Inky Johnson, Former Tennessee defensive back - THROWBACK
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Inky Johnson is a motivational speaker, author and former college football player with the University of Tennessee.
He joined us back in May of 2018 on Episode 112 of the show to talk about his journey of faith, how the worst day of his life actually turned into the best day of his life, why it’s important to have a “relationship” with God, why there’s a lesson and blessing in everything that happens for us, and how he’s seen people impacted by the message of his story.
On this THROWBACK portion of the interview, Inky shares the moment he realized that his message, his trial, his story, could actually impact and help other people.
Listen to the entire interview with Inky Johnson from Episode 111 here.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.7 | Welcome everyone to a throwback edition of the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | Today we go back to May 28, 2018. |
| 0:28.2 | And our guest that day was Inkey Johnson, former Tennessee Volunteers, defensive back, |
| 0:33.3 | and he's now a motivational speaker and an author. |
| 0:37.3 | And his story is just incredible. |
| 0:40.3 | With a dream of playing in the NFL, Inky rose from a life of poverty and drugs in the |
| 0:45.1 | ghetto of Atlanta to play college football at Tennessee. |
| 0:49.6 | In 2006, that dream was shattered when he suffered a life-altering injury on the football field |
| 0:54.8 | that would take him from starting defensive back to sitting in the hospital, wondering if his life would ever be the same. |
| 1:02.4 | Now today, he travels the country, sharing his story, encouraging others as a motivational speaker, |
| 1:07.9 | one of the great speakers you will ever hear. |
| 1:10.8 | On Twitter, I can't tell you how many times people will share and retweet and like and comment |
| 1:16.7 | different clips from Inkey Johnson speaking at a conference or a church or wherever he might be. |
| 1:24.6 | He is just an inspiration. |
| 1:26.7 | He really is. |
| 1:27.2 | And it was really an honor and a privilege to have him |
| 1:29.1 | on the podcast back in May of 2018. And this portion of the episode that we bring to you, this throwback |
| 1:36.4 | edition, this snippet, if you will, is talking to Inki about realizing that his message actually |
| 1:42.5 | could help people. So many of us go through trials in our life and go through difficult seasons, |
| 1:48.5 | and we don't think that what we're going through can actually help someone else. |
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