October 9, 2025 • 53 mins
In this episode of Hope Unlocked, host Kristin Kurtz welcomes inspirational speaker, author, and coach Tasha Schuh to share her powerful story of resilience, faith, and hope. At just 16, a tragic trapdoor fall left her a C5 quadriplegic—but through her relationship with Jesus, Tasha discovered strength, purpose, hope and joy despite life-changing circumstances. She shares her PATH framework (Purpose, Attitude, Team, Hope) and her powerful motto “Hold On, Pain Ends,” encouraging listeners to trust God’s faithfulness through every season. Tasha’s journey will ignite courage, inspire perseverance, and remind you that hope truly unlocks new possibilities.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:16):
Welcome to the Hope Unlock Podcast.
I'm your host, Kristen Kurtz,and I'm also the founder of New
Wings Coaching.
I help and empower wild-heartedand adventurous women of faith
feeling caged and stuck, unlocktheir true purpose and
potential, break free fromlimitations, and thrive with
confidence, courage, and hope.
If you're curious to learn moreabout coaching with me, head to
newwinkscoaching.net and be sureto explore the show notes for
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ways to connect with me further.
Get ready to dive in as weuncover empowering keys and
insights in this episode.
So tune in and let's unlock hopetogether.
Welcome to the Hope UnlockedPodcast.
I'm Kristen Kurtz, your host.
I pray this episode is like aholy IV of hope for your soul.
Please help me welcome Tasha Shuto the show.
(00:58):
I am so excited to have her heretoday.
We've just been chatting beforewe got started, and she's
definitely a divine connectionthrough our mutual friend
Jennifer.
So, Tasha, would you be open tojust sharing a little bit about
yourself before we get into yourstory?
SPEAKER_01 (01:14):
Yes, thank you so much, Kristen, for having me.
This is such an honor to behere.
Um, well, my story is uh quitelengthy, but my um I grew up in
Ellsworth, Wisconsin.
I was just a typical teenagerinvolved in sports and music and
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theater.
And my life changed dramaticallywhen I was 16 years old.
I was participating in my highschool's musical production, The
Wizard of Oz.
And we were three nights awayfrom our opening night, and
things were extremely chaotic.
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Very, well, if you've ever beeninvolved in a theater
production, I have not, but Ican imagine.
It is it gets wild, it getscrazy when it comes down to
crunch time, and you're tryingto get everything figured out,
and we just had a lot of thingsto work on, especially because
Wizard of Oz is such um so manymagical effects, so many uh
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theater stunts and things thatneed to be done in order for it
to be like the Wizard of Oz.
And I was standing on stagehelping with the scene change
when, and keep in mind that itwas pitch black, we were uh
rehearsing as if it was ouropening night, and we were
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working on a scene change thathad been giving us a lot of
troubles.
And the scene change,unbeknownst to me, required the
trapdoor on stage to be openedfor that scene.
And uh the night before when wewere rehearsing this, it's a
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super long story, supercomplicated, but the night
before I had a different job.
I wasn't on stage, and ourdirector changed all of our jobs
around so that we could get thescene changed done in a faster
time.
So I was standing on stagewaiting for this bridge to move
towards me, which my prop wassitting on that stage on that
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bridge, and they removed thecover off of the trapdoor
directly behind me, and I had noidea, and it was just it all
happened so fast.
Someone told me to move out ofthe way because I was in between
the bridge that was supposed togo over the open trapdoor, and
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to me, the most logic way tomove was backwards, and I took
one step backward, and my footwent through empty space.
I immediately knew thatsomething was very wrong.
And seconds later, I landed 16feet below where I was standing
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on a cement floor.
My head is what hit the cementfloor first, and my body came
second, and the only thing inbetween my head and my body was
my neck, and I actually heardthe vertebrae snap in my neck.
I had no idea what that meant,but I was, yeah, it was I never
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lost consciousness, so Iremember everything.
And I was soon to find out as Iwas brought to the local
hospital and then airlifted toSt.
Mary's Hospital in Rochester,Minnesota, that I had broken my
C5th vertebrae and had severelycrushed my spinal cord.
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And what that meant was that Iwould now be a C5 quadriplegic.
And I was 16 years old, onemonth away from turning 17.
And I had so many dreams, I hadso many goals.
It's kind of the time of yourlife where you're starting to
think of all the possibilitiesand all the excitement of what
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your future is going to looklike.
And it just honestly felt likethe rug of life had been ripped
out right from underneath me.
And so I grew up going tochurch.
I grew up believing in God, butit was just a Sunday morning
thing.
I I went to church and I leftchurch and I never thought about
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God what He had, what his planswere.
And um and it was just very, youknow, it was just something my
family did every week.
It didn't really mean anythingto me.
And crazy enough, uh three daysafter the accident, I had a
16-hour neck surgery where theyfused together the vertebrae and
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my neck.
And as I came out of that, I gotextremely sick.
I was actually in a coma foreight days.
SPEAKER_03 (06:05):
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01 (06:06):
Uh yeah, I had developed a deadly blood
infection called septic shock.
My fever was 108 degrees.
Yeah.
Doctors told my family I wouldnot live.
They induced me into a coma andsaid, say goodbye.
She will not be here tomorrowmorning.
But thankfully, my parents, andI I had no idea that this was
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happening.
I was in a coma, so I had noidea I was in this battle for my
life.
And I honestly really didn'twant to live.
I mean, when they told me that Iwas gonna be in a wheelchair,
I'm like, I don't want to dothis.
I have had 16 good years, Idon't want to be here.
It would be best if I died.
And I almost got that wish, butthankfully my parents put me on
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every single church prayer chainknown to man.
Oh my god.
Yeah, there were just thousandsof people that were praying for
me.
And so for eight days I was inthat coma, and then I woke up
miraculously.
I mean, it doctors could notunderstand how I was alive,
especially with such a highfever, septic shock.
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I mean, I had infection throughevery part of my body.
And um, but when I woke up andthey told me what I'd been
through, and that I wasn'tsupposed to be here, and I was,
I knew deep down that there mustbe a reason, there must be a
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plan because I didn't want tolive, you know, I didn't want to
be here.
SPEAKER_00 (07:42):
And that was prior to the surgery, you were you
were really feeling that way.
SPEAKER_01 (07:45):
Oh my goodness, yes.
I was devastated, devastated.
I mean, I just couldn't imaginemy life in being in a in a
wheelchair, and I didn't knowanybody in a wheelchair.
I just I I was a teenager thatwas very insecure, had very low
self-worth, really did not lovemyself, and I thought, oh my
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goodness, like how could I everdo anything good with my life?
And um, so I started rehab.
I spent almost another fivemonths in the hospital learning
independence, learning how tolive my life as a C5
quadriplegic.
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So I have I'm paralyzed from mychest down.
So I have no movement or feelingfrom my chest down, and then I
can move my, I can move my arms,I can move my wrists, my arms,
my biceps, deltoid muscles, butmy fingers are paralyzed.
And so um, so learning how tolive with like this was
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extremely challenging.
My boyfriend broke up with me.
My parents' marriage was fallingapart.
My parents had to build a newwheelchair accessible home
because the home I grew up inwas very old and had steps
everywhere, and it was just sucha challenging time.
I came home from the hospitalafter almost six months of being
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in Rochester.
I lived at the Raoul McDonaldhouse for a month while they
finished our new house.
And I went back to high schooland I just thought, okay, I'm
gonna go back, I'm gonna find,you know, go back to life.
And and it was soon where I waslike, there is no going back.
I have a brand new life that isnothing what I wanted it to be.
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Nothing, nothing that um I everenvisioned, and had many, many,
many dark times, I'm sure, asanyone can imagine.
It's it's it was I would notwish what I went through on my
worst enemy.
I mean, it was just so muchdepression, so much.
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I mean, just figuring out care,you know, I can't get it in and
out of bed on my own.
I can't um get dressed on myown.
There's many things that I can'tdo, and it was so overwhelming
by all the things that I hadlost and that I would never be
able to do again.
Sports, skiing, piano, I mean,all the things that I love to do
and singing.
(10:21):
My doctor told me that I wouldnever be able to sing again.
Really?
Yeah.
Is that true?
No, it's not true.
I actually do sing today, and Iclose every time I speak, I
close with a song singing overthe singingness.
Yep.
Yes, somewhere over the rainbowis my favorite song because it's
from The Wizard of Oz.
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And uh I really feel like that'smy rainbow thing, no wonder.
What did you say?
Yes, the rainbow.
That's what we were talkingabout.
Yes, I love it.
Um, and so um, but about a year,about a year, year and a half
after the accident, I had reallyhit rock bottom.
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I people wouldn't know itlooking at me, but internally I
was struggling so much.
Oh, I just felt so lonely.
I felt like my life was over,and I just kept hearing thoughts
like your life would be betterif you were dead.
You would your your life isover, you have no purpose,
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there's no plan for your life,God forgot about you.
And um all day, like every day,all day, every day, just
constant bombardment of justevil thoughts, and I thought
they were me.
I thought they were truth.
Um, but I got invited to a playat my now church.
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Um, and in this play, really forthe first time, I heard the
gospel.
I had, like I said, grow grownup going to church, but it was
just something that you did.
It wasn't it, I I thought thatGod was millions of miles away.
He didn't care about me.
I didn't think I could go to himwith my struggles and my
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challenges.
And I actually had startedlooking in before the accident
in many other really dark placeshoroscopes, um, Ouija boards,
just trying to find out why Iwas here.
What am I supposed to do with mylife?
That was my biggest question.
unknown (12:28):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (12:29):
And um, but I got invited to this play where they
shared the gospel, and it wasthe first time ever in my life
that A, I saw myself as a sinnerin need of a savior.
