Life to the Max Podcast

Some stories hit like a jolt of electricity—raw, unfiltered, impossible to forget. Meet James, known as No Limb Jim, who walked into a hospital for mitral valve surgery and woke up months later after 62 days on ECMO, both legs amputated and most fingers gone. What could have ende ...  Show more

Service dogs aren’t magic, but the right match can feel like it. From the Abilities Expo in Dallas, I sit down with Aubree Wright from Canine Companions to get honest about how service dogs actually support independence and why the relationship matters as much as the tasks.We wal ...  Show more

DailyLivingLabs.comWhat if assistive tech didn’t require a second paycheck or a months-long insurance battle? We sit down at the Abilities Expo in Dallas with Cameron and Catherine from the University of North Texas, who are partnering with Daily Living Labs to build six practica ...  Show more

What if the strongest bond in your life needed new rules overnight? From the floor of Abilities Expo Dallas, we sit with the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation’s National Peer Mentor Coordinator, TJ Griffin —a C5 quadriplegic, advocate, and straight shooter—to unpack how couples ...  Show more

The roar of wheelchairs on polished concrete. New tech that solves old problems. Strangers who feel like friends in under five minutes. From the floor of Abilities Expo Dallas, we sit down with Kristina Rhoades—exhibitor liaison, long-time attendee, and lifelong wheelchair user—t ...  Show more