Bump In The Road

Welcome to this Side Trip. Side Trips are super short podcasts, usually less than 5 minutes, about the off road excursions we take that often lead to interesting life experiences. In this Side Trip, I talk about the power of women to change the world, as I remember the life and impact of Dr. Susan Love. #BreastCancer #Cancer #BumpInTheRoad

Welcome to this Side Trip. Side trips are super short podcasts, usually less than 5 minutes, about the off road excursions we take that often lead to interesting life exnperiences. In this Side Trip, I share a story from Bernie Siegel, M.D. that had a strong impact on my life. #MindBody #Medicine #BumpInTheRoad

Have you ever felt that you simply weren't being heard? As a nurse in a male dominated medical environment, Nancy's opiinions were often passed over. What would make them listen? Law school, she decided. And law school sent her in a direction she never could have anticipated. This is a story about daring to take a different path and about finding meaning along the way. Coming Soon! The Book. Bump...

This podcast is a Side Trip. Side Trips are a super short podcast that let me share some of my thoughts and experiences beyond the conversations with my guests. In this Side Trip, some thoughts on the different sizes and shapes of courage. #BumpInTheRoad.

Heather Moulder is a high achiever. As partner in a major law firm, she'd worked hard to build a substantial client base. But she walked away from it all. Not at once, but over time as she integrated her experience with a deadly breast cancer into the reality of the rest of her life. Trying to act as if everything was back to normal after a year of breast cancer treatments and surgeries, just wasn...

This podcast is a Side Trip. Side Trips are a super short podcast that let me to share some of my thoughts and experiences beyond the conversations with my guests. This Side Trip includes some of my thoughts on disability and identity. I think that our mental disabiities are what really hold us back. Physical disability just makes it all that much more difficult. But can the recognition of our dis...

In 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor was a brain researcher at Harvard when she had a stroke. The bleed was on the left side of her brain. With the critical left brain circuitry off line, she no longer possessed the ability to communicate, she had no memories of her past, no executive functionality and she existed in a blissful state where she recognized no boundaries between herself and the universe. It wo...

Welcome to this Side Trip. Side Trips are super short stories about the off road excursions we take that often lead to interesting life experiences. This Side Trip is about one of my favorite conversations on reaching for your potential with Erik Weihenmayer. Erik is one of the most inspiration people I've had the privilege to meet. He is the founder of the not for profit NoBarriersUSA.org an auth...

Tina Kramer is a teacher by trade and by passion. She focuses on teaching perceptual learners. "Part of the gift of being a perceptual learner is going off into your own imagination," Tina explains. Perceptual learners tend to see in pictures, as opposed to language. Their minds are fast but this may not translate into success with traditional school work. Tina set out to understand this phenomeno...

Welcome to this Side Trips. Side Trips are super short stories about the off road excursions we take that often lead to interesting life experiences. This Side Trip is about my amazing conversation with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor which will be published shortly. I share a personal experience I had with Jill's methodology outlined in her new book, Whole Brain Living. In 1996, Jill was a brain researcher...

Portia Louder: Prison, Redemption and Life What would you say if a federal judge gave you a seven year prison sentence? Portia Louder was a wife, a mom and a realtor. It was the realtor role that landed her in prison. During the hey days of the real estate boom in the mid 2000's Portia was buying and selling overvalued properties. The appraisals were manipulated. When the market crashed, the owner...

Side Trips are about the off road excursions we take that often lead to interesting life experiences. This is a new addition to Bump In The Road that lets me share my thoughts beyond the podcast. In this Side Trip, I share some of the background on how the podcast came to be. Coming Soon! The Book. Bump In The Road, Stories of Courage, Hope and Resilience, an inspiring anthology of overcoming life...

Lise Deguire is an attractive woman. Her kind eyes belie what she has lived through. When Lise was four years old, her mother used a household solvent used to start a barbecue. It exploded, engulfing the entire porch in flames. Her mother ran through the fire and jumped in the lake to cool her burns. She left Lise standing in the midst of the inferno. Lise who was a beautiful, bubbly, child with b...

