Latest / All Mom Does Podcast with Julie Lyles Carr / Biblical Masculinity with Jennifer Jehl
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Purposely, your life, God's purpose. More podcasts at Purposely.com.
- 0:09Speaker 2: What Jesus calls us to, calls men to be is
- 0:11Speaker 2: something that I like to use as the word meekness. Meekness,
- 0:15Speaker 2: it's not weakness. It's incredible strength. It's incredible emotional intelligence.
- 0:20Speaker 1: It's self-control. It's kindness. It's compassion. It's boundaries and standards.
- 0:24Speaker 2: When a man truly embodies those things, the people around him,
- 0:28Speaker 2: the children, the his wife, like.
- 0:31Speaker 1: They just flourish. Hey friend, I'm so glad you're here.
- 0:37Speaker 1: This is the all mom does podcast, part of the
- 0:39Speaker 1: purposely podcast network.
- 0:41Speaker 3: And we are here to help equip you, encourage you,
- 0:44Speaker 3: challenge you, and all the things that are going on
- 0:47Speaker 3: in your life from kids to work, to marriage, to faith,
- 0:50Speaker 3: all of it.
- 0:51Speaker 1: We are in the last.
- 0:53Speaker 3: Few episodes of season nine before we roll into season 10.
- 0:57Speaker 3: And I've got to tell you, this has been one
- 0:59Speaker 3: of my favorite seasons. We have had some of the
- 1:02Speaker 3: most interesting, fascinating people on. I have personally learned so much.
- 1:06Speaker 3: I hope that you have too. And today, oh, this
- 1:10Speaker 3: is gonna be a good one. I already know I
- 1:13Speaker 3: got to have the honor of being on this person's
- 1:16Speaker 3: show on LinkedIn, her live stream, which is really fascinating.
- 1:20Speaker 3: She is in the top 1% of LinkedIn creators. And
- 1:24Speaker 3: when we unpack The topic that she is known for,
- 1:28Speaker 3: the expertise that she has, you are going to be
- 1:31Speaker 3: leaning in. I can promise you that. So I would
- 1:34Speaker 3: love to welcome to the show today, Jennifer Yale. Jen,
- 1:38Speaker 3: thanks so much for being with me.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having me, Julie.
- 1:42Speaker 2: I really appreciate it. I loved having you on my
- 1:44Speaker 2: show as well. I think so many people got a
- 1:47Speaker 2: lot out of what you were saying, your experiences as
- 1:50Speaker 2: a mom, as, you know, in corporate world, everything was
- 1:56Speaker 2: so beneficial to my viewers.
- 1:58Speaker 1: So thank you for that. Oh, absolutely.
- 2:00Speaker 3: I had an absolute ball and your community could not
- 2:03Speaker 3: be more welcoming and they were just, it was exceptional.
- 2:07Speaker 1: What a, what a fantastic experience. So thanks for having me.
- 2:10Speaker 3: Well, Hey, tell the audience who you are, where you live,
- 2:14Speaker 3: the kids, the pets, the season of life, all the things.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Well, I'm Jennifer.
- 2:20Speaker 2: So I, First of all, I'm a biblical masculinity coach,
- 2:24Speaker 2: and that's my mission in life is to kind of
- 2:26Speaker 2: bring back order and inspire men and families and women,
- 2:32Speaker 2: of course, also, but inspire men, especially to live in
- 2:36Speaker 2: the way that God designed them to be, especially as
- 2:41Speaker 2: head of the household and really embodying the characteristics of
- 2:47Speaker 2: Jesus in every single thing that they do and running
- 2:49Speaker 2: their homes and leading their wives accordingly as he taught
- 2:53Speaker 2: us to do.
- 2:53Speaker 1: So that is my number one mission. I am a
- 2:57Speaker 1: mom of three.
- 2:57Speaker 2: I have a 19-year-old girl, 17-year-old girl, and a 12-year-old
- 3:02Speaker 2: special needs little boy. They are definitely the lights of
- 3:07Speaker 2: my life. And I also am stepping into a new
- 3:12Speaker 2: venture here soon in Austin as the president of C-Suite
- 3:16Speaker 2: for Christ, which is a company that is designed to
- 3:21Speaker 2: spread the world in Christ and inspire people to be
- 3:24Speaker 2: bold in the workplace, in their businesses, in speaking about Christ.
- 3:29Speaker 1: So that's what I have going on. That's so exciting. Yeah.
- 3:34Speaker 1: I love that.
- 3:35Speaker 3: And I'm excited to get you down here to Austin
- 3:37Speaker 3: as soon as possible. So that will be a lot
- 3:39Speaker 3: of fun. Well, I am so fascinated by the work
- 3:43Speaker 3: you do. And when I had the opportunity to meet
- 3:45Speaker 3: your online community, because We have been through a season,
- 3:49Speaker 3: and I think it's one that has been deeply needed,
- 3:52Speaker 3: where we have had a lot of focus, particularly in
- 3:56Speaker 3: the faith vertical, on helping women say, hey.
- 3:59Speaker 1: We see you.
- 4:00Speaker 3: We know there's a lot of invisible labor. We know
- 4:03Speaker 3: there are times that you are probably being taken for
- 4:05Speaker 3: granted or you aren't being seen, that you need to
- 4:08Speaker 3: be heard. And we've spent a lot of time in
- 4:11Speaker 3: women's spaces making sure that we are infusing in women
- 4:15Speaker 3: the The incredible message that Jesus has for all of us,
- 4:18Speaker 3: that we are of great worth, that we are precious
- 4:20Speaker 3: to him, that we have a role to play, that
- 4:22Speaker 3: he has a purpose for us in each of our lives,
- 4:24Speaker 3: even in those long days where it feels like all
- 4:27Speaker 3: we're getting done is the laundry so that more laundry
- 4:30Speaker 3: can be produced, so that more laundry.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Can be done.
