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- Nov 28, 202513 min
"Why do you still love me?" (A father's home school journey.)
Jay shares his experience as a home school Dad and how one very difficult question from his son allowed him to appreciate God's love for humanity. Jay also shares the great response he gave to his son to the question – "Why do you still love me?".Resources & Links: What is Homeschooling?Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) CurriculumRomans 5:8 "But God demonstrates his own love towards us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Quotable: "I suppose you are wondering what my answer or response to my son was when he asked me - "why do you still love me?" I responded - "Because I never stopped loving you!"- Jay The Pretender theme music is a beat composed by 2dayPresents and is titled "1000 Feet" Note: I don't host a "comments" section, but I'm happy to hear your questions and insights via email, at jacobsiwiti@acquifersolutions.com
- Nov 14, 20251h 41m
"What's on your Playlist?" - Talking life through music with Confidence (Part 1)
Jay and his guest take the approach to discussing the different phases of life through the music we tend to play during the experience. We pick only the top 10 songs on the personal playlist and ask why those songs in that phase and share the lessons and different experiences that influenced that choice. Resources & Links: Koko's Top 10 Playlist1. Sweet Victory - Trip Lee2. Lucky Ones - Lecrae3. Start Over - Flame Feat. NF4. God's Not done with you - Touren Wells5. So many feelings - (Sho Baraka)6. Anything But Country - Andy Mineo7. Trenches - Touren Wells8. IDK - Trip Lee9. Beautiful Life 2 (Mine) - Trip Lee10. Dance with My Father Luther VandrossJay's Top 10 Playlist1. Sweet Victory - Trip Lee2. Above All Else - Vicky Beeching3. I See Gold - Ray Boltz4. He Won't Faile Me - KJ-52 feat. Zauntee5. IDK - Trip Lee6. Pure - Kari Jobe7. Thy Will Be Done - Hillary Scott and the Scott Family8. Whatever you're doing - Sanctus Real9. I Cry For You - Lecrae10. Be King - Thi'slThe Pretender theme music is a beat composed by 2dayPresents and is titled "1000 Feet" Note: I don't host a "comments" section, but I'm happy to hear your questions and insights via email, at jacobsiwiti@acquifersolutions.com
- Nov 20, 202422 min
How to say goodbye - Ginger a life story
Jay shares his recent experience of losing his beloved dog Ginger. In doing so he explains how much saying goodbye to the dog was more about letting go of a part of his life that he hasn't shared and a reminder that death of man or beast will always be a sad consequence of the fall of man until God restores his own order of life.Resources & Links: From dust to dust - Ecclesiastes 3:18-21Pet loss grief; the pain explained - Sarah Hoggan Quotable: "I realized I wasn't training my dog; I was training myself. I was learning that life can be messy, but you can still enjoy it, I was learning that you could fail many times at something, but it doesn't mean you are a failure" - Jay The Pretender theme music is a beat composed by 2dayPresents and is titled "1000 Feet" Note: I don't host a "comments" section, but I'm happy to hear your questions and insights via email, at jacobsiwiti@acquifersolutions.com
- Jul 2, 202422 min
It's time for healing
Jay talks about healing from personal life events from both a physical, emotional and spiritual sense. During times of difficulty, tragedy, failure, illness or any valleys of life; it's often easy to get stuck into the weeds and thorns that life is. It's easier to give up than having to face the aftermath of an event, but ultimately , we must get there to heal. Jay also plays a guitar at the end of the episode!Resources: Songs Jay talked about Whatever you're doing - Sanctus Real Broken vessels - Hillsong Quotable: "Everyone has their own process; everyone has their own time but if we are to continue living in this life - healing must happen." -Jay The Pretender theme music is a beat composed by 2dayPresents and is titled "1000 Feet" Note: I don't host a "comments" section, but I'm happy to hear your questions and insights via email, at jacobsiwiti@acquifersolutions.com
- May 16, 202416 min
We're still suffering
In this episode, Jay recounts a conversation he had with a late friend about suffering and draws perspective from it today.Dedicated to M.N.M. - Still sadly missed. Resources: The story of the man born blindAfflicted Saint, to Christ draw near Quotable: "…we shouldn't always claim to know or even explain the reason we suffer because frankly we don't know why certain things happen, but we should instead look to God for strength during these trials and challenges." - JayThe Pretender theme music is a beat composed by 2dayPresents and is titled "1000 Feet"Note: I don't host a "comments" section, but I'm happy to hear your questions and insights via email, at jacobsiwiti@acquifersolutions.com
- Dec 29, 202316 min
The game hasn't loved me back
Jay recounts his love for basketball and the pain from it. He talks about why he is ready to quit – a true depiction of the impact the recent injury and process of recovery has had on him thus far. A little glimpse on some feelings that pain can bring out in all of us. Resources:The story of King David in the Bible Quotable: "I have counted the cost, I have embraced the pain for too long, but it has just been one sided, I have given everything to the game, but I feel like the game hasn't loved me back and I have nothing left to give to it anymore." - Jay The Pretender theme music is a beat composed by 2dayPresents and is titled "1000 Feet" Note: I don't host a "comments" section, but I'm happy to hear your questions and insights via email, at jacobsiwiti@acquifersolutions.com
- Dec 15, 202316 min
Where is your faith, Jay?
In November of 2016, Jay underwent a surgical procedure to repair his left Achilles tendon after it completely ruptured. He made full recovery in a record 6-7 months and went back to playing his beloved basketball. Well, seven full years later on the 16th of October 2023; Jay devastatingly went through the same procedure on his other leg. This experience agonizingly has brought so much shock and Jay speaks about it today. Resources:What shall separate us from the love of God?Achilles tendon rupture Quotable: "It wasn't a pretty conversation but in that moment for all of you in doubt- that very conversation I was having was my faith." - Jay The Pretender theme music is a beat composed by 2dayPresents and is titled "1000 Feet" Note: I don't host a "comments" section, but I'm happy to hear your questions and insights via email, at jacobsiwiti@acquifersolutions.com
- Sep 13, 202316 min
I'm sorry that I let you down
In this episode Jay pens a letter of apology to all the people in his life that he let down by choosing his own path. He gets a little personal in saying sorry for the unrealized potential that he left to pursue his own enterprise and how he is at peace with the fruits of that process 7 years later. Everyone of us needs a therapy session, Jay just thought his was saying sorry. Resources: Am I Wrong (Song Jay referenced) Quotable: "I have no regrets in my life, I have lived the life I would live over and over again; a life of complete and utter faith." - Jay The Pretender theme music is a beat composed by 2dayPresents and is titled "1000 Feet" Note: I don't host a "comments" section, but I'm happy to hear your questions and insights via email, at jacobsiwiti@acquifersolutions.com
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About The Pretender
The Pretender is a podcast hosted by Jay and addresses real life experiences by real people for real people. In a world that is filled with masked struggles, failures and mental battles, people are suffering silently and social media is pushing the boundaries. Most don't know where to start to break free; Jay breaks the ice by talking about and calling out his own struggles to show you there's a way to be free of the expectations of society. There's no super human, and there's no need for us to be pretending to be one. If you wanna know its ok to be a normal human being, come listen to me tell you all about my own personal struggles - who knows? Maybe we could cry and laugh about it together.
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