Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1058 | Mia Ditches Spring Break to Hang with Dad, Lands a Great Job & Teaches Jase a New Sport
Mon, 17 Mar 2025
Mia chooses to spend her spring break with Jase, from a fishing trip that went awry to a grueling crawfish dinner, and attempts to get on the same page about a trendy new sport. She opens up about her struggles with her changing appearance after so many facial surgeries and how forging a relationship with Jesus taught her patience, confidence, and ultimately landed her a job she loves. Al and Zach show their appreciation for her wisdom at a young age, and Jase reveals the trick he uses to connect with her friends. In this episode: Romans 5, verses 1-3 “Unashamed” Episode 1058 is sponsored by: https://netsuite.com/phil — Download the FREE CFO’s Guide to AI and Machine Learning today! https://vom.org/unashamed — Request your free copy of When Faith is Forbidden today by visiting the website or by calling 844-463-4059. https://helixsleep.com/unashamed — Get 20% Off Sitewide! Listen to Not Yet Now with Zach Dasher on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, or anywhere you get podcasts. — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: Why did Mia choose to spend her spring break with Jase?
I am unashamed. What about you? Welcome back to Unashamed. You know, Zach, recently, Jay, Zach, we told him we needed some high profile guests and some big names on the podcast. And he's been doing a good job. He's been finding some amazing people for us to have conversations with. But he has outdone himself today.
He has reached deep into the archives to bring out what I consider to be one of our favorite and best guests. And that would be Mia Robertson, your daughter, Jay. So, Mia, welcome to Unashamed. So Mia, if I'm not mistaken, you've been on the show once before. Is that right?
Yeah, I think I've only been on it once.
Yeah. So I remember the way that got set up for your last appearance on Unashamed. I was down at my mailbox and you and your mom were driving by and you just had like a major surgery. And we've been praying for you and we've been talking about you a lot on Unashamed. It was like maybe a couple of weeks after Unashamed.
And so you're in the car and I come over to ask how you're doing and you're there. And so somehow it came up about you being on the podcast at some point to tell us about your experiences. And so I was like, would you like to be on the podcast? And you said, yeah, I'd like to do that. Well, what about tomorrow? Yeah. And I was like, tomorrow? Okay, yeah, sure. You're always welcome.
And so you came on and you were still like, you know, had stuff in your mouth. They were struggling, you know, with all of that. And yet you were precious and amazing. And Unashamed Nation loves you. So welcome back for the second time.
Yeah, I was ready to get out of the house, I think. You get kind of cooped up in there.
Yeah, my bad. You spent a lot of time during those recoveries. Just needing something to do.
Yeah. Not like I don't love spending extra time with you and mom, but I think I needed a change of scenery.
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Chapter 2: What funny fishing adventures did Mia and Jase experience?
Yeah, and I didn't know how they were going to relate yet because I told the stories, and he was like, those are so funny. I was like, that's not really funny.
21.
21, but you're fixed to be 22.
I've got, like, six more months until I'm 22. Yeah, but once you get that close, you are 22. Okay.
Y'all think that I'm forgetting, but when you factor in the time in the womb, which I think should be added to your overall age... Yeah, you would actually be 22.
Okay.
Oh, Mia, that hurts. I mean, I just turned 60 years old and you're talking about 22 being old. That was way in the rearview mirror for me.
Hey, I'm trying to champion life here. I'm going into the womb. God created us in our mother's womb. Okay. So, but I would say, so for the first, I don't know when this transition happened, but at some point, you started wanting to experience the outdoors with your dad because you fought that the first, let's just say, 20 years of your life. So what happened in that transition?
I mean, where did this come about?
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Chapter 3: How did Mia develop a love for outdoor sports?
But it didn't happen. Well, you caught one huge brim, and then I think I caught one crappie. But in a weird way, it actually worked out because I cleaned them and your mom cooked them because I was going the next day on a trip. And she took them to fail. Yeah, we did. So that was very nice. It turned out to be a good deed. So, yeah, we got that going on.
So we struck out on the fish, and then she was telling me the stories, what happened, because I thought this was interesting. Even though she's kind of had this epiphany where she's experiencing the outdoors with her dad, and we've had success. And you really are good at it. Because even when she had some of her friends there, I think me and you caught about the same every time.
And her friends were lacking everything. Even though all you basically had to do was just get the bait in the water. But they couldn't catch them. It's harder than it looked. So you were telling me yesterday that you went and played pickleball, which I don't even know what that is.
It's like tennis.
For old people.
Not anymore. She's 21, Alan.
She's out there playing. The people on the other court were all younger than me. Wow. It's a new thing. I don't know. It's really fun. It's like tennis, but there's a shorter court, and you have different paddles. Ping pong, kind of.
This is going to be weird, and y'all think I'm kidding, but I'm really not. Is a pickle, an actual pickle, involved? No. I don't know where that came from. So there's no, you don't eat a pickle after the game or whatever.
I actually have no idea where it came from.
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Chapter 4: What is the story behind Mia's crawfish dinner?
