Episode 012
Bonny Parker & Teresa Welch
2026-09-02
Bonny Parker lost her son Cannon in 2020, when he was five years old. Teresa Welch was a complete stranger at the time. She picked up the phone anyway. Today they run the Ride on Cannon Foundation together.
Bonny and Teresa join Rob to talk about who Cannon actually was, what the days after his death looked like, how two strangers ended up building something together, and what the foundation does now - the bike giveaways, the community events, and the families they help. It is a heavy conversation and they did not flinch from any of it.
Cannon's story doesn't end here. It rides on.
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