Be-YOU-tiful Adaptive Warrior
Breaking through mental and physical barriers to becoming your best self, living your best life.
Episodes
September 24, 2025 • 25 mins
Taking Action During "Construction"
We are all a work in progress. That's life, right? We all have those moments where you feel you are working on something in your life. Your health, a career, or relationships, you name it.
But what do you do in these moments? How do you continue to grow and better yourself during the construction?
It all starts within you. We begin by working on ourselves.
Right now, while I would rath...
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September 17, 2025 • 30 mins
A Journey of a Thousand Miles Must Begin With a Single Step
-Lao Tzu.
Traveling is exciting but can also be stressful. Packing the right clothing for the weather, the events, and what makes you feel amazing. You try to pack neatly and concisely so you can pack everything you want and need.
As an amputee, things become a little more confusing and worrisome. What will you need? What MUST come with? What if this happens or that...
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September 10, 2025 • 31 mins
Setting Goals & Thinking Positively to Live The Life of Your Dreams
Successful people know how to succeed and what it takes to succeed.
So what is it? What do they know that you don't?
Everyone knows that hard work pays off and that practice makes permanence.
But what separates you from someone who is doing the very thing you want to do, too?
Now, of course there is DNA involved in some of that, talent can be passed dow...
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September 3, 2025 • 33 mins
Healing Physically, Adapting Mentally and Emotionally
Amputation isn't just the act of amputating a limb.
It isn't just surgery, heal, and walk.
This is a process. It takes time, money, patience, and a whole lot of grit!
Unfortunately, most patients that knowingly go into amputation surgery can't comprehend the struggles to come. For those who didn't choose or prep for amputation, they have no idea of the life that's ahead ...
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August 27, 2025 • 28 mins
Knowing Who and What To Ask About Amputation
Becoming an amputee is so surreal. Electing to have it done is a choice I never thought I would have to make.
It brings about fears, anxieties, questions, and so much uncertainty.
How do you know life will be better?
What if I can't wear a prosthesis?
Will I walk again or will I be in a wheelchair the rest of my life?
How long does it take to heal from an amputation
Do I ge...
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August 20, 2025 • 18 mins
This has been a weekend!
Everything was set up perfectly. A family getaway for a long weekend, before our youngest goes back to college, and bringing the dogs to see the ocean for the first time. I couldn't be happier!
We got to Carlsbad, California Friday late afternoon and took our pups for a walk. Dinner came and we fed them as normal but around 9:00 pm my year and half old pup started acting really weird, almost drunk. She...
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August 13, 2025 • 29 mins
That is the Question
Amputation is a difficult road, one that can change direction quickly, even after you heal.
For many amputees the surgical side of their life isn’t over. Many of us end up needing a TMR surgery or even a revision, while others will have to amputate even higher! Going from a below knee to an above knee amputation is life changing because one amputation is completely different from the next. What is required o...
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August 6, 2025 • 31 mins
Amputation is a tough road. If you make the decision to amputate or if your limb is taken from you by accident or disease it's a bumpy ride, right from the get go.
Most people assume that once you get through the surgical part and physically heal that you are back to life as usual. that couldn't be farther from the truth.
As an amputee with 6 1/2 years of experience I can tell you that once I healed and was able to get fitted with...
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July 30, 2025 • 37 mins
Letting Go and Leaning In
I have been an amputee for 6 1/2 years, but before that I had a taekwondo injury that took me through 5 years, 10 surgeons and 10 surgeries, plus a blood clot to decide it was time to start living again and make the biggest decision of my life.
Alone in the decision, I was not. I had an amazing support system with my husband, two boys and my family back home. I had friends rallying around me and a ch...
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July 23, 2025 • 25 mins
We Need Each Other
We are creatures built to live in community.
This gives us a safe place to celebrate in great times, gain support in the bad ones, and everything in between.
Talking with people, sharing our journeys and stories, our ups and downs with others, plus listening to our friends and community during their moments is a beautiful symphony of give and take that allows us to feel valued and to give value to other...
