17: Batman or Priest: A convo with Fr Mike Schmitz

Do Something Beautiful

Leah Darrow

God, Religion & Spirituality, Modesty, Women, Beauty, Leah Darrow, Women's Issues, Faith, Inspiration, America's Next Top Model, Humor, Christian, Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Christianity, Catholic

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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His dream was to be a Green Beret or Batman. Instead, he's a Priest. And the world is all the better for it.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Do Something Beautiful podcast. I am your host Leodero and I share with you
0:04.9	inspirational people who are truly doing something beautiful to make our world better and
0:09.3	we are inspired by the words of Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta do something beautiful for God do it with your life do it every day do it in your own way but do it Welcome back to the Do Something Beautiful Podcast, Season 2, Episode 8.
0:26.3	We are talking with Father Mike Schmitz.
0:29.2	That's right, The Father Mike Schmitz, you probably are familiar with him. You've probably seen some of those
0:33.6	little videos, what he likes to call them. Little videos for Ascension Presents. He is a very active
0:39.9	Diocesan priest, actually. He's priest that's his words not mine he is
0:44.8	currently at the University of Minnesota Duluth he's also the director of youth and
0:49.2	young adult ministry for the diocese fantastic priest wonderful man I'm blessed to call him a friend and I can't
0:55.8	wait for you to hear what he has to say he's got so many valuable golden nuggets it's like
1:00.9	I just kind of let him keep talking because I just wanted to see all these things that he has to say and if you've ever listened to a talk by him and we've worked many conferences together and I'm always in the back just taking notes and I blame him for being not being as prepared as I
1:14.3	should be sometimes because I'm usually listening to him taking notes rather than
1:17.5	preparing my own talks but he is so great so we planned a 35 minute interview for this podcast and we ended up speaking for two hours.
1:26.4	Two hours.
1:27.4	Don't worry, don't freak out, I didn't give this in all two hours.
1:30.3	I have now divided our conversation up into two episodes.
1:34.3	Episode 8 and episode 9 will be featuring Father Mike Schmitz.
1:37.8	So don't worry about that, but I can't wait for you to listen to the wonderful Golden Nuggets
1:42.2	he has to say, especially towards the end of this particular
1:45.4	episode here, episode 8, he really hit on something that I think we all can, everything he says
1:51.0	we all can learn from, but there's a little golden nugget at the end that I really that hit home for me
1:56.0	so anyways without further ado here with Father Mike Schmitz now you might know
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