SHANIA TWAIN: SAVING MY FAMILY AT THIRTEEN

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Ай бұрын

Let's Go Girls.... Shania Twain joins Jamie on Great Company to share her wisdom and optimism, always finding the silver lining in life.
Overcoming grief, illness, heartbreak, sexism, losing her voice, Shania Twain is a cultural icon whose resilience is truly astonishing. Selling over 100 million albums worldwide, her story is one of fearlessness and strength.
Growing up in a home marked by domestic violence, she reached a pivotal moment at her lowest point; choosing to never feel so miserable again, she convinced her mother to leave her father [18:45]. From there she eventually went on to becoming an international superstar, but not without much grief and hardship, losing both her parents in a car crash [36:02], she also opens up about learning to let go and forgive [32:52].
This episode reveals the human side of the pop star we know as Shania. And, of course, we couldn't let her leave without finding out - what DOES impress her?
00:00: Intro
04:10: How music impacts lives
06:22: Getting over nerves and letting go
09:04: How Lyme’s disease affected my voice
13:52: I’m always trying to be the fixer
14:54: Being an independent person
18:47: Convincing my mum to leave domestic violence at thirteen
26:51: My relationship with my mum
29:23: Singing in bars when I was eight
30:58: Writing music was my real escape
32:44: Forgiving my father and ex-husband
35:53: Grieving the loss of both my parents in a car crash
40:09: Being a good storyteller
41:12: My favourite lyric I have ever written
45:25: Songwriting in today’s age
47:02: Why I love Dolly Parton and Glastonbury
50:47: Being proud of myself now
52:47: Final eight questions
57:43: Outro
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@Rosesandchocolates7777 Ай бұрын

More than her extraordinary music career,I admire Shania for her mental strength,her resilience and capacity to bounce back after tragic life events...

@devina1100 Ай бұрын

She's such an Artist in every sense of the word, including an artist of life. Excellent interview ❤

@GreatCompanyPodcast Ай бұрын

She's incredible!

@guestguest2030 5 күн бұрын

I don't believe her stories.

@PoppyCarvelle 3 күн бұрын

@@guestguest2030 why?

@guestguest2030 3 күн бұрын

@@PoppyCarvelle Because she's been proven to lie before.

@rudy679 Ай бұрын

You're a very good interviewer Jamie. Keep it up.

@RandyRiver07 27 күн бұрын

Shania, I’ve listened to your music through the sound waves in my pre teens, teenage and now in my 30’s. Your music is simply timeless. I think you saved my mom’s life and healed mine on those dark days more than once. You’re a kind, genuine, charming and selfless women, even in real life not just in the media. There aren’t many stars other than you we can look up to these days. You have always been a consistent role model for us young girls and women. Thank you is not even enough, we Canadians are so incredibly proud of you. You’re truly a Canadian hero. 🇨🇦 ❤

@traceygilligan1201 Ай бұрын

Absolutely love Shania Twain, i really enjoyed that episode. Shania is iconic, funny, animated, positive, kind, very talented, and a great guest. 👏🏼

@upendasana7857 Ай бұрын

Shania f*cking Twain !!! legend and god shes been through it,I remember reading about her life years ago and thinking "wow you just have no idea whats someone's been through and it would have been so easy to look at her and think shes beautiful and all that and not realise all that s*it in her background. I wish her all the best and hope she keeps healing,losing her voice and having her voice still be restricted or strained like it sounds it is must be really hard,it sounds like a real effort to speak,never mind sing. I hope she rocks Glastonbury !!!!!

@Brookec2410 Ай бұрын

A minute in and I'm already even more in love with her. She's just the greatest.

@TarotRosetta 20 күн бұрын

What an amazing interview! I thought I knew everything about Shania (watched her documentary and all of her other interviews), but you brought out so much from her that I hadn't heard before. Great interview, great interviewer, and 💖💖💖Shania!

@tammyshaw4540 Ай бұрын

Her book and album Queen of me. Were life changing for me . I also had a cheating husband with cancer and learning that he was having a long term romance relationship with my best friend and cousin .I thought she was my friend and I thought my husband was my friend after 30 years of being married to him . Shania became my icon after learning all of this . Her courage and strength gave me hope to a light at the end the tunnel ! They married 3 months after we divorced .Her music was therapy for me ! ❤ My favorite song on the album is The Hardest Stone !

