Feeding Our Young®

Continue with nurse, entrepreneur, nurse practitioner student, and Modesto, California, Reno, Nevada, and Jasper, Alabama native Honored Guest Ranessa Acosta as she describes traveling for fun, her family coming full circle, how discharging a patient sparked her current passion, living a holistic lifestyle, the Institute of Functional Medicine, empowering women, fleeting motivation, habit stacking...

Join nurse and San Antonio, Texas native Honored Guest Corey Clark as she elaborates on Honored Guest husband’s first date story, and discusses being a pro-girls kind of girl, going to a private nursing school, how being “really smart” didn’t help in nursing school, her road to becoming a pediatric ER nurse, her “it’s not if, but when” philosophy regarding nursing mistakes, how nursing is harder t...

Continue with nurse and San Antonio, Texas native Honored Guest Corey Clark as she discusses the current state of corporate healthcare, relatively inexperienced nurses, her involvement in unions, being forced to prioritize task completion over patient connection, the burnt out new grad phenomenon, inspiring changes in working conditions thanks to unions, putting out “side fires” near the dumpster...

Join nurse and East Coast, Ventura, California, and San Antonio, Texas native Honored Guest as he chats about alphabet soup, accelerated learning, being an EMT, falling into both love and nursing, navigating personal challenges having multiple rainbow babies, and more! Contact us: thanks@feedingouryoung.org to send a note of appreciation to any of our honored guests - let them know how they touche...

Continue with nurse and East Coast, Ventura, California, and San Antonio, Texas native Honored Guest Garret Clark as he chats about traveling, learning Mandarin, ADHD as a superpower, being a lifelong learner, his father’s inspirational success story, how he overcame being a lazy student and trying teen years to became a pediatric ER trauma nurse, his brief time in the service, navigating nursing...

Join nurse and Arizona native Honored Guest Ashley Gonzalez Medrano as she talks about never forgetting nursing school, aging, the importance of family, dealing with Spokane winter as an Arizonan, the relaxing nature of volunteering, unreal nursing school expectations, celebrating passing the NCLEX, the difficulty of finding her first job, being non-judgmental in addiction medicine, future plans,...

Continue with nurse and Arizona native Honored Guest Ashley Gonzalez Medrano as she talks about how support in nursing school makes all the difference, praying with her patients, being your own worst critic vs. your number one advocate, having hype friends, making med errors, asking questions, putting patient safety first, the beauty of nursing as a career, sappers vs. zappers, and more! Contact u...

[Explicit Version - 15 swear words] Join tenured nurse and Foreman, North Dakota native Honored Guest Laura Kortus as she opens up about swearing in nursing, her five-year four-year degree (and “majoring” in cheer), not originally really wanting to be a nurse, her extensively rich career progression, her experience with nurses “eating” their young (and asking the host about the same), perfectionis...

[Clean/Censored Version] Join tenured nurse and Foreman, North Dakota native Honored Guest Laura Kortus as she opens up about swearing in nursing, her five-year four-year degree (and “majoring” in cheer), not originally really wanting to be a nurse, her extensively rich career progression, her experience with nurses “eating” their young (and asking the host about the same), perfectionism as a faul...

[Explicit Version - 10 swear words] Continue with tenured nurse and Foreman, North Dakota native Honored Guest Laura Kortus as she opens up about very deep topics including personal grief, disenfranchised grief, and hospice care; the accident that overshadowed her entire career, the disadvantage of not undergoing therapy for numerous years, debriefing codes as a nursing supervisor, the importance...

[Clean/Censored Version] Continue with tenured nurse and Foreman, North Dakota native Honored Guest Laura Kortus as she opens up about very deep topics including personal grief, disenfranchised grief, and hospice care; the accident that overshadowed her entire career, the disadvantage of not undergoing therapy for numerous years, debriefing codes as a nursing supervisor, the importance of taking t...

Join relatively recent new grad nurse and Eagle River, Alaska native Honored Guest Abbie Johnson as she discusses why she stayed in the city in which she studied, the life-changing addition of Tate to her family, how her health history helped her decide on nursing as a career, her rough transition into her chosen field, not giving up, making a "scary move," navigating nursing school as a...

