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Resurface Podcast
by Rachel & Stephen Scroggins
Resurface Podcast is hosted by husband and wife Stephen and Rachel Scroggins. It is where comedy, crisis, and caregiving collide, told by two people who still have to make dinner.
Episodes
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Special Needs Parents React to Toy Story 5 | Episode 43
Toy Story 5 takes on kids' screen time, technology, and imaginative play. But what happens when a screen isn't just entertainment, but something a child with disabilities genuinely needs? In Episode 43 of Resurface Podcast, Rachel and Stephen react to Disney and Pixar's Toy Story 5 and its...
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I Graded My Parenting as a Mom | Internet Mom Advice
How does a real mom measure up against the internet’s parenting standards? Rachel is finding out the hard way. In Episode 42 of Resurface, Rachel turns online parenting advice into an Internet Mom Report Card and grades herself on everything the internet says a good mom is apparently supposed to...
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The Postpartum Mental Illness No One Is Talking About | Postpartum OCD | Episode 41
Rachel lived with severe OCD during pregnancy, after childbirth, after pregnancy loss, and for years without knowing what it was. In Episode 41, Rachel shares her experience with postpartum and perinatal OCD, intrusive thoughts, contamination OCD, and the fear of telling anyone what was happening...
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Where We’ve Been: From Roller Coasters to Civil Rights | Episode 40
Episode 40: Medicaid Waiver Fight, Invisible Disability, and a Labor Day Break at Carowinds Rachel and Stephen return for episode 40 after a Labor Day weekend break, clarifying they are not homeless but still facing mortgage and housing instability tied to their ongoing fight for Medicaid…
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Would You Save Your Spouse or the Dog? | Married Couple Comedy
Would you save your spouse or the dog if your house were on fire? In Episode 39, Rachel and Stephen play “Wives or Husbands,” a game built around marriage hypothetical questions and which spouse is more likely to do what. It begins with familiar arguments about driving, directions, man flu…
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If Rachel Came With a Warning Label & Zombie Apocalypse: Who Survives?
The whiteboard challenge. Who would survive a Zombie apocalypse? Who would hoard snacks? And pranking Alexa.Then we move into a few serious questions. What do well-meaning people say that actually makes things worse? What do we wish people knew about special needs parenting? Edited with Movavi...
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Favorite Things, Sarcasm & What We Want More Of
What happens when a married couple compares their favorite foods, desserts, TV shows and restaurants, then realizes how much of life they have been putting off while waiting for the “right” time?In Episode 37 of the Resurface Podcast, Rachel and Stephen start with the important questions: Is...
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Not the Game. Not the Device. Not the Settings. Kids Are Still at Risk
A stranger claiming to be a 17-year-old messaged our child on Fortnite, then asked where they lived, their school, and their phone number.This week we're breaking format: a lighter Amazon reviews cold open, then a hard conversation about online predators on gaming platforms. We walk through…
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We Might Lose Our House - We Will Still Choose to Laugh
Episode 35 starts with Reddit reactions, stories, questionable snacks, cuteness aggression, Elmo, and a much-needed family day at Carowinds.Then the conversation shifts. Rachel shares what happened after the kids left for the day, the financial pressure the family is facing, and the fear that…
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We've Lived The Same Six Years. He Thinks It Never Ends. I Think It Will.
We started with a trivia game about each other. It ended with Stephen saying something he had never told me.After 16 years of marriage, we played relationship trivia to see how well we still know each other, and the answer was uncomfortable. What began as a comedy game about shoe sizes and...
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Our 11 Year Old Great Dane Is Still Happy. We Might Have To Put Her Down Long Before She's Ready
Nala is on hospice, she still plays, and she has growled at our special needs daughter twice. In 2019 a dog we used to own attacked, with no warning at all.Nala is our Great Dane. She is almost 11, she is on comfort care for liver damage and arthritis, and she is still happy. She still plays with...
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I Had to Do What They Were Paid To Do
Somebody we trusted to do a job stopped doing it. And when Rachel realized it, she had a decision to make. Sit quietly and hope for the best, or sit down with a laptop for 10 to 12 hours a day and do the work herself.In this episode of Resurface, we start with laughter, always, playing guess what...
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The Medicaid Cliff: Stay Poor or Face Financial Collapse
A $10,000 raise. An $837 overage. By year end, this family was $21,000 worse off. Not our story. I still had to tell it.Stephen goes through my whole medical mom bag / purse on camera. Plenty of laughs are had as usual. Then I tell you the story of a family living outside Detroit that I have…
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Single In Our Marriage
We found out there's almost no data on babies who survive 25 minutes without a pulse. Turns out we're it.This week Rachel and Stephen put each other on the stand, married-couple-court style, running through guilty-or-innocent questions about hiding from their kids, fantasizing about being single,...
