18. Ed Gavagan was stabbed six times and forgave his attackers

All The Wiser

Kimi Culp

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.9 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Ed Gavigan was walking home one night from the bar where he worked in Manhattan when he was jumped by three kids and stabbed six times in the back, side and neck. Doctors gave him a 2% chance to live. In the hospital he learned that the three kids were gang members looking for someone to kill as part of an initiation for moving up in the gang, and Ed was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. But what’s even more remarkable than Ed surviving such a brutal attack is that he forgave his attackers and discovered - against a backdrop of debilitating depression and PTSD - a capacity for empathy he had never known.

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0:56.5	Welcome to All the Wiser. I'm Kimmy Kulfe. All the Wiser is a one-for-one podcast. For every
1:03.1	inspiring interview you hear, we donate $2,000 to charities around the world. I believe in the
1:10.0	power of storytelling to inspire us all to think
1:12.9	differently about the world around us. So I've combed the country for some of the most jaw-dropping
1:19.7	stories you have ever heard, people who have been to the brink and back, stories of survival
1:25.5	against all odds, and whose lives have been changed in unthinkable
1:29.8	ways. Today's interview with All the Wiser is with Ed Gabbigan. His unbelievable story of
1:37.4	survival begins with the most simple of decisions, choosing which side of the street he would use to walk home after leaving
1:47.1	the bar he had just opened in New York's East Village. This fateful night, had picked the
1:53.0	wrong side of the street and encountered a group of teenage boys. Their assignment? To kill a
2:00.0	random stranger as part of an initiation into a gang.
2:04.2	His attackers used 10-inch blades and Ed was stabbed six times, being left for dead.
2:11.3	Today, we talk about a lot of things.
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