Rashad Jennings is an eight-year NFL veteran who competed for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Oakland Raiders and New York Giants. After competing in football, he went on to star in--and win--Dancing With the Stars. He has since become an author, with his first book--The If In Life: How to Get Off Life's Sidelines and Become Your Best Self--becoming a New York Times bestseller.

In this episode, we explore how Rashad has found success in multiple arenas—and how he continues challenging himself to do so in new areas.

Rashad talks to us about one of the central aspects to his ability to accomplish great things: preparation. His level of preparation isn’t basic—it is preparation at all costs and no matter what the outcome. We hear how despite receiving no playing time as a high school football player, Rashad stayed prepared, allowing him later to surprise critics and make the NFL.

Rashad has great advice for how to stay positive and motivated when opportunities you seek—and believe you deserve—aren’t being delivered. He talks about the importance of believing in yourself the most and how to find joy in seasons that aren’t fruitful.

Through this, Rashad discusses the criticalness of falling in love with the process of what you’re doing—rather than being guided foremost by the outcome. He highlights how this mindset helped him not only to appear on Dancing with the Stars, but to win the entire competition.

Rashad is a man of faith and he discusses the role prayer has played in his life. He speaks to finding motivation in proving critics wrong and the need to self-advocate.

Rashad is truly more than an athlete. This conversation will inspire you to believe anything is possible for your life and to get to work pursuing what captivates you.

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