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Tick Boot Camp

590 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 66 ratings

The goal of the Tick Boot Camp Podcast is to help people liberate themselves and others from suffering caused by Lyme disease through validation, community building, belief that healing is possible, and modeling success. Listen to our Tick Boot Camp podcast using all major podcast streaming services such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts. Our podcast is also integrated with smart home devices, such as Amazon Alexa and Apple TV. Ask your device to "play the Tick Boot Camp Podcast!"

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Episodes

Episode 322: From Covid to Lyme - an interview with Tiffany Perez

November 26, 2022 05:01 - 1 hour - 41.9 MB

Tiffany Perez is a 35-year-old professional tattoo artist from Pine Brook, New Jersey. Ms. Perez led a very busy and productive life and owned her own business before getting sick with Lyme disease. Ms. Perez had a stroke and then was diagnosed with COVID. Next, shortly after COVID, she was diagnosed with Lyme disease. Some of Ms. Perez’s symptoms included extreme brain fog, Bell's palsy, hallucinations, short term memory loss, neck pain, depression, full body pain, and swelling of her jo...

Episode 321: Sculpting Recovery - an interview with Flora Deborah

November 23, 2022 05:01 - 1 hour - 46.4 MB

Flora Deborah is a 38-year-old artist, sculptor and photographer from Tel Aviv, Israel. Ms. Deborah was born in Evian, France and raised in Milan, Italy. During her childhood in Italy, she discovered an aptitude and love for the drawing arts. In 2015, she moved to Israel to attend graduate school. Shortly after earning a master’s in fine arts degree and beginning a career as a sculptor, a friend noticed a bullseye rash on the back of her arm and urged her to visit a doctor to be tested f...

Episode 320: Silent Suffering - an interview with Lauren Murphree

November 19, 2022 05:01 - 52 minutes - 30.8 MB

Lauren Murphree is a 29-year-old certified IV technician from Tennessee. She’s also the author of Silent Suffering: Finding God's Faithfulness in Chronic Lyme Disease. Ms. Murphree was flourishing and working full time. She was an athlete and was very social. Ms. Murphree was first diagnosed with Lyme disease when she was 9 years old, but it didn’t “wreak havoc” in her life until she was around 20 years old. Some of Ms. Murphree’s symptoms have included neuropathy, neck and back pain...

Episode 319: Self Healer - an interview with Jennifer Sala

November 16, 2022 05:01 - 1 hour - 54 MB

Jennifer Sala is a 32-year-old herbalist and research writer from Ellsworth, Maine. Ms. Sala was a healthy baby, and she was accepted into her school’s talented and gifted program at a young age. She was bit by ticks all throughout her life but didn’t know what they were. Ms. Sala’s health started to decline after a tick bite when she was 4 years old, and she crashed at the age of 10 shortly after developing a bullseye rash from another tick bite. She was then infected later in life while ...

Episode 318: Healing in Harmony - an interview with Micaela Hoo

November 12, 2022 05:01 - 1 hour - 51.7 MB

Micaela Hoo is a 28-year-old freelance content creator, social media manager, Global Lyme Alliance (GLA) peer mentor, and entrepreneur from Los Angeles, California. She is the co-creator of My July, a clean skin care brand. Born in the eastern United States Lyme belt, Ms. Hoo’s childhood was interrupted by persistent illness, learning difficulties, issues with word recall, and heightened sensitivity. She made frequent trips to doctors and medical centers without securing a diagnosis. Ms. H...

Episode 317: Lyme Support - an interview with Doctor Christine Arseneau

November 09, 2022 05:01 - 1 hour - 46.2 MB

Dr. Christine Arseneau is a 38-year-old pharmacist who spent 6 years training at a hospital before managing an integrative compounding pharmacy where she now works today. She is the founder of Lyme Support which serves clients suffering with Lyme disease and tick-borne infections, is certified in Clinical Cannabinoid Pharmacy, and has a Functional Medicine Certification in Health Coaching. Despite moving around a lot as a child because her father was in the Army, Dr. Arseneau was a straight...

