Hello, World!

Brain Friends: The Podcast

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.

What Brain Friends is

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.

“Brain Friends delivers brain health science you can use, centered on stroke recovery and aphasia.”
Recurring segments
Smart Cookie Survivor Spotlight

Listen to the latest episodes

New conversations on stroke recovery, aphasia, and brain health. Press play, or find Brain Friends in your favorite app.

Your Buzzsprout player goes here Replace this box with the Brain Friends embed code from Buzzsprout. Until then, the button below sends listeners to the live player.

A growing, global audience

People are listening, and they are listening everywhere.

15K+
All-time listens
100+
Countries reached
30
Episodes published
Who it's for

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.

  • 1
    Survivors & people with aphasiaClear, real talk about recovery and what comes next.
  • 2
    Care partners, family & friendsLanguage and understanding for the people walking alongside.
  • 3
    Clinicians & rehab professionalsThe patient voice, plus research made practical.
  • 4
    Students, trainees & researchersTranslation between the science and the lived experience.
Built together

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.

Until next time, take care of your brain, take care of your body, and take care of each other.

Peace y'all.

Brain Friends: The Podcast
A podcast of Rivers Speaking Solutions  |  BFTP@riversspeaking.com  |  riversspeaking.com

Hello, World!

Brain Friends: The Podcast

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.

What Brain Friends is

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.

“Brain Friends delivers brain health science you can use, centered on stroke recovery and aphasia.”
Recurring segments
Smart Cookie Survivor Spotlight

Listen to the latest episodes

New conversations on stroke recovery, aphasia, and brain health. Press play, or find Brain Friends in your favorite app.

Your Buzzsprout player goes here Replace this box with the Brain Friends embed code from Buzzsprout. Until then, the button below sends listeners to the live player.

A growing, global audience

People are listening, and they are listening everywhere.

15K+
All-time listens
100+
Countries reached
30
Episodes published
Who it's for

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.

  • 1
    Survivors & people with aphasiaClear, real talk about recovery and what comes next.
  • 2
    Care partners, family & friendsLanguage and understanding for the people walking alongside.
  • 3
    Clinicians & rehab professionalsThe patient voice, plus research made practical.
  • 4
    Students, trainees & researchersTranslation between the science and the lived experience.
Built together

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.

Until next time, take care of your brain, take care of your body, and take care of each other.

Peace y'all.

Brain Friends: The Podcast
A podcast of Rivers Speaking Solutions  |  BFTP@riversspeaking.com  |  riversspeaking.com

Hello, World!

Brain Friends: The Podcast

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.

What Brain Friends is

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.

“Brain Friends delivers brain health science you can use, centered on stroke recovery and aphasia.”
Recurring segments
Smart Cookie Survivor Spotlight

Listen to the latest episodes

New conversations on stroke recovery, aphasia, and brain health. Press play, or find Brain Friends in your favorite app.

Your Buzzsprout player goes here Replace this box with the Brain Friends embed code from Buzzsprout. Until then, the button below sends listeners to the live player.

A growing, global audience

People are listening, and they are listening everywhere.

15K+
All-time listens
100+
Countries reached
30
Episodes published
Who it's for

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.

  • 1
    Survivors & people with aphasiaClear, real talk about recovery and what comes next.
  • 2
    Care partners, family & friendsLanguage and understanding for the people walking alongside.
  • 3
    Clinicians & rehab professionalsThe patient voice, plus research made practical.
  • 4
    Students, trainees & researchersTranslation between the science and the lived experience.
Built together

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.

Until next time, take care of your brain, take care of your body, and take care of each other.

Peace y'all.

Brain Friends: The Podcast
A podcast of Rivers Speaking Solutions  |  BFTP@riversspeaking.com  |  riversspeaking.com