Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show with your host, Eric Metaxus.

Hey there, folks. Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show. I'll be playing the role of Eric Metaxis, the host,

until further notice. But the good news is my guest will be playing himself. His name is

Mickey Robinson. Mickey, I don't know where to begin. So let me just say, hello, welcome the program.

So good to be here. Good to see you again. It's great to see you and your story is one of the most amazing stories I've heard.

So I'm going to force you to tell it again because I know that there are many people that

are tuned in that they don't know your story.

And when I heard your story, I just thought this is one of those stories.

So let me say you have a new book out called Supernatural Courage, activating spiritual bravery to win today's battle, Mickey Robinson.

But your first book, and the way I got to know you, is called Falling Into Heaven, a Skydivers gripping account of heaven, healings, and miracles.

Great title, Falling Into Heaven. Let's start there,

because you were kind of a different person when you were a teenager, wouldn't you say?

Yeah, I was, you know, it was hot stuff, I thought. You were hot stuff. Where did you grow up?

I grew up in a suburb of Columbia, Ohio.

I went to eight years of a parochial school, to high school, and this was, you know, the mid-60s. And, you know, the American dream for a kid like me seemed to be accessible for anybody at any kind of talent or ability.

And as I progressed more,

I began to react to the media culture, whatever, you know, be somebody do that. I was really good at sports. I could be in the in crowd, but we grew up in a, I went to high school and a small school, and it was really good. I was good at all kinds of sports. I played football since I was a little kid. I was a snow skier.

I was on a swim team. I did gymnastics

on my own. I just evidently had a

little. sports. I played football since I was a little kid. I was a snow skier. I was on a swim team. I did

gymnastics on my own. I just evidently had a talent. So you were tremendously gifted.

And at, did you say that you went into finance? I'm trying to remember. Yeah, at my 18th birthday,

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