Matt’s wife Danielle Forte joins the show for a special Mother’s Day episode
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Matt invites his wife Danielle Forte to the show for a special Mother’s Day edition of the pod. Danielle shares about raising kids to love Jesus, why she is so passionate about being a mother, her adoption story and the importance of keeping her identity in Jesus and not her role as mom or wife.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, I don't play for the fame, I play for the king |
| 0:04.0 | Yeah, every step on the field let the heavens ring |
| 0:07.0 | Got Jesus in my heart so I run with a purpose |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah, this is sports spectrum |
| 0:13.0 | Faith on the surface, uh, I don't play for the crowd, I play for the king |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, every rap, every drill I give every day from the locker room prayers to the lights that gleam. |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.6 | We raise his name, uh, welcome to the team, huh, uh, uh, uh. |
| 0:29.6 | And now, here's your host, former NFL pro role running back in Chicago Bears legend. |
| 0:35.6 | Matt Forte. |
| 0:36.6 | Uh, uh, |
| 0:38.3 | What's up y'all? |
| 0:40.3 | Welcome back to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:45.3 | I'm your host, Matt Forte, and I got my guy Jason Romano, as always, on here as my sidekick. |
| 0:51.3 | But I got another sidekick on here today. If you're viewing, you can probably already see her because she's beautiful. She's standing or sitting right next to me. But if you're listening, I got my wife, Danielle Forte, Mrs. Forte, on here with me. Hi, Matthew. To hate to the people. Hi, Jason. Hi, Dan, y'all. Thank you for having me today. |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah, so this is our Mother's Day episode, and we definitely wanted to have you in person, |
| 1:24.0 | not virtually, because you've got to be next to me. It's my favorite in-person guest right here. |
| 1:29.2 | So I wanted to, yeah, I'm going to interview you. Or we are going to interview you. |
| 1:36.6 | We're going to ask you some tough, hard-hitting questions about being a mother. So first and foremost, |
| 1:45.0 | we'll start with the easy stuff. What made you as a young woman want to be a mother? |
| 1:49.0 | Because that's the first, that's how it starts. It's like some people, they don't want children, you know, |
| 1:52.0 | but what made you want to, you know, be a mother and a good one at that, a great one? |
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