Special Guest Andy Schoonover: What if your burden was actually your calling?

The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast

CandyRock

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Thousands of people go bankrupt every year from medical bills. Andy Schoonover decided to do something about it. Have you ever wondered if there's a way out of the health insurance maze? Candace sits down for a special interview with Andy Schoonover, founder of CrowdHealth, a community of people who fund each other's healthcare expenses directly. What started with a devastating loss and an $8,000 medical bill that insurance refused to pay became a mission to return humanity to an industry that has lost it. Andy and Candace dig into how the system actually works, why the buyer and the seller of healthcare both benefit when prices go up, and what happens when you just pay your doctor in cash. The numbers are crazy: a $5,000 scan for $200, a $80,000 Life Flight negotiated to $13,000, and members saving $77 million collectively by opting out of traditional insurance. Andy also shares about losing his daughter Grace, the two years that nearly broke his marriage, and how both of those experiences shaped what he cares about most. Listener questions round out the conversation: Amelia asks how to find your calling in a career, and both Candace and Andy weigh in with answers rooted in burden rather than happiness. Emma asks the question so many mothers carry: how do you hold a dream alongside the season of raising your kids? You can learn more about CrowdHealth at joincrowdhealth.com. For email updates and more from Candace, visit candace.com. Life is like a rollercoaster, but it's better when we go through it together! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Funny story about that really quick is they thought he was going to die.
0:03.3	So his whole family came around and his wife was next to him.
0:06.7	He woke up out of the coma and the first thing he said was, hey guys, guess what?
0:10.8	We're pregnant.
0:15.6	No matter who you are, life can feel like a roller coaster, but it's so much better when we go through it together.
0:21.7	Welcome to the Candace Cameron Burray podcast. This podcast is not about me. I made it for you.
0:27.6	I'm here to share open conversations with my friends about life's challenges, celebrations,
0:32.5	and everything in between. Today's conversation is a special one because I rarely do one-off
0:39.5	interviews. I love giving you a longer series where we can go deep into stories that my guests
0:45.7	have to share and you keep giving me feedback that you really like having seasons where you can
0:50.6	follow along over several weeks. But today, I do have a special guest for you.
0:57.0	When I heard his story, I knew that I wanted you to hear it too.
1:01.0	Andy Schoonover is the kind of guy who loves helping people,
1:05.0	and he's built his life around it.
1:07.0	He saw a problem that a lot of people have
1:10.0	with out-of-control medical costs and decided to do something about it. He saw a problem that a lot of people have without of control medical costs and decided to do
1:13.7	something about it. Please welcome my special guest, Andy Schoonover.
1:24.5	Thanks for having me. Yeah, welcome to the podcast. It's so great to meet you. I'm really excited about what you're going to share with all of us today. But I would love to just have you tell me a little bit about yourself and your family. Yeah, we've got three girls. I can tell you more about
1:46.7	my oldest, but my firstborn actually passed away about 10 hours after she was born, which is a big
1:52.9	huge part of our story. And then I've got a nine-year-old and a seven-year-old. So they're third grade,
1:58.3	first grade, ready to get out of school, ready to start the summertime. But yeah, live in Austin, Texas and building a company to try to help people
2:06.6	manage these crazy, crazy medical expenses. Yeah, that's so great. And how long have you been
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