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David Balyeat

Aug 21, 2026

3:15
Yeah.
3:16
And, [laughs] um, but yeah, man, my journey is all over the place and it has a lot of ups and downs, but one thing I'm really, really proud of is after every down there's, there's always some type of up.
3:30
And so i- in this podcast, if there's anything I wanna, you know, give to, to anybody listening and to y'all's listeners, it's that, look, you're gonna have downs.
3:40
How do you bounce back up? Whether it's you bouncing back or having surrounded yourself by good people that can elevate you even when you didn't think you could.
3:50
And there's always opportunities to go around, whether it's 11-a-side college, D1, D2, um, UPSL, USL, um, you know, training with somebody like Dylan to get you ready for a 7v7.
4:03
Um, one of the things I went viral for years ago was a controversial, not so controversial statement where I posted and I said, "Sports shouldn't be pro or nothing." And a lot of the times we get our first real low when we realize, oh, the pro journey's over.

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44:39
Yeah
44:39
... do I set myself up today for a better tomorrow? And now tomorrow came, so for the next tomorrow, and now for the next week, and that's where podcasts like this and talking to you guys who have obviously well established yourself in, in communicating and in, in helping those next steps in the terms of that scripture verse, you guys are like the Lord establishing the next step.
KonkyHOST
8:06
Something new.
8:07
Yeah, something.
8:08
You know, I, I've gotten a lot better at, like, how I edit, how I hook.
8:12
Um, but even in the very beginning, like, we're talking four or five years ago, it was just like, "What can I get out now? What do I have to share to the world?" And that's kinda how I started content creation, is I had just retired from playing in Spain.
8:25
I had no idea what I was gonna do.
8:27
My wife wanted to move to Houston.
8:28
I didn't have no friends.

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73:33
Okay, so what's-

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