And it was so life-changing atthe end, they invited people to
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come up, and I went forward, andI was like, I think I'm becoming
a Christian.
I don't actually know what Idon't know what I just did.
Like, I know that God didsomething because my heart was
changing and I was crying, andlike I felt this peace that I
had never felt ever in my life.
But when I left that night, Ididn't, I didn't really know
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what had happened.
I was like, okay, God, like ifyou can do something with my
life, if you have a plan, like Iwould, you know, I want to
follow you, I want to know whatyou want me to do.
And he slowly put the rightpeople in my life.
Things started to turn around,and he just began to reveal
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himself in such an amazing waythat literally within the next
year, my entire family becameChristians.
My mom, my dad, my sister, mybrother, because they could just
see what God was doing in mylife.
It was just so phenomenal interms of just him healing my
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heart, him answering prayers,him opening doors.
And of course, I didn't walk.
Like for a long time I believedin miracles, and I still do,
I'll forever believe inmiracles, but I um I just really
came to the point where Igraduated high school, went to
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college at Winona StateUniversity, graduated from
there, um, and began just to seethat God really wanted me to
share my story of what happenedand what he had done.
And so I started sharing mystory at churches and um at
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Winona State in classrooms, andhe just really revealed to me
that he wanted me to speak, andI was like, Oh, speaking is you
didn't like speaking?
No, no, no, no, no.
I was like, Are you kidding me?
Like, I hate public speaking,this is the worst.
And he said to me, but you havea story now, and I was like, Oh
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my gosh, you're right.
Like, this life is worth living.
Like, and I was seeing that dayby day, year by year, I was
seeing that A, I was strongerthan I realized, and B, his
strength is so amazing, and hisjoy and his peace does not have
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anything to do with ourcircumstances and our situation.
SPEAKER_00 (15:31):
Like, when you had this like you know, revelation,
how old were you?
SPEAKER_01 (15:36):
Um, I was probably so I was 16 when I had my
accident.
This was probably between umlike 18 to 22, was while I was
going to school at Winona State.
Yet it was, you know, it was nota one-day thing.
It was this total journey ofjust him showing me his
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faithfulness, putting justamazing friends in my life and
people that loved him and knewhim, and just it is just really
awesome to look back.
I mean, it was very hard in themoment.
But when you look back and yousee how he orchestrated
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everything, I I I learned how todrive a minivan.
I graduated college with myfirst bachelor's degree in four
and a half years, which as aquadruplegic, it's like the
average American is six years.
So I was I was very girl.
Yeah, it was pretty, prettyawesome.
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And um, and then I went on andgot my second bachelor's degree
in theology because I wanted tostudy his word.
I wanted to know more about hisword and and him, and and um,
and then so I started speakingfull-time in 2007 when I um
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finished both of my bachelor'sdegrees.
Okay, and and I was like, okay,I'm gonna be an inspirational
speaker, and everybody was like,aha ha, very funny.
SPEAKER_00 (17:14):
Like, who's that was the response you got from
people?
SPEAKER_01 (17:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Did you have anybody like affirmyou in that?
Not really.
I mean, my family wasencouraging, but I think
everybody was leery.
Like, what how are you?
How is that gonna work?
How are you gonna do that?
Like, you're quadriplegic.
And I I um, but I knew God'svoice, I knew what he was
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telling me to do.
So my pastor's wife helped meprint out 250 flyers for schools
and 250 flyers for churches.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah, and I had been speakingfull time since I need to go
back a little bit here.
SPEAKER_04 (18:01):
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_00 (18:03):
Okay, Tasha, Tasha doesn't really want to speak.
Like, like, tell me a little bitmore.
Initially, you're like, I'm youknow, thinking to yourself, like
oh my gosh, kind of like meduring the podcast.
I'm like, Laura, like I thinkyou got the wrong one.
Tell me about can you tell us alittle bit more about this
process?
Because I feel like a lot of thepeople who listen into this just
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inadvertently, because I I tendto love to help, you know,
unlock voices and roars.
Tell me a little bit more aboutlike what like this process was
for you in getting that you knowconfidence to step out and use
your voice.
SPEAKER_01 (18:43):
Yeah, it's really more there, right?
Oh, yeah.
It really started at WinonaState when a pro a special ed
professor asked me to speak tohis class.
SPEAKER_03 (18:54):
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (18:54):
And I thought, what am I gonna say?
Like, what am I gonna like?
Oh, this this is you know, thisis gonna be so depressing.
Like, I hadn't done all thethings that I've done today in
my journey, you know, that is soinspiring and so empowering.
Like, I was like, I fell througha trapdoor and I broke my neck,
and here I am.
And and I talked for like a halfan hour, and all these people
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stayed afterward and just said,I needed to hear that.
Like, that was so inspirational,that was so great.
I needed that encouragement, andI'm thinking to myself, what
encouragement?
Like, there's nothing, and youhad no idea.
Yeah, and they were so they wereso moved by my story, and I
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loved that.
That was what I've always wantedto help people, I have always
wanted to make a difference.
I didn't know how I could do it,but I be I in that one speaking
time, I saw people that weremoved by my story, and I thought
that's what I want.
This is and and it scared me.
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I mean, literally, the first ohmy I still get nervous when I
speak, like I still get youknow, the butterflies, and
because A, I want to do a goodjob, B, I want to help people,
so I want to give my best.
But it's something that aftereach engagement, I was there
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were lines, like lines of peoplewho were saying, you know, I
this happened to me, and this iswhat I needed to hear, and this
is my story, and you helped me.
And I mean, it's just and that'swhat it was about.
Every time when I get up tospeak, I get nervous, but I
always remember the ending, Ialways remember the line of
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people at the end.
SPEAKER_00 (20:49):
So that's what you put in your mind, kind of meet
you there.
SPEAKER_01 (20:53):
Yes, that's that's what started to build confidence
in me was people need of thepeople.
Yep, people need this message,and and it's that hope which
made me so excited to be a partof the year.
SPEAKER_00 (21:08):
I know there was something you said when I was
like, Oh my gosh, do you want toshare your story on Hope
Unlocked?
What was it?
Do you remember what I said?
SPEAKER_01 (21:16):
Yeah, well, we were we were um on Jennifer's call,
and you said that you had apodcast titled Hope Unlocked,
and I said, Hope is my favoriteword.
Yes, that's right.
That's that's what yeah, becauseit is.
It's hope is so powerful, andit's really what people need at
every at every stage of life,yeah.
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And wherever we are, we need weneed hope.
And that was what really what mystory represents, you know.
It's I think a lot of people,including myself, thought that
in order for me to be happy, Ihad to walk.
And I I felt like that for along time.
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Like I prayed for a miracle, andI, you know, found miracles in
the Bible, and I was like, okay,God, let's do one of those.
You know, I I I wanna I wannawalk because I wanna I want to
be happy.
And that was your tie to happy,exactly, absolutely.
And when it was about 10 yearsafter the accident, which was
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2007, right when I startedspeaking, I began to realize I
don't have to walk to be happy.
Like I am, I am genuinely happy.
Actually, I am happier nowsitting in this wheelchair than
when I was walking, because Ihave Jesus, I have true hope,
and I have a faithful God that Idon't have to do this life by
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myself, and that he'll help meand lead me and guide me and
just give me his peace and joy.
And so, so yes, trust me, when Istarted speaking, I was scared
out of my ever-living mind.
Like, what do you mean?
Like, I think somebody else isbetter equipped for this.
SPEAKER_00 (23:08):
Isn't that like one of the thoughts that comes for
you?
I mean, even would you even saystill, does that come up for you
sometimes?
Every bet at this point now.
SPEAKER_01 (23:20):
So we're kind of on a new journey, and I'll share a
little bit more about that too,of kind of moving away from
speaking, and that has allstarted over, like because I got
so confident in speaking, okay,that um, yeah, I still got
nervous, but I knew that liveswould be impacted.
I knew that um we were making adifference, and um, but a lot of
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shifts have happened in the lastyear, yeah, and I'm right back
to where I how I'm feeling whenI started with speaking.
Like just really what did yousay?
SPEAKER_00 (23:55):
Tell us more about this show.
SPEAKER_01 (23:57):
Yeah, so so um I should mention that um I got
married in 2012 or 2013.
Oh my goodness, my husband wouldlaugh at me.
I don't remember what year wegot married.
We met in 2012.
We got married in 2013.
Okay, and so we just celebratedour 12-year wedding anniversary
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and um just and oh god, it'sjust I've written two books, I
built my own home.
I mean, just amazing things, andI've traveled and spoke to
hundreds of thousands of people.
It's just such a tell us onething here.
SPEAKER_00 (24:36):
I I want to make sure I capture this.
You've written two books, andyou said that you're you're
unable to use your fingers.
SPEAKER_01 (24:44):
Correct, yes.
So I use more about this.
So I use a voice activatedprogram that writes for me.
So I just talk into it and ittypes out what I say.
And um, so yeah, so I've writtentwo books.
My first my first book is MyLast Step Backward.
Oh, definitely referencing myaccident and also just what I
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learned in moving forward aftermy accident.
And then my second book is allabout my husband and I and our
dating marriage relationship,and that's titled My Next Move
Forward.
And so very um symbolic of theaccident and moving on in life,
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and and so yes, so those are mytwo books, and I mean that's
that's another thing.
I I felt like God wanted me towrite a book, and I'm like, how?
Like, I'm not a writer.
I love to I love to talk, I loveto speak, but I am not a writer.
And so, but he made it happen.
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He put the right people in mylife to help me, and and um
incredible, seriously.
SPEAKER_00 (25:59):
Like, there's no excuses to people, and I'm I'm
I'm looking at myself in themirror right now.
Well, we all have to do that,right?
I'm a vertical processor, soI've often said, like, oh,
there's no way I could write abook because I talk.
