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Raising Kellan — 185 episodes

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Episode 177: Edward Mitchell Executive Director of the Statewide Independent Living Council (SILC) of Tennessee

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Episode 176: Chaz Molder, 2026 Candidate for TN's 5th Congressional District talks about Public Education, HealthCare and AI Data Centers.

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Episode 175: Data Centers and the Environment with "Protect our Aquifer"

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Episode 174: Advocacy with Family Voices of Tennessee

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Episode 173. 2026 Collection of Primary Source Voting Stories - Ms Naomi King, Dyersburg TN

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Episode 172: National Disability and Home Care Rights Coalition Response to DOJ Opinion on Olmstead Decision - (6/18/26)

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Episode 171: Your Vote Matters!

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Episode 170: Part 3/3 of the Healthcare Affordability Series with Kristen Grimm of "One Nation Fully Covered"

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Episode 169: HealthCare Affordability in the U.S. and the CHES Survey

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Episode 168. Part 1/3 on HealthCare Affordability Series with TJC

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Episode 167: Heart of Champions VBS - June 8-12, 2026 at Roellen Baptist Church in Dyersburg, Tennessee

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Episode 166. Voting and Redistricting of Tennessee Congressional Maps with Rachel Lovell - Weakley County Election Commissioner

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Episode 165. A Hopeful Message from John and Betty Ann Tanner

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Episode 164: ( 7 min epsiode) Thriving Caregivers - 4/18/26 Dyersburg TN

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Episode 163: Operation Metro Surge, Minneapolis MN with Journalist, Kyndell Harkness.

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Episode 162. Michaela Barnett, running for Tennessee's 2nd congressional district in 2026

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Episode 161: Operation Metro Surge Convo with the co-hosts of "Mama You Belong" Podcast

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Episode 160: "The Pantry" at St Johns Community Services

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Episode 159: Heather Henderson Talks Advocacy.

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Episode 158. Night To Shine at Overflow Church in McKenzie TN

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Episode 157: Interview with Keona Gwinn ( MPH Candidate) at Meharry Medical College

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Episode 156: Power in our Voice - A Virtual ADVOCACY Conference by Katie Moore

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Episode 155: Jerri Green, Gubernatorial Candidate for Tennessee 2026

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Episode 154: Zack Wilson's Art Exhibition

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Episode 153. 31 in 31 - Faith Conversation with Maleia Evans from the Authentically You Network Podcast

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Episode 152: Rising Above Dads Podcast with Steve Chatman

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Episode 151. Student Leadership at U.S. Values and the Constitution Series.

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Episode 150. Pediatric Day at Discovery Park of America

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Episode 149: U.S. Values and the Constitution.

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Episode 148: Care Farming Network

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Episode 147: Medicaid Advocacy - Call your Congressperson

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Episode 146. Live Coverage of Special Needs Resource Fair in Cookeville TN (2025)

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Episode 145. Church and Disability Ministry with Joni & Friends

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Episode 144. Taking care of the caregiver with Jess Ronne

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Episode 143: Why Caregivers Need Respite with Dr Megan Schwalm of the Tennessee Caregiver Coalition

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Episode 142: Structured Athletics for Challenged Children (SACC) and Resource Fair in Cookeville TN

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Episode 141: The Scope of Threat of Medicaid Cuts and what this could mean for families in the US.

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Episode 140. Transitional Planning and Services for Youth with Disabilities featuring Transition Tennessee

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Episode 139: Resource Employment Expo featuring speaker Abby McCage

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Episode 138. Catalyst Sports

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Episode 137. Tech Talk with Peach (My Tech for All) and Milton( TN State Director of Enabling Technology)

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Episode 136. Lindsey Lind talks about urgency for advocacy (Texas vs Becerra) and AXYS

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Episode 135. Maribeth Watson's Advocacy Story (Feb 2025)

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Episode 134. "McKenzie Can Talk" A Children's Book written by McKenzie & Tamara Tuckson, Nashville TN

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Episode 133. Disability Inclusive Employment Imagined - Anna Fields of Bubble Love, Nashville TN

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Episode 132. Plant for a Change - Creating an inclusive & accessible conservation workforce

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Episode 131. Community Health & Wellness Fair - Spotlight on Dyersburg Lions Club

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Episode 130: Wheelchair basketball with Tommie Lee Gray III

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Episode 129. Community Health Fairs in Dyersburg TN featuring Victor McLin, Director Bruce Community Center

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Part 2. How to Build a Thriving Marriage as you Care for your Children with Disabilities with Kristin Faith Evans

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Part 1. How to Build a Thriving Marriage as you Care for your Children with Disabilities with Todd Evans

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Episode 126. How to help your Child Communicate and Facilitate Language with Dinalynn Rosenbush SLP

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Episode 125. Top Christmas Gift Picks 2024 with Vanessa Naidoo, OT

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Episode 124. Medicaid Alternative Pathways

