Ali shares her experiences and explains why when something is wrong you have to stand up and shout not only for yourself but for everyone else

She discusses with Brooke the reality of discrimination in everyday life and how what businesses and brands say across social media isn’t always the reality of what’s happening in the workplace day to day and explains how her community are the coolest people she knows

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• We need to be screaming and shouting about disability because discrimination still happens every day
• The hard times are when you find that place in yourself about not giving up
• It’s the bigger perspective picture and understanding it’s not just about you
• With a disability, you have to be good at planning because of everything going on
• You need to understand the importance of rest and looking after yourself, it makes anything more possible
• Connecting with a community and sharing with people who are like you really makes a huge difference in your life
• You internalise it and think it’s just you but it's not and you are not alone

BEST MOMENTS

‘It’s the reality of what we are dealing with everyday’

‘If I don’t speak about this what is going to change’

‘We are the coolest bunch of people I know’

  VALUABLE RESOURCES

Disabled & Proud Podcast

ABOUT THE HOST

Disabled and Proud is the show that brings listeners a different perspective on disability. Each week this podcast highlights an awesome disabled guest speaking about their own disability; why they are proud to be disabled and why they are proud to be themselves. 

The conversations in this show will look at what challenges these amazing people face socially, mentally, physically and life in general. This show is raw, open, honest, funny, welcoming and educational. 

Disabled & Proud does exactly what it says on the tin! And whilst we are creating this space for disabled people to be unashamedly themselves, without need to conform to society, this is also not about toxic positivity. This show will be shining a big, bright light on disability without it being “Paralympic or pity”. 

As you will hear disability is WHOLE, COMPLETE & PERFECT and whilst the topic of disability can be quite heavy - and we definitely don't shy away from the bad days - this podcast is also about having fun too! Our aim is to play a part in reclaiming the word disability - turning it from inadequacy to perfection!

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