00:00:30.000i'm in tyrus's studio um i figured when in new york you've got to make a pit stop here right
00:00:40.000um we wanted to make an episode this has been kind of like a long time in the in the making
00:00:45.600answering questions from you guys um i feel like i don't do the best job of i don't know sharing
00:00:53.180too much detail into my own personal life things that drive me things i care about things i'm
00:00:59.140passionate about because i don't know like i feel like i struggle with this internal dilemma of first
00:01:04.900and foremost do people care right does anyone really care what i have to say on insert various
00:01:11.100topic i've got a list of questions here you guys submitted these over on the instagram across
00:01:16.380all of our socials and so i actually had my producer max go through and pick out some of my
00:01:21.760favorite um it's we were just looking i was looking at the list prior to click and record
00:01:26.880and i was looking through the comments yesterday and i saw my mom asked a question and mom your
00:01:32.380question made it you can thank max for that we'll get to it in a second let's just start off with
00:01:37.840number one what has been the biggest surprise about motherhood so far i will say margo is now
00:01:45.06011 months old she turned 11 months last week um and there's a couple things first and foremost
00:01:51.980And I think maybe most obviously, but maybe you can't really understand it or grasp it or conceptualize it until you're living it.
00:01:59.880Motherhood has made everything else so secondary.
00:02:04.180Like, it sounds crazy, but this role that I'm currently in, secondary to my child.
00:02:11.100My health, when I'm sick, I don't care if I'm sick.
00:02:13.700Like, I worry about getting my child sick.
00:02:15.900everything else is secondary to to the love that I have for her the sacrificial unconditional type
00:02:22.020of love that you have for your child so that has been kind of surprising although not really you
00:02:27.620expect it to happen but I think the surprising part about it is how involuntary it really is
00:02:33.260I would say the another thing that has surprised me about motherhood so far is and and I want I
00:02:40.500don't want to sound like aloof in this um is really how easy it has been let me explain um i
00:02:49.480think it's important to mention number one i live around all of my family so my parents my siblings
00:02:54.700my grandparents even um my dad has four brothers they all have kids like everyone is within like
00:03:01.720a 30 minute radius but my parents i mean they're like five minutes down the road same thing with
00:03:05.780my grandparents. So when I say I have a village around me, I really do. And I understand like
00:03:10.520how helpful that is and how I would not be able to, to do the things that I do without that sort
00:03:15.760of flexibility that having my family around me really has newborn trenches, terrible twos,
00:03:21.080toddler tantrums, right? Okay. You see, I've loved it so far. What would you say to young
00:03:26.820women who are afraid of pregnancy and motherhood? Again, I would kind of just go back to, to what I
00:03:31.940was just reiterating when I tell you I loved labor I don't know if it's the athlete in me
00:03:38.160and and I will say like this isn't common in talking to other women that they like loved it
00:03:42.960and would do it again like I want to do it again even if it didn't necessarily produce the outcome
00:03:47.900that it did like I just loved the experience sounds crazy sounds wild I don't know if it's
00:03:52.780like the athlete in me where it almost felt like I don't know like there was like a like a pressure
00:03:59.640or like a competition, maybe like I felt competitive with myself, like how fast can I
00:04:04.180push this baby out? I don't know. I loved labor. I will say I was not wanting to do the epidural
00:04:10.400at first. I ended up having to be induced, which kind of kickstarted labor and everything so fast
00:04:17.200for me. So I was zero to 100. The contractions that I was having in the middle of the night,
00:04:22.720it was like, I mean, an hour and a half long, just straight contraction with no relief. And so
00:04:27.980I ended up getting the epidural. Loved my epidural. I want one right now. It was the best
00:04:33.840thing ever. Um, but don't be afraid. Uh, again, I think there's a lot of, of women, I don't know
00:04:40.020in terms of percentage, um, who has a good experience throughout pregnancy and, and delivery
00:04:45.760and even into motherhood. Um, but I do know the ones who do feel that way. Don't talk about it
00:04:50.720online as much because we have this culture that is like, what about me isms, right? Where if you
00:04:56.760share your good experience, someone's going to leave a comment. Well, what about if you have some
00:05:00.620super rare 1% type only ever contracting or being diagnosed with syndrome or illness where this and
00:05:07.960what about me isms? So a lot of people don't share their good experiences, but I don't feel
00:05:14.960fearful and sharing mine. What's the worst advice women are being given right now? I would say the
00:05:23.360worst advice that women are being given is the lie that and it kind of goes along with the gender
00:05:29.720ideology movement but i think we're seeing the effects of this we have been for the past like
00:05:35.540i mean 20 30 years actually even really much longer than that but we're really seeing it now0.89