Episode 316: Reclaiming Embodiment - an interview with Dana Papadopoulos

November 05, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 67.8 MB

Dana Papadopoulos is a 30-year-old not-for-profit Media Director residing in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ms. Papadopoulos was transformed from an active, healthy, athletic child and young adult to a chronically ill 18-year-old woman. Then, for almost a decade, she battled a series of seemingly separate symptoms including anorexia, extreme GI issues, gastroparesis, POTS, EDS, fibromyalgia, ovarian cysts, hypotension, anemia, PCOS, leaky gut, and more. Despite treating with over 50 medical do...

Episode 315: Grace Walk Farm - an interview with Amber Benge

November 02, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 58.7 MB

Amber Benge is a 39-year-old young woman from Hickory, North Carolina who is now a sustainable farmer growing her own food and medicine at Grace Walk Farm. She’s a trained victim advocate and her professional background is in working with women who have addiction issues and are victims of sex trafficking. Ms. Benge was bit by a tick when she was 5 years old during a family vacation. She got a bullseye rash, became sick, but Lyme disease went undiagnosed for the next 34 years. Ms. Benge was...

Episode 314: Lyme in the Limelight - an interview with Daisy Ilchovska

October 29, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 56.9 MB

Daisy Ilchovska is a 36-year-old nutritional therapist, researcher, and author from Bournemouth, England. She is the founder of Optimal Health Nutrition, a virtual clinic established to help people overcome health challenges through evidence-based strategies. At the age of 26, Ms. Ilchovska was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and doctors told her to expect to be permanently disabled in less than a decade. Shortly thereafter, she suffered a tick bite causing her to health to deteriorate...

Episode 313: ChroniLyme - an interview with Christèle Dumas-Gonnet

October 26, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 56.2 MB

Christèle Dumas-Gonnet is the 48-year-old co-founder of ChroniLyme, a patient advocacy association dedicated to improving diagnosis and treatment of chronic Lyme disease, based in Lyon, France. She is also a member of the European Lyme patient engagement collective PREFACE (Patient Resource Facilitator Europe). Shortly before the end of her university studies, she began to suffer from fatigue, aches, pains, and “a white fog that prevented [her] from concentrating”. For the next 20 years, he...

Episode 312: Redefining Wellness - an interview with Dr. Jaban Moore

October 22, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 51.3 MB

Dr. Jaban Moore is a Doctor of Chiropractic and founder of the Redefining Wellness Center located in Kansas City, Missouri. The mission of Redefining Wellness Center is to educate people about the root causes of chronic illness to help them to find true healing. The foundation of Dr. Moore’s passion for restoring health through a multi therapeutic approach was informed by witnessing his mother struggle with chronic illness and health decline during his childhood. Later, during his time at ...

Episode 311: Socially Serving - an interview with Sarah Lombard

October 19, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 61.5 MB

Sarah Lombard is a 27-year-old social media marketing, management, and creation professional from Scottsdale, Arizona. Prior to attending college, she enjoyed a very social teen life that included “the worst diet known to man”. She would “eat candy and cookies for lunch with some fries and coming home, starving, eating frozen dinners and spoons full of sugar”. At the age of 17 she began to get sick. She suffered monthly infections, stomach aches, lethargy, lack of motivation and anxiety. H...

Episode 310: I Can't Wait - an interview with Vanessa Nolet

October 15, 2022 04:01 - 60.7 MB

Vanessa Nolet is a 29-year-old young woman from Quebec, Canada. She is working on finishing up a bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Management. Prior to getting sick with Lyme disease, Ms. Nolet had a great life filled with friends and sports. She worked at a spa while going to college and was exposed to Freon during an accident which changed her life. Around this time, Ms. Nolet was bit by a tick and within a month she became very ill. She had chronic fatigue, whole body spasms, light sensit...