SPEAKER_01 (26:15):
But people need your story, yeah.
People need people need yourstory.
That's why I wrote it becausewrote my books because I knew
that not everybody was going tobe able to get to a speaking
engagement.
And so, and and you can share somuch more.
Like I got 45 minutes to speak,tell my story, give you know
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what I've learned, where a book,you know, you can share so much
more, and and um, and there's somuch more to my story than I
could ever speak and and and andshare.
So um, so yeah, so we um so myhusband and I um in the last
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year, about a year ago, God so Ishould say we we speak mostly.
Um oh, I'm so sorry if I'mgetting ahead of myself, but
it's okay.
I'm following what did you say?
I'm following.
I'm trying.
Okay, good, good, good, good.
Um so I started speaking in2007, stayed busy, loved it, it
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was awesome.
But in 2014, my best friend fromhigh school lost her 14-year-old
son to suicide.
And it was just, oh my gosh, Istill get choked up because it's
just it's so hard.
And I saw the pain that theywent through, and I saw this
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amazing, beautiful boy thatwould never fill the live out
his days to know his fullpotential, and I know what that
feels like.
I know what it feels like tofeel hopeless, I know what it
feels like to want to give upand quit.
And so God really put on ourhearts to start speaking at
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schools, and we were like, okay,we're gonna speak at schools,
and we just thought all thedoors would open, we would just
the phones would ring, and itwas crickets, and we're like, Oh
God, I thought you wanted us tospeak at schools, but again, he
put the right people in ourlives.
Um just oh, it's so amazing.
That was in 2014.
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We started speaking in schoolsfull-time between 2015 and 2016,
and since 2017, we've spoken toover a hundred thousand students
and educators, and it's it'sit's it's unbelievable.
It's amazing, yeah.
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And and so about a year ago, um,and we but we travel a lot.
Okay, and about a year ago, myhusband um had been just sharing
that traveling was gettingharder for him, and because he
does he does all the driving.
We drive everywhere we go.
I can fly in my wheelchair, andwe have, but in recent years,
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they they do not handle mywheelchair well, and we would
get places and it would bebroken.
SPEAKER_00 (29:17):
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01 (29:18):
Yeah, it's it's horrendous.
Like, wow, and it's just notit's really hard to find
transportation once you land.
Like just lining all of that up,it's very challenging.
And so we just decided we weregonna drive everywhere.
So we're in the car a lot.
We do on average, we do 50 to 70engagements a year, so we're
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very busy.
And he just had startedexpressing that he was feeling
tired, wanted to slow downspeaking, and that was right
when God really put on my heartthat change was coming, and I
did not know what that lookedlike or what he meant, but I was
like, okay.
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I mean, I honestly have he hasbeen so faithful to me.
So faithful.
And I I just whenever he speaksto me, I do my best to just be
like, okay, let's do it.
Like you've never led me astray.
And I would never even have thismoment where I'm like, God, are
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you sure?
Like, what are you doing?
And he's like, really, Tasha?
SPEAKER_00 (30:27):
Isn't that really the question like we ask
sometimes that I know he's likehe's like, I'm just asking you
to trust me.
SPEAKER_01 (30:35):
Like, I know what I'm doing, I know what your
future is.
And I'm like, okay.
So again, he put the rightpeople in my life, and we
started um just praying andseeing what God wanted us to do.
And I was connected withJennifer Reyes that we were
(30:56):
talking about in the earlierpart of this.
And she was like, you could docoaching, you could do
resilience coaching, whichresilience is really another
word that I'm just reallypassionate about because I I
believe that that's how I gothere, was just really
persevering, refusing to quit,and knowing that better days
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were ahead.
Yeah, which is also hope.
I believe that resilience andhope go hand in hand.
Yes, absolutely.
So we um we just started likeputting out feelers and putting
things on social media, and um,and I already have clients that
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I'm working with and I just loveit.
I love, love, love this becausea we're able to be home more and
and um I feel like I really getto see transformation.
You know, when you speak to agroup of 600 kids, you they all
(32:07):
come up and give you hugs, andthey're like, I love it, it was
amazing, my life has changed.
And then they leave, you know,and you're like, did I make an
impact?
And you know you do.
Yeah, you know, I mean, I getmessages every day on social
media from people that haveheard me speak and how they're
live, they still remember, youknow, what I spoke about and
what um what my message was, butI'm seeing real transformation
(32:33):
with that one-on-one withcoaching.
And so it's been reallywonderful just serving women who
are feeling burnt out, feelingoverwhelmed, and just really
wanting to know how to thrivedespite their circumstances.
And that's the one thing thatI've learned in my journey as a
quadriplegic is that yourcircumstances do not have to be
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the reason for holding you backfrom thriving.
And I always thought that likelife will be good as long as
everything is going the way Iwant it to.
But right?
I mean, that's never happened.
Never, ever, ever.
And it's just like I've actuallylearned in my journey how to
embrace these difficulties andthese challenges.
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And people look at me, I mean,it's so interesting.
People are like, I'm so jealousof you.
And I'm like, I'm aquadriplegic.
You're jealous of me?
Like, how can you be jealous ofme?
And they're like, your peace,your joy, your happiness.
And I'm like, it is it is justlearning how to thrive despite
all of those challenges.
(33:39):
I have so many challenges, Ihave so many, you know, medical
things and financial things andand relationship issues, not
with my husband, but family, youknow, all of that, you know,
just like everybody else inlife.
Yes, and um, and yeah, I'velearned how to thrive, and that
(34:03):
is my passion to share that withothers.
Yeah, so I'm really excited forcontinuing this um new new
stage.
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (34:15):
Well, I would love to hear, you know, I'm uh as a
coach as well, like I am totallywith you on just that one-on-one
aspect where you can dig in withpeople, and I'm sure you're
similar with me, where you canliterally dig in and you know,
kind of mine out the gold andhelp people, you know, be set
free from those things that areholding them back, right?
(34:36):
Yes.
And I would love to hear, youknow, I'm sure you're similar to
me, we're very confidential,yeah.
But um, is there an example thatyou could share of, you know,
maybe somebody that you'veworked with recently without
disclosing names of of whatthey've been able to experience
in working with you?
Because I think sometimes, and Idon't know if you've experienced
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this as well.
Um, I actually did a podcastepisode about the difference
between like a consultant coachand a counselor.
Sometimes people are like, Well,I don't really know what a coach
is.
So, like, I would love for youto share an example of you know
something that you've um beenable to walk alongside a woman.
SPEAKER_01 (35:15):
And yeah, thanks so much for asking.
I'm I'm trying to think, I wouldprobably pick um this one woman
that I started working with acouple months ago, and she has
fibromyalgia, okay, which is adebilitating chronic pain
disease.
And um, and she just said, Ijust I loved how she put this.
(35:39):
She says, I lost my girl.
And she said, I was always afighter, I was always someone
that persevered, and I've justlost that.
And I want to know how to bepositive, despite my
circumstances.
She's just a really strongbeliever in God and just was
really praying for someone tocome alongside her to help her
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because she had tried to do itfor so long herself and just
couldn't get there, which Ithink is so awesome about
coaching because it's justhaving someone alongside you
that sees things that like youwant to see, but you can't.
And and so um, so we've workedtogether.
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I've helped her with you knowher attitude.
That was the biggest thing shewanted to work on.
I want to know how you have apositive attitude, how you can
live every day with so much joy.
And so that's what we've workedon.
We've worked on, and it's justbeen so phenomenal.
And plus, just like tacklingthese things of how to handle
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chronic pain, how to handle umthose really hard days when you
want to do good, like you wantto get out of bed, you want to
go to work, you want to uh stillaccomplish your tasks that you
need to, but the pain is soexcruciating.
(37:07):
And so just working with her onto on tools, you know, that I've
used in my past with pain andand uh giving her those
strategies to help her, and it'sjust been so transformational.
I'm getting all choked upbecause it's just so I just
she's you know, she says itherself.
(37:28):
I'm a new person, and it'ssomething that brings me so much
joy to know that I'm seeingfirsthand the impact of how she
now, when she has a an a day oran episode of pain, she knows
exactly what to do, how tohandle that, how to work through
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it, get through it quicker, andum how to live life with with
more joy, despite thesecircumstances that she has.
SPEAKER_00 (38:02):
Huge.
Yeah, and it's not justimpacting her.
I'm imagining that there's ahuge ripple effect from from
that as well.
SPEAKER_01 (38:11):
Oh my goodness, yes, her spouse, her kids.
I mean, just everything and evenmy life.
Like, I know I look forward tomeeting with her.
I love her.
Like, I am just like, I lovethis person.
Like, I love seeing thetransformation.
I love seeing what um she'slearning and what new things
(38:34):
she's trying.
And she's like, Taja, thisworked, this helped me so much.
Look at what I did, and I justlove celebrating with her the
big wins and the little wins,and that's just been so so so
rewarding.
SPEAKER_00 (38:48):
Yes, and it's it's just so amazing that you know.
I I think I don't know aboutyou, but like I I didn't have my
first coach until gosh, was it Istarted coaching about eight
years ago, and then I think Ihad my first coach maybe about
10 years ago.
And it really wouldn't you saylike it accelerates?
(39:08):
Oh there's an acceleration thathappens.
Yep, partly because you havesomebody, um, even if and and
and I don't know about you, butlike I've made friends with my
clients because I don't know howto not be friends with like I
just love people, um be able toum have somebody in your corner
(39:28):
that is neutral, that isn'tliving with you, right?
Like can be that person who's onyou puck.
SPEAKER_01 (39:38):
Yeah, 100%.
I believe, and I tell my clientsthat I'm like, I believe in
coaching so much that I have acoach.
