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The 9941 Podcast

Losing Control Changed Everything!

The 9941 Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week on the 9941 Podcast, Granger Smith, Amber Smith, and The AntMan welcome Christian music artist Anne Wilson for a powerful conversation about faith, grief, purpose, spiritual warfare, and what it means to boldly follow Jesus in today’s culture.

Anne shares her personal testimony of coming to faith at age 12, the devastating loss of her brother Jacob in a tragic car accident, and how God used that season of heartbreak to launch a ministry that has impacted millions. She opens up about singing publicly for the first time at her brother’s funeral, being discovered through YouTube, and navigating the challenges of a growing music career while keeping Christ at the center.

The conversation also explores Christian discipleship, church community, mentoring, social media’s impact on young people, raising children in a digital world, and the importance of staying grounded in God’s Word. Anne discusses her new book Rebel, spiritual warfare in the entertainment industry, and how God often uses weakness, suffering, and dependence on Him to accomplish His purposes.

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0:00.0

What's off? I'm Granger. I'm the Ant-Man. I'm Amber. It's 99-for-1 podcast. And we have Amber sitting in for Parker. We do. And we have Ann Wilson sitting in for Tyler.

0:11.0

Yes. Welcome. Thank you. First, you're the first guest we've had, so you must be really special. You're in town.

0:20.0

And Tyler is in Nashville for a wedding and you played a concert at

0:25.1

Two Step In in Georgetown, Texas yesterday. Yes. And we somehow worked it out where you were able to

0:31.6

come. Yeah. Welcome. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. Saturday was nasty weather. You got the...

0:38.1

Yeah, it was beautiful yesterday. Gorgeous. Perfect weather.

0:43.2

You have, you've been in Texas at least three times I know in the last few, just few months.

0:49.2

Yeah. Yeah, we have. We travel here often, which we love, because we love Texas so much, and it's always so good to be here. Where are you from? I'm from Lexington, Kentucky. But I've lived in Nashville for six years, so I feel like it's starting to really feel like home. How old are you? 24. Yeah. Moved at 18. Yes, all by myself out of high school. I don't know how, looking back, I don't know how I did that. But yeah, I was only 18 and moved all by myself and started my career and had no friends, knew no one, had no church community, like no one. It was a crazy season. Wow. Yeah, It was a lot. I did that at 20.

1:27.9

Sounds like you.

1:28.6

Yeah.

1:29.8

Nobody.

1:30.4

I knew nobody.

1:31.9

There was one like friend of a friend of somebody that went to Baylor and I had, I had her number.

1:38.6

And on the 4th of July, I texted her in 22,000, 2000. I think 2,000. I think it's 2000. Yeah. It's, it says, it does something to your soul and it says

1:53.0

something about you. It defines a part of you in that way doing that, especially at 18. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. And so how did the Lord save you?

2:07.2

I grew up in a Christian church or a Christian home, you know, the church, like just always

2:12.1

knew about God, knew about Jesus. But it always felt like religion to me, like something I was supposed to

2:19.0

just check off of a list, you know, or pleasing my parents because they wanted me to have faith.

2:25.4

So when I was in seventh grade, it was my first day of that year, of that school year,

2:30.2

we had like this new Bible teacher come to our school and we, I grew up in a very small

2:35.9

private Christian school like 10 kids in my graduating class, a tiny school. So when we got new

2:41.5

teachers and new staff, it was always a big deal, but it was also like very rare that we got

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