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July 16, 2025 • 38 mins
The AMI Procedure and Magneto Micrometry
This week I was honored to have back on my podcast, Dr Hugh Herr.
Hugh is a bilateral below knee amputee and a professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT.
He directs the MIT Biomechatronics Group and Co-directs the K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics.
Time Magazine coined Hugh the 'Leader of the Bionic Age'.
He has also authored and co-authored over 350 peer-reviewed manuscripts and pa...
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July 9, 2025 • 26 mins
Life after Revision Surgery for an Amputee
I must have been crazy, right? To CHOOSE to revise my amputation! To go from being uber active to starting over?!?!
Golfing on Kauai
Having fun catching waves
At the beginning of this interview process, to be eligible for the AMI procedure, I was very interested in the idea of being a part of something so "cutting edge" (pun intended) and chose to continue through the seve...
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July 2, 2025 • 25 mins
Starting Over Isn't Easy
Who would choose to take a harder road, isn't life hard enough?
And who would decide to start over after working hard to be high functioning?
What would possess someone to put that sort of challenge in front of them?
Last October I was approached by Dr. Carty's office, in Boston, if I was interested in doing a study with them. I decided to learn more and had an hour long phone interview with his ass...
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June 11, 2025 • 65 mins
AMI Procedure and The Future of Amputations
Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital
"For 200 years there has been no real difference in amputation; it's technique and how it's done."
Do you know anything in our world that hasn't evolved in 200 years? No!
This was a statement that Dr. Carty stated today in our conversation and I was in disbelief. How could that be?
With so many engineering marvels happening at an exorbitant ra...
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May 28, 2025 • 26 mins
Setbacks to Comebacks
Life is full of ups and downs and as an amputee we must realize that we will face many more challenges, past the amputation itself, years later.
For one, our sound side becomes extremely important to us. Taking care of our good joints while still trying to live a full and healthy life yet protecting what we have left becomes a balancing act and can be very scaring when things go wrong.
We also struggle ...
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May 21, 2025 • 27 mins
Dealing With Stress to Alleviate Phantom Pain
Ahhh, stress!
It wouldn't be a day or a week without something triggering stress. A bid decision, a deadline, a fight with a friend, or even traffic!
As amputees we also face the uphill battles of healing, socket fittings, sores and painful steps, and phantom pains. Sometimes it feels like we never get a break. It feels like the weight of the world is placed on our shoulders and ...
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May 14, 2025 • 66 mins
The Latest Research Behind Phantom Pain
You may have heard the saying, "Mind over Matter" a few times in your life. I know I have, but did you know that it is more than just a saying? Did you know that our brains are capable of helping us cope when we struggle, especially when we deal with pain?
Today I learned how the brain can actually help us changing the way we think and perceive the pain we feel.
We have the ability to r...
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May 7, 2025 • 23 mins
Loss/Limb Difference Awareness Month 2025
Garrison Hayes and Eric Gutierrez-Camacho
Colorado State University
John McCollough: MIT
Ophelie Herve: UCLA
Mira Mutnick, Jake Kanetis, and Marty Kilbane
Colorado State University
Dan Levine: MIT
As April comes to a close we say a huge thank you to all of the university students ts who came on to share what they have been working on, in the fields of mechanical and biomedical engin...
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April 30, 2025 • 55 mins
MIT
Dan Levine
As we wrap up this Limb Loss/Limb Difference Awareness month I am also interviewing my final university student who has been working towards his PhD at MIT. Dan started his journey at Cornell with a degree in Mechanical engineering and Computer Science and is about to graduate from MIT with his doctorate in Media Arts and Sciences.
Dan had a fascinating beginning as he was able to spend some younger years in Tha...
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April 23, 2025 • 59 mins
University of Michigan
Mira Mutnik, Jake Kanetis, and Marty Kilbane
Amazing conversation with not 1, not 2, but 3 PhD students at the University of Michigan this week!
A true, authentic conversation about the innovation and design of future prosthesis and the growth and research of creating a surgical procedures to aid in using these newly designed prosthesis all with the purpose of replicating the natural human movement.
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