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THE SJ CHILDS SHOW-Building a Community of Inclusion

Sara Gullihur-Bradford aka SJ Childs

🎙️ Welcome to The SJ Childs Show Podcast! 🎉Join Sara Bradford—better known as SJ Childs—as she bridges understanding and advocacy for the neurodivergent community. This podcast shines a light on autism awareness, empowering stories, expert insights, and practical resources for parents, educators, and individuals alike.Brought to you by The SJ Childs Global Network, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting autistic individuals and their families worldwide, this show is your weekly dose of inspiration

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33:22

Episode 349-Why Human Skills Matter More Than Content...

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2026/03/24

Send us Fan Mail If school still looks like memorizing, pacing, and compliance, we’re preparing kids for a world that no longer exists. Today we sit down with educator, leadership researcher, and neuroscience-informed consultant Lisa Reigel to talk about what’s really driving student behavior, teacher burnout, and the rising feeling that the system can’t hold the humans inside it. We get specific about how high-stakes testing changed the mission from “teach kids” to “teach content,” and why ...

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30:42

Episode 348-Home Accessibility Upgrades and Universal...

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2026/03/19

Send us Fan Mail Your house can be beautiful and still be safer, easier, and more supportive for real life. I sit down with Erica Sell, owner of Harmony Home Medical in San Diego, to get practical about home accessibility, assistive technology, and universal design for families raising neurodivergent kids and for anyone planning to help aging parents live well at home. We start with how Erica built a high-touch, education-first medical equipment showroom after seeing a gap between what peopl...

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40:52

Episode 347-Building A World For Every Mind-Why...

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2026/02/25

Send a text What if the biggest barrier to inclusion isn’t awareness, but the way our systems are built? We sit down with Robert Annis, a London-based founder of NEURO, to unpack how the “alignment trap”—cultures that prize sameness over substance—quietly locks out cognitive diversity and throttles innovation. Instead of chasing badges and box-ticking, Robert lays out a practical path where inclusion becomes a strategic engine for better problem solving, collaboration, and growth. We explore...

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41:19

Episode 346-From Yelling To Leadership: Raising...

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2026/02/17

Send a text What if the fastest way to change your child’s behavior is to change how you show up? We sit down with parent coach and author Sue Donnellan to unpack why yelling fails, how Montessori principles build independence, and what it takes to lead the culture of your home with clarity and calm. From the chaos of going from one child to triplets to discovering behavior psychology, Sue shares the exact reframes and systems that helped her move from reactivity to results. We explore the c...

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38:03

Episode 345-Own The Diagnosis, Change The Trajectory...

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2026/02/13

Send a text A lot of bright kids are still stuck on the basics of reading, and too many parents are told to wait—or sold cures that don’t work. We sit down with dyslexia therapist Faye Bankler Cressell to unpack what actually helps struggling readers and how families can start real progress at home without losing years to red tape. Faye shares her path from special education to structured literacy, sparked by helping her own child during lockdown. She explains why the science of reading matt...

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36:05

Episode 344-Unlocking Dyslexia With Science And...

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2026/02/03

Send us a text Imagine being told a first-grade reading level will define your future—then deciding to rewrite the script. That’s the spark behind our conversation with Russell, a New York State–funded dyslexia researcher who turned personal roadblocks into a practical method that helps students jump from frustration to fluency without elite price tags. We dig into the brain science that actually moves the needle: stop hammering the back of the brain where dyslexic readers show low activity ...

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32:44

Episode 343-From Late Diagnosis To Lyrical Healing...

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2026/01/27

Send us a text What if the words you needed were waiting inside the moments you try to rush past? We sit down with Australian poet and radiographer Nadine Ellis to explore late autism diagnosis, the quiet injuries of daily life, and the craft of turning hard feelings into language that heals. Nadine was diagnosed at 58, alongside her daughters and husband, and that clarity reframed decades of masking, missed cues, and misplaced shame. Instead of pathologizing sensitivity, she treats it as gui...

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Episode 342-From Crisis To Clarity: Tools For Autism...

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2026/01/21

Send us a text What if the hardest moments with your child weren’t proof you’re failing, but signals pointing to the support they need? We sit down with autism mom coach and attorney Lisa Candera to explore a practical, compassionate approach to parenting through crisis, burnout, and the daily unknowns. Lisa shares how “regulation starts with us,” why reframing behavior as information changes everything, and the simple steps that turn school chaos into a clearer plan. We dig into real-world ...

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28:21

Episode 341-From Classroom To Kitchen: How A Las...

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2026/01/13

Send us a text A box of chocolate peanut butter balls shouldn’t change a life—but in our Las Vegas kitchen, it often does. We sit down with Sugar and Spice founder Sherry Long, a former teacher who transformed a classroom skill set into a bustling confectionery that doubles as a paid training ground for neurodivergent and at‑risk young adults. What started as an accidental side hustle became a clear pathway to confidence, wages, and work‑ready skills. Sherry walks us through the full system:...

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Episode 340- A Parent’s Roadmap To Planning Autism...

