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A podcast by millennials, for millennials, covering health challenges unique to Gen Y. Get expert insights, practical patient advice, and inspiring survivor stories to help you make informed healthcare choices. Empower your journey with YMyHealth!
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Welcome to the YMyHealth podcast, a healthcare podcast created by millennials for millennials. I'm Melissa Schenkman. And I'm Julie Woon. We're two members of Gen Y on a mission to tackle the health challenges unique to people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. With inspiring survivor stories, plus insights and practical advice from experts across the country, we've got you covered. Whether you're navigating a chronic condition, cancer, or challenges to your mental health. Or you're trying to manage our complicated healthcare system and your preventive care.
or just wanna make smarter healthcare choices, this is the podcast for you. Let's get started.
Hi everyone, welcome to the YMyHealth podcast for the month of May. I'm Melissa, your co-host for today and we are so excited to share with you what we have in store for the month of May. May is one of my favorite months of the year because it is also my birthday month so happy
birthday to my fellow May birthdays out there. And also it happens to be a month where there are a record number of health awarenesses. There are more than 40 of them. And this month at YMyHealth on the podcast, we're going to be touching on several of those. Mental Health Awareness Month, Women's Health, Brain Tumor Awareness Month, and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. And we'll be touching on even more of those in our Instagram as well. So excited to share our lineup with you. Before I do, just want to thank all of you who have been listening to our episodes and to encourage you
to write a review for us. It really makes a difference to write a podcast review and to also share the podcast with your friends and family. The more people that we share it with, the more who will know about Why My Health's important conversations and health information. Follow us on Instagram for bonus content updates almost daily and access to engaging with our community across the country and around the world. So now to the lineup for May. On May 1st, our first episode,
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episode 32, we'll kick off the month with Women's Health and Entrepreneurship featuring Brooks Bell. Brooks Bell is a stage three colon cancer survivor and the co-founder of World Class Clothing. She talks with me about finding a purpose after cancer and using her years as a successful entrepreneur in the tech space to co-found a fashion brand, World Class Clothing, that brings awareness to colorectal health and takes and reduces the stigma about colonoscopies and starts conversations about them instead.
What Brooks and her co-founder Sarah Baron are doing is just incredible. And I highly encourage you to go to worldclassclothing.com to check out their many fun products that also spread awareness at the same time. So looking forward to that conversation. And from Brooks joining us from North Carolina in episode 32 to episode 33, which will drop on May 5th.
which is focused on navigating the mental health care system and Julie talks with integrative mental health therapist Rebecca Lipsky, who is in New York, about the essential steps to finding the right health care provider for your mental health that will fit your needs. Great conversation to tune into. Then on May 8th, in episode 34, Julie will dive into the topic of burnout with licensed associate professional counselor, Emily Labuda, in Georgia. Emily is a former trial attorney who transitioned careers to being a
places associate professional counselor, and she also competes in ultra trail races of a hundred miles or more. And so Emily is very familiar with the topic of burnout personally and will share her story, but also in helping patients navigate their burnout. Burnout is a very pervasive issue with millennials. So this is a very important conversation. Julie and Emily are going to explore how to identify burnout, why it happens, the role of self care and setting boundaries and so much more.
Then on May 12th in episode 35, I will be joined by Dr. Samara Thomas, who is a double board certified fertility specialist of Beverly Hills Fertility in California. And we will be talking about the topic of geriatric pregnancy. Geriatric pregnancy is referring to a pregnancy when a woman is over the age of 35. But obviously there's so many of us now who having children later that seeing the term geriatric associated with us at 35 or older when we feel
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nothing of the sort can be really disheartening. And so we're gonna talk through about the history of the use of geriatric pregnancy, how you should interpret this label and how it affects care. On May 15th in episode 36, we'll be bringing you one from the archives, a phenomenal Instagram Live with Michaela Franklin, who is a young cancer survivor of medial blastoma. Medial blastoma is a type of brain tumor that affects your cerebellum, which is the part of the brain that affects your balance and coordination. Michaela's share term.
incredibly inspiring journey from diagnosis to treatment and survivorship and to working on her master's in biology throughout the majority of that time to which she is now graduating this very May. Then on May 19th in episode 37, Julie talks with Dr. Sujana Reddy in Alabama of the EDS clinic where her and her colleagues provide evaluation and diagnosis and treatment of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, POTS, MCATS, which is
Mass Cell Activation Syndrome and other related syndromes. And Dr. Reddy has a really unique perspective because she has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome herself and was diagnosed at age 28 with the syndrome. For those of you who might not know about Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, it's an inherited disorder that affects your skin and your joints and blood vessel walls, leading to overly flexible joints and skin that is very fragile. In this episode, Dr. Reddy shares with Julie her personal journey.
the symptoms that are often overlooked of Ehlers-Danlos, as well as insights into recent research development with treatments. On May 22nd, in episode 38, I am joined by Allison Rosen, who is a former FIGHT CRC ambassador, a cancer researcher, a stage 2 colorectal cancer survivor, and now currently a member of the FIGHT CRC research advocacy training and support program.
Allison shares with me her personal journey from being a young cancer researcher to being diagnosed with stage 2 colon cancer and then becoming a lifelong advocate for colorectal cancer awareness and colorectal cancer research. Then on May 26th in episode 39, we have a mystery episode. Our mystery Memorial Day episode will be co-hosted by Julie and we would love to hear your guesses on what topic this episode will be on, so please send those in. We will close out the month.
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when Dr. Samara Thomas joins me again from Beverly Hills Fertility and we're going to be talking about the timing of the fertility talk and what that talk looks like with your doctor, whether in your 20s or what point in your 30s, and then also talking about egg freezing 101. What does fertility preservation look like? What are some misconceptions that are out there about that? She's going to debunk and really kind of demystify this process that often doesn't get the explanation that it needs in the timing that you need it. So
Looking forward to closing out the month with her. If you have any questions about this month's episode, we would love to hear them. We'll be doing another Q &A episode later this summer. And you can send those questions to us at whymyhealthpodcasts.gmail.com. We take all of your questions back to our contributors and we get those answers for you. So please send in your questions. So if you have any topic ideas for future episodes, we would love to hear them from you, including taboo topics. We love to cover those as well. To let us know about those, visit our website or direct message us on Instagram.
or again to our YMyHealth podcast at Gmail email. So our next episode drops on May 1st with Brooks Bell. Looking forward to a very exciting May. Thanks for tuning in to the YMyHealth podcast.
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and share YMy Health with your friends. Have a story to share or a question for us? Connect with us at YMy Health on social media or visit our website at ymyhealth.com. Until next time, remember, your health journey starts with the right information.
Stay healthy.