You Can Overcome Anything: Ep 311 - From Adversity to Empowerment: Redefining Mobility Aids- Lyndsay Mitcheson - You Can Overcome Anything! Podcast Show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you looking for more out of your life? Do
you need ideas on how to start new businesses and
how to move forward in your own personal life? Well,
guess what you have come to a right radio show
at you Can Overcome Anything Podcast Show. You are learning
here from many people from all walks of life who

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are sharing their challenges, their stories, their habits and the
mind shifts they had to overcome to become who they
are today. On top you will get a chance to
connect and see how you can overcome anything by networking
and learning about your next move through this radio show.
I present to you our great speakers at you Can

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Overcome Anything Podcast Show with your host Caesar is you
know hellother? And welcome back to another episode if you
Can Overcome Anything Podcast Show. It is her host Caesar
Spino and today I have a special guest. Her name

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is Lindsey. Let me tell you a little bit about Lindsay.
Her journey is one of a resilience and empowerment. After
losing her leg to an MRSA infection, she funded neo Walk,
a company dedicated to creating stylis a cleric walking sticks
for people living with disabilities. Her goals was designed to

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was designed a walking aid and she will feel confident
using it, and he all started in her kitchen. Today,
neil Walk ships to over twenty eight countries, offering a
wrench of design in primal light up models, all aim
and helping individuals rediscover their confidence and style. In twenty
twenty three, neil Walk earned recognition with both National Diversity

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Award and Women in Business Award, reflecting its impact. The
brands Walking Sticks have even grazed the red carpet through
collaborations with Hollywood Silists program that mobility aids can be
both functional and fashionable. Linz's story demonstrates how adversity can
spark innovation, turning personal challenges into a platform for creating

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positive change. Linz is a great pleasure having you here.
How are you today?

Speaker 2 (02:23):
I'm really good? Thank you, sis, thank you? How are you?

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, I'm doing great, awesome, So definitely, you know, I
love what came out of something, and you know, this
is something. It's a very interesting topic because I also
tell people that sometimes from pain, a purpose is born
from something that may may might have been negative at
one point, something positive came out of that. And it's

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being able to see things from that perspective right before
we dive into that, though, I want to hear more
about you. I always like to know more about where
people are originally from, house their upbringing that led them
to where they are now.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
So I was before I became poorly, I was a
stay at home mom. I've got two amazing kids. I've
got a boy and a girl who are now grown
adults themselves, but they were just young teenagers at the
time when I was ill, and I was just a
stay at home mom, and I actually trained. I trained

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to be a hairdresser. That's what I really wanted to do.
So when my children got a bit bigger, when they
were going up to the secondary school, that I would
be able to start working. So I actually put a
career in place for myself, and I trained to be
a hairdresser. But then, you know what they say, when
you make plans, God has other ideas, and he certainly did,

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And unfortunately I became really sick and following an operation
on one of my knees, and that led into the
whole amputation. Three years later, I was I had made
the choice myself because I was left with such a
damaged leg, and I was only ever really looking at

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having it amputated in the future. So I just took back,
took back control, decided no, this needs to go and
then I can learn to walk again with a prosthetic,
which is which is what I did. So I just
you know, I was just a regular stay at home.
I've never really thought about business. I didn't study business,

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didn't I was never encouraged to do business. But yeah,
and I found myself, you know, all these years later,
doing what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Right for sure? Tell us where are you? Where are
you from originally? And where are you located right now?

Speaker 2 (04:46):
So I'm from Yorkshire in England, So the North of England,
beautiful part of England. I've always lived in the North
of England and it's yeah, I love it here, very
very lucky.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah. Good, now that's awesome. So, you know, talking about
not ever having that mindset of being a business woman
and now taking something that not only is helping you
impact your life. Now you're doing that all over the place.
Talk about that idea, right, I'm sure there's other products,
you know, and you're here, you know, trying to design something.

