#DefineYourself Podcast

Having been injured at birth and developing Erbs Palsy Qaysean Williams left arm has limitations including his left hand is useless.

His injury has prevented him from playing in sports growing up, riding roll coasters without looks from those who operate the rides, and to this day he still struggles tying his own shoes.

Qaysean’s injury may have caused him some self-esteem issues and feelings of worthlessness.  His injury lead to him being called named and picked on by his peers in school.  He internalized the pain he was feeling from the cruel words of his classmates.

He knew the words of his classmates were damaging him so he decided to do something about it.

He decided to give himself some self-talk and tell himself that he should love the arm.

He started to create fashion to “cover up” his arm and distract everyone form his physical disability.  His work made him feel good about himself and it was the beginning of his fashion career.

because Qaysean decided to change his mind set to “I believe I can do anything I put my mind to.” he decided to strengthen his weak arm.    Although he was reluctant at first, Qaysean started to work out in a gym to strengthen is left arm.

Today Qaysean sees his disability as his super ability.  He first saw it as his super ability when he created garments that others found amazing he could create such an amazing product in spite of his disability.

Although he does get some push back from customers who do not believe he can create a full garment with just one hand, he keeps working to inspire others both in the disabled community and beyond to find their own super abilities.

You can connect with Qaysean by http://www.HausOfManikin.com and search for manikinTV on YouTube

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Natasha Miller, the author of Relentless: Homeless Teen To Achieving the Entrepreneur Dream, her journey from a youth shelter to the Inc. 5000 has faced much diversity in her life starting at the age of sixteen when she was abandoned Christmas night. Miller has also gone through giving birth to a stillborn child and nearly dying during that experience.

Despite all the adversity Natasha has experienced, she has developed strategies to beam more independence and confident, that have helped her to become more independent and confident,

Natasha shares her journey from the days of being in a teen homeless shelter and called preppie by the other ttesn to how she is now owning and running ao Inc. 5000 company in the bay area.

Natasha shares how she battled through the rout times, what helped her and how she never gave up on her dream to make something of herself.

Today Natasha is building a profitable Inc. 5000 company

You can purchase Natasha’s book, Relentless: Homeless Teen To Achieving the Entrepreneur Dream, from Amazon by going clicking her or going to https://www.amazon.com/Relentless-Homeless-Achieving-Entrepreneur-Dream-ebook/dp/B09R45YD63/ref=sr_1_1?crid=36Y7OOTMVQ3Z9&keywords=natasha+miller&qid=1647455098&s=books&sprefix=natasha+miller%2Cstripbooks%2C115&sr=1-1 L

You can connect with Natasha by officialnatashamiller.com

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Deborah is a very strong woman.  She battles multiple rare dieses including Mysthenia Gravis, Auto-immune Disease, Ehlers Danlos, CRPS and Chronic Pain.  Deborah not only battles rare diseases, she is also a strong advocate in the rate disease community with grace and humor.

Deborah’s has always had a passion for politics, including an ambition to hold a very prestigious office.  Although her challenges has forced her to pivot from a political career, her political aspirations and training serves her well in the role of advocate for the rare disease community.

Deborah shares her story of how she went from an able body person to a person with a duality in hear early teenage years.

Devroah share some of the challenges she has faced from her rare diseases and how she has worked to overcome them – including self-confidence issues.

Deborah shares her vision and the mission for her non-profit, Vicktorious, who it is designed to benefit and how it can benefit everyone in the disability community.

Deborah shares some of her experiences she has had from battling all of here rate diseases and how she speaks out and advocates for the rights of disabled persons who have rare diseases.

Deborah shares how she uses her voice, and experiments with adaptive software and equipment, to both share her message and empower rothers in the disable community, on multiple social media platforms including TikTok, clubhouse, and others.

You can connect with Deborah Vick on most social media platforms as crafts on wheels or forward moving on twitte or via her non-profit, Vicktorious at Vicktoorious.com

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Synova Cantrell has faced many challenges in her life: fibromyalgia, a spinal cord injury that occurred in high school and a broken tailbone, but she has never allowed any of those struggles limit her.

Synova was told by her doctors she would be in a wheelchair by the age of forty and at first she was devastated by the diagnosis that cause her to go into depression, then she became determined to prove the doctors wrong.

Synova does not see her diagnoses as disabilities, she sees them as super powers.

Synova shares her tactics to prevent any labels or individuals define who she is because she wants to define herself by writing crime stories, helping solve cold cases and now helping writers to succeed in their writing careers as a writing coach.

Synova has an interesting way of dealing with her diagnosis of fibromyalgia, she does not consider it her “it” or diagnosis and by doing so, her thinking helps her succeed in life despite her fibromyalgia.

Synova shares how and why she got into writing and how her writing career was launched through a connection she had at her father’s church.

Synova shares how working from home is a perfect fit for her with her challenges including fibromyalgia.

Cantrell shares how and why she has pivoted from crime writing to coaching and motivation writers   She also shares how her ADHD is an obstacles for her to do  mundane household chores and the trick she has developed to do those chores despite her ADHD finding them boring.

During the interview Synova and Chris get a little of topic and dismiss some of the great works of comedian and actor, Steve Marti, and how Martin’s work has impacted their lives.

You can connect with Synova Cantrell by searching for Synova ink on most social media platforms and on patreon.

