Kevin Hines

You can look him up.

His name is Kevin Hines.

He is an individual who survived a suicide attempt from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.

And I remember going to conferences and hearing about it, but I actually was able to meet him.

a coworker.

It goes on and on.

But no one, I think, if you're tuned in, and I think that was the point of this, Kevin Hines said one thing that never I didn't see coming.

After what he went through, his documentary is coming out in 2027.

And I will tell you, I instantly realized right then that everything in my life that I had thought was unfixable was totally fixable, except for having just jumped.

Kevin Hines was 18 when he took a municipal bus to the bridge one day in September of 2000.

He paced back and forth and cried on the bridge for half an hour.

No one came up to ask him what was wrong.

My wife did it for years.

I hosted Kevin Hines' documentary, the guy that survived jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.

And amazing documentary.

We sold enough tickets to have it locally here at a cinema.

So stay tuned for that.

That's at Kevin Hines story.

um and then we we do have the hindsight's podcast which is uh top five percent globally ranked um in mental health and suicide prevention and uh and fitness it's in 76 countries uh and it's helping a lot of people we just hit uh top 100 in good pods uh and and top uh uh top 50 in a particular category there which is awesome um so we're trying to reach as many people as we can there those are those are stories i really like to do because these are other people's stories yes that like you're doing right here with me of people who have triumphed over immeasurable adversity come out on the other side to then give back to their community giving is the true receiving giving is what we are meant to do on this earth is what it's what we are here for if you're not giving back to your society your community you're doing something wrong you need to get to it

No, that's amazing.

And it's completely different than losing somebody to an accident or cancer or anything like that because automatically, being the survivor of that loss, you take on an additional layer, which is, "Was it my fault? What did I do? What could I have done?" And so I think just with all the people that I've interviewed and all the things I know about this is, and I've said this before on the podcast, that n- I think the statistic is something like 95% of people that commit, that commit this act, um, re- regret it the minute that they do it.

And I know that from reading a book that I've brought up before by Kevin Hines about jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, uh, uh, that he, he survived the accident and, and then he talks about how he felt.

But I just, whenever I have a survivor of a family member come on, I always, my pain for all, for you is deeper, I think, than, like, anybody else's.

And, and I know that sounds bad, because I've gone through a lot of loss in my own life, but it's different because it wasn't my fault.