August Obsessions

In this week’s episode, it’s my experience at improv and getting out of our comfort zones to 6-4-2 rule to obsessions and more!  Tune in!  Keep looking up!  A Ten90 Media Production. Copyright © 2023 Ten90 Media. All rights reserved. 

On Episode 40 of this week’s @klupodcast, I’ve talked about my skincare routine on social media but I decided it was time to devote a mini-episode to skincare, one of my passions! I run through my exact day/night routine and share the three things that have transformed my skin - skin cycling, BHA’s & repairing my skin barrier. I break everything down so if you’re a skincare newbie, I got you. Let me know if you have any questions at all and like I said in the episode, do your own research based on your skin’s needs! All the products I used are on my stories and LTK/Amazon storefront (link for both in my bio!)   A Ten90 Media Production. Copyright © 2023 Ten90 Media. All rights reserved.  

 This week at @klupodcast, I took a poll recently and y’all wanted me to talk about making and maintaining friendships. I go into the phases we all go through during different times  and types of friends we all have at some point in our lives and their purpose. I also like to emphasize how you should not put pressure on your friends to be the answer to all of your needs. It’s the joy of friendship and appreciating the core group that we have in different points of our lives!  Let me know what resonates with you! Keep looking up (on it!)! —This will also make sense once you listen to this week’s podcast!  A Ten90 Media Production. Copyright © 2023 Ten90 Media. All rights reserved. 

It’s a new month which means it’s a new book for KLU Book Club! The Four Agreements is basically required reading in my family, it was my dad’s all time favorite book that he would quote constantly and really implemented the teachings into his every day life. If you didn’t read the book, don’t worry because I recap the Four Agreements and discuss the biggest takeaways from it so there is still an opportunity to learn! Since I talk a lot about self help and growth on the podcast, I’ve been drawn to my spiritual favorites but sometimes they can feel woo woo and overwhelming if you’re just beginning your growth journey. So for next month’s book, we will be doing “Hello, Molly!” by Molly Shannon which is a memoir but feels like a self help book because Molly is leading by example and teaching you things inadvertently by sharing her life experience in a light, refreshing but poignant way. I highly highly recommend listening to Molly read the book instead of reading it, if you can, because hearing her inflection and timing truly makes the whole experience so much better. If you have any books you’d like to be included in Book Club, please let me know!! Keep Looking Up!A Ten90 Media Production. Copyright © 2023 Ten90 Media. All rights reserved.

After my incredible weekend in Vegas seeing @kellyclarkson’s new limited residency, I just had to give a recap of the highlights, talk about how we all should have a “North Star” to look to emulate and go ahead and play my interview with Kelly again in case you missed it the first time! I hope all you Miss Independents enjoy!A Ten90 Media Production. Copyright © 2022 Ten90 Media. All rights reserved.      

I am going to be incredibly transparent today. Today is a day that I dread every single year as it is a reminder of the worst day of my life. The day I lost my best friend, my confidant, my biggest supporter and role model. My dad. Being able to have the Kidd Kraddick Legacy Month on @klupodcast has been incredibly emotional yet cathartic. These conversations have given me something to look forward to instead of that feeling of impending doom that I usually feel so I’m incredibly grateful to be sharing these with you all. My dad was known for his humor, creativity and kindness but as we’ve discussed in previous episodes, Kidd had a talent for finding and cultivating young talent. So it was no surprise that what started out as a radio bit that resembled “Making The Band” turned into an actual real boy band that opened for major artists like Janet Jackson and Destiny’s Child. Dr. J Mack Slaughter was the youngest member of that band and someone I have known since I was a little girl completely enamored with all the boys in the band that my dad created. J Mack’s journey with Sons of Harmony led him to LA where he was incredibly successful, landing numerous television shows and a movie with Kenan Thompson. Even though he was at the top of his game, J Mack felt incredibly unfulfilled so after some soul searching, he left his life in LA to move back to Texas. To pursue a career in emergency medicine. Betcha didn’t see that one coming! J credits my dad for his career in medicine and we had the most beautiful conversation about my dad’s impact on him. To make things even more full circle, my dad’s death brought us both back to music, playing together for numerous gigs benefiting Kidd’s Kids or just for fun with my old band CC & the Dad Bods. 😂 Speaking of Kidd’s Kids, J Mack is now one of the physicians that attends our trip in November every year. Although J Mack is an accomplished doctor with a huge social media following, with his own nonprofit organization and a family of his own with three incredible children, I will always remember him as the incredibly generous and earnest sixteen year old. Backstage at Jingle Ball at Six Flags, sitting down with a ten year old, four eyed little girl at craft services. J Mack and I are connected in so many ways at this point, my dad made sure that he would always be in my life in some capacity. Another example of how my dad is still protecting me and for that I’m extremely grateful. I hope you all enjoy.  A Ten90 Media Production. Copyright © 2022 Ten90 Media. All rights reserved.     

