{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"A Life Afterlife ","title":"A Life Afterlife: Ciara Connelly & Kenneth O'Driscoll (Coach Ken) (Episode 4)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3439,"description":"In this powerful episode, host Gabby Baker is joined by two truly remarkable guests — Ciara Connelly and Kenneth O'Driscoll (Coach Ken) — for an open, heartfelt conversation about life, death, and everything in between.Ciara shares her extraordinary story of surviving a cardiac arrest at just 24 years old. Clinically dead for 25 minutes, she was brought back against all odds — and came back changed. She opens up about her near-death experience: floating through a golden wheat field toward a wooden house, feeling a love beyond description, and meeting a woman's energy at a windowless pane who gave her a choice to stay or return. She also talks candidly about the aftermath — relearning to walk, read, and write, living with dilated cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure, and the profound spiritual and psychic gifts that emerged from the other side.Coach Ken, founder of the Ballyfermot and Cherry Orchard Running Clubs, shares his own journey from addiction and a troubled past to becoming a beacon of hope in his community. He recounts his own near-death experience during a hospital visit, his experimentation with DMT and the parallels he sees between that and Ciara's experience, and how running became the unexpected force that saved his life — and the lives of countless others in his community.Together with Gabby, the three explore consciousness, the spirit world, the science of DMT, retrograde amnesia, psychic ability, the meaning of goosebumps, and what it truly means to be alive. This is an episode about resilience, purpose, and the undeniable sense that there is something bigger at work.\"If I can reach out to just one person and let them know there is something else — that their loved ones are not alone when they die — that's enough.\" — Ciara\nTimecodes00:00 — Welcome & guest introductions: Ciara and Coach Ken\n01:33 — Ciara's story begins: the day of her cardiac arrest in Drimnagh\n02:32 — Six minutes to death: Dublin Fire Brigade, three shocks, and a faint...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/77UQDefYFXLQE3oPXyRL9vU9brHPDMl1cn8HqU9Tmkg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZDE1/NWU2YmE4Yjg5OWRk/ZWNjMzBkNTUwMmJh/MjhlOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}