What Would You Save? ep. 422
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
4.9 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
"To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible." - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
In the midst of this holiday season, what better time to take pause and celebrate the amazing blessings already present in our lives.
For the past five years, every podcast guest has been asked a series of rapid-fire questions known as the Live Inspired 7. The third question is:
Your house is on fire, all living things and people are out. You have the opportunity to run in and grab one item. What would it be?
Join me as I share what I would retrieve. Plus, I share some of the most remarkable responses that remind us that real joy, real peace and real love are seldom wrapped and almost never found under the tree.
SHOW NOTES:
- What would you go back in and save? These past Live Inspired Podcast guests share the important reminder that real joy, peace and love are seldom wrapped and found under the tree.
- Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Lauren Daigle from ep. 248.
- Bestselling author and post-traumatic growth expert Michaela Haas from ep. 4.
- Former Navy fighter pilot and POW Charlie Plumb. Hear our entire conversation here.
- Congressional Gold Medal Recipient Carlotta Wells LaNier from ep. 56.
- Apollo 13 Spacecraft Commander Captain Jim Lovell from ep. 90.
- Entrepreneur, executive headhunter, nonprofit developer Laura Gassner-Ottig from ep. 152.
- Author + law reform advocate Jeanne Bishop from ep. 246.
- Most common responses: Photos, Bible (including Kansas City Royals manager Mike Matheny), computer, journals, guitars... and nothing.
- Unexpected answers:
- Legendary entertainer John Tesh would go in for his 9-foot grand piano.
- Rebekah Gregory, a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing would save her waterproof prosthetic leg Ariel because nothing sets my soul more on fire than being at the beach.
- Well-known standup comic Sebastian Maniscalco, goes back in for cheese since his wife and kids are out safely!
- Bestselling author of The Shack, William Paul Young would retrieve a first edition George McDonnell Unspoken Sermons book.
- Amy Wolff, the mastermind behind a life-saving global movement, would save a carved piece of wood from her late brother.
- Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr would retrieve a letter he wrote to himself after his consecutive inning streak ended in September 1987.
- Seth Godin, 20-time bestselling author, would fetch a canoe paddle he carved for his wife in 1979.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Our friends at L. Keely are incredibly dedicated to quality, ensuring that they do the right work the first time. |
| 0:09.0 | Their founder and my friend, his name is Larry Keely, has always said that quality and service never go out of style. |
| 0:16.0 | After four decades of proving that truth in his construction business, their customer-centric approach |
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| 0:27.9 | you and your business at keelycom.com. Welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary. |
| 0:38.8 | John is the number one national bestselling author of the book On Fire. |
| 0:43.2 | He's a world-class inspirational speaker and he's the host of the Live Inspired podcast. |
| 0:48.2 | John interviews extraordinary individuals on their life story so that you can wake up from accidental living and more fully |
| 0:56.0 | live your life story. Here's your host, John O'Leary. Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to |
| 1:02.4 | the Live Inspired podcast, Christmas Eve's, Eve's edition with John O'Leary. We have for you today on this Thursday, if you're listening to it |
| 1:12.9 | near the launch of the episode or shortly after, for those of you, tuned in in over the |
| 1:17.3 | weekend. We have a wonderful episode in store for you today. We're going to create an episode |
| 1:23.5 | that will challenge you and encourage you and inspire you to think. I think you're going to be |
| 1:28.7 | moved. You're going to be challenged to consider what matters most, maybe what matters least, |
| 1:34.0 | and how you want to live not only during this Christmas season, but beyond. I'm going to begin this |
| 1:40.6 | episode not by introducing the guests and you're going to love them when I bring |
| 1:45.2 | them on. Hang on for it, but by sharing with you a quote and then a question asked of one of my |
| 1:50.3 | children. The quote is from Marie von Ebner Aschenbach. And Marie wrote this, to be content with |
| 1:57.6 | little is difficult. To be content with much impossible. I love that. To be content with little is difficult. To be content with much impossible. I love that. To be content with |
| 2:04.4 | little is difficult to be content with much impossible. So here comes the question that my kids |
| 2:11.2 | asked me several Christmases ago that got me really reframing how we want to do the holidays going forward. |
| 2:18.3 | Here's the question. |
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