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In this episode, Meike shares her journey being a caregiver and supporter for her husband, Mitch.

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Mitch and I got married via notary public, October 2, 2023, 6.5 weeks before his accident November 17, 2023. In this accident, he received a traumatic brain injury, left leg amputation below the knee, needed life saving blood several times, ventilator to trach, and feeding tube for 8 months. The brain injury is in both the left temporal lobe and brain stem. After Mitch’s accident, he spent 3 weeks in ICU, 3 weeks on the surgery floor, and 14 weeks at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Georgia. .

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In this episode, Emma shares how she is creating a brain injury hub in Australia for folks living with brain injury.

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Emma is a wife and a mother of 3 beautiful children, her best work! Her brain injury has sent her in a new exciting direction in life.Her passion is to open Brisbane's first brain injury hub, to do it for the one's that can't. To create a unique space with programs to help people with ABI’s feel connect to people and the community. she is a go getter, and she sees herself as being made of titanium. Since her Arteriovenous malformation in April 2021, Emma has been involved in several research projects for Brain injury. She has raised money for Outwood Bound for brain injury, she completed Outwood Bound - Potential Unlimited Brain Injury Adventure in Tharwa, NSW. Emma’s a leadership of the Steps Skilled program for people with Brain Injury. Emma was a guest speaker at an International Women’s Day event in Brisbane, 2024. She has re-joining the F45 gym where her brain injury journey began.Being a school teacher since 2002, and now a Teacher Aid. Emma always loves to help people and combining her skills in the education and her living experience with brain injury she is driving to make a positive different in the Brain Injury community.

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Holly shares with us what it was like to sustain a brain injury as a teenager, and the unique struggles that accompanied it.

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Holly Shea Beavers sustained a traumatic brain injury from a car wreck ten years ago when she was just sixteen years old. Prior to her injury, she was a good student as well as an athlete. After her injury, she struggled with attention deficits, noise and light sensitivity, dizziness, nausea, headaches, and other symptoms which greatly impacted her life. Through a lot of trial and error, she was able to find treatments to help her improve. She will be a contributor to Amy Zellmer’s upcoming Not Invisible: Putting a Face on Brain Injury anthology book.