Healing Our Hearts: Literally and Figuratively with Steve Larsen

Healing Our Hearts: Literally and Figuratively with Steve Larsen – Entrepreneur, Author, Car and Motorcycle Enthusiast, Heart Warrior, and Resilient Father Guest Website: https://stevelarsen.net

🎧 Episode Summary:

What does it mean to truly heal a broken heart—both physically and emotionally? In this deeply moving episode of Linda’s Corner, we welcome Steve Larsen, a serial entrepreneur, car and motorcycle enthusiast, and author of My Heart Has Been in It from the Start. Steve’s story is as extraordinary as it is inspiring. He helped shape technologies that now power platforms like Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and he has traveled the world on two wheels. But behind his remarkable success lies a journey through immense personal loss and healing.

At age 15, Steve underwent experimental heart surgery—the first of three open-heart procedures throughout his life. He was once clinically dead for nearly six hours. But it wasn’t heart failure or near-death experiences that proved the most painful—it was the death of his young son, Eric, who passed away during a surgery gone tragically wrong. Steve and his family were left not only with grief but also with a storm of anger and injustice.

Through unimaginable loss, Steve developed profound resilience. “If I can survive the loss of a child, I can survive anything,” he says. Today, he honors Eric’s memory by supporting other parents who’ve lost a child, helping them find strength, perspective, and gratitude in the aftermath of tragedy.

Steve’s heart was opened again in a beautiful and unexpected way when he discovered a daughter he never knew he had—born 39 years earlier and reunited through a DNA test. Their joyful reunion added a new chapter to his family story and reminded him, once again, of the powerful threads that connect us.

This episode explores:

• The resilience born from profound loss
  
  
• How grief changes our approach to parenting and life
  
  
• What it’s like to live with—and recover from—serious heart conditions
  
  
• Finding unexpected joy through family, passion, and connection
  
  
• Why healing is not linear, but possible
  
  

Steve’s life is a tapestry of triumphs and trials, heartbreak and healing, fast cars and second chances. His story is a reminder that everyone is carrying unseen burdens—and that compassion, connection, and courage are at the heart of real healing.

🌟 Key Quote:

“Rebounding from health issues can’t hold a candle to rebounding from the loss of a child… But when you survive that, you realize nothing else can hurt you the same way again.”

🔗 Connect with Steve Larsen:

• Website: https://stevelarsen.net
• Book: My Heart Has Been in It from the Start
  
  

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