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Change Up: Interview with Bryce Hensley
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Bryce Hensley is a former professional baseball player who spent seven years as a pitcher in the minor leagues, drafted by the Kansas City Royals in 2018. After a successful athletic career, Hensley made a significant career pivot to pursue his passion for country music. Initially too self-conscious about his musical talent, it was during the COVID-19 pandemic that he started sharing his music publicly, which led to unexpected opportunities within the music industry.
Episode Summary:
In this engaging episode of the Uncommon Wealth Podcast, host Philip Ramsey sits down with Bryce Hensley, a remarkable individual who transitioned from being a professional baseball pitcher to a rising country music artist. Bryce's journey is fueled by a deep passion for music, which he only began exploring after the pandemic disrupted his baseball career. His story is one of courage and embracing new directions, emphasizing the theme of living an uncommon life by pursuing one's passions.
Throughout the conversation, Bryce shares insights into both the similarities and differences between his experiences in baseball and music. While both careers entail dedication and hard work, music offers Bryce a platform for authenticity and self-expression. He discusses the exhilarating experience of performing in front of large crowds, the creative process behind songwriting, and the challenges of consistently delivering heartfelt performances. Bryce's story is a testament to the notion that it's never too late to follow one's dreams and carve out a unique path.
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Introduction to Uncommon Wealth Podcast
00:00:00
Speaker
Everyone dreams of living an uncommon life, and the best asset you have to achieve your dreams is you. Welcome to the Uncommon Wealth Podcast. We're going to introduce you to people who are living uncommonly. We're also going to give you some tools and strategies for building wealth and for pursuing an uncommon path that is uniquely right for you.
Bryce Hensley's Uncommon Journey Begins
00:00:25
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Hello, and welcome, everybody, to another episode of the Uncomable Wealth Podcast, where I'm your host, Phillip Ramsey. Today we have Bryce Hensley. Cannot wait to unpack his uncommon story. I have a feeling you're going to get pretty hyped up about it, too. a Guy was a professional athlete. ah Pitcher.
00:00:41
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And then he's like, you know what? I want to sing. I want to go country music. So not only is he doing a thing that I think is uncommon, but he's going to talk about the transition. He's going to talk about when you think that you have a perfect gig and you decide, hey, maybe I want to pivot, but a lot of things. And I love unpacking this Bryce's story because at every moment we all think like, I thought I was liking this, but I might want to change. And so that's why we have on the show Bryce. Welcome to show my man.
00:01:10
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Thanks so much for having me. I'm glad to be here today, Phil. Yeah, for sure. So Bryce, tell us about your background in professional baseball. That's not the story that we normally open with. So I'm excited to kind of unpack that, and then we'll go into the transition. Absolutely. ah you know I've actually got an older brother that he's 10 years older than me. And and ah you know so from the time I could walk, basically, I had a baseball in my hand. He got got drafted to play back in 2008 and played 10 years professionally. So basically, I grew up not really having much of a choice but you know it it was kind of a family that got passed through you know all the way down and so I i got to learn the ropes from him and watch him play and then I got lucky enough in 2018 that the Kansas City Royals drafted me and it was kind of cool because coming through that you know most people show up and they're very green and they have no clue what's going on but luckily I kind of had a a blueprint map of hey man this is what you expect this is and I knew kind of step for step exactly how everything was going to go so I really lucked out with that part of it.
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Yeah. Did you ever have to play minor league?
Challenges in Minor League Baseball
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Like, and Oh, that's kind of, Oh, absolutely. That's all I did. So I never quite made it. it I made it. um I never made it to the majors, but I i spent about seven years in the minor league system. So okay you talk about grinding through that. Yeah, it's a, it's a lot.
