Pastor Miles McPherson played four years in the NFL with the San Diego Chargers from 1982-1985. It was during this time that he developed a cocaine addiction that found the NFL star in a tailspin as he began feeding his habit. After his second season in the NFL and after a weekend-long drug binge, he called out to Jesus Christ, accepted Him and stopped doing drugs in one day. After his football career. Miles felt the call into full time ministry. He worked as a Youth Pastor for Horizon Christian Fellowship in San Diego and enrolled in Azusa Pacific University’s School of Theology, receiving his Master’s of Divinity degree in 1991. In 2000, he felt called by God to start the Rock Church in San Diego. A cornerstone of the San Diego community and reaching over 18,000 people every week, the Rock seeks to reach, equip, and send people to impact their community and beyond. After the release of his 3 other books, Miles latest book “The Third Option” speaks out about the pervasive racial divisions in today’s culture and argues that we must learn to see people not by the color of their skin, but as God sees them—humans created in the image of God. In addition, Miles created The Third Option Similarity Training is designed to help individuals and organizations focus their attention on our similarities, rather than our differences, and to help us develop honoring relationships with those of different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Follow Pastor Miles on Social Media Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/milesmcpherson/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pastor.miles.mcpherson/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/milesmcphersonWebsite - https://milesmcpherson.com/?fbclid=IwAR2svROVZch2sdw--AV9B90x80KPlmexQkPrUsOLn38JucehDQqokjXDNXMFollow The Story Box on Social MediaInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/thestoryboxpodcast/Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/thestoryboxpodcastFacebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/125781678801513YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXHMRPxW0qoxV8kKjaFdYwIf you enjoyed this episode please subscribe to YouTube & Apple Podcasts, and leave a 5-star positive rating and review over on Apple Podcasts. Share it around with your friends and family. Let's start changing people's lives through powerful stories, like this one.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thestorybox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lisa Messenger is the vibrant, game-changing founder and CEO of Collective Hub. She launched Collective Hub as a print magazine in 2013 with no experience in an industry that people said is either dead or dying. Collective Hub has since grown into an international multimedia business and lifestyle platform with multiple verticals across print, digital, events and more recently, co-working spaces – all of which serve to ignite human potential. Lisa is an international speaker, best-selling author, and an authority on disruption in both the corporate sector and the start-up scene. She well and truly traverses an array of industries, having been engaged to speak across the globe for organisations including IBM, L’Oreal, Telstra, Facebook, C3 Church, Commonwealth Bank, CPA Australia, Purina, Harcourts, McDonald's, and Estee Lauder. She has headlined events including the National Achievers Congress, Melbourne Spring Fashion Week, she opened the Adelaide Fashion Festival and closed Mercedes Benz Sydney Fashion Week. In 2016, Lisa co-chaired the Virgin Way panel with Sir Richard Branson and in 2017, was invited to speak at prestigious global media conference FIPP in London.  Lisa’s experience in publishing has seen her produce over 400 custom-published books for companies and individuals as well as having authored and co-authored 29 herself. Most notably, Lisa charted her ride to success with her best-selling book Daring & Disruptive, which saw her sign a global distribution deal with Simon & Schuster in New York. Its sequel Life & Love reached #1 on Booktopia, Money & Mindfulness hit best-selling status within the first month. Breakups & Breakthroughs soon followed, then came Daring & Disruptive, an insightful and soulful account of the entrepreneur’s roller-coaster ride.Follow Lisa Messenger on Social MediaWebsite - https://collectivehub.com/about-lisa-messenger/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lisamessenger/Hear Me Raw Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/hear-me-raw/id1518457642Follow The Story Box on Social MediaInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/thestoryboxpodcast/Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/thestoryboxpodcastFacebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/125781678801513YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXHMRPxW0qoxV8kKjaFdYwIf you enjoyed this episode please subscribe to YouTube & Apple Podcasts, and leave a 5-star positive rating and review over on Apple Podcasts. Share it around with your friends and family. Let's start changing people's lives through powerful stories, like this one.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thestorybox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

