Brain Friends
Brain health science you can use, centered on stroke recovery and aphasia.
A survivor-led show that takes complicated medical topics and makes them clear. Real talk for survivors, families, and the professionals who serve them.
Medical confusion, turned into everyday clarity.
Brain Friends takes complicated medical and recovery topics and makes them clear, real, and human.
The show is survivor-led. It centers stroke recovery and aphasia, and it speaks to real people and professionals at the same time, without sounding like a medical brochure.
Hosted by Angie Cauthorn, stroke survivor, speaker, and advocate.
Listen to the latest episodes
New conversations on stroke recovery, aphasia, and brain health. Press play, or find Brain Friends in your favorite app.
A growing, global audience
People are listening, and they are listening everywhere.
One show, many seats at the table.
Brain Friends is not only one lane. It brings lived experience and professional knowledge into the same conversation.
That is the value of the show. It talks to the people living recovery and the people guiding it, at once.
- 1Survivors & people with aphasiaClear, real talk about recovery and what comes next.
- 2Care partners, family & friendsLanguage and understanding for the people walking alongside.
- 3Clinicians & rehab professionalsThe patient voice, plus research made practical.
- 4Students, trainees & researchersTranslation between the science and the lived experience.
Dr. Davetrina Seles Gadson
A neuroscientist, speech-language pathologist, and guiding voice of Brain Friends, Dr. Seles Gadson helped shape the show from the beginning. Her voice still opens and closes every episode. That bookend remains, always.
Reach a trusted community that ordinary advertising misses.
Brain Friends offers sponsors something rare: a survivor-led voice trusted by real people and respected by professionals in communities often underrepresented in brain health education.
Sponsorship supports the show. It never controls the editorial. Support is disclosed to listeners, and it is not a medical endorsement.
Until next time, take care of your brain, take care of your body, and take care of each other.
Peace y'all.