From Survivor to Mentor

Before he was TandemStride’s Chief of Staff and a mentor, Thomas Stephenson was a trauma patient, waking up in a hospital bed after a life-altering accident, unsure of what would come next.

In this powerful video, he shares his story: the moment everything changed, the quiet grief of coming home, and how a peer mentor gave him something even his exceptional clinical care couldn’t—connection with somebody who understood.