Transcript of CS#113: Susan Bailey Sung Rosary

Transcript of Interview with Susan Bailey about Sung Rosary. This interview and others like it can be found at http://www.catholicspotlight.com

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Mary, Queen of Peace Meditation Guide & Sung Rosary at The Catholic Company.

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Chris Cash: Welcome to Catholic Spotlight. This is the Catholic Spotlight, the show where we talk about what’s new, cool and exciting in the Catholic marketplace. I’m your host Chris Cash, director of E-Commerce from catholiccompany.com, your source for all your Catholic needs.

And today, in the spotlight we have Susan Bailey. Susan is very, very talented in a very wide array of things, so it’s kind of hard to pigeon hole you to any one particular thing you think huh.

Susan Bailey: Well, let’s put it this way. I sing, I write music, I blog, I promote Catholic music; I tried to have everything, yes. I guess I just do a lot of things. But it’s all under one roof and its just kind of – I use all of it as a means of encouraging people in their big walk.

Chris Cash: But as I say, very, very multi-talented, multi-tasking and this is all just your night job.

Susan Bailey: You’re going to give me a big hit. Yes, this is in the spare time, that’s true.

Chris Cash: You know I certainly, certainly admire anybody who does as much as you do in your off hours from work. I spent many years running GetFed.com as a Spirit of Time ministry before I got hired into Catholic Company. So, I know all about up till 2:00 in the morning trying to do updates to the Website and processing the few orders that were coming in, and then, getting up in the morning to get to work.

Susan Bailey: Right, right.

Chris Cash: At least, I had the babies to blame for keeping me up all night. I wander around working in days and be like babies don’t sleep, okay so I was really up working on the – working on all the ministries. But hey…

Susan Bailey: Right.

Chris Cash: Anyway, so with all the various things that you got juggling around here why don’t we start talking a little bit about GrapeVine magazine and what you’ve done with that over the past few years?

Susan Bailey: Okay, well, GrapeVine has been on existence on and off for about 10 years. There was like a three year period in the early 2000 when it wasn’t around because I had lost my Mac and the family insisted that I switched to PC. So, it took a while for me to learn all that stuff and get this also back that I needed. But we were back up again in 2004, and we posted stuff online and had – like a print magazine type thing that on a PDF file that people could download. And then we actually did go to print for a brief period for about a year and a half, using Lulu.com as the means to put the magazine and that was very cool. And then, we just – I decided last year to switch to a blogging format, because that seems to be where things are headed now. And so, it’s a lot less time consuming to do it that way, and I can also be a lot more up-to-date on breaking news and you know whatever things come my way.

Chris Cash: My goodness the heartens in your family forcing you off your Mac.

Susan Bailey: I haven’t done a Mac for years.

Chris Cash: That’s okay; I’m a PC user too.

Susan Bailey: Oh, good.

Chris Cash: I get hissed and brood all the time. Probably lost like half the audience in the show just now.

Susan Bailey: I do have an ipod, but I only just got it this year.

Chris Cash: I have an ipod too, but I didn’t buy it. My wife earned it as one of her *shakily* [04:18] incentive bonuses, so.

Susan Bailey: I inherited mine from my son when he got an iTouche, so I finally figured out how to use it.

Chris Cash: I’m still working on it, so I’m on your way.

Susan Bailey: It’s not that simple. It really isn’t. iTune is not that simple to figure out, it’s very Un-Mac so.

Chris Cash: I guess, we’re just betraying our age now that we’re no longer…

Susan Bailey: Oh, brother please.

Chris Cash: No longer able to work in ipod. So, anyway, so now recently you’ve re-launched your Website. Why don’t you talk a little about what you’ve done with the Website? How you brought that all of your things together into that one place?

Susan Bailey: Well, yes, because I did all these different things and I kind of you know compartmentalize them into separate things. And I just really felt that it was time to draw everything under one roof, so I spent many, many months working on my Website, working on design that would you know be – make it simple for people to find the things that they wanted to find out about me, making it easier for them to find my products, making it easier for them to find videos and find the podcast and just basically describe what I do. So, I re-launched it about a month ago and trying to use Web 2.0 technology to push it. I mean, I have a blog on it, I have *Wigid* [05:45] with Twitter, so that people can keep up with me on Twitter, linked to my Facebook. I have videos, all of my videos that I put up on YouTube and also on my SoundClick Website. I have them there. I have all of my podcast is there on players, so people can listen to them. And I have a full description of everything that I do and the different kinds of performances that I put on in parishes in the area.

