Ep 171: I Hope You Dance feat. Sophia Sansone

Probably a Podcast

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Comedy, Society & Culture

4.3 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week, Shannon welcomes her friend and music management superstar, Sophia Sansone! They chat about how they met, her experience breaking into the music industry, and what it was like growing up with 8 siblings (and being on Oprah). Shannon asks Sophia about her career evolution, from being a fresh face in Nashville to managing high-profile clients like Luke and Nicole Combs and The Band Perry. Sophia opens up about a personal tumultuous relationship, the importance of leaning on faith and family, and how she overcame the experience. Tune in for an episode with an equal dose of silliness and resilience.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome

00:29 Podcast Drinking Habits

00:51 Sophia's Background and Friendship

02:51 Sophia's Career Journey

03:26 Make Wake Artist Management

04:20 Luke Combs' Rise to Fame

05:17 Sophia's College and Early Career

14:17 Family and Personal Life

15:10 Oprah and Family Experience

23:38 Women in Business

31:01 CMA Fest and Awards Highlights

32:45 Managing Artists: Challenges and Insights

39:32 Navigating a Tumultuous Relationship

46:16 Healing and Personal Growth

01:00:02 Faith and Family Support

01:03:03 Looking Forward: Future Plans and Gratitude

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.5	Welcome back to another episode of Probably a podcast.
0:08.9	I have my dear, dear friend Sophia Sansone, who is not only a dear friend of mine,
0:13.4	but she's a bad.
0:16.2	Okay, so tune the flock in, get your notepads out, and take notes because she's going to spill some information that you need to write down.
0:24.4	There's going to be a quiz at the end.
0:26.2	Sophia, hi.
0:26.9	Hi.
0:27.8	Bottoms up.
0:30.1	I've been drinking a lot on this podcast lately.
0:33.9	I used to always drink on this podcast.
0:36.1	One thing about me, Sophia, I used to podcast at like
0:38.9	nine in the morning if Courtney needed to podcast it on in the morning or if I was like, that's what works for my schedule, probably because I wanted to start drinking by 12. I would crack a red bull, tequila. It didn't matter what time. I said, I couldn't possibly podcast sober. No. No, here we are all is that to say, welcome Sophia. How are you? I'm good. I'm a little nervous, but no, you are, it's so funny because you like chew me up and spit me out like that's this, your job is to literally like handle the most high stress situations and you're on this silly, goofy little podcast in this stupid little studio and you're like, I'm nervous. No, I love it. Well, I'm usually behind the camera. That's true. And we're
1:14.3	going to talk about that. But first, let's talk about me. No, I'm kidding. I do want to always start with saying how we know each other. And how do we know it? I mean, Nashville in general, but I feel like my first memory of you was tin roof.
1:28.6	I had known who you were
1:30.5	because of because of Nico my brother yes and he loved you and I remember you came up to me
1:37.1	you're gonna probably laugh you came up to me or sat by me at tin roof and we're just like
1:40.7	super nice and bubbly and I was like this girl this girl blacked out. Like she's so nice.
1:45.4	And then I realized that that is literally just how you are, just a really good friend of the family.
1:51.9	The family.
1:53.7	I don't know how I never did end up marrying one of your brothers.
1:56.2	We should talk about that.
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