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James cox  is a guy I completely hit it off with, he is so positive, and determined. He has the condition, cerebral palsy, and though he has had his share of struggles, his determination and passion always wins out in the end? James lives on his own, works, has his own podcast, and continues to thrive, despite his disability. He wants to be an example that there's no stopping you have a disability...

This episode has Mikayla holmegren, and her mother. Mikayla has a strong spirit, she has multiple diagnoses, including down syndrome. When you first hear all the odds that are stacked against her, you might envision a beaten down person, but with the help of her mother and the rest of her family, and her strong fighting spirit, she's turned herself into an amazing person, and she overcomes the odd...

When trying to write Katherine's episode description, I came across her bio on podmatch, and I figured I just use that because it is the best description of her, she really is a kind person, and I'm so happy to have gotten to know her. From being the little girl who played HR (even firing her mother when she was five years old) and sold shares in her "company" to running a successful People Operat...

Noah Galloway Birth name Noah Matthew Galloway Born October 28, 1981 (age 41) Birmingham, Alabama , U.S. Allegiance United States Service/branch                                       Noah Matthew Galloway (born October 28, 1981  is a former United States Army soldier, motivational speaker, and extreme sports enthusiast. He was injured during the Iraq War , losing his left arm above the elbow and l...

Deana Mitchell was recommended to me by a past guest, he had been in one of her books, and told me that I should get in touch with her, and that I could possibly be a part of the series as well, not knowing that her and I would become friends, and that I would have her on the show. I am very grateful to her for the opportunity, but also more importantly, her friendship. Deana is a very kind person...

This is an episode I did a few years back, I was really depressed, feeling really lonely, and I decided to put the microphone in front of me and hit record on the podcast board. It's a moment in time where it shows how certain holidays can spark, an adverse reaction, and a sad moment in a person with a disability eyes. This was about two years ago, and I decided to put the episode in the vault for...

 Becky Curran Kekula is a motivational speaker and advocate for people with physical disabilities. Kekula, who was born with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism, works as director of the Disability Equality Index, a tool that helps businesses plan solutions to achieve disability inclusion and equality. The marketing major discussed the accommodations that help her do everyday activities, the challe...

Shoba is the next guest and I couldn't be more happy about that, she is such a kind person, and has been through so much. She is the perfect example of a person who is so kind and doesn't deserve the things that has happened to her, but all that she has been through has made her the woman she is today.  She is a three time cancer survivor, and a kidney transplant recipient. She's originally from I...

In this episode, we have two guests, Robert and Ryan Delena, a father and son who wrote a book about Ryan's struggles with his condition and how skiing saved his life. As a child, Ryan had difficulty controlling his emotions and was placed in therapeutic schools that relied on detrimental methods of behavior modification such as physical restraint. Nothing helped from a team of doctors to heavy me...

Goddess Johnson is beyond qualified to talk about having a visual impairment and being successful. She lost most of her sight, and had a freak accident, and is that with mental health and many other traumas in her life, but she has had way more success than failures.  She has received two masters degrees, she owns two businesses, which they I'll have some sort of benefactor to the youth, who is vi...

In this episode, we celebrate our three-year anniversary by having one of my closest friends, and the previous guest. Roxie interviewed me. I sent a message to many of the earlier guests for questions that Roxie can ask me during the episode. I wanted to show a silly side, and a deeper side of me that you don't always get when I am doing the interviewing. She also answers questions, and we go back...

Michael Hingson, blind since birth, was born in Chicago to sighted parents who believed in raising their son with a can-do attitude. Treated like all other children in his family, Michael rode a bike did advanced math in his head and learn to read and write - Braille that is! Michael's family relocated to the warm Palmdale area of California when he was five years old. It is here that Hingson had...

Doug Sweeneys honesty in this episode was courageous, sincere, heartbreaking at times, and powerful. His story is primarily about addiction, starting within his household, and eventually succumbing to it as a child. He tried to be a full fledge, functional alcoholic, but that didn't really work, if anything, it made it worse. Eventually, drugs came into the picture, and a multitude of mistakes, an...

