Laela Dasher Skinner
Appearances
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Wow.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
It's my favorite song.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
I don't know who said this recently, but they were like, I think it was Brandon, pastor of our church back in Black Mountain. He said, you know, you're having all these dreams to like go overseas and be a part of this mission work and, you know, do these like awesome things for the kingdom, but like you're not even making your bed.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Yeah, and I think that's the story of, honestly, our team is like, when Sadie called me to be a part of the team, I was literally in high school. I remember I was standing at my locker, I was like about to go to math class, was 18 years old. I knew nothing. I just knew that I loved to worship God and I loved music.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
And I had prayed that it would be like something that I really could have a career in, but didn't know how God was going to make that happen. But I also knew that deep down, like I just felt that he was going to honor that desire in some capacity. And I think I was the same way. Like I remember getting that call and thinking like, this is it. Like we're going to, it's going to blow up. Yeah.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
We're going to start, you know, and it is such a process. It's a refining process and it's slow and it's good that way. Like, I mean, we've we've we from when we first started, like the songs we were writing to now, like the difference is just like crazy. And it's been slow and it's been good.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
And it's been constantly like learning how to because honestly, like I remember getting that call as a senior. And I was like, well, that's it. Like, not going to go to college. Like, that's it. I don't need to go to college. And then it's like, no, girl, like, you got to go to class.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
That's what I'm thinking, like end of the summer maybe. We'll probably do singles.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Yeah, praise God for that too.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
You're praying for that.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
That would be a good...
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
I don't have any.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
You should just tell Lydia to change her handle to TheDuckShepherd's wife.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
I mean, honestly, like these songs, it was God just like placing them exactly where they were supposed to be. There's a lot of refining. We've been writing these for, what, two years now?
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Yeah, I mean, yeah, some of those songs, I guess, have been in years and years and years. But we wrote that last song just a few weeks ago. And we wrote it like we were like, we need a song just like high praise into the night type of thing. Because it's called Songs for the Anxious Heart. We're taking a lot of our scripture from the Psalms because like the key of the whole, it is a concept album.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
So it really does move you through a journey of like, anxiety to peace only through Jesus and he's the only answer. And yeah, Reeves can probably speak into that a lot too. Yeah.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
The worship wash.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
I mean, I think that it's so crazy how even in a year your heart can change so much to like in your desires, honestly. because I felt like I went into that having this desire to obviously make it far and then maybe release my own stuff after and dot, dot, dot, whatever that looks like. And I remember going in thinking like, like, this is it.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Like the same thing with the, like, this is my, this is what's going to, so the nail in the coffin for me, I would be able to quit school and do this whole time. And it wasn't that, uh, we made it through like three rounds and then we're cut. And honestly, like it was God's blessing and provision that that happened that way.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Um, honestly, even from like, just like a contractual side of things, like just being able to be out then and terminating that because they have a contract with that show and getting to really focus on Ella Worship full-time. So I think rather than a disappointing experience, it was a clarifying experience for me. I'm not supposed to be in that world. And at the end of the day, it's a TV show.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
So there's going to be things that are narrated in scripts, whatever. Um, but yeah, it was a clarifying experience. I remember leaving and flying home. And two weeks later I got married. Like it was like so quick. And then like that next Sunday I was leading worship at church.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
And I was just like, man, this is like, or the Sunday after I got married, when I got home from my honeymoon and started leading worship at church. And then things started picking up with Ella worship. And I was just like, man, this is like, like, this is where my heart is. It's like for the church. And I will say, um, that God is always moving. He is moving everywhere.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
So I remember being in Hollywood and being on the show, and there were so many worship moments that broke out that the production team would have to come and be like, guys, you want to be quiet down? This is too much. Just because people just praising God.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Yeah, every day, just worship, worship, worship breaks out. And they said, this happens every year. And it's because I think that when you get that many musicians together, the believers come together. And I saw people deeply touched by that. To this day, people I know whose lives were changed just from getting to experience worship. American Idol also honors Christians really well.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
