Leisa (Leisa) Peterson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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It has a lot to do with my journey, my story, my experiences, but...
I wasn't sure if I was going to share this, but I want to say this because I think it is very applicable to the times we live in, which is 13 years ago, I was at a shooting, right?
These are horrible events that happen to hopefully as few people as possible, but I was at my doctor's office.
A man walked in with a gun, and after he shot some people, he killed my doctor, and I survived.
And up until that moment, I had already had a lot of trials and difficulties and trauma in my life, but nothing like what happened in these moments where I thought I might die.
And it was like in that moment, I clearly saw my life for the first time, which is embarrassing to say, because I don't think that we should have to almost die to see life.
But that is what happened for me in that moment.
And the reason I say it is I had spent a quarter century of my life building a career with money and financial services.
I was the primary breadwinner.
I had the experience, the status, the security, like all of it.
And
I was missing my own life.
I had children.
I was married to my college sweetheart.
I remember before that happened, maybe a few years before, my husband...
told me we were at Lake Tahoe, and that's where I am right now, but he wanted to grab my, at that time it was like a blackberry, he wanted to grab my blackberry and skip it across the lake because I was never present.
I was always inside of the deal.
I was always inside of my work.
And he was right.
And that gunman made visible what had already been happening invisibly for years.
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