Fierce Love with Sonya Curry

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Sonya Curry is an entrepreneur, educator, founder of the Christian Montessori School of Lake Norman, as well as the co-host of the Raising Fame Podcast. She is the mother of Stephen, Sydel, and Seth Curry and often speaks of her experiences as a mother, educator, and Christian, sharing testimony about her faith in parenting and education.

In this episode, Eric and Sonya discuss her book, Fierce Love: A Memoir of Family, Faith, and Purpose.

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Sonya Curry and I Discuss Fierce Love and…

Her book, Fierce Love: A Memoir of Family, Faith, and Purpose
The phase of her life when she was sure she didn’t want to get baptized in the Christian church
How she had “everything” as the wife of an NBA player, and still wasn’t fulfilled
What brought her to a relationship with God
Looking at her life as a series of chapters
The Montessori pillars she carries with her today that informs how she lives
The subtle ways unhealthy comparison starts in us very early in life
How she handles the rivalry that comes up between her sons from time to time
She shares her story of having an abortion and why she did that largely for her daughter
Her experience as an empty-nester
The experience she had at a vegan meditation and yoga center
That God delivers us through things, rather than out of them

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0:00.0	God heals us and delivers us out of things, but I didn't want to tell myself and live on. He delivers us through them.
0:15.6	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:17.6	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:22.2	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:27.8	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
0:33.8	self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that
0:40.5	hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes
0:47.0	conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how
0:52.8	other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf.
1:11.3	Hi, it's Bethany Frankel. My time on the Real Housewives of New York is a few years behind me.
1:16.1	And now I'm ready to put the real back into the Real Housewives. That's where my new podcast
1:21.2	Rewives comes in. This isn't your typical rewatch podcast. I'm bringing on unexpected thought
1:26.3	leaders and celebrities to give their take on the chaos. In my first episode, I dig into the scary
1:31.4	island, Rooney episode with Elizabeth Moss. It's one of my favorite shows I've ever done, so don't
1:37.2	miss it. Listen to Rewives with Bethany Frankel on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts,
1:42.4	or wherever you get your favorite podcast. Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is
1:49.5	Sonia Curry, an entrepreneur, educator, and founder of the Christian Montessori School of Lake
1:54.8	Norman in North Carolina, as well as the co-host of the Raising Fame podcast. She is the mother of
2:01.4	Stephen and Seth Curry and Sid Al Curry Lee, and often speaks about her experiences as a mother,
2:07.2	educator, and Christian, sharing testimony about her faith in parenting and education.
2:12.3	Today, Sonia and Eric discuss her book, Fierce Love, a memoir of family, faith, and purpose.
2:18.0	Hi, Sonia. Welcome to the show. Well, thank you, Eric, for having me and giving me the
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