The Joe Brummer Podcast

Meagan Baldwin is a dedicated educator with 28 years of experience in both general and special education. As a Student Support Specialist at a K-6 elementary school, she leads the Reset & Return room, providing essential regulation strategies to support both students and staff. In addition to her role in public education, Meagan is a certified practitioner and trainer with Balance Auditory Vis...

Silence has a cost. Perry Power knows that better than most. A survivor of child sexual abuse, Perry spent years keeping his story hidden — pushing through depression and suicidal thoughts — while the weight of the secret quietly took everything it could. When he finally broke the silence, it didn't just set him free. It became his life's mission. Today, Perry is a TEDx speaker, author of ...

My really good friend, Stacy Nation, joins me on the podcast to talk trauma, finding a therapist, healing, and what that means, Brainspotting, and EMDR. Her new book, What Really Happens in Therapy: Behind Closed Doors: A Guided Journey to Healing, is out now! She is a licensed Clinical Social Worker, and a member of one of the first International Cohorts of therapists to be trained in Dr. Bruce P...

This was such a fun episode to record. About Janyne (Pronounce as Janine) Janyne McConnaughey, Ph. D., award winning author and trauma-informed advocate, lived with the effects of childhood sexual abuse from the time she was three years old until she entered therapy and began her healing journey at the age of sixty-one. Realizing healing was possible for survivors, she first authored three memoirs...

Dr. Lori Desautels is an Assistant Professor at Butler University in Indianapolis, where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate programs in the College of Education. She founded the Applied Educational Neuroscience certification program in 2016 — now reaching educators around the world. She founded the Educational Neuroscience Symposium, now in its fifteenth year. She has presented to more th...

This special live episode, which aired on May 26th, features Julie Beem as she steps down from her position as executive director of the Attachment and Trauma Network. We talk about her journey from volunteer to leader, the creation of the Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Conference and the virtual Learning Brain Exchange Conference, and her life as a mom to an adopted daughter. This episode is a...

Some guests you invite onto your show. Some guests helped shape who you are. Margaret Thorsborne is one of the world's foremost experts on restorative practice. For decades she has helped schools, workplaces, and communities across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the UK, the US, and beyond transform the way they respond to wrongdoing, conflict, and harm. She is a founding director of Restorative...

This week's guest, Latoya Fernandez, is a restorative justice leader. Her work in Sankofa Circles, teaching RJ, and youth diversion is groundbreaking. In this Episode, we'll talk about restorative justice in a variety of different contexts, including Connecticut's new Diversion First Model. We'll talk about Ghana and the lessons she brought back to her daily life. She also shares h...

Every year, children are restrained and secluded in schools across America. Many of them are neurodivergent. Many of them are already carrying trauma. And most people have no idea it's happening. Guy Stephens did. And he couldn't look away. What started as a father advocating for his own neurodivergent son became one of the most powerful advocacy movements in education today. In 2019, Guy...

What happens when the very system meant to save you becomes the source of your deepest wound? What does it take to dismantle a lie you've lived for decades — especially when that lie was built in the name of faith? And what does it really mean to thrive when you've spent years simply surviving? Randy Scobey is a survivor, author, and advocate whose story sits at the intersection of religio...

In this episode, we sit down with Jesse Kohler, founder and president of The Change Campaign, a national nonprofit based in Washington DC. Jesse shares the remarkable journey of building an organization that began as a college senior project at Oberlin and grew into a meaningful force for change. He reflects on his years working in the nonprofit sector in Philadelphia, his experience serving as th...

What does it actually take to help a child heal? Not in theory — in real life, in real classrooms, in real homes. Ginger Healy, LCSW has spent over 25 years answering that question. She began her career as a child abuse investigator and hospital social worker, spent 15 years supervising an international adoption agency, and today serves as Director of Programs at the Attachment & Trauma Networ...

For this very first episode, I invited someone who knows my story better than almost anyone on the planet — because she lived it too. Chris Thomas is my sister. We grew up in the same house and experienced the same Events. But trauma isn't just about what happened — it's about how we each experienced it, and the Effects it left behind. Because we are different people, Chris and I experienc...

Meet Joe Brummer, author of the best-selling book, Building a Trauma-informed Restorative School, and co-author of the award-winning book, Becoming a Trauma-informed Restorative Educator. In this trailer, Joe introduces the podcast! Learn more about Joe at his website: www.joebrummer.com