Ty Schmidt

And one of the ways that they've taught me that is through roller coasters.

I was not a roller coaster person.

And somehow I found myself on roller coasters.

I was ridden 50, 50 roller coasters in two years.

And I've learned a lot.

That's like the whole sidebar of its own.

But the first part of my why is my voice.

And the second part comes into play where, you know, things got rough during COVID again, and I made bad decisions again.

And I landed myself in the transplant ICU for 16 days.

At the age of 35 years old, I was told that I would need a liver transplant and that I probably had cirrhosis.

That was hard.

That was, you talk about a wake-up call.

That was a wake-up call and also very much the second part of my why or my because.

Because I am very grateful and I get kind of emotional talking about it, but I'm very grateful and happy to report that after a lot of hard work, a lot of God's work, a lot of inner work and all of that, I...

now have a healthy, normal liver.

And my doctors call me a miracle.

And they call me that, you know, I see that as a calling.

I see that as like a purpose.

I see that as a how God has given me the second chance.

And I am here to do something with it.