life responds

with Warner · 37 min · July 30, 2026
Warner, guest on the episode life responds
"So much of what we want in life is on the other side of hard"
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What this episode is about

a little bit of SUNshine is a show about the moments that quietly reshape how someone sees their life, told in their own words. In this episode, Warner talks about the day his son was born and struggled to breathe in the first minutes after delivery, and how the fear in that room turned into the clearest sense of purpose he's ever felt.

He also talks about a trip to Hawaii with his wife, brother, and sister-in-law, where he hiked a steep trail at night, in the rain, barefoot, using his phone as a flashlight because his other hand was full. On the way down he slipped, landed wrong, and tore the ligament in his thumb badly enough to need surgery. Months later, still in recovery, he keeps circling back to a lyric from a song he loves: with every broken bone, I swear I lived. It's become his way of thinking about what it means to say yes to something risky and not regret it, even when it costs you.

It runs 37 minutes, so it fits a commute or a walk. No advice, no framework, just one person talking through fear, fatherhood, and what it actually means to live like you mean it.

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