#DefineYourself Podcast

While undergoing surgery for av valve prolapse, Avi surviving a stroke that resulted in aphasia.

Avi may have had to leave his job as a critical care flight paramedic in New York city at first, but today he volunteers with the EMT and speaks about aphasia to first responders and medical professionals around the world – just to name a few things that Avi is involved with.

Avi shares what he has had gone through to regain the ability to speak and how he helps other understand aphasia.   

LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

·        https://www.linkedin.com/in/avigolden 

·        https://www.facebook.com/avi.golden 

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The producer and host of the #DefineYourself Podcast is an inspirational and motivational author, writer, blogger, speaker and podcaster.

Chris, through his business #DefineYourself, mission is to empower YOU to overcome your COALS: challenges, obstacles, adversities, limitations and/setbacks and achieve your GOALS for success in your professional and personal lives.

If you are ready to start overcoming your COALS and start achieving your GOALS get Chris’ FREE eBook, The 10 Steps to #DefineYourself at http://10stepstodefineyourself.com

Chris can be contacted at [email protected]

For more information about the #DefineYourself Podcast, visit http://defineyourselfpodcast.com/

William Dowd is a writer with binocular vision disorder, a vision disorder that interferes with a person being able to coordinate their eyes together.  

William shares with us what the diagnosis means and how he realized he had binocular vision disorder.

William shares what he has done to battle his visual struggles and how he uses assistive technology to thrive as an avid reader and successful writer.

William also shares how he has succeeded as a writer including a few humorous experiences.

LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

·        www.willdowd.net

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The producer and host of the #DefineYourself Podcast is an inspirational and motivational author, writer, blogger, speaker and podcaster.

Chris, through his business #DefineYourself, mission is to empower YOU to overcome your COALS: challenges, obstacles, adversities, limitations and/setbacks and achieve your GOALS for success in your professional and personal lives.

If you are ready to start overcoming your COALS and start achieving your GOALS get Chris’ FREE eBook, The 10 Steps to #DefineYourself at http://10stepstodefineyourself.com

Chris can be contacted at [email protected]

For more information about the #DefineYourself Podcast, visit http://defineyourselfpodcast.com/ 

Tamar Outmzeguine, an administrator for the web site, Dating4Disabled.com shares her insights and advice for anyone who is disabled, or as Chris says “differently-abled” who wishes to find love.

Chris and Tamar discuss openly some of the hang-ups and stigmas disabled people face when they start thinking about dating and how to overcome them and how to date virtually in a COVID world.

Tamar shares great advice for anyone (differently abled or not) about dating.  Tamar also shares some success stories of differently abled people who have found love through the dating4disabled.com website.

LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

• https://www.dating4disabled.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/dating4d
• https://twitter.com/Dating4D
• https://www.youtube.com/user/datingfordisabled
• https://www.pinterest.com/dating4disabled/
• https://www.instagram.com/dating4disabled/

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The producer and host of the #DefineYourself Podcast is an inspirational and motivational author, writer, blogger, speaker and podcaster.

Chris, through his business #DefineYourself, mission is to empower YOU to overcome your COALS: challenges, obstacles, adversities, limitations and/setbacks and achieve your GOALS for success in your professional and personal lives.

If you are ready to start overcoming your COALS and start achieving your GOALS get Chris’ FREE eBook, The 10 Steps to #DefineYourself at http://10stepstodefineyourself.com

Chris can be contacted at [email protected]

For more information about the #DefineYourself Podcast, visit http://defineyourselfpodcast.com/

Growing up Lorna Rose had a learning disability and a father, a verbally and emotionally abusive man, instead of helping her with her learning disability he would call her stupid along with other names.

Lorna has overcome those challenges and her past and has become a mother of two wonderful special children.  Loran is a writer and has written a memoir that she is hopes to have published in the coming future.

Lorna shares here journey through life including serving in AmeriCorps in Alaska and leaving corporate America to be a stay at home mom.  She also shares how daily journaling has helped her and come to terms with her life and started her on a journey of being a writer.

LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

·        http://www.Lornarose.com

·        http://www.twitter.com/lornaarose

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The producer and host of the #DefineYourself Podcast is an inspirational and motivational author, writer, blogger, speaker, and podcaster.

Chris, through his business #DefineYourself, mission is to empower YOU to overcome your COALS: challenges, obstacles, adversities, limitations and/setbacks and achieve your GOALS for success in your professional and personal lives.

