If you’re like me, once every few years you hear a song on the radio that makes you stop in your tracks and just listen. I recently had one of those moments.

A couple of weekends ago, my husband and I were out running errands when the “The House That Built Me” by Miranda Lambert came on the car radio. I must admit that I’m a relatively recent convert to country music. I don’t like all country music, but I do tend to like the newer country songs, and their sweet, melodic sounds and the real stories that they tell.

After the first few lines of the “The House,” we were pulled in. I turned up the radio and we just sat quietly in the car as it played. And then when it was over we searched several other country stations to see if we could hear it again.

It’s a simple song that tells a powerful story. The song is about a woman who is in search of herself. So she decides to go back to the house she grew up in and ask the current owners if she could just walk around the house and take it all in “one last time.” She goes on to say that she had hoped that her coming back “to touch this place” in some way would help heal some of the “brokenness” in her life.

She pleads with the owners, “If I could just come in, I swear I’ll leave. Won’t take nothing but a memory, from the house that built me.”

The lyrics took me back to my time as a kid and the house where I grew up. I could see my back yard, the trees I climbed, our kitchen, and my beautiful mom at 30 years old making lunch for my sister and me.

Born in Lindale, TX in 1983, Miranda Lambert is not yet 30 herself. “The House That Built Me” was released in March of this year on Lambert’s Revolution album, which won Best Album of the Year at last month’s Academy of Country Music Awards, where she also won Top Female Vocalist of the Year. “The House That Built Me” was co-written by Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin.

The most successful artists and innovators listen more to their hearts than to their heads. The most successful companies and the executives who run them usually listen to both.

An employee who is motivated and passionate by what she does and the company she works for will always outperform an employee who is simply going through the motions.

Use your company to build something special and enduring, and you’ll in turn help build employees who will want to stay with your company — or at least want to return some day.