Trading Your Plans for a Life That Matters with Jason Brown

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Obeying the call of God can be scary, especially when it requires you to let go of something you love. In this episode, Josh interviews Jason Brown, the highest paid center in the NFL at the time, who walked away from his successful career to become a farmer and be famous at home.

Josh talks to Jason about:

* Jason's history with football and what led him to the NFL.* Jason's past of living in the fast lane of success and wealth and what caused him to have a change of heart.* The way God called Jason to end his NFL career and how he knew it was God's voice.* The difficult but incredible journey Jason's family has been on after he surrendered to the call of God.* What life is like on Jason's farm, First Fruits Farm, in North Carolina.

Show Notes:

ORDER JASON BROWN'S BOOK CENTERED ON AMAZON! Jason shares his story about walking away from his NFL career and stepping into a new lifestyle of farming. He shares about his relationship with God and how taking time to focus on his family changed his life.

PRE-ORDER WHAT DO I DO WITH WORRY? TODAY! Josh and Christi's new book, What Do I Do With Worry? releases April 20th, 2021. You can pre-order it on Amazon!

Transcript

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0:00.0	The miracle of first fruits farm is that everybody thinks that we were able to grow more than a million pounds of food based on, yeah, this wealthy retired NFL football player.
0:15.2	No, God stripped me of all that wealth so that people would know that, guess what, he's going to give us
0:23.4	the victory, but he's going to receive all the glory.
0:27.6	You are listening to the Famous at Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:33.4	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:41.4	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast. Today we have an incredible story for you,
0:48.2	and I'm super excited about this story because it is the epitome of famous at home and being famous at home.
0:55.0	With us today is the former NFL player turned farmer Jason Brown.
1:01.7	Jason, thank you so much for being with us today.
1:04.6	Thank you for having me. Glad to be here.
1:06.3	So Jason runs what is called First Fruits Farm in North Carolina.
1:13.2	And you're going to hear so much about him talking about that.
1:16.1	But before we do, Jason, I'd love for you to introduce your family to us because you have a large family and a beautiful family.
1:24.7	Yes.
1:25.3	So I got to tell you, we are bringing big families back.
1:29.6	It was actually on our first date.
1:34.3	We had a conversation that would scare most people, and we both talked about how many
1:39.2	children we desired on our very first date, and we said that that number was going to be between
1:45.4	three and five and that that was for both of us well guess what we've blown that number out of
1:50.5	the water and we have eight beautiful children right now and they're the stair steps um you know
1:57.0	one years old all the way through uh 13 that's right. I've got a teenager now.
2:02.4	All right. So watch. And the thing is, is, man, like, each one of them is just as different and unique as the next, you know, with their personalities.
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