- 4:32Speaker 3: So we've lived there and I get that. And there
- 4:37Speaker 3: are any number of books and podcasts like this one
- 4:40Speaker 3: and on and on that have to do with encouraging women.
- 4:44Speaker 1: And so when I also.
- 4:46Speaker 3: Was thinking about that part of that, to some degree,
- 4:51Speaker 3: has been calling men to account, sometimes talking about the
- 4:55Speaker 3: bad players that we experience. And I know certainly for
- 4:58Speaker 3: myself as an eldest daughter, an older sister of two brothers,
- 5:03Speaker 3: I don't have any sisters. And then as a mom
- 5:06Speaker 3: of three sons, as a wife to Mike, you know what?
- 5:10Speaker 3: I was starting to get a little weary sometimes. of
- 5:13Speaker 3: a lot of the elbow to the gut that a
- 5:15Speaker 3: lot of men were experiencing as we were trying to
- 5:18Speaker 3: encourage women.
- 5:20Speaker 1: There was a lot that was being said against men.
- 5:24Speaker 3: Now here's where you fascinate me, Jennifer. I mean, on
- 5:27Speaker 3: a lot of scales, but from a ministry business perspective,
- 5:31Speaker 3: you took an incredible pivot. And while a lot of
- 5:35Speaker 3: us were talking directly to women, you came around the
- 5:38Speaker 3: curve and said, Let's talk to some of these guys.
- 5:41Speaker 3: Let's encourage these guys. Let's equip these guys. Let's give
- 5:43Speaker 3: these guys some tools. So what was that path that
- 5:47Speaker 3: that audience became the one that you began to focus
- 5:52Speaker 3: on serving? Because that in many ways kind of feels
- 5:56Speaker 3: counterintuitive in the culture we've been in, in this cultural moment.
- 5:59Speaker 1: It sure does.
- 6:00Speaker 2: And, you know, kind of in a general overview, kind
- 6:04Speaker 2: of based on what you said, let's take feminism, for example, um,
- 6:08Speaker 2: don't worry, I'm not going to get political, but feminism
- 6:11Speaker 2: had the right idea, right? Like to inspire women, to
- 6:14Speaker 2: empower them, to be, you know, noticed in, like you said,
- 6:17Speaker 2: seen and heard.
- 6:18Speaker 1: And that was great.
- 6:19Speaker 2: But somewhere along the way, it did fail in the
- 6:23Speaker 2: fact that it started like emasculating men, uh, breaking down
- 6:30Speaker 2: the family and all of these things that we see today. Um,
- 6:35Speaker 2: I am all for women being very bold and seen
- 6:39Speaker 2: and powerful creatures because we are, and we have so
- 6:43Speaker 2: much to give and we have so many people to
- 6:45Speaker 2: nurture and, you know, bring life into their life. Um,
- 6:49Speaker 2: but men, so I have, I label myself as a
- 6:56Speaker 2: past toxic people pleaser. And what that looked like is
- 7:02Speaker 2: both in business and in personal relationships, I would get
- 7:04Speaker 2: myself into very bad situations.
- 7:06Speaker 1: Um, I just wanted to appease everybody. I couldn't say no.
- 7:09Speaker 2: Um, I therefore got into very abusive relationships. Um, and
- 7:14Speaker 2: so I could have easily become one of those people
- 7:19Speaker 2: who doesn't like men, who hates men, who wants nothing
- 7:22Speaker 2: to do with men. Um, and instead I kind of,
- 7:27Speaker 2: as I got into my journey and especially my faith journey,
- 7:33Speaker 2: I've always been a lover of Christ. but he has
- 7:37Speaker 2: not always been my Lord. He's always been my savior,
- 7:39Speaker 2: not my Lord. And as I got into that part
- 7:42Speaker 2: of the mission and read the word, and I actually
- 7:45Speaker 2: understood like, wait a second, if men are leading the
- 7:49Speaker 2: right way, that expands a woman's world. That is so
- 7:54Speaker 2: protective of the woman. Like Jesus designed this so beautifully
- 7:59Speaker 2: headship of a man, Submission of a wife to her husband.
- 8:03Speaker 2: That is a beautiful thing because he is guiding her
- 8:07Speaker 2: to the right places because his authority is in, is Jesus,
- 8:11Speaker 2: you know?
- 8:12Speaker 1: So he's following Jesus. She follows him and she can't
- 8:14Speaker 1: go wrong.
- 8:15Speaker 2: That's the true design of what that is supposed to
- 8:17Speaker 2: look like. And so if you think about all these
- 8:20Speaker 2: men who have been emasculated, I mean, think about it.
- 8:24Speaker 1: Like men are afraid to open doors for women anymore.
- 8:27Speaker 2: Like something as simple as that, because it's, Who knows
- 8:30Speaker 2: what she's going to say to him? And so I
- 8:35Speaker 2: think in turn, that has led men to become very passive.
- 8:41Speaker 2: You know, you hear things like toxic masculinity, which I
- 8:44Speaker 2: don't believe as a term that it actually exists because
- 8:47Speaker 2: there are people who are toxic and there are people
- 8:48Speaker 2: who are not toxic. But if you do think about
- 8:51Speaker 2: that term, there are two extremes there. You know, you
- 8:53Speaker 2: have your alpha male kind of cocky guy that you
- 8:57Speaker 2: think about.
