Trading Your Plans for a Life That Matters with Jason Brown
Famous at Home
Josh + Christi Straub
4.8 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
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!
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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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