She said it will also been an opportunity for her to learn. She said, "I've learned so much. But I'm still actively learning and I still have so many goals and stages that I want to get to. It's a really interesting place to be in. To be able to be a coach and be like, 'Hey, I'm still learning alongside you. So I can pour into you what I know. But I am still figuring it out too.' I really feel like I want to just be the sister moreso than the coach."
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Meanwhile, she is also excited about new music. Ballerini is following up on her previous album and has a lot of questions for where she wants to go. "I was really, really nervous on how to follow up Welcome Mat, just because it changed my life and my career so much," she told PEOPLE. "I was like, 'I don't know how to ... where do I go from here?' That was about such a specific experience that I'm no longer in. And it took me a couple months to figure out what that looks like."
"I took the truth-telling. And the integrity of my songwriting and I just moved it into this chapter of life," she said. "It's being 30 and being in a relationship and being a friend and being a daughter, and feeling like an adult but also still feeling like a kid — all of those nuances and really writing about it from that same place of honesty. And now I feel like I'm ready to follow it up."
