BUILDING STRONG HOMES podcast
HOST: CAROL ROPER
Mary Marantz knows how fear can hold us back. Even though she was able to leave the musty single-wide trailer of her childhood in West Virginia and make her way to Yale Law School, she always carried the fear that she would be found out. Even though she had worked hard and earned every grade and scholarship she received, she thought others saw her as an impostor.
So, she strove to be the best at everything she did, and she was. But the life of perfection has a way of draining the joy out of you. Mary finally realized that fear was holding her hostage to a life that didn’t provide freedom and that he is a boring liar.
In this episode, she shares part of her fascinating story of growing up in rural West Virginia, which is the topic of her first book (“Dirt”), with a dad who was a proud eighth generation logger, a mom who cleaned houses and her amazing grandma Goldie.
In her newest book, Underestimated, she shares how she overcame perfectionism, procrastination, people-pleasing, and more. She understands the drive to prove others wrong and show everyone just how far you’ve come, while also doubting yourself at every turn. Mary has learned that we all must own the muddy parts of our stories so we can move forward in the purpose God has for us. Because, as Mary says, God does His best work in the muddy, messy, and broken if we’ll only learn to dig in.
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