Jason Romano spent 17 years at ESPN producing some of the biggest shows in sports — Mike and Mike, SportsCenter, Monday Night Football, College GameDay — before walking away from a dream job with no guaranteed landing spot. Why? A question from Tony Dungy in a green room that he couldn't shake.

In Episode 6 of Lessons From The Sidelines, Coach Greg Brown sits down with Jason — now Executive Producer at Sports Spectrum and author of The Uniform of Leadership and Live to Forgive — for an honest conversation about identity, discernment, and what it looks like when sports (or your job, or anything else) quietly becomes your god.

In this episode:

• The Tony Dungy question that changed everything: “How do you live your faith out here?”

• Going from “an ESPN producer who happened to follow Jesus” to “a follower of Jesus who happened to work at ESPN”

• The Uniform of Leadership: why the best leaders put the team name on the front, not their own

• The “I Am Third” model — God first, others second, yourself third

• How to discern God's voice from your own — and why wise counsel matters more than a burning bush

• Earning the credibility to talk about faith at work by doing excellent work first

• Walking away from ESPN with no guaranteed contract — and why it made sense anyway

• Encouragement for anyone drifting from their faith: stay the course

Whether your world is sports, business, or somewhere in between, this one will make you rethink what — or who — you're really playing for.