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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to frankly Speaking, your weekly destination for insight and inspiration,
with your host, Frank Morangos. Frankly Speaking is sponsored by
Heppa four two one Chapter of North Miami in partnership
with the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church of North Miami.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well, welcome back to Frankly Speaking. Because I've often set
apart from introducing the greater public to the rich history,
the culture and faith heritage of the ancient Greek ideals,
and to discuss how the history may provide some insights
for us today. The show also includes an interview with
a noted Greek philanthropist, a successful entrepreneur, and local personalities today.
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I'm thrilled to have with us Spiro Jadakis. You know
him as the superhero Mover, the Good Greek of Florida,
the owner of the Good Greek Moving and storage company.
I can't tell you how excited I am that you're here.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I see you on television all the time as everybody
else does, and here you are in real life.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah. Yeah, We certainly promote our company and our achievements,
along with our philanthropic efforts as well.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah. Tell us a little bit about your background, because
I think it's a very interesting one.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Sure, sure, Well, I'm a son of Greek immigrants. Both
of my parents emigrated to the United States from Greece,
from the island of Crete. Actually both who my parents are.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Did they meet?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
No, they did not. They although they were two or
three villages apart from each other, and their families certainly
knew of each other's families, they had not met in Greece.
They actually met in Miami because I had family in
the North Miami Beach area, and so they sponsored my
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mom to come here, and my father came by way
of New York, and they met in Miami. They had
their engagement, marriage and all that in a quick fashion,
and then moved to New York where we were. I
was born in Brooklyn, and then we moved to Astoria, Queens,
which where I grew up.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
So you're from New York, then I'm born, Yeah, born.
So I have to ask you, are you a Yankees fan?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know I grew up a Yankees fan?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yes, yes, Okay, sounds like you're going to move to
the right direction.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
In the right direction here, Well, I still like the Yankees,
you know, I mean, you know, it's it's it's a
New York staple. But being in South Florida, now you know,
I'm a big Florida sports guy and do.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Anything of the Red Sox.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You know, I'll let you know when I become their
official mover. I have no opinion until.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Friends that are in New York is and we always
go back and forth about that, you know as well.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
So my loyalty now has to be split between the
Miami Marlins and the Tampa Bay Rays because I am
their service provider and I'm their official mover.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
That says a lot about your company. But before we
get there, so you were born in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, born in Brooklyn, raised in Queens, and I left,
you know, I graduated school early and so at sixteen
I went off to college. I went to Buffalo, Buffalo State.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But you're just getting colder and colder.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Oh my god, it was cold and I played football
there for a couple of years. It was cold and
a lot of snow.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
A position.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I was a quarterback, I believe it or not. I
was a high school quarterback star and went to college
and then I wasn't so much of a star because
everybody that plays before college is a star from somewhere.
But I played two years. I had a great time,
helped me grow up a little bit, you know, and
I knew I wanted to be a police officer, and
so that was my goal. And after a couple of
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years of college, I said, you know, let me go
pursue my career.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Why why it was that something in the back of
your mind that you wanted to do and pursue.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
You know, to say it was a childhood dream, it
kind of makes it seem like, you know, it's child's play,
but it obviously police work is not child's play. But
it was a childhood dream. And I could almost tell
you the day that I knew that I wanted, you know.
And obviously some of it might have been the cool
police shows of the seventies and eighties, but no, there
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was an actual day in time, and I'll never forget it.
Where on the rare occasion that my father wasn't working
and was able to take us to Manhattan and go
to Central Park Zoo, very rare that he had the
time to take all four of us, my brother, my mom,
and we were taking the subway, and you know, like
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in other cities like Boston. The subway has an elevated
section two, the elevated train, right, so we were on
that platform and clearly this mentally disturbed individual was walking
towards us and he had a big knife. Oh mind,
this is in the seventies, very dangerous time in New
York through the seventies, and here he was wielding this
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knife and just talking to himself and just stabbing the air.
And I remember my father seeing this man and he
kind of shielded us from him and allowed him to
just walk by. And he didn't do anything to us,
but very scary guy. And shortly thereafter there were these
two policemen and my father approaches them and says, hey,
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you know, there's a guy. He went that way and
he has a knife. And I was just in awe
because I'm looking at these two men in uniform and
my father's telling them this's a scary guy going the
other way with a knife, and they were going after him,
not the other way. They were going after this man,
and I was just I was just in awe. Their badge,
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their nightstick, you know, their guns, and I just thought, wow,
where do they get this kind of bravery? You know,
we were scared yes, and I said, I want to
be like that.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And did you mention that? Did you articulate that to
your no.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Way, No, I mean maybe maybe not not that day,
I don't remember, and I must have been seven or eight. Yeah,
But years later I would tell my parents I want
to be a policeman. I want to be police. But
you know, a lot of boys say they want to
be a policeman or a fireman or.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
At least our generation spureau, you know. And I want
to hear your opinion about that. You know, I was
growing up, especially in My parents were Greek immigrants as well,
and we were taught to respect authority. Yes, we would
respect policemen, you know. If they told us to do something,
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we would do it, yeah, you know. And if we didn't,
you know, we would not only get in trouble with them,
would get in trouble with our parents for not doing it.