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You're in your kitchen trying to pray, Okay, what what
would be good for me. That is going to help me.
Tell me about that, because I think that's amazing when
we have those ideas and come up with inventions, right,
you know, in your own backyard.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, completely. So have you ever used a walking stick
or crutches or even for a short amount of time? Yep,
you have, so you know you know what they look like. Yeah,
they're quite hideous. That's just functional. You know they do
the job, but there's been no thought about design gone

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into them. You know that they're not made to remo
look nice. Anyway, when I was walking around with my
prosthetic leg, absolutely brilliant. I was a super active amputee,
did all sorts of crazy things, and yeah, it was
really active. But you do sometimes find that fatigue can

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get pain of a prosthetic rubbing on your leg, that
that can get to you, and the fatigue leads to
unbalanced walking and you sometimes you need help. You need
a bit of help. So sometimes I would use a
walking stick, and I would use these hideous, horrible gray
things from the hospital, or I had an old wooden

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one that looked like it had been you know, around
for about one hundred years, and I just felt so
embarrassed with them. It was it was just another thing
to try and come to terms with. You know, you're
already coming to terms with your change in body image
and change in how you know, learning to walk, and
it's tiring, it's exhausting, and then you've got to come

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to terms with using I can only imagine it's like
wearing a pair of muddy wellies to get married in.
You know, it's like wearing it, just it just doesn't
didn't match, It didn't go with my personality. I was
only I was only quite young, and I thought, do
you know I could do something better than this. I'm creative.

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I've always been creative, really good with my hands, hence
the hair dressing. I was going to be Edward scissor
hands all over the place, and I thought, I can
make something better myself. And I at the time, I
wanted an invisible walking stick. That would have been the
dream to have a walking stick that nobody could see.

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So that was why I chose the material that I did.
I chose clear acrylic to make this walking stick with
so it would be as clear, it would be as
invisible as possible. And I did, and I made it.
Always makes me laugh when I hear that from my kitchen,
but I did. I made it in my kitchen, and
I made it in the I used my kitchen oven,

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and I molded the handle around a wind A wine
bottle because that gave me the nice the nice curve
and the hair presto. I'd made a walking stick and
I was going out and I was using it, and
people were stopping me and asking me where I'd got
this amazing walking stick, and it just made me feel
really good. You know, my confidence just kept going up

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and up and up. And then one day I thought,
actually I could give this to other people. I could
give this feeling of being happy using a walking stick
being I've been proud of it. And that that was
when the idea for the business. That was my light bulb.
You know people talk about light bulbs, and I know
not everybody gets one, but I vividly remember it, just thinking,

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oh my god, this is this is something that other
people could benefit from as well. Yeah, the business came
about from that.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Wow, that's amazing. And before I dive into like what
were the next steps, because that idea came about and
you know a lot of times people like you said
not everybody gets the opportunity to see that light bulb,
except again when they do. The biggest challenge that I
think people might have is Okay, what's next? What do
I do next? How do I doing this? Before we

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dive into that, don't tell me about even you know,
going through the experience of Okay, you know I'm losing
my leg. I think that's something that can create a
mental impact in your life. Right, you know, again, you're
changing your whole lifestyle. There's this mental aspect that is
going to drain you and probably not only put you

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down inside out. Right, tell me about experience, because I
know that, you know, whether it's that or something where
people are having this feeling, these emotions and are being
consumed by that, how do you overcome that? How do
you get out of that realizing that, hey, you know,
I'm losing my leg. This is huge. It's going to
be a whole life change. You know, people are going

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to be perceiving me differently. What am I going? You know,
all these different things are going on. How was that
for you and how did you overcome that?

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah? Yeah, and that's really well put the way that
you put it, because that is a good description of
what it does to you. The So when when I
caught the infection, the the m r S A infection
in surgery, it was it was actually I lived with
the leg, the damaged leg, for three years. I lived

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with it, and each each day I woke up and
I was scared that I was going to trip up
and fall on it and damage it, and then they
would have to amputate it. And this word amputation just
became this big, big, big word in my life, and
it became the ultimate, like it was the top of
the mountain. I don't know whether it was the top
of the mountain or the bottom of the valley. I

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don't I'm not actually sure which which it was. But
the reality was when I went into hospital to have
my leg amputated, I knew that I'd already lost it
three years previously. So I lost the proper use of it.
It stopped being a team player if you liked it.

