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Episode 279: The ADA - What Is A Disability?
In the first 18 years of the ADA, the definition of Disability had gotten very limited.
The ADAAA set out to correct that problem. (To review: watch episodes 241-245 or this playlist:...
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Episode 278: Thirty Years Of The ADA
The ADA was the first civil rights law in the world to protect the rights of and provide access for people with Disabilities.
If you have chronic illness, you likely have disabling conditions and the ADA is there to...
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Episode 277: PostOp Realness
How have I let our relationship issues impact how I ask for what I need?
What ways do I limit myself or create my own obstacles?
How can I get out of my own way?
The pattern of trying to make myself smaller so that I...
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Episode 276: PostOp Update
How has it been to get a new PowerPort?
What is the placement like?
I wonder why recovery has been more difficult than I expected?
When do you notice your energy flagging?
What things have taken more out of you than...
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Episode 275: We Are Mighty Pt 5
Mike Porath, founder and CEO of TheMighty.com talks about powerful ways people find one another on the platform.
He then answers the question, “What would you like people to know about TheMighty.com?”
He encourages...
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Episode 274: We Are Mighty Pt 4
Mike Porath, founder and CEO of TheMighty.com talks about his hopes for the future.
He discusses a study Harvard did with TheMighty to look at whether content was making a difference people using the site as it...
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Episode 273: We Are Mighty Pt 3
Mike Porath, founder and CEO of TheMighty.com talks about what he’s learned from parenting a child that was born differently than he expected.
What are their guideposts for parenting?
What would he say to other...
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Episode 272: We Are Mighty Pt 2
Mike Porath, founder and CEO of TheMighty.com talks about how The Mighty got started.
The Mighty isn't about health so much as it's about PEOPLE.
What has surprised you about the ways The Mighty has grown and...
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Episode 271: We Are Mighty Pt 1
Mike Porath, founder and CEO of TheMighty.com talks about what it was like to have a daughter born with a chromosomal difference.
How did The Mighty get their start?
How has the platform changed from its initial...
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Episode 270: PreOp Honesty
Here's an impromptu episode from the hospital.
I'm waiting to get surgery.
I had to get a COVID test before this procedure.
How was that?
As I've been waiting for the surgery, my anxiety has been ramping.
What are my...
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Episode 269: Marital Communication
How have my behaviors around the particularities had me showing up like I'm controlling or parental?
What fights have you been having for the whole of your relationship?
How am I still learning to communicate and take...
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Episode 268: Family Ties
Just more than a year and a half ago, my mother died. I still miss her terribly.
Our relationship was not always easy, my being gay was a painful and divisive thing between us.
However, once I got sick, we forged a...
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