{"id":2352,"date":"2017-02-04T23:18:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T05:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2017-02-05T09:53:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T15:53:08","slug":"lois-strachan-a-different-way-of-seeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=2352","title":{"rendered":"Lois Strachan: A Different Way of Seeing: A Blind Woman&#8217;s Journey of Living an &#8220;Ordinary&#8221; life in an Extraordinary Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4229\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2352-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/Lois_Strachan.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/Lois_Strachan.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/Lois_Strachan.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p>Lois Strachan: A Different Way of Seeing: A Blind Woman\u2019s Journey of Living an \u201cOrdinary\u201d Life in an Extraordinary Way. Lois Strachan is an inspirational speaker who guides people to see that they can use their strengths and their passions to influence them through challenges and arrive at success. When Lois became blind at the age of 21 she seized the opportunity of achieving a childhood dream\u2026 and has never looked back!<br \/>\nJoin Jeff Thompson as he sits down with Lois Strachan and <!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/11209352_1637361823145424_9138472390213646318_n.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Lois Strachan\" \/>talks about her \u201cOrdinary Life\u201d, her newly released book, \u201cA Different Way of Seeing: A Blind Woman\u2019s Journey of Living and \u201cOrdinary Life in an Extraordinary Way. Lois has also authored a series with Missy Mouse going on adventures just as Lois does herself. Missy Mouse uses the White Cane and children can read her adventures and realize that Missy Mouse does the same things every one else does.<br \/>\nLois is also a musician, singer, poet, writer, inspirational speaker, and most of all, she is just living an ordinary life.<br \/>\nWhen Lois first went blind she decided to join a rock band and she shares that music with us throughout the podcast.<br \/>\nLois lives in south Africa and although we are oceans apart we found out that we share a lot of common ground. I hope you enjoy listening to Lois and her music as much as I did.<br \/>\nThanks for listening.<\/p>\n<p>You can order\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&#038;field-keywords=Lois+Strachan\">Lois&#8217;s books on Amazon.com<\/a><br \/>\nYou can follow Lois on Twitter <a href=\"Http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/loisstrachanza\">@LoisStrachanZA<\/a><br \/>\nCheck out her blog and subscribe at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loisstrachan.com\">LoisStrachan.com<\/a><br \/>\nHer Facebook page is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/loisstrachanspeaker\">LoisStrachanSpeaker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can follow us on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/blindabilities\">@BlindAbilities<\/a><br \/>\nOn the web at <a href=\"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\">www.BlindAbilities.com<\/a><br \/>\nSend us an <a href=\"mailto:info@blindabilities.com\">email<\/a><br \/>\nGet the <a href=\"https:\/\/appsto.re\/us\/demUab.i\">Free Blind Abilities App<\/a> on the App Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4231\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2352-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/Lois_Strachan.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/Lois_Strachan.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/Lois_Strachan.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p>http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/Lois_Strachan.mp3Lois Strachan: A Different Way of Seeing: A Blind Woman\u2019s Journey of Living an \u201cOrdinary\u201d Life in an Extraordinary Way. Lois Strachan is an inspirational speaker who guides people to see that they can use their strengths and their passions to influence them through challenges and arrive at success. When Lois became blind at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,263],"tags":[471,164],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bapresents","category-college","tag-inspiration","tag-interview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Blind-Abilities-Logo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rcRg-BW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6317,"url":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=6317","url_meta":{"origin":2352,"position":0},"title":"A Different Way of Seeing (Second Edition): Author Lois Strachan is  Living an ordinary Life in an Extraordinary Way. 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