"Teaching with "Third Eye Insight" & Changing Lives"

Charlie and JD sit down with Devin Fernandez, founder and program director of Third Eye Insight, a martials academy for the blind and visually impaired on Long Island. Devin has been a practitioner of the Martial Arts specifically Ninpo Ninjutsu for many years, long before he himself was stricken with Retinitis Pigmentosa in 2000. Retinitis Pigmentosa a degenerative eye disease that results in blindness, but that hasn't stopped him from training and passing along his knowledge to others.

In this episode, Devin shares his personal story and provide our audience with a better understanding of Retinitis Pigmentosa, provides encouragement and training tips for other adaptive martial artist and their instructors.

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"The Real Life Definition of An Adaptive Martial Artist"

JD and Charlie sit down with Philly native, Kenn Perry to learn more about Polio and it lead him to martial arts. Kenn talks about how Kenpo can be modified to fit any practitioners needs and how an Adaptive Martial Artist can, in some ways be more dangerous than their abled body peers.

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"Workin' 9 To 5", With A Disability

JD and Charlie are joined by follow broadcaster and member of "Camp CP", Tom Leypoldt. In this episode Tom sheds light on joining the workforce and climbing "The Corporate Ladder" with a disability to become Executive Direct of PEG-TV, a local public access TV station in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Tom also talks about how comedy has been an icebreaker for him, the positives and negatives of social security disability benefits and he also gives JD some advice about CP in terms of longevity and aging.

Note: Music elements in this podcast were open source and downloaded from freemusicarchive.org