Jen Hatmaker
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Anonymous
100% this! I'm sure things were real in the beginning and she had great intentions. But to stay relevant and make money, she has to be marketable. Thats the problem with the evangelical complex.(although she's morphed into some other persona now) |
Anonymous
End State Influencerism: Increasingly desperate efforts at milking diminishing returns from one’s “tribe”. All in the name of “serving the community”. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| My biggest pet peeve is the nonstop pushing of Able. I'm sorry, but I cannot afford to shell out approximately $150 on each piece of clothing that I buy so that she can model their stuff and receive it as a likely free kickback. |
Anonymous
Narcissism and spite. |
Anonymous
| She was paying tribute to Tray- long time friend and fellow church planter with the Hatmakers. She was espousing how great he is and that he and another girlfriend’s husband were there waiting outside their house while presumably she had the hard conversation with Biker Brandon. The context was sweet but she’s over the top as usual. Tray actually is grounded and a really good person. He was more down to earth and relatable than most the Hatmakers. The Hatmakers couldn’t have cared less that we were attending their church— we weren’t one of them. That’s what really turned me and a lot of folks in our study group off to them. They were more interested in telling you all they were doing rather than actually caring about the people who went there. Tray is the real deal. |
Anonymous
| Hi Tray! |
Anonymous
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I want more from folks who actually know or knew Jen! Like, what do they think of her celebrity, etc?
I just know I wouldn’t shell out money for a me course from her if she is lamenting over getting through emails and texts. Like, what the heck do we learn? If we are merely learning how to be scrambled and crap at things, well that comes free of charge to me. Lol - I want someone with dollars to do this course as an experiment and let us know. I vote for someone who makes more money than I do! Haha, jk, but it would be fun to see what she offers! |
Anonymous
I am so curious what the Me course is like (but not curious enough to spend money on it.) |
Anonymous
Honestly, I didn’t know her that well and she was just getting bigger in her celebrity. Mind you, this was at least 12 yrs ago just about the time they adopted. Brandon was more working the church and preached nearly every week. Jen seemed more approachable at that time. However, I do distinctly recall that she didn’t seem to mingle too much with anyone outside her tribe (the jargon she loves to use). They both seemed fairly grounded and doing things for the right reason. Towards the end of our time at their church, however, it had become evident that there were the cool kids and everyone else. And that is ok. I just never played into that. All the women in her group dressed similarly- following her fashion. They all sat together etc. Then, there were the rest of us. It was very odd for me. It was very “bless your heart-ish” as you felt you were being looked down upon. You know, smiling to your face and eye rolling behind your back. Just my experience. Others may disagree. There were a lot of really good people who went there. |
Anonymous
| So, all the women wore styles that were 5-10 years out of date, full faces of makeup, and cheap looking earrings? Yikes! |
Anonymous
Well, here’s an example…. If Jenn wore a hat one Sunday… in no less than 2 weeks, there would be 4-5 other women wearing hats. Same with knee high boots. |
Anonymous
| She spoke about the ending of her marriage at this last weekend’s noonday conference. So if you were there and heard it, or know someone who went, let us know what she shared. |
Anonymous
| Who’s going to Jen’s house for dinner? |
Anonymous
Oh, I’ll be there. You know, because I’m too stupid to figure out which charities I want to support on my own. Let me give this clearinghouse a ton of money and let them give it away for me. All the while, board take administrative fees to fund themselves. No thanks…. I’m sorry that whole Legacy Collective just seems like the biggest farce to me. So an “investor” commits to $250/month in donations ($3,000/yr) and a “founder” commits to $1,000/month ($12,000/yr) to some nebulous charity that takes an unknown amount of “administrative” fees and I have little to no say in where my money is sent. No thanks Jen. She’s looking for 50 investors or founders. If she gets 50 founders, that’s $600K. Hell, I’d host 50 folks at my house too for that kind of coin. |