WHOA That's Good Podcast - The BEST Advice for Staying Faithful to God In Different Seasons | Sadie, Christian & John Luke

Episode Date: December 20, 2023

Sadie is joined by Christian and her brother John Luke to dive into the best pieces of advice that were shared on the podcast this past year! You'll hear incredible nuggets of wisdom from Nick Vujicic, Jason and Lauren Kennedy, Katie Davis Majors, Donna Stuart, Earl McClellan, Bethany Hamilton, Mia Fieldes, Jackie Hill Perry, and Jase and Mia Robertson. And y'all need to give yourself grace when you see those old Facebook or Instagram posts from 10+ years ago — you've changed! You're not who you were! And Christian has a particularly embarrassing story that even Sadie hadn't heard before. It was a great year of Whoa That's Good and we're so grateful you've joined us for the journey! Looking forward to all that's ahead in 2024!  https://www.reliefband.com — Get 20% off plus free shipping when you use code WHOA at checkout! https://drinkag1.com/whoa — Get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3K2 & 5 FREE AG1 travel packs with your first purchase! https://www.hatch.co/whoa — Get $20 off your purchase of a Hatch Restore 2 plus free shipping! https://www.auraframes.com/whoa — Get $30 off Aura’s best-selling frames when you use code WHOA at checkout! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Audible.com slash woe. [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ What's up fam? Happy Wednesday, everybody. Happy woe that's good Wednesday, if I will. This is the last episode of the year and Like we've done the past few years. We are gonna recap the best piece of advice We've gotten all year, but before we do that I just want to give a huge thank you to all of you amazing podcast listeners this year

I've truly blown my mind with how many of you have been listening to what that's good and been encouraged by it Some of my favorite compliments this year have been just when I'm out in a ballot and the different states that I've traveled to to speak at. When people come up to me and say, say, hey, listen to your podcast every morning before school or me and my daughter listen to it every night together before bed.

Just so many different things that you all said this year that have met so much and kept this podcast alive and going and thriving, honestly more than ever. We're over five years in now, which is crazy of noon this for five years. And I truly feel in some ways that we're just getting started. It's my favorite thing to do. And so I'm so grateful for all of y'all making it happen.

Like I mentioned, one of my favorite comments was from a mom this year who said that her and her high school, or I think middle school daughter, listened to the podcast every night together because it just helps them have great conversations and in-depth conversations about their faith. So that was so cool. Had so many college students come up and say,

they listened to it before class, high school students, and then beyond, I had so many moms listening in this year. Dads, boyfriends, family. I mean, it really has just reached so many different people, but I wanted to read this one letter from a grandma that I got that I just thought was so powerful, because we've also had really just all ages listen this year, but I thought this was really cool. So she sends me her book that she wrote, which was amazing, because she wrote this book after listening to the podcast so much, she was inspired to do something that Guy called it a do, which was right a book.

So she says that she listens to, I'm going to pick up just in the middle of the note, but she said she listened to my entire podcast at least three times, and she just started over an episode one, which first of all, that is wild. So thank you for doing that. Recently, the Spotify things just came out and some of you guys on that top 0.1% people shout out to you all. That was amazing. But she goes on to say maybe someday we can meet and I can tell you the story of how I found encouragement to turn off true crime podcasting and turn tune in your podcast. In the meantime, there's a small snippet and shout out to your podcast in my new book. Then she says, I want you to have a copy because I found encouragement and your obedience,

that position, my heart to hear God's call on my own. It was in, it was your words and the words of your guests that spurred me on when the enemy told me how insignificant I was and how this book would even make a difference. I want to extend a thank you to you. She goes on to say all this stuff. And I think, thank you, Christian, for that golf club. Christian, a joy, great here today, which I'm going to get to do in just a second. But I just really wanted to say thank you. I mean, the hope for these podcasts

I pray before every single episode that you know, you would hear this episode exactly when you need to, that it would fall on your life at the perfect timing. That would feel like a god moment, that it would be an answer to your prayers. And maybe some you didn't even know you were praying. And so to see that someone heard the podcast and took the words of advice and really started living it as the goal. A couple of little fun goals we had this year.

So at the beginning of the year, we were like, okay, how many downloads do we want to hit each month? And last year, we had hit like 1.8 million or something in a month, which was insane. And I'm beyond grateful for that. And so I was like, well, let's just make a goal to hit two million downloads in a month for the year 2023. And my team was like, you should do 2.1.

Come on, push yourself. I was like, oh my gosh, 2.1, that just seems crazy. And so we wrote it down on paper, 2.1 million goals. That's like 2.1 million downloads, that would be like a goal. And then by March, I think we hit 2.6 or something. At some point this year, we hit 2.6 and it was pretty early on. 2.1 was hit in March. I think later on, we hit 2.5 or 2.6 million downloads in a month.

And so y'all really have just blown my mind. It's crazy. And I love it. And so y'all really have just blown my mind. It's crazy and I love it. So thank y'all. Okay, now I'm going to welcome my two incredible guests on the show. We have John Luke, my brother. What's up? Woo-woo-woo, and we have Christian, my hubby.

Cheers. And because John Luke is on, we have incredible coffee. Jele, tell us a little bit about the coffee we're drinking because this stuff is like, whoa, that is good. So this is New Blaine, I'm roasting coffee, it's what I do now. And this is our duck commander coffee that will come out next year in January.

I specifically made this with my family and minds, particularly my dad and grandfather. So this is the strong stuff, perfect for a coffee maker, you can have in the morning, pervert for a dot cons. And we all like it too, it's good in a lot of days as well. It's so good. It's great in a lot of, I'm drinking straight black. It's delicious.