00:02:21
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Yeah, it's funny. I had an old business partner and we went to the Sioux City Explorers, which we have a pitching coach that good friends ah of ours. And my old business partner wanted to do a home run derby at like a professional field. And he was like, guarantee I can hit a home run. And this guy was like, over my dead body, you can. He's like, but what we'll do is we'll suit you up and you'll take batting practice with the team. And so my business, he even tried to rope me and I was like, I don't want any part of this. Okay. I could barely hit it out of the outfield. And I know that. So, uh, my business partner gets up, but here's what I would say. We hung out with the team for awhile and you talk about grinding. Like that's they, I even ask him like, cause you know me, I'm finance. So I'm like, how much you get paid? and He's like, I don't know, like $1,600 a month. And I'm like, excuse me. What? like Yeah.
00:03:11
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And you live with like host homes and like, I mean, it is just, you got to love the game. So I get that it's a grind and I think a lot of people just don't. They just see these people being playing baseball and think, oh, they're paying for their family. They're not really paying a lot. They're not getting paid a lot. So um that's great. So you are a pitcher, correct? Yes, sir. Nice. Okay. That's a, I feel it every morning when I wake up, I wake up and the shoulder still doesn't like to get coming for me in the morning. So it's a, that's, that's probably one of the grinding parts of it. What's your brother play?
00:03:44
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He was a pitcher too. So he really it's always funny. We're, uh, we're very opposite. He was, when he graduated high school, he was six foot three, 180 pounds, 170 pounds and third 98 miles an hour. And when I graduated us six foot four, 230 pounds and through 88. So we were, uh, dad had a right-handed first. And then I think he tied my right hand behind my back for most of my life yeah to try to teach me how to be left-handed. Exactly. He said he he had one science experiment. He wanted to do two at the end of it. So.
00:04:12
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ah It's like Rafael Nadal, who's like, no, you're going to play with your left hand. Okay. I'm telling you, that's because it's weird. People always ask me, you left your right hand and I'm a half and a half. I do everything like in life with my right hand, but I do all sports left handed. Yeah. What was your favorite pitch that you used to pitch?
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So I threw a sinker, which is just a fastball that it it drops down and hit my, my mentality. I was a, I was a starter for a couple of years, but then I became a reliever and my mentality was the quicker I can go out there and get back in the quicker I can start drinking Coors Light at the end of the day. So my goal was, you know, people always talk about, I want to strike everybody out. And I was like, man, I want to throw seven pitches. I want to walk in high five everybody. I want to go to the locker room, go ahead and crack Coors
From Baseball to Music: A New Path
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Light. And if I can do that and be done in eight minutes or less, then I'm a pretty happy guy. You know, yeah if you can get paid to go out there and work for eight minutes a day, it's, it's pretty solid. You're doing OK. Exactly. So in high school, did you sing at all? Like, where did this little path take you? Or like, when did you were like, hey, I kind of like this thing. You know, it's crazy. I ah I used to i I was very embarrassed about it because I didn't think I was very good and very talented. And, you know, music's one of those things where I can go out on a baseball field and it's something I've done my whole life. But I remember, you know, my buddies would be over to house. I'd be playing a guitar, singing something. They'd come upstairs and I'd drop it and hide it under the bed or something like that. You know,
00:05:29
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And it's I guess it's just one of those immaturity things if you don't want anybody to hear it. And so I never really did it much in high school. I wrote songs, you know, in secret. But when I got to college, I played an open mic night or two. And when I got drafted, I pretty much just put it all off to the side and was like, you know what, we're going to go straight and narrow word. You know, I'm i'm focusing everything and on baseball and giving it 100 percent of everything I got. and This is pretty much it. and you know the The pandemic in 2020 came and and it kind of wrecked everybody's plans. We were in Arizona for spring training and I got called in and they said, hey, you know you guys are going home. We don't know for how long. All we know is you're going home and they're shutting the world down. and you know Everybody kind of dealt with the same thing. so I went home and
00:06:10
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you know My dad, as redneck and blue collar as he is, I was living at home at the time for the off seasons. He looked at me and he goes, well, if you're staying here, you ain't going to stay here for free, you're going to work. and He owns a construction company back home. so He put me to work and I realized very quickly that you know as as redneck and blue collar as I am, I would never made work construction and I.
