The Practitioners Rise Podcast

Brittany Estrada walked out of a doctor's appointment with a prescription for an SSRI, a comment that it would probably help her lose weight, and no other options on the table. She was in college at the time, newly diagnosed with depression and bulimia, and something about that answer didn't sit right. That instinct sent her down a fourteen-year path that eventually became her life's work. On this...

When Laura Longanecker's first daughter was born, she already had a book in hand explaining exactly how babies are designed to sleep. She still spent the first few nights sitting up in a rocking chair, too scared to use anything she knew, while her newborn refused to be put down for more than twenty minutes at a time. It took a few more sleepless nights before she was willing to trust the research...

Amy Segerstrom spent almost 20 years sitting with grieving families as coordinator of the Healing Place at Sacred Heart Hospital. Somewhere in the middle of that work, she lost her father to Alzheimer's, then her brother to complications from COVID, and today she's the caregiver for her 95-year-old mother. What she learned from carrying both sides of grief at once, the professional and the deeply...

Amy Wall was named US Esthetician of the Year in 2016. At the same time, she ran her spa on adrenaline and cortisol, took home a fraction of what her business brought in, and did Botox because that's what everyone in the industry did. She says once she started working with the energetics of beauty instead, she couldn't go back to doing it the old way. What broke that old pattern wasn't a new produ...

Dr. Morgan Hope looked like the picture of health. A college athlete, always active, the friend everyone called the "health nut." But behind the scenes, she was cycling through antibiotics for months at a time, managing skin issues with prescription creams, and relying on birth control just to get through the pain of her own periods. Then she came off the pill after nearly a decade, and everything...

Dr. Sophia Duarte spent her childhood cycling through hospital visits, prescriptions, and side effects that seemed to multiply on their own. Five medications, each one treating what the last one caused, and nobody ever connected any of it back to her nervous system. It took a rejected physical therapy application and one chiropractor's offhand comment to send her down a completely different path....

Tammie Delveaux was diagnosed with celiac disease in 2018, then Crohn's disease and ankylosing spondylitis in 2020, after a decade of pain no one could explain. Lyme disease, mold toxicity, and a double hip replacement followed. She built her practice, Belly Love Holistic Wellness, out of the years it took to find what was driving all of it. One dietary shift, paired with testing most doctors neve...

Mary Anne Tillotson had a hysterectomy at 31. She's never given birth, and yet, she's built her entire career around guiding women through pregnancy, labor, and the fourth trimester. It started with a simple request from a friend in 2021 — one Mary Anne almost turned down because she felt completely unqualified to say yes. On this episode of the Practitioners RISE Podcast, host Hailey Krajewski si...

"It's just hormones." Most women have heard some version of that. Maybe you've said it about yourself. But what if the brain fog, the fatigue, the painful periods, the trouble conceiving, or the infection that keeps coming back are pointing to something deeper? In this episode, I'm joined by Jamie Wilcox and Vallie Aris, two Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners from Eau Claire Acupuncture wh...

In this powerful episode of Practitioners Rise, I sit down with Board Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Level II Certified Nutrition Recovery Coach, Amen Clinics Certified Brain Health Professional, and founder of Sycamore and Sage Nutrition, Jayne Reynolds, for a conversation that reframes anxiety, panic attacks, and mental health. Before helping others heal, Jayne was experiencing three to four p...

Most of us have been taught to treat symptoms instead of asking why they're happening in the first place. When today's guest was diagnosed with cancer at just 28 years old—and then again only two years later—she refused to accept that it was simply "bad luck." That question led her down a path that completely changed not only her own health, but the lives of thousands of families she now serves th...

What happens when the career you worked so hard to build starts to feel like a cage? For Kelli Cook — nurse practitioner, RYT 200 yoga instructor, and founder of The Yoga Plant in Chippewa Falls — the answer came down to one thing: self-love. And choosing a path that wasn't nourishing her wasn't it. In this episode, Kelli shares the story of walking away from conventional western medicine, what it...

What if your symptoms aren’t the problem… but communication from your body? In this deeply thoughtful and eye-opening episode of Practitioners Rise, Hailey sits down with chiropractor, speaker, educator, and founder of Cook Chiropractic Center and Well Adjusted Students, Dr. Lona Cook for a conversation about nervous system health, chronic stress, healing, childhood wellness, and the body’s incred...

What if the life you’re living no longer feels like you… but you can’t explain why? In this deeply honest and emotional conversation, Hailey sits down with certified Master Reiki Practitioner, author, and Energy Tutor, Katy Anderegg to talk about the healing journey that changed everything. Before Katy ever helped others heal, she was navigating deep depression, emotional exhaustion, and a feeling...

What if pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care were designed to truly support women physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually? In this deeply grounding conversation, Hailey sits down with Dr. Erica Boland, chiropractor, certified professional midwife, and co-founder of Coulee Health and the Coulee Health Birth Collective, to explore what’s possible when we stop treating birth like a medica...

In today’s episode of the Practitioner RISE Podcast, Hailey sits down with Dr. Gilles LaMarche, chiropractor, speaker, educator, author, Vice President of University Advancement at Life University, and 2025 World Champion in the 400-meter run for Team USA Masters Track & Field. At twelve years old, Dr. Gilles was a chronically unwell child suffering with constant pain and digestive issues, unt...

What happens when your child is struggling… and the answers you’re given don’t fully sit right in your gut?   In this deeply personal intro episode, Hailey Krajewski shares the story behind why she created the Practitioner Rise Podcast: from her twins’ painful eczema as babies to emergency hospital visits, food allergy discoveries, asthma struggles, and the emotional weight so many moms quietly ca...