Loved Beyond Performance: RobertAnthony Cruz & Christine D’Clario
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
*This episode contains content that may be triggering for some listeners.*
This week, we welcome RobertAnthony Cruz, known to many as Coach RAC. RobertAnthony is a professional baseball player with the Savannah Bananas, a former minor league athlete, and a mentor to thousands of young people through sports camps and social media. But beyond the flips on the field and the packed stadiums, Coach RAC has wrestled with anxiety, fear of failure, and the pressure to prove himself. Today, he shares how learning to root his identity in God’s unchanging love, rather than outcomes or approval, has transformed the way he competes, leads, and lives.
Later in the episode, we’ll hear from Christine D’Clario, who takes us behind the music and the platform into the hidden places of her story. From a childhood shaped by unspoken trauma with years of learning how to hide pain in the name of faith, Christine shares how postpartum depression became the breaking point that forced her to confront what she had carried for far too long.
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Interview Quotes:
“When you make it your aim to serve your teammates and do that, it becomes such a beautiful thing, and you find so much more fulfillment in it. I’ve had to learn to detach my sense of peace and joy from the results and instead play from a place of gratitude and see how I can serve my teammates well.” - RobertAnthony Cruz
“God created us to be part of the body, so we’re supposed to be connected to each other. When you can experience competition while being deeply connected to your teammates, it ends up being such a beautiful and fun thing.” - RobertAnthony Cruz
“The older I get, the more I realize that God is our friend. He wants a relationship with us, and a healthy relationship requires spending time. I think that having daily rituals and prayer time are so important for you to cultivate this relationship with God.” - RobertAnthony Cruz
“It took me being 100% dysregulated in my body, in my emotions, in my mind, to understand that the spirit alone cannot carry the weight of all the other areas.” - Christine D’Clario
“There was just so much compounded on each other that when I reached the moments of deep despair, I couldn’t understand that God was actually extending me an opportunity to look inward and fix those things that needed healing.” - Christine D’Clario
“I learned to hide the pain, stuff it down, because we had a lot of work to do at church. It took me a really long time to finally admit that I was broken.” - Christine D’Clario
“It takes people who have been through brokenness to have the authority to pull others that are in it out of it.” - Christine D’Clario
“When everybody else discards what is broken as garbage, the Lord stays. If you’re in the rut and it’s muddy and it’s dirty and it stinks, He’ll sit with you in the mud and the dirt and the stink and the rut. He’ll stay, He’ll hold you, and He will patiently wait with His inviting arms for the moment that we feel strong enough to take the step of faith, get up, and start healing.” - Christine D’Clario
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| 0:35.3 | This episode contains content that may be triggering for some listeners. |
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| 1:15.9 | If you want to grow, then be connected to the body. |
| 1:19.5 | I found that God created us to be unified as one body. |
| 1:23.6 | And maybe you're a toe or maybe you're a foot or whatever it is that you are. |
| 1:28.2 | If you're disconnected from the body, there's no way for you to grow and receive nourishment. |
| 1:32.0 | So be connected to the body. |
| 1:33.1 | Be connected to the vine. |
| 1:35.4 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. |
| 1:37.9 | This week we welcome Robert Anthony Cruz, known to many as Coach Rack. |
| 1:42.5 | Robert Anthony is a professional baseball player with the Savannah Bananas, a former minor league |
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