John O’Leary: Forged By Fire

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, How To, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 18 April 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest, John O'Leary, has lived through worse than most can imagine.

At age nine, a fire burned 100% of his body. He spent five months in the hospital, underwent dozens of surgeries, lost all of his fingers to amputation and had to relearn to walk, write, and feed himself.

He endured, persevered, and survived – largely because others emerged, served and inspired. He now lives to share the life-giving lessons from his story in a new book, On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life.

In This episode, You’ll Learn:

+How the fire that burned him affected his siblings.
What it was like to date and eventually find love and marry
Why the great goal of his life for so many years was just to be ordinary
How he was called from carpenter and roof layer, to international inspirational speaker.
How a book his parents wrote to say thank you to their community altered the course of his life forever.
Four questions that you can ask yourself every day that will allow you to live an awesome mindset.

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0:00.0	I'd always thought that the explosion in my mom and dad's house on January the 17th, 1987
0:11.5	only affected me.
0:13.8	And if we only think our story only affects us, we can become pretty egocentric about it.
0:18.2	Today's episode is brought to you by Camp GLP.
0:24.8	It's an amazing opportunity to come hang out with me with our awesome Good Life Project
0:30.4	team, a line up of inspiring teachers from art to life to work and a community of almost
0:36.8	impossibly friendly grown-up campers from literally all over the world as we take over a beautiful
0:43.6	summer camp for three and a half days of workshops and activities that fill your noggin with
0:49.6	ideas and strategies for life and create the type of friendships and stories you thought
0:54.8	you'd pretty much left behind decades ago.
0:58.0	It's all happening at the end of August just about 90 minutes from New York City and more
1:02.8	than half the spots are already gone.
1:05.0	So be sure to grab your spot quickly because our $200 early burr discount ends on April
1:11.7	30th 2016.
1:13.7	You can learn more at GoodLifeProject.com slash camp or just go ahead and click the link
1:20.2	in the show notes on to our show.
1:23.7	Today's guest is John O'Leary.
1:25.8	When he was nine years old he ended up with 100% of his body burned in a fire in his garage.
1:33.9	That left him with fingers that were amputated and a body that was largely from the neck
1:39.6	down scar tissue.
1:42.3	His journey from that moment in his life through his recovery, through his entire family's
1:48.0	recovery, re-embracing and re-emerging, finding love and building an astonishing life that's
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