We're The Inspiration®: Recent Episodes
Nate Lurie
There's more to life for disabled people than being called inspirational by people who just met them. We're The Inspiration™ features discussions with people with disabilities of all types, as well as people who have personal connections to them. Discover real reasons why disabled people should, or should not, be considered "inspirations".
Brian Brately and I have fun with auto corrects, but he starts the episode by talking about his recent trip to the Grand Canyon.
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After a long absence I return to the podcast, in part to explain why I was gone: the recent passing of my mother. This is very off brand for the show but I felt the need to talk about it on Mother's Day. If you've gone through something similar or if you even just knew my mom, please give it a listen.
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Sometimes I receive emails from people with truly inspiring stories, requesting to be on this podcast. The latest of whom is Dr. Jenn Pratt, who spent her childhood as a cancer patient, and had a wish granted by The Make A Wish Foundation. Hear how she's gone from that to becoming a doctor, and working with Make A Wish to help children who are going through what she experienced.
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Cancer survivor and amputee Chris Young reflects on willingly losing his leg 5 years ago.
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Brian Brately tells me this week about moving into his new home, and why the weeks leading up to that weren't so good for him.
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Two things seem to come up when I talk with Alex Gonzalez, our mutual love of powerlifting, and superheroes. What was meant to be a conversation about how the superhero he created is coming to life, turns into a chat about our mutual love of Batman. Off brand for the podcast but still a lot of fun.
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While taking a holiday break from the podcast, I talked a lot on Tiktok about the ableism in the Christmas movie Elf, and how the character of Buddy may be autistic. I settle this with Nikki Guthrie, who appreciates the movie, but also has an autistic son.
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What began as an episode about why something was said to Tennille Houston by another person with a disability, ended up being more about how she felt about what was said.
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This episode turned out to be half about disability, and half about the music business, as I spoke with Tony Mantor, a man who's done everything there is to do in that industry. He's also released a song that has become an anthem for raising awareness about autism.
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Here's a look at the 25 most popular Halloween costumes for 2022, and how practical they'd be for people with disabilities.
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Months ago, Paul Reynolds told me that Disability Employment Awareness Month somehow related to his job. I finally found out how, which led to discussion about people who have disabilities, but don't have jobs.
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Spina Bifida Awareness Month continues with Tara Gelhaus, a friend I made at the national SB conferences (when they had them)
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Last weekend, Julie Antos messaged me with a funny story about someone who clearly didn't know what spina bifida was. So I decided we'd talk about that in my first episode during Spina Bifida Awareness Month.
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If you're a wheelchair user who finds it difficult to exercise, this episode is for you. I spoke with Brianna Paauuwe, operations manager of the Wheel With Me Foundation. Their app shows people at different levels of disability how to exercise.
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All I knew about Tennille Houston going into my conversation with her was that she's a wheelchair Zumba instructor. But we end up talking about a lot more than that throughout the episode.
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This week I put together some clips of people with disabilities, talking about how they feel about being called things like "inspirational" This was the initial basis of the podcast, and if you haven't listened yet, this might be the one to start with.
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When Chris Young was on my podcast on Valentine's Day, he had a rather bleak outlook when it came to his chances at a relationship. Now that he's in one, I wanted to know if his outlook had changed.
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Last time Alex Gonzalez was on the show, I talked with him about a comic book superhero that he had created, who has the disability that he and I both have. This week I talk with him about how the creation has evolved, and we look at some existing comic book superheroes with disabilities.
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Part 2 of my discussion with Greg Pote about t shirts with disability related puns on them. This time, the ones we found really funny.
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It's time for another episode featuring Greg's List! In this two part episode, Greg Pote and I examine tee shirts with disability puns on them. First the bad, then the good.
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When Nikki Guthrie agreed to join me for another show, I realized as we were doing it how many people she has around her that have disabilities. We talk about that and a lot more.
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Dave Barnhart has helped create The Adam R. Barnhart Inclusive Athlete Fund in honor of his late son Adam, who loved playing whatever adaptive sports he could. The fund is to help developmentally and intellectually disabled athletes in Washington County, Maryland. Having a special place in my heart for adaptive sports myself, I jumped at the chance to talk to Dave about this.
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My old basketball teammate Paul Reynolds joins me this week to talk about some old times, but also why Disability Pride Month might not be as important to us as some of the awareness months.
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Last month I went to my friend Brian Brately's wedding. At the reception, his best man, who was also his brother, called him an inspiration. I knew I'd have to make that an episode.
