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Welcome to Season 2 — and the official beginning of The Hurdle2Hope® Show 

If you’ve ever faced a diagnosis, a trauma, a loss, or a moment when life just stopped making sense — you’re in the right place. 

In this episode, I’m sharing: 

• Why I created the Hurdle2Hope® Show 

• What living with MS and stage 4 breast cancer has taught me about resilience 

• The healing power of language, mindset, and being open-minded 

• Why even in the darkest moments, hope will always be there 

• How this show will help you find new ways forward — no matter the hurdle 

From a caravan in the bush to a podcast studio with a mic and a mission, this is just the beginning. This isn’t about perfection. It’s about real stories, real conversations, and real hope. 

What You’ll Take Away: 

• A powerful reframe: Your response defines your experience 

• A new lens on language: How what we say shapes how we heal 

• Permission to begin — even when life feels messy or imperfect 

Let’s Connect 

Subscribe on YouTube: The Hurdle2Hope® Channel 

Follow @hurdle2hope on Instagram 
 
Want to share your story or be a guest? Reach out at [email protected]

Transcript Season 2 Episode 1: The Hurdle2Hope® Show Begins: Real Stories, Real Conversations 

Teisha Rose: [00:00:00] Hey there. Teisha here and welcome to the Hurdle2Hope Show. I'm very happy that you are here, whether you have been listening to Wellbeing Interrupted for over a year now. Thank you so much for your support for those new to the Hurdle2Hope Show. Welcome. I'm so glad you are here. This is really exciting.

A little bit out of my comfort zone because if you're listening to me on Apple or Spotify or wherever you listen to, I'm also here on YouTube. No more hiding behind the microphone. I'm here, , with my Hurdle2Hope logo. Um, there. This is really exciting for me because it's again, pushing me out of my comfort zone a little bit, but I think it's so important to not only do that, but to meet people where they're at.

And so many people watch YouTube now. That's where they get their podcasts from, so I thought, what better way to connect? [00:01:00] Also, although not today, all the other episodes we'll be doing, they will come from my property at Daisy Hill. That has such beautiful healing energy, that property that I wanna share that with you as well.

So I'll be doing the introductions and conclusions of each podcast from our property. I'll take you on my walker to different spots of the property and we can just sit there, feel the energy. Hear the birds or whatever else other nature is around. Um, and you can be part of that as well. But if you're listening on, , the other formats, that's fine.

You can still listen to the birds. Um, you just mightn't be able to see them. Okay, so. I just wanna, I guess, chat with you here today before I start interviewing people. I've got about five or six interviews I've already done, so very excited about that. But I just want to take a moment to really share with you [00:02:00] why the Hurdle2Hope show.

It is 10 years since I wrote my book. Life Interrupted, my Journey from Hurdle2Hope, and that book was about my life with MS. And what I wanted to do in that book was, yes, share my story was, is an incredible story of what I've been through and how I manage to keep moving forward through some really difficult times.

But the second part of the book was sharing how you also can move forward from Hurdle2Hope. So that's been really important for me. When I started doing a lot more keynote talks, I always talk about and sharing with the audience that every single person in the room either has been, is being, or will be dealing with an unexpected [00:03:00] hurdle.

Although that's all about our reality, I talk about the good news being that you can have an impact on that experience, that it's your response that defines your experience. So that has been the basis of Hurdle2Hope my business and what I'm doing in that space. And I thought I also wanna bring that to the podcast and

not just sharing, you know, health stories, which are really important, but recognizing that so many things we can be faced with, and it might be MS or cancer but it also might be burnout from a job. It might be the grief of losing a partner or a parent, a child. You know, there's so many things that we have to deal with and what.

[00:04:00] Cancer has really taught me, and I'll share a little bit about my story shortly, but what cancer's taught me is that everything I learned in dealing with ms, I've been able to apply to cancer and those insights have worked. And I think, I don't wanna hold onto all of those to myself. I wanna share them with you as well, but I also want to learn from others.

Even though I'm dealing with specific conditions, I think we can still learn so much from other people with where they're at, how they got there, and also learn from people who provide support and yeah, and that's the space I wanna create on the Hurdle2Hope show. I'm really excited about it. And from the outset, I think I just want you to know that that is, you know, the basis of the show, that it acknowledges that we all share this common [00:05:00] experience of having a life interrupted by an unexpected hurdle, but we also share the, I guess, good news that we can have an impact on that experience.

So just really briefly.

Sorry, I just flipped over because I've made some notes and I'm not gonna pretend I'm memorizing everything and I'm gonna be really relaxed on these and just pretend we're chatting, um, to each other across a coffee table. Um, and there won't be heaps of makeup and there won't be making myself look amazing because I'm living in a caravan at the moment.

