Every month on The Resilient, we speak with someone about a landmark moment in their life: pivot points, peak experiences, those times that define who a person is, as different from who they were before. What’s unusual about my guest this month is that two of these moments happened at the very same time.

And yet, she didn’t fall apart. She didn’t crumble. In fact, she did the most extraordinary thing instead. She defied every expectation, every logical conclusion, every prediction.

She is Team GB’s 2008 Paralympic swimming champion, Liz Johnson.

Listen to Liz’s story of how she found the strength and resilience to dive in and swim for Gold.

The Resilient is a podcast about powerful people, like you and me. It’s an eavesdrop session on their toughest times, and what they’ve done since then. It’s about life transitions, difficult decisions and unexpected twists and turns. Because life happens. It’s brought to you by FlowerApp.com and is produced and presented by Dr Aleks Krotoski and Pillowfort Productions. It is mixed by Katie McMurran.