00:06:29
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I wasn't a huge fan of it. And I started thinking, I said, I got to find something I can do where I ain't going to do this anymore. Cause I can't stand it. i I don't like waking up in the mornings. I don't like it when it's hot outside. yeah And, uh, you want to get paid to pitch seven pitches. be done That's what I'm saying. Exactly. You know, you, you go from doing that and.
00:06:44
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everything and then all the sudden you're waking up and you gotta be at the job site at seven thirty in the morning you're out to a grind and try to build houses for other people you're like man this is a heck of a change so i one of my buddies and i one night on zoom wrote a wrote a song and i put a video of it on the internet and was like you know it was worse it can happen and then pretty much from there on out it was just let's see where we can take this thing what was the song It was all the times I almost died and you look back and it was it was awful. I listened to it the other day for the first time. You know, when you listen to yourself on a voice yeah and you're like, God, that's what it feels like for that. And I'm like, I hate that so much.
00:07:19
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You know, nobody ever knew that I could sing or, you know, knew that I had any interest in her. I could play guitar or anything. So I i wrote this song with my buddy and we put a video of it on the internet and everybody was so surprised. And my baseball agent called me and was like, why'd you not tell me about this? And I said, well, it doesn't have anything to do with baseball. Why would I? yeah And he wanted to put his hands a little bit of everything. He said, let me make some phone calls. He said, what, you know, what do you need? How much money? How can I help? Let's, let's give this thing a chance. He was like, you know, you can make money doing this. Yeah.
00:07:43
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Get out of here. He was like, he was like right you've been to concerts. People that you know pay for you to come do this stuff. and I was like, Oh my God. So all of a sudden from then on out, it was, you know, let's see where this thing can
Pursuing Music Professionally
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take us.
00:07:54
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Wow. That's crazy. Cause I do feel like, especially in this uncommon path, a lot of people, we feel like our giftings aren't valuable because it's so easy for us to do. Absolutely. Like your agent being like, no, you can get paid for that. You're like, wait, what? Like you can get paid to do this thing that I love? Like get out. Exactly. Exactly. And you know, people always say like, you know, find a job you love. You'll never work a day in your life. I don't believe that's true because they do love this and God, we work our ass off a lot of times. But right. That's exactly right.
00:08:23
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and you But you think about it, you're like, man, it's something I love to do. Why would people pay to come see this? And then you start to realize, hey, I'm one of those people that pays to go see this. That's right, yeah. Bryce, you're just already a kindred spirit of the show because I do so i say that often that like, yeah, you know, you find something you love to do and you won't work a day in your life. I think that's baloney. Like, you'll work harder than anybody else, yet it'll be more rewarding because you're doing something that you absolutely love to do.
00:08:50
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And so how many months ago or years ago was that when your agent was at 2020? It was 2020. So it's it's been about almost exactly to the day, four years, which is crazy because that made me feel really old. I appreciate that. Thank you for that one. and try to help, you know? Nice, okay. So four years you've been out this almost doing like the triple or the minor leagues for singing. Exactly. What's the difference and what's the similarities of your professional baseball career?
00:09:24
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You know, that's a question I haven't been asked. I don't know. You know, it's ah I got very lucky on the front end, which is something that I didn't necessarily have in baseball. In baseball, I I knew what I was doing because, again, I had had you know the past laid out for me. My brother, I'd watched him go through it and had it explained when we walked into the music scene. we had and Part of the time, I still have no clue what I'm doing. ah you know When I walk out onto a baseball field, i can but I can take a baseball in my hands and I can make it move whatever way I want to. and i you know what i mean I'm very specific and I understand how everything works with music. i'm still
00:09:59
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I'm still blind half the time. So I got, you know, my roommates, he's a genius with this stuff and teaches me and helps me through it. It's half the time. It's like he's teaching a third grade music class cause he's sitting here trying to explain this stuff to me and I can't figure it out. But you know, definitely the the grind part of it of, you know, it's always a learning process and it's always, if you can get better at it and if you pay attention and you know, if you really get.
