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Nurse Practitioner Spring Boeddeker is someone who has a wealth of sleep knowledge. We connected on a parental standpoint on sleep and kids. While her expertise in the Sleep Clinic deals primarily with adults, She helps with that mother perspective in seeing the signs of your kids who are hungry for sleep. When the best time to do homework is. And when is it totally pointless when our kids can lea...

Back to Basics for kids health with Nurse Practitioner Kalee Wysuph is a conversation that Is like sitting down with your best mom friend who’s been through it all and you just Need that solid boost from. She is a strait shooter with her advise and how getting our Kids feeling their best comes down to the fundamentals of a healthy lifestyle. She has known her whole life that she wanted to be a nur...

Getting to sit down with Mandi Wheeler who's forte is in ENT, Ears Nose and Throat at Essentia Health. It's fascinating the way Mandi can just bring that girl next door vibe to her patients while wearing her Certified Nurse Practitioner professional title. She's a small town girl with a big heart to help and she proves that ENT is a practice where she sees all walks of life. How does she put her m...

We have a special guest host on this episode. Local radio broadcaster Robbie Daniels leads the interview, and as a 2 time Melanoma survivor she brings such a personal side to our dermatology episode with Dr. Beehler "NO such thing as a good burn". These knowledgeable women get real about skin health and care as well as some of the daily things we all can practice with our skin. They cover burning...

Dr. Munro sees clearly. No, literally has no need for any corrective lenses and never has. This reality about her eye health and vision is part of what propelled her into her practice in optometry. Jessica also comes with some very practical things we can do right now to improve our vision as well as what to avoid! And knowing the No-No's is just as important as knowing what you should be doing! W...

Amy Hieb – Clinical dietician at the Essentia Health Cancer Center Is the Ditch the D word podcast guest. She’s a Deep thinker in life. It’s fun t o hear about her interests and family, but she Is inspiring with direction in your nutritional wellness too! She’ll break down her explanation as to why you need a plan for your plan. And a goal for your goal. The word that she hates and wishes we could...

From the Multiple disease's that are managed in Internal Medicine, staying up to date on research, delivering expceptional patient care all the way to being apart of welcoming atmostphere in our health care systems... the list goes on when speaking with Dr. Ana in this "we deal with everything" episode. Getting personal with Dr. Ana and how her goal every day is to have a work life balance. We can...

Here is what you’ll get out of this podcast episode: Mental Health Empowerment. Mental Health is one of the biggest topics of concern in our country today. But in this episode with Dr. Jo Ellison, PhD, LP, and we look to make things tangible for women’s health and the health of our kids. We discuss parents and how to listen to their kids when they want help with there mental health as well as the...

Tessa Martin is an Athletic Trainer with Essentia Health and SHE is going to be our savior in fittings for the sports bras we need! Tessa says the right sports bra is INCREDIBLY important for sports and she thinks it should be treated as protective equipment, muchLike jocks straps are! But what if you’re not an athlete? No problem, because if you have breasts you must have the right fit in your br...

Kecia Lund – Nursing Director at Essentia Health. She is a high-level labor and delivery nurse who cast her net wider to cover 3 departments in a leadership role. We get into the all of the ways she juggled/s the big renovation and major changes to the Essentia birth center, NICU and Women’s & Children’s services, but then also the day-to-day nursing. If you were to find a picture next to the...

A returning guest to season two and we explore parenting on a personal front with pediatric cardiologist. Dr. Rauser-Foltz. The excitement and anticipation of kiddos going to kindergarten, to the tougher conversations about social media and when it’s ok or how much is ok. And we of course get into more details on pediatric cardiology. The evolution of the field and what the new goals are past pedi...

The brain is so good we needed to bring back Dr. Bess Martin for a part 2 this season. She’s rocking her specialty in neuropsychology and is a clinical psychologist and I get a chance to go deeper. We get into the weeds of emotions. How Anger is important but can be mislabeled as sadness or something else. So we talk deeply about how change and normalizing our emotions is possible. And she breaks...

