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The Next Level Health & Fitness Podcast (Formerly The Key Nutrition Podcast)

NLP659 - A Near-Death Wake-Up Call — Finding Gratitude in the Darkness

The Next Level Health & Fitness Podcast (Formerly The Key Nutrition Podcast)

Brad Jensen

Health & Fitness, Weightloss, Motivation, Mindset, Food, Nutritionadvice, Fitness, Muscle, Gym, Nutrition, Musclebuilding, Mealprep, Keynutrition

4.9766 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this raw and vulnerable solo episode, I share the scariest moment of my life—an unexpected and severe allergic reaction that sent me into full-blown anaphylactic shock while I was still driving. I blacked out, nearly died, and somehow, by what I believe were divine miracles, I’m still here to tell the story.

This episode isn’t just about what happened—it’s about what that moment taught me. I open up about the profound lessons I took from this brush with death, including the deeper perspective on life it gave me and the unshakable power of gratitude, even in the middle of chaos.

Whether you’ve faced your own life-threatening scare or just been through something heavy, my hope is that this episode gives you insight, perspective, and maybe even peace. Sometimes it takes a traumatic moment to wake us up—but we don’t have to wait until it’s life or death to start living fully.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

  • The terrifying details of my allergic reaction and what happened in those critical moments
  • The divine moments I believe saved my life
  • The powerful shift in perspective I experienced afterward
  • Why gratitude is essential—even (and especially) in our darkest times
  • Lessons you might take away from your own hard or traumatic experiences

If this episode resonates with you, share it with someone who needs a reminder of how precious life really is. 

 

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Episode Timestamps

03:34 Observing and Reframing Experiences

09:01 Amoxicillin Allergic Reaction

13:17 Allergic Reaction at Dom's School

16:09 Severe Allergic Reaction Collapse

18:49 Quick Recovery and Grateful Intuition

21:51 Life's Fragility Reminder

25:17 Emotional and Physical Recovery Journey

29:21 Grateful for Supportive Friends

31:42 Surrendering to Life's Terms

36:40 Growth Through Discomfort

37:11 "Grateful Podcast Farewell"

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up, everybody? This is Brad Jensen and you are listening to The Next Level podcast.

0:25.1

Welcome back to another episode of the next level health and fitness podcast.

0:27.9

Your tips and tools to help you get to your next level.

0:29.1

I'm your host, Brad Jensen.

0:30.1

Grateful to be here.

0:31.9

Grateful to be alive today.

0:37.0

I know that sounds a little bit, well, dramatic. like to say the least.

0:39.6

Um, but I genuinely mean that.

0:43.3

So I'm going to get into, um, kind of why I say that today and, and the place I'm at and,

0:49.1

uh, and wanted to give you the takeaways I learned from this whole experience.

0:53.9

Um, first off, want to, uh, And wanted to give you the takeaways I learned from this whole experience.

1:02.0

First off, want to, you know, we live in the great state of Utah, Salt Lake City area.

1:10.2

And today, it is a winter weather advisory, snowstorm, plows all over the roads.

1:15.2

And a week from today, it's 72 and sunny that I mean but I the people in the Midwest experience it's just man lots ups and downs this type of year is just so

1:22.6

crazy um but you know I used to really, I used to complain about it a lot.

1:29.4

And I still do.

1:30.6

But I complain less because it's just, it's kind of like life.

1:34.0

Some days are amazing and some days are just really shitty.

1:36.8

And sometimes you didn't, you didn't, um, the shitty days isn't because you necessarily

1:41.6

did anything wrong.

1:43.6

Just life didn't go your way because it was a learning day, right?

1:47.8

So, yeah, and honestly, we're talking a lot in the next level experience, this current

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