The Dr. Josh Axe Show - Tim Tebow EXCLUSIVE: Health Secrets, Trafficking Crisis, & John 3:16 Miracle

Starting point is 00:00:00 There is Thomas out of the 45 midfield. Here we go. 40, 35, foot race, 20, 15, 10. Touchdown. Denver is over. It's over in Denver. Tim Tebow's performance Sunday and Denver's upset went over Pittsburgh sent people flocking to the internet.

Starting point is 00:00:17 The game made John 316 the most searched item on Google. During the game, you threw for 316 yards. Your yards per rush were 3.16. Your yards per completion were 31.6. The time of possession was 31.06. And the ratings for the night were 31.6. And during the game, 90 million people Google John 316. And it's the number one thing on all social media right now.

Starting point is 00:00:45 And you know my favorite stories are God stories, once you could have never written. When I wore that national championship and 94 million people Googled it. And then three years later to the date of when I wore it, we're playing the Steelers in the playoffs. and we win this crazy game and in overtime and an 80-yard touchdown. And I'm getting ready to do the press conference and I'm told what just happened and I'm blown away. And I know there's several times that I've told that story and to crowds and people cheer and they clap for it.

Starting point is 00:01:16 And I say, I didn't have the same response you did because my first response was shame and guilt. Because we think in our society what is great is the goat, the greatest of all time, or it is success, or it is money, or it is fame, and go back to your point of influencers, man, I can't tell you how many times I've fallen in that trap. Too many times, unfortunately, I live the roller coaster with the rest of the world of my life, the highs and the lows, versus of actually having my identity planted firmly in Christ. Even though I know the truth, it wasn't where I was placing my identity. Too many days and too many times.

Starting point is 00:01:57 my identity was in all these other things in the highest order of the lows. And if you do that, your life is going to be a roller coaster. Your emotions and your joy and your peace, it's going to be a roller coaster because you're putting on number one your circumstances rather than your savior. Everybody, welcome here to the Dr. Josh Yacht Show. I'm so excited. Today we have Tim Tebow. Tim is a Heisman trophy winner.

Starting point is 00:02:44 He is an NFL athlete. He's a New York Times bestselling author. But more than anything, he's a person on a mission that wants to help people and help people that are in the toughest positions in life. Everything from sex trafficking to people who have been sort of discarded by the world today. And today we're going to be talking about how to find your true identity, how to find your purpose, how to be healthy, have a big impact, and how to honor God with your body. Tim, welcome the show. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. And we also have an awesome mutual friend, our ghost writer for both of us, AJ Gregory.

Starting point is 00:03:17 She's so wonderful. So it's awesome that we have that in common. And she speaks so highly of you. So I love getting this opportunity to hang with you. Oh, well, thanks so much, Tim. Well, yeah, we love AJ. She's the best. And, you know, I've read several your books.

Starting point is 00:03:31 I think I read maybe your first book. What was the book you were like holding a football and you had a... Through my eyes. Through my eyes. Yeah. I remember reading that book and I was so positively impacted by it. And I want to say more than anything when I read that book, it filled me with a greater sense of,

Starting point is 00:03:46 of identity for myself. Just thinking about how, and at the same time of watching that or reading that book, I also watched some sort of documentary on you where you're, I just remember a couple scenes, you're throwing a football about the entire time when you're miced up, you're quoting Bible verses

Starting point is 00:04:04 and scriptures the whole time. And I remember just being so inspired just thinking, wow, this is a guy who is in, you know, professional sports and in media. And most people are not, very outspoken about their faith in Christianity. But you were incredibly outspoken and didn't change who you were at all. And I thought, man, this guy's a really strong sense of identity of knowing who he is. And it impacted me in a positive way. What caused you to have such a strong

Starting point is 00:04:33 sense of identity? I don't know that I always have. I feel like it's been a journey of highs and lows of learning, adapting, growing, of God working on my heart and in my mind to constantly grow closer to him and say yes to the call that he has on my life and the calling that we all have. And I appreciate that compliment, but I don't know that I was always outspoken. I have a dad that has been so bold and courageous for his faith, and there were so many times. growing up where we would after church go to lunch at a place and my dad would stand up and be like, hey, everyone, we're a praying family. We're going to pray for our meal. But we'd love if anybody else wants to join you and how it just be like, you know, why do you got to be so bold? Why you got to

Starting point is 00:05:31 bite everyone into this? And it's just that was such a different style of boldness that I hate saying this right now, but the reality was there were so many times, I was like, Dad, why do you have to be so outspoken? And the reality is, is because he loved Jesus so much, and he knew and knows that it's the greatest message of all time, and it's the greatest trade of all time. When we accept the free gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ, there is the greatest trade where we are imputed righteousness and he takes our sin. Yeah. And so many times when I was young, but especially into high school when I would be like, Dad, man, I'm just, I'm nervous about getting up and talking for overseas and preaching.

Starting point is 00:06:18 I'm nervous and he'd say, why? And I'd say, well, I just don't want to screw it up. He said, well, Timmy, do you know Jesus? I say, yeah, Dad, do you love him? Yeah, dad. Do you think that he loves all the people that you're about to talk to? Yeah, I do. So what are you nervous about? Are you really just nervous because you're more worried about what they think of you or what they think of Jesus? And the way that he would frame it to me showed me how selfish I was. You know, without telling me you're selfish. But you found something the greatest gift, the greatest love, the greatest rescue of all time.

Starting point is 00:07:05 and without saying it would be implied as how selfish are you that you wouldn't want to tell them because you're worried about how you look. And that's been too much of reality throughout my life. And I think one of the greatest regrets that I have so many times is that I was more worried about what people thought about me than what they knew about King Jesus. Well, you know, I think this is true for myself. I think it's true of all Christians is that I think about the very, I think about the same thing. I think about any time I've not been bold in my faith or outspoken, it's because I'm trying to protect myself.

Starting point is 00:07:45 I'm trying to please man more than God, right? And so there's sort of that misplaced hope. That's right. And where we're putting those things. And it's a misplaced identity. Yeah. That we think our identity has something to do with what they think about. me versus what God has already said about me that when we know Jesus we're redeemed

Starting point is 00:08:08 we're reconciled we're made right with him not because of our actions because of his actions and that I'm no longer defined by my scars I'm defined by his scars yeah and we we don't fully embrace and trust that truth and that promise and so we keep leaning back on but I I need this and I need this when really what we should be leaning is is what I need is Jesus it's so much easier to to share your faith when you're just focused on serving and loving that person and introducing them to Jesus. Absolutely.

Starting point is 00:08:37 Yeah, you know, there's a quote, and I'd love to get your thoughts on this and how this relates to identity. There's a quote by A.W. Tozer, maybe my favorite author. And he says this, he says, the most important thing about you is your beliefs about God essentially. Yes. What do you think about that? I think that it is a very profound.

Starting point is 00:09:02 quote. I think A.W. Tozer has a lot of them. Yeah, yeah. Because when we understand, when we have a right view of God, it also gives us a right view of ourselves. Yeah. And humility in modern psychologists, how they define it, is taking an accurate view of yourself. And I think that's so important because when we take an accurate view of ourself, it gives us a better chance of taking an accurate view of God because so many times we want to place ourselves there on a pedestal instead of putting God on a pedestal and taking ourselves off and knowing, man, my sins would nail Jesus to the cross. The gospel is personal. The whips that whip Jesus should be named after me. And I think when we really talk about the

Starting point is 00:09:50 gospel, we really need to understand three parts. What we have been saved from, who we have been saved by, what we have been saved for. Like what we have been saved by is eternal separation, or what we've been saved from is eternal separation from God. Who we've been saved by is a king that loves us so much that gave his best that came down and lived a perfect life, put on flesh, lived a perfect life, chose to die a death, not just for us, but also instead of us. And that he loves us so much that he would give up himself and offer us, he defeats sin and death, and become sin so we could be made the righteousness of God,

Starting point is 00:10:25 and he offers us a free gift of eternal life. Like, are you kidding me? What a king that would do that. It reminds me of a story of Alexander the Great, because I don't even know how it's to describe him except as Alexander the Great. Yeah. Right? And he went to a fortified city and took some of his men, and he told the opposing king,

Starting point is 00:10:46 he said, I want you and all of your army and all your people to surrender now. And opposing king's like, what are you talking about? We have a full army, a fortified city. You just have a few of your soldiers. And Alexander the Great said, let me give you a demonstration. And he told his men to line up in a single file line and start walking right to a cliff. And one by one, the men fell off the cliff to their death till ten of his men walked off the edge of the cliff and fell to the death. Then he told the rest of him, come stand by me.