Join relatively recent new grad nurse and Wyoming, and Battle Ground, Washington native Honored Guest Harlee Miller as she chats about her family (including the host?), her self-care routine, the touching story why she went into nursing, how she ended up in L&D, dealing with patient death, deriving joy from sorrow, being a nurse tech, not getting into nursing school the first time, working dur...

Join tenured nurse and Saskatchewan, Canada native Honored Guest Sherry Loubardias-Fassler as she pontificates about passing the NCLEX twice, why she wanted to become a nurse, her fascinating career progression over three decades, her team as a nurse educator, her brief stint in research, her family, her key to a happy relationship, having a “very high super self esteem,” and more! Contact us: tha...

Continue with tenured nurse and Saskatchewan, Canada native Honored Guest Sherry Loubardias-Fassler as she pontificates about how she approached teaching patients, learning in Canada, dealing with the first couple of years of nursing school, her opiniion on getting your bachelor's degree, almost failing a class about making your bed, how nursing school doesn't teach you how to be a nurse...

Join nurse, entrepreneur, and South African and Australian native Honored Guest Jeanelle Classen as she describes moving from one country to another in her teens, her desired careers prior to becoming a nurse, having “STS Syndrome,” what it takes to become a nurse in Australia, imperfect action, not taking “get used to it” for an answer, creating Nursing the Nurse, her six steps, Dr. Adam Fraser’s...

Join nursing student and Kāne'ohe, Hawai'i native Honored Guest Jenna Serikaku as she chats about Hawaiian cost of living, Hawaiian culture fostered by kama'āina, bouldering, writing, culture shock causing her to change the person she was, returning to her authentic self, post-graduation plans, what she loves most about nursing school, why nursing, overcoming the devastating failure...

Join nursing student and Tacoma, Washington native Honored Guest Aaron Danh as he waxes eloquent about his inspiring and unique summer job, treating nursing school as more than just school, not having a sense of community, studying abroad, building close relationships in school, the importance of mindfulness, imposter syndrome, being "assigned" in high school to a competitive scholarship...

After listening to a very special intro, join host Eric Miller as he celebrates how far the Feeding Our Young movement has come, gives thanks to the "village" that has contributed to that success, and casts vision for what lies ahead for the podcast, business, and movement in 2025! Contact us: thanks@feedingouryoung.org to send a note of appreciation to any of our honored guests - let th...

Join nursing student and Tri-Cities, Washington native Honored Guest Gracie Burck as she chats about science being her worst subject, familial "unlicensed health care workers," sources of inspiration, advantages of being a quiet person in nursing, her hero Noah, navigating mental health and physical health challenges during nursing school, learning how to say no, diving headfirst, making...

Join tenured nurse and California and Puyallup, Washington native Honored Guest Mikail Simmons as she discusses her fun way of celebrating passing the NCLEX exam, her fascinating career progression, burnout, why she was grateful she didn't give up on the career, having an ever-present "itch" to earn, being a "nurse parent," work-life balance, and more! Contact us: thanks@f...

Continue with tenured nurse and California and Puyallup, Washington native Honored Guest Mikail Simmons as she gives burnout advice to RN peers and discusses the potential trap of staying where you're comfortable, the incredibly powerful influence of Greg, loving nursing school, roommates keeping her sane, making time for yourself, having nursing students herself as an RN, her experience with...

Join nursing student and Lynchburg, Virginia, Lynnwood, Washington, and Spokane Washington native Honored Guest Rachel Williams as she chats about finishing nursing school after graduation, anticipating her pinning ceremony, “pruning” as a non-gardener, her misconceptions about healthcare, what she loves about nursing school, discovering the differences between relating with patients versus relati...

Join nurse and Darrington, Washington native Honored Guest Kaylee Powers, first hearing her eloquent post written after graduating nursing school, then listen as she talks about her "honored guests," her love of music and comedy, her travel aspirations, small town life, growing up in a home of addiction and how that impacts her care of patients, not being able to fix everything, and more...

Continue with nurse and current Arizona resident Honored Guest Kaylee Powers as she talks about travel nursing, life-long challenges, accidental and purposeful parenting, the teeter-totter of taking from area of life to fill your cup in another, night shift life and shift differentials, feeling adjusted, her passion to break stereotypes, her inspirational list of "equity trail blazers,"...