Cycling Across America: Kindness, Connection & Finding Your Voice | Teri Brown

What happens when you bike across America with one mission: to spread kindness and connect with people along the way?

In this inspiring episode of the Wheel With It Podcast, Devon Wieters sits down with author and advocate Teri Brown to talk about her journey cycling across the country — and the powerful lessons she learned about community, mental health, storytelling, and human connection.

Teri shares how this experience changed her perspective, strengthened her voice, and reminded her that compassion still exists everywhere if you slow down long enough to see it.

They also discuss advocacy, lived experience, breaking stigma, and how small acts of kindness can ripple across communities.

🎙 Topics include:

• Why Teri decided to cycle across America

• Kindness from strangers and meaningful connections

• Mental health, resilience, and finding your voice

• Storytelling as a tool for change

• Advocacy, inclusion, and lived experience

• How anyone can make a difference

If you love inspiring journeys, real conversations, and stories that restore faith in humanity, this episode is for you.

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Timestamps:

00:00 – Welcome & Introduction

00:42 – Meet Teri Brown

02:10 – Why Teri decided to cycle across America

04:25 – Kindness she experienced on the road

07:05 – Mental health, connection & community

09:40 – Listener feedback and meaningful moments

12:30 – Writing, storytelling & impact

15:20 – What cycling across America taught her

18:10 – Advice for anyone wanting to make a difference

20:45 – Final thoughts & where to find Teri

Connect with Teri:

https://www.terimbrown.com/

https://instagram.com/terimbrown_author

https://twitter.com/TeriMBrown1

https://linkedin.com/in/TeriMBrown

https://www.pinterest.com/terimbrownauthor

https://www.youtube.com/@TeriMBrown_Author

[email protected]

Connect with Devon/ the show:

https://linktr.ee/wheelwithitpod