Living The Red Life - The Dark Side of Fame & Success w/Nutsa Buzaladze

Episode Date: December 23, 2024

Nutsa Buzaladze, a talented and rising singer who shares her unique journey in the music industry. Nutsa discusses her early influences and how music became an integral part of her life, navigating the challenges of building a career in a competitive field. She opens up about the passion and dedication required to pursue her dreams, detailing the struggles she faced along the way, including balancing personal and professional life. Nutsa also speaks about the power of resilience and the role of self-belief, explaining how she overcame self-doubt and criticism to create music that is deeply personal to her.The conversation also touches on Nutsa’s growth as an artist, her inspirations, and the evolution of her sound. She shares her experiences working with different collaborators and the importance of maintaining her authenticity in the ever-changing music industry. As she reflects on her journey, Nutsa expresses gratitude for her supporters and the people who have helped her along the way. She also shares how she is continually learning and growing, embracing new challenges as opportunities for artistic development. CHAPTER TITLES2:00 - Navigating the Highs and Lows of Success4:00 - The Pressure of Always Going Bigger6:00 - Staying True to Yourself Amidst Criticism8:00 - The Power of Delusion in Achieving Success10:00 - Breaking Out of Your Comfort Zone12:00 - Learning from Success and Failure14:00 - The Role of Family and Friends in Growth16:00 - Moving to Miami: A Fresh Start18:00 - Embracing Change and Overcoming Fear19:00 - The Importance of Gratitude in Achieving More20:12 - Staying Humble While Reaching for SuccessConnect with Nutsa:SOCIALS - NutsabuzaConnect with Rudy Mawer:LinkedInInstagramFacebookTwitter

I remember when I was like 17, I won this one contest, and it was a big, huge success for me. And I remember everyone was so happy. Nobody was hating on me yet. And that's when everything started, you know? Well, the bigger you get, the harder it gets, and the more challenges you have. Exactly.

I realized that the most important thing is to stay true to yourself, you know? Don't change for anybody. And the most important thing, what I've realized this month is... My name's Rudy Moore, host of Living the Red Life podcast. And I'm here to change the way you see your life in your earpiece every single week.

If you're ready to start living the red life, ditch the blue pill, take the red pill, join me in Wonderland and change your life. What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of Living the Red Life. Today I have my friend in town, Nutsa. She's a very famous singer. You may recognize her from American Idol, finalist there and has done a whole host of things this year in particular,

represented Georgia in the Eurovision, which if you're American, you may not know, but a lot of famous people came through it in England and Europe. It's the Olympics of singing, right? But welcome to the show. Thanks, Rudy. Thanks for inviting.

I'm very happy to be here. I'm very happy to be in Miami. Miami is the place. Yes, I love it. I love it. And thanks for inviting. Yes, it was like really a big year for me as a song girl. Last couple of years.

Yeah, last two years it was really crazy. It was great years for me as a singer to grow. It was good years for me to grow as a person as well and see myself in bad situations and good situations as well. But I loved it, it was great. Well, I always say entrepreneurship, you have your ups and downs, your highs and lows. If you're a pro athlete, you get injured, right? Or you don't get picked for the team for the Olympics.

And I think seeing it, I'm not into that industry, but anything where you're trying to be the best at what you do is full of ups and downs. And that's what today is about, your success and the highs and lows in the singing world, right? Yes, exactly. To be a singer, like, everybody thinks that it's fun. You know, oh, it's so fun. Like, and you go somewhere, oh, you're a singer, could you sing for us?

It's so nice. We love singing. And, you know, and everybody's saying, oh, I wish I sang. But actually it's very hard to, you know, be on spotlight, you know? And once you do something big, then you wanna do something bigger,

and then you wanna do something bigger, and then you wanna do something bigger. And you know, to be, you know, thinking all the time about it, and to be fully into in this, you know, it's very hard to then live your personal life well, you know, thinking all the time about it and to be fully into in this, you know, it's very hard to then live your personal life as well, you know, and then to balance your personal life and career is kind of very hard. Well, also, it's like, you know, the entrepreneurship, you're chipping away

every hour of every day. Yes. But you're also like practicing, but everything comes to one moment, right? Like the big, you know, on stage. The moment, yeah, the big moment. And you kind of like, every year, like since I was a kid, I wanted to have like every year, something bigger and bigger happening. So I kind of programmed my mind and myself that Nutsa, every year, you gotta go higher, you gotta go higher, you gotta go higher, you gotta go higher.

