Hey everyone!
Big news for fans of HKSML and anyone who has been inspired by Craig's amazing story!
We are proud to announce the beginning of a brand new venture "The Little Old Ant Group".
LOA is Craig's new umbrella group that includes his Motivational Speaking, Life Coaching, and Radio Show endeavors. The web site will be up and running in a few days. In the mean time, please send all speaking / Life Coaching requests to LittleOldAnt25@gmail.com
Why "Little Old Ant"?
Well the answer is simple...Harry Kalas' favorite song was "High Hopes". The main character was a "Little Old Ant" who refused to listen to the naysayers who said he couldn't knock down a rubber tree that was stubbornly in his way. The ant was resilient and more stubborn than the rubber tree...and before you know it, the tree was just a stump. Craig's story is a personification of this classic Sinatra song. A lot of hard hits knocked him down...but nothing could keep him down! Not a painful divorce, not the loss of his career in the mortgage industry, not 3 1/2 years of homelessness could make him quit. Nothing could keep him from being his daughter's daddy and bouncing back to a better life than the one he had before! From a highly successful career in the Mortgage industry earning 6 figures, to homelessness. From despair and isolation to authoring 4 books, 4 blogs and graduating college at 48.
Craig completed 6 semesters of college through Liberty University Online to finish his Bachelors and graduate this May. This is impressive enough but add to it the fact that he was homeless for 5 of those 6 months and it's nothing less than amazing. It's that "Little Old Ant" in real life...leaving a forest of rubber tree stumps!
Craig's story inspires, motivates, instructs, challenges and leaves every listener a little better than they were before. You'll laugh a little...cry a little...and most of all you'll never look at your own challenges the same. As Craig says, "Every painful situation is a chance...a chance to prove that you're better than your problems...that you can come through whatever you face with a new perspective...and that you can inspire others just by being who you are and who God intended you to be."
Nobody who reads "Harry Kalas Saved My Life" looks at life in quite the same way. And nobody who hears Craig tell his story firsthand ever looks at challenges the same either. What life throws at you to knock you down and derail your dreams are really just training grounds for the strength it takes to be a success. Remember...
"They aren't problems...they're rubber trees who haven't met their Little Old Ant yet!"
---Craig Daliessio