- 8:58Speaker 1: Or you have, you're very passive and both are very bad.
- 9:03Speaker 2: What Jesus calls us to, calls men to be is
- 9:05Speaker 2: something that I like to use as the word meekness.
- 9:09Speaker 1: Meekness. It's not weakness.
- 9:10Speaker 2: It's incredible strength. It's incredible emotional intelligence. It is the
- 9:16Speaker 2: capacity of all kinds of things that you keep inside.
- 9:21Speaker 1: It's self-control. It's kindness. It's compassion. It's boundaries and standards.
- 9:26Speaker 2: And when a man truly embodies those things, the people
- 9:32Speaker 2: around him, the children, his wife, like they just flourish
- 9:36Speaker 2: and getting people to understand that design is really important
- 9:40Speaker 2: to me.
- 9:42Speaker 3: When you first launched into talking about this, into developing
- 9:47Speaker 3: your channel on LinkedIn, when you started having people on
- 9:50Speaker 3: and doing a live stream and on and on and on,
- 9:52Speaker 3: What was some of the initial reception? Because again, you know,
- 9:56Speaker 3: we're in a period of time in which we have
- 9:58Speaker 3: such extremes in the ways in which we view relationships
- 10:02Speaker 3: between men and women and what women can do and
- 10:04Speaker 3: can't do. And if a man says this and all
- 10:07Speaker 3: of those phrases that you just used, you know, the toxic, this,
- 10:09Speaker 3: the toxic, that on and on and on, everybody pointing
- 10:12Speaker 3: fingers at each other. So what was the initial reception
- 10:15Speaker 3: and what did it surprise you that you found that
- 10:18Speaker 3: there was this audience who was hungry to understand more
- 10:21Speaker 3: of what you were talking about.
- 10:23Speaker 1: It did. You know, initially I was really.
- 10:25Speaker 2: So I'm also, despite being a toxic people pleaser, recovering,
- 10:29Speaker 2: I am a very shy person. I'm an introvert as well.
- 10:33Speaker 2: And so being so bold in those initial ways in
- 10:39Speaker 2: which I created content, the questions that I posed, the
- 10:43Speaker 2: things I was talking about, that was very scary.
- 10:45Speaker 1: And I am also... I'm not so much anymore.
- 10:48Speaker 2: Cause I, I take, I take it a different way now,
- 10:50Speaker 2: but I was very sensitive at the beginning. And so, yeah,
- 10:53Speaker 2: of course I got all kinds of messages that were
- 10:56Speaker 2: full of the obvious questions. Like how could a woman
- 11:01Speaker 2: ever inspire or teach a man to be masculine, which
- 11:05Speaker 2: is not what I do. I, I give the tools,
- 11:10Speaker 2: I give the perspective, I go on biblical principle, but
- 11:13Speaker 2: those were the questions I was receiving. Um, you know,
- 11:16Speaker 2: and then of course, from women, it's like, how could
- 11:18Speaker 2: you ever say anything like this? Like, why would you
- 11:22Speaker 2: dumb yourself down and devalue yourself? That's not what I'm
- 11:24Speaker 2: doing at all.
- 11:26Speaker 1: You know?
- 11:27Speaker 2: So I did deal with, and I still deal with
- 11:29Speaker 2: those questions at times, but I think we are coming
- 11:33Speaker 2: to a point in culture where maybe all of this
- 11:36Speaker 2: stuff is turning around for a bit. And I mean,
- 11:39Speaker 2: I think we're seeing it in young people, especially, and
- 11:42Speaker 2: maybe you see this too, like like the 18 to
- 11:45Speaker 2: 25 year old crowd, like they're very Christian.
- 11:49Speaker 1: They're very opposed to like.
- 11:51Speaker 2: Even things like sex before marriage and, um, drinking, like
- 11:56Speaker 2: it's a new kind of generation. And I think, you know,
- 11:59Speaker 2: I think it could be a really beautiful thing. Um,
- 12:04Speaker 2: and so I, I just think it's being, I think
- 12:07Speaker 2: it's more accepted now than it was at the beginning.
- 12:09Speaker 1: Right.
- 12:10Speaker 3: Right. So you're finding even more resonance now than you
- 12:12Speaker 3: were maybe when you first started. I do find it
- 12:15Speaker 3: fascinating as a mom of three sons, obviously as a wife,
- 12:20Speaker 3: I get why a lot of guys are stymied right
- 12:23Speaker 3: now as to what to do. And my youngest son
- 12:27Speaker 3: has started dating and he's just, he's an absolute sweetheart.
- 12:32Speaker 1: Of a guy.
- 12:32Speaker 3: The thing that is fascinating to me is how floored
- 12:37Speaker 3: some of the young women he's beginning to take on dates,
- 12:39Speaker 3: how floored they are that he plans dates, that he
- 12:42Speaker 3: meets someone and he says, hey, why don't we go
- 12:45Speaker 3: do this? And he absolutely wants their ideas and their input.
- 12:48Speaker 1: This is not him saying, we're going to go do
- 12:50Speaker 1: this and we're going to do that. My husband and
- 12:52Speaker 1: I have laughed. We're like, the world is.
- 12:54Speaker 3: Your oyster kid because he is truly one of the
- 12:58Speaker 3: most gentle, kind, never throw himself out there kind of guys.