00:10:20
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give a lot of effort and you give a lot of love to your craft that always gets better. And, you know, I think the biggest difference is, you know, I can go out and I can feel terrible during a baseball game and you have no clue, you know, you're, you're standing far away and you have no clue if I walk out there and I'm super hungover when I go to pitch, you know, you have no idea. But when I step up on stage, people can always tell when you're not authentic, you know, if you go up there and you act like you don't want to be there. It's, you know, I bartended for Zach Ryan was in town for the two, the two days this weekend.
00:10:48
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and just the energy in the room you can feel because people show up and they get excited and that's why people are you know paying so much money to go see him and he's selling out every show because you walk in there and that guy's as authentic as you can be and he he sells out everything because the energy in the room more than anything else so I think that's the biggest difference of it but you know it's it's all the same thing of you know learning how to how to take care of yourself, learning how to perfect your craft, and obviously not always getting paid a whole lot of money for it, but still going out there and doing something you love at the end of the day. Yeah. We just had Hinterland. It's a pretty big venue here in Iowa. And somebody posted about it. One, it was packed. And and it's she said, like, music is therapy for me. And I was like, that's really kind of true. Like, there is something about getting around music that's really
00:11:35
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Powerful. Okay. So what is your favorite song you sing currently that you're like your pitch? Like that's your jam, man. You know, I love singing my own music. Uh, that's something I've always, I've always enjoyed is, you know, writing, write my own music. Like you said, music therapy. And that's what it's been for me is, you know, a lot of times I, when I'm going through something alive or when I, when I've got something on my mind and I can't really put it into words for some reason, when music starts, I can put words behind it and I don't know how to explain it, but It's one of those cool things where, you know, I write a song about how I'm feeling or about something I went through and country music, especially, you know, you get to be very vulnerable. And and it's a very scary thing, but you get to, you know, you can walk out there and put it all on the line and you get to realize, hey, man, this world's a lot smaller than I thought it was. You know, people, yeah people are just like me. They're going through the same thing. They feel the same thing. And it makes you feel a whole lot less alone in the world.
Balancing Music Success and Enjoyment
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But
00:12:27
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you know ah playing these playing these shows that we're playing and going around town and and traveling and doing stuff obviously we got to play a lot of covers and ah I like stuff that gets the crowd going you know that's and I like to pick songs that you know you walk down the street in Nashville and Nashville is great but you walk down the street and you hear the same 15-20 songs over and over so I like to sing songs that people are like man that's you know we'll do a country version of of ah um All Star and we'll go out there and people start and they're like oh my god. That's great.
00:12:53
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One that I do love to sing that that people forget about, and they forget how much they love is strawberry wine. You go out there and start singing that, too, and the people in the crowd go nuts. So I've become ah become a big fan. OK. I want you to add no diggity to your repertoire. Let's get it going.
00:13:08
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absolute I'm telling you, watching Pitch Perfect made me fall back in love with it. When I heard it, I was like, man, these guys crushed that. Absolutely. Yeah, they did. Yeah, they did. I love it. and That's the fun part is you take songs like that that you know nobody ever thinks like, oh man, this redneck is going to be singing you know something like that. and You turn around and you make it your own and people love it. They forget how much they love songs like that.
00:13:28
Speaker
You know, honestly, Post Malone's going country, which there's something about it. Like it seems like that's kind of headed country. So you got ahead of that. career like Good job. That's what I'm saying. Just try to hop on. right Okay. I want to talk about something. I'm super glad you're here. You're an artist. I think you can relate to this. I don't know if you'll be able to relate yet, but I think you will be. So the, let's talk about the song that you love the most that gets the most popularity. It's the same one. You have to sing it like thousands of times. And that's what the crowd wants to hear. So yes
00:13:59
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Speak to that a little bit of like the mundane of the over the repetitive nature of your craft. Over time and how do you guard yourself from being like, I hate that song. I went to a concert. Let me preface it. by I went to a concert. It was Nickel Creek. I don't even know if they might be a band now, but they kind of took a little hiatus, but they're bluegrass.