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So I'd lost it three years previously. So it was
actually to wake up and see it gone. It was
quite a relief. It was good and I could only
look forwards as being the woman I wasn't. I never
wanted to be a woman with one leg. I wanted
to be the woman who uses a prosthetic leg. That

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was what I wanted to be, and that that was
exactly what I became. But oh, my goodness, the I mean,
I remember six weeks after having my leg amputated, having
a complete breakdown. I think I'd been running on adrenaline,
just fueling myself, just keeping myself buoyant, trying to keep
my spirits up, and then just thinking, oh my goodness,

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or what does the world think of me now? And
this whole shift in body image it was. It was
huge for me because I was only young. I was
only in my early forties, and yeah, people look at you,
and then people look at you differently. I lost friends
who didn't know how to deal with me as an amputee.

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I had friends who literally came round and said, let's
have a look at you then, and that all they
wanted to do was look at the circus show, you know,
it was the one leg and then never came back again.
And that was really hard to It was really hard
to deal with. But the way that I got round

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it and the way I got through it is just
surrounding myself with people who believed in me and just
and I think you've got to believe in yourself. But
I mean, in times like that, it's so dark, you
don't think you're ever going to see daylight again, you know.
But I think the important thing I was I did

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was surround myself with people who knew that I was
tough enough and knew they didn't know what I was
going to end up doing. I didn't know. I thought
that was the end of the end of the line
for me. What do you do? But actually I started
working again and I got the most amazing opportunities that
I wouldn't have had if I hadn't had that leg amputated,

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you know. So it when doors closed, windows really really
do and it was a big lesson in that. But yeah,
it was that was I have a lot of tattoos season,
and that was the first tattoo that I got. I
don't know whether you can see it, but it says
believe that was the first tattoo I had gotten. That

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was just after I had my leg amputated. And I
used to look at that every day. And it wasn't
just believing me, was believe in the people around you.
And I've got an amazing family and they, Yeah, they
pushed me through it, and still they still do today
because times are still tough now and they still they

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still get me through today.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah. I love the idea of what you just mentioned,
and I think it's it's important to recognize, you know, well,
maybe a lot of people might have walked away and
looked the other way right and didn't come back. People
don't recognize that we have opportunities to kind of reset
and and sometimes it's not how we want it. It

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was a reset for you to say, hey, let me
start all over again. And it's kind of the message
that you're giving us here, which I like. And you said,
challenges are opportunities in disguise. If you approach adversity with
creativity and resilience, you can turn into something that know
not only change your life, but also the lives of others.
And it really comes down to that. I do believe that.

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I think it's true. You know, we have a lot
of times. I think we have a lot of opportunities. Unfortunately,
we don't see those opportunities because again they're not properly,
they're not in this shiny object right.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Now, they're heavily disguised exactly, and when you feel a
little hopeless. It's hard, it's hard to feel positive enough
to look for positive things.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah, one hundred percent. So well that might not have
been the best case, it is the best case because
not not only have you impacted your own life, I
like the idea of now you have and doing and
impacting other people's lives that perhaps before you couldn't do,
you can't reach, right, And so I think that's I mean,

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I know for a fact, atleast for me, part of
this podcast to be able to get the message out
is because I know that somebody needs to hear this message,
somebody needs to here that. And to me, there's a
joy in knowing that I'm able to help at least
one person in this entire world.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Right, Yeah, Well, if one person is listening to this
and is in any kind of situation hopeless, you know,
whether it's a medical condition, a trauma, a personal situation,
you know. Yeah, challenges are opportunities in disguise, and you've

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got to really look to see them. But just yeah,
it's believing in it's believing in yourself. And it sounds
really I want to say, Corney, it sounds really basic,
But that is the first building block. You know, to
get up the stairs, you've got to start at the

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bottom stair. So it is the first building block. And
if the foundation of you believing in yourself is there,
that's when you'll you'll go further.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, so let's talk about now you're you've discovered this,
You've created something that's helping you, and the light bulb
went off and you're like, all right, I have something
that you know, people are noticing, they're liking what I have. Gosh,
maybe I just probably hit something here. How do you
go from being a full time mom doing the things

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you're doing, going through all of that, and now, okay,
now there's a possibility of becoming a business woman, having
a product to offer to the world. How do you
shift to that? Because that's personally, I think one of
the things where people, unfortunately sometimes get hung up and
because of the unknown, they don't move forward with those

