Summiting and skiing an 11,000 foot volcano, completing a DIY adaptive sport decathlon in one day, harnessing a passion for art to help spinal cord injury survivors adapt and bond, flying in a wing suit as a double amputee, giving birth to and mothering twin girls as a quadriplegic...these are just a few of the powerful stories you will hear on The Unexpected Journey. Adaptive athlete and quadriplegic, Tim Brown, talks with other disabled folks to learn how they challenge preconceived beliefs, push boundaries, and get after it - ultimately leading to a life fulfilled. The Unexpected Journey gives you...
Latest episodes
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55 min
Eric Wang on Riding Bikes and Redesigning Life in his 50s
Eric Wang grew up in the Bay Area. He went to UC Berkeley where he met his future wife in the first semester of his freshman year. They married right after graduating and have been…
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34 min
Miley Rhoad on Quad Rugby and the Power of Peer Mentors
Miley Rhoad is a 19-year-old wheelchair or "quad rugby" player from South Carolina. I've gotten to know Miley over the past few summers when she has attended the Empower SCI teen s…
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52 min
Carlie Cook on Climbing, College, and Cultivating Positivity
Carlie Cook has lived nearly her entire life with her disability after she was paralyzed in a car accident at three years old. Now, as an adult, she has a full life in Western Mass…
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1 h 10
Cole Bernier on Adaptive Mountain Biking and Mental Health
Cole Bernier and I initially connected on a work call. After discussing collaborative opportunities between Bowhead, where he works on the sales team, and EmpowerSCI, my workplace,…
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56 min
Dianne Vitkus on Grief and Growth
Dianne Vitkus and I met five and a half years ago in Spaulding Hospital while she was in inpatient rehab after her spinal cord injury and I was there for a PT appointment. Over the…
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45 min
Sean and Jill Leary on North of North
A couple years ago we started hearing about a wheelchair accessible resort in Northern Minnesota call North of North. Several Unexpected Journey guests and listeners visited and ra…
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41 min
Landon McGauley on Biking and Rebuilding
Landon McGauley grew up in British Columbia. Like many of our other guests from BC, he spent his formative years in the outdoors exploring the mountains and at an early age fell in…
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22 min
World Inclusive Sailing Championships
Last fall, I traveled to Oman for the World Inclusive Sailing Championships. It was an incredible experience. The inaugural event brought together many of the best adaptive sailors…
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53 min
Becca Farewell and the Tetra Ski Revolution
After talking with Tanja Kari in Episode 57 we were super excited to learn more about the TetraSki, an emerging technology for the adaptive alpine skiing community. If you haven't…
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41 min
Tanja Kari on Nordic and Tetra Sports
Tanja Kari is a Paralympic gold medalist in cross country skiing from Finland. In 2010 she was inducted into the Paralympic Hall of Fame, she has been nominated for the Laureus Wor…
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57 min
Geoff Krill on Acceptance and the Adaptive Outdoors
Geoff Krill is a self-described adventure athlete, competitor, innovator, and motivator. He is also a national team member of PSIA, the Professional Ski Instructors of America. Sin…
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36 min
Anna Soens Returns to Talk About Skiing and Pursuit of the Paralympics
Anna Soens was the first guest on The Unexpected Journey. In episode one she shared the story of her pioneering para-mountaineering ascents of Mount Hood and Mount Baker in the Pac…
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37 min
Tim Brown on Creating The Unexpected Journey Podcast
For this episode, we decided to switch things up. Louis Arevalo, Unexpected Journey editor and sound designer, gets behind the mic to interview Tim Brown, Unexpected Journey founde…
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1 h 03
Nate Bibaud on Creating Art and Choosing Compassion
Nate Bibaud was born in 1984 in Amesbury, Massachusetts, where he grew up skateboarding and playing goalie in hockey. After studying architecture, he moved to St. Croix to work in…
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51 min
Joel Brown on Dance and Determination
Joel Brown is a paraplegic dancer, choreographer, and musician. He grew up in Salt Lake City in a large creative family and was paralyzed as a boy. Not one to slow down, he pursued…
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31 min
Alex Cano Gonzalez on Forgiveness and Photography
Alex Cano Gonzalez is a photographer, videographer, and artist living in Denver Colorado. He was paralyzed at a young age as a result of gun violence. He's currently rebuilding his…
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40 min
Neven Hart on Recovering Intimacy and Joy
Neven Hart and his fiancé Amber Cogbill are rising stars on social media. They openly and vulnerably sharing their experience navigating life together following Neven's recently ac…
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47 min
Jesi Stracham on Tough Mudders and Tenacity
Jesi Stracham is an advocate, adaptive athlete, and founder of the Wheel With Me Foundation. She's also co-owner of Adapt Fit and the Freedom LKN facility. I first read about Jesi…
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45 min
Erin Field and Jack Benziger on Caring and Building a Life with SCI
I briefly met Erin Field and Jack Benziger several years ago at Journey Forward, a spinal cord injury exercise rehab center outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Erin had recently been…
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Roy Tuscany on Help, Healing, and High Fives
Roy Tuscany is the Founder and CEO of the High Fives Foundation. On April 26, 2016 Roy overshot a ski jump and was paralyzed with a spinal cord injury. Six years later, and a year…