Gary Michaels
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226 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2024
last heard Feb 2025
Gary Michaels’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let's Talk Legacy · Finding Myself in the Holocaust, with Janet Singer Applefield · 21 Aug 2024
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Well, that's a huge legacy.
How would people reach you if they needed to get a hold of you or wanted to ask you some questions or get a copy of your book? How would people get a hold of you?
Well, I'm definitely ordering a copy of your book and can't wait to read it.
Yeah. Thank you so much for what you're doing for the people in our country and in our world for educating them on what happened and really looking at themselves to not be prejudiced and be the best you can be to accept everybody for who they are. So thank you so much.
Welcome to Let's Talk Legacy. My name is Gary Michaels. And today we have an amazing guest, Hal Donaldson, the president and CEO of Convoy of Hope, a global nonprofit organization that works with communities to address root causes of poverty and hunger. And that always has been a challenge that our world sees.
According to Forbes, Convoy of Hope is among the 50 largest charities in the United States. So I'm just excited to speak with Hal, and I know our listeners are excited to hear from you today, too. Welcome.
Let's dig right in. I want to start by talking about family. Your family and the legacy of your family had a huge impact on you and the way that you are now helping shape the legacies of so many others. The story of your grandfather... and the impact of his actions on your family is a powerful one.
How did that family history influence your own beliefs about success, failure, redemption, and other thoughts that come across your mind?
Your grandmother's advice seems to have been the guiding light in your life, though. Can you share how her words influenced you?
Wow. It's one thing to know about it, but you're right. It's another thing to experience it. Yes. My father was a police officer and I said, I want to do the ride-alongs because I want to see what you experience, okay, with these people, the human beings that at some point were living normal lives and something affected them. That's very good.
You know, I had an opportunity to go to San Quentin prison. My father would take a group of his students. For years, he taught teachers how to work with delinquent youths. We got to go into San Quentin prison. We went in there and they have a program that they work with students. that maybe are on borderline of getting into the streets and having problems, and say, you don't want to get there.
And these prisoners were like coaches, and they talked to us about how to be and work with them. And it touched my heart because most of them said that they come from poor families, they come from rich families, they come from all over the universe here, but most of them, their switch was when they were early teenagers. Right. Yeah. Oh, yeah. How have you grown this thing so big?
Because I can tell just talking to you have the biggest heart, but not everybody's like that. Not everybody's kind. How have you been able to build this thing?
Now, as president and CEO of Convoy of Hope, that's a big thing. Sometimes the challenges that you faced aren't talked about. Yeah. And sacrifices you personally put into this. Talk to me a little bit about some of the struggles you've had of getting this thing up and running, not just for your company, okay, for your organization, but personally personally.
Wow. So through your programs over the years, Convoy has distributed more than $2.5 billion worth of food and supplies, helped more than 250 million people, and currently feeds more than 570,000 children. And I wanted to make sure I was correct on that.
That is awesome. Do you have a success story that really touches your heart about a community? I'm sure there's many, but is there one at the top of your head that touches your heart?
Now, you mentioned at the beginning that your parents didn't have life insurance, didn't have insurance. And this show is by no means even aware a life insurance company. Is it really pushing life insurance? I've seen being in the business now how having this protection has helped so many families and not burden the kids. and not burden the spouse when something happens.
But what's been your experience with life insurance and what you've seen over the years with your employees and even the people that you serve?
I'm a strong believer. Yeah. So a lot of guests we've had on the program come from families of backgrounds of great legacy and great achievements, but find it sometimes challenging to forge their own. What advice would you give to someone struggling to identify kind of what their force is, what their dream is?
I mean, what could you share that would give people some optimism of even if you're not there yet of knowing what you want to do in your life? What would you give people as advice there? Yeah.
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