Starting point is 00:11:13 And the opposing king shook, terrified. And the people watched from the top of the city walls. And after that, they instantly surrendered. And now, some will say he gave them a demonstration. But, you see, we don't have another way to describe Alexander the Great, except. is Alexander the Great? That's all I know is how to describe him. Except this king was known as great

Starting point is 00:11:35 because of his winds and his territory and his land and his possessions and what he conquered. Except when we view him as great, but we viewed Jesus as, you know, when people argue about who Jesus is. But yet Jesus is the one that said, no, no, no, you deserve that death,

Starting point is 00:11:54 but I love you so much. I'll take the place. I'm going to go instead of you. It's not like Alexander the Great that's saying, hey, I'm going to sacrifice my men for more land or power. He said, no, I'm going to sacrifice myself so that you could live and live abundantly. That's how much I love you. That's the king that we get to serve.

Starting point is 00:12:11 That's the king. And so when we have an accurate picture of who King Jesus is and what he has done for us, it changes everything. The gospel is the only thing that changes everything about everything. It changes our identity. It changes how we see people. It changes how we should treat people. It changes everything. And that's the hope that we have of the gospel.

Starting point is 00:12:32 It's so powerful. You know, I was watching, I know you've been on, I watched you on Jordan Peterson. This was maybe about maybe six months ago or so. And the one of the things that he, the way he describes identity is this. He says, identity is basically based on three things. One, you're attaching yourself to something or someone. And then you're getting your roles and responsibilities in life from that something or someone. And I think about that, like even as being a.

Starting point is 00:12:59 and I know you're a new father. I think about myself as a father with this. We're girl dads here. Yes. And so, you know, like, okay, if I'm attaching myself to Jesus, the greatest person, God, as well, and it's the greatest thing I could ever attach myself to. And that gives me my role as a father and being a father like he was a father, also my responsibilities to sacrifice everything and help train up my child in the way they could go.

Starting point is 00:13:27 like just so so like that that's some some of where I know identity comes from I want to ask you as a new father what one how has that changed your own identity has that changed maybe even like you understanding you know your relationship with God I mean how is how has that impacted you becoming a new dad I think it is so incredible and it's such a crazy blessing but a lot of people ask did you ever know you could have a love like this and I said well I I don't know if that's been the biggest takeaway because, right, since the moment Demi told me she was pregnant, I think I already felt, like, instantly felt that love for a baby that I had never met. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:14:09 But I do think one of the things that has changed is when we get home from the hospital and I set Daphne our little girl down in her bassinet, I'm like, okay, Demi, what do we do now? Exactly. What's next? Like, what's the protocol? What's the game plan? But one of the things that starts to hit you is this level of responsibility. So I start to instantly think not just a few steps ahead, but 10 steps ahead, five years ahead.

Starting point is 00:14:35 And you start to think, well, this cabinet, this door, this dresser, they all have to be changed because this is a future problem. This is a future issue. This is a future need. This could be a stumbling block. And so you start to prepare in advance. But man, I started to think about that. And to a little extent, was convicted of why don't we always think that way, not just for our own immediate family, but for the hurting and the suffering around the world?

Starting point is 00:15:02 Why don't we have that level of responsibility all of the time? Because the way that we view our children is, I believe, the way that God views all of humanity. Yeah. And yet we take that deeper level of ownership and responsibility for our daughters versus how we should actually have that for the world. Yeah. For all of humanity. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's powerful. You know, the other thing it made me think of is actually when you were talking sort of describing how, you know, always just thinking about your daughter for the next five, 10, 20 years, I mean, already in her eternity. God's doing the same thing for us, like working everything out for our good,

Starting point is 00:15:42 putting things up so we can win so we can grow so we can become more like him. So I think there's such a powerful thing between knowing how much God loves us. And then we can take that exact same love and pour that out towards their kids. But to your point, pour that out towards the world. You know, one of the things that I've admired so much about you is that you have dedicated a big part of your life to helping the people that were most in need. I mean, again, I think about Mother Teresa doing this. I mean, she did this at a just at the highest level I can imagine in terms of going to Calcutta. And I don't know how many of people, I know you've traveled a lot internationally. I know that I did mission trips to different China, of China and

Starting point is 00:16:20 Africa and places like that. And I know that it was just, it's not the same level of standards of living in the United States. I mean, we're talking about the level of disease and just the lack of so many things is so high there. But that she poured her entire life into taking care of the people that were the lowest of the low. That's right. And I know that you've dedicated your life to a similar thing. Before I get to that, though, I do want to say something else. Mother Teresa has this quote that I was reading. I've read several of her books and I just love them. But One of her quotes was, the greatest destroyer of peace today in the world is abortion. How do you feel about that quote from Mother Teresa?

Starting point is 00:17:00 It's very personal to me because the, well, if we take a step back, what is really hard about this conversation is that so much when we get into it, I'll start out by my own story because it's personal to me because my parents were told that they need to have an abortion with me. And that at first they thought I was a tumor. They didn't think I was a baby. And then they found out it was a baby. And my mom had so many issues. She had amoeba dysentery.

Starting point is 00:17:43 The placenta only had a tiny bit that was attached. She went into a coma multiple times in the pregnancy. Wow. And finally they found out. a doctor that had been doing this for a long time and and this doctor who had helped deliver, I believe over 35,000 babies. When he was helping my mom in delivery, he looked at me and looked at my mom and my dad and said, this is the greatest miracle I've ever seen because I have no idea how this boy is alive.

Starting point is 00:18:15 And I'm just so grateful for my parents' faith and courage and trusting God and giving me a chance and for God's bearing my life. And I was malnourished, but I tried to make up work quickly. And I'm just, I'm so grateful. And when we talk about this issue, I really believe that in the pro-life movement, one of the ways that we could cover more ground and influence and love people better is if we did a better job of loving all life all the time, no matter what, no matter where. And that's every life all of the time. From womb to tomb. Yeah. From every background, every

Starting point is 00:19:02 ethnicity, every ability or disability. Like it's, we have to value life. Why? Because there's only one thing that Jesus died for. People. Life. Yeah. To give us life and life abundantly. And it is something that is so personal for me in so many areas and I love getting to encourage people on the value of life, on the value of humanity, that every life was created in love, by love, and for love, on purpose and for a purpose, that every single life was created in the image of God. And what does that even really mean years ago, four or five years ago? I was at one of our Night to Shines in Arizona. Night to Shine is our worldwide celebration for individuals with special needs.

Starting point is 00:19:55 And we were there, and it was during COVID, and we were having, instead a shine through, instead of Night to Shine, it was a shine through. And so people were still in their cars, and most of them were Corvettes. And so all the Kings and Queens would be in the back of the Corvettes and going through all of these massive lines of people that are waving to them, you know, from a short distance as they're driving by and we're waving, and we're just celebrating all these kings and queens, and it's surreal. And there's this red corvette that is pulling past us really, really slow.

Starting point is 00:20:24 And we're just losing our mind and our voices cheering for this girl that's standing up in the back. And she's just beaming, beaming with joy. And as the car drives by, I didn't even know our team and the partner churches had these bumper stickers. But the car pulls by, and there's a bumper sticker on the back that said, royalty on board. and I couldn't help but get emotional and think that's right. She's royalty. Yeah. She's royalty to God.

Starting point is 00:20:55 So it started us on this track of really researching and looking at what does it mean to be made in the image of God. And so many times we'll hear people talk. Well, it's kind of one of three main things. It's rational that we were create rational to be able to be logical and think and process. information and then another one's relational to be in relationship with God and with each other and then another one's functional to rule and reign. I think all three of those are part of it, but I was so convicted that it can't be all of it because what does that mean for some with a lesser of ability in some of those areas? They made less of the image of God. And I believe

Starting point is 00:21:39 the answer is absolutely no. 16% of our world has special needs. and I thought, man, it's just, that can't be it. And so we started to dive into it, and you're looking at when the image of blank is used in the ancient near east, and the majority of times that it's used, it's used for, let's say, an Assyrian king that would be made in the image of Bell, a God that they believed in, or an Egyptian king would be made in the image of Ra, God that they believed in. And so you look at this term, and it's a term that is used for kings or for monarchs. It's a term that's used for royalty. And so in the ancient Near East, when they would have looked at Genesis

Starting point is 00:22:21 and they would have said, man, we're made in God's image and likeness. What I believe that they would have been taking is they would have been taking this as a worth and value statement, as a royal worth statement. It's not just a relational or rational or functional. It is a worth promise and statement that our God is making. I love you so much. I made you in my image. how I view you is of royal worth.

