This is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.

Hey Rebels, this is good night stories for rebel girls the interview. I'm your host Hazel and today we're talking to Keeley Cat Wells.

Keeley narrated the story of Grammy winning pop star Billy Eilish.

If you haven't heard that episode yet, please check it out.

Could you please introduce yourself to our listeners?

Hi, my name is Keeley Cat Wells and I am an entrepreneur and disability rights advocate.

I am the CEO and founder of Making Space and I previously founded Sea Talent.

Ooh, so cool. Okay, so what inspired you to be an entrepreneur?

I never thought I would be an entrepreneur. I never thought I would be an entrepreneur or start my own

company that was never the plan. I actually wanted to be a dancer and I ended up

going to a very prestigious dance college in London, but I ended up starting

to feel unwell while I was training. So I went to the doctors and then I got told that no one could really figure out what was wrong with me.

So that was the start of a very, very long journey going into hospital and then really spending about four years in

hospital and going through a lot of medical trauma. While I was in hospital, I wanted to take my mind off of myself and my situation so I ended up

starting to help some of my friends who were still in dance college get jobs and soon enough I realized that that was what a talent agent did.

Wow, that's a lot to process. And then what happened?

When I was well enough, I took a trip to Los Angeles. It was always my dream to go to LA.

I originally went just for a holiday and I loved it so much. I ended up

staying there. I got a job within the entertainment industry and then after

saying that I needed certain accommodations because of my medical condition,

I then got told that I could no longer have that job.

So that was really the light bulb moment and the catalyst to starting see talent because I wanted to create a company which ensured that talent who had medical conditions like me who were disabled or chronically ill, that they had people who were representing them and could fight for them and could ensure that they didn't have to go through what I did.

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