Feb 22, 2026 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Professional, Spinal Cord Injury
This week, I made a snowy road trip from North Carolina to Tennessee to keynote for Permobil’s global leadership team — leaders flown in from around the world. ❄️🚗 Snowy miles☕️ Serious caffeine♿️ Mission accomplished And wow… this was not your typical corporate...
Sep 30, 2025 | Advocacy, Professional
I’m truly humbled to be highlighted in Voyage Raleigh Magazine—part of the Voyage family that started with Voyage LA. What I love most about their mission is simple but powerful: creating a space where people’s real voices and personalities aren’t filtered out. ✨...
Sep 7, 2025 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Professional, Uncategorized
📬 The most nerve-racking piece of mail I’ve opened in years: a denial letter from my health insurance provider. Not just a denial for a new wheelchair — a denial of continuity of care. A denial of common sense. WHAT I ASKED FOR That my long-time wheelchair provider —...
Sep 1, 2025 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Professional, Sex + Dating, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
(200 PEOPLE. 1 BOOK. 1 WILDLY UNFORGETTABLE NIGHT.)I’m rarely speechless (and let’s be honest, that never happens) — but my book launch for Unbreakable(ish): I Wasn’t Built for Boring hosted & donated by the North Carolina Museum of Art left me totally blown...
May 28, 2025 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Professional, Spinal Cord Injury
Let’s face it: your brain is dramatic. Not theater-kid-in-high-school dramatic. More like toddler-who-dropped-their-Fruit-Roll-Up-in-a-sandbox dramatic. Every day, your decisions are being pulled in a three-way battle between: 🧠 The impulsive part that wants dopamine...
