ACL 031: Sylvester Neal
from A Congruent Life Hosted by Andy Gray
Sylvester Neal is a past president of Kiwanis International who spent his career in public service as a firefighter, airport security chief, and state fire marshal. In this episode of A Congruent Life, Sylvester shares interesting stories from his well-lived life, including: attending an integrated high school in the 1950s, and how he never got […] The post ACL 031: Sylvester Neal appeared first on A Congruent Life.
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Sylvester Neal is a past president of Kiwanis International who spent his career in public service as a firefighter, airport security chief, and state fire marshal. In this episode of A Congruent Life, Sylvester shares interesting stories from his well-lived life, including: attending an integrated high school in the 1950s, and how he never got into a fight, what he learned when a restaurant would not allow him to eat with his teammates, how his dreams of going to college evaporated after one poor football game, the effect that a house fire had on his dreams and the trajectory of his work, how having confidence in his intuition boosted his early career as a firefighter, having the discipline to earn a college degree over ten years of night school, being open to discovering unexpected blessings in disguise, having the courage to turn down a job that simply wanted to fill its minority quotas, how fainting in an airport led to clarity about living a life of service, and what he is learning from raising his young grandsons while in his 70s. Links Sylvester's website Sylvester Neal on Facebook The Man in the Mirror
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