When an injury limits how you can perform work, art, and creativity, how do you find joy?

 

April Donovan, also known as the performer MC AP Real, is a rapper involved in three different musical projects as well as a formally trained artist, graphic designer, advertiser, and illustrator. 

 

April suffered a serious traumatic brain injury in 2018 that landed her in a coma for 10 days and is still affecting how she’s able to live and express herself today.

 

We talk about:

• April’s motorcycle crash and initial injuries
• Constructing and reconstructing memories after a brain injury and coma
• What it was like moving back home after the hospital
• The impact a severe injury had on relationships and finances
• Adaptations April makes in order to pursue work and art with tough symptoms
• The realities of being a creative human with an invisible disability
• How April is sharing her life through music, writing a book, and art

 

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Hear from another guest who shared honestly about having a traumatic brain injury: How a Traumatic Brain Injury Led Pro Athletes Brandon Scheid and Sensi Graves to Find Gratitude and New Perspectives on Life

 

Connect with April: https://www.behance.net/aprildonovan

 

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Shout-Outs:

-Music: The King of Sandwich Island by Shut-ins

-Thank you to The Ruins, the best wedding venue in Oregon, for supporting the show.

 

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