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STOP 2 THINK · July 24 · 26 min

When Life Changes Everything - Episode 20

When Life Changes Everything This is a solo episode, no Ray this time, just me talking directly to you, recorded while I was genuinely waiting, phone in hand, for a very special delivery to arrive. It is one of the most emotionally raw conversations in the whole series. I talk honestly about the sheer amount of travel I had taken on recently, and address, directly, the suggestion from someone that it might be avoidance. I also tell the full story of Hannah becoming a quilter after her diagnosis, and the quilt she started but never got to finish herself. In this episode: Addressing head on the suggestion that all my recent travel might be a way of avoiding my grief Meaning as something you give your own life, not something you simply find waiting for you How Hannah reinvented herself as the bespoke quilter after her diagnosis The Michael Jordan shirt quilt she started, and the friends who finished it after she died A stranger I met in a hotel who had also lost his wife, and the instant kinship we shared Pull quote: "I think we're love." Come and join me and Ray for Episode 21, where we go even deeper into Viktor Frankl and what it really means to be bigger than where you are. Follow us here. Follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/petecohen_/ Subscribe to The STOP 2 THINK Newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/stop-2-think-newsletter-7474223126868918272/ Follow Ray on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drraysylvester/ Watch Hannah's Story: https://petecohen.com/hannah Visit Pete's website: https://petecohen.com/

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When Life Changes Everything

This is a solo episode, no Ray this time, just me talking directly to you, recorded while I was genuinely waiting, phone in hand, for a very special delivery to arrive. It is one of the most emotionally raw conversations in the whole series.

I talk honestly about the sheer amount of travel I had taken on recently, and address, directly, the suggestion from someone that it might be avoidance. I also tell the full story of Hannah becoming a quilter after her diagnosis, and the quilt she started but never got to finish herself.

In this episode:

  • Addressing head on the suggestion that all my recent travel might be a way of avoiding my grief
  • Meaning as something you give your own life, not something you simply find waiting for you
  • How Hannah reinvented herself as the bespoke quilter after her diagnosis
  • The Michael Jordan shirt quilt she started, and the friends who finished it after she died
  • A stranger I met in a hotel who had also lost his wife, and the instant kinship we shared


Pull quote: "I think we're love."

Come and join me and Ray for Episode 21, where we go even deeper into Viktor Frankl and what it really means to be bigger than where you are.

Follow us here.

Follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/petecohen_/

Subscribe to The STOP 2 THINK Newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/stop-2-think-newsletter-7474223126868918272/

Follow Ray on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drraysylvester/

Watch Hannah's Story: https://petecohen.com/hannah

Visit Pete's website: https://petecohen.com/


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