00:05:41.420and again i say this with the lindsey clancy case going on in the news i think the worst advice women
00:05:48.940are being given right now is that um we should become more like men not even in the physical
00:05:54.840sense and talking about right like the trans stuff where we're saying that men and women are
00:06:00.160physically the same we're telling women that they find purpose and empowerment in climbing the
00:06:07.700corporate ladder and delaying marriage and rejecting motherhood i think when you look at
00:06:14.100the correlation between my generation delaying marriage rejecting motherhood and the feelings
00:06:19.640of again um shame and regret and guilt and isolation and those feelings um it's an indirect
00:06:28.200correlation you see i'm saying so um i think the worst advice women are being told is to be more
00:06:34.460like men um what's one trend among young women that gives you hope again just watching all the
00:06:41.060lindsey clancy stuff i had a hard time thinking about this because um i said this on an episode
00:06:46.020previously of like i am not a repeal the 19th type of girl i think it's a super lazy way of thinking
00:06:51.780um because you can't win a subset of women you just write them all off like i'm not a repeal
00:06:57.260the 19th type of girl but i'm watching this lindsey clancy stuff and i'm like are they on
00:07:03.340to something are they on to something what are women doing um that's the part that's going to
00:07:08.540get clipped and it's going to go viral riley gains thinks women shouldn't vote i don't think that1.00
00:07:13.000but there's a lot of questionable women out there who need to get their head on straight but
00:07:17.460and thinking about one trend among young women that's giving me hope i will say i think we have0.99
00:07:22.140a generation of younger moms that are beginning to push back on newborn vaccines at least doing it
00:07:29.200moments after their child is born into this world um i think we have covid to thank for that which
00:07:37.240feels weird to even say that we're thanking COVID, the thing that paralyzed the entire world for
00:07:42.740years, that we're thanking COVID for anything. I'm not an anti-vaxxer by any stretch of the
00:07:48.560imagination, but I do think there are questions that you should be asking when it comes to your,
00:07:53.980especially your child's overall health. Why are we being asked to put vaccines with copious amounts
00:08:00.360of mercury and aluminum in our baby, like 30 times the FDA recommended amount, yet I was told
00:08:06.720during pregnancy, I can't have salmon because it's high levels of mercury, right? Okay. What
00:08:12.260does a normal day actually look like for you right now? It's, this is funny because I'm someone that
00:08:18.520really values routine and structure. I like, I, again, I think it's when like ingrained in you
00:08:24.600as an athlete, when you wake up in the morning for like the score bed app here with trusted
00:08:32.820stats and real-time sports news yeah hey who should i take in the boston game well statistically
00:08:37.480speaking nah no more statistically speaking i want hot takes i want knee-jerk reactions that's
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00:08:58.90015 years of your life and you at 4 30 you're going to the pool you're jumping in a freezing
00:09:04.660cold pool i don't know i just like that routine and structure that comes with it um so what does
00:09:09.980a normal day look like for me now i don't have a lot of routine which that's been the part that
00:09:15.420has thrown me most about motherhood um is you realize how selfish you were with your time prior
00:09:21.260to having a baby and you have to be incredibly selfless you don't have to be i mean you want to
00:09:27.220be selfless again it's intrinsic even you don't even think about it because there's nothing you
00:09:31.240wouldn't do for your baby even if it means giving up the things that you desire um but with that
00:09:36.300it's changed my routine a normal day for me now when i'm not on the road i'll give you a day at
00:09:40.940home although i will say i travel probably 260 days a year um so it's a lot of time on the on
00:09:48.800the road but a normal day for me at home is waking up super duper early um i find that is the best
00:09:55.320time for me to get a good workout in. Um, like probably five in the morning, I'm either doing
00:10:03.140a workout class, I'm running, I'm doing Pilates, I'm lifting in the gym. Um, that's my time that
00:10:09.440I take for myself in the mornings. My husband's still sleeping. The baby's still sleeping. Um,
00:10:14.500I'm able to do what I want to do and work out in that time and be home by 7am and everyone else is
00:10:21.460still sleeping i go to seven brew um i love this place i think i keep them in business the one
00:10:27.200close to my house actually it's not even that close it's like 20 minutes one way and me and
00:10:31.760my mom drive there um basically every single day and i get an energy drink um which don't even tell
00:10:39.180me anything about energy drinks and how they're not good for you because i'm not giving them up
00:10:43.260anyways back to my day i'll film some stuff and then generally lou and i um as a family with margo
00:10:51.140we'll eat dinner together. Um, yeah, nothing super duper crazy really, but I will say work
00:10:57.200out in the morning. It has been a game changer for me. Um, do you ever get tired of talking