Like I believe in this so muchbecause I've seen it, I've seen
it in my life when working witha coach, and that's why I want
to be a coach because and why Iam doing coaching, because there
(40:00):
that's really where you seetransformation, where you see
this, you see what they've whatthey're going through, yeah, and
you've been there, yeah, and youknow how to get them there
faster.
You know how to help them to notgo through all the things that
you went through.
I mean, I I look back and I'mlike, oh my goodness, it took me
(40:22):
so it took me 10 years to reallyget to a point where I said I
love my life, where I said, andI'm and I mean it.
You know, I'm not just sayingthat to be inspirational, I mean
it.
I love my life with every fiberof my being, and I would not
trade my life with anyone, butit took me 10 years to get
(40:43):
there, and I think, man, I canhelp people get there faster.
And that love it.
SPEAKER_00 (40:49):
Yeah, it's beautiful, and it's even as you
were talking, I was like, oh mygosh, like you're an I love my
life coach.
Yes, that is like people lovetheir life.
I yes, and that I love my lifecoach.
SPEAKER_01 (41:02):
Oh, I love it.
Oh my gosh, that is so awesome.
I little words, I am kind of Iand you are so beautiful with
words every time I hear you.
I oh my goodness, that is soawesome.
That's exactly it, because Ijust don't think a lot of people
can say that.
And I want to help people get towhere they can say that also.
SPEAKER_00 (41:24):
It's seriously so beautiful.
I am so thankful that he likeshifted you into this, not to
say that like you know, there'sa there's different seasons in
our journey, not to say thathe's speaking again, but it
might look different because doyou have something like new
coming?
SPEAKER_01 (41:43):
So we do.
Um we actually, my husband and Iare actually planning on
adopting.
unknown (41:50):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (41:50):
So that was kind of the whole shift, like the
catalyst to get us really offthe road because we're wanting
to adopt an older child uhbetween five and twelve years
old.
And that will we're we'reworking through the Wisconsin
public adoption where um wherethese children have been removed
(42:17):
and had their parental rightsterminated.
So they have been in trauma andthey cannot travel with us.
You know, I mean, it's just thisper this child needs stability,
needs um, needs just a home, youknow, they're not gonna be able
(42:40):
to pack up and travel with us,if that makes sense.
Yes, right.
And so it was just and when Godtold us that he wanted us to
adopt, we were like, well, howwould that work?
Like we travel, like we're wespeak, like that wouldn't work.
And that's when he was justslowly starting to say, change
(43:00):
is coming, this is and this isgood, like you can trust me, you
can trust me, and and I don'tknow the timing of everything um
of how that's going to work, andwe've just continued praying
about it, and just how um whenthat will happen, we're not
(43:25):
sure, but we do know and feelthat this is where God is
leading us, and so and we'reexcited, we're so excited.
Um, I can still have children,and when I got married, when we
got married, I was like, do youwant to have kids?
And he was like, No, and like meneither.
I really get my fill ofspeaking, of speaking to kids,
(43:50):
and I feel like I was veryfulfilled from that.
And but almost two years ago, Iread the book Kisses from Katie.
SPEAKER_00 (43:59):
Yes, yes, have you have you read that book?
Oh, yeah, she was like veryyoung when she did her her life
mission come to her.
SPEAKER_01 (44:09):
It was just like God opened a door and said, You are
going to do this, you are goingto adopt, you're not moving to
Uganda, you're not moving toAfrica.
But I have a child that needs ahome, and I get choked up
because it's just such an honor,you know, because we get we see
lives impacted through speaking,but to have a human life, you
(44:31):
know, in our own home, God hasjust really softened our hearts
too.
Because we both for years we'relike, nope, yeah, no kids, we're
happy.
We're happy, and um, and wereally he made it, he has made
it very clear that this is wherewe're headed.
So this is another reason forthis transition, another reason
(44:54):
for this change, and we're very,very excited.
SPEAKER_00 (44:59):
Oh my goodness.
Well, and I just love likeeverything you've shared here.
There's there's so manydifferent seasons of your life
that have come to this point,you know, full circle.
And I know there's more.
There's more to come.
Like, do you feel like there'sanything else that he's like
stretching you into in the nextyear at all?
SPEAKER_01 (45:17):
Oh my gosh, there's so many things.
Just I think just you know, Iwant to create a course that
people can sign up.
So when I speak, I share mymessage's path, which is an
acronym for purpose, attitude,team, and hope.
And those are really the fourthings that helped me be
resilient after my accident thathelped me get to where I am
(45:42):
today.
And people are like, How did youget here?
I'm like, it's path, it's path.
This is these are the fourthings.
And so I'm creating a course forthat.
I want to write another book.
I I feel like there's so much instore.
And I get so excited, and then Ialso get scared, like, oh my
(46:02):
gosh, how is this gonna work?
And right, that's like one dayat a time, Tasha.
Just one day at a time.
I got you.
I mean, I've heard him say, Igot you, probably a hundred
times in the last six months,and I'm like, okay, okay, okay.
It's like I'm notorious forgetting ahead of him.
SPEAKER_00 (46:21):
Put me in coach.
SPEAKER_01 (46:22):
Oh, I it's just like notorious of like, I gotta do
this and I gotta do that.
And he's like, Tasha, my yoke iseasy, my burden is light.
I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,okay, okay, yeah, all right,
okay, but I gotta do this andthat.
And he's like, Tasha, just rest,like just like okay, okay.
(46:42):
So I'm excited about all of it,like it's an excitement, yeah.
And that's but he's just like,slow down.
Like, I know I told you to dothis, but like it's coming, it's
coming.
Yes, you have to trust.
And so I just hope this isencouraging for anybody
listening today because it'sokay.
(47:03):
I'm I'm sure that there arepeople listening that are going
through a similar season in somemaybe a similar way or a
different way, but I just knowthat God is faithful, and he's
been so faithful to me, and Iknow that he will be faithful to
you.
Just trust him, rest in hisgoodness and his purpose and his
(47:26):
plans that he has for you, andchoose hope.
Hope is so powerful, and I justlove I when I speak, I share
this acronym for hope, and it'sthis it's hold on pain ends.
And it's really it spells hope.
Yeah, hold on, pain ends.
And a woman shared with thiswith me probably five or six
(47:48):
years ago, and it was just solife-changing in terms of I've
always wanted to share hope.
I always talk about hope, but Inever had a good way to share
it.
And I'm like, finally, this isit.
Hold on, pain ends, like thingswill get better.
It doesn't mean that ourproblems go away, it just means
that God will use them and turnthe turn it for good, as He's
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done in my life.
I know those are His promises,and He is so faithful, so
faithful, girl.
SPEAKER_00 (48:21):
You you've you're amazing.
I'm so thankful.
And I at the end of every show,I always ask the guests to speak
a word over our listeners, butyou already did.
Yay! Oh my god.
If anything else is coming foryou, like I often ask people to
kind of get, you know, justthink of a picture of somebody
listening in today.
Um, is there anything else thatyou would say to this person
(48:43):
who's listening in?
And then would you pray us outtoday?
SPEAKER_01 (48:46):
I would love that.
Um, I'm just thinking ofsomebody that is burnt out,
overwhelmed.
I I know that feeling it's soeasy to pick it up in terms of
again, like what I was justsharing.
Like, I've got to do this andI've got to do that, and I've
got to carry it all.
And we've got like just bouldersand boulders and boulders on top
(49:10):
of our shoulders, and it weighsus down, it steals our joy, it
impacts our relationships.
It just it's there's no good inthat.
And and and God has called usagain.
This scripture, this always inthe last six months.
My yoke is easy, my burden islight.
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My yoke is easy.
I just gotta say it again myburden is light, and I just
really feel like somebody needsto hear that today, and really
just needs to just surrender,let go of everything that you're
holding on to, and hand it overto him because he is so capable,
(49:57):
he is so good in taking ourcares and dealing with them.
He says, Give me all your caresfor I care about you, give me
all your worries for I careabout you, and so let's pray.
(50:19):
Heavenly Father, I just thankyou for every person listening
today.
I just pray that this is anencouragement.
I pray, Lord, that you have beenglorified in this time, and I
just pray that you use thismessage to help people impact
their lives, transform theirlives, and help them to thrive
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no matter what theircircumstances are.
And we just take all of ourcares and we give them to you
and we trust you, we love you,and we thank you for this time
in Jesus' name.
Amen.
SPEAKER_00 (50:54):
Amen.
Well, Tasha, I would love foryou to share like best ways that
people can contact you, and thenI'll be sure to add that into
the show notes as well.
SPEAKER_01 (51:04):
Awesome, awesome.
So I'm I'm working on my websiteright now.
Um, but my speaking website isTashashoe.com, and at the bottom
of that website is a contactform.
You could just fill that out ifyou want to learn more about my
coaching um or you're interestedfor speaking.
(51:24):
We are still doing somespeaking, so um, but that would
be great.
Otherwise, I'm on so I'm onevery social media except for
Twitter.
So I'm on Facebook, LinkedIn,Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube,
TikTok.
Love it.
Oh, I would love for you towatch my videos.
I would love for you to reachout if you need any help or
(51:45):
support.
SPEAKER_00 (51:46):
Okay.
Well, like I said, I'll be sureto have everything in the show
notes so people can easilycontact you.
And thank you so much for beinga brave voice who's setting so
many free.
I'm gonna close with HopeUnlocked Anchoring Verse, which
is May the God of hope fill youwith all joy and peace and
believing, so that by the powerof the Holy Spirit you may
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abound in hope.
I am stressing abound in hope.
That's Romans 15, 13.
So thank you again for being ontoday.
I'll probably have to have youon another time in the future.
I would love that.
Thank you.
So thank you again, Tasha.
I'll be back with anotherepisode next week.
Bye, listeners.
Welcome to the Hope Unlock Podcast.
