This is an I-Heart podcast.

Guaranteed Human.

This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories, the show where America is the star and the American people.

And we love work, work is good, work gives us meaning and purpose.

And where does work come from?

Of course, it comes mostly from private people, starting businesses, and employing people.

Up first, a man who knows a lot about work.

His name is Bob Funk.

And he founded Express Employment Professionals,

a staffing business that he built over four decades.

Here to tell the story is Bob himself.

Many call him the minister of work. Take it away, Bob.

My dad had a dairy. I born in 1940, and he went broke in the dairy business in 1945.

But he kept four cows.

And my mother had a nurse breakdown when I was twos, and my sister trained me and kept me. We were going broke on the ranching. It was the financial pressure.

She was at a prayer meeting at the church, and she just passed out.

And my grandmother put her

in the saint asylum.

And so Dad went to visit her one Sunday afternoon and she said, I'm not crazy like these

folks are in here.

You know, get me out of here.

And so Dad got her out and the doctor said, you know, just lay quiet for a while and you'll snap out of it.

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