Episodes
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Unforgotten - Housing on the Spectrum, a sibling's story
This is an intensely personal episode, my conversation with someone I have known since she was about 4 years old. She is a remarkable sibling who decided to ask uncomfortable questions and share her own home truths, in a very personal, yet public way. She wanted to 'stand up' and talk frankly…
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Designed For Living
We are staying in Colorado to find out why this state is regarded by our disrupters & experts as a leader in forward thinking on affordable, accessible & neuroinclusive housing options. And we are getting the inside track on how universal or smart design is an integral part of Trailhead…
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Promise - Colorado Dreaming
We are hanging out in Colorado for this episode, at a groundbreaking ceremony and making coffee with two mothers as they tell the extraordinary stories behind the communities they are building here. Find out what it takes, from their journeys to launch Tall Tales Ranch and Trailhead Community.
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The Dare Diaries Part 2
"If you build it, they will come..." but how did our pioneers do it? From East to West Coast USA, our disrupters tell us about their adventures in making dream residential solutions for the neurodiverse community a reality and the data that is rewarding their risk-taking. They share the goals,...
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The Dare Diaries - part one
From Rockville Maryland, to Denver Colorado and Phoenix Arizona we join virtual tours of some cool living spaces with our participants and we dive deeper with our disrupters into how they are challenging the current system when it comes to housing infrastructure, the affordable housing industry…
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Big Little Truths
In the series premiere episode, we meet our disrupters for the first time as they guide us through the challenges faced by individuals with Intellectual and developmental disabilites when it comes to finding 'home' and we get a history lesson about the disturbing legacy of Institutions as a…
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My home truths - why I made this
Eavesdrop on snippets of my conversations with some of the podcast's contributors, and hear my audio diary about why I made this podcast about some home truths around the complex and vexed subject of 'living arrangements' faced by thousands and thousands of people who are often treated as, 'less...
About this show
Where Mothers, Rebels & Disrupters raising the roof on disability rights & housing outcomes share their stories
Hosted by
Karen Whitehead
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