From Curiosity to Calling: A Journey Through Faith and Family with Tony Vara

Overcomfort Podcast with Jenicka Lopez

My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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From TikTok to my kitchen, Tony Vara gives us "an update on his Christianity" and what life looks like for him now that his mom is detained by ICE. He gives us a closer look into his life, shares his experiences in churches and where he's going moving forward. To support Tony and his family with lawyer fees, food, flights, etc. please click this link.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:10.4	Welcome back to the Overcomber podcast.
0:12.5	I'm your host, Janica Lopez.
0:14.5	Thank you guys so much for choosing to listen and watch today's episode.
0:19.1	I am so excited because I'm a little bit of a fan girl right now.
0:24.5	For this person, if you guys saw the title and the thumbnail, you guys know who this person
0:29.9	is. Without further ado, we have the one, the only.
0:33.0	Oh, my God.
0:33.7	Tony. Hey.
0:34.6	Oh, boss.
0:35.6	Tony Barra?
0:36.6	Tony Barra, yeah. Vara.
0:38.3	I was like, do I be all Mexican about it or not?
0:40.3	Okay, I'm excited.
0:42.3	If you guys don't know who Tony is, Tony has gone viral.
0:47.3	Update on my Christianity.
0:49.3	If you watch The Chosen, he's done all the reviews and the notes.
0:53.3	Also, recently his mom has been detained by I, so we're, he's done all the reviews and the notes.
0:56.7	Also, recently, his mom has been detained by eyes.
0:59.7	So we're going to get into all these wonderful things.
1:01.3	And I just want to let you know.
1:05.0	I told him when you got here, I was like, dude, I'm so excited to meet you.
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