Cussin' Christians Ep. 173 - Helping Young Men Become Real Men - The Cussin' Christians

Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
Yo, what are you doing right now?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
We are gonna get real about men's issues, who Jesus
is and who we are as men in Christ. We're
gonna hear Trey, Jeremy, Michael, and Brad break it down.
These guys call themselves the cussin Christians. All right, guys,
what is going on?

Speaker 3 (00:25):
My kids are still young enough to where like they
don't know that I'm disappointing on them yet, right same?

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Oh gosh, yeah, I'm already going through with my three
year old.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
So yeah, yeah, I'm what they turn Actually, Hunter turns
eleven on Monday, and Corbin turns eight a month ago.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
All right, crazy, yeah.

Speaker 5 (00:48):
Clear, old, he goes, He goes. I remember when I
thought you knew everything. But he would always ask me
these ridiculous questions on the way to school. He go, Dad,
how many movies have they made?

Speaker 6 (00:57):
Did you make up something?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
I'm like, what do you mean? How many move movies
have they made? Like that?

Speaker 5 (01:01):
That's an impossible question answer. He would ask weird questions
like that, and I'm like, don't. Yeah, every once in
a while I would just make up the number.

Speaker 6 (01:06):
Well, now the AI is around, I'm sure he can
get that.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
There you.

Speaker 7 (01:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, it's crazy. My kids are asking me like random
questions all the time. Same kind of deal. It's like,
do you remember, like what was the thing that you know,
your favorite play you ever played in football? Like I
don't know, like I had several thousand, like it was,
you know, but it's the biggest probably a trap ever
put on somebody.

Speaker 6 (01:29):
Offensive line is kind of tough though. You just kind
of stand there and.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, no, you're you're pulling, yeah, pulling.

Speaker 8 (01:35):
Well, you did tell us one time the guy you
lifted off his feet mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well are you talking about the time I got lifted
off my own? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:44):
That was HB Blades or no, who was it with him?
It was another guy who was at Florida State. Anyway,
I was running down I've been talking ship the whole
game and we threw an interception.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Oh I was talking shit.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
I got to the point where my quarterback would like
repeat the stuff that I was saying and.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
Because it was such a good material, all right.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
And so anyway, through an interception, We're playing in the
Gator Bowl and I'm running down the field and this
guy you can see him on film, he actually skips
players and ear holds me. My head stays in the
same spot. It just spins as got over. I mean,
I don't know how he even did it, and I
like landed on my back and Mule kicked and then

(02:25):
just rolled off the sideline. I don't remember anything the
entire fourth quarter, but my backup was so bad that
the guys wouldn't tell the trainers that I didn't know
the plays. So you were concussed, oh, blackout concussed. I
don't remember anything until like the next morning, waking up
in my hotel room and like, no, we lost, but

(02:48):
it's like, yeah, it was bad. And again I don't
know if you want to keep that first part in there,
But the whole thing was I was talking smack.

Speaker 9 (02:55):
You were paying the consequences for your scene.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
I know I wasn't saved at that point for sure,
but yeah, we were just talking so much.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Ship.

Speaker 8 (03:05):
I was thinking this morning, and I'm kind of weird.
I read the obituaris in my hometown newspaper every morning,
just said.

Speaker 9 (03:11):
What times you get to you are getting old if
you do you do that every day.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Every day, and I send them off to who are
you hoping to see?

Speaker 7 (03:20):
There?

Speaker 8 (03:21):
I send them off to my buddies. You know, Hey,
so and so's mom died, so they kind of look
forward to it.

Speaker 6 (03:27):
Anyway, I was.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Your buddies look forward to who died? Well, that's a
face I don't keeping up. I think you're looking forward
to seeing somebody you didn't like them.

Speaker 8 (03:36):
There, I'm just making sure I'm not. Anyway, everybody's getting cremated.
I don't know how I feel about that, but I
was like, I was thinking the other day, you know,
if I got cremated, they could put me in one
of those little hour glasses and then I could still
participate in family game night.

Speaker 9 (03:51):
You know, let's uh get on Let's get on track.

Speaker 6 (04:01):
Let's get on track.

Speaker 7 (04:04):
I never stops with you, bro, I never stops.

Speaker 9 (04:12):
We got a guest today. It's gotta be fun.

Speaker 7 (04:15):
Guess what what's today? Friday days. I'm doing it in
my in my brain. Guys, we're like three weeks away
to less than three weeks away for a Thursday night
from college football.

Speaker 8 (04:29):
Start thirty three days before Notre Dame plays Miami.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Did you guys watch Hall of Fame game?

Speaker 8 (04:34):
Was on the last night beating the crap out of Miami,
And I saw your Miami so yeah, today you got
your Miami bracelet on today.

Speaker 6 (04:43):
I sure do.

Speaker 9 (04:45):
Look at that. Look at look at that.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
He's like a total pole. It's the old poll baling.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
But the main one I got is impact. There you go,
there you go, he got.

Speaker 7 (04:53):
He got merched out yesterday, geared up yesterday with me.
I had had a long breakfast. It was I walked
away just floating. I was so fired up with Baylinter.
Who you here joining us today? There's a Bible verse
that I wanted to kick us off with after we
got through talking about all the stuff you just talked
about talking shit.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
Yeah, which, by the way, love the podcast name Cousin Christian.

Speaker 6 (05:17):
Yeah, it's amazing. I mean it's so authentic to I
think it's it's awesome. Man. Let's be honest.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
If we're just being politically correct, I mean, we would
be acting like not ourselves. So I think that the
best thing you do is just be yourself and be authentic.
And we're all centers, regardless for Christian or not. You know,
at the end of the day, we are all sinners.
So it is what it is.

Speaker 6 (05:36):
But I love the name.

Speaker 7 (05:38):
Yeah, we uh, I mean, we've had many discussions about
the name we're this is one hundred and seventy three year,
one hundred and seventy four episodes now, right, and so
we've been going over three years or right at three years.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
So, yeah, I have a t shirt, I have tattoos,
and I have a teacher says Christian and tattooed a
lot of people, you know, the judgment of being tattooed
and stuff. And then you know, in the back of
the shirt it talks about John seven twenty four and
it's like, you know, don't judgeople according to their parents,
but George judge based off their heart, you know. And
so it's the same thing, man like, just because you
you know, you might slip up here there. Again, we're

(06:11):
not living a perfect life, so there's no way we're
gonna be held to that high standard just because we
call it each other Christian. We're all centers, so we're
all gonna fall short. But it's just being your authentic
self and not having to put on a front for
somebody and acting like, oh, I don't do this, I
don't do that. But at the end of the day,
when when you leave this podcast or when you you know,
leave the church, you're going right back into what you're doing,

(06:32):
just because of the evil nature of who we are,
like just internally from when we were born. So just
being authentic, man, I think that's what God really wants,
and he wants the heart, and he wants to to be,
you know, the person that relies on him to get
through what you might be going through.

Speaker 6 (06:45):
But at the end of the day, we all are centered.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
So I just think that again the custin Christians, I
was like, man, that's that's pretty cool.

Speaker 9 (06:51):
We are.

Speaker 8 (06:51):
We had our friend Tellian to vision do a conference
for us and he's he's pretty well tanned up, and
I asked. I asked him during the breakout session with
all the guys in the room, I said, can you
explain all your tattoos?

