Join Karaleigh in an interview with the incredible Shannon Weatherly.
Shannon is a former therapist with a twisting and winding career which has landed her in the pharma industry. The road to where she is today has been paved with a great deal of hard work and also some hard times. Shannon experienced an amazing and unexpected career, a layoff which stole her confidence, a rebuild, and then massive burnout. In 2021, she was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder that still presents her with challenges. Shannon refused to be defeated and continues living life and hoping to be a voice for people with unseen disorders and disabilities. Shannon has an educational psychology degree from the University of Georgia and a Master’s degree in Counseling from University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Favorite takeaways:
1. Any day you wake up is probably a pretty good day.
2. I’m willing to own when I’m not doing great.
3. How conscious are you of your choices and what you are doing everyday and what’s influencing you? Are you just letting the world come in and take over or are you leading your own life?
4. I’m so much more conscientious about the fact that what’s going on inside me is unseen, and I think what that has done for me is opened my eyes to say, what’s going on inside of other people that I can’t see?
5. We all don’t have to be 100% all the time and that’s ok.
6. It’s really about stepping back and looking at every situation with a different lens of compassion and caring that I didn’t have before, because now I need people to see me with that lens.
7. How many of us are working so hard to appear normal?
Find Shannon on Linked In and check out her podcast on Spotify: 126 Days: Stories On Life and Work.
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