I think out of 1500 podcasts I can't remember another podcast where I cried in the middle of the

podcast and I have on Nick Shaw. He wrote a book about an intense experience he had and his life.

After that the book's called My Teacher, My Son, Lessons on Life, Loss, and Love.

Again, it's called My Teacher, My Son, Lessons on Life, Loss, and Love.

Again, it's called My Teacher, My Son,

Lessons on Life, Loss, and Love,

beautiful book, but let's let him tell the story.

Here he is. This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altager show. Nick, I was very, I mean, I did not expect this, but honestly I was crying while I read your book and it was very moving and I'm really sorry for what happened to you and I'm really glad you wrote this book and kind of got your lessons down.

Well, thank you. I appreciate that. That was, my hope is that the book would have impact that's kind of why I wrote it.

Yeah and I'll do an introduction with the title and and all that well actually this is sort of the

introduction so it's called my teacher my son lessons on life loss and

love and Nick it's your kind of journey of the loss four and a half years ago of your nine year old son in February of 2019 and

what's happened to you since then and again it was I'll let you tell the story, but it was, I was really moved by it.

But I don't know where, I mean, I don't know where you want to start, like, do you want to start with the day that obviously the day your son died was the day that

started all of this and again it's it's horrible I was I couldn't help but think of my own children and and how I would react and you really

You know how to have a brave example here in the in this book? Yeah, no, I mean yeah, I'm happy to kind of start at that day because that is really where all this journey began.

So on a ski vacation in Montana big fat Montana I grew up skiing my whole life it's actually

skiing was a big passion of mine and you know a day that started like any other day, we're all excited to get out there on the mountain and beautiful day, beautiful conditions.

You know, I took away into the top of the mountain.

He'd been looking forward to getting up there for a year because we went the year before, but

didn't make it up there.

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