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The Jon Gordon Podcast

Mo Isom Interview

The Jon Gordon Podcast

Jon Gordon

Leadership, Teamwork, Success, Positiveuniversity, Jongordon, Health & Fitness, Positivity, Education, Positiveu, Happiness, Teambuilding

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Bestselling author Jon Gordon interviews Mo Isom. Mo is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker and blogger. Not only an accomplished writer, Mo was an was an All-American goalkeeper for the Louisiana State University soccer team, as well as the first female to train with and tryout for an SEC men's football team. She has been featured in Sports Illustrated and appeared on Ellen, ESPN, CBS, The 700 Club, and countless other platforms. Isom speaks nationally and internationally on a variety of faith-based topics, and facilitates a faith-centered blog that has garnered millions of views to date.

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0:00.0

Hey I'm John Gordon. I'm with Mo Isam and Mo the first time I saw you you were on

0:16.6

Ellen and you are on the show because you were trying out for the LSU football

0:20.5

team as a kicker. Tell us about that experience and what was that like?

0:25.2

Yes, the glory days looking back.

0:28.1

How long ago was that?

0:32.1

Gosh, I finished my football sort of journey was in 2012.

0:36.0

So six years now, six years ago and it does not feel like that life just flies by really fast I guess,

0:42.0

but that was six years ago but I did I played on the LSU women's

0:47.5

soccer team for my collegiate run and was an all American and and just had a really great career playing with the team

0:56.4

and with the US national team some and so I realized as I was going into my

1:02.1

senior year with the LSU soccer team that actually NCAA athletes are granted five years of eligibility, but only four in one sport.

1:12.0

So only four active seasons.

1:13.9

So it takes into account if you have to red shirt a year,

1:16.1

you know, something along those lines,

1:17.4

but I had made it through my career

1:20.7

without needing to, you know, take a year for injury or whatnot.

1:25.0

And so I had this fifth year I realized and I thought,

1:28.4

I don't want to go into the real world.

1:30.3

What else do you do? And had grown so close to so many of the players on the football team

1:38.0

because soccer and football all worked out in the same facility.

1:41.0

It's called Football Ops over in Baton Rouge and honestly had just

1:45.3

gained their respect in a lot of ways. I was just really hard-working athlete did a

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