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ideas and those creations.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, I think that that is where a lot of
people fall by the wayside, because that's when the constant
ideas need to keep flowing the because if you're starting
a business from scratch, you need to and you'll be
the only person in your business. I was my only person.
So you'll be the manufacturer, you'll be the marketer, you'll

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be the postman, you'll be the you know, the ordering
applies for the office. You'll be everything, and you'll be
the only person in there. And it can be quite lonely.
But I brainstormed a lot with my family. They were
very supportive on, you know, ideas on how I could
I mean, I knew how I could make it because

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I'd made one. I'd made I'd made them in the
in the in the kitchen oven. Actually making that into
a larger scale animal was was a bit different. It was.
It was a lot of talking, a lot of testing,
a lot of big, bold moves when you've got to
invest the money, because I used my own money to

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invest in to get the thing off the ground. And
I remember spending the first five thousand pounds whatever it
was and just looking at the number before I clicked
it on the screen and thinking, oh my goodness, what
am I doing. But that, you know, something within just goes, yeah,
press it and press it, and the voice in side

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says you can do this, and.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
It's just constantly coming up with ideas. It's waking up
at three in the morning and writing things down, you know,
ideas for names for things, for new colors, and I
still do that now, you know, even all these years later.
It was a long road, and I think probably from
deciding that I was going to do it to actually

(19:26):
having a website where someone could buy something probably took
me about nine or ten months, which I don't know
whether that's fast or not, but at the time it
felt very slow and I was come on, come on,
come on, come on. But yeah, it took me about
nine or ten months to get the thing off the ground.
And yeah, it's just grown just in a crazy in

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a crazy way, especially in the last sort of five
or six years. I've put so much more effort in
and taken on extra people to work with me because
I couldn't continue to do on my own anymore. And yeah,
the things, you know, are really lovely. The culture that
we've got, the all this I don't have many stuff,

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there's only eight of us, but they're also invested in
what we do. They know that every time we send well,
every time they make and then send a walking stick
to somebody is potentially changing their lives. And it's just
so important and the culture that we have in Neo

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walk is just one of how can we help you?
What can we do that will make this experience good
for you? And how can we get you what you
want and need? And that's the bottom line, what can
we do to make that happen?

Speaker 1 (20:46):
I love that talk about so about nineteen months to
get it up and running from the time that the
label went off, when was the first how long you
take it to have that first sell?

Speaker 2 (20:58):
I thought it was a joke. When the website was working,
I thought someone's making having a joke here. It was
only it was about a week bearing in my new business,
nobody knows we exist, and I'm and I'm just getting
my you know, social media was still very very new
at the time, and I'm working out how to market

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this thing. And an order came through and I'm like,
what this is crazy? How you were? Yeah? And I
thought it was a joke. So, and you know, in
the early days, I wasn't doing a huge amount. It
was very That's that's just the way it is. That
that's business. You can have that the best product, but

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if nobody knows you're making it and selling it, you're
never going to sell one. So I had to learn
a huge amount about how to market myself and the business. Yeah,
but that was a real, a real steep learning curve,
that one.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah for sure. So and now you're in you know,
over twenty glass countries. The liver in this it's all
manufactured there in in England or worse manufacturer.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
They're all handmade. There's all handmade well yeah, yeah, yeah,
still handmade in New York, in Yorkshire. And I keep
looking out of my window here because I'm super fortunate
that I've got a house that was big enough to
take I've taken over a chunk of the house and
made it into offices and workshop, so I actually have

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neo walk in my back garden. So I'm just so
lucky and so blessed to be able to, you know,
to have it here, to have it so close by.
It means that I can I can take part even
on days where I'm not feeling too too great, not
feeling too well, and I can still take part and
you know, come away and rest and it's it's it's great.

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But yeah, it's in my back garden. How lucky am I?

