1KHO 639: Escaping the Attention Economy | Sharon Hodde Miller, Gazing at God

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In a culture that trains children to perform their lives instead of live them, Sharon Hodde Miller returns to explore why so many young people feel fragile, insecure, and exhausted and why the solution isn’t more confidence, but a bigger purpose. Drawing from Free of Me and her new devotional Gazing at God, Sharon explains the overlooked root of modern insecurity: we’ve taught kids to evaluate their worth through constant self-focus, endless mirrors, and the metrics of the attention economy. Together, Sharon and Ginny uncover how shrinking our children’s purpose down to “finding themselves” has left them anxious, isolated, and unsure of who they are apart from an audience. This conversation offers a hopeful, deeply practical way forward. Sharon shares how hiddenness, beauty, and turning our gaze toward God free us from the heaviness of self-preoccupation and how parents can help kids grow up rooted in something far larger than likes, identity quests, or online performance. From navigating rejection to reimagining purpose, this episode invites families to step out of the spotlight, rediscover joy, and remember that the healthiest life isn’t the one constantly seen…but the one securely grounded in love, calling, and connection. Please support our advertising partners who help keep the show going! ⁠Wayfair⁠: Get organized, refreshed, and back to routine for way less. Head to ⁠Wayfair.com⁠ right now to shop all things home. ⁠SelectQuote⁠: Get the RIGHT life insurance for YOUR FAMILY, for LESS, at ⁠selectquote.com/1000hours⁠ BetterHelp: Our listeners get 10% off their first month at ⁠BetterHelp.com/1000HOURS.⁠ Quince: Go to ⁠Quince.com/outside⁠ for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five -day returns. NIV Application Bible: Find out more at ⁠NIVapplicationbible.com⁠. Omaha Steaks: Visit ⁠OmahaSteaks.com ⁠for 50% off sitewide during their Sizzle All the Way Sale. And for an extra $35 off, usepromo code FUN at checkout. Mercy Ships: Please donate today at⁠ MercyShips.org/podcast⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.1	Well, the main reason I remembered is that cost of control, the message of that book is just so perfect for your podcast.
0:35.1	Like, that's why I remembered it.
0:36.5	And so I'm glad, because gazing at gotten free of me, like, they overlap a lot.
0:43.3	And so I'm glad that I have not talked to you about that at all.
0:48.8	Okay.
0:49.2	I don't even think I've read free of me, honestly.
0:51.1	Actually, now that I look at the cover, I'm like, no, I haven't read that.
1:02.0	It's got 1,400 reviews still my best-selling book are you looking at the and they they updated the cover yeah yeah yeah okay it's also like really beautiful is that the updated cover
1:09.2	it's amazing how well it goes with gazing at God.
1:13.1	Did they do that on purpose?
1:14.0	Yeah, we designed it that way.
1:16.0	So the opening of free of me, I tell the story of narcissists, that myth.
1:22.4	Oh, yeah.
1:23.0	How, you know, he's so preoccupied with himself that he eventually dies staring at himself. And I talk
1:29.1	about that as like a spiritual metaphor. And so that is why the front of the cover has this river,
1:37.2	this body of water on it, but also sort of like draws your gaze upwards towards the sky. Like,
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