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South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

Tony and Lauren Dungy

South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

Meadowlark Media

Comedy, Sports, Society & Culture

4.915K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

"There’s winning Super Bowls, there’s making money…that’s great, but is that what you’re really here for?" Tony and Lauren Dungy join Dan for a conversation on how family, faith, and football helped guide their growth as both parents and people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm going to shove Tony out of the way. I want to talk to Lauren Dungey, their new book,

0:24.2

Uncommon Influence, saying yes to a purposeful life is available now. Let's start with you, Lauren,

0:30.3

because I got questions about the coach and the secrets to staying 40 years married

0:34.1

to a coach. So explain to us how football gets in the way, how obtrusive it is, how obsessive

0:40.6

it is, how hard it is to be married to a football coach, no matter how much he believes

0:44.6

in family, faith and balance.

0:46.4

Well, as you can imagine, football is demanding. I've required a lot of time. Tony is in football

0:53.9

100%. So we have to really be intentional about our time away from football. So we all love

1:01.4

football. The whole family embraces what he does, but he does have a life outside of football.

1:08.5

So there's that balance that we've established. We've worked at it over the years. And I think

1:13.5

we've got a pretty good program, a pretty good formula in place. And that is that we support

1:22.0

him. We're encouraging with him what he does. But when he comes home, he leaves that behind.

1:28.9

And he doesn't bring it, it doesn't bring his work home with him.

1:32.2

Okay, I need to know how this program was established because it didn't start that way.

1:36.4

It could not, that the program had to be established because football coaches have a hard time

1:41.4

being present around anything that's not football.

1:44.1

Well, you know, when we first got married, obviously there were no kids. And so the two of us

1:49.5

were working together trying to figure this thing out called marriage. And I had my career.

1:55.1

He had his, but of course we were supportive of each other. So I was working together and

2:00.2

achieving that balance. I love football. I come from a family, brothers, play football.

2:05.9

So I was excited what he was doing. And I wanted to be there for him, but also realize that

2:15.3

there's more to our marriage, our life, our relationship than just football. So we had

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