Lizness School Special: One Woman's Stroke Recovery
Satellite Sisters
Mudbath Productions
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today's special Lizness School episode is inspired by a letter we received from listener Laura Tiberi asking us to consider how life choices can be different for "those who are faced with significant transitions as a result of medical illness or injury." Laura was "retired by leukemia", has experienced two stem cell transplants and "is 3 1/2 years old in transplant years."
We speak to Kira Dales, a fellow Fellow of Liz's at Stanford last year, who tells us of her life since a brain tumor and stroke. Her story includes physical, communication, cognitive and emotional recovery over the last 6 years.
Kira Dales on Stanford DCI site and LinkedIn.
Homework:
Kira recommends Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir Of A Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad.
Here is Suleika Jaouad's substack Creative Alchemy: The Isolation Journals.
Here is an interview on CBS Sunday Morning with Suleika Jaouad and her husband Jon Batiste.
Welcome to our sponsors:
Stanford Federal Credit Union. To use their $620 New Member offer, go to sfcu.org/lizness
Welleco. The Super Elixir from Welleco. Use promo code sisters15 at checkout.
If you are new to Lizness School, we suggest you listen to Season 1 to hear all about Liz's year as a Stanford Fellow. Everything from Neuroscience and Chinese History to Pickleball! Plus a great community experience with her fellow DCI Fellows.
Season 2 is about how she puts her lessons to work in the wild with the help of her millennial mentor Leah Sutherland.
To listen to Liz +. Leah's recap of Lizness School Season 1, go to our FINALE here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Liz and Leon here from Satellite Sisters. Hey, Liz, I understand you have added something new to your daily wellness routine. What is it? Tell us all about it. |
| 0:08.8 | Well, Lynn, you know I live the smoothie lifestyle, but I wanted a greens powder that would be super easy to add every morning, which means it needs to taste great. And I found one. It's called the super elixir from Welco. |
| 0:22.2 | And the flavor I have is pineapple and lime. |
| 0:26.1 | So delicious with my plain yogurt or water or anything else in my smoothie. |
| 0:30.5 | I highly recommend. |
| 0:32.4 | Oh, and if it tastes good, you use it every day, right? |
| 0:34.9 | It's easy to add. |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah, great idea, right? |
| 0:37.0 | Breakthrough idea. It |
| 0:38.1 | tastes delicious. Well, it was created by Elle MacPherson. You know, Australia loves her, |
| 0:43.7 | the satellite sisters lover, a hero to our generation. All right. So right now, if you want to |
| 0:48.7 | try this super elixir, here's what you do. You're going to get 15% off at wellco.com when you use sisters 15 at checkout. |
| 0:57.5 | Try it for yourself and feel a difference within weeks. That's wellco.com code sisters 15 at |
| 1:03.8 | checkout for 15% off the super elixir. And wellco is spelled w e-L-L-E-C-O-com. |
| 1:12.4 | 15% off at Wellco.com promo code Sisters 15. |
| 1:17.4 | First-time orders only. |
| 1:19.7 | Welcome to Lisna School, everybody. |
| 1:21.9 | This is Season 2, Episode 9. |
| 1:24.5 | I'm Liz Dolan here with my millennial mentor, Leah Sutherland. Hey, Leah. |
| 1:28.8 | Hi, Liz. Obviously, I'm so thrilled to be here with you, my boomer mentor, teaching me the ways of the olds. |
| 1:36.7 | Okay, I guess I'm supposed to be flattered by that. That was a compliment. How about this? How about this? Holding hands across the generational divide, even though we have never held hands before. |
| 1:47.8 | No, no. But it's... I don't plan to. But it's a good metaphor for our mission. |
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