The Cost of Success is Embarrassment (Why Being Cringe is Good) with Mackenzie Carpenter

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This week's episode Kenzie sits down with country artist Mackenzie Carpenter to talk about getting discovered by Scott Borchetta, why you NEED to be cringe, how to find success and push past embarrassment and so much more. Hope you enjoy!! <3

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:07.0	Hi y'all.
0:08.0	This is houseguess, and I am your host, Kenzie Elizabeth.
0:10.9	Think Gen Z, wannabe Martha Stewart, meets Dolly Parton, trying to live in a Nancy
0:15.1	Myers movie in her 20s.
0:16.9	We talk all about life, relationships, navigating your 20s, closing out the bars, or waking up at 5 a.m., depending on our vibe that week.
0:24.3	Ultimately, living our best lives and figuring it out along the way.
0:28.3	So come hang out.
0:29.1	Sometimes I have guests on who do really cool things, some of my best friends, or it's just me in my house that I spend way too much time in.
0:36.0	So let's get into the show.
0:39.6	Hi, house guest.
0:47.6	Welcome back to my home this week. Our house guest is McKenzie Carpenter, singer, songwriter, country music star. She has her album that was actually released this year, Hey, Country Queen, that is so good.
0:53.6	She's also written some of my personal opinion, like my favorite Megamoroni songs, so many songs. Honestly, she's just so talented and she's such a nice girl. Like, this is a really good little catch-up. We're getting to know her. I'm asking a little about her life, her journey. She also brings up my favorite point, one of my favorite points, which is you have to do
1:12.1	things that embarrass you to live a life that is worth living. Like, everything that I do today is
1:17.4	probably embarrassing and will embarrass me later. But it's getting me to the life that I want. And I
1:22.4	think you're just going to really like this episode. We're also, spoiler alert, talking to Dolly Parton.
1:26.8	I'm not going to spoil anything else, but it actually was really fabulous and incredible, and she's amazing. I think you guys are going to love her. I'm currently in this exact moment regretting, like, you don't even make dinner plans. And like, it was my idea. I have no one to blame besides myself, guys. Like, it was literally me. Like, I'm the one who initiated
1:44.5	these dinner plans, okay? And I said, let's get dinner Thursday. Great idea. Whatever. And then, like, now it's Thursday. And, like, I don't want to get dinner. I want to be in bed with, like, my sweatpants and socks and pajon. Like, I don't want to do that. I want to be needle pointing in bed. I should know that about myself.
1:59.1	Like, you guys would be able to tell me
2:00.3	that I'd want to do that.
2:01.1	Like, I should know myself better.
2:02.9	So, anyway, I hope you guys are having a fabulous,
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