If a policeman came to our home. Oh my god,
I can imagine, right. I'm sure you had similar experiences.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, I think I recall one time maybe the police
came that It was we lived in an apartment building
and my father owned the building and he was the landlord,
and there was some sort of disturbance and it was
a big deal if the police showed up for something.
Oh yeah, the utmost respect.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
What's happened?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Show is it's.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
It's probably several shows what's happened? You know. Yeah, in
a nutshell, what happened was we we almost this country
almost lost its sense of patriotism, of what it is
to be an American. And quite frankly, the later generations
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had it so good and so comfortable that you almost
forget how we got here in the first place, and
all the sacrifices that everybody did before us, you know,
and some people continue to do it, but not everybody.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Kind of the Greek American community, because that's the community
I can speak more too. I mean, they were immigrants,
they came to this country, sure, and a policeman Astronomos,
you know, was a respected person, that's right. My father
actually was a policeman in Greece before he came to
this country, you know. So I've heard stories from him
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as well, you know. And if he, if he was
still living, he would not like to see what has happened.
And I think there's a tide changing, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Thank God there is. I am very vocal about my
support for police and all first responders and military, and
we do it through through our contributions, and of course
are are you know, support And it's on my trucks,
you know, all of my trucks are are marked with
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the police flag and also the Greek Orthodox the Byzantine
flag is on all my trucks and of course the
United States of America flag, you know. And that's that's
part of our ethos. It's it's we are you know, faith, honor, strength,
and courage. That's our ethos.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Tell me a little bit about your faith as a
Greek Orthodox as you know that I'm a Greek Orthodox clergyman. Yes,
and I think you've learned that I helped I assist
a little small parish on Sundays down in North Miami,
in North Miami, and they're actually a supporter of this program.
Oh wonderful. And hepa a hepa and they made this
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program available.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
That's great. So ultimately I did get hired as a policeman.
I moved to Florida, I moved to Miami. I convinced
my parents to that at eighteen years old, I'm okay
to move to Miami and pursue of a career in
law enforcement. And I was fortunate enough to get hired
by the North Miami Police Department at the age of nineteen.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
If you can believe that now, and you were you
the youngest or there.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I was the youngest policeman. Yeah, I actually I graduated.
By the time I graduated, kind of, I was twenty
years old. So I had a badge, gun and everything else.
And I couldn't buy my own bullets, but I couldn't
buy a drink, but you know, I could enforce the law.
I was thinking back, I'm really flattered that they saw
something in me, because I don't know that I would
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have hired me. I was a level headed guy, you know,
but nineteen not too much life experience. But but you
came from Brooklyn, I came. We grew up in New
York in the seventies. Yeah, and that that comes to
the wather, that's right, That's right. And so I was
in the North Miami area and I would go to
the North Miami Church, the Nunciation. I have family that
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still goes there today. And in fact, I would work
the midnight shift with the majority of my patrol days
and so Sunday mornings about seven seven thirty when the
church is opening, and there was no one there. Every
Sunday I'd go in, I'd light a candle, I'd say
my prayer. I'd see some of the older ladies that
would come early. So the North Miami Church, the Annunciation
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is very dear my heart and still is a big
part of my families.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I understand you just saw someone the other day.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
My aunt. Yeah, my aunt Mary Casternakis. Yeah. I was
with her yesterday.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And she's a good things about me. Of course, your father, Frank, yeah, yeah,
but but she spanked you for said, hey, well, spirit,
you're not in church.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
You know. It's a bit of a drive from Jupiter.
But I'm going to make it there again. I go
there once in a while, usually a memorial service. I'll
make it down there.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Definitely want you to come to see you. And you
get married. Where did you meet your wife?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I met my wife here in Florida and Jupiter, and
we were had two wonderful daughters together, and uh, yeah,
they're going to graduate. They got one more year of
high school. Twin twin girls, Christi, Ristina and Stella.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Two good Greek names, two.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Names, my mom's name and her.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So you are a real parent two daughters, so good sympathy.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
My god, I thought moving, I thought the police was difficult,
and moving furniture. But being a father of girls and
twin girls in this day and age, by the way, yes,
very challenging. Very challenging, you know, because we want to
give them freedom. We want them to become their own
people and women and good Christians and contributing members of society.
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But there's a lot of external forces at work, and
that's the challenging part. It's you know, kids are going
to rebel just naturally, but when they feel like they're
being fueled because the rebellion is just it makes it
hard for a parent.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Sure, we only had one, so we were not real parents.
