At 31, Michael King was behind the bar, not behind a desk. Life looked different then. The seizures came out of nowhere. No one could explain them. And for a while, he tried to ignore what was happening. But denial has a shelf life.

This episode traces the quiet pivot that followed through diagnosis, surgery, reinvention, and the slow grind of starting over. From bartending to breaking into recruiting, to launching his own firm in his 50s. We talk about the identity shifts no one sees coming, the stories men are taught to bury, and what happens when you stop pretending you’re fine.

It’s not about resilience for the sake of it. It’s about what becomes possible when you let people in.

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