Speaker 6 (07:03):
And he went through all of them and he had.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
The same if you want, but yeah, most of our
guys are listeners, they'll never see them.

Speaker 8 (07:10):
So and so I told him, I said, you know,
tattoos are in the Bible. I don't know if you
knew that.

Speaker 6 (07:18):
Back on a horse with a tattoo, thig, that's right, Jesus.

Speaker 9 (07:22):
Jesus, he's got a mark on his thigh.

Speaker 6 (07:25):
I think he says, King of Kings and the Motive Lords.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
I don't remember that at all. Cool.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
Yeah, good whole podcast on Christian tattoos.

Speaker 9 (07:34):
That would be a great, That would be a great.

Speaker 8 (07:37):
But that's our whole point with impact man passionate about
Christ and and our motto is just being real and
discovering grace, one man at a time.

Speaker 6 (07:45):
So love it.

Speaker 8 (07:46):
Just exactly what you just brought through in your in
your sentence, There is exactly what we are, and we are,
We are real, and we don't we don't you.

Speaker 6 (07:55):
Have to fake it?

Speaker 8 (07:56):
No, gosh, not after whats Christ is on in my
life and everybody's lives here, There's there's no way.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
I could fake it.

Speaker 7 (08:03):
We talked yesterday over breakfast about the masks that I
used to wear, in the mask that he wore, and
how freeing it is to be able to take off
that mask and look at another brother and just go,
I'll screw.

Speaker 9 (08:15):
It up, dude, And I don't know how to deal
with this.

Speaker 7 (08:17):
And you know, it goes back to the old John
Lynch saying of you know, I'm gonna love you more
if I know your weakness, then I'm not going to
ridicule you and love you less and you know that's
kind of but.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
That's hard, Like you have to make that decision in
yourself to love that person, right, Like it's a decision
you have to make, is hey, am I going to
love this person more because they tell me? And then
they have to make the decision to trust you that
you will trust you enough.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
And there's a lot of people that will say they
will love you more, but then they judge you.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Oh, and you can tell you it's so fake, like
you know in a heartbeat that person's judging you. But
like when somebody truly loves you and says, hey, man,
like I don't understand, but I'm here for you, Like
let's let's get through this. Right, that's a powerful, powerful thing.
I mean you can really change somebody's life by being
like that.

Speaker 7 (09:02):
Yeah, Bayleen, welcome to joining us. First Off, Bro Garrett
is in the sports world, and he saw he had
been trying to reach out to Bailing tell it.

Speaker 9 (09:15):
I'll let you tell a story better than me.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
So yeah, No, Garrett just reached out to me through
social media. You know, I have a pretty big platform
on Twitter and Instagram, and he had reached out because
I know he's into the agent space.

Speaker 6 (09:25):
So I didn't know that until he reached out.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
But he started seeing all the videos I was putting
out with a lot of the top quarterbacks that I trained,
and he was like, man, I would love to, you know,
get connected with you and see what you do and
come maybe to a couple of trainings maybe some of
the guys and you know, start building a relationship in
a network. And so he had reached out to me
back in like beginning of May or late April, and
then ironically we're on the same cruise ship, you know,
two weeks ago. I'm sitting in the middle of the

(09:50):
of the lobby there Utopia of the Sea is a
real Caribbean and I'm just sitting there with my dad.

Speaker 6 (09:55):
We'll not saying.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
I was standing there kind off to the side and
and all of a sudden, some guy walks up to me,
was like, no way, and I'm like I look at him,
like what's going on.

Speaker 6 (10:03):
He's like, are you bailing?

Speaker 4 (10:04):
I'm like yeah, and he's like, dude, I've been trying
to connect with you and I reached out to you
not too long ago, and you know, this is what
I do, and I'd love to connect maybe even after
the we're done with the cruise ship, and I was like, dude,
we're on the cruise ship.

Speaker 6 (10:14):
We're not going nowhere.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
So I was like, how about we meet for lunch
tomorrow on the ship when we get on the boat
from the Bahamas.

Speaker 6 (10:20):
And so we linked up.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
We spent about three hours together and he you know,
shared his testimony and he was able to meet my
dad and we were able to talk about Christ and
a little bit of what he does and what I do,
and uh man, it was just what a great conversation
we had that didn't expect. But it was a more
confirmation for him to know that he should have been
on that cruise ship, because he was even contemplating even
going or.

Speaker 9 (10:38):
Not or not.

Speaker 6 (10:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
I was already scheduled there for about six months to
go on this thing. I was actually supposed to be
there with my wife, but we have a five month
old and she's breastfeeding, so we didn't have enough formula
for the for our baby if if we ran out,
so I ended up taking my dad in her place.
But I was going to go regardless. I needed their
break out. I've been traveling all across America doing quarterback stuff.
So it was just a good time. But yeah, man,

(11:01):
got to meet Garrett through that, and then he came
to my training last week. Got to see a former
Arkansas quarterback that I was training there, which I know
you went to Arkansas. I thought that was pretty cool.
But yeah, man, Garrett's a great, great guy and I
look forward to hopefully building a relationship with him.

Speaker 7 (11:14):
It'll be It is awesome and the crazy how the
Lord works to connect people.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (11:21):
You growing up in the Orlando area, Yep, yeah, corner. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
The only year I ever lived outside of Orlando was
my first grade year. Lived in Alabama. I believe it
was Montgomery, Alabama for one year. My mom got a
job opportunity. We went out there and then they got
bought out by by Dillard's. She was working at Gayfers
and then got bought up by Dillard's. Gayfers is a
department store. Not many people are gonna know on this podcast.
Well maybe some actually will because it's back in the day.

Speaker 7 (11:48):
But depending on if they are old farts like us,
because I know exactly who you talking.

Speaker 6 (11:51):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
Dillers bought him out and then we came back and
then she worked for Disney for fifteen years, and that's
what brought me back to Orlando and been here since.

Speaker 9 (11:58):
Well, Michael loves Disney, yeah, and Michael loves Disney.

Speaker 5 (12:02):
Yeah, he's got a little saying that he says whenever
he hears that word.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
I love Disney now because I have kids, But back then,
that's all I never did as a kid. And you know,
everybody's dream is to go to Disney. I did that
every single weekend because my mom got free stuff and
we'd go to spend night hotels. Yeah, and so ironically
that all the vacation time was during the fall. And
of course, what do I want to do on a Saturday.
I want to watch football and Sunday And guess what
my Dad's like, Nope, We're going to spend time as
a family, which is crazy because my dad's a football guy,

(12:29):
but he knew the importance obviously a family time. And
so here I am dreading going to Disney for twelve
fifteen hours. And back then, we didn't really have, you know,
the capabilities of looking at social media and stuff like
that or watching games on our phones. So I had
to wait till I got or to the back to
the hotel to watch Sports Center to see all the
updates of the scores and stuff like that. So man,
that was That's really why I resented Disney a lot,

(12:50):
because I couldn't watch football on a Saturday as a kid.

Speaker 5 (12:52):
We had season passes for years when my son was
like eight nine years old, and yeah, and then we went
a lot. But there was one time we were there
and he goes, he goes, Mom, he goes, we just
go home through Frisbee, like he just wanted to.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
Like, yeah, it was, and you're probably like, well, no,
we just spent the hot for the next month.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Well it's like this is the best theme park in
the world.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
And we'd go back to Cape Canaveral and they're setting
up one of those little.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Portable uh little county thing.