It could be a surprise. It could be anticipated. When it comes to High Risk Pregnancies, they are becoming more prevalent in our country. And you or your baby's health could suffer but, one of those life lines in obstetrics today is Maternal Fetal Medicine. This episodes guest is a specialty in MFM and this expanded department to our region is welcomed as it is necessary. This episode we talk to D...

There is more to the click bate about the ability to have children then meets the headline. We talk to fertility expert and Dr. Stephanie Dahl who draws an enlightening comparison to cholesterol and infertility and how both can be genetic as well as self-induced. And her NUMBER ONE no-no for women who want to avoid fertility issues. It’s a big baddie that can be devastating to your fertility healt...

Oh girl, you may not have a clue how deep you can go in the drama department when it comes to Genetic counseling. Our special guest is a genetic counselor who shares those intimate, and sometimes awkward Questions that can come up! We embrace the humor of that side, while also holding space for the seriousness Of difficulty some parents face with their baby and markers for conditions. I’ll ask her...

Dr. Keene is a returned guest so we go a little deeper with her in Orthopedics. She's refined her practice with a specialty in knee surgery. We also get into the all important "PAIN" conversation. What does this pain mean? We've revamped the pain scale. Bear mauling you… it should maybe be on the list. Dr. Keen says that a team approach makes a whole lotta sense in orthopedics. And what's exciting...

She’s a clinical psychologist by training with a specialty in neuropsychology. Simplified to say that Dr. Martin has extra training in the brain and how that makes us behave. Find out why I liken her to an oil painting. Say What? And why Dr. Martin believes that the patients she treats that have ailments that shows up when we don't face our emotions directly. We’ll also get her insight on ways we...

Best kept secret in healthcare. Where have you been all my life? Two phrases my guests often hear about child life services. Jessica Hotchkiss and Michelle Finneman are Child Life Specialists and don’t feel bad if you don’t know exactly what that means. Hence why they hear “best kept secret in healthcare” all of the time. Boiled down it means they support and assist kids during medical visits. Cov...

To kick off season 2 we have a returning guest who was a bright star Dr. Stephanie Gefroh in OBGYN at Essentia Health, she splits her time both clinically and administratively. She is a boss, a wife, a mom and gives you the real as a doctor. We cover a LOT in this conversation. Period sex. Vaginal odor. Why in the world do we hide our underwear under our jeans?! What helps keep you calm when you’r...

She literally has healing hands, and it’s not lost on her what a privilege that is for Dr. Alli Klug. On this season's final episode of season 1 we'll get the opportunity to speak with a female provider who is living her dream of combining chiropractic care within a medical health care hospital? Why did this young doctor dream this? And what her personal life looks like. And I'll ask the weird que...

The journey to practice medicine is different for every provider. In a way this episode next guest would prove that this provider's story has many chapters in a career in medicine that all lead to Oncology. And in the most beautiful way, Dr. Joni Buechler Price shares about what got her to the place where she is treating more than just her cancer patients. She cares deeply for her patient's family...

People. Relationships. Wellness. That's how to describe what's important to Family & Integrative Medicine Dr. Kate Kessler. Her perspective is brilliant and fun. Yes, you get such a real woman vibe from her as well as the brilliance that a Doctor with her credential carry’s. I love her honesty about what she does when her own little kids are sick and also the google hack when you are looking u...

In a very male dominated field of orthopedic surgery, you are going to love a new spin from a female powerhouse. Our guest is Dr. Roxanne Keene and she is one of the ONLY women in the state that does what she does. We are going to get a fresh take on what it’s like being a woman in Ortho, how important it is to lift other women up into this field. She is a huge cheerleader for women AND since she...

Fertility. When the fertility expert sitting across from a couple wanting children has sat in their same seat a bond is formed. When Dr. Pandolfo recorded this episode with us, she was full term with her 2nd baby. When she speaks of the struggle through fertility you’ll feel those raw emotions in our conversation. That vulnerability can build a kinship in a professional setting and it can also bui...

Comforting. REAL. Straight Shooter. That's what you get when you are in the room with PA Jamie Zink. You feel good and comfortable in her company. ALL good things in a Family Medicine provider. Jamie is a wife, a boy mom and knew she always wanted to practice medicine. How she arrived where she did, doing what she says is her dream job all while finding a perfect for her work/family balance. Her c...