I kid you not, he just turned and took a huge piece. bite and started chewing it up and swallowed it. And we all had the gag reflex. Everyone started gagging to the point where I couldn't look at another human because I thought, oh, it's right here. It's coming. It's coming. But then he assured us that he started talking about the acidic something, something, something.
And he's like, perfectly fine to eat. And my dad was like, well, how is it? He's like, oh, it's terrible. But it won't cause any health problems. I can't remember what he said about that, but he did discuss that. But there was an expiration date on it. So I would figure that was deterred lawsuits. So anyway, you're playing the pickleball game.
And when I said who won, you made an interesting comment. You said, well... It's really hard to say because the wind. And I was curious by that comment. And you were like, whichever side the wind was in your favor. Now, I guess you mean with the wind or against the wind?
Well, like when it was really just who could serve, like, wherever the wind was blowing, if you were on that side, because no matter how hard you hit it on the other side, it would not go over the net because the wind was blowing towards you. So you would lose the serve every time.
Exactly. So whoever had the wind in their favor won. So she was like, it really wasn't a competition. So, well, you know where I went with that. The Holy Spirit is referred to as the wind. So just check this out. If the wind is in your favor, if you have the Holy Spirit indwelling you, you're going to win. See what I mean? Now, you're telling me you don't see the connection?
But I didn't say that yet. I waited until you told the next story because Mia, I don't know where she got this from, but she's great at telling stories. You then said that, well, tell the next story that you told.
Okay, so we got crawfish the other day.
We did because we struck out on the fish the night before.
Struck out on the fish and mom left. And so we didn't really want to cook. And our fridge is kind of broken.
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Chapter 5: How has Mia's faith influenced her life choices?
You got to tass it. You got to finish.
Yes, we were like, oh, we're really full. We were like, no, this was like $66. Like we have to eat all the crawfish.
$66.
We had eight pounds. What is that a pound? Eight bucks a pound.
Which we also got four butters and corn and potatoes, which cost money. So I think it's like $7 a pound.
They charge for that? They charge for the extras?
Mm-hmm.
We actually ate three cups of those butters.
Yeah, we did. Which I ate probably two and a half of them.
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Chapter 6: What insights did Mia share about her appearance and confidence?
No. Okay. We're going back to John the Baptist. Remember he said, I baptize you with water or in water, but the one coming after me, he will baptize you with fire. Fire, the spirit and fire. Remember? Yeah. I was like, look, what are the odds, though? She came in and told me two stories. I went and played pickleball. Who won? Doesn't matter because whoever had the wind in their favor won.
The second one was the story she just told. My fingers were on fire, and I thought, what are we going to talk about? We're going to talk about wind and fire as spirit and dwell people. Don't you think that's cool?
That's pretty cool.
So, Jace, what would you say is probably, what is the biggest inspiration that has come to you from persecuted Christians, whether it was our forefathers way back in the biblical days or even what's going on today?
I think we're not just people who believe Jesus is real, but you see proof of that by people willing to give up their lives rather than deny Christ.
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But here's the good thing. Since mom was away, your mom, my wife, We did that right in the middle of the kitchen. Because usually that's frowned upon with your mom. She's like, let's go take that outside. Let's. But it was a pretty good cleanup, and then we both had to go take a shower. I mean, it's like you go to your own separate rooms. It is an ordeal.
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Chapter 7: How does pickleball differ from tennis?
Well, yeah, it was all for charity.
All for charity.
We figured out that Mia doing a newsletter...
Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
Yeah, go ahead.
Yeah, we used to do poker and we used to do other fundraisers. But now the only thing that we do is a monthly newsletter. And that brings in so much money. So we don't really, which is like a good problem to have. But we don't really need to do a bunch of fundraisers anymore because like Miamou has so much money now from people donating. Yeah.
And so we still do our Miamou Funday, which is like first weekend of October. And so it's March now. So we had that a few months ago. But everyone I've talked to, and I guess you can say this too, that was the best year that we've had.
I think so.
We had so many people come from my school. We had 12 students come. As volunteers. As volunteers. And we did a color run. And each color represented something different.
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Chapter 8: What lessons can we learn from persecuted Christians?
it looks just a little bit different, which is really hard on you.
Yeah.
So I didn't realize that until my junior year. I was like, I look different. I sound different. And it was really hard on me.
Yeah. And it was hard on the parents for a different reason. It's like, it's a weird, it's hard to explain. It's like, everything about your kid you grow to love. And so when something changes, you feel like you changed everything you loved about the kid, even though you know, oh, this is for better health. And there's some kind of psychological issue there.
So probably the most basket case moments of being a part of this, your adventure, was that.
Mm-hmm.
It's like, I remember the first time you had the surgery and you came, me and your mom just busted out bawling. We're like, what happened? Even though... It was like, this is great. The doctor was like, what's wrong with you? It went awesome. We're like, what happened to our girl? She's different. So there's some kind of psychological thing.
And then I think it happens to the actual person going through the surgery later. And I think that some of that is just you're now a teenager. You're aware of what people think. It's just so amazing that when they're kids, that's why they handle it the best. There's, oh yeah, I got another surgery.
So I just got back from a retreat, a men's retreat, and I slept on a mattress at a church camp. And I'm going to tell you right now, the mattress... Boys, it makes all the difference.
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