Support the Mission

Free consultations exist because generous people make them possible.

If the system has failed your child, supporting this project is one way to help parents push back — intelligently, strategically, and one child at a time.

Why This Matters

Parents usually find me when they are overwhelmed, confused, and often very angry. They have spent months or years watching their child struggle, and they have spent just as long listening to school administrators explain why everything is fine—even when it clearly isn’t.

That first conversation is where the confusion starts to clear. It is where the law starts making sense, and where a strategy finally starts to appear. I believe every parent deserves that kind of clarity before they commit to a long-term legal battle or a life-changing decision.

Free consultations exist because this mission—of turning confusion into strategy—needs to be accessible to the families who need it most. This project is built to ensure that even if you never hire a lawyer, you at least leave that first call knowing exactly where you stand and how to push back.

Why This Matters

Most parents find this show because they are overwhelmed, confused, or angry. Usually, it’s all three. You are dealing with a system that speaks its own language, follows its own rules, and often seems designed to keep parents at a distance.

The first conversation a parent has with someone who actually understands the law and isn’t employed by the school district is a turning point. It’s the moment the fog starts to lift. It’s the moment you stop guessing and start strategizing.

Building a show like this takes time, technical resources, and dedicated work. Community support ensures that the base of this project — the free calls and the public episodes — remains accessible to every parent who needs them, regardless of their financial situation.

The mission is simple: clarity for families, accountability for systems, and better outcomes for children. When you support this work, you are directly funding the tools parents need to fight back intelligently.

Choose Your Impact

This is where you decide what you want your support to do.

$6

Keep the Mission Moving

Small acts of generosity add up. This helps cover the recurring costs of keeping this platform live and accessible.

$100

Help Publish the Show

Producing a high-quality strategic show takes time and money. This helps cover editing, hosting, and production costs.

$25

Help Keep Calls Free

The core of this show is the free introductory strategy call. Your support ensures that cost is never a barrier for a parent in crisis.

$300

Fund an Hour of Legal Strategy

This is a direct sponsorship. This covers the cost of a full hour of detailed, private strategy development for a family who needs it.

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Support Transcripts, Captions, and Accessibility

Information should be accessible to everyone. This fund pays for high-quality human transcription and accessibility features for the show.

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Choose Your Own Amount

Give at the level that makes sense for you. Every contribution pushes the mission forward.

Choose Your Impact

This is where you decide what you want your support to do.

$6 — Keep the Mission Moving

Small, regular support keeps the lights on and the show moving forward.

$25 — Help Keep Calls Free

Covers the overhead for one free consultation call for a parent in need.

$50 — Support Accessibility

Funds transcripts, captions, and accessibility tools for the show's public education project.

$100 — Help Publish the Show

Directly supports the production and publishing costs of one show episode.

$300 — Fund Legal Strategy

Sponsors one hour of deep-dive legal strategy for a family facing complex school crises.

Choose Your Own Amount

Give at the level that makes sense for you.

What You’re Actually Supporting

Free initial consultation calls for parents in crisis
The production and engineering of the Ask an IEP Lawyer Show
Professional transcripts and closed captioning for accessibility
Strategic legal breakdowns of common school system patterns
The research required to stay current on Utah special education law
The infrastructure that turns one parent's question into a resource for thousands

Your support means this isn't just a passive show; it's a strategic resource for parents who are tired of being told 'that's just how it is.'

You are helping parents fight back with facts, law, and a plan.

What You’re Actually Supporting

Your support helps:

Keep parent consultations free.
Turn real parent questions into public education.
Research and development for new episodes.
Maintain a high standard of accessibility for all content.
Support the strategic planning of legal pushback.

This is not passive support. Helping keep this work alive is an active investment in parental clarity and institutional accountability.

Become a Monthly Supporter

One-time gifts keep the mission moving. Monthly gifts sustain it. Recurring support allows us to plan for accessibility features, publish the show consistently, and keep free consultation slots open for the parents who need them most.

Knowing that a base of support exists changes how we work. It means we spend less time asking for help and more time building resources that help parents fight back.

$6/month — stay in the fight

$25/month — help keep calls free

$50/month — support publishing and accessibility

$100/month — help sustain the mission at a higher level

Become a Monthly Supporter

While one-time gifts keep the lights on, monthly support provides the clarity and stability needed to plan ahead. It allows us to maintain a consistent presence for families before the next IEP disaster strikes, rather than just reacting once it’s already happened.

$6/month — stay in the fight
$25/month — help keep calls free
$50/month — support publishing and accessibility
$100/month — help sustain the mission at a higher level

Open to Trade and In-Kind Support

If you have skills but not extra funds, I am open to discussing trade or in-kind support. Examples of what helps the mission move forward include:

Video editing and post-production
Trailer and clip editing for social media
Graphic design for show materials
Research support
Transcription and captioning services

I am always open to hearing from people who want to apply their expertise to helping parents get clear on the law.

Trade and in-kind support are reviewed case by case.

Open to Trade and In-Kind Support

If you have skills or resources that could help grow this project but aren't in a position to give financially, I am very open to trade and in-kind support. Building a show that looks and sounds professional takes a lot of specialized work.

I am looking for experienced help with:

Video editing (long and short form)
Podcast trailer editing and sound design
Motion graphics and animation
Graphic design for social and web
Transcription and captioning services
Public relations or media outreach

Trade and in-kind support are reviewed case by case.

Why I Built This

or more than 10 years, I’ve been taking calls from parents trying to understand IEPs, school discipline, disability rights, evaluations, bullying, private school issues, and what to do next. And again and again, I’ve seen the same thing happen. The confusion starts to clear. The overwhelmed feeling turns into organized facts. The law starts making sense. A strategy starts to appear.

I wanted a way to share more of what happens in those conversations so other families could learn from them too. That is what the Ask an IEP Lawyer Show is. It is a way to turn one family’s struggle into a roadmap for dozens or hundreds of others.

The show is built around real parent questions and real legal strategy. Support from this community is what makes it possible to keep these consultations free and to turn the resulting insights into public education that helps parents fight back inteligently. When you support this mission, you are not just funding a show; you are funding clarity for parents who are currently where you might have been—overwhelmed, confused, and looking for a way forward.

Why I Built This

For more than 10 years, I’ve been taking calls from parents trying to understand IEPs, school discipline, disability rights, evaluations, bullying, private school issues, and what to do next. And again and again, I’ve seen the same thing happen. The confusion starts to clear. The law starts making sense. A strategy starts to appear. The Ask an IEP Lawyer Show is built around that moment—the transition from overwhelmed to organized. Some calls stay private. Some, with permission, help other families too. Your support makes it possible to keep this mission going.

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This Is One Way To Push Back

The feeling of powerlessness is the hardest part of being an IEP parent. You see the system failing your child, and you don’t know where the leverage is. You don’t know which facts matter, which strategy to use, or how to speak the language the school speaks.

Supporting this work turns that powerlessness into something useful. It helps me turn individual calls into a library of strategy that every parent can use. It helps me stay in the fight alongside you, organizing the facts and pointing to the law until the path forward becomes clear. This is not passive support—this is how we build the tools parents need to intelligently, strategically, and effectively push back.

Help Keep This Going

If this work has helped your family, or if you believe more parents deserve access to this kind of clarity, this is one way to help.

Contributions support the mission of the Ask an IEP Lawyer Show and are not tax-deductible charitable donations unless otherwise stated.

Help Keep This Going

If this work has helped your family, or if you believe more parents deserve access to this kind of clarity, this is one way to help.

Contributions support the mission of the Ask an IEP Lawyer Show and are not tax-deductible charitable donations unless otherwise stated.