Mother's Day: A Tribute (Monday Moments ep. 149)
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
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🗓️ 13 May 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Join me every Monday for a quick burst of inspiration on our “Monday Moments” segments.
Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed. - Linda Wooten
My mother has played such an important role in my life. The greatest examples of leadership and love are from her. Today, I share how she so generously loved to me, my siblings, my father and so many more.
I mentioned my mother was the first guest on the Live Inspired Podcast. Listen to our conversation on ep. 000 here.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary for this week's Monday moments, and they are created to help you start your week on fire with a quick burst |
| 0:22.9 | of inspiration. First, a quote, here we go. Being a mother is learning about strengths you did not |
| 0:31.8 | know you had and dealing with fears that you did not even know existed. I think for those of us lucky enough to be a |
| 0:40.2 | mother out there or to love a child out there in the same manner in which a mother loves her child, |
| 0:46.2 | that quote certainly connects with you the day after Mother's Day. Frequently when I'm out speaking, |
| 0:52.1 | people kind of challenge me because I talk a lot about love |
| 0:54.5 | when I'm in front of audiences. And I can almost see it in their eyes that they're thinking, |
| 0:58.6 | man, love is not enough. It is too soft. It is butterflies, it's rainbows, and that's not leadership. |
| 1:05.8 | That's not really parenting. That's not really the life that we live in today, John. Be more real. |
| 1:11.8 | And yet one of the greatest examples of leadership was also one of the greatest examples of love that I've ever |
| 1:17.6 | encountered. And it is the example of my own mother. She is and was one of the great examples of love. |
| 1:24.5 | And love is not easy. It is hard hard it holds people accountable it insists on accountability |
| 1:32.4 | it demands creativity the progression toward perfection it's far from popular it's not seen everywhere |
| 1:39.6 | you go it's not seen in every family that you may enter into but i saw it alive and in living color with my own mother growing up, and I see it today in the way she guides my father Ford in their life together. |
| 1:50.7 | As a child, perhaps the most important character for me as I've recovered from Burns on 100% of my body was my mom. |
| 1:59.9 | It was my mother. |
| 2:00.7 | Yes, the physicians were critical, the EMTs, |
| 2:02.9 | Paramount, the firefighters, first responders, my brother Jim, my sisters, my faith, my father, |
| 2:08.0 | all of these things, all these elements play together perfectly. And yet without my mother on day one, |
| 2:13.3 | without her nine years of instruction leading up to that, And then without her guidance over the last 32 years, |
| 2:18.9 | I'm pretty sure that I'm not in front of you today. |
| 2:20.9 | I'm pretty sure we're not doing this podcast. |
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