WHOA That's Good Podcast - The Best Advice of 2020

Episode Date: December 30, 2020

Sadie shares the amazing advice that brought the house down in 2020, featuring Christine Caine, Kari Jobe, Max Lucado, Lauren Daigle, Mike and Natalie Todd, Jennie Allen, Miles Fidell, and some familiar faces from Sadie's family: John Luke Robertson, Bella Robertson, Willie Robertson, and Chrys Howard (aka 2-mama). These quotes are so quotable you'll be repeating them for years to come.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up, well that's good fam, welcome back to the world, that's good podcast. Y'all, today we are going to recap 2020. What a year it's been. We're not going to recap the year as far as all the things that happen in 2020 because you know we'd be here forever. We're going to recap the best piece of advice that we've gotten. Look I'll say this we've gotten so much good advice and to be honest I could go through every single person's podcast and actually that was the planet first

But that would take me way too long because we got so much good advice So I'm gonna go through some of my favorites and so today you are in for a treat because you are just gonna get some gold in your ears and I just think that these things are worth repeating and so let's go through We started out the year strong with my grandma to mama who brought the house down and actually loved her piece of advice And I'll be honest with you up front with you guys. I pretty much chose like four people from my family as some of my favorite advice and that might be because I've heard them say it because it's

truly impacted me. So bear with me but I think it's pretty good. So two mom it, that's what I call her, she said this, if you can't change the situation, change your attitude, ayo, slam, I thought that was so good. Christian and I talked about that the other day because he was in a situation he did not wanna be in. And he was so frustrated, he was in that situation. And I was like babe, the situation is not changing at the moment, you know?

And so you have a choice, you can stay in this, you can have an attitude, or you can change your attitude. And we had to talk about how it's hard in those moments to shift your attitude, because you're frustrated at a situation, but it's always worth it. If you can just walk away, take a minute, reframe your mind to say like, I don't know, I'm grateful for what being here for whatever reason.

God, show me the joy in this moment. It always changes things for the better. So I love that piece of advice from two mama. We're just going to go straight to the next week and January. Miles Fidel, who's actually Christians college pastor in Auburn, Alabama at ACC Church. I thought his advice was so good. This way he said, he said, the best thing you can do during this season of your life is find your own voice.

You need to figure out what uniquely makes you you and unleash that. I thought that was so good. If you see the sign behind me, it literally says live original. And I thought that was so key. Like that is what we're saying when we say live original. It's like, find out what makes you uniquely you.

God put something inside of you that reflects his image. Whatever that is, the world needs to see that. We want to see that. So I don't know what thing he put in. You maybe it's different than anybody else in the world has, especially your voice. I mean, your voice is different than the voice anybody has in the world has. So use it. Unleash it. Let the world see it because you're going to make the world a better place by simply being you because God put something in you that is good. That even God called good. I think about that sometimes that literally God was like creating the universe and he's making something as extraordinary as the sun, right? And he says this is good. And then he makes something as extraordinary as the stars.

And he said, these are good. Then he makes something as extraordinary as the ocean. He says, this is good. And then he made somebody like me. And he said, that is very, very good. When he made me, when he made man, and I think that is so cool to think about. When you look around at creation, it's easy to say, wow, God, that's the coolest thing. You made that so good. It's a little bit harder to look at ourselves and say that because we see our own flaws. But I encourage you, look at yourself today and say, God, you made me good.

I want to bring out the good that you put in me. I love that advice from miles. Moving on along, so back in March, my dad, Willie Robertson himself said something out of love He said give more than you take and he said that covers every aspect of your life So I love that because I think a lot of times we can become like consumer minded and we just want to like take take take take We want to get get get get get get but it's so important that we give more than we take. And I've seen that model for my dad. You know, he honestly gets a lot.

He's a successful man. He gets gifts, he gets things. But I'm telling you, even though he gets a lot, he gives more. He gives so much. He gives his time. He goes out and he works. He cooks every night for our family.

And then he gives generously too. He gives his finances to different places I need it and I just say that's so important. You know to look at somebody's life and say man That's so cool that they literally give more than they're taking. That's great advice Next we're going on to Jenny Allen. I love Jenny's advice. She said her husband says this to her Jenny don't be the fancy version of yourself. Just be you. And she's so good.

Again, it just reminds me of live original. And I had this moment last year at Passion, I was so nervous to go speak. I was like, oh gosh, how am I gonna do this? How am I gonna do this? How am I gonna get out there and do this moment? And I turn around and Kristen came and stand in there and I said, Hey, like I need some advice. What do I do? Like how do I, how do I prepare for this moment? How do I step into this?

