Isaac Childs sits down with me to discuss his recent as well as a past survival of cancer and then a heart attack that nearly took his young life. Isaac shares with us a very vulnerable story of battling a cancer time of his life then, when working hard to be top physical shape of his life and staying on top of a very demanding schedule as CEO of Rustico, INC., he suffered a near fatal heart attack that caused him to take life a bit differently in priority to focus on what is most important and,...
Jun 06, 2022•49 min•Season 3Ep. 35
In this episode my wife Karrie and I were traveling overseas to Ireland to hike the "Dingle Trail" along the gorgeous cliff, beaches and farmland of Ireland. We stayed in Bed and Breakfast Inns along the way between hikes navigating between little villages. On our stay in Dingle Ireland, we stayed at the Brosnan B&B. that is where we met John Brosnan a retired fisherman at the age of 75. John told me of his being washed out to sea overboard into the raging sea 6 times and on the last inciden...
Jun 01, 2022•26 min
JB Ellison. One lucky young man who in his teen football hero days of high school, was engulfed by a homecoming bon fire along with friends, and survived. JB was always the epicenter of unintentional mischief and things going bad, and this time, he experienced a "Close Call With Death". Tune into this episode and see how this type of experience can literally change a persons outlook on life. Thank you, JB, for being on the show! We are grateful you are still here to tell about it!!
Apr 27, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 33
David Osmond, amazing talk with him discussing how cool life can be coming from a famous family of musical artistry and decades of fame being the son of Alan Osmond of the Osmond brothers who performed all over the world and, nephew to Donny and Marie Osmond. David has been a performer at an early age and professionally very busy with music industry and corporate work. Fighting the result of being diagnosed with MS has been the burden and challenge of his life and we talk about how David deals w...
Apr 05, 2022•52 min•Season 3Ep. 31
Noelle Pikus Pace, US Silver Medalist Olympic Champion in the Sochi Russia 2014 Winter Olympics. Noelle experienced a tragic accident when a bobsled left the track and hit Noelle on the right leg resulting in a compound fracture that took her out of the sport for a period of time and nearly ended her carrier. Noelle has come so far developing her skills as an athlete in track and field leading her to have the skills to compete on the world tracks. She went to the 2010 Olympics representing the U...
Mar 25, 2022•53 min•Season 3Ep. 32
Terry Grant is our guest in this episode of A Close Call With Death. Terry is a well known dynamic professional in the Salt Lake City Community and currently President of Alta Bank and former President of Key Bank where I first met Terry. Terry and his wife Janet were traveling along a southern route in Utah on a vacation outing when their rear tire blew and caused them to launch into the median of the highway and caused a tragic result of Janet suffering a brain injury leaving her in an unrespo...
Mar 15, 2022•54 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Landon Pitcher was this cool guy with a huge smile and smart looks that was introduced to me by another friend at an open house for ISO Talent here in Utah. Austin Miller, Owner and President of ISO Talent said, "Meet Landon, he's a high energy business development executive for us and you will like this guy". It only took a moment of business talk to dig a little deeper into life and what makes life interesting. When Landon found out about my podcast and the subject of being close to dying and ...
Mar 06, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Christian Deputy is our guest experiencing what every outdoor enthusiast fears most and that is, a severe accident that can cause life long physical and emotional trauma on you and how do you live out the rest of your life from that event or in this case, A Close Call With Death. Christian went out one day in the Wasatch Crest mountains of Utah and had a tragic wreck on his mountain bike hitting a tree with his head. That trauma fractured Christian's C-Spine (C-2), pinching his spinal chord and ...
Feb 21, 2022•52 min
Dave Saljestad comes to me as a friend of a friend who over lunch tells me of a story where he faced certain death when washed overboard a fishing boat in the treacherous waters of the Bearing Strait off the coast of Alaska in 15 degree water that instantly froze the decks as they fished throughout the night. Scarey! yes! Dave is alive to tell about this adventure trying to make serious money to make a living. Ironic how working so hard to make a living is the cause of so many deaths. Dave's occ...
