Feeding Our Young®

Join nursing student and Parrish, Alabama native Honored Guest Cade Riddle as he chats about being in a joint enrollment program, simultaneously obtaining his ADN and BSN, managing stress, why he chose nursing, and more! Contact us: thanks@feedingouryoung.org to send a note of appreciation to any of our honored guests - let them know how they touched you - I'll make sure they read your praise...

Join nurse and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Jenn Boyer as she chats about having a superpower by not having a superpower, being a non-traditional student, being smart but undisciplined growing up, how Y2K helped her get in to nursing school, failing out of second quarter, developing self-confidence, the true meaning of having a “calling,” and more! Contact us: thanks@feedingouryoung.or...

Continue with nurse educator, nurse, and Colorado, Arizona, and North Idaho native Honored Guest Katie Barbera as she talks about who inspires her most, knowing she wanted to be in healthcare since she was five years old, survival mechanisms in nursing, self care, boundaries, burnout, being refreshed by jail nursing, and more! Contact us: thanks@feedingouryoung.org to send a note of appreciation t...

Join nurse educator, nurse, and Colorado, Arizona, and North Idaho native Honored Guest Katie Barbera as she talks about wanting to be an instructor since graduating from nursing school, facing tragedy and challenges in life, surrogacy, a time she experienced the “eating our young” phenomenon, her future career goals, and more! Contact us: thanks@feedingouryoung.org to send a note of appreciation...

Join nursing student and Addison, Alabama native Honored Guest Sydney Chambers as she discusses the day in life she’d like to relive, the importance of family, her inspiration for nursing, her jarring entrance into adulthood, minor inconveniences, raising kids in nursing school, keeping the motor running, advice for single parents in nursing school, when grades need to take a back seat, how she ov...

Join relatively recent graduate and Northern California and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Shea Mollahan as she describes transitioning to a new grad nurse, the importance of asking questions, using SBAR with a doctor for the first time, finding people you can trust, dealing with agism, starting as a brand new NICU nurse, and more! Contact us: thanks@feedingouryoung.org to send a note of...

Continue with relatively recent graduate and Northern California and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Shea Mollahan as she describes fun facts about cows, her incredible answer to “why nursing?”, how she chose her university, navigating challenges in nursing school, crybaby kidneys, her disdain for ATI, not getting the practicum you want, and more! Contact us: thanks@feedingouryoung.org to...

Wrapping up the last of the special episodes, Izzie Wilkes and Eric Miller talk about Jennifer Evans behind her back after she leaves to go to her hair appointment, discussing why they want to be just like her when they grow up, emphasizing the importance of answering for yourself one question: what kind of reputation do you want to have? Contact us: thanks@feedingouryoung.org to send a note of ap...

In this special episode, continue with nurse educators Jennifer Evans, Izzie Wilkes, and Eric Miller as they answer students’ questions including a-ha moments of wanting to become nurses, dealing with the anxiety of being an independent nurse for the first time, the things we would tell our younger nursing selves, if we believe in aliens, healthcare ghost stories, rapid fire top tips for new grad...

In this special episode, nurse educators Izzie Wilkes and Jennifer Evans hijack the podcast and join host Eric Miller to answer students’ questions including advice for nurses starting out in OB/NICU nursing, how to ensure effective communication with family members of patients, how to manage the emotional toll of difficult cases, tips for working night shift, how this podcast came to be, how to g...

Join nurse and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Yasmeen (Yaz) Lutchendorf as she discusses when she knew she was going to be a nurse, her career progression (including going from postpartum to PICU), the call of the code alarm, getting married during nursing school, the challenging story she hasn’t shared with many people, the importance of not giving up, drinking from a fire hose, and mor...

Join “sort-of” nurse educator and Boise, Idaho native Honored Guest Brittany Slegers as she talks about her roundabout method to becoming “just” a nurse, her incredibly supportive parents, her advice for those without supportive parents, mean nurses, what she has done with her nursing license, her first interaction with a neurosurgeon as a brand new nurse, and more! Contact us: thanks@feedingouryo...

