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We’ve Only Just Begun… [“A Christmas Song” Acoustic]

Record Release Party Performance Elizabeth Chan Naughty & Nice

To say it has been a rollercoaster of a year would be a complete understatement of epic proportions. Days before the release of “Naughty & Nice,” my first album/EP ever

I cried a lot this year. Certainly a lot on Failure Club episodes. I have to own up to it because quite frankly I was petrified everyday. Very very scared of failing. I spent every dollar I had in my pocket to see my EP into existence and it’s still not even Christmas yet. What the cameras chose caught but chose not to show was the strife I endured to free myself enough to start over. The people closest to me know exactly the kind of struggles I had to battle through to make it out safely. If you think it’s easy to quit a job where your boss really needed you – it’s not. If you think it’s easy to tell your husband you’re going to quit your job to write Christmas music for a living – it’s not. If you think people don’t want to claim ownership over your work despite not being an author of the work – think again. That’s just the short list – the entire year had been emotionally, mentally and financially taxing on me.

Imagine going through all of this and still telling yourself, “I know I’m going to fail – but it’s the journey that matters.”

Despite ever actually knowing if the journey was really worth it — I woke up everyday going to war against my self doubt and fear.

Up until the very end, until the very last day of Failure Club, I thought I was bound for certain Failure. How on earth was someone going to have a hit Christmas record before Christmas?

If you never believed in Christmas miracles. Believe it. The only way I can show gratitude and thanks to everyone who helped me make my dream come true – I wanted to share the version of “A Christmas Song,” that I heard the day before my life changed.

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