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What if hurt people healed people instead? with Mziya Weber
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We share Z’s journey from a Georgian orphanage to founding REIZ Adaptive Fitness, tracing how faith, friends, and sheer grit transformed trauma into service. The conversation explores abuse, caregiving as a teen, disability identity, and building a free, adaptive training space that restores agency.
• a reframed idea: hurt people can heal people
• adoption to abuse and the choice to stay in the US
• survival tools: prayer, community, boundaries
• caregiving as a teenager and end-of-life decisions
• disability identity and confidence through sport
• why adaptive fitness matters and how it works
• partnerships, donations, and making access free
• fundraiser details and how to get involved
Free admission fundraiser: October 11, Redhorn Barrel Room, Cedar Park, 10:30–2:30. “I do ask for you to buy the raffle tickets.” Learn more at www.reizadaptivefitness.com (REIZ = resilience, empowerment, inclusivity, Z)
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Chapters
1. Welcome and a Different Kind of “Hurt People” (00:00:00)
2. Listener Support and Foundation Mission (00:02:02)
3. Meet Z: Names, Nerves, and Beginnings (00:02:51)
4. Life in Georgia and the First Adoption (00:04:21)
5. Abuse, Bullying, and a Hard Exit (00:07:10)
6. Choosing to Stay: Clinics and Foster Homes (00:10:30)
7. The Weber Family and Caregiving as a Teen (00:13:20)
8. Faith, Friends, and Not Becoming Bitter (00:17:20)
9. Disability, Identity, and Confidence Through Sport (00:21:10)
10. Founding REIZ Adaptive Fitness (00:24:10)
11. What Adaptive Fitness Looks Like (00:26:35)
12. Partnerships, Space, and Community Support (00:29:00)
13. Fundraiser Details and Invitation (00:31:10)
14. Closing Reflections and Takeaways (00:33:20)
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