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2013 Henry Viscardi School Alum Richard Bedard Joins One Leg Up Alex At Viscardi Center’s Reach for a Star Luncheon 11-19-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: I'm here with class of twenty thirteen, Richard Bdard, Richard,
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  Speaker 1: I've known you forever. What's it like to come back
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  Speaker 1: and support Viscardi as a lump?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's all about paying it forward?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: It's all about paying forward. So you know, Discardi has
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  Speaker 2: given me the foundation I need to move forward and
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  Speaker 2: become a psychologist for people with disabilities. And so coming
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  Speaker 2: back here and seeing everybody break through their shackles and
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  Speaker 2: really be their best selves and solar water.
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  Speaker 3: When you see so many people supporting Muscarti at every
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  Speaker 3: event when you a go to what's that like as well?
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's natural, you know, it's the energy that
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  Speaker 2: brings everybody around is magnetic. So it's just the natural
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  Speaker 2: outform of what happens when people open their hearts and
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  Speaker 2: open their minds and allow people to be exactly who
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  Speaker 2: they are without fear and without restriction.
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  Speaker 1: And as as a psychologist, how did you get that training?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 1: How did you real quick? What does that like to
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  Speaker 1: help out over this buildings in that way?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, in part it's the training and part is
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  Speaker 2: the lived experience, so you know, being able to mix
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  Speaker 2: the two over those and really become aware and engaged
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  Speaker 2: in helping other people find their own stories.
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  Speaker 1: It's really rewarded well. Richard, thanks for joining me today
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  Speaker 1: at the One Leg Up Network.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, we are alive at the Reach for a
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  Speaker 3: Star Luncheon twenty twenty four