Leigh Steinberg on Jerry Maguire, CTE, Comebacks & Empowering Athletes for Life
The Mike Litton Experience
Mike Litton
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful episode of The Mike Litton Experience, we sit down with Leigh Steinberg, the legendary sports agent who inspired the hit film Jerry Maguire. Leigh has represented NFL icons, Super Bowl champions, and Hall of Famers, while also advocating for athlete health, financial literacy, and second-career success.
In this exclusive interview, Leigh shares:
His Hollywood upbringing, life lessons from his father, and iconic encounters with legends like Groucho Marx and Marilyn Monroe The story of his first NFL contract negotiation that launched his historic career His battle with addiction, path to recovery, and 15+ years of sobriety Groundbreaking work on CTE research and concussion awareness to protect athletes The future of college athlete compensation (NIL), gambling in sports, and athlete ownership How his Sports Agent Academy is shaping the next generation of ethical agents
Leigh’s insights go beyond sports—this conversation is about resilience, leadership, and making a meaningful impact.
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| 0:00.0 | So my whole life's about impact. |
| 0:03.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:04.1 | To be myself modestly, a good role model. |
| 0:11.3 | And back in 2010, I had a dramatic life crash because I struggled with alcohol. |
| 0:21.3 | And it set me back to this building at conferences. |
| 0:26.5 | Well, in about 2006, I think it was Bennett Amalo, |
| 0:30.6 | who they did the concussion movie after, |
| 0:33.9 | came and he said, I think the trigger points three or more. |
| 0:38.5 | Three or more leads to an exponentially higher rate of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, |
| 0:44.6 | premature senility, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and depression. |
| 0:50.9 | So I called it a ticking time bomb and an undiagnosed health epidemic and kept holding |
| 0:57.5 | the conferences. It's been 27 years and every time I go to an airport or go out to dinner, |
| 1:06.2 | inevitably somebody runs up to the table and either ask me to say four words or says four words to me |
| 1:14.2 | that start with show me the yeah exactly right i love it so did you ever have a moment like that |
| 1:23.0 | um a show me the money moment did you ever have a moment like that with a client? |
| 1:29.1 | Of course. |
| 1:30.8 | Did you know there's a technology that's actually an app on your phone that uses sound waves to tell your brain what you want your brain to do? |
| 1:38.6 | We had a young man that was a guest on our podcast, the Michael Litton Experience, who had a traumatic brain injury. |
| 1:44.6 | He was sleeping three hours a night. |
| 1:46.5 | He's using Newcomb now and he's sleeping more. |
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