184 {Lisa Cox OAM} Losing your toes, fingertips and leg from Strep A

SINGAPORE workshop : Engagement and burnout in the workplace  INDIA workshop: High Performance Leadership Summit To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here. Coming back from a deadly illness and stroke is big enough challenge in itself, but the equal challenge that many don’t think about is having to survive with the disabilities from that incident, in a world that does not make any space for disability. That is what Lisa Cox has had to do and not only has she manage that, she has made it her mission to remove the barriers and systemic injustice faced by people with a disability, Lisa Cox OAM is an author, university researcher, TEDx speaker and internationally awarded thought leader. Her work is focused on changing social attitudes about disability using world's most powerful industries - like media. In this episode she shares:Her early lifeWhat happened when she had a stroke at 24Her first memories of this experienceHow she found out her leg would be amputatedHow she had to relearn how to do basic everyday tasksHer worst day in recoveryThe process of coming to grips with what happenedWhat happened once she was out of hospitalGetting back into the gymThe process of balancing grief and gratitudeHow because of her disability she met her husbandTeaching herself to type again with her new fingersHaving perspectiveGetting back on the dating sceneThe social expectation that she had to lower her standards to find someoneWhat shopping for a wedding dress with her disability was likeThe ableism she encounters in life nowHow her now husband was patted on the back for proposing to a disabled womanWhat life looks like nowHer work in rebranding disabilities Key Quotes “There's this idea that once you acquire a disability your life will be tragic.” “All of my organs shut down and every cell in my boy died.” “I realised I had a tonne of internalised ableism.” More about Lis Find out more via her website. You can get involved with the podcast online On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeus Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to contact the podcast, email us here: support@challengesthatchangeus.com Or check out our website: www.Challengesthatchangeus.com If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website: http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.