The Power of Showing Up (Monday Moment ep. 439)
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
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🗓️ 21 February 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
My sweet Mom passed out in the shower last Friday evening. After fainting, she fell backwards, landed hard on the floor, and broke her wrist. As it turns out, she collapsed as the result of anemia and low hemoglobin, which required a few days of observation in the hospital to elevate.
In a surreal coincidence, her room is on the exact same floor as --and stunningly just three doors away from-- the entrance to the Burn Center where I was treated 35 years earlier.
My friends, we often cheapen our ability to positively influence another human being because we don't have the right status, don’t feel we are enough or worry we lack the proper words.
Today I share a reminder that it’s not having the right words that elevate the life of a friend who is struggling. It’s having the courage to show up, the willingness to be present and the audacity to simply listen.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary. |
| 0:14.9 | I record these so that you and I can begin our days and our weeks in awe and on fire with the burst of inspiration. And the inspiration |
| 0:24.1 | today is around saying nothing, just the importance of being there and showing up for people. |
| 0:31.1 | Let me share a little bit more about that. My sweet mom passed out in the shower last Friday evening. |
| 0:39.0 | After fainting, she fell backwards. |
| 0:41.4 | She landed hard on the floor and she broke her wrist. |
| 0:44.9 | As it turns out, she collapsed in the shower as the result of anemia and low hemoglobin. |
| 0:52.6 | Those two pieces required a few days of observation in the hospital to elevate. |
| 0:57.9 | In a surreal coincidence, her room was on the exact same floor as, and stunningly, just three doors away from, |
| 1:08.8 | the entrance to the burn center, where I was treated 35 years earlier. |
| 1:15.4 | With my mom recuperating in her hospital bed next to the front door, quite literally, of all of those |
| 1:21.8 | memories, she and I could not help but reminisce on the shared experiences from decades earlier in discussing some of the |
| 1:30.3 | amazing visitors who walked through those doors and changed our lives forever. |
| 1:35.7 | I asked Mom if there was one particularly meaningful conversation that she remembered. |
| 1:42.4 | Mom shared that she and my dad had been overwhelmed with support from so many dear friends |
| 1:47.6 | and family members. |
| 1:49.2 | They'd been amazed that some Hall of Fame announcer and all-star players would visit them. |
| 1:55.7 | And they were strengthened by messages of support from individuals like Ronald Reagan via the White House, |
| 2:01.8 | and Pope John Paul the second all the way from the Vatican. And yet, it was not a celebrity |
| 2:07.8 | visitor or sophisticated words of wisdom that moved her most. It was a singular conversation |
| 2:15.5 | late one evening with a young English teacher. She did not know |
| 2:19.8 | that well, but she would never forget. Several months into my hospitalization, there was still |
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