Videos

In this episode, I sit down with Darren Richardson, a firefighter and paramedic, mindset and mental performance coach, and amputee whose story comes down to one thing, refusing to shrink when life hits hard. Darren’s journey starts at 13 years old when a hiking accident crushed his right foot and ch...

Some guests bring a great story. Others bring a perspective that challenges the way we think about the world around us. Angelina Martinson brings both. In this episode of The AMP’D UP211 Podcast, I sit down with Angelina, the creator of Adaptive Amputees, a biomedical engineer, athlete, and one of t...

Twenty days. That’s how long Chef Zack Wannawong lay in a medically induced coma while surgeons fought a rare and aggressive infection that was tearing through his body. When he finally woke up, his right leg was gone. Just months earlier, Zack was a rising force in the culinary world, leading kitch...

When I first watched Star Wars as a kid, Luke Skywalker’s robotic hand felt like pure movie magic. It was cool. It was futuristic. It wasn’t real. Now it is! In this video, Chris Duncan talks about how the technology behind Luke’s hand isn’t science fiction anymore. Neural prosthetics. Mind-controll...

What if the future amputees have imagined for decades is no longer theoretical? I'm sitting down with Dr. Chris Duncan, Chief Medical Officer at BIOS, Biologic Input Output Systems, a company working at the frontier of neural interface technology. What they are building sounds like science fiction, ...

What does it take to lose everything, and then earn it all back? In this episode of The AMP’D UP211 Podcast, Rick Bontkowski sits down with Deputy Sheriff Matt Swartz, a military veteran, law enforcement veteran, instructor, and amputee who returned to full-duty police work after a catastrophic cras...