Comparison Keeps Us from God’s Design. Candace Cameron Bure’s New Podcast Guests Explain How.
By Movieguide® Contributor
Candace Cameron Bure opened up the ninth season of her podcast with new special guests and a conversation about comparison.
“I’m very, very excited about our season,” Bure said during “The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast.” “I’m trying to calm the dorky mom vibes down.”
This season, the podcast’s guests are Allie Schnacky, a social media influencer and founder of the Chosen and Free Community, and Bure’s daughter, actress Natasha Bure.
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The trio discussed the ways comparing themselves to others has impacted their lives.
“Comparison…I really think that was probably the biggest way the enemy came into my life and really tormented me growing up,” Schnacky said. “I grew up in the church. I knew what God said about me in my head. I just don’t think that my heart really believed it.”
It wasn’t until a mission trip to Brazil that Schnacky took God’s message of love to heart.
“The Lord, it was almost as if He spoke directly to me. He said, ‘Allie, I do not base value the same way the world does…Your value is not based on numbers, what people think about you…I know that you’re being faithful. That is more than enough,’” she shared. “And that literally changed my life.”
Schancky wrote about these feelings in a 2024 Instagram post.
“The moment my eyes were opened to the reality of God’s immeasurable love, & my heart truly accepted that love, not just knew of it, everything about the way I live & who I am changed for the better,” she shared. “Isn’t there such a difference between just knowing & really accepting…the power is in the true acceptance.”
Natasha shared that, like many young people, social media plays a role in her habit of comparing herself to others.
“I think being on camera a lot and putting yourself on social media, you are just very aware of the eyes on you,” she explained. “And then probably also career-wise, you’re always comparing yourself to others around you and the success they might be having that you’re not.”
Natasha continued, “I think that it’s beautiful, to have aspirations and qualities you really admire [in others], but at the end of the day, God made you so uniquely. It’s so important to lean into those qualities instead of suppressing them and trying to be someone else, because that’s just not how you were made.”
The young actress has also spoken about the comparison she faces as an actress with a mother who’s also in the industry.
“A lot of people will kind of assume that if I get any job or work at all that it’s from her. Or it’s given to me or it’s handed to me, and it’s honestly quite literally the opposite,” Natasha told PEOPLE. “I work hard for everything that I do, and I’m out here like everyone else just grinding and trying to follow my dreams and make them come true. So I think that’s one misconception that’s a little bit frustrating to see.”
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