From the Runway to Fighting for My Life...How to overcome a stroke.

In this premiere episode, Kristen Toepfer takes you back to where it all began — the bright lights of New York Fashion Week, the runway, and the dream she had worked her entire life to reach. As an industrial engineer at UPS for nearly 20 years and a model who had just walked her first NYFW show for Supermodels Unlimited Magazine, Kristen was living two lives and loving every second of it. Then everything stopped.Kristen opens up about the warning signs she pushed through during Fashion Week — the headaches, the neck pain, the feeling that something wasn’t right — and why she ignored them, because the show had to go on. She walks us through the night her life changed forever: waking up unable to move or speak, calling her husband John in a panic, and being rushed to the hospital where doctors told her family she might not survive the night.This is the episode that started it all. Raw, honest, and told entirely in Kristen’s own words — no sugarcoating, no inspirational talk. Just the truth about what it feels like to go from walking a runway on top of the world to fighting for your life 24 hours later.If you’ve ever ignored a warning sign because life was too busy to stop — this one is for you.Subscribe, share, and follow Kristen’s journey at https://kristentoepfer.com.Join Kristen and cohost Billy Montana for monthly episodes filled with advocacy, education, and inspiring conversations.Together, let's raise awareness for stroke and aphasia and support each other on the journey to recovery.http://kristentoepfer.com