515. When You Pray to God Online, Who Else Is Listening?
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🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I will throw out the first question to you, Stephen. |
| 0:09.0 | What's the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning? |
| 0:13.1 | Well, if we're being literal, it's turning off the alarm. |
| 0:18.1 | So for me, I pray. |
| 0:20.5 | And for billions of people around the world, if you ask them that question, billions of |
| 0:26.6 | people would also respond that they pray too. |
| 0:33.9 | That is Steve Gatina. |
| 0:35.9 | And I am the founder and CEO of Pray.com, the world's number one app for daily prayer and |
| 0:42.3 | faith-based audio content. |
| 0:44.5 | For most of his life, Gatina himself was not someone you would consider a person of |
| 0:49.0 | faith. |
| 0:50.0 | Back when he played college football, for instance, you might hit people when they're not looking. |
| 0:56.0 | You might intentionally try to hurt people physically. |
| 0:59.9 | Those were some of the qualities that I enjoyed embracing. |
| 1:04.2 | And I would say off the field, I loved having a lot of fun. |
| 1:10.0 | This was at the University of Southern California. |
| 1:12.2 | At the time, USC was basically the pro football team in Los Angeles. |
| 1:16.9 | You're out in Hollywood. |
| 1:18.4 | You're at nightclubs still five in the morning. |
| 1:20.8 | I would say that it was definitely not a lifestyle that promotes Christian values. |
| 1:27.4 | But years later, Gatina did become more religious. |
| 1:30.4 | By then, he was a successful entrepreneur and he saw what looked like a market opportunity. |
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