Louise Bedford
speaker
1,768 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Aug
Louise Bedford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I have to say the number of times in my family when that story came back where, oh, she's so stubborn, she's so stubborn.
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Do you remember that time when she was four years old?
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I actually think that shaped who I am today because you often emerge into your own identity and that identity becomes so important to us to maintain.
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And that was my identity.
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So I think that followed through when I first got my two degrees, when I got my first job, when I had to leave my first job because of an awful health issue that took away the use of my arms and
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when I was learning how to use my arms again over the next five years after that event, and when I was trading with a pen in my mouth so that I could punch in the orders to the computer.
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Now, all of those subsequent aspects of my life, they were really defined by the discipline and determination that I had when I was just four years old.
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So I think sometimes life changes in whispers, not always in explosions.
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Yeah, there were a few moments actually, but the first one was definitely when I was on a beautiful career trajectory.
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My job was just flying high.
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I was the very much ego-driven, money-driven type of mindset.
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And unfortunately for me, my body hadn't got the memo that working so hard was a good idea.
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In just two short weeks, I lost use of both of my arms and it was so traumatic.
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And I was a national manager and there was no loyalty back to me.
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So I brought a carer into work until they stopped letting the carer come in because we were dealing with confidential credit information.
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I couldn't work.
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And that complete shift, it was literally...
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completely stepping out of the thing that I thought I wanted most and into oblivion, what I thought was oblivion.
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That was such a shock to me, that health crisis.
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Where I lost my job, I was unable to imagine a future where I could work again, where I'd become a share trader because that was the only thing that I knew how to do.
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