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Please like, comment, subscribe, and share this episode with those that you think would enjoy it. Today, we are joined by a very special guest. We have Joe Mazzula, the head coach of the Boston Celtics for today's episode. Joe, thank you for joining us today. Father, how are you? Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure. So I know we've shared mass together. And, you know, now we're able to share in, you know, just our testimony, our communication. So thanks a lot.

Yeah. It's, it's a real, real joy to have you here. And I was speaking to your assistant beforehand that I grew up as a big Boston Celtics guy. I mean, my family was

sports oriented all the way through, but basketball. That was our family sport and grew up as

Larry Bird fan through and through. So anytime I get to see the kind of green clover's coming

through, I love to be a part of that. But just, you know, for our listeners, can give us just a little bit of an introduction to

yourself, kind of background and, you know, kind of your journey and faith a little bit to enter

and start with.

Yeah, I was very fortunate mainly because I just grew up in an environment of where, you know,

faith and Catholicism was kind of just normal. It was a part of life.

I grew up, you know, half a mile down from a church. And what my parents would take me to church on

Sundays, went to a Catholic school K all the way through 12th grade in high school. And I was just

very fortunate to have just good

people around me in life. I think that's part of, I think that's part of the faith journey

and is, uh, is the type of people that you have around you pouring into you and, and, uh, practicing

their faith and communicating and being there for you. So I had that from my parents. I had that

from school, education, uh, had that from my parents. I had that from school,

education, had that from the community. And I think that's helped me, you know, kind of continue

that, you know, today. Yeah. One of the reasons that I invited you on is because your name

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