Bryan Schwartz | Finding Purpose in Challenges You Face

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Jon Gordon

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🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

There's a different way to look at adversity, a way that turns rivals and opposition into stepping stones for growth and resilience. It's a game-changer, and it's all about understanding the true purpose of the challenges you face. This fresh perspective from my guest Bryan Schwartz could be the key to unlocking your true potential.

In this episode, you will:

Build Resilience: Discover how to overcome adversity in professional sports and emerge stronger than ever.
Learn from a Legend: Uncover valuable leadership lessons from Tom Coughlin that can elevate your game on and off the field.
Cultivate Personal Growth: Explore the role of faith in fostering personal growth and achieving peak performance in sports and life.
Harness Rivalry for Success: Uncover the impact of rivals on performance improvement and how to turn competition into a driving force for excellence.
Master Life's Challenges: Unearth practical strategies for dealing with life's oppositions and emerging victorious in the face of adversity.

My special guest is Bryan Schwartz - https://www.bryanlschwartz.com/

Bryan Schwartz, a former player for the Jacksonville Jaguars, shares his noteworthy journey from a humble dairy farm in South Dakota to the NFL. Throughout his career and beyond, he imparts valuable insights into overcoming adversity in professional sports, leadership lessons from Tom Coughlin, the role of faith in personal growth, dealing with rivals, and effective strategies for confronting life's oppositions. Bryan's experiences and wisdom resonate with athletes, coaches, and leaders seeking transformative growth and resilience skills.

Get Bryan's new book "Worthy Opponents: How God Uses Opposition, Enemies, and Adversity for Your Growth and Good" - Available at Amazon and anywhere books are sold.

The key moments in this episode are:

00:00:02 - Introduction to Worthy Opponents concept
00:03:45 - The Value of Worthy Opponents
00:06:24 - Rivals as Worthy Opponents
00:08:21 - How Football Led to Faith
00:11:15 - Biblical Story of Worthy Opponents
00:13:20 - Embracing Challenges and Rivals
00:16:23 - Growing Closer to God through Opposition
00:21:10 - Satan as an Opponent and God's Plan
00:24:47 - Facing Failure and Finding Growth
00:26:41 - Understanding God's Purpose in Pain
00:27:37 - Overcoming challenges and choice
00:28:18 - Pain leading to purpose
00:29:28 - Recognizing the enemy as a rival
00:30:29 - Responding to the enemy
00:32:20 - Impact and contact

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the John Gordon Podcast where we share John's interviews with guests as well
0:05.8	as key strategies and lessons from his keynotes, coaching and more.
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0:28.0	Now let's jump into today's episode.
0:31.7	Hey, this is John Gordon with the John Gordon Show, and today my guest is Brian Schwartz.
0:36.8	Brian, how you doing?
0:37.8	Man, I'm doing good, John.
0:39.4	How are you, man, thanks for having me on?
0:41.2	Man, it's great to have you on.
0:43.4	Brian, you played for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
0:46.4	You have an incredible story of how that came about.
0:49.9	Just share with us how you became a Jacksonville Jack workers.
0:53.3	You did not play at a big time college program.
0:56.0	Talk about that.
0:57.8	Yeah, I know I came from a little dairy farm
1:00.1	in South Dakota, man, in the middle of the state
1:02.4	and somehow got three offers in state from division two schools.
1:07.5	No one at the division one level took a look at me.
1:10.3	I didn't have much film and ended up at a place called Augustana College and redshirted there
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