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Happie Heads

A community to provide a virtual network for the brain injured and their loved ones, pulling them out of isolation and into the hope and light of community.

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Episode 47 - Rik Lemoncello

Happie Heads ·

2019/03/25

Rik is a local Language and Speech Pathologist with a professorship at Pacific University. In addition to teaching, treating TBI survivors, and maintaining a social life, he also runs a bakery! What?! A bakery? Yes, pretty unique. A few years back he won an award at Pacific landing him a substantial amount of funds, which he decided to use towards a bakery in which people with TBI get to bake, clean, and do everything else a baker would do. The bakery is called Sarah Bellums

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Episode 46 - Jessica Patrone

Happie Heads ·

2019/03/03

Jessica is super fun to talk to. She got did not get into an accident, nor did she have a congenital mishap (hydrocephalus or AV malformation). She instead got sick, and the infection got into her central nervous system. This caught me off guard, as I did not know this going into the conversation. What a unique story! And her personality is very fun and honest. Enjoy!

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Episode 45 - Isaac Cornell

Happie Heads ·

2019/03/02

Isaac’s story is unique. Isaac was an alcoholic, and one night he suffered from congestive heart failure which led to an anoxic insult to his central nervous system. Essentially, he died for a bit in his sleep. In this conversation we discuss the lessons he learned from this time, and how he carries himself forward in life now. We obviously also talk about his recovery story. Enjoy. His story starts at 4:00

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Episode 44 – Jason

Happie Heads ·

2019/03/02

Jason is a homie with a great spirit! He was raised in LA next to Dodgers Stadium (as you will hear in the story), and to this day bleeds Dodger blue. He was super fun to talk and a laid back, chill dude much like I try to be. I hope you enjoy our conversation, and laugh at both of our jokes! Enjoy.

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Episode 43 - Jeff Sebell

Happie Heads ·

2019/02/02

Jeff has a story very similar to my own. He was in a car accident in the middle of college, and actually seemed to get back to school quite rapidly. He was also in a coma for several weeks, part of this time including a partial coma in which he appeared awake but was functionally unconscious. He has gone on to do many great things like create a popular blog about life with a TBI, and write a book called Learning How to Live with Yourself After Brain Injury. His blog can be found at

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Episode 42 - Maddy West

Happie Heads ·

2019/02/02

On January of 2017 was in a car accident on her way to work in McMinnville, OR. After being life-flighted to the local hospital, she was flown to Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, OR. She was comatose for one week, and contracted double pneumonia twice in her 6 months in ICU. We talk about depression, memory, and pain management. If you battle chronic pain, this is the podcast for you as Maddy is full of insights into pain management. Her story starts at 14:28

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Episode 41 - Dami Calhoun

Happie Heads ·

2018/12/18

In March of 2016, Dami drove her car into the trailer of a semi truck in Albany, OR at 78mph. You read that right, 78mph. The craziest part is she only broke two bones and one of them was her left ring finger. She was comatose for 2 weeks, and went through months of rehab. Her story is great and addresses the social, physical, and mental ramifications of such an accident. Her story starts at 8:24

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Epsiode 40 - Aaron Deshaw Esq PC

Happie Heads ·

2018/10/05

Dr Deshaw has lived an incredible life. His career in chiropractic medicine began in the nineties. After seven years of practice, he realized how insurance laws constrained some of his abilities to practice medicine, and he decided to become a lawyer. So he quit his practice to attend law school, right? No! While operating as one of six total chiropractors in Ireland, he also attended Pepperdine Law School in London. Needless to say he has led an incredibly fast, rich life. Because of his exposure

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Episode 39 - Kajomo

Happie Heads ·

2018/10/05

Karl Moritz (Kajomo) is a trooper. In June of 2010 he was struck head on by a vehicle while cycling on a neighborhood road in Southeast Portland. As if this wasn’t devastating enough, he was dragged 32 feet underneath the car. He was given a 90% chance of being in a vegetable state if he did indeed survive the accident. He spent over 30 days in a Coma and several months in the hospital. Miraculously, a year after his accident, he biked a Century (100 miles). He is incredible. To this day, he cycles

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01:04:45

Episode 38 - Joe Distefano

Happie Heads ·

2018/09/03

Joe has done a lot so far in his life. Here are a few examples. He is a certified Performance Enhancement Specialist and Corrective Exercise Specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. He has also been trained at the CHEK institute (which is extremely difficult) as a Holistic Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach. He also cofounded Spartan Coaching, the first ever certification for obstacle race training. He also gave a TED talk at TEDxLugano in 2016. These are just examples, Joe has done so

