Podcast appearances and mentions of heather boyd

Attachment is the most fundamental need and yet we don't do much to educate parents around attachment – what is it and what do we need to do in our parenting to support it? In this week's episode I'm joined by my friend, colleague and sleep coach Heather Boyd to talk about attachment. Our conversation focuses on the importance of attachment, attachment as the basis for development tounfold, and Dr. Neufeld's 6 stages of attachment. We took a deeper look at the first 3 stages of attachment and how they relate to sleep and parenting. Dr. Neufeld's work on attachment is a powerful way of making sense of the early years and the unfolding of both attachment and development.About HeatherHeather is a private practice occupational therapist from Niagara, Ontario, Canada and the mother of three boys.  She provides online support to families who are experiencing challenges with infant sleep, parenting, and infant development.  Heather takes a developmental- and attachment-based approach to supporting families by helping parents change perspectives and change the sleep environment, rather than change the nature of the child.  Connect with HeatherWebsite: https://familysleep.ca/Instagram: @familysleep.caResources related to this episodeNeufeld's roots of attachment (6 stages) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8qt1rv7K9QHeather's blog on the Neufeld stages of attachment focusing on stages 1-3 (also links to part 2 covering stages 4-6): https://familysleep.ca/blog/neufeld-stages-of-attachment-sleep-part-1Heather's Roots of Attachment for Sleep resource:https://heatherboyd.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1072127Check out my blog on attachment: https://intuitiveparentingdc.com/blog/2023/1/6/what-is-attachmentConnect with KimInstagram: instagram.com/intuitive_parenting_dcFacebook:  facebook.com/intuitiveparentingdcLearn more about working with Kim: https://intuitiveparentingdc.com/

Struggling to get your baby to fall asleep and stay asleep, without using the cry it out method? Then this episode is for you!Today I sit down with Heather Boyd from the Baby Sleep Connection Podcast and we break down all things baby sleep for babies aged 3 months to 7 months old.It's a good one- you do NOT want to miss it!Here's what we cover:What does normal sleep for a 3-7 month old baby look like?Nap routine Wake windowsNewborn sleep schedule transitionSleep regressionsHow to get an overtired baby to sleep?and more!!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------IMPORTANT LINKS:- Postpartum Workout Program that I'm Doing: Click HERE                   Use code LEARNINGTOMOM for the BIGGEST discount they have!! ($20 off their annual plan)-Tighten Your Tinkler: Signature Pelvic Floor Program: Click HERE                    Use code LEARNINGTOMOM for the BIGGEST discount they have!! ($50 off their signature plan)-TempDrop: The Natural Cycle Tracking Armband I use: Click HERE                     That will save you $15!- Connect with ME on Instagram HERE or at @learningtomom.podcast- Connect with Heather HERE-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------What is normal for a baby's sleep schedule, normal sleep for a 3 month old baby, how does 4 month old sleep differ from newborn sleep, tips for getting a 5 month old to sleep at night,  tips for getting a 6 month old to sleep during the day, how many naps should a baby have, normal napping for a baby, fewer daytime naps at three months, night time sleep,  baby sleep schedule for a 3 month old, baby sleep schedule for a 4 month old, baby sleep schedule for a 5 month old, baby sleep schedule for a 6 month old, baby sleep schedule for a 7 month old, baby sleep schedule with age, baby sleep schedule by month, baby sleep schedule example, baby sleep schedule guide, 3 month old, 4 month old, 5 month old, 6 month old, 7 month old, baby napping, baby napping schedule, newborn sleep schedule transitions, sleep regression, wake windows, what are wake windows, how long are wake windows, baby sleeping at night, baby napping, supporting baby's sleep regression, napping, baby's sleep, baby circadian rhythm, figuring out naps, sleeping through the night, normal sleep for a baby, baby sleeping through the night, baby naptime, what is wake windows,Mom podcast, parenting podcast, First time mom podcast,  motherhood podcast, postpartum podcast, infant podcast, newborn care podcast, Newborn care podcast, Postpartum podcast, Infant podcast, New baby podcast, Baby podcast, Motherhood podcast, First time mom, Best motherhood podcast, Best parenting podcast, Holistic parenting podcast, Holistic newborn, Crunchy mom podcast, 2 month old, 3 month old, 4 month old sleep, 5 month old sleep, 6 month old sleep, 7 month old sleep, 8 month old sleep, 9 month old, 10 month old, 11 month old, 12 month old

#160 - In this episode of First Time Mum's Chat, I'm re-visiting the area of baby/toddler sleep and I'm thrilled to be chatting with mum of 3, Occupational Therapist, certified Family and Infant Sleep Specialist and podcast host, Heather Boyd.Heather's baptism of fire with sleep challenges came with her eldest son, who had sleep challenges when he was a baby. Heather has worked with babies throughout her entire career as an occupational therapist, but she knew nothing about the sleep area and needed to work out how to support her son.During our chat you'll hear Heather talk about her journey and how she helps tired parents support their baby's sleep without sleep training using a holistic approach.Check out the show notes here at https://www.mybabymassage.net/podcast/160. If you'd like to reach out and say hi, you can find @firsttimemumschat on Instagram.

