Surviving & Thriving is the three-time Emmy-nominated show produced by Bolder Broadcasting, the team behind the nationally syndicated Growing Bolder. Surviving & Thriving is produced in partnership with WESH-TV.

This episode originally aired on June 18, 2016 and is presented here with limited commercial interruption. In this episode, you’ll meet Steve Stover, who was nearly left for dead after a horrific weather disaster at a major concert. He shares his incredible story of survival and recovery and how rock and roll was crucial to his journey back to the land of the living.

Plus, former co-anchors Wendy Chioji and Jim Payne reunite for a sit-down conversation about Wendy’s life after TV news and the lessons she’s learned from her latest bout with cancer.

Stay tuned for the end of the show to listen to Wendy’s Takeaway message and find out how she’s been defying the odds for her entire life.