America's #1 Divorce Lawyer Questions God's Love (James Sexton) | #046
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Who is James Sexton and how did Soft White Underbelly make him famous?
All righty, guys. Welcome to another episode on the Unlearned Wisdom Podcast with yours truly, Johnny Chang. Today, we have a very special guest. And his name, actually, I'm going to let him introduce himself. Who are you, guest? And where are you from?
And why are you here? How did you get in here? Let me check my ID. Those are separate questions. Those are easier. One of them is easier than the other. I'm James Sexton. Who am I? I'm a divorce lawyer from New York City that somehow everybody knows. And I suddenly became America's divorce lawyer. Why am I here? That could be a really long question, depending on how you want me to answer it. And when it's asked by a Christian, I'm always a little more nervous. Because my answer would have been, why am I here? I'm here to talk on a podcast. But they were like, no, you're here to glorify the Lord. So I don't know which, if we were speaking existentially or if we were speaking... But I'm here to sit down with my fellow soft white underbelly alumnus and have probably an overdue conversation together.
We got a lot of overlap of the things that we think about and talk about. And yeah, I'm just thrilled to be here. So thanks for having me.
There's something funny about that because you guys are like the most normal people with the highest viewed episode on Soft White Underbelly. Isn't that interesting?
Yeah. You know, it's funny. I was a fan of Soft White Underbelly for a really long time before I ever appeared on it. And I never imagined I would appear on it. And when I say I was a fan, I wasn't just somebody who would click on it. when I'd see an interesting interview, I was a subscriber. Like I paid the whatever 10 bucks a month for the, you know, all access.
You paid?
Legit. Like, yeah, I put that credit card down. What drew you to the channel at first? It's a good question. I mean, for me, I felt like it was, it was an exercise in radical empathy. Like I felt like it, it put me in the right head space to watch those videos. Because living in New York City, it's really easy to get very jaded. Like New York is a place where you're just surrounded with people and feeling completely alone a lot of the time. And you develop this callous because there's just people laying on the streets like addicts and there's just, it's so easy to become just indifferent. And I like to think about things that are important. And when I saw the channel the first time, I remember watching it and thinking,
you know, I'm so fortunate. Like I really should more often think about, because you watch these episodes of people with like severe substance use disorder, people, you know, and now you're learning about their background and how they were abused as a child or how they were victims, you know, of some kind of, or multiple kinds of trauma. And you start to go, you know what, for the grace of God, go I. I am a few traumas from having gone a completely different path. And so I felt like the channel's really good for that. And it was good for me because it would remind me that this is who somebody, who I could just as easily be.
So how did you get discovered?
Well, what's funny, I've been a practicing divorce lawyer for 27 years now. And for the first 20 years of my career, actually the first 10 years of my career, I just represented what I would call civilians, like regular people, just, you know, w two wage earners, you know, a cop and a teacher, they got a house, couple of kids, 401k. It was kind of straightforward, but I developed a reputation pretty quickly as being a skilled trial lawyer. And you know, when you're a good trial lawyer, you, you start to move up in the direction. And I started representing higher and higher net worth people for a while. It was like, okay, My client's worth a million bucks, that's a lot of money. And then there came a client's worth 100 million bucks, that's a lot of money.
And now one of my clients is worth $8 billion. I started representing celebrities, actors, athletes, a lot of professional athletes, a lot of... musicians, you know, different high net worth professions.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Who is James Sexton and how did Soft White Underbelly make him famous?
0:00β10:04
2
How did James transition from a trial lawyer to an unexpected media figure?
10:04β1:02:04
3
How does James describe his faith journey and doubts about God's nature?
1:02:04β1:22:37
4
How should couples view marriageβas a contract, a promise, or a committed job?
1:22:37β1:27:07
5
What makes a marriage satisfying and do second marriages fare better?
1:27:07β1:33:13
6
How can Godβs love be understood when questions about hell and justice arise?
1:33:13β1:38:08
7
How do social media, advertising and porn undermine relationships and human connection?
1:38:08β2:43:16
Speakers
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