Wake Up & Show Up
Hello Daarlings! This podcast is a collection of interviews and stories that weave together life's pivotal moments and the decisions made to show up and impact humanity one person at a time. Each week you will hear from me or a house guest as we discuss how to show up intentionally and make an impact along the way. Real People. Real Stories. Real Impact.
Wake Up & Show Up
The Journey of Faith and Freedom with Miracle Scott
What happens when a family uproots their lives for a fresh start across the country? Join me and my daughter, Miracle Scott, as we unpack our life-changing move from Georgia to California. We share our personal journey through Miracle's pivotal senior year, exploring how this transition has opened doors to newfound freedom and deeper spiritual connections. From the soothing California beaches to vibrant new friendships, Miracle reflects on how this move has been a rewarding chapter for her and our family, especially after years of dedication to ministry. We paint a picture of California's picturesque scenery and personal growth opportunities that contrast with the familiar comforts of Georgia, offering a story of hope and renewal.
Together, Miracle and I navigate the emotional terrain of leaving behind friends and family while embracing the promise of new beginnings. Amidst this change, we find comfort in the significant role that faith and spirituality play in providing understanding and connection. By focusing on the number seven's spiritual symbolism, we highlight how our journey has been both challenging and enriching. Our conversation underscores the importance of family support and open communication, revealing how these elements have been crucial in easing our transition. Join us as we express gratitude for the lessons learned and the blessings discovered, with a promise to continue this heartfelt discussion in future episodes.
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Hello, darling, hello, hello, hello everybody. Get up, let's go like a welcome all of you to the show. Hello, darling, hello, hello, hello. Everybody. Get up, let's go like a welcome all of you to the podcast. I'm super excited because this is one of the first podcasts as part of season eight and today I have such a very special guest. It is my daughter, miracle Scott. She is 17 years old now and applying for colleges and she is a model and she is just an incredible human. I say this all the time Anyone can ask you. I always say if she wasn't my daughter, she would be my friend, because she is just an incredible human. So help me welcome my daughter, miracle Scott, to the podcast.
Speaker 2:Hi everybody.
Speaker 1:You are so funny. Thank you so much, miracle, for being on. I think for me, this season is so much about life's transitions, and we had a really big transition over this last summer and half a year, and so let's just jump into the podcast. So first I ask every guest and you are a house guest so what are you grateful for in this moment, in this?
Speaker 2:moment. I am grateful for you. I would say I'm very proud of you for doing your podcast, relaunching it. I know you've worked very hard for it and this is something that you really have a heart for. So I'm very proud of you and I'm grateful for that.
Speaker 1:Thank you, I appreciate that. So let's jump in. When we decided to move to California, like what was? What was that? Like you know, like Daddy came home and it was kind of like hey guys, what do you think about moving to California this summer, the summer of going into your senior year? What was that like?
Speaker 2:Honestly it was. It was a big thought kind of like. It was something that I thought of a lot. Is this a good idea, is it not? But moving has always been a dream for us, especially to California. So I was like this is a better start. Let's just take the risk and see where God leads us.
Speaker 1:I love that. What's some of the biggest differences between living here in California and Georgia? We lived in Georgia for like 10 years. We've lived here for two months, but for you, what is? What does that feel like?
Speaker 2:I can kind of like be free more. I feel like I feel like there are differences in like scenery and stuff. You know, like in Georgia there's not. You don't drive by and see mountains or palm trees and stuff like that. But yeah, I would say scenery, and then like within myself, I just like feel more free and a fresh start. I can just become a better person, get closer with God.
Speaker 1:That's beautiful and you feel like the move to California kind of allowed you to do that, yeah, to open up a lot more.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've actually seen that in, just like the friendships and the things that have happened. I will say this and I know we told you this is that when we were talking about moving and Daddy and I were making all the plans and one time daddy was kind of having his devotion time and the Lord says this isn't about you all, meaning me and daddy, it's about you and Maddox, and I believe that the reason for that is because I mean all your life daddy and I have pastored a church and so for all of you all that don't know, my husband and I have been senior pastors for almost about 12 years and all of your life you've been in ministry from the nursing home and I think that God has seen that people see us in front on Sundays or Thursdays or Bible studies or traveling to speak other places, but what they don't realize work behind all of it, but it's you all, that you all have sacrificed your parents for years.
Speaker 1:You've sacrificed dinners and just time, and I believe that the Lord is rewarding you all for that and and I'm just so grateful for that and I can see it so, um so for you. How has the move affected your friendships and, like, your social life and all of those things that matter to a 17?
Speaker 2:year old. I think it's like, um, I did in like a really good way, like I do go out more. I think I have good friendships right now, like we don't just like you know, lay around, go know, lay around, go out, be productive, do stuff. So it's definitely changed my life in an amazing way.
