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The Nothing Is Wasted Podcast

Episode 131 - Jason Sautel

The Nothing Is Wasted Podcast

Davey Blackburn and Aubrey Sampson

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

For most of us, life-altering tragedies are something we experience in rare instances. For a firefighter in a big city, they’re everyday occurrences. Working as a first responder in the Oakland Fire Department, Jason Sautel saw suffering, tragedy, and death constantly. Jason looked to his job to make something of his life and to redeem his troubled childhood, but without any hope to draw from, he eventually ran dry himself. The misery he saw on a daily basis was too much for Jason, and at his lowest moment, he planned to take his own life. Instead, Jason found Jesus and learned that there was hope even in the worst circumstances.   In the wake of the fires currently raging in California and other parts of the western US, it's perhaps clearer than ever just how much of a challenge jobs like Jason's are. We depend on people like Jason for our safety, but that comes at a tremendous cost to these brave men and women. Jason knows what it feels like to walk through literal fires to save a life, and what that can do to a person, but he also knows a source of hope that makes that can transform that pain into purpose. Jason sits down with Davey to share a bit of his story and how he’s made it his mission to help others see God in the midst of their trials.   Purchase The Rescuer Jason's Website Visit www.rescuerbook.com Jason's Facebook Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Nothing Is Wasted Podcast, conversations designed to help you as you live, learn and lead through pain.

0:13.0

And now the host of the Nothing Is Wasted podcast, Davy Blackburn.

0:17.0

Hello,

0:23.0

welcome to the Nothing Is Wasted Podcast.

0:25.0

I'm Davey, your host, joining me Aubrey, our co-host.

0:28.0

Hello.

0:29.0

Aubrey, we have an interesting conversation

0:38.4

got my wheels turning a little bit and I'll tell you why. This is the first time I've transitioned from being a local church

0:46.0

pastor to kind of now leading a ministry that works with people who are in pain and trauma

0:51.5

all the time.

0:52.8

And Jason mentioned something,

0:54.8

and we have some conversation around this

0:57.3

about when you're on the front lines of ministry,

1:01.9

specifically dealing with pain and trauma, like counseling or something like that,

1:05.5

or you're on the front lines of kind of first responding, you're constantly inundated with responding

1:10.6

to other people's trauma, absorbing that, taking that on, and it can do some detrimental

1:15.4

things to your own soul if you don't care for it in a very strategic way.

1:21.2

And it caused me to start asking questions like what counselors do?

1:24.0

Yeah.

1:25.0

Yeah.

1:26.0

Like cope with or manage kind of dealing with everybody else's trauma and pain all the time.

1:32.8

It was actually just, it's funny that you said I was just on a phone call this morning with a

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