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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Open Book with Jenna Featuring Zac Brown

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Hey TODAY fans!  As a bonus, we’re giving you a special preview of Jenna Bush Hager’s podcast, ‘Open Book with Jenna.’ In the season’s debut episode, Jenna sits down with three-time Grammy-winning artist, and lead vocalist of the Zac Brown Band, Zac Brown. From his humble beginnings playing in coffee shops at age fourteen to his upcoming residency at the Las Vegas Sphere, Zac reflects on the milestones that shaped his path. He opens up about fatherhood, founding Camp Southern Ground, and the creative process behind his upcoming album Love and Fear, which features collaborations with icons like Snoop Dogg and Dolly Parton.  To listen to the full conversation, just search ‘Open Book with Jenna’ wherever you’re listening to follow now, or click here: https://www.today.com/open-book-with-jenna

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's Jenna Bush Hager.

0:09.1

You're about to hear a special preview of my podcast, Open Book with Jenna.

0:13.6

Each episode, I get to have inspiring conversations with celebrities, authors, fellow book lovers, and more.

0:19.7

And in the premiere episode of season three,

0:21.7

I sit down with three-time Grammy-winning artist Zach Brown to talk about his upcoming album,

0:27.0

Love and Fear, what fans can expect from the band's upcoming residency at the Las Vegas

0:31.7

sphere, and his creative writing process. Here's Open Book with Jenna.

0:37.8

Zach, I'm so happy you're here. Me too, thanks. This has been a huge year for you, and you've

0:43.9

just announced something really cool. You're going to the sphere. You have a bunch of shows.

0:48.9

What's life like? What's life been like these days? It's fun. You know, I got five kids,

0:53.7

so just my first one's off to college.

0:56.2

So that's bittersweet, but she's going to be close by.

1:00.2

And then creatively, you know, making this album I've been writing for it for the last three years.

1:04.2

It's called Love and Fear.

1:05.9

And the show at Sphere has been my baby for the last 14 months making all the content you know

1:13.7

you're only limited by your imagination and your budget and so we've i've been putting literally

1:19.3

every bit of resource and time and energy and everything into this album and into what we're going to

1:23.6

do there because what we're going to do there is not what people might expect,

1:27.7

and I'm really excited about it. You say it's like kind of storytelling. Like you're going to be

1:31.9

telling a story of your life that people may not have heard or know. For sure. I mean, I saw you

1:38.0

too at the sphere, which was amazing. Yes. But what does that mean for people that are wondering?

1:44.3

You know, I think all the things that we go through as human beings, I always try to think

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