394.Stop Saying Everything Happens for a Reason

The Real Jason Duncan Podcast · Sep 16, 2026 · 11m

The deal dies three days before closing. You've got four months in it, you've already told your wife, and somebody who cares about you says the thing everybody says.

Well, everything happens for a reason.

Jason takes that sentence apart. Not the theology of it, and not whether God authors every event, but what the phrase actually does to the person hearing it, and what it does to you when you say it about your own life.

Because we don't only say it to other people. We say it to ourselves after the hire we knew was wrong, the contract we didn't read, the client we kept three years too long…