Welcome to Season 11!

Hello Brave Friends! Welcome to Season 11 of Brave Together Podcast!

Brave Together Podcast is the podcast of We Are Brave Together, a nonprofit supporting moms of children with disabilities, neurodivergence, medical complexities, mental health struggles, and all forms of unique needs.

Your hosts Jessica Patay, Susanna Peace Lovell, and Dr. Zoe bring their professional expertise, lived experiences, and years of caregiving motherhood to honest conversations created to help you feel seen, supported, encouraged, and less alone.

This season, we’re continuing the conversations you’ve come to know and love: Story episodes featuring the real experiences of caregiving moms; Expert episodes exploring topics that impact you and your family; Thriving Disabled and Neurodivergent Adult episodes offering invaluable insight into the lived experiences of disabled adults; and Ask Us Anything episodes, where Jessica, Susanna, and Dr. Zoe dig into the questions you send our way.

Season 11 will explore everything from caregiver burnout, self-care, relationships, and advocacy to disability, mental health, navigating our kids’ needs, and the complicated, beautiful, exhausting realities of caregiving.

We are so honored that Brave Together Podcast continues to grow alongside this extraordinary community of brave moms around the world, including through UK Health Radio. Whether you’ve been with us since the beginning or you’re just finding us now, welcome. We are so glad you’re here.

And we want YOU to be part of the conversation. Submit your stories through our website, call into our SpeakPipe through the link in the show notes and leave us your questions, or connect with us on Instagram and YouTube @wearebravetogether. Your questions and experiences help shape the conversations we have here.

You can also find full episodes and more from Brave Together Podcast on YouTube. And if this podcast has made you feel seen, supported, or a little less alone, please rate and review the show and share it with your friends and fellow caregiving moms. Every share helps us reach another brave mom who may need this community.

We are incredibly grateful to Rise Educational Advocacy for sponsoring Season 11 of Brave Together Podcast and for supporting our mission to strengthen and encourage caregiving families.

At Brave Together Podcast, we offer you community and remind you every chance we get: you are strong, capable, and definitely not alone.

We see you, and we love you.

Welcome to Season 11!

Find more information about Licensed Psychotherapist, Dr. Zoe here. 

Find Dr. Zoe’s book, Stronger in the Difficult Places: Heal Your Relationship with Yourself by Untangling Complex Shame here.

Find more information about Life Coach, Susanna Peace Lovell here.

Find Susanna’s book, Your True Self is Enough here.

Find our first book from We Are Brave Together, Becoming Brave Together here.

Find our second book from We Are Brave Together, Suddenly Brave Together here. 

Find FULL episodes and clips of our podcast on Youtube here.

Brave Together is the podcast for We are Brave Together, a not-for-profit organization based in the USA. The heart of We Are Brave Together is to strengthen, encourage, inspire and validate all moms of children with disabilities and other needs in their unique journeys. 

JOIN the international community of We Are Brave Together here.

Donate to support all of We Are Brave Together's programs and offerings here.

Donate to keep this podcast going here.

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Feel free to contact Jessica Patay via email: jpatay@wearebravetogether.org

If you have any topic requests or if you would like to share a story, leave us a message here.

Please leave a review and rating today! We thank you in advance!

Disclaimer

Brave Together is the podcast for We are Brave Together, a not-for-profit organization based in the USA. The heart of We Are Brave Together is to strengthen, encourage, inspire and validate all moms of children with disabilities and other needs in their unique journeys. 

JOIN the international community of We Are Brave Together here. 

Donate to support all of We Are Brave Together's programs and offerings here. 

Can’t get enough of the Brave Together Podcast? Follow us on Instagram , Facebook and Youtube. 

Feel free to contact Jessica Patay via email: jpatay@wearebravetogether.org 

If you have any topic requests or if you would like to share a story, leave us a message here.

Please leave a review and rating today! We thank you in advance!

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Hello, brave friends, and welcome to season 11 of Brave Together Podcast. I am Susanna P. Slavelle, author, life coach, advocate for disability families, and one of your hosts. I am honored to be back alongside Jessica Pate, founder of We Are Brave Together and Brave Mom to her son Ryan, who has Prader Willie syndrome, and Dr. Zoe, licensed psychotherapist, author, and fellow brave mom. Together, we draw from our professional expertise and lived caregiving experiences to create conversations that strengthen, encourage, inspire, and remind caregivers that they are never alone. This season, you can expect deeply honest story episodes from fellow caregivers, expert episodes featuring incredible professionals and advocates, thriving disabled adult conversations that offer insight into disability-lived experiences, and Ask Us-Anything episodes where we answer your real-life caregiving questions with honesty and compassion. We'll be talking about marriage, grief, resilience, sibling dynamics, emotional health, neurodivergence, caregiving burnout, identity, advocacy, and the complicated beauty of loving our children through hard and extraordinary circumstances. And as always, we'll continue sharing the truth that caregivers deserve support too. We are so honored that this podcast continues to grow alongside this extraordinary community of brave moms around the world, including through our partnership with UK Health Radio. Whether you've been with us since the beginning or you're just finding us now, welcome. We are so glad you're here. Please continue sharing your stories and questions through Speakpipe on social media and through our website. Your voices help shape this podcast and remind other caregivers that they are not alone. You can also follow us on Instagram and YouTube at We Are Brave Together for more conversations, encouragement, and community throughout the season. And if this podcast has helped you feel more connected or supported, we would be so grateful if you rated and reviewed the show and shared it with another caregiving parent. Thank you for being here with us. We see you, we love you. Welcome to season 11 of Brave Together Podcast.