You have two, so you're the real So how did
you make the transition and why did you make the
transition from a policeman to being an entrepreneur then finally
to the moving sure company.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, so, I you know, I realized my childhood dream
and of course, uh, being a policeman wasn't enough. I
had aspirations of being on the SWAT team and I
made that. It was one of fourteen individuals there that
was on the SWAT team. That was an experience all
into itself as well, separate from regular police work. That's
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just a different level at that point when you're a
special operator.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But you know, after a while, wait for just you know,
I forgot about the SWAT your spoding experience. Is there
an an event that you that you can recall as
a member of the SWAT team that you could share
something that took place that's vulnerable, well, something you want
to share it to the with the audience.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
So generally speaking, when you're a member of the SWAT team,
the type of calls that you're going to respond to
are the most extreme. In other words, uniform patrol can
no longer manage or handle or get their arms round
a certain situation, and so they call the SWAT team.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
And so.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I can tell you from hostage situations to barricaded subjects
that are armed. You know, horrible things, We saw horrible things.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You know, how many years were you.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
The majority of my time there, so the better part
of five years I was on SWAT. My last five
years in the police department, we did a lot of
warrants of you can imagine murder suspects, you know, drugs,
you know, very violent, very violent. But all I can
tell you is it's a dangerous world, and evil is
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real and it really lurks, and we have to maintain
our faith. And I was in several life threatening situations
as you can imagine, shootings and otherwise, and my faith,
my life has been saved so many times in police
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work and even outside of police work. Besides, you know,
like I said, even with the business, we're big, and
we're bold, and we're part of the community, you know,
and we're proud of what we do. And you know,
when you put yourself out there, you know, you engage
with the world and everything that's in it.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Do you think that there's a relationship between because we've
seen it, Gallop Pole and others, faith is decreasing and
you find an increase in violence, an increase in a
loss of respect for policemen, you know, is there a correlation?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Do you think absolutely there's a correlation. It really probably
started ten fifteen, maybe twenty years ago, very slowly, but
the last four years, eight years, what not ten years,
it was really amplified where you know, we didn't want
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to talk about God anymore, talk about Guiden schools, some schools. Anyways,
the family unit was no longer important. It's okay, you
need to get married, don't you know, you can get divorced.
And once the fabric of society starts to wear, well,
then well it's okay if they steal. Well it's okay
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if they do this. And you know, you can't just
pick and choose what laws you're going to enforce. And
so we really saw the decay. I mean, look at
look at cities like Los Angeles and and others where.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Even our you know, beloved New York so in New York.
I lived in Manhattan for many, many years as well,
so you.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Know, this new mob rules mentality, uh just took over.
And of course now we know through all the expose
as that it's fueled by political money. A lot of
these protesters aren't even they have no idea what they're protesting. Honestly,
they're just getting paid to be there. Others are a
little more extreme, and you know, and archists almost to
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a degree. So of course it has something to do
with the decay of our society. And optimistically, and it
seems like faith is back on the rise. Yes, you know,
I think many Americans felt so hopeless at the hands
of their leaders, really that where else do you turn?
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And you know what, we prevailed again, thank God.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, thank God. Ultimately, did you become jaded in the
police force? Is that one of the reasons why perhaps
you moved on?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Well, the reason I moved on was I had plans
of leaving the north line of the police department. I
had applications in with the FBI, the DA and the
ATF and I had gone back to school, by the way,
to finish my degree. I went back to school at FIU,
and so you know, I started seeing the way a
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police department could be political, politicized. Back then, there was
no DEI, but there was what was called affirmative action.
And I was a young man from New York. I
just want to do good and put bad people away
and help people who can't defend themselves. But you know,
if you're an ambitious young man and you want to
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pursue excellence and be the best as I was raised
by my parents to be and really are faithful. Yes,
that's it's a Greek idea, it's a Christian idea. And
so when I felt I was passed over after being
promised certain detective positions because there was no room for
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a Greek guy in those positions. He had to be
a different race. And I just I couldn't understand it, honestly,
and I thought, well, maybe I need to go to
a bigger agency. You know, this is just Miami. It's
just a police department. And so I thought I was
going to go to the federal agencies. But having friends
in the FBI and the ATF, they said, hey, look
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it's the same here. Anyway, as luck would have it
or God put in my path, I met a couple
of a couple of individuals that had a small moving
and storage company and they were looking to expand it. So,
you know, I gave it a lot of thought. And
you know, one night, here's a story for you. One night,
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this is what helped me make my decision. We respond
to a disturbance at a bar, a club, nightclub. There
was an individual in there armed with a gun and
he was threatening the other patrons. And so sure enough
we get there and my partner we wrote separately that
the person who got the initial call got there ahead
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of me. I got there after, but by the time
I got there, they were already engaged and you could
see that it was escalating, and sure enough, by the
time I got close enough, the spell pulls out a
gun and right across my face it came. You know,
it was that close to me, and you know, you
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become a different person in that moment. You just react.
And I was able to disarm this individual without him
getting a shot off. We didn't have to, you know,
use any deadly force either. But you know, when you
have a harrowing situation like that, afterwards, you just say
to yourself.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Wow, what could have been?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Could have been? Oh, certainly and has been. And look
in seven years, I attended eight police funerals, two of
which I worked with, one of which I worked the
day of with the murder, and I was in the
honor guard. So I went to all the police funerals.
And so at that point I was already proposed for
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this business, and I said, you know what, I'm going
to try my hand at business. And I did. I
was twenty six years old, no kids, no wife, and
of course I left on great terms. I could have
gone back, you know, they but I took a shot
and I moved to Raleigh, North Carolina. Talk about a
culture change, New York, Miami to North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
And that's you where you began your entrepreneurial.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah, that's what I began. I was there for a
couple to about three or four years, and then I
was with these spellers for a little bit and that
ran its course, and then I went off on my own.
