Mind Your Mouth

Why do so many clinicians in the airway world feel like they don't belong? And what if that's exactly the point? In Episode 32 of Mind Your Mouth, Melissa Mugno sits down with her dear friend and colleague Samantha Weaver, a speech pathologist and myofunctional therapy educator with 17 years in the field, a leader with the Academy of Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy (AOMT), and host of th...

What if the reason you want to become a myofunctional therapist is the exact reason you'll fail? In Episode 31 of Mind Your Mouth, Melissa Mugno sits down in Miami with Renata Nehme, RDH, BSDH, COM®, OMS™, founder of Myo Moves and Airway Circle, for the podcast's first-ever in-person interview. Renata was the #1 most-requested guest in Melissa's audience poll, and this conversation...

Your body will protect the airway at all costs — and your teeth are just telling you the story of how it did it. 🎟️ TONGUE TO TOES 2026 — October 16–17, London. Spots are nearly gone → https://www.tongue-to-toes.com In this episode, Melissa Mugno sits down with her longtime friend and collaborator Dr. Suraj Vatish — London-based dental surgeon, tongue tie surgeon, and founder of the Tongue to Toes...

Mary explains the physiology most clinicians never learned: how chewing a Myo Munchee stimulates the trigeminal and facial nerves, fires a barrage of sensory input straight to the brain stem, and forces nasal breathing and a correct swallow at the same time. Melissa shares how the device became her single best diagnostic — the thing she could put in a patient's mouth to make dysfunction visib...

What if your patient isn't "non-compliant"—what if their nervous system simply isn't ready to learn? In Episode 28 of Mind Your Mouth, Melissa Mugno sits down with Brittny Sciarra Murphy, RDH, COM®, QOM®, Buteyko Educator, founder of CT Oral Facial Myology, co-owner of MyoWare, and faculty with Airway Health Solutions. Together they explore why myofunctional therapy isn't...

Sleep-disordered breathing makes Melissa bananas — and by the end of this episode, you'll understand why. Melissa sits down with Dr. Karen Parker Davidson, a critical care nurse, Air Force flight nurse, and airway researcher turned founder of Faceology, to reframe everything you think you know about "mouth breathing." Karen breaks down four-phase rhinomanometry, why nasal resistance...

Some names in dentistry are simply iconic. Gelb is one of them. In this episode of Mind Your Mouth, Melissa Mugno sits down with Dr. Michael Gelb — internationally recognized authority on TMJ, airway, and sleep, and son of the legendary Dr. Harold Gelb, the man who treated jaw dysfunction as whole-body medicine decades before the field was ready to listen. Fresh off the PAANY conference in New Yor...

In this solo episode, Melissa Mugno breaks down why your tongue is just like your abs — and how a weak or "flabby" tongue creates a domino effect through your posture, breathing, jawline, and even your facial aesthetics. She explores facial screening, central nervous system regulation, low tongue posture, mouth breathing, and why myofunctional therapy is the missing piece in long-term or...

What if the way your face looks is actually a window into how well you breathe? In this episode of Mind Your Mouth, host Melissa Mugno sits down with the esteemed Dr. Stanley Liu, dentist, physician, oral maxillofacial surgeon, and ENT sleep surgeon for one of the most expansive, eye-opening conversations yet at the intersection of airway health, facial aesthetics, and whole-body wellness. Dr. Liu...

How many things have you not done because you knew you wouldn't be great at them? In this solo episode, Melissa goes deep on perfectionism — what it actually is, where it hides, and why so many of us are "closet perfectionists" who look messy on the outside but are quietly running our lives by an impossible standard on the inside. She breaks down the three types of perfectionism (se...

What if the tongue tie was never the real problem? In this episode of Mind Your Mouth, host Melissa Mugno sits down with Dr. James Thomas — pediatric dentist, airway pioneer, founder of HealthLatch, and author of the new book Why Babies Suck — for an honest, story-driven conversation about infant feeding, oral dysfunction, and why so many struggling moms get told to just accept "colic."...

Dr. Soroush Zaghi rarely does podcasts — so this one is special. In this episode of Mind Your Mouth, Melissa Mugno sits down with Dr. Soroush Zaghi — ENT, sleep surgeon, founder of The Breathe Institute, and the surgeon widely credited with pioneering the modern standard of tongue tie release — for a wide-ranging, deeply honest conversation about how far the airway movement has come, where it&apos...

