Jordan Poyer: From Addict To NFL Star | Align Podcast #537

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

NFL superstar Jordan Poyer shares his personal story of addiction, hitting rock bottom, and the internal work that led him to sobriety and a deeper connection with himself and his family.

Jordan reflects on life in the NFL, the power of visualization, and the transformative impact that breathwork, ayahuasca, and presence had in his life.

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Jordan Poyer is an American football safety who currently plays for the Buffalo Bills in the NFL, known for his career with the Bills and his background as a multi-sport athlete in high school, including being drafted by the Marlins in the 2009 MLB Draft.

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TOPICS

1. Sobriety

2. Addiction and Recovery

3. Spirituality

4. Personal Development

5. Spiritual Awakening

Transcript

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0:00.0	Jordan Poir.
0:02.8	Thank for being here.
0:04.2	Thank you for having me, brother.
0:06.1	Thank you for having me, brother.
0:08.0	It is a blessing and an honor to be here with you
0:11.8	in this beautiful location down in South Florida.
0:15.9	And should be honored to be here.
0:17.4	What's at the root of addiction?
0:18.7	Right.
0:19.0	And I'll just talk for me personally.
0:21.9	I was running away from a lot of my problems, call it in the real world, thinking alcohol,
0:30.5	you know, which is numbing the pain of what I was running from, whether that be my relationships, football, just how things
0:41.5	in lacqueroy. And I always found an excuse as to why it was okay for me to drink, whether
0:49.5	that be, you know, not knowing who my real father was, but knowing that he was an alcoholic himself.
0:57.1	My mom, who's now five years sober of herself, she growing up, she had her issues with alcohol.
1:05.0	And so for me, it was always like an excuse, like, oh, well, my parents, you know, they had their run with alcohol. This is my run without alcohol. And I was just, I look back and I was just my parents you know they they had their run without call this is my run
1:12.4	without palmer and I was just I look back and I was just very unaware of anything of myself
1:20.3	of who I was of you know and I was very ego driven in a sense of like the sport that I played with football.
1:28.3	Like that was this kind of like my escape.
1:30.3	That was where I could go and be who I thought that was actually what I came to this planet to do was to play football.
1:38.3	And I soon ran into a wall of alcohol in football and having to make a big time decision in my
1:48.2	life to fix what I had going on because I was very unhappy.
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