Former Florida and NFL quarterback Tim Tebow said Friday he is pausing his work with Life Surge, a Christian conference company accused of using high-pressure sales tactics to push attendees toward costly investment courses, after an investigation by journalist Pablo Torre and Mother Jones.
Tebow, speaking with reporters ahead of Florida’s game against Ole Miss, called the allegations “extremely, extremely serious” and said his team would review them.
“For us, we’re having our team do an investigation, but also pausing our relationship til we can learn more about the facts to be able to understand more,” he said.
Asked whether he already knew about the claims, Tebow said he learned of the reporting Thursday while leaving an anti-human trafficking conference and flying to an event in Alabama.
UPDATE: Tim Tebow announces he is “pausing” his relationship with Life Surge following our @pablofindsout x @MotherJones investigation.
Our previous request for comment from Tebow, in reply to our detailed list of questions, still stands.
More to come. pic.twitter.com/Sy0MOvv16t https://t.co/38bO6YcGae
— Pablo Torre 👀 (@PabloTorre) September 25, 2026
“Kind of caught off guard with some of it, and that’s why we’re trying to understand more of the facts to really learn it,” he said.
Torre said Friday that an earlier request for comment from Tebow, sent with a detailed list of questions before the investigation published, still stands. Tebow had not answered those questions before the report aired.
The exchange leaves the central question hanging: Did Tebow know how Life Surge sold its programs, or was he a paid headliner who left the building before the hard sell began?
Mother Jones and Torre cited complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission and the Better Business Bureau, a Facebook complaints group and former employees who described high-pressure pitches wrapped in Christian language. One FTC complaint quoted in the reporting said: “I am so devastated that Christians like Tim Tebow made me trust in something that has taken so much money from me. This is evil, especially because I’m disabled on a limited income.”
Cathy Luebke told Mother Jones she and her husband, both “very strong Christians,” borrowed $40,000 on credit cards and later used a home-equity loan after investment losses. Karen Neal said she took a line of credit on her house to cover a course package and called the episode “about a $15,000 mistake,” even after a partial refund.
Five current and former employees, according to the reporting, described a culture of overselling how easy the programs would be. One said it did not “seem like something a good Christian motivational speaker or pastor would want to be a part of.”
