‘The Best Days Are Ahead of Me’
Steve Melen’s day job is a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley in San Francisco, but in his off-hours, he’s a dad and horseracing enthusiast. He co-owns 15 racehorses across the country and started a company called Winner’s Circle Shoes—offering lucky winning horseshoes. Steve is a lucky man. In 2008, he was diagnosed with gastric cancer, and after having his spleen and stomach, half his pancreas and a third of his esophagus removed, he was given a 12% chance of survival. It gets worse. He became addicted to painkillers and alcohol to deal with pain from losing a close friend to…
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