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When you're familiar with your benefits and what your coverages are, it definitely empowers you to have the conversations that you need to have. –Kyana Brathwaite Be empowered with your healthcare! I'm talking with Kyana Brathwaite of KB CALS. She provides caring advocacy and liaison services to help people find their way in the often confusing and not warm and fuzzy healthcare system. Most of us learned not to question doctors and not to trust our bodies, and it's time to get past both of those things. We talk about finding healthcare providers you trust and can work with (and why that might not look the same in every situation). We also talk about advocating for yourself. But beyond the actual practitioners, there's the cost and how insurance works. Most of us don't know what's covered or what's not. And when we're in a health crisis, we may not slow down to ask the questions we need to ask. Kyana wants to change all that. We talk about: Logging in and playing with your insurance website or your patient portal so that you know how to navigate it Being the expert in your own body, giving input into your healthcare, and expecting a doctor to work with you Researching providers before you ask for a referral Exploring ancillary benefits, like gym memberships Why you should read your summary of benefits Interviewing providers and knowing what you need in a provider BIO Kyana Brathwaite is a registered nurse, wife, mom of two wonderful kids, and CEO & Founder of KB CALS – Caring Advocacy & Liaison Services. She has worked in the medical field for over twenty years and knows that healthcare interactions can be a deeply personal experience. KB CALS partners with clients to assist in wayfinding, provider matching, benefit utilization, insurance research, and health and wellness planning by coordinating a community of support, including medical practitioners, health systems and insurance providers to best fit your needs. LINKS https://www.resourceinhealthcare.com (https://www.resourceinhealthcare.com) Doable Changes from this episode: PLAY FOR 15 MINUTES. So often we need to learn about how our health benefits work when we are under duress. Taking time to learn how to navigate the system and find information before you need it can take a lot of pressure off. Learn how to log in to your health insurance site or your healthcare portal. Play in there for 15 minutes a week (put it on your calendar). Look around at what's available. SET UP YOUR TEAM. Know what you need from each provider. Take time to research providers you may need. You can read reviews, talk to people you know, call the office and ask questions. Look at your insurance for coverage. If you can do this before you need it, even better. Think about your providers now. Do you trust them? Work well with them? If not, start looking at new options. SLOW DOWN. When faced with a health crisis, many of us rush into action or just say yes to whatever is suggested to us. In most cases, it's okay to slow down. Ask questions: What are my other options? Is the procedure covered by my insurance and what will my costs be? Could we try …? What are the risks of this action / of not taking this action? Who else does this work? Make a list of questions you might need to ask next time you are faced with a health issue.
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A Still Standing Podcast Interview with guest, Kyana Brathwaite, Healthcare Resource Specialist, CEO of KB CALS and Registered Nurse, whose experience spans over 20 years, where she has worked in a variety of healthcare settings. During her years as a registered nurse, she used these experiences to transition into multiple nursing arenas until starting KB CALS in 2016, a healthcare and planning services firm that fills the gaps between employee and employer understanding, benefits engagement and utilization, and empowers her clients to make informed decisions about their health and well-being. In the second episode of Still Standing Together's, "Foundations in Mental Health" Episode Series, Kyana offers perspective on effective communication practices, speaking up for yourself to prevent inequalities and what she calls, "negative healthcare experiences," and builds an awareness as a result of hers and the experiences of her patients while under her care. Kyana touches on her instrumental practices and advice to help people in their healing process find awareness, feel validated and heard, and build confidence on how to make the changes necessary when you don’t feel supported by others in your life. In this episode, you'll hear from Kyana and Daniela on... Vocalizing in Intimidating Situations: Address the elephant in the room for yourself and with others. Tapping Into Your Resources Self-Awareness: How exploring her fear and other people's doubts in her with meditation, Floatation therapy, integrated medicine and mindfulness helped her face the unfaceable. Ways to stop ignoring your own needs and start showing up for yourself to be your biggest supporter. Feeling drained vs. feeling when things are falling into place ...and so much more. Kyana balances being a mom-prenuer, facilitator of her two children’s cyber school education, Uber-moming to extracurricular activities, prioritizing her & her family’s health, and mastering all the other roles she fills. You can follow Kyana on the links below. Keep in Touch With Us! Kyana Brathwaite: Website | LinkedIn | Instagram | Email Daniela Galdi: Website | LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram | Email Still Standing Together: Website | Facebook | Instagram | Email
During our final Covid-19 discussion, Kyana Brathwaite who is a registered nurse, wife, mother, and CEO & Founder of KB CALS shares about surviving while reaching goals. To learn more about KB CALS – Caring Advocacy & Liaison Services visit: https://www.resourceinhealthcare.com/ Email: info@kbcals.com, IG: kb_cals --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
