Life happens on the long way home.

Some conversations aren’t meant to be rushed. They happen between towns, on backroads that wind through farmland and memory, with the windows down and the world slowing to match the hum of the engine.

That’s where I live — in the in-between. I’m Julie Cannon. Single mom of two wildly amazing kids who came home through adoption. Photographer. Writer. Woman in the thick of her second act. I’ve sat in the passenger seat of other people’s lives for years, listening to their stories, catching their unguarded moments. Now, I’m inviting them into mine — one drive, one conversation, one long way home at a time.

In the FROM THE PASSENGER SEAT, my guests aren’t just names; they’re fellow travelers. Nashville friends and neighbors with lives big enough to fill stadiums, but stories better told in the quiet space between mile markers. We’ll talk about reinvention, heartbreak, grit, beauty, and the ridiculous ways life keeps surprising us. There will be laughter. There will be truth. There will probably be snacks.