originally from High Ridge, MO, Michael grew up in a fairly typical blue-collar, hard-working, middle-America household. Michael is the son of a union carpenter and a secretary. The value of hard work was instilled early on by Michael’s parents and he attributes a lot of his blue-collar work ethic to the example they provided. Passing on scholarship offers to smaller schools, Michael took a leap of faith and walked onto the University of Missouri wrestling team in 2004 after high school graduation. He knew “betting on himself” was a gamble and that it’s no easy task to compete at the highest level of college wrestling, but that didn’t stop him. Today Michael looks back at his time at MIZZOU as another chapter in the continual defining seasons of is life. He was the most unaccomplished young man on the team, but through determination and putting in more work than was expected of him, he was able to amass a 100-30 record, All-American honours and become a leader on the team.A list of his accomplishments at the University of Missouri include:Four-time NCAA qualifierDivision I All-AmericanTwo-time runner-up at BIG XII ChampionshipsFour-year starter100 career winsTwo-year team captainIn 2009, three months after graduation, Michael competed in his first MMA fight, won by first-round TKO and hasn’t looked back since. Winning multiple world titles has kept Michael a perennial top 10 lightweights in the world rankings. He has been involved in some of the most action-packed fights in Mixed Martial Arts history being nominated for “Fight Of The Year” three different times. 2011, 2013 and 2016 Fight Of The Year nominations Most wins in Bellator history Most submission wins in Bellator lightweight history Most knockout wins in Bellator lightweight history 3 Time Bellator Lightweight champion Ranked Top 10 in the worldFollow Michael On Social MediaInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/mikechandlermma/Website - https://www.michaelchandler.com/who-is-michael-chandler/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mikechandlermma/Follow The Story Box on Social MediaInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/thestoryboxpodcast/Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/thestoryboxpodcastFacebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/125781678801513YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXHMRPxW0qoxV8kKjaFdYwIf you enjoyed this episode please subscribe to YouTube & Apple Podcasts, and leave a 5-star positive rating and review over on Apple Podcasts. Share it around with your friends and family. Let's start changing people's lives through powerful stories, like this one.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thestorybox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eric Roberts is an Academy Award nominee for his role in Runaway Train, and a three-time Golden Globe nominee for Runaway Train, Star 80, and King of the Gypsies. In addition, Roberts received acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival for his role in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and It's My Party. He also starred in La Cucaracha, which won Best Film at the Austin Film Festival, and for which Roberts won Best Actor at the New York Independent Film Festival that same year. Other notable performances include his roles in The Dark Knight, Final Analysis, and Paul Thoman Anderson's Inherent Vice for Warner Bros., Millennium Films' Lovelace and The Expendables for Lionsgate. On television, Roberts' memorable recurring roles include USA's Suits, CSI and Code Black for CBS, NBC's Heroes, and Crash for Starz. He has appeared in guest star roles on ABC's Greys Anatomy, NBC's Will & Grace, Fox's Brooklyn Nine-Nine, CBS' Hawaii Five-O, HBO's Entourage, and so much more.Eliza Roberts was born as Eliza Rayfiel. She is a casting director and actress, known for National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), Doctor Who (1996) and The New Adventures of Superman (1993). She has been married to Eric Roberts since August 16, 1992.  Eric & Eliza have an incredible relationship spanning over 26 years. On This episode of The Story Box, Jay unboxes their relationship dynamics, Eric's story and Eliza story, sex, and so much more! Follow Eric & Eliza on Social Media Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ericrobertsactor/IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000616/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm#spouseWebsite - https://www.ericrobertsactor.com/Follow The Story Box on Social MediaInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/thestoryboxpodcast/Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/thestoryboxpodcastFacebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/125781678801513YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXHMRPxW0qoxV8kKjaFdYwIf you enjoyed this episode please subscribe to YouTube & Apple Podcasts, and leave a 5-star positive rating and review over on Apple Podcasts. Share it around with your friends and family. Let's start changing people's lives through powerful stories, like this one.