A few miles from the Canada border, Heather Boyd walks the grassy trail of the national monument's Ojibwe Village. She passes the soaring pointed timber of the palisade fence that encircles the recreated historic depot, what was once the famed 18th-century cultural crossroads of the Grand Portage Anishinaabe and the fur trade.Boyd then stops in the field where the National Monument hosts the annual Rendezvous Days event. Thousands of visitors flock to the remote site every August for music, camping, reenactments and craft workshops. “This is the encampment area,” Boyd says. “It's wild to see tent upon tent here.” She looks up at the nearby western hills, the site of the Grand Portage Band's annual powwow, also in August.“I'm really looking forward to blending the two events a bit more, the powwow and the Rendezvous here” Boyd says. “Well, it's celebrating both cultures, right? So, being able to encourage not only visitors here, but encourage them to go up to the powwow, too, and have that experience.”Boyd is the new superintendent of the Grand Portage National Monument. She is the first woman and first Anishinaabe person to hold the National Park Service position since the monument was established in 1958. The Anishinaabe have occupied the land since “time immemorial,” as the monument's signage points out.Today, Boyd is wearing a pin given to her by the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, the tribe that has been co-managing the site with the park service for decades. She is also wearing a traditional Native ribbon skirt, striped in red, white and black.  “The ribbon skirt represents resiliency and identity and is just empowering as a woman,” Boyd says, “and a woman in a management position — that I'm the first Anishinaabe and the first woman to ever lead here.” Many say her appointment is a historic moment in the co-stewardship of the monument, which is within the boundaries of the of the Grand Portage Indian Reservation. The Grand Portage Band donated the land to the federal government.“I understand living in a tribal community,” says Boyd, who is an enrolled member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa from Bayfield, Wis. “I think that's one of the things they saw in me.”Less than half a mile up the road, April McCormick sits in the timber building that houses the Grand Portage Reservation Tribal Council, the partner in co-management with the National Park Service. McCormick is the Tribal Council secretary treasurer.“We're really trying to have our leadership be reflective of who we are,” McCormick says.   McCormick says Boyd is a good fit because of her 14-year tenure as an administrative officer for Isle Royale National Park, the Michigan island site in Lake Superior, which is part of the Anishinaabe ancestral homelands. It's less than 40 miles from Grand Portage and on a clear day, you can see it from Boyd's new office.McCormick adds that even though Boyd is from a different Anishinaabe band, she is one of them and the community has welcomed her.“She has a deep understanding of tribal government and protocol,” McCormick says. “And also, just understanding the value of our culture, and traditions, and how we're telling our story for national parks. Whose worldview, whose lenses are we using?”Citing the efforts of the Grand Portage Band, McCormick points to the growing number of Native women working at the national monument. She says the current chief of interpretation Anna Deschampe is the first Grand Portage Band member to fill the position, within the division of interpretation and education. Boyd will work with Deschampe to refine the storytelling at the national monument, from signage and exhibitions to reenactments and workshops. The National Park Service announced Boyd's appointment last summer. She's only recently relocated from Michigan. The choice to wear the ribbon skirt regularly at Grand Portage, instead of the typical green and khaki of the NPS uniforms, is one way she's making an impact on the site's culture.  “Throughout my career with the Park Service, I don't see a lot of Indigenous people,” Boyd says. “As I go to different meetings, I'm the only one in a ribbon skirt in a room. Breaking that barrier so people feel like this is a regular thing means a lot to me.”Boyd points to other Native women in leadership, who in growing numbers in the last few years have been wearing the ribbon skirt in their official capacity in state and national government.White Earth member and Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan often wore a ribbon skirt. And Deb Haaland, who in 2021 became the first Native woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of the Department of the Interior (the department responsible for the National Park Service), wore a traditional ribbon skirt at her swearing-in ceremony in Washington D.C. While Boyd says she still has a lot to learn about the site, she knows she also wants to make an impact by doing more community events, like a recent Ojibwa language roundtable that was hosted in the monument's Heritage Center. The center houses a museum, art gallery and shop; she wants to bring more local artists into the space, too.  Joseph Bauerkemper, professor and director of the Tribal Sovereignty Institute at the University of Minnesota Duluth, says Boyd's appointment is important but not surprising. “The Grand Portage Band has really sophisticated, long-standing, consistent leadership, even when different elected officials and community leaders have come and gone,” Bauerkemper says. “Grand Portage has worked very effectively in partnership with the National Park Service for many years, and so this is not a radical shift in that relationship, but it's a significant improvement in that relationship.”He compares Boyd's appointment to the Biden administration appointment of Haaland. “It's of similar import, because Secretary Haaland brings extensive knowledge and experience to that position” he says. “Native nations don't have to explain to the Secretary of Interior who they are, what they are, what they're up to, and that's a big deal. We can see the same thing going on — sure on a smaller scale, but no less important — at the monument there at Grand Portage.” Grand Portage National Monument is considered a leader in the National Park System for its co-management agreement, which creates a sharing of power and responsibility between the federal government and local tribes. Charles F. Sams III, the current National Park Service director (and the first tribally enrolled member to hold the position), testified before congress in 2022 about Grand Portage.“The stewardship of Grand Portage National Monument exemplifies how successful co-management can be, while infusing valuable dollars into the local Tribal economy,” Sams said.  Boyd also sits on the NPS Tribal Relations Advisory Committee for the Midwest region, which includes superintendents and staff from other parks and sites and meets monthly by video call. At the May meeting, Boyd sat in the conference room of the Heritage Center. St. Croix National Scenic Riverway superintendent Craig Hansen — who is the former superintendent of Grand Portage — was on the call and said Boyd's appointment is significant. “It shows the commitment to that community and that site,” Hansen said. Also on the call was Alisha Deegan, the superintendent of the Knife River Indian Village National History Site in North Dakota. A member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, Deegan is also working at a federal site in her ancestral homeland. “Having that connection to the land that is beyond government is huge,” Deegan said. “The pride extends beyond her and her family.” Deegan explained that, as a Native person, it can be “really difficult” to work for government, or feel welcome entering a federal building or park, because of the U.S. history of oppression, violating treaties and taking land from Native populations. “Having Indigenous people in leadership positions, there is that permission to come back to sites,” Deegan said. “Elders may come and shares stories they wouldn't have before.” Boyd sits at her desk in her office at the Heritage Center. She is framed by a window that overlooks the Ojibwe Village and the Historic Depot, with Grand Portage Island and Isle Royale appearing as purple streaks in the distance on Lake Superior.  Boyd says she feels like she's home, even though she hasn't lived on her own Red Cliff reservation for 20 years.  “So, when I first came over here, it just felt right,” Boyd says. “When I first started with the Park Service, I wasn't promoting my heritage and my culture because it didn't feel right. Here, I feel like I'm empowered to do that. It feels awesome.” The Grand Portage National Monument grounds are open year-round. The Historic Depot opens for the season Memorial Day weekend. Correction (May 26, 2023): A previous version of this story incorrectly stated the Lieutenant Governor's title. This has been fixed.

