For music icons, Shania Twain songs like that don't impress me much, you're still the

one and man, I feel like a woman catapulted her into musical icon status.

She became the top selling female country music artist in history with decade after decade

of smash hits.

But behind the music is the ultimate story of survival.

You name it, Shania has overcome it, poverty, the loss of her parents, and a very difficult

and painful public divorce.

But throughout the tough times, music was Shania's refuge.

To cope, she sang.

But then, the unthinkable, after a battle with Lyme disease, Shania came close to losing

the very thing that kept her alive.

Her voice.

The Shania you'll meet today has experienced a rebirth, more confident, more at peace, and

with more agency in her own life.

This Shania is free.

And with new music and an upcoming tour, Shania is, as she sings, queen of me.

The Shania who sits across from me today is open, honest, and unapologetic.

I'm Hoda Kotby, welcome to my podcast, Making Space.

Okay, so here we sit.

You are in a beautiful chapter in your life.

I feel like you're comfy in your own skin.

How do you feel at this age, this stage, where you are right now?

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