What If Life Doesn’t Go the Way You Planned? with Seejai

Seejai was a Division I basketball player with a professional future in his sights.

Then, without warning, his body started telling a different story.

What he thought were manageable breathing issues became a serious heart condition, the end of the sporting path he had spent years working towards, and eventually two heart transplants.

In this conversation, Seejai talks openly about the shock of watching life veer away from the plan you had in your head and the mental toll that comes with trying to process that while still pretending you’re coping.

We talk about denial, drinking, anger, regret, and the strange pressure men put on themselves to stay strong when privately they feel frightened and completely out of control.

This is also a conversation about resilience, but not in the neat motivational sense. More the reality of waking up each day and deciding to keep going when your body has let you down and your future no longer looks familiar.

Seejai reflects on facing mortality twice, the survivor’s guilt that followed, the people who gave him strength when he needed it most, and why music became an outlet when almost everything else had been stripped away.

His circumstances are unusual. The experience of having life not go the way you planned is not.

This episode is for any man who has had to rethink who he is, where he’s heading, and how to keep moving when none of it looks the way he expected.

If you want to listen to Seejai’s music, you can find him on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and on other channels. You can also find his book: The Transplant Journey Journal on Amazon.