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thestorybox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Ian Smith is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling books, SHRED: THE REVOLUTIONARY DIET, and SUPER SHRED: The Big Results Diet, BLAST THE SUGAR OUT, The Clean 20, THE ANCIENT NINE and eleven other books with millions of copies in print. His newest book—CLEAN & LEAN: 30 Days, 30 Foods, A New You! hit the stands April 9th, 2019 and was an immediate NY Times bestseller! His newest book, MIND OVERWEIGHT, comes out April 7, 2020. He is a former co-host of the Emmy award-winning syndicated daytime talk show, The Doctors. He also served as the medical/diet expert for six seasons on VH1’s highly-rated Celebrity Fit Club and is the creator and founder of the national health initiatives The 50 Million Pound Challenge and The Makeover Mile. Dr Smith is the former medical correspondent for NBC News Network and for NewsChannel 4 in New York, where he filed reports for NBC Nightly News and The Today Show as well as WNBC's various news broadcasts. He has appeared extensively on numerous broadcasts including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, Dr Oz, Steve Harvey Show, The Talk, Larry King Live, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN, MSNBC and many more. He has written for various publications including Time, Newsweek, Men’s Fitness, and the New York Daily News, and has been featured in several other publications including, People, Redbook, Details Magazine, Essence, Ebony, Cosmopolitan, and Black Enterprise. If you have ever wondered about what diet to choose - then this is the episode for you! Follow Dr Ian Smith on Social Media Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/doctoriansmith/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Dr.IanKSmith/Website - https://doctoriansmith.com/Buy His books - https://doctoriansmith.com/book-list/Follow The Story Box on Social MediaInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/thestoryboxpodcast/Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/thestoryboxpodcastFacebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/125781678801513YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXHMRPxW0qoxV8kKjaFdYwIf you enjoyed this episode please subscribe to YouTube & Apple Podcasts, and leave a 5-star positive rating and review over on Apple Podcasts. Share it around with your friends and family. Let's start changing people's lives through powerful stories, like this one.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thestorybox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alright everyone get out your pens and note pads - there is so much to write down in this episode! Andrew D. Huberman (born in 1975 in Palo Alto, California) and is an American neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has made numerous important contributions to the fields of brain development, brain plasticity, and neural regeneration and repair. A large amount of that work focused on the visual system, including the mechanisms that control light-mediated activation of the circadian and autonomic arousal centers in the brain, as well as the brain control over conscious vision or sight. Huberman was awarded the McKnight Foundation Neuroscience Scholar Award (2013), and a Biomedical Scholar Award from the Pew Charitable Trusts. He is the recipient of the 2017 ARVO Cogan Award for making major contributions to the fields of vision science and efforts to regenerate the visual system and cure blindness. Dr Andrew has been interviewed by Impact Theory Tom Bilyeu, Ed Mylett, Joe Rogan, Dave Asprey and Rich Roll. Follow Dr Huberman on Social Media: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hubermanlab/?hl=enLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-huberman-b1594110a/Website - http://www.hubermanlab.com/Follow The Story Box on Social MediaInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/thestoryboxpodcast/Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/thestoryboxpodcastFacebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/125781678801513YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXHMRPxW0qoxV8kKjaFdYwIf you enjoyed this episode please subscribe to YouTube & Apple Podcasts, and leave a 5-star positive rating and review over on Apple Podcasts. Share it around with your friends and family. Let's start changing people's lives through powerful stories, like this one.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thestorybox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leah is an accredited Snowy Mountains guide, certified Level 2 Wim Hof Method Instructor, breathwork specialist, extreme cold tolerance practitioner and mother of two. Having conquered her own battle of anxiety, stress, depression and sleeping problems, her mission is to help people improve their health & wellbeing by reconnecting them to nature and helping them to rediscover their inner wild thing! Her philosophy on cold exposure training is that it’s best experienced in nature - snowy treks or swimming in icy rivers & lakes - as it offers a unique opportunity to step outside of your comfort zone and learn about yourself. As a certified Wim Hof Method instructor, Leah has taught all around Australia and worldwide, including alongside Wim himself in Thailand. She has also taken workshops in Europe and the USA. On this episode of The Story Box - Jay unboxes how Leah overcame her depression, anxiety and stressed state and how she turned it into a flourishing business. Plus so much more!!Follow Leah on Social MediaInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/leahscottie/Website - https://www.leahscott.net/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/wimhofmethodtechniques/Follow The Story Box on Social MediaInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/thestoryboxpodcast/Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/thestoryboxpodcastFacebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/125781678801513Watch this interview in the flesh! YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXHMRPxW0qoxV8kKjaFdYwSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thestorybox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Arthur