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The Different Ability® Podcast — 285 episodes

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It's Never Too Late to Understand Yourself with Walter & Stephanie

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Back Behind the Mic!

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The Dyslexic Font That Sparked a Bigger Conversation with Rebeka & Taosies

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Breaking Barriers & Building a Life Without Limits with Jo Elizabeth Pinto

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Navigating Loss, Motherhood, Homeschooling, and Dyslexia with Stephany Rios

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Chapter 28 Conversation – Courage, Celebration, and Taking the Next Step | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 27 Conversation – Raising an Advocate – Lessons from a Parent | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 26 Conversation – Finding Courage in the Face of Limiting Beliefs | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 25 Conversation – Advocating for Change Through Personal Storytelling | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 24 Conversation – From Struggles to Strengths: Living with Different Ability® | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 23 Conversation – Embracing Mentors and Making an Impact | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 22 Conversation – The Power of Networking and Making Bold Moves | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 21 Conversation – The Power of a Gift: How Advocacy Begins in the Heart | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 20 Conversation – The Hand That Raised Mine: Honoring a Legacy of Advocacy | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 19 Conversation – Ask, Connect, Achieve: How Taking Risks Opened New Doors | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 18 Conversation – Breaking Barriers: Kindness, Connection, and Personal Growth | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 17 Conversation – Putting Yourself Out There: The Importance of Building Relationships | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 16 Conversation – Finding My Voice: Advocacy, Self-Discovery, and College Challenges | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 15 Conversation – From Small Town to Big Opportunities: Self-Advocacy in College | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 14 Conversation – Embracing Dyslexia and Building My Dream at UW-Stout | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 13 Conversation – From Rebellion to Realization – Starting My College Journey | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 12 Conversation – A Teacher’s Impact: How Mrs. D Showed Me the Power of Advocacy | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 11 Conversation – Testing My Limits: The Power of Accommodations | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 10 Conversation – A First Job That Taught Me Life Lessons in Leadership and Independence | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 9 Conversation – Learning by Doing – Creativity and Hands-On Learning Shaped My Story | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 8 Conversation – Redefining Learning: How I Advocated for My Success | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 7 Conversation – Standing Up for Myself – The Moment That Changed Everything | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 6 Conversation – Finding My Voice Through Dyslexia and Sports | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 5 Conversation – Beyond the Diagnosis: A Mother’s Journey Through Dyslexia | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 4 Conversation – Shifting the Narrative: “I Learn Differently” | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 3 Conversation – Finding My Voice Through Dyslexia | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 2 Conversation – Trusting Your Gut: A Parent’s Journey Through Unseen Struggles | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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Chapter 1 Conversation – From Shame to Strength | Embracing Your Different Ability®

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RE-RELEASE: Dyslexia Struggles

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RE-RELEASE: Standing up to your bully!

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Her Son’s Diagnosis Changed Everything — For the Better with Patty Laushman

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Living Fully with CMD: Advocacy, Confidence & Community with Kelly Berger & Avery Roberts

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Rising Through It All: Faith, Fire & Fierce Advocacy — with Kimberly Hendrix

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Audio Book Talk & Bloopers!

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Where Have I Been? A Real-Life Update

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Embracing What I Was Good At – An Audiobook Sneak Peek (Chapter 9)

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Life, Loss, and Love: Raising Great, Even When… with Grace Berios

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RE-RELEASE: The Diagnosis

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RE-RELEASE: The Struggle

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A Journey of Pivots, Purpose, and Peace with Serena Sevits

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Creating Ripples of INPact & Positivity with Janet Mackay

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Stop the Overwhelm: Grow Smarter, Not Harder with Hailey Rowe

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Creativity as Healing: Turning Art Into Empowerment with Susan Day

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Join My Book Launch Crew! | Embracing Your Different Ability®, the book, is Coming Soon!

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From Dream to Design: Our Colorado Mountain Project

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From Editing to Production: Book Update!

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When Life Changes Course: From Pediatrician & Army Flight Surgeon to Author with Dr. Amanda Zeine

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Money, meaning, and the stories we tell ourselves with Carrie West

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RE-RELEASE: Book Title Announcement!

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Immigration, Inspiration, and Disability Advocacy with Kat Paz

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I'm not dead yet! with Travis Robinson

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Season 7: Voices That Move Mountains

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Plot Twist! Jumping from Season 5 to 7. Here’s Why!

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Living Beyond the Limits with Erin Perkins

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Empowering Deaf Families from Iran to North America and Beyond with Guita Movallali

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Raising Self-Advocates: A Mother’s Pride in Her Sons’ Strength and Voice with Rebeka Acosta

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Writing for Change: A Journey of Services, Advocacy and Impact with Ted Neill

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RE-RELEASE: My Mom's Side of My Story

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The Journey to Wellness Begins Within — with Tess Cheng

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RE-RELEASE: People are people no matter what ability! with Dustin Henslin

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I have a crazy idea - Book Update!

