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Sports Spectrum Podcast

Mo Isom, NY Times Bestselling Author -- Former LSU Goalkeeper - THROWBACK THURSDAY

Sports Spectrum Podcast

Sports Spectrum

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5661 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Mo Isom’s story is one that you will not soon forget. She is wife, a mother, a speaker and the author of the New York Times Bestseller “WRECK MY LIFE: Journeying from Broken to Bold.”

She was an All-American goalkeeper for the Louisiana State University soccer team and the first female to try out for an SEC men’s football team. She holds the LSU all-time goalkeeper record as well as the #3 SEC all-time shutout record.

Mo's latest book "Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot" released in March of 2018. 

In this Throwback Thursday edition of the podcast, Mo shares the very emotional story of her father's death in 2009. 

To listen to the entire interview, please click on Episode 4 of the podcast here

 

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.

0:17.5

Here's your host, Jason Romano.

0:20.0

Welcome, everyone, to Throwback Thursday on the Sports Spectrum podcast.

0:23.9

Today we look back at episode four of the podcast, released back in April of 2017 with Mo Isam.

0:31.5

Mo is an All-American goalkeeper or was an All-American goalkeeper for the Louisiana State University soccer team at LSU.

0:39.3

She holds the LSU All-Time goalkeeper record, as well as the number three SEC all-time

0:44.8

shutout record.

0:46.1

She trained with the U.S. Women's National Program and was honored as national player of the

0:50.4

week and has appeared on Sports Centers, top 10 plays, and been featured in Sports

0:54.4

Illustrated, as well as Ellen and ESPN, CBS, The 700 Club, many places. She's a wife and a mom,

1:02.2

a speaker, an author, and her New York Times bestseller, Wreck My Life, journeying from broken

1:08.2

to bold is a must read. Moe's life has had incredible success in the sports

1:13.8

world and she's also been crushed through some very personal adversity and her story is sure to

1:19.1

inspire and challenge you. It was episode four that she appeared, one of my favorite podcasts. I've

1:24.7

had a lot of people still tell me to this day here in late 2018

1:29.1

how much that episode has helped them and how inspiring and how encouraging Mo's story has been.

1:36.7

And Mo Story really began in 2009 in many ways with the year from just the year that nobody would ever want to have. Let's put it that

1:47.0

way. And she suffered pretty traumatic things in her life that year. And this snippet that we're

1:53.5

going to play for you from that podcast is the story of the first thing that she went through

1:58.8

in that 2009 year. And again, I want to encourage you, go back and listen to episode four of the first thing that she went through in that 2009 year.

2:01.2

And again, I want to encourage you, go back and listen to episode four of the podcast.

2:05.7

Really good, especially for young ladies, young women, teenage girls, even middle school girls.

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