My dad joins me in this special episode of Excuse My Language, But… to discuss some of the heartbreaking statistical realities of SCI and how the chips are stacked against us. We get into detail about lifetime costs, life expectancy, rarity, causes of death, and more.

I detail why I was in my feels on my life day last week. I talk about my new approach towards my recovery and the magnitude of it. I also talk about what it feels like to be paralyzed and how I have to let that part of me go if I’m ever going to walk again.

In this week’s episode me and one of my favorite people in the world, @katielivesfreely, speak up about some of the recent travesties happening in health care and the attack on private duty nursing

Director, Producer, and Writer of Take A Look At This Heart joins me to breakdown how this incredible movie came to be. Along with discussing the emotional toll it took on him putting it all together.

Me and @livingwithClaireity have almost two podcasts because halfway through we say our goodbyes and then we continue to talk for another 30 minutes haha. We joke we laugh we have fun together🤗

Me and Sean Costello talk about the power of self belief

This is the final step of my closure, reclaimed vulnerability and authenticity. In the second part of my extremely personal podcasts I explain some of the underlying messages from last week’s episode. If you haven’t listened to last week’s episode, you should go back and listen to where I read to you a fictional yet 100% true story about how I fell in love and was planning a life with a married woman. Not saying I’m proud of it, but I needed to tell my story so that I could let go, move forward, and continue giving my authentic self to others

A fictionally written yet 100% true story about how I fell in love with a married woman, and the aftermath that ensued

Me and Ryann (@Chronically_Ry) sit and chat sexuality, gender vs sex, and much more for pride month🏳️‍🌈 I ask her to educate me on several topics because we all have so much to gain from listening and learning from others. There’s nothing wrong with asking questions so that you may grow in the future.

Everyone I ask to be on the pod I preface them with, "I like to have real conversations with awesome people.” That’s exactly what this was. Down to earth and heartfelt realism with Zack Ruhl (@pitbullruhl)

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Can’t begin to tell you how happy this conversation made me. It gave me so much hope that I’ll be able to find love one day, not in spite of my disability, but truly for who I am. Brooke (@honesttoquad) and Elena (@elena.pauly) are the co-creators of the organization WAGS of SCI, a support group for wives and girlfriends of individuals with spinal cord injuries and they’re absolutely amazing!

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