And she said, say, just be you. She was like, God doesn't annoy another version of you. He annoys you. And I thought that was so good. Because it's so tempting for us to want to be a fancier version of ourself, or be a better version. And in the sense of not trying to be like, oh, I wanna be a better version, but being like somebody that we're not, or looking at somebody and saying, we're gonna kinda act like them in this moment,

because it seems to be working for them, or whatever that looks like. And it's like, you know what? Like that's not who God created you to be. Like don't try to be that person, just simply be you, because the truth is, like, you're never gonna be a better version of that person and that person's gonna be because that's who they are I try to be the best version of who you are just be you don't try to be

anybody else I love that such a good advice moving along back in May this one is so good Mike and Natalie Natalie Todd were talking about relationships and they were talking about sex before marriage and stuff. And Mike and Natalie said this, moments of pleasure that are outside of God's will were produced years of rebuilding. And that was so real. They were so vulnerable that their own story and how they had

moments where it was like they just desired pleasure so much and they would go through with that desire and then that took years of them rebuilding what was outside of God's will. And I just thought that was such a good advice us, whether you're single, you're dating or even you're married, you know, that sometimes it does take years to rebuild, but it's worth rebuilding to make something that God created to be beautiful and pure, make that beautiful and pure. I thought that was such good advice, so that was incredible. I remember one time John Piper said this, he said, the essence of good and evil is not, you know, breaking the law or doing the law. It's not doing the right

thing or doing the wrong thing. He said the essence of good and evil is just like the essence of good is desiring God over everything else. The essence of evil is putting something else in the place of your desire for God. So he talks about Eve with the apple and he says like how Eve it wasn't that it was just evil that she just broke the wall that she just just didn't do what God said to do. That wasn't like the essence of it. The essence was she was saying this apple is more desirable to me than my relationship with God. And it's always stuck out to me because I think sometimes we can get in such a thing of like, what's right and what's wrong? And then it's hard to do what's right and what's wrong just because we know that's wrong.

We're not supposed to do it and that's right. And so that's easier when we say, you know what? I'm not going to do that. Not because I don't want to do that. I'm not going to do that because I desire God's will over my own. And I remember in Christian hour dating, that's something we had to repeatedly say over ourselves. You know, we're not going to go there because we desire to see God's will.

And so when you create a desire that's so deep in your heart, so deep in your life, for God, it's a lot easier to do the right thing because it's not out of punishment or it's not out of guilt or it's not out of guilt or it's not out of shame It's not a true desire of who you love and that that's God So it's a lot easier to deny your flesh say yes to God Like deny your own will and step into the will of God That's what I've learned and I think that that is a critical thing to shift in your thinking I think it's gonna be a lot easier for how to choose right from wrong

thing to shift in your thinking. I think it's gonna be a lot easier for her how to choose right from wrong. Alright, next up in May also we had Bella Robb on the pike as my little sister Bella Robertson and I love her piece of advice. I took something from this that I want all young people to hear. So she said this, it's a Holy Spirit job to convict. God's job to judge and it's only our job to love. Dash Billy Graham. What I loved about it is that Bella, who was 17 of the time that she did this podcast, was quoting Billy Graham.

You see, I think that's brilliant. You know, at 17, at 23, where I'm at, wherever you're at, you know, sometimes like what we have to say, like, it's good, and it it's worthy and it's valuable, but like at the same time, we have so much to learn. And when we humble ourselves and have a teachable spirit and say, you know what, I'm gonna learn from the greats.

I'm gonna look at Billy Graham and I'm gonna learn from him and how he did this. I'm gonna look at whoever is dot, dot, dot that you see that inspires you. And I'm actually to take what they say and put it in my heart. And so that's how Bella has the wisdom to say something like it is the Holy Spirit's job to convict. It is God's job to judge and it is our job to love because Bella is listening to wise counsel. Maybe not wise counsel. She's a nobily grandma's not in her life, but wise counsel from afar and we have the ability and the blessing to do that with YouTube,

with, I mean literally everything. Spotify, Twitter, Instagram, you name it. You have like wise counsel everywhere, but as Christine Cain did say in one of our podcasts, not all information is wisdom. So you definitely have to discern. But I love that. And I think Bella's off to a great start knowing that Hey, it's not her job to convict people. That's Holy Spirit job. She didn't need to shame people She doesn't need a judge people. That's God's job that that's tops the Lord She doesn't have to get caught in that judge middle spirit She's just gonna love people because ultimately that's what Jesus told us to do love your neighbor as herself

So I love it Bellab. That was so good. Moving along in June we had John Luke and Mary Kate on the podcast and John Luke said something that I thought was so great. It was such a fun piece of advice and like so John Luke to say this. He said, if you have to eat a frog, best to do it in the morning. If you have to eat two frogs, best to do them one after another. Dashmark Twain, which again, I think is so cool. Jungkook was saying, like, Jungkook is learning from people older than him. He's learning from somebody that inspires him that he looks up to.

