Congratulations to Lindsey, this month’s winner of the FIND YOUR PATH Photo Contest! Learn more about Lindsey’s journey to finding her path below.

Healthy lifestyle anthem: “Renegade Runaway”

How has Carrie motivated you to find your path and live the Fit52 Life? I have always been active and sports are my life. I’m a senior in high school and play lacrosse and volleyball and I am continuing my lacrosse career in college. Sports have taught me the importance of health and fitness so I can be the best player, teammate, and leader for my team. But when Find Your Path was released, I saw my health and fitness in a whole new perspective. I started eating healthier, tracking my macros, and following the Fit52 app. Carrie has been my biggest motivation in life since I was 2 and she helps me strive to be the best person I can be for myself and my family. Her app has pushed me to become a stronger athlete and I am so grateful for Find Your Path and the Fit52 app.

What is your favorite part of Carrie’s new book, FIND YOUR PATH?
My favorite part of Find Your Path was learning about how to make healthy swaps in my daily life. It showed me how my wellness is affected by the food I eat and how it doesn’t have to be a grueling task to eat healthily. It also gave me great tips on how I can always incorporate more fitness into my life.

What advice do you have for other Care Bears that want to find their path?
Start by making little swaps in your life that will enable you to live a healthy lifestyle. Whether it involves you food choices or your fitness goals, it is possible. Take any opportunity to be active because in the end it will benefit you and it will make you a better person for the people around you.

Underwood’s First-Ever Christmas Album Available on Digital & CD September 25 and Vinyl October 30

Digital & Vinyl Pre-Orders Begin August 28

New Original Track, “Let There Be Peace,” Out Now

(Photo by Joseph Llanes)

(August 28, 2020) – Seven-time GRAMMY® Award winner and five-time CMA Female Vocalist of the Year, Carrie Underwood, released the track list and special guests for her first-ever Christmas album, My Gift, available globally on digital and CD on September 25 and on red vinyl on October 30.  In anticipation of the Fall album, Underwood has also released the new original song, “Let There Be Peace,” which is available now and as an instant grat track when you pre-order the digital album here.

My Gift features a combination of beloved traditional favorites celebrating the spiritual nature of the holiday, as well as several originals. Two of the new original songs are written by Underwood, frequent collaborator Brett James (“Jesus, Take the Wheel,” “Something In The Water”), and her Cry Pretty co-producer, David Garcia.  In addition to a very special appearance by Underwood’s 5-year-old son, Isaiah Fisher, on the holiday classic that inspired the album title, “Little Drummer Boy,” My Gift also features her first collaboration with GRAMMY®, Emmy, Oscar, and Tony Award-winner John Legend, on the original track, “Hallelujah,” written by Legend and Toby Gad (“All of Me”).

My Gift Track List

1. Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (Traditional)
2. O Come All Ye Faithful (Traditional)
3. Let There Be Peace (Carrie Underwood, Brett James, David Garcia)
4. Little Drummer Boy (featuring Isaiah Fisher) (Harry Simeone, Henry Onorati, Katherine Davis)
5. Sweet Baby Jesus (Carrie Underwood, Brett James, David Garcia)
6. Hallelujah (with John Legend) (John Stephens, Toby Gad)
7. O Holy Night (Traditional)
8. Mary, Did You Know? (Buddy Greene, Mark Lowry)
9. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin)
10. Away In A Manger (Traditional)
11. Silent Night (Traditional)

(My Gift Album Cover Photographed by Joseph Llanes)

GRAMMY® Award-winning producer, mixer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Greg Wells produced and arranged the album.  He has written and produced some of the best-selling and highest charting tracks of the past 15 years for such artists as Adele, Celine Dion, Keith Urban, and P!nk, as well as the worldwide smash The Greatest Showman soundtrack.  My Gift features a world-class orchestra, led by the pre-eminent arranger, composer, and conductor David Campbell, whose many credits include iconic recordings by artists including Linda Ronstadt, Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Josh Groban, and his son Beck. My Gift is mixed by 14-time GRAMMY® Award winning mixer, Serban Ghenea.  Acclaimed gospel quartet The McCrary Sisters, who have performed backing vocals on previous Underwood songs including “Choctaw County Affair” and “The Champion,” will also be heard on the album.

My Gift can be pre-ordered in various formats here starting August 28.  Additionally, an exclusive version of the My Gift CD and special white vinyl, with a bonus Christmas card from Underwood, will be available only at Target. New merchandise bundles are also available in the official My Gift Pre-order store. Watch the My Gift album trailer here: https://umgn.us/MyGiftTrailer.

In less than three weeks, on Sunday, September 13, Carrie Underwood stars in the debut of the 2020 show open for NBC’s Sunday Night Football, which has been primetime television’s No. 1 program for an unprecedented nine consecutive years.

For the first time, the SNF show open will feature user-generated content from fans showcasing their team spirit. In addition, cameos from some of the NFL’s biggest stars, also recorded remotely, will be highlighted. Headlined by Carrie for the eighth consecutive season, the show open will also feature an inside at look at her new recording of “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night” in a Nashville studio.

Congratulations to Casey, this month’s winner of the FIND YOUR PATH Photo Contest! Learn more about Casey’s journey to finding her path below.

Healthy lifestyle anthem: “Southbound”

How has Carrie motivated you to find your path and live the Fit52 Life? Carrie has always inspired me as a wife, mom, and Christian. I preordered the book as soon as it was up and read it within 24 hours. It was such a blessing for me to realize that she’s just like me. It’s taken me my entire life to be okay with food allergies and what my body will handle. (In the 80s no one was making the best wheat/gluten/peanut free alternatives.) Once I was able to accept it (about my 30s) and enjoy the foods my body loved, life began to change for the better. I now thrive on what I can have instead of what I can’t have.