You're drinking it with some more. You're really drinking straight black? Yes, I am. Wow. Is that a boo? I always drink black coffee. Yeah. They're back to our first date when you were like, yeah, I always drink black coffee and I went to the coffee shop and you ordered a coral profichino and you said,

I only... When I travel, I splurge. But when I'm local, I drink black coffee. No, this is a description. When it goes to a coffee shop, he always orders a honey oat milk latte. You used to order caramel frappuccino, but when you're at home, you order order.

You make a black coffee. If I were to go to the coffee shop running out, I would get a black coffee. Mm. 100% you would not. You would get an oat milk honey latte. Not here locally. Are you serious? Yesterday.

Yes, today. You said, oh, you serious? Are you serious? Yesterday. I think I've been shot. I didn't get anything. You said I'm going to get a honey oat milk. Because I've never been there. I was going to try it to see if it was good.

Because you were raving about it. And I was like, okay, well, this is the standard. If this is really good, the standard of puntenant, we've got to come up with a cup of shell, look, the standard. This was not standard. I was saying, like, this is the bar. If you make a good honey iced amaclote, then to me, you're a good cup of shell. But if you can't, then it's like, so all the coffee shops out there, now you got to

perfect that. That's standard. You want our business, You've got to make yeah No, it is true because if you get me one and it's like all the honey just At the bottom come tell them all it's not good. Well, how do you avoid that happening? You got to mix it in with the espresso Mix it in first. Yeah. Thank you. That's how you do at the house You just help some baristas out there. They're like or you, you could just keep up the honey and then pour them there.

Yeah, you can't really do that at the coffee shop. You gotta mix in with the espresso, but it's also like the milk to ice to espresso ratio. All that to say, I'm drinking it black and it is very, very good. Well, I'm not drinking it black. I'm drinking it with oatmeal, honey, and cinnamon, and it's delicious.

And I actually do like strong coffee because I like to put some sweet stuff in it. And then I don't like it to not taste like coffee after I put my sweet stuff in it. So I like the strong stuff. And it is absolutely delicious. And whenever I just said it's good coffee, that just made me think we should make a boy

that's good coffee. Wait, wait, what? You heard it here first. You heard it here first. And we make a boy that's good coffee. Wait, wait, what? You heard it here first. You heard it here first. If we make a boy that's good coffee, would you drink it, comment below, and what would you want it to be like? What kind of blend would you want?

Would you want like a light blend, medium or dark? I can just go and tell you it's not gonna be light friends. Where would you want the bean from? That's the thing. There we go. Oh yeah, do you like telling me about some like honey, honey beans or something? Yeah, we're getting, yeah. It's not for woe, it's good. Sorry fam, that's very taken. It's for another one, but it's a honey Costa Rica. Ooh! All right. Well, we could tell you about coffee for a while.

Jean-Luc is roasting coffee. It's incredible. Can't wait for you all to try it. You'll definitely need to try the duck commander kind. Then maybe we'll make a woe that's good one, which would be so fun. All right, we are gonna go through the best piece of advice that we've gotten this year. Honestly, we've gotten so much good advice. I'm sure you both listen to every one of the podcast.

Thank you. Including the Sisters and Friends. Right, okay. So. Yep, out of those 2.6 million downloads, I definitely contribute to at least one of them. At least one. At least one. Hey, at least you listen to one.

Was it the one that... Well, I got to support. Yeah. And how many of the 2.6 would be attributed to me? Do you mean like you brought them there to listen or you listened to my podcast? You said, well both. You were totally talking about you got the message. No, I attribute it to a lot of the lessons. No, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, I just listened to the one Christians on.

It's twofold, thank you. See, that's what I'm saying. Like, how many of those people were like, oh, Christians, I'm gonna listen. So it's doublefolded. I attributed to probably 50 of the 2.6, which is, Wow. Wow.

Wow, thank you. It's attributed to probably 50 of the 2.6, which is well. That's actually really good. Wow, thank you. It's really good. And I probably, for took, people probably listened because I was on. That's a good confidence, babe. I'm sure they did. I like to think I helped you get it.

I'm sure they did, but guess who's the biggest podcast of the year was? Guess who, my dad, dad, dad was the biggest podcast of the year. Yeah, which, you know, that was a really great podcast. It was really good. You kind of had some like, it was a clickbait title. It was, but it was true. It was true.

The side of the row was in family. People don't know what it was. What we talked about. It was very true. And then that one and then I think our Haven's name story was the second and then the podcast with mom and messy conversation, one of them. So great podcast to share.

All right, so we're gonna go through the best piece of advice. Now, honestly, when I was going through all the best piece of advice that people gave, I could literally shout out every single person, because there really wasn't, there obviously wasn't really bad advice, which throw back to the early listeners. Who listened to the one that's good before, like, I guess, John works lion's vision.

I did. His lion, okay. Back in the day. I was in the first season. Okay, in the first season, it was the first, who was the first one that's good guest ever? Daniel and that.

Bob Gough. Oh, there we go. He started very strong. With all of the fun of the holiday season, it comes all of the good desserts and look, I cannot pass up a cookie. It is just hard to do. And so with that being said, I gotta say healthy somehow. And if you follow Christian and I, if you've been following us for any period of time, you

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and five free AG1 travel packs with your first purchase. Just go to drinkag1.com slash woe again that's drinkag1.com slash woe to check it out today. So the first season of woe that's good it was a lot shorter we did like 20 minute episodes and every time at the end of the podcast, I would call mom and I would say, is this good advice or bad advice? So we'd say, well, it's good or well, that's bad. And it was advice that I would get from Instagram.