Episode 309: Two Monies - an interview with Kahlil Fuller

October 12, 2022 04:01 - 2 hours - 68.8 MB

Kahlil Fuller, stage name “Two Monies”, is a singer, songwriter, musician, and entertainer from Charlotte, North Carolina. Shortly after graduating from North Carolina A & T with a degree in marketing he “noticed a huge rash on [his] left leg” while working out at the gym. He assumed the rash was from a harmless “bug bite” until he began to limp 5 or 6 days later. Prompted by left leg paralysis, Two Monies called his primary care doctor of 15 years. Expecting his doctor to diagnose his “pr...

Episode 308: Canadian Fortitude - an interview with Lexi Czar

October 08, 2022 04:01 - 2 hours - 72.7 MB

Lexi Czar is a 27-year-old young woman from Creston, BC, Canada. She created Lyme disease awareness apparel and is and is thinking about relaunching her brand in the future. Prior to suffering the extreme symptoms of Lyme disease, Ms. Czar was a full-time student with a part-time job and was involved in many extracurricular sports and activities. She traveled throughout British Columbia and Alberta and was an extremely happy person with a great group of friends. Ms. Czar struggled with hea...

Episode 307: Strength from Sweden - an interview with Åsa Rydmark Kersley

October 05, 2022 04:01 - 65.7 MB

Åsa Rydmark is a 48-year-old woman from Sweden who has traveled all around the world. She’s worked in the medical field as a Registered Nurse (RN), research nurse at a gynecological ward, and for the last two years as a research coordinator at Linköping University. Ms. Rydmark had many tick bites throughout her life, got a bullseye rash when she was 14, and Lyme came out and wreaked havoc when she was 39 due to mold exposure and environmental toxins weakening her immune system while perform...

Episode 306: Furry Friends - an interview with Karen Widaman

October 01, 2022 04:01 - 33.5 MB

Karen Widaman is a 62-year-old certified dog trainer and owner of a large dog training company from Glendora, California. Despite working in a high-risk industry, Ms. Widaman was unaware of that her contact with thousands of dogs increased her Lyme vulnerability. In 2015, she began to suffer from stomach, foot, and hand pain her doctors believed to be unrelated symptoms in part because she tested negative for Lyme disease. Unrelenting symptoms forced to treat with a plethora of medical doc...

Episode 305: Patient Zero - an interview with Casey Fillian

September 28, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 42.3 MB

Casey Fillian is a 45-year-old personal trainer, massage therapist, and competitive runner from Marlboro, New Jersey.   Ms. Fillian is also a Lyme disease pioneer: during her childhood she was one of the first people in the United States diagnosed with Lyme. After suffering a tick bite while attending a summer camp, she “developed a fever, general malaise… a bad flu, [her] knee blew up to 3 times its size, and [her] torso was covered in a rash”.   Although her parents did not believe the “kn...

Episode 304: Numb - an interview with Grace Anderson

September 24, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 49.9 MB

Grace Anderson is a 21-year-old Lyme disease advocate from the coast of Maine. She's currently studying mental health and human services. Ms. Anderson first became sick with symptoms of Lyme when she was 12 at a Taylor Swift concert with the following symptoms: dizziness, nausea, swollen feet, excessive sweating, and vomiting. These symptoms quickly subsided, but they came back a month later and never went away with the addition of migraines, fatigue, difficulty walking, full body pain, and...

Episode 303: Nervous System Health - an interview with Samantha Lynn

September 21, 2022 04:01 - 64.9 MB

Samantha Lynn is a 31-year-old Nutritional Therapy Practitioner from Missouri. She’s also a Vaccine Education Specialist and Transformation Touch Practitioner. Ms. Lynn had many events occur in her early life that contributed to her declining health leading up to her crash at 21 years old after receiving two vaccines. She ended up in the Emergency Room (ER) and then followed up with a variety of doctors. Finally, a hypnotherapist referred Ms. Lynn to a functional neurologist where she bega...

Episode 302: Balance is Key - an interview with Rosmeyris Estrella

September 17, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 48.9 MB

Rosemeyris Estrella is personal trainer and health and nutrition coach from Pennsylvania. She grew up and spent most of her adult life residing in the urban New York City borough of The Bronx. Recently, Ms. Estrella and husband decided to offer their 4 children the opportunity to trade city living for the freedom, fresh air, and open spaces offered in rural Pennsylvania. Shortly after moving to their new home, Ms. Estrella discovered she had suffered a bug bite on her left leg after spendin...

