Open Wide: Unfiltered Opinions between a Dentist and her Patient

This week on The Open Wide Podcast, Dr. Jenny flies solo and gets brutally honest about her nickname — BFM, Big Fat Mouth — walking through real, cringe-worthy verbal mistakes she's made over the years. From mistaking someone's wife for their daughter mid-appointment, to accidentally accusing a friend of rewearing an outfit, she breaks down exactly what went wrong and, more importantly, what to sa...

This week on The Open Wide Podcast, we're doing something a little different — we brought in Angie, a criminal justice student (and our own show helper) who's spent years studying the psychology behind cases like this one, to help us go deeper into Jeffrey Epstein than we've ever gone before. We get into the recruitment tactics, the blurry line between victim and perpetrator, Ghislaine Maxwell's o...

This week on The Open Wide Podcast, Jenny sits down with her own massage therapist, Sarah Shawhan of Chant Wellness, to unpack everything that actually happens during a massage — and it's a lot more than you think. They dig into Reiki and the human biofield, craniosacral therapy and cerebrospinal fluid, neuromuscular therapy and the pain-tension cycle, and how something as simple as your handwriti...

This week on The Open Wide Podcast, Jenny straps into an actual MIT-designed aging suit (nicknamed SASS — Sarasota Aging Sympathy Suit) with Sue and Kelly from the Sarasota County Department of Health, and the experience is eye-opening in the most literal way. Between the weighted vest, the neuropathy-simulating shoes, the macular degeneration goggles, and the neck collar, this suit recreates what...

This week on The Open Wide Podcast, we sit down with a globally recognized fragrance expert with a 40-year career creating iconic scents for Tiffany, Burberry, Lancôme, and celebrities like Zendaya and Jamie Foxx. She takes us through her wild journey from a childhood in Johannesburg to studying at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, to becoming "the alchemist of scent, memory, and emotion" —...

This week on The Open Wide Podcast, we're getting real about what it actually takes to turn a passion into profit — no fluffy hustle-culture nonsense, just two women sharing exactly how we built our own businesses out of necessity, risk, and a whole lot of learning as we went. We talk through starting Sarasota's first home watch company, launching a culinary tour business, and how one of us didn't...

This week on The Open Wide Podcast, we're trading true crime for something a little lighter (and a lot greasier) — a full-on bacon cheeseburger showdown between Five Guys and McDonald's. We break down the bun, the bacon, the price, and the overall vibe of each burger, and yes, we eat both of them on camera so you can watch our real, unfiltered reactions in real time. By the end of this episode, yo...

This week on The Open Wide Podcast, we're doing something a little different — we brought in Angie, a criminal justice student (and our own show helper) who's spent years studying the psychology behind cases like this one, to help us go deeper into Jeffrey Epstein than we've ever gone before. We get into the recruitment tactics, the blurry line between victim and perpetrator, Ghislaine Maxwell's o...

Dr. Jenny named her dental office AI receptionist Marilyn, trained her for months, and then Marilyn started double and triple booking patients because she could make appointments but could not delete the old ones. It was a mess. Jenny still believes in AI and would try it again with a better company. That is the kind of honest take you get in this episode. Susan's friend just sold a million dollar...

Jenny watched all four episodes of Trust Me: The False Prophet on Netflix and came in ready to talk. Samuel Bateman ran a sect inside the Mormon community in Utah, had somewhere between 15 and 20 wives, nine of them underage, and was taken down partly because a filmmaker named Christine embedded herself in the community for two years, gathered evidence the local police kept dismissing, and eventua...

Jenny grew up in West Virginia next to a country club on a golf course, with a farmhouse, a massive garden, and six brothers who had a small side business growing marijuana in the backyard that her mother never found out about. Susan grew up in New England with Irish immigrant grandparents who remembered discrimination firsthand, a father who ordered Ebony Magazine to a very white neighborhood on...

Jenny and Susan pull back the curtain on how they actually built their businesses from scratch. Jenny started her dental practice with one chair, a bank loan, and a very specific strategy of taking every specialist in town out to lunch before she had a single patient. She also gave away free exams and cleanings for the first year because she knew if people could just experience her work, they woul...