Chris Cash: And that’s all at Susanbailey.net. That’s Susan B-AI-L-EY.net if you’re out looking for where to find all this information, and be able to keep up with her on Twitter, Facebook and everything else. But I have to warn you, one of my pet peeves, sorry Susan, the music starts play in second, you jump in the side, so…

Susan Bailey: Yes, I know. I have to do that to keep my stats up on the SoundClick Website. ‘Cause that draws in the visitors. The higher I get on the chart, the more visitors I get. You know it really got me a lot of visitors is when Susan Boyle was big on Britain’s Got Talent, because everybody kept spelling her name and they’d get to me. The chart shot way up. So, when her album comes out, I’m going to do really well. Incidentally, if you want to shut off the music on the homepage, there’s a thing called the music player, you just click on that it brings you right down to the player. You can shut it right of. *** [07:20].

Chris Cash: Yes, which is what I had to do as I know.

Susan Bailey: I know I wanted to make it easy for people to be able do that, but I did need to have the music played so that it would count on SoundClick on their chart, so.

Chris Cash: I understand. We will forgive you for that I think.

Susan Bailey: Thanks.

Chris Cash: So, tell us a little bit about CD’s that you have right now?

Susan Bailey: Okay.

Chris Cash: I know you got three that have been out for a while and then, there is one that’s of definitely particular interests to us. We’ll get to that in just a minute, so just go ahead and share about that?

Susan Bailey: Okay, right. Well, in 2000 I put out my very first CD, its called Teach Me to Love. And it has 12 songs that I wrote about a variety of different things. And there are few – some of the songs that stand out are two songs that are dedicated to memory of Mother Theresa. And that was the title cut Teach Me to Love and then another song called Something Beautiful, which is about her vocs. Her discovery of her vocation within a vocation as she puts it. And there was a song that did very well back in 2000 on the old mp3.com, its called Come Holy Spirit. And my parish actually use this out now every year at the Easter vigil and that conformation, so that’s really nice. And then, after that year later, I put out Wait With Me, which is an advent Christmas collection. Its *** [0 8:48] half the album is advent related song and then the other half is Christmas is related. Its kind of thematic running from the processes up until when Mary gets birth to Jesus and then you know afterwards we get into Christmas stuff. And its very Marian centered and kind of earthy and acoustic sounding is probably best ramification of what I truly sound like.

And then, I did a Marian album called *Mother Day* [09:16] which has Ave Maria on it. And it has the songs that I wrote, it’s on the Marian movement of priest by father *** [09:25]. And then, the latest project is actually a book and CD and this is the one that has interest you, ‘because you have rosary.com from the Website. I have a Sung Rosary; it’s called the Mary Queen of Peace Meditation Guide and Sung Rosary. It has a 48 page colored book, scriptural rosary and with lots of colored pictures, icons, stained glass windows as such and a scripture for each *** [09:55] Mary. And you can sing the rosary, there’s a full CD that’s included. It’s also sheet music for each prayers so you can learn it; it’s very easy to learn. And you can – there’s a wide variety of ways that you can use this product, you can just use the CD’s, you want to play it while you are driving to work that you find it’s a great weapon against road rage. Because I find that when I get to advice you know, I’m like yes, I can sit here in front for five minutes, because I’m having such a nice time praying my rosary. You know it just really calms you down and puts you in a great, great place you know it’s got. And or you can just use book, if you want to just use the book or you can use the two together. I mean it’s just a narrative way that you can use the product. So, I think it’s nice and I’ve gotten a good response so far from it.

Chris Cash: And of course, as you mentioned there we just purchased and set up rosary.com. We hope that by the time you hear this we will have Susan’s rosary CD up on the site and ready for everyone to listen to and enjoy.

Susan Bailey: That’ll be good.

Chris Cash: And we also are setting up a rosary resource center there, where you will be able to find all sorts of information on all sorts of things about the rosary. I think that’s the – a real exciting part to me is to be in a position where we can have a real comprehensive resource center in the rosary. I think we’re going to be listening how guides on the rosary, how to sing, how to make it. We’re going to be putting up lists of rosary really, podcasts of rosary humor. We’ve *** [11:50] people donating rosary humor to us already. So, you’ll have to come up over and check it out to find out what I am talking about.

Susan Bailey: I’ll check it out, exactly, yes.

Chris Cash: And so, I’m just really excited to see all the possibilities that we have here to help reclaim this site, because we took it out of he hands of some spammers who had basically ruined it in the eyes of Google and it was no longer you know listed in Google. And we took from them at a very high price and we have – don’t cry for them any, and we have reclaimed it for the good of the church and the glory of Mary. So, it’s just a – probably the most exciting thing I can think of that we have done with our company since we have been in operation you know.

Susan Bailey: Excellent, excellent. That’s great.