A right-wing takeover of a Colorado school board is a case study for what's happening nationwide.  The Woodland Park school board was taken over by conservatives in 2021. They moved quickly to radically transform the district, learning from the tactics of Donald Trump and Steve Bannon, and bolstered by big-money fueling Christian nationalists curricular changes.  These “American Birthright” curricular standards passed by the Woodland Park school board are similar to the Hillsdale College K-12 curriculum, but target State Standards as well as District ones.  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs a bill that dramatically limits transgender medical treatments, restricts pronoun use in schools, and forces people to use bathrooms corresponding to their birth sex.  New York City is sinking due to the massive weight of its skyscrapers. Studies are showing that will only exacerbate the effects of climate change. Cherelle Parker wins the hotly contested and closely watched race for Philly's next mayor. One of Parker's campaign pledges was to hire more police in the midst of a wave of violence in the city. She is not set to become Philly's first Black woman mayor. The most progressive candidate in the race, Helen Gym came in third. Gym's campaign was quick to offer congratulations and support for Parker as she pledged to continue to build grassroots power.  Sara Innamorato wins big in the Democratic primary for Allegheny County executive. Much of Innamorato's win is rooted in the work she and other members of the progressive community in the County have done to build a strong, progressive movement. The Pittsburgh area continues to build a model of deep-rooted progressive organizing.  As the Intercept reported, the results for Tuesday's primary were a mixed bag for progressives. The Pittsburgh area seeing progressive gains, while Philadelphia showing a stronger preference for more moderate Democratic Party machine platforms.  Democrats will maintain control of the Pennsylvania House following Heather Boyd's win in Tuesday's special election to fill the empty seat in the 163rd district in Delaware County.  There were some promising signs in the Pennridge and Central Bucks school board races. Both of those races showed signs that some Republicans may be supporting Democratic candidates after a few years of right-wing extremism on their boards.  Central Bucks still in the book banning business as the school board orders the removal of “Gender Queer” and “This Book is Gay,” from library shelves.

We had a great time talking with Rep. Mary Jo Daley about the Emerge PA Program. We also talked about stellar Emerge PA grad (class of 2016) Heather Boyd and her special election run. You can still help Heather leading up to primary day on May 16 by looking for opportunities here.

It's crowd sourced hexes this week and an awesome talk with Rep. Tarah Probst. Events: mobilize.us/padems - Go canvas! Especially for Heather Boyd in the 163. www.patreon.com/TheNightCaucus

Heather Boyd-Arruda is a daughter and carer for her Dad who suffers with Parkinson's Disease from Agent Orange in Vietnam.  She share her heart with you from every angle. It doesn't get more real than Heather talking about coping from teen years into her forties with her person, her Dad.Join today FB Private Group "Authentic Caregiving"Instagram - "Authentic_CaregivingYou Tube Channel: Authentic Caregiving with Kay Nell Miller

Grand Portage National Monument has a new Superintendent, Heather Boyd. In 2008, Heather started with the National Park Service at Isle Royale. As a tribal member with the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, she is the first Anishinaabe to head Grand Portage. In this episode of the Lake Superior Podcast, Heather shares with Walt Lindala and Frida Waara how her heart and heritage have lead her back to Minnesota's north shore. 

In this episode of the Park Street Insider Podcast, Heather Boyd, Managing Director of U.S. RTD at Beam Suntory, overviews the paradigm shifts that the ready-to-drink space is causing in the beverage alcohol industry.  Boyd breaks down the major players and innovations driving the RTD segment, the guiding forces behind the trends in the category, and how emerging brands can navigate this new regulatory environment. She shares Beam Suntory's RTD innovation strategy from a legal compliance perspective, something she considers key in a category where regulatory lines are often blurred.Boyd's talk was recorded at Bar Convent Brooklyn in June of 2022. In this episode you'll hear from: Heather Boyd, Managing Director of US RTD at Beam SuntoryMentioned in this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVzGdSBZXcU&t=60sLearn More About Park Street: https://www.parkstreet.com/Sign up for our Daily Industry Newsletter here.Follow us for more industry insights on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/parkstreetcompanies/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ParkStreetCompanies/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ParkStreetNewsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/parkstreetcompanies/

If you have children, you need to hear this.  Heather Boyd is an occupational therapist, specializing in... sleep. She is on a mission to help families navigate their baby's sleep and development through family-centred therapy, evidence, attachment theory, and empathy.  She provides the information and tools you need to help your baby thrive, increase your confidence, and help parents thrive!00:14 - Welcome and about Heather 5:48 - How does lack of sleep affect us?12:50 - Are there safe ways to bedshare? 19:32 - How do we navigate all the conflicting advice around baby sleep?  24:41 -Sleep training and leading baby towards sleep  34:27 - What are your thoughts on baby crying himself to sleep? 39:32 - Accepting the challenges and parent wellness   45:19 - Package sessions and free resources available 53:47 - Are there things that people can do prior to having children to help prepare? Heather Boyd - Holistic Gentle Baby Sleep Coaching and Infant Development             6 Stages to Understand Your Baby's Sleep from Birth to 5 Years              Discipline - Five Ways to Use Connection To Get Cooperation  Safe Co-sleeping Guidelines by Dr. James McKennaThursday Tip: Breastfeeding and Bed Sharing | La Leche League Canada Helping 'Orchid' Children Thrive by Dr. Deborah MacNamara (Part 1 of 3)Helping 'Orchid' Children Thrive (Part 2 of 3) Helping 'Orchid' Children Thrive (Part 3 of 3) why attachment (blog post) Try Riversidefm, Our recording platform.  I use it because it's easy. I use it because good tech support matters.https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=bonnieBuzzsprout makes podcasting simple.  I value support in this ministry; the folks at buzzsprout respond quickly and cheerfully.https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1000177