00:14:23
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And he had this song called Lighthouse. It's actually a really cool song. But I went to go see him in person. And again, they're bluegrass. So there's i mean just it was busy, but not as packed as like, anyway. And somebody's like, sing Lighthouse. He was like, I am so sick of singing that phrase. And I was like, I appreciate his honesty. And then he ended up singing it. But I was like, I feel for you, man. Because like, singing that song over and over has to be like, just beat my head against the wall. So I'll let you answer.
00:14:51
Speaker
You know, I had never thought about it until I, until I started this, the first song that I put out was a song called growing up in me, which, you know, I wrote it during COVID about, I was God, what was that? 24, 25 years old. And I was sitting here watching, you know, people having kids and people getting married and I'm sitting here.
00:15:07
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Crushing a bottle of wine on a Wednesday during in COVID with my dad and I'm like, man, you know, I guess I still got some growing up left to do and I wrote it again as you know, it was therapeutic for me and When I started singing people related to it a lot So they wanted me to sing it all the time and it got to that point where I never thought about it before but I was like, man I have sang this song at every show so we we started switching it up and you know, that's actually something I'm running into now where you know, I retired from baseball about three months ago and This is the first time that I've been out you know three, four, five days a week playing. I tell my roommate all the time, I'm like, we got to start adding new stuff to the set list. I'm in here trying to write songs because I'm like, you know we got to start playing new stuff. ah But he actually told me something very funny. you know the The song Wagon Wheel is one of the most overplayed songs of all time. and I'll always joke around with the band and I'll be like, all right, we're playing Wagon Wheel. They'll you know kind of put their heads down and look at me.
00:15:56
Speaker
And, you know, he talks about the the guy that wrote that song and he has to play it all the time because obviously, you know, everybody knows the words to it. Everybody sings along. And if we're playing a show where the energy is not huge there, I'll be like, all right, boys, we got to do it. and i go to the well We're going to webert regard them well, but ah he was talking about the guy that that wrote wagon wheel. And he was like, man, I love that song. That and song bought my house and bought my mom's house. like i You know, so when you think about it, and I think, you know, it's everything in life, so much about perspective of like, right? And you know, I get really tired of playing this song over and over and especially, you know, guys that people that are, you know, quote unquote, one hit wonders, they have that one song that everybody knows. Right.
00:16:34
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I think it's about perspective. You can either get really sick of playing it or you can realize, hey man, like this is the, I wrote this song, I put everything into it and I got to sing it a lot, but like it's the one that gave me a chance, you know, and it's the only reason I'm here and it it gave me a chance
Engaging with the Audience
00:16:46
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to do something else. And you know, it's kind of the same way with baseball where we go out and do the same thing every day for 162 games a year. And you go out and you work on such little things. And it's, I heard somebody say the other day, like the mundane is what makes you excel When you don't realize that you have to do it, you know, when you, when you get out in the middle of there and and you practice and you know, baseball wise, you know, we were so bred to understand that we do these boring things all the time when there's no pressure on. So we're so used to when the pressure comes on. I'm so used to doing it. It's just, yeah it's just habit at this point. Exactly. right
00:17:20
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Okay, so let's talk about um just working the crowd. Like, that had to be a change, right? I mean, baseball, you just throw an amazing sink or you strike them out, the crowd goes nuts. Thank you, I'm gonna go to the dugout. But now, up on stage, it's a whole different deal. How was that transition for you?
