HealtheVoices Radio
21 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHealtheVoices Radio was created to connect, inspire and mobilize online health communities around the world.
HealtheVoices Radio is back for a third season! Join co-hosts Robert Breining, Brady D. Etzkorn-Morris and Dawn M. Gibson for brand new episodes this fall, featuring more advocate voices than ever before. This season, our co-hosts will facilitate panel discussions exploring timely topics relevant to the online health advocate community: from COVID-19 and isolation, to the importance of representation, to mentorship in advocacy and much more. New episodes will premiere each month.
HealtheVoices Radio is produced and sponsored by Janssen and J&J Medical Devices. For more information on HealtheVoices, a groundbreaking leadership conference created exclusively to empower online health advocates, please visit HealtheVoices.com. Follow @HealtheVoices on Twitter and Instagram for updates on this podcast, as well as Twitter chats, virtual events, Babbles and much more!
Follow our hosts on Twitter: @BradyDale311, @RobertBisMe & @DawnMGibson.
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Episodes
Reflecting & Learning from Season 3 of HealtheVoices Radio
March 01, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 52.9 MBIn episode 4, the HealtheVoices Radio co-hosts (Robert Breining, Brady Dale Etzkorn-Morris and Dawn Gibson) will take a look back at Season 3 of the show and reflect and learn from the challenging year since the start of the pandemic. The co-hosts will dive deeper into the topics discussed on this season episode-by-episode, allowing them to reflect on those moments and conversations, and share how their own 2020 experiences have shaped their outlooks on advocacy and life with chronic illness....
Elevating Each Other’s Voices – Advice for Advocates in 2020
December 08, 2020 17:00 - 43 minutes - 38.9 MBIn episode 3, the HealtheVoices Radio co-hosts (Robert Breining, Brady Dale Etzkorn-Morris and Dawn Gibson) and guests will discuss advice they have for health advocates, and how advocacy has changed over 2020. The hosts will discuss mastering your story, owning your successes, and understanding your audience. They will also dive into how the idea of advocacy has changed in 2020, from the perspective of both new and veteran advocates. Finally, they will talk about how to mentor new advocates,...
Shared Experiences in Health Advocacy with Alexis Newman & Molly Schreiber
November 02, 2020 13:00 - 57 minutes - 51.7 MBIn health advocacy, there is so much that unites us - even as we advocate for different health conditions and across different life experiences. Co-hosts Robert, Brady and Dawn talk with guests Molly Schreiber (Diabetes, RA & POTS Advocate) and Alexis Newman (Diabetes Advocate) about shared experiences across health communities, what it means to be “healthy,” battling stigma, and finding allies, connections and support. Special thanks to Chelcie Rice (Diabetes Advocate) and the Internationa...
Advocacy, COVID-19 & Isolation with Guy Anthony
October 08, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBIn the Season 3 premiere of HealtheVoices Radio, guest Guy Anthony (HIV advocate) joins our hosts Dawn M. Gibson, Robert Breining and Brady Dale Etzkorn-Morris to chat about “Advocacy, COVID-19 & Isolation.” Our panel explores the ways in which online health advocates have been affected by the virus itself and the challenges of social distancing. Special thanks to Chelcie Rice and iPain for our wonderful intro.
Teresa Wright-Johnson: MS Warrior & A Heart That Matters
February 05, 2020 20:00 - 39 minutes - 35.3 MBTeresa I. Wright-Johnson is a married Multiple Sclerosis Warrior and Congenital Heart Disease Survivor. She was born with a heart murmur and an Aortic Valve Defect. Teresa has endured multiple open heart surgeries and cardiac procedures. She was diagnosed with MS in November of 2014 and is under the care of an esteemed MS Specialist. Teresa knows there is a calling on her life and she fully embraces that. Teresa uses her illnesses as opportunities to further rely on her faith, walk in her tru...
Lee Thomas: Motivational Speaker & Mental Health Trainer
January 22, 2020 15:00 - 34 minutes - 30.8 MBLee was born and raised in a small town in northern Alberta. From a young age they were heavily involved in athletics, student government, and other extracurriculars. However, during their teen years they began battling a mental illness. Feeling scared and alone, Lee struggled silently for many years. Their illness worsened throughout their high school years and continued into university, until Lee finally sought help and began the difficult process of recovery. After Lee began the recovery ...
