Adulting With Ebonie

Meet Ben ClenchBen is a Traumatic Brain Injury Advocate and an International Development Specialist. He’s also an inspiring speaker (I was introduced to Ben by his powerful Ted Talk – Follow the Patient) and author of the book ‘Ben Again’.You can find out more about him on his website https://ben-again.org/ or say hello on Twitter @ben_clenchFav quotes from this episode:“I basically died. But survived - which is fascinating.”“I’m not angry. It was an accident. An awful accident.”“When you come so close to death…how can you not feel lucky to come through that?”“It’s made me a persistent bastard”“[The book] is a brutally honest description of how the fuck you get up after something as awful as what happened.”In this episode we talk about:The traumatic brain injury that Ben experienced that almost killed himStarting over: having to learn to walk, talk and adult againHow the people around him had to adjust to the changes in his personality as a result of the accidentExceeding the doctors’ expectations for his rec