16: Leave Nothing to the Grave with Deion Wells-Ross

Deion Wells-Ross grew up in the inner city of Omaha navigating environments shaped by gun violence, gang activity, and limited horizons. Nobody sat him down and told him he could build a different life. He had to figure that out himself.What followed is a story about pattern recognition, unlearning, and the kind of choosing that does not happen once but over and over again across years. It includes walking into a coach's office as a complete stranger days before the school year started, earning a spot on a team that would go on to win a national championship at Nebraska Wesleyan, and eventually building a career at the intersection of human development and technology.Then, on January 1st, 2024, life dropped a different kind of adversity on him. A multiple sclerosis diagnosis. And Deion made a decision: he was not taking anything to the grave.In this conversation, Deion and host Jess Collicott talk about what it actually takes to walk away from the life your environment scripted for you, the painful and often unspoken process of unlearning, what made a national championship team great, and how the adversity equation, E plus P equals R, has shaped the way Deion approaches everything, including MS.This is Episode 16 of Known Through Connection. Leave Nothing to the Grave.Real People. Worth Connecting.