He read the Bible locked in his room while his face healed.

That was Jason Sisneros as a boy, put there by the adopted father who went to prison for the attempted murder of him and his mother when Jason was seventeen. His grandmother Ruth kept a Bible in that room, so he read it more than most people ever will, as a series of stories with no relationship attached. He delivered drugs at twelve, collected at sixteen, carried the nickname Psycho, and planned to go out in a shootout with police. A knife opened his chest in a parking lot the night he told his boys he was finished, and the verse that surfaced while it went in was the one about the sins of the father visited on the children. His son had just been born.

Leah has known Jason for eleven years, since the day she sat in his office and cried for twenty minutes while her business collapsed. This is the first time the two of them have talked about faith on record. He walks through the years of hating church and being furious at God after he lost three businesses and a marriage in the same season, the undercover rescues with Pastor Rudy, the prayer line that sent the team back to a hospital they had already cleared twice, and the girl in a car at a gas station across the street who asked whether all of that was really for her. From there it turns to what he sees now that he is out: influencers paid to keep Americans hating each other, separation as the oldest play in the book, a country that handed off its civic duty, and men waking up quietly all over the place. His definition of a real victim is the line most people will replay.

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"You take a trafficker off the street and you transform their heart, you've now saved 300 little girls. You've just saved 300 with that one act."

-Jason Sisneros

Key Takeaways

• The verse that surfaced in Jason's head the moment a knife went into his chest, and why it ended his career in the drug trade that night.
• He became a Christian, then lost three businesses, his marriage and his home, and the church that took his checks went quiet.
• The prayer line called the team back to a hospital they had already cleared twice, and what was parked at the gas station across the street.
• What Pastor Rudy said to a twelve year old girl through a car window, on behalf of every man who had ever hurt her.
• Jason gave his life to Christ watching a father pour oil over his son's head in a backyard after a rescue.
• Who benefits when Americans hate each other by party and by color, and where that play is written down.
• Why Jason pays almost no attention to Washington, and the one level of government where he says your effort actually lands.
• A fourth grade teacher taught him one habit that took him from a locked bedroom to two hundred stages a year.
• His definition of a real victim, and who does not qualify.

Featured Scripture

Exodus 34:7

"Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation."

Application: This is the verse that came back to Jason with a blade in his chest, and it is the hinge of his whole life. He had read it as a boy in a room he was locked in by the man whose iniquity was running straight at his newborn son. Nothing about him got holy that night, and he still walked away from the trade, because he could see the end of that story already written in his own childhood. The verse holds mercy and consequence in the same breath, and the mercy is the part that gets skipped. A line stops when somebody in it decides to stop it.

Timestamps

0:00:00 - Eleven years, one phone call, one office
0:06:46 - Locked in a room with a Bible
0:09:02 - The gang, the last deal, and the knife
0:11:12 - Christian, then homeless and furious at God
0:13:29 - Pastor Rudy and the undercover rescues
0:15:53 - The girl in the car across from the hospital
0:18:19 - The oil, the boy, and giving his life to Christ
0:22:44 - Where he stands on America right now
0:36:29 - Influencers paid to keep you hating
0:39:21 - Praying for people you do not want to pray for
0:43:36 - The fourth grade teacher and the dictionary
0:51:47 - The state of men, and what is waking them
0:56:03 - The crown belongs to God
1:06:08 - Where he lands on AI, and what it cannot do

Resources and Connect

Jason Sisneros:

Jason Sisneros is a business strategist, keynote speaker and philanthropist known as The Architect. He has built and sold over two dozen of his own companies, served as a top corporate speaker for the Tony Robbins organization, and consulted for Nike, Microsoft and Comcast. He is the founder of Built to Exit (B2X), an advocate for ethical capitalism, and a volunteer undercover operative on rescue missions for victims of human trafficking.

Website: https://jasonsisneros.com

Built to Exit: https://builttoexit.biz

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejasonsisneros

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-sisneros

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BuilttoExit

X: https://x.com/jasonmsisneros

Books mentioned in this episode:

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, named as the forensic account of how a country loses itself

The Constitution of Liberty by F. A. Hayek, named as the other side of that argument

All books available in Leah's Amazon Book Recommendations: https://amzn.to/3WscgNe

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Also referenced in this episode:

SERT Ministries, Pastor Rudy Gonzalez and the rescue teams Jason serves with: https://www.sertministries.com

The Forge, the men's organization Jason co-founded with former NFL player Kyle Ofre: https://www.facebook.com/p/The-Forge-61581699986825/

General Michael Flynn, named as a mentor and the source of the line that all politics is local

The MIT study Jason cites, reported by Fortune: https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/

Faith on the Fringe (Leah's other podcast): https://faithonthefringepodcast.com

Supernatural Bible Sessions (monthly Bible study): https://supernaturalbiblesessions.com

Joyful Jesus (Sean's apparel brand): https://joyfuljesus.life

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Scriptures for Further Study

Exodus 34:6-7. The Lord declares Himself merciful and gracious, and visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.

Matthew 18:6. Better a millstone around the neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

Mark 4:35-41. Jesus sleeps in the stern through a storm that terrifies experienced fishermen, then stills it with a word.

Matthew 14:22-33. Peter walks on the water toward Jesus and starts to sink when he looks at the wind.

Galatians 5:22-23. Love, joy and peace lead the fruit of the Spirit, in that order.

John 3:16. God gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes has everlasting life.

1 Samuel 16:1-13. Samuel anoints David king while Saul still sits on the throne.

1 Samuel 17:38-51. David refuses the armor and takes Goliath with a stone.

1 Samuel 14:6-14. Jonathan climbs toward a garrison saying the Lord is not restrained by numbers.

John 1:1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Matthew 25:14-30. The servants who multiply their talents are trusted with more.

Acts 10:34. God is no respecter of persons.

Name one leader you do not want to pray for, and pray for that person every day this week. Jason and Leah both landed in the same place on this, and neither of them wanted to.

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