I'm your host, Kristen Kurtz,and I'm also the founder of New
Wings Coaching.
I help and empower wild-heartedand adventurous women of faith
feeling caged and stuck, unlocktheir true purpose and
potential, break free fromlimitations, and thrive with
confidence, courage, and hope.
If you're curious to learn moreabout coaching with me, head to
newwinkscoaching.net and be sureto explore the show notes for
(00:38):
ways to connect with me further.
Get ready to dive in as weuncover empowering keys and
insights in this episode.
So tune in and let's unlock hopetogether.
Welcome to the Hope UnlockedPodcast.
I'm Kristen Kurtz, your host.
I pray this episode is like aholy IV of hope for your soul.
Please help me welcome Tasha Shuto the show.
(00:58):
I am so excited to have her heretoday.
We've just been chatting beforewe got started, and she's
definitely a divine connectionthrough our mutual friend
Jennifer.
So, Tasha, would you be open tojust sharing a little bit about
yourself before we get into yourstory?
SPEAKER_01 (01:14):
Yes, thank you so much, Kristen, for having me.
This is such an honor to behere.
Um, well, my story is uh quitelengthy, but my um I grew up in
Ellsworth, Wisconsin.
I was just a typical teenagerinvolved in sports and music and
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theater.
And my life changed dramaticallywhen I was 16 years old.
I was participating in my highschool's musical production, The
Wizard of Oz.
And we were three nights awayfrom our opening night, and
things were extremely chaotic.
(01:56):
Very, well, if you've ever beeninvolved in a theater
production, I have not, but Ican imagine.
It is it gets wild, it getscrazy when it comes down to
crunch time, and you're tryingto get everything figured out,
and we just had a lot of thingsto work on, especially because
Wizard of Oz is such um so manymagical effects, so many uh
(02:18):
theater stunts and things thatneed to be done in order for it
to be like the Wizard of Oz.
And I was standing on stagehelping with the scene change
when, and keep in mind that itwas pitch black, we were uh
rehearsing as if it was ouropening night, and we were
(02:41):
working on a scene change thathad been giving us a lot of
troubles.
And the scene change,unbeknownst to me, required the
trapdoor on stage to be openedfor that scene.
And uh the night before when wewere rehearsing this, it's a
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super long story, supercomplicated, but the night
before I had a different job.
I wasn't on stage, and ourdirector changed all of our jobs
around so that we could get thescene changed done in a faster
time.
So I was standing on stagewaiting for this bridge to move
towards me, which my prop wassitting on that stage on that
(03:24):
bridge, and they removed thecover off of the trapdoor
directly behind me, and I had noidea, and it was just it all
happened so fast.
Someone told me to move out ofthe way because I was in between
the bridge that was supposed togo over the open trapdoor, and
(03:47):
to me, the most logic way tomove was backwards, and I took
one step backward, and my footwent through empty space.
I immediately knew thatsomething was very wrong.
And seconds later, I landed 16feet below where I was standing
(04:09):
on a cement floor.
My head is what hit the cementfloor first, and my body came
second, and the only thing inbetween my head and my body was
my neck, and I actually heardthe vertebrae snap in my neck.
I had no idea what that meant,but I was, yeah, it was I never
(04:30):
lost consciousness, so Iremember everything.
And I was soon to find out as Iwas brought to the local
hospital and then airlifted toSt.
Mary's Hospital in Rochester,Minnesota, that I had broken my
C5th vertebrae and had severelycrushed my spinal cord.
(04:50):
And what that meant was that Iwould now be a C5 quadriplegic.
And I was 16 years old, onemonth away from turning 17.
And I had so many dreams, I hadso many goals.
It's kind of the time of yourlife where you're starting to
think of all the possibilitiesand all the excitement of what
(05:12):
your future is going to looklike.
And it just honestly felt likethe rug of life had been ripped
out right from underneath me.
And so I grew up going tochurch.
I grew up believing in God, butit was just a Sunday morning
thing.
I I went to church and I leftchurch and I never thought about
(05:35):
God what He had, what his planswere.
And um and it was just very, youknow, it was just something my
family did every week.
It didn't really mean anythingto me.
And crazy enough, uh three daysafter the accident, I had a
16-hour neck surgery where theyfused together the vertebrae and
(05:58):
my neck.
And as I came out of that, I gotextremely sick.
I was actually in a coma foreight days.
SPEAKER_03 (06:05):
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01 (06:06):
Uh yeah, I had developed a deadly blood
infection called septic shock.
My fever was 108 degrees.
Yeah.
Doctors told my family I wouldnot live.
They induced me into a coma andsaid, say goodbye.
She will not be here tomorrowmorning.
But thankfully, my parents, andI I had no idea that this was
(06:30):
happening.
I was in a coma, so I had noidea I was in this battle for my
life.
And I honestly really didn'twant to live.
I mean, when they told me that Iwas gonna be in a wheelchair,
I'm like, I don't want to dothis.
I have had 16 good years, Idon't want to be here.
It would be best if I died.
And I almost got that wish, butthankfully my parents put me on
(06:53):
every single church prayer chainknown to man.
Oh my god.
Yeah, there were just thousandsof people that were praying for
me.
And so for eight days I was inthat coma, and then I woke up
miraculously.
I mean, it doctors could notunderstand how I was alive,
especially with such a highfever, septic shock.
(07:16):
I mean, I had infection throughevery part of my body.
And um, but when I woke up andthey told me what I'd been
through, and that I wasn'tsupposed to be here, and I was,
I knew deep down that there mustbe a reason, there must be a
(07:38):
plan because I didn't want tolive, you know, I didn't want to
be here.
SPEAKER_00 (07:42):
And that was prior to the surgery, you were you
were really feeling that way.
SPEAKER_01 (07:45):
Oh my goodness, yes.
I was devastated, devastated.
I mean, I just couldn't imaginemy life in being in a in a
wheelchair, and I didn't knowanybody in a wheelchair.
I just I I was a teenager thatwas very insecure, had very low
self-worth, really did not lovemyself, and I thought, oh my
(08:08):
goodness, like how could I everdo anything good with my life?
And um, so I started rehab.
I spent almost another fivemonths in the hospital learning
independence, learning how tolive my life as a C5
quadriplegic.
(08:29):
So I have I'm paralyzed from mychest down.
So I have no movement or feelingfrom my chest down, and then I
can move my, I can move my arms,I can move my wrists, my arms,
my biceps, deltoid muscles, butmy fingers are paralyzed.
And so um, so learning how tolive with like this was
(08:52):
extremely challenging.
My boyfriend broke up with me.
My parents' marriage was fallingapart.
My parents had to build a newwheelchair accessible home
because the home I grew up inwas very old and had steps
everywhere, and it was just sucha challenging time.
I came home from the hospitalafter almost six months of being
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in Rochester.
I lived at the Raoul McDonaldhouse for a month while they
finished our new house.
And I went back to high schooland I just thought, okay, I'm
gonna go back, I'm gonna find,you know, go back to life.
And and it was soon where I waslike, there is no going back.
I have a brand new life that isnothing what I wanted it to be.
(09:38):
Nothing, nothing that um I everenvisioned, and had many, many,
many dark times, I'm sure, asanyone can imagine.
It's it's it was I would notwish what I went through on my
worst enemy.
I mean, it was just so muchdepression, so much.
(10:00):
I mean, just figuring out care,you know, I can't get it in and
out of bed on my own.
I can't um get dressed on myown.
There's many things that I can'tdo, and it was so overwhelming
by all the things that I hadlost and that I would never be
able to do again.
Sports, skiing, piano, I mean,all the things that I love to do
and singing.
(10:21):
My doctor told me that I wouldnever be able to sing again.
Really?
Yeah.
Is that true?
No, it's not true.
I actually do sing today, and Iclose every time I speak, I
close with a song singing overthe singingness.
Yep.
Yes, somewhere over the rainbowis my favorite song because it's
from The Wizard of Oz.
(10:43):
And uh I really feel like that'smy rainbow thing, no wonder.
What did you say?
Yes, the rainbow.
That's what we were talkingabout.
Yes, I love it.
Um, and so um, but about a year,about a year, year and a half
after the accident, I had reallyhit rock bottom.
(11:04):
I people wouldn't know itlooking at me, but internally I
was struggling so much.
Oh, I just felt so lonely.
I felt like my life was over,and I just kept hearing thoughts
like your life would be betterif you were dead.
You would your your life isover, you have no purpose,
(11:26):
there's no plan for your life,God forgot about you.
And um all day, like every day,all day, every day, just
constant bombardment of justevil thoughts, and I thought
they were me.
I thought they were truth.
Um, but I got invited to a playat my now church.
(11:51):
Um, and in this play, really forthe first time, I heard the
gospel.
I had, like I said, grow grownup going to church, but it was
just something that you did.
It wasn't it, I I thought thatGod was millions of miles away.
He didn't care about me.
I didn't think I could go to himwith my struggles and my
(12:12):
challenges.
And I actually had startedlooking in before the accident
in many other really dark placeshoroscopes, um, Ouija boards,
just trying to find out why Iwas here.
What am I supposed to do with mylife?
That was my biggest question.
unknown (12:28):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (12:29):
And um, but I got invited to this play where they
shared the gospel, and it wasthe first time ever in my life
that A, I saw myself as a sinnerin need of a savior.
And it was so life-changing atthe end, they invited people to
(12:52):
come up, and I went forward, andI was like, I think I'm becoming
a Christian.
I don't actually know what Idon't know what I just did.
Like, I know that God didsomething because my heart was
changing and I was crying, andlike I felt this peace that I
had never felt ever in my life.
But when I left that night, Ididn't, I didn't really know
(13:15):
what had happened.
I was like, okay, God, like ifyou can do something with my
life, if you have a plan, like Iwould, you know, I want to
follow you, I want to know whatyou want me to do.