They honor the people that sing worship music. So that's really cool about that show. So that was really cool. It was encouraging to me. But at the end of the day, like I really think that anything that, I believe that anything that is like worthwhile is going to take hard work and it's not an overnight thing. And it's a process.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Like we were talking about earlier, like Ella worship has been a process. And I think that it was a great experience, but I'm so grateful how it turned out. I'm so grateful I didn't make it further than I did so that I am free to do the things that I'm doing now. And yeah, like my heart just, I don't know.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
There's something even just in the past, like two months, I'm just like, man, I agree with Reeves. Like, I just, I want to go back to what it's all about. And like, that is, it is all about him, you know? And it looks different because like, I always go back to the Psalms, um,
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
I got an opportunity to do this like residency summer thing where we were studying the Psalms, like deep dive into the Psalms and writing songs from the Psalms. And it's so beautiful.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Oh, yeah. Shout out Shane and Shane. They're amazing.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Well, I remember like, okay, full transparency. I remember like for a season not wanting to do Christian music at all because in my mind I was like, ah, that's boring. Like there's these rules that you have to like follow and you have to like And almost like it was like creatively limiting, if that makes any sense. And I just, I don't know why that was.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
I don't know if that's because I've grown up in the church. I don't know. And then God started giving me like more language for who he is and for his glory and more language for his goodness. And I started reading, like I did that deep dive into the Psalms. I'm like, man, there is something. so much beauty here. This is the furthest thing from boring. This is stunning, the language.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
And I mean, there's Psalm 51, Psalm of Repentance, songs for the repentant heart. There are songs for the anxious heart in the Psalms. There are songs for the people that have been deeply wronged and want justice. And those are kind of hard to read because it's like... God, would you like smash my enemies against a rock? You know? Yeah.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Those are called imprecatory songs. That's what we call it. Um, I haven't heard a lot of songs that come out of this, but,
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
No, but the Psalms are so full. The Bible is so full. It's a never-ending well of beauty and of truth. And I'm just like, this is where I want to... like draw my inspiration from for the rest of my life. Even if it's not like directly, I'm singing like a very explicit Christian, like, like this is, this is the well, you know?
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
And so American Idol was clarifying to me that like, this is where I need to be. Like, I love, I love worship music. I love writing songs for the church. I love writing songs for believers. I love writing songs for non-believers that pull their heart towards him. But at the end of the day, it's all about drawing near to him. And so I, Yeah, glad I did it. Probably won't ever do it again.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Definitely won't ever do it again.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Can you get me one of those?
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
We got it all.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Yeah.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Yeah.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Thank you. We love you. Thank you.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
I love what you said about no little people because this is like this whole point. There's a verse, and I can't remember where, and that's awful, but it talks about the mission is to basically lead a quiet life. Like that is the mission.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
That's right. We were in a ride a few weeks ago. This guy we were riding with, like he's written a bunch of number one hits. Like he's the guy in songwriting. And that was what he said. He said, yeah, these days my mission is just to live a quiet life. Like,
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
schedule is easy i don't pack my days out spend time with my family i'm a part of my local church very plugged in and so for me like i that's that's what i feel like god is teaching me is just slow down be in your community do not strive like this where the striving is that is not where i'm having you like i want what i have for you is rest and so whether like this goes
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
you know, to the thousands or just our community, like it's beautiful either way. And so I'm just trying to kind of live in that. I feel like God's given me so much peace about like those two hands, like either way, like, like it's awesome. So yeah.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Skinner. But I did keep Dasher, so I have four names.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Layla Beth, Dasher, Skinner. Oh, wow. A lot of names. Couldn't let it go.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Thanks for having us. Thanks for having us. I'm excited to be here.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Yeah, it's an age-old debate of whether it's LO. A lot of people say LO as well. I like LO because it reminds me of like, lo and behold, you know, lowly worship. I just think, you know.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
Yes, gentle and lowly. Um, but it stands for live original, which is obviously Sadie's ministry.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
And, um, yeah, she used to be on the road a lot and would kind of bring in these outside bands and then, um, would always just kind of had, she always had a heart for having a team that was like aligned with her vision and honestly, just like a part of her family and a part of what was going on here in the community.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1075 | Miss Kay Fed Wendy Williams a Squirrel & What ‘American Idol’ Taught Zach’s Daughter
And so then she reached out to Reeves and yeah, you probably can take it from there.