The Jefferson Fisher Podcast How to Handle Someone You Disagree With ft. Tim Tebow
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Oct 2, 2026 
Tim Tebow, former professional football player, broadcaster, author, philanthropist, and founder of the Tim Tebow Foundation, joins a candid conversation about disagreement, criticism, conviction, and humility. They explore reading the room, responding to mockery, escaping comparison, building truth-telling relationships, protecting children from online exploitation, and serving vulnerable communities.
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Tone Can Override Your Message
- A softer voice can diffuse conflict, but physical presence, posture, size, and tone change how identical words are received.
- Tim Tebow deliberately moderates his intensity because listeners may stop hearing the message when an aggressive tone shuts them down.
Make Service The Goal Of Communication
- Practice humility by holding an accurate view of yourself and asking whether your communication serves others or merely displays your own desires.
- Before speaking, define how listeners should leave the conversation: better because you invested in them, not impressed by you.
Why Real Convictions Attract Enemies
- When criticism mocked Tim Tebow at Florida, his father said people might like him but refuse to know him because they would then have to like him.
- The experience helped Tim accept that standing for convictions can bring painful opposition, while standing for nothing produces fake friends.
