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Podcast: Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
Episode: From a Trailer to Yale: A Father's Sacrifice (Mary Marantz)
Description: Mary Marantz would have been her family's third generation of loggers in rural West Virginia; an impoverished life filled with days of hard, dangerous work. But, one choice Mary's father made sparked a much different path for her: He used what little money he had to buy learning materials to prepare her for school as he saw education as her opportunity to lead a big, beautiful life of her choosing. Mary joins us today – a Yale graduate and recent author of the book Dirt: Growing Strong Roots in What Makes the Broken Beautiful – sharing what it was like...