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Let's Talk Motivaiton with Brittany McCormick

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No Timeline on Dreams: Homeschooling, Writing, and the Power of Perseverance with Mindy Meyer

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Time Management As A Tool with Jill Wright

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The Editing Process Round 3: Pleasantly Surprised!

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Birds and Bees and Kids with Amy Lang

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Empowered by sharing and embracing her hearing loss with April

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BONUS - Design the Life You Love Challenge with Lyndsey Kampen

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Book Title Announcement!

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Be a Hearing Hero with Teresa Barnes Paulus

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Book Editing into Round 3!

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Find A Way, Not An Excuse! with Brittany McCormick

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RE-RELEASE: Learning to Stay Centered with Shylla Webb

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Heart 4 Advocacy with Rebeka Acosta

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RE-RELEASE: Building Confidence

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The Book Editing Process Round 2: The Good, the Bad, and the I'm nervous!

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It's never too late to chase your dreams! with Carol Wyllie

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Advocating for himself! with Max Lowe

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Is Inclusion Enough? Employment for people with disabilites with Heather Hagen

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RE-RELEASE: BIG ANNOUCEMENT!

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200th Episode!

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The Importance of Early Intervention in Hearing Loss: Shannon Bonardy's Story

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Turning Pain into Purpose Through Poetry with Traci Neal

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One New Goal, One Year: How I Achieved My 2024 Goal!

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Almost full circle: disability diagnosis and the doctor who diagnosed me!

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The Main Motivation for Writing My Book: The Book Edition

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Beyond Vision: Empowering a More Inclusive World with Lois Strachan

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Relationships and Boundaries: Thriving with Disabilities with Katie Thune

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Breaking Barriers: How her Disability Became a Career Superpower with Dana Stubbs

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Learning about Autism and loving her family! with Wendy Whitcomb Marsh

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Diagnosed with Dyslexia to Children’s Book Author! with Sasha Saidman

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Don't be afraid to try! with Sarah Bruce

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In honor of my Great Aunt Lynn - The Book Edition

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Advocacy and Leadership with Kylee Leota

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Near Miss - Listening to your gut!

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Teaching English with an Aussie with Adriana Cefala

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Her medical health journey to building a legacy with Emily Hartstone

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This is not easy! The Book Edition.

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From struggling with LD in childhood to Author, Speaker and Coach, with Patrick Richard Garcia

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It's the journey up with Kari Berridge

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How did it go? Recap Keynote Speaker - Reno, NV

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Spiritual Healer and Astrology with Sarah Boss

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Beautifuly gifted and diagnosed with autisum at 39 with Rebecca Finch Vitsmun

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The Big Announcement!

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Season 5 AND Keynote Speaker in Reno, NV!

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Loving Mother & Down Syndrome Advocate with Wendy Hooton

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Life Update - How has it been two years already?

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A father’s loss and grief with Jason Tuttle

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Diagnoised with ADHD after her daughter was diagnosed - with Andrea Atherton

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Wheelchair accessible travel with Kristin Secor

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Music Therapy and neurodivergent children with Samantha Foote

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Her Blind Parents Beautiful Love Story with Mary Harper

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"The Inclusive Dad" with Aaron DeVries

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"Is It Dyslexia?" with April McMurtrey

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"It all came from TikTok" Learing she may have a Different Ability® from TikTok with Nina Clapperton

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Her story of living in Iran before and after the revolution with Soodabeh Mokry

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Advocating & educating people about his disability from a young age! with Nick Smit

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Advoating for her two build children and creating change in the world! with Kristin Smedley

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WARRIOR! Fought many battles and she's not giving up! with Neosho Ponder

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Diagnosed in her 50's with ADHD and helping so many people along the way with Anita Hempenius

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Continuing to live her purpose with Alma Thomas

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So Many Amazing Guests Coming!

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Let's stop glorifying working 24/7 or hustle culture!

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Staying quiet doesn't "keep the peace"

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Speak Up!

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Living a child free + empowered millennial life with Angela Gentile

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My Health Update | Women's History Month

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Design the life you love with Lyndsey Kampen

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The importance of self growth with Jenna Allen

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The Repaint Tray Launch with Billie Asmus

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Bet on yourself!

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Positive Intent with Andrea Haas

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My dogs New Year goals!

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Diagnosed at 39. It's never too late! with Stefan Glazer

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"I'm not done!" with Katie Selby

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Turning "you can't" into "I CAN!" with Michelle Steiner

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Don't Give Up! From Entrepreneur Billie Asmus

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Dyslexia & Learning Literacy with Christine Perkin

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Dyslexia Awareness Month!

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Have a great semester!

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What's Next?!

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What I learned while teaching!

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Season 4!

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Speaking at my old middle / high school!

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The Gift of Being Different with Monica Berg

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THANK YOU... to my UW-Stout Students!

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HEY, I'M BACK!

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Boundaries are SO HARD!

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The trip I did not go on... YET!

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Squashing Your Limiting Beliefs

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University Teaching Announcement

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Coffee with Doug

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Autobiography in Five Short Chapters - Portia Nelson

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Therapist reads me an amazing poem

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Quizzes without accommodations? Are you kidding me?

