Steven Curtis Chapman

Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends

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Christianity, Talk Radio, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In a career that has spanned more than three decades, Steven Curtis Chapman is the most-awarded artist in Christian music history. With 59 Gospel Music Association (GMA) Dove Awards, five GRAMMY Awards, an American Music Award, and 49 No. 1 singles, he has sold more than eleven million albums with ten RIAA-Certified Gold or Platinum albums to his credit. In his career, he has collaborated with and had his songs recorded by other renowned artists in the Christian music world including BeBe Winans, CeCe Winans, Amy Grant, Casting Crowns, Mercy Me, Geo Moore, and others. His songs of hope have also crossed genres, seeing collaborations with Billy Dean, Glenn Campbell, Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts, Ricky Skaggs, Brad Paisley, and Lauren Alaina. In 2017, Chapman also became a best-selling author with his memoir Between Heaven and the Real World: My Story. His new album, titled Still, released Oct. 14, 2022 (Sony Music/Provident Entertainment). Filled with entirely fresh, life-giving songs for the masses, the album includes the title track, “Don’t Lose Heart,” “I’m Alive,” and so much more. He is also the recent recipient of the BMI Icon Award. Given to him in June 2022, Chapman is the first Christian music songwriter to receive the honor, joining an elite list that includes Barry Manilow, Brian Wilson, Carole King, Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, and Sting. Along with touring the world, Steven Curtis Chapman has appeared on Good Morning America, CBS Sunday Morning and This Morning, CNN, MSNBC, 60 Minutes, E! Entertainment, The Today Show, Fox & Friends, and The Tonight Show among others, along with appearing in the pages of People Magazine, Billboard, Parents Magazine, and more. As a vocal supporter of adoption, Chapman along with his wife Mary Beth founded Show Hope (ShowHope.org) in 2003, a nonprofit organization that helps restore the hope of a family to orphans.

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0:00.0	access more everybody. Welcome to the dream big podcast and I always have fun doing this
0:13.9	thing, but I have a lot more fun when it's a really good friend. And Steven Curtis,
0:20.1	Shatman, welcome my friend. I'm so glad you're on the podcast with us today.
0:24.5	Well, I am so glad and honored that you would ask me my friend and I mean that when I say
0:30.8	my friend, you are a true brother and friend. We have laughed together. We have cried together
0:37.4	and you just it's been a blessing to get to journey with you and so honored to get to be a part of
0:43.4	your podcast. I've seen you in so many different contexts. Husband, dad, performer, we were over
0:53.8	a border in another country and you realize you didn't have your passport to get back.
0:59.9	And I saw you in that moment of like, oh really? And so you I think people that know one side of
1:09.3	you is the encourager, the fun guy, but I've experienced you as a guy that's really in touch with
1:15.1	his feelings and emotions and humanity. Tell us about like the Steven Curtis Shatman that people
1:23.8	know your music and have identified with you, but what's it feel like to be you? Like right now,
1:28.8	a guy just just turned 60. I got you by a couple years and I know. What's it feel like to be you
1:34.2	right now? I'm chasing you. You know, it's an interesting thing how it is with people and I know
1:44.0	you well enough as well to know that the Bob Goff, you know, of that people read about and know
1:52.7	from the books, the Steven Curtis Shatman that people know from the music. The truth is if
2:02.4	if you listen or read, you don't even I don't even know that you have to read between the lines.
2:09.2	If you just read really what is there and listen to what is there, I think one of the things
2:16.4	that both of us guys have by God's grace been blessed with people connecting with what we do is
2:25.1	there is an honesty and of older ability and what we want to do. The challenge is that people
2:30.6	hear and read and listen to music and hear it through a filter of I'll give you an example.
2:37.3	My song I will be here that I wrote from my wife years ago. People hear that song and I've
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