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Let’s have a REAL discussion about epilepsy and how it can turn our lives upside down. Suddenly, often out of nowhere.
Cohosts Marc + Kelly
Marc Starnes
Co-Host & Community Director · Founder, SHARE
I was a 21-year-old senior at Duke, double-majoring in biomedical and electrical engineering on a full scholarship, when my first seizure hit in January 1993. What followed were years of uncertainty — unable to drive, unable to drink or bar hop with my friends, unsure where to live or what career I could build a life around. I went on to earn two master's degrees at Johns Hopkins, in Injury Control and Biostatistics, and took a job as a statistician with the U.S. Department of Transportation, analyzing car crash data.
In September 2000, I had brain surgery at Johns Hopkins to remove the section of my brain where my seizures were starting. I've had only a handful since. I'm married to my wife, Joey; we have two daughters, and I run SHARE — Support, Hangout And Relax with Others with Epilepsy — the nation's largest grassroots epilepsy support network, based in the D.C. metro area with members across the country.
I've spent a long time in rooms with people who are figuring this out. That's what I bring to the show.
Kelly Osborne
Founder, Reporter, Creative Director, Producer
I've worked in e-commerce since its inception — from the celebrity-studded launch parties of the 1990s to founding and co-founding two companies of my own, both covered in more than 400 publications, including InStyle, O Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. I led the launch of Google Home across 25 countries, managed the coveted homepage at eBay, and spent a couple of interesting years in California politics.
My first memory is hiding a seizure from my mother. I was five, and I did it to keep her from worrying. I'm 52 now; I still have seizures, and I live with medication-resistant epilepsy. I work with my Stanford Neurology team and keep chasing lifestyle and alternative therapies that might make things more manageable — an unresolved search that shapes how I come at this show.
I'm a mother with a big personality inherited from Southern roots. I founded Sudden Blackout, and I run the reporting, the production, and the brand — bringing my career to it, and also a decades-long relationship with hiding this, and now telling it.