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We Let AI Judge Our Self-Care Habits
We put AI in the judge's chair and asked it to rule on our self-care habits. It had thoughts. A lot of thoughts. And then it turned on Stephen.We kicked off Episode 29 with a game: Stephen typed increasingly ridiculous questions into Claude about our household, our routines, and whether I should…
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Her Life Is Worth As Much As a Billionaire's
We almost didn't film this one. A conversation online about disability gave us a reason to say something out loud again.In light of a public conversation about disability, down syndrome, and grief, We sit down to talk about something we live every single day: the worth of a disabled life. No…
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Husband Roasts With My Sister
Rachel's sister Kristina is back for Episode 27, and this time they're roasting their husbands. Why do men say "I was going to do that" only after you start doing it? Why do they call from the grocery store like they've been abandoned in the wilderness? Why do they spend so long on the toilet?In...
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Sisters, Survival Humor, Stephen’s Stroke, and Mila’s Birth
Rachel’s sister Kristina joins Resurface for an episode that starts with sibling chaos and somehow ends up in the deepest parts of the family story.They talk about growing up as sisters, childhood punishments, birth order, husbands, cleaning, workplace red flags, and why anyone who says “we’re…
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The Reality of Parenting a Child with a Life Threatening Condition
Episode 25 starts with pet peeves, including Stephen calling from the grocery store, interrupted alone time, tipping culture, and more. We always choose to laugh first.Then we shift into a more serious conversation about raising a child with epilepsy.Rachel retells the story of Mila's first ever...
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Reacting to viral video comments, how trauma affects intimacy, and the decision to love
In this episode we start by reacting to the viral back massage clip comments. We then talk about marriage after crisis, family after trauma, and what intimacy looks like when your world has been turned upside down. If you are parenting through stress, disability, medical uncertainty, or just…
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The State says 25 Minutes Without a Pulse "Isn't Medical"
In Part 2 of our Medicaid waiver hearing recap, we read more direct quotes from the hearing transcript, including the moments that still do not make sense to us.This episode picks up where our last one left off. After losing in court, we are going through the actual exchanges from the hearing,...
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We Lost in Court - Reading Direct Quotes from the Hearing
In this episode of Resurface, we start the way we refuse to stop starting, with laughter, marriage banter, and another round of Agree or Disagree. We debate whether the higher earner should get more say over money, why “we need to talk” texts are morally wrong unless immediately explained…
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Why We Couldn't Film This Week - Our Daughter's Court Hearing
This is about as raw and real as it gets - our daughter's hearing was denied. We will be back Tuesday with all of the details! New episodes weekly on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. If you listen on Apple Podcasts, leaving a review helps more families navigating trauma, special needs parenting, or…
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Parenting Under Pressure, Marriage Underwater
In this episode we open with a round of fun and funny questions and answers. We then move into the main topic where we talk about parenting a child with complex needs, the emotional weight of advocacy, and what it feels like to keep functioning when the system keeps pushing back.We discuss speech...
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When the body remembers trauma, a stroke update and laughing about the back massage clip
In this episode we open with a round of questions and answers. They we move into the topic, talking about Rachel's trauma response she didn't see coming when her brain thought everything was fine.Rachel talks about what it actually feels like when PTSD lives in your body instead of your thoughts,...
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What a doctor wrote in our daughter’s chart, why I stayed silent 10 months & tax-deductible hair dye
Ten months ago, a doctor accused me of something awful and wrote it in our daughter's chart. I stayed silent. Today I'm speaking.Mila was four years old. She was six weeks out from her first seizure: status epilepticus that lasted at least 25 minutes.We were in the hospital for EEG monitoring...
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Cochlear Implants, Ronald McDonald House, and the Decision We Can't Take Back
We're making a decision that can't be undone.In this episode we take you inside our visit to UNC Children's Cochlear Implant Center; what we learned, what surprised us, and the moment we realized we were finally in the right place. We talk through why we chose one ear at a time, what happens when…
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Our 5 Year Old's Lawyer Left Her (3 Days Before a Court Deadline)
3 days before a court deadline, our daughter's lawyer left her case. In this episode, we talk about our fight with Medicaid, specifically CAP/C. We discuss the impact suddenly being left in the lurch has made, the upcoming battle ahead, and our fears about what this might mean. We will never stop...
