30. How facing debilitating illness transformed the life and career of Karen Dwyer

Building Doors with Lauren Karan

What if you were to step into the shower one day and your whole life changes before your eyes?

How does silently suffering with a debilitating illness impact our life and careers?

Here in the episode Karen shares with us her own journey from leaving a high-flying corporate career and struggling through a journey where she was faced with the heartbreaking journey of losing her own financial independence.

Karen shares with us the struggles she faced in her family as she watched her health decline and how she fought to educate, empower and establish a new sense of identity.

In this episode we dig deep into Karen’s journey and cover

· The struggle to maintain the façade at work while crumbling at home

· Learning to manage her own anxiety around her illness.

· What it means to manage a family whilst bearing the weight of diagnosis

· Overcoming her own victimhood to find new purpose

· How she was able to reduce lesions and triumph through education

Karen shares with us her journey to not only triumph from her illness but also how it gave her purpose and drive to bring together a global health program of experts to change the diagnosis journey for MS sufferers.

Her mission has only just begun to change the way that we treat health diagnosis.

You can learn more about Karen Dwyer on her website www.karendwyer.com and take part in her amazing programs here: www.mstosuccess.com.

Listen to Karen on her very own podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/show/3U4ezMTejFPfoVdVChdqt0

About your host:

Lauren Karan, Director and Founder of Karan & Co.
With over a decade of experience as a recruiter and development coach, Lauren Karan found that her priorities rapidly changed after the birth of her two children. In 2022 she founded Karan & Co flipping the out-dated recruitment model with a focus on retention through career coaching and development.
Lauren believes that If opportunity doesn’t knock, you have to build a door – and it’s this same philosophy that inspired her to create the Building Doors podcast. The Building Doors podcast is for anyone undergoing a transformation in their life. Regardless of whether you feel stuck in your current role, need some inspiration on what steps to take next, want to learn how to level up as a business owner or simply want to listen to the experiences of successful entrepreneurs and industry professionals, the Building Doors podcast is all about unlocking your potential.
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