My blurred opinion

Marcia is a Stroke Survivor, she had her stroke back in 2014, and for the next six years, her mission was to figure out how to go on, and how to figure out all that happened to her. She discusses the morning of her stroke when she wakes up and just feels like something is wrong because of the pain she was in, and when she went to read, her vision was all scrambled. She learned after her husband ha...

Grace hell is a person I met through a Facebook group, she reached out to me when I was looking for guests. she's a very sweet person, she likes to swim, paint, and she started her advocacy when she was 14 years old, which is when she had her stroke in the ocean in between the mainland and the island. Her brother had to come and rescue her,  once they finally got to dry land, he had to even perfor...

I met Charles Mickles through a previous guest Barbie Ingles, I asked her if she knew anyone with the condition Parkinson's and she said she had the perfect guest. As soon as Charles and I started to talk, I knew he was a sweet guy, who had been through a lot, and I wanted to share his journey. He explains his variation of Parkinson's and the differences between the other variations of Parkinson's...

Heather Hutchison is a woman I came across on podmatch, and once I read her story, I knew I had to have her on the show.  She is a singer/songwriter, she has three albums, and is working on a fourth, she also has spent most of our time in either Latin America or Vancouver Canada. She wrote her memoir which is about her being a blind woman leaving in those countries while also struggling with her m...

Melissa Schroeder is the current Mission Nebraska, along with other pageants that she has won along the way. She suffers from multiple chronic illnesses, but before she knew she had any of these illnesses, she was already advocating for kids with disabilities. They helped prepare her for what was to come down the road. She's a very unselfish person, she takes a part of the episode just to talk abo...

When JOI and I met, I knew she would add something different to the show, because of her background, and the subject matter that we got to discuss. Before getting to know her I did not know much about the foster care system, other than knowing one of my friends that went through it. Her main goal through advocating is to make sure kids get the right homes, but also clear up all the misconceptions...

Jenevieve is a delightful woman who I met off of Facebook group that caught my eye because of her personality and her strong passion for advocacy.  She suffers from a condition called mitochondrial neuropathy atp deletion, which causes damage muscles, and nerves. One other thing that it does to her ,is that makes her tired and the only cure for it is to just sleep it off. Her nerves also tend to a...

This episode is with Johnny Favors my good friend, he suffers from a condition called limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. He explains how his condition affects him on daily basis and the different types of muscular dystrophy that are out there.  Johnny is a very sweet, and strong person, but even the strongest always get beaten down at some points in my life. He struggles with his mental health, his c...

This conversation that I had with Jennifer Ashlyn was a long but well-needed conversation to be had. She really is a powerful woman who should inspire many to speak up, she also has three kids one of who is autistic, so she has many challenges beyond just herself. Jennifer is a woman who dealt with abuse at a young age, went from relationship to relationship, until she found a guy that was kind to...

This episode is with Christine fermo, I need to have a nice long conversation about mental health and how it impacts her life on a daily basis. The Episode starts off a little awkward because she is super nervous, but once you make her feel a little comfortable she warms up and explains her situation pretty well. Her mental health started while she was in college, she was recommended to see a psyc...

This episode is with an old friend named Paul daye, we met in school a long time ago and we know some of the same people. He is a guy I have a lot of respect for. He always made blindness look easy even if it isn't, and all the stories you would hear about him and every time you would interact with him, you always felt like he had figured it out. In the episode, he talks about her being a normal k...

Sara Shalom was a person that I stumbled across one night and once I read her story I had to have her on. She has become a good friend, and we try to look out for each other when the other is down. She is a writer and a speaker. She's lives her life by these three words which are integrity, intention, and inspiration. She speaks in depth about what those three words mean to her. She suffers from a...

This episode has my friend Dani, she is a persona that I admire, and ask for advice when it comes to taking health supplements to better my life. She is a nurse practitioner call has a functional medical clinic and she helps people with their bodies from the inside out, by dealing with their mental health and coming up with good exercises and a good diet for a Better Life. She was diagnosed with i...