00:17:38
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Honestly, I think that was the easiest part, yeah funny enough. you know My dad, they always joke around that I've kind of always been the one where I like to entertain people. you know i It's one of the really cool things I do with my dad. you know We book a big show where we're getting ready to play in front of a bunch of people and my dad's there before I go on stage. We have this little of routine of... You know, I'll go in there and I'll warm up and and get ready and everything. And right before I get ready to go on, he'll come up and give me a big hug. And he always tells me you were born to do this. And it's become one of those really special things between the two of us. But I've always liked to entertain people, whether it's, you know, cracking jokes or, you know, I like to try to bring the energy up. And, you know, even in baseball, you know, I'm sitting there watching 162 games a year and i'm I'm throwing for seven minutes every other game at best. yeah So I would go through the crowd and go talk to people in the crowd, you know, and that's
00:18:23
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that's kind of one of the big things. If anybody that knows me will tell you, I i don't, ah I don't ever stop talking pretty much. If I'm, if I'm awake, I'm going to talk. ah And, you know, I'll sit there and have hour long conversations with people I've never met before, just because that's, that's the way my personality works. So I think that was the easiest part of, you know, I'd be bored watching a baseball game cause I'm sitting here watching, you know, number 89 of 162 this year. So I'm up there talking to the crowd about some guy that's from Detroit, Michigan. And we know one person in common, we're sitting here talking, trying to figure out, you know,
00:18:51
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things we have in common. So I think that was one of the biggest parts that made it really easy of, hey man, you go out and work a crowd, you just get excited. And that's, I think I've gotten, you know especially lately, I don't even talk to the crowd that much anymore. know During the show I go up there and you know we'll say a couple of things, we'll cry a couple of jokes and and talk a little bit. But I mean, I think it's, you know people show up to people show up to hear the music. and ah And I think that's a huge thing of, I used to try to talk too much. And I had somebody tell me at one point they were like, man, you know we enjoy getting to know you, but will you shut up and sing already?
00:19:21
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So every once in a while, you know we'll go out there and talk. and And I think that's how you get to know us a lot better up on stage. But you know we always go out after the show and and talk to everybody and thank them for coming out. But you know I really enjoy that part of it. It's ah it's a very special part and when you're down to earth and you don't act better than anybody. And you realize, hey, man, the only way I have a career is you guys showing up to come out and come out listen to us play. it
Major Performance and Future Aspirations
00:19:43
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It puts definitely a new perspective onto it. Right. That's good. OK. Your favorite venue to play at?
00:19:51
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oh man that you've paid so far, like you have to have played it. Okay, that narrows it down a whole lot then. ah So in 2020 years, 2021, I got, like I said, from the get go of this, I got extremely lucky. I'd been on stage, I'd done two open mic nights and I played ah a show at a bar for 50 bucks and a $50 bar tab. And I get a call from my agent, he goes, Hey man, I just booked you a show and Again, but we were so green to this, I had no clue what was going on. And he goes, you're opening for this guy named Jake Owen. but I said, shut up, dude. I was like, ah, that's funny. And he goes, I'm sending you the contract right now. and I get this contract. I'm like, ah, that's funny. He puts me on a plane. And I'm like, seriously, where are we going? And he's like, Bryce, I wasn't kidding. We've sold 10,000 tickets.
00:20:35
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Oh, wow. And I was like, oh, hi. And I show up and I see the venue and we're playing. I was Archbishop in high school in Akron, Ohio. Oh, wow. And I think I got up there and I just stood there for a minute because I was like, oh, my God, this is real. He wasn't kidding.
00:20:48
Speaker
but ah and you know you can go play baseball in front ah um yeah i'm playing in front of,000 people and it's it's fun and it's exciting and it's easy because you know you got 10 people on the field to look at at any time you go up on stage, it was just me and a guitar. and It's like, man, there's something else to fix. Exactly. It's a lonely feeling up there, but it's also it's also the most exhilarating feeling in the world. of you know i I sang the song 3 AM by Matchbox 20, which is another one of my favorite songs. yeah and It was the only time that I had ever heard 10,000 people sing a song to me.
