Here’s a snippet of our interview with Cole Galloway, PhD. His research Research focuses on physical rehabilitation for children. He is founder of the Go Baby Go program, which helps children and adults with physical and developmental disabilities move and explore the world.

ROBERT: Hi Cole, how are you?

COLE: Hey fellas and ladies. I’m really good I’m really good. I just came

off of the class and I’m buzzing – we’re buzzing from the jam for joy.

ROBERT: And so everybody knows what I just discovered, what does your shirt say

COLE: Good necessary trouble.

ROBERT: What does it mean to you, “Good necessary trouble”?

COLE: It’s about it’s about seeing stuff and saying stuff and and looking outward. It’s okay to push envelopes and it’s okay to be authentic. In life when you see something that needs to be changed, you don’t falter – you jump in there. And you watch the community rally and support and protect and you can’t go back. Even if something in your head says I’d like to go I’d like to take a break and maybe be a little less vulnerable be a little bit less of something -it’s too late! You’ve already become impactful. And I know you guys feel that with YAX as it propels you. I have a lot of these (shirts) and they’re almost a little mantras to me to just remember who you are and that you’ve got a purpose and…go out there and flex.

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Originally Published on https://www.yesandexercise.org/

Robert Cochrane, PhD Yes, And...eXercise!

Dr. Robert Cochrane is a graduate of UNLV's Integrated Health Sciences department. He's researching the effect of improvisation and storytelling on Parkinson’s disease. He received grants from the Parkinson's Foundation and support from the Davis Phinney Foundation along the way. He is a popular, unique and high energy Keynote speaker, bringing joy, optimism and practical tools for people in the PD community to thrive today.

He has a background in filmmaking, with the Artisan Entertainment release, The Playaz Court, and two Stephen King-based short films among his credits. His father, Dan, was diagnosed with PD in 2001, which shifted Robert’s artistic lens to health. He made his first documentary, the award-winning Boys of Summer in 2004. There are two follow up films in the series with the fourth film coming in 2023.

He moved his family back to Walnut Creek, CA, where he grew up. He lives there with his beautiful wife, two teenagers who are, indeed, "all that" and is a proud care partner for his amazing parents.