Brady Murray is the President and Founder of a non-profit called RODS Heroes which helps orphan children who have unique challenges find their forever family. In this episode Brady shares one particular orphan named Johan. Johan is a sweet, quiet-natured fifteen year old boy who has been in an orphanage since he was 6 years old and will be aging out of adoption by the end of November 2023. Brady hopes to find a family for Johan soon and give him a chance to live a full life of love and reach his highest potentials. Johan deserves the chance to shine his light outside of the walls of an orphanage.

Brady also shares his personal perspective as a dad and his son Ridge, who was diagnosed with 22q at the age of 2. He shares how challenging it has been navigating Ridge's "invisible diagnosis" of 22q compaired to his other son's diagnosis of Down Syndrome. Brady used a beautiful analogy saying when he found out about his other son's diagnose of Downs Syndrome it felt like someone switched on a light and he dove head first into that diagnosis and becoming a special needs parent. But compared to Ridge's 22q diagnosis, for Brady it has felt more like a slow sunrise that he is beginning to learn more about 22q with time.

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Within this episode we discussed:

• RODS Heroes - Non Profit Organization - www.rods.org

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