Heather Boyd supports tired parents who want an alternative to conventional sleep training. (She also helps families who are losing sleep over water damage and mould). Heather combines her 20+ years as a pediatric OT with her experience as a mom of three to support parents in understanding sleep and infant development so that everyone can feel more well rested and confident. By combining neurodevelopment, attachment theory, and environmental health, Heather guides parents to make meaningful change not just to support sleep but to support family routines, parent perspectives, child development, and mindset. Her holistic approach considers sleep as a developmental process that is impacted by the family environment --it’s not just about sleep, and it’s not just about the baby! Heather provides one-on-one consulting, and parent groups to give families the support she wishes she’d had when she struggled with supporting her babies’ sleep (and healing from environmental illness). She believes there are no bad habits, just habits that no longer serve families, and that all behavior is based on needs. We all have needs, and finding ways to support the needs of everyone in the family helps parents feel more confident in their role.   Connect with Heather: Facebook and Instagram @heatherboyd.ot www.heatherboyd.ca www.ahealthyhome.ca     Connect with me on your fav social platform: Facebook:  Instagram: EBJ Events Twins Instagram (yes I am that mom): Canal Twins Website: Book your next Event! I would love to be able to connect with you Babes! Send me a message thru Instagram and tell me what you think about the show! (Use the Hashtag) #B3Podcast so I know you're a homie! XOXO Jessyca

Today's episode is all about happy, rested families and health homes! I'm joined by my special guest, Heather Boyd, an OT based out of Ontario, Canada with a private practice that incorporates her two passions -- a holistic, attachment-based approach to infant sleep and environmental health, where she supports families around indoor air quality and indoor health concerns. It turns out that Heather is the only OT we know of that's working in environmental health so this episode is also serving as a match-making opportunity, where we want your help in connecting her with other OTs who might be working in this area! In this episode you'll hear about:Heather's journey as a pediatric OT, a private practitioner and a sleep-deprived mamaThe different services Heather offers to families based on her experience and training in infant development and holistic, attachment-based alternatives to sleep trainingThe challenges of being a bed-sharing, co-sleeping family while also being a rule-following healthcare professionalWhy I wish I had a Heather in my life 9 years ago!Her lived experience with mould in their family home and how this led her down a path less travelled as an OT now niching down in environmental healthLINKS:You can connect with Heather on Instagram and Facebook, or through one of her websites: www.heatherboyd.ca for sleep consulting/infant development programs www.ahealthyhome.ca for environmental health consultingIf this episode inspired you in some way or if you resonated with anything we said, take a screenshot of you listening on your device and post it to your Instagram Stories, and tag  us @otsgonerogue

In this episode we talk about:Heather's storyInfant Development CircleParenting tipsKeep it simpleTrust your instinctsWhat is attachment theoryCuriosity and WonderMindset shift in parentingEnvironmental well being inparentingphysical spacebiologicallyHeather Boyd is a private practice occupational therapist from Niagara, Ontario and mother to three boys. She has nearly 20 years of experience in family-centred infant development. Heather provides virtual consulting to families who are concerned about infant sleep, parenting, child development, and environmental health. She takes an attachment-based approach to supporting families and helps parents increase knowledge and change perspective rather than change the nature of their child. Focusing on attachment theory, and neuro-development, Heather has created the Infant Development Circle, a supportive workshop series that empowers mothers to enjoy and nurture their baby's development by exploring both what development looks like, and how to use secure attachment and curiosity to support it. Through this series, and through her one-on-one work, Heather provides maternal support for the role of mothering and brings attention to the nature of child development, and parent confidence.email: heather@heatherboyd.caweb: www.heatherboyd.canewsletter sign-up: https://heatherboyd.activehosted.com/f/1SOCIAL MEDIAfacebook: www.facebook.com/heatherboyd.otinstagram: www.instagram.com/heatherboyd.ot

Learn how Heather was able to pay off her mortgage with her online etsy sales, how she got into wire art and more!

Learn how Heather was able to pay off her mortgage with her online etsy sales, how she got into wire art and more!

A Reformer's Unanimous Testimony from Heather Boyd

A Reformer's Unanimous Testimony from Heather Boyd

A Reformer's Unanimous Testimony from Heather Boyd

Heather Boyd is a Registered Dietitian Or Nutrition Professional Specialist in Frederick, Maryland. She graduated with honors in 1996. Having more than 24 years of diverse experiences, especially in REGISTERED DIETITIAN OR NUTRITION PROFESSIONAL, Heather Boyd affiliates with no hospital, cooperates with many other doctors and specialists in medical group Monocacy Health Partners LLC. Call Heather Boyd on phone number (240) 566-7830 for more information and advice or to book an appointment.

