Bill Manchini was 17. He was hit by a car while on a test drive for a new motorcycle he was going to buy and he died, not once, but 3 times. He spent months in a Boston Hospital and had his 18th birthday there. He spent a couple years dealing with depression and finally pulled his mental game together and started his life over again all before he was 20 years old. He has chronic pain 39 years later and offers advice to myself and anyone listening things to do and things to avoid while living with pain. How to not let it be your master.

This episode turned into a conversation between myself and Bill who reached out to me after my car accident to offer advice on what I was going through. I felt it would be a good addition to the show for anyone who might be in a similar situation.

The Secret backstory here is Bills accident and recovery. He hasn’t talked publicly about it before and after hearing Episode 2; Kelly Martin Dehay, turn your mess into a message on the Secret Backstory podcast, he felt he could share his story as well.

Thats what the podcast is looking for, do you relate? what’s your Secret Backstory. Will it it help you to talk about? will it help someone else to hear it?

Send an email to Tellmystory@secretbackstory.com and lets see if we can get you on an episode as well.

Secret Backstory would like to thank;

Scott O’leary: for creating and producing the shows artwork concept.

Tom Clarkson:  for writing and performing the shows music.

Sean Corcoran: for producing and performing on the shows music.

and a very special thanks to Shannon Knock Culpepper, for the initial brainstorming session that lead to naming the podcast.