Hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary.

I record these every week so you and I can begin our days and our weeks in awe and on fire with the burst of inspiration.

And occasionally we begin these episodes with shoutouts.

All right.

So here comes a shoutout for an individual who reached out to our office this week.

Peter, my friend from Battery Park, I'm looking at you right now.

Thank you for the correspondence, the email into our team celebrating the impact of the podcast

on your life. It means more than you know. The email circulated around our office certainly

touched their hearts and mine. And if ever, my friends, you would like to send your correspondence,

your feedback, your praise, your problems, or your suggestions to our office

around this podcast or around the work that we do, we welcome it.

Send it to podcast at John O'Learyinspires.com, and I want to hear from you.

So, Peter, shout out to you and my friends who are listening right now.

We want to hear back from you.

Email podcast at John O'yriinspires.com.

Let's dive into today's episode.

One of my favorite quotes goes like this.

Being heard is so close to being loved that they are almost indistinguishable.

As a speaker, I enjoy the wonderful opportunity of meeting with thousands of individuals after events.

Each individual has unique struggles and hopes and experience and stories.

And while speaking at the University of Southern California, go Trojans.

Several years ago, I had an opportunity of meeting a most amazing human

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