00:21:20
Speaker
That's awesome. I'm telling you, it gives me chill bumps this day and I forgot the words. They started singing and I just froze and became a fan. Just let them sing. Take it away. I just stood back and I just let them sing. Then I went to sing the second verse and I was like, I don't remember words. I somehow improvised and played it off and I came off stage. My dad goes, you forgot all the words, didn't you? I said, dad, I've never heard that many people sing at me like that. I was like, I didn't know what to do. I freaked out for a minute, but that was definitely probably one of the coolest things I've ever done in my life.
00:21:49
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Is that the biggest venue you've played at so far? Oh, by far, by far. um You know, we played in front of a couple of thousand people otherwise, but, you know, to see 10,000 people out there and, you know, I was talking to Jake's band before it and everything and they asked me, they were like, oh, you know, how many shows have you done? I was like, oh, this is number four. They were like, oh, this week? That's a busy week. And I was like, no. And they were like, this month, it's a little slow. And I was like, no, this is my fourth show ever. And they kind of just looked at me for a minute and they were like, and you're about to walk up there with just you and a guitar in front of 10,000 people.
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yeah yeah I didn't really know what else to do. So they hooked it. So I figured, and I walk up there and I come back down and go, that takes some balls. And I was like, I just thought it took some beers. I don't know about the balls, but i think you know, we got up there and they said, listen, you know, the, the stage lights are bright. You won't be able to see anybody. You're good. And I got up there and I got to thinking, and I'm, I'm like, man, you know, I go on at 5PM. It's still fully light outside. And I got up and I saw 10,000 faces and I was, you guys are wired. Exactly.
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That's good, man, that's good. Okay, so how do our listeners hear more about you like and reach out and how do they book you, those kind of things, how do we help?
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I've got a website, BryceHinsley.com. I've got a lot of information on there. Usually, I'm i'm a little redneck for a lot of this technology, so I'm sure we'll try to figure some of it out, but Instagram is the one I use probably more than anything else. ah It's Bryce Hinsley Music, and it's the same on Facebook and Twitter and everywhere else. so It's got my email and contact information and everything between those. so Wow, man. Well, i'm I'm a super fan, man. I'm grateful that you shared your uncommon journey with us. I'm looking forward to your future. What would you say to your younger self? Of all the wizards you know now, what would you say to your younger self earlier on?
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You know, the one thing I've really learned along the way is, and I got it tattooed on my wrist actually, it says, be where your feet are. You know, I got, I got so long for so long I got into, you know, I should be here. I want to be here. I want to be doing this. And I kind of had to take a step back and realize, you know, I'm where I am for a reason. I'm supposed to be right here. It's, it's part of the journey. It's part of the process. And that's kind of just enjoying the moment. You know what I mean? And that's one thing that I've really tried to,
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tried to make a big habit of of you know we go up there and play in front of 10,000 people and the first thing i do is i step up on stage and i take a deep breath and i just look around because if if all you're worried about is getting it over with and getting it done you know you look back in 20 years and you realize that hey man i watched all these moments go away and i never really enjoyed them and it's you know i've been so blessed and and so lucky that none of this really ever should have happened you know i i lucked into so much of this and if I don't take time to enjoy it, then I kind of wasted it. you know and that's um I've never been so business-like to the point where I'm like, all right, I got a job, I got to get it done. I want to sit back and you know we've got a job to do, but I like to smell the roses while I do it. You know you never want to look back from 20 years from now and be like, man, I really wish I would enjoy it more. You can look back and be like, you know what, all right, I got to focus a little bit, but it's it's really hard to go back and try to enjoy moments that you didn't. So I think that's the biggest thing is just,
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Enjoy where you're at right now, because in 20 years or in a year or in a month, you're going to be very thankful for where you were. So I think that's one of the biggest pieces of advice I got. All right, good. Bryce Hinsley, thanks for your wisdom. Thanks for your uncommon journey. Thanks for sharing with us. I appreciate you having me. And I look forward to hearing more about you in the future. Yes, sir. Thank you. Thanks for listening. You've been listening to the Uncommon Wealth Podcast. Until next time, go be uncommon. Even if it is not what you thought it was going to be, be present and make your own uncommon journey. Thanks for listening.
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