Like people would send in bad advice that they've gotten or good advice, which was kind of like a fun thing. So today we're gonna go through this advice. Nobody gave bad advice. We don't do that anymore. Even though that was pretty funny, and we made sure to bring it back.

What? What percentage would you say that to these people, it's good advice, but to somebody listening, they're like, I actually don't agree with them. Well, I don't know, that's what we're gonna go through. That's what we're gonna do. That's what we brought, John Luke on. I don't know.

Because this is perspective, you could be like, you know, that could be heard wrong, you know, or this is what I think. So, let's just pull it out. I like it. Let's take into it. Okay, so this one was so good. And I love this episode. This is actually also one of our top 10 biggest episodes

of last year and this year, it was Nick Voyachik. So, Nick, who that is, he's incredible, his story's amazing. And that dude got on this podcast, and he just preached the gospel. But I love, this was not not actually his best piece of advice he gave. I should just quote that he said that was so good.

And he said, if I don't get a miracle, I can still be one. Whoa, that's good. See, I like that because me and my friend Grace were talking about this yesterday actually. She's pregnant and she was talking about how like she's believing for a miracle for her dad because he's sick right now and it's really sad. And she was like, but I also am like, I can't overlook the fact that even though if like

God doesn't do a miracle in his life, God's literally doing a miracle in mine right now at the fact that I have a baby inside of me. So it's like, sometimes we overlook the miracles that I have a baby inside of me. So it's like sometimes we overlook the miracles that we have right in front of us and the fact that like we're alive or that our brains work the way that they do or that we can y'all can't, but I can have a baby grow inside of me

and like now those babies are honey and haven't. You know, like. I did that would be a miracle. That would be a miracle in quite strange. But like, isn't that so cool? Like it's crazy. We overlaid these things. So I really love that any thoughts on that one. Yeah, I kind of took it a different way of like I think that We think we're like ask God to do stuff for us and Have to how many people are asking God to do stuff for that.

So many people around you are and God often works through people, which means that most of the time, we are going to be the thing that God is acting for someone else. Let's go. Yeah, that's so true. That was how I took it too.

I really did. Yeah, well, so true. That was how I took it too. Oh, I really did. Yeah, but like they do, you know, like don't, like, like, but about blessing, like, be blessing other people. Maybe I've never received a blessing or something like that. Yeah. Yeah, it's like, you could be someone's mirror. You could be someone's mirror call.

I mean, just like if someone at the grocery store was like, I would, I need a hundred dollars and then you walk in to give them cash back. Like, it's like two pop a story yesterday. Did you hear that last night when two pop I was sharing that story where, so our grandpa, he's been on the show before, but he was basically saying that he had felt on his heart for a long time to give this person money

to pay for their school. And he was like, okay, like he just kind of thought about it. Like he was pondering it. And then the next day he shows up to do something at kind of a random place, he was doing something random there, but the point of it was the person was late to get there that he was meeting with. He was like 40 minutes waiting in the car and he could have been like, this is ridiculous, it's been 40 minutes, but while he was waiting, the girl he had been thinking about to pay for her school walks out.

And like, not he's spending her to be there. This is so random that she's even there. And he's like, okay, and she was on the phone. He was like, okay, if she sits in her car for a while, then I'll go up and I'll talk to her. But if not, then I'll just wait till another time. Well, she sits in her car. So he gets out and he's like, hey, and he has,

she mentions the fact that she didn't have money to go to school yet, but she's like waiting. So like, she mentions the very thing he's been thinking about. And he's like, actually, God put you on my heart to give you the money to go to school. And she just started bawling because she said, this morning, I prayed to God and I said, God, I need a breakthrough in this area. If you want me to go to school and if you want me to do this, and you're going to have to provide. And then that day, Tupapa shows up somewhere random to meet with a guy who didn't show up for his meeting. And that lady walks out of the store right beside it,

and he was able to pay for her college a day, she prayed. So, to your point, that's so true. Yeah, that's, that's, that's, that's, well, that's good. Like, yeah, sometimes a negative, sometimes a negative thing that happened to you might be the blessing that's happening for someone else. Boom! Whoa! Yeah, boy could I hurt that one?

Yeah. You boy could I hurt that one, you just take that. Take that and soak that in. That's so good. That's gonna be on our best visa advice next year. That's the boy that's gonna moment. Good, put that one on. We're gonna extrapolate that one moment.

Yeah. That was so good. Okay, moving on. Again, I hate to even bypass the ones I'm bypassing. Jason and Lauren Kennedy's was one of the biggest podcasts of the year as well. It was incredible. There's was kind of, their podcast was one of those

that their advice was really good, but it was really just hearing their story was one of those that their advice was really good, but it was really just hearing their story. That was so inspiring. And actually Savannah, Chris Lee was just on and she was talking about taking the advice from Sarah Blakely's life. And she was like, it's not really anything she said. It's just the way that she lives, you know.

And I think that that is a good point. That sometimes it's not necessarily what someone said. That's like, that is what I told, but it's what someone did or the story that you heard, which makes me think of yesterday, we were talking about all the books we read this year. And I came in at a whopping eight, which was really good for me, but the books were shorter.

John Luke came in at what, 36? 36. 36 books in his books are like 1,000 pages long. So John Luke's always been that way. In elementary school, I could not get my AR points to say my life. And Jellik was literally on the wall at our library of forgetting the lowest points in elementary school. So, we've always been opposite in that aspect. But talk about what you were saying. Like, the books that you read, it's not necessarily like, oh, you got this advice, but you like learn from the story itself.

