Humanity Platform

 This year is drawing to a close and only one word can describe it:  unprecedented .  Every year I set myself an army of goals but in 2020 I quickly realised that I needed to adjust my expectations.  The first sign of the potential apocalypse this year was the Australian bushfires.  Just as the smoke had cleared came the first news of COVID-19 and the pandemic that would sweep the world.  I immediately jumped to calm leadership mode. I knew because of my disability I had to keep my family and myself safe but I also wanted to help those suffering. So I dramatically increased my social media presence posting uplifting messages.  I felt that just the pictures weren’t cutting through enough so I moved to Phase 2 of my plan which was to create a series of videos drawing on my life living with a disability and the lessons it has taught me.  To keep myself calm during the peak times of stress in the pandemic I turned to literature. I started 2020 by reading Ryan Holiday’s Ego is the Enemy and

 Celebrating International Day of People with a Disability is something I’ve been looking forward to for months because this year I have made it my mission to focus on great community leaders with a disability.  My social media feeds in 2020 are full of people I have decided to model myself after.  This all started when I learned about Amberley Synder, a kick arse rodeo cowgirl who hasn’t let her disability stop her. Apart from her awesomeness on the rodeo circuit her motivational speaking blew me away.  Then I started to hear about Kyle Maynard, a wrestler and MMA fighter with a disability. Kyle is proof that there is a fighter in all of us.  Then of course no list of great leaders with a disability would be complete without talking about my man Dylan Alcott who continues to smash it on the tennis court, in the media, and as an entrepreneur.  Being a poet, public speaker, political activist, and professional actor, I of course cannot forget the leaders with a disability that are killi