"Exit Through The Gift Shop"

A must-see.

I HEART the American Heart Association [video]

One of the great things about working with Leadership Grand Strand this past year has been meeting and hooking up with Ryan Hannan of the American Heart Association. The NUMBER ONE reason I started riding a bike, eating right, and making the lifestyle changes I made over the last year and a half was my heart. I was initially told that I was going to be put on Cholesterol Lowering medication and High Blood Pressure medication and the thought that I had "let myself go" that much impacted me so dramatically that I decided then and there to make significant changes to my life. It was all about my heart. It was never about "losing weight" or "looking better" or any other superficial reason. I'm not saying that those benefits haven't impacted me, because they've changed my life in ways that I never would've expected, but that's not why I started down this road. I simply didn't want to die of a heart attack or stroke, and become a statistic that left my wife and kids without a husband and father.

So it's tremendously rewarding to work with The American Heart Association. If I have one "TMI Takeaway" from my year's experience with Leadership Grand Strand it's that I DO have a cause that I'm not only passionate about, but that I can use the leadership skills I've learned to jump in and help them in any way possible spread the word about Heart Health.