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Listen in as we welcome Leo Brown to Episode 195 of HBTC Live! We talk about Barrels N Leafs, and much more!   Visit our website, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and subscribe to our YouTube Channel. #HBTCigar #HowBoutThatCigar #Cigars #PremiumCigars #CigarPodcast #CigarShow #HBTCLive #PremiumTobacco #CigarLife #CigarCulture #BOTL #SOTL #ISmokeCigars #BurnCigarsNotBridges

  Along with being Fabulous, psychic medium Leo Brown is a life coach, motivational speaker, and author. The conversation gets real, and includes his foundation and calling, and topics like integrity, Spirit visitations, the talking board, diversity and representation in the paranormal, building community and mending, the "Great Resignation", and Leo's first love of tarot. Plus Leo shares wisdom for those who see themselves as either Fabulous or different. Visit BigSeance.com/221 for more info. Other Listening Options Direct Download Link   In this episode: Episode Teaser :00 Intro :57 Psychic Leo Brown's Bio 1:40 Patrick found Psychic Leo on Facebook and just had to check him out! 3:49 Leo reads personalities and celebrities on Youtube through his Psychic Perspectives series. Megan Thee Stallion was one of his recent perspectives. 4:40 “There are moments where you will get it wrong. There are moments where you cannot read for everybody that crosses your doorstep. You just can't.” 7:05 Getting real about integrity. 9:11 Leo's foundation and finding his calling. 12:44 “Whatever you do in life, be confident, but never cocky.” 15:29 Leo works most with his clairevoyance and claireaudience. 16:52 In paranormal situations, Leo says he is a scaredy cat. 18:29 Watching the Long Island Medium in the grocery store. 19:43 A few of Leo's Spirit visitation experiences. 21:26 When a psychic medium needs a psychic medium. 25:39 Soulmates and twin flames. 27:05 What happens when we die and it's time to return to the Other Side? Renewal. 28:07 When it comes to the occult, tarot is Leo's first love! Plus the movie, The Craft. 30:54 “Things started to move that weren't supposed to movie, and lights were flickering on and off.” Leo has a cautious curiosity about the talking board! 33:06 Wisdom for those who see themselves as either Fabulous or different. 35:35 Miss Cleo, Walter Mercado, Savann Champelle, the Ghost Brothers, and the importance of diversity and representation in the paranormal. 36:49 Building community and mending. Patrick ask's Leo to do the impossible by reading what has been going on with our world in the last 2-3 years. 41:26 Just because you're older, doesn't mean it's too late. 46:38 Leo on the topic of the “Great Resignation.” 50:16 Leo's book, Honey, I'm Fabulous and So Are You!: A Psychic's Journey of Love, Life, and Empowerment, and final thoughts. 52:58 “Life is too short if you're boring. Be bold. You know what I mean? Be courageous. Be brutal if you have to, especially with your self. You know? The world is bad enough.” 54:15 A special THANK YOU to Patreon supporters at the Super Paranerd and Parlor Guest level! 55:10 Outro 57:40   For More on Psychic Leo Brown PsychicLeo.com Leo's book, Honey, I'm Fabulous and So Are You!: A Psychic's Journey of Love, Life, and Empowerment (Amazon) Twitter: @TheRealLeoBrown Facebook: @TheRealPsychicLeoBrown Instagram: @TheRealPsychicLeoBrown     The Big Seance Podcast can be found right here, on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Pandora, Spotify, TuneIn Radio, Stitcher, Amazon Music, and iHeart Radio. Please subscribe and share with a fellow paranerd! Do you have any comments or feedback? Please contact me at Patrick@BigSeance.com. Consider recording your voice feedback directly from your device on my SpeakPipe page! You can also call the show and leave feedback at (775) 583-5563 (or 7755-TELL-ME). I would love to include your voice feedback in a future show. The candles are already lit, so come on in and join the séance!  