And you know, I had developed my my TV persona
by that point as the Good Greek and I said,
you know, that should be the brand of my company,
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and so it was the Good Greek Moving in Storage,
your Superhero movers.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, that's fantastic. I love it. I have to ask you,
so you didn't come in with your cape though I
didn't not today, what is your kryptonite?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
My kryptonite? Oh well, do I want to put that
on the air.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
We can always cut it out.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
My kryptonite My daughters, that's my kryptinite. Whatever they you know,
they they they power over me.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I can understand that parents always children come first.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yes, yes, and girls girls, and you know they just
they know how to work their father because they know
I love them.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Is if there is one lesson that you can share
as we conclude the conversation from your Greek heritage that
has affected your life, what would it be.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Well, like many Greeks, and especially you know from Crete,
you know, our faith is very strong and your word
is your bond, so faith and honor. I believe my
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up my upbringing, my parents with the instilled in me.
Was this this sense of resilience as long as you
keep your faith. And like I said to you before,
it's inexplainable how I got out of certain situations if
it wasn't for God's God's intervention, and so my fail
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and not just in police work, but in business. You know,
there's we like to talk about the great things about business,
but there's a dark side too. There's the bad years.
There's the years where you lose money. There's the years
where you you know, so on and so forth, and
you know, and I hit one of those patches in
two thousand and fourteen, and I had to reinvent myself
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and recreate myself really the business, myself personally, and again,
if it wasn't for my faith in God, which is
in faith in myself, it's to me, it's one and
the same faith in myself is faith in God. I persevered,
and of course I had to show my daughters too.
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You know they were young, but you know they they
were not going to see their father fall down and
not get up, and so well.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You've left them a great example. You know, when I
speak to people who work for you or who have
worked for you, they say that you're one of the
best leaders and bosses that they've ever had. You train people,
you care about people. It's not a vertical relationship. It's
more of a horizontal relationship you have with them. I
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understand you train.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
We do. Yeah, we have an in house we call
it the Superhero Movers Academy, and it's actually it's a
mock house with bedrooms and living rooms and dishes and
so forth, and they actually practice, you know, packing and
loading the truck and driving and all that, and so
when they get to the customers home, they are actually trained,
whereas I hate to say, many other companies, not just movers,
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but in my industry, the training happens on the truck
kind of on the job training. And that's not fair
to the client.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Or to the employee. I mean, they're destined to fail.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
And the other employe is because furniture is heavy, and
you want someone on the other end of a triple
dresser that knows what they're doing and doesn't hurt themselves
and hurt you. So I realized that years ago, and
I said, you know, it's our responsibility to background check
these people, drug test these people, train them, and so
we know who we're sending it to your home. And
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as far as my employees, I'm glad that they respect
the leadership creating leaders in my employees because I cannot
do it alone and I cannot be one leader. So
hopefully I'm creating leaders and mentors that can help us
keep going and continue to expand. As long as we're
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doing good for our clients, our employees, and the community
at large, we're going to keep going. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Well, Spirrau, I thank you very much for being gracious
accepting the invitation to be a guest on the show.
I don't know if you heard from the very beginning,
but my goal here is to make America Greek again.
And I can truly say, meeting you finally that you
are a good Greek, And if not to anyone else,
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I'm sure to your daughters you are a superhero.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Thank you for being on the show. Thank you, thank
you for joining me today on Frankly speaking. Each week
before we close, I plan to share a select Greek word,
like mister constantine gas portocalos from the Big Fat Greek
Wedding movie. Give me any word and I'll show you
its Greek root. Last week I introduced the word macrothemia,
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which is a key term in the New Testament, often
translated as patients or long suffering. Today, I want to
briefly discuss another ancient Greek word used to convey the
concept of courage. While the English word courage itself is
derived from the Latin word core, meaning heart, there are
several English words related to bravery and strength that do
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have Greek roots. The word thought us, for example, is
used in both Greek and English to mean courage, boldness,
and bravery. It can also convene meanings like confidence and
in some contexts harder or audacity. The word is often
associated with a positive state of mind, encompassing enthusiasm and optimism.
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At its heart, thoughtos signifies the quality of being courageous
and bold in the face of fear or difficulty. It
implies a confident and optimistic spirit, suggesting a willingness to
face challenges with enthusiasm. As I mentioned in today's monologue,
Aristotle did not equate courage with being fearless. He actually
used the word thatos to express courage as a virtue
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that involves both fear and the ability to act despite it.
Or Aristotle thoughtos best characterizes a courageous person's attitude in
the face of danger or fearful situations. It is the mean,
the balance between the excess of fear, which would be cowardice,
and its deficiency, which Aristotle considers as either rashness or
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excessive fearlessness. In essence, thoughtos may be used to describe
the life of Odysseus Andruzus, who represents the courageous hero
who balanced confidence and boldness with a recognition of realistic fears,
all motivated by the pursuit of the noble. This confidence
allowed Andrutus to persevere and to act virtuously even in
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the face of adversity, ultimately contributing to the protection of
the acropolis and the liberation of his beloved nation. I
would suggest then, that in the face of the dangers
facing our own nation and world today, thought us, understood
as Aristotle's virtue of courage, may be just what we need.
Thank you for joining me today on Frankly Speaking, a
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show that seeks to provide frank talk in lively interviews
about the influence of the ancient Hellenic ideals, values, and
faith on our contemporary culture to help make America Greek again.
If you would like to share a question or suggest
a future guest or topic, I would love to hear
from you at frank Talk Radio.
