Today’s guest is Paul Spanner.
Paul is a former Senior Officer in the Royal Marines, who was medically discharged after a cycling accident in which he suffered a fractured skull, broken back and neck among other injuries. He died twice at the side of the road. For most of us a crash of that scale may keep us off a bike forever, but Paul went on to join the GB Paralympic Cycling programme, and compete at a World Championship.
After the accident he spent several years with his mental health teetering close to the brink of a breakdown, struggling with his identity and on a path of self destruction. He threw himself into his new job at the Home Office and in the corridors of Number Ten, but it was once he found his current role at PwC that he got a grip of his demons.
Paul is now a Professional Services Consultant at PwC and is one of the firm’s Champions on Mental Health Wellbeing.
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