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What does it mean for a website to work? I spoke with Jay Ray of Queue Points Podcast recently on the topic, a. because his website is gorgeous, and b. because he was the perfect person to outline the idea that a podcast website is more than just a place for your show to live. It can be a membership pipeline, a merch staging ground, a testing ground for marketing ideas, and more.
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5 Women's Health and Medical Advocacy Podcasts
Each issue of our newsletter is curated by a different person. This week’s curator is Spencer Moore.
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Women's health experiences are routinely dismissed. Their pain goes unbelieved, their diagnoses get missed, and stigma keeps them silent. As well, many female-led diseases have been understudied and underfunded. These 5 episodes name what's happening and give women the language, tools, and understanding to change it.
They are all incredible health advocates that are helping to bring awareness and honesty to the conversation. It's an honor to be in this field and to connect with such amazing women fighting for women.
ONE
The Hairy Chin Podcast
Describing Pain: Specific Language to Help Communicate Pain to Your Doctor Without Feeling Dismissed
Women's pain is one of the most commonly dismissed areas of female health. This episode gives you a practical framework for describing pain so your doctor can actually hear you, including the one phrase that changes how you're taken seriously.
TWO
Test Those Breasts
Emotional Healing After Cancer: Depression, Anxiety and Support with Paula Berry
Cancer treatment ends, but healing doesn't. Paula Berry, a licensed clinical social worker, trauma specialist, and cancer survivor, talks about what emotional survivorship actually looks like and why support beyond medical treatment isn't optional.
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THREE
ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast
Were You ‘Too Much’ — Or Just Misunderstood? ADHD, Trauma & Finding Your True Self
If you spent years being told you were too sensitive, too reactive, or too difficult (before anyone understood your brain) then this conversation about ADHD, masking, and complex trauma offers the reframe most women never got.
FOUR
Sleep Is My Waking Passion
Can Women Have Sleep Apnea Without Snoring? A Sleep Doctor's Story
A sleep doctor didn't recognize her own sleep apnea because women's symptoms look nothing like the textbook versions. Dr. Valerie Cacho explains what's being missed, what it costs, and why cardiovascular risk in women is being chronically underestimated.
FIVE
Prowl the Lab with Ebonie Michelle
Life With Herpes, Shedding the Shame, Discarding the Blame
Alexandra Harbushka, founder of Life with Herpes, unpacks how shame and stigma around an STD diagnosis don't just hurt emotionally, they compromise your immune function and keep you from getting the support you need.
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Classified Notes
Speaking of Phenomenal is an independent podcast covering women that the mainstream media hasn't found yet.
The Ex-Homeschoolers Club shares stories from homeschool alumni about the good, bad, and ugly of growing up a homeschool kid.
The Wobbly Middle is a podcast for women rethinking their careers in midlife.
Spotlight Podcast
We Are North Nashville
We recently marked 70 years since the Federal-Aid Highway Act was signed into law, which set the stage for the state of Tennessee to send I-40 straight into the heart of North Nashville, a once thriving and self-contained Black community.
In this episode, we meet Representative Harold Love Jr., whose family home on Scovel Street was demolished along with Thomas Wilson Jr.'s, to make way for I-40. It also highlights the enduring contributions and reclaiming of the elders who lived in North Nashville before the highway ripped through it, and who remain there in far more ways than one, today.
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🚀 Congrats to Level Media on the launch of Eating History, a show that uncovers the wild, scandalous, and surprisingly influential stories behind the foods that changed our world.
🗽 Tales From The Aether is back with season 3, focusing on 19th Century immigrant sisters who land in NYC — one discovers the plays she writes has an odd way of coming true for better or worse.
📣 In Podcast The Newsletter, Lauren Passell recommends First America. She writes:
Rebecca Nagle is one of the most important journalists working today. She’s illuminating Native sovereignty, federal Indian law, AND good old American history like nobody else is. Her work is clear, funny, and it feels urgent.
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