Do you remember your first job? What was it? How did it feel?   Today on Conflict Managed, I had the great pleasure of interviewing my son, Leo Brown, on the one-year anniversary of his first job. Listen as Leo recounts his experiences as a fast-food worker. He talks about what he sees as the qualities of a good manager (calm, patient, understanding, caring, and empathetic) and of an ineffectual manager (disorganized and inattentive). Leo talks about what he thought went on behind the scenes in the restaurant business versus what he never considered to be the case: community and the importance of order. Through our conversation Leo reiterates the importance of being opened minded as the key to growing and being happy at work. Our discussion closes with what is important to him when he looks at workplace culture and values. Leo Brown just graduated in the top 10 of his class at Westview High School. He is going to the University of Memphis in the fall to study economics. Leo plays tennis and disc golf. You can find Leo Brown on Instagram at  https://www.instagram.com/lepobrown Conflict Managed is hosted by Merry Brown and produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services. Contact us at 3PConflictRestoration@gmail.com. Our music is courtesy of Dove Pilot.

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In this episode, Yolande, Nattassa and Raquel speak with guest Leo Brown. Leo is a Northern Ireland born semi-pro footballer at Sutton Coldfield Town FC who was once a pro footballer based in Birmingham. He encountered multiple injuries in quick succession which led to being let go after his first season. Leo shares how he overcame that devastating event and made progress despite those early failures. Leo has lots to share on how he's found his antidote to failure. Check out Leo Brown's TedX talk on YouTube. #raisingthevolume #unmutenowpodcast Social Media: Twitter- @unmutenow1 Instagram - @unmutenow Facebook- www.facebook.com/unmutenow Youtube: UnMute Now Email: unmutenow1@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unmutenow-podcast/message

Listen in as we welcome Leo Brown to Episode 111 of HBTC Live! We talk about Barrels N Leafs, and much more!   Visit our website, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and subscribe to our YouTube Channel. #HBTCigar #HowBoutThatCigar #Cigars #PremiumCigars #CigarPodcast #CigarShow #HBTCLive #PremiumTobacco #CigarLife #CigarCulture #BOTL #SOTL #ISmokeCigars #BurnCigarsNotBridges #semperincendium #BarrelsNLeafs 

After decades with just one not-so-user-friendly option, another shelf stable rescue glucagon enters the market. It’s called Zegalogue, FDA-approved and coming soon in both an auto injector and a prefilled syringe. One additional future use will be in the Beta Bionics iLet pump with two chambers – one for the insulin and one for this glucagon. Stacey talks with Frank Sanders, President of Zealand Pharma U.S. and Dr. David Kendall, Senior Global Medical Advisor. This interview covers everything from the use of Zegalogue now to cost and a look at how far treatments have come. This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider. Check out Stacey's book: The World's Worst Diabetes Mom! Join the Diabetes Connections Facebook Group! Sign up for our newsletter here ----- Use this link to get one free download and one free month of Audible, available to Diabetes Connections listeners! ----- Get the App and listen to Diabetes Connections wherever you go! Episode transcription below Click here for iPhone      Click here for Android   Stacey Simms  0:00 Diabetes Connections is brought to you by Dario health manage your blood glucose levels increase your possibilities by Gvoke Hypopen, the first premixed autoinjector for very low blood sugar and by Dexcom keeping you in control with an integrated system for diabetes management.   Announcer  0:21 This is Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms.   Stacey Simms  0:27 This week after decades with just one not so user friendly option, another rescue glucagon enters the market. It's called Zegalogue, one future use will be a pump with two chambers, one for the insulin and one for glucagon.   Frank Sanders  0:43 So, with insulin being one side of that equation, when glucose does go lower, instead of simply shutting off the insulin and waiting for it to clear from the system, you have counterbalance, or the ability to counter regulate with the glucagon infusion in small little delivery boluses.   Stacey Simms  1:02 That's Frank Sanders president of Zealand pharmacy in the US, he and Dr. David Kendall, their senior global medical advisor, join me to talk about everything from the use of Zegalogue now to cost and to look at how far treatments have come. And spotting a diabetes pump in the wild never gets old. I'll tell you a quick story about what happened with us. This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider. Welcome to another week of the show. I'm so glad to have you all here we aim to educate and inspire about diabetes with a focus on people who use insulin. My son Ben in the state is 14 years ago with type one, my husband lives with type two, I don't have diabetes, I have a background in broadcasting. And that is how you get this podcast. Thank you for the great feedback out last week's not really a bonus