- 13:04Speaker 3: But even him simply saying, I would love to take
- 13:06Speaker 3: you for a cup of coffee is sort of like
- 13:10Speaker 3: revelatory right.
- 13:11Speaker 1: Now amongst a lot of his peers.
- 13:13Speaker 3: The fact he's willing to do that, the fact he's
- 13:15Speaker 3: willing to go sit across a table face-to-face with someone
- 13:19Speaker 3: to get to know them better. Tell me a little
- 13:22Speaker 3: bit about where we're at when it comes to young
- 13:26Speaker 3: men today, not necessarily in marriage already, but in those
- 13:30Speaker 3: places where they are trying to figure out how to navigate,
- 13:35Speaker 3: do I open the door?
- 13:36Speaker 1: Do I not?
- 13:37Speaker 3: In a culture that has not been dating and exploring
- 13:41Speaker 3: and getting to know people at a deeper level before
- 13:44Speaker 3: all kinds of other activities happen. So talk to me
- 13:48Speaker 3: about what you're seeing. Give me the landscape of where
- 13:51Speaker 3: we are today.
- 13:53Speaker 2: Well, I think, you know, I think that's wonderful that
- 13:55Speaker 2: your son is, is taking the initiative to be that, like,
- 13:59Speaker 2: I would consider that like leading that's like healthy leadership
- 14:03Speaker 2: of potential relationships.
- 14:05Speaker 1: And I think women are, you know, as much as women.
- 14:08Speaker 2: Want to be hyper independent and not need anybody, I
- 14:15Speaker 2: think by design also, we were designed to, um, be
- 14:21Speaker 2: attracted to things like that. We want to the person that,
- 14:26Speaker 2: that we end up being with, like, we want to
- 14:28Speaker 2: be able to see him as a leader. Why would
- 14:30Speaker 2: you not want to see him as a leader? Um,
- 14:32Speaker 2: so I think the younger generation, is handling that better
- 14:36Speaker 2: than our generation did, which is sad to say, you know,
- 14:40Speaker 2: you still see people in our generation who are, you know, 45,
- 14:44Speaker 2: 50 years old and never been married, never had kids,
- 14:48Speaker 2: and they don't want any part of that really. And
- 14:51Speaker 2: maybe that's, you know, the way culture has taught them
- 14:55Speaker 2: that to be, you know, I can't remember the statistic.
- 14:58Speaker 1: But I.
- 15:01Speaker 2: Think like, I think women are more in danger right
- 15:04Speaker 2: now than men. Men seem to be getting back on
- 15:08Speaker 2: track with God's design. I think women are still really
- 15:11Speaker 2: fighting that. And relationships seem to be, in all the generations,
- 15:17Speaker 2: more like a who can win? Are you a risk
- 15:20Speaker 2: to me? Women especially see men as a risk. How
- 15:25Speaker 2: risky is this person if I choose to be with him?
- 15:30Speaker 2: And that's a scary thing, I think, because that's not
- 15:32Speaker 2: what a relationship is supposed to be. We're supposed to
- 15:35Speaker 2: bring our pieces. They were supposed to bring their pieces. And,
- 15:39Speaker 2: you know, I'm not sure if that answers your question exactly,
- 15:42Speaker 2: but I think the young men I'm seeing in today's
- 15:46Speaker 2: world really give me a lot of hope and they
- 15:49Speaker 2: didn't have great teachers.
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- 17:41Speaker 3: I love this idea of talking about leadership, those leader qualities,
- 17:46Speaker 3: because I know that in my marriage, Mike very much
- 17:51Speaker 3: accepts that I'm a leader and I have leadership qualities.
- 17:55Speaker 3: And I certainly appreciate and admire his leadership and his
- 17:59Speaker 3: leadership qualities. We lead and experience leadership in different ways.
- 18:05Speaker 3: I have worked for a lot of my career in
- 18:08Speaker 3: very male-dominated industries, which has been very interesting. And my
- 18:13Speaker 3: leadership capacity and how I handled that definitely was something
- 18:17Speaker 3: that I had to learn to tweak through the years.
- 18:19Speaker 3: There were things that I would try to come in
- 18:21Speaker 3: and be just like the guys and then learn that
- 18:23Speaker 3: that wasn't exactly the best use of my gifts and
- 18:27Speaker 3: falling into some of those traps, honestly, of not being, hey.
- 18:33Speaker 1: I'm not.
- 18:34Speaker 3: A guy, I'm female, and I have a whole other
- 18:37Speaker 3: world of things that I can bring to the table.
- 18:40Speaker 3: So this idea that a woman, I wonder sometimes if
- 18:47Speaker 3: what we've done in the equation, if what has gotten
- 18:49Speaker 3: things so challenged is that we sometimes feel like a
- 18:53Speaker 3: woman can only express leadership qualities if a man is
- 18:56Speaker 3: squashing his to some degree, or if he's not showing
- 18:59Speaker 3: up in that way, if that's the only way that
- 19:01Speaker 3: the lane is clear for a woman to be able
- 19:03Speaker 3: to run forward with the things that God has put
- 19:06Speaker 3: on her heart and the mission that God has for her.
- 19:09Speaker 3: But I love that you said, you know, don't you
- 19:12Speaker 3: want to be with a man who has leadership qualities?
- 19:16Speaker 3: And I have to tell you that in some of
- 19:18Speaker 3: the times that I've spent listening to someone's story and
- 19:23Speaker 3: trying to help in letting them process and vent and
- 19:27Speaker 3: whatever they've needed to do, One of the predominant frustrations
- 19:32Speaker 3: that I hear today is not, I feel restricted by
- 19:37Speaker 3: the men in my life.
