Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome, my friend, Welcome to Love Someone with Delilah.
Speaker 1: I hesitated there because I almost said conversations with Thellilah,
Speaker 1: which is what we called our podcast last year when
Speaker 1: we started it. But in my heart of hearts, I
Speaker 1: truly believe that you have within you a gift, a talent,
Speaker 1: a skill, the power to change the world for good.
Speaker 1: You do, you have something or a combination of things. Actually,
Speaker 1: there are people that are fabulous singers, There are people
Speaker 1: that are fabulous entertainers. But somebody like Adele her voice
Speaker 1: comes along once once in the history of the world.
Speaker 1: And voices are great, and singers are great, and stars
Speaker 1: are great, but not nearly as great as those people
Speaker 1: who use their gift and talent and skill and abilities
Speaker 1: and history and misfortunes to change the world for good.
Speaker 1: And in this new podcast series that we're calling Love
Speaker 1: Someone with Delia, I want to help you unlock the
Speaker 1: goodness that is within you so that you can change
Speaker 1: your world for good. I want to use this podcast
Speaker 1: series to introduce you to people who have changed the
Speaker 1: world impacted the world for good. And today's guest has
Speaker 1: certainly done that in a myriad of ways. He has
Speaker 1: used his gifts and talents and skills and fame as
Speaker 1: a football star and a baseball player to motivate people
Speaker 1: to cling fast to their faith, to love their family completely,
Speaker 1: and to make the world a better place, especially for
Speaker 1: people with disabilities. I'm talking, of course, about the legendary
Speaker 1: Tim Tebow, and we are going to talk to him
Speaker 1: in this podcast about life, about love, about a movie
Speaker 1: that he's produced, but especially about how he uses his
Speaker 1: gifts to motivate other people. So, without any further Ado,
Speaker 1: I can't wait for you to meet my new friend,
Speaker 1: Tim Tebow. Before we do that, I have to say
Speaker 1: thank you to the Home Depot who allows me to
Speaker 1: broadcast both on the air on the Delilah Radio show
Speaker 1: and in these podcasts. The Home Depot is teamed up
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Speaker 1: And I want to tell you how much I appreciate everybody,
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Speaker 1: go there a lot, and now that spring is upon us,
Speaker 1: I'll be going there even a lot more. Tim Tebow,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Delight.
Speaker 2: Yeah so much for having me been a huge fan
Speaker 2: for a long time, and just appreciate what you represent.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, thank you you too, thank you. I
Speaker 1: love your faith, I love your boldness.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: It's it's just so important, you know, to try to
Speaker 2: share a good message and positive and uplift people and
Speaker 2: make people's life better. You know, I always say I
Speaker 2: think the greatest thing we can do is change another
Speaker 2: life for the better.
Speaker 1: Well, it's funny you should say that because I wrote
Speaker 1: a book last year and the title is One Heart
Speaker 1: at a Time. Because I truly believe, in the very
Speaker 1: core of my being, the only way we're going to
Speaker 1: change anything is one heart at a time by actively
Speaker 1: loving people. And it's the only way.
Speaker 2: And you know, I heard from my dad a long
Speaker 2: time ago the greatest form of love is to choose
Speaker 2: the best interests of another person and act on their behalf.
Speaker 3: And I really believe that.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's love a feeling, Sure it can't be some time,
Speaker 2: but the greatest form of love is a choice. When
Speaker 2: we go out of our way to love people, to
Speaker 2: help people, to make a difference in their life, When
Speaker 2: we for people that can never do anything for us,
Speaker 2: but we go out of our way, we choose their
Speaker 2: best interests and we act on their behalf because we
Speaker 2: truly choose to love them.
Speaker 1: It's true. I heard a pastor one time that said
Speaker 1: a lot of people think that the opposite of love
Speaker 1: is hate, and he said, that's not true. He said,
Speaker 1: the opposite of love is selfishness. The opposite of love
Speaker 1: is selfishness. Because when you're being selfish and acting on
Speaker 1: your own behalf and not caring how your actions impact others,
Speaker 1: that is the opposite of love. And it seems from
Speaker 1: your professional life and everything we're exposed to that you
Speaker 1: learned at a very early age to operate from that
Speaker 1: place of love and faith and family.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not easy, it's really not because we're all
Speaker 2: born with the selfish nature and it creeps in all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 3: And if we.
Speaker 1: Just challenge hardest challenge for you that you can talk
Speaker 1: about on the radio, to say no to self and
Speaker 1: yes to love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think we're all we all have our
Speaker 2: own inclinations a certain things.
Speaker 1: So I'm asking what is yours? If you can talk
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: Like, probably a form of want and competitiveness and striving
Speaker 2: and being driven to certain things. And I got to
Speaker 2: make sure that I'm not driving myself towards all selfish
Speaker 2: things that I'm driving myself towards things that affect other
Speaker 2: people's lives.
Speaker 3: And do you ever.
Speaker 1: Find yourself rationalizing that totally?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very easy to but that's it.