Jenny and Susan get into what actually creates instant attraction on a first date and what sends it straight into ick territory. Susan breaks down her two non negotiables, humor and kindness, and explains why looks barely register for her anymore. Jenny brings up teeth, physical effort, and the difference between someone who is interesting and someone who just talks about themselves the whole date...

Two women. Decades of work experience between them. And a collection of on-the-job stories that range from deeply relatable to genuinely unbelievable. Jenny leads with the dental school student who just decided one day to drill straight through someone's tooth — and the hygienist who cleaned so aggressively she removed an entire tooth from a patient's mouth and brought it to Jenny in her hand. Sus...

You know the person at the gate — the one with the bed pillow under one arm, a stuffed animal clipped to their bag, and no idea what zone they're in. And you know the other person — the one quietly off to the side, carry-on the right size, already knowing exactly where they're sitting. Jenny and Susan are breaking down every signal, every habit, and every unspoken rule that separates someone who t...

Susan just got back from 10 days in the Basque region of Spain — Bilbao and San Sebastian — and she has opinions, recipes, and a whole new outlook on life. The men cook. The fish is impeccable. The Iberian pigs live better than most people. And the San Sebastian area has more Michelin-starred restaurants per square mile than anywhere else on earth, including Paris and Tokyo. If you've ever thought...

Two big stories this week and both of them are worth your full attention. First: a United Airlines Boeing 767 coming in for landing at Newark clipped a light pole and then a bakery truck on the highway, with 231 people on board, and somehow everyone walked away fine, including the bread delivery driver who watched a plane wing come through his window on camera. Jenny and Susan have thoughts, quest...

Two women who have hosted a podcast together for a year sit down to play Two Truths and a Lie — and immediately learn things about each other they genuinely did not see coming. Susan has shot a rocket launcher at a munitions facility in Maine, eaten 1,000-year-old eggs, and may or may not have been prom queen. Jenny has a five-foot oil portrait hanging in her home, a genuine terror of bicycles ste...

It's the monthly check-in, and apparently April tried to absolutely finish both of them off. Between a $10,000 oil burner surprise, a dishwasher that gave up the ghost, fraudulent checks written against a business account, and a phone call from a very convincing fake sheriff who almost got away with a credit card number — Jenny and Susan are here to report that they survived, barely, and have genu...

Pull up a chair, because this is the first date debrief every woman over 35 has been waiting to have out loud. Jenny and Susan are getting into all of it — what questions actually tell you something real about a person, which ones you'd never have thought to ask 20 years ago, and why dating in your 40s is a completely different sport than dating in your 20s. Along the way, Susan shares the story o...

Hosting a dinner party shouldn’t feel overwhelming, it should feel intentional. In this episode of Open Wide, Susan shares her masterclass on how to curate the perfect guest list, manage conversation, seat guests strategically, handle cocktails and timing, and create an atmosphere people remember. From “no politics” rules to why you shouldn’t sit couples together, what hostess gifts actually make...

He edits every episode, hears every blooper, and has been watching this show grow from the very first awkward mic check — and today, Nate Dodson finally gets a seat at the table. Nate is the second of eight kids from Reading, PA, a self-taught photographer and graphic designer who built a YouTube channel from zero to over a million subscribers teaching himself Photoshop at 15, sat in Bill Gates' c...

How does a woman from Kansas end up building a clean beauty and essential oil brand after living in Japan and Bali? In this episode of Open Wide, we sit down with Tracy DoRimple, founder of Coco Kah Essential Oils, to talk about entrepreneurship, essential oil chemistry, safe usage, and what it really takes to build a purpose-driven wellness business. This isn’t fluffy wellness talk. We discuss te...

This week on Open Wide, we’re diving into the pop culture whirlwind: from McDonald’s vs Chick-fil-A taste tests to the complicated reality of “nepo babies,” billionaire baby headlines, and what privilege really means in today’s world. Is being born into fame an advantage… or a lifelong comparison trap? We unpack celebrity family dynamics, generational wealth, work ethic, Elon Musk headlines, and w...

Cold and flu season hits differently when you’re busy, responsible, and cannot afford to be sidelined. In this episode of Open Wide, Dr. Jenny and Susan share exactly what they do when they start to feel rundown, from zinc and vitamin D to sleep hygiene, infrared saunas, and the art of pulling back before your body forces you to. It’s honest, practical, and refreshingly unfiltered. This conversati...