Episode 301: Overcoming Trauma - an interview with Evangelia Vensel

September 14, 2022 04:01 - 2 hours - 72.8 MB

Evangelina Vensel is an author, life coach, certified Master PSYCH-K facilitator, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner, and certified Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) practitioner from Washington State. Although she had been symptomatic and ill since early childhood, she was not diagnosed with Lyme disease until surpassing her 40th birthday. She sought treatment with over 20 health care providers and was misdiagnosed with a plethora of mental and physical health disorders includ...

Episode 300: Ahead of the Curve - an interview with Dr. Alan McDonald

September 10, 2022 04:01 - 2 hours - 74.7 MB

Dr. Alan MacDonald is an Ivy League educated Medical Doctor who worked as a hospital pathologist in the eastern Long Island, New York area at the outset of the modern Lyme disease pandemic. He and his pioneering work were first featured on episode 171 of the Tick Boot Camp Podcast. In this comprehensive interview, Dr. MacDonald discusses his groundbreaking and yet to be published research findings on topics such as the Lyme disease connection to suicide, brain cancer, Leukemia, dementia, Al...

Episode 299: Artistically Healing - an interview with Carley Rudd

September 07, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 57 MB

Carley Rudd is a 34-year-old second generation artist and Travel Photographer from Portland, Maine. Her work has taken her across the globe and has been featured in Vogue, Condé Nast Traveller, National Geographic, Architectural Digest, and Travel & Leisure. Ms. Rudd suffered from Lyme disease for 10 years before she was diagnosed in 2021. She balanced her pre-diagnosed symptoms and travel by visiting over 50 United States (US) and international doctors. Eventually her body said no to her...

Episode 298: Cure the Causes - an interview with Dr. Christina Rahm

September 03, 2022 04:01 - 21.7 MB

Dr. Christina Rahm is a medical, clinical and research scientist, entrepreneur, author, Chief Science Officer for ROOT Wellness, and Chair of the International Science Nutrition Society from Brentwood, TN. Her resume includes working for pharmaceutical giants such as Johnson & Johnson, UCB, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Pfizer and she has created multiple provisional patents, proprietary formulas, and trade secrets. Dr. Rahm’s journey with Lyme disease and chronic illness began when she suffere...

Episode 297: Zack of All Trades - an interview with Zack Jones

August 31, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 60.6 MB

Zack Jones is a 48-year-old professional guide, trainer, trip designer, and photographer residing in Frankfurt, Germany. He is the “Zack of all Trades” with his current company and “recently added smitten father to an amazing baby girl to the CV”. Mr. Jones described his life before Lyme as “pretty good and at the same time full of blissful ignorance”. While on a trip to Honduras, he and a travel companion began to suffer from neck and back pain that progressed to fever, intense body aches,...

Episode 296: Congenital Advocate - an interview with Jeni Quante

August 27, 2022 04:01 - 2 hours - 84.7 MB

Jeni Quante is a 29-year-old Registered Nurse (RN) and chronic illness patient advocate from San Antonio, Texas. She has earned high regard from the Lyme disease community for producing creative educational content on social media platforms including TikTok and Instagram. Ms. Quante was born with Congenital Lyme disease, but the undiagnosed illness did not become debilitating until the age of 14. Her disability activated her medically educated and trained parents who dedicated all their res...

Episode 295: Balance 4 Gold - an interview with Axel Roelants

August 24, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 50.6 MB

Axel Roelants is an entrepreneur and former athlete from Belgium. He is the co-founder of 4Gold, an athletic supplement, health, and performance company. In 2016, Mr. Roelants suffered a broken neck in a dirt bike accident. Shortly after the injury, he began to suffer from a diverse and progressive set of classic Lyme disease symptoms that his doctors attributed to his traumatic injuries. Trusting his intuition and relying on his entrepreneurial and athletic skill sets, he built a team of ...

