Feeding Our Young
Encouragement for today's student nurse... and life lessons for the rest of us!
Have you ever heard the phrase “nurses eat their young?” Feeding Our Young® is more than a podcast – it’s a movement. It’s a desire to see new nurses of all ages be supported and uplifted by their peers.
Join the movement! COME and hear host Eric Miller's vision for a radical culture change - in nursing, healthcare, and elsewhere; then STAY for a stable of all-star nursing students, nurses, and nurse educators!
They might make you LAUGH...
they might make you CRY...
but they will all definitely make you THINK...
and be ENCOURAGED!
Episodes
119 episodes
117 - Allie Henderson Pt 2: Keeping Your Eyes Open For the Moment
Continue with nurse practitioner, entrepreneur, and Brazil, Las Vegas, Nevada, and O’ahu, Hawai’i native Honored Guest Allie Henderson as she articulates her first experiences with the “eating our young” phenomenon, being unable to “turn off” h...
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Episode 117
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41:42
116 - Allie Henderson Pt 1: Nursing School is Harder than NP School
Join nurse practitioner, entrepreneur, and Brazil, Las Vegas, Nevada, and O’ahu, Hawai’i native Honored Guest Allie Henderson as she articulates her incredible journey into nursing (involving a casino?!), her real-life superpower, the importanc...
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Episode 116
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34:59
115 - Deanna Robertson: Holding Others’ Hands, Even When Mine Are Weak
Join nursing student and Greensburg, Kentucky native Honored Guest Deanna Robertson as she chats about the importance of family, her heroes, experiencing the “eating our young” phenomenon, dealing with challenging personal diagnoses, how pain i...
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Episode 115
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43:40
114 - Maddie Depner: A Flair for the Dramatic
Join nursing student and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Maddie Depner as she discusses how being a theater kid helps her in nursing, the difficult transition from prereq student to nursing student, confidence, making the switch from l...
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Season 1
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Episode 114
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1:02:13
113 - Maliah Haroldson Pt 2: However Much You Want Out of It
Continue with nurse and Sacramento, California native Honored Guest Maliah Haroldson as she talks about the power of gratitude, building confidence, mentorship’s impact on career development, seeking her NP, lifelong learning, putting in the wo...
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Episode 113
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45:10
112 - Maliah Haroldson Pt 1: Presenting a Unified Front
Join nurse and Sacramento, California native Honored Guest Maliah Haroldson as she talks about the art of storytelling in nursing, vent sessions, the importance of diverse friend groups, The Pitt, how she got into nursing, her convoluted attemp...
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Season 1
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Episode 112
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46:40
111 - Stella Reid Pt 2: That’s How My Little Chickens Were Born
Continue with tenured nurse and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Stella Reid as she chats about the most powerfully traumatic last days in the history of practicum experiences, memory making, making the entire family feel seen, taking n...
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Season 1
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Episode 111
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46:06
110 - Stella Reid Pt 1: I Saw My First Birth at 12 Years Old
Join tenured nurse and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Stella Reid as she chats about the two-day NCLEX “back in the day,” her extensive family, memory making, the interesting way she decided to become a nurse, and more!
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Season 1
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Episode 110
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37:54
109 - Alex Giffin: Go Get a B!
Join BSN undergraduate academic advisor and “Farmy Brat/Everywhere” native Honored Guest Alex Giffin as she discusses her passion for supporting nursing students, why she’s chasing a terminal degree, how circumstances never actually get easier ...
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Season 1
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Episode 109
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57:43
108 - Lisamarie Pietragallo Pt 2: Embrace the Suck
Continue with nurse practitioner, entrepreneur, and Pittsburgh, Ohio native Honored Guest Lisamarie Pietragallo Moreschii as she waxes eloquent about her only regret, starting to live her life in her 40s, navigating cancer and a rough marriage,...
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Season 1
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Episode 108
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47:36
107 - Lisamarie Pietragallo Pt 1: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Join nurse practitioner, entrepreneur, and Pittsburgh, Ohio native Honored Guest Lisamarie Pietragallo Moreschii as she waxes eloquent about her nursing career and education path, the need for hobbies, how nurses “get” one another, coming full ...
