Special Education Boss® with Karen Mayer Cunningham

About Special Education Boss® with Karen Mayer Cunningham

The Special Education Boss® Podcast is where advocacy meets action. Join Karen Mayer Cunningham each week as she empowers parents and professionals to understand their rights, navigate the system, and show up strong at the IEP table.

Publisher

Karen Mayer Cunningham, Special Education Boss®

Category

education · education · kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Apr 2025

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

8 of 155 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   You Wrote the Book. So Why Isn't Anyone Reading It? (with Nick Hutchison)

   Host Karen Mayer Cunningham interviews author growth expert Nick Hutchison about strategies for getting your book noticed and read by your target audience.

2. 

   27 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Pills Don't Teach Skills: ADHD, Executive Function, and What Belongs in the IEP

   Host Karen Mayer Cunningham interviews Michael McLeod, MA, CCC-SLP, on how ADHD impacts executive function and what essential skills should be included in an IEP.

3. 

   13 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Modifications, Placement, and Paras: Your Back-to-School Questions Answered

   School is back, and so are the questions. In this back-to-school Ask the Advocate, Karen Mayer Cunningham takes them live from parents, advocates, and educators sitting at the IEP and 504 table. You don't know what you don't know, but you need to. This episode helps you close that gap and walk into your next meeting prepared. In this episode: Modifications vs. accommodations, and what to do when a modification isn't written anywhere in the IEPWhy doing anything outside the IEP is a violation,...

Inside a recent episode

You Wrote the Book. So Why Isn't Anyone Reading It? (with Nick Hutchison)

Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] That's good. That's good. And leaders have a really hard time delegating, right? I was at our friend Alex from Ozy's Amazing Book Camp and he said, if you are the business, it's not a business. He said, it's a hobby. I was like, oh, and so you cannot grow at scale if you're the only one armed wallpaper hanger. When I was in college, I ran my own house painting business for two summers. I would literally go home on weekends. I would cold call, knock on doors. I would get rejected 99.9% of the time, which was tough. Every once in a while, I would land a job. And then during the actual summers, my friends would go paint these houses. […]

Who has been a guest on Special Education Boss® with Karen Mayer Cunningham

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Nick Hutchison
• Michael McLeod
• Michelle Williams
• Diane Dragan
• Lauren Hasz

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

12,073,915

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

24 ratings

Spotify

4.3 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 77 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

63

Social presence

97

YouTube

93

Engagement

84

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