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Speaker 2 (29:36):
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Welcome to frankly Speaking, your weekly destination for insight and inspiration,
with your host, Frank Morangos. Frankly Speaking is sponsored by
Heppa four two one Chapter of North Miami in partnership
with the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church of North Miami.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well, welcome back to Frankly Speaking. Because I've often set
apart from introducing the greater public to the rich history,
the culture and faith heritage of the ancient Greek ideals,
and to discuss how the history may provide some insights
for us today. The show also includes an interview with
a noted Greek philanthropist, a successful entrepreneur, and local personalities today.
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I'm thrilled to have with us Spiro Jadakis. You know
him as the superhero Mover, the Good Greek of Florida,
the owner of the Good Greek Moving and storage company.
I can't tell you how excited I am that you're here.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I see you on television all the time as everybody
else does, and here you are in real life.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah. Yeah, We certainly promote our company and our achievements,
along with our philanthropic efforts as well.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah. Tell us a little bit about your background, because
I think it's a very interesting one.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Sure, sure, Well, I'm a son of Greek immigrants. Both
of my parents emigrated to the United States from Greece,
from the island of Crete. Actually both who my parents are.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Did they meet?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
No, they did not. They although they were two or
three villages apart from each other, and their families certainly
knew of each other's families, they had not met in Greece.
They actually met in Miami because I had family in
the North Miami Beach area, and so they sponsored my
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mom to come here, and my father came by way
of New York, and they met in Miami. They had
their engagement, marriage and all that in a quick fashion,
and then moved to New York where we were. I
was born in Brooklyn, and then we moved to Astoria, Queens,
which where I grew up.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
So you're from New York, then I'm born, Yeah, born.
So I have to ask you, are you a Yankees fan?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know I grew up a Yankees fan?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yes, yes, Okay, sounds like you're going to move to
the right direction.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
In the right direction here, Well, I still like the Yankees,
you know, I mean, you know, it's it's it's a
New York staple. But being in South Florida, now you know,
I'm a big Florida sports guy and do.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Anything of the Red Sox.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You know, I'll let you know when I become their
official mover. I have no opinion until.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Friends that are in New York is and we always
go back and forth about that, you know as well.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
So my loyalty now has to be split between the
Miami Marlins and the Tampa Bay Rays because I am
their service provider and I'm their official mover.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
That says a lot about your company. But before we
get there, so you were born in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, born in Brooklyn, raised in Queens, and I left,
you know, I graduated school early and so at sixteen
I went off to college. I went to Buffalo, Buffalo State.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But you're just getting colder and colder.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Oh my god, it was cold and I played football
there for a couple of years. It was cold and
a lot of snow.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
A position.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I was a quarterback, I believe it or not. I
was a high school quarterback star and went to college
and then I wasn't so much of a star because
everybody that plays before college is a star from somewhere.
But I played two years. I had a great time,
helped me grow up a little bit, you know, and
I knew I wanted to be a police officer, and
so that was my goal. And after a couple of
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years of college, I said, you know, let me go
pursue my career.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Why why it was that something in the back of
your mind that you wanted to do and pursue.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
You know, to say it was a childhood dream, it
kind of makes it seem like, you know, it's child's play,
but it obviously police work is not child's play. But
it was a childhood dream. And I could almost tell
you the day that I knew that I wanted, you know.
And obviously some of it might have been the cool
police shows of the seventies and eighties, but no, there
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was an actual day in time, and I'll never forget it.
Where on the rare occasion that my father wasn't working
and was able to take us to Manhattan and go
to Central Park Zoo, very rare that he had the
time to take all four of us, my brother, my mom,
and we were taking the subway, and you know, like
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in other cities like Boston. The subway has an elevated
section two, the elevated train, right, so we were on
that platform and clearly this mentally disturbed individual was walking
towards us and he had a big knife. Oh mind,
this is in the seventies, very dangerous time in New
York through the seventies, and here he was wielding this
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knife and just talking to himself and just stabbing the air.
And I remember my father seeing this man and he
kind of shielded us from him and allowed him to
just walk by. And he didn't do anything to us,
but very scary guy. And shortly thereafter there were these
two policemen and my father approaches them and says, hey,
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you know, there's a guy. He went that way and
he has a knife. And I was just in awe
because I'm looking at these two men in uniform and
my father's telling them this's a scary guy going the
other way with a knife, and they were going after him,
not the other way. They were going after this man,
and I was just I was just in awe. Their badge,
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their nightstick, you know, their guns, and I just thought, wow,
where do they get this kind of bravery? You know,
we were scared yes, and I said, I want to
be like that.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And did you mention that? Did you articulate that to
your no.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Way, No, I mean maybe maybe not not that day,
I don't remember, and I must have been seven or eight. Yeah,
But years later I would tell my parents I want
to be a policeman. I want to be police. But
you know, a lot of boys say they want to
be a policeman or a fireman or.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
At least our generation spureau, you know. And I want
to hear your opinion about that. You know, I was
growing up, especially in My parents were Greek immigrants as well,
and we were taught to respect authority. Yes, we would
respect policemen, you know. If they told us to do something,
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we would do it, yeah, you know. And if we didn't,
you know, we would not only get in trouble with them,
would get in trouble with our parents for not doing it.
If a policeman came to our home. Oh my god,
I can imagine, right. I'm sure you had similar experiences.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, I think I recall one time maybe the police
came that It was we lived in an apartment building
and my father owned the building and he was the landlord,
and there was some sort of disturbance and it was
a big deal if the police showed up for something.
