Josh Manson - "I ONCE WAS"
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Today Sports Spectrum continues a seven week series called "I ONCE WAS" where athletes share their transformation story of going from lost to found.
This podcast takes you deeper into each athlete's "I ONCE WAS" story and today we continue our series with 2022 Stanley Cup champion and Colorado Avalanche defenseman Josh Manson.
You can watch Josh's "I ONCE WAS" video here.
You can order "I ONCE WAS" merchandise here.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a production of Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:05.5 | I had not known God at all, and I just got down on my knees one night, and I prayed, |
| 0:10.7 | if you save my mom, I will give my life to you. |
| 0:13.9 | And I didn't even know what I was saying. |
| 0:17.2 | After the stage four diagnosis, they put her on a trial drug, |
| 0:20.6 | and sure enough, after the second |
| 0:22.6 | treatment, we noticed that it was working on her. |
| 0:25.6 | And after the fourth treatment, she was clear of cancer of stage four melanoma. |
| 0:28.6 | It was a promise made to God before that miracle that really changed Josh Manson's life. |
| 0:43.9 | Welcome in, friends. I'm Jade McCarthy. Great to have you along here with us as we continue |
| 0:47.9 | this seven-week series on Sports Spectrum. I once was. And really just inspiring and encouraging and faith building for us to |
| 0:58.4 | hear these stories from all the different athletes that we've spoken to throughout the course |
| 1:03.1 | of this series. And now it is their Stanley Cup champion, of course, in Josh Manson, who joins |
| 1:09.3 | us to reflect more on that time when a promise that he made, |
| 1:13.7 | that God delivered wound up changing the course of his life. |
| 1:19.2 | Well, great to have Josh Manson here to talk more about this moment in his life when he decided |
| 1:26.6 | that it was really about God and not about him, |
| 1:31.3 | right? And I guess I just want to start, Josh, because you spoke about how this was a |
| 1:37.0 | commitment that you made, should your mom be cured of cancer. And then you fast forward a little bit. She's cured. And yet it takes |
| 1:49.7 | someone else coming into your life for this to really happen. Like what was this all like for you |
| 1:55.2 | to kind of go through that period of time? Well, you mean the time from when I had given, when I had made that promise to when I gave my |
| 2:05.3 | life or when I met my wife and kind of came full circle to me. |
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