Speaker 1: I'm doing this for you. No, no, you're not.
Speaker 2: I'm doing this for me. But what's important, and that's
Speaker 2: why it's so important to keep perspective and when we
Speaker 2: have the right perspective and we understand in God's economy
Speaker 2: is the more we give, actually the more we get.
Speaker 2: And it's kind of hard to kind of understand that,
Speaker 2: but once we experience it, once we feel it, then
Speaker 2: it's like, Okay, wait a second. I just went on
Speaker 2: this mission trip and I did nothing but give. But
Speaker 2: I'm coming back and I'm the most fulfilled I've ever been.
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Speaker 1: the matter. I would love to introduce you to a
Speaker 1: young man that just captured my heart. Welcome to Love
Speaker 1: Someone with Delilah featuring Tim Tebow. So you are now
Speaker 1: not just doing sports football, baseball, but you're doing movies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you just you and your brother just produced a movie.
Speaker 1: I got a little preview out. Thank you very much,
Speaker 1: flame my heart. But how much of the relationship between
Speaker 1: the two brothers and the movie, how much of that
Speaker 1: is your own life?
Speaker 2: I feel like I feel like there's definitely a part
Speaker 2: of it, and there's definitely a parallel because we were
Speaker 2: each other's biggest advocates and supporters and when he did something,
Speaker 2: I did it, and when I did something, he supported me.
Speaker 2: And and I think you'll see that in this movie.
Speaker 2: But you know, six years ago we read the script
Speaker 2: and our hearts were definitely impacted by it, and we
Speaker 2: wanted to be able to be a part of this
Speaker 2: film and help get this get this film to theaters
Speaker 2: because we wanted people to see it because a lot
Speaker 2: of times for us growing faith based films growing up,
Speaker 2: we're cheesy, and we wanted to make something that was
Speaker 2: real and authentic and real life and and you know,
Speaker 2: overcoming obstacles and and having faith not only in the
Speaker 2: highs when it's good, but in the lows, and and
Speaker 2: how we're all built for relationships and community and with
Speaker 2: God first and then with each other, and how no
Speaker 2: family's perfect, but how we can try really not perfect, no,
Speaker 2: but but there's a lot of families like that, and
Speaker 2: every family struggles and we and we have to learn
Speaker 2: to forgive and and and accept forgiveness as well, and
Speaker 2: you know, those are those are huge things and a
Speaker 2: big part of this movie.
Speaker 1: I loved what the character the nanny said to the
Speaker 1: brother who was struggling with the forgiveness with his dad,
Speaker 1: and she said that what he's doing is not okay,
Speaker 1: not excusing what he's doing, but you still have to forgive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you still have to forgive him. It's forgivable. And I
Speaker 1: loved that. That was that was one of the my
Speaker 1: favorite lines in all movie.
Speaker 2: And you know, not everything is always acceptable, but it
Speaker 2: is forgivable because we've been greatly forgiven, therefore we should forgive.
Speaker 2: And I think that's just. It comes from the heart.
Speaker 1: I heard a quote one time, the hardest thing to
Speaker 1: ever do is accept an apology that was never given. O.
Speaker 1: You know, you wait for the apology and you wait
Speaker 1: for the apostogy, and then you realize the apology is
Speaker 1: not going to come. But I still got to forgive.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: That's hard, and and then you keep that bitterness inside
Speaker 2: and answer and it turns to hard. Bitterness is like
Speaker 2: drinking poison and thinking the other person's going to die.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just and it kills us.
Speaker 2: And unfortunately, too many times we hold on to things
Speaker 2: and hold on to bitterness when we need to learn
Speaker 2: to forgive, and we need to learn to ask God
Speaker 2: to help us forgive and so we can make those
Speaker 2: relationships right.
Speaker 1: For me, I didn't just hold on to it. It
Speaker 1: became my like, my personality, my my mantra, my my identity.
Speaker 1: Was feeling so victimized. And then I went to Africa
Speaker 1: and started working, and I came back and I went,
Speaker 1: what have I been complaining about? You know when when
Speaker 1: you feel so victimized and like this is unfair, and
Speaker 1: you know, my dad wasn't there for me, and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, and then you go to Africa and you realize,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, Yeah, I'd had kept a roof over
Speaker 1: my house and food in my belly and in his
Speaker 1: own way loved me. We had problems later on, but
Speaker 1: really took very good care of his family. And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden everything is in perspective.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: We just finished this past weekend Knight to Shine, which
Speaker 2: is something our foundation does. It's a worldwide prom for
Speaker 2: people with special needs.
Speaker 1: And how many people did you have come to Night
Speaker 1: to Shine across the country.
Speaker 2: Actually across the world, twenty four countries. We had over
Speaker 2: two hundred thousand volunteers and over one hundred thousand kings
Speaker 2: and queens our guests with special needs, and.
Speaker 1: That is so amazing.
Speaker 2: But I share that because that also helps me keep perspective.
