Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast Monday Morning Moments with John O'Leary.

We record these so that you and I can begin our days and our weeks in awe and on fire with a bursts of inspiration.

I've got an unusual question to kick us off this week.

Are you ready for it?

Do you have ugly feet?

I'm going to ask it again.

I want to make sure you have an answer ready for me.

Do you have ugly feet?

Let's step into this week's episode.

What if the very thing we worry about making us somehow unattractive or unworthy is in reality the very thing that makes us most beautiful and most lovable? In a marketplace that

celebrates physical perfection and individual accomplishment, one of

the last lessons taught by Mother Teresa reminds us what matters most.

In Mother Teresa's last visit to the United States, Bill McKendry was tasked with interviewing

her and capturing video of the visit.

Bill had previously created ad campaigns

for some of the largest brands in the world. Partnering with Taco Bell and IBM and Dodge,

he worked with some of the finest, brightest, and most polished executives from around the world.

Yet the most remarkable person he ever met was 86 years old and shuffled into the

boardroom wearing sandals. Five decades earlier, Mother Teresa had founded the missionaries of charity

to serve the poor. She had no Global Board of Advisors to guide the strategy. She had no sophisticated

process to design the mission or the branding or the vision for the organization, and she had

no personal desire to become a world-renowned humanitarian or Nobel Prize winner. Instead,

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