All Episodes

Addressing health impacts from adverse childhood experiences: 'they're largely unrecognized.'

The impact of incarceration on a family: ‘Sometimes I stays at home because he's not there.’

For opioid-dependent moms: 'We want to help them break out of this cycle.'

"Until we solve the affordable housing crisis, we're always going to be seeing homeless people."

From pain management to microbusiness: 'I'm looking forward to getting my product out.'

"My name is Paige Spears, and I'm a human being."

American Sign Language crisis line provides 'connection with someone who understands'

After incarceration: 'my life work now is to assist these young people.'

“I never let prison define me as an individual. I try to grow where I’m planted at.”

Embedded mental health providers in vet schools: 'In the culture, we start to learn the ins and outs'

Without CNAs: ‘I am really afraid there won't be the care that is needed for our elders to survive.’

With diabetes, ‘it's going to take time to reset and break bad habits and to make the changes that are sustainable.’

For Black birthing people, it’s imperative ‘your persons that are going to be in this space with you are educated on what can happen.’

‘We need a doula rainbow for every type of person because you want everyone to have the same support.’

Defense Against Diabetes is working 'to reverse and stop damage from happening.'

One teacher’s concern for travel nurses: ‘You get sold a dream that might not quite come to fruition.’

MU Well-being peers are ‘not counselors, but they do know a lot of the resources that are available on campus, and they can help folks navigate that.’

Prioritizing nurses’ mental health care: ‘It's not just a nice luxury to have – it's necessary.’

The role of hair stylists in the Black community: ‘Getting your hair done is self-care.’

‘Hair depression is a really big problem in the Black community because we weren't told that our hair was beautiful.’

'I'm more worried about a gun being in my classroom than my psych test. It's not fair.'

The R.I.S.E. Initiative ‘is all about putting these children on a path that will allow them to make decisions that will help their futures.’

Figure Skating has ‘really helped me to realize how strong I am – not just physically, but also mentally.’

Faith-Based Therapy: 'The danger is some of those are not regulated like non-religious therapy is.'

The Reentry Opportunity Center helps people get what they 'need to survive as a citizen out in the community.’

Personal Care Attendants: ‘I'm not there to do things for him. I'm there to do things with him.’

On Health & Nature: ‘There’s physical and mental benefits just to relaxing, to disengaging.’

‘If we're not putting someone's trauma experience first, then the chances of them actually progressing and moving forward may be slimmer.’

‘One of the reasons that I really pushed for individuals to do water aerobics is because I know myself the benefit of it.’

‘There is no safe blood level, and lead can be harmful to human health – even at really, really low levels.’

‘You want a diet that's going to take you in for the rest of your life.’

'It's very rare for the health care system to ask the person their sexual orientation or gender identity… it's almost always the patient has to be the one that outs themselves.’

‘It is nothing to be ashamed of if you've experienced trauma based upon your religious upbringing, but it is something that can drive you to do things that are self-harmful.’

‘A lot of times, even though people don't have family – the recovery itself creates family.’

‘Even though it's hard to put one foot in front of the other, live your life to its fullest.’

‘Weight in the lesbian community means something different than it does, maybe, in the straight community.’

'Suicide gun deaths – they happen, they're real, and we are working to try and prevent them as much as we can.'

‘Kyle was accidentally killed by his best friend in a gun accident. It was one of the hardest things I've ever had to deal with.’

'I recommend the savvy approach to supplementation. Foods first. Foods always come first.'

‘When a group is stigmatized, when a disease is stigmatized - people are very afraid of talking about it or seeking health services.’

"For the last 19 years I had pretty much told myself, 'Okay, make your peace with the fact that you gave it to him.'"

‘Dad's dying. You have stage one colon cancer. Also, you may have given it to your child not knowing.’

'It's important to change the story and that's what TikTok was doing in raising awareness and educating people because ADHD doesn't present as just one thing.'