Speaker 1:Really yeah, so leaving, though you left some friendships right. So how was that transition? I think holding two things the excitement of moving to California and also knowing, wow, there's friendships that I'm leaving, there's people that I'm leaving, there's you know, family Leaving it was a big change, obviously, but I think I adjusted well.
Speaker 2:I do miss my family, I do miss friends that I have there, but you know everything this was all for the good, so I think the good outweighs the bad, more so. So I do miss it sometimes, but I'm happy where I am right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I don't know if you know this you probably do but seven, that number is so important because it is the number of completion, kind of this number of perfection, of completion, kind of this number of perfection.
Speaker 1:So seven years ago, march, 30th 2017 was the first time we ever came here the first time that we can, yes, it was the first time that we ever came here and I remember coming here and you remember when we were at the Santa Monica promenade and Maddox was like dancing and he was like and you like opened up and you were like I mean just you were more.
Speaker 1:You've always been creative and you've always been fashionable and loved fashion, but I felt like when you were here that first time, it made me and daddy look at each other and say, wow, this place does something to our children. So fast forward 2024, seven years. Did I say 2017, 17? Yeah, 2024, march 30th was the same date. So we were on a plane landing the very first time and the when we were coming to look to solidify the house was March 30th, 2024. So it's like you know full circle. So, thinking about that, what are some things that you have found here in California that have become like a staple in your life, or places that you've visited and things that you've done kind of with your friends and I would say the beach.
Speaker 2:I I never really realized how much I enjoyed the beach because we never really had one, but now, like going out to the beach more, it's like wow, this is really nice and you can really like enjoy it and like just the peacefulness and calmness and stuff the beach definitely.
Speaker 1:The beach? Yeah, definitely. What about Erewhon?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, erewhon is amazing, I love it. That place is like really expensive, but it's good, it's good, it is good.
Speaker 1:I can't lie, it really, really is good. So I want to ask what do you miss the most about georgia?
Speaker 2:Um, I would say the comfort, maybe a little bit, just because I was used to living there, so living care, it's like I'm halfway comfortable but not all the way. In Georgia I was just it, just it kind of did just feel like home, you know, cause I was there for so long.
Speaker 1:So I'm still kind of trying to get that something you said, I don't know Cause it's on my mind Um, freedom. I love that word. We use that word a lot. Um, what is? What does freedom look like? Or like if you don't really have a definition, but what does it look like? What does it feel like to you? Um, when you say freedom, what does that feel like?
Speaker 2:um, well, I would say, like in this matter, freedom just kind of just just being open, like with everything, into anything. And moving here, I feel like I have been open to a lot of stuff that I probably wouldn't have been open to in Georgia. But it's like a mindset thing, it's just like I want to be free, so I'm going to be free. That's like I'm gonna make that happen. I'm not just gonna say, oh, I wish I was fair, I, so I'm going to be free. I'm going to make that happen. I'm not just going to say, oh, I wish I was fair, no, I'm going to be fair. I'm going to be open to more stuff. I'm going to just live freely. I love that.
Speaker 1:Yeah. What do you think it is about? Is it California? Is it this particular season? What do you think causes you to feel free here?
Speaker 2:um, I would say what causes me to feel free here is that I mean, it's a huge city and I feel like somebody who's very creative and stuff, like seeing a bunch of ideas everywhere because, like in Georgia, people are creative but you don't see it a lot. Here you see it a lot more and it's like oh, I like how they did that, or it might be something that you don't like, but I like how they were creative about it.
Speaker 1:Like yeah so. So the freedom, that that's good. So the freedom that you have kind of to literally like be yourself, to you see it everywhere, right, so it's kind of this exposure to it that allows you to be like, yeah, I like that. Yeah, yeah, I love that for you. I have a question because I want to ask what did daddy and I do well to help you with the transition? Like, what are some things that we did well to help you transition from Georgia to California? New schools, new ideas, new everything.
Speaker 2:I think what it was is you guys kept on asking me if I was okay with it, because we knew this was my senior year and I would be leaving all my friends, like just the repeatedly are you okay? If you are not okay with it, then that's fine, like we can wait. So I think you guys, helping me feel like I wasn't forced to, kind of made me a lot more open to it, like like wow, like this is nice. So just you guys being having grace to me, like telling me, you know, like if you don't want to, it's okay, but if you do, that's great. You know, yeah.
Speaker 1:I love that. So, yes, and you gave me the great stuff. What could we have done better to help with the transition?
Speaker 2:I don't know, that's a hard question. I feel like nothing. I feel like it was a very easy transition, like mindset wise. It was something that was just very easily and like it just moved swiftly, very easily and like it just moved swiftly, so there wasn't no bad, it was just all good so.
Speaker 1:So if you had to give some advice to a parent, um, they're getting ready to move, how can they help their own children exactly to transition?
