"Get yourself mentally healthy as soon as you can, and deal with those emotions as soon as you can... Once I accepted that I’m very likely going to be in this chair the rest of my life, it opened up everything." Dr. Mitchell Tepper - C6/7 Incomplete Quadriplegic from Georgia, USA, 37 years post-injury11/12/2019
"Something that I care about deeply is connections, human sexuality, relationships... I’m a doctor in sexual health and I really love helping people regain that feeling." "Even if you don’t walk, as long as you get to where you need to get and even better, things will happen for the best.” Meet Luis Angel, whose commitment to his children and family helped him to embrace life in a wheelchair. "Everything that is taking up my free time outside of work now revolves around having a spinal cord injury... and I’ve just become so passionate about becoming a part of this bigger community." Meet Vincenzo Piscopo, disability advocate and entrepreneur. "After [Dubai] I went to China, to Japan, to Kenya, to Latin America... it was... like my destiny telling me, 'Dude, you have no excuses.'" Yancey "Brother Born" Horton - T10 Incomplete Paraplegic from Connecticut, USA, 15 years post-injury8/26/2019
Meet Yancey "Brother Born" Horton, a father, boxer, and martial artist. "Be true to yourself, love yourself, and don't let nobody else's ideas of you overcome your own ideas of you." Meet Jenn Wolff OTR/L, who believes that collective advocacy, technology, and community can transform our lives: "When you think of the environment being the barrier rather than the wheelchair, it's a life changer." Meet Carneggy Lamothe, aspiring writer, poet, mentor, and electrician, who believes we all have a story to tell Meet Matthew Tilford - advocate, adventurer, and water-skier! "Don’t wait until you’re walking to start living life...that’s great if you start walking again, I hope you do, I pray for you... but for today let's live life like this is what we have." Meet Carlie Cook. Injured at 3, she grew up in the confidence that walking wasn't her goal - promoting wheelchair basketball internationally, becoming a recreational therapist for children, and mastering rock climbing is her jam. Meet Amber, aspiring motivational speaker and fashion vlogger who believes you shouldn't be afraid to live your truth. "Before, if you were to ask, 'Who are you, Kendra?' ... I would say things in terms of like what I like to do... but now I know myself much better... and I want to be able to be a force for good in the world." Meet Everett Mosher. Once an outdoorsman, always an outdoorsman - even if it means camping in the trunk of a MINI Cooper Clubman. Meet Jason Swarbrick - a karaoke enthusiast, he has proven a lot of people wrong by doing what they said he couldn't. Meet Frank Padro - an adaptive motorcyclist, club member, and representative for "the spirit of pressing on." Matthew Castelluccio - C6 Incomplete Quadriplegic from New York, USA, 15 years post-injury8/12/2019
Meet Matthew Castelluccio - father, husband, and athlete whose wheelchair is a badge of honor, not a symbol of loss. Raman Suravarapu - C8 Complete Quadriplegic from Andhra Pradesh, India, 6 years post-injury8/12/2019
Meet James Donahue - marksman, pilot, and pug ranch entrepreneur... Meet Joe Paladino, entrepreneur and founder of New Britain Medical Supplies - "It's not how you start, it's how you finish." Working on returning to school to become a disability advocate and home care agency entrepreneur, Nyree's journey has just begun. Meet MeLissa, who has consistently sidestepped the list of "never will you ever's" being thrown her way. Meet Jose Hernandez, an adaptive gamer, community advocate in NYC, and voyager "born with a little gasoline in my veins." Meet Zachary H, a peer counselor passionate about family and holding filmmakers and politicians accountable for societal attitudes towards the disabled community. |
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