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
104 episodes
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
92 - Hallie Butler: I Don’t Ever Want to Stop Getting Better
Join nurse, nurse educator, nurse practitioner, and San Diego, California, Austin, Texas, and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Hallie Butler as she discusses chasing education, the adventure she didn’t chose for herself, God’s role in h...
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Season 1
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Episode 92
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57:35
91 - Cassandra Firemark: Second Doesn’t Mean It’s the Worse Option
Join Dallas, Texas, Winchester, Virginia, and Los Angeles, California native Honored Guest Cassandra Firemark as she waxes eloquent about about her family, her many careers in life, the extremely frightening moment that made her want to enter n...
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Season 1
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Episode 91
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57:28
90 - David Butters: It’s Like Putting Five Bucks in the Tank
Join nurse and Delaware and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest David Butters as he talks about moving around a lot (and visiting 46 countries and counting), being open-minded, going to college with his “head screwed on right,” inspiration...
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Season 1
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Episode 90
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49:06
89 - Jasmine Cultum: Mindset's Everything
Join nursing student and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Jasmine Cultum as she describes the role her dad played in choosing nursing, being a nurse tech, practicum, nursing being “a lot of little different things,” how to protect your ...
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Season 1
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Episode 89
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47:22
88 - Lynzee Hewett: Brains and Beauty(cian)
Join nurse and Lewiston, Idaho native Honored Guest Lynzee Hewett as she chats about quickly getting off a pre-med path, writing things down, her advice on establishing friendships in nursing school, HESIs, more “appropriate” competition, her N...
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Season 1
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Episode 88
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58:00
87 - Jordi De La Mora: Delusionally Optimistic
Join nursing student and Portland, Oregon native Honored Guest Jordi De La Mora as he follows the dice’s lead and talks about who inspired him to become a nurse, his family dynamics and parents’ sacrifices, contemplating different areas of nurs...
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Season 1
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Episode 87
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58:39
86 - Kate Joy Pt 2: Host for a Day
Join spur-of-the-moment and alternate universe host-for-a-day Kate Joy and her honored guest Eric Miller as they compare and contrast peds oncology and postpartum nursing, and discuss topics such as end of life care from the perspectives of a n...
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Season 1
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Episode 86
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55:31
85 - Kate Joy Pt 1: Still Finding the Joy in Everyday Life
Join nurse, nurse educator, and Wisconsin native Honored Guest Kate Joy as she joy-fully chats about how she balances bedside nursing with student education, being a nurse volunteer at Burning Man (and what collaborative care looked like there)...
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Season 1
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Episode 85
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1:01:42
84 - Sierra Martinsen: I'm Here for the Journey
Join nursing student and Seattle, Washington native Honored Guest Sierra Martinsen as she explains the weird passage of time in nursing school, having two nuclear families, why she chose nursing, giving and receiving support in nursing school, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 84
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49:09
83: Shawna McMillan Pt 2: We all Have Biases; Investigate, Don't Ignore
Continue with nurse, nurse educator, and Sacramento, California native Honored Guest Shawna McMillan as she discusses working in reproductive health and family planning, caring for the LGBTQ community, helping others make decisions for themselv...
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Season 1
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Episode 83
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54:57
82 - Shawna McMillan Pt 1: Who Else Gets to Fall in Love as Often as I Do?
Join nurse, nurse educator, and Sacramento, California native Honored Guest Shawna McMillan as she discusses her love of academia, a funny patient NFL story, crazy hair, using her tattoos to connect with her patients, how she got into peds onco...
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Season 1
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Episode 82
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48:10
81 - Kara Buller Pt 2: Enjoy the Ride!
Continue with nurse manager and Vancouver, Washington native Honored Guest Kara Buller as she chats about how she transitioned from bedside to management, her time in the unique role of administrative fellow, having difficult conversations, her...
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Season 1
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Episode 81
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49:54
80 - Kara Buller Pt 1: I Threw My Name in the Hat
Join nurse manager and Vancouver, Washington native Honored Guest Kara Buller as she chats about being one of the first cohorts at her university, originally wanting to go into teaching, how a diagnosis led her to nursing, how she chose amongst...
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Season 1
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Episode 80
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46:10
79 - Elizabeth Jenkins: Sometimes It's the Simple Answers
Join nurse educator and Alabama native Elizabeth Jenkins as she talks about never having planned on being a nurse, the importance of reading your textbook, teaching students how to take notes, having a lack of family support, having an overcomi...
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Season 1
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Episode 79
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54:30
78 - Aly Willard: It's So Worth It!
Join nurse, nurse educator, and Indianapolis, Indiana native Honored Guest Aly Willard as she describes her Haiti mission trip, not having a “light bulb moment,” having “300 other things” you can do as a nurse, enjoying the balance of working c...
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Season 1
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Episode 78
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59:40
