"Harder to kill"
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Identity After Trauma, Brain Cancer, and the Science of Resilience.
What happens when a brain tumor fractures the identity you’ve built your life around?
In this episode of Something Shifted, Sean Loots explores identity after trauma through the story of Conn, a high-performing creative director whose life split into before and after at age 36.
What began as subtle slurred speech and six-second headaches became emergency brain surgery and a rare diagnosis: medulloblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer usually found in children under five.
Within hours, Conn was signing a form warning he might wake up blind, deaf, or not wake up at all.
This is the moment identity fractures.
Listen to the Something Shifted: The Soundtrack on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2PGntgE4y6RG6wxTxUqgJI?si=CA9uGd2wRRaKQOpJ8-VrmQ
What happens when a brain tumor fractures the identity you’ve built your life around?
In this episode of Something Shifted, Sean Loots explores identity after trauma through the story of Conn, a high-performing creative director whose life split into before and after at age 36.
What began as subtle slurred speech and six-second headaches became emergency brain surgery and a rare diagnosis: medulloblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer usually found in children under five.
Within hours, Conn was signing a form warning he might wake up blind, deaf, or not wake up at all.
This is the moment identity fractures.
Listen to the Something Shifted: The Soundtrack on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2PGntgE4y6RG6wxTxUqgJI?si=CA9uGd2wRRaKQOpJ8-VrmQ
Chapters
- 00:00 Identity After Interruption
- 03:47 The Bertish Brothers
- 07:50 The First Signs
- 10:25 Brain Tumor Diagnosis
- 15:35 4.5 Things
- 19:17 Taking the Lead
- 27:04 Harder To Kill
