Finding Your Way Back Home with Shay Mooney

Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends

Bob Goff

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

What happens when the things we chase stop feeling like the things that matter most?

Today, Bob’s friend Shay Mooney joins the podcast to share stories from his journey in music, the pressures that come with success, and the moment that helped him refocus on faith, family, and what truly matters. Bob and Shay talk about the power of music to unite people, the importance of safe places and safe friendships, and why sometimes the bravest thing we can do is simply run home.

This conversation is a gentle reminder to slow down, refill your reservoir, and return to the people and purpose that matter most.

Connect with Shay: @shaymooney

Connect with Bob: @bobgoff

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to the Bob and Friends podcast. I'm so delighted you're here. And I'd say, again,
0:15.6	it's the biggest pleasure and honor to have people whose voices I respect, whose life, I respect, jump on the
0:23.6	podcast. And we have Shay Mooney. And Shane, I'm so glad you're on the podcast. Welcome.
0:29.2	This is awesome. Couldn't find out of those people. But we got me instead today. But no, it is such
0:34.6	an honor, man, to be here with you and just have a conversation.
0:37.7	What a blast.
0:38.6	Yeah, yeah.
0:39.3	And as we were just visiting how there's just a lot of anxiety in the air.
0:44.9	Like a lot of people just kind of little puckered up about so many different things.
0:50.8	And I think what I want to do is just be that friend that taps people in the shoulder
0:55.3	to say there are serious issues that demand serious people and serious solutions.
1:01.5	But everything in life doesn't need to be like this really intense thing.
1:06.6	You've got to find a time to unstring the bow a little bit.
1:09.2	Some people find that in music and and they just find, like, they'll tune in to you, Dan and
1:15.8	Shay, if you guys, welcome to Earth if you haven't been listening to their music.
1:21.2	But to say, from your perspective with a gift that you release into the world, which is a bunch of hope and
1:28.9	joy and just tell us your perspective on life right now. How is it that you're making sense
1:34.6	of that? How do you keep the hope alive? Because you're a really upbeat guy and yet you're
1:39.6	situationally aware. Yeah, I mean, I think that's a great, first of all, I think you're the best example of that. I love the hope that you bring to the world, and it's tough a lot of times, you know, when you're living in this world where obviously there's a lot of craziness going on. And, you know, what you do is very similar to what we do where you're trying to bring hope, you know, into a place that's, uh, it's, there's a lot of darkness out there.
2:01.8	Um, and it's definitely, you know, people look at me and you and a lot of times, like, well, you guys are just happy guys. You know, you just, that's just how you are. And I think it's important that people know that that is a, it's a choice. You know, I think that those, every day when you wake up, it's not always, you know,
2:17.5	rambos and butterflies. And I think that there is every day when you wake up, it's not always, you know, Rambo's and butterflies.
2:18.6	And I think that there is a pursuit of those things that we have to do every single day.
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