Jan 24, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 27
Bret Hutchings is our guest representing the men and women who risk their lives going out in adverse conditions often to respond to the efforts to save the lives of people in accidents, lost, injured, and need urgent care with a helicopter rescue mission. Bret has been a pilot for The University of Utah Airmed, Intermountain Healthcare LifeFlight, and Utah Highway Patrol Helicopter Service. Bret has spent many many hours in his helicopter flying over rugged terrain and adverse weather making eve...
Jan 17, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 26
This session is the first of Season #3, A Close Call With Death, providing some personal commentary and a personal close call as this new season gets kicked off. I wanted to first thank all of our listeners from Season 1 and 2 and growing with us through a recovery year of 2021 where we heard from many people with fascinating stories of challenges, struggles, dissappointments, and close calls that caused them to over time, gain strength and growth that made them just a little bit taller and stro...
Jan 11, 2022•18 min
Sadie Hawkes, age 37 is a strong athlete I have come to know in a daily workout routine at the Orange Theory Gym here in Utah, where her mom, Susan Anderson comes all the way across town to work out at 6:00 am with her daughter. Sadie is strong and competitive and that personality is most likely the grit it took to overcome the powerful adversity of prescription drug abuse and addiction starting at a young age. Overcoming the intense need for drugs and fighting off crippling waves of depression ...
Dec 07, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Fatu Matagi. - What an inspiring story of the brother to Sam Matagi from episode #11. Sam lost both arms in a tragic accident where over 7,000 volts of electricity went through him resulting in both arms having to be amputated. Today, I talk to Fatu Matagi, the brother of Sam, who in a very similar accident lost his right arm having the same 7,000 + volts of electricity ran through his body causing him to have his right arm amputated. Fatu shares his journey with me and tells how his life was be...
Nov 22, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 23
I met Cheyenne Schwein while in Alaska with a group of friends spending a week in the wild catching Silver Coho Salmon and Halibut. I was telling the group about my podcast A Close Call With Death when Cheyenne said, "I have a story of death and I think it would be an interesting story". Cheyenne had her best friend literally die in front of her while playing soccer and celebrating a goal and one moment there and one moment gone. What does a young girl at 12 years of age do at that moment and ho...
Nov 13, 2021•46 min
Welcome Jason Van Camp! We are so privileged to have this leader join "A Close Call With Death", to reflect a little on life lessons as a world traveled, experienced operator in the military special forces for the United States of America. Jason is the Chairman at Mission Six Zero, Executive Director at Warrior Rising, and author of "Deliberate Discomfort". When you are in the military as a special operator, you put your life at risk each and every day for our country. As he says, that person ne...
Oct 23, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 21
In this episode I sat down with Matt Oehler again for a part 2 because in the first recording, Matt shared with me the intense experience he had as a young man in New York actually witnessing 911 as it happened. Then, offering aid as a trained Marine reserve attend to the injured and the dead that day, to going full time into the Marines to serve our country in Iraq surviving one of the areas most deadly attacks on his group to now, years later having served our country again as a law enforcemen...
Sep 24, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Our guest this week is Christine Wzorek. Christine is one of Utah's rising stars. She is a Human Capital professional that cares tremendously for the employers in the region and the people who make them successful. Christine suffered a life-threatening illness early in life with a ruptured appendix leaving her near death in a hospital in Idaho. Later, in her early marriage, while seeking a happy family life, she was subject to domestic violence including ongoing verbal abuse, sexual assault and ...
Aug 21, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Nikki has a fascinating story of surviving a traumatic accident in New York City where she was hit by a car while walking through an intersection at night near China Town. Nikki flew over 30 feet ultimately landing on her head causing extensive damage to her left side of her head and suffering from major damage to bones and vital organs on her left side. Nikki has survived this accident and is still alive to share with us how you get though something like that and still go on and love others and...
Jul 30, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 18
This session I talk with Mike Jones. Mike comes from Southern California and recently Gilbert Arizona where he shares a story of being raised in a violent drug and mental health crisis life being kidnapped and then stashed away in a dark motel room for days on end suffering from malnutrition and psychological terror. In his early teens being welcomed into a Southern California gang he became involved with drug traffic, and gang retaliation. Facing later bouts of depression there were attempts of...
Jul 22, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Matt Oehler is our guest this week with an amazing life of serving our country from a missionary for the LDS Church in New York City, to a Marine in Iraq, witness to the planes flying into our World Trade Center towers, and currently serving our community as a police officer in today's challenging world. Matt shares with us different sides of A Close Call With Death personally as well as seeing it take place from New York to Salt Lake and everywhere in-between. Tune in on this one! Thanks Matt f...