Yeah. Well, I was talking about, like what I said about the Wing Feather book series. So like I read a lot of fiction books. And so these are mostly like fantasy genre books. And one thing that I learned this year from the series, The Wing Feather saga, was it wasn't really how, like, anything that happened in the book, but it was how he wrote it and how creative he was in creating this world and crafting the story

about very serious topics like war and crime and rebellion, all these things and children and how adults and children interact. But he crafted in the story that a 10-year, and how adults, and children interact. But he crafted in the story that a 10-year-old would read it and absolutely love. And it really pushed me to think more creatively about life and how I tell stories and like, oh, it's actually possible to tell a story, to teach a lesson, and a much more creative way that all ages can listen to. That's good. Oh, so you can have good advice, John Mark Homer. That was just about a say, though. On the podcast.

You're like, wavelength, right? Which is actually not out yet. I've teased this twice now because it was so good. So get ready for that one mid-January. But he said, the Bible is simple, the story of the Bible is simple enough for a child to understand it, but complex enough for someone to study their entire life. So true. And so to that point of, yes, like pushing yourself to even share things, for me, it's like,

I want to share messages that, yes, middle-sclerk can hear it and understand and be impacted, but also a grandma can hear it and be like, this changed my life, which I think, well, that's good, is doing in a lot of ways. And so I love that, I love that advice. And if you are a fiction reader, and I'm just a fiction reader,

just you like reading in general, Jennings Instagram, you've been owning this like new Instagram, which is so cool, because what I love about it is it's just you, you know, and I think like, I don't know, well what I love about it is it's just you, you know? And I think like, I don't know why you didn't do Instagram a lot before, but do you feel like you didn't do it because you didn't care about it, and now you just are passionate about things,

but what brought you back to the grim in such a like full-on way? Yeah, it's kind of a complicated question. I mean, I think I just didn't really care about it as much. There wasn't as much in my life that I was like excited about the share at the time. And I guess I had this like fear of like, like, I'll put it this way. This is maybe going off topic. But I feel like I'm what I was on D'Aghdarni at the time. So like 10 to 15 years ago. And who my family kind of was was not exactly who I am now.

Like I feel like I'm a totally different person. 28-year-old is totally different than 18-year-old generally, as I should be, you know, I mean if I was still. I'd be a little bit concerned. Right, and so on Instagram specifically, the people following me, I had this feeling of like, well, they followed 18-year-old John Luke, they're not going to care what 28-year-old John Luke is doing. And I kind of had to get over that fear of owning who I am now versus comparing myself now to who I was then. I'm a new person, I'm in the new things, I'm very excited about this. I like stories, I like books, I like coffee, and that's the thing I'm going to share. Dang, that's actually so good.

And it itself is really good advice because I think that a lot of people feel that way, whether they're famous or not, of just like, man, I don't know how to fully be myself in this setting because people know me for who I was and not who I am and what if they don't like me for who I am now because they expect who I was. Or what if they don't like me for who I was, but I'm not that person anymore. And I'm not, they would love who I am now of grown.

I'm not the same as I used to be. I think that's attention that everybody walks in at some point in their life and particularly at this age because we all were different than we were at 18 as we should be. Right. Yeah, getting sleep can be a few and far between right now with a two and a half year

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And it's like, yeah, all the dynamics shift. And it's like, yeah, I mean, I don't, I didn't post that much then. So it's like, you could already do two clicks, and you could see what I posted in like 2013. It's like, that's a weird thing for a 13 year old to say. It's like, yeah. Well, that's a error.

It was roasted me for my man, Crash Monday. It's like, you were told for that you were 15. I'm like, okay, but at the time, 15 year olds did do that. We were cheesy. Now 15 year olds are very cool. And they do. Which mean, Jager was probably the same. And I, Jager was back when people used to do like my post for TV.

Yeah, I did that. I did that. I totally did that. Yeah. Or like SFS shout out for shout out. Yeah. It's like follow my boy Jacob like 50 followers. Yeah.

Yeah. So. Yeah. I think just to bring it to this, I'm talking about Instagram, but I think people mostly feel that excited too whenever they like go off to college and then they come back. That's so true. Or whatever they leave their family or space for a time period and they come back. And then it's like everyone wants you to go back to your where, but you're trying to

like express who you are now. That is so true. I truly do like on my Facebook where it says like, oh, you posted this 10 years ago, I just cringe. I'm like, why did I post that? That's so dumb. Or I'm like, actually embarrassed that I was that way, you know, because there are things that that Facebook shows me that I was, I didn't recognize myself myself at the time. Like, when that guy to see happen and everything, I was like, I didn't change, I didn't change, you know? Like, why do my friends think I did? But then I read some of my posts and I'm like, that's why they thought I did,

because that was a dumb thing to say, you know, like, why did I need a post set and share that? Like, that was maybe trying to show off or maybe trying to prove something that I wasn't or whatever it was. And you can hindsight look back and go like, now I can see a little more perspective. And I'm like embarrassed by that. But then you had to give yourself the grace to grow and to learn. And I think that's so true. Like some, sometimes I think about this being back here when I run into people in high school.

I hope they don't still see me and hold me to who I was and I don't need to hold them to who they were because we could be such different friends now. We're in such different scenarios and scenes now and so this is really great. Well, I'll share a quick funny story. Not funny the time because it made me very upset and insecure. But it was our, like when I was in high school, we would do the Bahamas on this trip and I posted a photo of me, like with like sharks, like kind of posing, with like sharks, I had a really cool photo.

And what I got, what I got to college, like when I got a college, I was in a fraternity. And like the first week, like all the fraternities had to like go in this like big auditorium room We're like a guest speaker kind of talk about like you know the roles of it the importance of it Like how to you know what not to do all that kind of stuff and all these other fraternities were calling me shark boy And it made me so I was like I was like so it's a cure But it wasn't even guys that I was friends with. They were just calling me Shark Boy.

