The cardiologist did say to my brother and I that your dad's had a heart attack at 41, which is very young.

Your grandfather had a heart attack in his early 60s. So you and my brother's three years older than I,

you're pretty much young men. You need to keep an eye on this because cardiovascular disease runs in families.

And so a combination of good fortune of incredible healthcare access and privilege have resulted

in my dad getting a second chance. And I think part of that is what inspires me today with what I do so that I can hopefully get some of this information to people before they experience something like my father did and not have to kind of run the gauntlet and hope for a second chance.

I'm Light Watkins and today I've got another bite-sized plot twist podcast episode for you,

which is a shorter clip from a past episode where the guest shares the story of that pivotal

moment in their life that direct them toward what ultimately became their path and their purpose.

And sometimes that plot twist looks like getting fired from a job or losing a bunch of money.

Or in the case of today's guest, Simon Hill, it was Simon's father suffering a heart attack at the young age of 41.

And a cardiologist warned Simon that due to his genetics and lifestyle, he could be next.

Let's listen in.

That period for me, although I didn't realize it at the time, it did plant that seed,

which would then go later

kind of fuel me to progress my studies and write the book. But one thing at that time that really

did stick in my mind was we had a kind of family consultation with the cardiologist,

a bit of a debrief. This is what's gone down. Here's your dad's prognosis. Here's what his health

could look like from here. And all of that, we were very relieved. As I say, we were just happy

that he was alive. And so for a long while, my brother and I kind of take away from that was

that we had been dealt to a sort of bad genetic

card and that we need to keep an eye on this and that who knows we may end up in the same

position as dad in our early 40s.

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