Built Different | Bianca of Discolates: From Disability and Self-Doubt to Building a Movement on Her Own Terms | Ep.116
About this episode
Bianca shares her journey from living with disabilities to creating a movement through Discolates, emphasizing resilience and personal growth.
What happens when the very things that made life hardest become the foundation of everything you build? That is exactly the story Bianca, founder of Discolates, tells in this raw and unfiltered Built Different series episode. Bianca was diagnosed with epilepsy, later uncovering ADHD and dyscalculia, a number-based processing condition that nearly kept her from graduating high school. She spent years feeling misunderstood, minimizing who she was to make others comfortable, and questioning whether there was a place in this world for someone who thought and moved differently. Then she built Discolates. What started as a creative outlet during COVID has grown into a full movement rooted in liberation, intentional fitness, and radical acceptance. But the path to get there included trademark infringement battles, burnout, building a business while holding down a full-time job in the nonprofit space, and learning to trust her intuition when everything around her said slow down. In this episode we go deep on: The late diagnosis journey and what it taught her about identity and resilience. How her disability shaped the very DNA of the Discolates experience. Why she almost quit more times…
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