Hunter’s Heroes: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Souls
July 24th, 2008
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It’s time to announce a new series I’m going to be running on this blog, titled “Hunter’s Heroes: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Souls.” (I’m using “Heroes” to refer to both men and women, as opposed to the more accurate but much clumsier “Heroes/Heroines.”)
There are countless people out there who exemplify a true hero in my eyes. People who are not necessarily born with a silver spoon in their mouth or blessed with superhuman abilities, but who nevertheless work their way up to being great role models in one way or another.
While I don’t want to open my blog up for guest posting, I do think it’s a good idea to do interviews. It’s one thing to listen to someone talk, but it’s another thing to have a conversation with them. Instead of doing broad “tell us everything about yourself” interviews, I’m going to try to focus on a particular angle, preferably showing a side of the interviewee that we haven’t seen a million times before. And I won’t be following any kind of regular schedule; I’ll do just them “whenever.”
Stay tuned for stories of regular people showing incredible courage, integrity, persistence, faith, selflessness, achievement, and so on. Be sure to subscribe for free updates so you don’t miss any. Come on, you know you want to!
Here’s my list of heroes so far:
From $20 In His Pocket To Owning 3 Hotels: Shilpan Patel’s Story
Randy And His Wonderful Pauschisms
Akashic Record Reading With Akemi Gaines, Part 1
Akashic Record Reading With Akemi Gaines, Part 2
July 24th, 2008 at 1:00 am
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July 24th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Hi Hunter,
What a wonderful idea. It’s always nice to hear the stories of how people got from “there” to “here” and where they’re headed next. THOSE are the ones we can learn so much from.
I’m off to read your first interview. Shilpan’s story sounds very fascinating.
July 24th, 2008 at 9:49 am
I LOVE the name of the series: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Souls. I look forward to reading the post!
July 24th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
@ Barbara, I thought Shilpan would be a good choice to get it started. He has a really good “there” to “here” story!
@ Akemi, somehow, that doesn’t surprise me!
August 1st, 2008 at 2:43 am
[...] That was 12 years ago. Today, Randy Pausch is famous for his last lecture, a talk called “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” that he gave to reflect on important life lessons as he fought with pancreatic cancer. And while he passed away about a week ago, I figured there was no reason I couldn’t make him a posthumous guest of honor in my series Hunter’s Heroes: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Souls. [...]
August 3rd, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Hunter,
I know you probably have a huge list already for ordinary people, extraordinary souls but I have a couple to suggest when you are through with your list. And I really enjoyed your second piece on Randy Pausch and will be looking as his time management lecture (that’s for posting it).
Personal Heroes
Marcus Luttrell, soldier and writer (You can hear him on a BTR show, Now is the time! http://www.blogtalkradio.com when he speaks of being the sole survivor of a military mission)
Alan Levy, CEO of http://www.Blogtalkradio.com
Marla Cilley, http://www.Flylady.net
August 3rd, 2008 at 6:18 pm
@ another Monika, I’ve actually never had a predefined list in mind. Shilpan and Randy just happened to be the first two, and I don’t know who will be next. We’ll see! But I prefer to interview the person instead of just writing about them, so it would have to be someone who would consent to an interview.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:35 pm
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