Inky Johnson, Former Tennessee Defensive Back
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Episode 112
Inky Johnson is a motivational speaker, author and former college football player with the University of Tennessee.
With a dream of playing in the NFL, Inky rose from a life of poverty and drugs in the ghetto of Atlanta to play college football with the Volunteers. In 2006, his dream was shattered when Johnson suffered a life-altering injury on the football field that would take him from defensive back to sitting in a hospital wondering if his life would ever be the same.
Today, Inky travels the country sharing his story and encouraging others as a motivational speaker. He's a mentor to many athletes and teams both in college and professional sports.
On this episode of the podcast, Inky shares his journey to Tennessee, how the worst day of his life actually turned into the best day of his life, why he feels it is not about just believing, but about having 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast, where faith and sports |
| 0:08.1 | collide. |
| 0:09.2 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:12.0 | Episode number 112 of the Sports Spectrum podcast with former Tennessee football |
| 0:19.1 | defensive back, Inkey Johnson, is brought to you in part by |
| 0:23.0 | Compassion International. Go to compassion.com slash sports spectrum and sponsor a child today, |
| 0:30.0 | $38 a month, brings hope to a child in need, releases them from poverty, gives them education, |
| 0:39.4 | medical care, vocational training, |
| 0:44.0 | food, and the opportunity to do this all in the name of Jesus. |
| 0:51.2 | Compassion.com backslash sports spectrum and sponsor a child for $38 a month in Jesus' name. |
| 0:55.5 | Today's guest on the podcast is Inkey Johnson. |
| 1:00.5 | Now, he's a motivational speaker, former Tennessee football defensive back, as well as an author of the book, Inky, an amazing story of faith and perseverance. |
| 1:04.9 | And this podcast brings that story to light. |
| 1:08.2 | He is an amazing person who has just a zest or a zeal for life, |
| 1:15.4 | a full of joy. A guy I highly admire. He's been on my bucket list to want to get on this |
| 1:20.6 | podcast for some time because I've heard him speak at a number of places, mostly online. I've |
| 1:25.7 | never heard him speak in person. But he has an |
| 1:28.9 | amazing story. And it's the perfect example of turning pain into purpose, of turning that mess that |
| 1:35.0 | many of us go through into our message. And in 2006, Inky's dream of playing in the NFL |
| 1:43.8 | turned sour. |
| 1:45.5 | And it was what many looked at as one of the worst days of his life. |
| 1:49.4 | Inky on this podcast calls it one of the best days of his life. |
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