Blink of an Eye SCI Family Navigation & Support 1st 30 Days; Top 15 Podcast, Baltimore, MD (2025)

07/23/2025

🚨𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗗𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧🚨𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟱, 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟱𝟯: An Intimate View from an SCI Personal Attendant: Travis Callison on Decades of Personal Care and Friendship

What’s it like to be the steady presence in someone's life after a spinal cord injury — day after day, year after year?

This week, we sit down with Travis Callison, who has spent decades as a personal attendant and trusted friend to someone living with SCI. He shares moving reflections, surprising moments, and what true commitment and care really look like behind the scenes.

Don’t miss this rare and heartfelt perspective.

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07/23/2025

🚨𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗗𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧🚨𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟱, 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟱𝟯: An Intimate View from an SCI Personal Attendant: Travis Callison on Decades of Personal Care and Friendship

As we continue to explore living a life of integration, we talk with Travis Callison who has been by Tony Schmiesing’s side for 25 years as his personal care attendant. In this episode, Travis shares what that role really means—not just the daily routines, but the interactions, relationship, the honesty, the humor, the boundaries, the life long learnings, and the deep presence that two people who work together in the most intimate physical ways can develop over time. With Tony’s full blessing, Travis shares what it’s been like to walk with someone through decades of life living with a high spinal cord injury, and what being a personal care attendant and caregiver has taught him about care, independence, and connection.

Join us as we learn how some stumble into this work, how Travis sees his role in Tony’s eyes, and how their dynamic has evolved through seasons of challenge and human discovery. Travis gives us a rare window into the often unspoken of side of SCI—the impact of the injury itself, and the people behind the scenes who help make full lives possible.

07/22/2025

🎙️ 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 🎙️
Season 5, Episode 52: Adaptive, Creative, Whole: Living an Integrated Life, 5 Decades of SCI with Tony Schmiesing

What does it mean to live a life that’s not defined by what’s been taken—but shaped by what’s still possible?

In this episode, Louise is joined by Tony Schmiesing, an artist, athlete, and lifelong explorer of the human spirit who has lived with spinal cord injury for over 50 years. Through laughter, insight, and deep honesty, Tony shares how he continues to move through the world with purpose and creativity.

Together, they explore embodiment, acceptance, and how wholeness isn’t about fixing what’s broken—but honoring all that we are.

A rich conversation about presence, possibility, and the long arc of healing.

07/19/2025

🎙️ 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 🎙️ Season 5, Episode 52:Adaptive, Creative, Whole: Living an Integrated Life, 5 Decades of SCI" with Tony Schmiesing

What happens when you meet challenge with curiosity—and loss with creativity?

In this heartfelt episode, Louise sits down with Tony Schmiesing, a lifelong adaptive athlete, filmmaker, and spiritual seeker who has spent more than 50 years living with spinal cord injury.

Tony invites us into his personal philosophy of wholeness, the power of embodiment, and the beauty of not being defined by limitations.

You won’t want to miss this moving conversation about resilience, identity, and living fully.

07/18/2025

🎙️𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲🎙️ 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟱, 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟱𝟮: Adaptive, Creative, Whole: Living an Integrated Life, 5 Decades of SCI with Tony Schmiesing

What does it mean to live an integrated life after a spinal cord injury? In this powerful and reflective episode, Tony Schmiesing shares his journey of over 50 years living with SCI—exploring the ways he’s embraced creativity, adapted through challenge, and found wholeness in unexpected places.

A filmmaker, athlete, yogi, and artist, Tony brings wisdom and warmth to this candid conversation about identity, purpose, and possibility.

🎧 Tune in now wherever you get your podcasts.

07/16/2025

🚨𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗗𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧🚨
𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟱, 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟱𝟮: Adaptive, Creative, Whole: Living an Integrated Life, 5 Decades of SCI with Tony Schmiesing

Meet Tony Schmiesing — adaptive athlete, filmmaker, and storyteller living life without limits.

From surfing to screenwriting, Tony shares his powerful journey as a quadriplegic redefining freedom, creativity, and resilience.

Tune in now — this one will stay with you.

