The Voices of SOUL ON FIRE: DeVon Franklin (ep. 812)
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
4.9 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
This week, The Voices of SOUL ON FIRE series welcomes the actor who brings to life the unforgettable role of Nurse Roy: DeVon Franklin.
DeVon is a producer of films like Miracles from Heaven and Breakthrough, a New York Times bestselling author, a preacher, and a motivational voice named by Variety as one of the “Top 10 Producers to Watch.” Whether through books, movies, sermons, or his own acting, his mission has always been the same: to inspire, inform, and motivate.
Today, DeVon shares candidly about growing up in the Bay Area, losing his father at a young age, and how film and faith became his lifelines of healing. He also opens up about what drew him to portray Nurse Roy in SOUL ON FIRE (the burn nurse who pushed a young John O’Leary to walk again), the real-life lessons of Roy’s compassion and grit, and why telling this part of our story was both deeply personal and profoundly meaningful.
My friends, if you or someone you love needs to be reminded that ordinary work, done with extraordinary love, can change the course of a life, this conversation is for you. You’ll be encouraged to see pain not as the problem, but as a teacher pointing to healing. And you’ll be inspired to embrace your own story with courage, faith, and the freedom to simply be.
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| 0:46.2 | Welcome to the Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary. John is the two-time national bestselling |
| 0:51.8 | author of On Fire and In Aw. |
| 0:55.2 | He's a world-class inspirational speaker, the host of the Live Inspired podcast. |
| 1:00.5 | And he's the real-life inspiration behind the major motion picture, Soul On Fire. |
| 1:05.7 | Each week, John interviews extraordinary individuals about their life stories so you can more fully live your life story. |
| 1:13.4 | Here's your host, John O'Leary. |
| 1:15.0 | Welcome to another Voices of Soul on Fire series. |
| 1:18.9 | This one's going to be an incredible conversation with a man who, whether he's walking onto a set, |
| 1:24.6 | onto a lot at Sony, or into a room, changes the room that he walks into. His name |
| 1:30.9 | is Devon Franklin. During the conversation that you're about to listen into or watch, you're going to |
| 1:37.1 | witness a man who opened up his front door, let me into his house in California, and open up his |
| 1:43.3 | heart to the rest of us on what he's been through, |
| 1:46.0 | what he's learned, and ultimately what it means for us in our lives. So who does Devon Franklin |
| 1:52.1 | play in the film Soul on Fire? He plays a mighty warrior and one of the heroes in my story, |
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