Giovani Bernard: Overcoming the Loss of His Son, Training for an Ironman, Investing in Real Estate
NFL: Good Morning Football
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4.3 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of NFL Players: Second Acts, Peanut Tillman and Roman Harper are joined by former Bengals running back Giovani Bernard to find out what he’s been up to since he retired three years ago.
Giovani opens up about the loss of his newborn son and the joy he’s found in becoming a parent of twin girls. He also explains how he dealt with the Bengals’ lack of playoff success during career and why he decided to retire after ten years.
Then Giovani shares the multiple passions he’s found in second act, including photography, endurance sports, and investing in real estate.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | There was a hurricane that came and wiped out Augusta and like power lines were down. |
| 0:08.8 | I can't remember the name of it, but they canceled that, that Iron Man, half-iron. |
| 0:13.7 | And then essentially I was like, well, my wife's going to a hospital next week. |
| 0:17.4 | I really ain't got no other time. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm just going to go do it by myself. |
| 0:20.2 | So I literally did a 70.3 by |
| 0:22.2 | myself in South Florida. It was like September. So it was probably heat index like 102, 103. |
| 0:30.0 | And just got actually absolutely baked. And it was, yeah, it was tough. |
| 0:39.9 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:41.2 | I'm Peanut Tillman and this is the NFL players second acts podcast. |
| 0:46.2 | And with me as always, my trust co-hosts, Roman, I smoke the bear harbor. |
| 0:53.1 | Yeah, I don't know. |
| 0:54.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:55.3 | Appreciate it. |
| 0:55.7 | Really looking forward to this next guest that we have. |
| 0:58.4 | Man, he's been a very entertaining running back in the league for a long time. |
| 1:01.5 | And now he's doing different things in his second career, man. |
| 1:04.4 | I really want to get into it and let him dive and share with us exactly how he's been living out his dream. |
| 1:10.1 | Second round running back in the 2013 NFL draft, played 10 seasons, played for the Bengals |
| 1:18.2 | and the Bucks. Now he's in the real estate and he is a photographer. Ladies and gentlemen, |
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