What if the future amputees have imagined for decades is no longer theoretical?I'm sitting down with Dr. Chris Duncan, Chief Medical Officer at BIOS, Biologic Input Output Systems, a company working at the frontier of neural interface technology. What they are building sounds lik ...Show more
Earning It Back - Matt Swartz
What does it take to lose everything, and then earn it all back?In this episode of The AMP’D UP211 Podcast, Rick Bontkowski sits down with Deputy Sheriff Matt Swartz, a military veteran, law enforcement veteran, instructor, and amputee who returned to full-duty police work after ...Show more
What Real Advocacy Looks Like - Gini Thomas
In this episode of The AMP’D UP211 Podcast, I sit down with Gini Thomas, a creator, advocate, and unapologetically real voice in the amputee community.Gini is best known for her transparent, often humorous look into life as an amputee. Through social media, she educates, challeng ...Show more
Full Circle - Mark Watson
On this episode of The AMP’D UP211 Podcast, host Rick Bontkowski; amputee, advocate, drummer, and storyteller, sits down with one of the most unexpectedly extraordinary people you’ll ever meet: Mark Watson.Mark isn’t a celebrity. He isn’t a decorated athlete. He isn’t a world-tra ...Show more
Breaking the Mold - Viktoria Modesta
She didn’t just rewrite the rules, she built an entirely new playbook. Viktoria Modesta, the world’s first amputee pop star and one of the most iconic creative forces in modern culture, sits down with Rick Bontkowski for a rare, revealing conversation. From medical trauma to glob ...Show more