College and Record Label Founding
At the same time she began her artist career, she used her songwriting royalties to reclaim a lost dream of a college education, cut short in her teen-age years due to an almost fatal struggle with an eating disorder. Treatment, recovery, and years of hoping led her to Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, just a stone's throw from Music Row. In 2005, McLean graduated with honors and a degree in music business from TNU, and re-enrolled in the fall for the Master's Program in Bible. At this time, McLean is teaching songwriting at TNU as Adjunct Professor of Songwriting.
Hippie Chick Twang, the company she founded, has grown from a small indie label co-op that touts "positive music for women and the men who love them" to a media company and music publishing house. McLean partnered with one of her co-writers, broadcaster Devon O'Day to form the Hippie Chick Twang enterprises. In 2006, Kim McLean won the Just Plain Folk Awards' Americana Song of the Year with "Forever Everyday". Her album, Happy Face was voted third runner up in the Americana Album of the Year.
Goodbye My Friend: Celebrating the Memory of a Pet is a book/CD combination with text written by Devon O'Day and an accompanying CD written and performed by McLean. It is a gift of condolence and comfort for someone who's lost a pet. The project was published by Thomas Nelson in 2007.
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