- Content: Candace Cameron Bure, Bianca Juarez Olthoff Talk Perseverance: ‘Doesn’t Just Happen’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Candace Cameron Bure and Bianca Juarez Olthoff discussed grit, personal growth and how developing perseverance takes practice on Bure’s podcast.
“In order to grow your grit, you actually have to go through some stuff, right? You have to practice it,” Bure said. “It’s when life throws you a bunch of stuff, and you feel like giving up, but you don’t. I mean, you have to learn how to not give up.”
Olthoff added that many people aspire to be like their favorite people in the Bible but aren’t willing to go through the hard things that developed their relationships with God.
“You know, I think so many people love the idea of being an overcomer, but we don’t wanna overcome anything,” Olthoff explained. “We love the idea of being a conqueror, but we don’t wanna go to battle.”
“I think about when you ask me who’s my favorite Bible person, and I hesitated because I’m like, ‘Oh, there’s tons of people I would love to be in the Bible,’” she continued.
She added, “But then I stop and think, and I go, ‘Oh, but I actually don’t.’ Because they all went through the worst stuff, even Esther did. So you really have to think about it, ’cause I’m like, ‘I wanna be like Noah,’ but Noah had to work for 120 years. Daniel was in the lion’s pit, and then Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were in the fire. So, I’m like, ‘Yeah, I wanna be like them, but I don’t actually wanna go through what they’re going through.’”
“How we grow our grit, how we grow resilience is by going through trials,” Olthoff continued. “It’s by going through trials, trauma, tribulation, loss. It’s all the things that we want to avoid. That’s actually the things that transform us. So the thing that we want to avoid is actually the thing that will release us into the person that we know truly is deep within.”
Olthoff explores this topic more in her book “Grit Don’t Quit.” In it, she explains that perseverance isn’t just hope but rather “a hope we have in our future that is rooted in the One who can go beyond our wildest dream to accomplish more than we could ever imagine.”
“This book is a labor of love for the people who have just one ounce of hope, one drop of faith, and a belief that if they aren’t dead, then God isn’t done,” she wrote on Instagram. “Keep going. Keep hoping. Keep fighting. Keep believing.”
Movieguide® previously reported on Olthoff:
Author and speaker Bianca Juarez Olthoff recently broke down what it means to be resilient on Candace Cameron Bure’s podcast.
Olthoff highlighted three characteristics of a resilient person: perspective, the ability to pivot, and purpose.
“Perspective is an honest acceptance of reality while still maintaining hope,” Olthoff said.
To make her point, Olthoff used holocaust survivors as an example. The ones who survived were not the ones with a delusional sense of reality but the ones who acknowledged reality and had hope.
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