And then it's kind of like punishment as well for yourself, to be honest. Well, it lies the fire under you. Yeah, because you're always like, you always want more, you always want more. But also I learned how to live in the present as well. And when I have the best moments, I fully enjoy it. I think what's interesting with entrepreneurs is like, I've had a lot of wow moments too, right?

Big stages and Amazon Prime TV show, but because I'm so competitive, I'm like, yeah, that's cool. But I'm like already onto the next thing, right? And some of my friends and family almost say like, Rudy, you gotta stop and enjoy the moment. But I'm like, I think ultra successful people, they're like, by the time the moment comes, they're already like,

answer the moment, right? To do the next thing. It's so true. And also other thing is what I think that, for example, you come from England, right? And I come from Georgia, right? And it's kind of also like, you have to be also a person of like, you know, you cannot be so into your culture and into your small country.

It's like, yeah, you know, you, you have to make your eyes and, and make your, yourself make yourself like open. It's like the world's your oyster, right? Like you gotta try and yeah, do whatever you can. Because I was thinking like, if I'm gonna act the same way, if I'm not gonna show myself up to everything, like how are these people gonna know that, you know, there's a singer coming from Turkey? Like no one really cares in America.

I mean, you gotta prove it. It's very hard if you're not an American trying to break in in the singing and all that. Very hard, but in my case, on American Idol, it happened like I was not even living here. I was living in Dubai by the tide. And I just sent my videos, I tried. And you know, and then it all started happening like that.

Yeah, it's funny, because I just filmed a documentary on myself. And I say part of it, I'm like, I think I'm delusional. And that's why I'm successful because you have to be like so delusional that you believe in yourself. Like you're going to go from Georgia in Dubai, apply for American Idol and then somehow get in right?

You got to be delusional. But that's what makes the best, you better. And Muhammad Ali is famous for saying, I am the greatest. When he wasn't boxing, he was just starting his boxing career. Right? So that successful trait lives on. And also, you said, I'm from England. If I walked around in England like this, I'd probably get attacked. No one in England dresses like this, especially out of London, like in a small city. So you have to be a little different to be successful and, and, and, uh, Be yourself as well.

Yeah. Be yourself. Of course. And that's when you actually, uh, you know, me and Tim story, we're just talking about this, I think you get the biggest breakthroughs when you actually embrace and become yourself because people are too scared. Exactly. Exactly.

And also I've realized that, for example, I have like big thing, right? And then something like something bad happens. Yeah, always. Well, you know, ways, maybe in the family, maybe in your personal life, maybe in career, maybe there's something happens and your career starts to go down. And then I think the strongest people and the most successful people is like, they are very strong because you gotta be strong. You know, fighting, stand up because standing up is harder actually than achieving success, you know, because I remember when I was like 17, I won this one contest and it was a big, huge success for me. And I remember everyone was so happy.

Nobody was hating on me yet. Everybody was so happy and I was so lovely at that. And that's when everything started. Well, the bigger you get, the harder it gets and the more challenges you have. Exactly, exactly. Because then you have some status and people are waiting from you to, when something is happening something is happening, you got to make a statement. You know, then you make a statement, then some people don't like it.

You can never win, right? It never win. You know don't change for anybody and the most important thing what I've realized this this month is that you know bad people they're gonna try they're gonna try a lot to Put you down and they're gonna try you to make like they are you know like bad bad people well bad people They live on they have nothing for them going And they have all the time in the world to try and make other people suffer here. So, you know, I had like many, many, you know, thoughts about that. I'm like, like, why those people are like ours?

Why they are like so hateful towards me? I didn't do anything wrong, right, to them. Yeah, yeah. But they wanna, they trying to make you that guy and they wanna try to make you the same way as they are. So the, the most important thing is like to stay true to yourself and, and, you know, remember who you really are and you know, just keep fighting and just, you know, go like this.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. After a while, cause like, you know, I've been advertising online and stuff for nearly eight, nine years, and I think in the first couple of years, each comment started, you analyze it, bothered me a little. Oh, you got it. Yeah, but now the last five, six years, genuinely I laugh at them now. I don't even see them. My team handle them. You get to a point where you just kind of, you know, just get on with it.