07/16/2025

🚨𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗗𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧🚨𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟱, 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟱𝟮: Adaptive, Creative, Whole: Living an Integrated Life, 5 Decades of SCI with Tony Schmiesing

In this episode—the first in our final Season 5 chapter, “Living a Life of Integration”—we talk with , a Newport Beach native whose life changed forever after a spinal cord injury in 1980. While diving off a jetty, he struck a hidden rock and became a C4–C5 quadriplegic.

Tony refused to let paralysis define him. Channeling his love for surfing, skating, and skiing, he reconnected with adaptive skiing through Disabled Sports USA and the High Fives Foundation. He became the first quadriplegic to conquer a superpipe at X Games and heli-skied the Chugach Mountains in Alaska—achievements featured in the short film The Edge of Impossible.

Over 5 decades of living with high spine acute SCI, Tony became a filmmaker, graphic designer, writer, advocate, and vegan. In our conversation, we explore how Tony moved from tragedy to adaptive adventure after 10 years of renormalizing, and began a new chapter of integration for creativity in his healing, and the design work and advocacy that now shape his integrated life. His story is a vivid testament to rebuilding identity after SCI—by returning to the past to make peace and create new soil to forge a new path and new growth both philosophically and practically.

Stay tuned as we dive into a life rebuilt—not despite injury, but because of injury and everything that includes.

07/15/2025

🎙️𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲🎙️
𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟱, 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟱𝟭: Grief, Identity, and the Long Road to Healing Invisible Wounds with Eliza Chamblin

This week on BLINK of an Eye, therapist Eliza Chamblin helps us understand the emotional impact of spinal cord injury—from the shock and grief to the deep internal shifts that don’t show on scans.

Join us for a heartfelt conversation about patience, presence, and finding strength in vulnerability.

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07/11/2025

🎙️𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲🎙️
𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟱, 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟱𝟭: Grief, Identity, and the Long Road to Healing Invisible Wounds with Eliza Chamblin

How do you heal what no one can see?

In this week’s BLINK of an Eye Podcast, therapist Eliza Chamblin explores the emotional side of spinal cord injury—grief, identity, and the invisible wounds that linger long after the ICU.

It’s a conversation about slowing down, making space for truth, and trusting that healing doesn’t have to look one way.

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07/09/2025

🚨𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗗𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧🚨
𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟱, 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟱𝟭: Grief, Identity, and the Long Road to Healing Invisible Wounds with Eliza Chamblin

What happens after the shock of trauma?

In this episode of the BLINK of an Eye Podcast, NYC therapist Eliza Chamblin joins us to talk about the unseen impact of spinal cord injury—grief, identity shifts, and how trauma lives in the body.

She shares why slowing down, feeling what’s real, and creating space for emotional honesty matters more than quick fixes.

Listen now for a grounded, hopeful conversation on healing:
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07/09/2025

🚨𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗗𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧🚨𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟱, 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟱𝟭: Grief, Identity, and the Long Road to Healing Invisible Wounds with Eliza Chamblin

In this episode of BLINK of an Eye, we’re joined by 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻, a licensed clinical therapist based in New York City 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮, 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴. Through her work with individuals 𝘯𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 and 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘹 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧, 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮—𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘫𝘶𝘳𝘺.

We discuss the 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮, the 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗖𝗨 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, and the 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻-𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆. Eliza explores 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆, how 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆, and 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗖𝗜 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆. Her approach offers 𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙚 not through quick answers, but 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆, and 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲-𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀.

Whether you're in the midst of early recovery or reflecting years down the line, 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙥𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙙𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣, feel what’s real, and know that healing is possible—even when it looks different than we expected.

07/07/2025

🚨 𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗗𝗘 𝗗𝗥𝗢𝗣 🚨
Season 5, Episode 50: Inside the NervGen NVG‑291 Trial: Part II

What happens when you say yes to a medical trial that could change the game?
Leslie Fuller did — and her courage is beginning to reveal results.

From spinal cord injury to signs of regeneration, this episode captures a moment where science meets faith, and where persistence meets possibility.

This is not just data. It’s lived experience.
It’s hope, unfolding in real time.

🎧 Tune in at blinkofaneyepodcast.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

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