By Christina Fuoco-Karasinski
LiveDaily Contributor

Country star Jo Dee Messina has scored nine No. 1 singles; been honored by The Country Music Association, The Academy of Country Music and The Grammy Awards; and was the first female country artist to score three multiple-week No.1 songs from the same album. Despite all that, she's not resting on her laurels, and instead is looking ahead to her upcoming release "Unmistakable."

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GAC takes you into an annual Nashville event, Country Radio Seminar. Suzanne Alexander and the team will show you how Country Music's new faces and its top artists, including Jo Dee Messina, roll out the carpet for Country Radio professionals near and far. Don't miss it, March 25th at 10:00 PM EST!

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Jo Dee Messina performed at the historic Ryman Auditorium last night, Wednesday March 20th, with Sam Moore, Wynonna Judd, Travis Tritt, and Lorrie Morgan, to raise money for the Lili Claire Family Resource Center in partnership with Meharry Medical College, which will open its doors in 2008. The night included numerous standing ovations from the sold out crowd, who included Alison Krauss, John Waite and Bo Bice.

CMT Insider headed out to Jo Dee's home gym to train with her. Jo Dee has been sharing her road to fitness with her fan club members...now you get a chance to see everything she blogs about!

Jo Dee Messina has generally been regarded as one of country music's Type-A personalities: driven, energetic and passionate about her work. But developments in her personal life have created what she believes is a major change for the better.

Jo Dee went through a very public engagement several years ago that didn't work out. Eventually, she got engaged again with much less fanfare, and she got married in October to Chris Deffenbaugh just two weeks after completing her second marathon.

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