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It's very easy for us to care more about the opinions people have of us over the opinion that God has of us or what God knows about us.

I really wanted to write a book that dove into that topic of force someone to think, whose approval are you living for?

Are you living for the world's approval, trying to impress people through social media

or your friendships or whatever else you're doing?

Or are you trying to make choices that make you proud of yourself,

help you become the person that God created you to be,

regardless of whether that's who other people think you should be?

Welcome to the Experience Jesus Calling podcast. Today, we speak with

writer Carrie Kempakas, who is also a wife and mom to four daughters. Carrie began as a blogger

who moved into writing about issues affecting families and their daughters. Carrie reflects on her

early years as a shy child and how that later influenced her to speak

to girls about finding their worth and identity, not from others, but from God.

My name is Carrie Kampakis, and I'm a mom of four girls in Birmingham, Alabama.

I'm also a writer and a blogger and a speaker.

I write for moms and also for teen and twin girls.

And I write for moms primarily through my blog at kerrycampus.com and two newspaper columns locally.

And then I write for teen and twin girls through two books that I've released through Thomas Nelson,

Ten Ultimate Truths Girls Should Know and liked,

whose approval are you living for? I grew up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which is a college town,

home to Crimson Tide, rural tide, and I grew up in a family of five children, which is as crazy

as it sounds. I was number four, and I was the shy child and the

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