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01:04:44

Episode 37 - Matthew Kampfe

Happie Heads ·

2018/09/03

Matthew Kampfe is the owner of Kampfe Independent Living Center in Gladstone, OR. This episode is thus more centered around his lifelong experience helping BI survivors. His parents started helping BI survivors in their home decades ago, and now it has grown into the incredible living center it is today. He has some greats tips not just for survivors but their family/support systems as well. Enjoy! His story starts at 6:40

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Episode 36 - Glen Zelienski DC and Jeff McNally DC

Happie Heads ·

2018/09/03

These two Functional Neurologists have changed the way I think about brain injury. I used to think that if you are symptom free, it means that you are good to go. They showed me how powerful compensation can be, but how devastating it can be when one’s compensations fail. We talk about what conventional TBI therapy lacks, what it is good at, and how Functional Neurologists can work with traditional MD’s and DO’s. If you want to learn about an alternative treatment modality that could treat the root

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Episode 35 - Don Ford

Happie Heads ·

2018/09/03

Don is a very accomplished man. He has nearly countless training in psychological training. Of course, all of the credentials in the world are useless if they are not applied. Donald has been practicing for decades now, and have been treating people with brain injury since the late nineties. He and his wife work together in Portland, and we discuss some of the commonalities between his clients that recover “completely” and those that do not. Enjoy!

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Episode 34 - Marih Alyn-Claire

Happie Heads ·

2018/09/03

In part two of this episode, Marih and I discuss some of the characteristics and qualities that Marih sees as common amongst survivors and other resilient people in her life. If the first episode were the stories of her injuries, this second part covers some of the actions Marih took after taking ownership of her injury. I loved this conversation, and I hope you do as well. Story starts right away!

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01:38:06

Episode 33 - Marih Alyn-Claire Part 1

Happie Heads ·

2018/09/03

In this two-part episode, I talk to Marih Alyn-Claire. Much like episode 31 with Kendra, Marih’s life is stamped full of MANY unique situations and injuries. These include unpredicted strokes, days of lost memory, and so much more. Her first TBI was during a car accident as a small child in the 1950’s in Portland. We discuss what her injury taught her and how she used it to make herself stronger. Her story starts at 9:28

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01:02:52

Episode 32 - Randy Samuelson

Happie Heads ·

2018/09/03

Randy Samuelson is tough dude. He was raised in Ashland, OR (that is the southern part). His first encounter with brain injury involved playing college football at Oregon State University back in the good old days when a brain injury was something one just “walked off.” He later suffered an injury while working in a log mill. I hope you enjoy out talk as much as I did! His story starts at 6:40

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Episode 31 - Kendra Bratherton

Happie Heads ·

2018/09/03

Kendra is a woman of many trades. Honestly, it would be hard to sum up all of her capabilities. In addition to being a certified occupational therapist, she currently owns and runs a health clinic in which she can practice some of her other skills such as Bowenwork, Raiki, and Essential Oil Therapy. She may have the most engaging series of brain injuries I have ever heard, including suffering a neck injury after having a piece of asphalt thrown at her during riots in her Grand Rapids, Michigan

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Episode 30 - Clayton Rees and Jeri Cohen

Happie Heads ·

2018/09/03

This is an action packed episode since we recorded outside near the Portland Airport. This means I had to do a bit more editing than normal, but we made it through it unscathed. Clayton lives about 50 miles south of Tillamook a small costal town here in Oregon. He has suffered several brain injuries over the years with the most severe and recent one being a car accident in which his vehicle was crushed by some timber that came untied from a nearby logging truck. His story is incredible. Jeri is a

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Episode 29 - Jacob Plasker DC

Happie Heads ·

2018/09/03

Jacob Plasker is a functional neurologist operating out of Bend, Oregon (that’s smack dab in the center). As an infant, he rolled off the edge of bed, landing on his head, and leaving him temporarily paralyzed. After adjustments from his father, the majority of his motor ability returned. To this day, Jacob has hemiparesis (partial paralysis) in one side of his body, but he is still able to operate in his chiropractic practice at a high level. We talk about his life growing up with hemiparesis, and

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Episode 28 - Luke Nosack

Happie Heads ·

2018/09/03

I have known Luke for a few months now from support groups, on the max, and walking from the max to and from support groups. From these experiences, I can tell you that he is one of the most honest people I know, which is hard to find these days. He is from Forest Grove, OR, and has a passion for storytelling. He spends quite a bit of his free time writing his own stories and developing characters that mirror his favorite childhood stories, but with a cool, unique twist. At the age of 5, he was in a

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