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New friend Allen Johnson finally joins me on the show after a lengthy illness, to discuss his own podcast, how he broke his neck when he was 16, and why his service dog is being retired.
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Tarek Mrad has cerebral palsy, and does his own podcast, while trying to get people to live their dreams. We did a quick episode because it came together very quickly.
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I recently had a conversation with an old friend about how my podcast lacks the element of "dudebro"... This episode may balance that out, as Alex Gonzalez and I talk about our mutual love of working out (aka Para Powerlifting), and a disabled superhero he's creating.
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Matteo Esposito is a playwright with autism, who's written more than one play featuring autistic characters. I talked to him about his career, which is really just beginning because he's still in school.
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Another major reconnection for me as my old basketball teammate Pat Atwell is on this week's episode! We talk (quite out of order) about being teammates, his college basketball experiences, and what he's been doing since graduating.
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Mattel has modeled a series of Barbie dolls after real female Paralympic athletes. But will kids want them?
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Nikki Guthrie has talked to me a couple of times about her autistic son, but what I did not know until recently is that her mother in law is deaf. We talk about that and more on this week's episode!
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Thoughts on the new Hot Wheels toy, modeled after Paralympian and wheelchair motocross athlete, Aaron "Wheelz" Fotheringham
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I found a list of the "best" jobs for people in wheelchairs, according to the owner of confinedtosuccess.com. My friend Greg Pote and I decide how accurate the list is.
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It's hard to know how to describe this episode. It went off the rails pretty early, because of the unusual way my friend Chris Young chooses to express himself. We end up talking about that, and how it relates to his disability, for the duration of the episode.
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Meezan Ford returns to the podcast, to talk in part about her recently departed cat, Qandi, who had gone blind in the last years of her life.
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I had to talk to my longtime friend Ali Rogers Karpa again when I heard she was helping to put together a 5k on April 24, to raise awareness (and money) for amputees. Sign up or donate here: https://www.classy.org/event/amputee-awareness-5k/e393973
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Rather than do an episode recapping the Winter Paralympics which few of my friends watched anyway, I decided to talk to Brian Brately about the most exciting part: sled hockey, which he plays.
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Everyone has their own opinion on the Will Smith/Chris Rock incident, and I decided to throw my two cents in after reading that some people think what Rock said about Smith's wife was ableist. Was it? Tell me in the comments. Video version here: https://youtu.be/QQbt8PnkN-U
Sometimes episodes transcend disability, even if they feature disabled people. Right before Bryan Johnson's real birthday, I talked with him about his "sober birthday"
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I meant to address this a couple of weeks ago, but I'm glad I waited, because there are not one, but two competitors using wheelchairs in America's Got Talent: EXTREME! If you saw them both, which one impressed you more? Do you think either will have a chance to win 500k?
Turns out that March 1st commemorates two things to the disabled community, with very different meanings behind them. Video version available here: https://youtu.be/7iL4sqPpEzc
My longtime friend Ali Rogers Karpa was married before losing a foot to cancer, but she had some things to say about last week's Valentine's Day episode. What follows is a friendly debate revolving around dating with a disability.
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Ever since I met Chris Young, he's wanted to talk about love and relationships in the disabled community. So that's what (we think) he did on this Valentine's Day episode of the podcast
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There's some very good news leading up to this year's Winter Paralympics. Listen to find out what it is.
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As the Winter Olympics are now underway, the high performance manager for USA Para Powerlifting, Mary Hodge returns to the show to discuss her experiences in Tokyo at last year's Paralympics.
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Greg Pote joins me again for a look at ableism on television within our lifetimes. Some of which we didn't even have to watch to know it's there.
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Podcast returning soon with part 3 of our look at ableism, this time on television. In the meantime, here are my thoughts on being asked constantly whether I need help, just because I use a wheelchair.
Greg Pote returns as we present a list of movies that showcase ableism.
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In the first of a three part episode of the show, Greg Pote returns, and we examine what ableism is, what it means to us, and how it can be applied to movies and tv shows.
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Who better to have on the "Christmas" episode of the podcast than my good friend, Steve Ray.. Do we talk about Christmas? Not really, it's mostly about his experiences as a disabled actor. But give it a listen anyway.
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I catch up with my friend Robert Brown this week, who I used to play and coach basketball with. We talk a lot about how important it is to educate yourself about disabilities... and everything else.
