Performance coach and speaker Ben Newman on serving athletes and leading with Christ
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Ben Newman is an author, speaker and performance coach. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Best-Seller - UNCOMMON Leadership and the performance coach for Michigan State's football and basketball programs as well as serving with Alabama as their Mental Conditioning Coach.
Newman has shared a stage with legends including Jerry Rice, Ray Lewis, Tony Dungy and many others. He is consistently ranked in the top 50 speakers in the world rankings by Real Leaders Magazine.
Today on the podcast, Ben Newman shares his powerful story of coming to faith in Christ, following the call to become a performance coach and why the work that he does is a reflection of his walk with God.
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| 0:37.0 | The increase means John 330, the increase in |
| 0:39.8 | Christ and the decrease of self. Check it out today at theincrease.com. |
| 0:53.2 | Welcome into the Sports Spectrum podcast, where we bring Jesus into the sports conversation. |
| 1:00.0 | Here's your host for today, Jason Romano. |
| 1:03.2 | Hey guys, welcome to the show. |
| 1:05.0 | I am Jason, and this is the intersection of sports and faith, the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 1:12.4 | Man, I love what we get to do each and every day. I really do. Who has a job like I have where I am so blessed and thankful and |
| 1:18.0 | lucky to be able to interview people about Jesus in the world of sports and have people like |
| 1:23.6 | you tune in and listen? It's so encouraging to me and the conversations that we have |
| 1:28.8 | are just awesome. And today is another one of those that I think is going to really encourage |
| 1:33.6 | all of you. Ben Newman, he's our guest today. He's a performance coach. He's a speaker. He's a |
| 1:40.3 | bestselling author. His book, Uncommon Leadership was a number one Wall Street Journal |
| 1:45.4 | bestseller. It also reached the USA Today bestsellers list. Ben Newman is also a sought-after speaker, |
| 1:52.8 | consistently in the top 50 speakers in the world rankings with Real Leaders magazine. |
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