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Ryan Kalish, a former Major League Baseball player for the Boston Red Sox, discusses his journey from career-ending injury and dark thoughts to becoming a humanitarian serving vulnerable populations across multiple continents. After 14 surgeries and the silent collapse of his baseball identity, Kalish found spiritual purpose serving orphans, refugees, and homeless people in Indonesia, Thailand, Uganda, India, Jordan, Tanzania, Egypt, and beyond—largely self-funded with his 70-year-old father as his cameraman. Ed explores the raw honesty of hitting rock bottom, the substances Kalish used to self-soothe, and the moment by a river in Austin where everything shifted.
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Highlights
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The reframe that unlocks everything when sitting in a hard season: recontextualizing helplessness as an invitation to act rather than a signal to freeze.
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Ed pushes Kalish on whether the emotional hit from feeding someone starving compares to the hit of circling the bases after a home run—and his answer stops the conversation.
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✧Kalish bathed homeless people on the street and gave them haircuts—this moment on Instagram caught Ed's attention months before the interview
✧14 surgeries trying to save a baseball career that ultimately ended
✧Father, age 70, serves as cameraman on humanitarian trips
✧The reframe that unlocked everything: what to do when feeling helpless in a hard season
✧Kalish's answer about whether feeding someone starving compares to circling bases after a home run stops the conversation
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