On this episode of The Brain Possible Podcast, we had the opportunity to speak with Sameer Bhide, author of the new book One Fine Day: Overcoming Adversity and Embracing the New Normal with Grace and Gratitude . In it, Sameer shares his remarkable journey of how he survived a rare, massive hemorrhagic stroke at the age of 47, what therapies and treatments he pursued to help him heal, and the mindsets he kept/lessons he learned along the way. We are grateful Sameer is here today to share his stor...
Jun 17, 2021•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s episode of The Brain Possible Podcast, we had the opportunity to speak with Professor Claudia Gray, a pediatrician based in Cape Town, South Africa with a subspecialty in allergology. Professor Gray is currently working in the UK as an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Cape Town as well as a specialist in her own practice, the Kidsallergy Centre. In her work, she examines all aspects of pediatric food allergies and has a keen interest in the particular correlation...
Jun 08, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Navigating social situations without anxiety or emotional overload can be a challenge for even neurotypical kids and their parents. Throw in some of the challenges exceptional kids face, especially around regulating emotions and connecting interpersonally, and the stakes get higher. A seemingly small outing can feel anything but small. In this podcast, we have the opportunity to chat with an expert in this field: Elizabeth Sautter, author of Make Social and Emotional Learning Stick: Practical St...
Jun 02, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast When we say it is our honor to speak with Matthew and Carol Newell, it truly is. Those of you who know our story know that we took our son Carter to The Family Hope Center--founded by the Newell’s--to receive therapies. We believe in what they do, and we are excited they are sharing it on a wider scale in their new book, Healing Your Child’s Brain. In this podcast, we’ll unpack a little of the wisdom the book holds. How can you create an empowering context for your child’s life? How do you evalu...
May 26, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast We recently had the opportunity to speak with Heather Boorman, the founding director of Boorman Counseling in Western Wisconsin. Heather is the author of The Gifted Kids Workbook and a blogger/podcaster at The Fringy Bit, where she shares her journey of homeschooling her three kids with twice exceptionality, or 2e. In this conversation, we’ll learn more about what 2e means, why Heather has dedicated her life to this work, and what it means to her family and perhaps even yours. Support the show...
May 19, 2021•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast At The Brain Possible, we are dedicated to exploring all the paths to healing--and what that healing looks like. As we continue our journey, we’re delighted to speak with Jodi Cohen. Jodi is the author of Essential Oils to Boost the Brain and Heal the Body: 5 Steps to Calm Anxiety, Sleep Better and Reduce Inflammation to Regain Control of Your Health. She is also the founder of Vibrant Blue Oils, where she has helped over 50,000 clients heal from brain-related challenges, including anxiety, inso...
May 12, 2021•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you’ve listened to our podcast in the past, you know we’re always especially delighted to speak with parents of exceptional children who are also experts dedicated to helping other families. We’re excited to bring you that powerful combination again as we speak with Margaret Webb. Margaret is a certified Master Life Coach, parenting coach, former teacher, wife, and mother to a 17 year old son who is autistic. She’s been sharing the strategies that have worked for her family for twelve years i...
May 05, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode of The Brain Possible Podcast, we had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Melnia Roberts--author, naturopathic doctor, and one of the top biological medicine practitioners in North America. She specializes in treating digestive issues, chronic conditions, and cancer . . . but that’s not all. She’s also a huge proponent of healing the gut, balancing hormones, detoxifying the body, and building healthy children--topics we all care deeply about here at The Brain Possible. In this conv...
Apr 28, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode of The Brain Possible podcast, we’re delighted to speak today with Dr. Rudrani Banik, a healthcare entrepreneur, functional medicine doctor, and founder of Envision Healthy NYC. Dr. Banik is an expert in all things eyes, combining principles of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine to treat and manage conditions ranging from dry eye all the way to macular degeneration and even multiple sclerosis. Here, we learn about her unique approach, including how to optimize n...
Apr 21, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast We started The Brain Possible Podcast last year and have worked hard to bring the voices of this community--practitioners, parents, therapists, nutritional experts . . . and even, in one case, musicians--together to share their insights. This year, we plan to do more of the same. We’re delighted to speak today with Dr. Eric Zielinski, the author of The Healing Power of Essential Oils and The Essential Oils Apothecary. You may have also seen him online at NaturalLivingFamily.com, a site he starte...
