{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Murphy's Law","title":"He Didn't Want The Title. He Wanted The Impact.","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3368,"description":"In this episode of Murphy's Law, host Murphy Robinson sits down with one of his oldest and most trusted friends — Charles Guilford III, CEO of Inner City Health, megachurch pastor, former student body president of one of the most powerful student governments in America, and the man Murphy Robinson called when God told him who he needed by his side running the city of Denver during one of the most chaotic periods in its history.\nThis episode is different from anything Murphy has done before. This is not a conversation between a host and a guest. This is thirty years of brotherhood unpacked in real time — two men who have done life together since they were toddlers, led through chaos together, cried on the phone together during COVID, and watched each other become the men they always believed they would be.\nCharles Guilford's story is one of the most extraordinary on Murphy's Law to date. He grew up in a divorced household with strained resources, worked four jobs in college while sending money home, couch surfed throughout most of his time at CU Boulder without knowing it qualified as homelessness, packed up his family's foreclosed home alone in the middle of the night while his parents slept, watched his best friend's mother die of cancer that was missed by a doctor, and became the legal guardian of his younger brother at 24 after his mother attempted suicide under the weight of a $10,000 to $20,000 monthly medical bill she couldn't pay.\nAnd his brother graduated with a 4.8 GPA and went to CU Boulder for engineering.\nThen COVID hit. And Murphy called. And Charles said yes. He quarantined away from his two-year-old daughter for months, slept on concrete, served breakfast every morning to 700 unhoused men, talked a scared young father through staying for the birth of his child, and watched someone overdose and die on the floor of the shelter he was running.\nHe did it because he hadn't forgotten what it felt like to be hungry. And because a dying woman once told him...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/i5VidaAPwui-mkO5QFXggyZtb0zIlg4YR2_FNHsGhxQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82ZWZm/YzczODJhMjE0Mjhl/ZWUzYTE0YTI3MGUz/OGVjZS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}