Breakdown to Baptism.
Featuring Ross Golding — work stress, $200K in debt, a nervous system collapse, and the unexpected morning that turned a walk into a healing.
Ross met his wife on a family vacation in Maui. Got married on Trunk Bay. Followed her career — she's a general manager for the Ritz Carlton — first to Oahu, then to St. Thomas. When their son was born, he stepped back from his work to raise him. Then, looking for something of his own, he started a travel club.
The business grew. So did the stress. He was sleeping a couple of hours a night. Carrying around $200,000 in credit card debt. His business partner — a mentor — died of a heart attack. And then Ross's central nervous system did what no one had warned him could happen. It shut down. He couldn't walk. He couldn't sit in the waiting room of a doctor's office. Doctors threw around words like ALS and MS.
The MRIs came back clear. The pain didn't go away. He became suicidal. Then one Saturday morning, after a sleepless night, he walked to Vesip Beach — somehow — and there were baptisms happening on the shore. He had never been baptized. He talked to the Bishop. He went into the water. He came out lighter than he had been in years.
“As bad as the experience was, I'm grateful for it too.”
Ross Golding
A husband. A father. A man who makes pancakes now because he gets to, not because he has to.
Today, Ross still lives in St. Thomas with his wife and son. The fasciculations have mostly gone away. He works out. He has a normal life. He dedicates more time to family. He'll tell you the perspective shift is the biggest gift of the whole thing. He makes breakfast for his son every morning — and not because it's a duty, but because it's something he gets to do.
📍 St. Thomas, USVI
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