Betina Talks with Stroke Survivor Derek Van Oss on Overcoming Barriers and Making Dreams Reality!

🌈 In this inspiring episode of the Dream Big Podcast, host Betina Genovesi sits down with the remarkable Derek Van Oss, a stroke survivor who defied the odds to achieve his dream of leading an independent and fulfilling life.
📸 Derek is not just a survivor; he's a talented photographer, a UCLA teacher specializing in web user experience, and a skilled designer. Despite facing visual impairment in one eye and mobility challenges following his stroke, Derek's resilience and determination have propelled him to pursue and excel in his passions.
🌟 Join us as Derek shares his incredible story of triumph over adversity, offering valuable insights on how to dream big and make it happen. This episode is a testament to the power of perseverance and the pursuit of one's passions, no matter the obstacles in the way.
🔗 Don't forget to subscribe to the Dream Big Podcast for more empowering stories and life-changing insights. Visit "The Rainbow Plan" website therainbowplan.com/dreambig02 for resources and guidance on dreaming big, and explore Clara's website www.clarawoodscollection.com/ to witness her inspiring journey.
🚀 Let Derek's story inspire you to overcome challenges, dream big, and turn those dreams into reality. Together, we can make the impossible possible!

[@chriscraver4070]

Great podcast. A wonderful guest with so much insight. His, “I can do it “ attitude needs to be seen by everyone. A real story of courage.

[@clarawoods]

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[@olgreybear7997]

I want to thank you all for this episode. I want to thank Derek also for sharing what he did about finding a way to do something that you tell yourself you can't do. Just do it differently. Maybe even do it just as well. Maybe even do it better than you did it before! I am a university graduate, and I have the highest grade awarded to all university graduates, only achieved by ten percent (average) of all university graduates. It's a first-class honours degree (in photography) and I just HAPPEN to be a wheelchair user who also has a diagnosis of Functional Neurological Disorder (FND, for short). I am very encouraged to hear Derek's story. Too many times I have felt convicted inside myself in the past when I just think "I can't do landscape photography because I'm in a wheelchair." "How can I get to the top of a mountain to shoot a beautiful view"? Instead, I can sit at the car park at the foot of the mountain (this is an example) because I can't get my electric wheelchair past a turnstile or over a cattle grid. I CAN turn up on location and choose to photograph the blockage in the foreground with the beautiful view of the mountain top behind. The photograph still feeds my hunger to be a landscape photographer, but it also becomes a protest article that says, "Make this turnstile accessible" or " have two narrow runs over the cattle grid." The cows can't operate the turnstile gate that has a wheelchair-sized space built into the turnstile. Why can't this be made accessible? The cows can't walk in such a narrow slat of accessible ramps over the cattlegrid, but wheelchair users can then at least access the mountain path. Maybe I still physically can't get up to the top of the mountain in my road legal electric wheelchair, but then I WILL have a choice of angles to photograph the mountain from without the turnstile or the cattle grid in the foreground. I will also have highlighted inaccessibility at that one car park too. Maybe it gets changed and a manual wheelchair user, or someone in an off road wheelchair, can now get past that turnstile, or cattle grid who now CAN get to the mountaintop. I am going to make a promise to myself. Starting today. Starting now. I will learn to stop saying "I can't do it" and start saying "what can I do to accomplish the same outcome that is the crux of what I want to get done?" Just because disabled people do things differently, that doesn't have to always be "unable". Disability does NOT equal "inability". Thank you Derek. Thank you to all of you. This did help someone, as you hoped it might. ❤

[@clarawoods]

Wow!!!! Thanks so much for sharing it with us

[@ErnieCG]

Good video ,to understand how people manage what they have gone through

[@fabianpoulsen3162]

Very Very good🇺🇸🇺🇸👌👌👏👏👏

[@clarawoods]

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