Speaker 2:I don't know. I feel like it does depend on the child or their situation that they are in. Yeah, so it's kind of hard to answer that. But I would say, just talk about it as a family, not just the parents talk about it, because that's something you do. You know parents do talk, but I would say, including your kids in those conversations so they can feel a part of it and feel like this is a family decision, more so than just mom and dad chose to move. I didn't ask how we felt.
Speaker 1:And then, what would you say to a teen that's moving for various reasons? Right, but they're in a season of their lives where they're transitioning. What advice would you give them as they transition?
Speaker 2:No, matter how much you may not want to move, just still be open to meeting new people, meeting new friends. Going out because you don't want to move, because you don't have any friends, but if you're you know, close off to it, then that's not going to change. You have to change your mindset and be like you know what.
Speaker 1:I don't want to move, but this is my new life. Let me make it better, let me try to change. Yeah, yeah, I like that. Thank you for that. Um, I think one of the things that I often do when I'm doing the podcast with someone who has created this amazing organization or they're like doing some amazing things, I always have them to reflect on when all that's over, what would they be proud of? I'm not going to ask you that because you're 17 and you still have so much more to go, but I will ask you two more questions. One is in the next, this next season of your life.
Speaker 1:you're going into your senior year and I the next, this next season of your life, you're going into your senior year and I am like listen, I'm not ready, I'm excited, but I'm so proud, but I'm so proud. Yeah, what are you hoping for for yourself in this new season?
Speaker 2:Just to see myself grow spiritually and mentally, honestly, like I feel like the past year that's been a big thing with me, just growth and just becoming like a better Christian, a better person than I already am, yeah, so just growth.
Speaker 1:I love that. The next one is I want to acknowledge you because you said it in the interview and I don't want people to miss it is that when we were making this decision, we definitely said miracle, this is on you. Yeah, one, that's great that we pulled you in, and two, that's a heavy burden a lot of pressure, right. So we said we wanted to put it on you because we knew how important senior year is.
Speaker 2:And so, if you didn't, want to move.
Speaker 1:We were fine because we would move right after your senior year and if you did, we would just keep going with the plans and you handled it with so much grace. And I've also seen I've seen how the Lord has worked in your life over this last year. I've seen your growth. I've seen all the things that you're saying Um, I've actually already seen it Right. And so I just want to acknowledge you, because you were just growing into an incredible, incredible young lady.
Speaker 1:I tell people all this all the time is that I get you know. I push back all the time. What are you wearing? That I get you know. I push back all the time. What are you wearing? How is your hair? Um, why do you want to get that color Right?
Speaker 1:Um, because at your age, I was kind of in the box. It didn't go out of the box, I didn't nothing. It was like okay, this is what I'm supposed to do, this is how I do it, this is how it's supposed to be. And you inspire me so much to come out of that box, watching you and watching your life, and my prayer is that people on the other end that watch your life, that watch you in fashion that watch you in business, whatever it is that you do, is that it would inspire people to really dig into their God-given talent. And the funny thing is that, three years old, we walk into a gap and she tells the manager she's looking at this mannequin and it's like it's dressed. They've dressed the mannequin, they're done. And she just like casually, says, oh, you should put a denim jacket on that mannequin.
Speaker 1:Do you remember that?
Speaker 2:I don't. We were in the Burlington mall.
Speaker 1:Yes, we were in the Burlington mall in Massachusetts and the lady comes over, she's like she's actually right, you know. And so you having that eye and continually down that road and knowing what you wanted at such a young age, that is.
Speaker 1:my prayer is that people who watch you, who hear your stories, that it causes them to go after their dreams, even if their dreams don't look like what their parents want them to right, because I would have never maybe picked fashion for you or whatever it is, um, but you kept doing what you felt your heart was calling you to do, and so I just want to acknowledge you for that, and I do want you to think about the last year of growth for yourself. What are you most proud of?
Speaker 2:That's a really good question. You can take some moments. So what I'm most proud of in myself is getting closer to God. Definitely I feel like I lean on him a lot for like a lot of things and I wouldn't say I didn't in the past, but just not as much so I've definitely spent more time just leaning on God and just praying that he, like makes a way and stuff and just brings me comfort. I love that. That's definitely my biggest thing. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1:That's definitely my biggest thing. Yeah, I love that. Why is that so important to you?
Speaker 2:um, because I feel like sometimes you can have people around you but there are times where you know nobody understands as much as you do, but God does. So really, thinking about it, it's like, oh, nobody understands how I feel. God knows, knows, and he's just always there, like he's always there even when you don't think he's always there.
Speaker 1:I love that. Well, miracle, it's been a pleasure talking to you, thank you, I love you, I love you I love you too. Thank you, will you do another episode? Of course, okay, maybe mid-year and we can see where you are. Okay, see the progress. Excellent. Well, thank you.