
Episode 2 - 29 Oct 2026 - Where Courage Comes From
In a room of 600 people, a speaker asked who was living with a chronic illness. One hand went up: Dori’s. In Part 2 of their conversation, Dawn Russell and Dori Gonzalez-Acevedo start there and ask the question this show keeps coming back to: where does the courage to reinvent actually come from?
Dori traces her courage to being unashamed, and to giving up the narrative she held onto for so long. She talks about why feedback says more about the giver than the receiver, how her longest stretch of recovery began with a full surrender to asking for help, and why Band-Aids don’t do the deep work…
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