Dad First.
Then Advocate.
Always.
I am Jim Fuller — a single father raising two kids with disabilities, a forty-year restaurant guy, and someone who got tired of waiting for the system to care. This is the real, unfiltered conversation about disability, caregiving, and refusing to quit.
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Nobody hands you a manual
My son Roman came into this world two months early and has lived with epilepsy ever since. My daughter Juliana Rose is autistic. Their mother, Tina, is gone. So it is me — one dad, two kids, and a system that was never built for any of us.
I spent forty years in restaurants learning how to keep going when the night gets long. Turns out that is the same muscle you need for a hospital hallway at 3 a.m., an IEP meeting where nobody is listening, or a hearing room at the state Capitol where you are fighting for caregivers who cannot be there.
This podcast is what I wish somebody had told me at the beginning. No corporate gloss, no inspiration porn — just what is actually true about raising kids with disabilities and fighting for them.
“I stopped running. Then I started fighting.”
— Jim Fuller
What we talk about
Every episode comes from something I have actually lived through — or something a parent told me they were drowning in.
Parenting Through Disability
Raising Roman with epilepsy and Juliana Rose with autism — the seizures, the meltdowns, the small wins nobody claps for.
Caregivers & Burnout
The direct care worker shortage, paid parent caregivers, and what it actually costs to hold a family together alone.
Advocacy That Bites
IEP meetings, Medicaid fights, and showing up at the Arizona State Capitol when the system says no.
Grit, Faith & Chosen Family
Forty years in restaurants, losing Tina, and the people who became family when blood was not enough.
Chasing Freedom
A Father’s Journey of Fighting for His Children
The whole story — the running, the losses, the moment everything turned. It is about premature birth and seizures, about grief and single fatherhood, about walking into rooms where you are outmatched and speaking anyway. If the podcast is the conversation, this is the foundation underneath it.
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Roman and Juliana Rose. Everything else is just noise.
You are not doing this alone
If you are a parent, a caregiver, or somebody who just got handed a diagnosis you did not see coming — this show is for you. Start with the book, then come find the conversation.
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