DARRYL STRAWBERRY on THE MOTIVATION SHOW podcast!

𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐘𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐖𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐘 is a record-breaking baseball legend who earned 4 World Series rings! One of those rings was with the 1986 NY Mets, one of the most talked about World Championship teams in baseball history. He is one of the greatest hitters in the 65 year legacy of the NY Mets with a home-run record that stood for 37 years. His success on the baseball field came hand-in-hand with well documented personal challenges that included substance abuse, divorces, cancer, & even jail time. His is one of the great transformation stories not only in baseball history, but in sports history. If his story doesn’t inspire you, nothing will. His new book reveals it all. It’s titled 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 – Discovering the Healing Power of Purpose on My Long Journey from Player to Preacher.

Everyone knows Darryl Strawberry as the home-run king. However, in his book he shares his evolved legacy as a minister, father & a believer in restoration, redemption, & starting over. Those last three…restoration…redemption…and starting over…he lived it…he created it and he earned it…and now he teaches it.

We discuss:

-How his life was falling apart. He had wealth, great fame, and was tearing through a crazy fast-lane lifestyle. On the outside, he seemed to have everything. But none of it made him happy. For him, happiness meant having more of everything.”
An abusive father (in the book he mentions him and his brother once considered killing him to protect their mother and themselves)
-How his heart attack in March 2024 led him to understand that he was not in control
-How he turned to Christ
-How you find true redemption and restoration and what wisdom he gained from overcoming these hardships
-All the things that led him to be an ordained Minister of the Gospel and the creation of Strawberry Ministries.
-How he travels 270 days a year with his son Jordan, preaching at motivational conferences, churches, schools, prisons, and hospitals.
-What inspired him to write this book and why now
-How this book picks up where his prior book 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐰: 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐲 𝐖𝐚𝐲 leaves off…it covers the actual reason he believes God put him here.
-How it’s never too late to find a new life through love, generosity, compassion, and personal growth
-How and why you should believe in God, no matter what your prior beliefs are
-Why life’s later innings are about paying forward what we learn through experience—about extending the grace and healing we’ve received to others.
-The real value of the lessons that free us from pain—their whole purpose—is to use these lessons to help free someone else
-His thoughts on his 1986 World Champion Mets teammates: Gary “Kid” Carter. Dwight “Dr. K. Gooden. Keith “Mex” Hernandez. Manager Davy Johnson.
-His thoughts on “The Boss” NY Yankees owner George Steinbrenner
-How the 1986 NY Mets team won a ridiculous 108 games in the regular season alone. A lot of people, including myself, thought it was one of the greatest teams in modern times and that it would be a dynasty. Why he felt The Mets did not get a 2nd World Series championship
-Who was the greatest pitcher he faced and why. Who was the greatest ballplayer he played with or against.
-How he was and is able to remain calm, focused and confident while playing in a World Series knowing that tens of millions of eyeballs were upon him and is it any different when he is giving a keynote or ministry talk
-What are some of the powerful living examples in his book of what he learned from his dear mother Ruby and his dear wife Tracy

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