Today Montreal photographer Mimi Boyd interviews Heather Boyd her home art studio. Check out Mimi's doll photography on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mimib.dolls/ and her website: https://mimibdolls.com/ Heather Boyd is a Montreal artist who specialized in custom wire art and jewelry. She went from starving artist selling jewelry on the streets of Montreal to paying her mortgage selling her work on-line. Her YouTube tutorials have over 2 million views. Viewers share their work and inspiration in the Facebook group Wire Art & Jewelry Makers Club. She sells her jewelry and custom cake toppers made with her husband's wire bicycles on Etsy. Heather Boyd Wire on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2GfRFSt Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/HeatherBoydWire Heather's Mixed Media Art at the Viva Vida Art Gallery in Montreal: https://www.vivavidaartgallery.com/heather-boyd Official Website: https://www.heatherboydwire.com/ Start by Starting Blog: https://www.startbystarting.tv/ Stories of Starting Podcast: http://storiesofstarting.com/

It was awesome to welcome Heather Boyd as our very first guest on The CC Experience. It makes complete sense that Heather should be the first guest as we’ve know one another for over 10 years now and have watched one another “grow up” in our businesses. I remember when Heather and I took a Twitter workshop together and how quickly she gained followers and knowledge. Since then I’ve watched her tackle one platform at a time and it’s been so inspiring. As an outsider, watching Heather overcome her introversion and her fear of the camera has been a source of KAPOW and what this podcast is all about. Finding that courage, taking those leaps and experiencing great growth and satisfaction. Learn how Heather has used her instinct to share and build community as the impetus to her tremendous success. When I first met Heather she did not even want to show her face on camera and now she has over 2 million views on her YouTube videos. Talk about facing one’s fears! She’s the founder of Heather Boyd Wire, an artist on Etsy, an influencer on YouTube, a blogger and a comic artist. To connect with Heather outside of this episode visit: To connect with Heather outside of this episode, visit Website: https://www.heatherboydwire.com/(wire art and custom wedding cake toppers) Blog: https://www.startbystarting.tv/ Podcast: https://storiesofstarting.com Comics: https://www.instagram.com/heatherboydcomics/ Heather Boyd Wire on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2GfRFSt To connect with me outside of the podcast, shoot me a message at https://www.lisacapri.com/ryf Visit my websites: www.catapultcatalyst.com www.mincmagic.com On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MINCMagic On LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dahnaweber

Stories of Starting Episode 14: George Popi, Entrepreneur, Storyteller, Producer. George Popi is a serial entrepreneur and natural born hacker specialized in executing multi-platform, digital content campaigns. He is the managing director at Khaos in Montreal. Khaos is a full service marketing agency that works with businesses to refine and produce any aspect of their marketing campaigns. Khaos Labs is a production company that produces both commercial and original content. They have recently finished production on an upcoming feature film. Khaos Marketing Agency: https://createkhaos.com/ Khaos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/createkhaos/ Khaos Labs: www.createkhaoslabs.com (Whether you’re starting a podcast, filming a video, or broadcasting live to social, creating content is easy with Khaos. ) George's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0VQDpH3O08HIqggyYP8XqA George's interview with Heather Boyd on his Digging In podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llMelAEM8cw&list=PL-Lesn2f72U4eq53IDDfqlgHJjZzU8yZW&index=19

Have you ever looked at a piece of knitting and wondered, “How did they figure out how to DO that with just two needles and string?” Whether you're a picker or a thrower, those techniques had to come from somewhere, and their origins may surprise you. Rachel Roden and Heather Boyd look at knitting techniques with the eyes of designers, through the lens of archaeology: each episode travels the world to dig up and discuss a different technique, and then applies it to a clever pattern designed by Rachel. LinksTo get your copy of the pattern, and knit-a-long head over to Rachel's pattern store on Ravelry (https://www.ravelry.com/designers/rachel-roden)To get the yarn Rachel recommends, head over to Jimmy Beans Wool (https://www.jimmybeanswool.com/knitting/yarn/BichesetBuches/LePetitLambswool.asp?showLarge=true&specPCVID=91487)ContactRachelRavelryInstagramTwitterFacebookWebsiteHeatherInstagramRavelry

Part 2!! Have you ever looked at a piece of knitting and wondered, “How did they figure out how to DO that with just two needles and string?” Whether you're a picker or a thrower, those techniques had to come from somewhere, and their origins may surprise you. Rachel Roden and Heather Boyd look at knitting techniques with the eyes of designers, through the lens of archaeology: each episode travels the world to dig up and discuss a different technique, and then applies it to a clever pattern designed by Rachel. LinksTo get your copy of the pattern, and knit-a-long head over to Rachel's pattern store on Ravelry (https://www.ravelry.com/designers/rachel-roden)To get the yarn Rachel recommends, head over to Jimmy Beans Wool (https://www.jimmybeanswool.com/knitting/yarn/BichesetBuches/LePetitLambswool.asp?showLarge=true&specPCVID=91487)ContactRachelRavelryInstagramTwitterFacebookWebsiteHeatherInstagramRavelry

Have you ever looked at a piece of knitting and wondered, “How did they figure out how to DO that with just two needles and string?” Whether you’re a picker or a thrower, those techniques had to come from somewhere, and their origins may surprise you. Rachel Roden and Heather Boyd look at knitting techniques with the eyes of designers, through the lens of archaeology: each episode travels the world to dig up and discuss a different technique, and then applies it to a clever pattern designed by Rachel. LinksTo get your copy of the pattern, and knit-a-long head over to Rachel’s pattern store on Ravelry (https://www.ravelry.com/designers/rachel-roden)To get the yarn Rachel recommends, head over to Jimmy Beans Wool (https://www.jimmybeanswool.com/knitting/yarn/BichesetBuches/LePetitLambswool.asp?showLarge=true&specPCVID=91487)ContactRachelRavelryInstagramTwitterFacebookWebsiteHeatherInstagramRavelry

