Ep 65 - Behind the Scenes & The Power of Forgiveness with Jason Romano

What's Next with Eric Wood

Eric Wood

Sports

5 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

For 17 years, Jason was an Emmy-Award winning Producer and Senior Manager at ESPN. He has created and produced content for shows such as SportsCenter, Monday Night Football and Mike and Mike in the Morning.

In February of 2017, Jason took a leap of faith and walked away from his job at ESPN to pursue sports ministry. One month later, he launched the Sports Spectrum podcast, an interview driven show that features athletes, coaches, entertainers and other personalities sharing their stories on the intersection of sports and faith.

Today on the show, Eric and Jason get into many different topics, including:

Jason's journey to ESPN and his first jobs in the business (2:36-13:01)

Former athletes in broadcasting and common mistakes they make (16:32-30:00)

Jason's reason for leaving ESPN to pursue sports ministry (30:00-43:00)

Jason's favorite podcast episodes and his most fulfilling work (45:00-53:00)

The results of effort (54:00-1:03:00) And much more.

Jason is the author of two books, "The Uniform of Leadership" and "Live to Forget" and you can purchase them here: https://www.jasonromano.com/book

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Transcript

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0:00.0	But I didn't know how to take what I've always known and done and transfer that into doing more for God, right?
0:12.0	I mean, you can work at a church and you can volunteer and you can serve there and that's important.
0:17.0	But it's really taking the talents and the gifts that God has given you and using them to, in essence, point people back to him.
0:25.2	And so I really had this thought in late 2015 that maybe I was supposed to leave.
0:32.6	Welcome to the next episode of What's Next with Eric Wood.
0:36.0	Our next guest is Jason Romano. For 17 years,
0:39.7	Jason was an Emmy Award winning producer and senior manager at ESPN. He has created and produced
0:45.4	content for shows such as SportsCenter, Monday Night Football, Mike and Mike in the morning, Sunday
0:51.1	NFL countdown, college game day, and many more. He took a leap of faith and left
0:56.5	ESPN and is now an author, speaker, and podcast host and producer for Sports Spectrum. You will be
1:02.9	inspired by Jason's story, and you will be entertained hearing about his time at ESPN. You will
1:08.7	also be touched by his story on forgiveness in his relationship with his
1:12.9	dad. Thank you for tuning into this episode once again. Please subscribe, rate, and review this podcast
1:18.9	if you haven't done so already. Scroll down to the bottom of the episode list, hit five stars
1:24.0	if you like it, and leave a comment. That will help spread the impact I hope to make through this podcast.
1:30.1	Enjoy.
1:31.9	Jason, welcome to the show today.
1:33.4	Thank you so much for your time.
1:35.4	Eric, thanks for having me, brother.
1:36.7	So good to be with you today.
1:38.2	Yeah, I've been a big fan of yours in the social media space,
1:41.7	not necessarily because your account got me hacked and locked out
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