Daisy Spencer, touring guitarist to Olivia Rodrigo, has revealed in a recent podcast appearance that the singer gives her band and crew free access to therapy, both on and off tour.
The singer pays for her crew’s therapy
In a June 30 appearance on The StageLeft Podcast, Spencer, 31, spoke about her experience working with Rodrigo, 22.
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She shared, “On the Guts World Tour, Olivia and our tour manager, Marty Hom, made accessible and free therapy for all of the touring personnel.”
It’s a unique work benefit for sure
“I have never had anything like that,” Spencer said.
“And that reignited the importance of therapy to me because I had just kind of fallen off for so long, and then suddenly I had this free resource of incredible therapists, and I utilized the crap out of that.”
Therapy can hurt your pockets
“Honestly, that was one of the coolest things that has ever happened on tour. Like, seriously, one of the best things you can give to people is accessible free therapy, because it can get kind of expensive,” Spencer went on.
Free access to therapy has changed Daisy’s life
The guitarist went into detail about how having access to free therapy has also positively impacted her life outside of work.
“I’m doing baby Daisy a good justice of finally getting to hear baby Daisy’s story of what they were going through when I was younger and everything,” Spencer shared.
It helped her work through her childhood
“It’s been a gift for real. I feel like it is such a gift to be able to look within yourself and have someone else help you bring some stuff out of you that you might otherwise on your own not be able to get there,” the guitarist added.
“That’s the gift that therapy has given to me, is that I am able to really flesh out some stuff from my childhood that that needed a voice.”
Rodrigo seems to be a cool boss
Elsewhere in the podcast interview, Spencer said that Rodrigo “literally is the dreamiest boss of all time.”
The Grammy winner has been open about mental health and the importance of therapy, with her father, Chris Rodrigo, being a family therapist.
Rodrigo sings about the struggles of womanhood
The 22-year-old is known for her pop-rock music that dives into the struggles of young womanhood.
In one interview with CBS Sunday Morning in 2021, Rodrigo said, “A lot of people think, listening to my music, that I’m a really sad, depressed person and that couldn’t be farther from the truth.”
She keeps the regular stuff out of her music
“Definitely not at all crying on my bedroom floor all the time,” Rodrigo said at the time.
“But it’s fun to write about stuff like that — like if I was just writing about how I was happy, going to get my iced latte every morning, nobody would listen to it, it wouldn’t be interesting.”
