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Michael Bovarnick Friday, November 6, 2026

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On Ask Win today (Friday, November 6, 2026), Best-Selling Author, Win C welcomes Michael Bovarnick. Michael is an 83-year-old prostate cancer survivor, patient advocate, speaker, and founder of The Prostate Education Project, a free resource for men and families navigating prostate cancer. Diagnosed more than 23 years ago, Michael has experienced surgery, recurrence, radiation, androgen deprivation therapy, and the life changes that can follow treatment. He is also a survivor of triple coronary bypass surgery. Drawing on decades of lived experience, Michael speaks about patient education, caregiving, intimacy, resilience, aging, and purpose. His message is simple: serious illness can change your circumstances without taking away your voice, dignity, participation, or ability to help others.To learn more about Michael visit Theprostateeducationproject.org

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Water is dripping into the closet again, the dehumidifier keeps kicking on, and we’re trying to hold it together while the house and the body both demand attention. We share a real-time update on what it’s like when an ADA accessible bathroom with a roll-in shower fails where it matters most: the floor seal. When the “fix” is basically a patch job, you don’t just get noise and inconvenience, you get repeat water damage, contractors, mitigation equipment, estimates, and that sinking feeling of doing this all over again.

At the same time, the knee situation is coming to a head. An upcoming MRI could point to a ligament tear or push us toward a total knee replacement, and we talk honestly about what we’ve been told about recovery, pain, and how knee replacements can be tougher than a total hip. If you live with chronic pain, cerebral palsy, or navigate life as a wheelchair user, you’ll recognize the mental math: what choice gives you the best shot at stability, function, and fewer daily battles?

We also say the quiet part out loud about caregiver support. When your body gets stiffer after days in bed and your home environment is literally leaking, the workload lands on everyone around you. We’re exhausted, frustrated, still showing up, and still making the calls that keep life moving forward.

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Canceling surgery the day before it happens is a gut-punch, but sometimes it is the most responsible medical choice you can make. We sit down for a candid life update on why the plan changes, how a past ICU crisis still shapes every decision, and why “where” a surgery happens can matter as much as “who” performs it when you live with cerebral palsy.

We talk about getting our paperwork together, including a living will and revisiting DNR decisions, then we get into the real reason the brakes get hit: a system that struggled to place a critical patient in the ICU and the memory loss that comes with intubation and a medically induced coma. That experience rewires your definition of safe. If a surgery center cannot handle an emergency, we are not rolling the dice, especially with a history of fast complications.

From there, we break down what is happening with the knee: a kneecap that pops in and out, unstable hardware, reduced bend, and the push to find the right fix. We explore options like partial knee replacement, MPFL reconstruction, and groove surgery for patellar tracking, plus how cerebral palsy, smaller bone structure, and aging joints complicate standard orthopedic advice. We also address anesthesia risk, including a propofol allergy, and why we are determined to advocate loudly until we land on a plan that protects mobility and long-term health.

If you have ever had to fight for the safer option, you will feel this one. Subscribe for updates, share this with someone navigating complex care, and leave a review with the one question you wish every surgeon would answer up front.

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Elyssa Schneider Saturday, September 26, 2026

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On Ask Win today (Saturday, September 26, 2026), Best-Selling Author, Win C welcomes Elyssa Schneider. Elyssa is a health advocate and educator focused on raising awareness about the connection between environmental toxicity and mental health. Her work grew out of her own 28-year struggle with depression and her experience addressing mercury and lead exposure as part of her personal health journey. After seeing profound changes in her own life, Elyssa began supporting others who were searching for answers to persistent symptoms and witnessed meaningful transformations as they explored and addressed heavy metal exposure. Today, she helps individuals and families become more informed, ask better questions, navigate available testing and professional resources, and feel less alone in the process. Elyssa combines personal experience, ongoing education, holistic health principles, and a faith-based perspective to encourage people to take a more proactive role in understanding their health. To learn more about Elyssa email her at elyssapr@gmail.com

Depression can feel like a life sentence, especially when you do everything “right” and nothing really changes. We sit down with Alisa Schneider, who shares a raw, honest story that starts with unexplained sadness at nine years old and stretches into nearly three decades of trying to power through, trialing medication, and chasing solutions that never fully touch the pain.

Then a clinic runs the kind of testing she had never been offered before and everything shifts: toxic heavy metal levels, specifically lead and mercury, show up “off the charts.” We talk about heavy metal toxicity and mental health, why stored toxins can be missed by a standard blood test, and what a provocation heavy metal test looks like in real life, including a chelation dose followed by a timed urine collection. Alisa also explains chelation therapy in plain language, what it is, what it is not, and how her symptoms changed once the metal burden started coming down.

We also zoom out into environmental medicine, everyday exposure sources (think old paint, pipes, and mercury dental fillings), and why so many people never get evaluated for toxins when they are struggling with depression, anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, or brain fog. Along the way, I share how this conversation ties into my own health planning, surgery stress, and the bigger question of what our bodies have been carrying since childhood.

