Using a life changing moment to change lives, with Sophie Morgan, TV presenter, author, inclusive travel expert and disability campaigner

Conversations of Inspiration

Holly Tucker MBE

Education, Business, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Personal Journals

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

As one of the most inspiring stories you'll ever hear, this is a conversation that really will make you appreciate the beauty of life.

This week, Holly speaks with TV presenter, author and disability activist Sophie Morgan to find out more of what we can achieve when we refuse to let what happens to us in life — or other people — define us.

Paralysed in a car crash when she was just eighteen years old, Sophie has faced gruelling personal challenges, campaigned relentlessly to dispel the myths around disability and spoken out against ableist attitudes ever since.

Tenacity, ongoing resilience and a lust for life are just some of the characteristics that Sophie has by the bucketload and it's exactly this attitude that has kept driving her forwards in even the darkest of times.

Sophie shares with Holly how all her experiences, at times raw and unflinching, have shaped her as a person, of how art and creativity have helped to heal her and of how she has created a colourful, beautiful life that is bursting with adventure and new horizons.

If you enjoyed this episode, we think you’ll love Holly’s Conversation of Inspiration with Josh Patterson, Ultra-athlete, Broadcaster and Mental Health Campaigner.

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0:00.0	this week I'm speaking with the wonderful warm and utterly energising Sophie Morgan,
0:07.0	TV presenter, author and disability campaigner. I just, I don't know what to say about Sophie.
0:14.4	She's, I called her a prebiotic and then I changed that to a baroque, which is a far far better
0:22.0	description. She's an absolute double baroque. Sophie's work is challenging the perceptions that
0:29.7	can otherwise limit other women like her. And for most recently, she has this unbelievable
0:36.1	campaign for inclusive travel, which is happening right now and I'm going to talk much about it and
0:42.2	where you can follow the work that she's doing. Sophie in her own words was a wild child,
0:48.7	but speaking with her, I realised that actually that's the inbuilt quality of this incredible
0:55.5	woman, grit and grace and a pure zest for life is what pulled her through some of the most
1:04.4	challenging circumstances and experiences that I've ever heard. And I just loved every moment
1:12.3	with this woman. She literally radiates and I promise you that it will be a conversation that
1:18.4	not only will challenge your own perceptions, but one that will potentially change your perspective
1:25.7	on life. Thank you Sophie.
1:37.2	I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to Conversations of Inspiration. Back in 2006, I founded not on the
1:44.4	high street from my kitchen table and since then I've gone on to launch Holly and co.
1:50.0	I'm the UK ambassador of creative small businesses and I believe that having a business doing what
1:55.7	you love is the key to a happy fulfilled life. My dream is to help everybody start theirs.
2:02.5	I'm here to offer advice, inspiration, wisdom and encouragement and in my view, the best way to
2:09.7	do this is by sharing stories. So I've reached out to my favourite small businesses,
2:15.7	entrepreneurs and those who simply inspire me and ask them to share theirs. Here are my conversations
2:23.2	of inspiration. Hi Sophie, I am thrilled that we're together today and we finally get a chance to
2:33.4	speak. We actually met at the happy place festival, didn't we last summer? And it was the hottest day
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