Starting point is 00:22:46 And that would have been staggering. I think that gets lost in our society today. The worth and the value of all of humanity. Not just from one another because that is so low right now, from God, how God values every single one of us is with this royal worth. And that love was then demonstrated by his son, Jesus, who goes to the cross. And when we accept the free gift that he offers, then we are adopted into the family of God.

Starting point is 00:23:12 What does that mean? We're sons and daughters of the king as royalty. His heart for us as royalty, and the job was finished on the cross and we accept Jesus. Then we are adopted in the family as royalty. That is his heart for humanity, is of royal worth and royalty in his family. That is how we should see people. And that changes everything. It does.

Starting point is 00:23:32 It's so powerful. It's so powerful because we've talked about identity. You have to get your identity from somewhere, something, or someone. And when you can get your identity, your true identity, which is really the only identity that works from Christ. It changes who you are. It changes your confidence. It gives you a sense of purpose now, that every action you have is eternally meaningful. I'm thinking that there's this there's this story of their building a Pacific. And I want to say it's somewhere in Europe. And somebody walks up and says, hey, what are you building? And somebody says, well, I'm just,

Starting point is 00:24:09 I'm just building a building. I'm just laying bricks. And then, you know, someone else was like, well, I'm building a church. And somebody else is like, I'm building this, you know, this place to glorify. That's right. Sir Christopher Wren was rebuilding in London. There was the great fire of London. And I think it was like 1666 or something like that. And Sir Christopher Ren, a famed architect, goes up to the, I believe it was brick builders. He asked the first one, what are you doing? And he said, I'm laying bricks. He asked the second one. What are you doing? And he said, I'm building a wall. He asked the third one. What are you doing? And he said, and he said, he said, I'm building a great cathedral for God.

Starting point is 00:24:45 Their perspective matters, right? They're all doing the same activity, except the purpose behind all three was so different. Right? And the third one that's saying, I'm building a cathedral for God. Then his work is his worship. His work every day is more important. The purpose behind it changes everything. And it's our perspective of who we are and what we're doing.

Starting point is 00:25:08 Everything changes when we know our true identity in a relationship with Christ. you know, I think this is also why today, you know, one of the things in being in health care that I've looked at is, like, what causes people to be sick and ill? And I think the single greatest factor, it's diet's number two. It's not number one. Number one is spiritual, emotional, mental health issues and stressors. Like different emotions cause disease in different organ systems. I'll give an example of this too. Kids that grew up without a father, their risk of having every medical condition you can imagine everything from cancer to autoimmune disease to chronic pain is dramatically higher. Like I'm talking about like three to ten times higher than those

Starting point is 00:25:53 that grew up with a father. Wow. Has that been studied? Yeah. Yeah. There are numerous, and also their chance of, of course, pregnancy or ending up in jail, a number of other things. Also, of course, those increase as well. But yeah, I mean, growing up without a father is one of the worst things that could ever happen to somebody for their health if they don't find a substitute for that father-like figure or relationship with God of what would it. But I bring all that up to say, you know, going back to that Christopher Ren's story, you know, I think for me, like I think that my point was I think that's why a lot of fathers don't show up as they don't understand what an amazing privilege and job that is. Like for me, knowing, wow, like as a father, I get to

Starting point is 00:26:35 steward over a eternal God-given being and help them grow in their character, help them take that unique gift and skill they can to the highest level possible. I just get excited thinking about being able to pour into my daughters, helping them become more Christ-like and knowing that's maybe the most important job that I have. But a lot of fathers might think their level of identity or purpose is like, well, I'm a father. Being a father just means impregnating a woman. Like that's the lowest level that could think. And I don't even need to show up versus. versus no, being a father means this. You got a new book out called Look Again.

Starting point is 00:27:10 And I love the title because it's really looking, so many people, when they look at themselves, they see somebody that doesn't bring a lot of worth, doesn't have a lot of value. And maybe they see their, they look and see all their flaws. How does your book change the perspective on that for people? Well, hopefully with everything, there's two prayers and hopes that I would have with

Starting point is 00:27:35 book is number one that it would be one of the most encouraging things that you could read of the truth about you but then number two how challenging it will also be because when you understand the truth about you and the value that you have to God and how much you are a love in your true worth and being made in God's image but then when we see so many people around us every day that are suffering, it should be a call, an urgent call to respond and care and love those people. And so I pray that it is encouraging, but I also pray that is extremely challenging. Yeah. Because it is a mandate for us to love God and love people.

Starting point is 00:28:20 And when we see so many people that are hurting and suffering around us, how are we going to respond? How are we going to answer that call? And the challenge is that we would really look again, look again at our worth, look again at our value, look again at our value to God, look again at how God has created us, what God has created us for, that we all have a purpose. What does purpose even mean? The reason something is done, use, created, or exist.

Starting point is 00:28:49 We are here, we are created, we exist for a purpose, for a mission, and are we going to actually live that out. And there are so many lives for us all to be able to touch an impact and be impacted by. And so the question is, what are we going to do with it? You know, when we are looking at it, we are contemplating, agonizing over what the title is. And then we were agonizing about the subtitle. And we ultimately ended up on recognizing your worth, renewing your hope so you can run with confidence. And the heart is that you would truly recognize your worth, that we would recognize our God-given worth. because I think believe that is so important for us to actually live with confidence,

Starting point is 00:29:30 for us to actually show up every day believing that we're here not by happenstance, not by accidents, but for a reason. Can I tell you, there was a study that I read about a couple years ago, and it said only, so 75% of people don't know what their purpose is, and about half those people are Christians. So, yeah. And so, and I think about myself, like if I've ever had times in life where I've sort of been, in between and not clear on it. Now, I was really blessed to have amazing Christian parents and they grow up to where, you know, in my early 20s, I had a couple years, went to college and kind of

Starting point is 00:30:06 didn't follow my faith the way I should and then rededicated my life to Christ and then was just filled with a sense of purpose. Like, I know what it's like to not have purpose. I don't know what it's like to have major, major purpose. And when you have purpose, it's like, you know, your energy goes through the roof, your excitement, your impact. All of those things matter. to think that everything changes yeah i think that um i don't feel like i've been a many places in my life where i didn't have purpose but i feel like my purpose was directed the wrong places and then when you can go back to your actual purpose what it gives you is a stability in that a truth in that because i feel like too many times i have actually placed my worth and my purpose and things that are fickle and

Starting point is 00:30:54 don't matter, like a game or sports or the wrong places I place my identity or in relationships or opportunity or praise or platform or recognition, all of these wrong places. I'm a people pleaser by nature. I'm the baby of five in our family. And so I naturally want to make people like me. I want to be friends with people. And that has also led me to getting too many times away from my purpose.

Starting point is 00:31:22 And God's had to really humble me. a lot of times and remind me that you thought your biggest purpose was a game. I didn't die for a game. I didn't create you just for a game. That's part of your story. But I have more to your life and your purpose than a game. And God's had to remind me of that many times. Do you have unexplainable illness, hormone dysfunction, weight loss, resistance, brain fog?