episode. But second episode that I've been doing, I changed it up again. And I released Diabetes Connections in the news, many of you have already listened to it. But I'm thrilled that I'm getting reaction. I don't even mind if it's constructive criticism or just I hate it. I really would like to know what you think I'm experimenting throughout the month of May. We're going to do four episodes of in the news live on Facebook first on Wednesdays at 430. And then a podcast episode that will turn around probably Thursday night or Friday morning and get you caught up on the week's news. So please let me know we have a post going in the Facebook group as well. You know, six years ago, I launched this podcast and I liked that I'm still experimenting with it. And I hope that you do too because the idea is just to get you good information that you can use whether it's long format like we're going to do today, or short headlines, like I'm trying with that in the news stuff. And of course we throw in some personal stories here and there. And after this interview, I'll tell you about Benny's first wrestling match and how you know we spotted diabetes in the wild. Alright, my guests this week are from Zealand Pharmaceutical, they just got FDA approval a few weeks ago for Zegalogue. The newest shelf stable emergency glucagon, you know, it really is incredible when you think about it the last 40 or 50 years more than that all we've had for emergency glucagon has been the stuff in the red or orange emergency box, the kind that you have to reconstitute yourself you know, and studies show that most people even those trained you don't use it very well especially under stress. And now we have three options vaccine me and G vo hypo pen and Vega log. You're going to hear from Frank Sanders. He's the president of Zealand pharmacy and Dr. David Kendall. He is their senior global medical advisor Frank Sanders has been in the pharmaceutical industry for more than 25 years. He has been with a company called therapeutics he's been with Johnson and Johnson's pharmaceutical arm many of you are familiar with Janssen pharmaceutical. He's been with GlaxoSmithKline and Dr. David Kendall has held many leadership positions in the diabetes community including at mankind at Lilly at the American Diabetes Association and at the International Diabetes Center in Minneapolis. Dr. Kendall and I also go way off topic toward the end because he served as a clinical investigator with the dcct and edic trials here homeless tourists will remember those evidence based on hope episode, which is one of my all time favorites, I will talk about the DCC T and edic trials at the drop of a hat. And I was so excited that Dr. Kendall can too Okay, quick disclosure gotta tell you, your competitor to this product is a sponsor of this show. In fact, I'm about to read an ad from them. But as you know, Diabetes Connections is here to help you get information about the diabetes community and I don't limit who we talk to because of who spends money on advertising. Now on the flip side, the advertisers are also on board with all of that so I give them a lot of credit to longtime listeners are familiar with all of this, but just in case, I like to talk about it every time and let's keep things on the up and up. Okay, let me tell you then Diabetes Connections is Brought to you by Gvoke Hypopen and our endo always told us that if you use insulin, you need to have emergency glucagon on hand as well. Low blood sugars are one thing, we're usually able to treat those with fast acting glucose tabs or juice. But a very low blood sugar can be frightening which is why I am so glad there's a different option for emergency glucagon. It's Gvoke Hypopen . Gvoke Hypopen is pre mixed and ready to go with no visible needle, you pull off the red cap and push the yellow end onto bare skin and hold it for five seconds. That's it, find out more go to Diabetes connections.com and click on the Gvoke logo. Gvoke shouldn't be used in patients with pheochromocytoma or insulinoma. Visit gvokeglucagon dot com slash risk. Frank Sanders, Dr. Kendall, thank you so much for joining me today. I'm really interested to learn more about this. I appreciate you being here.   Unknown Speaker  5:50 Thank you. We're glad to be here as well. Yeah. Thanks so much,   Unknown Speaker  5:52 Stacy.   Stacey Simms  5:53 You got it. So Frank, let me start with you. If I could just, you know, to give us an overview a little bit. We've never talked before, if you could kind of catch me up on what Zealand is all about. And then we'll talk about Zegalogue.   Frank Sanders  6:05 Yeah, sure. Thank you for the question. I appreciate it, Stacy. So I'll start by saying that Zealand is a global biotechnology company and a world leader in peptide therapeutic development. Well, it may seem like a new company, the company was actually founded in 1998. It is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. And we have our US presence and our company in our corporate office in Boston in the seaport area. So the company has approximately 330 employees worldwide. And our we believe our distinguished advantage is our unique peptide platform that allows us to design and engineer highly innovative peptide and peptide like medicines for, you know, for multiple conditions. So we have a 20 year legacy in r&d and peptide therapeutics, and we're very proud of what we've delivered.   