She worked two jobs while staying at her parents house in Willard Missouri, sent her music to every label she could, made music that was a niche in the industry (lesbian pop music), opened for olivia rodrigo (and was hated for the whole tour), but kept going :,). She used to sing at my local country fair, I remember seeing her sing when I was in hs. To a crowd of nobody, just her and a keyboard. I can’t believe she made it this far