When you give up a goal to me to behavior, you're an addict.

This doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.

This is food, money, clothing, shopping, sex, pornography, the internet. No one goes to prison alone. You take your victims with you. You take your family with you. You take your friends that believed in you. The hardest prison to do time in is the prison of your mind. I meet more people out here in the free world that are locked up and I ever did when I served time in real prison.

If I gave you 60 seconds to talk directly to the person listening who's about to quit on

themselves, what would you say to snap them out of it?

I'd say...

So you used to be a quarterback.

I did.

Division one.

Division one quarterback.

And then you ended up running from the cops. So tell us the story. Go back to the beginning. So I guess you could say I was a quarterback twice. It was a quarterback of a good team, then a quarterback of a very bad team, right? But I've always been a leader. My fifth grade teacher told me, Damon, you're going to be a leader for the rest of your life. You're either going to lead people the right way or the wrong way. Well, guess what, Ms. Greenberg? I did both, right? So I grew up in southeast Texas, a little town called Port Arthur. It came from a great family. My mom was a school teacher and a nurse. My dad was a sports writer. They were married for 55 years. Good two-parent home. Had everything, Brad. I had it all. I mean, I didn't come from a diverse, I mean, I didn't come from a difficult background. Good student, great athlete. Texas high school football, man, you know the drill. Friday night lights, three-year starter, scholarship to play football at the University of North Texas. Division I college quarterback. By the time I'm 20, I'm the starting quarterback on a D1 team. My head's this big, man.

It's out to here.

But when I'm 20 years old, playing against Texas A&M one day in 1996, I get injured, career in an injury, never play college football again. And I get up to this fork in the road in life where football's gone. And it wasn't just football that was gone. At that point, it's my identity. because I've always

been known as football

player

and so I make a lot

of wrong turns

and this is where

the drugs start

coming in

the football that was gone. At that point, it's my identity because I've always, I've always been known as a football player. And so I make a lot of wrong turns. This is where the drugs start coming in, the cocaine, the ecstasy, the pills, but I'm a functional addict, graduate college, move off to Washington, D.C. I work in the United States Congress, then I work for God running for President United States, and then I moved back to Dallas in 2004 to be a stockbroker

for UBS, United Bank of Switzerland. It was at that job as a broker in 2004 that my life and the

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