The Moxie Adaptive Podcast

I can’t wait for you to meet this LOYAL, BRAVE, ADVENTEROUS, THOUGHTFUL, RELATABLE, & CREATIVE friend of mine! Your life will be better with Megan in it. 

In this episode, Megan discusses:

• Co-founding Moxie Adaptive & the value of this community
• What it’s like to be a new mom & re-discovering her identity
• Her teenage years of wanting to prove that she’s just like everyone else
• How overcompensation & perfection show up 
• Learning to believe: I AM ENOUGH, I AM WORTHY, I AM LOVED… and you’ll get through this.
• Processing things like “I don’t look like anyone I see” and “I hope they see my smile before they see my hands”
• Growth contains both peaks and valleys - and why seeking help/counseling is hard
• The power of journaling
• Her story of falling in love with her husband, even when he asked if her dad ran over her hands with a lawn mower!
• How her struggles with body image overlap with her disability
• Learning to say to her son: “Mommy was born like this, this is why my hands look different than yours and dad’s”
• Teaching hand motions and signals to her son, and navigating questions from little kids
• Why it’s sometimes hard to talk about your limb difference to your closest friends

To connect with Megan:
IG: @moxieadaptive
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Follow us along on IG at @moxieadaptive or send us an email at [email protected]. We'd love to connect you to a Moxie community in your local area!

You've made it to the finale episode! In this episode, you'll hear about:

- Kelly's pending decision to amputate her right arm,

- the nuance of having a semi-invisible disability potentially transition into a fully visible disability, and how perceptions of others may change,

- the lived experiences of fielding questions from others (does the long sleeve shirt really matter?),

- the reality of battling the question "Am I disabled enough to share my story in the disability community?"

- making an effort to find community and fight against isolation

- the value of having friends in the disability community to connect, relate, and process.

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To connect with Kelly and learn more about her updates:
IG: @kellylemon
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Follow us along on IG at @moxieadaptive or send us an email at [email protected]. We'd love to connect you to a Moxie community in your local area!

Tune into Part 2 of Kelly's interview! In this episode, we discuss:

 - Kelly's story of surrogacy and bringing her daughter into the world, 

- the power of sharing our stories, even when it seems unrelatable to anyone else,

- how her Christian faith impacts her mindset, 

- how having a disability teaches other empathy, especially kids,

- teaching kids how to lead with curiosity and creativity when asking permission to ask questions about others who look different than themselves,

- how her daughter created an innovative way to clap hands with her (*you don't want to miss this!!!!!*), 

- is there a right or wrong way to answer other people's questions?,

- your story is yours to tell or not tell, and there's not a right/wrong way to live with a disability and how you share it with the world.

To connect with Kelly:
IG: @kellylemon
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Follow us along on IG at @moxieadaptive or send us an email at [email protected]. We'd love to connect you to a Moxie community in your local area!

Looking to relate to someone who experienced a tragedy that resulted in a disability or difference?

Looking to understand more about the crossover with chronic pain and disability?

Felt like you couldn’t relate to anyone about your lived experience, so you kept it inside?

Understand what it was like to re-learn your body and how to interact with the world after an injury?

Looking how to navigate offering to help vs letting them do it? 

Do I need to talk about my disability or difference proactively with anyone?

What does it look like to have honest conversations with my friends about it?

Join us for Part 1 of my interview with Kelly!

To connect with Kelly:
IG: @kellylemon
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Follow us along on IG at @moxieadaptive or send us an email at [email protected]. We'd love to connect you to a Moxie community in your local area!

Part of the unique experience of having a physical disability or limb difference is that we interact in the world through a unique lens. There is that ONE thing that might keep us from relating fully to the world around us... our disability/difference. We are here to talk through the nuance of what it means to have a disability/difference, so come join along in this conversation!

Join the dialogue and DM us on Instagram @moxieadaptive