- 19:39Speaker 1: No, Jennifer, what I'm.
- 19:40Speaker 3: Hearing is my husband, my partner, the guy I'm dating, whatever,
- 19:46Speaker 3: he's so passive.
- 19:48Speaker 1: He doesn't do anything. And I have to say that's
- 19:52Speaker 1: a switch.
- 19:52Speaker 3: When I was younger, I knew women who felt very
- 19:56Speaker 3: suffocated in models of leadership that were not godly, models
- 20:01Speaker 3: of leadership that were not Christ-like.
- 20:03Speaker 1: That whole conversation.
- 20:06Speaker 3: By, I mean, I'm trying to even remember, Jennifer, the
- 20:08Speaker 3: last time I had a conversation with someone who said,
- 20:10Speaker 3: I'm feeling oppressed by a guy.
- 20:13Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't hear that at all. I'm hearing way more.
- 20:17Speaker 1: They don't, I'm doing everything. They're not doing anything.
- 20:20Speaker 3: You know, if there's going to be a date night
- 20:21Speaker 3: or a project completed or something handled or somebody showing
- 20:25Speaker 3: up with the emotional energy, it's going to be on me,
- 20:27Speaker 3: the woman.
- 20:29Speaker 1: So that's interesting that you're seeing the same thing.
- 20:31Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and to take it one step further,
- 20:34Speaker 2: I think, And I think you could agree with this
- 20:36Speaker 2: because you guys go to church, you see, you've been
- 20:39Speaker 2: in the ministry. I mean, like, I think women have
- 20:42Speaker 2: become the spiritual leaders of their households too.
- 20:44Speaker 1: And that's not right.
- 20:46Speaker 2: And so, yeah, I think so many of my clients,
- 20:51Speaker 2: for instance, are that passive husband. And they realize, you know,
- 20:56Speaker 2: 20 years into their marriage, like, how did this happen?
- 21:01Speaker 1: How did I surrender any leadership that I had? And
- 21:05Speaker 1: now like, I can't get it back.
- 21:07Speaker 2: And there are ways to get it back, but it
- 21:09Speaker 2: takes a lot of consistency and a lot of like
- 21:12Speaker 2: modeling and a lot of, you know, you can't just
- 21:15Speaker 2: go to your wife and be like, Hey, I'm the leader.
- 21:17Speaker 1: Like you need to listen to me. And that's not
- 21:19Speaker 1: what a leader is supposed to be anyway. Men are lost.
- 21:24Speaker 1: And I think, again, that's.
- 21:25Speaker 2: One of the disadvantages that the culture has led us
- 21:30Speaker 2: to is women are masculine. women are hyper independent. We
- 21:36Speaker 2: are defensive. We don't want anybody to have the final say.
- 21:41Speaker 2: We don't want to be backed up into a corner.
- 21:42Speaker 2: We don't want to feel like we are oppressed. And
- 21:44Speaker 2: so we take it to the extreme and we are
- 21:46Speaker 2: almost like as a, as a gender, I would say
- 21:50Speaker 2: we've become pretty offensive people.
- 21:53Speaker 1: And, um, that's, and we're exhausted. We're exhausted.
- 21:57Speaker 2: And even if we don't admit it, I would say
- 22:01Speaker 2: we're exhausted.
- 22:02Speaker 1: And so, um, I think there's an element of, you.
- 22:07Speaker 2: Know, when this happens in a marriage, a woman actually
- 22:10Speaker 2: has to go back. And, you know, if she's a
- 22:12Speaker 2: Christian woman, of course, like, look at what God said. Like,
- 22:16Speaker 2: why would you want to live not according to his design,
- 22:21Speaker 2: not according.
- 22:21Speaker 1: To the person who actually created you?
- 22:23Speaker 2: Like we are, if he created us to be this
- 22:26Speaker 2: and this, we should probably follow that because that's going
- 22:29Speaker 2: to be most aligned. And that's where we're going to
- 22:31Speaker 2: feel like we are aiming for the right thing. It's
- 22:36Speaker 2: just that letting those walls down and surrendering each piece,
- 22:41Speaker 2: like men have to surrender a certain thing. Women have
- 22:43Speaker 2: to surrender a certain thing. And if you are living
- 22:47Speaker 2: truly to his word and his truth and how marriage
- 22:52Speaker 2: is designed, like I think both parties benefit so greatly. Like,
- 22:57Speaker 2: you know, I, I, I said, I've been in very
- 23:00Speaker 2: abusive relationships, controlling relationships.
- 23:03Speaker 1: I'm not being a victim. I chose those things, fair
- 23:06Speaker 1: and square.
- 23:07Speaker 2: But the relationship I'm in now, and we are heading
- 23:12Speaker 2: towards marriage. The way he leads me is just like
- 23:18Speaker 2: Jesus designed it to be. His literal goal is to
- 23:21Speaker 2: expand my universe. He doesn't want me to be small.
- 23:24Speaker 2: He wants me to be a expand exponentially every single day.
- 23:32Speaker 2: And that's what Christ wants. Like that's what Christ wants
- 23:35Speaker 2: for us. So I think, you know, at the end
- 23:39Speaker 2: of the day, finding your identity in Christ and living
- 23:44Speaker 2: in the way he designed, surrendering those parts that those
- 23:48Speaker 2: fleshly parts of you that just want to win and
- 23:50Speaker 2: be the person who like, that's just not going to
- 23:55Speaker 2: be sustainable. And in the long run, I don't think, um,
- 24:00Speaker 2: men being men in the right way and women being
- 24:03Speaker 2: women is the right way. And surrendering to your husband
- 24:07Speaker 2: is not like the Proverbs 31 woman was a boss.
