Healthcare Henry: The Podcast

Families today are facing one of the most difficult and confusing challenges in healthcare—navigating senior care without clear guidance, support, or financial clarity. In this episode of Healthcare Henry The Podcast, we sit down with Teleke Dorsey-Traylor, a senior care professional, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), and dedicated advocate for families in crisis. As the founder of We Care More S...

Timoria McQueen never planned to become a healthcare advocate. After surviving a traumatic childbirth, nearly losing her life, experiencing a miscarriage, and navigating years of recovery, she found herself asking a question that millions of Americans are asking today: Why are people still falling through the cracks of our healthcare system? In this episode, Timoria shares the deeply personal expe...

Ty Lewis joins Healthcare Henry for one of the most emotional conversations we’ve had about caregiving, Alzheimer’s, hospice, faith, and the reality of caring for a parent with dementia. Ty is part of the Sandwich Generation — raising children while also caring for her mother who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2014. In this episode, we talk about: • The real cost of caregiving • Spending $90,00...

Derrick Jackson joins Healthcare Henry for a direct conversation about his plan for Georgia. This episode goes beyond campaign talking points. Derrick Jackson breaks down what he believes Georgia must do to fix healthcare, expand access, address homelessness, support healthcare workers, and protect public health. In this episode, we talk about: • Medicaid expansion • Universal healthcare • Restruc...

Jason Esteves joins Healthcare Henry for one of the most important conversations we’ve had about the future of Georgia. This is not politics as usual. This is a real conversation about healthcare, caregiving, Medicaid, senior care, housing, maternal health, insurance, and what families across Georgia are actually experiencing right now. After caring for his mother through Alzheimer’s, Jason Esteve...

She spent over 20 years inside the insurance system. Running operations. Handling claims. Managing approvals. Seeing everything from the inside. And now she’s telling the truth. In this episode of Healthcare Henry, Heather Lacey breaks down what most people never see: • How insurance companies actually operate • Why claims get denied • The real reason delays happen • What’s broken behind the scene...

This is one of the most powerful stories we’ve ever shared on Healthcare Henry. At 25 years old, Kay Cotten signed hospice papers. Not because she was old. Because the healthcare system had no plan for her. In this episode, we break down: • What it’s like to be put on hospice at 25 • How the healthcare system failed her repeatedly • Why hospice became the only place she could get real care • The t...

This is one of the most real conversations we’ve had on Healthcare Henry. In this episode, Dr. Ashley Nazon breaks down the truth about therapy, mental health, relationships, grief, and why so many people avoid doing the real work. We talk about: • Why Black men don’t go to therapy • Why vulnerability is actually strength • How childhood conditioning shapes adult behavior • Why therapy is not comf...

This is one of the deepest conversations we’ve had on Healthcare Henry. In this episode, Dr. Michael H. Forde breaks down the truth about public health, health equity, generational trauma, class, race, policy, and why trust in the healthcare system is still broken for so many communities. We talk about: • Preventative vs reactive healthcare • Why “just eat healthy” ignores real barriers • The diff...

What if staying alive meant sitting on a dialysis machine three times a week… every week? In this powerful episode of Healthcare Henry, we sit down with Auslin Williams — a teacher, writer, mentor, and woman of deep faith — who is currently on dialysis as she waits for a life-saving kidney transplant. She drives nearly 3 hours a day to teach her students. She wakes up at 3:30 AM for dialysis befor...

This might be one of the most important conversations we’ve had on Healthcare Henry. In this episode, we sit down with doulas Shira and JeTaime to talk about what really happens inside labor and delivery rooms—and why more families are turning to patient advocates during childbirth. From being removed during active labor… to witnessing care decisions without consent… to understanding why C-section...

Kent Ray George’s journey didn’t follow a straight line—and that’s exactly why it matters. From playing professional basketball overseas for over a decade to building a healthcare transportation company rooted in service, discipline, and dignity, this conversation goes far beyond sports or business. We talk about identity, masculinity, entrepreneurship, faith, relationships, and what it really mea...

In this episode, Henry sits down with Rachell M. Dumas, MSN, RN, to share one of the most powerful medical and maternal stories you will ever hear. From surviving idiopathic intracranial hypertension and multiple brain surgeries, to navigating nine pregnancy losses, medical dismissal, racial disparities in healthcare, and finally finding hope, answers, and advocacy — Rachell’s journey is nothing s...

