A year ago, I almost didn't do this.I thought a podcast was too much. That I didn't have enough to say. That nobody would want to listen to one more person share their story. I was terrified — and honestly, I almost let that fear win.I'm glad I didn't.Unfiltered Resilience is officially over a year old, and in this anniversary episode, I want to be honest with you about something. This podcast is changing. Not because I planned it that way — but because life pushed me here, and I've learned that when life pushes you hard enough in a direction, you listen.What started as my personal story — a diary of life in a power wheelchair with cerebral palsy — has become something I didn't expect. It has become a mission.Because somewhere over the last year, I stopped seeing my struggles as personal problems and started seeing them for what they really are — systemic ones. The financial traps, the Medicaid rules, the impossible choices that disabled people are forced to make just to survive — these are not accidents. They are built into the system. And once I understood that, I knew this podcast could not stay only about me.In this episode I talk about what it felt like to start this show terrified and grow into it. I talk about the friend who looked at my situation and told me the truth — that the system is designed to keep people like me poor, not help us thrive. I talk about the book I still want to write someday, and the painful reality attached to that dream. And I talk about who I am really doing all of this for — because it is not for me anymore.I started this podcast to share my story. I kept going because I realized it wasn't just mine.Unfiltered Resilience is advocacy, lived experience, and honest conversation — for every person who has ever been told by a broken system that independence is a privilege, not a right.The next chapter starts now.📧 [email protected]

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