Hilary Chaney

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298 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 19 Jun

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Living Your Legacy · How a Widow Turned Tragedy Into a Real Estate Empire · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

So really, the catalyst for all this, I will tell you, when I was about five years old, I told my dad, I said, Dad...

And I was a normal kid at that point.

I said, I feel things too much.

When I look at people, I see everything in their heart and soul.

I see their pain and their joy and their hurt and everything.

I was like, this is abnormal.

And it's really hyper empathy.

And it turned into a symptom of bipolar when I was diagnosed at 24, which is just feeling too much.

And so in high school, I just turned it off.

I was the ice queen.

I just was misperfection and grades and athletes and all that and was very safe in my lane of like, I don't want to feel too much.

And then after I graduated college at Washington and Lee and had a great career there playing volleyball, I went to Richmond, Virginia, a lot of stress with my new job and wound up.

manic, didn't know, psychotic break, not sleeping or eating for six days, checked into a psychiatric hospital, was diagnosed bipolar.

And I can remember being there and I was terrified and you can die from not sleeping.

And so I was in bad shape.

Thank goodness for the psychiatric care in Virginia.

But I would have this dream and talking about the darkness, I would have this dream there in the hospital that I was in a Star Wars world and

and I was at the bottom of a ladder, and there was all this darkness under me, all of space under me, and I would be like pulling myself up, and I would pull myself up, rung by rung, and I'd get one rung up, and then I'd drop down, and my feet would swing in panic, like above the abyss.

And so I had to learn, relearn, learn for the first time how to continue to put that arm up.

And you fall down and you put the other arm up.

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