It was like around midnight, like almost around 1 a.m. so like pretty dark. I was walking very

fast and in some moment I think it happened pretty much in the same second when they closed the door

behind my back. I was wearing like very high heels that night so I didn't feel the temperature of this

wet floor and in the same

moments I felt this pain it's not what regular people who never experienced

that call by the word pain if pain is something we experience with our headaches

with our stomach something that everybody knows this is something different. We can't call

it pain. It's something that could kill me and I felt it, so it was something extreme. And I was

disoriented. Like, after I stood in this water, I turned a little bit, so at some moment I was not

completely sure where exactly is back. Of course, I didn't know that it is an epicenter of disaster,

but eventually it turned out that I was actually moving towards the place where the tube was broken.

So by this moment, I was up to my knees in the steam water already.

And I realized that that was one of the scariest moments of my life when I realized that, like, that was one of the scariest moments of my life

when I realized that, okay, that's over. I'm dying right now.

Today's guest is Katya Kamlova, who is left scarred for life following a horrible boiler explosion, which resulted

in third-degree burns all over her legs and the loss of nine toes. What makes her story remarkable

is not just her survival through the years of treatment and over 60 surgeries and learning to walk

again, but it's how she chose to view this devastating accident

as what she calls a happy chance rather than an unhappy one. And in our conversation,

we explore how Kakiya transformed her trauma into triumph, eventually writing about her experience

in her book, Accidental Awakening, and how she discovered that sometimes our deepest wounds can become our greatest teachers.

So we met once before. We both live in Mexico City. We've seen each other a lot around and I got a chance to do a deep dive into

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