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Episode 123. Adaptive Driving with Woody Tatman OTR from West Tennessee Healthcare

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Episode 122. Tennessee State Parks Accessibilty Initiative

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Episode 121: Two moms discussing renovations to improve their home accessibility

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Episode 120. Adaptive Rock Climbing with Mia Fox, DPT from Memphis Rox

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Episode 119. Digital Accessibility and Safety with Dennis Anderson, CEO of Anderson Consulting

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Episode 118. Wrap up of 113th Tennessee General Assembly and Legislation Impacting the Disability Community ( Follow up Episode 111)

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Episode 117. Interview with Rev Dr Felicia Ingram of Salters Chapel AME Church

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Episode 116. Camp NaCoMe with Dyersburg FUMC KidMin Retreat

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Episode 115. The Science of Music Therapy and why it is so Effective in Early Intervention(Martha Summa Chadwick)

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Episode 114. Beyond Six Seconds Podcast

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Episode 113: Kellan's Impromptu and Summer Updates

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Episode 112. March 25, 2024 Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day

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Episode 111: Jeff Strand from TDC- 113th TN General Assembly

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Episode 110. Part 2 of Vocational Rehab. PRE-employment transition services with LeeAnne Pierce

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Episode 109. Part 2: Assistive Technology with Jennifer Cunningham, OTR of the Star Center.

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Episode 108. Part 1: The Star Center in Jackson TN featuring Dr Jennifer Graves

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Episode 107. Hope Heals Camp Experience with Kim Larrick

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Epsiode 106. Equipment Drive for Kali Decker's Mission Trip to Masinidi, Uganda.

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Episode 105. Part 1 Vocational Rehabilitation with Ashley Roberts

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Episode 104. Review of 2023 and what's in store for 2024!

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Episode 103. Melanie Westmoreland's Top 10 Christmas Kid's Gift List.

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Episode 102. Jordan Collins talks about Our Place Nashville and the concept of Friendship Houses as inclusive housing options.

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Episode 101. National Disability Awareness Month, chat with Naveh Eldar of "The Landscape Podcast"

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Episode 100. Joy Life 901 and the Memphis Disability Network with Ashley Parks and Ginna Rauls

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Episode 99: Lori Green, Executive Director of The Down Syndrome Association of the Mid-South

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Episode 98. The Wond'ry, Vanderbilt's Center for Innovation and Design

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Episode 97. Houston High School Transition School to Work Program

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Episode 96. College for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

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Episode 95. Rob Wrubel, CFP® AIF® AEP® talks special needs trusts, SSI, SSDI...

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Episode 94: Jay Camperlino, Director of Youth and Transitional Services at DIDD & Medicaid Alternative Pathways to Independence Program (MAPs)

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Episode 93. Debra Ruh a Disability Inclusion Strategist

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Episode 92. Adaptive Fashion and Inclusive Design

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Episode 91. Eric Jorgenson with True North Disability Planning

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Episode 90. What does a Developmental Therapist do within the Early Intervention Program

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Episode #89. Bridging from school to workplace for individuals with developmental disabilities with Erin Riehle from Project Search

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Episode 88. Disability EmpowHer Network

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Episode 87: Universal Design with Colleen Starkloff

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Episode 86. The Ins and Outs of Toe-walking with Liesa Ritchie PT, DPT, PCS

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Episode 85. Dr Jerry Kartzinel: His family's journey with Autism and the future of Home Life Community in Jackson, Tennessee

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Episode 84. All Access Inclusion Network and Nashville Children's Theatre

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Episode 83. Camp Conquest

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Episode 82. Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day 2023 with Dana Kramer, Levi Ervin and Drake Box

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Episode 81. Mike Poole of Walk This Way Oxford

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Episode 80. Special Education: IEP vs 504 plan.

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Episode 79: Advocacy and Autism with John Shouse

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Episode 78. Tennessee Disability Day on the Hill 2023

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Episode 77. Housing Options for the Disability Community

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Episode 76. Lia Stoll of DisabilityWriter.com discusses: How to create content voicing accessibility and inclusion.

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Episode 75. How Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality can be used to help support students with Neurodiversity.

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Bonus Episode with Rachel Townsend and Sara Alley

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Episode 74. Special Fathers Network, Dad to Dad Podcast

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Episode 73. Friends Life Community

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Episode 72. Changing Spaces Tennessee

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Episode 71. Demystifying Disability with Emily Ladau

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Episode 70. Special Education Advocacy Podcast

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Episode 69. "On The Avenue" Nashville TN

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Episode 68. Interview with Alli Manning.

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Episode 67: Inclusive functional fitness and training.

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Episode 66: Workplace Initiatives and the Disability Rights Movement.

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Episode 65: Stand up Paddle Boarding

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Episode 64. Powered height adjustable adult changing tables.

