E280 | Dame Catriona Williams

Show Notes | Dame Catriona Williams

0:00 Paralysed at 32: Dame Catriona Williams' story

3:34 A day in the life of a tetraplegic

6:34 Growing up in the saddle

9:17 What Sam says about her

13:54 Representing NZ & the Olympic dream

15:58 The fall that changed everything

19:20 "Why not me?"

20:17 Burwood: learning a whole new body

24:20 The gym moment that changed her mindset

26:59 Going home & losing independence

28:59 Sam & "You must go"

35:56 CatWalk: $28M for spinal cord research

39:54 A letter from Christopher Reeve

41:03 Don't sit and wait for a cure

42:25 How Zara Tindall joined CatWalk

44:22 The Catriona effect

47:32 Turning a French chateau into a fundraiser

50:50 Hand-cycling the New York Marathon

56:31 How a hand cycle works

57:42 Hand-cycling to Everest Base Camp

1:00:49 Hypothermia at a half ironman

1:03:43 Carried to see the gorillas in Uganda

1:06:08 Breaking her neck a second time

1:08:43 "You may not come out of this"

1:12:00 "I can do this again"

1:13:12 Riding Scotland to London at 53

1:14:45 Becoming a dame

1:18:30 Team Connect USA: 3,000 miles across America

1:21:16 Life on the stud farm

1:23:11 What a good life looks like

1:24:26 Advice for someone newly injured

1:25:19 The day CatWalk isn't needed

1:26:02 Walking on stage with a frame

1:28:20 Dancing with Sam

1:29:53 "You need people to lift you up"

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