Finding Strength in Every Challenge: Faith, Resilience & Christ-Centred Growth with Elisa Neven-Pugh

What does it look like to live with purpose when the world sometimes sees your wheelchair before it sees you?In this episode of The 1% Shift with Niyi, host Niyi sits down with Elisa Neven-Pugh — motivational speaker, advocate, and woman of faith living with Cerebral Palsy Quadriplegia. Elisa grew up in a family of service, came to Christ in 2021, and hasn’t looked back since.Her message is simple but powerful: challenges don’t have to define you — they can transform you. Through her platform Positively Adaptive, Elisa helps people develop a Christ-centred growth mindset that acknowledges pain with compassion and turns it into something that heals.In this episode we talk about: • Growing up with Cerebral Palsy and what it taught her about resilience • How coming to Christ in 2021 changed everything • What a Christ-centred growth mindset really looks like in practice • How to turn your biggest challenge into your greatest contribution • Why being seen — truly seen — matters more than most people realiseThis is one of those conversations that will stay with you long after it ends.