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2026/01/07

Send us a text A quiet moment over coffee can redraw a life. That’s where our guest, Matt Ross, realized he wasn’t just surviving anymore—he was ready to build a plan for growth. We trace how that spark became Grow or Fold, a candid guide to navigating midlife, protecting your family, and designing a future that feels both possible and personal. Matt shares the arc of his career—from building radio stations to leading School of Rock to launching One River School—alongside his most defining r...

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SEASON 15-Designing A World That Includes Everyone...

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2025/12/28

Send us a text What if accessibility came first and everything else got better because of it? That’s the idea we rally around as Sara Bradford, aka SJ Childs—AuDHD Advocate and creator of Stream-Able Live and the SJ Childs Global Network—lays out a clear, urgent case for building inclusion into the foundation of our products, events, and stories. With one in four people in the United States living with a disability today and more than two billion projected globally by 2050, the numbers alone ...

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Episode 339-An Autistic Author’s Journey From Blog To...

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2025/12/21

Send us a text A blog that almost stalled. A book that took shape anyway. And a voice that keeps getting louder. We sit down with Michael, an autistic author from Ontario, to trace how “Michaelism: My POV on Life with Autism” went from idea to self-published reality—and why persistence beat perfection at every turn. Michael opens up about the early days when the word autism felt abstract, while picture-based learning made the world click. That contrast sets the tone for an honest look at com...

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Episode 338-Rethinking Diversity: Stop Fixing Minds,...

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2025/12/14

Send us a text What if the very traits that once set your career on fire could be turned into a repeatable system that saves companies and jobs—without burning you out? That’s the tension we explore with turnaround executive Todd Hugopian, whose fifteen years of undiagnosed bipolar disorder powered massive wins and painful self-sabotage before a diagnosis forced a new path. The meds worked, the edge seemed to vanish, and then he did something rare: he bottled the useful parts of hypomania int...

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Episode 337-From Classroom Insights To An Inclusive...

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2025/12/07

Send us a text What if social apps actually met neurodivergent needs? That question drives a warm, candid conversation with educator-turned-founder Brittany Mosa as we dig into Synchrony, a new social and dating app for autistic and otherwise neurodivergent adults. Brittany traces the journey from a rural Queensland classroom to a Manhattan charter school, where practical inclusion strategies showed that supports designed for autistic students often help everyone. Those lessons—visuals, socia...

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Episode 336-From bullied teen to autism advocate:...

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2025/11/30

Send us a text A teenager sent to rehab without ever touching drugs. A yellow‑Formica childhood stitched with bullying and bravado. A school shooting buried by a bigger headline. Jessica Danel’s story doesn’t ask for sympathy—it demands your attention and rewards it with candor, humor, and hard‑won wisdom. We sit down with Jessica to unpack the heartbeat behind her memoir, Bucket List from a Redneck Girl, and the Just Saying podcast she launched to give other moms a place to breathe. Jessica...

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Episode 335-Belonging Begins When You Trust Your...

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2025/11/23

Send us a text A simple song sparks a bigger truth: creative expression can move us through trauma and toward purpose. From that opening, we dive into a frank, compassionate conversation with neurodiversity consultant and advocate Lisa Richer about late diagnosis, parenting autistic and ADHD kids, and the hard-earned art of trusting your gut when the “experts” disagree. Lisa traces her path from anxiety and ADHD to burnout and recovery, revealing how a single label can validate years of live...

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Episode 334-Dr. Ambrose Pass-Turner helps families...

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2025/11/16

Send us a text A rainy Saturday, a canceled playground trip, and a child named Logan turn into an unforgettable lesson on resilience. We welcome Dr. Ambrose Pass Turner—counseling psychologist, professor, and longtime clinician—to share how a personal health crisis became the spark for a children’s book that helps families navigate disappointment with calm, creativity, and connection. You’ll hear how simple moments can coach big skills: critical thinking, problem-solving, and emotion regulati...

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Episode 333-Beauty and the Beast, Rewired: Autism,...

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2025/11/11

Send us a text A candid, joyful talk with author Bria Rose about flipping Beauty and the Beast on its head, managing perfectionism as autistic creatives, and building momentum as an indie author through outreach, edits, and community. We share practical steps for starting, finishing, and promoting a book while keeping your voice intact. • season focus on autism summits and storytelling magic • Bria Rose’s path from Disneyland to dark romance author • practical advice to start writing without...

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Episode 332-Teach the heart to speak: colors, capes,...

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2025/11/03

Send us a text A dream, a diagnosis, and a blueprint for calmer families—this conversation with Constance Lewis traces how a sudden medical crisis turned into a playful, powerful tool for emotional regulation. When her son Miles began having grand mal seizures at four, Constance and her husband Andre (a pediatric dentist) entered a maze of tests, medications, and second opinions. After a brain lesion finally came to light and surgery followed, they channeled the experience into a children’s b...

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Episode 331-From Isolation to Inclusion: A Mother’s...

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2025/10/26

Send us a text The conversation starts with a memory many families know too well: an early checkup, a handful of red flags, and years of whispered support plans. From there, we move into motion—Carol Waldman shares how a lonely path through therapies and IEPs grew into public advocacy, culminating in a unanimous San Diego measure to expand training and hiring for neurodiverse adults. Along the way, we unpack what real inclusion looks like: a high school three-pointer that turned tokenism into...

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