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Season 1
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Episode 107
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48:58
106 - Cade Riddle: Doing the Thing(s)
Join nursing student and Parrish, Alabama native Honored Guest Cade Riddle as he chats about being in a joint enrollment program, simultaneously obtaining his ADN and BSN, managing stress, why he chose nursing, and more!
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Season 1
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Episode 106
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30:57
105 - Jenn Boyer: Ride the Wave
Join nurse and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Jenn Boyer as she chats about having a superpower by not having a superpower, being a non-traditional student, being smart but undisciplined growing up, how Y2K helped her get in to nursin...
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Season 1
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Episode 105
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56:50
104 - Katie Barbera Pt 2: My Heart Was Tired
Continue with nurse educator, nurse, and Colorado, Arizona, and North Idaho native Honored Guest Katie Barbera as she talks about who inspires her most, knowing she wanted to be in healthcare since she was five years old, survival mechanisms in...
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Season 1
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Episode 104
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48:40
103 - Katie Barbera Pt 1: Pick Your Role Models Carefully
Join nurse educator, nurse, and Colorado, Arizona, and North Idaho native Honored Guest Katie Barbera as she talks about wanting to be an instructor since graduating from nursing school, facing tragedy and challenges in life, surrogacy, a time ...
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Season 1
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Episode 103
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1:02:32
102 - Sydney Chambers: Every Difficult Moment is Temporary
Join nursing student and Addison, Alabama native Honored Guest Sydney Chambers as she discusses the day in life she’d like to relive, the importance of family, her inspiration for nursing, her jarring entrance into adulthood, minor inconvenienc...
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Season 1
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Episode 102
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44:46
101 - Shea Mollahan Pt 2: Well-Grounded, Milking Life for All It’s Worth
Continue with relatively recent graduate and Northern California and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Shea Mollahan as she describes fun facts about cows, her incredible answer to “why nursing?”, how she chose her university, navigating...
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Season 1
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Episode 101
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44:26
100 - Shea Mollahan Pt 1: It's Year One and I'm Still Here!
Join relatively recent graduate and Northern California and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Shea Mollahan as she describes transitioning to a new grad nurse, the importance of asking questions, using SBAR with a doctor for the first ti...
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Season 1
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Episode 100
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39:55
99 - Behind Her Back
Wrapping up the last of the special episodes, Izzie Wilkes and Eric Miller talk about Jennifer Evans behind her back after she leaves to go to her hair appointment, discussing why they want to be just like her when they grow up, emphasizing the...
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Season 1
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Episode 99
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21:49
98 - T.I.D.
In this special episode, continue with nurse educators Jennifer Evans, Izzie Wilkes, and Eric Miller as they answer students’ questions including a-ha moments of wanting to become nurses, dealing with the anxiety of being an independent nurse f...
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Season 1
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Episode 98
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37:40
97 - Alert and Oriented x3
In this special episode, nurse educators Izzie Wilkes and Jennifer Evans hijack the podcast and join host Eric Miller to answer students’ questions including advice for nurses starting out in OB/NICU nursing, how to ensure effective communicati...
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Season 1
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Episode 97
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41:23
96 - Yasmeen Lutchendorf: Friends or Not, Let's Go Save a Life
Join nurse and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Yasmeen (Yaz) Lutchendorf as she discusses when she knew she was going to be a nurse, her career progression (including going from postpartum to PICU), the call of the code alarm, getting ...
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Season 1
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Episode 96
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53:45
95 - Brittany Slegers Pt 2: That's Not Your Only Identity
Continue with nurse educator and Boise, Idaho native Honored Guest Brittany Slegers as she talks about why she loved Nancy Drew, her low point in her career, the ups and downs that landed her in her current role, being nervous for her first lec...
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Season 1
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Episode 95
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34:36
94 - Brittany Slegers Pt 1: Expect the Unexpected
Join “sort-of” nurse educator and Boise, Idaho native Honored Guest Brittany Slegers as she talks about her roundabout method to becoming “just” a nurse, her incredibly supportive parents, her advice for those without supportive parents, mean n...
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Season 1
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Episode 94
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47:02
93 - Kylee Trotter: Trading in Bats for Bedpans
Join nursing student and Jasper, Alabama native Honored Guest Kylee Trotter as she chats about her inspirational family, “I’m not gonna be a nurse,” choosing nursing over her passion for softball, how being a collegiate athlete helped her in nu...
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Season 1
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Episode 93
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45:45
