35. Positivity Activist, Matt Eagles: Life with Parkinson's Disease. Advocacy, enthusiasm and saying 'yes' to life.

Open with Emma Campbell

On this week’s episode of Open, Emma talks to Matt Eagles. Matt was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease on his 7th birthday - a chronic and currently incurable neurological condition which usually affects people in their sixties and beyond.
Matt is a Positivity Activist. An award winning patient champion and motivator, keynote speaker and Head of Engagement with the Havas Lynx Group in Manchester. He is the host of the Birds of a Feather podcast and founder of Parkylife - a website with a mission to fight Parkinson’s with positivity.
Matt’s positivity is infectious, as is his enthusiasm for life and this conversation is honest, insightful, funny and touching in equal measure. His is a story that needs to be heard and he tells it beautifully on this episode.
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