Ep 72 - Shedding Labels with Ryan Leaf
What's Next with Eric Wood
Eric Wood
5 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Leaf was the #2 overall pick in the 1998 NFL Draft. Today, he his considered "The Biggest Draft Bust in Sports History."
What went wrong? On today's show, Ryan shares his powerful story of redemption and how he shed labels to make an impact in people's lives today. Topics include:
Ryan's decision to attend Washington State (5:30)
How a lack of maturity cost Ryan his career (10:28)
Advice to guys entering the NFL today (13:33)
Lessons learned in prison and his path to redemption (22:16)
Ryan's weight loss journey (30:00)
College football playoff expansion (35:15)
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| 0:00.0 | I don't think I ever heard another man, truly, another man say to me, I need help. |
| 0:13.0 | Can you help me? |
| 0:15.0 | And so it really opened my eyes. |
| 0:18.0 | I started helping. |
| 0:19.0 | I went back the next day. I went back the day after that. |
| 0:22.6 | I found I was sleeping better. I was more personable. I was more open to suggestion from family and conversations. |
| 0:28.6 | Because I had denied parole every time it came up while I was in there. I just kept staying in there. |
| 0:33.6 | I could have been out like in six months, but I just kept staying there and |
| 0:37.6 | denying my parole because I thought I was doing everybody a favor when it was probably the most |
| 0:42.8 | selfish thing I could do. And I, what I realized is I was being of service to another human |
| 0:49.2 | being for the first time in my life. |
| 0:56.9 | Welcome to the next episode of What's Next with Eric Wood. |
| 1:02.6 | Our next guest is former number two overall NFL draft pick, and that's Ryan Leif. |
| 1:08.3 | I got to hear Ryan speak at the 2019 ESPN college football seminar in Rush to find him after to tell him how powerful his words were that he shared. |
| 1:12.3 | I couldn't wait to get him on the podcast because he has one of the most powerful stories |
| 1:16.5 | of redemption you have ever heard. In this episode, he talks candidly about what caused him to be |
| 1:22.7 | known as the biggest draft bust in sports history and how he no longer lets that title define him. |
| 1:29.3 | He also talks about a time how teaching prisoners to read while serving time himself |
| 1:34.3 | taught him the power that serving others has on you as a person and how that has led him on his |
| 1:39.6 | current journey of using his story to impact others. |
| 1:43.2 | This discussion had such an impact on me and I |
| 1:46.0 | cannot wait to share it with you today. Please take time to rate, review and especially subscribe to |
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