The I Can't Stand Podcast

As a person who uses a wheelchair, music festivals are the last place where I would think I would feel pride for my disability. Not so for Brianna Paauwe.  Brianna had an altering car accident 11 years ago. It wasn't until attending music festivals and feeling a part of a community that she found her purpose to help people.  She now works for a foundation that supports people with disabilities, in...

Fiona is one of the most positive and resilient people I've ever met. From growing up in a country town where her disability was ignored rather than accepted. To the loss of a parent and how she has grown to love who she is, exactly as she is.  Connect with Fiona:  Fiona's website: https://fionademark.com.au/ Fiona's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blind_inspirational_speaker/ Connect with Pe...

Oli is an actor and athlete. Peta and Oli discuss Oli's love of sport, how he got into acting, and how he made history to be the first person in a wheelchair on the TV show Neighbours. Connect with Oli Website: https://www.pushthru.co/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pushthru1/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifeonwheels Twitter: https://twitter.com/pushthru_ Connect with Peta: Instagram:...

This chat is a cracker. Renay is a beautiful ball of happy, sexy energy. She will be forever known to me as The Oprah Of Underwear.  I hope you enjoy listening.   Connect with Renay:  Instagram: @firstnations_feminist Website: https://www.firstnationsfeminist.com The Disability Justice Network: https://www.gofundme.com/f/disability-justice-network-mutual-aid-fund Connect with Peta: Instagram: @pet...

You might have noticed that disability related content is popping up on your feed more than usual. Peta and Psychologist Stephanie Fornasier discuss if all disability representation is a positive thing and how it is influencing how disability is seen in wider society.  This conversation was motivated after Peta listened to another podcast called Honestly, where disability representation online,  i...

Joshua Pether is of Kalkadoon heritage but lives and works on Noongar country in Western Australia. He is an experimental performance artist, first nations person and also a disabled person.  Peta and Josh discuss his connection with his disabled body, growing up in a country town where he was known as 'the boy dancer' and how his indigeneity doesn't always influence his work as a performer. If yo...

Equality and access are often difficult for people with disabilities to obtain when interacting with the medical system.  This week we explore how the new Cervical Screening Test could improve and empower people with disabilities in managing our health.  I have two very esteemed experts on this episode, Professor Marion Saville and Professor Deborah Bateson. Professor Saville currently chairs the...

The Alter State Festival is a celebration of disability, creativity and culture. Alter State runs 12 September – 9 October 2022. Co-presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and Arts Access Victoria, Alter State is a major arts and disability event engaging artists and audiences. For more information see the website here:  https://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/alter-state This special episode i...

Rocca Salcedo came to Australia as an international student to study International Law, when her whole life changed forever. Rocca was involved in an accident that resulted in a lifelong disability. She spent over a year in hospital, away from family in Columbia trying to navigate this new life as a disabled person in a new country and in a second language.  In anyone's language that is a lot to t...

Alyce lives her life to the full because she always has. From being the only one with an obvious disability at school, to finding love and to being on the second person in the world with her type of disability to have children. She has always defied expectations. But Alyce always wants you to know that while she is extraordinary she also equally ordinary.  Connect with Alyce:  Alyces' Facebook Pag...

You're just 22 sitting in a doctor's office. You have been to many doctor's offices in the last few months but this visit is different. This time the abnormalities related to your eye are something to worry about. This time it is cancer and you are about to become disabled.  Connect with Jess: Her website: http://jessvanzeil.com Her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessvanzeil/   Connect with...

Carol Taylor is a successful lawyer, artist, fashion designer wife and mother. If there was ever a person that is an actual inspiration, it's Carol Taylor. Enjoy! Connect with Carol:  Carols Instagram  Carols Facebook www.caroltaylordesigns.com.au   Connect with Peta: Instagram  @petahooke The website:  www.icantstandpodcast.com Email:   icantstandpodcast@gmail.com Episode Transcript See omnystudi...

Ryan Smith is a business owner, access consultant and passionate traveller. You might know him as Freewheel Weekends his accessible travel vlog. No surprises Ryan and Peta had a lot to talk about this week. From what life is like for Ryan living with his disability, defying low expectations in the workplace to why the tourism industry ignores disabled people. Connect with Ryan: His company www. Th...

