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This episode is just me sitting down discussing my current frustrations with my financial, and physical situations. 

This episode is with my good friend Nikki. She's somebody I met on TikTok, and she's always been so kind and supportive. She's from Canada, she's a mother, and a chronic pain warrior. In this episode, she talks about surgeries, her mental health, and how these spasms affect her every day. 

Spann Cordle, Disability advocate, Wal-mart associate Keynote speaker. I was the first service dog team for Walmart. Helping others in the workplace to make disabilities a household name. This is his story of how he went from a child struggling with cerebral palsy to a Walmart associate in Keynote speaker.
 
http://www.spannsworld.com/
 

Today’s guest is Gaylen Wilson, a heart transplant survivor, 20-years-sober former alcoholic, relationship author, erectile dysfunction advocate, Certified Thriving Relationship Coach, and founder of The Monument Method Institute with his wife Heather. Gaylen’s life has not been one comeback. It has been a series of forced reinventions. After farm failure, a collapsed stockbroker career, alcoholism, sobriety, career disruption after 9/11, rebuilding as a computer repairman, and later becoming a successful field-service technician, Gaylen faced the largest crisis of his life. In 2014, a virus attacked his heart and left him in end-stage heart failure. For the next three and a half years, he and Heather lived through hospital rooms, fear, financial pressure, uncertainty, lost intimacy, disability, and the reality that without a transplant, he was going to die. On June 19, 2018, Gaylen sat Heather down and told her he likely had only a few months left. About thirty minutes later, the transplant center called. The next morning, he received a new heart. That experience left him with one driving question: What do you do with years you were never guaranteed? For more than five years, Gaylen helped inside two of the largest erectile dysfunction support communities on Facebook, serving roughly 60,000 men and partners. Through thousands of conversations, he saw that ED is often far more than a bedroom problem. It can become a mental-health crisis involving shame, anxiety, depression, avoidance, masculinity collapse, and relationship damage. Those experiences helped shape The Monument Method, a relationship system focused on emotional safety, conflict repair, intimacy restoration, personal responsibility, and protecting the bond under pressure. Gaylen and Heather are also building MVP — Monument Validated Person — a relationship-readiness dating platform designed for people who want to prepare for healthier relationships before they start dating. His mission is simple: to help people build relationships strong enough that neither person has to survive life alone anymore.
 
http://www.monumentmethodinstitute.com/
 

This episode is with my friend Jasmine another TikToker, who I met along the way, she's from Australia. She is a chronic pain warrior, because she goes through the condition multiple sclerosis. We discuss mental health, our journey and dealing with MS, and the resilience that it takes to be someone who goes through chronic illness.

Hello, Im Joe Gonzalez aka Scuba Joe a disabled Navy Seabee who’s seen his share of tragedies both on the battle field and off. Tragedies that have not only crushed me, my spirit, complete altered my way of life for the worse. After the 3rd time I couldnt help but ask, why? It truely never dawned on me that this (although accidents that were by my hand) it turned out it was!!! My ego, is what got me here. Yes, that doubled edge sword we all carry. The one that can save us or destroy us. I meet him face to face, while battling my PTSD and sitting with Ayahuasca. A game changer for me. Combined with my Vipassana medication practice I discovered a way to manage the demons in my head better. By embrassing them and too not allowing them to take over. Demons such as rage, depression, anxiety, addiction and revenge. I saw them as really bad roommates in my head, trying to own my space. But, they forget Im the landlord and its my place they are trying to monopolize. Thats not happening. Its a different take on complete on the AA or NA approach of complete abstinence, which I agree some folks do need to compelte remove the demons out. But some folks, like myself, learned they can better manage them this way and use that sharper edge, to build somehting great. TUrning a “mid life crisis” into a" mid life awakening!

This episode is with Kimber Henson. She has the condition Star guards disease. We discuss the day, the struggles with her eye condition, mental health, and how you keep going, even if it keeps getting harder.

This episode is about me updating everyone on how I've been feeling over the last past year or so. I talk about my experiences with my contact lenses, and my mental health struggles.

In this episode, we come back to an old familiar face. It's Allison from a previous episode. She tells us what she's been up to, how she's been getting through her struggles, and her different outlook on life.

My name is Cheryl McKelvey and I’m a married dog Mom living just outside a small town 50 miles south of St. Louis, Missouri. I’m recently retired and trying to redefine my identify and my new purpose.
I also have struggled a long time with depression, weight issues, chronic pain and a poor self-image.  But I try to find ways to encourage self-improvement and keep a positive attitude.