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You Get One Trip

Navigating the stages, the BS, and the beauty of life.

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THE TRUTH + THE RIDE = ONE TRIP

You're drowning and you don't even know it.

Not in water. In noise. In a system designed to keep you just stressed enough to comply but not stressed enough to break. Yet.

Here's the truth: you only get one trip through this. One ride. One pass. No do-overs, no version 2.0 where you get to apply what you learned the first time.

Every minute you spend on noise is a minute you don't get back.

Every choice you make about what gets access to your attention—that's the entire game.

So what are you actually doing with it?

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David Wittenburg
18.7M Vilomah in the U.S.

David Wittenburg is a writer, podcaster, and founder of The Echoes Project. He's a Vilomah — a parent who has outlived a child — and that experience shapes everything he brings to You Get One Trip: no scripts, no polish, just the unspoken laws of daily chaos and what it actually takes to survive them.

He hosts five unscripted shows built around grief, fatherhood, and the systems that fail us, and is the author of The Witness Series, which maps the unnatural order of catastrophic loss and what survives it. He holds a Certificate in End of Life Care from the University of South Carolina Upstate and is a Certified Peer Support Specialist through SC SHARE.

He doesn't perform recovery. He shows up with the truth.

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