The Subtext: Is Social Media a Calling?

No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp

Lee Camp

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Is being an influencer on social media a calling? Can public-facing work align with a life of service? In this episode, Savannah and Lee unpack a viral influencer video and explore what it means to have a dream, how it connects to vocation, and what it really means to make an impact in the world. Things we mentioned in this episode: NYT Cooking Black Sesame Rice Krispies Treats Dept. Q Paradise Cup of Tea by Kacey Musgraves Who is My Enemy by Lee C. Camp The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton The Summer Day by Mary Oliver Markings by Dag Hammarskjold The Pretender by Jackson Browne Follow The Subtext: Instagram | Threads | X | YouTube | TikTok Follow Lee: Instagram | Twitter | Lee's Newsletter Follow Savannah: Instagram | Substack Join our Email List: nosmallendeavor.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, Lee, welcome to our show. Hello, Savannah. Welcome to our show. How did that become our opening phrase? I think that I just started it like in episode one or two. And it just made me laugh every time. And now this is where we are. No, the way you started it was by saying, Hello, Lee, welcome to your show. You're exactly right. And you said it's not your show. It's our show. And I rebuked you because it was not my show. Mm-hmm. Yeah. You're right. And it became our show. But it's now everyone that's listening. It's all of our, all of our connection with one another. It's really about community.
0:38.5	You know what I mean? It's really all about community. Hello friends. Exactly. Exactly.
0:43.4	Is that how No small endeavor starts, right? Um, I can hear you saying hello friends and I don't know why.
0:49.7	I say that a lot in like emails and stuff like that's what it is. Hello, my friends, yes.
0:54.7	Lee, how's it going? How are you feeling at the moment? I'm feeling well. I'm feeling well. Lovely day here in Nashville, Tennessee, sunshiny, so it's quite nice. How are you feeling? How did you enjoy all the sugar that we've had today? Oh, it's been good. It's been good, yes. We started with a donut from Fox's Donut Down. Yeah, here in Nashville, Tennessee.
1:12.2	And then we just heard. Oh, it's been good. It's been good, yes. We started with a donut from Fox's Donut Down. Yeah, here in Nashville, Tennessee.
1:14.1	And then we just had Sophie our producer made sesame rice crispy treats.
1:20.0	Yeah.
1:20.3	With a macha glaze.
1:21.1	With a macha glaze, yeah.
1:22.9	What's not to like about any of that?
1:25.4	I'm jittery with all of the sugar.
1:28.6	No, I eat way too much sugar for that to make me jittery.
1:32.0	They're like, literally, they're going to think this isn't fast forward because I'm going to be talking so fast, which I'm thrilled about.
1:40.2	Wow, it's the sugar.
1:42.6	Every mistake that I make, blame it on the sugar.
1:45.4	What have you been reading, watching, listening to lately?
1:49.2	Like, give me some TV.
1:50.7	Don't give me the intellectual stuff.
1:53.1	Oh, let's see.
1:53.7	We're watching Department Q right now.
1:56.1	Is it not so good?
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