.

Yeah, I mean, I think the first thing it comes to mind for me, at least from a challenge perspective,

is as an artist, you really have to be vulnerable with your art, with yourself. You have to put yourself

out there consistently. You have to share these pieces of your heart through music that feel

like these little babies that you've been raising up for months and months and then you have to

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