"Doctors Said He'd Never Walk Again. He Disagreed." Cancer, ADHD & Refusing to Give Up Pazbi Zavazki
Download MP3At seven years old he was told he'd never walk again. He decided the doctors were wrong.
Pazbi Zavazki was diagnosed with stage four leukaemia just before his eighth birthday. He spent years in treatment, lost the ability to walk, and watched most of the kids on his ward not make it. Then at 30 he was diagnosed with ADHD — and realised he'd been rewiring his brain his entire life without knowing it. In this episode, Pazbi talks about what actually kept him going as a child, how a cancer diagnosis and an ADHD diagnosis both forced him to rebuild his identity from scratch, and why the way we treat neurodiversity in the workplace is broken — and what he's doing to fix it.
This is one of the most quietly remarkable stories we've had on the podcast.
What we get into:
- Being diagnosed with stage four leukaemia at seven, losing the ability to walk, and deciding to wiggle his toes back to life anyway
- What actually kept him going as a kid — spoiler: it wasn't willpower, it was not wanting to be a burden to the people he loved
- Why two of thirteen kids on his ward made it — and what the difference was between those who held on and those who gave up
- Getting diagnosed with ADHD at 30 and how an identity shift literally rewires your brain
- The vision board on his iPad, closing three limited companies in one year, and learning to stop chasing shiny things
- Why neuroinclusion in the workplace is getting it wrong — and the standards he's building to fix it
- The simple things that keep people going through illness, isolation, and dark periods — and why your friends matter more than you think
- Why you shouldn't wait for a breakdown before you get support — and how he draws the parallel with not waiting for a heart attack to get fit
If you've ever been told you can't, felt like a burden, or just kept going when everything said you shouldn't — this one will land somewhere deep.
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