Darryll Stinson - Second Chance Athletes

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s episode, our guest is Darryll Stinson, a former athlete, now a speaker, a speaking coach as well. He's a two-time TEDx speaker and founder of second chance athletes. He now helps and gives athletes a roadmap to discover their new purpose and living a fulfilled life. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[2:06] Why should we listen to you?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think the best people to listen to are people who value life. Every moment of life, I feel like that's where the greatest wisdom comes from. And as a survivor, I always tell people I'm living the life that I try to end. So every day is truly a gift to me. I don't waste days. I have a deep appreciation for life and an understanding of an emotional spectrum, having gone from the height of being an elite athlete to the low of being in a depressed state.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> [3:18] What is it you actually do in the world?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I help athletes transition out of sports, specifically help them grieve it. An athlete needs time to process, to grieve, especially the ones who feel like they got taken advantage of their coaches.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[4:10] And then I'm personally passionate about helping people share their stories, building their speaker business, like if you have a good mission and a story, and you just don't know the business side of speaking, being able to elevate that, the more visibility, the greater the impact.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[5:08] How did you get to the point of saying, this is the darkest parts of my soul, the hardest things I've experienced and I'm going to go out into the world and tell people about it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I actually had to have an identity shift to be able to share because I hated the way that I sound, I hated the way that I talked, the way I looked, I hated my voice. I hated how it sounded. And I