Speaker 5 (13:15):
Yeah, like this this ride was you know, it was
on the interstate five five minutes ago. Now they're setting
it up and they were so excited about going to
this fair. I'm like, look, these crappy rides like these
you die tomorrow tonight.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
So my wife will not let my kids ride any fair.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Came out on Twitter. They literally had a hurricane. They
left it all stand up.

Speaker 5 (13:37):
Yeah after going uh that too.

Speaker 7 (13:42):
Yeah, I found it interesting talking to us talking yesterday.
It's nearing dear on my heart about our youth, you know,
and the old proverbs?

Speaker 6 (13:54):
Was that the original scripture you're going to read train of?

Speaker 7 (13:56):
But yeah, this was this was the scripture I was
going to read before we started telling train up a
child on the way he should go, then even when
he is old, he will not depart from it. You
you had to decorate a football career in high school,
played in South Florida, finish your career down in Lake Wales,
did some arena ball quarterback, and now you've taken up

(14:20):
on yourself the past ten or twelve years that you
work with some of the better you know, from the
younger ones, but to the ones that are in high school,
that are that are looking at serious Division I opportunities
to play and maybe go to the NFL and whatnot.
And that's your life now, right yep. And I was

(14:41):
telling you the story yesterday regarding this this proverb that
training up our children, and you train up your quarterbacks
and the football players you work with, and you have
made a conscious effort to insert the gospel and everything
you do with these kids. And I just think it

(15:01):
is so commendable in a world today that doesn't want
you to even come close to that.

Speaker 9 (15:07):
And then and I just want to see what that's like.

Speaker 7 (15:10):
For you when you're you know, you're working with some
of these area kids that are going to Texas A
and m is he going to Michigan?

Speaker 9 (15:16):
Now?

Speaker 6 (15:19):
Yeah, but Coleman's going to Miami.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
You have Darion's Miami, Noah Grubbs's Notre Dame Jackson Presley,
Sacramento State. I mean, Eli Hammrick's going to Virginia. You know,
I got I got a pretty good list here. But yeah,
just been blessed to.

Speaker 7 (15:34):
You found this niche to help these kids, and you
run camps for kids that are young like six, seven,
eight years old too.

Speaker 9 (15:42):
But what inspired you.

Speaker 7 (15:44):
To bring gospel into what you know, into this because
that's what brought you and Garrett together, That's what brought
you and me together. And I'm thinking, man, we could
do some cool stuff with impact around your efforts and
what y'all are doing.

Speaker 9 (15:57):
So give me the give me a story on that.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah, man, So, like I've obviously gott in this space.
You just mentioned it back in twenty fifteen when I
graduated college. You know, at that point when I was graduating,
I was like, you know what, I want to give
back to the kids because I didn't have that growing up.
My dad played safety at UCF, so he did the
best he could to train me as a quarterback growing up,
and he played quarterback in flag football leagues, which is
where I got my passion for playing quarterback watching him

(16:21):
do what he did. But you know, when I got
to USF, I was really humbled. I was in a
room full of four other guys that were highly recruited.
BJ Daniels became more of my mentor, and he was
a starting quarterback at that time, and USF was really
at the top. You know, they just beat Florida State
the year before I got there with Skip Poltz and
he had just come in and Peter Voss was the
quarterback coach that recruited me. And so when I got

(16:42):
to fall camp, you know, they threw me up on
the board. You know, I'm thinking, you know, you know,
growing up, I obviously had the regimen that my dad
got me with, you know, working out, throwing the football
and stuff like that. But I just thought having a
strong arm that was going to give me where I
needed to go, which just got me to the place
where I was sitting in a room full of you know,
four other quarterbacks that were highly recruited, and coach Boss
thows me up on the border and says, hey, I
want you draw this play against his progression. Go through

(17:04):
your reads and tell me your productions, and I'm learning
terminology I'd never heard.

Speaker 6 (17:08):
Before, and I'm just like, whoa this is?

Speaker 4 (17:10):
There's so much more to this game than just throwing
a football or you know, just trying to you know,
be the best one out there. So I remember sitting down,
I was like, you know, if I ever have the
opportunity to impact a kid to where they get to
that same position, I hope they know what they're talking about.
That way, they give themselves the best chance to compete
in play right away. And so that's really where my
passion came for quarterback training when I stopped playing football

(17:31):
or college in twenty fourteen, and so when I came back,
started you know, my own business, built up a good clientele,
and I started to see how God was working in
my life, not even through just you know, the training aspect,
but goes back to when I was playing. You know,
there was a time in my life where in high
school I gave my life to Christ my junior year
when everything was stripped from me, going from going to
state titles to states runner ups to then you know,

(17:53):
not knowing what your next move was your senior year
and then transferring and being you know, recruited by a
program and then having to go back to the school
that you just left because of you know, you know,
things that were happening and an investigation which I was Lord,
you know, Lord blessed me with the means and my
parents the means to go back to the school I

(18:13):
ended up transferring to, which was Oakridge High School where
I teach now. So through that process gave my life
to Christ my junior year through the song Sydney of
Our Knees by Toby Mack.

Speaker 6 (18:24):
It was. It was a moment in my life. I'll
never forget I.

Speaker 9 (18:26):
Tell us about it.

Speaker 6 (18:28):
So, yeah, so were your parents christ?

Speaker 4 (18:33):
So my dad grew up a Catholic and my mom
was a Christian. My mom was from South Carolina and
her dad was a preacher, and they moved to Panama City.
My dad grew up in Miami and so, you know,
just the the Cuban lifestyle is just more of Catholicism,
even though they weren't really practicing it.

Speaker 6 (18:48):
That's what he grew up in.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
And then when he got to u c F Fellowship
of Christian Athletes, he started getting involved with that. And
then Pastor Piccolo who's now with Discovery Church, who actually
married my wife, and I led my dad to rist
and he he converted to Christianity and gave his life
to Christ in college. And so, yeah, I grew up
in a Christian household, and every day it felt like
a routine. My dad and my mom would make me

(19:09):
read ten minutes of Bible every day. Would be me
and my sister. We'd have to mark it off. Its
almost like a checklist every morning. Did you read ten minutes? Okay,
now we can eat breakfast.

Speaker 8 (19:18):
You know.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
So that was the first thing I had to do.
How would you have done on that chef?

Speaker 1 (19:24):
I still don't like to read. Yeah, it's so.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
Funny, honestly, if you, if you were being really honest,
I would read the ten minutes, but you my dad
could probably twizz me on what I just read.

Speaker 6 (19:33):
I'd be like, I don't know, it's spaced out because
I just try to.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
There's a donkey that.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
Yeah, we're looking at the wall and singing if I
see anything different. But yeah, man, So I grew up,
you know, in the Christian household home with my parents
both being Christian, and my sister and I, and we
go to church every single Sunday.

Speaker 6 (19:50):
It was like a routine. We go to church and
then go out to eat.

Speaker 4 (19:52):
And come home and do some type of family activity,
whether it's watch a movie together, go swimming outside our pool,
or just do something familiar rented every Sunday. And that
just be came a routeem of mine early as I
can remember, from first all the way through my senior
year of high school.

