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Podcast: Forged In The Fires Podcast with Fireman Rob
Episode: Episode 26 - Forged in the Fires Guest - Derek Fitzgerald
Description: Resilience, earning the chances he was given, and having the will to live and inspire others to move forward in life is what today’s guest shares to us. Fireman Rob interviews another inspiring soul, Derek Fitzgerald, the Founder of the Recycled Man Foundation and the first person to ever survive cancer, have a heart transplant, and then finish a full Ironman. Derek tells his amazing story of being diagnosed with cancer at age 30 and having heart failure, but not letting all of these put him down. After witnessing a fellow cancer survivor finish a triathlon, he was inspired to tr...