Continue with nurse educator and Boise, Idaho native Honored Guest Brittany Slegers as she talks about why she loved Nancy Drew, her low point in her career, the ups and downs that landed her in her current role, being nervous for her first lecture, her stressful NCLEX experience, her passion for students knowing they are more than a nurse, and more! Contact us: thanks@feedingouryoung.org to send...

Join nursing student and Jasper, Alabama native Honored Guest Kylee Trotter as she chats about her inspirational family, “I’m not gonna be a nurse,” choosing nursing over her passion for softball, how being a collegiate athlete helped her in nursing school, where she wants to practice after graduation, the advantages of going to community college, relying on her team, and more! Contact us: thanks@...

Join nurse, nurse educator, nurse practitioner, and San Diego, California, Austin, Texas, and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Hallie Butler as she discusses chasing education, the adventure she didn’t chose for herself, God’s role in her life, instilling confidence in her students, having instructors that were “out to fail” her, still having anxiety for sims, having a baby during nursing...

Join Dallas, Texas, Winchester, Virginia, and Los Angeles, California native Honored Guest Cassandra Firemark as she waxes eloquent about about her family, her many careers in life, the extremely frightening moment that made her want to enter nursing, what she loved most in nursing school, her life-altering diagnosis, how she is navigating the change life has handed her, her incredibly inspiring v...

Join nurse and Delaware and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest David Butters as he talks about moving around a lot (and visiting 46 countries and counting), being open-minded, going to college with his “head screwed on right,” inspirational Navy nurses, getting turned around after getting kicked out of his house, the PICU being the Navy SEALs of nursing, his philosophy of guardrails, and mor...

Join nursing student and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Jasmine Cultum as she describes the role her dad played in choosing nursing, being a nurse tech, practicum, nursing being “a lot of little different things,” how to protect your nursing heart, being cheerleaders for our patients, and more! Contact us: thanks@feedingouryoung.org to send a note of appreciation to any of our honored gu...

Join nurse and Lewiston, Idaho native Honored Guest Lynzee Hewett as she chats about quickly getting off a pre-med path, writing things down, her advice on establishing friendships in nursing school, HESIs, more “appropriate” competition, her NCLEX adventure, her career progression, advice for those interested in travel nursing, her experience as an aesthetic nurse, advancing her education, and mo...

Join nursing student and Portland, Oregon native Honored Guest Jordi De La Mora as he follows the dice’s lead and talks about who inspired him to become a nurse, his family dynamics and parents’ sacrifices, contemplating different areas of nursing to practice in post graduation, what he loves most about nursing school, his thoughts on being a male nurse, being “delusionally optimistic,” the challe...

Join nurse, nurse educator, and Wisconsin native Honored Guest Kate Joy as she joy-fully chats about how she balances bedside nursing with student education, being a nurse volunteer at Burning Man (and what collaborative care looked like there), her love of audio books, her two unique first times in hospitals, alternate universes, her continued ability to care being a tenured PICU nurse, unique qu...

Join spur-of-the-moment and alternate universe host-for-a-day Kate Joy and her honored guest Eric Miller as they compare and contrast peds oncology and postpartum nursing, and discuss topics such as end of life care from the perspectives of a nurse and patient family member, what grief does to people, working in the place where your loved one died, walking down nursing school memory lane, the adva...

Join nursing student and Seattle, Washington native Honored Guest Sierra Martinsen as she explains the weird passage of time in nursing school, having two nuclear families, why she chose nursing, giving and receiving support in nursing school, who inspires her most in life, her love of travel (30 countries and counting), her incredible studying abroad experiences (Zambian nursing!), and more! Cont...

Join nurse, nurse educator, and Sacramento, California native Honored Guest Shawna McMillan as she discusses her love of academia, a funny patient NFL story, crazy hair, using her tattoos to connect with her patients, how she got into peds oncology and why she loves it there, having long-term professional relationships with patients, her gift box, navigating the waters of healthcare grief, and mor...

Continue with nurse, nurse educator, and Sacramento, California native Honored Guest Shawna McMillan as she discusses working in reproductive health and family planning, caring for the LGBTQ community, helping others make decisions for themselves without judgment, investigating and not ignoring biases (the unrealistic expectation of leaving biases at the door), her love of teaching, paying attenti...