At mile eight of the Twin Cities 10 Mile race, Tyler Moon collapsed without warning.
He was 25 years old. Healthy. Three months away from his wedding day.
The memory of what happened next never came back.
What followed instead were fragments — stories told by others, moments pieced together by family, doctors, and strangers who stepped forward when it mattered most. CPR in the middle of a race. An AED. A medically induced coma. A long and uncertain path back.
But survival was only the beginning of the story.
In this conversation, Tyler reflects on what it means to wake up after a moment that nearly took your life. We talk about identity, marriage under pressure, faith in moments of uncertainty, and how experiences like this reshape the way we understand purpose.
Tyler now leads Living Proof Leadership and recently released his book More Than a Conqueror, where he reflects more deeply on the lessons that emerged from that day.
This conversation is about survival, but more than that, it’s about the question many people face after adversity:
What do you do with the life you’ve been given?