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Piggybacking off of International Persons w/ Disabilities Day, Greg Pote brings me a list of other days that are (or could be) important to the disabled community
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Over 40 years, polio survivor Alan Toy has been both an actor, and an advocate for other disabled actors. We talk about all of that, plus his role as FDR in Annie Live.
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Julie Antos and I have had a number of misunderstandings between us over the years. We laugh about those and go from there, to talk about many issues revolving around disability.
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I know Brian Callahan from the old spina bifida conferences we used to go to, but not very well. This was the longest conversation I've ever had with him.
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Chris Young returns to the podcast during spina bifida awareness month. This time we talked a lot about how he's tried to improve his social life and the reasons he's felt isolated.
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Spina Bifida Awareness Month continues as I speak with my friends Ryan From and his mother Joanna Frenz. We talk about many aspects of spina bifida, as well as Joanna's reaction to Ryan's first episode.
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Greg Pote returns to the podcast to talk about October being spina bifida awareness month. We also talk about the recent Paralympic Games, and the history of this podcast.
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Nate Schrader returns to the podcast but this time we talk more about movies than disability.
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This often comes up on my podcast. Here are some of my thoughts on the subject, based on some things I've recently seen.
I recently reconnected with Valeria Reyes-Chian, who played for a couple years on a basketball team I coached. We talk about why she preferred tennis to basketball, what she's doing on her way to becoming a psychologist, and why she likes this podcast, but hates the name.
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A week after the Paralympics ended, NBC aired a rerun of the gold medal men's basketball game, between the US and Japan. But did it even matter a week later?
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After watching more of the Paralympic Games than I've ever seen before, in this episode I talk about them with my friend Stanley Martin Jr.
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I've put the podcast on hold until the Paralympics are over, but before then I have something to say about the way they're being covered.
This is slightly longer than the video version, because it reflects some of the feedback I got from the video that I should have made clearer.
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This was my first attempt at making a video for Youtube and a trailer episode at the same time. Video version is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNJgHtCQC98
Last time I had Nikki Guthrie on the podcast, she told me all about her son's rare condition. This time, I saw that she needed to vent about something that happened to him, and I let her do it on the show.
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So this was supposed to be last week's episode but it had to be recorded a second time. Meezan Ford and I talk about why she goes through a grieving process this time of year, and we talk about some movies with depictions of disabilities.
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Taking a minute (literally) to explain why it looks like there will be no new episode this week. And to address some things I've been working on for the show that has nothing to do with making episodes.
I only heard recently that July was Disability Pride Month. Steve Ray and I talk this week with Ed Tobias, a man with multiple sclerosis who wrote an article about why we don't really need a pride month.
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My friend Brian Brately has spina bifida like I do, and he got engaged recently. This week I get to talk to him and his future wife Ellen Cinadr, about what she's learned being in a 2 year relationship with Brian.
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My friend Ashleigh got married recently. Now she wants to adopt a baby. This week we talk a lot about why she'd rather do that than try to have her own, and why she wants it to happen right after getting married.
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Many teachers (and parents) have been on this show, explaining what's wrong with the educational system for disabled students. My friend Emily Hayes talks this week about what can be done to set it right.
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Bryan Johnson is a friend of mine who like me, has spina bifida. He's also a recovering alcoholic. He was gracious enough to tell me a little bit of his story as it relates to what drinking has cost him, and how he's trying to get some of it back.
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Had to do an episode sort of on the fly this week. So Greg and I pulled out our bag of tricks and decided to do a show on euphemisms, mostly ones we don't like and why you shouldn't use them, unless in some cases you're part of the disabled community.
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Greg Pote and I examined a compiled list of things not to say to people in wheelchairs, and told some personal stories about when these have been said to us.
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I met Nikki Guthrie while promoting the podcast. She's the mother of a boy with an extra Y chromosome. She talks a lot about what that means, including misconceptions about his condition, and why she decided to keep him homeschooled even after schools reopened.
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In 1992, Cordell Jeter was a Paralympian in track. Shortly thereafter, he became my first wheelchair basketball coach. Now, he's trying to give disabled people access to things they haven't experienced in a long time, if ever. Hear about it all on this week's episode.
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I got a message from Nate Schrader's mom, describing him as a filmmaker with cerebral palsy and epilepsy. We talked about which disability affects him more, but also how his disability indirectly caused him to make a transition from theater to filmmaking.
