Be-YOU-tiful Adaptive Warrior
Breaking through mental and physical barriers to becoming your best self, living your best life.
Episodes
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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April 16, 2025 • 63 mins
Limb Loss Awareness Month
UCLA: Ophelie Herve
As we come into our third week of April Limb Loss/Limb Difference Awareness month I am so excited to have a female voice in the engineering program from UCLA on our podcast today.
Ophelie was born in France and came with her family here to the United States at an early age. In high school she reflects on watching the news when the Boston Marathon was bombed and she saw peak athle...
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April 9, 2025 • 56 mins
Limb Loss Awareness Month
MIT: John McCollough
John is a student at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts working towards his Masters and PhD in Medical Engineering.
I met him a year and half ago when he reached out to see if I was interested in coming to MIT for a Gait Study that he was assisting a student working toward his PhD. Of course I said Yes!
This is what it looks like when you agree to a gait study!
Now ...
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April 2, 2025 • 68 mins
Limb Loss Awareness Month 2025
Colorado State University: MediFlex Prosthetics LLC
CSU MediFlex Prosthetics team
Here we are again for the month of April and bringing awareness to the Limb Loss/Limb Difference community.
Every year, in the month of April, I shift gears on my podcast and create a theme centered on the amputee community and interview people versus talking from my personal experience.
Each year I have met som...
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March 26, 2025 • 28 mins
The Reality of the Numbers and What We Can Do About It
The stats on amputees is staggering.
In the US 1 in 200 people have undergone amputation!
Over 2.1 million people live with an amputated limb.
Worldwide, 1 million ampuatations happen annually, that's 1 amputation every 30 seconds!!!
1 EVERY 30 SECONDS!
Amputee Coalition's diagram of statistics taken from Promedeast.com 2023
Even more alarming is the projection...
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March 19, 2025 • 30 mins
Knowing Your Identity and Accepting It
We, as a society, place a lot of value on how we look. A first impression, sort of thing. A "judge a book by the cover" value.
But we all know that the physical makeup of a person doesn't give us the whole picture.
As women, we are bombarded by makeup ads, weightless products, fashion trends for petite sizes and magazine covers showing 'beautiful" flawless women with perfect features....
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