Going Where You’re Valued with Coach and Paralympian Stephanie Wheeler

On today’s episode, I’m talking to coach and Paralympian Stephanie Wheeler about going where you’re valued.

Stephanie is the head coach of the women’s wheelchair basketball team at the University of Illinois. An alum of the program herself, winning three national championships, as well as being a two-time Paralympic gold medalist, Stephanie is no stranger to success. Despite her success, she has still faced discrimination and is one of the few women head coaches, and one of the very few head coaches with a disability, in a sports world that continues to be dominated by men. After leading Team USA to a gold medal at the Rio Paralympics as the head coach, Stephanie decided to focus all her energy on coaching her team at Illinois, where she could live out her values in an environment that supported her as a whole human being.

We talk about:

How you can’t do what you can’t see and Stephanie’s journey from first meeting a woman athlete with a disability as a teenager to becoming an athlete herself, and then a coach and mentor to other athletes like herself.Why defining our values helps us to create identities outside of our jobs and sport.Stephanie’s ongoing work to overcome internalized sexism, ableism, and homophobia and divest from the voices that don’t matter.

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