Carrie’s Fit52 helped to reassure that it’s okay to modify, adjust, and be okay with yourself. It also allowed me to be reassured that I have to fill my cup to be the best wife and mom for my family.

What is your favorite part of Carrie’s new book, FIND YOUR PATH?
My favorite part is on page 10. It’s early in the book, but this quote hit me like a ton of bricks. “These roots have served me well over the course of my life so far… they help me remember what is truly important: family, faith, friendship, following my dreams, doing the right thing even when it’s hard, and honoring the body, the mind, and the life God gave me.” So many times we try to push towards the future towards our wishes and dreams, but often our roots are what ground us when we need it most.

What advice do you have for other Care Bears that want to find their path?
Care Bears, finding your path takes time, patience, and trial and error. What works for me, won’t always work for you. Change one thing at a time and don’t go all in eliminating foods, working out like a crazy person. Make one change and positive habit a week. It will make all the difference in keeping the path once you find your path.

Carrie will release her first-ever Christmas album, My Gift, globally on September 25, 2020.

She first teased the holiday release during her virtual fan club party this summer, and now shares a trailer for the album which includes footage from the recording studio, album cover photo shoot, and a personal message about how she arrived at the title, My Gift. Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/1i_IyxnOvs4

“I’ve always wanted to make a Christmas album and it’s been a long time coming,” says Underwood.  “I knew this would be my next music project after wrapping my tour last year, and I think it’s turned out to be the perfect time for an album like this, in this period of such personal and spiritual reflection.  For me, it’s more important than ever to focus on the true meaning of Christmas in a project like this.  Even though it has been a tough year for all of us, sometimes I feel like the greatest realizations can be inspired by the most difficult times, and make us more grateful for the things we do have and for what truly matters.”

On My Gift, Carrie welcomes a stellar list of musical collaborators, led by GRAMMY Award-winning producer, mixer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Greg Wells, who produced and arranged the album and has written and produced some of the best-selling and highest charting tracks of the past 15 years for such artists as Adele, Celine Dion, Keith Urban, and P!nk, as well as the worldwide smash The Greatest Showman soundtrack.  My Gift features a world-class orchestra, led by the pre-eminent arranger, composer, and conductor David Campbell, whose many credits include iconic recordings by artists including Linda Ronstadt, Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Josh Groban, and his son Beck. My Gift is mixed by 14-time GRAMMY Award winning mixer, Serban Ghenea.

Although Carrie has previously recorded several Christmas songs which have become instant classics, her first full-length holiday album has been highly-anticipated by her fans around the world.  The album will feature a combination of beloved traditional favorites celebrating her faith and the spiritual nature of the holiday, as well as original material (track list, songwriters, and special guests will be revealed at a later date).

Pre-orders of the My Gift CD with exclusive merchandise are available here. My Gift will also be released on vinyl on October 30. Pre-orders of the vinyl will be available soon.

Congratulations to Soraya, this month’s winner of the FIND YOUR PATH Photo Contest! Learn more about Soraya’s journey to finding her path below.

Healthy lifestyle anthem: “The Champion”

How has Carrie motivated you to find your path and live the Fit52 Life? The fit52 app has changed my attitude towards healthy living and exercise, by seeing personal progression, feeling empowered and not judged by the fit52 community. The Find Your Path book has shown that no one is different, we all have our own struggles that we can overcome by having a positive attitude, working hard and making changes for yourself and no one else.

What is your favorite part of Carrie’s new book, FIND YOUR PATH? The journal template – having something that you sit and write in to mindfully acknowledge the progress of your journey and your mindset, and the exercise and nutrition itself! As well as reading about Carrie’s challenges and struggles and her support systems and incorporating fitness as part of her life, not as an add-on.

Congratulations to Nobella, this month’s winner of the FIND YOUR PATH Photo Contest! Learn more about Nobella’s journey to finding her path below.

Healthy lifestyle anthem: “The Champion”

How has Carrie motivated you to find your path and live the Fit52 Life? Watching Carrie be so motivated to find her path, even as busy as she is, encouraged me to find mine. I’m a mom to young kids like she is and sometimes it feels like you lose yourself in being a mom. So finding some time to take care of yourself is so important. It helps me to be a more fun and patient mom and wife.

What is your favorite part of Carrie’s new book, FIND YOUR PATH? I love the chapters where Carrie talks about growing up and how her thought process changed over the years in regards to food and fitness.

Congratulations to Seth, this month’s winner of the FIND YOUR PATH Photo Contest! Learn more about Seth’s journey to finding his path below.

Healthy lifestyle anthem: “Something In The Water”

How has Carrie motivated you to find your path and live the Fit52 Life? Right before Find Your Path and fit52 were released, I had already been wanting to get in better shape. I wasn’t liking how I was looking or feeling. However, I had issues sticking to any kind of meal plan or workout routine. The book and the app have been awesome influences in my life that have pushed me to stay committed. Carrie shares such great insight in the book, and fit52 is SUCH a nice tool for a beginner like myself. I never thought I would be someone who enjoys working out, but she’s brought it out in me!

What is your favorite part of Carrie’s new book, FIND YOUR PATH? I think something that really hit home with me was in Chapter 4, when Carrie talks about motivation and brings up something along the lines of “do it when you can, because sometimes you can’t”. We all have busy days where we just don’t have the time to work out, so it’s important to not use that as an excuse and make sure you workout when you DO have the time.