00:11:02.880about women's sports? I don't get tired of talking about women's sports. I get tired1.00
00:11:06.260of talking about men and women's sports. You get it. You're picking up what I'm putting
00:11:10.120down. Um, this has been like reinforced to me. Um, especially after going to these two
00:11:16.380WNBA games now when I was there I think going into it I was just of the mind that it's like a spoof
00:11:22.480league the WNBA because you see the highlights and you you see the clips online on social of
00:11:26.800Angel Reese you know under the basket and she's attempting to rebound like over and over and over
00:11:32.400again you you I just went into it kind of outrage and I'm embarrassed to say that because when I0.96
00:11:37.600was there I had the best time just watching and enjoying women's sports um watching Kelsey
00:11:43.960Mitchell she is so good like I I loved it um and so I don't get tired of talking or watching women's
00:11:51.660sports but I get tired of talking about men and women's sports and the fact that this is even
00:11:56.120still a discussion what are we doing we've been debating this for years now um and honestly go
00:12:03.320back to the 1980s when you had um women who were taking performance enhancing drugs sometimes
00:12:09.820unknowingly by the way their coaches you think of the east germans um who their coaches were giving
00:12:15.640them some sort of performance enhancing drugs uh with similar effects to that of testosterone
00:12:22.080and these women were like jacked they were blood or doping um right uh we've been talking about
00:12:28.080this since then and the unfairness of whether synthetic or unnatural or even natural chemicals0.99
00:12:34.960and substances in your body when it comes to women's sports and the athletic competitiveness0.86
00:12:41.060and fairness that comes with it. So we've been talking about this for years in that regard,
00:12:47.000and somehow men and women's sports is even worse. So I get tired of talking about it for sure.
00:12:53.740Have I lost friends over my views? Honestly, no. No, I really haven't, which I live in
00:13:00.560like rural Tennessee. I don't think there's that many liberals of us to begin with. Um, but even
00:13:07.680the people, my friends in my life who I know disagree with me, um, they know me and they know
00:13:13.920my heart and they know I don't approach this conversation or any conversation with ill will
00:13:18.100or animosity, um, towards one person or any group of people. So I really haven't lost friends. Um,
00:13:24.880don't let that stop you from, I guess, being bold and using your voice. And if you do lose
00:13:30.300someone in your life whether it's a friend or a family member um i'm not going to sit here and
00:13:34.800say that it's easy um but i will say were they even really your friend to begin with ask yourself
00:13:41.400if you would not want to be their friend if they disagreed with you politically i don't have anyone
00:13:44.540in my life like that so um i haven't lost any friends because of my views really um my favorite
00:13:51.540memory with charlie gosh i i could tell you several i i will say one of the the craziest
00:13:58.160things that made me like really take a step back i'm like oh my gosh i actually think he's a prophet
00:14:02.440was when he and i were on a campus together in san francisco on a college campus and we're sat
00:14:08.500next to each other and i hadn't yet told charlie i was pregnant but at the time i was like 20 weeks
00:14:13.480pregnant i was able to kind of conceal and hide it for a while and so i hadn't told anyone
00:14:17.180i was pregnant not not the world charlie didn't know and i was really scared of telling him
00:14:21.500because he was my boss technically at turning point that was like an employer of mine and i
00:14:26.920didn't want him to feel frustrated this was a totally made up like like consequence in my mind
00:14:33.560there was nothing that was ever done that would make me feel this way I think it was just like
00:14:36.860internal pressure I was putting on myself I was really scared that he was going to be frustrated
00:14:42.020that I was going to have to take some time I guess off from turning point and not being on
00:14:47.580campuses and so I hadn't told him I was pregnant and so um a student gets up to the microphone
00:14:53.200own and ask a question about abortion i don't even remember what the question was uh but charlie
00:14:57.560and his response um always very compassionate listening to what she had to say he said uh let's
00:15:03.240take riley for example let's say she sat right next to me and she's 20 weeks pregnant then he
00:15:08.380goes on and i just stopped i couldn't even listen to the rest of what he said i'm like wait oh my
00:15:12.200gosh he knows he knows i'm pregnant how does he know that i haven't told anyone and so after the
00:15:18.460fact i am after this camp after it ended like an hour later i tell him i said charlie um you know
00:15:24.380how you said what if riley was 20 weeks pregnant he's like yeah i was like i am 20 weeks pregnant
00:15:30.600he said i am so happy for you that comes first forget everything else take all the time in the
00:15:36.520world that you need this world needs more babies we need more families have many many more forget
00:15:41.800about us you do that and we're here for you and that to me like i don't know again it showed me
00:15:48.120how invalid the concern I had was, especially given the organization that I was working for.
