Season 2 Episode 10: Dan Reilly’s Wake-Up Calls: Trauma, Transformation & Thriving After Cancer

What happens when your life unravels — not once, but three times? 

 

In this season finale of The Hurdle2Hope Show, I sit down with Dan Reilly: cancer survivor, father, banker, and author of Seize Your Second Chance. Dan takes us through the extraordinary wake-up calls that reshaped his life — from surviving a bank robbery and California wildfires to receiving a stage 3 esophageal cancer diagnosis. 

 

But this isn’t just a story about survival. It’s about the decision to live differently — to stop ignoring warning signs, to advocate fiercely for your health, and to find strength in the story you tell yourself. 

 

If you’ve ever felt like life knocked you down harder than you could stand, this conversation will remind you: you still get to choose what happens next. 

 

KEY EPISODE TAKEAWAYS 

• How Dan’s life changed after a bank robbery, wildfire, and cancer diagnosis 
• The signs and symptoms of esophageal cancer you shouldn’t ignore 
• What it means to seize your second chance — in health and in mindset 
• The emotional weight of surviving trauma 
• Self-advocacy and storytelling as tools for healing 

 

SHOW RESOURCES 

Website Daniel Reilly  

Book Seize Your Second Chance by Dan Reilly 
 

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