Career Competitor Celebrates Disability Awareness Day With Keely Cat-Wells

Keely Cat-Wells joins Career Competitor to discuss her work as a disability activist in relation to her career role as the Founder & CEO of C-Talent, Zetta Studios and Zetta Finance. Keely got her start in the competitive world of the arts as both a dancer and actress in England and was on a path to great success until an illness derailed her progress and she found herself suffering with a now life-long disability. 

Her story is one of incredible spirit and real life examples of overcoming true hardships, while managing to always learn from her adversities to then be able to grow as an individual from them. A true competitor in every sense of the word, Keely has now found a career for herself where she is able to remain involved with the world she fell in love with as an actress, but she is able to do so while remaining true to her passion of advancing the awareness for opportunities for the disabled within the industry.

We hear about Keely’s childhood and her eventual commitment to the arts as an actress and dancer, and how she found incredible success early in her career (5:30). We also learn about her mindset towards how she established her attitude toward herself as an actress and the importance of avoiding trying to become a perfect version of yourself by analyzing achievements made along the way (13:00). Keely provides some difficult truths about the development of her disability (15:30), as well as what the transition was like in going from an able-bodied person to disabled (19:10). Finally, we learn about what Keely has done with her companies today and the amazing ways in which she uses her experiences to coach her clients through hardships on their way to success (24:00).