What happens when you stop accepting other people’s limits and start writing your own story? In this episode, Paralympian, leadership coach, and organizational psychologist Kate Naess shares how she turned a childhood of “you won’t be able to…” into a life built on curiosity, courage, and high performance. Born with a hand difference and surrounded early on by doctors’ low expectations, Kate was raised by parents who chose a different narrative: “Kate will learn how Kate can.” From tying shoelaces and riding bikes to playing violin, horse riding, and eventually reaching the World Equestrian Games, everything became an experiment in finding another way. Along the way, a primary school teacher who believed she could do anything and an unforgettable moment with Keith Richards telling her not to stop doing what she was doing helped cement her sense of possibility. When her horse almost died after international travel and she later lost her mum to breast cancer, Kate didn’t step back she reinvented herself in a completely new sport, going from local tri club sessions to the Rio Paralympic Games in under two years.