00:15:55.380And now Turning Point has implemented a six-month maternity leave policy for moms who have been
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00:17:38.400for a future employer, um, chocolate or vanilla. Ooh, I don't know. I don't discriminate when it0.62
00:17:47.000comes to desserts. I think a lot of people think I eat really healthy because when you're a high
00:17:51.660level athlete, that's kind of the expectation. But the reality is, especially in swimming,
00:17:56.020when you're born, you're burning like 10,000 bajillion calories every single day,
00:17:59.900You can eat whatever you want. Actually, you need to eat a lot to be able to maintain that level of fitness. So while I'm done swimming, I did not leave the swimmers appetite behind. So I love desserts. I got a sweet tooth. It's not very Maha of me actually just made a video. It's on my tech talk of me and Louie at the Tennessee State Fair and all the things that we ate. Maha goes out of the door when the State Fair is in town.
00:18:29.900So I like chocolate and vanilla. Um, what advice would you give to a college athlete who feels
00:18:35.120pressure to stay quiet? Um, I would say a lot of what I face in two instances, number one with
00:18:41.560COVID and being pressured to get the vaccine. And secondly, uh, with, with staying quiet during all
00:18:47.860of the Leah Thomas stuff. Um, I really believed a lot of what I was told the things that were
00:18:52.740going to happen to me. I would never get a job. I'd lose my, my friends and family wouldn't want
00:18:56.700to talk to me um i'd lose my scholarship uh etc etc etc none of those things happened i was told
00:19:04.180you'll never get into dental school if you speak about this if you don't get the vaccine no dental
00:19:07.820school is gonna gonna bring you on you have to have the vaccine it's part of their requirement
00:19:11.460i didn't get the vaccine and i got into dental school and i was so nervous in speaking out about
00:19:18.180the men and women's sports issue because i thought they weren't going to to you know i just didn't
00:19:22.720want any of my peers to know i didn't want any of my professors to know and so finally i called
00:19:26.980the dental school and i made the decision that i wasn't ultimately going to continue on i was going
00:19:31.080to to you know fight this fight on the advocacy front i called the dental school and they were
00:19:35.960like uh riley i was very vague i was like hey something's come up in my personal life i have
00:19:41.320to take a step back and they were like riley we know who you are um and we know what you do and
00:19:44.700we love what you do and we will hold the spot for whenever you want to come back you go fight that
00:19:48.720fight it's far more important far more consequential you'll have far more impact than you will ever
00:19:53.560have being a dentist that's not what they told me was going to happen so my advice would be to find
00:19:59.280people who feel the same um not because i i think it's necessary to to only be around people who
00:20:08.060think the same as you but i do think it's beneficial having anchors in your life who
00:20:12.060keep you grounded um have those people there they've been huge in my life um how do you decide
00:20:17.940when to respond to something online and when to let it go. I'm generally of the mind now that I'm
00:20:23.660just not going to respond. I mean, I'm just not even to the positive comments, which sounds like
00:20:30.560I don't want to sound harsh. I read everything. I read all the DMs that I get and they mean a lot
00:20:35.020to me. I just don't have enough time in my day to respond. Especially, you know, being in the mom
00:20:41.260role that I am. I just, I don't comb through everything. But my mindset is to not punch down.
