How can a stroke change the way you think about success, presence, and what matters most in your life?
Sandra Lee speaks with keynote speaker Roderick Jefferson about the experience that interrupted a demanding corporate career and invited him to reconsider what he had been working so hard to achieve. Roderick shares his personal experience of stroke, losing abilities he had once taken for granted, and gradually relearning aspects of speech and everyday movement.
Along the way, he reflects on the people who stayed beside him, the small things he began to notice differently, and the question that now shapes how he thinks about success: at what cost?
Their conversation moves beyond what happened medically to explore presence, family, purpose, self-care, and Roderick’s idea of replacing work-life balance with “work-life wellness.” His story also offers a reminder that adversity can sometimes invite us to notice priorities, relationships, and everyday moments in a new way.
As you listen, consider where your own pursuit of success may be inviting you to become more present with what already matters.
What You Are Invited to Discover:
- The hidden tension between achieving outward success and being truly present for the people who matter most
- A different way to consider “work-life balance” through Roderick’s idea of work-life wellness
- The role that repetition, relationships, and encouragement played in Roderick’s personal experience of relearning
- What may become visible when ordinary abilities and everyday moments can no longer be taken for granted
- An invitation to reconsider one powerful question about ambition and achievement: at what cost?
Free Gift: Chapter 1 from Roderick’s book - Stroke of Success
http://miracleinspirations.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Stroke-of-Success-Chapter-1.pdf
About the Guest:
Roderick Jefferson is an internationally recognized business and transformational speaker. He has shared his dynamic and energetic voice in a variety of events, including keynotes, guest lectures, webinars, podcasts, and domain expertise panels, with companies such as the ATD Conference, B2BMX Conference, Cisco, Collibra, LinkedIn, MindTickle, Revasum, Oracle, Sales Assembly Conference, Sales 3.0 Conference, Sales Enablement PRO Conference, Salesforce (Dreamforce), SAP, Seismic, Showpad, SiriusDecisions, Uber, Zoom and others.
Roderick is also an acknowledged thought leader in the sales enablement space and the author of the Amazon bestselling book Sales Enablement 3.0: The Blueprint to Sales Enablement Excellence, Sales 3.0 Companion Workbook and Stroke of Success.
He has held various executive leadership, sales, sales enablement, operations, and customer experience roles at AT&T, Marketo, Oracle, Salesforce, and others.
When he’s not speaking or working on enablement projects and programs, he can be found perfecting the art of barbecuing or playing bocce in the backyard with his family.
Stroke of Success Book: https://www.roderickjefferson.com/stroke-of-success Sales 3.0 Book Link: https://roderickjefferson.com/book
Sales 3.0 Companion Workbook: https://roderickjefferson.com/companion-workbook-sales enablement-3-0
Keynote Speaker Highlight Reel: https://bit.ly/3zRVNJa
Social Media Channels: https://linktr.ee/roderickjefferson
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@roderickjeffersonassociates
Free eBooks:
- Onboarding & Everboarding - https://roderickjefferson.com/onboarding-and-everboarding
- Harnessing Collective Intelligence - https://roderickjefferson.com/harnessing-collective-intelligence-in-sales
Podcast Playlist (Spotify): http://bit.ly/4mHhSOv
Resources:
Share your Story with Sandra. Schedule a 10 minute call to share about your head injury, and how it has impacted your life - https://shinewithsandra.com/brainstory
Join Sandra Live on Facebook for Better Brain Briefs every Thursday at 8:00 a.m. Pacific, where you can ask questions and catch the replay for a limited time: https://www.facebook.com/SandraLeeInspiration/
Download your Free Audio Gift, Imagine What’s Possible, at https://shinewithsandra.com
Join the Brain Health & Healing Private Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/brainhealthhealing
About the Host:
Sandra Lee has spent almost 40 years helping people feel and function better by addressing what standard treatment often misses: the unresolved trauma and emotional patterns stored in the body. She is the creator of The Spectrum of Anger™ and The Witnessed Body™, which integrates Intuitive Sound Healing and Combat Brain Training to support brain injury recovery, brain health, and dementia. Her work is grounded in the belief that symptoms are messages, not malfunctions, and that when those messages are finally received and released, the body can do what it already knows how to do.
Website -https://miracleinspirations.com
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandra-lee-701662250/
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@sandralee1miracleinspirations
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