Justin Wren, MMA Fighter - Episode 47
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2017
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Justin Wren known for his mixed martial arts career in the UFC. Early in his career, he appeared on the Spike TV reality show "The Ultimate Fighter."
Growing up, Justin experienced large amounts of bullying, which led to depression and suicidal thoughts during his teen years.
Justin's life began to hit rock bottom when he disappeared for eight weeks without anyone knowing where he was. Drugs, depression, addiction, anger, his life was spiraling out of control.
After a life-changing experience in 2011, Justin founded Fight for the Forgotten, a nonprofit dedicated to securing land, freedom and clean water for the formerly enslaved Mbuti Pygmy tribe in the Ituri rainforest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In 2015, Water4 helped him expand beyond the DRC to bring clean water and economic security to thousands across the region.
On this episode of the podcast, Justin shares his incredible story from brokenness to redemption, how he overcame bullying, drug addiction and depression and is now using his message and platform to impact the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports |
| 0:09.8 | collide. |
| 0:10.9 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:14.2 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | My name is Jason Romano. |
| 0:17.2 | Hi, everyone, and welcome to today's show. |
| 0:19.9 | We are grateful and thankful to have you |
| 0:21.5 | joining us and checking us out, checking out the program here today. As always, you can subscribe |
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| 0:49.4 | And as always, you can find all of our content, including our podcasts, on sportspectrum.com. Today's guest, |
| 0:56.9 | his name is Justin Wren, and his story is unbelievable. He is an MMA fighter. He's a |
| 1:04.9 | humanitarian. He's an author. And he has one of the most unreal stories and journeys that I've ever heard. |
| 1:13.6 | This guy has lived a life, a brokenness, of struggle, and somehow some way, thanks to the |
| 1:22.9 | grace of God and perseverance within him, he's able to overcome all that and be able to make a gigantic |
| 1:31.2 | difference, not just in the United States, but an impact, unlike many I've talked to, around the |
| 1:38.3 | world, in Africa, in the Congo. So I'm not going to do a whole lot of introduction here |
| 1:45.1 | other than saying this story is crazy. |
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