Control: What the NICU Took and What It Gave Back
About this episode
Evan Boyer shares his transformative experience during his daughter's NICU stay and how it led him to leave corporate life and start his own business.
Maybe you've felt it too. That sense that if you just did everything right, the story would unfold the way it was supposed to. That the checklist would protect you. That the guardrails were there for a reason. Evan Boyer followed the plan. He was competitive, driven, self-focused in all the ways that tend to work well in corporate America. And then Christmas morning 2021 arrived, and the plan was gone. His wife was rushed to the OR. His daughter was born eleven weeks early, two pounds and six ounces. And Evan sat alone in a hospital room for an hour, waiting for news about whether both of them were okay. Seventy days in the NICU has a way of teaching you things no checklist ever could. For Evan, it planted a seed. And when a second pregnancy and a professional setback arrived at the same time, that seed broke open. He left his corporate job, launched his own PR firm, and started building something that felt like his, for the first time. What You'll Hear: What it felt like to stand beside his daughter in a hazmat suit, not knowing if his wife was okay How seventy days in the NICU quietly rewired his relationship with control The moment two life events collided and made staying put…
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