What the Health? Accountability of the Sick Kid with Courtney Starks

ALL THAT WONDER

In this episode, Tamara chats with Courtney Stark, CEO & Founder of Courtney's Corner, LLC, which focuses on impacting lives and giving businesses and entrepreneurs the platforms to allow their stories to be heard.
What to expect in this episode:

• Courtney discusses his experience as being known as the sick kid in high school
• He developed pseudotumors, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure as a teenager, but because he was young he didn't really register the gravity of his situation and instead normalized his sickness
• Tamara & Courtney discuss the implications of not being educated enough about your health, and the lack of information from medical professionals in the Black community
• Courtney talks about his experience after high school when his kidneys shut down, but still not understanding the severity of his situation until he needed to get dialysis and was denied a transplant because he could die
• He goes through his experience of playing the blame game and going through a depression
• Then finally getting to a place where he needed to take responsibility and accountability for his own sickness
• By finally taking accountability and shifting his mindset, he was finally able to get a kidney transplant
• He discusses how this brought him to start his company to empower people to be better and more educated about their health & lifestyle

What can you learn from this episode:

• The importance of educating yourself about your body, its functions, the things that make you sick, keep you sick, and the impact of big corporations on your health and well being

To learn more about Courtney and his company, visit his website or Instagram page

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