HeyJaredIt Just Is... the Podcast
Life sucks, then you die - now get over it. A daily dose of leaning into the pain of life and what it takes to find joy.
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Go Make It Right (opens the original)
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For five weeks we have been working on the inside. Willingness. The thing you are protecting. Telling yourself the truth. Humility. Surrender. All of it has been internal, and all of it has been leading here. Today it goes outside your own head, and it gets concrete. Today we talk about the people you have hurt. This is the episode with the most teeth in the whole series, and it is the one that changes things fastest. It is also the one people skip, because everything up to now could be done pri
The Handoff (opens the original)
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We have spent four weeks getting here. Willingness. Naming the fence. Honesty. Humility. All of it has been leading to one move, and it is the move everything else depends on. Surrender. But I have to be careful with this word, because it has been twisted into something lazy. A lot of us were taught "let go and let God" and somewhere along the way it turned into an excuse to do nothing. That is not surrender. That is passivity with a worship song playing in the background. And passivity is my si
Humility Is Not Self-Hatred (opens the original)
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Most of us were handed a broken definition of humility. We were taught that to be humble means to think you are small. To shrink. To run yourself down and call it godliness. And a lot of people walked away from faith partly because that version of humility was quietly crushing them. Here is the truth. Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It is thinking of yourself less. Those are completely different things, and the difference will set you free. False humility is just pride pointing down.
Look in the Mirror and Tell the Truth (opens the original)
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Once you know what you are protecting, there is only one way through it. Honesty. The real kind. The kind where you look in the mirror and tell the truth about what is actually there. But I have to be careful here, because a lot of us learned a counterfeit version of this. We learned to beat ourselves up and call it honesty. To confess constantly and change nothing. To run ourselves down so thoroughly that it feels like humility, when it is actually just a more spiritual way of staying stuck. Th
The Thing You Are Protecting (opens the original)
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Last week I told you I know what to do and I am not doing it. This week I want to go underneath that and ask why. Because the half measure is never random. You are not failing at willingness across the board. You are willing about almost everything and unwilling about one specific thing, and that one thing is fenced off, guarded, and quietly non-negotiable. Every path to freedom that has ever worked runs directly through it. Here is mine. I gained a lot of weight after I moved to Fort Worth. For
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