Apr 14, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast As we know, not all brain injuries occur during or directly after birth. In fact, according to data from 2016, almost two million neurotypical children under the age of 18 get concussions per year-- from sports injuries alone . Obviously, these numbers are higher in 2021--and even higher if we factor in the number of accidents that can happen outside of sports (falls, car accidents, etc). We had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Sasha Blaskovich (Dr. B) and Ethan O’Brian, co-authors of “Dr. B’s ...
Apr 07, 2021•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Usually, our founder, Emily Abbott, interviews others —parents, therapists, caregivers, nutritionists, and other experts--on The Brain Possible podcast. This time, though, we flipped the script. We invited Polly Ely—a marriage and family therapist, creator of The Lab Method (a tool that help parents meaningfully communicate with their children), and a friend of the show—to get Emily’s story. How did the Who Is Carter Foundation and The Brain Possible start? Who is Carter, really? What happened t...
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast As you know, here at The Brain Possible, we’re all about the possibilities for your child, not their limitations. That’s why Dr. Vaish(VIIISh) Sarathy, with a background in chemistry and functional nutrition, speaks our language. We’re drawn to her work at Functional Nutrition for Kids, where she works with families of children with Down syndrome, autism, and other “intellectual disabilities,” helping them to optimize health, behavior, and learning. That term “intellectual disabilities” is in qu...
Jan 20, 2021•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast We love bringing you stories that have the potential to further open our minds and our hearts. We have one of those again today, as we’ll be speaking with Elijah Stacy. At only nineteen, Elijah has accomplished so much: at fifteen, he started a foundation to help find a cure for his disease--Duchenne, a fatal form of muscular dystrophy. At seventeen, he wrote a book about his life. And today, he continues to share his story in hopes of lifting up others. Besides his own battle with muscular dyst...
Jan 13, 2021•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast We’re always eager to speak to practitioners, mama bears, or experts on holistic living--or, of course, any combination of the three. On this episode, we were lucky to check a couple of those boxes by speaking with Shawna of @alittlelesstoxic. If you don’t already follow her on Instagram, trust us--you’re going to want to start after hearing our talk today. Shawna uses the power of social media to show us that living less toxic--in the food you cook, the environment you cultivate, and the produc...
Jan 06, 2021•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Here at The Brain Possible, our passion for nutrition--and our focus on gut health in particular--is not new. An expert on both is Hilary Boynton, a certified holistic health counselor, GAPS diet expert, cookbook co-author, influencer, and . . . lunch lady. Yes, we said lunch lady. Clearly, we have a lot to discuss! I’ve personally been working my way through Hilary’s cookbook, and I’m inspired by her journey to feed her family (and students at the school where she works) nutrient-dense, organic...
Dec 29, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you’ve been following our podcast, you know we have a passion for harnessing the power of nutrition. There’s no one better to discuss this topic with than Dr. Lindy Woodard. We’ve spoken to her in the past about the big picture of using food as medicine, covering her journey to integrative medicine, her love of food, and more. Lindy considers homeopathy, nutrition, and gut health to be the framework for understanding wellness and curing disease. In today’s discussion, we’ll dive deeper and di...
Dec 23, 2020•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast I am always excited to speak with inspiring practitioners and parents on this podcast, but today I am especially grateful for the opportunity to introduce you to Johannes and Signe Skovgaard. That’s for several reasons, one of which is that we are friends. I met Johannes and Signe at the ABM Center in California. They were there with their daughter Anna, and we were there with our son Carter. Though they live and practice in Denmark, we have maintained our friendship. Johannes and Signe did more...
Dec 16, 2020•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast At The Brain Possible, we love connecting with fellow mama warriors who fiercely advocate for their exceptional children. There’s an energy they bring to the table--one filled with tenacity and love--that’s impossible not to gravitate toward. Now, we get to do that again. On this podcast, we’ll be speaking with Rachel Pastiloff. Her son Blaise has autism as well as Prader Willi Syndrome, a rare genetic condition that means, if left alone, he will literally eat himself to death. Rachel’s other so...
Dec 09, 2020•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you’ve listened to the podcast before, you know we have a variety of guests--mama warriors, practitioners, authors, the creators of amazing products for our community, and more. Today, we are going to check a couple of those boxes at once! Our conversation today is with Tara Cohen. Tara is the marketing director of a company called Lauren’s Hope that makes beautiful and important ID bracelets for exceptional children. But more than that--she’s a mama warrior who has some timely perspective to...
