 We are in Vancouver with the beautiful and very talented Emma Hewitt from Australia. How's it going? Good. Thanks, Ellie. Hey, guys. How you doing? I'm good. Thanks. We are talking about being healthy on tour and she has just flown in from Miami. She's here for one night and then she's flying back to Miami like immediately after the show. She's finishing up her club show. You said around 3.30? That's 3.30, yeah. I'm like literally going straight to the airport to get on her 6 AM flight. How long have you been touring for? About 7 years really intensely now so I was doing a little bit of touring with my rock band before I started doing dance music but it was nothing compared to the dance music touring I've been doing so it's kind of constantly country hopping. So was there a time where like was there a moment where you're like I need to stop eating like anything that is available to like planning to actually eat healthy? Yes, there most definitely was because the last couple of years being very naive and young starting touring first of all I was like oh there's you know you get your rider and you get your buffets or whatever else so like oh let's have some drinks and let's eat all the carbs the next day because I'm tired and after a couple of years I was like sitting on a plane one day going oh I've got a stomach that I didn't have before you know I realized also being sedentary on planes for so long you can't just eat everything they bring you because you're bored valid that the hard way. So now yeah I kind of really turned everything around with my diet and my exercise while I'm touring you kind of have to otherwise you can't survive the grueling schedule and it's really tough just the fatigue and just feeling worn out and being sore and tired. Yes definitely and with jet lag and everything too the thing is you want your quick fix because you've got a show if you're flown for say 14 hours or for me from Australia often it's like 27 hours to Europe or something and you get there and you've got a show so the obvious thing to do is when you're tired is to eat some carbs to get some energy have a red bull and you have a vodka or whatever else to just get your vibe up but in the long term like short-term fix it's good but long-term fix I realized I started to suffer from that so it's definitely better to stay healthy the whole way through and then you don't need to like fall back on the pizzas and so do you have a plan because I know that I have almost no self-control I really find it challenging when I'm touring with my band and they're all dudes and they're just like yeah chicken wings burgers whatever and I'm just like I don't want the garden salad on the menu like do you have a plan is everyone on your team work that way like how do you I hear you with that because a lot of the people that I work with the guys and they can eat whatever they want and at 6 a.m. after the show everyone's like let's get breakfast actually this happened last week and I was like oh god pancakes and things after you know after the end of the show but most of the time now I'm bringing my own protein bars and things like that with me I always make sure there's tons of water backstage and and tons of water wherever I am so that I'm not tempted to go for you know soft drinks or red bulls and whatever else but yeah it's it's really hard just try and eat as often as I can too because otherwise I find myself ordering the burger because I'm starving so yeah but especially on planes it's just taking nuts and seeds and protein bars do you have like a pre-show routine that you do before you get on stage yeah I do I usually have some tea with some honey and lemon I also have a little bit of whiskey because it's good for your voice if like if I feel like my voice is dehydrated I know that's not part of the health but just a tiny bit I didn't know that I always like to have whiskey before the show yeah it's for health reasons it's good for your voice do you notice it warms up your vocal cords yeah yeah it actually makes it easier to sing if you're a little bit nervous or anything so a little bit of that I think is medicinal it's okay and just voice exercises for about half an hour and I try not to talk to people too much before I go on the stage which is super hard if you've got friends there or a meet and greet or something but I always try and make that after the show then I can be like relaxed and chat to everyone out and yeah beforehand I need to just focus on the show and not talking too much so I don't lose my voice well thank you so much for joining us today and thank you so much for joining me check out Emma online she's everywhere she's fantastic so definitely check her out she uses our voice life through extreme I believe is what I do I do yes and that little baby goes everywhere with me so yeah it's what I can travel by myself now so got sound effects that are great yeah check out our YouTube channel we've got lots of really great footage of Emma showing us how she's using the the pedal if you're interested so great thanks so much thanks cheers thank you