I was recently interviewed on The Alex Tremble Show which focuses on helping leaders increase their influence, grow their networks, and reach their career goals. This interview was a lot of fun and allowed me to share some of the best career advancement and leadership advice I have learned over the years.
It was also an opportunity to talk a lot about dementia as a condition causing disability, and about how everyone with dementia should be supported to live their best lives with it, not only advised to go home and prepare to die via aged care.
Please support Alex’s show by listening to my interview at TheAlexTrembleShow.com, or wherever you listen to your podcasts, and by sharing this show with five of your friends. Thank you in advance and have a wonderful 2021!
Ps. Alex is the guest speaker for the November 2021 “Meeting Of The Minds” monthly Webinar series, hosted by Dementia Alliance International.
In fact, why not register now the the October one, 10 Guiding principles for movement training in degenerative neurological conditions, by Professor James McLoughlin, BAppSc(Physio),MSc(Clinical Neuroscience), PhD.
Your interview with Alex Tremble and the things you shared being a person living with dementia was so valuable to me. What you said about what life throws at you can be a blessing in disguise was true for me. After recovering from a coma and having lost access to some of my vocabulary and some procedural memory too, like how to use a towel to dry my hair, I decided to become a dementia support group facilitator. I had never been a carer, so wasn’t sure I’d be accepted, but I was. So when one of my members said she couldn’t get her husband to agree to anything she suggested, I suggested that it is possible he was exhausted from trying to deal with his day, and he is exhausted from trying to deal with confusion and loss, and being angry about the whole bloody thing that has happened to him, sometimes the easiest answer is NO! Then, hopefullly, you’ll stop talking and he can get a moment or peace. There was more to that discussion but just wanted to share how my coma and memory loss prepared me to help carers understand what their person is feeling. Thanks again for that great broadcast….and I do have your book, “What the hell is happening to me?” Thank you for that as well.
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Thank you for your comments Carol, and well done you, with supporting care partners of people with dementia. So few really understand how it is for us, and certainly, your experience if cognitive changes after a coma, have well prepared you! It is wonderful you then chose to something so positive with that experience. Thanks also for reading my book. Take great care, Kate x
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