The Chair

What do you do when you survive something that kills 99% of the people who attempt it — and then spend the next 26 years making sure others don't have to find out? In this episode of The Chair, Jide sits down with Kevin Hines — suicide attempt survivor, mental health advocate, author, and filmmaker. At 19, Kevin jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. The millisecond his hands left the rail, he felt in...

What do you do when life keeps taking things from you — and you have to choose, again and again, to keep going? In this episode of The Chair, Jide sits down with Cam Taylor, a grief coach, author, and hospice facilitator who has navigated two of life's heaviest experiences: a near-fatal motorcycle accident that took three years and ten surgeries to recover from, and the loss of his wife of 35...

What does it look like to sit across from someone whose life you helped hold together — and finally talk about it? In this episode, Jide sits down with Vin, an ICU nurse and close friend, for one of the most personal conversations yet. Not a clinical discussion about healthcare. A quiet, honest look at what happened on both sides of a medical crisis — the night before Jide's stroke, the moment...

At 22 years old, Darcy Keith thought her life was set — until a devastating semi-trailer crash changed everything. Two of her sorority sisters died instantly. Darcy survived with severe traumatic brain injuries, paralysis, memory loss, and months of rehabilitation that forced her to relearn how to walk, talk, think, and trust herself again. In this episode of The Chair, Darcy shares the reality of...

What do you do when the government takes you from your family at five years old and you spend 13 years trying to find your way back to yourself? In this episode of The Chair, Angus Cockney shares his journey as an Inuit man from the Western Arctic who was taken from his home and placed in Canada's residential school system. From losing his language and culture to finding freedom on a pair of s...

Before January 4th, 2026, Jide believed he was unstoppable. He was ambitious, driven, deeply focused on becoming the best version of himself, a husband, father, leader, and high performer building the life he had always envisioned. Then one night, a sudden headache changed everything. What followed was a devastating brain bleed, seizures, emergency brain surgery, weeks in the ICU, months in the ho...

What do you do when you lose everything and have to rebuild your life in a new country? In this episode of The Chair, Tareq Hadhad shares his family's journey from Syria to Canada after war forced them to leave everything behind. From rebuilding a chocolate business in Nova Scotia to redefining what home means, this conversation explores resilience, grief, identity, and hope. In this conversat...

A raw, unfiltered podcast where conversations go beyond achievements and surface-level stories. In The Chair , guests sit down to explore the moments, decisions, and experiences that shape who they are—honestly, deeply, and without performance.