Unexpected challenges often lead to newfound purpose. That's the story behind my latest venture—a mental health podcast called "She Is Her" specifically created for women with disabilities.
From my current bedbound state, I'm launching this platform to address the unique intersection of disability and mental health. Having experienced anxiety and depression alongside my own physical disability, I recognized the need for a space where women could share their stories and connect with others who truly understand. "She Is Her" will air Tuesdays and Thursdays on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, featuring conversations with women brave enough to share their mental health journeys.
My recovery hasn't been straightforward. My orthopedic surgeon recently delivered the disheartening news: "I wish you were doing better at this point." Rather than letting this discourage me, I'm channeling my energy into physical therapy, preparing for eventual hamstring surgery, returning to school for a communications degree, and of course, building this podcast. While physically limited for now, I'm discovering that impact isn't bound by mobility.
If you're navigating the complex terrain of disability and mental health, or if you'd like to share your story on the podcast, please reach out. We can arrange recording sessions via Zoom. Check out "She Is Her" on your favorite podcast platform, and join me in creating a community where vulnerability becomes strength and shared experiences lead to collective healing. Your story matters—let's tell it together.
Episode Transcript
Welcome to A Winning Heart, you guys.
Okay, now I can tell you whatyou might have already heard,
because I did a solo episode onthis.
Now I can tell you what I'mdoing.
I'm actually hosting, and yes,another podcast Call Me Nuts on
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mental health, and it's calledshe Is Her and it's going to be
primarily for women on mentalhealth journeys, because having
a disability and at least withmy own disability and anxiety
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and depression comes with it.
So I decided to start thismental health podcast just
because I wanted to help womenwith disabilities.
Now, it's just started out, sowhat we're going to do is what
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I'm going to do is host it onTuesdays and Thursdays, so if
anyone wants to come on, theycan reach out to me and I'll set
it up via Zoom, I'll set it upvia some sort of recording and
you can reach out to me andshare your mental health journey
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and call it good.
And, yes, I'm still bed bound atthis very moment.
For those of you who arecurious, and yes, I will admit
this publicly, I had myall-speaker surgeon tell me geez
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, I literally tell me geez, Iwish you.
I thought you were going to bedoing better at this point, and
this is my orthopedic surgeon,and so I'm like, okay, dude, you
really want to not give me hope, do you?
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So, yeah, and this is inPhoenix, arizona, and so I'm
like, dude, you really don'twant to give me help, do you?
And so what I'm doing is doingPT, doing all that.
Then I'm going to eventuallyget my leg down and get it
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strong enough to go down, andthen I will get it down and get
it to the point where I can havehamstring surgery, where I can
have hamstring surgery.
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But in the meantime, I'll begoing back to school to get a
communications degree, and thenI will also be working on she Is
Her Mind as a Mental Healthpodcast.
It could be found in Spotifyand Apple Podcasts for right now
, and then I'm working ongetting it on different places.
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But please look up Shiza andlistening to the maiden voyage
of that.
And I'm going to let Dan theYell go, because Dan the Yell
has a date with a friend of mineactually, which I'm kind of
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jealous of that, but that's along story why Dan the Yell has
a date with a friend of mine,and yeah.
So I'm going to let Danielle goand I'm going to let Danielle
leave us out and we'll catch youguys next week and we'll I'll
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give you guys more updates aboutmy leg and my stuff and life
goes on, and we'll About my legand my Stuff, and life goes on,
and we'll be Figuring it out.
So bye you guys.
Thank you for following us.
Thank you For following us.
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Thank you, bye, bye, thank you,bye, bye.
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