280. Karen Mayer Cunningham | The Epic IEP: A Powerful Playbook for Parents, Educators, and Advocates Navigating the Special Education Process.
Thu Jan 15 2026
The World’s #1 Personal Development Book Podcast!
In today’s episode, we have the pleasure to interview Karen Mayer Cunningham, author of The Epic IEP: A Powerful Playbook for Parents, Educators, and Advocates Navigating the Special Education Process.
Karen is a nationally recognized special education advocate, speaker, and mediator with nearly three decades of experience at the IEP and 504 table. Known as The Special Education Boss®, she’s helped families and school teams all over the country navigate IDEA, Section 504, and disability law so kids with exceptionalities get the services and support they deserve.
In this episode, you’ll learn why special education, when delivered with fidelity, can change a child’s entire future, how to walk into IEP meetings informed and prepared instead of overwhelmed and outnumbered, and practical ways parents and educators can work together—rather than against each other—to create truly “epic” IEPs that set kids up to thrive.
We hope enjoy this incredible conversation with Karen Mayer Cunningham.
To Learn More about Karen and buy her book visit:
The Book: https://a.co/d/atoeF7g
Website/Socials: https://www.instagram.com/specialeducationboss/
https://specialeducationacademy.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/SpecialEducationAcademy
https://www.facebook.com/specialeducationacademy
https://tiktok.com/@specialeducationboss
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The World’s #1 Personal Development Book Podcast! In today’s episode, we have the pleasure to interview Karen Mayer Cunningham, author of The Epic IEP: A Powerful Playbook for Parents, Educators, and Advocates Navigating the Special Education Process. Karen is a nationally recognized special education advocate, speaker, and mediator with nearly three decades of experience at the IEP and 504 table. Known as The Special Education Boss®, she’s helped families and school teams all over the country navigate IDEA, Section 504, and disability law so kids with exceptionalities get the services and support they deserve. In this episode, you’ll learn why special education, when delivered with fidelity, can change a child’s entire future, how to walk into IEP meetings informed and prepared instead of overwhelmed and outnumbered, and practical ways parents and educators can work together—rather than against each other—to create truly “epic” IEPs that set kids up to thrive. We hope enjoy this incredible conversation with Karen Mayer Cunningham. To Learn More about Karen and buy her book visit: The Book: https://a.co/d/atoeF7g Website/Socials: https://www.instagram.com/specialeducationboss/ https://specialeducationacademy.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/SpecialEducationAcademy https://www.facebook.com/specialeducationacademy https://tiktok.com/@specialeducationboss ____________________________________________ Join the world's largest non-fiction Book community! https://www.instagram.com/bookthinkers/ The purpose of this podcast is to connect you, the listener, with new books, new mentors, and new resources that will help you achieve more and live better. Each and every episode will feature one of the world's top authors so that you know each and every time you tune-in, there is something valuable to learn. If you have any recommendations for guests, please DM them to us on Instagram. (www.instagram.com/bookthinkers) If you enjoyed this show, please consider leaving a review. It takes less than 60-seconds of your time, and really makes a difference when I am trying to land new guests. For more BookThinkers content, check out our Instagram or our website. Thank you for your time!