221 - Let Love Be Your Legacy: Cherishing Life and Finding Purpose
Life Happens with Barb & Michelle
Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Discovering Your Purpose in Life: From finding levity during hardships, appreciating the present moment, and discovering your purpose in life– this is an episode that will inspire and shift your perspective on life.
This week on Life Happens with Barb & Michelle, we’re joined by our dear friend—actor, writer, comedian, and activist—Tyler Merritt. In this heartfelt and profound conversation, we explore how life’s challenges can become powerful teachers of purpose, gratitude, and joy.
Together, we share:
✨ The courage and freedom of standing vulnerably in your truth
✨ How to heal and find levity in the midst of hardship
✨ The gift of presence in cherishing life’s everyday moments
✨ Ways to discover hope and purpose, even through life’s difficulties
💬 Tyler vulnerably opens up about his cancer diagnosis and how it transformed his appreciation for life.
💬 Barb and Michelle reflect on their own journeys of finding meaning, joy, and resilience despite imperfections and challenges.
This episode is an invitation to shift your perspective and rediscover the beauty and purpose woven into each moment.
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💛 Episode Highlights:
- Express yourself with confidence and vulnerability
- Heal from perfectionism by embracing humor
- Set clear intentions to spread love and light
- Create a positive impact on the world around you
- Fully appreciate the beauty of the present moment
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This week's all-new episode of Life Happens with Barb and Michelle is one that left us feeling |
| 0:05.0 | inspired, full-hearted, and honestly changed for the better. We sat down with our dear friend |
| 0:11.3 | Tyler Merritt, actor, comedian, activist, and best-selling author of I Take My Coffee Black, and |
| 0:17.5 | this changes everything. You might know Tyler from his powerful viral video before |
| 0:22.6 | you call the cops or from his roles on Netflix, HBO, and Apple TV. But today you'll meet Tyler, |
| 0:29.9 | the storyteller, the soul deep thinker, and the man who's lived through pain, joy, illness, and |
| 0:35.3 | healing, and who brings it all to the mic with raw honesty and |
| 0:39.0 | humor. We talk about the courage it takes to show up with your full heart, the power of |
| 0:44.3 | storytelling to build empathy, what cancer taught him about being truly present, and why helping |
| 0:50.1 | others is the real measure of success. Tyler reminds us how much beauty exists in being human and how to keep choosing love even |
| 0:58.5 | when life gets hard. |
| 1:00.0 | Hi everyone. |
| 1:01.0 | We are so excited for this week's conversation of the show. |
| 1:07.0 | If you're watching, you're in for a special treat. |
| 1:09.0 | I mean, if you're listening as well, you're in for a special treat, too. |
| 1:11.9 | But it's so great to be able to see and chat with our dear friend, Tyler Merritt. |
| 1:17.7 | Welcome to Life Happens. |
| 1:19.7 | You know what? |
| 1:20.7 | Let me tell you all. |
| 1:22.8 | There are few people in the world I love as much as I love the two. No. But see, the thing is, is Barbara |
| 1:32.1 | and I have had a chance to hang out face to face. Yeah, I'm jealous about that. Early on, |
| 1:37.2 | when we were first getting to know each other, you came into Nashville and I just remember |
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