The Journey of My Mother's Son

In this episode of The Journey of my Mother's Son podcast, I sit down and talk with Jeff Woytovich, founder of the Children's Alopecia Project. Jeff and I have known each other for a little over ten years now.  He is one of my best friends and we share a passion for helping others, especially kids. Jeff started the Children's Alopecia Project (CAP) in 2003 when his daughter, Maddie started to lose...

In this episode of The Journey of my Mother's Son podcast, I sit down and talk with Anna Kimbrell, a member of U.S. Women's National Baseball team. As we were mapping out our route on this leg of our journey, I realized that we'd be going through Anna Kimbrell's neck of the woods.  I had seen on Facebook that she had just started conducting some baseball clinics for girls at K3 Sports Academy in R...

In this episode of The Journey of my Mother's Son podcast, I sit down and talk with another one of my former players, Stephen Sauer. Stephen was part of the pioneering Berkshire Red Sox teams.  He joined the organization in its second year of existence, just after he graduated high school and while he was attending Kutztown University. He now resides in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and is the hea...

In this episode of The Journey of my Mother's Son podcast, I sit down and talk with fellow full-time RVer and Berks County native, April Crossley. April and I have been friends on Facebook for several years, but have only really started to get to know one another last year when we found out that we were both getting ready to ditch the life that our society says that we should be living. Within a f...

In this episode of The Journey of my Mother's Son podcast, I sit down and talk with my youngest grand-daughter, Lizze Croft. At 11 years old, she surpasses Ella Witman as the youngest guest that I've ever had on the show. One of the three main locations that we stay at when we come back to visit in Pennsylvania is at Lizze's parents house.  My daughter, Sherry, and son-in-law, Stephen have a beaut...

In this episode of The Journey of my Mother's Son podcast, I sit down and talk with Phil and Shar Roos from, A Year to Volunteer. Phil and Shar are fellow full-time RVers.  Phil retired from the Navy after a 36-year career. Shar retired from Insurance and Finance. After years of doing humanitarian and volunteer work in their careers, they found themselves unfulfilled in their daily lives.  They wa...

In this episode of The Journey of my Mother's Son podcast, I sit down and talk with another one of my former players, Billy Hartranft. Bill is now a licensed professional counselor and sports consultant with Mind Matters Counseling.  We talk about the importance of mental health in youth sports. In his practice, Bill utilizes a person-centered, evidenced based approach to therapy that allows his c...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down with my cousin, Debi Wade-Scavone. We talk about our parents and the importance of remembering our roots. When my Mom was traveling around the country, one of the things that was so important to her was being able to connect with her family and friends.  This is one of the things that Sandy and I have been very fortunate to do...

Ron McCoy understands the importance of experiencing your life, not just living it. In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Ron McCoy.  When we first met Ron just a few weeks ago we were introduced as "family."  He is the father of my cousin, Carole's good friend, Tim.  Tim and Carole have known each other for 30 years and are like family to each other,...

One of the things that my mother taught me was that family is always family. In this episode of "The Journey of my Mother's Son," I sit down with my cousin Patty Wade to talk about our family and the impact that our parents still have on our lives today. It was almost two years ago now that I took two road trips by myself in January and February of 2019 that seem to have really started the journey...

In our current polarized world, we really need to just sit down and have genuine conversations with each other in order to recognize the humanity in others. In this episode of The Journey of my Mother's Son podcast, I once again sit down with my good friend, and brother from another mother, Anthony Henderson.  Anthony and I met through Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) during the spring of 2020.  W...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, Sandy and I talk about our 21-day journey from Pennsylvania to Florida.  We also talk about some of our adventures and new friends that we've met since we've been here.  This is the longest period of time that we've spent in one place since we started this journey in August. We arrived in Florida around 9:30 PM on November 23rd.   We got...

Doctor Zac Schneider sits down to talk to me about baseball memories and growing by being willing to leave your comfort zone. In this episode of The Journey of my Mother's Son podcast, I sit down and talk with another one of my former players, Zac Schneider. Sandy and I were blessed to spend a few days with Zac and his dog, Baby Girl at his house just outside of Atlanta, GA.  Zac first started pla...

