Showing results by narrator "Thom Rivera" in Biographies & Memoirs

In I Became the Man I Never Met, Ignacio Pizano Sr. takes listeners on an inspiring journey of resilience, faith, and transformation through fatherhood. As he reflects on his life, Ignacio shares how he rose from a broken past to become the loving, supportive father he never knew. Driven by his faith and the deep desire to break generational cycles of abandonment, he chose to become the man who could turn his heart toward his children and, in doing so, forge a path of love, strength, and guidance."Being a father is the most fulfilling opportunity a man can have.

My personal journey of wellness and illness has been treacherous at times, but very enlightening and full of experience carrying wisdom and truth. I was forced to make time for my illness and, thankfully, I found my way back to wellness. I have worn many hats as a healthcare provider, which presented me with many points of view about wellness and illness. Unfortunately, it wasn’t until I explored this journey as an unhealthy patient that I truly understood more about it. Thankfully, I have a medical background that gave me a bird’s eye view of the road back to wellness.

It wasn’t surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but before long they were arriving in droves. The bikes went from curiosity, to nuisance, to phenomenon. But until they caught the eye of journalist Kimball Taylor, only a small cadre of human smugglers - coyotes - and migrants could say how or why they’d gotten there. This is the story of 7,000 bikes that made an incredible journey and one young man from Oaxaca who arrived at the border with nothing, built a small empire, and then vanished.