You never told me that. I just thought about it because I was like, that actually really upset me. Are you crying? No, I'm crying laughing. I'm crying laughing. Tears are being shed over Shark Boy. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for sharing. But they're calling me Shark Boy because that's the only thing So here's your being shot over shark boy.

Thank you for sharing. Thank you for sharing. You were gonna be shark boy. But they were calling me shark boy because at the time my hair was, I was like, maybe they're calling it because my hair was spiky. Like Nina Taylor Lautner from Shark Boy.

Oh no. But no, it was because I posted a picture of her sharks and they like roasted me. It's a good short one. I'm sure it was a great picture. I sure was. It's still on my Instagram. It is? No, I didn't delete it. We're gonna have to pull a good show. I'm sure it was a great picture. I'm sure it was really cool. It's still on my Instagram. It is?

No, I didn't delete it. Oh, we're gonna have to follow Charbo. We're gonna have to follow Charbo. We're gonna have to follow Charbo. We're gonna have to follow Charbo. We're gonna have to follow Charbo. You've had two moments like that in your life. Molly.

Okay, well, why are you bringing that up? Okay, Charbo is really cool though. Charbo is more cooler than Molly. Okay. I think you've shared about Molly on the podcast with her. I don't think so. Molly, just real quick, this is not in any way interesting. Moli, I was in sixth grade and we were going to play a state champion.

All right, we were going to play a tournament for baseball and all the other kids in my team shaved their heads. I was like, I'll go do it. So we were literally on the interstate, pulled over on this like supercuts or something and I shaved my head and turns out I had moles all over my head and obviously in middle scores you can't wear hats so I had yeah I got called moly so I've never shaved my head since then. How long have you started this?

This is in no way interesting at all. That was pretty interesting. Okay well it was fine in baseball because I could wear a hat but obviously you know what small my head is, so my hat didn't fit. Yeah. Okay, well it was fine in baseball because I could wear a hat, but obviously, you know, a small my head is, so that my hat didn't fit. Yeah. Yeah, I had like the smallest head ever and I shaved on my head, I shaved on my hair off, and my hat didn't fit. That is sad. On a total different note, let's go to the next piece of advice. Okay, love this piece of advice. Katie, Davis Majors, the girl who went to Uganda,

kisses from Katie, you heard? Okay, so she said a young life leader asked, or said, I'm sorry, she asked the young life leader, how am I going to know what God wants me to do? Common question asked by most people. And then they responded, God is so much more concerned with who you are going to be than what you are going to do. Just focus on who you are going, sorry, I keep saying that with the wrong emphasis.

Just focus on who you're going to be. And then he will like share with you what you're going to do or it'll just happen. Basically, this is what you're saying. And I love that because so I'm still having Moli because I'm looking at y'all. And you're so tears in your eyes. Okay, sorry. I love the piece of advice because that's so true. So many people stress that about like what they're gonna do, what they're gonna do.

And I really do think that God is like that verse that we talk about, whatever you do, do it for the glory of God. So it really is a kind of whatever you do, but more so like, who are you going to be? What's we're just talking about going through all the Bible project videos? And it's just, you know, sad that Israel just, they just kept turning on God time after time, which is time, which is time. And you know, there's that verse. I think it's in Micah and it talks about, you know, Walt Cumbly, Love Justice,'s in Micah and it talks about, you know, walk humbly, love justice, love mercy,

walk humbly with your God. And basically the context of him saying that was y'all are worshiping, y'all are acting like you're worshiping, but you're not living like you're worshiping. So therefore your ritual is in your worship, doesn't mean anything to God because you're not living like it. And they said, if you really are gonna love said, if you really are going to love God, if you really are going to worship God, then you would, you know, walk humbly.

You would love mercy. You would, this is the way that you would be living. I think that's so good. And I think sometimes we can turn ourselves so much with like what we're going to do and overthink it. And then we're not actually just being the people that God has called us to be. But if you focus on who you are, and then I think what you do would just kind of flow naturally from that, I think it's back to your Instagram.

When you started focusing on who you are, what you do on Instagram, what you share naturally begin to flow because you love coffee, you love making it. So that's what you're doing. You love reading. Now you're helping people find books that they should read and coffee that they should try and like that was all coming off of like who you are and what you're passionate about. But it's it's hard if you try to like flip that order and you try to figure out what you're going to do first. Right. Because then I think it also you might be confused on who you even are in the process, you know? Yeah.

Any thoughts? All right, let's move on. Wait, I do have a thought on that. Sure. Okay, so just thinking, like that just makes me think about most, we, I think, think about a lot. Like, what does God want me to do? Right?

But when you look at the Bible and the people in it, most of them, God hold them to do like one thing. And they were like 30 years old or 80 years old or whatever, which means that like I do think God has something specific plan for all of us in each individual, one of us, but that might be like one thing. And that means there's a ton of time that you just have to like live and be faithful and just in every moment, just do the things that you know guys telling you to do. That's so good.

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But the one thing, like for instance, I feel like the one thing that God called me to do was when I was 17 years old and I was asking the Lord, what do you call me to do? And I really felt like the Lord spoke to my heart. It was like imprinted on my heart, be a good sister and a friend of those who don't have one. And that really is like specifically the one thing I felt like the Lord has said.