Stacey Simms  6:50 Can you take just a second and I when we hear peptide on this podcast, we just think about that C peptide test, right? That helps figure out if it's type one or type two diabetes, what does a peptide therapeutic be?   Dr. David Kendall  7:02 I'm happy to take that one. And Frank, please feel free to chime in. But Stacy, a peptide in the common ones that I'm sure this audience knows about are things like insulin, glucagon, or modifications there. But they are very simply the proteins. In the body peptides generally referred to proteins which are made up of these building blocks we call amino acids, usually up to 25 to 50 of these amino acid segments plugged together glucagon, which we'll be talking about today, and LC glucagon is made up of 37 of these building blocks. So peptides that are commonly known are just those proteins that circulate in the body or makeup, the structure of the body.   Stacey Simms  7:46 Alright, let's talk about Zegalogue. I think most of my listeners are familiar with the concept of needing emergency glucagon sometimes, but tell me the specifics about Zegalogue Frank Sanders  7:56 So the clinical profile Zegalogue  is compelling. And we are actually out in active dialogue with payers right now. And we have been in dialogue with healthcare professionals and patients around the profile through market research before we execute a full product launch following approval. And the approval of Zegalogue is based on the results from three randomized, double blind placebo controlled controlled phase three trials, that's a mouthful in both children and adults with type one diabetes. And what's marketed and notable about Zegalogue is the median time to blood blood glucose recovery of 10 minutes that we've seen across all three phase three trials. More specifically, in the phase three trials. 99% of adults recovered in 15 minutes in the main adult trial, and 95% of pediatric patients recovered and 15 minutes in the pediatric trials. So So we believe the dialogue offers patients and caregivers in an important new choice for the for the management of severe hypoglycemia, which is a condition where minutes obviously matter, so we're eager. So the launch the product, in just over a month and late June,   Stacey Simms  9:02 didn't take me into that study a little bit more in terms of how low people were, if you can share that.   Dr. David Kendall  9:09 Happy to do that, Stacy and as Frank mentioned, glucagon, the native peptide or protein that many people have known about, and I'm sure many of your listeners are familiar with has been around and available for treatments since the 1960s. But what Zegalogue and dasiglucagon the active molecule was able to do is make modifications in that peptide chain to ultimately lead to chemical that we felt was suitable for development that went through those clinical testing programs that Frank talked about, and specific to those trials to bring this forward as a medication that could be reviewed and approved for the treatment of severe little bunch of blood sugar, or what we call severe hypoglycemia required that in controlled fashion, taking volunteers, courageous and really volunteers to whom we are incredibly grateful to use an insulin infusion, so give insulin in their vein in a controlled way, bring their blood sugar below a specific level, usually that level is 70 milligrams per deciliter or lower, slightly higher in the studies with children, and do that in as controlled away as possible, then stop that infusion of insulin. And this is really meant Stacy to mimic what might happen in an unexpected, unanticipated severe low blood trigger event. And those individuals then are given a dose either of placebo medicine, or in the case of these studies, Sega log and its pre Approval Form dasiglucagon, and then in those same trials, not for direct comparison, but just to understand what the world was familiar with, we also gave selected individuals, the traditional glucagon from the emergency kit that many people may know, which is the one that requires that it be reconstituted, mixed up, drawn back up in a syringe and then given so the studies took experimental, low blood sugar, let's say on average, the value is just below 70. Got the dose of medication. And then we measured the so called time to recovery that Frank talked about which in all of these trials was how long it took to see that number no matter where it started to come up by 20 points. So a very consistent measure of recovery time. And as Frank said, the median time to recovery was 10 minutes across each of the three larger phase three trials. And you looked at the 15 minute time point, which is a very important one for watching loved ones recover and making sure that they either are responsive or another dose of medicine can be given 99% of adults, 95% of children had recovery   Unknown Speaker  11:55 in that time period.   Dr. David Kendall  11:56 So very important to understand how the trials were done. But ultimately, it led to our review and approval as a treatment for severe low blood sugar.   