Season 2025, Episode 10
Featuring: Jonathan Pascual
Hosted by: Colleen Bousman
When Jonathan was diagnosed with a brain tumor, he discovered resilience. He shares how athletes have a different mindset, how you live and push limits differently, and how this helped him learn to turn suffering into strength. When a battle he hadn’t expected came before him again, he added to this mindset: “I determine how you choose to live.” Jonathan saw the Stage 4 cancer diagnosis as an Invitation to live fully and courageously and take all he learned over the years in triathlon to bring movement into his treatment.
Jonathan’s powerful story is one of inspiration, one very real for him today. He shares about how he got into the sport, his experiences over the years, how being an RN has helped his cancer journey, how his athletic training has translated to his fight with cancer, how seeing that Pathman’s at Wildflower was a full circle moment, and how the racing community has been such an integral part of what keeps him going at the races. Jonathan shares about overcoming anxiety to race Wildflower this year and how this race memory was so special.
Some of you may have seen Jonathon on the CBS feature “The Art of Dying” sharing how living well & dying well are deeply connected. Today, he closes our time at this podcast with sharing “What does the letter look like today… to himself … standing here courageously living.”
