You Are Good Enough: Hunter Hayes and Jen Ledger Find Their Value In Christ

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🗓️ 16 August 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guests, multi-platinum country star Hunter Hayes and drummer Jen Ledger from the Christian supergroup Skillet, have battled with dark feelings of inadequacy and anxiety. They have each found hope through these feelings by remembering how God views them. Hunter Hayes is a five-time GRAMMY nominee and one of the youngest solo male artists to top the Hot Country Songs chart. Hunter discusses how he grew into a singer/songwriter and how he works out the answers to hard questions through his songs, like his latest single “Dear God.” Hunter is candid about his insecurities; despite his monumental success at such a young age, he deals with feelings of not being good enough. Over the last ten years, Jen Ledger has been the drummer for Skillet as they’ve been nominated for GRAMMYs and played live for hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. Jen trusted God as He opened doors for her career, even when she didn’t believe in herself. Now she is releasing her first solo record that features a very personal song called “Not Dead Yet” that Jen describes as a song borne from a time when struggled with and battled internal fear and anxiety.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. Our guest today is five-time Grammy nominee and
0:06.0	multi-platinum selling country star Hunter Hayes. Hunter was the youngest
0:10.8	solo male artist to top the Hot Country Songs chart in 2012.
0:15.1	He plays more than 30 instruments and has been writing his own songs since junior high.
0:20.2	Hunter discusses his path as a singer-songwriter, the hard questions he asks God through his
0:25.0	music and how, despite his monumental success at such a young age, he deals with feelings
0:30.4	of not being good enough. My name is Hunter Hayes.
0:34.0	I am a 26 year old music nerd.
0:38.0	And, uh, yeah, just a guy who loves to create music and make noise.
0:45.0	And I've been living here in Nashville for about 10 years now, which is nuts.
0:50.0	I moved to my dream city, and I get to do my dream job. I started making noise when I was around four, yeah. My grandmother gave me a toy accordion when I was two, I think. I don't remember obviously. I've heard the story enough times that I can kind of recite
1:06.6	it but she gave me a tour accordion when I was two and I just started taking it everywhere. My dad actually bought a few extras to fix the one that I had that I wouldn't let go of.
1:19.0	And every time I would break it, he'd pull parts off another one.
1:23.0	There's still kind of like a collection in the garage back home.
1:28.0	But yeah, it started with accordion and then it was drums
1:31.0	and then it was electric guitar and then that was kind of it after that like it was I was stuck to the electric guitar and and
1:39.2	Found songwriting when I was in middle school
1:42.1	Technically wrote my first song song I was six years old,
1:44.0	but don't look that up.
1:45.0	It's a bad idea.
1:47.0	Yeah, I found songwriting in middle school.
1:50.0	And I think that was the best time to find it
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