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God Hears Her Podcast

150. The Meaning of Moxie (with Moriah Smallbone)

God Hears Her Podcast

Our Daily Bread Ministries

Society & Culture, Bible, Womensministry, Womensbiblestudy, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Women, Female

4.9 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Guest Bio: MŌRIAH is a Mexican-American recording artist, actress, and producer from Los Angeles, CA. Her film credits include the lead role in Because of Gracia (2017), singer Loyce Whiteman in the Dennis Quaid Ronald Reagan biopic (2023), and Bathsheba in the series The Chosen (2023). She co-produced a feature film alongside Candace Cameron Bure called Unsung Hero and acted in a Sony Affirm Christmas musical titled Journey to Bethlehem, starring Antonio Banderas (2023).

 

Show Summary: We’ve been talking about moxie a bit here to prepare for the upcoming docuseries Unshakable Moxie. How do you understand moxie? Do you feel like you fit the definition of being a woman with moxie? Today we’re talking to singer and actress, Moriah Smallbone, about how her definition of moxie changed as she hosted the docuseries. Moriah shares realizations about herself that she came to while the series was filming. Join God Hears Her hosts Elisa Morgan and Eryn Adkins as they get to know Moriah. 

 

Notes and Quotes: 

  • “It’s funny how you have to do the work to let go of something that held you in such safe keeping.” —Moriah Smallbone

  • “Moxie is in the tender moments. It’s in empathizing with each other; it’s in sitting with one another in grief and pain. It’s in sitting in the questions and instead of arguing, being okay with not knowing.” —Moriah Smallbone

  • “Softness and tenderness is not weakness.” —Eryn Adkins 

 

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0:00.0

I have seen Moxie show up more recently in the tender moments, in empathizing with each other,

0:09.6

is in sitting with one another in Greece and in pain, sitting in the questions, and instead of

0:16.7

arguing them, just being okay with not knowing. You know, it's a gentleness. And that takes more

0:24.9

work for me. It takes more work for me to experience Moxie at that level.

0:35.2

You're listening to God Hears Her, a podcast for women where we explore the stunning truth that God hears you, he sees you, and he loves you because you are his.

0:44.9

Find out how these realities free you today on God Hears Her.

0:50.1

Welcome to God Hears Her. I'm Elisa Morgan.

0:53.2

And I'm Aaron Atkins. Today, we are so excited to talk with one of the hosts of Unshakeable Moxie, a film series by our Daily Bread Ministries. Mariah Smallbone is a woman of many talents. She's a singer and a songwriter, an actress, and now a docu-series host.

1:12.0

We can't wait for you to get to know her and how her understanding of Moxie changed

1:17.2

while Unshakeable Moxie was still in the filming stage.

1:21.6

Let's start this God hears her conversation by asking Mariah,

1:25.2

who were you as a little girl?

1:37.1

When I think about a memory from my childhood with my mom, I think about just how gracious she was with my sister and I have an older sister and her and I are both very similar. We're both creative, we're both competitive,

1:49.5

we're both athletes, performers, but also kind of introverted, but also kind of extroverted.

1:55.4

Like we're just this really weird dichotomy. I think it takes a very gracious woman to manage and to raise women like that.

2:07.8

So my mom was always really, really kind with us. We didn't have a lot of money. My dad was a

2:14.8

public defender that worked in the LA court system. And so my mom would

2:20.3

make that, instead of buying clothes, she would make us a lot of, a lot of clothes. And so she, she made us

2:25.5

these like matching red checkered dresses. And we had a birthday party at a park by our house.

2:32.2

So you said your dad worked for the LA court system?

2:36.5

So you grew up in Los Angeles?

2:40.0

Yeah, so just outside of L.A., there's like a suburb called Chino.

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