Self-confidence | Who Says I Can't

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Selfish Schmelfish

November 9, 2011 book, disability, fighting back, respect, self-confidence, self-esteem

Sometime around 2005, as I was writing the first words of my book when it had already been 32 years since my first major smack-down from cancer and amputation, I wrote these words about selfishness:
“The newly disabled, those diagnosed with life-threatening illnesses, and those who have suffered a tremendous loss, need time within themselves to [...]

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Filming Kelly Bruno for WSIC TV

July 2, 2011 amputee, athletics, biking, book, disability, disabled, duke, inspiration, prosthetic, prosthetics, self-confidence, self-esteem, sports, swimming, TV

Filming for WSIC TV continues and last week was all Kelly Bruno.
Kelly’s quick thumbnail story is that she was born with a birth defect that included not having a fibula or a foot-ankle on her right side. It made her lower leg useless and it was removed at six months of age. She has never [...]

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TV profile: Hugh Herr

June 3, 2011 climbing, disability, disabled, fighting back, inspiration, microprocessor knee, prosthetic, prosthetics, self-confidence, self-esteem, TV

The youngest of five siblings from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Hugh Herr was a prodigy rock climber: by age eight, he had scaled the face of the 11,627-foot Mount Temple in the Canadian Rockies, and by 17 he was acknowledged to be one of the best climbers in the United States.
In January 1982, while attempting to summit [...]

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Guest post: Why Disabled Athletes Inspire the Able-Bodied

May 2, 2011 athletics, disability, disabled, fighting back, independence, respect, self-confidence, Uncategorized

Bio: Alexis Bonari is a freelance writer and researcher for College Scholarships, where recently she’s been researching culinary scholarships as well as republican school scholarships. Whenever she gets some free time, she enjoys watching a funny movie or curling up with a good book.

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The Double-take

April 27, 2011 athletics, confidence, disability, disabled, respect, self-confidence, self-esteem, skiing, sports, sympathy

A while back I did a blog about staring.
Bottom line, no matter how many years go by, being stared at is not comfortable. The reason is that it highlights that you, the person being stared at, have something different about you and because of that you need to be put over here in a different group [...]

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Latest talk abstract

March 18, 2011 athletics, book, cancer, disabled, entrepreneur, fighting back, inspiration, self-confidence, speaking

This talk will weave together the war stories of an incorrigible entrepreneur, how cloud computing will transform the way we get our computing done more dramatically than any other time since computers starting being used by corporations, and how extreme life challenges can lead to extreme responses that help prepare a person for the rough [...]

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Considering is the most Unforgiving word

February 24, 2011 disability, disabled, fighting back, self-confidence, self-esteem

Have you ever heard “You do That-thing really well…considering you are a Something-or-other”? And with that, you just got dropped into the Something-or-other bucket. You’re labeled. You’re categorized. Whether you like it or not, you are a Something-or-other.
What if it’s a category that’s separate and distinct and maybe stigmatizing? No matter what you do you [...]

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My dancing leg

February 13, 2011 prosthetic, self-confidence

I love dancing. Just went dancing the other night. It was one of those really crowded dance floors where I was bumping into people constantly. Dancing with a full leg prosthesis always has been and still is a challenge. In tight quarters, it would be easy for someone to bump into the back of the [...]