And you have to be true to yourself and know that you're doing good and you're on the right path. But I mean, a lot of people listening, they're actually too... They allow it to impact them too much. They get too bothered and too upset. And then they question themselves and it's like causes this snowball effect over this one random person in their mom's basement. The person that didn't do state of their life. It's really hard. So people who wanna be successful and get successful, this is what I'm gonna say, be ready for that.

And I'm sure you're getting a lot in the last two years, right? You know, when you're a kid, especially when you, I started my career when I was 16 years old. And when you're a kid, everyone looks at you, oh, she's so cute, she's so ugly. And then when you grow up and you get bigger than they actually are, especially like singer, and they see you as their competition, and then they try to put you down in many ways they can.

And you got to be ready for that. You got to be, it doesn't matter how good of a person you are, it doesn't matter how kind of a person you are, with that type of people, with that kind of people, you just have to be like, don't look them, don't give them any attention, don't give them any energy, and just, you know, ignore, ignore completely. That's what drives them crazy.

So that's what I'm gonna to say that be ready for that. Yeah. And I just switching gears to something you said earlier, because I want to ask you, you said you got it. You're going bigger every year. Right. So American Idol, Eurovision. Yes. 2025. What are you going to do? Well, on 2025, I wanted to do this on 2024. Right.

I don't really like to say my plans. It's done, right? But the most important thing for me on 2025 is to completely change my living space. Yeah. Okay. I'm living like my half life. I'm living in Georgia. I'm always traveling. Either I'm living like my half life, I'm living in Georgia, half I'm always traveling, either I'm in US, either I'm in another country, right? But I really want myself to like, just to move in some other city, other country, and just to be there for at least one year, okay? And that country is US definitely, and I love Miami for that. You know, I would love, love to be settled here

and to live in here because I feel like that this city is gonna give me like a lot of doors and opportunities, you know, and to, you know, show myself to other segments. I see that, yeah. You know, and that's very important for a person as a person to grow because in your country and in the place where you are so comfortable, I realize you never grow. No, you have not. Because you're like very comfortable. Everybody loves you. Everybody knows you. You're very successful. You know, and then what? That one.

Every time I've moved, my life's got massively better. Yeah. And one of the first podcasts on here was Grant Cardone. And he said the same. He said, every time you move, it pushed him and his life got better. And I was actually thinking back the other day, like, what are some of the biggest things in my life, like cheat codes or hacks

that made my life significantly better, right? Like miles better, right? Not like a new car or a new watch or a new frame, but like miles better that I'll look back when I'm 80 years old. And the main two was moving to America and then move into Miami. It's like hot fire thing.

And you had so many great people. It made so many successful people. And I realized every time I meet a new person who is successful in their field, they always teach me something new that makes me think about life, makes me think about myself, and I always get some knowledge from them. And it's so beautiful. The same thing I can say about you, like the things that you say,

your story, you know, it's inspiring. So you meet this type of people in Miami, particularly a lot. Yeah, a lot. Yeah. And I love it, you know, it's really great. Yeah, I think for anyone listening, the whole like where you live is fascinating because most people I think they are born and they believe they have to stay in that area, right? Where it's like you got the whole world to live, right?

And obviously you have family and stuff, but. And it's always scary. Yeah, of course. That's the biggest thing, it's scary, yeah. It's but... And it's always scary. Yeah, of course. That's the biggest thing. It's scary. It's scary, but it's so beautiful. You know, once you go out from that space, a little bubble, there's so many adventures. Yeah.

And when I moved to America, everyone said, well, what if it doesn't work out? What if you don't like it? Yeah, there is so many. What if tomorrow you die? My reply was, well, if it doesn't work out, I just move back next year. Yeah, you always have your home. You always have your relatives,

your friends waiting for you. And it's beautiful. When I go back to my country. Yeah, they love it there. Yeah, it's so beautiful. I love it there. But then after like maybe two weeks, I get a little bit, you know, I have to start,

well, I had to start moving, you know, it's like... I can last about five days in England and then it feels like the walls, you know, like in the movies, like the horror movies, the walls come in and then... That's how I feel after like four or five days and like, I gotta leave. Yeah, I understand that. Yeah, yeah. So, last few questions for you. What is the biggest highlights of your life, most things you're proud of? I imagine, right? Some of it we've mentioned, but what's a couple of the biggest things you're proud of?