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We Love Each Other. We Also Drive Each Other Nuts. (One Marriage, Two Broken People)
When two medical trauma survivors clash together and try to raise a family, it's not always easy. It's messy, complicated, emotional, and incredibly challenging. What happens when they do it on camera, in front of a microphone? From bank account anxiety, to PTSD's affect on our marriage, to a fun...
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Hot Takes, Comedic Relief, Parenting Multiple Kids When One Needs More Attention, & Bluey?
Life is chaotic. So first, we laugh. In this episode of Resurface, we move from comedic relief into the real dynamics of marriage, parenting, and raising children in a medically complex family. We talk about:• Marriage communication in chaotic seasons• Parenting multiple children with competing...
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48 Hours After Our Last Episode | This Doesn't Feel Real
48 hours after our last episode, we received another diagnosis about our daughter. This time, we are numb. We talk about the impact it has on her future, how doctors missed it for 5 years, and the impact it has on our marriage and family. This episode was not planned and is raw and real. We are a...
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We Planned A Completely Different Episode | Unexpected Diagnosis
This wasn’t the episode we planned to record.We planned to film something completely different… and then an unexpected diagnosis changed that plan immediately.In this episode, we share what we learned from a recent neuropsychology evaluation, what it felt like to hear words like “unlikely” and...
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Pet Peeves, Confessions, and Losing It
Rachel tells a story that makes Stephen look completely unhinged… then immediately admits the thing that actually makes her rage. What follows is laughter, disbelief, and a moment where joking turns into something more honest than expected. This episode of Resurface is unfiltered, funny, and real…
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Before You Judge Us, Here’s Who We Actually Are
In this episode of Resurface, Stephen and Rachel sit down to tell their story in their own words.After a viral clip of our content was taken out of context and spread online, followed by harsh commentary and assumptions, we open the episode by briefly addressing the misinformation, judgment, and...
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How to Be a Pretty Wife
What did marriage advice used to sound like when it was delivered with absolute confidence and no room for disagreement?In this episode, we read and react to real marriage advice from the mid-20th century, including excerpts from books, manuals, and magazine content that shaped expectations…
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Hang Out With Us - Agree or Disagree (Laughs Included)
In this episode of Resurface, we switch things up and play Agree or Disagree, a fast-moving conversation where we react in real time to opinions couples argue about more than they admit. The topics range from marriage dynamics and parenting choices to everyday habits, pet peeves, and small...
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Questions We've Never Asked Each Other
In this episode, we shift the tone and sit down for a lighter conversation built around questions we have never asked each other before. After sharing some heavy experiences in recent episodes, this one is intentionally different, offering space for curiosity, humor, and connection without...
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Surviving the Seizure Wasn’t the End
Surviving the seizure wasn’t the end.In this episode, we pick up inside the hospital after our four-year-old was rushed in following a prolonged, life-threatening seizure. This episode covers what came next, including the hours of waiting, the uncertainty inside the ER, and Stephen’s drive across...
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Our 4-Year-Old's First Seizure Almost Killed Her
At 4:45 AM my teenager shook me awake. Mila was seizing, her lips were blue, and the 911 call wouldn't go through.Part 1 of the night our four-year-old's first seizure became a fight for her life. Mila went into tonic-clonic status epilepticus while Stephen was out of town, and what followed was…
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He Was the Patient. Then He Wasn’t.
A routine pain block left me with a spinal fluid leak. The ER waved it off as anxiety, fever and all, while I couldn't lift my own daughter.This is the third of four medical emergencies our family faced in under five years. Thirty days after Stephen's stroke and carotid surgery, Rachel developed…
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My Husband Had a Stroke at 37
He was 37 and in the best shape of his life. The first sign something was wrong: he couldn't find his wife's name in his phone.On a Tuesday night in October 2024, Stephen had a stroke playing basketball. He was 37 and in the best shape of his life. In this episode we walk through the warning…
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The Day Our Baby Died — and Was Revived
This episode is the story of our youngest daughter's birth, which began as a planned induction and quickly escalated into a stat C-section. From the moment of delivery, nothing unfolded as expected. Mila was born in critical condition and required immediate, prolonged resuscitation before being...
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Four Emergencies in One Family: Stroke, Seizure, Medical Trauma, and Marriage Under Pressure
In this first episode of Resurface, we introduce ourselves and explain why we created this podcast. We briefly outline the major events that reshaped our family, including a stroke, a seizure, and the medical trauma that followed, and how those experiences changed our perspective on marriage…
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Resurface Podcast is hosted by husband and wife Stephen and Rachel Scroggins. It is where comedy, crisis, and caregiving collide, told by two people who still have to make dinner.
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