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
One Obstacle at a Time: John Carter on His Son Cannon, a Congenital Heart Defect, and What Thirty Days in a Cardiac ICU Taught a Healthcare Insider About Being a Patient
John Carter has spent sixteen years in healthcare working with health systems, physicians, and executives all over the country. He knows how the system works. He knows which levers to pull. He knows the language.None of it prepared him ...
Ferocious, Loyal, and Absolutely in Control: Sarah Krevans on Caregiving for the Sister Who Refused to Be Defined by Cancer
Rachel was fourteen months older than Sarah. She was a litigator; ferocious, loyal, deeply private, and absolutely determined not to let stage four metastatic colon cancer define her. When she got the call after her colonoscopy, she knew exactl...
Three Minutes and Forty-Nine Seconds: Paolo Narciso on Cardiac Arrest Mid-Run, the Tech That Saved Him, and Why Data Isn't Destiny
Paolo Narciso has spent four decades building companies - call centers, healthcare startups, AI ventures - and currently serves on the CaringBridge board, bringing a technologist's eye to social connection and care coordination. He knows data. ...
You Can Influence the Journey: Tina Jackson on Rare Disease, Radical Advocacy, and Raising Miss T
Tina Jackson was told her daughter Tionna - Miss T - most likely wouldn't survive. Born in 1995 with trisomy 8 mosaicism, a rare genetic condition, Miss T was labeled failure to thrive. She's now thirty years old, living independently, completi...
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...