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Episode 63. Limb Loss and Limb Difference

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Episode 62. Autism with Cynthia Slomowitz, DPT

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Episode 61. Accessible Travel with Julie Jones of the travel blog "Have wheelchair Will Travel" and "Travel Without Limits" Magazine

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Episode 60. Tennessee Council on Developmental Disability

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Episode 59. Tennessee Disability Day on the Hill - Tennessee Disability Coalition

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Episode 58. Entrepreneurship, innovation and the social determinants of pediatric healthcare

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Episode 57. Voice Technology and Conversational AI

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Episode 56. Liz Persaud: Assistive Technology Professional

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Episode 55. Interview with Commissioner Brad Turner of Tennessee: Katie Beckett Waiver, TEIS...

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***Special Edition: Dr Karen Bowyer***

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Episode 54. We Rock The Spectrum Gym in Franklin, Tennessee.

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Episode 53. PeerKnect: An App that creates social connections.

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Episode 52. Tennessee Center for Decision-Making Support.

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Episode 51. Advocacy at The Arc TN.

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Episode 50: Cerebral Palsy Conference 10/1/21 -10/2/22

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Episode 49. 5th Annual Farm to Table Benefit for Healing Horses, Inc on 23 September 2021, Dyersburg TN

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Episode 48. Linda Frease, OT talks about Hippotherapy

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Episode 47. Adaptive Cycling

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Episode 46. Signal Centers, digital accessibility and early educator programs in Tennessee, US

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Episode 45: The Models and Language of Disability

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Episode 44. Alex Lopiccolo "The King of Swings"

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Episode 43. "The Cracks That Let The Light In" by Jessica Moxham

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Episode 42. How to Answer Questions related to your child's disability

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Bonus Episode with Marsh and Rachel

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Episode 41. The Sensory System and its Relation to Dyslexia and ADHD and Executive Function

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Episode 40. Billy Price, Co Founder of BILLY Footwear.

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Episode 39. Tri-My-Best Triathlon

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Episode 38. Small Business Mini Podcast Series featuring Donna Hilliard of Sunflower Health Food

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Episode 37. Small Business Mini Podcast Series featuring Ms Sandra Pruitt of the Salvation Army.

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Episode 36. Small Business Mini Podcast featuring Whitley Snyder of Smallcakes in Dyersburg, TN

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Episode 35. Small Business Mini Podcast Series featuring Kathryn McGuire and Mark Maupin of Geraldine's Florist

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Episode 34. Small Business Mini Podcast Series featuring Lindsay Ennis of the Mustard Seed

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Episode 33. Small Business Mini Podcast Series

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Episode 32. Crady Schneider of the Memphis Mom Collective

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Episode 31. Down Syndrome Awareness Month

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Episode 30. Thomas Coronado of Jordan's Grab 'n Go in Dyersburg, TN

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Episode 29. Mighty Miracles Foundation and "The World of the NICU"

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Episode 28: World CP Day #Make your Mark

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Episode 27. It's our 1st Birthday!

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Episode 26. Jerusha Mather: An Australian Ph.D. student with CP that wants to go to Medical School.

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Episode 25. Achilles International.

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Episode 24. Entrepreneur and Special Needs Mama

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Episode 23: Todd Williams, DPT is www.ptwithcp.com

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Episode 22. Go Baby Go!

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Episode 21. Wesley J Page: The Perspective of an Occupational Therapist with Cerebral Palsy.

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Episode 20. Nicole Luongo: Author, Poet and Disability Advocate.

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Episode 19. Restorative Power of Nature.

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Episode 18. Exercise, Yoga and Relaxation.

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Episode 17. Quarantine Strategy Series, Part 1: Mental Health

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Episode 16. Chris Meyer and his Positive Mindset Strategies.

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Episode 15: Nevada Brew Works in Las Vegas.

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Episode 14: Honoring our CP Warriors on National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day.

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Day5: St Louis Children's Hospital Therapy Intensive

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Day 3: St Louis Children's Hospital. Interview with Matthew Ryan.

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Day2: St Louis Children's Hospital Therapy Intensive.

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Day 1: St Louis Children's Hospital Therapy Intensive.

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Episode 13: A Travel Blog on Embracing the Unexpected and Facing the Unknown.

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Episode 12: Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month featuring Levi "Levinator" Ervin.

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Levi's Trailer

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Episode 11: American Physical Therapy Conference in Denver, Colorado (Feb 2020).

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Episode 10: Cerebral Palsy Talk with Aspen Joy Balthazor, DPT

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Episode 9: Neuroplasticity for Children.

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Episode 8: Love Those Books! Tips for Reading Success.

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Episode 7: Supporting Special Needs Siblings.

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Episode 6: Wired on Development: An internet based "Knowledge Hub" for pediatric neurorehab.

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Episode 5: A Dad's Perspective on Raising his child with Cerebral Palsy

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Episode 4: Is Horse Riding an effective therapy tool?

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Episode 3: Parents open fast food restaurant to give daughter with Autism purpose.

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Episode 2: What parents need to know when language and speech development is delayed!

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Episode 1: My First 19 Years Living With Cerebral Palsy.