In this episode, Clay speaks with Desmond Blair. Desmond is an artist, adaptive athlete, and mentor to individuals, young and old, with limb differences. Desmond was born without hands to a single mother in the projects of east Dallas, yet he has gone on to become an exceptionally talented painter known across the United States.
Desmond shares his story of perseverance and positivity. He covers the physical, mental, and social challenges he faced growing up without hands, how his limb difference led him to art, why he refuses to use the word ‘disabled’, the powerful figure that was his mother and why she was so influential, losing his mother pre-maturely, his definition of perseverance, and what it means be a Master of the Soul.
