What’s it like to survive a rare illness? To spend years living and working in Antarctica? To set a world record?
To become a chess grandmaster, rehabilitate wild animals, or study our trash after we throw it away?
On Tell Me What It’s Like, host Stacy Raine talks with people whose lives and work have immersed them in worlds most of us never see firsthand. They share what it was really like to live through these experiences, what they learned, and how it changed the way they see the world around them.
Listen to the latest episode:
Raising a Child with Disabilities: Jane Fischer on Pushing Past “Never”
When Jane Fischer’s daughter Suzy was born in 1974, doctors said she would never walk, talk, or learn. Jane spent the next five decades proving them wrong, and it wasn’t until Suzy was in her late 30s that the family finally learned the name for her condition: Joubert syndrome, a rare genetic disorder.
Coming Back to the Game: A Quad Amputee Soccer Coach on Reclaiming His Confidence
Scott Martin was a soccer coach on the rise before a rare infection took his hands and parts of his feet. What followed was a long road through depression, discrimination, and doubt, until he found his way back to the game.
