Leigh Steinberg on Concussions, CTE & Changing Football

The Mike Litton Experience

Mike Litton

Business, Kids & Family, Parenting, Careers

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🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this powerful episode of The Mike Litton Experience, Mike sits down with legendary sports agent Leigh Steinberg to explore one of the most important issues in sports today—player safety and brain health.

Known as a pioneer in athlete representation and the real-life inspiration behind Jerry Maguire, Leigh Steinberg shares his decades-long mission to bring awareness to concussions, CTE, and long-term neurological risks in football and other collision sports. Long before the topic became mainstream, Steinberg was leading the charge—hosting the first concussion conference in 1994 and advocating for player health when few others would.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

The early warning signs and long-term dangers of repeated head trauma
How Steinberg helped spark change within the NFL and beyond
The science behind CTE, concussions, and brain recovery
Breakthrough treatments like neuroplasticity, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and more
Why youth sports safety is more important than ever
The mission and impact of the Leigh Steinberg Foundation

This conversation is a must-watch for athletes, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about the future of sports and player wellbeing.

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0:00.0	I had a crisis of conscience because here I'm enriching players financially, but it goes back to the whole concept of what is the fiduciary responsibility of an agent.
0:19.5	Simply to stack more dollars after more dollars into bank books, or is it to also think
0:26.4	about long-term health and the implications following a career from being hit multiple times?
0:35.7	Bennett Amaloo, who is the subject of the film The Concussion,
0:40.8	Amen, he suggested that three or more is the cut-up point,
0:47.1	and after that you have an exponentially higher risk
0:50.8	of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, premature senility, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and premature dementia.
1:02.9	So I called it a ticking time bomb and an undiagnosed health epidemic. Here's what's different,
1:10.0	Mike, about this issue. We know that an
1:13.5	athlete will have problems over to pick up their kid from problems with their knees and their
1:22.4	hips and their back just by playing the sport of football. That's bad enough. Not being able to identify
1:33.3	your son or daughter. It's a totally different level of impact. And the difficulty in this situation is that the brain is the seat of consciousness,
1:52.5	character, memory, and what it means to be an active human being.
2:00.0	Welcome to the Mike Litton Experience podcast.
2:04.1	Everyone has a story, and our passion is to help them tell it.
2:09.0	Mike is passionate about being a father, a teacher, a realtor, an investor, and a leader.
2:14.9	And now, introducing the host of the Mike Litton experience, Mike Litton.
2:23.7	Lee Steinberg, thank you so much for being our guest again on the Mike Litton show,
2:28.2	Mike Litton Experience, pardon me. I'm so excited for our time together. I can't even talk right,
2:32.3	right? So I am really, really excited about
2:36.0	talking about the Lee Steinberg Foundation. There are a number of things that you're doing.
2:40.2	We've talked about the book that come back. We've had you on talking about that. We have
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