Well, I'm proud of, to be honest, obviously my career and how far I came from where I started. It's really inspiring for me and I'll never forget it and always mention it because I never want to, you know, I wanna prove to everybody also, like girls, little girls, that, you know, it's possible. And that's why I'm very proud of this journey. Also, I'm proud that, you know, I stayed a person,

like a good person, you know, it doesn't matter how badly other people treated me or the situations happened for me, bad situation. I still stayed humble, a nice and kind person and my heart is clean and that's what I'm proud of, to be honest, because there was some situations that could have made me really bad person. And I'm very proud that I stayed strong

and I kept believing in God. And I'm very proud of this as well. And I'm also proud of my friends and the people that are around me. I'm very proud that I have friends like that and my relatives and my family. I'm proud of my family too. And you know, everything that is happening in my life, you know, I'm very grateful and proud, you know, and just every day I say thank you and it's, and when you say

thank you and you're grateful, it's even better, like better things are coming to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love that. You know, for me, the most important thing is it doesn't matter what, what kind of success you're going to have if you don't stay a good person. And you became, I don't know, like maybe like some people are, they take their nose like that and they don't care about anything. I don't like it. I think that as humble and as low as you stay, it's much more better for you as a person.

Love it. And next question, the opposite. Biggest failure or setback in life? Biggest failure. Biggest failure I had when I got very like, I had like this weight transformation when I was like 18 or 19. No, I was 18 and I got like super like maybe like

I was like plus 10 kilos and it was so hard for me. And then I went to some contest. It was Eurovision. Actually I went there and I wanted to represent my country and you know, I was not myself. Like I sang definitely the voice was mine. But the confidence. But the confidence that everything's gone

Completely gone and that year was so Big for me in in ways that it was a big failure for me. Yeah, as you know last year I won a contest the next year I go there and I think I just like I'm just not myself You know, I just have the voice and that's it. And it was biggest failure for me, but it made me realize how important it is to take care of my body, take care of myself, and just to be, you know, not to lose my confidence. Because it's very-

Especially in what you do, you know. What I do on stage, I have to be 100% confident. Well, especially, you know, this year's Eurovision, it was a very epic performance. It was very hard. I was every day at the gym, doing the healthy eating and everything. But still, you know, it's like for me as a girl who is a singer and is on the stage for me to look good, it's very important because when I look good, I feel good.

I am a hundred percent confident. I have different energy. I feel like I'm shining. And imagine when I don't have that, that's when it's biggest failures. So, so last question or a couple of questions I always love to ask. If you could go back in a time machine to your younger self, what would you give as advice? I would go and say that like, don't worry. Everything is going to be like the way that you want it to be and you don't have to cry

over it. You know, you don't have to push something that is not meant for you. You know, because I like when I was a kid, I was like, oh, if it doesn't work, like I'm gonna push, I'm gonna push, I'm gonna push, maybe that place is for me, but you know, I was meant to bigger places. So I would tell myself that, that don't worry, that place is not meant for you, that environment was not meant for you,

and you are meant for something bigger, and that happened. Love it. Yeah. Love it. Oh, that's what I would. And then last question, people watching or listening, first thing they wanna probably do is say, well, I gotta see a thing now. I'm not seeing a thing.

So how do they watch, you know, Eurovision or some of this? They could go on YouTube, write my name Nutsa and it pops up immediately. And also on Spotify, I had like a really good year this year. I had a lot of listeners, I had a lot of streams. I was dreaming to see those numbers. What is a good number? My song got 6.5 million streams.

My song was streamed in like 179 countries. It was amazing. It was a great year for me. Love it. Congrats. Congrats. Congrats. Good.

Well, that's a wrap guys. Hopefully you enjoyed, you know, different industry, but the same success principles, the same mindset principles. Um, and that's, you know, obviously what this shows about is how to be successful and how to build your business. And you know, half of that or more is in the mind. So thank you for coming on. Thank you.

And as always guys, keep living the red life. I'll see you soon. See you. See you. See you. See you. See you. See you.

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