Trent Shelton, Former NFL Wide Receiver - Author/Speaker
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Episode 306
Trent Shelton is a former NFL wide receiver who is now considered one of the most impactful speakers of this generation. He reaches more than 50 million people weekly through his various social media outlets and non-profit organization, RehabTime. Shelton travels the world sharing his message of creating lasting change in life.
After playing college football at Baylor, Shelton went undrafted in 2007 but eventually signed with the Indianapolis Colts. After stints with the Seattle Seahawks in 2008, Washington Redskins in 2009 and the Tulsa Talons of the Arena Football League in 2011, Shelton’s football career came to an end.
Shelton’s first book, “The Greatest You,” was released May 7.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Shelton about his football journey from Baylor to the NFL, growing up the son of a pastor, hitting rock bottom, losing his college roommate to suicide, fathering a son out of wedlock, and how God took him from a life of pain to a life of forgiveness and purpose.
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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 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast is brought to you by Compassion International. |
| 0:24.6 | The website, Compassion.com slash Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:27.6 | That's the place to go to. Check it out. |
| 0:29.6 | You'll learn all about the great work being done at Compassion International. |
| 0:33.6 | The most trusted child development ministry in the world, over 2 million children |
| 0:39.5 | being impacted because of the great work being done by Compassion International. |
| 0:44.5 | And you and I can make that difference by sponsoring a child. |
| 0:48.1 | It's awesome. |
| 0:49.1 | What a privilege. |
| 0:50.1 | What an opportunity to release a child from poverty. |
| 0:52.3 | It's $38 a month. Food, education, medical care, vocational |
| 0:57.7 | training. It's all done in Jesus' name. That's the best part. And these kids get to know who Jesus |
| 1:03.0 | Christ is and they get to be released from poverty. They get to have that little thing that we all |
| 1:08.4 | deserve, that we all need, that we all want in life. |
| 1:11.5 | It's called hope. |
| 1:13.1 | So help give a child hope and release them from poverty by sponsoring them through Compassion International. |
| 1:19.3 | Go to Compassion.com slash Sports Spectrum and sponsor a child today. |
| 1:25.3 | Today on the podcast, we welcome Trent Shelton to the show. |
| 1:29.5 | Trent is a former NFL wide receiver. |
| 1:31.8 | He's an inspirational speaker, and he's the author of the new book called The Greatest |
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