Anna Zschuppe
Episode 272
15 APR 2024
She grew up playing soccer from the age of 9 and played goalkeeper and striker for AC Premier, Croatia Cleveland, and Kirtland High School and was trained under some notable former U.S. national team players. She also has received her youth futsal/indoor referee license from the U.S. Soccer Federation, and she served as the girls’ head soccer coach at Braves Soccer Academy for U9-U11 teams for two years. She now partners with Ignite Athlete Training in Dallas, Texas, as a soccer trainer. Meanwhile, she quit her six-figure, Fortune 500 job in corporate America as an HR consultant at age 26 to start her own business helping faith-based believers who feel like they’ve hit a breaking point in their lives or careers to discover their unique purpose, boost their confidence, and become the most authentic versions of themselves while keeping Christ as the focal point through mind-body-spirit wellness and connection.
Notable guest quotes:
“I quickly fell into soccer… and soccer is something that is huge within my family. My dad, he was almost on a professional league for soccer. My grandfather also played division one in Germany.”
(in college) “Easter Sunday hit and there was just something in me that said, you know, I missed Mass, like, I actually missed going to Palm Sunday Mass, going to Easter Sunday, so that’s when I started going… I started realizing, oh wait, I actually want this to be a part of my life, to some capacity.”
“The things that I learned in that season and was still able to love and participate in soccer and just a different way than I expected, was such a gift, such a blessing.”
“I was hitting this roadblock… of … I’m trying to get all of my happiness by all of these things I’m involved in: Bible studies, community groups, hanging out with people, having a different relationship with a different person, but I was still feeling unhappy.”
“You need to rewrite those lies with God’s compassion and truth.”
“I was really building this authentic relationship with the Lord, and I was actually having two-way conversations with Him, like, things that I would see and envision and hear from Him and everything.”
“That gave me the courage. I knew the mission that the Lord had on my heart.”
“It was definitely a surrender. I had to trust in the Lord that this purpose that He has for me, that it’s going to ablaze.”
“The Lord doesn’t call us to do easy things. He actually asks us to take up our cross and follow Him. The yoke is easy, his burden is light. So, taking on his yoke, and for me, when I realized that, I was like, it would be a disservice if I didn’t follow this.”
“One of the things I realized in soccer was how much of a high achiever I was – that I wanted to find my identity by looking good on the soccer field.”
“Why is it that we have these beliefs that we have to look good, that our identity is tied into our sports life? That we have to be liked and approved by others when, really, the person is the Lord, and He already sees us as perfect, whole, and complete.”
Related links:
Anna’s official website
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“Sacred Wounds: Stories of Redemption, Healing and Growth” Book
“TAG Talks Transcribed” Book
