Life’s a Road Trip
Being disabled or having a chronic illness can feel like you’re moving forward in reverse. I’m your host, Scott Martin. Join me and my new friends from this underrepresented community as we talk about disrupting the status quo and creating change within the world and within ourselves. Hey, life’s a road trip. Hop in. Let’s turn on some tunes and go!
Episodes
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom and Victory
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
This is an encore episode while I focus on my teaching.
This week's guest is Lori Frisher.
The title of a podcast needs to have a hook. 'The Who' has the song, Athena. But that isn't the hook I was looking for. So I Googled "badass Greek goddess" and Athena came up. Bingo!
Lori is a badass fighter. She's a disrupter, which is where I've been driving the podcast for the past month.
During the show, we talked about her receiving Cochlear Implants. Not about her being the first to do so, but about how hearing impacted her life. Lori mentioned the sounds of water and coins being dropped onto a countertop. Think about those sounds for a moment... She made me appreciate my sense of hearing -- especially since I lack the sense of touch.
I pointed out my theory that before the implants, her experiences of missed inside jokes, being a collegiate athlete, and working with Walter Cronkite combined to form a thread that led her to her company, Ready Or Not! Media.
No, the ! isn't a typo -- it's intentional. And it doesn't surprise me that this modern-day Athena uses it to send a message.
As I do with all my guests, Lori and I talked more after the recording stopped. As we said our goodbyes, I told her to "Kick some ass!". She immediately responded, "You do the same!". We both will continue doing so.
Miss-Adventures: Guide to Ultimate Empowerment for Women
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Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
She's Not Just a Pretty Face
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
This is an encore episode while I focus on my teaching.
This week's guest is Sandie Roberts
Right from the start, I knew Sandie was deeper than her good looks as a model. Just four years into being a full-fledged member of the disability community, she's breaking the glass walls and the glass ceiling that surrounds this much-suppressed group. This is evident from the heading of her website: "Rolling into confidence, let’s create the life we deserve!"
Sandie uses her platform as a model to bring "normalcy" to the labels that society places upon us. She is a positive role model rather than a positive rolling model (sorry for the corny joke).
As I strive to point this show in a new direction, Sandie and I discussed the guilt that comes with becoming disabled as an adult: The misdirected guilt of being a burden upon our family.
Sandie was also comfortable discussing her recent online encounters with some very troubling people. You can read about that HERE on BBC News.
It's real, so let's talk about it.
Sandie's cover photo is by Deb Burrows
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Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Life Boiled Down to a Hashtag: #loveforward
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
This is an encore episode while I focus on my teaching.
This week's guest is Deirdre Fagan
#loveforward is both a personal statement for the way Deirdre lives her life and a suggestion to the rest of us to do the same. Simple, isn't it?
Deirdre is the third author to appear on Life's a Road Trip, but she is the first poet as well. Listen to her read Most of the Days of the Week, or read it HERE. Pick up The Grief Eater or grab her husband, Bob's book, After Thunder, a courageous collection of poetry as he succumbed to ALS -- Lou Gehrig's Disease. Since this episode first aired, Deirdre's last book, Phantom Limbs, has been published.
Speaking of Bob's ordeal with ALS, you must purchase Find a Place for Me, Deirdre's raw and very personal account of Bob's dealings through his bout with the illness that he knew would eventually kill him. It is pointed and she doesn't shy away from the truth -- oftentimes with humor. It certainly had me holding my laughter as best I could during one of Deirdre's readings.
For those who are interested in learning more about the man, Lou Gehrig, read the story behind the movie, Pride of the Yankees. You'll have no problem finding it online to watch. You can watch Gehrig's famous farewell speech HERE.
This episode is perhaps a shift in the tone of the Life's a Road Trip podcast. Let's be real. Let's face life with a smile.
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Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
The Various Depths of Autism
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
This is an encore episode while I focus on my teaching.
This week's guest is Becca Lory Hector.
I was very happy to have Becca on to discuss her dealing with autism. This allowed me to add another layer to my first show with Mark Harris who provided us with a baseline about autism through his short story, Mute, and the video series that he produced for parents, Interacting with Autism: A video-based resource.
Becca is totally in -- mind, body, and soul -- to help those who sit on the autistic spectrum. Be it her personal website, her training company, Truly Inclusive Leadership, or her podcast, The Info Dump Files, you'll find Becca reaching out her helping hand.
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Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Have a disability and looking for a career? This Superwoman will help
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
This is an encore episode while I focus on my teaching.
This week's guest is Anessa Powell.
It seems the more shows that I do, the more I'm pulled into the much-maligned and severely underrepresented disability community. This episode added fuel to my fire.
Anessa Powell is well ahead of me on this front. I found her to be a warrior when it comes to supporting disabled folks who are searching for a career -- not just a job.
Listening to her talk about her company, AllAbility Recruiting, will rev you up as well. She is passionate about helping employers understand the rules and nuances of the hiring process for those with disabilities while supporting those who need accommodation in the workplace or are better prepared for an interview.
Perhaps the best way to summarize Anessa's work is the trademarked statement found in the header of the AllAbility website: Leave No Ability Behind
Anessa's website is available HERE.
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Host, Scott Martin
After surviving a bout with 'the flesh-eating disease' that left him as a quad amputee plus months of intense rehabilitation, Scott returned to his career and continue leading a nationally ranked college soccer program but fell into a deep depression and needed a change.
Part of what he calls 'breaking myself down in order to build myself back up' he sold everything that didn't fit into his car and he and his cat, Bogart, headed west to return to his beginning by coaching a third-level group of castoff 12-year-old boys that he tabbed as his 'soccer rats', leading them to an undefeated state league title.
This steered him to write his memoir Play From Your Heart that is said to be the next Wild. With writing the manuscript wrapping up, Scott is now seeking representation before taking it to publishers.
Since starting the Life's a Road Trip podcast, he is respected for shining a positive light on the disability community, a severley underrepresented group of 1.8 billion persons worldwide.
Email Scott at scott.lifesaroadtrip@gmail.com