And he slowly put the rightpeople in my life.
Things started to turn around,and he just began to reveal
(13:37):
himself in such an amazing waythat literally within the next
year, my entire family becameChristians.
My mom, my dad, my sister, mybrother, because they could just
see what God was doing in mylife.
It was just so phenomenal interms of just him healing my
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heart, him answering prayers,him opening doors.
And of course, I didn't walk.
Like for a long time I believedin miracles, and I still do,
I'll forever believe inmiracles, but I um I just really
came to the point where Igraduated high school, went to
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college at Winona StateUniversity, graduated from
there, um, and began just to seethat God really wanted me to
share my story of what happenedand what he had done.
And so I started sharing mystory at churches and um at
(14:43):
Winona State in classrooms, andhe just really revealed to me
that he wanted me to speak, andI was like, Oh, speaking is you
didn't like speaking?
No, no, no, no, no.
I was like, Are you kidding me?
Like, I hate public speaking,this is the worst.
And he said to me, but you havea story now, and I was like, Oh
(15:05):
my gosh, you're right.
Like, this life is worth living.
Like, and I was seeing that dayby day, year by year, I was
seeing that A, I was strongerthan I realized, and B, his
strength is so amazing, and hisjoy and his peace does not have
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anything to do with ourcircumstances and our situation.
SPEAKER_00 (15:31):
Like, when you had this like you know, revelation,
how old were you?
SPEAKER_01 (15:36):
Um, I was probably so I was 16 when I had my
accident.
This was probably between umlike 18 to 22, was while I was
going to school at Winona State.
Yet it was, you know, it was nota one-day thing.
It was this total journey ofjust him showing me his
(16:02):
faithfulness, putting justamazing friends in my life and
people that loved him and knewhim, and just it is just really
awesome to look back.
I mean, it was very hard in themoment.
But when you look back and yousee how he orchestrated
(16:22):
everything, I I I learned how todrive a minivan.
I graduated college with myfirst bachelor's degree in four
and a half years, which as aquadruplegic, it's like the
average American is six years.
So I was I was very girl.
Yeah, it was pretty, prettyawesome.
(16:43):
And um, and then I went on andgot my second bachelor's degree
in theology because I wanted tostudy his word.
I wanted to know more about hisword and and him, and and um,
and then so I started speakingfull-time in 2007 when I um
(17:04):
finished both of my bachelor'sdegrees.
Okay, and and I was like, okay,I'm gonna be an inspirational
speaker, and everybody was like,aha ha, very funny.
SPEAKER_00 (17:14):
Like, who's that was the response you got from
people?
SPEAKER_01 (17:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Did you have anybody like affirmyou in that?
Not really.
I mean, my family wasencouraging, but I think
everybody was leery.
Like, what how are you?
How is that gonna work?
How are you gonna do that?
Like, you're quadriplegic.
And I I um, but I knew God'svoice, I knew what he was
(17:42):
telling me to do.
So my pastor's wife helped meprint out 250 flyers for schools
and 250 flyers for churches.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah, and I had been speakingfull time since I need to go
back a little bit here.
SPEAKER_04 (18:01):
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_00 (18:03):
Okay, Tasha, Tasha doesn't really want to speak.
Like, like, tell me a little bitmore.
Initially, you're like, I'm youknow, thinking to yourself, like
oh my gosh, kind of like meduring the podcast.
I'm like, Laura, like I thinkyou got the wrong one.
Tell me about can you tell us alittle bit more about this
process?
Because I feel like a lot of thepeople who listen into this just
(18:27):
inadvertently, because I I tendto love to help, you know,
unlock voices and roars.
Tell me a little bit more aboutlike what like this process was
for you in getting that you knowconfidence to step out and use
your voice.
SPEAKER_01 (18:43):
Yeah, it's really more there, right?
Oh, yeah.
It really started at WinonaState when a pro a special ed
professor asked me to speak tohis class.
SPEAKER_03 (18:54):
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (18:54):
And I thought, what am I gonna say?
Like, what am I gonna like?
Oh, this this is you know, thisis gonna be so depressing.
Like, I hadn't done all thethings that I've done today in
my journey, you know, that is soinspiring and so empowering.
Like, I was like, I fell througha trapdoor and I broke my neck,
and here I am.
And and I talked for like a halfan hour, and all these people
(19:18):
stayed afterward and just said,I needed to hear that.
Like, that was so inspirational,that was so great.
I needed that encouragement, andI'm thinking to myself, what
encouragement?
Like, there's nothing, and youhad no idea.
Yeah, and they were so they wereso moved by my story, and I
(19:40):
loved that.
That was what I've always wantedto help people, I have always
wanted to make a difference.
I didn't know how I could do it,but I be I in that one speaking
time, I saw people that weremoved by my story, and I thought
that's what I want.
This is and and it scared me.
(20:02):
I mean, literally, the first ohmy I still get nervous when I
speak, like I still get youknow, the butterflies, and
because A, I want to do a goodjob, B, I want to help people,
so I want to give my best.
But it's something that aftereach engagement, I was there
(20:24):
were lines, like lines of peoplewho were saying, you know, I
this happened to me, and this iswhat I needed to hear, and this
is my story, and you helped me.
And I mean, it's just and that'swhat it was about.
Every time when I get up tospeak, I get nervous, but I
always remember the ending, Ialways remember the line of
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people at the end.
SPEAKER_00 (20:49):
So that's what you put in your mind, kind of meet
you there.
SPEAKER_01 (20:53):
Yes, that's that's what started to build confidence
in me was people need of thepeople.
Yep, people need this message,and and it's that hope which
made me so excited to be a partof the year.
SPEAKER_00 (21:08):
I know there was something you said when I was
like, Oh my gosh, do you want toshare your story on Hope
Unlocked?
What was it?
Do you remember what I said?
SPEAKER_01 (21:16):
Yeah, well, we were we were um on Jennifer's call,
and you said that you had apodcast titled Hope Unlocked,
and I said, Hope is my favoriteword.
Yes, that's right.
That's that's what yeah, becauseit is.
It's hope is so powerful, andit's really what people need at
every at every stage of life,yeah.
(21:39):
And wherever we are, we need weneed hope.
And that was what really what mystory represents, you know.
It's I think a lot of people,including myself, thought that
in order for me to be happy, Ihad to walk.
And I I felt like that for along time.
(22:00):
Like I prayed for a miracle, andI, you know, found miracles in
the Bible, and I was like, okay,God, let's do one of those.
You know, I I I wanna I wannawalk because I wanna I want to
be happy.
And that was your tie to happy,exactly, absolutely.
And when it was about 10 yearsafter the accident, which was
(22:25):
2007, right when I startedspeaking, I began to realize I
don't have to walk to be happy.
Like I am, I am genuinely happy.
Actually, I am happier nowsitting in this wheelchair than
when I was walking, because Ihave Jesus, I have true hope,
and I have a faithful God that Idon't have to do this life by
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myself, and that he'll help meand lead me and guide me and
just give me his peace and joy.
And so, so yes, trust me, when Istarted speaking, I was scared
out of my ever-living mind.
Like, what do you mean?
Like, I think somebody else isbetter equipped for this.
SPEAKER_00 (23:08):
Isn't that like one of the thoughts that comes for
you?
I mean, even would you even saystill, does that come up for you
sometimes?
Every bet at this point now.
SPEAKER_01 (23:20):
So we're kind of on a new journey, and I'll share a
little bit more about that too,of kind of moving away from
speaking, and that has allstarted over, like because I got
so confident in speaking, okay,that um, yeah, I still got
nervous, but I knew that liveswould be impacted.
I knew that um we were making adifference, and um, but a lot of
(23:43):
shifts have happened in the lastyear, yeah, and I'm right back
to where I how I'm feeling whenI started with speaking.
Like just really what did yousay?
SPEAKER_00 (23:55):
Tell us more about this show.
SPEAKER_01 (23:57):
Yeah, so so um I should mention that um I got
married in 2012 or 2013.
Oh my goodness, my husband wouldlaugh at me.
I don't remember what year wegot married.
We met in 2012.
We got married in 2013.
Okay, and so we just celebratedour 12-year wedding anniversary
(24:20):
and um just and oh god, it'sjust I've written two books, I
built my own home.
I mean, just amazing things, andI've traveled and spoke to
hundreds of thousands of people.
It's just such a tell us onething here.
SPEAKER_00 (24:36):
I I want to make sure I capture this.
You've written two books, andyou said that you're you're
unable to use your fingers.
SPEAKER_01 (24:44):
Correct, yes.
So I use more about this.
So I use a voice activatedprogram that writes for me.
So I just talk into it and ittypes out what I say.
And um, so yeah, so I've writtentwo books.
My first my first book is MyLast Step Backward.
Oh, definitely referencing myaccident and also just what I
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learned in moving forward aftermy accident.
And then my second book is allabout my husband and I and our
dating marriage relationship,and that's titled My Next Move
Forward.
And so very um symbolic of theaccident and moving on in life,
(25:31):
and and so yes, so those are mytwo books, and I mean that's
that's another thing.
I I felt like God wanted me towrite a book, and I'm like, how?
Like, I'm not a writer.
I love to I love to talk, I loveto speak, but I am not a writer.
And so, but he made it happen.
(25:52):
He put the right people in mylife to help me, and and um
incredible, seriously.
SPEAKER_00 (25:59):
Like, there's no excuses to people, and I'm I'm
I'm looking at myself in themirror right now.
Well, we all have to do that,right?
I'm a vertical processor, soI've often said, like, oh,
there's no way I could write abook because I talk.
SPEAKER_01 (26:15):
But people need your story, yeah.
People need people need yourstory.
That's why I wrote it becausewrote my books because I knew
that not everybody was going tobe able to get to a speaking
engagement.
