Collin Hughes

I had three dreams as a child. I wanted to be a cowboy, a pilot, and an actor. I rode bulls for several years and competed against some of the greatest legends in the sport of professional rodeo. I am a retired airline pilot, and I am now a voice actor.

After my bull riding days came to an end, I picked up a microphone and started to announce rodeos. I felt completely at home behind a microphone. This led to me trying to come up with a way to help people with the gift I had been given, but could never find a topic that I felt was right.

I have always been a man who goes after what I want in life. However, on June 10, 2022, my fifteen-year-old granddaughter ended her own life and my life completely changed. I had faced difficult things in the past including the death of my oldest daughter to cancer in 2015. I had even faced death myself. But nothing had me prepared for the loss of my beloved granddaughter.

On the morning of her death, I received a phone call from her stepfather informing me of what happened. It was in the depth of all the pain and agony that instantly felt that I now knew what topic I had been saved to talk about.