In this episode of Mind Your Mouth, Melissa sits down with Dr. Erick Galindo — a pediatrician from Guadalajara, Mexico with nearly 20 years of practice and 190K+ followers on Instagram — for an unfiltered conversation about what traditional pediatric training gets wrong about breathing, sleep, tongue ties, and ADHD. Dr. Eric shares how he went from a conventional pediatrician (who once dismissed t...

What if a wearable device that uses sound vibrations could outperform Flonase for nasal congestion — without a single drug? In this episode of Mind Your Mouth, host Melissa Mugno sits down with Dr. Paramesh Gopi, founder and CEO of Sound Health and creator of the SONU Band, to explore where cutting-edge science meets ancient healing wisdom. Dr. Gopi shares his deeply personal journey — from a debi...

What if your drive for success… is actually a form of addiction? In this raw, unfiltered episode of Mind Your Mouth , I sit down with Peter Beckwith, president of Mad Rose Media to unpack something most high performers don’t want to face: The connection between addiction, identity, and success This isn’t just about substances.  It’s about the patterns we build, the masks we wear, and the ways we c...

In this solo episode of the Mind Your Mouth Podcast, Melissa Mugno gets real about something most people feel but rarely talk about—the deep human need to belong. After reflecting on conversations with her coach and close friends, Melissa explores the uncomfortable question: What happens when you feel like you don’t truly belong? From childhood experiences and fragmented family dynamics to the way...

In this episode of the Mind Your Mouth Podcast, Melissa Mugno sits down with oral and maxillofacial surgeon Dr. Kevin Coppleson, head of the Breathe Max department, to dive deep into the surgical side of airway health. If you’ve ever wondered: How airway surgery fits into sleep apnea treatment Why so many adults discover their airway issues after treating their children The connection between brea...

In this powerful and personal conversation, Melissa sits down with pediatric dentist and airway advocate Dr. Piya Gandhi to explore what happens when professional training collides with maternal intuition — and how that collision can spark a movement. Dr. Piya shares how her own daughter’s undiagnosed tongue tie, sleep-disordered breathing, and behavioral challenges led her down a path far beyond...

 In this solo episode of Mind Your Mouth, host Melissa Mugno shares a deeply personal and powerful story about imposter syndrome, nervous system regulation, and embodied confidence, recorded after her experience lecturing internationally in Switzerland at Tongue Time. Melissa breaks down how imposter syndrome is not a mindset problem, but a central nervous system response, and why so many high-ach...

What if your hormones, sleep, gut, mental health, and even your mouth were all part of the same conversation? In this deeply personal and eye-opening episode of Mind Your Mouth , host Melissa Mugno sits down with her own functional medicine provider, Ashley Ramsey, PA-C, ABAAHP for an honest conversation about root-cause medicine, chronic stress, hormone imbalance, airway dysfunction, and why so m...

In this episode, Melissa sits down with Courtney Robertson, Founder of Archway Myo and AIR Course educator to unpack her personal and professional journey into airway health, sleep, and myofunctional therapy — and how it completely shifted the way she understands the body. What began as frustration with traditional healthcare quickly turned into a deeper exploration of breathing patterns, tongue p...

Airway health is no longer just about teeth, tongues, or sleep, it’s about the nervous system, brain development, behavior, and long-term health.  In this episode of Mind Your Mouth , Melissa Mugno is joined by Dr. Kimberly Santiago for a wide-ranging, systems-level conversation that connects airway, stress physiology, breathing patterns, neurodevelopment, and prevention across the lifespan.  Toge...

 Discipline isn’t about restriction,  it’s about devotion. In this Christmas Eve episode of Mind Your Mouth, Melissa Mugno reflects on The Joy of Discipline and why the most meaningful growth often comes from the hardest seasons of life. This episode is an invitation to reframe struggle, failure, and endings, not as things happening to you, but as experiences happening for you. You’ll hear reflect...

Mind Your Mouth Podcast What if the mouth was the doorway to how we breathe, think, move, heal, and lead ? Mind Your Mouth is more than a podcast — it’s a conversation at the intersection of body, mind, behavior, and business . Hosted by Melissa Mugno, this show explores how the smallest habits can create the biggest transformations in health, leadership, and life. Each episode is grounded in four...

 Breathing comes first. And when it doesn’t, everything else works harder. In this powerful episode of Mind Your Mouth, Melissa sits down with Ronit Agassi to unpack how breathing, sleep, oral function, and nervous system regulation impact children’s behavior, anxiety, feeding challenges, and overall health. Many kids (and adults) are labeled as “functional,” yet struggle daily with poor sleep, em...