Brave Together Podcast: Support and Community for Caregiving Parents
This is Brave Together Podcast. On Brave Together Podcast, co-hosts Jessica Patay, Susanna Peace Lovell and Dr. Zoe Shaw, will share interviews, celebrate stories, explore challenges, and rally hope for the motherhood journey. Through this inspirational and resourceful podcast, may all caregiving parents know that they are not alone. We Are Brave Together is a global nonprofit that creates community for mothers raising children with disabilities, neurodivergence, or complex medical and mental health conditions. The heart of We Are Brave Together is to preserve and protect the mental health of caregiving moms everywhere.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 266
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Summer Re-Run: What Do I Do When My Kid is Being Bullied?
Hello Brave Friends! This is a Summer Re-Run of one of our favorite Ask Us Anything episodes from Seasons 5 and 6. Call in to our SpeakPipe to ask YOUR questions and tune in next season, starting in …
Summer Re-Run: When Your Spouse is Not Very Involved in Disability Caregiving
Hello Brave Friends! This is a Summer Re-Run of one of our favorite Ask Us Anything episodes from Seasons 5 and 6. Call in to our SpeakPipe to ask YOUR questions and tune in next season, starting in …
Summer Re-Run: Will A Caregiver Support Group Make Me More Depressed?
Hello Brave Friends! This is a Summer Re-Run of one of our favorite Ask Us Anything episodes from Seasons 5 and 6. Call in to our SpeakPipe to ask YOUR questions and tune in next season, starting in …
Summer Re-Run: Comparison within the Disability Community
Hello Brave Friends! This is a Summer Re-Run of one of our favorite Ask Us Anything episodes from Seasons 5 and 6. Call in to our SpeakPipe to ask YOUR questions and tune in next season, starting in …
Summer Re-Run: My Child is Aggressive and I Feel So Alone
Hello Brave Friends! This is a Summer ReRun of one of our favorite Ask Us Anything episodes from Seasons 5 and 6. Call in to our SpeakPipe to ask YOUR questions and tune in next season, starting in S…
Summer Re-Run: Our Family Needs a Break and I Feel So Guilty
Hello Brave Friends! This is a Summer ReRun of one of our favorite Ask Us Anything episodes from Seasons 5 and 6. Call in to our SpeakPipe to ask YOUR questions and tune in next season, starting in S…
Summer Re-Run: When Friends Wear the Disability Swag (and Don't Offer Real Help)
Hello Brave Friends! This is a Summer Re-Run of one of our favorite Ask Us Anything episodes from Seasons 5 and 6. Call in to our SpeakPipe to ask YOUR questions and tune in next season, starting in …
Can Caregiving Dads be Accepted into Mom Groups?
Hello Brave Friends! This is an Ask Us Anything episode in which YOU, the listener, get to write or call in and, you guessed it, ASK US ANYTHING!
In this episode, #185, we are responding to the quest…
How a Stay-at-Home Dad Created a Digital Assistant for Caregivers with Ryan Sheedy
Hello Brave Friends! Welcome to today's practical episode, #184. Our guest today is a dad! Ryan Sheedy is a dad, a rare disease caregiver and a founder. He lives in Bentonville, Arkansas with his wi…
What You Wish You Could Ask ParaEducators with Anjillene O'Connor
Hello Brave Friends! Welcome to today's practical episode, #183. Our guest is Anjillene O’Connor. She came to my family well over a decade ago. She was working in our school district, as an intervent…
How Spelling Revealed A Non-Verbal Teen’s Brilliance with Jason Hague
Hello Brave Friends! This is story episode #182, about what can happen when parents presume competence in their non-verbal, autistic son.
Today we hear from Jason Hague about his experience accepting…
How Do I Access Playfulness When My Life is So Serious
Hello Brave Friends! This is an Ask Us Anything episode in which YOU, the listener, get to write or call in and, you guessed it, ASK US ANYTHING!
In this episode, #181, we are responding to the quest…
Welcoming Big Emotions with Cheerful Helpers Dr. Jaclyn Zeccola
Hello Brave Friends! Welcome to today's practical episode, #180. Our guest today is Dr. Jaclyn Zeccola, the clinical director of Cheerful Helpers, which is a well established therapeutic school and e…
Parenting Children with Invisible Disabilities with Lora DeMello
Hello Brave Friends! This is story episode #179. And it features one of the many powerful stories we showcase in our first ever Brave Together book! It’s an anthology of stories shared courageously b…
Making Friends from Behind the Window with Claire McMurray
Hello Brave Friends! This is story episode #178. And it features one of the many powerful stories we showcase in our first ever Brave Together book! It’s an anthology of stories shared courageously b…
A Down Syndrome Diagnosis in South Africa 30 Years Ago with Jessica Baer
Hello Brave Friends! This is story episode #177. And it features one of the many powerful stories we feature in our first ever Brave Together book! It’s an anthology of stories shared courageously by…
We All Deserve a Dignified Place to Toilet with Jayme Betts
Hello Brave Friends! Welcome to today's practical episode, #176. Our guest today is Jayme Betts, and she founded the Changing Spaces Advocacy Campaign in Massachusetts after experiencing, along with …
Diagnosis Isn't a Choice, My Martyrdom Is with Margaret Webb
Hello Brave Friends! This is story episode #175. When our child gets diagnosed it can feel like the snow globe of our life gets shaken really hard, and that everything is suddenly up in the air. But …
How to Support my Neuro-Divergent Kid as They Blossom into a Teen
Hello Brave Friends! This is an Ask Us Anything episode in which YOU, the listener, get to write or call in and, you guessed it, ASK US ANYTHING!
In this episode, #174, we are responding to the quest…
How a Caregiving Parent Became an Entrepreneur with Marna Pacheco
Hello Brave Friends! Welcome to practical episode #173. Our guest is a fellow caregiving mama and creator of CapeAble Weighted Products, Marna Pacheco.
Marna created CapeAble, originally for her daug…