Lighting isn't fantastic. Camera's not fantastic, but I thought I don't want that to stop me from sharing and starting this show. Um, and a couple of things I wanna say from the outset. Well, first of all, my voice apologies sometimes it does [00:06:00] go funny. If you've been listening to Wellbeing Interrupted.

After my cancer diagnosis, I, about 10 months after that, I lost my voice. I couldn't speak for well over a year. No one could understand me. The muscle above my voice box tightened up so much that I couldn't get more than one or two words out. It was the most, most frustrating experience of my life, and given that I've experienced not being able to walk, not being able to use my hands, all the other things.

This nearly broke me. Um, but it's improving a lot. I work with this amazing speech therapist, , but sometimes it still does go a bit croak and funny, so apologies. But again, I didn't want that to stop me doing this show and. Yeah, I guess from the outset, I really want to be upfront. , This podcast show is not about becoming an expert [00:07:00] on a particular condition or particular life interruption.

Again, the emphasis is learning from others about how they respond to adversity. Also, my language, I'm very intentional with my language. I live, hang on, I'll stop that because I don't even wanna say I live with, I was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer. I never say I live with a terminal illness because that's not the energy I wanna put out there.

So for me. I, I'm a big believer where thoughts go, energy flows. Big believer in that. And I think if I keep saying I've got a terminal illness, I've got a terminal illness, I've got a terminal illness, then that will filter my experience in life. [00:08:00] And I don't even say now I live with stage four breast cancer.

I'm in remission. , The cancer found on my liver my bones up here and I think one, my scapula, they're no longer there. So what's the point of saying, I live with stage four breast cancer, so I'm very intentional in my language. I talk about being diagnosed with my conditions both unactive at the moment, and that's how I want them to stay.

So yeah. As we go through and talk to other people, I think you'll see, you know, language does play a big role in how you deal with a hurdle. Then, sorry, I'm flicking through, um, my experience. If you haven't listened to lots of podcasts, I'll give you a really quick background. Diagnosed with MS at 22. It was so unexpected, [00:09:00] um, because at 22 I was just finished two degrees at university, working in a training and development role at Telstra, which is a telecommunications company, the biggest one in Australia Life was going to plan, diagnosed with ms. Didn't even know what MS was. And for me, MS early on was incredibly aggressive and although that was horrendous at the time.

And it was, it was so awful. I spent at times, months, and months in hospital. Petrified I'd never walk again. Petrified at one time I couldn't use my hands, couldn't even pick things up, had to learn how to drink, right, Like horrendous. But I got through all of those moments and I also had incredible experiences.

We talk about Hurdle2Hope. At the end of dealing with 2000, when I was in hospital for months and [00:10:00] months, I started walking and then went over and lived in Scotland for the year 2003. Couldn't use my arms hands. I was back in the wheelchair, told I wouldn't walk again. I was progressing. Then the following year, I went over to Romania and volunteered in a day Center for children with special needs. So I've had all these incredible experiences where I thought, yeah, I've gone from Hurdle2Hope. Hurdle2Hope. Didn't sustain, that kept getting sick. But at that time I learned so much and that's what I shared in my book. Life Interrupted my journey from Hurdle2Hope, and I now look back at that part of my life and yeah.

It feels like an out-of-body experience. It doesn't feel like it happened to me, but I'm almost grateful it did and I learned how to get through those moments. Because being diagnosed with stage four breast cancer at the very beginning, , it was [00:11:00] awful. It was the most scared of ever been in my life.

It was. It's hard to find the words to describe the fear of being told. You know, I was told mastectomy is canceled your cancer spread. , You're told that there's no point, you have to manage your condition because it's now terminal cancer. So dealing with that was made so much easier from all that my younger self had been put through.

And I'm grateful for my younger self for getting through those moments and learning how to shift your mindset to deal with different situations. I've then evolved so much in the last four year or three and a half years. It was Feb 22 when I was diagnosed. Um, with stage four breast cancer. I've learned so much during that time and I've learned that hope.

Will always be there because when I was diagnosed and then lost my [00:12:00] voice, I couldn't then work. I couldn't do what I was doing. Instead of curling up, it was like, okay, what are we gonna do now? And fortunately, my incredible partner and I. We were on the same page. We started going for drives in the country.

We started thinking, oh, imagine this. Imagine being able to live at the bush, you know, or get a, at the beginning we thought we'll get a bush block and have somewhere to go on the weekends, and then all of a sudden we buy a hundred acres of land. And of course, I wish I didn't have cancer or MS but I am so happy in my life now.

I look back with absolutely no regrets. You know, I've done so much in my twenties, early thirties with MS. Now, um, living on a hundred acres of land off the grid in a caravan, not so wrapped about that [00:13:00] moment, but that will change. Um, and I can't believe where we're at and I'm in remission. So I guess.

That's a little bit about me. So when I'm talking to people, I'm not always gonna share my story, but I want you to know that I've been there. , If you're a guest coming onto my show, know that I have lived through the darkest, darkest times. I. I felt the fear. I don't think I felt it right at the beginning when I was going through MS.

