Content note: This episode includes discussion of serious illness, kidney failure, and organ transplantation.

🧠 What do you do when life suddenly flips from “I’m fine” to “you might have three days to live”?

In this powerful instalment of our Being Human Series, Joel and Luke sit down with Andy Bailey — a sales coach, motivator, and lifelong sportsman — who opens up about the day his world completely changed. After living six decades without so much as a cold, Andy was told his kidneys were failing and he needed urgent treatment to survive.

What followed was three and a half years on dialysis, relentless hospital stays, a life-saving kidney transplant, and the battle to rebuild not just his body, but his sense of identity and purpose. Andy shares with raw honesty what it’s like to live tethered to a machine, to lose control after a lifetime of independence, and to face the kind of exhaustion that runs deeper than sleep.

Beyond the medical story, this is a conversation about resilience, acceptance, and perspective — what happens when your life is suddenly measured in blood results, how gratitude shifts when you get a second chance, and the quiet strength it takes to keep showing up when every day feels like borrowed time.

🎙 This episode is for you if you’re into:
• Real stories of survival, resilience, and rebuilding after health crises
• What life on dialysis and transplant recovery actually looks like
• Finding purpose and humour in the face of life-threatening illness
• The mental toll of illness and the importance of honest support
• Letting go of control and learning to live on your own terms again
• Powerful, grounded conversations about what it really means to be human

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