00:20:47.940the score bet up here with trusted stats and real-time sports news yeah hey who should i
00:20:54.680take in the boston game well statistically speaking nah no more statistically speaking
00:20:58.900i want hot takes i want knee-jerk reactions that's not really what i do is that because
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00:21:20.300about if if i respond to this person would they feel a little bit excited about it like would they
00:21:26.600like the attention that they're getting from me responding if the answer is yes i'm i'm just not
00:21:31.380going to respond i was told that advice pretty early on um and i try my best to stick with it
00:21:36.660although i will say there are certain key figures that i have a hard time doing that too like keith
00:21:41.360Colberman. Oh my gosh. It's like, anytime he comes for me, I just have to like, my Twitter
00:21:45.660fingers just go crazy. I'm not proud of it, but he's just one of those people for me. Pineapple
00:21:50.000on pizza. Obviously, obviously. Um, I love my producers are looking at me shaking their head.
00:21:58.940Duh. Who wouldn't, who doesn't like pineapple on pizza? That's the bigger question. Um, I think
00:22:05.060like a good Hawaiian pizza where you've got pineapple, chicken, bacon, ham, whatever,
00:22:11.360delicious 10 out of 10 um but i i think i like controversial foods in general like
00:22:16.520big fan of blue cheese big fan of pickles hard boiled eggs like the stuff that a lot of people
00:22:21.560don't like or maybe will like turn their nose to i like um so yes to pineapple on pizza um
00:22:28.800dogs or cats again like well for dogs dogs but i like all animals i had rats growing up like
00:22:38.480that's insane i know i had three pet rats and this is like kind of gross but i'm gonna say it
00:22:45.540they would like sleep in the bed with me they're so cute they're really smart animals too um if
00:22:50.840you didn't know that rats are very smart so like i would have any animal i think um margo's theme
00:22:57.440for her birthday is this little piggy turns one so i don't know if louie knows this yet but we're
00:23:04.000getting a pig so we're gonna get multiple pigs so i'm team all animals is what i'm trying to say
00:23:10.700but if the option was dogs or cats dogs my dog lady is like i have three dogs lady buddy and
00:23:18.460dumbo lady and buddy got together consecrated had 10 puppies dumbo's one of them we kept dumbo
00:23:24.380um but lady is like my soul dog my soul dog i love that that girl with my whole heart she
00:23:31.660the the parents who are like oh my fur baby i'm not that kind of person but um ladies my girl0.87
00:23:40.760my favorite workout partner this is the question my mom asked
00:23:45.040i guess you i guess it's you talicia my mom's name is talicia we work out together every day
00:23:52.920my mom me my grandma donna who i was just slandering um and my sister my younger sister
00:24:00.060um we work out together every day and so it's a lot of fun but generally me and my mom are like
00:24:05.540in our little pod together um where do i want the podcast to go next well we're like if you know
00:24:14.300with the help of you guys we're overtaking joe rogan duh duh of course we want to keep growing
00:24:20.500and spreading spreading the good word spreading the truth um spreading the gospel um that's
00:24:27.560something i more than anything else would love to be able to spread and to amplify all across the
00:24:34.000country all across the world is the good news of the lord and how he's coming back um so that's
00:24:39.840what i would love to see from this podcast but that doesn't come without you guys amplifying it
00:24:43.980so thanks for liking and subscribing and reposting and all the things dream guests
00:24:48.120you know the jojo siwa clip i we're i'm we're gonna have to insert this in post
00:24:54.800but JoJo Siwa when she's like oh my dream guest on my podcast dream guest on my podcast
00:25:01.180I don't know who my dream guest is actually I don't know if it would be like
00:25:05.140an athlete let's think I think on the athlete front I would love to have someone like I really
00:25:12.020like Kylie Kelsey um although again you just kind of accept when you have the beliefs that I do that
00:25:19.240these people probably wouldn't come on even if they agree with you weirdly enough because
00:25:23.420they don't want to get caught in some like oh they could potentially be MAGA type thing because it's
00:25:29.980like the the worst thing ever to be called is a Trump voter and I guess they assume when you come
00:25:37.800on the Riley Gaines show you're associating yourself with that one thing I'm excited about
00:25:41.840that has nothing to do with politics I think Margo's first birthday coming up um I just can't
00:25:47.360believe she's one or almost one that is like wild they tell you time flies and i remember thinking
00:25:54.280to myself like if i hear one more person tell me don't blink or it goes by so fast i mean you just
00:26:00.180roll your eyes to it you're like yeah whatever but then you're living it and you're like wait
00:26:04.320they're so right they know exactly what they're talking about it has flown by um so i'm excited
00:26:10.000about her first birthday um she's just at a really fun stage like every day she just develops you
00:26:15.380watch her little brain move and think and work. And she figures out like, oh, like I have hands
00:26:22.600and I can run. She's running. Forget walking. She's running. Um, so I'm excited for her birthday.