Speaker 6 (20:04):
And so I had that, you.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
Know, if planted and the seed planted, But I never
understood what it really meant to be a Christian or
a christ follower. I just thought that was just something
I was doing because my parents maybe do it, and so.

Speaker 9 (20:15):
So many times we live at our parents' faith.

Speaker 6 (20:17):
Oh yeah, for sure.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
I mean that's I mean, if we're all real, it's
probably all of us in here, like we just grew
up based off what our parents had told us. If
we if we grew up in a Christian household or
whatever religion we're growing up. We're just following what they're
doing because that's what they're telling us to do.

Speaker 7 (20:29):
Right, So you think about that, that proverb scripture they
were doing. Yeah what proverb said?

Speaker 6 (20:34):
Yeah, right, right, no, exactly right, And.

Speaker 9 (20:36):
Then the moment came, yeah, I think that's.

Speaker 6 (20:38):
Honestly, I think that's you.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
We can use that scripture obviously in context, no matter
what is, whether it's training in your you know, field
made training quarterbacks or whatnot, but it's really you know,
raising your children.

Speaker 6 (20:48):
In the way of the Lord.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
That way when they go and they you know, they
go out, the seat's planted and they will start to
do the same things. So you know, they were living
out that proverb for sure, no doubt. But it got
real for me my junior year because you know, my
whole life playing sports, football, basketball, and baseball year round
never stopped.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
I was always one of the best.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
And and I'm not just saying that trying to be
cocky or anything, but I know the way that my
dad prepared me. You know, i'd come home, it's just
a routine. I would have to put the ac unit
at seventy two. I would have to put all the
dish dishes in the dishwasher. Then I'd unfold my clothes
put them in you know, colors, lights and whites, and
they couldn't had to be inside, like oh, it was.

Speaker 6 (21:24):
Military for sure.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
And it was really just me and I would sit
there watching my sister come home and she would be
reading a bulk or watching TV. And my dad really
was the one on me about doing X, Y and Z,
and i'd I mean, if it was like fear every
time he walked in the in the in the house
when I when you get home from work, it was
always like, Okay, what is he going to find that
I didn't do?

Speaker 6 (21:43):
And I'm going to get lectured on it.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
But as soon as he got home and everything was
taken care of, we'd go into our weight room, which
was my dad made the garage the weight room. We'd
work out for thirty minutes, and then after we were
done with that, I'd shoot hoops for about thirty minutes.
I had a court right in front of my house
that would shoot for thirty minutes. Then we'd go to
the football field throw routes for about thirty minutes and
go finish with the batting cages. So that was my
life literally second grade all the way through my senior year.

(22:05):
And so that so because of that, I had a
lot of resentment. You know, I was I always wanted
to be a kid, just go play with my friends
or you know at that time, you know, you gioh
Pokemon and Dragon ball Z was coming out, and so
that as a kid, you know, I'm seeing all my
friends at school get involved in those things and here
I am, you know, having to log in an hour
of TV every day. That's all I can watch was
an hour and log it in and once I did that, boom,

(22:26):
I was good to go. So and then I had
I had had set time for homework. So it was
like crazy the regimen that I had as a kid.
But because of that, I knew that every time I
slept on a field, I was always, in my mind
the best player out there. And so that was my mentality.
And so growing up as a kid playing football, that
was my passion. There was nothing like scoring a touchdown.
Never forget I mean, I was hitting home runs, I

(22:47):
was making you know, I was averaging twenty points a game.
But man, when I scored my first touchdown, I'll never
forget that feeling because of how hard it was to
do that, especially you know, being a young kid. And
so when I got that expl so it was like, man,
I'm sticking with football and that's my passion. And so, uh,
going into high school, you know, now it's pretty much
an evil even playing field. And my dad was my coach,

(23:08):
but I always played quarterback. And the kid that I
was competing with was my running back growing up in youth,
in the youth ranks. And and come to find out
when I got to the high school, I was that
which was Boone High School. His dad was a legend.
It was a big time recruit at the high school,
Boone High School. His mom was a head cheerleading coach,
his brother was a starting safety, and so there was
a lot of I wouldn't say politics, but that's the

(23:29):
word we used now.

Speaker 6 (23:30):
It was a lot of politics involved.

Speaker 9 (23:31):
We talk about that literally beat his politics.

Speaker 7 (23:36):
Yeah, so you you you had to you had to
wait through that, and what you felt like you wasted
some time, oh three years trying to get noticed.

Speaker 9 (23:44):
So because that's what your dream, I.

Speaker 6 (23:47):
Was splitting time.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
It wasn't the starter, and but but guess what my
freshman year we went undefeated six and oh we played together.
He was he He got moved up at the end
of the season. Even though we both started. I started
a quarterbacks some games he would start. I'd play every
he'd be a running back. So like he was a
phenomenal talent, don't get me wrong. And he was like
my best friend growing up, and so it was just awkward.
But you know, obviously you want to play. And then

(24:08):
it comes to my sophomore year when the competition's wide open.
You know, he ends up getting the nod and so
I asked the coach, can I play JV so I
can get reps because I just want to film at
the time and get experience. And I did that and
I did really well and got moved up after the season,
and we finished that year going to the state championship
against Miami Northwestern in two thousand and eight, and and
so of course after that season was over, it.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Was junior year.

Speaker 6 (24:31):
He was just my sophomore year.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
I went to state.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
Yeah, you know, after the end of that season, I'm
thinking to my I'm conversating with my dad because of
course I want to be the guy, and I'm like,
you know, he just led us to state as a sophomore.
Even though he only threw you know, maybe eight to
ten touchdowns.

Speaker 6 (24:45):
We were run heavy.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
We had all American running back James watching newinten See State,
and uh, you know when our offensive line average, you know,
it was like six five three twenty. Like he was
crazy the the size that we had up front. But anyway,
so I told my dad, was like, hey man, we
might need to make it a move and he's like, no,
I believe you're gonna beat him out. I believe you're
going to be the guy. And I'm like, okay, let's

(25:06):
I guess. Let's roll it out. So we go into
spraying and he was a good competition, but he always
got the majority of the reps. It'd be foolish too
for a coach to you know, make it really wide
open when you just led you to state championship, did
nothing really wrong to lose it because you there was
really no opportunities to really mess up because if we
were passing, it was either play action or something simple
like a tight end dump or slants or something like that.

Speaker 6 (25:27):
So it wasn't really you know, hard.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
So anyways, I go through my junior year, we split
time but he was a starter. I had really good,
you know, a good junior year, enough to have a
good tape, but he was obviously the guy. And then
so at the end of the year, we lost in
the state semis to Stamford Semine, who ended up beating
Northwestern in the state title that year, and I'd made
a decision.

Speaker 6 (25:48):
I wrote a seven page I say.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
My parents sat me down and said, hey, tell us
why you love football, why you love playing quarterback. To
help us understand why you would be willing to transfer schools,
because again, my dad's still old school.

Speaker 6 (25:59):
You're gonn to beat him out. You're gonna beat him out.

Speaker 9 (26:02):
The klos ticking, the clocks ticking.

