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