The Bridges Between Us
The Bridges Between Us shares stories of real families navigating traumatic health challenges - including cancer, traumatic brain injuries, stroke, Alzheimer's, and more. Through intimate, thoughtful conversations with caregivers, patients, healthcare experts, and advocates, the podcast explores what it truly means to navigate illness, recovery, loss, and everything in between.
Each episode is a window into lived experience - how people found strength when they least expected it, how communities rallied around families in crisis, and how connection became a form of care all its own. These stories are raw, honest, and deeply human.
At its heart, The Bridges Between Us is about exactly what its name suggests: the bridges we build between people, between isolation and community, between hardship and hope. Wherever you are on a health journey - as a caregiver, a patient, a supporter, or someone who simply wants to understand - this podcast invites you to listen slowly, reflect openly, and feel a little less alone.
The Bridges Between Us
Latest Episodes
What Do We Do Now: Mason Branstrator and One Family's Road Through Paralysis, Building Community and Connection
Mason was seventeen, a junior in high school, and a record-holding runner when he hit a ski jump going a little too fast and broke his T12 vertebra. He became paralyzed. The next morning, he woke up and said: we need to make a plan. In...
Close to Home: Paurvi Bhatt on Immigrant Family Caregiving, the Loneliness Epidemic, and Why Gen X Has to Start Asking for Help
Paurvi Bhatt has spent her career responding to crises, from the HIV pandemic to global health financing, and has worked alongside former First Lady Rosalynn Carter on caregiving advocacy. But it wasn't until she became a caregiver herself that...
Grieving Twice: Sally Zibrowski on Alzheimer’s, Caregiving From a Distance, and Showing Up for Her Family
When Sally Zibrowski’s dad, Andy, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and primary progressive aphasia in 2021 at age 71, her family began to quietly reorient around a new and uncertain reality. Over time, earlier signs - subtle behavioral ch...
Living with Joy: Cris Ross on Two Cancer Diagnoses, Learning to Receive Support, and the CaringBridge Page That Changed Everything
Cris Ross spent more than a decade serving as Chief Information Officer at Mayo Clinic, helping lead one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world through periods of enormous change and complexity.Then, in 2018, he was ...
The Stranger Who Stopped, and the Road Back: Jeff Winston and Jackie Klinkner on Survival, Recovery, and Reconnection
⚠️ Content note: This episode includes descriptions of a serious accident and traumatic injury.On a Sunday afternoon outside Minneapolis, Jeff Winston was in a life-altering motorcycle accident that he somehow survived - pulling himself ...