It's Time for America to Look in the Mirror | Former NFL Player, Michael Bennett

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Michael Bennett, a defensive end in the National Football League.

Michael signed with the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 2009 and was an instrumental member of the 2013 team that won the Super Bowl. He's also a 3x Pro-Bowler.

While Michael’s craft is football, there is so much more to Michael the human being.

He’s an advocate for social justice and after the events of the last week and the ongoing protests, I wanted to have him on the podcast to more than anything else just … listen.

Michael’s words are significant. He has much to share. But what I found even more powerful than his words was his tone.

He doesn’t once raise his voice, he doesn’t blame others, yet you can hear the pain in his voice. You can hear the yearning for change; for a different America.

We discuss the systemic issues that make everyday life difficult for African-Americans and what each of us can do to make a positive impact going forward.

This is an incredibly difficult, yet important time for our country.

I recognize that change requires action and solely talking about it will not suffice.

At the same time, I hope that we can use this platform to continue to learn, to better understand, and to empathize with those who have felt silenced for so long.

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0:00.0	Look in the mirror is the hardest thing to do.
0:03.0	Because when we draw ourselves, we can draw ourselves the way that we want to draw ourselves.
0:08.0	When we on Instagram, we can paint the picture of our life the way that we want people to see us,
0:12.0	Facebook, every other thing in this world in the society that we see that's important.
0:17.0	But the thing about the mirror, when you look at that mirror, you see those scars, you see the aging, you see that you're not the same person that you be I think America
0:25.7	has never looked in a mirror and seen the reflection and really looked at what
0:30.3	has been personified for its people and the justice that has been so
0:34.9	ingest to the people that love and work hard to be as citizens of America and
0:41.2	I think white people haven't looked in the mirror and really looked at
0:43.7	themselves or asked themselves what have I done to help another human being?
0:49.8	This isn't about color anymore.
0:50.9	This is about humanity. This is about justice for other
0:54.0	human beings living. We have PETA who look out for animals and they go crazy for animals. They
0:59.4	march. What about the human? We expect humans have be will and we expect the humans are that when they die is just a part of life, but when they die unjustly, what are you doing to really challenge that scale?
1:14.4	What are you really doing to go out and uphold
1:17.2	to the amendment and the Constitution
1:19.7	that you hold so dear to your heart?
1:21.6	What are you doing to make you really be relevant in 2020? Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay.
1:40.0	And by trade-in training, I'm a sport and performance psychologist as well as the co-founder of
1:46.1	Compete to Create.
1:48.4	And the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn, and to put those learnings into action.
1:55.0	And our community, these conversations are with people who are pushing up against the edges,
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