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Season 2

Jacob's Story

Name Image Likeness, or NIL, forever changed college athletics. For savvy entrepreneurs, it also opened doors to serious money. Such was the case for Jacob Byrd, who in two years, at age 29, was running a multi-million dollar sports camps business with some of the biggest names in college athletics. But when pressures began to mount and the business ran into the red, the scars in Jacob’s life revealed wounds that had never fully healed and a misplaced identity that left him searching for a way out.

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Episode 1: Jacob Byrd

Hear the inside scoop from Jacob Byrd, the subject of the JEALOUS: Jacob's Story. What has he been up to after the events of the film? How has he seen the issues of identity in the sports world? What was the process of learning to find his identity in Christ? All this and more in this episode of the Rooahk Podcast.
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Episode 2: Dana Byrd

In this episode we talk with Dana Byrd, Jacob’s mother who cameos as herself in JEALOUS: Jacob’s Story, to gain a new perspective on the story. What was it like watching Jacob go through his struggle? What parts of the story didn’t make it into the film? How do you hold faithful through times of family difficulty?
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Episode 3: Tryg Veker

Today we're talking all about a Biblical view of identity. What are the things we're allowing to shape our sense of identity? How do we see this played out in Jacob's story?

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