Episode 294: You Had Me at Chocolate - an interview with Ali Lazowski

August 20, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 52.7 MB

Ali Lazowski is the 31-year-old John’s Hopkins University educated founder and CEO of Bare Life. Bare Life is a company that creates “crave worthy and easy to enjoy plant based and gluten free foods, inspired by Ms. Lazowski’s journey with chronic Lyme disease”. Undiagnosed Lyme disease symptoms began to interfere with Ms. Lazowski’s goal driven life during her junior year in high school. Beginning with “utter exhaustion, horrible headaches, brain fog, [difficulties] focusing, and a constan...

Episode 293: Multigenerational Lyme - an interview with Debbie Kimberg

August 17, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 62.2 MB

Debbie Kimberg is a 55-year-old author, activist, and director of International Expansion for Merchant Services at JP Morgan Chase from Dallas, Texas. Ms. Kimberg, her mother, and her 3 children have been diagnosed with Lyme disease. Despite 3 generations of the family exhibiting classic Lyme disease symptoms, Lyme was not a consideration until after the youngest child, Sammy, was diagnosed. Sammy’s Lyme journey began prior to birth, when a brain development issue was discovered on a prena...

Episode 292: Blooming with Lyme - an interview with Georgia Wood

August 13, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 60.7 MB

Georgia Grace Ritchie Wood is a professional ski coach, yoga instructor, poet, and podcaster from Australia. She currently resides in Woodstock, Vermont, USA. Ms. Wood was born with a kidney disorder that rendered her immune compromised. Her parents were advised that she would require kidney reconstruction surgery and should not engage in activities such as skiing or skydiving. Ms. Wood was also born with a passion to vanquish any and all limits and she developed an improbable passion for s...

Episode 291: Lyme's Rocket Scientist - an interview with Greg Lee

August 10, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 56.8 MB

Greg Lee is the 55-year-old founder of the Lyme Research and Healing Center and GoodbyeLyme.com. He is a nationally recognized expert in the use of Chinese herbs and alternative medicine for the treatment of persistent infections. Mr. Lee began his career as a systems engineer on NASA projects such as the Hubble Telescope, the Space Station, robotics, and climate modeling projects. The stresses of working on multiple space projects caused Mr. Lee to suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS...

Episode 290: Reductionist Cure - an interview with Dr. Janis Weis

August 06, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 59.2 MB

Dr. Janis J. Weis, Ph.D. is a Professor of Pathology in the Division of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr Weis developed a professional passion for studying Lyme disease when she and her family lived in the east coast Lyme belt during the time she performed her post-doctoral training in immunology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard University Medical Center. Dr. Weis maintains an active research laboratory at the University of Utah studying...

Episode 289: Confidence in Lyme - an interview with Sarah Corlis

August 03, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 57.5 MB

Sarah Corlis is a mother of two children with Lyme disease from Alpharetta, Georgia. Growing up, she had a very active social life and used to work out all the time. Sarah was a human resources manager until she was 34 years old when she took some time off to have her kids. A few years later, she returned to work as a realtor with a more flexible schedule for 6 years until she decided to work fulltime on her health and the health of her two children. Some of Sarah's early Lyme disease symp...

Episode 288: Food, Fitness, and Fashion - an interview with Amanda Millie

July 30, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 62.1 MB

Amanda Millie is a 35-year-old model, blogger and podcaster from London, England. Shortly after Ms. Millie’s family immigrated from Africa to the UK, she was bitten by a tick on a school camping trip. She “picked off the tick and moved on with [her] life” because she was “unaware of what that bite meant”. Around the age of 19, Ms. Millie “started getting intense fatigue” which she attributed to lifestyle changes she felt compelled to make to advance her career in the fashion modeling indus...

Episode 287: Recovery from Lyme - an interview with Dr. Dan Kinderlehrer

July 27, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 59.6 MB

Dr. Daniel Kinderlehrer is a nationally recognized Lyme disease medical doctor, educator, and author from Denver, Colorado. Dr. Kinderlehrer is acknowledged for his wide-ranging expertise in the fields of nutrition, allergy, environmental medicine, healing of the mind/body/spirit as a whole, and Lyme disease. His passion for treating Lyme disease was born out of his personal experience. He is the co-founder of the New England Center for Holistic Medicine in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and ...

