Radio Shows

James Robertson is a TBI survivor who was knocked into a coma for four days right before his junior year of high school started. His right frontal brain lobe was bruised and a few connectors were sheered off in a brutal car accident which changed him forever by hot wiring his brain to put out an intensity that he calls “Pure Faith Awesomeness!” His story is a testimony to the power of positivity and the beauty of life unfiltered. He is an aspiring inspirational speaker and you definitely don’t want to miss this radio show!

My guest tonight is James Durham III, friends call him Jimmy Jam. He had done many different jobs, but his main focus has been in real estate property management, specifically apartments. Talking to people, helping people get a good place to live and just helping people in general, has always been something he likes to do. He never sits still always working, working out, having fun, and being positive no matter what, for negativity is poison. We have all been granted a ravishing life thanks to God. We are all truly rich because it is filled with things that are worth more than money and shine brighter than any diamonds…Supportive family, friends that become family, our animals & the author of heaven, supply a beautiful world & equisite life!

The last thing you will ever think about is a TBI, but once you get one then it will be the first thing you think of, so lets finally end the silence. See on Facebook TBIOneLove & also James “Jimmy Jam” Durham at www.caringbridge.org

Love the life you live and that life will love you right back. He’s anxious to have your stories added to TBI One Love Family Tree!

After decades as a physician and teacher at Harvard Medical School and elsewhere, renowned academic neurosurgeon, Dr. Eben Alexander, thought he knew how the brain, mind, and consciousness worked. A transcendental Near-Death Experience (NDE) during a week-long coma from an inexplicable brain infection changed all of that– completely. He has spent the last seven years since his NDE reconciling his rich spiritual experience with contemporary physics and cosmology. He discovered that by probing deeply into our own consciousness, we transcend the limits of the human brain, and of the physical-material realm.

A pioneering scientist and thought leader in consciousness studies, Dr. Alexander has been a guest on Dr. Oz, Oprah, and many other national and international media programs. His books, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife and The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife, have collectively spent more than two years atop the New York Times and international bestseller lists.

My guest will be Peter Hoecherl discussing bias treatment by law enforcement, and what a tangled web that can be weaved. He will walk us through things to watch out for, and new resources to be aware of to protect ourselves. When trouble knocks, we need to be educated in helpful resources ourselves. Advocacy doesn’t come easy. For a “Vulerable Adult” he hasn’t done too bad!

Peter suffered TBI’s in 1989, 96, 98, 2001, 09 & 13. His prognosis has remained that there is nothing that can repair his deficits. He has no left temperal lobe functions, no positive emotional states, No frontal cortex (pleasure center), and his word and language processing very inhibited. Peter has gone on to explore higher education and many hobbies, even after all of the injuries he has sustained. “PJ” knows that in order to move forward, we need an attitude of determination and action..No matter what.

Here we go into 2016 A New Year, the best year so far, let us bring it in together, sharing our successes and failures. We all have some of each, let share so we all can have the best year yet, 2016 is going to be incredible, best ever. In 2015 we made lots of changes, lots of new leaders and a philosophy to let those things fail that are meant to fail. And to let those things succeed that are meant to succeed and they did.

Let us lift each other up in support, as we bring in the New Year for each time zone together for all 4 time zones starting east going west. Together we can achieve all things. I am so excited about 2016 and all that it will bring. All that we shall make of it join in the party as we celebrate a year of blessing that is to come.

We’d like to thank our listener’s for supporting BIRN, so we can carry that support out to others. Together we can and are, making a difference.

Join me for The Stranger Inside Me..With the author on Recovery Now with Kim Justus. It’s a place we’ve all been, but never wanted to visit.

Unfortunately Randy had a heart attack over the holidays, so was not able to make this show. We pray for his complete recovery & reschedule this program. The show did go on .. But Randy was missed.

Kim Justus & Greg Costa will be doing this fill in show, until the new 4th Thursday of each month host starts in a few weeks. More will be revealed! Greg and I will be Kpntime on future shows of mine in 2016. Go back to Oct 14th for our first interview on Greg’s back story!

Hopefully no one has the holiday hangover .. Energy & Emotion crash. Now we decompress and look toward the future. Talk about goals and dreams, that never were .. And goals and dreams that will be revealed. We and our attitude play a big part in this, but so does reliance on spiritual support. Our willingness to be open to unlikely solutions that present, and building a solid foundation of support.

Scott Bloom is the Traumatic Brain Injury Program Coordinator working within the Behavioral Health Services Division of the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs (WDVA). He, has been with the WDVA since 2009 having previously retired from the Army, as a Chief Warrant Officer and Aviator. Today, he continues to serve the veteran community as a Certified Brain Injury Specialist and Veterans Service Officer. Scott has spent the last several years providing awareness trainings to thousands of individuals on Traumatic Brain Injury, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Military Culture across the state of Washington, as well as offering peer to peer mentorship to former service members suffering from the lasting effects of Brain Injury.

Mr. Bloom is also the Co-Chair for the Disability Rights Washington; Disability Advisory Council; a member of the Washington Traumatic Brain Injury Strategic Partnership Advisory Council, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), American Veterans (AMVETS), and the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America

Les is suffering the ill effects of a Migraine tonight, so Kim will wing it, after two days of tech difficulty that cancelled shows. We’re still here!! No one folded up the BIRN tent & hit the road. Join me!

As the Christmas holiday season is upon us and as we are preparing to celebrate Christmas and New Year’s together I hope no matter what that even if you feel a since of loss and even loneliness right now that you will tune and take part in the discussion Tonight and hopefully you will find new Friends again and learn to find your true mission statement and start living life in a bold and beautiful new way!!!

Living with a TBI no matter how it happened, no matter how severe or mild, no matter your age it can change your life in the blink of an eye but you can turn that chapter ahead and start looking at life differently once your dare to Dream and start believing that no matter what you can turn them into your reality!

Subjects for Tonight’s show include:

1. Finding peace and joy in every situation
2. The search for Joy
3. Compassion and completion
4. Self-awareness
5. Overcoming difficult situations
6. Why not you
7. A focus on Completion
8. Enjoying the holiday season
9. Starting to say good bye to 2015 and getting ready for 2016
10. Open Conversation, Indi Music, and the power of peer support