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Shania to be a guest on "Making Space with Hoda Kotb" podcast (Season 3, Episode 5) - January 30

Tommy · Guru

It looks like the "Making Space with Hoda Kotb" podcast with Shania (Season 3, Episode 5) will premiere Monday, January 30. Episode 1 & 2 premiered January 9, Episode 3 premiered January 16, Episode 4 will premiere January 23...

https://making-space-with-hoda-kotb.simplecast.com/episodes

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-space-with-hoda-kotb/id1585499926

Tommy · Guru

On January 6 Tommy wrote:
Shania leaving the "TODAY" show after changing outfits. I think she also recorded the "Making Space with Hoda Kotb" podcast which will probably be out in the next couple weeks.
https://shania.activeboard.com/t69009691/shania-to-be-a-guest-on-making-space-with-hoda-kotb-podcast-/

They aired a preview of Monday's "TODAY" show and there was a clip of Shania's interview with Hoda for the "Making Space with Hoda Kotb" podcast which will premiere Monday. Shania is wearing the pink outfit above. However, as far as I can tell, Hoda's podcast is audio only.

https://making-space-with-hoda-kotb.simplecast.com/episodes

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-space-with-hoda-kotb/id1585499926

Tommy · Guru

Shania Twain: "Queen Of Me"

January 30th, 2023 | 37:02 | S3:E5

Episode Summary

Shania Twain talks with host Hoda Kotb about her new music, “Queen of Me,” and the challenges she faced with losing her parents and battling disease.

Episode Notes

As the top-selling female country music artist in history, Shania Twain has seen decades of career highs. But, behind the music, Shania experienced incredible challenges. In this deeply personal conversation with Hoda, Shania reflects on her difficult childhood, the loss of her parents, and her battle with the disease that almost cost the artist her voice. But, at 58, Shania is once again on top. With new music and an upcoming tour, she is talking to Hoda about becoming the “Queen of Me.”

https://making-space-with-hoda-kotb.simplecast.com/episodes/shania-twain-queen-of-me

***The podcast is also available on Apple Music and Spotify.

Tommy · Guru

Shania Twain on overcoming self-judgment to pose nude for album: ‘Forget the sag’

The five-time Grammy winner tells Hoda Kotb the photo shoot was a “real leap of faith” as she strives to be more comfortable in her own body.

By Ryan Hudgins | TODAY | January 30, 2023

VIDEO - https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1620072422811598850

For country music icon Shania Twain, posing nude for the first time was an act of courage.

In an interview with TODAY’s Hoda Kotb for the “Making Space with Hoda Kotb” podcast, the 57-year-old opened up about embracing her body while developing the artwork for her upcoming album “Queen of Me,” which involved a nude photo shoot.

Her motto? “Forget the sag,” she said.

“I’m only going to get more saggy,” she told Hoda. “It’s also one of those things like, I better enjoy this moment right now because I know I don’t look like I did when I was 20.”

The five-time Grammy winner explained that the photo shoot was a “real leap of faith” as she worked to be more “relaxed and comfortable” in her own skin.

“I don’t even know where I got the courage to do it,” she said. “I think I just got fed up of judging myself.”

The singer also said that she believes she's reached a point in her life where she wouldn’t consider plastic surgery.

“Maybe that was probably part of what pushed me to go, ‘OK, it’s time to start loving yourself in your own skin,’” she said.

Earlier this month, the singer shared on TODAY that posing nude for her album was not only an act of empowerment. It also provided a way for her to face some of the trauma she experienced in childhood.

“Doing the nude photography is really about saying listen, I was abused when I was a kid. ... This cringey, horrible wanting to escape being in my own skin — I’m just in this mode now where, no, no no, I’m happy in my own skin,” she said.

“It’s the only skin I have,” she added. “I don’t have a choice. Otherwise, I’m going to hate myself for the rest of my life. So it’s time to start loving myself in my own skin and really embracing that and not be embarrassed or shy of it and this is who I am.”

In December, Twain shared with The Sunday Times that to avoid abuse from her stepfather she would flatten her breasts.

"I would wear bras that were too small for me, and I’d wear two, play it down until there was nothing girl about me. Make it easier to go unnoticed. Because, oh, my gosh, it was terrible — you didn’t want to be a girl in my house," she told the outlet.

Now, with her sixth studio album, “Queen of Me,” out Feb. 3, Twain is “enjoying the search” of finding and accepting herself, she told Hoda in the podcast episode.

“It couldn’t be more fitting for where I’m really at in my own mind,” she said. “I’m responsible for myself. I take the good with the bad.”

Check out the full episode of “Making Space” with Shania Twain on Apple or wherever you find your podcasts.

https://www.today.com/popculture/music/shania-twain-posed-nude-queen-of-me-album-rcna67932

Tommy · Guru

Shania Twain recalls moment she learned her parents died in a car crash: ‘I just couldn’t let go’

The country-pop singer and songwriter reflects on the loss that changed her life.

By Ree Hines | TODAY | January 30, 2023

Shania Twain was just 22 years old when, in 1987, she lost both her parents in a single, devastating moment.

The country-pop icon recently sat down with TODAY’s Hoda Kotb for an episode of the podcast “Making Space With Hoda Kotb,” a portion of which aired on TODAY Jan. 30. She opened up about the tragedy that capped off a difficult upbringing and changed her life.

Twain heard the news when she was busy working on her “backup plan” in case her musical ambitions never took off. After growing up in poverty, Twain had moved to Toronto to study to be a computer programmer.

"My sister had called me and told me that they died in a car accident," the "Queen of Me" singer recalled of learning the fate of her mother, Sharon Twain, and the stepfather who'd adopted her when she was young child, Jerry Twain. "I just, you know, I fell apart totally, just into shock for days and I just couldn’t let go of them."

As the 57-year-old performer described it, she "lost a very important foundation." And it was a complicated one. In addition poverty and food scarcity, Twain has opened up about other struggles in the past, including emotional and physical abuse from the family patriarch.

"As rickety as it was, it was still a foundation," she continued. "It was still a foundation that I associated with. My whole life history was there, with them, and many of the associations fell along the way, away, after my parents died. It was so true that so much of my life was stemming from them being in my life — the good and the bad."

Three of Twain’s four siblings were still minors at the time, so she moved back home to take on a new role in the wake of the loss, becoming a caregiver to the then-children she still calls her "kids."

"My younger sister was still living at home and my two younger brothers were still, you know, 13 and 14 years old," she said. "And we all agreed that they shouldn’t be separated. But no relatives were able to take both of them in. So the only way to keep them together was for us to stay together."

All the while, Twain kept her dream of becoming a singer alive.

In 1993, six years after her parents' deaths and when her younger siblings were adults, Twain released her first album, which marked the first big step in her hugely successful career.

https://www.today.com/popculture/music/shania-twain-parents-died-car-crash-rcna68126

Tommy · Guru

Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

I sat down with my dear friend @hodakotb @TODAYshow to talk about my journey of self-discovery for the latest episode of her Making Space podcast. Listen here: link.chtbl.com/ms_social_s3

1:00 PM ET - 30 Jan 23

http://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain

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