This week we spoke with Juliana Featherman from the Making Authentic Friendships App. She has created a fantastic app that helps individuals with special needs of all ages find friends to connect with at home and on the go and matches them based on location and interests. She was inspired by her own brother and we got to speak with her about her unique situation as a sibling and a caregiver.

https://www.makingauthenticfriendships.com/
https://www.instagram.com/makingauthenticfriendships/

This week we spoke with clinical therapist Teanna Diggs. She specializes in Perinatal Mood Disorders. What a fantastic conversation we got to have, you won't want to miss it! Check out her podcast, "The Well: A Mother's Journey", it's inspirational!

https://open.spotify.com/show/6FjzOlzcAWfyybAVuBjYzc?si=GdOSBVfTS7S__RMMTQm8mg

https://postpartumwell.com/

Join us today as we speak with Bobbi Rebell from Financial Grown Up and Money with Friends as she speaks with us today about being a special needs parent herself and gave us some great insight for financial management.

http://www.bobbirebell.com/

Today we welcomed two very special guests, our amazing and insightful daughter Annabella as well as our beautiful loving friend Janyce Carroll (or to our kids Auntie Janyce). This week's episode strayed a little from our usual content but we felt it would be a disservice to our community not to address what's been going on in America right now, and bring a conversation as well as resources. Having conversations with our children about what's going on in America is so important, our children are smarter than we give them credit for and have a voice too. Let's listen to them! This is an episode you won't want to miss. After listening please check out these resources and join their fitness challenge!

https://www.instagram.com/omgitsjaepre/
https://www.instagram.com/brittanylizstrong/
https://thelovelandfoundation.org/

Bringing dance to everyone, Lauren Beasley created Move Inclusive Dance. She talks with us about how she created the studio, her journey and inspiration behind it. Lauren isn't stopping there, she has big goals and it's clear to see her dreams of bringing inclusion to everyone aren't far away!

https://moveinclusivedance.com/
https://www.instagram.com/moveinclusivedance/
https://www.facebook.com/moveinclusivedance/

Changing the landscape of fashion, Mindy Scheier spoke with us about her experience as a special needs mother as well as how she created her foundation, Runway of Dreams and her new venture Gamut Management. She gave us some insight on her must need to see TED Talk and her perseverance when deciding to fill a need for this community that is quickly becoming the largest minority.
https://www.runwayofdreams.org/
https://www.gamutmanagement.com/
https://youtu.be/a17Z5Sk2XJY
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_C7m74gQDCNgRI8vzks0ug

Fostering, Adopting, Special Needs Parenting.... OH MY! Today we talk to Eric Voltz-Benoit about his experience navigating the foster/adoption system as a special needs parent. Eric shared some FANTASTIC resources with us that you won't want to miss! It's a long episode but totally worth it!  A lot of our resources in this episode are Massachusetts based but please use these as tools to find resources in your area as well.
https://www.adoptuskids.org/
https://www.mareinc.org/
https://www.mass.gov/foster-care
https://fcsn.org/
https://www.mass.gov/orgs/department-of-public-health

Meet Ashley Robinson parent of Colton Robinson. Colton is a Diversity Model, up and coming influencer and inspiration to all! On this episode Ashley gives her unique perspective on parenting as well as navigating the adaptive modeling world with Colton.

www.specialaboutspecial.com
https://www.instagram.com/colton_robinson_official/

Here is the first of many opportunities to hear us! Can't wait to share so many great interviews with you to come in the next few week!