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In 2014, you could have been forgiven for envying Michelle Gamble. She grew up in beautiful Laguna Beach in California. Vibrant, tall, fit and attractive, Michelle graduated from Arizona State and started a fast-growth business development career in consulting and custom marketing research programs. Michelle married and they had a beautiful son named Cole. Everything was right on track both personally and professionally. Michelle was a quintessentially American success story bathed in the California sunshine. There were no signs that it was all about go very badly, very quickly. Even as a child, Michelle was always a focused and disciplined high-performer. Her friends and family became used to new accomplishments. In her career, she excelled as a sales trainee, advanced into sales management, then to Junior Partner, and quickly to Director. She fast-tracked through industry giants Gartner, Siebel, PwC Consulting, and finally IDC.  Michelle worked with Fortune 500 companies and top global brands. She enjoyed working with some of the smartest people in the world. They gathered market research and competitive business intelligence on tough product and marketing problems and then turned them into insights that executives used to make multi-billion-dollar decisions. Michelle got rave client reviews and she was in high demand. Top marketing and technology executives relied on her and they described Michelle as a strategic, trusted advisor and an extension of their own teams. She developed a reputation as hard-charging and an expert on reading people and managing difficult business situations. Because she was recognized as having high emotional intelligence, she was often given the toughest assignments and toughest clients. Among her colleagues Michelle became a mentor and an advisor because of her ability to always find a solution or, when there wasn’t one, to create one.  All of Michelle’s talents and energy were focused on building a successful personal and professional life.  In an instant, it would all be shattered and Michelle would come close to death and then face her greatest challenge…to rebuild everything, even her physical self. This is Michelle’s story: Near Death and Worse Three years ago, Michelle started the day without realizing that it would lead to something entirely different; a newly inspired life.  Another person might have called it ‘the end’ of her life, both professionally and personally. But that wasn’t how Michelle would come to see it. As Michelle drove to work her car was violently struck by another vehicle.