Speaker 4 (26:03):
I'm down to one more year, one and a half years,
because I still have my junior spring. And so I
wrote the seventh page, I say, read it to my family,
and at the end of it, my mom looked at
me and said, Okay, we're all in. And so from
that moment, my dad made some phone calls, had a
couple of scholarship opportunities to a couple of you know,
private schools in the area, but then ultimately ended up
at Oakridge High School, where Elijah Williams, who's now the

(26:23):
head coach at Jones. It was just going to be
his his first year ever at Oakridge as the head coach.
And he played at Florida, played with the Atlanta Falcons,
and so he had a you know, pretty good resume.
And then so my dad was like, you know what,
you know, we come here, You're going to be the guy.
He told me straight up to my face. We met
on a Sunday right before school started for the for
the next spring my junior year, and he said, look,

(26:44):
you come here, our starter. We're running the spread offense.
We're gonna run through you. And so we're like, shoot,
let's do it. And he goes, show up, don't ask
no questions. We'll get you enrolled. And so that's what
I did. And it was the greatest three weeks.

Speaker 6 (26:54):
Of my life.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
This is again too, Yeah, this is three weeks until
my junior year. Right after the season and uh man,
I was getting approached by Miami, Tennessee, uh Florida, Florida State.

Speaker 6 (27:05):
These schools were all rolling in. You know.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
At that time, I was pretty big. I was like
six one, two hundred and so with a strong arm.
So a lot of these guys were liking the size
and the ability to throw, and and all of a sudden, Man,
it was a Sunday night.

Speaker 6 (27:17):
My mom said, uh.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
She pulled me into my room and said, uh, on Sun, Unfortunately,
there's been an investigation in the last three weeks and
you're gonna have to go back to Bill.

Speaker 6 (27:25):
Now.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
A lot of us guys here what we what we
were doing before this podcast? So we were talking a
lot of junk, right, So, uh, knowing my character and
who I am and how competitive I am, what do
you guys think I'm doing in the three weeks that
I just transferred to Oakridge, which by the way, is
the rival to Boon in the same district. At the time,
I'm talking a lot of smack to the kids that
I grew up with and played with.

Speaker 9 (27:43):
The text change off the shot.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
So in my mind, my first instal thought was, are
you seriously gonna send me back to the school that
I just talked so much crap to and now I
gotta sit back in the same classroom with these guys.
It looked like a fool because it didn't work out.
But then the other side was you know, why God,
why me? Why are you doing this?

Speaker 6 (28:01):
To me.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
You know, I lived my whole life reading the Bible,
going to church, and you know, been told, hey, just
trust on your plan, it's gonna work out. And finally
here's my opportunity to finally be the guy and get
appreciated for my talent. And now you're stripping this whole
thing away from me. And I was angry at God,
and I took a shower and went back to my room.
And this was another part of my dad's regiment. Is

(28:22):
before I went to bed, I had to log a
hundred push ups, one hundred sit.

Speaker 6 (28:25):
Ups every single night. This dude was not no joke man.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
So but again because he did that, I was able
to experience things that most people don't do, and it
was play at a high level consistently because of the
work that I put in. But of course me at
that age, I didn't understand that. But now later on,
I thank him every day. He's like my best friend.
I tell him, thank you for never making it easy
for me because I was able to live out my
dream and play college and you know, professionally, and then

(28:52):
now get to give back because of how hard he was.

Speaker 6 (28:54):
But at that time, man, I did not like it.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
And so anyways, I'm doing my situps and my push ups,
and you know, I'm taking my time because now I'm thinking,
what is the point of doing this if I'm going
back to the same situation that I was just in
that I just try to get out of. And man,
I was listening to ZD point three because at the time,
there wasn't iPods, there wasn't all this. It was just
I had a little radio in my room that would
listen to music when I was doing the workouts in

(29:18):
my room, and a ZDA point three Christian radio station
here in Orlando. And man, I was a song that
I listened to about a couple weeks prior before you know,
going to Oakridge. It was Sitting on Our Knees by
Toby Mack and I'm like, man, something about this song
really is like it sticks out to me. And I'm
just like, man, So anyways, I'm literally listening to this
thing for about an hour.

Speaker 6 (29:38):
I can honestly tell you I was doing push ups.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
I mean it took me a long time because again
I didn't feel like there was motivation to finish them.
But I was like God, I literally prayed this out.
I was like God, if you're real. This is the
first time I really challenged God in my whole entire life.
And this is like the first time I really felt
like I was talking to him because you know, we
pray or whatever. But I again, junior year at high school,
I'm what's seven, sixteen, seventeen years old, and I didn't
really know what the relationship was, and I was like, God,

(30:01):
if you're real, man, you better show up, or I'm
done this whole thing that you've I've grown up in
and that i've you know, read the Bible and going
to church and hearing about your word and you being
the Savior and all this and having a plan for
my life and you know whatever. I was like, if
you are real and this is who you are, you
better show up in this next song or I'm done.
I'm going to be the biggest rebel ever. There's no

(30:23):
really reason to really believe that you have a plan
because you just stripped everything from it. And so I said, God,
if this next song, by the time this song ends
is City on our knees, I'm in.

Speaker 6 (30:33):
But if it's not, I'm out.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
And guys, you know, if we listen to radio all
the time, usually between songs.

Speaker 6 (30:38):
There's always somebody that comes.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
In like kind of like what we're doing it, saying, hey,
this is blah blah blah, and then this is the
next song or whatever. There's like a transition, dude, that
song ended, and sit there and he started. My whole
body when it complete chills. Is like the first time
in my life I can honestly say I felt the
presence of God.

Speaker 6 (30:54):
And in that moment, man, I dropped my knees weeping.

Speaker 4 (30:56):
I'm talking, I'm full out crying, and I'm like, God,
you clearly have a plan for my life that I
have no idea what it's about, and I have to
trust that. So here it is, I'm finally for the
first time. Because at church sometimes at the end of
the pray this prayer and you'll be saved.

Speaker 6 (31:10):
You know. I'm like, okay, but I would do it
just to.

Speaker 9 (31:12):
Be how many times did you pray that prayer exactly?

Speaker 6 (31:16):
And so I did it every time because I was
so worried.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
Though I never i'd miss out on my opportunity, but
this was like the first time guys that I can
use say like I experienced that moment.

Speaker 6 (31:25):
I was like, God, forgive me.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
Man, I don't know what I'm doing, but clearly you
have a plan, and I just said, God, here it is.

Speaker 6 (31:31):
I want to be all in.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
And so that happened in that moment, and guys, if
it worked out, I never was investigated, and showing that
I legally transferred, you know, that moment would have never
happened for me. But because that happened, you know, I
had that moment where I gave my life to Christ.
And then of course I went back to Boone, finished
off my spring there, did not play spring football, even
though the coach begged me to do it.

Speaker 6 (31:50):
I'm like, dude, I just left you. Clearly I don't
want to be here.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
But he was like, man, if we can do anything,
we can movie positions, whatever gets you on the field.
But I'm like, no, here, it's either I'm playing quarterbacks
somewhere else. I'm not playing for the call at all.
I was willing to give it up, but I knew
God had a plan for me, and sure enough, you
know my parents, you know, they were all in. They
believed in my abilities and ended up getting an apartment
I share a room with my sister. My senior year
of high school in the Oakridge district and we literally

(32:14):
lived in a two bedroom apartment for the eight months
during football season. Now they'd only sign an eight month
LEAs once that lease was up, we moved back to
my old house, but I was still driving to Oakridge
and finished off my senior year there, which was the
greatest year of my life. Honestly, I give everything to
that one year at Oakridge and Elijah Williams, He's the
best thing that ever happened to me other than my
father obviously, So and that happened and man I got

(32:34):
to go to USF which was his running back coach
in Florida. That was the connection there, and then ended
up going to web inter National and then you know,
then training. So again I say all that because obviously
that's my faith story, the.

