What If Life Doesn’t Go the Way You Planned? with Seejai

Mid-life Men: the mental health podcast · Apr 26, 2026 · 39m

Seejai was a Division I basketball player with a professional future in his sights.

Then, without warning, his body started telling a different story.

What he thought were manageable breathing issues became a serious heart condition, the end of the sporting path he had spent years working towards, and eventually two heart transplants.

In this conversation, Seejai talks openly about the shock of watching life veer away from the plan you had in your head and the mental toll that comes with trying to process that while still pretending you’re coping.

We talk about denial, drinking, anger…