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HTFS 033: How to Kick a Field Goal – Nick Lowery
Nick “the Kick” Lowery
NFL Legend, Champion, Humanitarian
In this episode of How To Fail Successfully, I have a conversation with NFL legend, Nick Lowery as he shares how after being cut eleven times by eight NFL teams, he refocused to become the Kansas City Chiefs’ all-time leading scorer, with 1,466 points in his 14 seasons with the club.
Who is Nick?
Nick “the Kick” Lowery is an NFL legend whose 18 years as a kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs earned his induction into the Hall of Fame. As the first pro athlete with a Masters degree and Fellowship from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, he served three U.S. Presidents as an advisor on youth and drug policy in the White House. He is also the winner of the most prestigious humanitarian award an NFL player can receive, The Byron Whizzer White Award and, as founder of the Nick Lowery Youth Foundation.
Nick uses principles of the game of football to empower young people how to aspire to achieve their dreams. In light of recent discoveries about CTE, Nick became an ardent advocate of cannabis and has joined a growing number of former and current NFL players campaigning for policy change to allow for cannabis as an alternative to opiates and other drugs used to treat symptoms of CTE. He is a national spokesperson for Kannalife Sciences, which is conducting a studies on the use of CBD as a protective measure to prevent long term brain damage caused by repetitive concussive injuries.
Show Notes
* Nick the Kick with Cerebral Palsy Foundation
* Power of Philanthropy “What real success is all about”
* Mom was Hazel Ray, first full women’s class in Oxford.
* Father was a pilot under General Patton
* Father was a part of “CIA to help sustain the victory we won in WWII”
* grew up around the Kennedy’s
* Went to school with the Bush’s
* Started playing soccer in England
* How did you get into the NFL?
* Cut by 8 NFL teams 11 times during the 2 years of “failure”
* Government and theater major from Dartmouth College
* Got a job for a Senator
* Playing for the Oakland Raiders
* Turned down jobs in DC for work
* I went from the 77% accuracy to the 86 percentile in the 90s for field goals
* Playing with Joe Montana
* Marty Schottenheimer, coach of the KS Chiefs
* Bronco game memory Joe Montana against John Elway
* Sport Illustrated letter written by Peter King to Nick
* What is it about the brain?
* Focused on concussion issues in the NFL and what it does to the brain
* Chronic Traumatic Encypolopy
* Kannalife Sciences
* Cannabis is incredibly effective in protecting the brain
Learn more about Cannabis: https://echoconnection.org/education/
Learn more about Kannalife on Dateline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUvli4Wnmtw
Follow
Instagram: @HTFSuccessfully
Twitter: @HTFSuccessfully
Facebook: @HTFSuccessfully
www.howtofailsuccessfully.com
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Nick “the Kick” Lowery
NFL Legend, Champion, Humanitarian
In this episode of How To Fail Successfully, I have a conversation with NFL legend, Nick Lowery as he shares how after being cut eleven times by eight NFL teams, he refocused to become the Kansas City Chiefs’ all-time leading scorer, with 1,466 points in his 14 seasons with the club.
Who is Nick?
Nick “the Kick” Lowery is an NFL legend whose 18 years as a kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs earned his induction into the Hall of Fame. As the first pro athlete with a Masters degree and Fellowship from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, he served three U.S. Presidents as an advisor on youth and drug policy in the White House. He is also the winner of the most prestigious humanitarian award an NFL player can receive, The Byron Whizzer White Award and, as founder of the Nick Lowery Youth Foundation.
Nick uses principles of the game of football to empower young people how to aspire to achieve their dreams. In light of recent discoveries about CTE, Nick became an ardent advocate of cannabis and has joined a growing number of former and current NFL players campaigning for policy change to allow for cannabis as an alternative to opiates and other drugs used to treat symptoms of CTE. He is a national spokesperson for Kannalife Sciences, which is conducting a studies on the use of CBD as a protective measure to prevent long term brain damage caused by repetitive concussive injuries.
Show Notes
* Nick the Kick with Cerebral Palsy Foundation
* Power of Philanthropy “What real success is all about”
* Mom was Hazel Ray, first full women’s class in Oxford.
* Father was a pilot under General Patton
* Father was a part of “CIA to help sustain the victory we won in WWII”
* grew up around the Kennedy’s
* Went to school with the Bush’s
* Started playing soccer in England
* How did you get into the NFL?
* Cut by 8 NFL teams 11 times during the 2 years of “failure”
* Government and theater major from Dartmouth College
* Got a job for a Senator
* Playing for the Oakland Raiders
* Turned down jobs in DC for work
* I went from the 77% accuracy to the 86 percentile in the 90s for field goals
* Playing with Joe Montana
* Marty Schottenheimer, coach of the KS Chiefs
* Bronco game memory Joe Montana against John Elway
* Sport Illustrated letter written by Peter King to Nick
* What is it about the brain?
* Focused on concussion issues in the NFL and what it does to the brain
* Chronic Traumatic Encypolopy
* Kannalife Sciences
* Cannabis is incredibly effective in protecting the brain
Learn more about Cannabis: https://echoconnection.org/education/
Learn more about Kannalife on Dateline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUvli4Wnmtw
Follow
Instagram: @HTFSuccessfully
Twitter: @HTFSuccessfully
Facebook: @HTFSuccessfully
www.howtofailsuccessfully.com