Oh yeah, the utmost respect.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
What's happened?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Show is it's.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
It's probably several shows what's happened? You know. Yeah, in
a nutshell, what happened was we we almost this country
almost lost its sense of patriotism, of what it is
to be an American. And quite frankly, the later generations
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had it so good and so comfortable that you almost
forget how we got here in the first place, and
all the sacrifices that everybody did before us, you know,
and some people continue to do it, but not everybody.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Kind of the Greek American community, because that's the community
I can speak more too. I mean, they were immigrants,
they came to this country, sure, and a policeman Astronomos,
you know, was a respected person, that's right. My father
actually was a policeman in Greece before he came to
this country, you know. So I've heard stories from him
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as well, you know. And if he, if he was
still living, he would not like to see what has happened.
And I think there's a tide changing, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Thank God there is. I am very vocal about my
support for police and all first responders and military, and
we do it through through our contributions, and of course
are are you know, support And it's on my trucks,
you know, all of my trucks are are marked with
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the police flag and also the Greek Orthodox the Byzantine
flag is on all my trucks and of course the
United States of America flag, you know. And that's that's
part of our ethos. It's it's we are you know, faith, honor, strength,
and courage. That's our ethos.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Tell me a little bit about your faith as a
Greek Orthodox as you know that I'm a Greek Orthodox clergyman. Yes,
and I think you've learned that I helped I assist
a little small parish on Sundays down in North Miami,
in North Miami, and they're actually a supporter of this program.
Oh wonderful. And hepa a hepa and they made this
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program available.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
That's great. So ultimately I did get hired as a policeman.
I moved to Florida, I moved to Miami. I convinced
my parents to that at eighteen years old, I'm okay
to move to Miami and pursue of a career in
law enforcement. And I was fortunate enough to get hired
by the North Miami Police Department at the age of nineteen.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
If you can believe that now, and you were you
the youngest or there.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I was the youngest policeman. Yeah, I actually I graduated.
By the time I graduated, kind of, I was twenty
years old. So I had a badge, gun and everything else.
And I couldn't buy my own bullets, but I couldn't
buy a drink, but you know, I could enforce the law.
I was thinking back, I'm really flattered that they saw
something in me, because I don't know that I would
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have hired me. I was a level headed guy, you know,
but nineteen not too much life experience. But but you
came from Brooklyn, I came. We grew up in New
York in the seventies. Yeah, and that that comes to
the wather, that's right, That's right. And so I was
in the North Miami area and I would go to
the North Miami Church, the Nunciation. I have family that
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still goes there today. And in fact, I would work
the midnight shift with the majority of my patrol days
and so Sunday mornings about seven seven thirty when the
church is opening, and there was no one there. Every
Sunday I'd go in, I'd light a candle, I'd say
my prayer. I'd see some of the older ladies that
would come early. So the North Miami Church, the Annunciation
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is very dear my heart and still is a big
part of my families.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I understand you just saw someone the other day.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
My aunt. Yeah, my aunt Mary Casternakis. Yeah. I was
with her yesterday.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And she's a good things about me. Of course, your father, Frank, yeah, yeah,
but but she spanked you for said, hey, well, spirit,
you're not in church.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
You know. It's a bit of a drive from Jupiter.
But I'm going to make it there again. I go
there once in a while, usually a memorial service. I'll
make it down there.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Definitely want you to come to see you. And you
get married. Where did you meet your wife?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I met my wife here in Florida and Jupiter, and
we were had two wonderful daughters together, and uh, yeah,
they're going to graduate. They got one more year of
high school. Twin twin girls, Christi, Ristina and Stella.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Two good Greek names, two.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Names, my mom's name and her.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So you are a real parent two daughters, so good sympathy.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
My god, I thought moving, I thought the police was difficult,
and moving furniture. But being a father of girls and
twin girls in this day and age, by the way, yes,
very challenging. Very challenging, you know, because we want to
give them freedom. We want them to become their own
people and women and good Christians and contributing members of society.
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But there's a lot of external forces at work, and
that's the challenging part. It's you know, kids are going
to rebel just naturally, but when they feel like they're
being fueled because the rebellion is just it makes it
hard for a parent.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Sure, we only had one, so we were not real parents.
You have two, so you're the real So how did
you make the transition and why did you make the
transition from a policeman to being an entrepreneur then finally
to the moving sure company.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, so, I you know, I realized my childhood dream
and of course, uh, being a policeman wasn't enough. I
had aspirations of being on the SWAT team and I
made that. It was one of fourteen individuals there that
was on the SWAT team. That was an experience all
into itself as well, separate from regular police work. That's
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just a different level at that point when you're a
special operator.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But you know, after a while, wait for just you know,
I forgot about the SWAT your spoding experience. Is there
an an event that you that you can recall as
a member of the SWAT team that you could share
something that took place that's vulnerable, well, something you want
to share it to the with the audience.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
So generally speaking, when you're a member of the SWAT team,
the type of calls that you're going to respond to
are the most extreme. In other words, uniform patrol can
no longer manage or handle or get their arms round
a certain situation, and so they call the SWAT team.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
And so.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I can tell you from hostage situations to barricaded subjects
that are armed. You know, horrible things, We saw horrible things.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You know, how many years were you.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
The majority of my time there, so the better part
of five years I was on SWAT. My last five
years in the police department, we did a lot of
warrants of you can imagine murder suspects, you know, drugs,
you know, very violent, very violent. But all I can
tell you is it's a dangerous world, and evil is
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real and it really lurks, and we have to maintain
our faith. And I was in several life threatening situations
as you can imagine, shootings and otherwise, and my faith,
my life has been saved so many times in police
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work and even outside of police work. Besides, you know,
like I said, even with the business, we're big, and
we're bold, and we're part of the community, you know,
and we're proud of what we do. And you know,
when you put yourself out there, you know, you engage
with the world and everything that's in it.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Do you think that there's a relationship between because we've
seen it, Gallop Pole and others, faith is decreasing and
you find an increase in violence, an increase in a
loss of respect for policemen, you know, is there a correlation?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Do you think absolutely there's a correlation. It really probably
started ten fifteen, maybe twenty years ago, very slowly, but
the last four years, eight years, what not ten years,
it was really amplified where you know, we didn't want
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to talk about God anymore, talk about Guiden schools, some schools. Anyways,
the family unit was no longer important. It's okay, you
need to get married, don't you know, you can get divorced.
