In this episode of the Get Loved Up Podcast, Koya Webb welcomes Anthony Trucks, former NFL athlete, American Ninja Warrior, international speaker, host of Aww Shift Podcast, and Founder and CEO at Identity Shift Coaching. Growing up in foster care had a fundamental impact on Anthony's sense of self and where he truly belonged in the world. He struggled with allowing himself to be loved and to show up as the person he really wanted to be. Football was his path to figure out his place in the world. Anthony would go on to get a college football scholarship and eventually play professionally in the NFL. His life had found meaning and purpose at this point, but with a disastrous injury that took away the NFL from him, Anthony would realign his identity to the person he truly wanted to become. Anthony shares the profound impact of God in his life, in grounding him on what is right and wrong, and to act as his business partner and guide his decisions. He also shares the role of forgiveness in his life. He acknowledges that the people who wronged him didn't do it because they wanted to harm him, instead they fulfilled a need of theirs and Anthony getting harmed was the byproduct of these selfish acts. He realized that what he needed was compassion for these people. After writing his book Identity Shift: Upgrade How You Operate to Elevate Your Life, Anthony's life mission is to teach others how to make shift happen in their lives and realign the messenger to their message for positive change.
HIGHLIGHTS
02:27 Anthony grew up adopted and struggled to find his identity
05:25 Opening up to love and feeling worthy of it
07:43 Wanting to be accepted by the world through football
14:51 Anthony meets his father
18:14 Spirituality and base of faith taught Anthony right from wrong
22:35 Losing the NFL and realigning his identity to the person he wanted to be
26:32 Forgiveness and compassion allows others to become better people
34:39 Anthony and his wife find their identities in their marriage to make it work
39:13 Identity Shift: Anthony helps others by aligning their identities with their desires
43:53 Anthony's wellness: A lesson in loving himself
46:50 Entrepreneurship: Aligning the messenger and the message for success
49:02 Connect with Anthony
QUOTES
10:34 "I made this commitment to myself like you're going to be great. And at 15 years old you don't know what great is, so I was like football. Let's try football. So that was like the first step of me building into the efforts of what it took to be great."
12:26 "The return on the investment of effort into football returned not just a better skilled player, but that sense of deserving. And what happened was I got to this level, we all get to this level of the return is confidence, self esteem, joy."
20:57 "He says, do you mind if I pray with you to accept Christ? And so I did. And at that moment, it was this thing where the world kind of spun differently for me. The perspective of how I show up in the world and something being bigger than me and what was right and wrong outside of how I felt about what felt right and felt wrong."
26:41 "I believe the world that we experience is a mirror to us. Heavily. If I show up negatively, I get negative. If I show up positive, I get positive. Now I could only give out what I have inside. If inside I have joy, I'm going to give that out. It gets mirrored back."
36:00 "I can identify as a person in my actions who will give the marriage what it needs. And sometimes a marriage is needing something from me, not me needing something from her. And so that identification of who I am and how I show up, it's a constant ebb and flow."
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