Navigating teenage years can be difficult, especially when you are suddenly diagnosed with a weird-sounding debilitating disease like Charcot-Marie-Tooth. As a 13-year-old Pakistani kid living in the UK, Zac was forced to confront daunting medical predictions, social pressures, harmful stigmas, and his own internal battles. Join us as we hear how Zac pulled himself out of multiple periods of depression and denial and learned to embrace his new life of fitness, connection, and purpose.
Get out your notepads as we explore what it looks like to raise happy, independent and fulfilled disabled adults!
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Hosted by Lainie Ishbia and Estela Lugo.
Embrace It is produced by Launchpad 516 Studios.
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