Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary

David Horsager hopes to make a dent in the global trust crisis by developing trusted leaders and organizations.   As the bestselling author of  The Trust Edge , David is the CEO of Trust Edge Leadership Institute and director of one of the nation's foremost trust studies: The Trust Outlook.   With decades of research and by working with organizations including FedEx and Toyota, global governments,...

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.- Victor Hugo Today, John shares how a ticket agent's small act of kindness had a tremendous impact. 

Catherine Price is an award-winning science journalist, screen/life balance expert and the author of books including The Power of Fun and How to Break Up with Your Phone .   In our always-on, productivity-addicted lifestyles, we tend to think of the pursuit of fun as being indulgent or even childish. We claim not to have time for it even as we spend hours a day engaging in what today's guest calls...

"You can easily tell the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Years ago, I ran a small construction company. Continuously running material, picking up tools, and dropping lumber, I spent significant time in a truck with my General Contractor, Harold Stewart.   Working together for almost a decade, Harold certainly taught me much about...

Today's guest is an Emmy award-winning journalist, reinvention expert and intelligent risk-taker.   With a successful television career that spanned 28 years, some of Liz Brunner's most memorable highlights involve exclusive interviews with prominent figures and cultural icons including President Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey.   After leaving a successful career as co-anchor of Boston's #1 rated...

"In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others." – Henri J.M. Nouwen For more than a decade I've worked with the FOCUS Marines Foundation. This organization hosts struggling veterans for week-long retreats designed to provide support for complex physical and emotional issues related to military service.   On this Memorial Day, I share the story of how the simple act cooking a me...

I'm honored to share a story of not just surviving impossible odds but thriving in a world that is too often caught up with how we look on the outside rather than seeing that our true value is within.   When Kechi Okwuchi was 16 years old, she was one of just two survivors of a devastating plane crash that killed more than 100 people, many of them her classmates.   Spending months in hospital reco...

"Just because I am happy and loved, doesn't mean everyone else is. I know someone might be walking behind me who doesn't feel happy and doesn't feel loved. Maybe I can help them." – Evan Ernst   While we're thrilled our Live Inspired Podcast has been downloaded nearly 5,000,000 times, it's the stories of impact from individual listeners that most inspire our efforts. And there is something particu...

Kiana Clay is the first adaptive female motocross racer, top-ranked para-snowboarder and 2026 Paralympic hopeful.   At 12 years old, Kiana suffered a traumatic brachial plexus injury on a motocross practice run that left her right arm paralyzed. While recovering from this accident, she was hit by a drunk driver, reversing any strength she was recovering and leaving her dominant arm permanently par...

Being heard is so close to being loved that they are almost indistinguishable. – David Augsburger   Today, we celebrate Augie Nieto and his quest to cure ALS.   Learn more about the Live Inspired Podcast at JohnOLearyInspires.com.

Maggie Doyne's mission is to create a world where children are safe, educated and loved.   At age nineteen, Maggie used $5,000 of her babysitting money to co-found  BlinkNow Foundation  which helped to build the Kopila Valley Children's Home and School, a safe place for orphaned children in war-torn Nepal.   Since 2010, Maggie + her team have served 500 of the region's most impoverished children a...

John O'Leary recognizes the mothers shepherding their children through tragedy.   Learn more about the Live Inspired Podcast at JohnOLearyInspires.com.

With Mother's Day upon us, today's guest is a marvelous example of what's possible with the love from a powerful mom. As one of four boys raised by a single mother, Steve White's life could easily have taken a different path. Instead, armed with his mother's determination that her sons make a better life for themselves and his own refusal to be shaped by his circumstances, Steve forged a path to e...

This week is Teacher Appreciation Week, and in honor of those heroes AND in celebration of the 2nd anniversary of IN AWE , I wanted to share one of my favorite stories from the book. It will remind you we all need someone cheering us forward and it will encourage you to embrace that role. In doing so we change the world one life at a time. Starting with our own.   Learn more about today's episode...

Stephen M. R. Covey is an expert on trust, leadership and culture. As former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, Stephen personally led the strategy that propelled his father's book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , to become one of the two most influential business books of the 20th Century.   Today, Stephen shares: The important lessons his parents modeled for him and...

So often we recognize a need in a family, a struggle in a friend, or a challenge in our community and wonder what we can even do to help. While it's easy to assume there is little we can do, be reminded of the power in simply showing up for others.

Mental health challenges and broken relationships are a part of life, yet they don't have to define us. Dr. John Delony is a mental health expert, bestselling author of Redefining Anxiety and host of The Dr. John Delony Show , a caller-driven show that gives you real talk on relationships and mental health challenges. Armed with not one, but two PhDs and more two decades of experience in counselin...

What would you do if you knew today was your last? As a nine-year-old, this wasn't just a hypothetical question to consider, but a reality I faced daily.   Because of my weakened condition, the additional stress of surgery and blood loss presented the very real prospect that the next surgery could be my last. With this in mind, my parents would make the evening before surgeries extremely special....

To celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month, I'm honored to welcome Kevin Eubanks, one of the most accomplished jazz musicians of his or any generation.   As a prolific guitarist and composer, Kevin is frequently recognized for his role as former Music Director of The Tonight Show band, appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for 18 years.   Yet it's what led up to this iconic role that is most intri...

For three decades, Parkinson's disease has robbed my dad of his ability to work, type, write, drive, walk and speak... and yet every day he chooses gratitude.   Today, on World Parkinson's Awareness Day and in honor of my dad and the millions of others impacted by Parkinson's, I challenge you to make the choice to fill your heart with gratitude.   Learn more about the Live Inspired Podcast with Jo...

David Sipress is an iconic cartoonist for The New Yorker . Since 1998, he's published nearly 700 cartoons largely based on perceptions of shared human experience, rooted in his life-long love of history.   With humor, creativity and vulnerability, David shares stories about his complicated family, the day he decided to pursue cartooning professionally and the 25 years of rejection that followed.  ...

Join me as I share the most powerful five-word lessons I've learned after more than 400 episodes of the Live Inspired Podcast.   To get links to each episode I mention, visit JohnOLearyInspires.com.

Six-time Olympic medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee is regarded by many as the greatest female athlete of all time. After retiring, Jackie chose to return to her impoverished hometown with a greater purpose: empower youth in her community to dream, and have the drive and determination to succeed.   Today, hear Jackie share the pivotal moments in her life when she chose to never give up, why she refuses...

How do you respond when tragedy strikes?   As we face storms in life, we have a choice. We can choose anger, yell about it, and remain negative about what happened and all we've lost.   Or we can choose to accept it, make the best of it, grow from it and realize that in spite of those unwanted changes that the best of life remains in front of us.   Learn more at JohnOLearyInspires.com.

There are about 7,000 languages in the world, all with different vocabularies, sounds, and alphabets—but how do these structural differences influence how we interpret the world?   Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive scientist recognized for studying how the languages we speak shape the way we think.   After emigrating to America from Belarus, Lera learned English and began to recognize how differences...