#TUClassic: Overcoming Life’s Real Challenges with Tavon Wilson
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Jayson Waller
4.4 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Today on the show we’re talking with previous free safety for the Detroit Lions, Tavon Wilson about the difficulties he endured while growing up in the hood. Tavon talks about how he finds the extra motivation he needs, and who he can always look to in his life for inspiration.
Tavon discusses what it’s like to go to the Super Bowl, and getting to share that experience with the most important people in his life. Tavon wasn’t invited to the NFL combine, but he knew he was better than the majority of those players, so he used the fact that he wasn’t invited to push himself even further.
Highlights:
- Growing up without a proper support system
- Using that tough situation to become a better person
- How Tavon created his own supportive environment
- What position Tavon played in college and how that evolved into safety
- Not getting invited to the NFL combine was the best thing that could have happened
- The feeling of winning the Super Bowl
- Not getting challenged by coaches until the NFL
- How Tavon reacts to the haters in his life
- And much more…
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Jason Waller here, True Underdog podcast and YouTube channel. |
| 0:03.8 | Listen, make sure you subscribe today. |
| 0:05.7 | You can go to IHeartRadio, Spotify, Apple Podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | You can go to our YouTube channel, True Underdog, or you can visit trueunderdog.com and subscribe to all of it. |
| 0:15.1 | Damn, damn, true underdog. |
| 0:18.3 | Damn, they unleash the power with him. Damn, damn. Build it with me, baby. Damn. Unleash the power with him. |
| 0:21.4 | Hey, am. |
| 0:22.3 | Hello to the true underdog. |
| 0:25.9 | Hey, underdogs. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome back to the true underdog podcast. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm your host, Jason Waller, and I've got another episode of the true underdog classic for you, where I replay an interview from back in the day. |
| 0:37.2 | Today, we're throwing it back to my interview with Tavon Wilson. Good friend of mine. He is a bad ass. Talk about a true underdog. Tavon grew up in the projects. His father was murdered when he was a baby, and his mom died when he was 12. Now, he's in the NFL, and he's played for the New England Patriots, the Detroit Lions, |
| 0:54.3 | the Indianapolis cults, and the San Francisco 49ers. |
| 0:57.0 | He's had an absolutely wonderful football career. |
| 0:59.9 | I absolutely love talking to Tavon. |
| 1:01.7 | He's such a genuine person and leader, and this interview is full of great stories and inspiration. |
| 1:06.4 | Stay tuned for the episode of True Underdog Classic, Overcoming Life's Challenges with NFL safety, Tavon Wilson. |
| 1:14.7 | How are you doing? |
| 1:15.5 | You having a good time off in the off season? |
| 1:17.8 | Man, I'm loving the off season, man. |
| 1:19.4 | Anytime to get an opportunity to spend more time or family, |
| 1:22.5 | those people that sacrifice so much for you are doing the course of the year, |
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