Let's Be Diverse: Solutions for HR Leaders, Managers and the Workforce
Oct 22, 2026 · 25 min · 10 segments
**In this episode of *Let’s Be Diverse*, we explore what it means to navigate uncertainty, face unexpected challenges, and find the courage to keep moving forward when life changes everything. Through…
So listening to your story, the things that have come out to me is that, first of all, you talked about should, and I know that we shouldn't should on ourselves and we shouldn't look back at what ifs.
And I think that's important for the listeners out there that are leaders, that sometimes in our, not just in our lives, professional lives but in our personal lives we have to change our mindset as well and that's going to help us in our professional lives in our careers because they both have to fit if one is not going well then the other one is going to suffer and vice versa as you saw with your with your business and the thing that you were you were trying to do
yeah absolutely and i think that i You know, people can change, but if you also, if you're always thinking that you can't, you're never going to be able to, right? I have a yoga instructor and she always says, you're never going to see magic if you don't believe in it, right? Like you have to wake up with that positive mindset and think that the day is there for the taking.
One thing, Yvonne, I find fascinating about your story is how much we can assume about someone without knowing what they really actually carry.
What are some assumptions people have made about you and what do you wish they had asked instead? So there's a
You know, being a blind alcoholic, there's two tiers to that, right? Like, there's a lot of assumptions people make about alcoholics that we're just morally bad people.
Why don't we just quit? Why don't we try control drinking? Like, that's a really nice one, right? And it's...
You know, like, it's not what it's about, right? You have to understand what it's like to be at that rock bottom.
Like, it hits everybody, whether you're wealthy, successful, or homeless.
Like, the whole thing is... is hard on all of the people right so try not to judge too harshly when you don't know what someone's going through and there's a lot of components too like it's not just a like a compulsion to drink there's a physical component as well and then on the blind side of things did a little pun there didn't mean to but there's Blindness really is a spectrum, right? So everyone's vision loss looks different.
So I can look at you straight in the eye and have a great conversation and I can see you.
So listening to your story, the things that have come out to me is that, first of all, you talked about should, and I know that we shouldn't should on ourselves and we shouldn't look back at what ifs.
And I think that's important for the listeners out there that are leaders, that sometimes in our, not just in our lives, professional lives but in our personal lives we have to change our mindset as well and that's going to help us in our professional lives in our careers because they both have to fit if one is not going well then the other one is going to suffer and vice versa as you saw with your with your business and the thing that you were you were trying to do
yeah absolutely and i think that i You know, people can change, but if you also, if you're always thinking that you can't, you're never going to be able to, right? I have a yoga instructor and she always says, you're never going to see magic if you don't believe in it, right? Like you have to wake up with that positive mindset and think that the day is there for the taking.
One thing, Yvonne, I find fascinating about your story is how much we can assume about someone without knowing what they really actually carry.
What are some assumptions people have made about you and what do you wish they had asked instead? So there's a
You know, being a blind alcoholic, there's two tiers to that, right? Like, there's a lot of assumptions people make about alcoholics that we're just morally bad people.
Why don't we just quit? Why don't we try control drinking? Like, that's a really nice one, right? And it's...
You know, like, it's not what it's about, right? You have to understand what it's like to be at that rock bottom.
Like, it hits everybody, whether you're wealthy, successful, or homeless.
Like, the whole thing is... is hard on all of the people right so try not to judge too harshly when you don't know what someone's going through and there's a lot of components too like it's not just a like a compulsion to drink there's a physical component as well and then on the blind side of things did a little pun there didn't mean to but there's Blindness really is a spectrum, right? So everyone's vision loss looks different.
So I can look at you straight in the eye and have a great conversation and I can see you.
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