Mike Gomoll turned his son Joey’s love of music into a rock-and-roll movement fighting epilepsy. In this episode, Mike joins Alycia to share Joey’s story, explain the realities and stigma surrounding epilepsy, and reveal how Joey’s Song has united legendary musicians and raised more than $2 million for research. It is a conversation about grief, generosity, community, advocacy and what becomes possible when people choose to show up.
Mike Gomoll, founder of Joey’s Song, joins Alycia Anderson to share how his son Joey’s love of music inspired a movement for epilepsy awareness and research. Their conversation explores Dravet syndrome, the realities of living with epilepsy, the power of community, and how Joey’s Song has raised more than $2 million to help the next family.
Award-winning artist and RAMPD founder Lachi joins Alycia Anderson to explore disability culture, music, identity, unmasking and why the parts society tells us to hide deserve to be celebrated.
Read the full conversation between Alycia Anderson and Lachi about disability culture, music, identity, representation, RAMPD, Magnificent and disability pride.
Deaf accessibility advocate Meryl K. Evans joins Alycia Anderson to discuss growing up profoundly deaf, the evolution of captions, accessible content, lived experience, inclusive design and why progress over perfection is essential to meaningful accessibility.
Read the full transcript of Alycia Anderson’s conversation with Meryl K. Evans, CPACC, on deafness, caption accessibility, lived experience, inclusive design, communication barriers and the importance of progress over perfection.
What is life really like when two wheelchair users get married? Alycia and Marty Anderson answer the questions people actually ask about disabled relationships, accessible travel, independence, intimacy, accessibility and marriage. After nearly 15 years together, they are challenging assumptions, sharing a few hilarious accessibility stories and proving that underneath the wheelchairs, marriage is still marriage: partnership, compromise, problem solving, laughter and a whole lot of love.
In Episode 156 of Pushing Forward with Alycia, Alycia and Marty Anderson lighten things up with a candid Q&A about life as a married wheelchair-using couple. They discuss accessible travel, transportation barriers, independence, asking for help, marriage, intimacy and the assumptions people make about disabled relationships while sharing the humor, frustration and creative problem solving that come with navigating a world not always designed for two wheelchair users.
Alycia and Marty Anderson share an intimate update after months of medical challenges and unexpected hospitalizations. Together, the married wheelchair users explore aging with disability, caregiving, changing independence, entrepreneurship, love and the emotional difficulty of slowing down. From adapting transfers to accepting help and releasing control, their conversation reveals how disability continually asks us to adapt and why sometimes pushing forward means giving yourself permission to rest.
Read the Episode 155 transcript as Alycia and Marty Anderson discuss Alycia’s recent medical journey, aging with disability and caregiving within their marriage. The couple shares how two wheelchair users adapt when one partner temporarily needs greater support, while navigating hospitalizations, entrepreneurship, changing independence and emotional exhaustion. Their deeply personal conversation explores resilience, vulnerability, disability, love and the realization that being strong does not mean doing everything alone.
