The Amazing Story of John O'Leary - Episode 40

Sports Spectrum Podcast

Sports Spectrum

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In 1987, John O'Leary was a curious nine-year-old boy. Playing with fire and gasoline, John created a massive explosion in his home and was burned on 100% of his body.

He was given a 1% chance to live.

And live he did.

With the help of a St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame broadcaster, and his love for baseball, John was able to survive and even more than that thrive in life.

John is now a motivational speaker and author, sharing his incredible story. His new book, "ON FIRE: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life" was an instant #1 National Bestseller selling 30,000 copies in the first 3 weeks.

On this episode of the podcast, John shares his story, recalling vivid details of what it was like sitting in a hospital bed moments from death, how he learned to write after losing his fingers, how a baseball hall of fame announcer helped him heal and impacted his life, and taking his mess, his darkest time, and turning into a powerful message of faith, hope and love.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports
0:09.8	collide.
0:10.8	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:13.7	This is episode number 40 of the Sports Spectrum podcast.
0:17.9	Hi, everyone.
0:18.4	Thank you so much for being here on today's program. And it's crazy,
0:22.7	40 episodes here on the Sports Spectrum podcast. My name is Jason Romano. And first off, I just want to say
0:28.6	thank you. Thank you to everyone who has listened to this podcast, downloaded it, told friends
0:34.1	about it, shared a note or tweeted at me or emailed me, whatever it was.
0:39.8	I just want to say thank you.
0:41.4	Thank you for being a part of this journey.
0:43.0	We've reached 40 episodes now and it's been awesome.
0:46.7	We've seen, gosh, over 80,000 almost downloads of this podcast and so many people listening
0:51.9	on so many different areas and platforms and just such a
0:55.5	cool thing to watch God work through this podcast and sharing the stories of faith in Jesus
1:01.5	Christ and sports coming together. So thank you very much for the support and excited to see the
1:07.3	future of this podcast where it goes. Lots of exciting things we're thinking about. So
1:11.9	just want to thank you again for being a part of today's show. At the end of this episode,
1:17.3	we are going to announce the winners of the Matthew West CD all in and the Matthew West book.
1:25.4	Hello, my name is. Now, Matthew West was our guest on episode number 38 of the
1:29.7	podcast, and we asked people to send in reviews and share them on iTunes. Let us know that you're
1:37.0	thinking of us, that you're watching, I should say listening to the show, and that you heard Matthew
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