Jul 11, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Audrey Overton walked into the recent networking meeting I was in and told a short story of how she has a uniqueness about her as she bit her tongue off when she was a child AND, had a terrible near death car accident that nearly took her life. I knew my show needed to record her story. This session will unfold how this life threatening event played out and why Audrey is here today to talk about it. Thanks Audrey for being on the show!
Jul 04, 2021•55 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Teri Benson is our guest on the show bringing with her the story of her Aortic Dissection. This heart and major heart valve / artery malfunction left her without a heartbeat for over 25 minutes as a talented surgical team operated on her for 18+ hours and brought her not only back to life, but she was able to continue her active life ever since. Teri has written a book called "How my ordinary became extraordinary," telling her story of going from healthy and active to near death in a moment. Thi...
Jun 19, 2021•58 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Our special guest today is Jeff Smith. Jeff is a great man and a "Serial Entrepreneur" in life. Jeff has grown and exited some great Utah companies and is currently Chairman of the Board of Jet Dental that he and his son Jordan currently President, created a few years ago. The cool thing is that Jeff donates large sums of money to some wonderful causes like Make A Wish, ShelterKids, Huntsman Cancer Institute, and Operation Underground Railroad! Jeff does a lot of good for others and perhaps this...
Jun 12, 2021•43 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Sue Urses joins the show today as a Utah native with a past as a Las Vegas Police Officer. She later moved back to Utah and pursued a career change to a Human Resource Executive serving in a national and international role to some of Utah's largest technology companies with employees that span the globe. Sue traveled all over the world in her role. In the last few years she has fought a tough battle with breast cancer that she won while still working full time and traveling all over the world. W...
May 17, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 12
In this episode, we sit down with Sam Matagi. Sam is a young Samoan man who while working in the cold in Colorado, in a bucket truck for the power company, had 14,700 volts of electricity enter his body leaving him severely injured, ultimately losing both of his hands. Sam's remarkable journey takes us into that day and the countless days beyond of recuperation and challenges that only made Sam stronger and have a mind and heart that defines him, NOT his hands. This Close Call With Death left al...
Apr 24, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 11
This episode we talk with our guest Andrea Duncan who suffered a major heart attack just after the birth of her second child and discovering her heart was in jeopardy and not going to work any longer and she needed a new heart. Andrea received this new heart from a donor and she shares with us her experience and a Close Call With Death.
Apr 09, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Larry joins us today on our podcast and reveals his close call's! with death as he tells of his 4 near death experiences!! Larry lives here in Utah, is a graduate from BYU, with an MBA with an emphasis in international business from the University of Utah. He has lead many companies as CEO and authored books like CEO by Monday, and many many articles for Forbes. Larry is a husband, friend to many and proud Grampa! We are all very lucky to have Larry still in our world as he contributes much to i...
Mar 27, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 9
In this interview, I have a deep conversation with one of Utah's high profile leaders in the law enforcement community as Chief of Police and Under Sheriff, Former NFL Player, Congressional Candidate, Teacher, Coach, and Mentor! Beau's story of his life of many experiences that brought him to experience a Close Call with Death and having seen death up close and personal, leaves the listener with food for thought of what next. How can we be better in this life and to others. How can we be a bette...
Mar 19, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In this episode I am recording another one of my personal journeys but with a special guest star, my son Taylor Howard who now at 37 sits with me to reflect on this story back when he was 21 years old. This takes place on the river in West Water Canyon just out of Moab Utah on the mighty Colorado River on Category 5 white water rapids! This truly was a close call with death! Enjoy and live to tell about it!
Mar 13, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Bailey's journey is a battle at an early age with the use of drugs including pain killers and opioids. Bailey found herself in a course of leaving her midwest home in Ohio to travel west to Southern California where she lived on the streets at 16 - 17 and was sexually assaulted, addicted, alone sleeping in parks, and overdosed three times. Now 23, Bailey tells her story of being saved by her Aunt Melissa who always had Bailey on her mind and in her prayers every day and felt in her heart to save...
Mar 06, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 6
