The What Makes You Tick Podcast was brought to fruition by The Abby Lou Foundation, with host Devon Millington. The Abby Lou Foundation provides advocacy and support to adults with intellectual disabilities who are reliant on public funds. Through education and working with decision-makers, family members, persons with disabilities and their providers, The Abby Lou Foundation helps this disadvantaged demographic to lead productive and happy lives free from manipulation and coercion. The purpose of this podcast is to educate and bring awareness to those with intellectual disabilities.<br /><br />If you enjoyed this podcast and want to help us continue to support this wonderful community, please visit AbbyLou.org to donate.<br /><br /><a href="https://fundraise.givesmart.com/form/aoZ_jg?vid=v60hb" rel="noopener">https://fundraise.givesmart.com/form/aoZ_jg?vid=v60hb</a>
What Makes You Tick | Heroes with Mental and Developmental Disabilities
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The What Makes You Tick Podcast was brought to fruition by The Abby Lou Foundation, with host Devon Millington. The Abby Lou Foundation provides advocacy and support to adults with intellectual disabilities who are reliant on public funds. Through education and working with decision-makers, family members, persons with disabilities and their providers, The Abby Lou Foundation helps this disadvantaged demographic to lead productive and happy lives free from manipulation and coercion. The purpose of this podcast is to educate and bring awareness to those with intellectual disabilities.<br /><br />If you enjoyed this podcast and want to help us continue to support this wonderful community, please visit AbbyLou.org to donate.<br /><br /><a href="https://fundraise.givesmart.com/form/aoZ_jg?vid=v60hb" rel="noopener">https://fundraise.givesmart.com/form/aoZ_jg?vid=v60hb</a>
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Recent Episodes
July 6, 2023
Embracing Differences | Bryony's Journey with Cerebral Palsy
<b></b><br /><b></b><br /><b>Today Devon talks to special guest Bryony Moss, a 25 year old who lives in the UK and deals with cerebral palsy of right hemiplegia, learning disabilities, and she’s also neurodivergent. She’s an actress, model, and advocate for disability and mental health. Growing up, Bryony realized there seemed to be no actresses out there like her, so she wanted to get into the industry herself and help others like her see and understand that anyone can do it. She has started her own bedtime story reading YouTube channel and has found that you can help people anywhere in the world in various ways. <br /></b><br /><ul><li>About cerebral palsy 2:00</li><li>Adapting to her struggles 4:00</li><li>Getting to a happy place in life 9:50</li><li>Bryony Goes Bananas with Bedtime Stories 12:20</li><li>Inspirational people for her 16:30</li><li>Motivation and making necessary changes in herself 22:10</li><li>Feeling bad about having a disability 26:25</li><li>What Bryony is working on right now 35:10</li></ul><b><br />“Don’t be scared to try new things, even in school settings when you try and fit in. I’d say one of my greatest accomplishments was actually just staying true to myself. Not everyone’s gonna like it, but just stay true to yourself because you are enough and you are worthy, and you can achieve and will do amazing things even though you don’t even know it yet because there are crazy amounts of opportunities that come your way when you just be you.” 11:21</b><br /><b><br />@defeatingdisability</b><br /><b></b><br /><b>If you'd like to donate to the Abby Lou Foundation to help continue to enrich the lives of the intellectually disabled, follow this link: <a href="https://fundraise.givesmart.com/form/aoZ_jg?vid=v60hb" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://fundraise.givesmart.com/form/aoZ_jg?vid=v60hb</a><br />Thank you for listening!</b>
March 28, 2023
Fighting the Segregation of People with Disabilities | Interview with Olivier and Hilda Bernier
<b>Today we interview Olivier and Hilda Bernier who share with us some wonderful stories about their experience navigating the world of special education services for their son, Emilio. Olivier is a filmmaker from New York and his wife gave birth to their son 6 years ago, who has Down Syndrome and he set them on this journey of making a film called “Forget Me Not,” which they hope many will get a chance to see. Before having Emilio, Hilda was a special education and bilingual education teacher in Brooklyn, which has given her a lot of insight into all the processes that children with disabilities go through to get the services they need. After having Emilio, they have gained a much better understanding of how the process is for families and want to give their perspective through their documentary.</b><br /><ul><li>Did Olivier have experience with Down Syndrome? 3:25</li><li>The circumstances that led to them creating this documentary 7:05</li><li>What response are you getting from this project? 16:45</li><li>What you ought to know going into this 20:40</li><li>Help is necessary 28:00</li></ul><b>“For us our goal was and is to have Emilio in an inclusive setting, so once we determined that that was our goal, we were able to work around it, see how we could work with the district, and the teachers, and providers to make it happen. All families and circumstances are different, so it’s very important to have a clear vision of what you want for your child and then you will find a way to get to it.” 24:17</b><br /><b><br />forgetmenotdocumentary.com</b><br /><b>@forgetmenotdocumentary</b>
February 14, 2023
Utah Bill HB0178 and Why You Should Care about It | Our Obligation to Reduce the Capacity for Harm
<b>In this episode Devon wanted to talk about something that’s really important to him here in Utah. There is a bill being proposed in the House, Bill HB0178, and the main gist of this bill is that it would essentially make it illegal for a disability care agency or contracted company to have as a part of their employment agreements non-compete, non solicitation agreements, and this may seem like something trivial or not important, but there is a reason this could be an important issue for Utahns to pay attention to and Devon explains that today. <br /></b><br /><ul><li>Why this matters 2:12</li><li>Persons who work with a host home 4:48</li><li>Trying to prevent moral complication 8:28</li><li>The only way that less of those bad things happen 11:34</li><li>Our obligation to reduce the capacity for harm 14:05</li></ul><b>“Because all of the money for this industry are your private funds, but committed to public purposes, public initiatives, then we have zero reason to restrict the capacity, or the quality, or the ability for those funds to impact positive change. I’d be in support of any initiative that reduces the limits on our collective innovative capacity to prove the quality of services.” 10:57</b>
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