Speaker 1 (22:52):
I love that, you know, I get that's a huge
motivation and just being able to like go full circle
going through this, you know, life changing and then having
the idea and then actually following through and now being
able to have this in multiple countries is huge. So
I'm assuming you have a lot of different product types

(23:13):
or is it specific to the person? Tell me more
about the product.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, So the walking stick. The theory around the walking
stick has remained the same since day one. So it's
a single piece of material that we make to your height.
We make the walking stick to your height, so you
need to measure what length you need, and we give
you the choice of handle shapes and then we give

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you we've got like forty different colors. Now we've got
six different handle shapes, lots of accessories, different things to
go on the bottom, because that's really important what you
put on the bottom as well. Yeah, we've got just
it's so personalizable. Is that a word? But you can
personalize it, yes, to match your personality. So through color,

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through engraving, you can have an engraved collar with some message,
you know, a message to yourself. And we had a
marriage proposal. Can you believe that we had a will
you marry on a walking stick? And that and we've
made we've made some really special walking sticks. We've done
this a few times now, but we've we made one

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for a young lady who was getting married, who had
quite recently lost her father, and we had the handle
of the walking stick she wanted especially drilled out, and
she sent us some of her dad's ashes, and we
had some of her dad's ashes put into the handle

(24:45):
of the walking stick, so when she was walking down
the aisle, she actually had her dad in her hand
and that was so special for her that that and
what an honor to be trusted to do that for
this young lady was. It was amazing. And yeah, we've
we've done some great some great walking sticks, we really have.

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But essentially, yeah, you tell us what you want and
we'll do everything we can to make it happen for.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
You, for sure. Yeah, tell me about the experience of
how did you How are you able to get into Hollywood?

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Right?

Speaker 1 (25:18):
And I think that's huge. I've been able to be
on the red carpet.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
Hollywood came to me. Oh look, the Hollywood came to
me on both on both occasions. So a lot of
years ago, when I was checking orders one morning, there
was an order from someone called Selma Blair and I thought, well,
I know who Selma Blair is, but surely that's not her.

(25:42):
It's someone with her name. Anyway, there it was in
la in California, and that that was our first introduction
to Selma, who's become a great friend as well. But
it was about three years ago. I got an email,
and my time here has taught me that you never
know what's coming round the corner. You never know this

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email Hello, my name is She was also called Lindsay
Lovely Lady. I'm a stylist for Christina Applegate and Christina
is going to be receiving her star on the Walk
of Fame and it's going to be the first time
she's seen with a walking stick, and we want you
to design one, and I was like, that's mad, which

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we did, and then we've since collaborated with Christina, who
has become a really good friend, and we've made this
amazing walking stick that every time we sell one, we
donate money to an MS charity in the US and
in the UK. And so we've got this brilliant collaboration,
this great Wow what do you call her? She's more

(26:50):
than an ambassador, I mean, she's a she's an icon
for people who are living with chronic illness. But she's
an amusing woman, she really is.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Well that's good. Well, you've definitely been able to impact
a lot of people and help people throughout their own
life challenges. What's next for you, guys? What is the
next step for you? Guys?

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Next steps? Oh, I don't know. Everybody keeps asking this,
and I mean growth, growth for the business is still
because obviously you want you want to be on a
growth trajectory. You don't. We don't want to lose that,
So always growing, always marketing to new countries, introducing new products.

(27:33):
We're always thinking of new colors, new style designs, new
limited editions. We do a limited edition every year. We're
trying to create a real community around and we have.
We've got this, I think on Instagram we've got over
forty thousand followers. It's a community now where everybody that

(27:55):
people can go and you can ask for advice, you
can just show off what you've got. You can put
pictures up of you know, you with your new stick,
you know, rocking it a gig or we get so
many pictures of walking sticks at gigs and I love them.
It's I think for me it's expanding that community. But

(28:16):
what's most important is meeting our community. I think we've
got a lot of people who've supported us for a
long time now that we need to be going out
there and meeting. So we're going to be coming up
with ideas and ways of doing that.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, I love it. I love that. Tell me about
if people want to, you know, follow you find out
more working the where they can get one of those
personalized sticks and connect with you, Like, how can they
find you and get your products?

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yeah? So, I mean we're super easy. You can just
either google neo walk or you can follow us on
at neo Walk Sticks. Because of course we call them sticks.
You call them kanes, which WHI is very very confusing
for the world. Would you call a stick a pole?
Do you what? What do you call hiking poles? What

(29:07):
do you call them? Is that a pole?

