Latest Overcoming the odds Podcast Episodes

Lisa Zimmer: Substance Use Disorder and Long Term Recovery.

Overcoming The Odds - October 17, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode, I talk with a friend of mine whom I've known since 1st grade. Lisa and I were neighbors and met at the bus stop on the way to school in 1987. Though she only lived near my for 2 years we remained in touch and friendly for all these years. Lisa's journey was / is very different...

Lisa Zimmer: Substance Use Disorder and Long Term Recovery.

Overcoming The Odds - October 17, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode, I talk with a friend of mine whom I've known since 1st grade. Lisa and I were neighbors and met at the bus stop on the way to school in 1987. Though she only lived near my for 2 years we remained in touch and friendly for all these years. Lisa's journey was / is very different...

Linda Webb: An Ayurveda practitioner, Reiki master and certified restorative yoga instructor

Overcoming The Odds - September 27, 2021 14:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode, I talk to Linda Webb of amanimind.com Linda Webb is the founder of a Amani Mind. The healthcare startup focuses on helping people improve healthcare outcomes and their therapeutic experience through an integrated model blending Western and Eastern treatments and practices. She i...

Bill Prokopow: Money, prostitutes, a revelation, a life altering stroke, and a mental breakdown.

Overcoming The Odds - September 13, 2021 19:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode, I talk to Bill Prokopow. Bill is an amazing musical talent with many projects under his belt. But this conversation with Bill doesn't really talk about music. More so, Bill talks about a multi year experience he had with this his father. Back in June I got an email from bill tha...

Bill Prokopow: Money, prostitutes, a revelation, a life altering stroke and a mental breakdown.

Overcoming The Odds - September 13, 2021 19:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode, I talk to Bill Prokopow. Bill is an amazing musical talent with many projects under his belt. But this conversation with Bill doesn't really talk about music. More so, Bill talks about a multi year experience he had with this his father. Back in June I got an email from bill tha...

Jason Shields: Living with Cystic Fibrosis and making every day count.

Overcoming The Odds - August 30, 2021 21:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode I talk with a long time friend and fellow CF patient, Jason Shields. Jason and I met while being employed as snowboard instructors at Bear Mountain in CA during the early 2000s. Though our paths are different, they are also very similar. It amazes me that out of all the snowboard...

Ben Wong: It's not enough to not be racist. Stories about being Asian American in todays America

Overcoming The Odds - August 16, 2021 12:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
This is episode 5 where I talk with my friend and film making compadre, Ben Wong. We discuss his experiences been as an Asian American in todays America. We also talk about , his parents and his girlfriend having white men negatively comment about their being Asians too.   Ben is a very talented...

Dr. Rocky: Emigrating from Columbia in the 80's, Learning English and Succeeding as a Doctor

Overcoming The Odds - August 02, 2021 12:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode, Josh talks with Dr. Rocio C. Pasion, O.D. a board certified optometrist specializing in primary care, and specialty contact lens fitting.  Prior to becoming a doctor, Dr. Rocky (as her friends call her) emigrated to the US from Columbia in the 1980s. As a non english speaking ch...

Michelle Terry: Entrepreneur, medium and more.

Overcoming The Odds - July 19, 2021 12:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode, Josh talks to a long time friend Michelle Terry about what it was like for her and her brother to grow up with a dad who was diagnosed schizophrenic.  Together they discuss his mental illness, how we as humans find coping mechanisms to help us deal with the more serious parts of...

May Herzfeld: Growing up Foreign, Living Through Trauma and Succeeding in Tech

Overcoming The Odds - July 05, 2021 12:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Put on your seat belts (no pun intended) for this one, it gets serious at times. In this casual interview between Overcoming the Odds host, Josh Coyne and May Herzfeld,  they discuss challenges May faced at a young age. She shares stories about being in a severe car accident which left her with ...

Sarah Bigham: Living with Interstitial Cystitis

Overcoming The Odds - June 20, 2021 18:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Host Josh Coyne talks with Sarah Bigham about living with chronic pain, art, healthcare and her new book, which can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Kind-Chemist-Wife-Musings-m/dp/1948920182/ One of the chronic pain conditions Sarah is living with is called Interstitial Cystitis or IC (als...