I think that a little bit of toxic positivity was there. I was trying to, I think I was scared of being too authentic of my feelings and opening up and not being able to stop, you know, the, the emotions. Um, but with cancer, I certainly felt the fear. Um, I've definitely explored those emotions and I was able to move through that.

So anyone [00:14:00] watching or listening to the Hurdle2Hope show anyone on here as a guest do know that I had been through some dark, dark moments, but I've also been able to work out how to move through those and to always know, and this is the tagline. I'm being good. I've set up my, um, the Hurdle2Hope show, and someone said, what's your tagline?

I thought, okay, I'll, I'll work out a tagline. And I think, what do I want people to know who are watching the Hurdle2Hope show listening or hearing,, other episodes or me speaking at events is that even in the darkest moments, hope will always be there. So I want you to know that when you are, wake up at three o'clock in the morning absolutely petrified about diagnosis or about a new situation you find yourself in, in your life. That even in those darkest moments, hope is always there.[00:15:00]

I like now thinking about hope as my friend. You know, hope is there. In the darkest times when I'm most scared, there is always light and hope, and my guests will show you that, that even in their darkest moments, there is always hope. Then other people I interview who support those going through dark times, who give us different options and different ways of thinking, they show us that.

There is always hope, but I think why some people don't experience that lightness or hope or unable to move forward is that they have a closed mind. So I talk about the most important ingredient if you're going to move forward from Hurdle2Hope is being open-minded and MS taught me that. I kept getting sick because I had a closed mind at the [00:16:00] beginning.

I didn't know what to do with ms. Had no idea how to create a life that was, that, I guess, um, prioritize my wellbeing. What happened there was I kept getting sick, I kept pushing through, ignoring the symptoms, getting sick, gonna hospital, getting fixed, getting back into my life until I got sick again. That doesn't work.

So part of this show is demonstrating that you can do so much to have an impact, but only if you're open-minded. So when you listen to some of the guests, some of the stories have an open mind. I'm chatting to and in a, a great guest, Pauline, in a few weeks, and she talks about all different natural therapies or holistic healing and have an open mind.

Don't be scared to challenge your thinking. If you've always thought [00:17:00] no to natural therapies, that's okay. I do medical as well, you know, I've got an oncologist, a neurologist, a surgeon. I see everyone, but I also. Since I've started healing from MS. And cancer that has been, that has been because of holistic healing as well.

So have, if you are gonna be part of this whole Hurdle2Hope show, which I hope you're going to be, have an open mind,, get as much out of all the guests as you can, and you'll do that by having an open mind, having a curious mind, constantly challenging your thinking, challenging your approach to whatever hurdle it is.

So if someone's talking about cancer, their approach to. Living well with cancer or living well post-cancer or whatever it is, you can still use their approach in your life. So I [00:18:00] really hope you get so much out of this show. I'm so excited by it. I also ask, ask, ask, um, if you can share. @Hurdle2Hope is on YouTube now at Hurdle2Hope the same handle is um, Instagram also on Facebook.

Also I'm on LinkedIn and, , getting a lot more active on there. Teisha Rose, , not many of me around the world, so please follow me there as well because I think this show can do a lot for a lot of people, but I need to get it out there and I need your help to do that. , So if you can share this to anyone who experiencing a dark time in their life, health condition, past trauma.

Mental health condition. You know, all of what we are talking about will help with that. I've got two guests who are talking about neurodiversity, , and the [00:19:00] impact that has on their life and their family's lives as well. You know, there's so many conversations, so I'm very excited. I'm really appreciative of you watching this.

I'm really appreciative of all the support I've had, and I am so excited about where the Hurdle2Hope. Show can go. I know it will help lots and lots of people and I hope, hope, hope you'll help me to spread the message. The other thing is, um, watch next week in about a week's time. I'll probably have it in the show notes here as well.

I'm doing this new, , mindset reset video series . So keep your eye out for the video series, which will be a mindset reset. It will put into context everything I'm about on Hurdle2Hope, and I'll give you all of those details.

, Yeah, in the show notes next week, they'll come in the show notes in about a week. , If you're watching this a little bit later. , Otherwise I'll talk about it [00:20:00] in next week's episode as well. , So again, thank you so much. I'm very excited about here. If you are seeing me for the first time. Hi. Um, I'm glad you are here and here on YouTube.

, But as I said, keep watching as, um, you always are listening as you always have as well, and share this podcast with whoever you think will benefit from it. And if you've got an amazing Hurdle2Hope story or if you are supporting people. Through different holistic healing or, , an allied health professional, um, who I've got many who help me.

, I'd love to have you on here as a guest so you can help all of us move forward from Hurdle2Hope. Enjoy the rest of your day and I look forward to chatting to you next time from outside in Daisy Hill. Bye.