This episode is with a father name Richard McDeid, his sons name is Mason McDeid, and their journey is absolutely connected in many ways. Mason has Sarabel palsy and is now 25 years old, and Richard has raised him his whole life. One day he was trying to find a way to calm Mason down, and for some reason when he played MacArthur he noticed Mason's demeanor completely change she's a point where he...

Jessica Velasquez starts off very shy, but when she warms up and you gets going, you realize she's a very sweet and strong person. She struggles with a chronic illness called lupus. She talks about the treatment that you can get that mitigate the pain to some degree, and how lupus affects her on a daily basis. Can you talk about the sexualization of women, specially women with disabilities on Inst...

Kevin is a guy I have a lot of respect for, because he's been through so much and no matter how much he has been through he continues to keep moving. He's battled mental illness, homelessness , a crystal meth addiction, he survived cancer twice, and had three strokes. His honestly is not only refreshing, but beautiful. We go periodically throughout his entire life, and showing all the ups and down...

This episode is with Michaela Cox, she is an author who writes mainly nonfiction, and has published many books.  Her first 38 years on this planet were very challenging including the three Ds, which are three different stages in her life that she had to overcome, and eventually thrive. Disability, divorce, death which were all challenging by themselves, but between the three of them they made for...

This episode is with a guy who is pretty famous on TickTock, but he's also a doctor, DR. Carlton is a specialist that deals with HIV, and STDs. This conversation was very informational, but also personal for DR. Carlton because he's also a gay man who talks about his personal views and knowledge of how HIV has played the gay community. We also discuss in detail how medicine has come a long way in...

This episode was a great conversation, but very sad for me, so much so that I actually took a week from any podcast recordings. Amy Daniels is a mother who lost her daughter Emily from a complex medical condition which was a tumor in which she received many treatments over the years, Which also lead to cognitive issues, and physical issues. Her daughter inspired her to write a book which is her me...

In this episode we have Jenni Grover, we're also known as ChronicBabe, Which she is known by that name from her 15 years of advocacy through her blog. She has multiple chronic illnesses such as fibromyalgia, hypothyroid, depression, and more. We discuss her journey of being in the best shape of her life, and then out of nowhere she started feeling fatigued and having no ambition, and her body thro...

In this episode I get to have a wonderful conversation with my great friend Kendra. Kendra is a woman I met on Instagram and I did a live on her channel.. She is an entrepreneur, a disability advocate, and an overall kind hearted woman. She does not have a disability herself, but she has had friends, and incidences in her life where she stood up for those who either were afraid to, or just didn't...

Deon Joseph has bin an LAPD for 25 years in high crime areas of Los Angeles. He has worked on skid Row which is a notorious area of LA for having a giant population of homeless people who have built their own community, and an area of lawlessness and crime. Some of our subject matter in this episode that is discussed, crime, homelessness, race, and his honest opinions on special interest groups li...

This episode was recorded a lot different than any of the other episodes I've done in the past or in the future, we used a phone service that has her interpreter, the type to hear what I say, and then she replies with her voice.  Karen is a woman who was born with normal hearing but after a fall from her, JetSki's it end up activating a specific gene that only her family has, This gene took most o...

This episode is with Michael Holden.  He is lives all the way in Northern Ireland and he suffers from a neurological disorder called Motor neuron disease, which put him in a wheelchair, and it started to affect him in his late 30s. He talks about the slow deterioration of his body that started with pains in his legs and then moved around throughout the other parts of his body. He was also misdiagn...

Our next guest is Teri who is a woman I met through my grandma's next-door neighbor, her family was getting rid of a cat which is now my best buddy bullet. She was born with a condition called aorta stenosis, Which means her aorta valve was almost entirely closed. Her doctors and family put restrictions on how much she could do, but she did not listen and I got her in lots of trouble. She had many...