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Starting point is 00:32:31 If you want to check it out and grab one before they're gone, just go to mybloodwork.com now. You know, for so many people, I think about, you know, to go from where you were winning the Heisman trophy in the NFL. And I remember watching these games, of course, I think almost everybody would remember when you were playing for the Devonver Broncos and the John 316. And I mean, it was, I mean, does it blow your mind to think about? And I want to get back to this, but like now that I'm bringing you that up, I mean, just the not coincidence of John 316, 316 passing hours. I mean, you've saw it. I mean, that's absolutely crazy. It is crazy. It's so cool. And you know, my favorite stories are God stories, once you could have never written. And when I wore that in the National Championship and 94 million people Googled it. And then three years later to the date of when I wore it, we're playing the Steelers and the play. And the. playoffs and we win this crazy game and in overtime and an 80 yard touchdown and then I'm getting ready

Starting point is 00:33:32 to do the press conference and I'm told what just happened and I'm blown away. And I know there's several times that I've told that story and, you know, to crowds and people cheer and they clap for it. And I say, I didn't have the same response you did because my first response was shame and guilt that I thought that night was about a game. I thought it was about proving the doubters wrong or the critics wronging. And God in that moment was reminding me, no, it's never just about a game. It's always more than that. I remember going to do the press conference right after and answering questions about the game, but there's these reporters that want to ask about all these things, 316 yards and 31.6 and yards per completion and 3.16 in your yards per rush and

Starting point is 00:34:21 the time of possession is 31.6 and the ratings for the night are 31.6 and you know it's a number one training thing all over the world all these social medias and everything that's happening and and I love it. I'm so grateful for that but it also so grateful that I had no idea that God used something that I just thought was kind of in the past and he's like you think that I did it then and I'm done like you have no idea what I'm doing and it was such a reminder that God's ways are not our ways and its thoughts and not our thoughts and we have no idea what he's doing. But also I knew my heart that night was not for the things of eternity and the things of God. It was it was about pride and ego and I proved the doubt is wrong in all of this.

Starting point is 00:35:05 And then God's using that, reminding me, and there's all these reporters that are over to the side. And they want to ask the question. So they're kind of like, hey, tell me all of these things adding up to 316, right? Like, man, that's a really big coincidence. And I was like, well, you could believe that. It's a really big coincidence or we could believe that we serve a really big God. Yeah. That's so powerful.

Starting point is 00:35:25 And it's just such a reminder to me that we really do. Yeah. I remember being blown away. And I know it was sort of crazy. And I think about how Jesus talks about this is like, listen, I'm going to create a divide. You know, I'm going to create a divide. And I think about you being one of those people early on that was the most outspoken Christian athlete I'd ever seen. And you went from being winning the story.

Starting point is 00:35:47 playoff game, again, winning the Heisman trophy before all of this success. To the next couple years, basically NFL teams, and I felt like there was a sort of, I mean, I could kind of sense this sort of spiritual thing going on, where it kind of feels like you were being denied what the rightful place you should have been in the NFL with your incredible skill set. So how did it impact your faith? How did you deal with, even identity-wise? going through that sort of, you know, your time in the NFL and all those challenges. Well, I think first answer, it just should have been some areas that I just played better. And that would have been helpful.

Starting point is 00:36:30 But I also view it as an opportunity that God taught me so much. I think God teaches in the highs, but I also think he teaches a lot in the lows. And too many times, unfortunately, I don't. live the roller coaster of the rest with the rest of the world of my life, the highs and the lows versus of actually having my identity planted firmly in Christ. And even though I know the truth, it wasn't where I was placing my identity. Too many days and too many times my identity was in all these other things, in the highs or the lows. And if you do that, your life is going to be a roller coaster. Your emotions and your joy and your peace, it's going to be a roller coaster

Starting point is 00:37:20 because you're putting on number one, your circumstances rather than your Savior. But when our Savior is always on the throne and our circumstances are beneath that, and I'm not saying we can't have joy in our circumstances. I'm not saying there's not grief or there's not mourning. But even in the midst of those, and it reminds me of John 1633, the night before Jesus goes to the cross, He tells his disciples, for in me you have peace in the world you are going to have trials or tribulation, but take heart, choose courage. I have overcome the world. Right?

Starting point is 00:37:52 Like we know where there's peace. We know there's going to be trials and tribulations, but you get to constantly look back at the cross and know that I've overcome the world. And that is our identity. That's why we get to, that's why Hebrews tells us we have this hope that is an anchor for our soul, firm, and secure. We know that when Jesus defecure, we know that when Jesus, feed it sin and death on the cross, that it will never be undone or outdone. That it is true, and we can hold fast to those promises, and that can be our identity that we hold on to.

Starting point is 00:38:23 And that gives us a hope that's not like the world. And my favorite definition of the biblical form of hope is to look forward with confidence, expectation, and anticipation. We get to do that because it's based on the promises of God. We get to look forward with confidence, because when we look back, we get to see the cross and the finished work of the cross. And when Jesus said, to tell us to I, it is finished or paid in full, that counts for us as believers. And then we get to have an expectation that our God isn't just done, but he's still working, that our God is still at work, in us and through us and in the world. And then we get to have an anticipation, an anticipation that our best days are ahead of us.

Starting point is 00:38:59 Why? Because heaven's ahead of us. So we get to actually look forward with the confidence, not based on our circumstances, based on our Savior, an anticipation that's based on hope that God is still at work, and then an anticipation that, man, we're citizens of heaven. That's our identity. When I pull out my ID, you know, it says Timothy Richard Tebow and the state of Florida, and there's an expiration date. That's not what my spiritual ID says.

Starting point is 00:39:24 My spiritual ID says, son of the king, king of the world who forever reign. My spiritual ID, there's no expiration date. And it doesn't say Florida. It says heaven. Like, that's the identity that we're supposed to have, that we're supposed to live with. You know, I'm so grateful. One of the things that my parents did for us is they celebrated our spiritual birthdays, the day that we accepted Christ.

Starting point is 00:39:44 Oh, wow. More so than they ever did our actual physical birthdays. And I loved it because it ingrained such a truth. Remember this day. Remember this moment. Remember this decision. You know, one of the things that is a non-negotiable for us at our foundation and our companies and our family is our fifth non-negotiable.

Starting point is 00:40:04 It wants to remember or do not forget. And why we say that is because when you're not negotiable, it's because when you're not negotiable for us, because when you look at Deuteronomy, 22 times, I believe, that Moses reminds the Israelites to remember or do not forget what God has done. And they had been rescued out of Egypt. They had the Red Sea Barney. It's all of these amazing things that God has done. They saw his love and his compassion, and they saw him show up time and time again.

Starting point is 00:40:32 But then they're into a place and their circumstances they don't really like. And so we're just kind of going to forget what God has done. And they're viewing their circumstances more than they're viewing their love of God and the faithfulness of God. And it changes everything. And so for us, we want to strive to have that mindset to really remember God's faithfulness. Do not forget God's faithfulness, regardless of our circumstances, because we do have hard circumstances. Look at what's taking place around the world.

Starting point is 00:41:02 I mean, look at what's happening to Christians being killed in Nigeria right now. around the world, different places, all those that are being marty faith. It is, but yeah, there's a hope even in the sucky circumstances. Yeah. You know, I was sharing right before we started filming, I had this spinal infection that left me unable to walk for a year. And the hardest thing through that whole time was, I mean, when I would focus on my diagnosis, because the doctor told me, he said, you're going to be permanently disabled. Wow. And he said, the best case scenarios, you're going to have chronic, terrible pain the rest of your life.

Starting point is 00:41:36 Those were his exact words, what he told me. And I had to, if I would focus on that or even go online, because I thought, I thought, okay, I'm going to do my own research and see, hey, what are the outcomes if you've got this osteomyelitis and infection around your spinal core? And I thought, okay, let me look it up because he's not giving me the, he's just giving me the worst case diagnosis. And I started looking up stuff online. I thought, oh, I feel even worse. And then, and I felt, I had never felt hopelessness or despair before, but I did for about 48 hours. until I finally fix my eyes back on Jesus. And I thought, he's the great physician.

Starting point is 00:42:10 That's right. He's the miracle worker. And I just need to live with hope. That's what he calls me to do. You know, that's what I'm called to do. And so I just started focusing on that and I was full of so much hope, so much joy, so much excitement, knowing God is working a miracle in me right now. But it's just where we're shifting our focus.

Starting point is 00:42:28 It's like if I focus here, depression, anxiety, hopelessness, despair, joy. Yes. hope. That's right. So yeah. It just can't help when you say that. I can't help but think of Hebrews fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith, and for the joy set before him, endured the cross, despised the shame, finished the race, sat down at the right hand of the throne of God, fixing our eyes, a lock, focus. And when we do that, everything changes. Yeah, it's so powerful. Well, I'd love for you to walk us through. This is a two-part question. One would be, and I'd love to you get practical here. What are practical things people

Starting point is 00:43:05 can do. Number one, how does somebody practically on a daily basis build their identity? And number two, how does somebody practically find their purpose and live that out? It's a really good, deep question. Can I start with the purpose one first? Yeah, let's do that. So I've gotten asked this a lot. And I first always want to say, I don't know exactly. But one of the things that I've thought of to try to encourage people in this is what's your mindset? What? What? What's your skill set? What's your heart set? What's your where set?

