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Survivor Legacy is a podcast about overcoming life-altering events and finding one's true purpose. The host, Perry Jones, emphasizes the importance of being of service to others and learning from those who have survived difficult situations. He shares his own experience of facing PTSD and having a spiritual awakening after a near-death experience. Perry believes that by recognizing our legacy and living it every day, we can face the end with confidence. The podcast features a diverse group of guests sharing their stories and exploring the concept of legacy. Survivor Legacy is about pursuing the true one. It's about being of service to people. It's about adversity. It's about survival. Overcoming a life-altering event that changes the way we live. Each and every one of us knows a moment of reckoning, showing us our legacy in life. This is about everyday people living everyday lives, ready in stone to face the end with confidence. I'm Perry Jones, and this is Survivor Legacy. Welcome to the first ever Survivor Legacy podcast. This is an introduction to the idea, the brand, and what these podcasts are about. It was developed over time in a three-fold process. The idea, the experience I had, and now the development of this platform. I want to start off by saying this is not about me. This is about being of service to people who have survived life-altering events that has changed how they live. They have something to teach others about what really matters they're overcoming and what they know now. I was walking down 2nd Street in downtown Hudson, Wisconsin, on a Sunday afternoon in May 2021, and I was absolutely satisfied with every aspect of my life. But I could hear people as they were walking by or standing at a red light waiting across the street, talking about their discontent with their relationship, their family, their job, and all the things that make up our modern lives. But at the same time, they were caught up in striking a pose, taking pictures with their phones at every angle to post somewhere. So I started thinking, do we actually believe the facade of Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, or any other platform where people can engineer how perfect they want their life to look to others is real? It's not real. It doesn't exist. The truth is everyone goes through adversity, and everyone has something they can teach others. And how valuable it would be to hear from people who have survived something that they should have never survived and put life in perspective. In this day and age, I think people could learn a lot about developing a simple, clean-life philosophy from someone who's been through something like that because it's real, and it's valuable to see reality and keep it present in our everyday lives, and I'd love to tell their stories. I don't want to hear from people who have read something or heard something or preach about it on a Sunday morning. I want to hear from people who have lived it and survived it, whatever it is and whoever they are. I want to know what they know and what's important to them now. A little over a year later, I found myself in a place where I'd accepted some empty promises from people in both my personal and professional life. It was a complete loss of my identity, and there was no way to reconcile any of it with myself. During that time, I remember thinking, I'd been at the top of the mountain in every aspect of my life, personally, professionally, emotionally, and in education. See, in my life, when someone told me I couldn't do something, I not only would go do it, I would go so far beyond it and just keep going, looking to prove the next person wrong, looking for the next thing to achieve. But not this time. I couldn't leverage that anymore. I didn't know what to do. I had nowhere to go. I feel strange talking about this and being vulnerable. But I was diagnosed and treated for serious PTSD from loss, heavy trauma, and the repercussions of a law enforcement career. Then I had an experience. If there has been one thing in my life I've been afraid of, it was dying. But dying is a very simple thing. I know what it is. If I would have died, it would have been the easiest thing I'd ever have to do. There was no jarring experience of dying. It was a calm transfer from the physical form to being in a spiritual or energy form. There was a bright white panoramic light amplified around me. It was a different realm of complete acceptance, peace, and pure positive energy, a place beyond everyday existence. There were no boundaries of space and time. And it came to me. This is the energy of God. And I realized I was going somewhere. I saw clear and intense lifetime memories, both good and bad. It was an exciting and exhilarating feeling. But I never once thought about religion in any way. It wasn't frightening. It was just a revelation of how things are after this life. Life exists after death. We live in this form for a time, then we leave it, and our energy is on a continuum to the next destination. It was a moment of reckoning, a bargaining with God, which showed me my legacy in life, and I wanted it. Suddenly it was like a flip of the switch, and all at once I was back in my body and ready to achieve my legacy, no matter what it took. I'm a different person now. Real things or desired achievements just do not matter anymore. Be of service to people, and you'll be as close to God as you can be. Be of service to self, and you're further away. The adversities in our lives is a revolution. We are always evolving with our wisdom and understanding. By going through these phases of adversity, we evolve into a higher being concerned with greater things. Here's the evidence. Let's say you're in your 40s. Think back to when you were in your 20s, or at any age remembering another time in your life. You couldn't imagine being concerned with the same things now as you were then. You have evolved. These adversities are the proving grounds. You have to earn it. Do you know why we are not always completely happy with where we're at in life? I always want this, or if I could just get that, a new house or a new vehicle, or meet a new person, I'll finally be happy. And then we get it, and then guess what? We just move on to the next thing we want. The reason is, we are always mildly discontent with life because we have a notion of what heaven is. But it's not achievable here. On the other side, you have to live with it. These are not religious beliefs. I lived this experience. I saw it. I'm telling you what it is and how to get there. And from that, I've developed my own clean life philosophy. I know what my legacy is, and life is easy now. I have one job, to be of service to people every day. If I'm not doing that, I'm not living right. If you recognize your legacy and live it every day, when your inevitable last day comes, I can promise you, you can face the end with confidence. These podcasts are not about near-death experiences. They're with a diverse group of guests who bring you a deep and relevant look at the universal truths from their life-altering events to explore the legacy phenomenon. It has changed the way they live, and it's what's important to them now. These are everyday people, living everyday lives. Write it in stone, live it every day, and face the end with confidence. I'm Perry Jones, and this is Survivor Legacy.