More Than an Athlete: Matt and Danielle Forte on Faith, Writing, Marriage, and Finding Purpose After Sports
The Esau McCaulley Podcast
Esau McCaulley
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🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Former NFL running back, Matt Forte, and his wife Danielle Forte sit down with Esau talk about the challenges of balancing professional athletics with faith, marriage, and family life. Matt reflects on his NFL career, the pressures of performing on the field, and how his faith guided him through the highs and lows. Danielle shares her journey of finding her identity beyond being a "trophy wife," discussing the unique challenges faced by spouses of professional athletes and how her relationship with Christ kept her grounded.
They also talk about their children's book, My Hair Can, inspired by their daughter's experience with racism and is an encouraging reminder for young readers about loving their hair, respecting differences, and celebrating their God-given uniqueness.
My Hair Can - https://www.amazon.com/My-Hair-Can-Matt-Fort%C3%A9/dp/1496480899
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| 0:00.0 | Passion in my pocket so my pennies should be. |
| 0:10.0 | What they selling is cheap so I'm buying that this freedom is free. |
| 0:13.0 | I've been becoming me. |
| 0:15.0 | See when Jesus taking the lead. |
| 0:16.0 | With purpose I bleed and riles like doing under the heat. |
| 0:19.0 | Defeaters are never. |
| 0:20.0 | You can't reattach |
| 0:21.2 | with a sever what's bringing you pleasure can tell you where you stacking your treasure when |
| 0:24.8 | storm is your weather know that it gets worse for it's better. |
| 0:28.4 | Hey everybody, I want to welcome you to the Issaa McCauley podcast. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm your host Issaa McCalley. |
| 0:33.6 | Today we have on the podcast, The Fortease, Danielle and Matt, thank you for coming on podcasts. |
| 0:40.4 | Thank you for having us. |
| 0:41.6 | Yeah, pleasure, man. |
| 0:43.1 | So we need to start the podcast. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm sorry, y'all. |
| 0:45.4 | We have some business from a previous episode that we need to deal with first. |
| 0:49.3 | And there have been some people in our comments who were mad because two episodes ago, |
| 0:53.9 | I fired Mike, who is the podcast producer, because I didn't think he did a good job with choosing the La Cray lyrics. |
| 1:00.9 | The lyrics are great, but I wanted some other ones to be able to use in the podcast. |
| 1:04.6 | So I got mad, and I fired him. |
| 1:06.7 | But I actually, he don't actually work for me, and I have no power in the show. |
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