I'm Listening: Keith Urban

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Keith Urban may appear unhuman with his next-level guitar skills, but when it comes to emotions and life struggles, the Country superstar has walked through his fair share of challenges, just like the rest of us.

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00:00If you wouldn't mind sharing like just something you know that you've gone

00:04through in your life and how you got through it I feel like those messages

00:07are always what is so hopeful and helps people who are listening who might be

00:10struggling in the moment to know like this is what's on the other side.

00:13That's a big subject.

00:14I mean I'm gonna leave it open to you whether like how big or small that is

00:18and what you feel comfortable with.

00:20I'm always very scared of any of my

00:22experience sounding like advice for people and I have no advice for anybody.

00:26I just want to say this is not advice this is not advice I'm gonna state that

00:30disclaimer right out of the gate because we're we're all in different places of

00:38willingness to tackle this thing that's a challenge it's never too late to break

00:45the chain that's the first thing that's the other thing it's like it there's no

00:48it's not too late you know I think the idea that man I should have done this

00:53years ago I would have had a better life I'm like well there might be a bit

00:57of life ahead of you which yeah that could be better if you deal with it now

01:01and it's never too late I don't know I feel like I've had so many portals that

01:07I've walked through nail one any one of them yeah and they're all works in

01:12progress and but asking for help is probably number one that's the hardest

01:17thing to do yeah it's the hardest thing but I'm learning to I often say what it

01:23is that I need to hear and I don't even realize it and it could be something as

01:27simple as this you have an incredibly stressful week is just too much going on

01:32spinning too many plates too many people to take care of too much stuff going on

01:35and you scream to yourself I can't handle this and it's almost like the

01:39universe goes finally you recognize that you can't handle this you're not meant to

01:47are you asking for any help because it's too much for you you even just said it

01:52mm-hmm you know and but I'll be like I can't handle this but then I don't ask

01:56for help yeah so I even said the words the words were they're trying to have me

02:01hear them so sometimes that that that answer is right there in front of us if

02:06we just have to learn to hear it and see it yeah but I think asking for help is

02:09like even it's such a great simple thing and it's just something that we

02:12definitely try to normalize with the broadcast because I you know I as much

02:16therapy and work that I've done and being involved in this broadcast like I

02:19went through something last year where I was like a horribly depressed having

02:22such a hard time in like literally the moment I was like oh this is where I

02:24need to ask for help was like it took me a minute and I've I'm the person out

02:28there saying you should ask for help ask for help and it's so interesting like

02:31you said like it kind of like you hear it yourself you're like oh well

02:35sometimes we don't know who to ask for help either we don't trust people mm-hmm

02:39and it's and we can get the wrong help oh yeah you know like wrong advice you

02:44can have several people going this is what you should do and they're all wrong

02:46so you're like oh I don't know I'm just gonna have to sit with this for a second

02:50until I can feel like I've got a better answer coming through but that's why

02:54it's a process but I think at some point something becomes clear I knew for me

02:58through years and years and years and years I went I know I'm gonna come to a

03:02fork in the road sometime somewhere in my life and I'm gonna have to choose

03:06where I'm gonna go left or right and that fork will appear somewhere and I

03:11know beyond a shadow of a doubt if I go the wrong way I may never get this fork

03:18in the road opportunity ever again so this would be a one-time deal so be

03:22ready for it when it happens and sure enough you know it came and I knew I

03:26went oh this is that fork in the road moment wow I've thought about this for

03:31years years and years and here it is what are you gonna do you're gonna go

03:35left or right but it's a good point to say what you just said like there's it's

03:39never too late to change no I just did this therapy retreat earlier this year

03:43and there were people on it there were like 21 and there were people there who

03:45were 75 and I was like good for you like of course you should be doing this

03:49because I feel like some people are like ah too late for me I'm I'm 30 I'm 40

03:53there's no fix in this and it's like no there is yeah and I think that that is

03:57such like a beautiful thing and I think a lot about that when I hear break the

04:00chain yeah and it's just it's how do we feel today it's just right now yeah

04:05could I feel better than I do you know is there a way for me to could talk

04:10about this all day Keith Urban thank you so much especially for that last

04:15little bit there I really thank you I'm glad you guys deal with a lot of that

04:18too because even just people listening right now can hear something they need

04:23to hear and what do they say you know if you've been waiting on a sign here it is

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