@gloriasmess Ай бұрын

Was in end stages of labour Man I Feel Like A Woman came on the radio. I shouted ‘turn that sh*t off’ 😂😂😂. We’re still laughing about it now… …and now I do love the song 🤣

@ssiissoojj Ай бұрын

What a great chat.

@johncroft9888 23 күн бұрын

Amazing! WOW! She is incredible! I just want to give her a MASSIVE HUGE HUG!! Tell her I am so proud of her and admire her. She deserves all the accolades she gets in life. LOVE HER!!!

@claireangier3322 Ай бұрын

Wow, she's such a strong woman! ❤

@user-og2wt3le4j 24 күн бұрын

It's called life experience. Shania is close to the same age as me with our birthdays a few months apart. I agree things that happen in life (divorce, lyme disease, losing the ability to sing) really suck to go through. However aging allows you to gain perspective. I like how Shania said she was resolved to just have a career in songwriting if she never got the voice back. And she turned the divorce into a good marriage with husband number two. She also turned early childhood trauma into a positive.

@bettysmith9466 16 күн бұрын

I went to see Shania at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas and she was great. She had her beautiful horse on stage and her horse was so calm. She would sing and pet him at the same time. It was so sweet the way she treated him.

@bettysmith9466 16 күн бұрын

I can tell Shania loves her horses. I am a horse lover too!

@lorenzomag100 Ай бұрын

Jamie I loved this interview you had with Shania,She is such a lovely human with so much talent,and what a voice! I'm so looking forward to watching her at Glastonbury from my tv,with the sound high..

@lynne1920 Ай бұрын

Great interview Jamie . Jamie you are a natural.You have found your niche.👍

@thaisevangelista1503 Күн бұрын

One of the best interviews I have watched. Great interviewer but above all what a great person Shania Twain is. You deserve all the success you have. So much to say and share and your music I simply love your voice, your sense of humour and what a beat you create when you sing. Congrats to both of you ❤❤❤❤

@lisaleonzis5303 24 күн бұрын

Her mother was the child.. and Shania was the adult!! Mother needed her to provide food on the table! Hand to mouth. Using her to provide food 4 the siblings

@knightrats Ай бұрын

What an amazing and lovely lady. Great interview xxxx

@jessicaoram8585 Ай бұрын

This interview is amazing. Well done Jamie 👏

@elizabethkusce2718 Ай бұрын

Shania has had to do this since her parents died. She didn’t have time to break down. She had to problem solve and she analyses everything. She had her siblings to raise and take care of. I don’t think she can ever stop. I hope she can one day sit on her porch retire and actually think about her life and how she made it. To the end❤.

@brendahattie6553 3 күн бұрын

I have such huge respect for this woman. The fact that she's a fellow Canadian is icing on the cake.

@Cherielovesmusic89 Ай бұрын

Such a great interview! Shania is such a strong woman and inspiration to me! Plus I love her music! I love her ❤️

@stephmartin1148 Ай бұрын

Seeing her eyes glaze over talking about her lime disease!! That would be SO hard having your voice taken away when that’s what you do for a living!! I used to sing her music at our state fair on stages and can’t due to an autoimmune disease and it’s been really hard on me, but I don’t do it for my work so I just can’t even imagine because it’s already been hard on me!! I have read her book. Oh her growing up breaks my heart!! 💔 She is doing AMAZING!! I will always LOVE HER!! 💝 I just found Jamie!! Man LOVED this interview!! Just started following you. I can’t wait to look up more interviews!! 😍

@annabellesapphire Ай бұрын

I share the same birthday as Shania 28/08 I've always liked her even before I knew this. I've experienced similar issues, tried to deal with life's ups and down with grace like Shania Blessings all ✨

@kimpettis8231 Ай бұрын

Great interview . 🇨🇦🇨🇦

@sunshine2049 22 күн бұрын

I prefer her without the wigs and the fillers. Here she stands, true to her natural beauty without the frills.