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Victoria Wieck, along with her family of four siblings and her parents, immigrated to the United States with only $30 to their name and life looked bleak for their family.

In a new country that she did not know a single English world, and her parents having to work two jobs each. Victoria helped raised her younger siblings, learn English on her on and attended school – with dyslexia that was undiagnosed.

Victoria used common sense to overcome her challenges to build a successful business that has generated over 500 million dollars of sales.

Victoria has been appearing on live TV shopping channels for more than a quater of a century, selling hr. jewelry to viewers.  Her business sis along a international business selling jewelry worldwide.

Victoria also hosts her own podcast, A Million Dollar Passion. Where she talks with accomplished people who have found their passion and have built their own success.

Victoria has written two books: Shattered Sky, a science fiction book and self-help book entitled Million Dollar Passion – How to turn your passion based business idea into a million dollar business , Both available later in 2022 or 2023.

You can connect with Victoria Wieck by visiting her website at VictoriaWieck.com

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Joanne grew up with undiagnosed Specific Reading Comprehension Deficit and struggled with understanding not only written text, but also verbal comprehension.

Joanne’s disability left her believing she was not as smart as others and lead to her the point of attempting suicide,

Joanne shares her struggles to overcome her learning disability.  She shares her burning to desire to read and how a program her mom gave her turned everything around for her.

Joann graduated from high school 10th in her class. She was accepted to Marquette University and graduated Cum Laude.

Today Joanne owns and operates her own successful virtual reading tutoring business, she trains and consults others to do the same, and now she is the author of her first book, How to Start an Online Tutoring Business.

You can purchase Joanne’s book, How to Start an Online Tutoring Business, from Amazon by clicking here

You can connect with Joanne by visiting her website at http://www.onlinetutorcoach.com or at
http://www.theonlinereadingtutor.com

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Christine McKay was dropped off at a homeless shelter at the age of sixteen on Christmas day night.  Christine has been homeless, lived-in section 8 housing, mother of 3 girls before she turned 22 and had a goal to go to Harvard University,

Christine, on top of all her challenges, had to live life with a bipolar II diagnosis, alcohol dependency, and self-esteem issues, dream of going to Harvard kept her motivated through the tough days.  

Christine not only achieved her goal of attending Harvard, she graduated and today is an published author, the host of her own podcast and helps business owners discover and get what they want in every negotiation with their counterparts.

You can purchase Christine’s book, Why Not Ask? A Conversation About Getting More, from Amazon by clicking here

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Not-Ask-Conversation-Getting/dp/1734954906/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2HWFZD31BT4TQ&keywords=Why+Not+Ask%3F+A+Conversation+About+Getting+More&qid=1641482183&sprefix=why+not+ask+a+conversation+about+getting+more%2Caps%2C86&sr=8-1

You can connect with Christine by visiting her web site at VennNegotiation.com

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Living with an incomplete spinal cord injury at C5 of her spine from a diving accident, Annie Streit’s life goals changed course from creating a career for herself as an interior designer to a desire to help others.

Annie shares how attitude, a strong support system including members of the spinal cord injury community, friends, and family, and helping others through motivational speaking and volunteering with the United Spinal Association as the grassroots advocacy director has helped her build success in her life as an author of children’s books.

You can purchase any of Annie’s children’s books through Amazon by clicking here.

You can connect with Annie by visiting her website at https://annieauthorblog.com/

You can connect with the United Spinal Association by visiting their website at https://unitedspinal.org/

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Faith Jones was born into a religious origination, originally called the Children of God then the family that was founded in the 1960’a by her grandfather as a fundamental Christian organization as one of the founding groups of the Jesus people movement that came out of the hippie movement.

Faith spent her childhood living in the community facing many challenges including isolation and only a grade school education.  She also witnessed and experienced both psychological, religious, and physical manipulation and abuse including sexual abuse by adults, extreme corporal punishment, and forced separation of children from their parents.

Faith left the community as a young adult as she yearned to learn more and find a path in life that would lead to a career.  She left with nothing because everything belonged to the community.

Armed with the knowledge she had a personal relationship with God, and He will get her through the tough times, Faith used grit and determination to work her way into Georgetown University

Faith shares what she has learned from her experiences of building a successful life as a lawyer and a business owner after growing up on a cult and how we can use her lessons to build success in our lives.

You can purchase Faith’s memoir, Sex Cult Nun, from Amazon by clicking here

You can view Faith’s TedX talk “I own me”, at by clicking here

You can connect with Faith by visiting https://www.sexcultnun.com/ and https://faithjones.com/

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Former Special Forces / Delta Operator and Warriors Heart Co-Founder Tom Spooner (U.S. Army veteran with 21 years of service, 1990-2011) played an integral role in developing the Warriors Heart healing programs based on his first-hand experience battling PTSD, TBI, substance abuse, depression and more.

Spooner shares how he has overcome/is overcoming PTSD, TBI, substance abuse and depression and is using his experiences as a co-founder of the Warriors Heart healing programs

Wounded Heart provide military, veterans and first responders with a next-phase for healing when struggling with addiction, PTSD and co-occurring issues to rebuild their lives and reduce suicide rates through a in-patient program based in Bandera, Texas.

You can visit Warriors Heart at https://www.warriorsheart.com/ or call toll-free from the United States by dialing 866-868-9383.  

You can support Warriors Heart through the Warriors Heart Foundation at https://www.warriorsheartfoundation.org/

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