Starting point is 00:43:39 And when you look at all of that, where God has placed you, what He's given you, what he's let you borrow as a skill set, what has he pricked your heart for, and what has he, how has he developed your mind, let you see, let you think, what problems can you solve? And when you add all of that up and you give it to God, all of those different sets, I believe God turns it into a super set. That's so good. But where has God placed you? What does he prick your heart for?

Starting point is 00:44:03 what is you open your eyes for you see for me when I look at and trying to discover my purpose in life over and over and over and over and over again God has opened my eyes and prick my heart for those that are suffering for those that have been looked past or beyond or through or viewed as less than or insignificant or cursed and I really believe that he opened my eyes to these encounters and he pricked my heart. Not because you're saying, I just want you to be aware of this. No, because I want you to step in and do something about it. I love them as much as I love you. But what are you going to do about it? It's not enough to feel something. There's a lot of people that feel something, but I want you to do something. What are you going to do? And that's why if we

Starting point is 00:44:53 leave when we walk down the street, you could see someone that is hurting or someone that is homeless or someone that has been hurt or afflicted. And we could have sympathy or empathy, but you could have that on the other side of the street. Yeah. But you can't have compassion from the other side of the street. See, compassion is up close and personal. In the Greek, it's the word splachnizomai, which means to be moved from your most inward parts. And eight times I believe in scriptures used to talk about Jesus that he saw people hurting enough compassion, splangizomai, to be moved from his most inward parts. That's not comfortable. It's uncomfortable. It is a pain. But then he met there, He cared for them and he met their needs.

Starting point is 00:45:34 In the same way, we are called not just to have sympathy or empathy, but we are called to have compassion. And I really believe another good definition of the modern day how we should talk about is to care so much for someone you're willing to suffer with them. Yeah. And a lot of times people don't really always like that because it makes us uncomfortable. But maybe when we have compassion, we could help someone that is uncomfortable, maybe one day be comfortable if we are willing to get it.

Starting point is 00:46:01 get uncomfortable. But we live in a society that's so easy to seek and choose and want comfort. Yeah. To want security. But I really believe when we choose comfort and security, we miss so much meaning, purpose, and significant. And really it's the only way to grow. Like I think about the times of my life when I look back and I'm like, well, I really grew like, I'm more like Christ now. I'm more compassionate. I'm more, it's been times where I'm like, this is where I've been changing the most. I've been the most uncomfortable. I've been doing things that are out in the ordinary. Well, think about how God has made us to grow and adapt. Think about when we lift weights. There you go. You're uncomfortable. You tear down and it grows back bigger. I believe the same way

Starting point is 00:46:41 with our faith muscle. And I believe the same way and understanding what God's called us to do is, listen, God can do whatever, whenever, however he wants. Like, you know, he can do that. I just don't always see him do it in certain ways. I don't hear a lot of testimonies that people are like, man, I was on Netflix and I believe God called me to something incredible while I was watching Netflix. But I hear all the time, all the time, my whole life, people on mission trips or they were a part of a service project. And they were like, man, when I was out there, you know, God did something in my heart. He did something to me.

Starting point is 00:47:13 I couldn't even explain it. I just knew I wanted more of it. That's right. I don't know why God chooses to do it that way, but I believe that he uses that a lot. And maybe part of it is because you're willing to get uncomfortable. You're willing to take a step of faith. you're willing to care about someone else, you're willing to seek outside your own goals, ambitions, and dreams, and to care for someone most of the time that can't do anything for you.

Starting point is 00:47:34 And I just see so many times God show up in those moments and impact people. Yeah, you know, one of the things I think about, too, is that there's this sort of idea or definition of success today that's around, hey, you got a lot of fame, you got so many social followers, you got so much money. And so I think people kind of latch on to that. I remember looking at some statistic around like Gen Z. and, you know, when I was a kid and probably pretty similar with you, it's like, what do you want to be when you grow up? Fireman, astronaut, doctor, president.

Starting point is 00:48:05 Yeah, everybody says the same things. But today, it's a social media influencer is the number one thing. And you think, well, why do you want to be a social media influencer? Well, people see, oh, well, that means you're popular, you know, and people want to be like. People want to be popular. And so versus if you have this biblical mindset, it's, you know, Jesus is like said at the end of the table, not at the, not the head of the table. And it's just such a different mindset of understanding. No, I went and took the trash out for the neighbor. I went and I went

Starting point is 00:48:38 on a mission trip. I donated to somebody. I just, I act with compassion. That's success. Those are crowns in heaven. Jordan Rubin, a good friend of mine. We've talked about this quite often. If we have some, there's this man named Charles Mulley, and he's got this amazing, amazing orphanage in Kenya that he's built. And so anyways, we just talk about a number of people like that. Heidi Baker is another friend of ours and just looking at what they've done. We're like, man, they've got a lot of crowns in heaven. I mean, they've got such a great eternal perspective.

Starting point is 00:49:05 And C.S. Lewis says this, the people that do the most in this life are the people that think the most about the next life. You know, and I think those sort of mindsets are incredibly powerful. You know, I want to go back because I'd love to share you to share anything practical on identity. Are there, and I'll show this for myself, you know, I found, I think I, my identity changes the most when I read the Bible and read scriptures and meditate on them and how it impacts me in terms of God's, who God says I am. Yes. But probably even more than that, when I'm spending time around, righteous, virtuous people that model Christ.

Starting point is 00:49:46 Like when I see them and see what they do, it makes me want to do. I'm convicted. It's contagious. Yeah. And when you're around those people, you want to be around them more. You want to look at the hope that they have, that they hold on to. You want to look at the meaning and the purpose and the significance and the passion that they have. It's contagious.

Starting point is 00:50:07 But I just want to mention something that you just saying about being a servant and what success looks like. And it can't help but be reminded of Scripture, the greatest among you will be a servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humble, whoever humble, whoever humble. whoever humbles himself will be exalted. We know that the greatest is King Jesus. He humbled himself, took on the form of flesh, as a bond servant being made in the likeness of men, humbled himself to the point of death,

Starting point is 00:50:36 even death on the cross. And when we talk about what striving for greatness is, it's about caring for others, it's about being a servant, and ultimately it's having an eternal perspective on the things that really matter, because we think in our society what is great is the, you know, the goat, the greatest of all time, or it is success or it is money or it is fame.

Starting point is 00:50:58 And go back to your point of influencers, man, I can't tell you how many times I've fallen in that trap as a people pleaser because of the wanting people to like you. And I just, you know, when you look at social media, what's on all of them, a like button? And so it perpetuates this. I want to be liked. I want to be liked. I want to have more people like me. And I thought about this quite a few years ago. What if we change the like button to a respect button.

Starting point is 00:51:32 What would happen? What would we try to post? What would we share? How would we try to go about loving, caring, influencing people? And it's been a big shift for me and a big challenge. and it's one I constantly have to work on, is trying to choose to earn respect versus gain likes. Because likes are fickle.

Starting point is 00:51:55 They come and go, you share something, talk to someone, and you say something they like, move, and I'm going to like you. You say one thing they disagree with. I unfollow, I dislike, I don't like you, versus the respect, it's harder to gain, but it lasts so much longer. Wow.