A player and his former coach reflect back about the life lessons that baseball has taught. In this episode of The Journey of my Mother's Son podcast, I sit down and talk with one of my former players, Kyle Stover. I first met Kyle when he was 14 years old and started coaching him when he was 15 years old.  He's now 36 years old, married, a father of three wonderful boys, and a professional in the...

Billy Staples was a just a kid from Jersey until someone saw more in him than he saw in himself. In this episode of The Journey of my Mother's Son podcast, I sit down and talk with my friend, Billy Staples.  Billy and I have known each other for just a few years and have really only spent a few hours overall with each other, however, we're kind of like soul mates when it comes to paying it forward...

Dan and Sandy Clouser sit down to talk about where they've been so far on their journey. Highlights of the 6,500 miles and 15 states that they've covered so far.

Sometimes God gives us a big vision, even if we really don't want it. In this episode of The Journey of my Mother's Son podcast, I sit down and talk with Pastor Mike Conner, who along with his wife, Vilma is a co-founder of the Dream Center of Southeast Texas.  The Dream Center is a faith-based recovery facility located in an old juvenile prison Beaumont, Texas.  Mike was involved with the Dream C...

This week we began our new journey. In this episode of The Journey of My Mother's Son podcast, I have another chat with my beautiful wife, Sandy about the first few days of our new journey. Leading up to our departure, it was a crazy, sometimes frustrating two weeks from our original settlement date on our house.  Again, trusting the Lord's timing isn't always easy for me.  However, during the ext...

We're one step closer to our next chapter, but still trusting God's timing. In this episode, Sandy and I talk about continuing to trust God's timing.  We were supposed to close on our house on Friday, August 14th, but that didn't happen.  Nothing major for the hold up, just some warranty work that has to be done on our solar panels.  Our buyer's bank wouldn't approve their financing without a lett...

We're getting closer to our next chapter, but still have some loose ends. In this episode, Sandy and I (and at times, Youkilis) talk about preparing for our new journey, which amazingly, is only one week away.  It's hard to believe that it's been roughly 18 months since I first ran the idea by Sandy that we should sell all of our belongs, buy an RV and travel the country.  In some ways it seems li...

We're not where we want to be, but we are moving forward. In this episode, I sit down with Chris White and Michael Wardlow. Chris, a native of North Carolina who is now living is Dallas, Texas, is a former Division I football player for East Carolina.  He is also a fellow trainer with Positive Coaching Alliance. Michael, who I also met through PCA, lives in the Tampa, Florida area and is now the M...

In this episode, I talk with New York Yankees Minor League Hitting Coach, Rachel Balkovec. Rachel has just entered her first year as a minor league hitting coach with the New York Yankees. She is the first woman to hold that title in the history of professional baseball and is joining 3 other women that will be in uniform this season in various roles.  She joined the Yankees after completing her s...

In this episode of the Journey of My Mother's Son podcast, I speak with Sean Gibson, who is the great grandson of Negro League great and baseball Hall of Famer, Josh Gibson. Currently serving as the Executive Director of the Josh Gibson Foundation. We talk about the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues, the legacy of Josh Gibson, and race relations in America today.

The Girl with the Flower: The Journey is the Trip. In this week's episode, I sit down and speak with Jan Rose Kasmir, who was featured in an iconic photograph that was taken by French photographer Marc Riboud.  Riboud photographed Kasmir, who at that time was a high-school student on October 21, 1967 while taking part with over 100,000 anti-war activists in the National Mobilization Committee to E...

In this week's episode, I sit down and speak with Paul Cartwright, who is the president and founder of Sports Celebrity Marketing (S.C.M. Inc.), which is a full service sports marketing company located in Ontario, Canada specializing in facilitating personal appearances, keynote speeches, endorsements, fundraisers, marketing, PR and event planning. Paul is also a newly published contributor of the...