S5: You are not enough (and why that's the best news) with Jennie Allen

The Jennie Allen Podcast

Jennie Allen

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

"I am a type A, firstborn, do-it-all, perfectionistic mom of 4 who has been striving to prove myself my whole life…if you are feeling frazzled from striving so hard, from feeling like you need to prove your worth to others, from feeling like you’re sinking or drowning beneath the weight you carry…YOU NEED TO READ THIS BOOK." -Amy O. on Amazon. Finished Get Out of Your Head and ready for another book? My book 'Nothing to Prove' is for you. I can't wait for you to hear chapter one in this episode! Buy 'Nothing to Prove' anywhere books are sold: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1601429622/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_MYuAFbQ4GJ11P Audiobook excerpt courtesy Penguin Random House Audio from Nothing to Prove, read by the author Jennie Allen.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This podcast.
0:11.2	Man, I am so excited about today's episode and the reason why is because I feel like I have
0:17.0	several children in my books like I've got anything which was truly like the story of my life turning around for Jesus and all the decisions
0:26.0	that really make up our life now from if gathering to Cooper is such a personal book of just surrender
0:31.1	and following Jesus.
0:32.3	I've got restless which is this
0:34.0	awesome tool to help you understand your gifts and how to use them and and I love that
0:39.0	book and then I have get out of your head. Well get out of your head
0:41.9	has really been everybody's favorite recently.
0:44.5	Like, everybody loves it.
0:46.0	It is on New York Times now for 30 plus weeks.
0:48.5	Like, guys, it is out of control how much y'all love that book.
0:51.2	And I am so grateful that you love it. It means a lot to me. I
0:53.7	pour my guts into every single thing I do, but I have these other babies. I got these other kids and I want you to know about them and
1:00.5	one of those kids is nothing to prove and guys to me if you are
1:04.6	going to read any other book that I wrote it is that one nothing to prove is
1:08.7	so important in our day and the reason it's so important is we have been striving and you know what
1:14.7	this year has done in COVID we realized it we realized oh my gosh I was running on a
1:20.3	hamster wheel and I'm done with it but we still got to do the work of getting free of that
1:25.0	before all the world picks back up a little bit and we start building our lives on the wrong things.
1:30.3	Nothing to prove is one of my favorite books that I wrote. I know I can't pick a favorite kid. I can't pick a favorite book. But the reason I love it for right now is that there is a message in there of complete freedom that you don't have to live your life
1:44.7	striving anymore. You get to be free of that and the gospel bought that. I almost called
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