Speaker 3: You realize, you.
Speaker 2: Know so many of these, you know, our kings and
Speaker 2: queens are going through such tough times. Yeah, but the
Speaker 2: smile along their faces and the joy that they show
Speaker 2: and the light that they have is so incredible that.
Speaker 1: If anybody has not gone and search your organization, search
Speaker 1: your charity, and watch the videos and the pictures, they
Speaker 1: need to do that.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to bawl your head off, but
Speaker 1: in such a good way. I probably spent before I
Speaker 1: when I heard I was going to get to meet you,
Speaker 1: probably well. Our family watched the movie together. But then
Speaker 1: when I started reading about the Night to Shine, because
Speaker 1: my niece actually sponsored one of these for her senior project,
Speaker 1: Lacey Luke put on a Night to Shine for the
Speaker 1: special needs kids in Corvallis, Oregon or filhawm with Oregon,
Speaker 1: and I started reading about it, and then I started
Speaker 1: looking at the pictures, and then there's videos everywhere that
Speaker 1: people have posted from around the world, and I don't
Speaker 1: know how many rolls of toilet paper I went through,
Speaker 1: just you know, the ugly cry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a lot of that for us this
Speaker 2: past weekend as we traveled from night to shine to
Speaker 2: night to shine. And you know, one of the videos
Speaker 2: we got back from Uganda was a boy walking down
Speaker 2: the red carpet and he falls and everyone helps him up,
Speaker 2: and we just couldn't stop crying. We couldn't even post
Speaker 2: it because we were crying. We had to stop. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And it was just so incredible. And then in Ecuador,
Speaker 2: we were wheeling and a girl on a bed and
Speaker 2: she can't move. She's face down on the bed and
Speaker 2: that's the way she has to lie. But she's on
Speaker 2: the bed and has wheels and they're spinning her on
Speaker 2: the dance floor on the bed and if you're not
Speaker 2: emotional watching this, of the time of her life.
Speaker 3: But she can't stand, she can't truly dance.
Speaker 1: But they danced her.
Speaker 2: The bed rolls and it spins, and so she's dancing,
Speaker 2: and it just puts into perspective and just what really matters.
Speaker 2: And you know, that's hard in society, because society tells
Speaker 2: us it's that it's about us, and it's about you know,
Speaker 2: these few things. It's about money, it's about fame, it's
Speaker 2: about power, and it's just not it's fleeting.
Speaker 3: And it's not real, sess.
Speaker 2: And it might feel like it for a time, but
Speaker 2: it's not true joy, and it will leave you with me.
Speaker 1: Today on this podcast Loves Someone with Delilah is the incredible,
Speaker 1: incredibly sweet Tim Tebow. We're just talking about what real
Speaker 1: joy means. Biggest joy in your life right now?
Speaker 3: Well, I just got engaged.
Speaker 1: Women's hearts are breaking across the world. Do you hear
Speaker 1: that congratulations?
Speaker 3: So much so?
Speaker 2: That congratulation that is really special?
Speaker 1: And did you ask the question? Can I ask?
Speaker 3: Of course?
Speaker 2: Yes, I had a bunch of surprises. I did it
Speaker 2: at my parents farm, where I spent so much I
Speaker 2: grew up and spent so much time and out by
Speaker 2: the lake and had it all planned with her favorite
Speaker 2: singer there to surprise her, a South African artist.
Speaker 3: Named Matthew Mole.
Speaker 2: And then I had her secretly flew in her family
Speaker 2: from South Africa and her friends and they all surprised.
Speaker 3: Her and it was just really special.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, And you pulled it off, and we pulled
Speaker 1: it thankfully, we pulled it off. No you had no clue.
Speaker 3: No one she had no clue. No one gave it away.
Speaker 2: Well, he's so nervous when you're trying to plan these surprises,
Speaker 2: and the best way to throw a surprise is fake
Speaker 2: another surprise. So we fake surprising my dad with a
Speaker 2: brand new truck. So me and her drove a brand
Speaker 2: new truck to my dad to surprise him. But that
Speaker 2: was just to keep her throwing a.
Speaker 1: Dude, that's a better fake than on the field. That
Speaker 1: is awesome. I hope that you are as blessed, blessed,
Speaker 1: blessed as as anyone can possibly be in marriage and family.
Speaker 1: May God grant you the desires of your heart.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 3: Thank you. It's very exciting time right now.
Speaker 1: Tim Tebow, thank you for what you do, and mostly
Speaker 1: thank you or sharing your love and your faith with
Speaker 1: so many. Please folks go see his new movie Run
Speaker 1: the Race. I had a sneak peek. I can promise
Speaker 1: you it will bless you. And also this little ps
Speaker 1: bring lots of Kleenex, lots of tissue. Once again, thank
Speaker 1: you to my sponsor, the Home Depot. This podcast would
Speaker 1: not be possible without your support. I'm Delilah reminding you
Speaker 1: to take some time out of your busy schedule to
Speaker 1: slow down and love someone