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Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

JAY LOWDER | Men and Suicide (Ep. 397)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Jay Lowder to the show. He is the Founder of Jay Lowder Harvest Ministries which utilizes innovative, creative, and non-traditional approaches to have the greatest impact and influence upon diverse groups of people. Also, a large portion of his ministry focuses on suicide prevention. In this interview, we discuss why he almost took his own life in his 20s, warning signs that someone might be suicidal, whether or not you should ask someone if they’re suicidal, what to do if they say yes, whether or not we should use the disease model with mental health problems, how the Church should approach the mental health issue, and much more. Let’s get into it…  Episode notes and links HERE Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Undaunted Life a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.

0:23.8

I got today we got a special guest on the podcast. His name is J Louder. He's the founder of J Louder

0:28.9

Harvest Ministries and from their side I'm actually going to read this what they do the life death

0:33.0

resurrection and message of Jesus Christ as a centerpiece of all of our outreach efforts. We are

0:37.4

committed to utilizing innovative creative and non-traditional approaches to have the greatest impact

0:41.5

and influence upon diverse groups of people. For over two decades, J Louder Harvest Ministries has

0:46.2

drawn the masses to Christ through live events, training, television and crusades. And one kind of

0:52.4

major through point and cornerstone of his ministry is focusing on suicide prevention. And today we

0:57.4

didn't have all the time in the world. There was a whole lot of other topics I would have loved to have

1:00.3

gotten into. But we went deep on the issue of suicide and even specifically men and suicide.

1:05.4

So we've talked about that several times on the show, you know, even here not that long ago,

1:09.1

Sarah Wilkinson came on to talk about her story with her husband Chad. Well, we've talked about,

1:13.2

you know, remember my foxhole land and taking his own life. And so we've certainly talked about it

1:17.4

quite a bit on the show, but it's something that bears repeating. And in this show, we get really

1:21.8

granular because Jay at one point had a pistol to his temple and he was going to take it all, right?

1:27.2

And, and, you know, it reminded me of Chad Robo show who the first time he was on the show,

1:31.2

he talked about that as well and how, you know, some interesting circumstances led him to not

1:35.2

taking his own life. And so we get really, really granular on the show. We talk about his history and

1:40.2

kind of what brought him to that point, some warning signs for all of us to be looking for. Like,

1:44.8

should you ask people because there are people that think you shouldn't ask people if they're

1:47.8

feeling suicidal, because it might lead them to suicide. So should you ask people and spoiler

1:51.6

earlier, yes, you should have that conversation with people. But then we talked about, you know,

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