February 19, 2024

E81: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with the creator of the popular walking stick and cane company NeoWalk, Lyndsay Watterson

57 minutes

Season 6 begins today! And we’re excited for an entirely new set of special guests, fun segments, empowering life advice and great stories. And we have an epic first guest of Season 6, it’s the owner and designer of the popular walking stick and cane company, Neo-Walk, Lyndsay Watterson. Launched in 2013, Neo-Walk creates handmade acrylic walking sticks that fuse individuality, comfortability and stylish for the mobility aid community. This was sparked by Lyndsay’s journey with disability after developing a MRSA infection and later needing an above-knee amputation. Now sending canes to over 25 countries, Lyndsay had created a company that’s touched thousands of lives.

Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways:
0:00 - Intro to Season 6!
3:34 - Lyndsay and Dominique get real on how to have mobility aid confidence, how the evolving journey played a huge role in Lyndsay’s life, advice on moving past self-consciousness of trying out mobility aids and dealing with the general public stars or comments.
20:32 - Get empowered by the fusion of fashion, confidence and chronic illness/disability as Lyndsay talks about how an oven, wine bottle and a dream fused style with mobility, the best reactions of people who’ve purchased Neo-Walks, what’s the main reason you gotta add some style to boost your personal and social confidence, and ways to make stylish upgrades on a budget to your mobility aids.
36:15 - STORY TIME Intermission gets celebratory as Lyndsay talks about her time doing trapeze and aerial performance work for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 London Paralympics. And she might have flipped arounds in 50 meters/164 feet in the air above Coldplay!
42:07 - We end the podcast when Lyndsay and Dominique talk about developing a chronic illness/disability later in life, and how do you not focus on the loss but instead think of how the transition into a new way of living can bring beautiful new thing, Lyndsay expressing how adapting to continue during things she loves like evolving to hand-pedal-cycling has been so valuable, and all the tips and advice on trying new things when you might worry of injury or self-consciousness because fear stems from the same place they would have without any diagnosis.

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