Starting point is 00:52:12 Like when you earn people's respect, when you work for it, then when you come to a disagreement, they might disagree, they might not like something, but they still have respect for you. I can't tell you how many, honestly, heroes of mind, I disagree with something, but I still have such an immense respect. We can have great conversations. We can be iron that sharpens iron, even though we disagree on something. Disagreement is okay. I actually believe that many times it can be a good thing because we can sharpen. in one another with disagreements, but it doesn't mean we devalue people because of disagreements. And right now we're in a society when we disagree, we devalue. You are less than because you don't

Starting point is 00:52:54 have the same opinion, political or faith-based or society-based or whatever is. We devalue people. And when we devalue people based on your opinion, we're saying that your value only came from your opinion to start with. Yeah. I mean, I think that's incredibly profound. This is one of the things I'm going to walk away with that you share today. I think that's so wise because I think that any time I post now, I'm going to be more conscious of, is this advancing God's kingdom and is this something, I'm going to think about the respect button. I think that's, I think it's powerful. You know, I had, this is, we're a few weeks out from this, Charlie Kirk being assassinated, and I was posting to pray for him in a number of things. And I lost like 10,000 followers and, you know,

Starting point is 00:53:37 in a real short period of time. But I get posting because I really knew that I needed to, uh, talk about, talk about it. I just felt led to talk about it. I'm curious for yourself, did that impact you in any way? Have any impact on you in terms of when you- Crush me. It's heartbroken from it. I was heartbroken from the assassination for what Erica

Starting point is 00:54:01 and their family had to go through and is going through from their loved ones, from friends, from all of, from just the thought of, man, kids one day and other friends and loved ones can just go back and watch that video. But I also believe that we serve at God that is working all things together for good to those that love Him and are called according to his purpose. And I believe that Charlie and Erica and their family were called according to his purpose and love God.

Starting point is 00:54:36 Yeah. Somehow, even though we don't know and we can't see it, we serve a God that somehow working all of this together for good. It doesn't mean all things are good. Yeah. But he's working this tragedy, this evil together for good somehow. And then you see all these people go to church the next weekends and you see all these people that are praying. And that is so incredible. But I would say another thing that broke my heart was then seeing certain people celebrate what took place. Yeah. And that would take me back to the same conversation we just had, that you were celebrating a young man's death because you had a difference of opinion, which means his value to the world was based or devalued either way based on his opinion, not his true God-given worth.

Starting point is 00:55:33 Yeah. Yeah. And it's heartbreaking to see people celebrate that. And that shouldn't ever be the case regardless of our agreements or disagreements. or disagreements, but regardless of our political stances, regardless of our faith-based stances, we should know that every single person has a worth and a value that is priceless because it was priceless to God, because God gave his life for you and for me. And so I just, I'm not sure out of all of that what I've been heartbroken by most.

Starting point is 00:56:09 Yeah. Charlie, if it's the family. But man, I have to say watching Erica and how she's handled it, it has been such an encouragement and an influence and had an impact on me and my wife. And I can't even imagine what she's going through, what she's been through. But the hope through it, the resilience, absolutely incredible. Yeah, you know, the thing that I feel like I was struck by the most is I saw this post. the first time it popped up on my feed,

Starting point is 00:56:41 this is really soon after a picture of him and Erica with their two kids, holding their two kids. And I just wept. And it's been rare for me to cry for somebody I'd never met before. But I just thought like, and part of it was probably like, we have kids almost the same age and I've got two little kids. I've got a one year old.

Starting point is 00:56:58 He had a one year old. I have a five year old. I think he had a three year old and just thinking, wow, if that was me or Chelsea or, you know, just growing up without a dad, you know. So I think for me, you know, It really just hit me and it became personal. You know the other thing that I was convicted by, and this is something that I just so admire

Starting point is 00:57:14 about you, and I'm even convicted just through our conversation here is, but having that same heart for anyone that dies or having that same heart for kids that are Israeli or Palestinian or Iranian or whatever. And so, and that's what's so amazing about Jesus. I mean, his heart broke for everybody, you know, it's just, you know, and he wanted to heal everybody. We read the stories about the, you know, the Samaritans or the woman at the well or people who, and, you know, he cared for them too. The blind, the beggars, those with leprosy. He went to the least, the last and the loss. When we look at Jesus' publicly recorded miracles, over 60% were for those

Starting point is 00:57:56 who were afflicted, and over 70% were for those who we'd categorize as the MVP, the most vulnerable people. Yeah. And he had a heart for those that were overlooked. And, you know, scripture tells us that God is nearer to the broken hearted when I think about that God's near to the broken hearted means I want to be too. Yeah. I don't want to spend my life. I've spent way too much chasing the wrong things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life being far from the broken hearted, you know, being afraid of the tough, the crisis, conflict, or chaos. I want to be in those places. I want to be in the hardest places because I know that our God shows up in the darkness. and when darkness and light meet, light wins every single time.

Starting point is 00:58:39 And we know that God is near to the brokenhearted. And man, I believe that should be a stirring and an urgency in our hearts to be there too. Yeah, that's so powerful. As a doctor and a dad, I'm always looking for simple, natural habits to keep my family healthy. And one of my favorites is Manukora Manuka honey. And it's not just any honey. This is the real deal. It's raw, it's never processed, and the jar I use has an MGO rating of 850 plus the highest I've ever seen.

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Starting point is 01:00:31 Before we go, I definitely want to ask you a few health questions. Yes, I love it. I've got an audience that's very into faith. I've got an audience that also wants to be healthy, wants to honor God with their bodies. What, walk me through how maybe when you were younger or even a professional athlete or college athlete, how did your thoughts about your physical health? How does it change between then and now? It's always been super important to me, although my actions for it have drastically changed as I've been striving to learn more and grow and adapt. I mean, when I was in college, they were telling us to carb load and, you know, and so I was eating.

Starting point is 01:01:10 I was doing what I thought was good, but now I think is pretty terrible. Yeah. And some of the stuff that I was eating. But I've been very convicted and really felt almost a responsibility with it as well. I was, I can't remember if it was eighth, ninth grade, something like that. I put a box of cocoa pebbles in mom's grocery bag at Publix, and we get in the line and a young boy that was younger than me but was watching me in sports. And he said, look, look, dad. And my mom's right, and we're right in front.

Starting point is 01:01:52 He said, look, Dad. Tebow eats cocoa pebbles. I'm going to go get cocoa pebbles. And it's just crushing. It was crushing to me. and how it's a bad influence. And when I was 15, I haven't had a soft drink since. And just tried to make certain decisions that I believe were best.

Starting point is 01:02:17 Now, a lot of that has changed in learning and growing. And so I really believe in stewardship and how stewardship is not just a financial thing. It's not just our actions. I also believe a big part of it is our. our bodies. And I believe that when we look at scripture and the word for stewardship is oikonomia and the picture that scripture paints of that is that we're housekeepers, house managers. And when the master of the house, when the owner of the house shows back up, did we have everything in place? Did we take care of the house? And that's every area of our life.

Starting point is 01:02:58 that is in our actions, it's in our mind, it's in our bodies, it's in our temples, it's in our giving, it's in all of these areas of our life. And too many times we just kind of focus on a few of them versus really focus on all of them. And I think our bodies are a massive part. Because when we talk about running this race that God has for us and the purpose that God has for us and trying to show up with the right mindset, heart posture, all of this, how could we actually do it to the best of our ability to be the best stewards if we're not putting the right fuel in our body, if our mind is cloudy because we're putting junk, if our body is lack of days because we don't have the energy. I don't just believe it's for a performance. It's for stewardship that changes our performance, right? And that is so

Starting point is 01:03:41 important. How could we say, God, I want to run this race all out, but if I'm not going to put the fuel in my body to go run the race. Yeah, that's so good. It's silly to me. And we also don't don't talk about it a lot. Yeah. We just don't. Well, I think about growing up, so being real involved with church, it's like, I went to church on Sunday, then Sunday school, then Wednesday nights, then, you know. Oh, yeah. And, um, but church potlucks, I mean, historically have been the worst, the absolute worst. Like, it is. And I will say, you know, I mean, I know we've got some mutual friends like Craig Groschow. Yeah. I think about guys like Stephen Ferdt. There are more pastors. This was not the case 20, 30 years ago. We got some buff pastors, you know, I've got Craig

Starting point is 01:04:20 Groschelle recently. And he, I mean, incredibly fit for his age. Very much. So impressive. So I love it. Pastors now more than ever are aware. However, it still needs to get better. I even think about, you know, we're called to be a light of the world and salt of the earth. And I think part of that is we should be shining in all areas. We should be shining in our careers and our health and all these things. Whatever your hand finds to do, do with all of your might. I believe that applies to every category that we live in. And one of, of, uh, one of, uh, my very sweet friends that we get to do ministry with, someone that I look up to so much, is a man that has put his life on the line for our country so many times and has taken a lot of wounds

Starting point is 01:05:03 for our country to keep us free and has been blown up and has been shot at and has been hurt many times. And we got to partner on an awesome operation for dozens of special needs kids to get them out of an area where they're about to be overrun and get them into a location that was safe for them. And in this operation, this friend of mine, one of his wounds got infected really, really badly. And so he gets back to the states and the doctor's saying, we might have to amputate your leg. And I hear and I call on my FaceTime, man, I remember where I am. I'm in Colorado and I'm getting ready to do a talk and I get this news and I walk in

Starting point is 01:05:50 into a private room and I call him and I said I face time and I say man I am so sorry that you're going through this and man I'm so sorry that there's a chance that they have to amputate your lake and he's looking at me in the hospital bed and he said oh thank thank you so so much dimmy but to be honest it wasn't mine anyways god just let me borrow it for a little while talking about his lake and if I have to lose it there wouldn't be a better way to eliz it doing this. That's powerful. That's what stewardship looks like.