Speaker 7 (32:46):
Face story, and I love the faith story, and I
love you more. How you have funneled that down and
filtered that down to when you're working with these kids
every day. Yeah, you make no bones about it through
your social media, your Instagram post and whatnot. Yeah, And
I know You've probably given that story to so many kids.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
But actually I've done it more on podcasts like this,
and I actually have shared with kids because it's a
it's a deeper, uh story. Obviously there's more that goes
into that, but but I have shared obviously that my
junior year gave my life to Christ. And then, of
course do college got to experience some things. I'm sure
those that played college football, and you know, the access

(33:23):
to everything is pretty much right in front of you
and you don't even have to try. It's scary, man,
it's a scary world. And if you're not rooted into
your faith. I mean, there's everything that the world can offer.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Is for that athlete that was the opposite of you.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
I didn't find Christ until man, so.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
You you got So that's why how would you handle that?
Because I experienced college college and.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
I started to do that and I started to get
away from my faith because of how easy he was
and he girls are everywhere and I was a red shirt,
but because I played quarterback and they knew who I
was and the roster, I'm going to parties, hanging out
with my friends, and these girls like I know you,
and I'm like, I don't even play, like is it
even possible.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
It's so they'll get to you, so they can get
to the guy they actually want to give of course, they.

Speaker 4 (34:09):
Just want to check it off the list, like oh,
I had that guy, because eventually if you do become
something that I just I just don't get that. It's crazy, man.
And it's sad because a lot of these girls weren't
raised that way. But then it's it's just once they
get to college, it's like all bets are off and
it's like it starts.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
At least when I was in college, it wasn't just girls.
It was girls, it was drugs.

Speaker 6 (34:28):
Everything. The world can offer you.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Anything you wanted, and you didn't pay for it, I
mean money.

Speaker 6 (34:34):
I mean yeah, man, I think.

Speaker 8 (34:38):
Of your route and and you're you're grounding in your faith.
How do you teach these kids who have these wide
eyed aspirations college obviously, or went in the state in
high school going to college.

Speaker 7 (34:55):
And now they go to college and get a million
dollars in ill you know, that's a lot for a
seventeen eighteen year old, though, I trust me, I'm dealing
so and I.

Speaker 8 (35:05):
Teach about just the order, the way God has order
in everything. And I've said it many times on our podcast,
about God's order and if we seek first the Kingdom
of God and all his righteousness, all things will be
added onto us. How do you keep these kids to think?
I mean obviously some of them, probably that you coach,

(35:26):
don't have a relationship with Christ. Yeah, and so how
do you how do you transform their thinking into a
godly thinking to when things.

Speaker 6 (35:35):
Go wrong you have God always there for you.

Speaker 8 (35:39):
Because in the world, the world is giving them all
this drugs, alcohol, women, blah blah blah, money, So.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
How do you how do you do that?

Speaker 4 (35:45):
Yeah, that goes back to your first question is Okay,
then how am I training these kids about Christ?

Speaker 6 (35:50):
And how am I rooting that? And why am I
so bold about it?

Speaker 4 (35:52):
And that's you know, that's what drove me to really
do this Bible study that I do with my quarterbacks
every Monday night. And a guy in this area, Brady Hart,
who I trained since he was in eighth grade and
he's now.

Speaker 6 (36:04):
At Texas A and M.

Speaker 4 (36:05):
He is really the reason why he challenged me, because
I would always call him before games and just to
you know, I talked to all my guys before games,
and he was just obviously more of the spiritual PsyD
because he grew up in a Christian home and so
it was easy to talk to him about stuff like this,
and he's like, man, God, or he's like, bailing, aren't
we It didn't God make us more than just what
we do every day?

Speaker 9 (36:24):
And this is a seventeen year old kid.

Speaker 6 (36:26):
This is pretty hard.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
Yeah, he's like he's like, he's like bailing, Like, you
know you you you quarterback, train, you impact all of
our lives. I'm a quarterback at Coco High School, Like,
and why am I just here to play football?

Speaker 3 (36:38):
No?

Speaker 4 (36:38):
I want to leave the lasting impact that's going to
be generational. And he's like, so I'm starting my own
Bible study at Coco where I'm gonna get.

Speaker 6 (36:45):
Guys every single game day.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
I don't care if it's one person, five people, but
we're gonna talk about Jesus before games. And when he
did that, I'm like, holy cow, why not you know,
in my field of you know, what I do in training,
Why can't I just use the sources that allows me
to reach out to everyone across America, whether it's through
you know, through Zoom, Twitter, Instagram and reach out to
guys I've never even met but still have an impact

(37:08):
on them talking about Christ and why not do that?

Speaker 6 (37:10):
And so he was really.

Speaker 4 (37:11):
The reason that I stepped out in boldness and I'm like,
you know what, I'm going to start a quarterback Bible Study,
and I'm gonna do it, and I'm gonna put it
out there for you know, social media. Anybody can join,
doesn't even have to be just quarterbacks. Obviously, I do
that because that's what I train. That's probably gonna be
the market, that's going to be more you know, enticing,
But man, it's for everybody. Man, anybody wants to join
it on Monday night and they can come in and
do that. And so that's what I got challenged to

(37:33):
to really reach a.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
Lot of our listeners might be thinking themselves, do you
get any blowback from that?

Speaker 6 (37:37):
Though?

Speaker 4 (37:38):
You know I don't. I have not personally gotten blowback
from it, which I have. I honestly, when I started
this thing, there was a little It wasn't fear, but
it was almost like, man, am I going to start
to lose more clients because now, But dude, it's been
the opposite, man. And I've actually had other trainers. I
literally had a trainer in Tampa who I have never
worked with, but I've met several times in different spaces
and and he had at a picture of him praying

(38:01):
with his quarterbacks that he was training and I and
I literally DMed him. I was like, man, this is
awesome stuff, and he goes because of your podcast, I
felt like I.

Speaker 6 (38:08):
Needed to go out and do something.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
So I want to thank you for that because he
was worried about losing clients because of being so boldiwalk Christ.
But at the end of the day, How's God gonna
bless me or bless anybody that's in their field if
they're gonna hide God from it. Because God's the ultimate
reason why we're even in the position that we're in.
So if I'm gonna lose money because I'm talking about Jesus,
then maybe those people shouldn't be in my circle anyway.

(38:30):
And God's gonna bleed the people that should be in
my circle or be around me, you know, on his
time and his you know, in his circumstance, and it's
gonna you know, I'm gonna hopefully bless.

Speaker 6 (38:39):
Them through that. I mean, go ahead, you do.

Speaker 8 (38:42):
You get crap from people that say, you know, wow,
who are you as a quarterback mentor and coaching and
doing all this stuff?

Speaker 6 (38:53):
You know, it's like, who who are you?

