Elijah Stacy
Author of A Small If, Public Speaker, and Founder of Destroy Duchenne
Greetings TNQ FAMILY! I wanted to reach out and share my never-quit story. I sincerely hope that it encourages listeners as much as your podcast and those who’ve been on it have encouraged me. The year was 2014 and I was 34 years old. I wasn’t in the best physical shape, but I wasn’t in
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June 28th 2005 was a life-changing day for me. The day started out the same as any other for me on the farm. Feeding cows and moving sprinkler pipe. When me and a coworker had finished and were starting to head home we got into a rather serious motorcycle/ 4 wheeler wreck. I hit his
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My story involves a lot of lows, and a lot of highs. Life wasn’t easy growing up, with divorced parents. My father was tore up from rodeo, and my stepfather was gone months at a time in the middle east while working with blackwater, and other private security companies. Those are also two of the
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Sometimes we freeze up when adversity crashes in on us. In the fall 2009, I (my son and I ) went through a divorce. Beginning of 2013, I lost the job that allowed me to have an apartment and enjoy the time I had when my son was with me. I froze. During that narrow
Greetings Morgan and Marcus, My name is Vernon Watkins. I am a Marine veteran (’91-’03). But this is not about me. This story is about my wife, Angela. She has been diagnosed with degenerative disc and facet disease. She has suffered with chronic pain many years. On January 12th 2010, she had her first cervical
In the beginning, it was 1987. Me, I was born. I had my first breath of the world’s oxygen outside the womb. But was I really breathing? Not sure, maybe not. Maybe I was. Maybe I am. I have always known I wanted to make a difference, to do something greater than myself and to
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