‘Overturning Roe [v. Wade] and attacking trans people is going to harm the healthcare system overall’

On the need for comprehensive sexual education post-Roe: ‘We need spaces where we're developing those skills’

Medication-assisted treatment: ‘Counseling works on one part of the brain and the medication works on another part’

Post-Roe v. Wade: ‘It's gonna further exaggerate the gap in the transgender and nonbinary community for knowing who and how to seek care’

'Having a forced birth would have really messed me up in so so many more ways than having an abortion'

Jason Jarvis: ‘Try to teach your children that fire is a tool. It is not a toy. Very bad things can happen’

Jason Jarvis: ‘The only reason why I'm here is because I had a motorcycle helmet on.’

Aging in place: 'It starts with a question of: What would you like? What does life mean for you?'

‘In winter, everybody's like, “Oh my gosh, they're gonna freeze to death,” but you never hear in the summertime, “Oh my gosh, they're gonna overheat and blackout.’

“We don't want to warehouse our older adults and all of their wisdom and knowledge away in homes.”

With Long COVID: ‘If I stood up to do dishes, I felt like I was gonna have a heart attack. It was crazy.’

“We both have a chronic illness called fibromyalgia. Basically that just means we're in pain – 25/8.”

The Mid-Missouri Afghan Community: “I'm really hoping that together – all of us will be able to form a strong community, which will be able to depend on each other."

"There's people out there right now that got frostbite because they're too afraid or too ashamed to come in and say, ‘I need help.'"

Alpha Gal: 'I'm just kind of – I'm waiting for it to come back, and it's scary.'

Tickborne Illness: ‘You've heard the expression, ‘the feeling of impending doom,’ but you don't really get it until you're having this reaction.'

‘We really don't know enough about our bodies. We don't know enough about our reproductive systems.’

Black Maternal & Infant Mortality: ‘The most vulnerable among us are the most directly affected by the policies.’

Insomnia & Sleep Hygiene: ‘You definitely don't want to do anything that's going to mess up your chances of falling asleep and staying asleep.’

‘It's preventable. We have Black mothers dying at three to four times the rates of white women, and it doesn't have to be like that.’

COVID-19 during the holidays: ‘Really, it’s about taking care of each other.'

Alcohol & Sleep: ‘If you can reduce your drinking, it will probably help your sleep, also.’

Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic: 'It’s just this very large reset and reminder of every day – of counting every day.’

COVID-19 & New Mothers: ‘There's a lot of guilt with the mothers.’

Accessibility in Columbia: ‘Sidewalks are not just for people with disabilities, they impact everyone.’

‘The reality is that it's alcohol as the number one thing used for a drug-facilitated sexual assault.'

'We Have Seen Stillbirths in COVID Women – We Are Worried it Could Be Because of COVID.'

Retired Nurse Reflects on Pandemic with Missouri on Mic: 'Somehow, We Got Through One of the Greatest Ordeals I've Lived Through'

‘With the Delta Variant, We Became a Hotspot, But Very Shortly Thereafter, Everybody Else Became a Hotspot.’

Nursing Through the Pandemic Has ‘Really Made a Bigger Place Seem Smaller’

‘Nurses Are Seeing More Patients Die On a Weekend of Working Than in a Year in Pre-COVID Time’

COVID-19 Hospitalizations in Joplin: 'If You Love Your Community – It Causes You to do Action. One of Those Actions is Getting the Vaccine'

Columbia’s Community Vaccine Clinics: ‘We Can Reach People Where They Are’

In SW Missouri: ‘It’s Becoming a Staffing Challenge to Take Care of the Rising Number of COVID Patients’

Fighting the Stigma of Homelessness: ‘Imagine Yourself with No Money, No Job, No Transportation – How Would You Pull Yourself Up?’

Building Asian American Community: ‘It’s Important to Recognize the Intersectionalities That We Have’

On End-Of-Life Care: ‘When You Walk Into A Room – You Don't See A Patient. You See A Life.’

Faith Communities After COVID-19: ‘Never Take For Granted Being Able To Shake A Hand Or Hug Or Sing A Hymn’

Finding TRICARE In Rural Communities: ‘You Have to Educate Yourself’