Now what that's led me to do is start a podcast because that's how I can reach people is to be a good sister and a friend of those who don't have one. How am I gonna do do is start a podcast. Because that's how I can reach people. It's to be a good sister and a friend who knows you don't have one. How am I gonna do that? Start a podcast. We'll start blogging. When blogging was saying we actually so do our blog

because that was the thing we started with. Instagram, I can do that through social media, I can do that through YouTube. And so that one thing that was kind of this broad, this is what I'm calling you to do, led me to the more specific things, but I don't think necessarily God said, like start a podcast.

Right. You know, I think, yes, he like led me to do that, and I'm doing it being faithful to that. But I think that sometimes if we get so specific with like what it is, then sometimes we can feel like we're failing, we're not doing that thing, but maybe it's outside of your control to do that thing. So if you think like God called me to like speak to the nations, well, then you

might be like, well, God does copy what I speak to the nations. I'm not saying he doesn't, but if it's like not, if it's not tangible and he doesn't, you know, create the way to do that, then you might be like, God, you said this, you said this, why aren't you doing it? But I think if God calls you to it, he really does like send you there. He will equip you for it. That makes sense. I think sometimes we get so specific in thinking like it has to be this one way that I'm going to speak to the nations, and it has to be like thousands, thousands, thousands of people or whatever, when it might just be like, know like go to the nations and speak to the villages, speak to the people.

Like, it's more broad than like a specific platform or a specific outlet or a job title. Because I think if it's able to be taken away, then it might not be necessarily your calling. I was gonna say, yeah, you could look at that as a job and then you get fired and then it's like, then you're like, am I not doing my calling? Yeah, or you feel like, yeah.

One thing I thought of is like writing a book because we're talking about books here. Like when you write a book, especially like a nonfiction book, you, there is a lot of time of not writing the book that you need to write the book. So true. Like, like the book I wrote, you know, whenever I was young, the first book I came out with, it was about six years of knowledge, like packed into that one thing. And then books we right now, like, it's a lot of time of, of not thinking, I'm doing this to write this book, but of researching and studying, of just things that were naturally interested in,

that then all come together at some point to be a book, or to be something, you know. And that's so like when you think like, I need to write a book, well, that's, that will be a natural outflowing of all the things you've already been living for the past 10 years, of you not thinking about running the book. That's so true. Someone just said to me recently, they were, they have a great job, just started the job.

They said, oh, well, you know, sometimes I just look around and I'm like, I should be right in the book. I should be doing a podcast. I should be because I look at other people my age and like, they're doing stuff like that. And as a friend, let me just tell you from personal experience, like this that you're doing right now might one day be what you talk about on the podcast, might be what you one day write in the book. But it's the worst feeling ever to start writing a book and have no words to say. It's like the SpongeBob moment when you're sitting there

for hours and hours and hours and you get the, because you didn't live the life, yeah, you know, or you want to start a podcast, but you don't have a concept yet. You don't have, you know, I think the best thing below that's good is been that it hasn't felt like work in so many ways. It hasn't got tires. I still love it because it was just like a natural thing. I love asking people what like their best piece of advice I'd do that in life.

You've seen me with different people that we've been around. I'm like, give me their best piece of advice. I do that in life. You've seen me with different people that we've been around. I'm like, give me the best piece of marriage advice. Give me the best piece of life advice. And so I love doing that. I love seeking that. And that's the thing that I'll, I think forever love. I don't know if it'll forever look like a pie gas, you know? That would be kind of crazy.

But for right now, it does. And then I can go on to continue to do that in other ways and other forms. So I think really what I'm meant by the beginning of this is like God will call you to stuff, yes. And it might be a broad thing, like speak to the nations. It might be a broad thing like sister and friend. It might be a broad thing like this or that.

But I think be careful about thinking that it's like a, unless you really feel like it's like a specific, like format or specific job tender to the thing because, you know, I remember in 2020, we had all of these plans that year. And I was so overwhelmed at the beginning of your however you do all these things. We felt very called to those things. I really felt like God said, we were supposed to go to London, we were supposed to do all

the stuff. And then, COVID hit, and we literally could not get to London, like not an option. And I felt like wrestling with the Lord, like God, I thought you said, go to London, I thought you'd call me to that. And I felt the Lord just kind of speak to me in this moment. Like, when I say speak to me, I don't hear it audibly, but it's like one of those, you couldn't tell me,

he didn't say, like, it felt so real, you know? And I felt like one of those, you couldn't tell me he didn't say it. Like it felt so real, you know? And a fellow the Lord said just because, you know, the location's different, just because the calling's different and I'm watching it exactly how I heard it. But he was basically saying that doesn't mean that the prayers have to change. So there's me, your heart towards it has to change.

Like do what you're gonna do there, where you're at, you know? And so I think that that was like a good lesson for me that just because I didn't get the opportunity doesn't mean that the call changes, doesn't mean that the heart of it changes, that you're still going to preach in the word, you're still being faithful where you're at. And so that was just, that's what I mean by that because you could get super specific and then COVID hits and you're like, God, what the world. But then he's like, hey, I still calling you

to reach people, touch people, which might look different. Which actually leads me to skip around a little bit to Donna Stewart, who said, Bloom, where you're planted. Which I think that's really a great piece of advice because sometimes you can't go to the location or you can't get out there and reach that place.

But where are you planted and what can you do right where you're at? I think that that's been like special piece of advice for us here because we're in West Runaway and people always ask me like, you know, different people we work with. Oh, where are you based? And I say, oh, Louisiana, they're like,

oh, really? You didn't like move to Nashville, you didn't go to LA or Dallas or Atlanta or whatever. And I'm like, oh, I did for a couple of years, but then I came back. And I'm like, oh, that's so cool. And I think it's just like different because most people, I think they think if I'm going to do something like big, I have to be in the big city. But then I think like, I love where we live so much.