- 24:12Speaker 2: Like she was entrepreneurial. She was, yeah, she was a
- 24:16Speaker 2: nurturer and a lover and all of these great things,
- 24:19Speaker 2: but she was also like, she knew how to handle money.
- 24:22Speaker 1: She, you know, her husband was known at the gates
- 24:26Speaker 1: because of her.
- 24:27Speaker 2: Like she was a great powerful woman, the Proverbs 31 woman.
- 24:32Speaker 2: So that's what we're supposed to be. We're not supposed
- 24:35Speaker 2: to be oppressed in any way, but we also have
- 24:37Speaker 2: to give men their place. And I think that's really important.
- 24:42Speaker 3: We do have such a fractured understanding of womanhood. And
- 24:47Speaker 3: there have been further conversations. There are a couple of novels.
- 24:50Speaker 1: And things that are out right now.
- 24:52Speaker 3: There's all this stuff going around about trad wife on
- 24:54Speaker 3: and on. I'm not even going to begin to unpack
- 24:57Speaker 3: any of that. I have no desire to get in
- 24:59Speaker 3: that pool and Slug that out. But what I think
- 25:02Speaker 3: we really do see highlighted again is how fractured our
- 25:06Speaker 3: understanding is. We have incredibly strong, amazing women leading and
- 25:11Speaker 3: doing all kinds of things across scripture. And unfortunately, we
- 25:15Speaker 3: have boiled all that down in some of the conversation
- 25:18Speaker 3: and lost a lot of what is factual in God's
- 25:20Speaker 3: word about women. I think that one thing I would
- 25:24Speaker 3: just love to hear you try to just unpack for
- 25:27Speaker 3: us in a sense, and I'm going to ask you
- 25:28Speaker 3: to do something that's going to make you like flip
- 25:31Speaker 3: the guitar. If you've been playing with this hand, we're
- 25:32Speaker 3: going to flip and see if you can go the
- 25:34Speaker 3: other direction.
- 25:34Speaker 1: So get ready.
- 25:36Speaker 3: But because this audience is primarily women, and because as
- 25:40Speaker 3: you and I have shared, we have women saying, I
- 25:42Speaker 3: don't know what to do.
- 25:43Speaker 1: My guy is so passive.
- 25:44Speaker 3: And to your point, If all these things, if all
- 25:47Speaker 3: this fighting had led to women who felt more rested,
- 25:50Speaker 3: more directed, that doors were opening for them, on and
- 25:53Speaker 3: on and on, then maybe the argument would stand. But
- 25:56Speaker 3: what we're seeing now is women who say they are
- 25:59Speaker 3: more exhausted than ever, more burnt out than ever, and
- 26:02Speaker 3: guys who are more disengaged than ever. So clearly something,
- 26:07Speaker 3: even though some really good, honest, hard conversations were had,
- 26:11Speaker 3: we didn't arrive.
- 26:13Speaker 1: at really what a solution was.
- 26:14Speaker 3: So for that woman who's saying, I'm listening to y'all,
- 26:16Speaker 3: but I got to tell you, the guy in my life,
- 26:19Speaker 3: the guy I'm committed to, the guy I'm in covenant with,
- 26:21Speaker 3: the guy I'm, you know, we have this marriage and
- 26:23Speaker 3: we have these kids and we're trying to make it work,
- 26:25Speaker 3: but he will not do anything. Well, we're asking a
- 26:29Speaker 3: woman in a weird way to take a step back
- 26:33Speaker 3: to let him bloom, but at the same time, try
- 26:36Speaker 3: to activate him.
- 26:37Speaker 1: So we're asking all those two different things. So I
- 26:40Speaker 1: want to hear you.
- 26:41Speaker 3: I know you primarily are speaking in to guys in
- 26:43Speaker 3: your professional lane. Can you speak to women who are
- 26:47Speaker 3: in that situation who are saying, I hear you. I
- 26:51Speaker 3: really want to be in partnership. I want someone who's
- 26:54Speaker 3: leading well. I want someone who's following Christ well. And
- 26:58Speaker 3: this is just not happening. What is her next step?
- 27:03Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 27:04Speaker 2: So I think one thing is to try to point
- 27:09Speaker 2: her husband to the word so he can figure things
- 27:11Speaker 2: out on his own.
- 27:13Speaker 1: I think lots of conversations need to be had.
- 27:15Speaker 2: And these kinds of conversations, I think, you know, people
- 27:18Speaker 2: find awkward and, um, uncomfortable, but I think they're good conversations.
- 27:25Speaker 2: You know, one of the things I like to do
- 27:28Speaker 2: with my clients is encourage them to have weekly, like
- 27:33Speaker 2: meetings with their wife.
- 27:35Speaker 1: Like, how can I serve you better?
- 27:37Speaker 2: How can I, you know, What have I experienced that
- 27:41Speaker 2: could have gone better this week? You know, like those
- 27:44Speaker 2: kinds of questions are really, really good. Some of the time,
- 27:47Speaker 2: the conversations are just not being had. And like, if
- 27:50Speaker 2: you have unverbalized expectations, those are going to cause resentment.
