Be-YOU-tiful Adaptive Warrior

Be-YOU-tiful Adaptive Warrior


Latest Episodes

Manifesting Your Dreams
September 10, 2025

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? -

The Process
September 03, 2025

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, patien

What Is Really Important
August 27, 2025

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, q

Don’t Let Pain Gain Control
August 20, 2025

- 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

To Revise Or Not To Revise
August 13, 2025

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 isnt over. Many of us end up needi

Make It Personal
August 06, 2025

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

The Secret Sauce
July 30, 2025

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 i

Hand Me That Weight
July 23, 2025

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 wit

Dr Hugh Herr: Bionics and Beyond
July 16, 2025

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 MI

Starting Over and Facing Fears
July 09, 2025

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 cat