On today’s show, Adrian Paul and Ethan Dettenmaier and I welcome our Hero of the Week, Jocelyn Cheng of Measures for the Future, to explore how music therapy positively impacts a child’s intelligence, memory, learning capacity, concentration, and social interaction.
Peace Fund Radio #101
Actress, model, and Sarcoma Foundation of America Board Member and Spokesperson Marisa Petroro shares her own story of surviving Rhabdomyosarcoma in a candid conversation with Adrian Paul and Ethan Dettenmaier about the challenges facing pediatric cancer patients and their families.
In my Hero of the Week segment, I look back at the awe-inspiring ways in which Annaleise Carr, Tegan Stedman, Jack Andraka, Alexandra Scott, and Malcolm Sutherland-Foggio have contributed comfort, funding, awareness, and hard science to the battle against cancer before turning the spotlight on our new Hero, Grace Callwood, who founded Grace’s We Cancerve Movement in 2011 after being diagnosed with lymphoma. Cancer-free since April 2014, Grace brings joy and aid to children affected by hunger, homelessness, and illness.
Peace Fund Radio #100
On today’s show, One Simple Wish founder Danielle Gletow talks to Adrian Paul and Ethan Dettenmaier about the wishes her organization grants to foster children, her personal history with the foster care system, and how we can all work together to better understand and relieve the challenges facing foster children and foster families.
And in my Hero of the Week segment, learn how 93-year-old Gracie Cyr (whose grandson, Dalton, is a previous Peace Fund Radio Hero) still cares for her 98th foster child.