How I Wrote My First Album with One of My Childhood Idols | Carlos Battey
What's The Juice
Olivia Amitrano
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Here is my invisible string theory. Fifteen years ago, I used to sit in my childhood bedroom and listen to a group called The Jackie Boyz. Cut to 2024, and the universe truly has its way because I'm now releasing my very first album co-written with Carlos Battey, who is now known as Jackie's Boy. This is an episode that has been a long time in the making. I'm honored to share his story with you today and introduce such a special guest to the What's The Juice community as my music producer and co-writer. We are diving into Carlos's career as an Executive Producer, Songwriter, and Artist as he takes us through his journey, starting in recording studios at the age of 13 to moving to LA to write for artists like Justin Bieber, Madonna, and Flo Rida and how he eventually eventually went on to sell over 40 million records.
HERE THE JUICE:
- The importance of pursuing a gift for music and not allowing perfectionism to stand in the way of progression
- Carlos breaks down an original song that he wrote, processing a difficult time in his life and how that song was reworked to become one of Justin Bieber's greatest hits.
- The truth behind what happens in a studio writing session and the break that led Carlos to a career of selling over 40 million records
- The profound importance of showing up through fear and why pain can be such a driving force in creativity
- The leadership and direction needed to work with a room of creatives – Carlos breaks down the importance of looking at a song in small pieces in to create the product
- What collaboration looks like at such a high level and where the magic and beauty of collaboration really comes from
MY FIRST SONG, “ANOTHER LOVER” IS OUT NOW ⭐️❤️🥲
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| 0:00.0 | If you're listening to this intro right now, it means that my very first song is out in the world and is live. |
| 0:09.8 | And it's called Another Lover. |
| 0:11.0 | And you can listen to it right the second on Spotify and Apple Music and Amazon music and YouTube music and literally everywhere. |
| 0:18.3 | Because I'm an artist now. |
| 0:22.3 | And it's the craziest thing ever, |
| 0:27.3 | which is why I needed to record this episode. So if you have not been following the music journey that I've been alluding to for a while now on my Instagram and on the podcast, basically the |
| 0:31.6 | long story short is that I grew up as a classically trained opera singer and pianist. And music was my entire life. And then when I |
| 0:41.3 | had debilitating health issues in my teenage years that just kept getting worse and I couldn't |
| 0:47.1 | find answers, that is when my very, you know, obsessive musical brain turned to putting all of |
| 0:53.2 | its resources towards figuring out what the |
| 0:55.1 | heck was going on in my body and how the body works and how things like herbs could support us. |
| 0:59.7 | And so my life kind of pivoted and I totally got derailed kind of onto this new path of |
| 1:06.6 | health and herbalism and healing. And it was the best thing that ever happened to me because |
| 1:10.2 | even though I was struggling and really sick for so many years, I got to find my answers out |
| 1:16.1 | loud. I got to share the process of searching for those answers and making connections with |
| 1:21.4 | you guys on Instagram and my blog and this podcast for the last decade plus. And by choosing to do that, we all got to be our own health |
| 1:30.5 | detectives together. We all got to heal together and make connections through each other as mirrors. |
| 1:35.8 | Because when I would learn something about my body and I would share it and I would say, |
| 1:39.4 | oh, here's how, you know, this histamine issue, for example, is connected to X, Y, and Z, then you guys would |
| 1:46.2 | message me and say, oh my goodness, I noticed that around my cycle on this day, I have those |
| 1:50.5 | symptoms, could it be related to histamine? And we just go back and forth and we just built this |
| 1:55.0 | body of shared knowledge where we got to become our own best health advocates and healers. And I cannot imagine |
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