Katie McManus was T-boned in a car crash that gave her a mild traumatic brain injury. She lost energy for basic tasks like grocery shopping, developed ADHD-like symptoms, and her temper changed. The injury pushed her to finally pursue her dream of becoming a coach.
I was driving back from visiting my goddad and his wife in Sacramento and I went to take a left hand turn because I was lost into a driveway and the person behind me sped up and tried to pass me on the left as I was taking the turn. She T boned me. I was scared to lose my job. I was scared for like my income and would my insurance be taken away and all that stuff. The things that, you know, Americans really have to stress about. But also I love working. I love working with people. The idea of having to stay home was just excruciating to me. I've talked to several people who've experienced traumatic brain injuries and what's really interesting is that if they didn't have ADHD like symptoms before, they tend to have them after. And I can tell you there are things to this day that I still find challenging, not debilitating. It's not limiting. It's not. It's just. It's just different. My brain started working in different ways. But if you have had a concussion and you're listening to this, I want you to know that you only have a few spoons per day. Going grocery shopping, a big spoon, it's going to take a big spoon for you to do. And don't be discouraged if you're exhausted afterwards. Watching a movie is also usually that's something that's seen as something that's restful. It's not when you're recovering from a brain injury. Absolutely not. It takes so much for your brain to decipher. So if you're going through this, know that your temperament is going to be different, know that you're going to have a shorter fuse. And part of it is just the frustration that your brain isn't working the way you're used to it working. And my mind kept going back to, well, you've always wanted to be a coach. You know, that's always been your dream. And I'd been stalking this website for forever for the Coactive Training Institute, which one of my coaches previously had told me was the. One of the best training programs that I could possibly go to. And you know, having a brain injury and being bad at math at that time. I signed up even though I couldn't technically afford it. And it started me on this path where I was no longer kicking that rock down the road where I had actually picked the rock up and was doing something with it. I decided, you know, like, I could have died in that car accident. I had figured out the thing that I wanted to do that I had always been searching for being able to help people get what they want. The thing about the universe is that the universe wants you to win. And the universe doesn't give a damn how it gets you to go there. If you're dilly dallying and you're kicking that rock down the road of all your dreams, everything that you want to have come true, the universe is going to get tired of it at some point and the universe is going to send something like a car accident gives you a mild traumatic brain injury to get you off your ass and to go and do the thing. And if you want to listen to the rest of this episode, then go check my link in bio and tap on the weenie castle.
