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Prepare and Pivot (opens the original)
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How to Adapt When Life, and Travel, Don’t Go as Planned What do you do when you have prepared for everything, and life still throws you a curveball? In this episode of BAWarrior Podcast, I’m continuing our Pivoting series with one of the most personal lessons I learned from international travel as an above-knee amputee: preparation matters, but adaptability is what carries us through the unexpected. Travel after limb loss can feel overwhelming. There are prosthetic supplies to pack, accessibilit
Pivoting Isn’t Quitting: Changing the Path Without Losing the Purpose (opens the original)
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Power of the Pivot: Part 2 of 5 Sometimes the hardest part of a setback is not the pain itself, it is realizing that the plan you were so ready to chase suddenly cannot happen the way you imagined. In Part Two of my pivoting series on the BAWarrior Podcast, I share what I am learning in real time after pulling a muscle in my residual limb just as I set a new fall goal: one million steps by December 21. Step it up!! As an above-knee amputee, I am familiar with hard days. But this setback humbled
The Power of the Pivot: A Five Part Series (opens the original)
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When Your Body Changes the Plan What if pulling back is not weakness, but the very thing that keeps you moving forward? In this episode of BAWarrior Podcast, I’m opening a new five-part series called The Power of the Pivot. This first conversation is about one of the hardest pivots for me personally: when my body says, “I’m done,” even when my mind still wants to push ahead. After returning home from international travel, I was ready to get back into my normal rhythm. I wanted to eat well, get b
International Travel as an Amputee (opens the original)
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From Phantom Pain to Freedom Walking Paris Streets What happens when the prosthetic leg you depend on suddenly will not charge-thousands of miles from home? In this episode of the BAWarrior Podcast, I’m sharing the honest story of my first international trip as an amputee. Returning to Paris carried special meaning for me because my previous trip there in 2018 ultimately led to my decision to have an above-knee amputation. This time, I returned stronger, healthier, and determined to experience i
Embracing Uncertainty (opens the original)
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Travel withLimb Difference You Don’t Have to Be Ready, to Be Read Confidence Comes After the First Step What if confidence isn’t what carries us toward the first step, but what waits for us on the other side of it? In this episode of the BAWarrior Podcast, I continue my series on traveling as an amputee as I prepare for my first international trip since losing my leg. Last week, I introduced the idea of creating a “passport to confidence.” Every first: our first overnight stay, flight, rental ca
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