Chris Cochran
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63 appearances
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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I'm still trying to lead that purposely driven life. But I think once we live with acceptance, we strive for optimism, remain humble, even in the face to despair, we are lunging forward. We are actually moving to better ground. I think when you check on others, you nurture others, other human connections, stay living mindfully all the time. And I think a big thing is strive for empathy.
Honor your connections, show love, open your heart. Christian always used to say to me, Most of all, don't take life too seriously. And so there's plenty of things. I think the other thing, negative thoughts come into our brain all the time. I'm sure they do for you too. And I still have those things. I have flashbacks to these particular moments.
whether it was at the end of Christian's life, all kinds of different things in between, which he was surrounded by his loved ones in his house together. I karate chop those things. I karate chop everything that comes into my head that puts me in a place that's negativity. That's the point of finding purpose too, right? We're all seeking to find purpose in this life, right?
Some of us haven't found it yet. We're We're on that constant merry-go-will of just trying to make things happen. But I think pausing is important because pausing really allows me to meet life with grace and see beyond pain and find peace. gratitude in the present. That space, you can genuinely find really great things. I can get down, but I get back up really fast.
So I think it's a matter of pushing yourself through these things and understanding, of course, to be grateful, of course, but pausing to understand in your daily life.
Legacy means love. It means the love you want to continue to put out into the world. So I hope that I can continue to do what I'm doing so that I could leave a legacy. I think leading by example is part of a legacy fulfilled because I've switched gears, right? I'm a corporate CEO. I sit on the board for a public company. I'm busy on that side, but does it really bring me passion? Mm-mm.
What brings me the most passion is to build legacies where it's filled with love and the gratitude, right? And so I think creating random acts of kindness, whether it's to strangers, loved ones, that's, I think, what legacy is all about.
Absolutely. I mean, I think that's the greatest form of giving, right? The greatest form of giving is to give without asking for anything in return. A lot of times, you know, when I first got started in the Legacy Fund and Christian Cochran Legacy Fund and all this stuff, I was just wanting to bring awareness. Now, this awareness has done amazing things, right? I have people down in Tennessee.
I have people in Florida that... heard the story and said, can you get me? You know, we have wristbands that say what's good about today. We have stickers, things like that. I just get them and I want people to have them. You know, I want them to constantly be reminded of and they go to festivals and they set up stands on their own. I'm not even a part of this.
So there's people who who who are doing things with that message on their own, which is great. I'm all for it. So to me, that's all part of the legacy. It's about and it's to build a legacy. You got to connect the dots.
You got to connect the dots to other human beings, because without connecting to humans, you're not going to be able to to generate the opportunities to talk to more people, talk about good things you can do. So I think legacy to me is just that, spreading the message. Love is first and foremost. How do you extend that love to so many and share goodness and how they can share goodness as well.
Sure. So I partner with YASU, which is Young Adult Survivors United. YASU is for short. The fund is through the, like I said, Christian Cochran Legacy Fund through the Pittsburgh Foundation. You can probably Google Christian Cochran and you'll get all kinds of information on my son. And there's christiancochran.org, which talks about, of course, Christian, the Legacy Fund, the foundation.
It talks about Christian and talks about all the goodness that we're doing, events that we're involved in, where we sponsor, where we try to get out and see the community. So to me, we're still in the grass. Christian just passed away three years ago. So it's still very raw in a way. We're still just trying to get our name out there to do the good works.
And certainly if your audience, if there's anyone thinks that this will be a good message, certainly reach out to me and you can do that personally anytime, anytime.
The book was something that I started about a year and a half ago. And when I say started, it's sort of putting my head together. I was just coming out of one year being with Christian's passing. And I'm a writer. I like to write. Not necessarily I'm a great writer per se, but But I write a lot of journaling. I'm a journaler.
So during the course of Christian's sickness, every day I sat and I journaled. And I wrote what I was feeling. Good thoughts, bad thoughts. It was a way for me to escape. Many times these were going on between midnight and 4 o'clock in the morning. I didn't think I slept much during that first year at all.
And it was just this whirlwind of trying, of course, to save Christian's life first and foremost. Because I learned so much in that process of RNAs and DNAs and sequencings. And how to figure out how we can solve this terrible cancer.
It literally went back to about a year and a half ago, taking those journals, compiling them, reviewing them, which was not a fun task for me because it was bringing back everything to life, how I felt during those times. But I knew I had to do it. I knew that it was important to bring purpose. to Christian's passing. And then I decided to tell a story.
And there's people have asked me, they said, what's your book about? What's this all about? Is it your son dying of cancer? No, no. See, this is a book of love. It is a love story. That's what this book is about, is about telling people that, yes, you can be resilient. One universal thing that we all deal with is grief. It's universal. We're all going to experience it.
We're all going to be one day at those moments in our life. But it really is, how do you navigate life so that you can come out on the other side and leading this purposely driven life? So the book has just been a cathartic process. And ultimately, following the guidelines of Christian, I didn't write this book. Christian is always the star. He always was the star.
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