#098: Lisa Cox - What Are You Grateful For?

Lisa Cox is an award-winning writer, author, model, public
speaker, consultant, presenter and advocate for disability
representation. She is actively changing the way disability is
represented in mainstream popular culture – like the media,
fashion industry and more. Lisa is also the author of two books
and her work has been published nationally
for publications such as the Huff Post and
The Sydney Morning Herald.


You’ll hear more about in the episode, but here’s the little
teaser as per Lisa words, “At age 24 I had a brain haemorrhage,
like a stroke. It was caused by a nasty infection and to this
day, nobody knows how I contracted it.


Before that, life was pretty good. I’d been to university and
graduated with two degrees (bachelor of business communications
and media), played lots of representative sport, travelled
overseas, moved into my own place and after years working in the
corporate sector, I had just been promoted in my dream job at an
advertising agency”.


After my brain haemorrhaged at the airport one morning, I spent
the next three weeks in a coma and two month on life support.
Pneumonia, heart attacks and uncontrollable seizures took hold of
my body as all of my organs shut down.


Technically, I died twice in hospital but was resuscitated
(obviously!) to keep living out a life I loved. My family was
told they might have to turn off my life support but then my
brain started to recharge and every single cell in my body
regenerated…”


You’ll hear the rest in this jam packed episode, where we chat
about being a disability advocate, health and exercise, dealing
with challenges, having a success mindset, adapting,
“inspirational p0rn”, being on life support, victim mentality,
death, mental health, resilience, and gratefulness.


Check out Lisa on:


Instagram: lisacox.co

website: https://lisacox.co



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