If you are ready to start overcoming your COALS and start achieving your GOALS get Chris’ FREE eBook, The 10 Steps to #DefineYourself at http://10stepstodefineyourself.com

Chris can be contacted at [email protected]

For more information about the #DefineYourself Podcast, visit http://defineyourselfpodcast.com/

When Sarah Willey was in her senior year of undergraduate school, she started struggling with breathing.  She didn’t even think it was asthma related until two to three years later when an observer told Sarah she was having trouble with her asthma because her cough sounded like their child, who has asthma, cough.

At the age of 29, Willey started experiencing neck pain that came and went for months.  When it got to the point, she could not lift her right arm, Willey visited a doctor where she was diagnosed with degenerative disk disease.  Willey describes degenerative disk disease as a fancy way of saying my body is aging just like everyone body does, just a bit faster.

Willey also has Hashimoto thyroiditis which prevents her thyroid from producing the number of hormones it is meant to produce and it is considered an autoimmune disorder.

Although these chronic illness are obstacles for Willey, she has never allowed them to prevent her from pursuing her passion to learn (she is currently working on her doctorate) and work in fundraising for non-profits.

During Willey’s appearance on this episode of the #DefineYourself Podcast, she shares what she has learned about her chronic illnesses from the school of hard knocks, and how she takes that education and has applied it to her life so she can live the life she desires.  Willey also shares her determination to keep doing what she is passionate about doing regardless what her body throws at her.

Willey also shares her recent experience where she learned that her position was eliminated during a Zoom meeting.  Willey shares the shock she experienced and how she is overcoming that setback by pushing forward as a solopreneur.  Willey discusses her business venture called Sarah Wiley LLC where she is passionate about helping people use social media better, helping non-profits cultivate induvial giving and working with small businesses getting off the ground on social media.

LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

·        https://sarahwilleyllc.com/

·        https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahwilley/

·        http://twitter.com/sarahnicole838

·        https://www.instagram.com/sarahnicole838/

·        http://www.Toastmasters.org

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The producer and host of the #DefineYourself Podcast is an inspirational and motivational author, writer, blogger, speaker and podcaster.

Chris, through his business #DefineYourself, mission is to empower YOU to overcome your COALS: challenges, obstacles, adversities, limitations and/setbacks and achieve your GOALS for success in your professional and personal lives.

If you are ready to start overcoming your COALS and start achieving your GOALS get Chris’ FREE eBook, The 10 Steps to #DefineYourself at http://10stepstodefineyourself.com

Chris can be contacted at [email protected]

For more information about the #DefineYourself Podcast, visit http://defineyourselfpodcast.com/ 

At the age of nine, Tiffany Yu lost her father in a car accident that left her with a brachial plexus injury and a paralyzed arm.  Yu spent three weeks in hospital and four months in a wheelchair.  

Yu went on to professional success, graduating with honors from Georgetown University, earning a master’s degree from the London School of Economics, and working for companies like Bloomberg and Goldman Sachs

Yu is the founder of Diversability, a community-driven organization seeking to rebrand the concept of disability, to facilitate conversations between disabled and non-disabled people. 

Yu discusses the importance of community and inclusion for the disabled and her experiences as she has grown to accept her own disability and how she encourages others to do the same today.

LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

·        http://MyDiversability.com

·        http://TiffanyYu.com

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The producer and host of the #DefineYourself Podcast is an inspirational and motivational author, writer, blogger, speaker and podcaster.

Chris, through his business #DefineYourself, mission is to empower YOU to overcome your COALS: challenges, obstacles, adversities, limitations and/setbacks and achieve your GOALS for success in your professional and personal lives.

If you are ready to start overcoming your COALS and start achieving your GOALS get Chris’ FREE eBook, The 10 Steps to #DefineYourself at http://10stepstodefineyourself.com

Chris can be contacted at [email protected]

For more information about the #DefineYourself Podcast, visit http://defineyourselfpodcast.com/

Despite being blind since almost birth, Michael Hingson has not allowed his lack of sight be a liability – in fact he sees being sighted as being a liability.

As a child Mike attended the same public schools as his sighted peers.   Mike eenr rode a bicycle to and from school!

Mike completed college with a degree in physics.  After college Mike worked almost his entire adult life, most in sales.

On this episode of the #DefineYourself Podcast Mike shares his journey, his views on blindness and disabilities, his mission to inspire others to overcome fears, and his tips for disabled job seekers who want to be a part of work force.

LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

• www.michaelhingson.com
• www.blindedbyfear.net

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The producer and host of the #DefineYourself Podcast is an inspirational and motivational author, writer, blogger, speaker and podcaster.

Chris, through his business #DefineYourself, mission is to empower YOU to overcome your COALS: challenges, obstacles, adversities, limitations and/setbacks and achieve your GOALS for success in your professional and personal lives.