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My friend Steve Ray and I started talking about his time as a disabled actor, and ended up talking more about the (sometimes unfair) treatment of disabled performers.
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James Lacerenza is a man with cerebral palsy who has done a lot of charity work for kids with an entirely different disability. Hear about why he chose to do that on this week's episode.
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Doing the 25th episode of the show in which I was asked questions, got me really introspective about the future of the show. I decided to redo the promo that started it all. I talk about what I've gotten right and wrong, and where I hope to take the show in the future.
For my 25th episode, I let my friend Evan Braff ask me some questions about disability issues, how the show has progressed and where it's going. and some questions just about myself.
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Mahdi Gilbert is a man who was born with no hands or feet, that went on to become a very successful magician. We go back and forth at times talking about both magic and disability on this week's episode.
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I like to call this episode, The One That Got Me Vaccinated, as my old friend from grade school, Ali Rogers Karpa is a nurse who got me an appointment, but she also lost one of her feet to cancer in 2017. I was very impressed by how much she's learned about living with a disability, even though she's only had to live with it for a few years.
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Meezan Ford was recommended to me as a guest long before she was ready to be one. Find out why we're both glad that didn't happen right away, before she talks about her struggles with diabetes.
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Sam Mitchell is the first person I've had on the podcast that I don't know personally. He contacted me and said he wanted to talk about autism, which he has, and about which he has his own podcast. This was an opportunity for me to learn a few things about autism, as I talk to Sam and his mother Gina, about how Sam's autism has affected their lives.
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Chris Young is a relatively new friend of mine, who's wanted to be on this podcast since the day I met him. We had a lot of fun with this one, but it takes a serious turn when we discuss Chris having cancer, and beating it!
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This week I talk to my former coach and current friend, Susie Rinaldi. It's almost as if we were interviewing each other, so it's hard to summarize what we talked about. But this was such a fun episode!
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Mark Friedrich is a friend of mine with spina bifida that I used to coach. This week I talk with him and his parents, Ron and Georgeanne, about their family life, and about Ron's extensive work in the deaf community.
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Years ago I was a competitive powerlifter. This week, I talk with Mary Hodge, the high performance manager of USA Para Powerlifting, about our personal history through the sport, and how it's changed since I was a part of it.
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David Trincellito and I grew up together, at least in the world of wheelchair sports. Hear us talk about that how we've evolved, both as people and as athletes/coaches!
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I wanted to talk to my friend Joel Pool about his being a disabled Canadian living in America. But he moved to the US when he was too young to really remember living anywhere else. Find out what unfolds in our latest episode!
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This episode turned out better than I thought it would. The first attempt at more than one person on the air with me at once, my friends Brian and Greg and I tried to stay on one topic and failed miserably. But we were still happy with the result.
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This is a fairly short episode, and yet it's the longest conversation that Eric Edling and I ever had. Find out more about a disabled American living in Ireland during a pandemic
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My (pre and post-COVID) coworker Dave Barnhart joins me for this week's episode to talk about being a father to three sons, two of whom were born with distinctly different disabilities
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This week, Todd Utter joins me to talk about all the sports we've coached, both together and separately, and MANY of our former teammates get mentioned!
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This week's inspiration is my friend/former coworker, Steve Ray! We talk about working together in radio, and on a separate podcast and (almost) this one, as well as how we became friends, and how a 2004 car accident changed his life forever.
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On this episode, Ryan Fromm and I talk a lot about our common disability, our mutual friends through disability conferences, and he opens up about drug addiction.
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My former coaching colleague Andy Burt is this week's inspiration. We talk a lot about working together, basketball and general, and parenthood.
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Episode 7 of "We're The Inspiration", with Ashleigh Hubbs! She didn't want to do the show, but we talk a lot about the anxiety that made her feel that way.
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An in depth conversation with my old basketball coach, Evan Braff! But we talk about a lot more than sports!
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Nate talks with his old friend, Stanley Martin Jr., on Episode 5 of "We're The Inspiration" about sports, travel and a lot more!
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"We're The Inspiration" Episode 4: A discussion with Brian Brately. This episode went of the rails at times, but that's what can happen when old friends get back together
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On this episode, I'm joined by "Speedy" Alex Gonzalez! we talk about our mutual love of powerlifting and dislike for euphemisms, and much more!
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episode 1 of disability related podcast, We're The Inspiration, with my friend Greg Pote. We talk a lot about health and how bad it can get for people with disabilities.