SOUL ON FIRE the Movie

Looking back with gratitude on an improbably journey and looking ahead with hope for all that’s still to come. Anniversaries give us permission to do something we rarely allow ourselves to do: Stop racing forward, turn around and look…

What 250 messages and a quiet day taught me about what truly makes a life meaningful. The final day of filming SOUL ON FIRE began before 5 a.m. on Friday. It ended 19 hours later, getting home after midnight.…

Why I believe SOUL ON FIRE belongs in your Netflix queue. “It took me a while to get into it because it wasn’t good at first, but it got better in season four.” A friend recently shared this review…

A reminder that our differences don’t separate us, they unite us. “What unites us is far greater than what divides us.” -John F. Kennedy Everywhere we look the world highlights everything separating us. From our news headlines, social media…

A reminder that gratitude changes not what we see, but how we see it. “I’m not buying Jack Buck visiting that kid all those times.” “I work in health care. And no one survives burns to their entire body.…

Honoring the people who made SOUL ON FIRE- and my life- possible. Wow! These past few weeks have been humbling and joy-filled. Interviews, headlines, sold-out theaters, social media filled with smiling faces, and messages pouring in from friends near…

This is what it looks like to live with a SOUL ON FIRE. On a Friday afternoon in January 1987, I left school as an athletic, popular, mischievous fourth-grade boy. Fourteen months later, I returned to school seated in…

Reflecting on family, the red carpet and the miracle of it all. None of it really makes sense. Last Thursday, a black SUV picked up the O’Leary family and transported us to the gorgeous Powell Hall in St. Louis,…

Stephanie Szostak and Susan O’Leary remind us that even in suffering, joy remains. In just over a week and a half, SOUL ON FIRE will light up theaters across the country. And last week, as part of The Voices…

How WE can turn SOUL ON FIRE into a movement of hope. There’s a word most of us avoid. We view it as weakness.  Fear it makes us look small. Worry it reveals we don’t have all the answers.…