E3 Collective Podcast

What is presuming potential? Are you presuming potential? This powerful shift in mindset can change the lives of individuals. 

Are you ready to learn about the #1 strategy to provide access to opportunities for all individuals of all abilities? Check out this episode! 

We are excited to have Wendy Jones back on the show again. Wendy is a mother of 4, a writer, coach, and founder of Be Better with Wendy Jones. She has a passion for healing generational trauma and teaching the next generation to turn their struggles into strengths. One of the biggest catalysts for her own growth was when her youngest survived a near drowning when he was only 2 and was later diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. As she researched ways to help him—through nutrition, neuroscience, and the body/mind connection—Wendy realized that the tools and methods they were using could help anyone. After her divorce (another powerful catalyst), she learned to heal and thrive on her own terms, and came to understand that deep health is a lifelong commitment to ourselves to be a little bit better every day. Through this commitment, we give ourselves the gift of self-awareness and are better able to model for our children what deep health and connected relationships look like. Please check out Wendy's work at https://bebetterwithwendyjones.com/ Instagram: @wendyjones_theoptimist

Erika Havlik is a mother and the founder of Team Reed. Her son, Reed, was diagnosed with an extremely rare and terminal genetic disease called Vanishing White Matter. Reed was diagnosed at the age of two after suddenly struggling to walk one day after waking up from a nap. Reed is one of less than 200 people in the world with VWM, odds of having VWM are one in 40 million. Erika and her husband's mission is to support the funding for research and development of a cure for this disease through their non-profit, Team Reed.  https://m.facebook.com/secretsoflovingrare https://www.instagram.com/secrets_of_loving_rare/ http://www.12312design.com/index.php/product-category/team-reed/ https://www.instagram.com/TeamReedcrosby/ https://m.facebook.com/teamreedcrosby http://www.teamreedcrosby.com/ https://www.gofundme.com/f/8rw5d7-team-reed-find-a-cure-for-vwm

As parents, we want to know that there is a community out there that understands and a community that we can lean on in times of need. This is why I’m so excited to have Jess Hansen on the show today. Jess is one of the most incredible advocates for her children that I have ever seen. I was fortunate enough to be invited into her team of people to provide aquatic therapy to support her son Jaxon after his accident that resulted in a spinal cord injury. Jess and her husband never lost faith and never gave up fighting for what Jaxon needed. This resulted in them building a team around Jaxon that truly shows the power of community. Instagram: @hansenmama Twitter: @jesshansen2

Abbie a wife and mom of two young boys and a speech language pathologist with specialty training in breastfeeding/lactation counseling, infant feeding disorders, and childhood feeding difficulties. She started my career in the suburbs of Chicago, where she gained specialized experience working with children (birth-adolescence) with various feeding and swallowing difficulties. Those experiences solidified her passion in the area of feeding and swallowing. She is now working as a speech language pathologist for an ENT private practice in Iowa. When moving back home to Iowa, she realized there were less resources readily available to parents in the area of pediatric feeding and swallowing which led her to sharing her knowledge through social platforms. @feedingbabes_slp

Today we have Matt Sloan joining us on the show. Matt is a Certified occupational therapy assistant, personal trainer, former special education teacher, coach, and owner of Sensory Fitness LLC. Sensory Fitness was created to provide fitness for everybody while focusing on neuro-diversity. Taking sensory difficulties into account Sensory Fitness focuses on specific movements and activities to help with symptoms of ASD, SPD, ADHD, and other neuro-diversities. As many of the listeners know, this is a topic that is very important to us. We have so much research about the life-long benefits of physical activity and play and it is one of our missions with E3 to provide access to those physical activity and play opportunities. https://www.sensoryfitness.org @sensoryfitness_llc

Wendy Jones is a writer and Life Design Coach passionate about building self-awareness to create flow in life. She has spent years training her optimists lens to help build a growth mindset that has framed her life experience which includes healing after the near death experience of her youngest child, thriving after divorce, raising four children, two who have become Division 1 athletes, one who reminds her most of herself, and the youngest on the autism spectrum. She knows that human struggle is a necessary part of achieving flow state and can help people reframe difficult transitions in life to help them break free from limiting beliefs and find flow in their own days.  https://theoptimistsjournal.com/ @wendyjones_theoptimist

Scott is the founder of Living Adaptive which highlights amazing individuals that have achieved incredible things despite facing significant adversity. Scott, himself, was born with a congenital disability that significantly impacted his legs, but he did not let that define the rest of his life and instead uses humor, authenticity, and openness to guide his path as a father, adventurer, and content creator. https://www.livingadaptive.com/ @living_adaptive

Tricia Frericks is a clinical supervisor at the Roy Eblen Speech and Hearing Clinic at the University of Northern Iowa. The clinic is affiliated with the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, which is dedicated to the preparation of students who will be entering the professions of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. In this way, the clinic's service delivery model revolves around the provision of assessment and therapeutic services by students under the supervision of faculty and staff members in the department. The clinic provides services for all forms of speech, language, and hearing disorders for persons of all ages. [email protected]  @triciafrericks https://www.facebook.com/tricia.millsfrericks https://comdis.uni.edu/clinic