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
88 episodes
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
77 - Amanda Shafer Pt 2: Sourdough, Consent, and Nursing
Continue with nurse and Omak, Washington native Honored Guest Amanda Shafer as she chats about changes in nursing, her career progression, your safe crying space, making mistakes, the utmost importance of informed consent, and more!
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Season 1
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Episode 77
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58:19
76 - Amanda Shafer Pt 1: Just Roll With Life
Join nurse and Omak, Washington native Honored Guest Amanda Shafer as she chats about sourdough, being pregnant with twins during nursing school, her super-unique NCLEX prep, lessons learned from raising an autistic child, being the ultimate ad...
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Season 1
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Episode 76
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47:59
75 - Samantha Lengerich Pt 2: You Have Overcome All of Your Hardest Days
Continue with nursing student and Salt Lake City, Utah native Honored Guest Samantha Lengerich as she talks about unconditional love in nursing, healthcare trauma, the most beautiful part of nursing, “getting it” in nursing school, supporting p...
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Season 1
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Episode 75
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35:04
74 - Samantha Lengerich Pt 1: Climbing Hills Instead of Mountains
Join nursing student and Salt Lake City, Utah native Honored Guest Samantha Lengerich as she talks about having lived in Australia not once, but twice, dealing with debilitating panic attacks, her journey through extremely challenging mental he...
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Season 1
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Episode 74
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43:54
73 - Izzie Wilkes Pt 2: We are Storytellers
Continue with nurse educator and Twisp, Washington native Honored Guest Izzie Wilkes as she describes teen moms being her favorite patients, the transformative power of nursing school, her first year in nursing, practical education for her stud...
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Season 1
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Episode 73
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1:01:13
72 - Izzie Wilkes Pt 1: Rock Bottom, Twisps and Turns
Join nurse educator and Twisp, Washington native Honored Guest Izzie Wilkes as she describes how she got her name, never being born, working research that was simultaneously fascinating and heart wrenching, finding the strength within yourself ...
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Season 1
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Episode 72
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58:44
71 - Jennifer Evans Pt 2: Stop Shoulding on Yourself
Continue with nurse educator, bedside nurse, and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest “Jen” Evans as she discusses cellphone bias, being the new girl, “snapdragon,” adapting to the role of full-time educator, character assassinations, commi...
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Season 1
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Episode 71
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56:12
70 - Jennifer Evans Pt 1: I've Adopted You; You're My Kids Now
Join nurse educator, bedside nurse, and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest “Niffer” Evans as she discusses the event that made her know she wanted to be a nurse, how her students made her overcome her lack of desire to go back to school, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 70
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51:55
69 - Lauren Avery: A Dream Delayed (Bringing the Fight to Every Day)
Join prospective nursing student and Lisbon, Illinois native Honored Guest Lauren Avery as she emotionally describes her faith-challenging life circumstances that have so far prevented dreams from coming to fruition, the fight she and her famil...
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Season 1
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Episode 69
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59:11
68 - Sarah Byers: Being More Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
Join nurse and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Sarah Byers as she chats about going back for her FNP, getting active, her family influence, making the difficult decision to change jobs from her dream job and how that set her on her new...
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Season 1
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Episode 68
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39:38
67 - Nikki Hyche: You Can Do Anything as an Associate
Join tenured nurse and Selah and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Nikki Hyche as she talks about being the host’s “mom,” her time in Texas, wanting to save manatees, struggling during nursing school, how she graduated with no debt, what...
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Season 1
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Episode 67
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48:38
66 - Tera Tveit Pt 2: I Just Wanted to Be Numb
Continue with nurse educator and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Tera Tveit as she vulnerably opens a window into a very dark time in her career and how she (mis)handled it, how the COVID pandemic compounded that, her incredible story ...
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Season 1
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Episode 66
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44:40
65 - Tera Tveit Pt 1: All I Know So Far
Join nurse educator and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Tera Tveit as she waxes eloquent about how to pronounce her name, the song she shares with all of her nursing students, her rough start as a nurse, why she left bedside nursing, h...
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Season 1
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Episode 65
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39:25
64 - Lindsey Gibson: Bedside, Management, and Educator - Oh My!
Join nurse and Curlew, Washington native Honored Guest Lindsey Gibson as she discusses her transition from bedside nursing to leadership and management, being a nurse twin, her big family, being indecisive, ending up in a field of nursing she d...
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Season 1
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Episode 64
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44:48
63 - Jamie Felchlin: I Could Not See Myself Anywhere Else
Join recent grad and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Jamie Felchin as she talks about her family, being a "nurse" twin, the skeleton in the classroom, the uniqueness of nursing education, remembering your why, NCLEX advice, her tragic ...
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Season 1
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Episode 63
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44:55
62 - Kenna Perkins Pt 3: Don’t Compare Your Insides to Other People’s Outsides
For Part 3: Join recent grad and Northern California and Boone Street Zoo native Honored Guest Kenna Penelope Smith-Perkins as she talks about being a double major in psychology, how to advocate for yourself and others, academic boundari...
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Season 1
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Episode 62
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