Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm your host, Don Hutchison.

Every Tuesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular or interesting occupations or professions who shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.

I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Sal Hannah. Welcome, Sal,

welcome. Glad to be here, Don.

Sal, are you using your talents doing work that you love?

Yes, I am. Yep, for sure.

We're going to dive into that whole story. Sal Hannah is a house parent at Milton Hershey School, a cost-free residential school for children

from low-income backgrounds.

At the school, students are given everything they need to remove barriers to education,

including meals, clothing, health services.

Students live in small groups of 10 to 12 in on-campus houses,

and each house is overseen by a house-parent couple.

After working as a camp director,

Sal began his career at Milton Hershey School as a house parent

before working to recruit new house parents.

He and his wife, Melissa, loved and missed house parenting so

much that they returned to the role in the summer of 2022. Well, that's a pithy summary of your

amazing career, Sal. Tell our listeners around the world before we get into your backstory,

what projects you're working on right now for a couple of minutes that have you excited and

motivated?

Yeah, so, I mean, just in a brief summary, the role of a house parent is really a paid professional

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