And ultimately, that's kind of what the whole world that's going to podcast is about. It's about seeing somebody that we're inspired by and saying, hey, what inspired you? Seeing somebody that influenced us and say, what influenced you? And we hear these pieces of advice in our life and we see it played out and everything that they do. And I think that that is so cool.

And so now we're seeing that played out and even the advice these people give. Hey, it's like you might see that I do a lot of hard things in the morning, I wake up and I get my job done. And if I have two hard things, I do it right after another. How do I do that, John Luke? You'd ask, how do you, how do you do that?

Well, he listened to Mark Twain. If you have the defraud, do it best in the morning. If you had to, to do one after another. Thought that was so good. All right, next in July, we had Lauren Dagle, which was such a good buy, guys. Oh my gosh, She just brought it She's such a genuine soul such a sweet spirit. She said this

True freedom is giving people the permission to misunderstand you offense is taken not given Oh, it's so good because being misunderstood is so hard. It's so hard to be misunderstood It's so frustrating. You want dresses. You want to make it right. You want people to know the truth. You how you really are what you mean But at the end of the day like we just don't get that sometimes like Not everybody's gonna understand us. Not everybody's actually going to want to understand us people are actually Sadly going to want to judge you. They're gonna want to stay jealous. They're going to want to stay jealous at you.

They're going to want to stay mad at you. And she said, if you can get to the point of your life, when you allow people the permission to misunderstand you, you will reach the most freedom you'll ever experience. Because then at that point, you can just freely love. You can just freely be yourself. You can just freely walk into the purpose God has. But you're not worrying about if people are going to misunderstand you, because you already know that they are. You can just freely be yourself. You can just freely walk into the purpose God has for you not

Worrying about if people are gonna misunderstand you because you already know that they are And I thought that was so good. I love how she then follows that out with offense is taken. It's not given You know that's a fence is ours for the taking you know you hear people say you know a gift from God is yours for the taking It's the same way with offense. It's yours for the taking. Are you going to choose to stay offended? Or are you going to kind of deny that offense somebody throws at you? Brilliant. I loved it. Next one, moving right along. We're going to go to September. We had Max Lakato and I loved his advice. It was so simple for such a brilliant man. He said, succeed at home first. Which that is so good because the thing is, I think sometimes whenever you get successful in life are just really with anything.

You can have a job. It could be the simplest job or the most extraordinary job. I think success in any manner, you tend to get very focused on the job. You start to work really hard and you start to kind of lose focus of the things that are really most important to you. And so your priority shifts from your family to your workspace to the people that work with you. And that's really a dangerous place to be because really if you're not winning at home, you're

really not winning anywhere. If you're not resting at home, you're not resting anywhere. If you don't have peace at home, you probably don't have peace anywhere. And so I loved his advice and I found that to be true in my own life. If I'm succeeding at home first, then the overflow of what's coming from my home is actually making me more successful, not just in a worldly standpoint, but in a spiritual standpoint. Because I have peace, I am driven, I know I'm loved, I'm walking out the door knowing that my husband loves me, and I love him where at a good place. And so I thought that was crucial. So good. A little more recently, we taught to carry to Carrie Job in November and her advice was

brilliant. She said, Comparison will always steal from the creativity and the calling on your own life. Brilliant. So good. Comparison. We always say it's a thief of joy, but it's a thief of many things. It's a thief of your creativity. It's a thief of your calling on your life. And then we kind of talked about this earlier, but when you start looking at other people's life and wanting to be them, it's like you're never going to be a better version of them than them. Be you, you're always going to follow up less than somebody else trying to be them, but you're going to be more than enough being who you are.

And so I would encourage that all day long to not look to the left or the right, be like a race horse, put on your blinders and just run the race that God has for you. That's the most important thing that you could do. So don't compare yourself to others. I know it's easier said than done, but it's so crucial that you stop that pattern. You might say, say, how do you do that? How do you stop comparing yourself to other people?