And once the fabric of society starts to wear, well,
then well it's okay if they steal. Well it's okay
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if they do this. And you know, you can't just
pick and choose what laws you're going to enforce. And
so we really saw the decay. I mean, look at
look at cities like Los Angeles and and others where.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Even our you know, beloved New York so in New York.
I lived in Manhattan for many, many years as well,
so you.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Know, this new mob rules mentality, uh just took over.
And of course now we know through all the expose
as that it's fueled by political money. A lot of
these protesters aren't even they have no idea what they're protesting. Honestly,
they're just getting paid to be there. Others are a
little more extreme, and you know, and archists almost to
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a degree. So of course it has something to do
with the decay of our society. And optimistically, and it
seems like faith is back on the rise. Yes, you know,
I think many Americans felt so hopeless at the hands
of their leaders, really that where else do you turn?
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And you know what, we prevailed again, thank God.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, thank God. Ultimately, did you become jaded in the
police force? Is that one of the reasons why perhaps
you moved on?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Well, the reason I moved on was I had plans
of leaving the north line of the police department. I
had applications in with the FBI, the DA and the
ATF and I had gone back to school, by the way,
to finish my degree. I went back to school at FIU,
and so you know, I started seeing the way a
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police department could be political, politicized. Back then, there was
no DEI, but there was what was called affirmative action.
And I was a young man from New York. I
just want to do good and put bad people away
and help people who can't defend themselves. But you know,
if you're an ambitious young man and you want to
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pursue excellence and be the best as I was raised
by my parents to be and really are faithful. Yes,
that's it's a Greek idea, it's a Christian idea. And
so when I felt I was passed over after being
promised certain detective positions because there was no room for
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a Greek guy in those positions. He had to be
a different race. And I just I couldn't understand it, honestly,
and I thought, well, maybe I need to go to
a bigger agency. You know, this is just Miami. It's
just a police department. And so I thought I was
going to go to the federal agencies. But having friends
in the FBI and the ATF, they said, hey, look
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it's the same here. Anyway, as luck would have it
or God put in my path, I met a couple
of a couple of individuals that had a small moving
and storage company and they were looking to expand it. So,
you know, I gave it a lot of thought. And
you know, one night, here's a story for you. One night,
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this is what helped me make my decision. We respond
to a disturbance at a bar, a club, nightclub. There
was an individual in there armed with a gun and
he was threatening the other patrons. And so sure enough
we get there and my partner we wrote separately that
the person who got the initial call got there ahead
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of me. I got there after, but by the time
I got there, they were already engaged and you could
see that it was escalating, and sure enough, by the
time I got close enough, the spell pulls out a
gun and right across my face it came. You know,
it was that close to me, and you know, you
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become a different person in that moment. You just react.
And I was able to disarm this individual without him
getting a shot off. We didn't have to, you know,
use any deadly force either. But you know, when you
have a harrowing situation like that, afterwards, you just say
to yourself.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Wow, what could have been?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Could have been? Oh, certainly and has been. And look
in seven years, I attended eight police funerals, two of
which I worked with, one of which I worked the
day of with the murder, and I was in the
honor guard. So I went to all the police funerals.
And so at that point I was already proposed for
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this business, and I said, you know what, I'm going
to try my hand at business. And I did. I
was twenty six years old, no kids, no wife, and
of course I left on great terms. I could have
gone back, you know, they but I took a shot
and I moved to Raleigh, North Carolina. Talk about a
culture change, New York, Miami to North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
And that's you where you began your entrepreneurial.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah, that's what I began. I was there for a
couple to about three or four years, and then I
was with these spellers for a little bit and that
ran its course, and then I went off on my own.
And you know, I had developed my my TV persona
by that point as the Good Greek and I said,
you know, that should be the brand of my company,
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and so it was the Good Greek Moving in Storage,
your Superhero movers.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, that's fantastic. I love it. I have to ask you,
so you didn't come in with your cape though I
didn't not today, what is your kryptonite?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
My kryptonite? Oh well, do I want to put that
on the air.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
We can always cut it out.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
My kryptonite My daughters, that's my kryptinite. Whatever they you know,
they they they power over me.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I can understand that parents always children come first.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yes, yes, and girls girls, and you know they just
they know how to work their father because they know
I love them.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Is if there is one lesson that you can share
as we conclude the conversation from your Greek heritage that
has affected your life, what would it be.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Well, like many Greeks, and especially you know from Crete,
you know, our faith is very strong and your word
is your bond, so faith and honor. I believe my
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up my upbringing, my parents with the instilled in me.
