You Are Not Your Diagnosis: Building A Life That Fits You with Kyle Willpower

Wine with Wita | Speech Pathology & Parenting Support · Nov 20, 2025 · 33m

Hey everyone,

This week, I sit down with disability advocate and motivational speaker Kyle “Willpower,” a man who has been defying expectations since he was diagnosed with Charcot Marie Tooth disease at just five years old.

​Kyle shares what it was really like growing up as “the onlydisabled kid at school” in a small country town, from athletics carnivals and soccer on legs that would not cooperate, to the bullying, the long pants, and the cover stories he used for years to hide his disability.

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We also talk about the moment everything shifted - when hedecided to stop hiding, step into the…