In this episode, I sit down with Darren Richardson, a firefighter and paramedic, mindset and mental performance coach, and amputee whose story comes down to one thing, refusing to shrink when life hits hard.Darren’s journey starts at 13 years old when a hiking accident crushed hi ...Show more
Some guests bring a great story. Others bring a perspective that challenges the way we think about the world around us. Angelina Martinson brings both.In this episode of The AMP’D UP211 Podcast, I sit down with Angelina, the creator of Adaptive Amputees, a biomedical engineer, at ...Show more
He Woke Up Without a Leg - Zack Wannawong
Twenty days. That’s how long Chef Zack Wannawong lay in a medically induced coma while surgeons fought a rare and aggressive infection that was tearing through his body. When he finally woke up, his right leg was gone. Just months earlier, Zack was a rising force in the culinary ...Show more
Wired to Feel - Dr. Chis Duncan
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