Huntergirl: Faith Fame and Finding Yourself Again
Get Real with Caroline Hobby
Nashville Podcast Network
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
American Idol runner up HunterGirl shares how an express ticket straight to Hollywood and clear signs from God showed up when she was at her weakest and changed everything. We talk about navigating the whirlwind of Idol and instant fame then doing the deeper work of finding herself again by integrating who she has always been with who she is becoming. Her new single Somewhere Wild was written from a place of feeling lost and discovering herself inside that lostness. We also touch on Pretty Much a raw relatable moment that speaks to the quiet insecurities so many women carry. She is a master songwriter putting real life and real faith into her music. We laughed we cried and had the best time getting to know HunterGirl.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey. |
| 0:11.0 | Hey. |
| 0:14.5 | Caroline, she's a queen of talking. |
| 0:18.4 | Hey, well, it's on your mind. |
| 0:21.0 | She's getting real, not afraid to feel. |
| 0:23.1 | Take her soul to soul, just let her flow. |
| 0:25.7 | No one can do it quite like Caroline. |
| 0:30.3 | It's time for Caroline. |
| 0:33.2 | You ready, Hunter? |
| 0:34.4 | I've never been more. |
| 0:35.5 | I'm so ready. |
| 0:36.9 | Hunter Girl is in the house. Welcome to Get Real. Hunter Girl is here, everyone. Wow. Buh, blah, blah, b'am. I just really like you. Oh my gosh. I really like you. I, well, first off, you're fun. We were having a lot of fun. Thanks for getting down with the content. Oh, hey, always. It is so much fun. You might as well have some fun with content. I know. Like, it's like, if you're going to do it, make it a good time. Just do it. Yeah. But I really like you in general, though, with your music, too. Oh, thank you. Okay, so I am late to the party. I did not even realize you were runner up on American Idol. I just thought you were this awesome singer. |
| 1:12.5 | They'm Hunter Girl. And I was like, what does Hunter Girl mean? But then I was like, your name is Hunter. Yes, government name. You actually are, like, you like to hunt. Yeah, I like to hunt, but that's not like how Hunter Girl came to be in a sense. My last is walkinowski walkinowski yeah 11 letters |
| 1:30.4 | kindergarten sucked when they're like spell your name and i'm like i got 11 people i got 11 give me a |
| 1:35.9 | break walkinowski yes that's good and so nobody can ever pronounce it and the lady at the front office |
| 1:41.8 | when i'm elementary school she was like hunter |
| 1:44.3 | there was like a guy named hunter in my class she's like the girl hunter hunter girl can you come |
| 1:50.2 | to the office and it's stuck and just stuck everybody's kindergarten yeah so just like they's called me hunter girl |
| 1:55.5 | your whole life you just been called hunter girl that's what my pa calls me he'll be like hey my little hunter girl |
| 1:59.9 | what you doing and i'm like like, I don't know. |
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