Braxton Byerson on Who You Are Without the Applause

Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of Space for Life.

This is going to be an incredible conversation that we'll have with a new friend of mine, Braxton Braxby, that was introduced to me through our mutual personal trainer, Vic Marchetti, shout out to Vic, who...

And saw a lot of places that our lives kind of crossed over in terms of things that we are passionate about, things that we do.

And so suggested that we get together and we just had an incredible, relaxed conversation a few weeks ago.

And I immediately thought, you know, I want to hear more.

that we didn't get to in that conversation, but that Braxton's story and his life and the places he's been and the places he's going is something that I think we all could grow from and benefit from.

And it's really just, frankly, fascinating.

So I'm real excited to have Braxton on Space for Life Season 8.

I'm excited about the conversation we have, and I think it's going to be great for all of us.

So first of all, welcome, Braxton.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

I appreciate the opportunity as always.

Yeah, it's great.

Well, let me give our audience just a little bit of an introduction to you.

And we're just going to touch on kind of a few highlights because I really want to give you a lot of space to just tell your story because I think it's a unique story.

I think there are so many lessons just in your story that hopefully we'll be able to dive into quite a bit.

So Braxton is a former Virginia Union basketball player.

And if you were sitting next to him, you wouldn't doubt that a bit.

He's a big dude, no question about it.

I felt pretty small next to you when we sat down.

So he was a Virginia Union basketball player from 2007 to 2011.

He was named to the 2011 NABC Division II Atlantic All-District Second Team.

Not a small deal at all.

As a guard for it, as I understand it.

It looked more like a center to me.

He's an author.

He's a speaker and certified life coach, which if you've followed Space for Life at all, you'll know that's where we have a lot of connecting points.

His work is centered not only around life coaching, but also a lot around working with youth and speaking to youth and teaching and guiding and inspiring youth and look forward to talking more about that.

And so all of these places are just parallels and places that I think we're all going to learn a lot from Braxton.

So I'm really excited about this conversation.

Braxton, why don't we just get started with your sharing, going back as far as you want, taking as much time as you want to kind of share your story that's gotten you to this point that we're sitting here talking today.

Absolutely.

Again, I want to thank you for extending this opportunity to share on Space for Life.

It's truly a pleasure and an honor to share on such an extensive platform with you.

And I'm just happy about this opportunity and this conversation.

I'm super excited about it.