Jen Hardy is a podcast host, author, speaker, community builder, and a stay-at-home mom that homeschools her seven children. , until she hit her 40s and her doctor diagnosed her with horrible asthma, and muscular dystrophy that went totally unnoticed.  After a hospitalization, she had time to ponder where her life is going from here, and she decided that she wanted to live her best life in her 50s...

She never truly felt well. After surviving a rough childhood, torn between a narcissist of a father and an unfeeling and emotionally neglectful mother,  she learned that she was the only one she could depend on. She eventually develop an eating disorder and became an alcoholic by binge drinking. Then, from there became entangled in a relationship with a man that was very similar to her father, in...

Susan Johnson is the author of “Some Dreams Are Worth Keeping” A Memoir of My Bipolar Journey and an inspirational speaker. She is one of these individuals that is pushing the envelope when it comes to mental health, as a woman who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, there's many stigma's that come with that, and she wants to educate people on those stigmas, and bring these topics to the table so...

This is a very special episode for me, because this one is with my father, I've mentioned him on a multitude of episodes, and because our relationship has gotten better over the years, I really wanted to have him on. We discuss his upbringing, how some of his issues stem from his father, his regrets in life, specially the ones involving me, and him in current day, where he is working on himself. I...

This episode is with Darryl Rodgers, about him and his son chase story. His son suffered from a mild case of ADHD, but his real issue was substance abuse. After getting kicked out of school, his parents had to figure out what to do with him next, and the first thing they thought of was an intervention. It seemed like the more they tried, the more they enabled him and pushed him in the opposite dir...

Danielle's journey starts with a traumatic brain injury, and we go into how it affected her, and the uphill climb to get back to where she was before the injury. She is another example of a person who took their pain and turned it into something beautiful. She started a company eight years ago, and now it's international, and she's helping people with their pain, whether physical or mental. She ha...

From the moment of birth, Michael Kutcher has overcome challenges and conquered obstacles that most people never even catch a glimpse of. Born as an unexpected twin of Ashton Kutcher, Michael met his first of many challenges at delivery. Entering the world notably smaller than his twin at less than five pounds, Michael was hardly responsive and struggled to take his first breath.  By age three, Mi...

This episode is about a family who is very tight and supportive of each other. Denise is the mother, Brandon is the father, and Jordan and Joe are the sons. I work with both Joe and Brandon, both great people, and stand-up guys. This episode occurred when I was on the treadmill at the gym with Joe, and he brought up his parent's participation and relationship with the Special Olympics. Jordan who...

For over a decade, Nicole worked on the communications side of the human rights world. She fought for the child bride of Uganda, the persecuted religious minority of Iran, the abortion survivor of France, and beyond. But, it wasn't until the birth of her second daughter that Nicole's mission to fight for those suffering would be given flesh and bone. Her little daughter was born in distress, resul...

Jael is a very talented, intelligent man, he has been creating music since he was 14 years old and had over 100 projects to date. We discussed the music industry, writing versus artists who don't, and the popularity that comes with that. Jael had a stroke that affected the majority of his body, he had issues with his eyes legs, vocal cords, and did some real damage to his brain. At one point it lo...

Andrew currently co-hosts the show Happy Hour with Heather and Guest. He writes crime fiction novellas, short stories, and volunteers. In 2018 he survived a ruptured brain aneurysm and subarachnoid hemorrhage. He's going to start a Clinical Mental Health Counseling program in January '22. As I've stated before, I'm really being on positive vibes and energy, and Andrew radiates positive vibes and g...

Zane is such a sweet person, and reminds me a lot of myself, always trying to find a place where he belongs, feeling, and being isolated from people, doing certain things that isn't necessarily in your character, but he would do it to try to fit in or to survive. As he says the most defining moment in his life was when his mom passed away, he was completely distraught, I didn't know how to go on....