Darryl Stinson - Suicide Survivor, Founder - Second Chance Athletes

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🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Episode 502

Darryl Stinson is a pastor at Life Church in Duluth, Georgia and the founder of SecondChanceAthletes.com, a place to encourage and inspire athletes who are struggling with the transition away from the athletic life.

Stinson played college football at Central Michigan from 2008-2011.

As a dynamic TEDx speaker, hip-hop artist, and certified John Maxwell coach, he shares with audiences his life experience of overcoming addiction, mental illness, and multiple suicide attempts to produce success in his life with current and former athletes across the globe.

On today's episode of the podcast, we talk to Darryl as he shares his powerful story of addiction, mental illness, suicide and how God helped restore his life while he was in the psych ward.

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You can learn more about Darryl's ministry by going to http://SecondChanceAthletes.com

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0:00.0	Today's Sports Spectrum interview was pre-recorded prior to the coronavirus outbreak.
0:10.8	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.5	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:20.4	Hey guys, welcome to the podcast. I am Jason Romano, our email address, Jason at Sportspectrum.com.
0:26.4	I'd love to hear from you, hear what you think about today's show, or any other ideas that you
0:30.5	might have for Sports Spectrum. Again, my email address, Jason at Sports Spectrum.com.
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1:00.5	We're also presented today by Compassion International, the most trusted child development ministry in the world.
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1:15.5	pro athletes that are coming together to help get kids sponsored and released from poverty.
1:21.8	Again, the website, compassion.com slash team up.
1:27.1	Excited to welcome Darrell Stinson to Sports Spectrum. And today we have a conversation about
1:33.1	second chances. And Daryl happens to be the founder of second chance athletes.com. He's also a
1:39.9	pastor at Growth Ministries at Life Church in Duluth, Georgia, near Atlanta. He's an entrepreneur,
1:46.4	he's a speaker, and most importantly, he's a suicide survivor. His goal to erase depression,
1:54.0	shatter addiction, and inspire people to unleash their uniqueness into the world. Daryl is a
2:00.4	sold-out follower of Jesus Christ. He credits
2:03.2	being able to come out of that suicide and depression state because of his faith. He was
2:08.6	addicted to drugs. He sold drugs. He actually gave his life to Christ in the psych ward. And he
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