If you are ready to start overcoming your COALS and start achieving your GOALS get Chris’ FREE eBook, The 10 Steps to #DefineYourself at http://10stepstodefineyourself.com

Chris can be contacted at [email protected]

For more information about the #DefineYourself Podcast, visit http://defineyourselfpodcast.com/

Daniel Massimino has always been a go getter.  At the age of 15 he started his own cell phone repair business.  He had success in that business until he was forced into filing a business bankruptcy.

The bankruptcy, along with addictions, lead Dan to the brink of suicide.

With the hard days in his rear view mirror of life, Dan has a new mission of helping people break out of the paradigm of mediocrity and dissatisfaction through the use of my own life as an example and a new business designed to help entrepreneurs start, grow, and scale their businesses through leveraging business credit

Learn what Dan has learned in life to build success for his future while overcoming challenges from this past.

LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

·         https://www.instagram.com/dan.pgh/

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The producer and host of the #DefineYourself Podcast is an inspirational and motivational author, writer, blogger, speaker and podcaster.

Chris, through his business #DefineYourself, mission is to empower YOU to overcome your COALS: challenges, obstacles, adversities, limitations and/setbacks and achieve your GOALS for success in your professional and personal lives.

If you are ready to start overcoming your COALS and start achieving your GOALS get Chris’ FREE eBook, The 10 Steps to #DefineYourself at http://10stepstodefineyourself.com

Chris can be contacted at [email protected]

For more information about the #DefineYourself Podcast, visit http://defineyourselfpodcast.com/

At the young age of ten, during a school outing, Ari and his classmates experienced a very traumatic event for their young age – they witnessed their rabbi dying on a rail in a forest.  This even start Ari on an adventure that helped make him the man he is today.

Although there wee times that were difficult, and at times Ari was placed in to situations many of us will never experience Ari does not regret what he has lived through because as Ari would say, it has helped mold him into the person he is today.

During Ari’s appearance on the #Define Yourself Podcast he shares experiences from his life and talks about his book “The little book of Greatness”.

In Ari’s book, he shares what he believes are the 5 keys to greatness by telling a parable of a man named David who learns about the keys from five different encounters.

LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

·         https://www.arigunzburg.com/

·         https://littlebookofgreatness.com/

·         Chris’s review of the Little Book of Greatness - https://imchrismitchell.com/book-review-the-little-book-of-greatness

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The producer and host of the #DefineYourself Podcast is an inspirational and motivational author, writer, blogger, speaker and podcaster.

Chris, through his business #DefineYourself, mission is to empower YOU to overcome your COALS: challenges, obstacles, adversities, limitations and/setbacks and achieve your GOALS for success in your professional and personal lives.

If you are ready to start overcoming your COALS and start achieving your GOALS get Chris’ FREE eBook, The 10 Steps to #DefineYourself at http://10stepstodefineyourself.com

Chris can be contacted at [email protected]

For more information about the #DefineYourself Podcast, visit http://defineyourselfpodcast.com/

Michelle Dickinson was introduced to the world of menta; health at the young age of 4 when she became a caregiver to her manic depressive/bipolar mother.

Michell shares what it was like growing up as a caregiver of an adult with mental health issues and how it impacted her life and talks about her book, “Breaking into my life“ that is  all about her experience being her mother’s mental health caregiver.

Dickinson also discusses the toll mental health problems takes on first responders and her thoughts on how we decrease the number of suicides by first responders.

Dickinson provides us with insight on her concerns about how COVID 19 is impacting our society as we are facing social isolation, shifts in our economy and how we work and connect with others, along with her suggestions to take care of ourselves and our loved ones during these challenging times.

LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

·         www.michelleedickinson.com 

·         www.breakingintomylife.com

·        First Responder Mental Health: https://www.michelleedickinson.com/first-responder/

·        Instagram: @michelledickinson71

·        Instagram -@firstrespondertactics  (First Responder Mental Health)

·        Twitter- @mdickinson13

·        Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/michelle.dickinson

·        Linked In:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-e-dickinson-7882013

·         Free Chapter of my Book: http://breakingintomylife.com/excerpt/

·         HTTP://WWW.NAMI.ORG

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The producer and host of the #DefineYourself Podcast is an inspirational and motivational author, writer, blogger, speaker, and podcaster.

Chris, through his business #DefineYourself, mission is to empower YOU to overcome your COALS: challenges, obstacles, adversities, limitations and/setbacks and achieve your GOALS for success in your professional and personal lives.

If you are ready to start overcoming your COALS and start achieving your GOALS get Chris’ FREE eBook, The 10 Steps to #DefineYourself at http://10stepstodefineyourself.com

Chris can be contacted at [email protected]

For more information about the #DefineYourself Podcast, visit http://defineyourselfpodcast.com/