Speaker 8 (38:54):
You know, and yeah, do you ever get that from
because there's a lot of quarter successful quarterback camps and
groups around the country, but it seems like you're doing
the right things, and you know, God's the one that
promotes us, Yes, and so I just wonder if you
get a lot of crap from people.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
I mean when I started this business, you know, back
in twenty fifteen, I was a young guy. I was
what twenty two, twenty three years old, and I started
getting clients fast. And what I did was I was
very smart because I watched my mom how she marketed things.
And she was the vice president of Disney. She was
the vice president of HSN Orlando Magic. So like, I
saw how and she was always in marketandized and merchandise
strategies and stuff. So watching how she marketed her way,

(39:30):
that's how I And at that time, social media started
to become a thing.

Speaker 6 (39:33):
Twitter just come out, Instagram just come out.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
Facebook was around for a while, but now those those
social networks are starting to become bigger. And so by
watching how she marketed products, I was marketing my own brand.
And so by doing that, I started to see how
other people, my competitors in this area were marketing themselves
how they were, you know, what their prices.

Speaker 6 (39:50):
Were, and I was just going down.

Speaker 4 (39:52):
But then my marketing would go up, right, so my
price was way low so I can get the get
the client. But then my marketing was so good that
now it's going to reach out to everybody around this area.

Speaker 6 (40:01):
And so that I built my client.

Speaker 4 (40:02):
Dude, I had like thirty five plus clients in the
first three months of my business, and the person I
was competing with was charging seventy five dollars an hour.

Speaker 6 (40:09):
I was charging twenty and so but because I see
my work.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
They're like, whoa, this guy's like legit, And so I
had to do something crazy, because again, who's going to
trust a twenty two year old with their son's development
when they got the guy who's been around the longest
and he's much older and has more experience playing the position?
Are why are we trusting this to that just came
out of college And I had to show the work.
And I knew the position because I studied and I
knew the details of what colleges were looking for. I

(40:33):
just had played college and the new era of how
the transition of a six' five prototype two twenty now
to a six one sixty two kind of mobile. Quarterback
how that game was, changing and so a lot of
the old school quarterback coaches were teaching so more robotic
stuff AND i was more into the new way of
quarterback play BECAUSE i just finished playing, it which again
resulted in my. Success and so through, That, Yeah i've

(40:53):
had a lot of backlash WHEN i first started this,
thing but then ONCE i started getting to an elite
eleven and then some of these bigger coaches started seeing
WHAT i was. Doing now these guys are reaching out
to me, like oh my, goodness like teach us how
you've learned, this or how do you implement off platform?

Speaker 6 (41:07):
Stuff and now they're reaching out and saying man. Like
and the guy THAT i was.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
Competing with actually reached out to me and was, like,
Man i'm sorry man BECAUSE i threw.

Speaker 6 (41:14):
Shots at, you BUT i actually love your.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
Work, now let's work, together and WHENEVER i come back To,
orlando let's put on big camps and we do it
we've done in the last you, know nine years.

Speaker 7 (41:22):
TOGETHER i told you the story yesterday about we're talking
about training up. Kids AND i met with this man
a couple of years ago who was just distressed as
could be because he did all these, things, planning, seeds
all life with his. Daughter she came back from her
first semester of. College and he looked at, it looked
at me and said, this, Dude i'm going.

Speaker 9 (41:40):
How CAN i pray for?

Speaker 7 (41:40):
You AND i was expecting him to come to me
some something major inside of. Him well it was major
inside of, him but he just, Said, trey my daughter
just came back from her first semester of. College and
she told my wife AND i that we we can't
call her a she. Anymore and he had to look, like.

Speaker 6 (42:00):
You know what to do with?

Speaker 1 (42:00):
That AND i.

Speaker 7 (42:02):
Just you, know and he went through. This you, know
this is what she. Did she grew. Up she was
my choir, angel she was my prayer. Warrior she went
to summer Camps Young LIFE. FCA i, said, dude you
did everything. Right you planted the, siege you trained her.
Up now she belongs To.

Speaker 9 (42:20):
Jesus you know. That now she's going to figure this.

Speaker 4 (42:23):
OUT i love the thing you said to me when
you said that story Is jesus loves her more than you.

Speaker 9 (42:26):
Do jesus loves her more than you.

Speaker 7 (42:29):
Do and you know WHAT i, mean And i'm a
parent And garrett AND i don't see HOW i all
the times and there's but there are other peoples That
jesus works through other than. Me like we talked a
few weeks, ago my brother died brutal death of. Alcoholism
our ministry was set up to help him and me,
MYSELF i couldn't BREAK i couldn't break.

Speaker 9 (42:52):
Through to my brother about his.

Speaker 7 (42:53):
Drinking but it was guys like this and guys Like
garrett and other Men jesus worked through and he'sess is working.

Speaker 9 (43:00):
Through you with so many of these.

Speaker 7 (43:02):
Kids and you can look at those parents or those
kids parents that are. Struggling that kid might be excelling
on the ball, field but at home in his grades it.

Speaker 9 (43:11):
Sucks or he's.

Speaker 7 (43:12):
Discovering girls for the we all know what it's like
to discover girls the first, time, Right.

Speaker 9 (43:17):
Jesus is working through you to help shape these.

Speaker 7 (43:19):
Kids and you, know the words of wisdom that we
can take away from the day is this training up,
piece not just to go to football, training but also
the spiritual. Training you're you're taking that, on, dude and
it's a Huge as a, coach.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
That's a that's a big. DEAL i, MEAN i didn't.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
Realize this is my first year of coaching and use
my kids TEN u team here In Pop, Worner and you,
KNOW i didn't. Realize they even talked about it in
the in the, Training, hey you might be the. Guy you,
know the moms are signing their boys up because they
don't have a.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
Dad at home or whatever that.

Speaker 6 (43:50):
Is oh, yeah, yeah oh.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
Yeah as a, coach you get a chance to touch
kids in a way that nobody else. Does and they
look up to, you you know WHAT i, mean especially
when they find out you played an elite. Level they're,
like oh my, gosh you've come there A Sugar, bowl
you went to the you played Pro, LIKE i, mean
all of a, sudden you're the. Hero and you, Know
i've had a couple of parents reach out to me
so far the. Season, hey you know so and so
their kid talk highly of this and appreciate we appreciate,

(44:12):
That and, LIKE i didn't realize how much you can
touch a.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
Kid oh, Yeah i'm not. Bragging, no you're right.

Speaker 7 (44:16):
Me, yeah but and you don't, realize you don't, Know
i'm Still. Garrett all Of garrett's best, friends they still
call me Coach. Trey, yeah and that's the coolest thing.

Speaker 4 (44:28):
Ever same all my friends called my dad Coach joe
and they're thirty some years.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
Old we think about.

Speaker 5 (44:32):
That the world is aggressively pushing their views on, kids
especially in the sports, world to get, paid you, know
sleep around, you whatever you. Want so so somebody's pushing
something on. Them so at least you're pushing the.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Truth.

Speaker 6 (44:44):
Yep and that's.

Speaker 4 (44:45):
It and again that's WHY i THINK i separated myself
from a lot of these quarterback. Trainers i'm not only your.
Trainer i'm your, mentor your, recruiter your you, know your.
Marketer i'm everything to. You i'm not just your normal
one hour let me get paid and let's get out of.