@elizabethkusce2718 Ай бұрын

@stephnewman1357 Ай бұрын

Great interview. ❤ Shania, bless her. 😀

@lizdevine7363 Ай бұрын

Omg I love this lady! Brilliant interview ❤❤

@leedovey8919 28 күн бұрын

Oh I love Shania and you were great Jamie, some really good questions! 🙂

@adamtech8871 24 күн бұрын

I wish i could meet Shania.

@dustymuniz Ай бұрын

Queen. Icon. Great interview!!

@zanetaylorsversion Ай бұрын

Lovely interview ❤

@fionataylor4269 27 күн бұрын

Great interview/discussion. Strong lady, I relate to her experience/view growing up.

@sueleitch6396 Ай бұрын

What a Legend....Shania I mean 😆 🤣 You too, Jamie 😊

@fionaallan27 23 күн бұрын

Brilliant chat 👏Shania is wonderful in every sense of the word 💓💛

@user-og2wt3le4j 24 күн бұрын

At 9:03. Shania is talking about defining moments in a person's life: sudden loss, adultery, divorce, chronic illness, death of a loved one, tragic accidents, etc. People often are tainted as they age. It is not always a bad thing since those experiences allow for learning and growth. Of course, when one goes through those bad experiences it is not funny and is very painful.

@b4love91 Ай бұрын

#VirgoNation!!!!

@joeys5429 23 күн бұрын

From this moment makes me cry

@user-en3qo5mj5x Ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤ love her

@b4love91 Ай бұрын

I fucking love Shania!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹👏🏾👏🏾😁😁🍻🍻🍻

@carolmccabe4359 Ай бұрын

Lovely lady ❤

@lisaleonzis5303 24 күн бұрын

Love her hair!! Color highlights healthy thick!!

@chellie7887 Ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤

@kimberleydownunder Ай бұрын

Her childhood sounds a lot like mine.

@MelissaThompson432 11 күн бұрын

13:33 if an egg is hatching and you try to help it, you'll kill the bird inside. It needs the strength it gains from cracking its own shell.

@deerheart87 12 күн бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@izzyrrr7448 Ай бұрын

That man interviewer could NEVER understand Shania. Even when I told another woman a similar situation if my own, its like falling in deaf ears. They obviously respond, or feel the person's (Shanias') emotional turmoil but thats about it. Battered women and daughters should draw lines so they can both heal. Because most likely they'll they keep making the same choices the mother made. You can even see women so dependent on their mothers, despite the awful choices, they listen and do what the mother says. Im so GLAD I RAN away from such a harmful person. Because if you're not thinking as a grown up as soon as you see red gmflags, you will always remain in the same place, with the same person, making the same generational mistakes. And females here in the States in general got a L.O.N.G way to go.

@Stephanie84-lh6bf Ай бұрын

Can you consider adding subtitles to the videos please?

@GreatCompanyPodcast Ай бұрын

There's a subtitles/closed captions button on the lower right of the video if you turn that on :)

@Stephanie84-lh6bf Ай бұрын

@@GreatCompanyPodcast Thanks so much!😁

@lauriejeremic8409 29 күн бұрын

Sophia, you are kind

@user-og2wt3le4j 24 күн бұрын

It is a rough life she lead as a child. Shania was close to 30 before she had success in the music industry.

@AGAM1911 8 күн бұрын

She has such an amazing story. She’s gone through so much in her life. I read her autobiography it was hard to put down. I’m sad that she didn’t tell more in this interview. I think the interview fell flat imo.

@user-og2wt3le4j 24 күн бұрын

At 5:30. It is a cruel trick played on singers. They love performing for an audience. Celine Dion, Lionel Richie, and Shania Twain have all lost their voice at points in their career.

@lauriejeremic8409 29 күн бұрын

How is she unique. So many people are the same way.

@lauriejeremic8409 29 күн бұрын

She is not Shania. She is Sophia

@lauriejeremic8409 29 күн бұрын

That's it!. She looks like an older Sofía Margarita Vergara. Not like Shania Twain hmmmmm

@lauriejeremic8409 29 күн бұрын

I knew it. Its Sophia. Its not Shania. Shania was beautiful and would still be now. Hi Sophia

@elizabeth-we7bm 9 күн бұрын

I really like her but enough is enough.! She has to stop using her life for excuses.!!!! I'm tired of hearing this in her every interview.!!!!Doesn't she has something else to talk about.?????So sad.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!