In this heartfelt episode of Healthcare Henry: The Podcast, Jacquelyn Joyce opens up about caregiving, grief, and what it truly means to love someone through their final chapter. As a daughter caring for her mother with dementia, Jacquelyn faced the painful reality of watching someone you love slowly fade away. From the invisible weight of anticipatory grief to the moral crossroads of end-of-life...

In this inspiring episode of Healthcare Henry: The Podcast, Dr. Ebonee Gresham shares her extraordinary journey from homelessness to becoming a Doctor of Healthcare Administration and founder of Empower Healthcare Academy. Once a young mother of five sleeping in her car while attending nursing school, Dr. Gresham opens up about her struggles, faith, and the purpose that kept her going when the sys...

What does childhood look like when you spend it caring for your mother? In this powerful episode of Healthcare Henry: The Podcast, 12-year-old Isabella Pittman opens up about being a caregiver to her mom, Imani Scott, who battles Sickle Cell Disease. For Isabella, helping with meals, school forms, and hospital stays isn’t unusual—it’s her normal. But behind her strength lies a story about healthca...

In this powerful episode of Healthcare Henry: The Podcast, Nurse I’Asiah Sabriyah shares her journey from dialysis clinics to pediatric hospital care — and the lessons she’s learned about health, purpose, and preventing kidney failure. We talk about: - The hidden emotional toll on caregivers - How stress, high blood pressure, and diabetes put people — especially in the African American community —...

In this powerful episode of Healthcare Henry The Podcast, Amie Ichikawa shares her journey from incarceration to becoming a fearless advocate for women’s rights and prison reform. With raw honesty, she opens up about losing her mother after a preventable medical crisis, navigating grief, and the life-changing commitment she made to fight for dignity, rehabilitation, and human rights for incarcerat...

In this eye-opening episode of Healthcare Henry The Podcast, Emily Cronan dives deep into the challenges and realities of hospice care, nursing home limitations, and the evolving healthcare landscape in the U.S. From navigating cultural barriers in end-of-life conversations to the complexities of hospice admissions and the future of healthcare business models — Emily shares her expert perspective...

In this eye-opening episode of Healthcare Henry: The Podcast, Amanda Hall exposes the hidden realities behind nursing homes, hospice care, and healthcare policy in America. From underfunded facilities to families left in the dark, Amanda unpacks how systemic neglect affects real people every day—and why she chose to speak out. Whether you’re a healthcare professional, caregiver, policymaker, or si...

What if the system built to heal you… is actually keeping you sick? In Part 2 of our raw, unfiltered conversation with Dr. Dale and Jennifer Stern (aka @real_deal_doc), we go beyond the cracks in the healthcare system—this time, we reveal the trap. This episode dives into: – Why so many patients stay addicted to the comfort of chronic illness – The hidden business model behind “forever prescriptio...

Why the Dental System Is Failing Millions — with Dr. Brigitte White What if everything you thought you knew about dental health was incomplete—or worse, misleading? In this powerful episode, Dr. Brigitte White joins Healthcare Henry: The Podcast to uncover the overlooked connections between oral health, systemic inequality, and the silent crisis facing millions of Americans. From racial disparitie...

What if your income decided whether you lived or died? In this episode of Healthcare Henry: The Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Dale and Jennifer Stern—aka Real Deal Doc—to talk about why the U.S. healthcare system was never built for the underserved. We dive into: – How EBT and HSA cards are changing access to food – Why most "solutions" ignore the real issue – What it takes to reverse ch...

What happens when the system fails—and your child becomes your lifeline? In the powerful premiere of Healthcare Henry: The Podcast , Imani Scott reveals what it’s like to raise a daughter while battling Sickle Cell Disease, chronic illness, and a healthcare system that offered no safety net. Her 12-year-old daughter, Isabella, cooks, cleans, manages medications, fills out school forms—and tries to...

What if the medication your doctor prescribed nearly killed you—then no one took responsibility? In this explosive premiere of Healthcare Henry: The Podcast , Talia Smith shares her harrowing journey after being “floxed” by a fluoroquinolone antibiotic. From total health collapse and gaslighting to a viral letter and a phone call from the FDA itself, Talia takes us deep into the nightmare no one w...