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The Different Ability® Podcast — 283 episodes

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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

37

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

79

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!

85

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

87

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

101

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

104

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

107

The Big Announcement!

108

Season 5 AND Keynote Speaker in Reno, NV!

109

Loving Mother & Down Syndrome Advocate with Wendy Hooton

110

Life Update - How has it been two years already?

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A father’s loss and grief with Jason Tuttle

112

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

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Wheelchair accessible travel with Kristin Secor

114

Music Therapy and neurodivergent children with Samantha Foote

115

Her Blind Parents Beautiful Love Story with Mary Harper

116

"The Inclusive Dad" with Aaron DeVries

117

"Is It Dyslexia?" with April McMurtrey

118

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

119

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

120

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!

126

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

127

Staying quiet doesn't "keep the peace"

128

Speak Up!

129

Living a child free + empowered millennial life with Angela Gentile

130

My Health Update | Women's History Month

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Design the life you love with Lyndsey Kampen

132

The importance of self growth with Jenna Allen

133

The Repaint Tray Launch with Billie Asmus

134

Bet on yourself!

135

Positive Intent with Andrea Haas

136

My dogs New Year goals!

137

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

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"I'm not done!" with Katie Selby

139

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

140

Don't Give Up! From Entrepreneur Billie Asmus

141

Dyslexia & Learning Literacy with Christine Perkin

142

Dyslexia Awareness Month!

143

Have a great semester!

144

What's Next?!

145

What I learned while teaching!

146

Season 4!

147

Speaking at my old middle / high school!

148

The Gift of Being Different with Monica Berg

149

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

150

HEY, I'M BACK!

151

Boundaries are SO HARD!

152

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

153

Squashing Your Limiting Beliefs

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University Teaching Announcement

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Coffee with Doug

156

Autobiography in Five Short Chapters - Portia Nelson

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Therapist reads me an amazing poem

158

Quizzes without accommodations? Are you kidding me?

159

Healing is so hard!

160

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!

164

Take a look back on 2022!

165

Take time for yourself!

166

Goals for the new year!

167

Setting boundaries for the holiday season

168

My most embarrassing story yet!

169

Let's Talk Dyslexia

170

How do you do it all? Behind the scenes!

171

Dealing with rough times...

172

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!

182

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

188

Dealing With Difficult Things

189

Taking a Social Media Break!

190

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!

195

Live your full potential!

196

Being Bold, Being Brave, Being You with Anita Mattu

197

Therapy Rocks!

198

Setting boundaries and never being mistreated again with Maddox

199

Announcement - New Podcast Series!

200

Motivation is Garbage?!

201

Share the Moment!

202

What I learned traveling with my Mom!

203

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

204

Please learn from my huge mistake!

205

Parents, you have rights!

206

I'm here to speak!

207

Be Proud & Celebrate You!

208

Pep talk from Katey

209

Don't let others dim your light!

210

Trademarking Different Ability®!

211

Living Life with Courage - with Justine Wenzel

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I'm Back! Happy New Year!

213

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!

216

Well it had to be said...

217

Teaching your child to advocate!

218

My Story, My Why

219

Standing up to your bully!

220

Dyslexia Struggles

221

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

224

To Own Your Learning with Mei

225

Behind the Different Ability® Scenes

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

227

Oh my gosh, I own a trademark!

228

Parent Advocate and Building Your Tool Box with Raya Karin

229

Are you living your life purpose? with Dennard Mitchell

230

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!

234

Respectfully Disrupting The Education System

235

You are amazing!

236

5 things I'd tell my younger self!

237

My Promise To You!

238

Different Ability™ = Superpower!

239

Do I have ADHD?!

240

Confidence in who you are!

241

Behind the Scenes with Richard Chrz

242

Access Our City with Richard Chrz

243

My Deaf Experience with Kellina Powell

244

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

249

One Size Does NOT Fit All!

250

Learning to Stay Centered with Shylla Webb

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

252

Giving Kids Opportunities to Learn with Veronica Shier

253

Let's Talk Learning Disabilities with Gina Dahl

254

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

257

"Be The Drip That Rips" with Janet MacKay!

258

What Enneagram Number Am I?!

259

New Year, New Guests!

260

The 8 things 2020 has taught me!

261

Finding Gratitude!

262

Launching new products in 2021!

263

Testing Outside Of The Classroom

264

The Hidden Disability with Jess Gumness

265

Learning About Yourself!

266

You can do anything in the world!

267

Caring For Our Mental Health!

268

Kindness Over Hate!

269

Using her Different Ability™ in her career! with Jessica

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Advocating For Yourself!

271

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT... Launching a challenge!

272

Building Confidence

273

PIVOT!

274

Life isn't perfect...

275

Own Your Different Ability!

276

What is your Different Ability?

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What is a Different Ability?

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How I Started Public Speaking

279

Stand Up For Yourself!

280

My Mom's side of my story

281

The Diagnosis

282

The Struggle

283

Very First Episode... Welcome!