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Eight years ago, my husband, Rory, passed away from lung cancer at the age of 39. And my son was three years old. I'm in Chicago on a business trip and get back in the van to go back to the airport-- had my phone off during the meeting-- turn my phone on, and there's all these calls that Rory's been rushed to the emergency room. He collapsed at work. And when he was in the emergency room, the physician on staff took an x-ray of his chest and found a mass. Came back that it could be lung cancer, but the doctor was like, oh it can't be. You don't smoke. Next thing I remember was the moment. They sat us down and the doctor very plainly said, Rory you have stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer. And then proceeded to tell him that he probably had less than three years to live. And I looked at the doctor, and I said to him, you can't-- no, no! We have a three-year-old. He's 36. No. Because I was in such disbelief. And those are the moments when you never expect it's going to happen to you. And that was when everything changed. Yeah. When you have something that severe happen, you have to slow down, and you have to go through it. And then once you go through it, then you can rebuild and create your next chapter of your life. When you're going through something like that, the last thing you need is additional financial stress and worry. How am I going to pay the mortgage? How am I going to feed my child? I was fortunate enough to have some life insurance. That provided me an opportunity to have some cushion. So I could be with my son, be available to be with him and then to create a life. Coaching was always something I loved, and so I do that now with my own business. I help women through transition often. Put the pieces together of business and life. But I now have a great life. I've been able to make the choices that I've wanted to make, have my own business, and be there for my son. I'm engaged to get married to a wonderful man named Mark, who my husband knew. It's kind of like life does go on. And you got to go through some tough stuff. But if you go through it and you're prepared, you can continue to have a fantastic life. Back in 2008, I won the Embrace Life Award. And I really recognize through the Embrace Life Program, again, how important it is to have life insurance. And I made sure to have a policy in place for Brian, my son, if anything unfortunate were to happen to me. I want to show you something. See my necklace? OK. I had my engagement ring and the stone from my wedding band in the jewelry box. And I wore it for a year after Rory passed away, and then I put it in the box. And it sat there, and it was sad. I'd open it up and I'd look at the ring, and I'm like, it's sad. And I want to bring it back to life, so I made this necklace. And this is kind of Rory-- I think of-- looking down on us. And then there's three silver with diamonds. And one is Mark, me, and Ryan. Nobody wants to think about an untimely passing. But if you take the time,...