And so, and and you can share somuch more.
Like I got 45 minutes to speak,tell my story, give you know
(26:37):
what I've learned, where a book,you know, you can share so much
more, and and um, and there's somuch more to my story than I
could ever speak and and and andshare.
So um, so yeah, so we um so myhusband and I um in the last
(26:57):
year, about a year ago, God so Ishould say we we speak mostly.
Um oh, I'm so sorry if I'mgetting ahead of myself, but
it's okay.
I'm following what did you say?
I'm following.
I'm trying.
Okay, good, good, good, good.
Um so I started speaking in2007, stayed busy, loved it, it
(27:21):
was awesome.
But in 2014, my best friend fromhigh school lost her 14-year-old
son to suicide.
And it was just, oh my gosh, Istill get choked up because it's
just it's so hard.
And I saw the pain that theywent through, and I saw this
(27:45):
amazing, beautiful boy thatwould never fill the live out
his days to know his fullpotential, and I know what that
feels like.
I know what it feels like tofeel hopeless, I know what it
feels like to want to give upand quit.
And so God really put on ourhearts to start speaking at
(28:07):
schools, and we were like, okay,we're gonna speak at schools,
and we just thought all thedoors would open, we would just
the phones would ring, and itwas crickets, and we're like, Oh
God, I thought you wanted us tospeak at schools, but again, he
put the right people in ourlives.
Um just oh, it's so amazing.
That was in 2014.
(28:29):
We started speaking in schoolsfull-time between 2015 and 2016,
and since 2017, we've spoken toover a hundred thousand students
and educators, and it's it'sit's it's unbelievable.
It's amazing, yeah.
(28:49):
And and so about a year ago, um,and we but we travel a lot.
Okay, and about a year ago, myhusband um had been just sharing
that traveling was gettingharder for him, and because he
does he does all the driving.
We drive everywhere we go.
I can fly in my wheelchair, andwe have, but in recent years,
(29:11):
they they do not handle mywheelchair well, and we would
get places and it would bebroken.
SPEAKER_00 (29:17):
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01 (29:18):
Yeah, it's it's horrendous.
Like, wow, and it's just notit's really hard to find
transportation once you land.
Like just lining all of that up,it's very challenging.
And so we just decided we weregonna drive everywhere.
So we're in the car a lot.
We do on average, we do 50 to 70engagements a year, so we're
(29:39):
very busy.
And he just had startedexpressing that he was feeling
tired, wanted to slow downspeaking, and that was right
when God really put on my heartthat change was coming, and I
did not know what that lookedlike or what he meant, but I was
like, okay.
(30:00):
I mean, I honestly have he hasbeen so faithful to me.
So faithful.
And I I just whenever he speaksto me, I do my best to just be
like, okay, let's do it.
Like you've never led me astray.
And I would never even have thismoment where I'm like, God, are
(30:22):
you sure?
Like, what are you doing?
And he's like, really, Tasha?
SPEAKER_00 (30:27):
Isn't that really the question like we ask
sometimes that I know he's likehe's like, I'm just asking you
to trust me.
SPEAKER_01 (30:35):
Like, I know what I'm doing, I know what your
future is.
And I'm like, okay.
So again, he put the rightpeople in my life, and we
started um just praying andseeing what God wanted us to do.
And I was connected withJennifer Reyes that we were
(30:56):
talking about in the earlierpart of this.
And she was like, you could docoaching, you could do
resilience coaching, whichresilience is really another
word that I'm just reallypassionate about because I I
believe that that's how I gothere, was just really
persevering, refusing to quit,and knowing that better days
(31:20):
were ahead.
Yeah, which is also hope.
I believe that resilience andhope go hand in hand.
Yes, absolutely.
So we um we just started likeputting out feelers and putting
things on social media, and um,and I already have clients that
(31:43):
I'm working with and I just loveit.
I love, love, love this becausea we're able to be home more and
and um I feel like I really getto see transformation.
You know, when you speak to agroup of 600 kids, you they all
(32:07):
come up and give you hugs, andthey're like, I love it, it was
amazing, my life has changed.
And then they leave, you know,and you're like, did I make an
impact?
And you know you do.
Yeah, you know, I mean, I getmessages every day on social
media from people that haveheard me speak and how they're
live, they still remember, youknow, what I spoke about and
what um what my message was, butI'm seeing real transformation
(32:33):
with that one-on-one withcoaching.
And so it's been reallywonderful just serving women who
are feeling burnt out, feelingoverwhelmed, and just really
wanting to know how to thrivedespite their circumstances.
And that's the one thing thatI've learned in my journey as a
quadriplegic is that yourcircumstances do not have to be
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the reason for holding you backfrom thriving.
And I always thought that likelife will be good as long as
everything is going the way Iwant it to.
But right?
I mean, that's never happened.
Never, ever, ever.
And it's just like I've actuallylearned in my journey how to
embrace these difficulties andthese challenges.
(33:18):
And people look at me, I mean,it's so interesting.
People are like, I'm so jealousof you.
And I'm like, I'm aquadriplegic.
You're jealous of me?
Like, how can you be jealous ofme?
And they're like, your peace,your joy, your happiness.
And I'm like, it is it is justlearning how to thrive despite
all of those challenges.
(33:39):
I have so many challenges, Ihave so many, you know, medical
things and financial things andand relationship issues, not
with my husband, but family, youknow, all of that, you know,
just like everybody else inlife.
Yes, and um, and yeah, I'velearned how to thrive, and that
(34:03):
is my passion to share that withothers.
Yeah, so I'm really excited forcontinuing this um new new
stage.
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (34:15):
Well, I would love to hear, you know, I'm uh as a
coach as well, like I am totallywith you on just that one-on-one
aspect where you can dig in withpeople, and I'm sure you're
similar with me, where you canliterally dig in and you know,
kind of mine out the gold andhelp people, you know, be set
free from those things that areholding them back, right?
(34:36):
Yes.
And I would love to hear, youknow, I'm sure you're similar to
me, we're very confidential,yeah.
But um, is there an example thatyou could share of, you know,
maybe somebody that you'veworked with recently without
disclosing names of of whatthey've been able to experience
in working with you?
Because I think sometimes, and Idon't know if you've experienced
(34:59):
this as well.
Um, I actually did a podcastepisode about the difference
between like a consultant coachand a counselor.
Sometimes people are like, Well,I don't really know what a coach
is.
So, like, I would love for youto share an example of you know
something that you've um beenable to walk alongside a woman.
SPEAKER_01 (35:15):
And yeah, thanks so much for asking.
I'm I'm trying to think, I wouldprobably pick um this one woman
that I started working with acouple months ago, and she has
fibromyalgia, okay, which is adebilitating chronic pain
disease.
And um, and she just said, Ijust I loved how she put this.
(35:39):
She says, I lost my girl.
And she said, I was always afighter, I was always someone
that persevered, and I've justlost that.
And I want to know how to bepositive, despite my
circumstances.
She's just a really strongbeliever in God and just was
really praying for someone tocome alongside her to help her
(36:01):
because she had tried to do itfor so long herself and just
couldn't get there, which Ithink is so awesome about
coaching because it's justhaving someone alongside you
that sees things that like youwant to see, but you can't.
And and so um, so we've workedtogether.
(36:22):
I've helped her with you knowher attitude.
That was the biggest thing shewanted to work on.
I want to know how you have apositive attitude, how you can
live every day with so much joy.
And so that's what we've workedon.
We've worked on, and it's justbeen so phenomenal.
And plus, just like tacklingthese things of how to handle
(36:45):
chronic pain, how to handle umthose really hard days when you
want to do good, like you wantto get out of bed, you want to
go to work, you want to uh stillaccomplish your tasks that you
need to, but the pain is soexcruciating.
(37:07):
And so just working with her onto on tools, you know, that I've
used in my past with pain andand uh giving her those
strategies to help her, and it'sjust been so transformational.
I'm getting all choked upbecause it's just so I just
she's you know, she says itherself.
(37:28):
I'm a new person, and it'ssomething that brings me so much
joy to know that I'm seeingfirsthand the impact of how she
now, when she has a an a day oran episode of pain, she knows
exactly what to do, how tohandle that, how to work through
(37:50):
it, get through it quicker, andum how to live life with with
more joy, despite thesecircumstances that she has.
SPEAKER_00 (38:02):
Huge.
Yeah, and it's not justimpacting her.
I'm imagining that there's ahuge ripple effect from from
that as well.
SPEAKER_01 (38:11):
Oh my goodness, yes, her spouse, her kids.
I mean, just everything and evenmy life.
Like, I know I look forward tomeeting with her.
I love her.
Like, I am just like, I lovethis person.
Like, I love seeing thetransformation.
I love seeing what um she'slearning and what new things
(38:34):
she's trying.
And she's like, Taja, thisworked, this helped me so much.
Look at what I did, and I justlove celebrating with her the
big wins and the little wins,and that's just been so so so
rewarding.
SPEAKER_00 (38:48):
Yes, and it's it's just so amazing that you know.
I I think I don't know aboutyou, but like I I didn't have my
first coach until gosh, was it Istarted coaching about eight
years ago, and then I think Ihad my first coach maybe about
10 years ago.
And it really wouldn't you saylike it accelerates?
(39:08):
Oh there's an acceleration thathappens.
Yep, partly because you havesomebody, um, even if and and
and I don't know about you, butlike I've made friends with my
clients because I don't know howto not be friends with like I
just love people, um be able toum have somebody in your corner
(39:28):
that is neutral, that isn'tliving with you, right?
Like can be that person who's onyou puck.
SPEAKER_01 (39:38):
Yeah, 100%.
I believe, and I tell my clientsthat I'm like, I believe in
coaching so much that I have acoach.