Michelle Nguyen: Brain Injury Advocate & Overcoming Medical Obstacles
January 14, 2020 22:00 - 39 minutes - 35 MBMichelle Nguyen is a Business Entrepreneur, Professional Model, Social Media Star, Keynote Public Speaker and Brain Injury Advocate who presents her bittersweet story of overcoming medical obstacles after suffering from a massive Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke at the age of 17 years old. She promotes disability awareness globally with her genuine enthusiastic personality but she’s not holding anything back after her traumatic injury. By educating, inspiring, and creating about this cause, ...
Danielle Gulden & Joe Teeters: IDB Warriors and Double Baggin' It
January 07, 2020 21:00 - 42 minutes - 38.1 MBDanielle Gulden and Joe Teeters are IBD warriors and permanent ileostomates. They’re comedians, speakers, advocates and Two Best Friends without Buttholes! Danielle has had Ulcerative Colitis for over twenty-six years. After going through about every IBD medication available, going to the bathroom twenty to twenty-five times per day, and having a toilet installed in her car, she finally kicked her diseased colon to the curb in 2007. Her ostomy (and her stoma named Stella) saved her life and...
Danielle Gulden & Joe Teeters: IBD Warriors and Double Baggin' It
January 07, 2020 21:00 - 42 minutes - 38.1 MBDanielle Gulden and Joe Teeters are IBD warriors and permanent ileostomates. They’re comedians, speakers, advocates and Two Best Friends without Buttholes! Danielle has had Ulcerative Colitis for over twenty-six years. After going through about every IBD medication available, going to the bathroom twenty to twenty-five times per day, and having a toilet installed in her car, she finally kicked her diseased colon to the curb in 2007. Her ostomy (and her stoma named Stella) saved her life and...
Dave Bexfield: Founder of ActiveMSers & Life with MS
December 17, 2019 22:30 - 44 minutes - 40 MBDave Bexfield is the founder of www.ActiveMSers.org, a website designed to help, motivate and inspire those with multiple sclerosis to stay as active as possible—physically, intellectually and socially—regardless of physical limitations. Established when Dave was diagnosed in 2006, ActiveMSers is today the largest and longest-running personal MS website, and has helped hundreds of thousands of people with MS from around the world through its encouraging website, blog, Twitter feed, Facebook p...
Shenese Colwell: Bariatric Lifestyle Coach & Obesity Advocate
December 03, 2019 19:30 - 38 minutes - 34.5 MBShenese Colwell is the owner/founder of labworksandfitness and a bariatric lifestyle coach & obesity advocate. Her passion for helping clients reach their fitness goals and offer support for thier lifelong journeys is evident in her continuous pursuit of knowledge and support in the field of nutrition, fitness, and motivation. Shenese has certifications with the National Academy of Sports Medicine and the American College of Sports Medicine. She's also a member of the Obesity Action Coalition...
Ann Marie Otis: Stupid Dumb Breast Cancer & What Would You Miss
November 26, 2019 16:00 - 45 minutes - 40.6 MBListeners, please note that this episode of HealtheVoices Radio discusses suicide. If you or a loved one is in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or text 741741 for the Crisis Text Line. Stupid Dumb Breast Cancer is Ann Marie Giannino-Otis’ fierce and unconventional initiative to promote awareness, early detection, and advocacy, with a special focus on how the disease impacts younger people. On behalf of her organization, Ann Marie has been featured in ar...
Alisha M. Bridges: Blogger/comedian/fashionista & life with psoriasis
November 12, 2019 15:00 - 42 minutes - 38.3 MBFor two decades, Alisha M. Bridges lived in shame with psoriasis, a severe auto-immune disease. Now, she strives to inspire others by unapologetically living her best life in spite of her chronic illness. In 2011 she stumbled into psoriasis advocacy when she wrote a blog entitled, “My Suicide Letter” on an online psoriasis support group. It contained a message not about physical death, but the end of the scared little girl inside of her who was controlled by shame and lacked self-confidence,...
