I'm so excited for today's episode of Unlocked because we have Pete Wilson here. Welcome. Welcome. Thank you.

So Pete has been in my life for we were just talking about this. I think I was 18. I just moved to Nashville. So 2016 around that time.

And I like to do these episodes that are a little more personable sometimes because this is like it's an interesting one.

I know. I now have no idea what we're going to talk about and I'm so excited.

Okay. So I did do you and your wife's podcast at one point. And what's what's the name of the podcast called the good talk podcast.

The good talk podcast. Yeah. Pete and Jordan Wilson. I love it. You were still kind of do that by the way. Thank you. We just started it. Awesome. She's such a breath of fresh air. She really is.

Okay. So let's start out. So 2016 we met. So we met because I went to a church here in Nashville. You were the pastor of that church.

And during that time in my life, I had such a huge struggle. Like internally just trying to I feel like all of my trauma that I've ever endured hit me at one time when I moved out of my own.

And to my grandfather's Southern Baptist minister, all the and he's very old school thinking and I'm not that way. And then I hit a point where it's like, all right, I have to believe in something for me.

Yeah. And not because I was taught to believe in it. And then I started coming to church by myself. I heard you speak and it just connected like your connection with people is amazing.

Oh, we're very kind. Like the humor, the and being able to take the word and apply it to life. Yeah. Instead of like, I'm just going to preach these words to you that are written here. And it is what it is.

I think that's what I grew up in. So I was like, I can't do that anymore. So do you think it was the trauma that pushed you to seek some kind of what do you think you were looking for?

I think I was so empty. And I think I was so tired of people telling me like, this is what you're going to believe in. So for the first time in my life, I was like, all right, is this actually real?

Like is because if this was real, then why would this this and this have happened? Yeah, I mean, given where your life was at in the moment, it would be a very natural response to be like, I'm having a heart-down believe in there's any God out there. This isn't just mass chaos.

Yeah, 100% and I don't know. I think I just was so longing to truly like take control of my life and decide something for myself of like, is this a path I wanted to take my life?

Is it not? Is it there was so much internal struggle? And I feel like so many people that have grown up in the church feel guilt or feel shame for questioning that.

Sure. And I don't think there was ever a time where I doubted, but there were a lot of questions that came along with it.

Well, you're further along the me because I still have doubts. I do. I like, I tell people sometimes if I told you all the doubts I had, I would crush your faith.

Wow.

Because I, you know, I do. But those doubts for me, I use this fuel to keep exploring.

To own and really believe what I believe instead of just accepting things that have been passed my way.

Is that why you came alone because you needed to find something for yourself?

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