To the world, Joe Barksdale is a Superbowl Winner, a national champion, but what most people don’t know is that Joe never wanted to be a football player, he wanted to be an engineer. That in fact, his football days are some of the most painful of his life.

On this week’s episode of Off The Cuff, we speak with a man who breaks stigmas in every way possible. A man that not only has struggled with mental illness all of his life but was also diagnosed with autism at the age of thirty. A man that left an extremely lucrative career in the NFL to take care of his mental health and pursue his real dreams of being a musician and stand-up comedian.

This episode is one of the most honest and enlightening ones you will ever hear.