Finding Your Purpose Outside of Your Career

The Esau McCaulley Podcast

Esau McCaulley

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

5.0 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Matt Forte is remembered as one of the Chicago Bears' all-time greats, but now he's tackling something different: helping people find purpose that lasts beyond their career. Esau McCaulley and producer Mike sit down with Forte to talk about his new book Staying in the Game: Making the Most of Every Season. Forte opens up about walking away from the NFL, redefining success, and why our identity can't be built on stats, fame, or jersey numbers.

0:00 - Theme Song

0:15 - Are Esau and Mike athletes?

6:15 - Why'd He Get Into Writing?

10:56 - Matt's Spiritual Development

18:20 - Sponsor - God's Colorful Kingdom Storybook Bible - Available now, a kid's storybook Bible from Esau McCaulley: https://a.co/d/hVy8aUl

19:15 - Resisting Vanity

25:17 - Ministering to Athletes

37:12 - End Credits

Stay in the Game: Making the Most of Every Season by Matt Forte: https://a.co/d/3AYKev7

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, welcome to the Esau-M-Ka-M-Kali podcast.
0:09.2	I'm your host, Issaa-M-Kali.
0:11.0	We're joined by our producer, Mike.
0:14.3	Hey, Issa.
0:15.0	And we're also joined by author and former NFL and college football star Matt Forte.
0:21.1	Welcome to the podcast, Matt.
0:23.2	Hey, good to be back.
0:24.2	I thought it would be good because some people might not know a lot about your accomplishments.
0:28.5	I thought it would be good to give Mike an opportunity also.
0:31.3	He doesn't often get to talking up in the pod.
0:33.5	So I said it'll be part of your assignment to tell people a little bit about what Matt did,
0:38.4	what Matt did in NFL.
0:39.7	So you have it. I remember that last time.
0:40.3	Yeah.
0:40.4	You didn't let Mike talk too much.
0:41.8	Yeah.
0:42.1	You didn't let Mike talk too much.
0:43.5	No, listen, we've gotten a lot better.
0:45.6	He didn't even introduce you.
0:46.5	He said, Macaulay podcast.
0:48.0	Yeah.
0:48.7	You know, you know, he could have said featuring Mike. Yeah. Thank you. Wow. See, even he realized from the get-go, like, this podcast is missing something.
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