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Healing is so hard!

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The book I'm totally loving right now!

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Answering amazing questions - Part 2

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Answering amazing questions - Part 1

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Happy New Year!

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Take a look back on 2022!

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Take time for yourself!

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Goals for the new year!

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Setting boundaries for the holiday season

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My most embarrassing story yet!

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Let's Talk Dyslexia

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How do you do it all? Behind the scenes!

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Dealing with rough times...

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What I learned in New Teacher Orientation

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University Teaching Series - How the first two months of teaching is going! (8)

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University Teaching Series - To teach building relationships (7)

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University Teaching Series - To Built Community (6)

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University Teaching Series - To Inspire the Next Generation of Designers (5)

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University Teaching Series - To Learn and Grow (4)

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University Teaching Series - A New Challenge (3)

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University Teaching Series - Why I Said Yes! (2)

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University Teaching Series - First Day of Teaching! (1)

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My New Adventure!

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Teaching Special Education with Kenyetta (Part 2)

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Teaching Special Education with Kenyetta (Part 1)

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It's Season 3!!!!

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Last Episode of Season 2!

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I Got MARRIED!

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Positive Mindset

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Dealing With Difficult Things

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Taking a Social Media Break!

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motivation moment.™ Podcast Series | Anita Mattu

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motivation moment.™ Podcast Series | Q Jones

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motivation moment.™ Podcast Series | Cashton + Jess

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motivation moment.™ Podcast Series

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Take the chance!

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Live your full potential!

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Being Bold, Being Brave, Being You with Anita Mattu

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Therapy Rocks!

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Setting boundaries and never being mistreated again with Maddox

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Announcement - New Podcast Series!

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Motivation is Garbage?!

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Share the Moment!

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What I learned traveling with my Mom!

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An advocate for the deaf and hard of hearing with Krista Lewis

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Please learn from my huge mistake!

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Parents, you have rights!

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I'm here to speak!

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Be Proud & Celebrate You!

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Pep talk from Katey

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Don't let others dim your light!

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Trademarking Different Ability®!

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Living Life with Courage - with Justine Wenzel

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I'm Back! Happy New Year!

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Invisible, Blushing & Healing with Timothy Long

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Spirit, energy & healing with Timothy Long

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It never hurts to ask!

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Well it had to be said...

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Teaching your child to advocate!

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My Story, My Why

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Standing up to your bully!

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Dyslexia Struggles

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Does hours of homework create bad habits and boundaries for kids?

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Qualities and values are your identity with Shannon

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People are people no matter what ability! with Dustin Henslin

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To Own Your Learning with Mei

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Behind the Different Ability® Scenes

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OMG It's Harvey Korman's Son! With Chris Korman

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Oh my gosh, I own a trademark!

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Parent Advocate and Building Your Tool Box with Raya Karin

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Are you living your life purpose? with Dennard Mitchell

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I'm here because...

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Teacher Secondary Trauma and Burnout with Ayesis Clay

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Calling All Parents, Guardians & Families!

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Calling All Admin and Teachers!

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Respectfully Disrupting The Education System

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You are amazing!

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5 things I'd tell my younger self!

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My Promise To You!

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Different Ability™ = Superpower!

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Do I have ADHD?!

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Confidence in who you are!

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Behind the Scenes with Richard Chrz

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Access Our City with Richard Chrz

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My Deaf Experience with Kellina Powell

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Building Little Leaders with Andrea Monroe

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Diagnosed at 50 years old with Larissa Russell

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Inspiring kids each and every day with Quinton Jones

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A life changing moment - to now changing lives with Richard Chrz

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A sibling's perspective with Diana Swillinger

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One Size Does NOT Fit All!

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Learning to Stay Centered with Shylla Webb

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Cracking my B.A.N.K code with Angel Baney

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Giving Kids Opportunities to Learn with Veronica Shier

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Let's Talk Learning Disabilities with Gina Dahl

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Overcoming A Learning Disability with Paul Vibes

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A Red Letter Day with Rick Werry

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Learning To Listen with Will Taylor

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"Be The Drip That Rips" with Janet MacKay!

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What Enneagram Number Am I?!

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New Year, New Guests!

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The 8 things 2020 has taught me!

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Finding Gratitude!

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Launching new products in 2021!

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Testing Outside Of The Classroom

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The Hidden Disability with Jess Gumness

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Learning About Yourself!

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You can do anything in the world!

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Caring For Our Mental Health!

270

Kindness Over Hate!

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Using her Different Ability™ in her career! with Jessica

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Advocating For Yourself!

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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT... Launching a challenge!

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Building Confidence

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PIVOT!

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Life isn't perfect...

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Own Your Different Ability!

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What is your Different Ability?

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What is a Different Ability?

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How I Started Public Speaking

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Stand Up For Yourself!

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My Mom's side of my story

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The Diagnosis

284

The Struggle

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Very First Episode... Welcome!