Was this this sense of resilience as long as you
keep your faith. And like I said to you before,
it's inexplainable how I got out of certain situations if
it wasn't for God's God's intervention, and so my fail
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and not just in police work, but in business. You know,
there's we like to talk about the great things about business,
but there's a dark side too. There's the bad years.
There's the years where you lose money. There's the years
where you you know, so on and so forth, and
you know, and I hit one of those patches in
two thousand and fourteen, and I had to reinvent myself
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and recreate myself really the business, myself personally, and again,
if it wasn't for my faith in God, which is
in faith in myself, it's to me, it's one and
the same faith in myself is faith in God. I persevered,
and of course I had to show my daughters too.
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You know they were young, but you know they they
were not going to see their father fall down and
not get up, and so well.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You've left them a great example. You know, when I
speak to people who work for you or who have
worked for you, they say that you're one of the
best leaders and bosses that they've ever had. You train people,
you care about people. It's not a vertical relationship. It's
more of a horizontal relationship you have with them. I
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understand you train.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
We do. Yeah, we have an in house we call
it the Superhero Movers Academy, and it's actually it's a
mock house with bedrooms and living rooms and dishes and
so forth, and they actually practice, you know, packing and
loading the truck and driving and all that, and so
when they get to the customers home, they are actually trained,
whereas I hate to say, many other companies, not just movers,
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but in my industry, the training happens on the truck
kind of on the job training. And that's not fair
to the client.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Or to the employee. I mean, they're destined to fail.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
And the other employe is because furniture is heavy, and
you want someone on the other end of a triple
dresser that knows what they're doing and doesn't hurt themselves
and hurt you. So I realized that years ago, and
I said, you know, it's our responsibility to background check
these people, drug test these people, train them, and so
we know who we're sending it to your home. And
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as far as my employees, I'm glad that they respect
the leadership creating leaders in my employees because I cannot
do it alone and I cannot be one leader. So
hopefully I'm creating leaders and mentors that can help us
keep going and continue to expand. As long as we're
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doing good for our clients, our employees, and the community
at large, we're going to keep going. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Well, Spirrau, I thank you very much for being gracious
accepting the invitation to be a guest on the show.
I don't know if you heard from the very beginning,
but my goal here is to make America Greek again.
And I can truly say, meeting you finally that you
are a good Greek, And if not to anyone else,
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I'm sure to your daughters you are a superhero.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Thank you for being on the show. Thank you, thank
you for joining me today on Frankly speaking. Each week
before we close, I plan to share a select Greek word,
like mister constantine gas portocalos from the Big Fat Greek
Wedding movie. Give me any word and I'll show you
its Greek root. Last week I introduced the word macrothemia,
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which is a key term in the New Testament, often
translated as patients or long suffering. Today, I want to
briefly discuss another ancient Greek word used to convey the
concept of courage. While the English word courage itself is
derived from the Latin word core, meaning heart, there are
several English words related to bravery and strength that do
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have Greek roots. The word thought us, for example, is
used in both Greek and English to mean courage, boldness,
and bravery. It can also convene meanings like confidence and
in some contexts harder or audacity. The word is often
associated with a positive state of mind, encompassing enthusiasm and optimism.
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At its heart, thoughtos signifies the quality of being courageous
and bold in the face of fear or difficulty. It
implies a confident and optimistic spirit, suggesting a willingness to
face challenges with enthusiasm. As I mentioned in today's monologue,
Aristotle did not equate courage with being fearless. He actually
used the word thatos to express courage as a virtue
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that involves both fear and the ability to act despite it.
Or Aristotle thoughtos best characterizes a courageous person's attitude in
the face of danger or fearful situations. It is the mean,
the balance between the excess of fear, which would be cowardice,
and its deficiency, which Aristotle considers as either rashness or
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excessive fearlessness. In essence, thoughtos may be used to describe
the life of Odysseus Andruzus, who represents the courageous hero
who balanced confidence and boldness with a recognition of realistic fears,
all motivated by the pursuit of the noble. This confidence
allowed Andrutus to persevere and to act virtuously even in
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the face of adversity, ultimately contributing to the protection of
the acropolis and the liberation of his beloved nation. I
would suggest then, that in the face of the dangers
facing our own nation and world today, thought us, understood
as Aristotle's virtue of courage, may be just what we need.
Thank you for joining me today on Frankly Speaking, a
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show that seeks to provide frank talk in lively interviews
about the influence of the ancient Hellenic ideals, values, and
faith on our contemporary culture to help make America Greek again.
If you would like to share a question or suggest
a future guest or topic, I would love to hear
from you at frank Talk Radio.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
We thank the AHEPA four twenty one North Miami chapter
for their sponsorship of Frankly Speaking. You know they promote
the ancient Hellenic ideas of education, philanthropy, civic responsibility, family,
and individual excellence through community service and volunteerism. They offer
scholarships annually to support students seeking higher education. A HEPPA
supports other organizations, including the Saint Basel Academy in New York,
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IOCC hurricane relief efforts, and the local Annunciation GOOC.
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If you're interested in donating to help support these efforts,
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