Greatest Hits Rerun: Surviving an Alaskan Plane Crash Against All Odds with Michelle and Khyl Shumway (Ep 69)
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🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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This episode first aired as Episode 69 and tells a miracle-filled story that has deeply impacted so many of our listeners. As part of our Greatest Hits series, we’re bringing this incredible conversation back for anyone who needs a reminder that hope and healing are always possible.
Michelle and Khyl Shumway are the owners of the business Rad Swim, a super cute modest swimwear company based in Utah. But what you might not know about their story is that Khyl was one of two men out of 6 who survived a plane crash in Alaska the summer of 2003. In this episode, Khyl shared the many miracles he believes saved his life, along with Michelle and the tender mercies she experienced as she waited to find out if he would survive the crash. Their story is riveting and inspirational and full of hope.
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| 0:00.0 | Michelle and Kyle Shumway are the owners of the business Rad Swim, a super cute, modest swimmer company |
| 0:07.7 | based in Utah. |
| 0:09.2 | But what you might not know about their story is that Kyle was one of two men out of six |
| 0:14.4 | who survived a plane crash in Alaska the summer of 2003. |
| 0:18.6 | Today, Kyle shares with me the many miracles he believed saved his life, along with Michelle |
| 0:23.6 | and the tender mercies she experienced as she waited to find out if he would survive the crash. |
| 0:28.8 | Their story is riveting and inspirational and full of hope, and I cannot wait to share it with |
| 0:33.6 | you today. |
| 0:36.3 | Today, I have two special guests with me who I am so excited to talk to |
| 0:41.9 | and they run a business that I absolutely love. So I have Kyle and Michelle Schumway here from |
| 0:47.9 | Rad Swim. Say hi guys. Hi. Thanks for having us on. Oh my gosh. So excited to talk to you guys. So let's start just with the basics of your |
| 0:58.2 | business. Do you guys run this together? Is it mostly your thing, Michelle? We definitely do it |
| 1:03.6 | together. I mean, I had a really strong impression to start it really out of the blue about five years ago, maybe six. And I just, I didn't |
| 1:15.3 | really know exactly how to do it, but I knew that it was an impression I needed to follow. |
| 1:19.7 | And luckily, Kyle has like the skill set that I totally needed. He built websites for people, |
| 1:26.0 | so we built my website. He does photography. So he took |
| 1:28.7 | my pictures. And he still takes a lot of my pictures. So we do it all together. It's been so awesome. |
| 1:34.6 | That's so cool. And so you said you had like a strong impression that you needed to start this. |
| 1:40.5 | What was that like? What were your feelings and what were your thoughts starting Rad Swim? |
| 1:46.4 | Actually, we had just decided to have a fifth baby. And I had the feeling probably two weeks |
| 1:52.2 | after we decided to have a fifth baby. And it was totally out of the blue, but it was like super, super |
| 1:57.1 | strong. And it was very clear. And I had no idea why, but I was like, okay, I've got to do this. |
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