What's up, Batty Bees? I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.

Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary

things and I get to share her story with you. So let's go. Buckle up as we're going to get real

and dive into the shit nobody talks about. Welcome to the Batty B Club. I got released from the

hospital. I'm home for two days just laying on the couch because, you know, that's what you do when you can't move. And all of a sudden, I felt all of this buzzing and electricity in my whole body out of nowhere. And I thought, oh, great, great. Like, what's happening now? What's getting paralyzed now? Because there were times that I would feel myself getting paralyzed.

I would feel the movement leaving.

And I thought, cool, I don't know how I can get any worse.

But then after this, like, buzzing, this electrical current that turned on, I was able to lift my arm from my side just a little bit.

Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch. On this week's episode, we have with us

Courtney Runyon, who is a motivational speaker who focuses on positive thinking, mental

peace, and emotional resilience. And today, we're gonna be talking all about Courtney's life

before, during, and after her autoimmune disorder diagnoses

and discussing what it truly means to be positive

and choosing to be happy in times of adversity.

So Courtney, thank you so much for being here with us today.

Hey, thank you for having me,

and I really, really love the

personality of your podcast. It's pretty awesome. Oh, thank you. Well, thank you so much.

So why don't we get started and you can tell our listeners a short summary of who you are and what

it is you do. Yeah, so hi. Thank you for the great introduction. I'm Courtney. I live in Cabo, St. Lucas, Mexico now, and it's fun whenever someone says, what brought you to

Cabo?

I'm like, well, I got paralyzed from the neck down and decided when I was in the hospital,

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