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Breaking through mental and physical barriers to becoming your best self, living your best life.
Episodes
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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March 12, 2025 • 32 mins
Faith and Connections
Just the other day I met a lovely woman in a wheelchair. My first instinct was to smile but then I looked down, only to see that this kindly older lady was missing part of her limb. She was a below knee amputee.
She was being pushed around the store by a younger man, a caretaker, in her wheelchair when she noticed me and my prosthesis. She asked him to back up and push her towards me to talk about bein...
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March 5, 2025 • 25 mins
Goal Setting and Climbing Your "Mountain"
Nothing in life that's worth achieving is going to come easy. Working toward a goal, putting your best foot forward and sweating through it makes achieving it all the more sweet.
Why would becoming an amputee be anything different?
If you were active before your amputation, then you know what can be done with a lot of work, grit, and determination.
It won't be easy. It'll test your ...
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February 26, 2025 • 26 mins
Building Strength For a Better Future
If you are a new amputee or an amputee who hasn't been wearing their prosthesis for one reason or another we need to talk.
What are you doing to prepare your body for movement?
Balance is so important in preventing falls, even when being silly!
After becoming an amputee you spend weeks healing only to find yourself getting use the weight deficit of not having a leg. This makes add...
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February 19, 2025 • 32 mins
Making Mobility Great Again, One Prosthesis at a Time
When I walked into The Limb Center office prior to amputation I met Randy West and David Banks for the first time.
They are a Phoenix based company
From that moment on, they were there for me, reassuring me that I could do this, that they would make sure I had the best fit and they asked about my hopes and dreams as I entered amputee life, allowing me the space to d...
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February 12, 2025 • 29 mins
Morning Routines to Get Motivated
Life as an amputee is already hard enough just learning to live without a limb that, for most of us, we were born with. However, what you don't know is the little things, the minutia of everyday tasks that can sometimes be enough to halt you in your tracks.
I got an interesting question the other day, one I haven't been asked before: "How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?"
...
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February 5, 2025 • 28 mins
It's Always "No" If You Don't Ask
When it comes to the world around you, the old adage, "You catch more flies with honey, than vinegar", still holds true.
As an amputee, I have seen this firsthand. When I smile at someone, they smile back. If I say Hello with a smile, I start a conversation and usually educate someone who is curious. And when I ask questions, that I may be afraid to ask (because I don't want to look like I'm look...
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January 29, 2025 • 29 mins
Healing and Finding Purpose
This Illinois, born and raised, girl never knew she had a connection to the ocean.
It's a beautiful thing to find in yourself so late in life. It was surprising, and breathtaking when it happened.
Many years ago my family moved to Florida for a job. I never thought I would leave Illinois, EVER! All of my family and my husband's family live there. That was our support system.
We enjoyed Florida a ...
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January 22, 2025 • 28 mins
Do You Have These Two Ingredients?
My people, My "Why"
Chicago Family: My roots and the people who believe in me
You need People and you need a positive mindset!
It's that simple...
OK, maybe it's not simple but the solution to getting the most out of life usually comes from these two things and you can make the changes for yourself, not having to rely on anyone or anything outside of yourself. Start NOW!
I have always...
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January 15, 2025 • 31 mins
Getting Through the Tough Times
Oh the nights are so tough!
Have you been there?
Have you laid in the utter darkness and the quiet is deafening, the pain is unbearable, and you feel like you will ever get through this moment of phantom pain?
Yep, the reality is, we all go through it at some point or another, to varying degrees.
The last two nights, for me, have started great, I feel asleep and wasn't feeling anything in th...
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January 8, 2025 • 21 mins
Time to Challenge Yourself
As 2024 fades away and 2025 takes control let's take time to look back and reflect on the ups and downs of the past year.
We all have had those moments we achieved some sort of milestone, we have also had those moments we never want to relive.
I'm hopeful that you had some time at the end of last year and the first week of this year to relax, reflect, and refresh yourself. I hope you have gotten...
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December 11, 2024 • 24 mins
Start Today!
Start Now!
Today!
What are you waiting for?
I know, I know, it's the holidays. You are busy and can't find the time.
Me too! But, if you are serious about your goals, and know your 'WHY' then get to it.
I am not, nor have I ever been, a fan of "New Years Resolutions". For a majority of people it is a procrastination technique to get thru the holidays, feel horrible about how you celebrated all holiday seas...
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December 4, 2024 • 29 mins
Tis the Season
As we enter the holiday season:
Special gatherings and parties,
Gift giving and making,
Cooking and baking,
And traveling and to see friends and family create a very busy month or two.
As amputees it can have a toll on our bodies as we try to do it all.
If you are new to being an amputee, try to remember that it’s ok to ask and accept help, it’s ok to not have everything perfect and done like you’ve ...
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November 27, 2024 • 24 mins
Moving Into the Right Mindset This Holiday
As an amputee I have so much to be grateful for in my life.
I am blessed to be alive.
My horses make me be present
I am thankful for my husband, two healthy sons, and a family who loves me.
I am grateful to be able to walk again, just to name a few.
Do I ever look back on the day that I injured myself, which led me to amputation, and ...
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November 20, 2024 • 38 mins
Bionic Skins: Working Towards the Perfect Fit
We all want to feel our best, and live a life without pain, but at times it seems so out of reach for us amputees.
Donning a prosthesis that is suppose to emulate a real leg gets the job done but, trust me, it is far from comfortable and often it becomes such a painful devise that amputees choose not to wear it for too long, even taking days off from wearing it, leaving them feeling ...
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November 13, 2024 • 27 mins
New Socket and What To Expect
Here we go again!
Last week I told you all about a huge blister that formed in my socket on the end of my residual limb, well, after talking to my prosthetist about that and a few other things that I was ignoring, he decided that it was time to make a new socket!
UGH!!
Where great sockets are made!!
Randy West and I getting ready to make a mess!
Cast is made!
I know what...
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