If you heard last week's interview, you understand why we absolutely had to follow-up with Part- 2, today! If you are new to the show or missed last week, let me reintroduce you!A registered nurse, Kyana Brathwaite founded KB Caring Advocacy & Liaison Services (or KB CALS) to help people, families, and businesses find the best wellness plan that suits their various medical needs. Kyana’s clients go through an interactive and participatory process as she connects with health systems and the medical community, including insurance providers, to coordinate assistance and support for her clients. When she’s not busy helping others, she spends her time taking care of her husband and two gorgeous children.In this episode, Kyana shares how she had her breakthrough while dealing with her own identity issues. She shares her identity journey, the challenges she faced and how she dealt with them as well as the significance of knowing what you want to give, what you’re open to receiving, and what you refuse to receive. She also shares why it’s crucial to break expectations and how honesty helps her continue to heal and have better relationships.“Because I’m starting to get to know me -- because there’s a process, I can now open up and give other people grace and share that love.” - Kyana BrathwaiteThis Week on the Balance Boldly for Ambitious Women In Business Podcast:●How Kyana used to define success●The effect of growing up in a single-parent household●The negative statements she made herself believe growing up that contributed to the notion of her identity●Why she felt the need to cling to her relationships for her identity ●The difference between listening and taking heed●How you can share your gifts●How knowing herself affected her relationships and connections●What she does when people get uncomfortable with her honestyA Little Permission to Pause:●Give yourself permission to not plan and go with the flow.Connect with Kyana Brathwaite:●Kyana Brathwaite on LinkedIn●Kyana Brathwaite on Twitter●Kyana Brathwaite on Facebook●Kyana Brathwaite on Instagram●KB Caring Advocacy & Liaison Services on Facebook●Phone Number: 267 625 2422●Email: KyanaB@KBCals.comOn the Balance Boldly Podcast, host Naketa R. Thigpen talks with ambitious women in business (and a few brave men) from a wide array of industries about their pursuit of success, how they face business burnout and what work/life balance looks like for them. Not your conventional self-help podcast, Balance Boldly uncovers real solutions to real problems afflicting real people at home and in the workplace, daily. If you like what you hear on the Balance Boldly for Ambitious Women Podcast, Please subscribe, rate and share to help us ensure the ambitiously bold and brave have access to valuable life, love, and business balance tools.Connect with me, Naketa R. Thigpen @balanceboldly on IG, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Create Your Balance. Create Your Joy. Thank you for listening!
Kyana Brathwaite is a registered nurse and the CEO and founder of KB Caring Advocacy & Liaison Services (or KB CALS), a company that partners with their clients and assists them in an interactive and participatory process of discovering the best customized health and wellness plan for individuals, families, and businesses that will best fit their needs. In addition to planning, her company also coordinates support in the medical community, health systems, and with insurance providers. While giving her best to help others, she is also a wife and a homeschooling mother to two beautiful children.Kyana joins me today to share how she broke the boxes she has put herself in as she learns to let go of expectations set by others and our society. Kyana shares how she started a bottom role as a nursing assistant, how she broke expectations along the way, and how she found herself helping others as the CEO of her own company. She also shares some compelling stories that exemplify being mindful of what others say so you can break expectations as well as being careful yourself so as not to put others in a box.“It’s not just about you breaking your own box, but being mindful that you don’t put other people in the box because it’s comfortable for you.” - Kyana BrathwaiteThis Week on the Balance Boldly for Ambitious Women In Business Podcast:●Why Kyana’s mentors were a significant part of her career path.●The first box others have put Kyana in regarding the pace she’d have to do as she becomes a critical health care provider.●The box she broke that allowed her to blossom in her work.●Rich lessons to learn when she put herself in the apology box because of her pregnancy.●The opportunities that opened her up to want to have more autonomy and explore her nursing skills.●How her reputation preceded her and its effects on her career and working environment.●How her injury affected her career and her identity.●Why her next job turned out to be a total disaster.●The release she didn’t know she needed - until she got it.●What she dealt with as she became an entrepreneur.●How her career change affected her worth and the way she sees herself.●What she did to fill in the healthcare gap between the health system and care seekers.●How she was able to listen to patients individually at KB CALS.●Why she finds comfort in floatation therapy and hanging out with her mother-in-law.A Little Permission to Pause:●Sometimes, somebody else has to allow you to be you before you can really see who you are.Connect with Kyana Brathwaite:●Kyana Brathwaite on LinkedIn●Kyana Brathwaite on Twitter●Kyana Brathwaite on Facebook●Kyana Brathwaite on Instagram●KB Caring Advocacy & Liaison Services on Facebook●Phone Number: 267 625 2422On the Balance Boldly Podcast, host Naketa R. Thigpen talks with ambitious women in business (and a few brave men) from a wide array of industries about their pursuit of success, how they face business burnout and what work/life balance looks like for them. Not your conventional self-help podcast, Balance Boldly uncovers real solutions to real problems afflicting real people at home and in the workplace, daily. If you like what you hear on the Balance Boldly for Ambitious Women Podcast, Please subscribe, rate and share to help us ensure the ambitiously bold and brave have access to valuable life, love, and business balance tools.Connect with me, Naketa R. Thigpen @balanceboldly on IG, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Create Your Balance. Create Your Joy. Thank you for listening!
On this special episode of Zig Zag, find out what success means to host, Tiffany Spraggins-Payne and some of her most memorable guests, including: • Iola Harper from episode 3• Danielle DiLeo-Kim from episode 4• Bridgett Battles from episode 7• Kyana Brathwaite from episode 8• Betty Duroseau from episode 10• Daria Torres from episode 11• Quanisha Green from episode 12• Joyel Crawford from episode 13• Tess Gardephe from episode 14• Melissa Alam from episode 15• Bonnie Bogle from episode 16What does success mean to you? Let us know in the comments and on social media, using #phillygrit!
Host Tiffany Spraggins-Payne speaks with Kyana Brathwaite, founder and CEO of KB Cals, about healthcare access, general wellness, and self-care. If you would like to learn more about Kyana's services, visit: https://kbcals.wixsite.com/homepage