JEFF ELBERT | From Gangs to God (Ep. 799)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 170 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Jeff Elbert to the studio. He is a former member of the Hoover Crips gang but is now a high school math teacher and wrestling coach. In this interview, we discuss how he ended up joining a gang even though he grew up in a home with both his mother and father and went to church, his addiction to drugs, entering the Army out of fear for his life, why he was dishonorably discharged from the military, how a chance encounter with a highway patrolman led to him challenging God, when he received Christ as Lord, how he decided to pursue a career in teaching, the impact he is now having on at-risk teens because of his past, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Undaunted Life a Man's podcast.
0:24.0	I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
0:25.7	Let's get into it.
0:27.0	Jeff Helford, welcome to the studio, man.
0:28.6	What up, man.
0:29.3	It is good to have you here.
0:30.3	Good to have you at the house.
0:31.5	Yeah, man.
0:31.9	You've been doing well for yourself, man.
0:33.3	I'm proud of you, man.
0:34.2	What were you saying before we got started? You were saying we were going to try
0:37.8	to get you fired from your job? Like that's like the goal for our conversation? The goal would be, I would love to continue being employed by the district of a lot in public schools. Um, because I love what I do there, man. And I love what's going on in my life right now. I'm living on purpose with purpose. and so yeah man
0:53.4	let's not get fired today bro
0:55.5	okay we'll not get fired
0:56.3	well not get fired well I mean
0:57.0	I do have a tendency to get into some pricklier topics here and there, but, you know, we'll see what we can do to drive around it. But for those of you listen to this podcast, I've listened for any length of time, and we get new listeners every week. So we're so thankful for you new listeners. But we had a mutual buddy
1:11.0	on a few months ago, Chris Zerzevi. So he came on and told us the story of his, you know, son and losing his son. But we kind of started with just, you know, Lawton, you know, growing up in Lawton because I was born. Now, were you born in Lawton? Born and raised, baby. Okay, so born and raisin,
1:24.6	but I haven't lived there
1:25.3	since I moved to Edmund in
1:27.3	2004.
1:28.8	And so you've been there.
1:29.6	Wow.
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