For God to show me that I can have peace in a storm is much more powerful to me than a

gold medal that's going to sit in my sock drawer.

Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. Today's guests both know what it's like to

fight to become the best they can be despite challenges from their early years,

three-time world champion athlete Lolo Jones and four-time heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield.

First up, Lolo Jones is one of only 10 athletes in history to compete in both the summer and winter

Olympic Games.

Lolo's success as a herdler and later as a bobsledder speaks to the incredible fortitude she's

honed as an endurance athlete, but also as a child who grew up in a home where her father was frequently incarcerated.

Even as a young kid, Lolo was determined to succeed.

And today, she tells us her incredible faith fueled her through her

triumphs as well as the devastating moment she thought God was using her to show

his glory only to watch her quest for a gold medal dissolve before her very eyes.

I'm Lolo Jones, summer and winter Olympic athlete, three-time world champion.

I grew up in Des Moines, Iowa.

I have five siblings total, so there's's I have three brothers and a sister and it was a rough childhood my dad was in and out of prison growing up and at one point my mom lost her house so we were homeless.

One day she gave each one of her kids a blanket, put us in the car and just started driving.

And she said she didn't know where she was going she

didn't know where she was heading and she ended up driving to the church we

attended every weekend the Salvation Army.

And so we actually lived in a church

while we were homeless until my mom could get her feet

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