Hi everybody, my name is Remy. Welcome to the For The Love Podcast with your host,

Jen Hatmaker, my mom. She writes books and speaks to

cows, but she mostly loves talking to amazing people on this podcast every week.

Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoyed the show.

Hey everybody, Jen Hatmaker here. You're very, very delighted host of the For The Love Podcast.

I'm glad you're here. Welcome to the show. You probably know that we're in the middle of a phenomenal series called For The Love of Music about time, right?

I can't believe it actually took us as long as we do this one. And we are talking to artists of all stripes who have met so much to us over the years.

And so we're getting to hear stories behind some of our favorite songs and what inspires them and about their family and road lives.

It's all just super, super interesting. And this was actually your idea and I'm so glad that you suggested this because we are loving it.

So you guys, this is a big moment for us here at the podcast. We have country music royalty in our midst.

And I am just beside myself. I am, I am beside myself. I have been such a huge, huge fan of our guest today since the early 90s.

She's sung me through college and young adulthood and young marriage and young motherhood. And to this day, her music is so meaningful to me.

Her songs just tell stories that have hit a bull's eye on my heart and on your heart and your experiences and mine as women, as wives, as moms.

I am so pleased to tell you that Martina McBride is our guest for today's show. So like I said, if you were anywhere near country radio in the 90s, you remember when she hit the scene and joined the ranks for, I mean, honestly, the most powerful female vocalist of her era.

It was just a glorious time for women in country music and Martina added absolute timeless songs like my baby loves me and independence day and when God fear and women get the blues wild angels, of course, a broken wing.

She's they can they go on and on. I could literally sit here and rattles off for the next hour. These were like crank up the radio in the car, sing at the top of your lungs hits.

And as I'll tell her in just a minute, I actually shaped the whole intro to my last book of mess and moxie after one of her songs. This one's for the girls that song was so meaningful to me.

I remember where I was. I was on the back of my husband's Harley. We were having like a long day ride with our friends. And I always listen to 90s country in my headphones. And we're on the motorcycle. It's just the thing that I do.

And Martina's song this one's for the girls came on and I was in the writing process at the time. And I mean, I said I've heard that song a million times, but I sat on the back of Brandon's motorcycle and I just I had tears like leak out of the side of my eyes underneath my helmet and went home. I literally went home the next day and wrote the intro for of mess and moxie and I modeled it after that song.

And I of course gave her credit. And so anyway, I'll tell her about that. I managed to not sing when I did and I feel like I deserve a price for that.

Also, you'll be so happy to know that Martina has a heart of gold. The, in fact, the list of organizations she has helped is as long as my arm. So we're going to talk a little bit about giving and why that matters to her and her own organization team music is left.

And then as if it's not enough. Martina has been sharing more and more about her life in the kitchen. So you know, this is like everything that I love now. She's just released her second cookbook called Martinez Kitchen mix.

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