Host: Dr. Matthew Leavenworth (Pay Love Forward Podcast) Guests: Dr. Don Harr, Pam Harr, Senator Mike Yakawich

At 101 years old, Dr. Don Harr carries history in his voice. In this episode I sit down with a living legend of Billings — a WWII veteran, the city’s second psychiatrist, a founding memberof the Suicide Prevention Coalition, a leader at the Mental Health Center, and a quiet healer who still offers free counseling and grief groups from his home. We’re joined by his daughter Pam and by Senator Mike Yakawich, who has beenmentored by Dr. Harr for more than a decade.

This conversation moves between wide-open stories and hushed moments. Dr. Harr tells of growing up in Kansas,of the war (including a near miss from a sniper’s bullet), and of a lifetime spent mentoring and shepherding others. We revisit a moment that became deeply personal for me — the day he fell before a cross-community reconciliation panel and, refusing to stay home, rose to speak about faith and healing. We talktheology and philosophy, the steady, practical faith that guided his work, and the veteran’s aphorism he lives by: pain is weakness leaving the body.

If you lean in, you’ll find enormous wisdom: practical,pastoral, and full of grace. It was an honor to record this — a rare sit-down with one of my personal heroes. I hope Dr. Harr’s story inspires you the way it inspires me.