Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting.

Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, and I make podcasts for the BBC.

I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book.

But when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts.

I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds could take you into

a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to

give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole new

career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories that make

you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC

Sounds. Hello, life-changing is back next month, wherever you get your podcasts. But if you're in the

UK, it'll be available first on BBC Sounds. If you haven't already, you can download the BBC

Sounds app to listen to the latest episodes. It's easy.

And once you're there, you'll find even more podcasts that are available first on sounds.

So, welcome back to life-changing. And let me introduce you to another group of extraordinary people.

Mothers, fathers, engineers, sportsmen,

even a hippie wild child of the 70s,

people from very different backgrounds

and very different circumstances.

What connects them is that their lives pivoted

around one crucial event.

Sometimes it came at them from nowhere.

Sometimes it was a sudden but very conscious decision

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