Chris Cash: In terms of just single exciting events you know.

Susan Bailey: Yes. That’s awesome, that’s awesome. So, I look forward to, I know that you had mentioned to me before we began this podcast that it would be okay to put the linkup to the podcast that I have for the rosary, which is – features some of the pod is from the Sung Rosary, its called Marian Cenacle Rosary podcast. And it’s based upon the Marian Movement of Priest Cenacle. It has a very specific layout where you pray the rosary, then you pray prayers to the Pope. And then you have a reading from father *** [13:37] where he received those *** [13:40] from Virgin Mary. And then, you pray a consecration at the end, so it makes for a nice way to pray the rosary. And that podcast comes out approximately once a week and then I’m adding a supplement to that podcast with the thing called How Can You Keep Singing, which joins me kind of a faith and action type podcast, a personal testimony. Just kind of sharing with the audience how praying the rosary, studying the word of God and such get me through difficult times in your life.

Chris Cash: And well, I think that a lot of our listeners will definitely be going there to check that out. We will be putting links to those in the show notes, something I can remember to do that when I get this posted. But I am also going to make sure we get some links up over in at resources.rosary.com. So, we’re going to take a short break to hear from our sponsor now, but we’ll be right back to talk more with Susan Bailey about all her various ministries. This is the Catholic Spotlight.

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Chris Cash: And we’re back on the Catholic Spotlight with Susan Bailey. We’re talking about CD’s, podcasts and all sorts of various stuff. So, we’ve already talked about Grapevine, your CDs, your podcasts. What else is there to Susanbailey.net that we should know about?

Susan Bailey: Blogging of course. You can do Web 2.0 you know blogging. And I actually maintain several different blogs. I’ve got on the homepage of Susanbailey.net I just have like a kind of an informational blog that keeps you up-to-date what’s going on in my ministry. I have a separate area in my Website called the prayer chapel, which basically lives for all these different prayer resources, different things that have influenced my spirituality and I keep blog there. And I just actually started blogging on Saint Theresa, the little flower, because I’ve just reading the story of a soul, so I’m going to be sharing in the things that I have learned from reading that book. I’m really looking forward to reading that book; it’s been wonderful so far. And then, of course the sung rosary Website, I have blogs on that, I have what I call the shared inside blogs, which basically is kind of doing what you are doing on rosary.com, is sharing different things about praying the rosary and you know other related thing. So, yes, I keep pretty much doing all these things.

Chris Cash: Now, where do you find that you spend most of your time?

Susan Bailey: It depends. I mean, it goes in spurts. I mean in some days where I spend – you know something’s where I spend a lot of time focusing on some rosary. There’s other times when I spend a lot of time focusing on you know my main Website. And it really – you know now all of a sudden a lot of news will come in for Grapevine, so its kind of – I suppose its evens out in the end. But you know probably, I would say on a regular basis Grapevine probably takes up the most time, but I’m really trying to focus more on paying attention to the other sides and keeping them upgraded.

Chris Cash: And where do you find your biggest personal joy in all of this Web activity?

Susan Bailey: Boy, that’s hard to say, a lot of it. I really – I think there’s a couple of things, so and this isn’t in any particular order. But I – one of the things I really get a tremendous kick out is making connections between and other people and people and ideas. I love – like if I hear somebody and they’ve just had this really dynamite CD, I’m like wow I can’t wait to tell the world about it. Then you know I really a kick out of putting up a review for CD like that or if I hear somebody and go jeez, I think this other person was really enjoy speaking with them or meeting with them or whatever. And I’ll connect to with them our world. Think of an idea and I think wow, I think this would really work with this person you know, so I really enjoy making connections with people. I think that’s the thing I guess the greatest joy out of. And then, I enjoy with the blogging. I am beginning to get into the sharing stuff, I – at first its all kind of strange you know, sharing you know my life in such a public setting. But I am getting used to it now and I enjoy doing that too, because I’m hoping. I know how much I’ve learned from hearing other people stories. I think the stories are wonderful way to get across what God is trying to teach us. I mean, that’s why I changed this whole stories, and age old parables, because we knew that that was a very effective way for people to learn. And I think the stories really touch peoples heart, so that’s that – that’s something that I really enjoy doing it, listening to stories, finding stories, telling stories.

Chris Cash: Now, do you do much speaking in front of real groups as well?

