108: Leanne Kabat- When You Only Have 5 Years To Live

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Self-improvement, How To, Business, Management, Education

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

I have to start this by letting you know this was easily one of my favorite interviews ever. You are in for the most gut wrenching story, told by the most amazing heroine and SuperMom, Leanne Kabat. Leanne moved to From Ottawa, Canada to Sammamish, Washington in January 2016. Before she had a chance to make any friends, her husband left on a week long business trip. Leanne was home with her 4 year old and her 2 year old, and she was 5 months pregnant. Her husband had been gone a for a few nights when Leanne woke up to pee one night (remember all the pregnancy peeing?!?) When she got out of bed, she passed out, falling on her belly, and woke up on her bedroom floor paralyzed. She would lie there for hours unable to move or speak. After hours of willing herself to GET UP, she finally regained enough mobility to get up and get herself, kids in tow, to the hospital. What followed were months of testing, the birth of her third baby, tons more testing, and ultimately this prognosis, presented by a large panel of doctors and medical experts: “We don’t know what you have. But we can tell you that based on the brain damage we are seeing from your ‘incident’, you only have 5 years to live.” Listen in to hear: what Leanne’s life was like after receiving a death sentence her ultimate breaking point 3 years after her diagnosis how drugs ruined her and mindset saved her how she finally stumbled upon her MamaCon tribe and how life changing and life giving this tribe has been why she chose to buy MamaCon based on “the utterly unshakeable belief that no mama should mama alone” Links Mentioned: MamaCon website: www.mamacon.net MamaCon on Facebook Book: Harold and the Purple Crayon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 108, with Leanne Cabot. Show notes for this episode
0:06.1	can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 108.
0:14.7	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you and other
0:20.0	passionate, dedicated moms
0:21.5	the tools you need to bridge the gap between motherhood and living the life of your dreams.
0:25.8	I'm also here to help you be a little more shameless every day, because if you aren't building
0:30.6	a life you're extraordinarily proud of, what kind of legacy are you building?
0:34.6	So let's dive in.
0:41.2	Leanne Cabot is the CEO of Mam MamaCon and the soon-to-be launched Mama Connects. Her first passion is her family and three incredibly patient and forgiving
0:45.9	kids. And her second passion is building a strong and vibrant community for mamas to grow and
0:50.9	connect on their motherhood journey. She knows firsthand how hard life can be,
0:55.4	and she inspires mamas to run, walk, or crawl through some of life's toughest obstacles,
1:00.0	and she does it with a snack bag filled with dark chocolate and popcorn. Her past career
1:04.3	stops include elementary schoolteacher, documentary filmmaker for HBO and Disney, and a travel
1:09.4	agent, which comes in handy when she is on a mission
1:11.4	to travel to 50 countries before she turns 50 as her pledge to live life fully.
1:16.8	So I try to not have favorites, you guys, but oh my gosh, this episode, it's one of my favorites.
1:25.5	Like, I'm just, I'm going to put it out there.
1:29.0	I was blown away. I'm going to tell you how I met Leanne as we get into the interview. We were connected through some
1:32.8	colleagues and some kind of entrepreneurial friends. And when I met her, I knew we'd be friends
1:38.1	because she's a redhead. We also recently found out our birthdays are two days apart.
1:41.7	So I think we're twins separated at birth.
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