With over 30 years’ experience in the disability sector, Kylie’s resume is nothing short of impressive. She has helped improve access to better health and lifestyle outcomes for so many people living with disabilities — from training, to world-first clinical assessment tools, to public speaking around the world. Today she’s dedicated to ensuring people living with continence are getting the right product and treatment for their condition, because everyone’s needs are vastly different.

No journey to the paralympics is straightforward, but through autoimmune disease and Covid, overcoming adversity over adversity, Richard’s Great Comeback is nothing short of inspirational – and if you ask him, he wouldn’t change a thing.

Dinesh was the first medical intern in Australia to graduate with a spinal cord injury and only the second with Quadriplegia. He’s also a lawyer, scientist and team doctor for the Gold Coast Titans Physical Disability Rugby League squad. Hear his Great Comeback from injury and how he has overcome judgement and championed his lived experience to great achievement.

Anja is the founder of Champion Health Agency, the world’s first talent agency for people with a lived experience of disability. She’s also an international model, author, motivational speaker and disability advocate. Born with VACTERL Association, and undergoing countless procedures throughout her life, hear the incredible story of her lifelong Great Comeback and the many hats she wears every day.

Sam Bloom was a nurse and serious outdoors-y type before a tragic accident in Thailand left her a paraplegic. Dark days followed as she wrestled with her new life. Then Penguin, an injured magpie, entered the Bloom family’s life and things took a turn for the better. Now a 3x world para surf champion, kayaker, best-selling author Sam Bloom and her amazing husband, award-winning photographer Cam Bloom, share their great comeback on Stream of Continence.

Intimacy and sexual pleasure can manifest in many different ways too, according to our amazing guest Candice Care-Unger, continence doesn’t have to ruin your sex life, nor does spinal injury. Candice Care-Unger is an experienced specialist social worker with a demonstrated history of working in hospital and community rehabilitation settings for the past 20 years across Sydney, rural New South Wales, Brisbane, Scotland and New York. Candice is also a qualified sexologist and a member of the Society of Australian Sexologists. She has numerous peer reviewed publications and is an award-winning clinician-researcher.

If you have a spinal injury in Sydney, Heidi “Heidz” Haydon & Dan Holt might just be the first people you speak to after your operation. They’re peer support workers that help people acclimatise and recuperate over the first six months. And as you can imagine, most people have A LOT of questions and feelings about their new life. Being quadriplegics themselves, they know the ins and outs of all things continence and spinal injury. Hear their amazing stories and get some insight into what the first six months of a spinal injury is like.