Speaker 1 (29:09):
I think that those I want to say a hiking
stick or a hiking pole, and I think that we
interchange them for sure. But we do call them kings.
We we don't call them sticks. We do call them kings.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
You confuse the language. You see, we're at neo Walksticks
and we have a community on Facebook as well, we're
on Facebook, but we also have a community on Facebook
which is at Neo walk Sticks. But yeah, you can
order off the website. We're always available on the phone,
well not always during our time zone were and we've

(29:44):
got live chat on the website as well, so we
use lots of ways that you can approach us. But yeah,
just come and come and join in and just see
if there's something that you know. It may not be
for you, but what what we try to tell people
is that there is choice there and where it may
feel like there isn't and it may feel like we've
been forgotten about. If you just look around, there is

(30:08):
choice and you can find something that you really like
and be proud of.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
For sure. No, I love them definitely in terms of
you know, obviously you're having a busy life mentioned the business,
saying care of your community, and then you know, going
on by your life. Are there any specific things you
do kind of like non negotiables that you do every
day that you have to do to keep you up
and going with this positive mindset?

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Yeah, yeah, there is there is. And he sat over there.
I'm single lady, and I have adopted a forty eight
year old umbrella cockatoo. I've got this parrot who is
so demanding. It is like having a three year old
in the house. So he takes my mind off things

(30:55):
every day because you know, the feeding, the playing, the
tea things, the training, it's it's yeah, he diverts my attention.
He's great, and I have I have my dogs who
direct me outside to throw balls for them, so I
get outside in the fresh air a lot. Those are
things that I have to do, you know, especially the bird,

(31:19):
because he can shout at one hundred and ten decibels,
so if I don't do him, he shouts. But yeah,
they're they're they're my non negotiables, a little bit of
that's my self care. I read. I make sure that
I read that takes my mind away from things. I
listen to podcasts. I love listening to podcasts because you
can learn, you know, like like we said earlier, if

(31:41):
one person can just pick something up off this and think,
oh that that could be me, that sometimes I'm that person,
and I listen to all sorts of podcasts. So yeah,
those are my what are your non non negotiables?

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Yeah, so for me, yeah, very similar to that. I
like to get out. I want to. I used to
it twice and now because of my business schedule, I'm
only able to go out once during the day, but
I I have to go out once a day for
about forty five minute walk. So it's kind of time
for me to to just kind of have time for me,
forget about the world and forget about I'm plugged from

(32:19):
from my phone, listen to podcasts in or more vasional videos,
so I do that lot. I also do journaling and
I do reading. So those are kind of the top
three things that I do a day to day basis
just to kind of keep keep me up and running.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
For sure, it's so important, and I think those things
that we do are very underrated. But just getting out
in the in the fresh air and the sunlight. The
sunlight is so good for you, right, not remaining from
a this is all out of a bottle, say that
every bit of time that I've got comes out of
a bottle. But the sunlight is so good for your

(32:55):
health and your mental health. It's incredible. I think we're
just realizing now more how important it is, so that
that just that snapshot of going out into the into
the sunlight during the day, it's It's critical for us,
isn't it. But you have a lot more sunshine than
we do.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
I'm in England, we get a lot we do, for sure. Yeah, yeah,
one hundred percent. And even in those days that is
not you know, the sun is not out, Definitely, I
still make the time to go out and do something,
you know, And I think that's the biggest thing is,
you know, being able to create some sort of habits,
daily habits and just stay with them, because that can
be a big difference in shifting. And I always tell

(33:33):
people that you can get better by just one percent
every day. By the end of the year, you know,
three hundred and sixty five days, you're that much better
than when you started, right, So really comes down to
them for sure.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yeah, agree with you, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
Yeah, one hundred percent. So let me ask you this,
if I can get some good advice from you for
the people that are watching us, that are listening to us,
if they're going through any challenge, whatever challenge that might be,
what is one thing or a few things they can
start doing to start overcoming those challenges.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
I can only speak from my experience and I've been
I've been met with many, many, many challenges. You need
to cut yourself some slack and understand that you're dealing
with big things and exercise that self care. You need
to let yourself rest. Sleep is so restorative and I

(34:34):
find that I use sleep also as part of my
daily self care. I go to bed really early because
I know that I need sleep because I get very fatigued.
So allow yourself. You're not lazy if you feel like
you can't do things. This is probably for people undergoing
a like a physical challenge. But you understand you're not lazy.

