I'd always thought that the explosion in my mom and dad's house on January 17, 1987 only affected me.
And if we only think our story only affects us, we can become pretty egocentric about it.
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Today's guest is John O'Leary.
When he was nine years old, he ended up with 100% of his body burned in a fire in his garage that left him with fingers that were amputated and a body that was largely from the neck down scar tissue.
His journey from that moment in his life, through his recovery, through his entire family's recovery, re embracing and re emerging, finding love and building an astonishing life that's making a difference in a lot of other people's lives is where we're going.
Today's conversation.
I'm Jonathan Fields.
This is good life project.
So we're hanging out, sitting here right now.
You are just in, just off a plane two days ago, I had no idea you existed.
And then I jumped online and I'm like, wow, how could I not know this human being existed on the planet?
So take me into your story, because as we're sitting here right now, we're behind microphones, people are listening.
And it's interesting for me also.