Speaker 6 (44:57):
Here it's no Like i'm.

Speaker 4 (44:58):
Deeper i'm Calling brady Her i'm Calling, No i'm calling
Dari on right before, Games i'm, asking, hey do you need.
Help they're coming to my, house they're spending time with my.
Kids there's you, know that's that that separates just the.
Trainer it's NOW i want you to be so comfortable
around me that you're. You if you have nobody else
to talk, TO i need you to call me on
the phone to make sure you're, okay and you always
have that with, Me and that's going to be the coaching.

(45:19):
Lifestyle that's that's what it. Is that's what we sign up.
For the biggest thing that's all my kids THAT i.
TRAIN i, say this is the biggest phrase THAT i.
SAY i, say show me your, Friends i'll show you your.
Future and so by, that you, know surround yourself in
a circle where you can.

Speaker 6 (45:30):
Count it's like accountability.

Speaker 4 (45:32):
Partners that wasn't big WHEN i was growing, up but
NOW i really you, know look at my quarterback training
as like a. Fraternity hey connect with each other because
there's going to all you guys are living in the same,
dream in the same. Space so when you get to,
college you have a, connection you have a group, chat
you have something that you can rely, on, like, hey,
man help me in this in this. Area are help
me with this thing BECAUSE i might be struggling in this.
Area so having accountability partners allows you to have that

(45:54):
safe space.

Speaker 6 (45:54):
To not get out into the.

Speaker 4 (45:56):
WORLD i think that's what's different now and why so
many athletes fall because they don't have that circle that's gonna,
count that's going to keep them. Accountable in Their christian.
Walk it's going to be more of The, hey you're the,
quarterback so let's go. Party you got this guy looking
at you for this business or this company is looking
at you for this. Money you're just an. Item, now
you're an, image, name image. Likeness that's what you. Are
now you're not This, christian you're this THIS X Y.

(46:18):
Z and then once you remove yourself and you go
home at, night now you're The christian kid that everybody
you know that you want to, be or that guy
that you Think god wants you to. Be, no, man
you're this all the, time every. Time and SO i
think getting kids and WHAT i harp in my training
and HOW i do my Quarterback bible studies is find
that group of kids that you can connect with that's
gonna keep you accountable past high, school because it's gonna

(46:39):
get real when you get to, college especially when you
start becoming the. Guy, Right Brady hart's literally three three
or four snaps away from being the guy At TEXAS
a and M Noah grubbs is going to walk Into
Notre dame In. December darian's gonna go walk Into miami In.
December guess what they're going To, sprain they're competing for
the starting. Job they can be the guy right, away,
right so you're gonna have access to. Everything how are

(46:59):
you going to stay who you are right now when
you're still in high school and how you you're kind
of being watched by your. Parents you don't really you have,
freedom but you, don't, Right but once you get that,
freedom like you, know everything, changes, right just LIKE i found.
Out so just making sure you stay connected And i'm
always involved that they know The, hey this just because
the world presents something that doesn't mean you get involved with.

Speaker 6 (47:19):
It you are separated from the, world because that's What
god calls. Me you are. Separate you're.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
Different and that way when if you're the starting quarterback
and you're leading A christian lifestyle Like Riley leonard was,
doing Like Ohio state's movement was last, year which was.

Speaker 7 (47:30):
Crazy we're seeing that happening campus after campus.

Speaker 4 (47:33):
Crazy now and now it's becoming, popular The Jesus safe.
MOVEMENT i see a lot of people Of colorado wearing it.
Now Whether dion's following that or, Not i'm seeing the
trends now that The Jesus way is now becoming the cool. Way,
Right so just following along those trends and staying on
top of. THAT i think it's very.

Speaker 7 (47:48):
Important So, buddy tell us someone locally or somewhere else
has a young football. Player how do they get in
touch with you to get to get under your? Wing?

Speaker 4 (47:59):
Yeah, yeah LIKE i, SAID i, Mentioned i'm pretty active
on social, media Especially, twitter so if they really want
to reach, out they CAN dm me On twitter and
My instagram is the. Same it's at bailen tr heo
b a y l i n t r u J
i l L. O i also have a website bailintrheo dot.
Com you can see Where i'm training every single, week
updated Every. Sunday so you go on, There today's, times
locations are on their prices are on.

Speaker 6 (48:20):
There and then, again you.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
Know social media is pretty much the best way to
reach out to me if you can't connect with.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
Me AND i love.

Speaker 7 (48:27):
It we'll put it on the YouTube description for the.
Podcast So i'm. Glad i'm glad that our past. Crossed
we had a great time. YESTERDAY i know this is
going to be a great one for a lot of
young people to. Watch i'm already thinking about the some
of the young football players that we're going to tag
into on. This if you get a, CHANCE i know
you live in The orlando, area but if you get

(48:47):
a Chance august twenty, THIRD i would love for you
some of your players that you work, with if they
want to come over to The Men's breakfast we're going
to be a part of On august twenty. THIRD i
want let everybody know about. It my Friend Ali farjaday
is gonna be the keynote. Speaker all the bacon you
can eat and still.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Story. Yeah he one of.

Speaker 6 (49:08):
My best friends Is, muslim And I'm i'm working hard
man bringing.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
Bring that's gonna.

Speaker 9 (49:15):
Be that's gonna Be august twenty.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
Third and.

Speaker 7 (49:17):
Uh and then if for those guys that are interested
in going with us on Our Mexican mission trip to
War As Mexico october eleventh through the, eighteenth send us
an email off the Website impactment At impactmanistries dot. Org
give us a, like give us a, share give us a,
follow and if you want to help us Crush satan.

Speaker 9 (49:34):
And want to make a, donation just click on the
donate button and we'll do.

Speaker 7 (49:37):
That so we're gonna get out. Here, balin thanks for joining,
Us brother, awesome all, right.

Speaker 6 (49:41):
SOON i just challenge all you, guys don't live in
fear the people are.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
Watching don't live in, fear live in, boldness and and
do it For christ because, ultimately when when our when
our tell you, know clock goes, out we're gonna have
to take accountability of what we've done and how we've you,
know expanded the kingdom because ultimately we all have, purpose,
right everybody has a purpose in, here but ultimately our
purposes the lead others a and that's you, know our
days are. Coming and you KNOW i always tell the,
kids this is HOW i leave my. Camps i'll leave it.

Speaker 6 (50:05):
Here you better get right or you'll get.

Speaker 7 (50:07):
Left there you, go and we're gonna close on that,
one and that might.

Speaker 4 (50:11):
Drop i'm Trade jeremy And i'm. Bailing we are the
what's The canes?

Speaker 1 (50:18):
Deal like you went to Uc.

Speaker 4 (50:20):
No so my dad grew up In, miami and so
he grew up A knes, fan and back, then obviously
the late nineties to early two, Thousands miami was actually.

Speaker 6 (50:28):
Good, yeah the

All Episodes

Cussin' Christians Ep. 173 - Helping Young Men Become Real Men

Episode Transcript

Popular Podcasts

Stuff You Should Know

Dateline NBC

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

.css-15opob5{left:0;position:absolute;top:0.8rem;} All Episodes

.css-14f5ked{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:2;overflow:hidden;}Cussin' Christians Ep. 173 - Helping Young Men Become Real Men