Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast, Monday morning moments with John

O'Leary. I record these so that you and I can begin our days in awe and on fire with the

burst of inspiration. Who needs a little bit of inspiration today? Yes, my hand is up. In fact,

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So sometimes, here we go, you ready?

Sometimes individuals with whom we think we have the least in common become our greatest teachers and our dearest friends.

You ever experienced that?

Well, my last year in college,

the gentleman who maintained my apartment building was an imposing man named

Harold Stewart. He was tall, he was strong, he was quick to share his opinion, but broken

outlets, jam doors and leaking sinks were quickly resolved with one call to this Superman named Harold.

The following year, after graduating college and starting my construction company,

the first contractor that I hired to help was a man I knew could do anything and to do

everything well. So Harold joined me. He grew within the organization and eventually was

responsible not only for his work, but also ensuring the work of all the other contractors

would be done well. As much as Harold taught me about electricity or plumbing or hanging

cron molding, what he really taught me during those years was far more about life.

He taught me to give and to not count the cost,

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