The JTrent Connnect Podcast
The JTrent Connnect Podcast
Podcast Description
What if deeper relationships could change your life?Welcome to the J. Trent Connect Podcast — where we believe that one-on-one relationships are the foundation of lasting transformation.I'm Jason Trent: business leader, relationship coach, faith-driven encourager — and a man shaped by the powerful, life-changing impact of real connection.Each episode, we dive into authentic conversations about building stronger personal and professional relationships, discovering resilience through faith, and learning how to live with deeper purpose, love, and intentionality.If you're hungry for encouragement, real talk, and practical ways to strengthen the connections that matter most, you're in the right place.Subscribe today — and let’s walk this journey of connection, growth, and faith together.Because one conversation can change everything.#JTrentConnect | New episodes weekly on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube
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The podcast emphasizes themes such as relationship development, resilience through faith, and living with purpose, with episodes like 'Hope in the Storm' discussing finding true hope during personal crises and the importance of trusting God's plan amidst challenges.
The Guidelight — Hosted by Jason Trent
The Guidelight is for leaders like you — business owners, presidents, and CEOs who’ve built something remarkable and are now asking, “What’s next?”
Hosted by Jason Trent, each episode dives beyond the spreadsheets to explore what truly matters when selling, scaling, or reshaping your company — your people, your purpose, and your next chapter.
You’ll hear real stories and expert insights from those who’ve stood where you are, uncovering how to protect what you’ve built while stepping confidently into the future with clarity and peace of mind.
If your company’s EBITDA is between $2 and $10 million, this is your space to gain perspective that goes far beyond the deal. Because your next chapter matters just as much as the one you’ve built.
🎧 Listen. Reflect. Lead with Light.
For more than 30 years, Michael Bartlett had been following Christ. He had been born again as a child, served in ministry, taught pastors, and helped teenagers wrestle with identity. And still, at 41, something had not clicked. Then one truth finally did: he was trying to become something he already was. In this episode of The Guidelight, Michael and I talk about what changed when he stopped building identity around performance and started seeing himself the way God sees him.
That is the tension at the center of Christian identity. We are conditioned to ask, What do you do? How did you perform? What do other people think? Michael names three false places we keep reaching for identity: relationships, abilities, and worth measured by what we have. But identity in Christ works differently. It is not something we achieve. It is something we receive, reckon as true, and renew our minds around. Romans 12:2, Ephesians 1, and the freedom Michael found in Christ all point back to the same invitation: let God define you.
This one may expose how quietly performance has been naming you. Tune in to the full episode and ask the Holy Spirit to show you where approval, ability, achievement, or possessions are still defining you more than Christ is.
Michael Bartlett is also known as Pastor B, a longtime pastor and ministry leader whose own journey with identity in Christ became personal in his early 40s. He became a Christ follower as a child, later served as a youth pastor and family pastor, and found himself helping teenagers understand who they were while realizing he had not fully understood who he was in Christ. His journey has been shaped by Dr. Charles Solomon's exchanged life teaching and Neil Anderson's Freedom in Christ. Michael has taught these truths to teenagers and pastors, and in this conversation he shares the freedom that came when he stopped measuring identity by performance and began letting God define who he already was in Christ.
Connect With Pastor Michael:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michael.bartlett.33/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-bartlett-57a8a347/
Jason Trent is the host of The Guidelight Podcast and the founder of Guidelight Legacy Advisors. The Guidelight is a discipleship platform for the awake heart — the man or woman in any seat, at any income, in any season whose soul has started asking questions their circumstances can't answer. Jason walks listeners through the Seven Guidelight Pathways — Purpose, Identity, Inner Battle, Wisdom, Covenant, Stewardship, Legacy — toward wholeness: shalom, nothing missing.
He has lived on both sides of the fence — lack and abundance — and speaks to both without pandering to either. He lives with his wife Kellie and their youngest, Sadie, on a small homestead in Brevard, North Carolina. Acts 20:24 is the verse his life is built around.
Grace and peace.
Connect with Jason Trent:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trent-jason/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/guidelight-insurance/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Guidelight/61575862355860/
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