Like I believe in this so muchbecause I've seen it, I've seen
it in my life when working witha coach, and that's why I want
to be a coach because and why Iam doing coaching, because there
(40:00):
that's really where you seetransformation, where you see
this, you see what they've whatthey're going through, yeah, and
you've been there, yeah, and youknow how to get them there
faster.
You know how to help them to notgo through all the things that
you went through.
I mean, I I look back and I'mlike, oh my goodness, it took me
(40:22):
so it took me 10 years to reallyget to a point where I said I
love my life, where I said, andI'm and I mean it.
You know, I'm not just sayingthat to be inspirational, I mean
it.
I love my life with every fiberof my being, and I would not
trade my life with anyone, butit took me 10 years to get
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there, and I think, man, I canhelp people get there faster.
And that love it.
SPEAKER_00 (40:49):
Yeah, it's beautiful, and it's even as you
were talking, I was like, oh mygosh, like you're an I love my
life coach.
Yes, that is like people lovetheir life.
I yes, and that I love my lifecoach.
SPEAKER_01 (41:02):
Oh, I love it.
Oh my gosh, that is so awesome.
I little words, I am kind of Iand you are so beautiful with
words every time I hear you.
I oh my goodness, that is soawesome.
That's exactly it, because Ijust don't think a lot of people
can say that.
And I want to help people get towhere they can say that also.
SPEAKER_00 (41:24):
It's seriously so beautiful.
I am so thankful that he likeshifted you into this, not to
say that like you know, there'sa there's different seasons in
our journey, not to say thathe's speaking again, but it
might look different because doyou have something like new
coming?
SPEAKER_01 (41:43):
So we do.
Um we actually, my husband and Iare actually planning on
adopting.
unknown (41:50):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (41:50):
So that was kind of the whole shift, like the
catalyst to get us really offthe road because we're wanting
to adopt an older child uhbetween five and twelve years
old.
And that will we're we'reworking through the Wisconsin
public adoption where um wherethese children have been removed
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and had their parental rightsterminated.
So they have been in trauma andthey cannot travel with us.
You know, I mean, it's just thisper this child needs stability,
needs um, needs just a home, youknow, they're not gonna be able
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to pack up and travel with us,if that makes sense.
Yes, right.
And so it was just and when Godtold us that he wanted us to
adopt, we were like, well, howwould that work?
Like we travel, like we're wespeak, like that wouldn't work.
And that's when he was justslowly starting to say, change
(43:00):
is coming, this is and this isgood, like you can trust me, you
can trust me, and and I don'tknow the timing of everything um
of how that's going to work, andwe've just continued praying
about it, and just how um whenthat will happen, we're not
(43:25):
sure, but we do know and feelthat this is where God is
leading us, and so and we'reexcited, we're so excited.
Um, I can still have children,and when I got married, when we
got married, I was like, do youwant to have kids?
And he was like, No, and like meneither.
I really get my fill ofspeaking, of speaking to kids,
(43:50):
and I feel like I was veryfulfilled from that.
And but almost two years ago, Iread the book Kisses from Katie.
SPEAKER_00 (43:59):
Yes, yes, have you have you read that book?
Oh, yeah, she was like veryyoung when she did her her life
mission come to her.
SPEAKER_01 (44:09):
It was just like God opened a door and said, You are
going to do this, you are goingto adopt, you're not moving to
Uganda, you're not moving toAfrica.
But I have a child that needs ahome, and I get choked up
because it's just such an honor,you know, because we get we see
lives impacted through speaking,but to have a human life, you
(44:31):
know, in our own home, God hasjust really softened our hearts
too.
Because we both for years we'relike, nope, yeah, no kids, we're
happy.
We're happy, and um, and wereally he made it, he has made
it very clear that this is wherewe're headed.
So this is another reason forthis transition, another reason
(44:54):
for this change, and we're very,very excited.
SPEAKER_00 (44:59):
Oh my goodness.
Well, and I just love likeeverything you've shared here.
There's there's so manydifferent seasons of your life
that have come to this point,you know, full circle.
And I know there's more.
There's more to come.
Like, do you feel like there'sanything else that he's like
stretching you into in the nextyear at all?
SPEAKER_01 (45:17):
Oh my gosh, there's so many things.
Just I think just you know, Iwant to create a course that
people can sign up.
So when I speak, I share mymessage's path, which is an
acronym for purpose, attitude,team, and hope.
And those are really the fourthings that helped me be
resilient after my accident thathelped me get to where I am
(45:42):
today.
And people are like, How did youget here?
I'm like, it's path, it's path.
This is these are the fourthings.
And so I'm creating a course forthat.
I want to write another book.
I I feel like there's so much instore.
And I get so excited, and then Ialso get scared, like, oh my
(46:02):
gosh, how is this gonna work?
And right, that's like one dayat a time, Tasha.
Just one day at a time.
I got you.
I mean, I've heard him say, Igot you, probably a hundred
times in the last six months,and I'm like, okay, okay, okay.
It's like I'm notorious forgetting ahead of him.
SPEAKER_00 (46:21):
Put me in coach.
SPEAKER_01 (46:22):
Oh, I it's just like notorious of like, I gotta do
this and I gotta do that.
And he's like, Tasha, my yoke iseasy, my burden is light.
I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,okay, okay, yeah, all right,
okay, but I gotta do this andthat.
And he's like, Tasha, just rest,like just like okay, okay.
(46:42):
So I'm excited about all of it,like it's an excitement, yeah.
And that's but he's just like,slow down.
Like, I know I told you to dothis, but like it's coming, it's
coming.
Yes, you have to trust.
And so I just hope this isencouraging for anybody
listening today because it'sokay.
(47:03):
I'm I'm sure that there arepeople listening that are going
through a similar season in somemaybe a similar way or a
different way, but I just knowthat God is faithful, and he's
been so faithful to me, and Iknow that he will be faithful to
you.
Just trust him, rest in hisgoodness and his purpose and his
(47:26):
plans that he has for you, andchoose hope.
Hope is so powerful, and I justlove I when I speak, I share
this acronym for hope, and it'sthis it's hold on pain ends.
And it's really it spells hope.
Yeah, hold on, pain ends.
And a woman shared with thiswith me probably five or six
(47:48):
years ago, and it was just solife-changing in terms of I've
always wanted to share hope.
I always talk about hope, but Inever had a good way to share
it.
And I'm like, finally, this isit.
Hold on, pain ends, like thingswill get better.
It doesn't mean that ourproblems go away, it just means
that God will use them and turnthe turn it for good, as He's
(48:12):
done in my life.
I know those are His promises,and He is so faithful, so
faithful, girl.
SPEAKER_00 (48:21):
You you've you're amazing.
I'm so thankful.
And I at the end of every show,I always ask the guests to speak
a word over our listeners, butyou already did.
Yay! Oh my god.
If anything else is coming foryou, like I often ask people to
kind of get, you know, justthink of a picture of somebody
listening in today.
Um, is there anything else thatyou would say to this person
(48:43):
who's listening in?
And then would you pray us outtoday?
SPEAKER_01 (48:46):
I would love that.
Um, I'm just thinking ofsomebody that is burnt out,
overwhelmed.
I I know that feeling it's soeasy to pick it up in terms of
again, like what I was justsharing.
Like, I've got to do this andI've got to do that, and I've
got to carry it all.
And we've got like just bouldersand boulders and boulders on top
(49:10):
of our shoulders, and it weighsus down, it steals our joy, it
impacts our relationships.
It just it's there's no good inthat.
And and and God has called usagain.
This scripture, this always inthe last six months.
My yoke is easy, my burden islight.
(49:34):
My yoke is easy.
I just gotta say it again myburden is light, and I just
really feel like somebody needsto hear that today, and really
just needs to just surrender,let go of everything that you're
holding on to, and hand it overto him because he is so capable,
(49:57):
he is so good in taking ourcares and dealing with them.
He says, Give me all your caresfor I care about you, give me
all your worries for I careabout you, and so let's pray.
(50:19):
Heavenly Father, I just thankyou for every person listening
today.
I just pray that this is anencouragement.
I pray, Lord, that you have beenglorified in this time, and I
just pray that you use thismessage to help people impact
their lives, transform theirlives, and help them to thrive
(50:40):
no matter what theircircumstances are.
And we just take all of ourcares and we give them to you
and we trust you, we love you,and we thank you for this time
in Jesus' name.
Amen.
SPEAKER_00 (50:54):
Amen.
Well, Tasha, I would love foryou to share like best ways that
people can contact you, and thenI'll be sure to add that into
the show notes as well.
SPEAKER_01 (51:04):
Awesome, awesome.
So I'm I'm working on my websiteright now.
Um, but my speaking website isTashashoe.com, and at the bottom
of that website is a contactform.
You could just fill that out ifyou want to learn more about my
coaching um or you're interestedfor speaking.
(51:24):
We are still doing somespeaking, so um, but that would
be great.
Otherwise, I'm on so I'm onevery social media except for
Twitter.
So I'm on Facebook, LinkedIn,Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube,
TikTok.
Love it.
Oh, I would love for you towatch my videos.
I would love for you to reachout if you need any help or
(51:45):
support.
SPEAKER_00 (51:46):
Okay.
Well, like I said, I'll be sureto have everything in the show
notes so people can easilycontact you.
And thank you so much for beinga brave voice who's setting so
many free.
I'm gonna close with HopeUnlocked Anchoring Verse, which
is May the God of hope fill youwith all joy and peace and
believing, so that by the powerof the Holy Spirit you may
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abound in hope.
I am stressing abound in hope.
That's Romans 15, 13.
So thank you again for being ontoday.
I'll probably have to have youon another time in the future.
I would love that.
Thank you.
So thank you again, Tasha.
I'll be back with anotherepisode next week.
Bye, listeners.
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