The Shining Beautiful Series Podcast
Listen to this podcast and discover the power of "Shining Beautiful" in life and in your community. Mikelle is perhaps the only non-verbal podcaster in the world. How does she do it? With technology. Meet Mikelle, who experiences cerebral palsy, her mother, Katherine Carol, and Gretchen Storm, speech therapist, and assistive technology guru. Together they talk about everyday life with a disability, how technology empowers people with disabilities to own their lives. This sassy team of coffee drinking techies interview technology and rehabilitation experts as they sit around the kitchen table at Mikelle's home.
- Update frequency
- every 19 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 143
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Telling Your Story Works! Check out why!
Hello Everyone! Thank you for your ongoing support for our podcast! It has been exactly one year since we launched and to date we are right at 2000 downloads. Not bad for a kitchen table podcast b…
Celebrating 15 Years of Love and Friendship. Mikelle & Jerome
In a time of differences, it so refreshing to celebrate enduring love and friendship. Jerome and Mikelle met in high school and their friendship is stronger than ever. I think this just might help …
Meet Jim Corey. Rehabilitation Renaissance Man.
From Army to Advocate. From Job Coach to Cultural Creative. If you are looking for ways to help people with different abilities transform their lives, it might be best to start with your own.
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Ready for 2020? Time to De-Clutter
You probably need to do it. We just did it. De-cluttering that is...time to make room for new opportunities, quit wasting time searching for things and create an environment ready for learning new t…
Meet Mary Ann
In this episode, you meet the youngest member of Mikelle's team, Mary Ann. Sweet, sassy and like Mikelle, a little bad assy! Mikelle interviews Mary Ann on why she chooses to be a member of the Shi…
Happy New Year 2020...Life Planting
Join Mikelle and Katherine as they explore new ideas and set new goals for 2020 using the "Life Planting" metaphor of planting new intentions/seeds and goals for this next year using various planning…
Happy Holidays from The Shining Beautiful Series Podcast
Tis' the night before Christmas and we are settled in watching Christmas movies and gazing fondly at the Christmas Tree remembering Mikelle's kick-ass holiday party last week! What a blast we all ha…
Navigating the System through the Life Span
Recently, Katherine keynoted the Louisanna Developmental Disabilities 2019 Conference. Katherine focused on the steps and stages of navigating the system from birth to adulthood to get the best out o…
Friends Helping Friends. Happy Thanksgiving!!
This episode is a shorty filled with love and laughter as Mikelle and Ian reminisce about old times and develop a plan to do some "fixin' up for the holidays".
Celebrating friends, family and all o…
Mikelle Lost Her Benefits
Arghhh! After 25 years of receiving Long Term Care Benefits, suddenly MIkelle is no longer disabled enough to receive them. Had she suddenly become "less disabled"? No. So why was she kicked off th…
Disability, Inclusion and Community from a Native American Perspective
As founder and president of Warrior Society Development, Jim incorporates traditional Warrior Society philosophies in his daily life. "Many think of a warrior only in physical terms, but a true warri…
Lessons from Leaders Part 3
In our final episode on our series on leadership and customized employment with Cary Griffin and Bob Niemiec, Griffin Hammis & Associates, we discuss advice to emerging leaders in the field of Custom…
Lessons from Leaders Part 2 with Cary Griffin and Bob Niemiec
Customized employment revolves around creating a job that is just right for the job seeker. Cary and Bob discuss strategies helping those supporting job seekers to set the job seeker up for success w…
Lessons from Leaders Series. Part 1 Bob Niemiec and Cary Griffin
Wow! Almost two hours of storytelling and wisdom for leaders Bob, Niemiec, Cary Griffin and Beth Keaton! These experts in customized and supported employment were some of the early pioneers in getti…
Meet Salena! Walking Sunshine.
Mikelle and Katherine welcome Salena Salinas to the Shining Beautiful team! Talking with Salena touches your artist's heart and gives yet another reason to believe in the younger generation. Salena …
Marco Polo.....Marco.......Polo
Why do we like this app? Because it is more like a real conversation and it gives Mikelle time to compile her message with a video expressing her nonverbal communication. And, it is fun!!
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Welcome to the Mikelle Bootcamp!
We wish our best people would stay forever. Simply put. They don't. We have been down this road before, but this time we are losing a 7-year veteran of Mikelle's support team--Taylor Mason. You have…
E.V.V. Update. The Bright Side?
Since our last posting on EVV, folks from the State of Colorado reached out to us to learn more about our frustration and the Center for Medicaid Services changed the requirement for live-in caregive…
Electronic Visit Verification (EVV), the darkside?
We hesitated in recording this episode. After all, we have had a wonderful relationship with Colorado's state leaders. Together, we have attempted to work out the bugs with Colorado's efforts to comp…
Loss of Parents. Grief. Advice from one left behind. Plan!
We rarely talk about grief in our society. It seems an even more distant discussion if you have a disability and lose your parents. This is the first of episodes to talk about grief in an intimate a…