Welcome to Side Trips. This podcast is to introduce Side Trips, a short form podcast about a variety of topics. Side trips are about the off road excursions we take that often lead to interesting life experiences. This is a new addition to Bump In The Road that lets me share my thoughts beyond the podcast. For Side Trips there's no set publication schedule and no set topics. The podcasts are short...

Dave Pelzer is the author of a series of books including A Child Called It, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for a record setting six years. In that book, he chronicles a childhood of almost unbelievable abuse. Finally, one weekend, he was sure his mother intended to kill him. And that's when a network of caring adults stepped in to save him. Dave has gone on to a life of great adve...

Sultan Deniz was a banker for fourteen years. But when she found herself meditating for hours and hours to deal with the stress, she realized something had to give. Sultan decided to follow her heart and it led her to becoming a mediation coach and poet. Becoming yourself is a process, and the answers lie within. It is in that internal exploration that Sultan directs her clients to discover what i...

In 2020 the world was dealing with Covid. But in Nova Scotia, Canada, another event took place that defined the year, the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history. Over two days, April 18th and 19th, Gabriel Worman killed 22 people. He started by killing 13 people in Portapique, N.S. and by burning down several houses, including his own. The next day his rampage continued. Altogether, twenty tw...

Robin's story starts with 14 years of dealing with infertility. As an RN, Robin went on a surgical trip to the Dominican Republic. It was there she had an aha moment, that moved her from her angst over infertility into an adoption mindset. Robin and her husband would go onto adopt a two day old baby girl and three years later, a 5 day old little girl. Robin was in love with her children, but over...

From Uganda to American culture, this is a far ranging conversation with Charlie Hedges. Charlie and I are both on a quest for greater understanding and consciousness, and this conversation reflects that. It starts with Charlie's efforts with Wells of Water, a charity that provides clean water for rural Ugandan villages. Clean water changes everything for these villages. The women no longer spend...

Terry Chase is an athlete. And that mindset has defined her life. Riding her bicycle one sunny spring day in Colorado, Terry came to a turn. Behind her was a large SUV that collided with her, then fled the scene. Terry was left sprawled on the pavement with a broken back. Her beloved red bicycle lay mangled on the road. This is a story of remarkable courage and resilience. It's a story of enormous...

What is an "Old Soul"? The phrase has connotation of wisdom beyond one's years. And that certainly describes Raileigh Duschen. Raileigh was on a successful path. She'd been accepted into a prestigious medical school program as an undergrad. Her future was assured. Or was it? For Raileigh, medicine was about healing, but she herself was not well. That recognition sent her on a different path, one o...

What does "KC" stand for? Killer Chick. Kim "KC" Campbell served in the Air Force for 24 years as a fighter pilot and senior military leader. She has flown 1,800 hours in the A-10 Warthog, including more than 100 combat missions protecting troops on the ground in both Iraq and Afghanistan. KC's story is one for all of us. It's about courage, inspiration and perseverance. It's about creating a wing...

Thane Lawrie's novel, The Buddhist CEO, is loosely based on his own experiences in running a large organization. And on his experiences as a Buddhist. This is a conversation about peace, presence and kindness. It's about taking responsibility for oneself and going within, in a "modern" world that's focused on the newest, latest, transient topic. In short, it's a conversation for everyone. For Bump...

Vicki Matthews started off thinking she'd become a doctor. And she did; a naturopathic doctor. Vicki also has a BA in Psychology and an MBA in Marketing and Consumer Behavior from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Her curiosity and love of learning also led her to study Chinese Medicine. Meanwhile, in her naturopathic practice, she saw may physical problems triggered by emotional...

Kenya has had a bumpy road. Reflecting on her childhood, she notes that self awareness wasn't a skill set she was taught. But it would turn out to be a lynchpin in Kenya's life. Kenya grew up in a middle class home in Detroit. Her parents believed in the prototypical American dream of a better life for their daughter. Instead, Kenya found herself attracted to urban street culture and that attracti...