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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,...