- 27:56Speaker 2: Maybe the husband doesn't even know what he wants, what
- 28:01Speaker 2: you want from him, you know? So I think conversations, honest,
- 28:05Speaker 2: respectful conversations, not nagging conversations are I think that's a
- 28:09Speaker 2: really good place to start. But also I think if
- 28:11Speaker 2: you speak to how men like to feel love, men
- 28:16Speaker 2: don't like to feel love like we do. They like
- 28:19Speaker 2: to feel respect. And if you start and that's biblical.
- 28:26Speaker 2: And if you start to perhaps question, you know, are,
- 28:30Speaker 2: am I really respecting him and encouraging him to make
- 28:34Speaker 2: these choices for our family? to have the right conversations
- 28:37Speaker 2: with me to be able to lead me and the kids. Like,
- 28:41Speaker 2: am I actually stepping back and respecting him and encouraging
- 28:46Speaker 2: him and being his support beam, but not overtaking the conversation?
- 28:52Speaker 2: Because I think sometimes even when we want him to
- 28:57Speaker 2: take that lead back, we do find ourselves overtaking the
- 29:01Speaker 2: conversation still kind of like how At least I think
- 29:05Speaker 2: of this with my own kid, maybe like when you're
- 29:08Speaker 2: teaching your kid to tie a shoe, you know, you
- 29:11Speaker 2: want him to tie his shoe, but then if it's
- 29:13Speaker 2: taking a little bit too long, okay, I'll just do
- 29:15Speaker 2: it for you. Like, I think as women, we tend
- 29:17Speaker 2: to do that sometimes and, you know, just really taking
- 29:22Speaker 2: a step back and respecting him because once, when he
- 29:24Speaker 2: feels respected, he's going to do more and more and
- 29:27Speaker 2: more of the things that you want him to do.
- 29:31Speaker 2: when he doesn't feel respected, he's going to crawl into
- 29:33Speaker 2: a hole and be passive because he doesn't want to
- 29:35Speaker 2: deal with it or he doesn't know how to. And
- 29:38Speaker 2: so I think those are some of the things I
- 29:40Speaker 2: would suggest initially.
- 29:41Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 29:43Speaker 3: I'm curious too to hear why you chose to start
- 29:47Speaker 3: out on this ministry on LinkedIn. I think this is
- 29:49Speaker 3: a really interesting facet to what you do because so
- 29:52Speaker 3: many people launch immediately into wanting to serve and they
- 29:55Speaker 3: have a message and they have a heartbeat for something
- 29:57Speaker 3: that's really important. And a lot of people jump first
- 30:00Speaker 3: to more of a traditional podcast space, or they're going
- 30:02Speaker 3: to write a book or they're going to be on
- 30:04Speaker 3: social platforms, whatever. And yet you've built a whole community
- 30:07Speaker 3: on LinkedIn. I would love to hear more about that process,
- 30:10Speaker 3: that decision tree that you made there. Yeah.
- 30:13Speaker 2: So, you know, it wasn't something that like, so first
- 30:15Speaker 2: of all, biblical masculinity as my, my mission wasn't something
- 30:20Speaker 2: I set out to do like, Hmm, I think I'm
- 30:22Speaker 2: going to be this, you know, it wasn't really like that.
- 30:25Speaker 2: You know, it was a progression of, It was God
- 30:28Speaker 2: calling me through each little step. Um, and cause initially
- 30:32Speaker 2: I wanted to be a coach for women, actually women
- 30:35Speaker 2: who were toxic people pleasers who were high functioning, wanted
- 30:38Speaker 2: to get out of certain situations and stop appeasing people.
- 30:40Speaker 1: And like, how do we get there? But it didn't work.
- 30:43Speaker 2: And God kept calling me into further things that I
- 30:46Speaker 2: moved down the line into what I'm doing now. Um,
- 30:50Speaker 2: so I would say I started talking about masculinity back
- 30:53Speaker 2: in 2022, really That was when I really started and
- 30:59Speaker 2: I didn't intend for LinkedIn to be a big thing
- 31:01Speaker 2: for me. I just started posting on LinkedIn, whatever I
- 31:04Speaker 2: posted on Instagram and on LinkedIn, it just somehow, it
- 31:09Speaker 2: just hit and it resonated with so many.
- 31:11Speaker 1: People, whether good or bad.
- 31:14Speaker 2: And I slowly just built up this following to what
- 31:19Speaker 2: is now 150,000 people. And it wasn't something I intended
- 31:25Speaker 2: to do. I just started being really vulnerable, speaking boldly,
- 31:32Speaker 2: and it worked. And it's something that I believe in.
- 31:35Speaker 2: And I think when you're speaking authentically about things that
- 31:39Speaker 2: you actually believe in, and you're not afraid to be transparent,
- 31:43Speaker 2: take accountability for your mistakes, what led you here, what
- 31:47Speaker 2: led me to start this in the first place was my.
- 31:51Speaker 1: Series of mistakes.
- 31:53Speaker 2: And so I think people really appreciate that whether it's,
- 31:57Speaker 2: you're talking about cooking or you're talking about theology, you know?
- 32:01Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 32:02Speaker 2: So, um, I think LinkedIn has turned into a place
- 32:09Speaker 2: where people can really speak about things. I mean, it
- 32:12Speaker 2: is full of Christ, which it didn't used to be
- 32:16Speaker 2: like people would be super annoyed if you ever brought
- 32:19Speaker 2: up God on LinkedIn and anything other than strictly.
- 32:23Speaker 1: Business related things.
- 32:25Speaker 2: Right.
- 32:26Speaker 1: And now it's just not the same.
- 32:28Speaker 2: Like, I don't know if your feet is the same,
- 32:29Speaker 2: but my feet is just like, God, God, God, God, God,
- 32:34Speaker 2: or like really empowering, like business perspectives or about family.
