My blurred opinion

A measure of mobility

Marjorie is a fantastic woman whose story is about how she deals with change and copes with her disability. She did not want to put certain limitations on what she could and could not do, and after dealing with her paralyzation she had to take alternate measures so that she didn't become complacent and stagnant. She is a writer, a fantastic mother, and an explorer.
Her website    https://marjorieturner.com
Her Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/616401235386068
 

Mindfully healing

Mike Martin is an author, a Podcaster, and an outdoorsman. Project mindfully outdoors started after he he had a bad battle with mental health which led to a suicide attempt, and eventually led to him being homeless, upon that he found himself facing his demons, and self-discovery by no longer being silent, and changing the things that we're giving him his wayhttps://projectmindfullyoutdoor.com/ (https://projectmindfullyoutdoor.com/) https://projectmindfullyoutdoors.podbean.com/  https://www.podbean.com/premium-podcast/lettersfromcamp  https://patreon.com/projectmindfullyoutdoors?
 

One exceptional life

Wendy Wallace is a delightful family-oriented woman who has a story to tell. Her story starts one night when she felt sickly and thought it would go away in time, but he did not. She had a flesh eating bacteria that got in her body through an ingrown hair, and eventually put her in a coma and when she woke up she was a quadruple amputee. Where most people would have completely been distraught, Wendy looked to her family and God to help guide her through this tumultuous time for help end guidance. After brainstorming for a good period of time and reading her Bible, she created her own website so she can blog and share her amazing story.
https://oneexceptionallife.com
 

The professor of perseverance

James Purdue was a guy I found online, and while going through his story, I knew he would be a perfect acquisition to the show. His story really starts after playing a pick-up football game where he was tackled wrong, and dislocated three vertebrae in his back, which caused him to be quadriplegic and paralyzed. Now that may seem like a life-altering situation, and it was, but he turned it into a career of motivating others to get out of their own way, becoming a best seller, and just being a room now on speaker. His motto is get out your past, and step into your future
His website,https://professorofperseverance.com/index.html
His YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/user/bball238283
 
 

Nurse Pamela

This episode is with a returning special guest my mother. In her previous episode she talked about her vantage point from me being sick, but this time around it's about her taking what she saw with me as a child, and turning it into a career. We discuss where she was at after a bad break up, and low funds in the bank account. She decided to pick yourself up by your bootstraps and become a nurse. We discuss her emotional journey with having no money to succeeding at a high paying an eventful career. The main reason I wanted to have her on is to show what it's like to be a nurse in the pandemic. We definitely discuss all that she saw, and participated in during these last few years of Covid.

Entwined

Anna Leonarda's story is a fascinating one, when I came across her profile, and I saw what she was promoting, and when I got to read a little bit of a story, I was very fascinated, and I really wanted to get to know her for the show. She is a breast cancer survivor, and she also suffers from a condition that causes her to have excruciating periods, and it makes it really hard to enjoy intercourse. She tells her tragic story of being in the shower and finding multiple lumps on her breast, and having multiple surgeries to have them removed. She has gone through a lot of pain and turmoil in her life, and her way to turn it around is by creating her own dating site. She did this because she struggled in her own life because of having so much pain in her private area, sex was never enjoyable, but she still desire to find a mate that will love her for who she is. The idea behind the dating site is to match individuals who struggle with sexual dysfunction/limitations. She realize that she was not the only one, and that there was no place for those who are like her to find someone of their own, so she created a safe space so that they could find love as well.
https://www.entwinedating.com
 

To serve the world you have to be healed

Our next guest I met through a previous guess Andrea who has become a good Mutual friend to both of us. When I met Pauline I noticed that she was an overly positive person, and secondary she didn't have any arms, but what I would later find out as she has no legs either, and the positivity that she generates is more impressive the more you get to know her. Most people view being a quadriplegic amputee as impossible to overcome, Pauline always has a positive answer, and shows true inner strength when dealing with her circumstances. We discuss all the different things she uses to make her life easier, even though nothing comes easy, she always finds a way to accomplish what she's doing. She tells us how it's like to drive, and to do basic chores, and it's very impressive. 

The flicker inside of me

I interview a woman who has dealt with many challenges but has made something of herself at the current time. She has battled a long-standing eating disorder that took her down a really dark path. We discussed her Weight fluctuations, and we discussed the misconceptions that people have about eating disorders. She also went through a really dark time with her mental health, it took her down some really dark places, and she had to find a way to dig herself out. No we go pretty in-depth on mental health and how it affects a person, but how are you can come out on the other side of it. 

Good teams work together, great teams work as one

Shawn Harper is a former offensive lineman in the NFL who has multiple mental disabilities. Neither of those things will define him as a person, he's very intelligent, strong willed, and determined to make a difference. He grew up in a very rough neighborhood, but his mom wanted more for him, she didn't want him to be a statistic, so she pushed him into sports. He's a big guy, and naturally, they were people who desired him to be on their team. He did eventually make the pros because he was very talented, and he end up playing there for seven years with three different teams. We discuss all his injuries, and how his disabilities affect him on a daily basis. Currently he is a renowned speaker, and he's doing so much good wherever he goes, and I believe he's more known today for his good work than he ever was while playing professional football. https://www.shawnharper.org

Grief and relief

In this episode we have a unique person, her name is Kathleen, she's very kind, curious, and full of love. Later in her years she's done a lot of exploring, and traveling, but her story starts with her true love becoming disabled, and her doing her duty as a wife to take care of him. Her husband Ron was very athletic, and when he was finally diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, it was a real shock and a downer. If there is something we can take away from what Kathleen told us about Ron, it is that he never let it get him down, and he stayed positive till the end. It did eventually get really bad at the end when he had very little mobility and no speech at all, but she never wavered, and she took him everywhere she went, and act like their life was exactly the same, by taking him to movie theaters, and anything that he enjoyed before his diagnosis. The second part of her story is about her finding her self, and traveling, and exploring some of the world's most beautiful areas.
https://www.wisdomonthecamino.com