Charlafits is the former COO of Australia's No.1 Property Sit for Real Estate - Realestate.com.au. When Arthur saw a unique gap in the market of Childcare, he decided to create a company that would help parents find the right childcare and learning centre that's suitable for parents and kids. On this episode of The Story Box, Jay unboxes Arthurs journey from childhood to founder/CEO. Follow Toddle on Social MediaWebsite - https://toddle.com.au/?gclid=CjwKCAjw4MP5BRBtEiwASfwAL8flR4TxoEIIUWvY1704KE36CzEcqA9ugPDcpKTN2sT0nSxOqLkK2RoC9XwQAvD_BwEInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/toddle.aus/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/toddle.aus/Follow The Story Box on Social MediaInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/thestoryboxpodcast/Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/thestoryboxpodcastFacebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/125781678801513YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXHMRPxW0qoxV8kKjaFdYwIf you enjoyed this episode please subscribe to YouTube & Apple Podcasts, and leave a 5-star positive rating and review over on Apple Podcasts. Share it around with your friends and family. Let's start changing people's lives through powerful stories, like this one.Take a photo of this episode and post it to Instagram and tag @TheStoryBoxPodcast and @toddle.aus Let us know what you think.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thestorybox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This has to be the longest unboxing Story on The Story Box to date and for good reason too! Jon Played 14 seasons in the NFL, notably making the Pro Bowl twice as a member of the Philadelphia Eagles. In 2016, Jon competed on America’s Got Talent where he showcased his skills as a sleight-of-hand magician, making it to the finals and placing third overall in the competition amongst tens of thousands of competitors. He then put his talent on display as a guest on Ellen, who quickly became one of his biggest fans and advocates. Jon has appeared on Ellen’s show in various capacities as well as on The Today Show. He retired from the NFL after he was diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition requiring emergency open-heart surgery. Known for his great sense of humour and positive outlook on life, Jon uses his skills as a magician and his incredible life story to inspire audiences around the world. He wrote a book entitled Life Is Magic that draws a roadmap for how to shut that self-doubting voice up by choosing happiness. Jon has also been on Lewis Howes Podcast The School of Greatness. This is such a powerful episode with Jon and I highly encourage everyone listening to watch the full episode on The Story Box YouTube channel. Follow Jon Dorenbos on social media: Website - https://www.jondorenbos.com/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jondorenbos/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/JonDorenbosBuy his Best-Selling Book "Life is Magic" now - https://www.cognitoforms.com/Givingtons/LifeIsMagicBulkOrderFormFollow The Story Box on Social MediaInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/thestoryboxpodcast/Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/thestoryboxpodcastFacebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/125781678801513 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXHMRPxW0qoxV8kKjaFdYwSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thestorybox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Meltzer is the Co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and formerly served as CEO of the renowned Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment agency, which was the inspiration for the movie Jerry Maguire.His life’s mission is to empower OVER 1 BILLION people to be happy! This simple yet powerful mission has led him on an incredible journey to provide one thing…VALUE. In all his content and communication that’s exactly what you’ll receive.He is a three-time international best-selling author, a Top 100 Business Coach, the executive producer of Entrepreneur‘s #1 digital business show, Elevator Pitch, and host of the top entrepreneur podcast, The Playbook. His newest book, Game-Time Decision Making, was a #1 new release, David has been recognized by Variety Magazine as their Sports Humanitarian of the Year and awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. David has been featured in INC.  Bloomberg, SXSW, NBC Sports, VARIETY, Yahoo! Sports, TEDx, ESPN, ENTREPRENEUR, FORBES and The Huffington Post. On The Playbook David speaks with influential CEO’s, sports icons, and successful entrepreneurs like Tony Hawk, Tilman Fertitta, Gary Vaynerchuk, Maria Sharapova, Bob Proctor, Barbara Corcoran, Jim Kwik and Russell Brunson. Follow David Meltzer on Social Media: Instagram Facebook Website Podcast Follow The Story Box on Social MediaThe Story Box InstagramThe Story Box Facebook PageThe Story Box Facebook Group Follow the founder and host Jay Fantom on Instagram If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe to Apple Podcasts, and leave a 5-star positive rating and review. Share it around with your friends and family. Let's start changing people's lives through powerful stories, like this one.Take a photo of this episode and post it to Instagram and tag @TheStoryBox and @davidmeltzer Let us know what you think.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thestorybox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.