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The Light Watkins Show

152: Finding Purpose in Love and Loss: The Heartwarming Story of America's Got Talent Contestant & Viral Singer Ray Singleton

The Light Watkins Show

Light Watkins

Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Imagine falling in love unexpectedly and then after only six short years together, you get the news that your wife has 15 months to live. Today’s guest, Ray “Willie Qool” Singleton is no stranger to knowing love and loss. With experience in singing, sales, and social media influencing, Ray quickly became ‘America’s Husband’ when a video of him singing to his wife with cancer went viral. Join us today as we discuss Ray’s upbringing, influences, time at college, years as a salesman, and so...

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0:14.2

October 2019 she went to a routine checkup and a portion of the tumor had grown back and it was at a place to where they could still do surgery she had already had a a grown back and it was at a place to where they could still do surgery. She had already had a first surgery in 2013 and she finds us out on her own at a

0:19.8

doctor because I'm selling cars. I'm at the dealership. She calls me, she says,

0:23.7

the doctor said they see something on my scan, but I'm all right. You stay at work,

0:28.8

and when you get home, we'll talk about it, I'll be okay. And see you later. All right. So get that phone call, go home, and then we're in doctor's office.

0:38.8

We're trying to figure out, hey, what's going on? What can we do? the remedy what's the plan that's it straight

0:45.9

into action load hello friends and welcome back to the light Watkins show where I

0:51.5

interview ordinary folks just like you and me who've taken

0:54.4

extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their purpose, or what they've

0:59.7

identified with as their mission and in doing so they've been able to positively impact and inspire the lives of many other people who've either heard about their story or who've witnessed them in action or who've directly benefited from their work.

1:14.4

And this week I have on this show somebody that I've met recently at a speakers conference

1:18.7

that I attended in Austin, Texas during my last meditation teaching tour. We ended up sitting right next to

1:24.6

one another and I immediately connected to his story and knew that I wanted to

1:28.7

have him on the podcast. His name is Ray Singleton. Ray grew up in a musical family in South Carolina,

1:35.5

and he'd been singing and performing his entire life,

1:39.0

thinking that he was going to do it professionally,

1:41.0

but more so it was just happening in the day-to-day life where professionally he was more of a salesman.

1:46.5

He worked in car dealerships and mortgage companies.

1:49.5

And then he met a woman at a party who changed the trajectory of his life.

1:54.8

So Rosalin Singleton, who became his wife, she had been diagnosed with stage three brain

2:00.4

cancer years prior to meeting Ray, and she had gone into remission and

2:05.2

everything was fine but then a year into their marriage the cancer came back

2:09.6

and Ray stepped up in ways that he never imagined possible to care for his wife in the last moments of her life on Earth.

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