My blurred opinion

Learn to love learning

When I met Lois I knew she was just a sweet delightful woman, and I just wanted to get to know her and be around her, because she had such positive energy, so she's been through a lot, and she wears her positivity as a shield. She has traveled multiple continents and now settles in upstate New York. Her story starts with her second child having a learning disability and her seeing what he had to go through in school from his teachers. She was training as a physical education teacher but then became a specialist after her son failed to read. Her main goal in life besides being a great mother was to make a life for her son as normal as possible and give him the life that he deserved. Even though it was very obvious there was something wrong, he didn't get a diagnosis until many years later. 
https://www.loisletchford.com

Renegotiating identity

Patti was a  person I didn't know a whole lot about until the day of the show, but as I got to know her, and I was able to take her story, I loved everything about her, and I'm happy to call her a friend. Her story starts was her successfully finding her dream job, not long before she gets diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She always wanted to be a gym teacher, it's all she ever wanted to be, but MS it really screws with your mobility, and it was a hindrance and made her have to leave the dream job she always wanted. But with Patti's strong spirit kept pushing and started to find a new purpose, to wear now she wants to help people not only balance and suppress their pain, but also with their mental outlook on life. She hasn't credentials, and she's achieved so much, and I know she will continue her fight on making a difference. 
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The equalizer

I am a massive fan of those who try to make the world a better place but also make the world more accessible and try to accommodate those who have disadvantages. Amber Hinds is the CEO of a company called equalize digital. Her goal is to make the Internet more accessible for those with disabilities. Amber is just one of those kind-hearted souls who sees something wrong in a particular area and finds a way to help. In this interview, she tells how she gets into this field, and also why she does what she does.
https://equalizedigital.com
 

` I love my life but it wasn’t always the case

The first that you will notice about Stephan is easing voice, and his delightful and positive attitude. He may be living a great life, but we would tell his journey and how he got here because everything wasn't always peachy. He suffered from depression, PTSD, and addiction. At one point, he had no idea how to be his true self, and he used alcohol to bury his pain, and he would never deal with the issues at hand. I lovely and hearing how fast come, the transformation he made on himself, and turning himself into the person he always wanted to be. I has made an amazing transformation, and all he wants to do is help others by sharing what he went through, and letting everyone know how great it is to be sober and clear-headed.
https://mystepstosobriety.com
 

Mr. fish comics

And I met Fish lee some months back and was taken aback by how positive, and sweet he is after learning about all that had happened to him, and I was so grateful to have him on the show after he excepted.  I believe that his comics create and give examples of people with disabilities doing great things, including disabilities superheroes, and give those with disabilities something to look up to and inspire us. Fish has Tourette's, he didn't get diagnosed until later in life, but he also discusses how severe his condition that as he got older. We discuss his up-and-down journey with his condition, and how it's taking a toll on his physical health, but also how we get into where he is today and how he's found his true purpose. I love that he took a dream that he had, and a passion that he loved forever in comics, and now he's creating his own, and filling in the void where there were no people with disabilities, and comics, for the most part, he is creating his own world where people with disabilities are awesome, and they save the world. 
https://linktr.ee/mrfishcomics
 

A colorful journey

I met Karen a while back, and as I got to know her, I really enjoyed our conversations and her personality. I always wanted to have her on the show, because I wanted to tell her journey of battling multiple sclerosis, and the chronic pain that comes with it. We discuss her long journey of finding the proper treatment to help give her life back, suppress some of the pain, and give her more mobility. And the unfortunate part about getting this condition is that she is a very active, athletic and physical person, she even served time in the Navy, and she likes to race go carts, and she had to figure out how to manage her pain, and get that part of her life backThe great thing about doing this episode at this point in time is that she was in a better place, she has a better understanding of her condition and how to treat it, so she has more of a positive minestate. 

Nurse amputee

I met Kathy on Facebook, and I didn't know a whole lot about her, other than she said she was an amputee, and a former RN, and that she was interested in being on the show, once I found out more about her story, and how she became an amputee, I was highly fascinated. You'll notice from Kathy that she's a very kind, well-spoken woman who has made some bad decisions, but she has paid for them and tries to do everything to atone every day for those mistakes. All the twists and turns that come with her story, kept me wanting to hear more because you hope with every guess that there is a happy ending or at least a start of one. I won't spoil it, but it's pretty tragic how she became an amputee, but her love for her family and grandchildren brought her back to her old self, maybe even a better self.  Her story involves mental health, addiction, loss, and even a comeback story.

Small in size, large in courageousness

Alex Manard is a guy I met through a mutual friend, and we immediately clicked because we had similar ideals and points of view on many issues. I'm glad to call him a friend, and I'm even more proud to be able to share his story with everyone. His condition is dwarfism, I and he is a great representation of that condition.  We talk about the misconceptions of dwarfism, also the many different variants of dwarfism. One of the things that I got to learn from Alex is how much pain goes through, because of his size and not developing properly, how much he has to endure, and how much he will have to take down the road. He has a very strong spirit, and he doesn't let anything hold him back, he's been on many reality shows, and he has been a very strong advocate for those in the dwarf community. He pushed through his mental health and the naysayers, and he just wanted to push the boundaries of what someone with his condition could do, and put himself on a stage where people were forced to recognize and except him as a person with strength.

Andrea the healer

When Andrea first reached out to me, I immediately said yes, because I knew she had value and would bring positive energy to the show. She is originally from Romania but now resides in Canada. She has three kids, and one of her sons has multiple brain conditions that affect his daily living. She is very open about talking about him, but she keeps him secluded from the world because she is ultra-protective of her kids. One thing I've noticed about Andrea talking to her on the show, and off the show, she tries to be positive no matter what's going on in her life, and that's a rare quality in a person. Andrea combines a unique form of insight to help others center on the present moment. With laser-focused energy, she allows her clients to expand their hearts for themselves and their families. She has her own podcast/YouTube channel, and I've even been on it, she's a great interviewer, and it's a really positive thinking type of show.Andrea is one of the people from the show that not only keeps in touch with me but tries to help me find some peace in my own life, as you will be able to tell from the episode he's a very kind person and wants nothing but good things for those who are struggling in this world.
https://andreapetrut.ca/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-petrut-602a11217/ 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCikPmNCVo9XUzuY0L_QHdpQ
 
 

Stress is an 8 out of 10

Ann hince has a very delightful spirit, but she comes from a lot of pain and trauma as a child. She starts out by talking about her two alcoholic parents and then eventually walking in on her mom dead in the bathroom at age 19. After an incident with another parent at her child school, she felt a sudden rage and anger, and emotions that she didn't feel were healthy, and she knew she had to get to the bottom of where those emotions came from.  She feels that all of that came from when she was a child, a lot of emotions, and pain that she never dealt with, and she just suppressed and went on with her life. So this is a story of a woman who has been through and seen a lot, and she takes us on her journey of healing and dealing with the issues that she never did many years ago. I think it's great that she's so sweet and kind, and she found a true self, and she never lost herself on that journey.
 
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