Part 2!! Have you ever looked at a piece of knitting and wondered, “How did they figure out how to DO that with just two needles and string?” Whether you’re a picker or a thrower, those techniques had to come from somewhere, and their origins may surprise you. Rachel Roden and Heather Boyd look at knitting techniques with the eyes of designers, through the lens of archaeology: each episode travels the world to dig up and discuss a different technique, and then applies it to a clever pattern designed by Rachel. LinksTo get your copy of the pattern, and knit-a-long head over to Rachel’s pattern store on Ravelry (https://www.ravelry.com/designers/rachel-roden)To get the yarn Rachel recommends, head over to Jimmy Beans Wool (https://www.jimmybeanswool.com/knitting/yarn/BichesetBuches/LePetitLambswool.asp?showLarge=true&specPCVID=91487)ContactRachelRavelryInstagramTwitterFacebookWebsiteHeatherInstagramRavelry

Montreal musician Ben Cardilli talks about his transition into comedian. Full transcripts and video on Heather Boyd's blog at http://StartByStarting.tv Ben Cardilli on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bencardilli/ Ben Alexander music: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benalexanderofficial/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BenAlexanderOfficial/ Comedy Confessional at McKibbons in Montreal: https://www.facebook.com/comedyconfession

Mike and almost 900 of his closest friends attend the Delco Democratic Convention at Harrah's in Chester. Recorded live on Sunday 2/24/19. Music: "Generation to Generation" by Tinmouth, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US

Guest: Heather Boyd. - http://www.startbystarting.tv/ Host: Chad Mojito. - about.me/ndm - patreon.com/mojito1 Theme song: "Groove Selector" by Jredd. - soundcloud.com/jredd/groove-selector/