And I think you mentally have to change your mind. It says in Rome, it's don't conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. And I love that verse, but there's some key words in that verse. I think that we don't always think about. It's that there's a pattern of your mind. We can't conform to the pattern of the world. We can't conform to the pattern of the world We can't conform to this pattern and so the pattern of the world seems to be comparing yourself to other people and You know looking at the left and the right not feeling like you're good enough being insecure being anxious Also seems to be a pattern of this world So we're not to conform to that, but we have to transform our mind and so I think in that moment

Transforming how do you transform it? You have to work to transform something. Like there is a big production that goes on to transform something. And I remember when I was trying to get out of that comparison zone and that jealousy zone, I would literally have to stop the pattern of my mind and say, you know what? I'm not going to think that thought anymore. I'm going to thank you guys for how you created that person. And I'm going to thank you God for how you created that person. I'm going to thank you for how you created me. And God, I pray you would help me celebrate that person and not compare myself to that person,

champion what they're doing. And God helped me to do what you call me to do. And so I think it's those prayers. It says moments of stopping and actually shifting to a new pattern in your mind is so crucial. Lastly, y'all, we had Christine Cainon and she brought it and her advice was similar to Lawrence. And I love how so many of these interweave with each other. She said this, make the decision right at the beginning that you will never be offended and you will never take offense. If you never be offended and you will never take

offense. If you can be offended, you will be offended. Oh, true. If you can, you will. If you're going to take it, you're going to be offended. And I just love that. Make the decision right now. Make it today. I'm not going to be offended. Why to say both of those and why to say all these things about, I think we kind of doubled up on comparison. We doubled up on offense. We doubled up on a fence, we doubled up on being yourself whenever I was reading this advice. And I think the reason I really want to stress these and re-release you is because these are really important things.

It's really important to be confident in who God created you to be. It's actually really important to not compare yourself to somebody else. It's actually really, really important to not take offense because all of those things are stealing from the opportunity and the calling that God has on your life. You know, I actually believe every single one of you have a purpose and I believe every single one of you has made an image of God and made to be a good creation. And I believe that for you. And so I hope that you take this advice to your heart and you actually just go out and your influence by it. I hope that one day somebody asked you,

what's the best piece of advice you've ever been given? And maybe even say one of these. And you hear it get all, whoa, that's good. But y'all, 2020's been a great year. Thanks for, yeah, it's been a hard year. It's been a great year. Thanks for, yeah, it's been a hard year. It's been a great year on the podcast. It's been a hard year in life. And I recognize that, and I see that.

I know we've had the coronavirus that has taken so many lives and taken so much time from people and taking jobs from people, and it's been hard. And I know we've had racial tension, which I know Nate is talking about, and it's such a good podcast as well And it's hard and we look at that and it hurts and we're trying to be better and we're growing But every time you grow, they're stretching and that can hurt So I know we've had a hard year. There's so many other things that have happened

There's been hurricanes, there's been fires, been all this stuff But I really do hope that this podcast can bring a glimpse of hope in this time. I hope that what it does is it encourages you to be a better person in this time because there are a lot of things that we can't change back to what Tumama said. We can't change our situation, but we can change our attitude. Maybe we can't change some of these big problems, but we can change who we're going to be in the midst of these big problems. And so guys, I want us to go out and be better people from one of the best pieces of his

advice I've ever gotten from my great-grandma, Memeladjo. You're not kind because other people are kind to you. You're kind because you are a kind person. Go out and be who you truly are. And I think that will shift the world. Don't forget that passion 2020 is also coming up. We're so excited. It's actually Passion 2021, even though it's in 2020.

We already had Passion 2020. Back at the Mercedes Benz Stadium, which was insane, but this one is gonna be just as good, even though it's virtual, because God has not confined to walls. His presence and his spirit can go anywhere that the people are, because you guys are the church.

So I'm pumped. Don't forget to go get your ticket at passion 2021.com. Join us. It's going to be so excited. Actually, several people I just talked about from the podcast will be there. Carrie Jo will be there. Christine will be there. Louis will be there.

I'll be there. So many fun people. But the most important thing is that you are there. So go get your ticket, passion2021.com. Way to stick with us this year, well that's good fan, we love you guys, and we will be back in January with new people, new advice, and we're gonna walk into 2021 stronger

than we're leaving 2020. Love you guys!