Meet Erin Powell, she is a survivor of 6 spinal tumors, and a brain tumor and has lost over 125 pounds.

Life through the eyes of a 10 year living with Scoliosis.... Meet Jax

YT pasted version description: Meet, Jax and her mother Angel Vargas Fuchs, (Girl With a Curve). The journey of living with Scoliosis 

Jax is a very active, positive, and outgoing 10-year-old, a passionate performer, dancer, community actress, and award-winning vocalist.

Follow Jax's journey on Instagram: @girl_with_a_curve 

“Serving Those Who Served”

Meet Jennifer Z Gewarges, the Executive Director for U.S. Vets -Phoenix (United States Veterans Initiative), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization helping our veterans get back on their feet in the safe place they call home. 

US Vets- Phoenix provides multiple programs helping our veterans with education, job training/placement, learning basic survival skills, helping assist in identifying their personal triggers, PTSD, sexual trauma, and more. 

www.usvets.org/phoenix

Studio sponsor: The Motivated Mind Group

Mar 10, 2023

Meet Jodie Walton, tragically Jodi lost her son David on July 25th, 2019 while working for the DOT in Horry S.C. David was filling a pothole with his coworker when a box truck came through unable to stop, hitting the stopped cars, injuring several, and unfortunately killing Jodi’s son and his coworker.

Studio sponsor: The Motivated Mind Group, your global creative agency based in downtown Chandler, AZ

In October 2022, at the Show Low Film Festival and at the January 2023 Chandler International Film Festival I had the privilege of meeting Director Tony Sylvia, his wife, Producer Frances Cecilia, and Elena Zajac. 

Together they made the documentary, "The Monster Inside Me". A documentary about two families from two different parts of the continent on a journey having Lyme Disease, the misdiagnosis, trials, and struggles of understanding and getting on a healing journey. 

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At age 14 Adam went for a routine eye exam to get contacts before entering high school. After being poked and prodded for over a year Adam and his mother were told Adam would lose his eyesight permanently within 4years due to the prognosis of Retinitis Pigmentosa. Adam beat the odds over the 4 years but soon his childhood and young adulthood would be forever changed as he began to slowly lose his eyesight and by age of 30 Adam became completely blind.

" Beauty is skin deep" Meet Tami Chmielewski Chmielewski, she is one of the strongest women I have met and interviewed on Stories of Hope

A short two-day weekend getaway turned into 63 days in the hospital, most of which were in the ICU Burn Unit. Returning home to Arizona on the 64th day. Her body was burned at 38% with 3rd degree burns from her chest down to her feet.

5 months later, hour by hour, day by day Tamara battles to get back to where she once was and has accepted this is her new norm. She is a beautiful person inside and out and in this interview, she talks about the truths she faces every day but also the blessings she receives. 

You can follow her journey of recovery on Instagram at TamiChm.   Very inspiring!

Thank you Tamara for trusting me with being vulnerable to sharing your journey. 

Studio sponsor: The Motivated Mind Group, A global creative agency based in downtown Chandler, AZ

Original release date: Mar 1, 2023

Meet Crystal King, and we talk about her journey of Strange Love and finding her identity. 

Crystal is the result of her parents being swingers/wife-swapping in the ’70s. Not knowing anything different about who her parents were growing up, she was told who her biological father was at the age of 12 after the man she always thought to be her father had passed away. 

Crystal proudly stands in her identity and success today but it took her until she was 40 to understand who she is and who she chooses to be. Her life was far from easy, but with many years of therapy, forgiveness, and self-help programs she finds peace and love in herself.

Herbert Washington’s childhood wasn’t ideal from a child’s eyes. He never met his father or older brother. His mother had schizophrenia. At 7, he was taken out of South Phoenix by child welfare services and sent to live in foster care for several months before living with his aunt, uncle, and cousin in Tempe. 

It wasn’t ideal yet again and his life rapidly changed yet again when he was kicked out at 14 and taken into the home of a friend's family and found his security and felt safe to be different in chasing a dream and talent with his gift of singing and performing. 

Contact: [email protected] 

Studio sponsor: The Motivated Mind Group, a global creative agency based in downtown Chandler, Az.

Kelly and her Mom, Karey Rodeffer (President-elect), and Joie Kelley’s service dog talk about autism, epilepsy, seizures, and “different abilities” and the non-profit organization RAD. (Recreation and Athletics for Individuals with Disabilities).  

RAD raises funds to pay the cost of registration, equipment, and transportation associated with the City of Chandler’s therapeutic sports, and social events for citizens with disabilities. 

www.SupportRAD.org

Email: [email protected]

Original release date: Mar 12, 2023