And if everyone left who like had these like big desires to their city, then like where we're at would never blossom, you know? And so it's cool to see like so many people here and coming back here, like I think about Cory Bar who started like an amazing two amazing restaurants about to be three in our hometown. And I'm so thankful that he blew where he was planted, you know, because now people come to West Merlin

and they're like, I can't believe you have restaurants like this. They're so good. And we're like, well, thank you, Cory Varfe, for coming back and like blooming where you're planted. And so I think that goes for everyone. That's whether, you know, I obviously do like ministry stuff, but if the chef's didn't do that, if the restauranters, if the doctors, if the, you know, teachers, like if we didn't bloom where we were planted,

then where we're at and where we love and our hometowns wouldn't have flourishing, like they do, you know? So, I think there is such a, like, itch these days to, like, move to the big city. And that there's anything wrong with that. You got a bloom where we were planted there too. But there is something really beautiful about not underestimating what God can do, where you're at, even if it looks insignificant. And that's what God did in the Bible over. I mean, a little town in Bethlehem, you know, like, it's like, that's what he does, so often. That's true.

Blume where you're planted. You can't bloom if you don't give it time. Boom. You can't bloom if you're not planted. That's true, but I was thinking like, you could be like a little sprout, but you gotta like, fill on blossom. It's true, but I was thinking, like you could be like a little sprout, but you gotta like fill on blossom.

It's true, it does take time. We had some friends say one time, I just, they were moving around and looking for roots. And I remember sharing with them, you're not gonna find roots, you gotta grow roots. You're not gonna like move and find the root. You gotta plant yourself and grow the root. And so, yes, be in the place that you're ready to grow the root in, but that's not something

you find, it's something you grow. I think for us, when we moved here, we were like, oh, wow, like this is actually harder than we thought. Just moving to a new place, even though it was from here, like you mentioned, everything kind of changes when you come back. But it's like, okay, let's start growing. And we did. And now we're seeing like, Boston. We're seeing a Boston. We're seeing a bloom.

It's really cool. A super bloom. Okay, this is really a piece of advice. Kind of on the same note, Earl McClellan said, don't let anyone else build your world for you. If they do, they will build it too small. Boom.

It's good. Do you think in y'all's own minds? Do you think that y'all ever face that like someone building your world and building it too small? Are you thinking about your life and like shooting it too small for what God was going to do? It's okay if you didn't. I'm just wondering. It's a good question. Well, the first part, no,

except never idolize someone to where it's like that's like my whole kind of, you know, framework kind of thing. But the second part, I mean, I feel like we all kind of deal with that to some extent of, yeah, whether it's questioning value or anything, kind of things like that of, yeah, like how much can God use me or, like is my, am I thinking too small? I think, like, there's the quote that's like, you know, whenever I'm gonna get to heaven and,

you know, we ask God to do too much through us or something like that. I might be watching the quote. Yeah, I think we all, we asked to, or we asked got to do too much through us or something like that. I might be watching the quote. Um, yeah, I think I think we all, to some extent, I mean, I, I, I'm just kind of rambling. But yeah, I think that we all can have a, like a smaller grasp of that. Yeah, I can tell you sleep makes the biggest difference in the next day. Does it not? When you have a good night's sleep, you're going the next day solid.

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speaking of blooming, like let it be a seed in their heart and that grows and then they think less than themselves. They don't value them so they don't think they can do all the things that God has to them or they underestimate what they can do. I mean, this person who wrote this letter to me, she was saying that how insignificant she felt, but yet at the beginning of her letter,

she writes about who she is and she's a teacher and she's a grandma and she's a mom. She's all these things. I'm like, well, that's not insignificant. You're teaching people. Like, that's an incredible position to be in. You're setting an example for the students. You're a mom and a grandma,

you have such influence in your kids' lives in the next generation. And so I think sometimes we downplay even the roles that we play, even to say in significance would be, you know, if you think a mom or a grandma or a teacher is insignificant, then you're missing a huge amount of influence that you have. Someone's best piece of advice was, I think it was Bethany Hamilton. Yeah, she said, if you want to change the world, go love your family, which was the advice from Mother Teresa, which mom has in her bathroom, you know, above her mirror.

Every day, my mom sees that. And I think my mom has been such a world changer, by the way, she's loved us, you know. She's done incredible other things to touch the world. But I think her first form of that was the way that she taught us and raised us to be. So nothing's insignificant. Nothing should be devalued. I was going to say on the quote, read the quote about the world, the one you just read. Don't let anyone else build your world for you.

If they do, they will build it too small. So actually, I was thinking about a mother to re-sequit for that one too. When she said, I'm botching the quote, but if it falls on your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep the streets in a way that glorifies God, or be the best sweet sweeper that they've ever seen. And thinking about that, we all have bosses, right? We have people, most people. I mean, even if you work for yourself, you still are accountable to other people. But most people have me, have someone that is a boss. They are creating the work that we're doing and telling us what to do, right? So I think about that in regards to that quote of,

of how do I make my own world, whenever I have someone telling me what to do? And someone who's actually been really inspiring to me lately is, I've been seeing this guy in Instagram like a ton and take talk. He's the guy who he does the pizza. He works for Papa John's and he like does all these crazy things with this pizza and he's said the other day like, I'm going to make the best pizza I possibly can. And he's like doing all the, you know, he's spinning in the air and doing all these stuff. And he's just like an employee and he's like, I'm going to do this to the best of my ability.

