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Finding Common Ground

Finding Common Ground

著者： ROC Vox Podcast Network
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2026年5月12日まで。4か月目以降は月額1,500円で自動更新します。

概要

 Many families feel like they're treading water, especially those living with autism and other developmental differences. As your hosts, we get it, and we know this frustration all too well.

In response, we've created tried-and-true strategies that help everyday people achieve extraordinary things. Even those who might have doubted themselves can borrow our confidence, follow one of our "blueprints," and with a supportive community cheering them on, make the impossible happen.

Each success inspires those coming up behind us, creating a ripple effect of positive change—Which is why we'll never run out of content!Our podcast tackles tough issues head-on with unfiltered conversations focused on solutions.

We won't avoid "the elephant in the room"—in fact, we'll invite it to dinner! Our unique format appeals to people from across the globe, offering strategies that turn efforts for one into advocacy for the greater good. We breakdown topics like innovative housing, effective self-advocacy, and healthcare complexities, guided by our audience on what to cover next.

Each episode offers fresh perspectives, featuring many guests you won't find on mainstream platforms. We intentionally invite differing viewpoints because finding common ground with those we see as obstacles is the surest way to create new and innovative solutions.

Join our Supporter's Club and check out our merch. Let’s ensure the A/I/DD community's voice is heard. If you want to dig deeper, schedule a session with us. We happily work one-on-one, develop trainings, and offer public speaking engagements to assist individuals and organizations in promoting things like inclusivity and equity.

Join our community, plant seeds of positive change, and before you know it, you'll be moving mountains with us! Want to support our mission and access exclusive content? Join our Supporter's Club and check out our merch.

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/finding-common-ground--6199849/support.©2026 ROC Vox Recording & Production 心理学 心理学・心の健康 衛生・健康的な生活
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  • What does it really look like from inside the foster care system?

    What does it really look like from inside the foster care system?
    2026/04/17
    In this episode of Finding Common Ground, we take a deep dive into foster care with Genevieve Rose Traversy, a Foster Care Recruiter with Lutheran Services Carolinas.
    A third-generation foster child and teen mom, Genevieve could have repeated the cycle. She didn’t.
    We often celebrate when a child is removed from a dangerous home. But our attention can’t stop there, as if the solution is complete. As Genevieve shared,
    “We talk a lot about saving kids. We don’t always talk about what happens after.”
    For Genevieve, this isn’t theory. She lived it.
    “When you grow up in the system, you see the gaps differently, and you carry them with you.”
    Now she’s working inside the system that didn’t always meet her needs, using that perspective to create better outcomes for children today. Because
    “Lived experience doesn’t just give you a voice. It gives you a responsibility.”
    📖 Read her story:
    Focus on the Family – Faces of Foster Care
    https://www.focusonthefamily.com/pro-life/faces-of-foster-care/
    🔗 Connect with Genevieve:
    TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@genevieverosetraversy
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/genevieverosetraversy
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/genevieve-traversy/
    #FindingCommonGround, #PodcastWithPurpose, #ChangingTheWayAdvocacysDone, #EmpowermentAdvocacy, #UnfilteredConversations, #FocusedOnSolutions, #InviteTheElephantToDinner, #FosterCare, #FosterCareAwareness, #FosterCareSystem, #ChildWelfare, #ChildAdvocacy, #TraumaInformed, #TraumaInformedCare, #LivedExperience, #BreakTheCycle, #CycleBreaker, #VoicesThatMatter, #YouthInCare, #FormerFosterYouth, #FosterCareJourney, #SocialImpact, #AdvocateForChildren, #SupportFosterYouth


    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/finding-common-ground--6199849/support.

    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production Studios in Rochester, NY. Learn more at rocvox.com.
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    39 分
  • When Intense Supports Are So Heavy, How Do You Not Sink?

    When Intense Supports Are So Heavy, How Do You Not Sink?
    2026/04/11
    What happens when exhaustion turns into something darker than burnout, when a parent begins having thoughts they never imagined they’d think?

    In this raw, unflinching conversation with Jillian Eisloeffel, the mom behind Bobby’s World, we go beyond surface-level stories of resilience and into the reality most people never say out loud. Jillian shares what it’s like to raise a child with profound needs inside a system that was supposed to help, but instead leaves families isolated, misunderstood, and fighting to stay afloat.

    This episode strips away the platitudes and faces the truth of parenting in survival mode:

    The moments you feel yourself disappearing inside your own life

    The kind of exhaustion no amount of sleep fixes

    The silence that surrounds families when the system gets it wrong

    Even when you understand that behavior is information, someone still has to decode it. And more often than not, that someone is the parent, carrying it 24/7 while the system struggles to keep up.

    Through connection, honesty, and one mother’s refusal to keep pretending, Jillian found a path back, first to herself, then to others walking the same invisible line. Today, she’s helping lead the National Council on Severe Autism in New York State, giving voice to families who have been living this reality in the dark for far too long.

    This isn’t an episode about hope that glosses over pain. It’s about finding language for what you’ve been feeling, and realizing you are not alone. If you’ve ever sat in the quiet and wondered how much more you can carry, this conversation is where you’ll finally hear someone say it out loud.

    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/finding-common-ground--6199849/support.

    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production Studios in Rochester, NY. Learn more at rocvox.com.
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    42 分
  • The Housing Waiting List Trap: The Crisis Families are Living

    The Housing Waiting List Trap: The Crisis Families are Living
    2026/04/03
    What happens when your child needs lifelong support, but the “options” ahead are mostly waitlists, dead ends, and ideas that don’t really exist?

    In this episode of Finding Common Ground, we sit down with Wendy Ernzen, a Michigan mom, advocate, fundraiser, and fellow podcaster, for a conversation that so many families will feel in their bones.

    Wendy shares what it looked like when her family hit a breaking point, and how a system that should help too often only responds once families are already in crisis.

    One line from this episode says it all:
    “There should be real options that are presented to parents… not ideas, not options.”

    We talk about:

    - What families are actually told when school ends
    - Why housing and support often only open up after crisis
    - The invisible emotional load of planning for “after we’re gone”
    - How siblings, family homes, and creative support networks fit into the bigger picture
    - Why so many families are being forced to build the future themselves

    This episode is honest, validating, and uncomfortably real, especially for anyone quietly carrying the question:
    What will happen to my loved one if I can’t do this forever?

    There are no easy answers here, but there is truth, perspective, and the kind of conversation more families need to hear.

    If this fear has ever lived in the back of your mind, this episode is for you.

    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/finding-common-ground--6199849/support.

    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production Studios in Rochester, NY. Learn more at rocvox.com.
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    43 分
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