Tiffany Kairos: The Epilepsy Network founder & life with epilepsy
November 05, 2019 15:00 - 52 minutes - 47 MBTiffany Kairos is the founder of The Epilepsy Network (TEN) Organization, a blogger, and an advocate with over 8 years of experience. Having lived with epilepsy for more than a decade, Tiffany is on a journey to share her story, help those who have been impacted by epilepsy find their voice and bring about education and awareness for all. In the Season 2 premiere, hosts Robert and Brady learn all about life with epilepsy, the ways Tiffany finds purpose in her platform, and how she and her hus...
Kamaria Laffrey: EmPOWERed Legacies & life with HIV
May 24, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBKamaria Laffrey is living with HIV and Black Girl Magic and lives life out loud as an advocate, speaker, and consultant. Her current focus is working on HIV justice to change laws that criminalize people living with HIV. Since her diagnosis, her personal goal is to work through her developing community-based organization, emPOWERed Legacies and provide tools that will help communities towards embracing healing, giving inspiration and living victoriously beyond their diagnosis. Kamaria is also...
Meg Johnson: “The Front Butt YouTuber,” video pro & life with IBD
May 10, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBMeg Johnson is an Inflammatory Bowel Disease and ostomy advocate and know across social media platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter as "The Front Butt Youtuber". She began to make YouTube videos due to the lack of accessible information on & around care for ostomies. There were a few people who paved the way to talk about IBD and ostomies openly, but there were still wide open gaps that needed to be addressed. So, she hit record on a camera and started making content...
Kyle Smith: Filmmaker, founder of “Check 15” & life with cancer
April 26, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBKyle went to Columbia College Chicago for film directing but has enjoyed the past nine years in Los Angeles working in the Art Department. In October 2012, he felt two small lumps on his right testicle. Two days later, he ran a marathon. One week later, he had the cancerous testicle removed. One year later, in attempts to make sense out of all this, he founded CHECK 15: The Monthly Cancer Awareness Day. CHECK 15 creates a new cancer awareness PSA on the 15th of every month with the goal of fi...
HealtheVoices Live from Dallas
April 18, 2019 18:00 - 42 minutes - 37.7 MBYou’ve heard from HealtheVoices advocates about their individual journeys. Now hear about the journey of HealtheVoices as a movement—how we got started and how we’ve grown, in celebration of five years of HealtheVoices. Featuring program sponsors and partners, alongside advocates who’ve helped to grow this community from its start, this is a look inside what makes HealtheVoices so special—the advocates themselves. Guests include past advisors, speakers and attendees, Brooke Abbott, Megan Star...
Dakota J. Rosenfelt: “Hemo Tool” creator & life with bleeding disorders
April 05, 2019 18:00 - 58 minutes - 53 MBCurrently in his final semester of Pharmacy School, Dakota J. Rosenfelt is a nationally-recognized public speaker and advocate for patients, like himself, living with hemophilia A or other bleeding disorders. Dakota serves as a Youth Advisory Member on the board of the Midwest Hemophilia Association and acts as the liaison between the younger members of the community and the Board. He is highly involved in the bleeding disorders community on both the local and national scale and understands ...
Eileen Davidson: “Chronic Eileen” & life with rheumatoid arthritis
March 15, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBEileen Davidson always knew about arthritis, her grandmother and aunt had it. She never really understood her grandmothers need for double knee replacement surgery or her aunt's true reason for her wheelchair until Eileen was also diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis at 29. Having to kiss her late 20s goodbye was only the beginning, Eileen ended up losing her ability to work as an esthetician. By the time her pain was taken seriously, she was eligible for long-term disability. Devastated by t...
Barby Ingle: "The Chronic Pain Cheerleader"
March 01, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBBarby Ingle is a best selling author, reality personality, and lives with reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), migralepsy, endometriosis and other pain disorders. Barby is a chronic pain educator, patient advocate, and president of the International Pain Foundation. She is also a motivational speaker and best-selling author on pain topics. Her blog, reality shows and media appearances are used as a platform to help her become an ePatient advocate, and she now travels the country attending heal...