Susan Bailey: I haven’t yet. I did – I have a *** [19:40] that I work with in Delaware and we do retreats every year. And I do speaking at those retreats. And actually, he kind of pushed me into doing public speaking, because it wasn’t what I considered my thing. And then, he pushed me into it doing it and all of a sudden its like yes, wow, I can do this. I used to do this in grammar school. I‘d be the kid you know that with Catholic poster and get up and do the book reports. I really enjoyed you know talking in front of the class. It was like – I – coming and speaking in front of people is easy for me to do, its just the discipline of – I’m learning the discipline now of you got to back up what you’re talking about, you can’t just go up there and speak your heart, you have to back it up with you know spiritual readings, research you know that kind of thing. So, I’m learning how to do that, but I really do enjoy speaking in front of people and sharing what I know and what I have learnt from God, because I just – God you know just is so wonderful, so huge, so you can’t even to get this out of him. And it just really gives me a lot of joy to be able to go out and tell people about that.

Chris Cash: Well, we’re starting to run low on time, so was there anything else you wanted to share with our listeners before we take off here?

Susan Bailey: No, not really, but I must say I was shocked to hear that you guys have 10,000 different items that you carry on the Catholic Company. I am massively proud.

Chris Cash: Actually, that’s a pretty low number. It’s more like recently around 15,000 and…

Susan Bailey: Oh, *** [21:20], good for you. I love you.

Chris Cash: And we expect to be over 20 well before the end of the year.

Susan Bailey: Wow, I was looking to your commercial and I’m like that’s fantastic.

Chris Cash: Yes, that’s an old commercial.

Susan Bailey: Well, I’m very pleased to see that you’re growing and you know particularly in this tough economy. It’s wonderful to see you know your *** [21:42] really blessed like that, that’s great. People certainly need these things now and you know we need things that would give us – you know people are feeling afraid and you know kind of hopeless sometimes and you know there’s a lot of difficulties out there. The world is kind of crazy right now and so, you know these different things that you know you have is good for people.

Chris Cash: Well and I think that in a time like this when there are a lot of people hurting fortunately for us or unfortunately for society, people do turn back to their faith roots. And you know when times are good people can forget God, but when you’re out on your rear, a lot of people come back and you know that’s – that is good for our business. And I guess ultimately it’s good for our society. You know because coming back to our roots and coming back to our faith are really what’s going to save us much more so that in having a raging stock market.

Susan Bailey: Exactly. Well, this is I mean – this is why I felt that to do the podcast that I am where I am sharing, you know how God is working in my life. And I’m actually working on a confident presentation that I am going to bring out to my – the Massachusetts and I am going to bring to our area. Where I am going to be doing song specifically aimed at giving people hope and speaking to them about, you know what we’ve been going through. Because you know we’ve had lay off in our family, we’re going to a lay off right now with my husband. And you know I get it. I know what people are feeling…

Chris Cash: And this is his second lay off in a year.

Susan Bailey: That’s right. And so, I just wanted – I just really feel desired to get out there and say you know if you just immerse yourself in the lord, if you just believe and if you really believe and trust that he’s going to provide for you, he will. I remember our priest at our parish gave a sermon choosing to go about the man I am coming out from heaven. And he saw the line from the – our father, which normally give us to say our daily breath. He spoke and give us this day our daily breath. I thought that’s right everyday if you trust God will provide us you know. And this is the message that I want to – I hope to be able to get out to people, it’s like you know I’m there, I’m with you, but there is hope you know. You don’t have to drown in it, there is hope.

Chris Cash: Well, Susan, I am full of hope and I know you are with as well. Everybody out there checkout Susanbailey.net and hopefully you will also have your hopes filled, backed up in the lord. And if there is nothing else that you got to say, I’m going to go ahead and say goodbye to everybody. And…

Susan Bailey: Thank you. Thank you for having me, I really appreciate being on your program.

Chris Cash: Oh, you’re welcome. It’s a real pleasure to get to talk to you every time we have a chance to. And always it’s been great fun. I was telling Susan before we started the show, it’s always a danger when you get a – one of our you know our internet friends on one of these interviews, because we ended up talking for 20 or 30 minutes before we even started recording. And it would’ve been much longer if we hadn’t this.

Susan Bailey: We had to stick to business.

Chris Cash: That’s right, because it’s late and we got to get to bed before long.

Susan Bailey: It is late, yes. Yes.

Chris Cash: Anyway God bless all you out there and God bless you Susan.

Susan Bailey: Thank you and god bless you too and your family.

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Transcript of Interview with Susan Bailey about Sung Rosary. This interview and others like it can be found at http://www.catholicspotlight.com

Listen Now to the audio version of the show.

Mary, Queen of Peace Meditation Guide & Sung Rosary at The Catholic Company.

http://www.catholiccompany.com/catholic-gifts/5003286/Mary-Queen-Peace-Meditation-Guide-Sung-Rosary-CD/