(34:56):
People won't think that you are. They will think that
you're just taking time to rest to do what you
want to do better when you're when you're actually active,
the belief in yourself again, you may think you've lost it.
You may and the strength that you need to overcome

(35:19):
certain challenges. But the strength for me has always appeared
when I needed it. You may not think it's going
to but it shows up when you need it, and
then you can spend that strength, and then you need
to allow yourself to rest again. And that can be again,
that can be physical or mental. I just think people

(35:43):
are so hard on themselves nowadays, you know, with with
social media, with on TV, you know, everybody's so perfect
and everybody looks like they're doing everything so perfectly, and
it's it's it's a load of crap because they're not.
And I think that that makes people like me because

(36:03):
I buy into all that rubbish. It makes us feel
that we're not as good, you know, that we're not
as precious to the world, but we are. And just
don't believe what you see and what you see on
social media. I think it's a really toxic place now
for sure, and I think for a business, yeah, I

(36:26):
use it personally, no, thank you. So I just can't
compare myself. Can you compare? You can't compare yourself. We're
all so different, you know, why would you want to
be the same as someone else? And I think if
we could just foster a bit of that and be
kinder to ourselves, people might feel less of a challenge

(36:51):
going on, because I think they present a lot of
the challenge themselves. They present it to themselves, to those
inside voices, they're not good. You know, we should never
never listen to them.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yes, that's one hundred percent, and you said it, and
I believe you know, going back to those inside voices,
there's an African problem that I really like, and it says,
when there's no enemy within, there's no enemy outside that
can do you no harm. And when you think of that,
you know, it really goes back the biggest, the biggest world,
the biggest fight that are taking place all over the

(37:26):
world is in your head. And so we got to
figure out how to differentiate those negative voices. And again
it goes back to to what you just mentioned. If
you're going through some challenges, you gotta believe in yourself.
You gotta believe that you can come out of this ahead.
And so we're gotta be able to ultimately work and
think and believe that we can fight any negative things

(37:48):
going in our heads and then just get those things
out into into into the world of fruition. So I
do believe that there's a lot that we can do.
And the last thing you mentioned is huge. The only
competition or the only person you should compare yourself to
is yourself in the mirror, not anybody else, right in
that sense.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Yeah, there's no comparison. We're the best. I'm the best
at being me. Yeah, you're the best at being you.
No one does it better than you, right right? Yeah,
And I think we need to remember. We need to
remember that for sure. Well, Lindsey, thank you again for
being here. Really, I had a great time speaking to
you and having this conversation. Any last minute words you

(38:28):
want to say before I let you go, No, I've
really enjoyed speaking to you. Really, really, you've been my
little ray of California Sunshine today season. Yes, and I'm
very grateful.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
Yeah. No, definitely, Well, thank you again for being here.
Enjoy having this message. And for the rest of you guys,
do me a favor, go out and check her out.
Go out and and share this message because definitely has
somebody has to hear this message and it can impact
somebody in a positive way. And I am looking forward
to seeing you guys at the next episode of You
Can Come Anything podcaston Thank You Guys. Hi.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
I'm Caesar Espino, real estate investor, business coach and consultant
and author of the book You Can Overcome Anything Even
When the World says No. My number is four two
four five zero one six zero four to six. In
my book, I talk about making the necessary changes to
shift your mind for prosperity and certainty. Pick up your
copy at Amazon. I also love helping families with their
real estate and can purchase your house fast and all cash.

(39:26):
Follow me on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. My number is
four two four five zero one six zero four six.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Thank you for having me today. I am so glad
you've tuned into this podcast. You can find me at
your favorite podcast platform where you can like, subscribe, comment
and share, and to learn more about myself my services.
You can find me at www dot Caesararspino dot com,
or you can also find me at your social media.

(39:54):
Thanks for joining me and I am looking forward to
having you at the next episode and know you truly
can overcome anything.

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