15: Lessons on Clarity & Creativity While Living with Chronic Disease with Sarah Dobson
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The upbeat and community-minded Sarah Dobson is making a difference in the world, even though she has had 5 brain surgeries due to having Camurati-Engelmann Disease, which affects her skull. In this episode Sarah shares how her disease has motivated her to prioritize what's really important and to learn to be vulnerable and ask for help rather than always putting on her "happy face."
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, episode number 15. |
| 0:05.1 | When I've got this disease kind of hanging over my head in that way, it really, really makes you think twice about what matters, knowing in a very real way that life is short. |
| 0:19.1 | Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women podcast, stories of vibrant women living happy lives. |
| 0:25.4 | And now your host, Jen Ryday. |
| 0:31.5 | On our last episode, I talked with Lori Jones, and she shared her story of coping with her daughter's |
| 0:41.6 | heart defect and choosing to write the book riley's heart machine so she could share the story of |
| 0:47.4 | loving what makes you special if you haven't listened to that already be sure to go back and |
| 0:52.1 | give that a listen it It's a great episode. |
| 0:55.4 | Today I'll be talking with Sarah Dobson, who lives with Camerati Engelman disease. This affects |
| 1:01.4 | her skull and has caused Sarah to need five brain surgeries. So Sarah struggles with this |
| 1:07.8 | difficulty yet. She is thriving because she has chosen to be vulnerable and |
| 1:12.6 | allow her friends to help her. She loves to be creative and she's created a nonprofit so she can |
| 1:18.0 | give back. Sarah has quite the story and she really lives a vibrant and happy life. So we'll |
| 1:24.9 | go ahead and get started. I am thrilled to introduce my guest today, |
| 1:29.6 | Sarah Dobson. Sarah is an editor and grant writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She helps |
| 1:36.1 | people write clearly and strategically to get grant funding and to get published. She's also the co-founder |
| 1:41.7 | of the Nonprofit Basics for Health Society, which connects people living in poverty to the social resources they need to be healthy. |
| 1:50.1 | She's an avid reader, a cook, and a lover of the outdoors. |
| 1:53.8 | Welcome, Sarah. |
| 1:55.3 | Hi, Jen. |
| 1:56.4 | So glad you could be here. |
| 1:58.2 | Thanks for having me. |
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