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Fearless with Cissie Graham Lynch

Intentional Parenting in a Distracted World, with Julie Carr

Fearless with Cissie Graham Lynch

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

Billy Graham, Society & Culture, Bible, Cissie Graham Lynch, Christianity, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Christian, God, Franklin Graham, Religion & Spirituality, Fearless

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Fearless is back this week, and I’m so fortunate to be joined once again by author—and one of my biggest parenting mentors—Julie Carr, to talk about how to be an intentional parent in today’s distracted world. Julie is the mother of eight kids, ranging in age from 18 to 35, so she’s pretty much seen it all when it comes to raising and launching the next generation. I didn’t hold back in my questions for Julie—talking about the often messy areas of technology, gentle parenting, and stew...

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Sissy Graham Lynch. Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith in a compromising culture.

0:09.0

Feel less, I want to be fearless.

0:20.0

Welcome back to another episode of Fearless.

0:23.6

The other day, I was in my bedroom and I was folding laundry.

0:27.5

Corey's home for a couple weeks as we were putting our older kids back into school.

0:31.7

And I hear from the other room my two-year-old daughter, George Graham, say,

0:35.4

Dad, you ruined my life.

0:56.8

I said, what? Surely she didn't just say that? Because what two year old? How would she even hear that? And I have to remind people that she's actually two years old because she's pretty big for her age. And I think she lives with her older siblings, of course, and her vocabulary is just so large and wide. And I don't even know where she comes up with some of these words. But it's like, what two-year-old hears, you're ruining my life?

1:00.8

And my natural reaction, it goes, I'll show you ruin your life, little girl. And so I don't do

1:06.5

parenting episodes very much here on Fearless, because I believe I have little kids. I haven't been

1:13.3

there done that yet and I'm always afraid too if I give an opinion. The Lord will kind of show me

1:17.9

and make me like eat my words or something. So I try not to have an opinion because I was on social

1:22.7

media one time and I saw somebody giving advice about raising teenagers and in my head I'm like, you have a five-year-old and a six-year-old?

1:30.3

Who are you to be giving advice on teenagers?

1:33.4

So today, I've asked my dear friend back here on Fearless, Julie Lyle's car.

1:40.2

She's an author.

1:41.3

She's a podcaster.

1:42.5

She's been here before, which many of you might remember an episode we did about kids. And many of you wrote in saying that you loved having her. So Julie, welcome back. Thank you for having me. The studio is amazing. Yes. We're back where this is our second episode here in the studio. So you're the first guest. I'm honored. I'm very, very honored. I was laughing because if people follow me on social media, my two-year-old, people love her. She's a star. She's a rock star. There's no doubt. And just the other day, I was thinking about a book you gave me. Actually, when I was pregnant with her, I didn't know if I was having a boy or girl, knew nothing, and it was a pretty difficult time in my life. I said, I got to go find that book you gave me.

2:19.0

This is a book that Julie wrote,

2:20.7

Raising an Original,

2:22.6

which this will be my Georgia Graham.

2:25.5

We need a new cover with Georgia Graham.

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