A Contagious Smile Podcast
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A Contagious Smile Podcast
Stop surviving and start thriving. A Contagious Smile is a globally ranked podcast providing a safe haven for abuse survivors and special needs families navigating the journey of trauma recovery. Whether you are healing from domestic violence, narcissistic abuse, childhood trauma, or the daily chall...
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When A Hospital Visit Feels Like A Ticket Line
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A six-hour ER wait time shouldn’t come with a text message like you’re waiting for a table, but that’s exactly where we found o...
We Break Down How Peer Support Builds Trust
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We start with the kind of married banter you can only have when you know each other too well, then we turn toward something big...
What If The Real Boundary Is Love
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Some people don’t just accept kindness, they consume it. We’re candid about what it’s like to be the kind of person who will gi...
This Is What It Takes with Michael Mackniak and Victoria Cuore with special guest Daniel Ryan Cotler. Healing Loudly After Narcissistic Abuse
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Somebody Has To Say It Podcast: Are Our Words Making Us Meaner Than We Think with Mike Macknaik and Victoria Cuore
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“Literally” might be the most abused word in the English language, but our real problem is bigger than a few annoying phrases....
What Legacy Are You Really Building
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The scariest thing you can do in a family built on masks is tell the truth out loud. We sit down as Michael and Victoria and ta...
BRAND NEW PODCAST SOMEBODY HAS TO SAY IT WITH VICTORIA CUORE AND MIKE MACKNIAK
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Electronic medical records were supposed to make healthcare simpler. Instead, we’re watching patients get buried under repeated...
When The Likes Fade, The Truth Stays
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A seven-hour surgery is one thing. The days after can be the real test, especially when your body reacts, your pain is off the...
Mediumship Without The Movie Magic
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Your gut knows things before your brain can explain them, but how do you tell the difference between real intuition and a loud...
Surgery, Setbacks, And Self-Advocacy
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One minute we’re hearing, “You can go home,” and the next we’re being warned that leaving in the wrong condition could mean par...
His First Pedicure Michael's Father's Day
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A Father’s Day pedicure turns into a surprisingly tender milestone when my husband walks in convinced it “isn’t for men” and wa...
How The Guardian Model Rebuilds Mental Health Care
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The fastest way to break a person isn’t always the illness; it’s the system that treats them like a number and calls it “care.”...
We Cannot Keep Pouring Into People Who Never Pour Back
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Some people call you a friend, then disappear the second you stop being convenient. We get blunt about that kind of fake loyalt...
When A Medium Nails The Details with special guests Danniel Worthen Cullumber and Gvnage Mishipeshu
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A stranger says one word that stops us cold: “hands.” Danielle Worthen Columber has never met us, never heard our backstory, an...
This Is What It Takes with special guest Daniel Ryan Cotler, Psychological Warfare In Intimate Relationships
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The most dangerous abuse is often the kind nobody can photograph. We talk with Daniel Ryan Cotler, author of *Voiceless No More...
Amir Arison: The Kind of Human the World Needs More Of
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A kid who has endured more surgeries than most adults can fathom sits beside a mother who refuses to let trauma be the last wor...
Amir Arison Beyond The Blacklist: Why Faith's Poetry Touched His Heart
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A few lines of poetry can hit harder than a whole hour of advice, and that’s exactly how we choose to end this one. We wrap up...
Care Coalition Caregiving Guests of Kellan Fluckinger
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When you’re trying to keep a loved one safe, get the right diagnosis, or survive a crisis, the healthcare system can feel less...
A Medium Names The Missing Hand
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She said one word that changed the whole room: hands. Danielle Worthing Columber had never met Victoria before, didn’t know her...
What A Roast Reveals About How We See Ourselves
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You’re getting a front-row seat to a special kind of family chaos: we hand the mic to the crew, announce a roast of Michael, an...
Schizophrenia And The Long Road Back
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A schizophrenia diagnosis can feel like your future just collapsed into one terrifying question: what happens now? We talk with...
Five Hard Truths About Caregiving Rights And Advocacy
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“HIPAA” gets blamed for everything, families get shut out, and a loved one in crisis gets reduced to a label and a sedative. We...
Breaking The Silence On Abuse
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A lot of people say they want survivors to “speak up” until the story gets messy, angry, and specific. We go there. We talk abo...
Standing Tall Through Pain And Change
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Caregiver resilience stories come alive when you laugh through the hard moments. Your body can outpace your mind, and when scia...
You Can Stop Giving Your Happiness Away
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When Anil Gupta's wife heard "we're homeless," she smiled. That single reaction becomes the foundation for trauma recovery, not...
When Civil Liberties Collide with Survival with special guest Mark Astor
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When love alone won't stop the spiral, families need answers. A parent's worst nightmare: substance use disorder and mental ill...
A Private Message From Grandparents And A Skeptic’s Reaction
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One conversation can shake your certainty, even if you’re the type of person who normally needs proof. We sit down and tell the...
How Matthew Dixon Recovered From Schizophrenia And Biked Across Canada
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A schizophrenia diagnosis can feel like your life has been rewritten without your consent, and the hardest part is often the un...
When A Stranger Shares A Dark Secret
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A guy offers to help us move a table and chairs, and for a few minutes it feels like a normal neighborly moment. Then, out of n...
This Is What It Takes with Special Guest Rebecca Tuoni. Unbreakable Caregivers
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When trauma survivors stop seeking help, the system has failed. Michael Mackniak and Victoria Cuore share how retraumatization...
A Life Built On Miracles, Work Ethic, And Showing Up with Very Special Guest, Amir Arison
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Domestic violence recovery and caregiver resilience aren't one-time breakthroughs; they're built day by day. This week, we sit...
Brave Conquer Fear Interview with Cheryl Preheim of NBC 11Aive and Faith
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When doctors told Faith's family to "let her go," they chose courage instead. NBC journalist Cheryl Preheim sits down to discus...
This Is What It Takes with Michael Mackniak and Victoria Cuore. People Stop Seeking Help When The System Stops Listening
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The moment “help” makes you feel smaller, unheard, or more afraid, something in the system has already failed. We sit with the...
Why We Go Off Script And Talk Real Life
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Michael and Victoria reveal why A Contagious Smile stays unscripted on purpose, because trauma recovery and caregiver resilienc...
Why Families Get Lost In Healthcare Systems And How To Fight Back with Michael Mackniak and Victoria Cuore
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When special needs families fight healthcare systems, they're told they're doing everything wrong, while goalposts keep moving....
Launching A Mental Health Support Network With Real Resources
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Healing from trauma and abuse doesn't happen alone. In this episode, we explore how to build and access real mental health supp...
Building A Free Mental Health Resource Network For Caregivers with Michael Mackniak
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A Mother Remembers Her Son And Rebuilds Life After Opioid Loss with Katie Rizzo
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One phone call. One prescription. One life split into before and after. Katie Rizzo, a former AP biology teacher, lost her firs...
Ripple Retreat with guest JJ Holley, A Veteran who lives to pay it forward
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JJ Holley spent seven years rebuilding his life. Now, in a historic farmhouse in Maine, he's building something bigger: Ripple...
A New Partnership For Trauma-Informed Mental Health Support with Michael Mackniak
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The scariest part of a mental health crisis isn’t always the symptoms. It’s the moment you realise nobody is talking to each ot...