We are back with another episode of the Keep Looking Up podcast for Kidd Kraddick Legacy Month, this time with the men of the show J-Si Chavez and Big Al Mack. I find the older I get, especially with my career ventures and passions being so similar to my dad’s, I find myself craving his advice, direction and validation. The beautiful thing about this series and with having the radio family my dad left behind so accessible to me is that the advice, direction and validation can come through them now. J-Si and Al gave me some incredible insight, as they spent years observing and learning from him. The most interesting part of this podcast was their answer when I asked what the trajectory of the show and everyone’s career would have been if dad hadn’t passed. As we discussed last week, the fact that the show is still going is a testament to the loyalty and connectedness of the cast. As a daughter, it makes me incredibly proud to see them carrying the show on and continuing to influence people in positives ways every single day. We cried but we laughed a lot too. I hope you all love it.  A Ten90 Media Production. Copyright © 2023 Ten90 Media. All rights reserved.  

I have been working over the last few months on a very special project to commemorate and celebrate the beautiful legacy of my dad, in honor of the 10 year anniversary of his passing on July 27th. For the whole month, the Keep Looking Up podcast is dedicated to interviewing people who knew him intimately and were inspired by him. I’ve had many full circle moments while doing this podcast but this interview with Kellie Rasberry takes the cake. The way I see it, without Kellie there would be no Kidd. That famous Kraddick Rasberry chemistry was tangible to everyone who listened. It was usually a rollercoaster of roasting, pushing each other’s buttons in a way only they knew how and some tender moments. Like when Kellie told my dad that he was so hard to shop for that she was going to bring back his mother from the dead for Christmas 😂 Kellie has been on the Kidd Kraddick Morning Show for 29 years. To have a career that long in such a mercurial industry is impressive but being on the same show for 29 years is almost unheard of. We conducted this interview in my dad’s radio studio that he moved into in 2001, where the show still continues over two decades later and I got to stand in his spot and interview his “work wife.” It doesn’t get much more full circle than that.  We had a very candid and cathartic discussion and I think y’all are going to love it. Thank you Kellie, for everything!A Ten90 Media Production. Copyright © 2022 Ten90 Media. All rights reserved. 

Wrapping up June by sharing some of my favorites from the month @klupodcast! I share my recipe for the “nature’s Gatorade” that I’ve been making before tennis, the formula to smell like a heavenly summer goddess and my favorite show. Have you guys seen the cottage cheese/chicken sausage/mustard trend that’s going around? Would you try it? Let me know! A Ten90 Media Production. Copyright © 2022 Ten90 Media. All rights reserved.    

You may know her from TikTok or IG as @southernwestsunshine but to me, she’s my bestie from college, Ashley! Within minutes of being reunited, we were back to being those two Texas girls in the same musical theatre program with rollers in our hair, crying over a boy in a sandwich shop. Not at the same time, of course. It’s no wonder Ash has built such a big community of followers on TikTok in a short amount of time. She is vivacious, hilarious, supportive & relatable so I’m excited to share her with those of you who don’t know her yet. We had a wonderful conversation about transparency on the internet, the ability to disconnect work from self worth and of course, we took many strolls down memory lane. Be sure to check out our GRWM and let me know what you guys thought of the episode! A Ten90 Media Production. Copyright © 2022 Ten90 Media. All rights reserved.