Jimmy Mellado, Compassion International President and CEO
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Episode 334
Jimmy Mellado is the president and CEO of Compassion International. Compassion is a sponsor of our podcast and partner with us as we help them release children from poverty.
Jimmy is a graduate of SMU where he was a member of the Division 1 Track and Field championship team in 1983. He competed in the 1987 Pan American Games and the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea as a decathlete. Representing his birth nation of El Salvador, he set national records for the highest ever performance in the decathlon, men's high jump, 100m high hurdles and pole vault.
In 2013, Jimmy was named CEO and President of Compassion and has dedicated his life to helping children around the world, who are living in poverty and providing them with hope and a way out.
On this episode of the podcast, we learn about Jimmy's journey, moving around from country to country as a youth, why failure is such a great teacher, trusting God when things don't go well, competing in the Olympics and how he came to join Compassion International.
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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. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome, everyone, to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:21.6 | As always, we are sponsored by Compassion International. |
| 0:25.6 | And today's podcast is a unique opportunity to learn about the man who is in charge of Compassion International. |
| 0:33.6 | We've told you about what they do and the work that they're doing to release children from poverty. |
| 0:39.5 | But today we get a chance to learn the journey, the story of Jimmy Mayado, who is the president and CEO of Compassion International. |
| 0:49.4 | And yes, we talk about compassion because it's really amazing the work that they're doing helping to release |
| 0:55.6 | children from poverty the real work that they're doing in the trenches in these countries but |
| 1:01.3 | jimmy's story is just awesome i mean jimmy is a guy who said his parents moved and you'll hear |
| 1:08.3 | the full story in the podcast here but he said his parents moved, and you'll hear the full story in the podcast here, but he said his parents |
| 1:12.2 | moved 41 times in 61 years of marriage, 41 times. And Jimmy was raised in seven different |
| 1:24.6 | countries himself after being born in El Salvador. |
| 1:34.3 | Jimmy was a graduate of SMU and he was a member of the 1983 Division I Track and Field Championship team with SMU and then competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, |
| 1:43.2 | as a decathlet representing his birth nation of El Salvador. |
| 1:48.9 | In 2013, he was named CEO and president of compassion, and Jimmy's story, like I said, is a |
| 1:55.1 | powerful one, and he's a really good storyteller, which makes for a perfect podcast. And so take a listen to the journey and the |
| 2:03.8 | powerful story of Jimmy Mayato, president and CEO of Compassion International here on Sports |
| 2:10.1 | Spectrum. |
| 2:16.2 | Jimmy, welcome to the show. |
| 2:18.6 | Awesome to be with you, Jason. |
| 2:20.4 | Total pleasure. |
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