Dec 01, 2020•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast We always love talking with fellow mama warriors—strong women who fiercely advocate for their children, who are constantly asking “what can be next for my child” and going in that direction. Recently, we spoke with Deniece Smith of Wellness Beyond the Spectrum. Today, we’ll be speaking with Lindsay Bachman to learn about her family. Lindsay and her husband Pete raise their two daughters, Chandler and Landry, on a farm in Central Illinois. In June of 2020, Landry, their youngest, was diagnosed wi...
Nov 24, 2020•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this podcast, we meet Deniece Smith of Wellness Beyond the Spectrum. Deniece takes a holistic approach to treat her young son’s autism and her other child with an informal diagnosis of ADHD, focusing on removing toxins from their environment, carefully choosing which foods her family eats and which to avoid, and more. She has used her YouTube channel along with other social media platforms, Instagram in particular, to share her family's journey with autism but also to bring awareness to ...
Nov 17, 2020•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast We talk often about creating empowering contexts for our children, in life and beyond. This is a feeling many of you who know Emily Abbott's story know she's faced first-hand when her son, Carter, passed. In this episode, Emily has the pleasure to speak to Thorald and Isaac Koren: two brothers who make up the folk duo Francansisco. They have a story of their own to share about Thorald’s late son Jack who passed at fifteen months due to complications from a brain injury he sustained at ...
Nov 10, 2020•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nature can be so incredibly healing. We've covered it in-depth on our blog. On this podcast, we take it one step further by exploring specific therapies that you may not know so much about and also involve nature: surfing and horseback riding (or hippo-therapy). Who better to guide us than Dr. Jillian of Surf and Turf Therapy, a California-based organization whose mission is in “bettering lives through non-traditional therapeutic activities?” Dr. Jillian has been an equestrian for over 25 y...
Nov 03, 2020•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s not a far stretch to say the world can feel very scary sometimes--and now, especially. If it feels that way for we adults, have you ever wondered how it affects our children? What can we do to guide them--and ourselves--through choppy seas and trying times? How can we work through stress with our children, and what should those conversations with our kids look like? These are hard questions. Luckily, they’re questions we don’t have to answer alone. Our guest today is Dr. Abigail Gewirtz, a ...
Oct 27, 2020•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast There are so many factors medical teams examine when a baby is born. The standard is pretty clear: in a healthy birth, nurses note length, weight, APGAR scores, and so forth. One expert on the craniosacral fascial system is hoping to add another check--the Baby Brain Score (BBS). If you don’t know what the craniosacral fascial system is off the top of your head, you’re definitely not alone. Today we’re speaking with the doctor who discovered it and who has used his program both in private practi...
Oct 20, 2020•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast We’re so pleased to bring you our latest episode, which features The Brain Possible ’s CEO and Founder, Emily Abbott, having a conversation with Chloe Weber. Chloe is the co-founder of a CBD and Chinese Herb company called Radical Roots that features, among other products, Remy’s Revenge —a mixture she developed for her exceptional child, Remy—and also the name of her website where she discusses diet, detox, movement, her experience practicing acupuncture, and more. Chloe has been interested in ...
Oct 13, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sally Fallon Morell is best known as the author of Nourishing Traditions®. This well-researched, thought-provoking guide to traditional foods contains a startling message: animal fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. Sally’s lifelong interest in the subject of nutrition began in the early 1970s when she read Nutrition and Physical Degener...
Oct 06, 2020•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Lindy Woodard is a partner at Pediatric Alternatives, which is an Integrative Pediatric Medical Practice in Mill Valley, California. Dr. Woodard is a board-certified pediatrician and doctor of homeopathy who found her way to Integrative Medicine through her stomach. Her love of food, her brother’s battle with celiac disease, and her own digestive problems sent her to her laboratory – her kitchen. In this episode we're going to learn about homeopathy, one to one. Support the show...
Sep 29, 2020•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this interview Emily interviews serial entrepreneur, water activist and a New York Times bestselling author, Seth Siegel. Seth's critically acclaimed award winning book, Troubled Water: What's wrong with what we drink, sets forth an ambitious agenda for a fundamental rethinking of America's drinking water system. Seth has been recognized for his thought leadership and advocacy on water scarcity and quality. He's a senior fellow at the University of Wisconsin center for wat...
Sep 22, 2020•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
