Episode Details

This week on The Maggie Williams Podcast, I’m sitting down with my friend Macy Watkins Johnston for such a good conversation about faith, marriage, femininity, hunting, discipline, and finding your people in the outdoors.

Macy is a Georgia native, lifelong outdoorswoman, and content creator now living in Alabama with her husband, Slade. She is in such a beautiful new season of life, embracing marriage, cooking, gardening, and the ministry that begins inside her home while still actively pursuing the outdoors and continuing to build an incredible career.

We recorded this episode at Prairie Wildlife in West Point, Mississippi, a beautiful sporting property rooted in conservation, wildlife habitat, wingshooting, and Southern hospitality.

We also talk about the Fox Hole Shootout and the legacy of Mr. Fox Haas. His impact continues today through an event that raises money for organizations including St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Catch A Dream, Gamekeeper Grants, and Sportsmen Organized for Law Enforcement.

Macy shares about her brand new podcast, Dear Y’all, her first velvet buck in Tennessee, her Georgia roots, and her transition into life in Alabama.

We go back to her years playing travel softball, earning a college athletic scholarship, attending military school, and how sports shaped her discipline and work ethic. Macy also shares how she felt God led her to get involved with Ducks Unlimited in college and how that decision helped shape the career and community she has today.

We also talk about what we hope the future looks like for women in the outdoors. Making hunting feel more inclusive, showing up with confidence and authenticity, finding your people, being willing to be new at something, and refusing to compete with other women.

More than anything, this is a conversation about being comfortable with every part of who you are. Being feminine does not make you less of an outdoorswoman. Being a wife does not mean giving up your passions. Being successful does not mean another woman has to lose.

And through all of it, Macy remains unapologetic about her faith and sharing God’s love in every part of her life.

LINKS

Prairie Wildlife
https://prairiewildlife.com/

Fox Hole Shootout
https://foxholeshootout.com/

Dear Y’all with Macy W. Johnston
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dear-yall/id6805250038

SPONSOR LINKS 

Franchi USA
https://www.franchiusa.com/

onX Hunt
https://www.onxmaps.com/hunt/

Yukkutz Hunting
https://yukkutzhunting.com/