- 32:37Speaker 1: It's just different now. And I think it's really wonderful. Well, Jennifer,
- 32:41Speaker 1: I want you.
- 32:42Speaker 3: To leave us with how you today with all the
- 32:46Speaker 3: work you've done now with the different people that you
- 32:48Speaker 3: have helped coach and given them tools and all the
- 32:52Speaker 3: things to walk in masculinity in a culture that is,
- 32:55Speaker 3: is really grappling with what that means and how we
- 32:58Speaker 3: can all honor each other in the way that God intended.
- 33:02Speaker 3: What today is your definition of what true, healthy, vibrant
- 33:09Speaker 3: masculinity looks like?
- 33:10Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 33:11Speaker 2: So I'm going to go back to my word meek,
- 33:15Speaker 2: you know, the meek, shall inherit all of.
- 33:18Speaker 1: The things that God promised, right? And meek as a
- 33:23Speaker 1: man means, you know, it is strength. It is composure.
- 33:30Speaker 1: It is peace.
- 33:32Speaker 2: I mean, it's massive strength. Like you have the capacity,
- 33:36Speaker 2: you have power inside of you, but you harness it
- 33:40Speaker 2: and you only use it if you absolutely need to,
- 33:42Speaker 2: whether that's, you know, in any context. You have compassion
- 33:48Speaker 2: and grace and patience and so much love.
- 33:52Speaker 1: You have emotional intelligence.
- 33:55Speaker 2: You have standards and boundaries that you are not afraid
- 34:01Speaker 2: to speak on and hold other people to. And you
- 34:05Speaker 2: have an aim in life that is Christ and bringing
- 34:10Speaker 2: your wife to her best potential and bringing your kids
- 34:14Speaker 2: to their best potential. And just leading your family spiritually,
- 34:21Speaker 2: you can't go wrong if you're that person because who
- 34:24Speaker 2: else was that person?
- 34:25Speaker 1: Jesus.
- 34:26Speaker 2: And I think ultimately to do this, you know, you
- 34:31Speaker 2: do have to surrender your life in that way. Kind
- 34:35Speaker 2: of like I said at the beginning, Jesus was always
- 34:37Speaker 2: my savior, but he was not my Lord. And so
- 34:41Speaker 2: everything was Jennifer's way, no matter like how often I prayed,
- 34:44Speaker 2: it was like, oh, That's great, but I'm just going
- 34:47Speaker 2: to go my way. Jesus has to be the Lord
- 34:50Speaker 2: of your life in order to live by this design
- 34:52Speaker 2: and have it feel good and how it, and that
- 34:57Speaker 2: will just expand the lives of everybody around you, whether
- 35:00Speaker 2: it's in the workplace or in the home. And so
- 35:02Speaker 2: that would be my advice is to be a meek
- 35:06Speaker 2: person and remember that that is not weak.
- 35:09Speaker 1: That is standards. that is boundaries and.
- 35:12Speaker 2: That is seeing people for who they are and loving
- 35:15Speaker 2: people and giving grace and understanding.
- 35:18Speaker 3: So.
- 35:21Speaker 1: I love that.
- 35:21Speaker 3: I've heard meekness defined as incredible strength under control. And
- 35:26Speaker 3: so I think that just really speaks to it. Well, Jen,
- 35:29Speaker 3: where can people go to find out more about the
- 35:31Speaker 3: work you do, where you live in the online spaces?
- 35:33Speaker 2: So you can look me up on LinkedIn, Jennifer Yale.
- 35:37Speaker 2: That is the place I'm most present. I'm also on
- 35:39Speaker 2: Instagram at jenwith2ends. yale. I do a podcast every week called
- 35:45Speaker 2: Reignite in which I kind of talk to people, hear
- 35:48Speaker 2: their story, how they've come through the fire, what their
- 35:50Speaker 2: testimony is basically. I also do another podcast that I
- 35:54Speaker 2: co-host called Living the Good Life. We kind of go
- 35:57Speaker 2: through Matthew verse by verse and have an hour-long conversation
- 36:01Speaker 2: and it's really great. And then I'll be taking over
- 36:06Speaker 2: as president of the C-Suite for Christ Austin chapter in September.
- 36:11Speaker 2: So you can find me at all those places and
- 36:12Speaker 2: I would love to chat.
- 36:14Speaker 1: Alrighty.
- 36:14Speaker 3: I love that. We'll get those into the show notes. Well, Jen,
- 36:17Speaker 3: thank you so much for taking the time today. I
- 36:18Speaker 3: know that you're in a super busy season of life,
- 36:21Speaker 3: getting kids off to college and making moves and taking
- 36:24Speaker 3: care of your folks and all kinds of stuff.
- 36:26Speaker 1: So thank you so much for making time for this conversation.
- 36:28Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. It is always
- 36:30Speaker 2: such a pleasure and blessing to talk to you. And
- 36:33Speaker 2: I hope to do much more of that once I'm
- 36:35Speaker 2: in Austin.
- 36:36Speaker 3: Yes, girl.
- 36:37Speaker 1: Absolutely. Same friend. All right, listener, you know what to do.
- 36:41Speaker 1: Go to those show notes.
- 36:42Speaker 3: Thank you so much to our podcast team who puts
- 36:45Speaker 3: those together for us and has all the links and
- 36:47Speaker 3: all the good stuff.
- 36:47Speaker 1: So be sure and check that out.
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- 36:59Speaker 3: well and encourage each other as husband and wife.
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