Dr. Carolyn Lam:               Welcome to Circulation on the Run, your weekly podcast summary and backstage pass to the journal and its editors. I'm Dr. Carolyn Lam, associate editor from the National Heart Center and Duke National University of Singapore. What is the association between fetal congenital heart defects and maternal risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy? We will be discussing new data in this area in just a moment, following these summaries.                                                 The first paper describes the effect of long-term metformin and lifestyle measures on coronary artery calcium. This is a paper from Dr. Goldberg of George Washington University Biostatistics Center and colleagues of the Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. The Diabetes Prevention Program and its outcome study is a long-term intervention study in subjects with prediabetes, which showed reduced diabetes risk with lifestyle and metformin compared to placebo.                                                 In the current study, the authors looked at subclinical atherosclerosis, which was assessed in 2,029 participants using coronary artery calcium measurements after 14 years of average follow-up. They found that men but not women with prediabetes treated with metformin for an average duration of 14 years had lower coronary calcium scores than their placebo counterparts. No difference in coronary calcium scores was observed in the group receiving a lifestyle intervention as compared to the placebo group.                                                 These findings provide the first evidence that metformin may protect against coronary atherosclerosis in men with prediabetes, although demonstration that metformin reduces cardiovascular disease events in these subjects is still needed before firm therapeutic implications of these findings can be made. The reason for an absence of an effect in women is unclear and deserves further study.                                                 The next study provides insights on the physiology of angina from invasive catheter laboratory measurements during exercise. Dr. Asrress of Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia, and colleagues, studied 40 patients with exertional angina and coronary artery disease who underwent cardiac catheterization via radial axis and performed incremental exercise using a supine cycle ergometer. As they developed limiting angina, sublingual GTN was administered to half the patients and all patients continued to exercise for two minutes at the same workload. Throughout exercise, distal coronary pressure and flow velocity, and central aortic pressure were recorded using sensor wires.                                                 Using this novel invasive approach, the authors showed that administration of GTN ameliorated angina by reducing myocardial oxygen demand as well as increasing supply with a key component being the reversal of exercise-induced coronary lesion vasoconstriction. This was evidenced by the fact that there was a relationship between the diastolic velocity pressure gradient with significant increase in relative stenosis severity. In keeping with exercise-induced vasoconstriction of stenosed epicardial segments and dilation of normal segments, with trends towards reversal with GTN.                                                 Thus, this study describes the development of a paradigm where patients with coronary artery disease can exercise while simultaneously having coronary and central aortic hemodynamics measured invasively, and has shown that this provides a unique opportunity to study mechanisms underlying the physiology of angina. In treating patients with exercise-induced angina, the results highlight the importance of after-load reduction and the use of agents that reduce arterial wave reflection and promote coronary artery vasodilation.                                                 The next study provides mechanistic insights into reverse cholesterol transport, where excess cholesterol is removed from macrophage-derived foam cells in atherosclerotic plaques. It suggests that melanocortin receptor-1, or MC1-R, may play a role. As background, the melanocortin system, consisting of melanocyte-stimulating hormones and their receptors, regulate a variety of physiological functions, ranging from skin pigmentation to centrally-mediated energy balance control. At the cellular level, the biological actions are mediated by G protein-coupled melanocortin receptors, such as MC1-R. MC1-R not only affects melanogenesis in the skin but also has immunomodulatory effects through its wide expression in the cells of the immune system.                                                 In the current study from Dr. Rinne of University of Turku in Finland, and colleagues, human and mouse atherosclerotic samples and primary mouse macrophages were used to study the regulatory functions of MC1-R. The impact of pharmacological MC1-R activation on atherosclerosis was further assessed in apolipoprotein E deficient mice. Their findings identified a novel role for MC1-R in macrophage cholesterol transport. Activation of MC1-R conferred protection against macrophage foam cell formation through a dual mechanism. It prevented cholesterol uptake while it concomitantly promoted reverse cholesterol transport by increasing the expression of ATP-binding cassette transporters, ABCA1 and ABCG1.                                                 Thus, the identification of MC1-R in lesional macrophages, demonstration of its role in regulating reverse cholesterol transport, combined with its established anti-inflammatory effects, suggests that MC1-R could be a novel new therapeutic target for preventing atherosclerosis.                                                 The next study suggests that obesity-related heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, or HFpEF, is a genuine form of cardiac failure and a clinically relevant phenotype that may require specific treatments. First author, Dr. Obokata, corresponding author, Dr. Borlaug, and colleagues from Mayo Clinic Rochester and Minnesota studied 99 patients with obese HFpEF with a BMI above 35, with 96 non-obese HFpEF with a BMI less than 30, and 71 non-obese controls without heart failure. All subjects underwent detailed clinical assessment, echocardiography, and invasive hemodynamic exercise testing.                                                 The authors found that, compared to non-obese HFpEF, obese HFpEF patients displayed greater volume overload, more biventricular remodeling, greater right ventricular dysfunction, worse exercise capacity, more impaired pulmonary vasodilation, and more profound hemodynamic arrangements, despite a lower NT-proBNP level. Obese HFpEF patients displayed other important contributors to high left ventricular filling pressures, including greater dependence on plasma volume expansion, increased pericardial restraint, and enhanced ventricular interaction, which was exaggerated as pulmonary pressure load increased.                                                 These data provide compelling evidence that patients with the obese HFpEF phenotype have real heart failure and display several pathophysiological mechanisms that differ from non-obese patients with HFpEF. These and other issues are discussed in an accompanying editorial by Dr. Dalane Kitzman and myself. We hope you enjoy it.                                                 The final study identifies a novel long noncoding RNA that regulates angiogenesis. As background, although we know that the mammalian genome is pervasively transcribed, a large proportion of the transcripts do not encode a protein, and are thus regarded as noncoding RNAs. Based on their length, they can be divided into small or long noncoding RNAs, long being described as more than 200 nucleotides. Although their function is not fully understood, long noncoding RNAs have been increasingly reported to mediate the expression of other genes, affect the organization of the nucleus, and modify other RNAs.                                                 In the current study by first author, Dr. Leisegang, corresponding author, Dr. Brandes, and colleagues of Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, epigenetically controlled long noncoding RNAs in human umbilical vein endothelial cells were searched by axon array analysis following knockdown of the histone demethylase JARID1B. The authors discovered a novel noncoding RNA named MANTIS to be strongly upregulated. MANTIS is located in the antisense strand of an intronic region of the gene for annexin A4, calcium- and phospholipid-binding protein. MANTIS is a nuclear long noncoding RNA that is enriched in endothelial cells but also expressed in other cell types. Reducing MANTIS levels led to impaired endothelial sprouting, tube formation, attenuated endothelial migration, and inhibition of the alignment of endothelial cells in response to shear stress.                                                 Brahma-like gene 1, or BRG-1, was identified as a direct interaction partner of MANTIS, implying a role of MANTIS in the formation of the switch/sucrose non-fermentable chromatin remodeling complex. MANTIS binding to BRG-1 was shown to stabilize the BRG-1 interaction, hence by inducing an open chromatin conformation, MANTIS was proposed to maintain the endothelial angiogenic potential. The implications of these findings are discussed in an accompanying editorial by Dr. Zampetaki and Mayr from Kings College London.                                                 That brings us to the end of our summaries. Now for our feature discussion.                                                 