Rennie Curran, Former Georgia Linebacker
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Episode 403
Rennie Curran is an author, speaker, podcast host and the CEO of Game Changer Coaching, whose mission is to help business professionals and elite athletes reach their fullest potential through personal development workshops and one-on-one coaching in order to improve leadership and career performance.
Prior to his business career, Rennie was an All-American linebacker with the Georgia Bulldogs from 2007-09. He was selected in the third round of the 2010 NFL Drafty by the Titans (97th overall) and played two seasons with Tennessee before moving to the CFL where he played three more seasons before retiring.
His book "The Perspectives of a Young African American Athlete" was released when Rennie was just 23 years old in 2012.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Rennie about his football journey, his struggles with identity, his first meeting with coach Mark Richt, dealing with disappointment and having a personal board of directors.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum. I'm Jason Romano. Welcome to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm Jason Romano. |
| 0:22.4 | It's great to have you joining us here today on the show. |
| 0:24.9 | Before we get to our interview with Rennie Curran, the former Georgia All-American linebacker, |
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| 1:17.6 | Really excited to be joined by Rennie Curran here on Sports Spectrum's podcast. |
| 1:25.3 | The former Georgia All-American linebacker from 2007 to 2009 down there in Athens, Georgia, |
| 1:32.3 | was a first team All-S-E-C linebacker in 2009, as well as CBS naming him to their first team, All-American team in 2009. |
| 1:35.1 | That's a pretty great honor as well. |
| 1:37.4 | And he was selected in the third round of the 2010 NFL draft by the Tennessee Titans, |
| 1:43.5 | 97th overall pick and played two years with the Titans, 2010 and 2011, and then played a little bit in the CFL, the Canadian Football League, with the Edmonton Eskimos and the BC Lions. |
| 1:58.5 | But Rennie is more than just a former football player. This guy is an author. He wrote a book |
| 2:03.2 | called Free Agent, The Perspectives of a Young African American Athlete. He wrote that at just |
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