Your True Story (Mary Marantz)
God Hears Her Podcast
Our Daily Bread Ministries
4.9 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Guest Bio: Mary Marantz is the bestselling author of Dirt and Underestimated, as well as the host of the popular podcast The Mary Marantz Show. She grew up in a trailer in rural West Virginia and was the first in her family to go to college before going to Yale for law school. Her work has been featured on CNN, MSN, Business Insider, Bustle, Thrive Global, Southern Living, Hallmark Home & Family, and more. She and her husband, Justin, live in an 1880s fixer-upper by the sea in New Haven, Connecticut, with their two very fluffy golden retrievers, Goodspeed and Atticus.
Show Summary: Do you ever feel like you’re running a never-ending race as you try to achieve things or work for things that seem out of reach? Mary Marantz spent most of her life striving for success in her career and was never satisfied with the results, even when they were great. Join hosts Elisa Morgan and Eryn Eddy Adkins as they take a peek behind the curtain of Mary’s life and find out how she eventually learned to pursue God instead of success during this God Hears Her conversation.
Notes and Quotes:
“No matter how hard you run, you can’t outrun you.” —Mary Marantz
“Burnout is not coasting off the side of the road, running out of gas gently. It’s 90 miles an hour and then you slam into a brick wall and the transmission falls out. It is a very sudden stop.” —Mary Marantz
“Wisdom finally gets a chance to take root because you’re just too tired to have these tightly gripped fists anymore.” —Mary Marantz
“I’ve had to learn that lesson over and over again of just how quickly I wilt and wither when I’m not abiding, when I’m not tethered to the vine, when I am just a branch trying to grow fruit on my own. How quickly I struggle in the drought, how quickly I stop bearing fruit when I’m away from the water.” —Mary Marantz
Verses:
Jeremiah 17:8
John 15:1-17
Related Episodes:
GHH Ep 2 – The Beauty of Broken with Elisa Morgan: https://godhearsher.org/podcast/beauty-of-broken/
GHH Ep 69 – Finding Inner Peace with Kay Wills Wyma: https://godhearsher.org/podcast/finding-inner-peace/
GHH Ep 169 – Learning to Surrender with Tara Sun: https://godhearsher.org/podcast/learning-to-surrender/
Links:
Mary Marantz’s Website: https://marymarantz.com/
God Hears Her website: https://go.odb.org/ghh191
Subscribe to the God Hears Her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GodHearsHerODBM
Episode 213 Bible Study PDF: https://xvetrm.files.cmp.optimizely.com/download/assets/GHH+Podcast_EP213_Final+Output+%281%29.pdf/e049bec2f60c11f09bfa4e7ee23f2e1e
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So at last exhausted is each of us going out and trying. Go get into the number one law school. Do it. Did that fix anything for you? Get a book deal. Become a bestseller. Get a podcast. You know, win an award in your local PTA, whatever it is. And realizing that there's a 60 second celebration and then you're right back to being you. |
| 0:22.9 | So at last exhausted is I let you run and run and run and run and try to achieve your way into |
| 0:26.8 | worth. |
| 0:27.0 | And when you reach that point where you're exhausted, good. |
| 0:29.3 | Now the real work can begin. |
| 0:44.9 | You're listening to God Here's Her, a podcast for women where we explore the stunning truth that God hears you. |
| 0:55.0 | Join our community of encouraging one another and learning to lean on God through scripture, story, and conversation at godhearsher.org. |
| 0:56.8 | God hears her. |
| 0:59.3 | Seek and she will find. |
| 1:06.5 | Hey friends, before we get started, feel free to download or print our new Bible study show notes to fill out while you listen. |
| 1:09.0 | You can find those on our website. |
| 1:11.4 | Now, let's get into our conversation. |
| 1:14.7 | Elisa, I had just the privilege and opportunity to be on our guest podcast. |
| 1:20.0 | Oh, nice. |
| 1:21.6 | I know. |
| 1:22.1 | So I kind of have a sneak peek into conversations with her. |
| 1:25.3 | And I'm so excited that we get to just dig into learning about how she |
| 1:30.0 | got to where she is today. And she's a best-selling author to her book called Dirt and |
| 1:36.3 | underestimated. And I just love both of those titles. They're very gritty, I would say. |
| 1:42.0 | And so I'm really excited to have our guest. |
| 1:47.5 | Mary, welcome to God hears her. |
| 1:49.2 | Hey, Mary, so glad you're here. |
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