Farron Dozier of Redlands on Life, Lessons & Legacy

We recently had the chance to connect with Farron Dozier and have shared our conversation below.

Farron, it’s always a pleasure to learn from you and your journey. Let’s start with a bit of a warmup: What do the first 90 minutes of your day look like?
I wake up at 6:30a Monday-Friday and I am on my Church Prayer line to pray for our families and nation and humanity. Sometimes it’s an hour or 2 hours.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
“My name’s Farron Dozier. I’m a retired Army veteran, Sickle Cell Trait Advocate, and host of The Farron Dozier Show on MBRadio.us. I educate athletes, coaches, and military members about the risks of Sickle Cell Trait and exertional rhabdomyolysis something I personally went through while serving.

My brand, WHATZ DA COUNT on Sickle Cell Trait Prevention, is built on real-life experience and truth. I mix awareness, healing, and faith together helping people understand what’s going on inside their body, mind, and spirit.

Right now, I’m building out Listening to the Heart of Mankind Ministry and three American Basketball Association Teams with campaigns: the IE Hounds, RC Mavericks, and VC Orcas; all focused on hope, faith, and self-forgiveness.

Everything I do, from radio to community outreach, is about helping people heal and prosper in their soul.

Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. What did you believe about yourself as a child that you no longer believe?
As a child, I used to believe something was wrong with me; that I had to earn love or prove my worth to be seen or accepted. Growing up, I carried that mindset into sports, the military, and life in general. But through my journey especially surviving Sickle Cell Trait complications and everything that came with it. I learned that my value was already in me.

Now I know I’m who God says I am. I don’t have to perform for approval or chase validation. I’m chosen, I’m healed, and I’m here on purpose. That’s the difference.

What have been the defining wounds of your life—and how have you healed them?
My deepest wounds came from my relationship with my mom and dad; the stuff that started when I was two, five, and eight years old. Those ages shaped how I saw love, trust, and myself. I didn’t realize it then, but I was living life through those same childhood wounds; the little boy still trying to be seen, still trying to be heard.

My healing came when I stopped blaming and started understanding. God showed me I had to go back and meet that two-year-old, that five-year-old, and that eight-year-old version of me to listen to him, forgive through him, and love him.

That’s when I started to heal. Now I move through life with compassion for myself and my parents. It’s no longer about what they didn’t give me; it’s about what God revealed through it.

That’s real healing. All three Inspirational Reads are on Amazon to read and more at FarronD.com

Sure, so let’s go deeper into your values and how you think. Where are smart people getting it totally wrong today?
I think a lot of smart people are getting it wrong by thinking knowledge or success can fix what’s really broken inside. We keep chasing information, titles, and platforms; but what’s missing is belonging.

At the core, most of our issues come from a broken relationship with our parents; the love we think we didn’t get, the validation we were searching for, or the pain we never faced. We grow up, but that little child inside of us never got healed. So we build from pain instead of peace.

Until we deal with that; until we forgive, reconcile our relationship back to Christ and ourselves, or at least tell the truth to ourselves and make peace with those core decisions; all the intelligence in the world won’t make us whole. Healing that relationship, or at least understanding it, is where real wisdom starts. Malachi 4:6 and Luke 1:17 in the Bible is what I stand on for my talks.

Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. What do you understand deeply that most people don’t?
What I understand deeply and what most people miss is that self-love doesn’t come from anything or anyone outside of you. It’s not found in a relationship, a job, or what you achieve. It comes from within.

A lot of folks tie their happiness to circumstances; when things are good, they feel good; when life gets hard, their peace disappears. But joy is different. Joy is what’s inside you no matter what’s happening around you.

We live in a ‘just do it’ world; always focused on doing more, grinding harder, achieving faster. But it’s not about what we do, it’s about who we’re being while we do it. We teach it as Emotional Intelligence. When you know your worth, your love, and your value come from within, that’s when real peace shows up.

We can and are teaching this in schools.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://FarronD.com
• Instagram: @farrondozier
• Linkedin: Farron Dozier
• Twitter: Farron Dozier
• Facebook: Farron Dozier
• Youtube: @FarronDShows
• Other: EQAthletics.com
  LBISolutions.com
  WDConSCT.org

Image Credits
I’m the credit. I was at the studio at KCAA Radio.com 106.6 fm / 1050 am