Dinesh is one of those rare people. He has achieved so much in his life. A doctor. A lawyer. He has won Queensland's Australian Of The Year. He has OAM. He has a disability and now he is a published author.  Connect with Dinesh:  Instagram  Buy his book    Connect with Peta: Instagram  @petahooke The website:  www.icantstandpodcast.com Email:   icantstandpodcast@gmail.com Episode Transcript See om...

Lindsay Nott jumped into a pool on the last day of high school. That day was memorable but for the reasons he expected.  Living with a spinal cord injury for now over 28 years Lindsay has continued to live his life. He adapted quickly to living with a disability with travel a big part of life that lights a fire in him.  Connect with Lindsay:  Lindsay's podcast My C5 Life  Lindsay's website Lindsay...

What is it like to grow up in a disabled household when you, yourself also have a disability? The insightful Emily Ladau chats to Peta about how even when your mother has a disability too, it doesn't mean a life of disability self acceptance by default.  Connect with Emily:  Instagram Website Her podcast; The accessible stall.  Her book; Demystifying Disability   Connect with Peta: Instagram  @pet...

You probably know Sam. She has had a movie made about her life, starring Naomi Watts. Post the movie, Sam continues to lead an extraordinary life. A para-surfing champion, a mum, a wife and a woman that holds on to hope of her past self. How self acceptance is a lot more complicated than people think.  Connect with Sam:  Her Website Her Instagram Watch Penguin Bloom    Connect with Peta: Instagram...

Tamsin is a paralympic athlete who competes in track and field and has Cerebral Palsy and Autism. Tamsin takes Peta through her time and Rio and why sport is so important to her.  Connect with Tamsin:  Tamsin Instagram  Connect with Peta: Instagram  @petahooke The website:  www.icantstandpodcast.com Email:   icantstandpodcast@gmail.com Episode Transcript See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...

This week Peta speaks to Kathryn Carey the Events Director at Impact Institute and Sam Bloom who had a spinal cord injury 9 years ago.  The Impact Institute runs many of the major disability expos in Australia with over 900 exhibitors over their thirteen disability expos. Sam offers her perspective on why the expos have been important to her as someone who acquired her disability. While Peta discu...

Trina is a hard worker, wife, mother and has Cerebral Palsy.  Trina has been accomplishing goals and proving people wrong ,since she can remember. Defying the experts, learning to feed herself, talk, walk and learning to drive a car.  Speaking of building resilience and overcoming low expectations Trina speaks about the importance of being able to laugh at yourself and her disability.  Links to ch...

Travel is one of the best experiences life has. Yet why doesn't the tourism industry actively make it easier for people with a disability? You might be surprised with the level of thought and research it takes to ensure accessibility. To start with, why doesn't the accommodation industry commonly list that they have accessible rooms, for example?   Connect with Peta: Instagram  @petahook...

Chloe Timms is just a delightful person and author. Her debut novel The Seawomen is out today! Living with her disability has pushed Chloe to succeed, proving to everyone that she is a force to be reckoned with.   How does one become an author and what does it take to write a novel? Find out on this week's episode.  Buy the book! Connect with Chloe: Website Instagram  Twitter F...

Imagine you are a veteran of the military. You are the epitome of an Aussie bloke. You love the outdoors and camping, but you ignore your mental health and drink to cope.  Then one night you are so drunk you fall off a cliff, a real one. You fall 10 metres or 30 feet. You survive.  This week Ben Aldridge talks to Peta about his life after the accident and his life now as a disabled man.&...

The main goal for the podcast in 2022 is to make International Day For People With Disabilities have more impact.  Find out what Peta has been working on to achieve this goal.  Listen to the previous episode about this goal, here   Find out more about the amazing Prue Steveson: Prue's Website Prue's Instagram  Prue's Facebook   Connect with Peta: Instagram  @petahooke...

In part 2 Peta walks you through (pardon the pun) the process of check-in, security checks and boarding the aeroplane when you have a disability.   Let's say it isn't the most straightforward process.    Contact Peta: Instagram  @petahooke The website:  www.icantstandpodcast.com Email:   icantstandpodcast@gmail.com Episode Transcript    The episode reference...