Episode 286: Escaping Toxicity - an interview with Dina Benedetto

July 23, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 46.9 MB

Dina Benedetto is a 38-year-old beauty and skin care industry professional from Long Island, New York. Ms. Benedetto’s Lyme disease journey was ignited by a common stomach virus that infected several members of her family at the same time. While her family’s symptoms dissipated, her illness became increasingly more severe. She suffered from confusion, heart palpitations, air hunger, anxiety, and panic attacks. As her symptoms progressed, the fearless former lacrosse athlete and driven busi...

Episode 285: Purpose to the Pain - an interview with Jill Wichner

July 20, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 52.4 MB

Jill Wichner is a 48-year-old entrepreneur, copywriter, and content marketing strategist. She is also a board member and Vice President of social media and digital content marketing for the Pennsylvania Lyme Resource Network. Ms. Wichner’s Lyme disease journey began when she “noticed a bullseye rash on the back of [her] arm” while on a Caribbean cruise with her husband. Thinking the rash was “a little bit odd, [she] took a photo” to show to her doctor in Lyme endemic Pennsylvania. “After sh...

Episode 284: Post Traumatic Growth - an interview with Kristen Harris

July 16, 2022 04:01 - 33.2 MB

Kristen Harris is a 39-year-old small business owner from Westchester County, New York. Her story is different than most of our guests. Ms. Harris was very sick with Lyme disease in 1998, reached remission in 2000, and in 2016 fell ill again due to Lyme. She went to college, got a job, traveled, and lived a very active life from 2000 to 2016. At the age of 33, Ms. Harris relapsed and suffered severe neck pain, full-body pain, dizziness, cognitive issues, Lyme rage, disassociation, heart pa...

Episode 283: A Little More Balanced - an interview with Andi Czyz

July 13, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 54.5 MB

Andi Czyz is a multi-talented 23-year-old Certified Functional Nutrition Practitioner, Holistic Health Practitioner, and Social Media Manager originally from midwestern suburban Illinois. Ms. Czyz’s Lyme disease journey began when she suffered a tick bite in March 2020. Within weeks she suffered “full body numbness, extreme brain fog, tremors, anxiety, and knee swelling”. Despite displaying classic Lyme disease symptoms, the then uber fit weightlifter had to visit with 6 doctors before she ...

Episode 282: Dancing in the Lyme Light - an interview with Ali Goodman

July 09, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 50.1 MB

Ali Goodman is a 24-year-old dancer and Pilates instructor from San Diego, California. Ms. Goodman’s young life has been punctuated by a passion for the performing arts and health challenges that would hinder her artistic progress. “Never feeling completely normal,” she and her family had to deal with random medical anomalies from the time [she] was born. Undeterred by a “different [medical] diagnosis” from more than 15 doctors, she was a straight A student, and “danced rigorously”. By the...

Episode 281: My Promise to Alex - an interview with Jody Hudson

July 06, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 55.1 MB

This week Tick Boot Camp was joined by special guest co-host Alexandra Castellanos in an inspiring interview with author, public servant, and Lyme disease family advocate Jody Hudson. Ms. Hudson is the author of one of this year’s most highly acclaimed Lyme disease books: “My Promise to Alex - Through Pain Comes Purpose...”. After building the Alex Hudson Foundation and sharing her family’s journey at public forums, Ms. Hudson answered the divine call to write a book to serve as a permanent...

Episode 280: Stick to Your Gut - an interview with Emily Hogan

July 02, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 56.5 MB

Emily Hogan is a nurse and health coach specializing in gut health from Seattle Washington. She is the founder of the “Stick to Your Gut” health coaching business. Ms. Hogan began her Lyme disease journey while she was studying nursing during her sophomore year of college. She was studying abroad when she began to suffer a lengthy flu-like illness that she decided to ignore despite her gut telling her otherwise. Shortly after she returned from her foreign studies, she became gravely ill wi...