Today, we are going to be discussing the association between fetal congenital heart defects and maternal risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. To discuss this, I have the first and corresponding author of our feature paper, Dr. Heather Boyd, from Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, and our familiar Dr. Sharon Reimold, content editor for special populations from UT Southwestern. Welcome, Heather and Sharon. Dr. Heather Boyd:            Thank you. Dr. Sharon Reimold:        Thank you. Dr. Carolyn Lam:               Heather, it's a topic that I can't say I'm very familiar with, association between fetal congenital heart defects and maternal risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Could you start by sharing why would we think there would be a link? What was the hypothesis you were testing? Dr. Heather Boyd:            A couple years ago, there was a paper published in the European Heart Journal that reported evidence of angiogenic imbalance in women with fetuses with major congenital heart defects, so women who were pregnant with babies that had heart defects, and then in fetuses that were terminated because of this kind of defect. My research group focuses a lot of attention on preeclampsia. In the last decade or so, angiogenic imbalance in preeclampsia has been a really hot topic. Women with preeclampsia, particularly women with early-onset preeclampsia, have big angiogenic imbalances. When we saw the European Heart Journal paper, we immediately thought, "What's the connection between preeclampsia and heart defects in the offspring?" Dr. Carolyn Lam:               Oh! Dr. Heather Boyd:            Exactly. That was our entry point to it, was the term "angiogenic imbalance" in that paper sort of was a flag for us. It wasn't a completely new idea, but we in Denmark have one big advantage when considering research questions that involve either rare exposures and/or rare outcomes, and that's our National Health Registry. We have the ability to assemble these huge cohorts and study conditions like heart defects with good power, so we decided just to go for it. Dr. Carolyn Lam:               That makes a lot of sense now. Please, tell us what you did and what you found. Dr. Heather Boyd:            The first thing we did was look at the association between carrying a baby with a heart defect and then whether the mom had preeclampsia later in the same pregnancy. We had information on almost 2 million pregnancies for this part of the study. We found that women carrying a baby with a heart defect were seven times as likely as women with structurally normal babies to develop early preterm preeclampsia. We defined that as preeclampsia where the baby has to be delivered before 34 weeks, so the really severe form of preeclampsia. Then, women carrying a baby with a heart defect were almost three times as likely to develop late preterm preeclampsia as well. That's where they managed to carry it until 34 weeks but it has to be delivered some time before 37 weeks.                                                 These findings were similar to those of other studies, but we were able to go a step further and look at individual heart defect subtypes. What we found there waws that these strong associations were similar across defect categories. Then we decided to see if we could shed any light on the origin of the problem, whether it was coming from the mom's side or the baby's side. To do this, we looked at women with at least two pregnancies in our study period to see whether preeclampsia in one pregnancy had any bearing on the chance of having a baby with a heart defect in another pregnancy or vice versa.                                                 This part of the study included 700,000 women. We found very similar findings. We found that women with early preterm preeclampsia in one pregnancy had eight times the risk of having a baby with a heart defect in a subsequent pregnancy. Late-term preeclampsia in one pregnancy was associated with almost three times the risk of offspring heart defects in later pregnancies. Then, we found that it worked the other way around too. Women who had a baby with a heart defect were twice as likely to have preterm preeclampsia in subsequent pregnancies.                                                 Those results were really, really exciting, because whatever mechanisms underlie the associations between preterm preeclampsia in moms and heart defects in the babies, they operate across pregnancies. Therefore, that pointed towards something maternal in origin. Dr. Carolyn Lam:               That is so fascinating. Sharon, please, share some of the thoughts, your own as well as those of the editors when we saw this paper. Dr. Sharon Reimold:        I think that there's a growing data about the links between hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and preeclampsia with subsequent abnormal maternal outcome. But this paper, I think, has implications for how we look at moms who are going to have offspring with congenital heart defects as well as those with preeclampsia. For instance, I would look at a patient now that has preeclampsia, especially in more than one pregnancy, to identify that they may be at risk to have offspring with congenital defects in the future if they have additional children. But the mom is also at risk based on other data for developing other cardiovascular risk factors and disease as she gets older. It was really the link going back and forth with the hypertensive disorders and the congenital defects that we found the most interesting. Dr. Carolyn Lam:               That struck me too, especially when you can look at multiple pregnancies and outcomes. That's amazing. You know what, Heather, could you share a little bit about what it's like working with these huge Danish databases? I think there must be a lot more than meets the eye. Dr. Heather Boyd:            It's an interesting question, because I'm a Canadian and I was trained in the US. I did my PhD in epidemiology at Emery, and then I moved to Copenhagen. When I first got here, I was absolutely floored at the possibility of doing studies with millions of women in them. It opens some amazing possibilities, like I said earlier, for certain outcomes and certain exposures. You just need to have a question where the information you want is registered. Dr. Carolyn Lam:               Yeah. But I think what I also want to put across is, having worked with big databases, and certainly not as big as that one, it's actually a lot of work. People might think, "Oh, it's just all sitting there." But, for example, how long did it take you to come to these observations and conclusions? Dr. Heather Boyd:            I have a fabulous statistician. I think she's the second author there, Saima Basit. She spends a lot of her time pulling together data from different registers. But yes, you're right. The data don't always just mesh nicely. The statisticians we have working with us are real pros at this sort of data slinging. Dr. Carolyn Lam:               Could I just pose one last question to both of you. What do you think are the remaining gaps? Dr. Sharon Reimold:        I think that this is a clinical link. Then, going back to figure more about what's going on biologically to set up this difference? Because right now there's really no intervention that's going to make a difference, it's just a risk going forward. This is sort of like medicine done backwards, that there's this association and now we need to figure out exactly why. Dr. Heather Boyd:            I can piggyback on what Sharon said a little bit, because I think one of the things we need to remember is that not all women with preeclampsia have babies with heart defects. Not by a long shot. What we need to do now is to figure out what distinguishes the women who do get this double whammy from the vast majority who don't.                                                 One of the things that Denmark does really nicely is that there are large bio banks. One of the things we want to do is go back to bank first trimester maternal blood samples and see if we can identify biomarkers that are unique to the women with both preterm preeclampsia and babies with heart defects. That's one of the things we're thinking about to address this gap. Because, as Sharon says, we've got to figure out what the mechanism is.                                                 The other thing we want to do is to see whether the association between preeclampsia and heart defects extends, for example, to other things, to cardiac functional deficits, for example, because it's probably not just severe structural defects. If there's an association, it's probably on a continuum. Are babies born to preeclamptic moms, do their cardiac outputs differ? Do their electrical parameters differ? Do they just have different hearts?                                                 We're really lucky because right now the Copenhagen Baby Heart Study is offering to scan the hearts of all infants born at one of the three major university hospitals in the Copenhagen area. We're about to have echocardiography data on 30,000 newborn hearts to help us look at this. I'm really excited about that possibility. Dr. Carolyn Lam:               I've learnt so much from this conversation. I'm sure the listeners will agree with me. Thank you both very, very much.

Suprise!  Two episodes in one week!  This episode was recorded back in May and released to Patrons as a special

Heather Boyd is a transgender woman in the Orlando area. She joins us in-studio this week for a roundtable news discussion.

Roger and Rob speak with Heather Boyd, former Canadian Press Western bureau chief. Heather was hired to make recommendations to the NDP gov't about how to determine who qualifies as media.    Then they discuss the value of Canadian television productions to Canadians. 

VP of On-Premise USA at Beam Suntory, Rachel Harris, is joined by Heather Boyd, the Managing Director of Beam Suntory USA's Ready-To-Drink business, and John Horn, the Customer VP for Hotel and Regional Accounts of On-Premise Beam Suntory USA. Today's sneak peek inside the video series “Proof You Can” explores the innovations they have brought to the table during the pandemic, like Cocktails-To-Go, and what goes into this level of problem-solving.Watch the full episode on Rachel Harris's Instagram and LinkedIn, see below.Follow Beam Suntory:Website: beamsuntory.comInstagram: @beamsuntoryFollow Rachel:Instagram: @rachelsharris_ LinkedIn: Rachel HarrisThis show is produced by Soulfire Productions