What do you do when a child looks at your son and calls him a monster?

This is the episode I didn't know if I could record.

In this one, I sit with the moments I usually don't talk about — the Royal Children's Hospital, the strangers in the supermarket, the systems that keep failing families like ours, and the grief that doesn't get a name because it doesn't have an ending.

This isn't a story about overcoming. It's about staying.

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In this episode:

— The day at the Royal Children's that I'll never forget 

— Children's innocence — when it protects them, and when it doesn't 

— The looks, the comments, and the version of yourself you have to become in public 

— Teaching your child to know who they are before the world tells them 

— The reality of surgeries, complications, and medical uncertainty 

— Strokes, comas, and the moments behind hospital walls nobody talks about 

— Why the NDIS is failing the families it was built to support 

— Marriage under pressure — and what partnership really looks like when you're both running on empty 

— Advice for parents in waiting rooms, newly diagnosed, or just starting this road 

— A message to Soul

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The Walk is a fortnightly podcast about fatherhood, marriage, and raising a child the world doesn't always understand. 

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