Starting point is 01:06:26 Yeah. Yeah. I want to continue the health conversation, but I do want to jump. I do want to jump to something that I have been so inspired that I know you've been in by as well is helping rescue victims of sex trafficking. I remember having this conversation with people quite a few years ago when I told them the statistics around how bad it was. And they said, that can't be true.

Starting point is 01:06:48 in the United States, that can't be true. Talk to me a little bit about sort of what those current statistics are around sex trafficking and what you are trying to do about it and how we can support you and that. Well, we're trying to do anything and everything to fight on all these battlefronts and we talk about the trafficking or exploitation or abuse of people. It is rampant around the world. And so many times we just think it's over there, but it's not. It's here in our communities and the nicest communities in America.

Starting point is 01:07:18 and it is at a rampant rate. You know, this year there will be around 400 million people around the world that are abused or exploited. You have over 50 million people that are trapped in human trafficking in one way or another. 50 million. Over 50 million. Wow. And that's a, you know, in the best experts guess, it's probably a low estimation. And there are more people that are being trafficked or exploited than probably ever in history.

Starting point is 01:07:45 And then when we, look at it here in the states and people say well that's just happening over there but it's not when we talk about those that are are sharing and distributing on the peer-to-peer networks the abuse of boys and girls like we used to trade baseball carts or trading this material we're third worst in the world it's china Russia us and then Italy wow when we talk about the the buying of live stream rape of boys and girls we're the number one buyer and the world. Wow. I mean, this is unbelievable. It is in our opinion, it's one of the worst evils in the world. And I think it's also important that we distinguish between exploitation and trafficking.

Starting point is 01:08:31 It's primarily for trafficking it is done for profit. Now, obviously, those that are buyers are doing it for pleasure, but in the exploitation space, that is primarily done for pleasure. And kind of usually get thrown into the same lump together, but it is one of the worst evils that we're trying to fight on every battlefront, whether that is in policy and legislation, whether it's to be able to safeguard as many as possible, it's long-term restoration. It is in labor trafficking, sex trafficking, organ harvesting, forced marriages, you know, all of these areas. And it's so nuanced and different, whether we talk about technology and the sex extortion and the grooming and the luring of boys and girls, which is rampant. You're just, you know, it's such a, you know, it's such a

Starting point is 01:09:14 a vast area of battlefronts. We got to have more people stepping on different ones. And this is where we got to build up more technology that can fight. We got to have more people on the line. We got to have more safe homes around the country and around the world. One of the latest studies that I've seen

Starting point is 01:09:35 is that every day there are about 25,000 people enter into the world of trafficking and only 500 exit. It is a battle that there are wins in, but we are losing every day. Wow. Well, I think this goes back to a conversation we're having earlier where it's really uncomfortable to talk about. It's uncomfortable for sometimes for people to face that reality.

Starting point is 01:10:03 But I think for people out there, and you can share more than I'm about to share on what people can do, but I think being able to post online and bring awareness, I think, being able to give whenever you can what the Lord leads you to give. I know Chelsea and I have two organizations in particular that we've given to just regularly to support this cause but I know that this is something again I think it's it's uncomfortable for people because it's just such a great just a great tragedy but what are some things people can do anything well I think start by understanding the threats that when you're yeah

Starting point is 01:10:44 kids go online. One of the examples I would give is if you were going to take your two kids to a playground, would you do it if you knew that there were hundreds of offenders walking around that playground looking for kids? No. There's no chance. No. Every time that we go on the internet, it's not much different. Yeah. There are people that are looking to groom, to lure, to exploit, I just want to say I have a of someone I met he's a he's a he's kind of a friend I had met and this happened to his daughter this this guy I mean he's he's a multi-millionaire very successful Christian family his daughter posted a picture of herself wearing a little less clothing on Instagram and then somebody somehow like got some of the files and then manipulated her and

Starting point is 01:11:40 then went down this whole path of in let her into this so this is happening to you know this isn't this isn't rare this is happening at a staggering um to a staggering amount of families and kids and i believe it was in 2004 that meta took down i believe it was 74 000 accounts on meta from nigeria alone that we're trying to groom or sex door oh wow american boys and girls yeah 74 000 accounts in one year alone jose on meta. So we got to understand the mass of this. Like this is one of the greatest evils in the world that is taking place and it's not over there. It is right here. It is being done right here. We, hard for me to share, but just a few days ago, we had an incredible survivor. We,

Starting point is 01:12:34 um, that had just been beaten with a rake. Um, so bad that it's broken a lot of, different bones in her face and the level of evil, right? And that's honestly why such a big part of the heart of look again, right? Yeah. Like, is to really see the value and worth that. Look at how we are exploiting one another, how we are abusing one another, how we are taking advantage of one another. And some people say, well, I don't do that.

Starting point is 01:13:08 Yeah, but how many times do we just walk past when we could stand in the gap? You know, we serve a king that didn't walk past. didn't look by. He didn't just go and sit at the head of table and no, he went to those that are hurting when everybody is saying, like, why would you go and help those with leprosy? Like, and this is crazy. Like, what are you doing? And yet he's going out of his way to help those. He's got out of those way that are hurting. And that's what we're called to do as well in their darkest hour of need. And that's the mission that we try to live out every day. Well, you know, one of the things that I'm really excited for people to get your book look again

Starting point is 01:13:45 because I think that one thing that happens is when you see and you are able to start seeing yourself in a certain light and you have more value and you understand that Christ died for you. Yes. Then it does something to you where maybe you start seeing people differently. That's right. There's another, again, I love C.S. Lewis. He has a quote that I'm not going to see the whole thing as a little bit long, but he's like, if we could really see people in their spiritual form, we would. just be, you know, blown away if we could see their potential, if we could see their God-given nature, if we could see that sort of spirituality of who they actually are. He says, I'm like,

Starting point is 01:14:19 we would sort of like, like, shudder, just we would be so blown away by them. And so I think when we're able to understand we're here, Christ died for us, our value and our worth, and then we see the worth and value in others. That's right. It does, it works both ways. Which is the heart of it. When we understand our worth and value, and then I see other people, there's something that's going to happen. I can't help but then see it in them. And now when I see people with infinite value and worth suffering, I will have to be compelled to do something. I can't sit there and be idle by. I have to respond. And that's why, you know, as mentioned earlier about the challenge, we are challenged to respond. How will we respond? How will we respond to those that are

Starting point is 01:15:04 suffering? How will we respond to those that are in need? When we really realize that it is our job and I believe our mandate to respond and care for those in their darkest hour of need, what will we do? And when you really realize your worth and you realize their worth, how could I walk by? Yeah. I was thinking of talking about this with some of our team last night. We're just talking about examples of it and I thought of one. I thought, you know what? Like, if you dropped a penny and you said, hey, Timmy, I just dropped a penny. Where's the penny at? like I'd you know probably be like Josh why do you care like come on it's just a yeah yeah but if you you dropped your wife's diamond ring and you said hey Timmy I

Starting point is 01:15:52 dropped my wife's diamond ring I don't know it's in the seat cushion or it's sitting it down you know we would we would pull everything apart and we wouldn't care about the couches because this that ring is so valuable it's so valuable because it costs more but it's more valuable because it's priceless to you and her. Yeah. Right? It's such meaning with it.

