What Matters with Amy Grant: Creativity, Stillness & The Me That Remains

• Amy Grant has six Grammy Awards, 26 Dove Awards, and a music career that spans genres and generations. But this conversation isn’t about awards and accolades. It’s about what happens when life cracks us wide open and we face unimaginable struggles. It’s about embracing stillness and looking inward for answers…and the freedom and strength that emerge.

The Me That Remains is Amy’s first album in more than a decade and, in many ways, her most personal. After undergoing open-heart surgery and surviving a bicycle accident that caused a traumatic brain injury, months of slow, quiet recovery unlocked a new depth of creativity in the songwriter.

On this episode of What Matters with Liz, she opens up about her challenges, how they changed her, and who she is now. As she sings on the title track, “Life cut me wide open, when my head hit the ground. Wasn’t my time for dying, guess my soul just stuck around. Out of this wreckage, I’m beginning to claim the gifts in the healing - and the me that remains.”

Amy shares:

• How a bike accident and traumatic brain injury (TBI) changed her life

• Why slowing down and simplifying led her to write new music

• Her advice to those in a season of uncertainty or rebuilding

• How her limitations changed the way she writes music

• Her songwriting process and why it’s all about saying “something that matters”

• Why people in their 60s need music that reflects their perspective

• How the Covenant School shooting in Nashville impacted her

• The tender final moments of her mother’s life and how they changed how she sees death

• What the hit song “El Shaddai” means to her — and how it almost didn’t make the album

• Why she crossed over from Christian music to mainstream pop

• How her faith has evolved

• Why she embraces the mystery of faith – and why Jesus remains the one being she trusts

• Which three songs in her music catalog are her favorites

• How The Book of Forgiving by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu led her on a path of forgiveness

• Why she’s committed to Compassion International – and the story of how she reconnected with her first sponsored child

• How a checkup with husband, Vince Gill, led to the discovery of her previously undiagnosed, rare congenital heart defect

• The untold story of reclaiming her great-grandfather’s legacy in a six-year legal battle

• How small everyday choices can have a huge impact

• How you can give to others while honoring your capacity

• Why “every good thing starts with gratitude”

This conversation reminds us that self exploration, expression, and evolution is a lifelong journey and that discovering new versions of ourselves, while honoring who we’ve been, creates a dynamic and beautiful life.

Because what matters…is what remains.

For more on Amy Grant visit:

https://www.amygrant.com/

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