Ex-NFL Star: Football Destroyed My Life. God Saved Me. (Eben Britton)

Eben Britton spent 6 seasons in the NFL as an offensive lineman for the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Chicago Bears, made millions and lived out the childhood dream – then walked away from the game at 27, physically wrecked and spiritually empty. Today he's a men's coach, speaker and guide who helps people move through the exact darkness he once barely survived.They called him "the banner man" – the guy on the horse out front, calling everyone into battle. There's a Viking warlord in him and an inner poet in the same body. For years the warrior ran the show. Then the injuries piled up, the "family" he'd bleed for on the field revealed itself to be a billion-dollar business that saw him as just another body and the man underneath all that violence finally had nowhere left to hide.In this episode of Man's Search for Meaning, we go far past the highlight reel:We get into what it actually feels like when the light goes off and your whole identity dies overnight – the ruptured appendix he read as a whisper from God, the descent into addiction and the doorstep of su*cide and the one night that pulled him back. Then it goes even deeper: God, plant medicine and why the "quick fix" is a lie, the industrialization of spirituality, my own Vipassana breakdown, fatherhood, the inner child, and a deeply touching story about his mother's miscarriage…An unfiltered, deeply human conversation about broken masculinity, ego death, faith, healing and what it really means to come home to yourself.