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Herbert Heagh-Avritt Wednesday, September 23, 2026

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On Ask Win today (Wednesday, September 23, 2026), Best-Selling Author, Win C welcomes Herbert Heagh-Avritt. Herbert is a cognitive brain training coach, speaker, and traumatic brain injury survivor who has firsthand experience rebuilding his own brain function and regaining his capacity for life. Today, as a “personal trainer for your brain,” Herb shows other TBI survivors how to strengthen cognitive function, rebuild capacity, and discover what may still be possible for their lives. To learn more about Herbert visit http://herb-brain-training.vibepreview.com

A brain injury can take more than memory, it can take your emotional control, your work, your routines, and the feeling that you’re still you. Herbert Hay Averett joins us to tell the full story behind his snowboarding crash, the years of confusion that followed, and the moment he realised motivation alone was not restoring his cognitive capacity. He shares what the dark stretch looked like, what kept him here, and why the road back often comes in slow, hard-earned steps.

We talk about neuroplasticity in plain language and why “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” is simply wrong. Herbert explains how he discovered the Kennedy Method and combat brain training, and what changed when he started exercising multiple cognitive processes at once, including working memory, anticipation, focus, and processing speed. The surprising part is how these shifts show up in everyday life: cooking dinner faster, completing projects without getting lost, and getting distance from the loud, negative internal voice many TBI survivors recognise.

We also zoom out to veterans dealing with repetitive concussive trauma, depression, homelessness, and a suicide rate that should stop all of us in our tracks. Finally, we dig into who this kind of cognitive training may help, including people with ADHD, autism, disabilities, and even those who simply want a stronger, more efficient brain.

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Your website can look perfect and still be impossible for someone to use. That gap is where trust breaks, sales disappear, and people with disabilities get silently shut out. I sit down with Boris Rudelson, owner of Abris Consulting, to talk about what website accessibility really means for small businesses and why ADA-aware design is becoming a baseline, not a bonus.

We get into the practical side of accessible web design: what business owners miss, how accessibility affects real customers, and why “I didn’t know” is such a common and costly problem. Boris shares how he learned more about accessibility requirements, why he now educates clients, and how simple improvements can make a site clearer, safer, and easier to navigate.

Then we connect accessibility to growth. Boris explains why SEO only works when you first find what makes a business different, and he tells a story about a young electrician whose website focused on EV charging stations and generators, driving a major share of new business. We also talk about how I browse the web using speech-to-text and regular tools like Chrome, where AI helps, where it fails, and why smarter word prediction would reduce friction for everyone, not just disabled users. We wrap with options like accessibility widgets and extensions that can add user controls such as font size and contrast.

If you care about ADA compliance, inclusive design, small business SEO, and building a website that real humans can use, this conversation will sharpen how you think about “good” web design. Subscribe, share this with a business owner, and leave a review with one accessibility feature you wish every site had.

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Money can feel like a moral test. Selling can feel pushy. And even when you are good at what you do, something inside can still freeze when it is time to make an offer. We sit down with Catherine Clift, a wealth mindset coach, to name what is really happening under the surface: subconscious money blocks, worthiness wounds, and the fear based stories that keep smart, caring people stuck in avoidance.

Catherine shares her winding road through career changes, a long stretch in a call center, and the moment she discovered the Sedona Method release technique through an “abundance course” that challenged her old beliefs about being spiritual versus being successful. We dig into the difference between gripping your feelings for familiarity and choosing to let go for freedom, plus why happiness comes first and abundance follows. If you have ever thought money will finally make you feel safe, this conversation flips that script in a way that is both grounded and hopeful.

We also go personal: Catherine opens up about alopecia areata and the mirror work that helped her rebuild self love, while Wynne shares a raw story of cerebral palsy, family trauma, reporting abuse, and learning to live with resilience instead of bitterness. You will hear a guided “letting go” exercise you can try along with us, designed to soften anger and bring real relief in minutes.

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Your body might be telling the truth long before your thoughts catch up. Andrew joins us to connect the dots between trauma stored in the body, chronic stress patterns, and the way pain, digestion, and anxiety can quietly become “normal” over time. We talk about healing as a kind of inner time travel: meeting the earlier you with better tools, better language, and more compassion.

We dig into Chinese medicine as a map for mind-body health, including a powerful idea: the colon as grief. That leads to a candid conversation about gut symptoms, emotional constriction, and how anger and loss can live in the nervous system and fascia. Andrew also shares a perspective on ancestral influence and vagal tone, using a musician’s lens to describe what peace “sounds” like versus anxiety and how the vagus nerve can be gently retuned.

You’ll also get practical, listener-friendly takeaways. Andrew explains how to begin taking a Chinese pulse as a form of meditation and self-listening, plus why joint pain often requires treating above and below the problem area. We cover at-home somatic trauma release tools like a chi machine, vibration plate, and rebounder, and we close with breathing retraining using a high altitude training mask to support relaxation through healthier CO2 tolerance. If you want actionable steps for nervous system regulation, holistic healing, and trauma-informed self-care, this one is for you.

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