And thinking about that of whatever our job is, whatever our boss is telling us to do, whatever lot we fall in, We still have the ability to create our own world. We're choosing to do this work. Whatever it is, we're choosing to go into work every day. We're choosing the work that we, how we get to do the work that is given to us. That's so good. It makes me think of Elon Musk said about inventing the Tesla. He was saying, I didn't think like, oh, I'm gonna reinvent the car. He said, I wanted to invent the greatest car you've ever seen.

So it's not like remaking the thing that's already made. That's great. It's making what's already made better than it ever has been. And I actually think about that with our team that you said that. So I technically I guess would be the boss, but I can only do, like, I can only pitch vision for L.O. as much as our team

is able to do it, right? And I think about where we're at right now and we have such a great team. And I was, we had a meeting yesterday, I was a vision meeting for 2024. And I was stirring up all these ideas that I'm so excited about. That just makes sense.

That are gonna just help reach so many more people on all these things. And I told them, I couldn't have done this before having you people on our team. Like the only reason I can create something like this is by thinking about your talents and your abilities and your work ethic, knowing that you're actually going to be capable of doing it. And so it's so true, when you step into a space and you're willing to give it your all and you're willing to say, like, God, I'm going to do this for your glory.

I'm going to use everything that you put in me to create or to work or to build or to grow. It really does. When you bring that with a team or you run that with a business, it helps everything grow, helps everything flourish. But if you come and you're just like, ah, you know, dragging your feet, you're hurting the, ah, you know, drag your feet, you're hurtin' the whole team, you know, you always think, I think people always think like they're in security and they're lack of effort or laziness just affects them, but it always affects everyone around you, you know?

You're negativity, you're in security, you're this, you're that, you think, oh, it's just affecting me, and you're being miserable, but it affects everyone around you. So what a gift it is to show up positively, what a gift it is to show up positively, what a gift it is to show up ready to work and give it your all and use the gifts that God has put

on your life. OK, we're running out of time. So let's see. There's any others. Another podcast I just want to shout out from this year is Mia Fields. If you didn't listen to it, it was an incredible podcast. Again, great advice, but you really

learned from the way she lived her life. So she was just telling a story about meeting her husband and believing for her husband and then believing for a baby. And the doctor literally said, you are not going to have a baby naturally. And she said, I'll call you when I'm pregnant. And two weeks later, she literally got pregnant, called the doctor, like, hey, pregnant. It was such a God thing. Because they had been trying for a long time. She actually medically, like, she like a crazy tumor, got it removed to the point where she really

should not have had a baby unless it was the Lord and the Lord provided. And just the story's amazing. She had like, and she talks about having an evidence box, like, evidence of God's faithfulness. And she would like put things in her evidence box to remind her of his faithfulness when she doubted him. Such a cool story.

So, go listen to Mia Fields. If you didn't hear that one. Lastly, I'll end with this one, Jackie Hill Perry, great podcast. Or Anne Jason Mia, that one just came out and that was one of definitely fan favorite of the year. Might be one of the biggest ones. It just came out though. But it was incredible. You can learn so much from Mia's life and the way that Jason is as a father to her. But Jackie Hill Perry said this

in her devotional book and we quoted it, the godly ask guide questions. And it was from that verse. And this is just really stuck with me. It was from the verse, his ways are higher than our ways, his thoughts are higher than our thoughts. And she said, you know, when you think about that verse, that's a good verse, it's a cool verse. And I've said that verse so many times,

and it's just like a positive note. But she was like, if gods, ways are higher than ours, and his thoughts are higher than ours, and his ways are not our ways, and his thoughts are are not our thoughts and you're being led by him, then you've got to ask him questions because you don't understand his ways and you don't understand his thoughts and they're not your ways and they're not your thoughts. So you've got to ask questions and we talked about the balance of asking questions without

accusing God, without questioning him in a doubtful way, but asking him questions in a curiosity way. And it was just such a good podcast. It really helped me grow, I think, even in my talking to Lord and praying and asking God questions, not unlike a why aren't you doing this? I don't understand blah, blah, but more like a help me understand,

how do I react in this scenario? How do I trust? How do I faith? How do I live in this way? Because I don't understand it. It's not what I would have done for myself. It's not what I would have thought for myself. Teach me how to think about it.

Like that was such a cool thing. I don't know, I just learned a lot from that. Love that. Never thought about that. Oh no, not cool. Cool. So honestly, I just learned a lot from that. Love that. Never taught about that. No, not cool. Cool. So, honestly, I just have to say this was a great year of what that's good. And I have learned so much.

I think one of the reasons I love doing the what that's good podcast so much is because I genuinely get to learn every single time I get to interview someone, every single conversation I have on the couch, I grow from, I love, it's helped shape me to be a better person. So just as you're growing and listening and loving it, just know I'm doing the same thing alongside of you. Every one of you that has sent a DM, I just want to thank you for it, comment, thank you

for whether you've given us a rating or shared it with a friend. We're so so grateful. I hope to keep doing this for the next five plus years. It really is my favorite thing and I'm just so grateful for who hope to keep doing this for the next five plus years. It really is my favorite thing, and I'm just so grateful for who it's made me become. And so grateful for all of you for being so encouraging. I always ask this, but I always say, leave in the comments what you want us to talk about next,

who you want us to have on. If you have a question, if you have a piece of advice or a bad piece of advice, you want us to talk through. Please comment, please send it in. Your comments really do help drive this podcast. It helps the conversations that we have. When we see stuff that y'all are asking, you're working through, talking about,

we know it, we jot it down, we think about it. And we actually want to speak to the problems that y'all are walking through and speak to the seasons of life that y'all are in. So love y'all so much. Thank you so much for being a listener and thanks, Shaleigh,ook and Christian for coming on podcast. you