Starting point is 01:16:12 Yeah. Except right now we view people more as pennies than we do more priceless than the diamond ring. Wow. What if we viewed people as, what if we really did view people as more valuable, more important, than the things that we hold precious, like a diamond ring, or all of these other things that we think are worth so much, but in the grand scheme, they're going to be worth nothing. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:16:34 That's so good. You know, I think about, you know, when I first opened my practice, functional medicine practice, I had, you know, the conditions that were growing the fastest statistically were childhood obesity, childhood diabetes, type 2 diabetes. They were just growing, growing so high. But today, if I look at the last five or seven years, it's a lot of mental health and identity issues, I think, are really worse than they've ever been. And I think that this sort of is aligned with that.

Starting point is 01:17:03 And that's another thing I just want to say about your new book, Look Again, is, part of the subtitle, it's finding your identity, finding your purpose, and finding your true meaning, your own value. And I think that every single person can benefit from building a stronger identity, building a stronger purpose, and finding true meaning in life. And I want to encourage people to get the book. It's called Look Again. It's in Bookstores nationwide. You can go on Amazon.com, just go on Amazon and look up Look Again, Tim Tebow. It's his new book. But again, I think for for to grow, I think for you to be physically healthier. This is so important, your mind. There's a mind-body connection that it's so, so critical for your health. And I think even for you learning

Starting point is 01:17:48 more, how can you find your purpose and use that for serving others? Tim covers all of those topics here in the book. I want to encourage you to get look again. I do have a few more health questions. I love it. Yeah, we have just a little bit more here and then we'll wrap up. So I would love for you to share. I'm going to have a few of these types of questions. We got on a tangent from that. We had a tuck health. But these things are meaningful, so I'm glad we did. I love it. What does your daily eating plan look like?

Starting point is 01:18:12 Like, what does breakfast look like? What does lunch look like, dinner, dessert? Like, what does that look like for you? I love it. So for many years, I was on a keto-ish diet. Yeah. A little bit different, closer to like a modified Atkins-type diet. And the reason is different is because my protein intake was higher than a lot of those on keto,

Starting point is 01:18:33 but still very much ketone adapted. using fat for fuel. And so I've been pretty high fat, pretty high protein, very low carbs and sugar. And I, but then it's not just that. Then it's also trying to find those that are as clean and organic and fresh and and trying to get rid of as many pesticides, parasites, is clean. is clean and like with, you know, milk and stuff going A2. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:19:11 Wow. So many different changes that we've been learning and kind of growing and adapting to then adding to that. It's, you know, red light therapy, infrared saunas, PEMF mats, IV therapy. You're all in on the functional medicine. I love that. I totally love it.

Starting point is 01:19:31 I totally believe in it. I'm a die harder and I believe so much of it. Yeah, same here. So walk me through like, what does a typical breakfast, lunch, and dinner look like for you? Oh, clean eggs and a lot of them to start. Yeah. I probably had like probably eight before I came over here to see you today. And probably not Rocky style.

Starting point is 01:19:51 You probably cooked it up, but I bet you know, maybe you've done that a few times. Yeah, unfortunately I have because when I was young, I loved Rocky and so I tried to do what Rocky did. That's so great. And probably threw up a few times from that. Yeah. But I love eggs. They're one of the closest things to the perfect protein for us. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:20:12 And I'm such a big, big fan of eggs. I love clean meat. I love being able to have the A2, you know, kefir, yogurt, you know, always Greek. There's some different brands that we found. we love like painter sisters is an awesome one that love them like i think they're icelandic uh yogurt that's awesome um i also when we're in south africa they have like double cream yogurt and you can like taste how fresh this is oh yeah like this is so good um so i love having honey with some berries and yogurt together i crush that's one of my favorite things um i like bulletproof coffees

Starting point is 01:20:57 we put a like a lot of protein in it's some butter okay um different ones that that just won't affect my stomach as much. We've done ghee many times, sometimes when I'll be overseas, and I can't. I know I'm just risky to eat certain foods, depending on what country I'm in. I'll take a big thing of ghee, and I'll just have some coffee and mix it,

Starting point is 01:21:17 and I'll take protein powder, and I've done that for days. I've actually done it close to a week one time without the majority of my food, protein powder, because I was just so nervous about some places we were eating. Oh, yeah. So my buddy, Jordan, I have my cousin's an evangelist in Pakistan and India.

Starting point is 01:21:35 And they went on a trip over there and he was super health conscious. And Jordan had Crohn's and Clydes in the past. So he's very careful with what he eats. And I'm like, what did you eat over there? He's like, I didn't. He's like I packed bentonite clay and crackers and protein and bars. And I pretty much ate that the whole trip because I was trying to be careful. And I know that can be a challenge when traveling.

Starting point is 01:21:56 Totally. Have you found a good bar that's actually healthy for you? I mean, most of the time when I do ball. I will do bars that are like date nuts or something like that. I mean, but honestly, I don't do many bars. It's so hard to find them that are actually healthy.

Starting point is 01:22:08 It's just so much easier to have a powder. It is. If you have a good one, please let me know. I'd love to find a good bar. Yeah, yeah. I'm trying to think if there are, uh,

Starting point is 01:22:17 I mean, ones that are higher protein. There's one called, I want to say it's even called like, it's not, I think that's a tequila, but it's like a mescal or something like that. It's a little bit better.

Starting point is 01:22:26 Um, there's a brand. I think it's like, uh, has like a Mexican name on the bar. I'll share some with you later and then I'll share here on YouTube and for everybody to check out as well. How about supplements? What do you take for supplements? Multivitamins and a lot of different different ones that I mix in there too, vitamin D, K2,

Starting point is 01:22:50 creatine. I wish I took that when I was playing sports, but I was terrified because all is a miss. Oh, you're going to tear hamstring or something when it's just irritating. Yeah. But we're constantly on creatine. That makes a really big difference. The IVs on top of that, I really like them even more. We do like a lot of glutathione, magnesium, vitamin C, so many different IVs. When my new clinic opens up here in Nashville in January, we'll have you in. I can't wait. We get you IVs, hyperbaric, red light, all the things. The NAD. Yeah, NAD. Yeah, that's not always the most comfortable when you get.

Starting point is 01:23:30 get that N-I-V? No, you feel a little nauseous. What's the precursor to that too? N-Scedal, oh, for NAD. Yeah, the IV of it. I'm trying to think of what. Nijian. Oh, Nijan.

Starting point is 01:23:43 That's a brand, but you can take those orally to Nijian. I've done that some. Yeah. Yeah. Like those. Yeah. Man, you're into it. You're honoring, you know, for first Romans, or Romans 121, right?

Starting point is 01:23:59 I mean, you know, your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. So you're doing everything you can. We're trying. And I want to constantly learn. We've got a cold plunge too. Awesome. Amazing. I love getting in and just whatever we can do to be a little bit more focused, a little bit healthier, run and live out this purpose a little bit more.

Starting point is 01:24:18 I think that it is so important. I really believe, especially as believers, like, there's a higher standard of how we should take care of our bodies. Yeah. Not for the vanity of it for the purpose. of it. Yeah. So that when we say, you know, when scripture tells us to run, we're not walking. Yeah. We're not jogging. We're actually getting rid of the sin and the weight that so easily entangles us so we can run with endurance. You know, when I think about you, Tim, you know, run to win the race really comes to mind in terms of a Bible verse, because you've done this not only

Starting point is 01:24:51 in your NFL career, in your football career, but also in watching you broadcast and watching how you go after, you know, victims and helping people. So I'm so grateful for you and just the amazing ministry you have and the purpose that you're living out. I'll encourage you everybody to check out Tim's new book. It's called Look Again. And this is really a book about look again, look at yourself again and find your true identity. Find your purpose in life. And this book is going to help fill you with giving your life more meaning and significance. It's incredibly powerful. It's in bookstores nationwide as well. Tim, thanks so much for coming on today. It's my pleasure, man. Thank you so much. It's been a blessing. It's been a blessing. Thanks everybody for listening and

Starting point is 01:25:34 watching. And I want to encourage you to subscribe if you're not subscribe. By the way, one of the top things you can do to support the show is subscribe and share. There are millions and millions of people that don't know the truth about living with purpose, living with identity, and many of the things that Tim has shared. I want to encourage you to share this. And if you're watching on YouTube, What's that biggest piece of wisdom that Tim shared that you're going to walk away with and take action with today? Thanks everybody for watching and listening. Thank you, Tim Tebow, for coming on the show today. And we'll see you on the next episode.

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