Episode 279: Bachelor Nation - an interview with Kelley Flanagan

June 29, 2022 04:01 - 33 minutes - 19.7 MB

Kelley Flannagan is an attorney, model, celebrity spokesperson and reality tv personality from North Barrington, Illinois and Miami, Florida. She became a household name when she starred in the ABC reality series: The Bachelor. Ms. Flannagan grew up in a large mid-western family. She and her siblings enjoyed a variety of outdoor activities during their childhood. At the same time, her body was forced to cope with the ebb and flow of a variety of childhood illnesses. After graduation from H...

Episode 278: Cellular Wellness - an interview with Dr. Bill Rawls

June 25, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 70.2 MB

“The Cellular Wellness Solution - Tap Into Your Full Health Potential with the Science-Backed Power of Herbs” is the newly released bestselling book by the brilliant Lyme Literate Medical Doctor (LLMD) Bill Rawls. During Lyme Disease Awareness Month (May 2022), Tick Boot Camp challenged Dr. Rawls to “unofficially launch” his then unpublished book, live and unscripted. Dr. Rawls took up the gauntlet and this podcast is the audio of the Instagram Live broadcast. If you would like to learn mor...

Episode 277: Transforming Medicine - an interview with Dr. Jess Peatross

June 22, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 58.6 MB

Dr Jessica Peatross is medical doctor and board-certified hospitalist. She is the founder of the Wellness Plus by Dr Jess platform and the highly acclaimed Lyme disease medical infotainer. Dr Jess was raised in rural West Virginia by a preacher-missionary father and dietitian mother. Her sheltered religious upbringing and a broken back suffered in an auto accident informed her decision to prepare to serve by attending medical school. While attending medical school, she developed a passion ...

Episode 276: Epitome of Loyalty - an interview with Nicoleta Forbes

June 18, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 45 MB

Nicoleta Forbes is a married 36-year-old realtor from St Petersburg, Florida. She and her husband co-manage their family, a successful real estate business, and Lyme disease. In 2016, the couple were both physically unwell and Mr. Forbes was diagnosed with Lyme disease. His debilitating symptoms became life threatening, forcing the family to close their business, sell their house, and focus full time on healing. While supporting her husband’s healing, Ms. Forbes felt like “she understood h...

Episode 275: Community Healing - an interview with LLMD Casey Kelley

June 15, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 54.2 MB

Dr. Casey Kelley is a Lyme Literate Medical Doctor and the founder and Medical Director of Case Integrative Health. Tick Boot Camp has featured Dr. Kelley’s work online and on episodes 98 and 170 of the Tick Boot Camp Podcast. For the past two years, podcast co-hosts Matt Sabatello and Rich Johannesen challenged Dr. Kelley to honor Lyme Disease Awareness Month by answering your questions in real time on Instagram Live. This podcast is the audio of the 2022 Instagram Live broadcast. If you w...

Episode 274: The Healing Rod - an interview with Hilary Jane

June 11, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 40.4 MB

Hilary Jane is a 32-year-old multidisciplinary artist, entrepreneur, and internationally recognized tattoo artist from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her Lyme disease symptoms began when she was in her early 20s. She suffered a “gigantic bullseye rash on [her] thigh that kept spreading.” The rash got infected, triggering her to seek treatment from a medical doctor that “didn’t catch on to what it really was.” She believed the rash was from “a spider bite or maybe Lyme,” but her speculation was n...

Episode 273: Lyme Warrior - an interview with Lauren Lovejoy

June 08, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 59.3 MB

Lauren Lovejoy is the charismatic entrepreneurial founder of the Lyme service organization Lyme Warrior. She grew up and lives in rural Virginia. Ms. Lovejoy was living a life of a normal 20 something, working in a law office by day and attending graduate school studying Analytics at night. She filled her remaining time participating in social activities and training at a CrossFit gym. One weekend, when she took an 8-hour road trip, she suffered a panic attack, shaking, and an out of body...

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