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00:27:45.820Riley from the Riley Gaines show sent you three habits that actually changed my life um I would
00:27:53.060say let's kind of break this down into three different groups um first I will say spiritually
00:28:00.280um it's spending time in the word every single day there are days where I kind of fall off of this
00:28:07.360um but i would say for the most part i do read scripture every day and with that um prayer
00:28:14.600uh one of the things that i do and well me and louis both do in our marriage is
00:28:20.340well i'll speak for myself i pray on my own throughout the day individually whether it's
00:28:26.420it's in the morning whether you just feel something placed in your heart i've really
00:28:30.080tried to be intentional about prayer and even when you say to someone i feel like in the south
00:28:35.360we say this all the time like oh like we'll be praying for you but that's kind of the end of it
00:28:39.140and you don't really i've really tried to be intentional of when i think that or when i say
00:28:43.360that to someone i'm actually following through with it um but then together in our marriage we
00:28:49.900pray together every single night um which has been really sweet because you learn a lot we pray about
00:28:56.160things that we're grateful for uh and we we pray um over things that we want to pray about um and
00:29:03.480so it's been cool to to see and learn louie's heart a little more um he gets to see my heart
00:29:10.020you're very vulnerable in this setting uh at least we have found that and praying over for
00:29:14.200praying over margo we do that every night so that's i guess scripture and prayer um have
00:29:20.100certainly changed my life um i will say on the fitness side of things um just prioritizing it
00:29:26.580as best as you can i know it's difficult when you don't have i talked about the village around me if
00:29:32.600you don't have that, it's hard. Um, if you work a job that starts it, you need to leave your house
00:29:38.020at six 30 in the morning to get downtown or wherever I get it. All I'm going to say is do
00:29:43.880your best to prioritize it because for me, it's a stress reliever. You feel better. Um, I sleep
00:29:49.280better at night. Like it has changed my life for the better. Um, just getting in a, a good workout
00:29:56.660and fitness routine. And I will say the third thing here, maybe relationally, maybe that's the
00:30:02.860route we'll go here. I'm continuing to speak on me and Louis marriage and what we do, or what we
00:30:08.320try to do that I think works for us is we never stop dating each other. We try to twice a month
00:30:17.560have dates where it's just me and him drop the baby off with my mom, and we'll either go out to
00:30:24.600eat, go to a movie, do something, spend time with each other. Um, try and catch up. He works
00:30:31.420in construction. I don't always do the best job of like keeping up with what he's doing.
00:30:36.760It kind of loses my interest when he's talking about, you know, rebar and forming the foundation,
00:30:43.020blah, blah, blah. I'm like, well, I don't know what any of this means. Um, so that's our time
00:30:46.480to like really catch up. How are your projects going? How are your employees doing? You know,
00:30:49.820so we never stop dating each other last one are you guys tired of this yet um what's one bible
00:30:56.360verse quote or phrase that you come back to often um i would say my favorite bible verse again i
00:31:03.560think i've talked about this before is romans 8 18 which is for our present sufferings aren't worth
00:31:07.920comparing to the glory that will be revealed in us and i just feel like this verse is very applicable
00:31:12.480um and the the craziness and the chaos that we're currently living in like it's so easy to get
00:31:20.200bogged down with your present sufferings um it's that looks different for each individual person
00:31:26.700um it's easy to get bogged down in that and just feel you know outrage or hopeless like there's
00:31:33.800nothing we can do but knowing the second half of that verse um that the our present sufferings
00:31:39.800aren't worth comparing to the glory that will be revealed in us i don't know it just helps me keep
00:31:43.920perspective that we're not fighting for anything of this world we're fighting for the hope and the
00:31:47.740promise of eternal life eternity in a very real place called heaven like that's something that
00:31:53.840i don't know it just feels like uh like a stress reliever like if you're doing what is biblically
00:31:59.920right who cares what the response of the world is um appreciate you guys i think we should do
00:32:07.780this again sometime i think we should get my dream guests on my podcast on this podcast um but as
00:32:15.640always we appreciate you let me know who you want to see on the podcast um maybe more questions in
00:32:20.600the meantime that you have we'll kind of scour the internet the comment sections over the next
00:32:25.460few weeks maybe we can do this like once a month answer some questions um leave the comments below
00:32:32.020ask me anything we're gonna do another one of these sometime in the future but i appreciate
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