Charlie Sansom- A life long struggle with Dyslexia

01/28/21 • 56 min

On this episode of the Fiercely You podcast you will hear from a beautiful young woman, Charlie. Charlie has grown up on the Mornington Peninsula with her mum, dad and younger sister. She grew up with sport being a huge part of her life, swimming and sailing were her thing.

Charlie shares openly with us her struggles and journey through the Victorian schooling system for someone with Dyslexia. Until meeting Charlie, I had very little understanding about what Dyslexia actually was and how many people actually suffered from it.

Charlie thought she would never be able to complete VCE due to her learning difficulty. Her story is one of pure determination, commitment as well as seeking and accepting help in order to achieve her goal of finishing VCE and going to University.

I hope you enjoy it.

I hope you enjoy it.

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Vicki Sanford - From semi-elite sport with career ending injuries to becoming a new mum

On this episode of the Fiercely You Podcast you will be hearing from my youngest sister Vicki. Vicki has been a state champion in multiple sports as well as competing at a high level in various sports with Netball and AFL Football being her two main sports.

Throughout this episode Vicki will be sharing with us about the journey it took to get to such a high level as well as the two unfortunate injuries that stopped her from pursuing her netball and football career further. She will share the impact these injuries had on her life and the struggles she went through when her sporting identity was taken away from her.

Vicki shares about the journey of starting up a Women's football team on the Mornington Peninsula with her closest friends and our Dad being the coach.
As well as this Vicki shares about the crazy journey through COVID lockdown and a scary labour to get her newest and biggest joy in life, her daughter Matilda.

I hope you enjoy.
Podcast Notes:
In the podcast Vicki mentioned one of the football girls, Tyla, has recently been using her new videography business (@tygarfilms) to spread awareness about the Mental Health challenges so many people face. She recently released a video on Mental health through lockdown which I would love to share, check it out! https://bit.ly/392nNKp

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Amanda Davidson Part #1 - Impact of sport, cricket with dad and an ACL injury

On this episode you will be hearing from my eldest sister Amanda. Amanda is nothing less than amazing, strong and resilient. Her story has two major parts to it.

In this episode you will hear Part 1 of her story. She shares The impact sport had on her life growing up, the amazing opportunities sport provided her and the unfortunate ACL injury she had playing footy.
Amanda was blessed to play cricket for many years with our Dad, in the Men's competition! Talk about resilience. Whilst playing together they achieved 2 premierships and Amanda is the only female to be a part of the MPCA Grand Final Winning team.

Over the past few years Amanda has struggled to fall pregnant. This has been a long, emotional and very challenging journey for Amanda and her husband Aaron. Amanda will share incredibly openly about what they have been through, the process and the struggles as well as where she is at now. But for her IVF journey you will have to wait until Part 2, In the next episode!