Ep. 133 - Burgess Owens - Former NFL star, candidate for Congress

Latter Day Lives - Talking with Latter Day Saints

Society & Culture

4.5 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Burgess Owens is a former NFL star, Superbowl champion and candidate for Congress. We discuss his life growing up in the segregated South, his parent's inspiring success, playing football at University of Miami, his ten years in the NFL, finding the church through teammates, fighting through business and financial struggles, finding himself working jobs such as being a chimney-sweep, building back a successful business career, his love of family and country, his political aspirations and why he always stays positive. Burgess is one of the most inspiring guests we have ever had. His perspective and tremendous faith are so perfect for our current times.

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0:00.0	The Latter Day Lives podcast is not owned or operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
0:09.4	Any opinions expressed or implied in this recording are solely those of the host and guests and not of any specific organization unless otherwise stated.
0:28.2	Hello, friends.
0:31.8	Welcome to episode 133 of the Latter-D-Lives podcast.
0:33.9	I'm your host, Sean Rappere.
0:37.0	I hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend. I know we certainly did, and now we have
0:40.1	got a great episode for you. My guest this week, Burgess Owens, one of the most inspiring men.
0:48.3	He was just so wonderful to talk to, and I loved our conversation and our time together.
0:54.0	The only downside, because of coronavirus,
0:56.8	we didn't get to meet in person. So we did this online, but he did promise me once this is all
1:02.4	over that he and I could go get lunch and actually meet in person. I was so inspired by Burgess.
1:09.1	I just think he is absolutely amazing. So we've got that conversation
1:13.5	coming up for you. And this week, in my latter-day life, how do I love coronavirus? Let me count
1:21.1	the waves. It's all coming up. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this week's conversation.
1:37.6	And today, my guest here on the Latter Day Lives podcast, it is the biggest thrill and honor to have a former NFL player.
1:50.3	And I mean 10 years in the NFL, not to mention a Fox News contributor and so much more that we're going to talk about that he's doing now.
1:59.1	Burgess Owens, welcome to the show.
2:00.9	Thank you so much, Sean. I appreciate it. Looking forward to this. We'll be a lot of fun and
2:04.1	help everybody stays tuned in. We're going to have a lot of good stuff to go through for sure.
2:08.0	Man, I, Burgess, this is so let's get to know kind of your life.
2:18.6	Tell us a little bit about your young life and where you grew up.
2:22.5	Okay.
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