Stacey Simms  12:06 Wow, I appreciate you going through so thoroughly, I have a couple of questions, because I have a couple of friends who have gone through clinical trials for products like this. I don't know if they were specifically in this one. But as you said, You don't just sit there and say, Okay, give me all that insulin, no, I'm gonna go low. You know, we really have to thank those people. But you mentioned some of them got a placebo. So I know it was a safe environment. But what does that mean? Like they just sat there and went low for a while?   Frank Sanders  12:32 Yeah, I'm always amazed the Food and Drug Administration, their regulators are thoughtful and cautious about how these studies are designed, we are as well, in placebo, obviously, is done only in a controlled setting where we understand what the potential risks of giving, essentially, no therapy might be. But knowing that in these studies, as I said, Even though zega log is approved for the treatment of truly severe low blood sugar, these were not patients that lost consciousness couldn't manage for themselves, but in a controlled setting where we could give them an intravenous injection of glucose if we needed to, or ultimately rescue them with safety glucagon administration, these were individuals who had to understand that they were going to go low, probably feel something they felt before not necessarily feel comfortable, and then know that there was a chance they were getting just saltwater sailing, or potentially getting one of the other two therapies. And obviously, they were monitored very carefully. And we didn't allow this to go on, you know, indefinitely. They were ultimately treated either with glucose by vain or given something to eat.   Stacey Simms  13:42 I'm curious to, again, I appreciate you letting me go down this rabbit hole. There is an interesting conversation all the time in the diabetes community about letting those go. And I know some of you, as you listen gasped. But I mean, there are some times where you'll sleep through a low or you'll just won't notice although you know, you're 7075 and then you'll, you'll float back up because your liver has kicked in it. You know, I'm curious, I know, this wasn't what the study was designed to do. But was there any information from the placebo folks of them kind of recovering without treatment?   Right back to Dr. Kendall answering that question. But first Diabetes Connections is brought to you by Dario. And the bottom line is you need a plan of action with diabetes. We've been lucky that Benny's endo has helped us with that and that he understands the plan has to change as Benny gets older, you want that kind of support. So take your diabetes management to the next level with Dario health. There are published Studies demonstrate high impact results for active users like improved in range percentage within three months reduction of a one c within three months and a 58% decrease in occurrences of severe hypoglycemic events. Try Dario’s diabetes success plan and make a difference in your diabetes management. Go to my dario.com forward slash diabetes dash connections. For more proven results and for information about the plan now back to Dr. Kendall, answering my questions about those that kind of resolve on their own.   Frank Sanders  15:13 So the the proportion of people who recovered with placebo therapy was extinguishing Lilo, I will say, at least in the 15 minutes time period, by 45 minutes, either they had recovered or we allowed them to recover. I know a bit more about this, because I spent my early years of research doing these experimental low blood sugar studies. And your comment about letting the logo is not something I certainly would advise as a health care professional, but it does happen. And the risks if it's not a severe low, are often you know, an inconvenience or disrupted sleep or in some cases, complete lack of awareness. The risk there, Stacy is any low blood sugar makes a subsequent low blood sugar more likely. And the typical symptoms and responses that the body has, will diminish when the body has seen multiple episodes of low blood sugar. It's as if the body's saying I've seen this before, I'm going to quit warning you and treating it. And that, as we've learned over time is one of the risk factors for an unexpected and more serious and severe hypoglycemic event. So I would not recommend letting the logo   Stacey Simms  16:24 be either, I want to be very clear. But it is something that is discussed. It's not as though that's something that to be very clear as you listen and to you all to, it wasn't something I said in that I endorse it. It's just that it does happen. And we see that sometimes you don't treat a low and sometimes it bounces back. So I didn't mean to imply that we should be twiddling our thumbs while our kids are low.   Dr. David Kendall  16:48 Right? And you're absolutely right, the body does maintain some of those defenses as ecolog. What we're talking about here is there for those circumstances where the defenses are no longer adequate, someone loses consciousness, the ability to care for themselves. Alright,   Stacey Simms  17:05 let's let's get back on track here. Again, thanks for following me down that rabbit hole. And I'm always fascinated by studies and the process. Frank, let me ask you what so what is this is tell me a little bit about the product itself because we have other products on the market. Now you mentioned already the rescue kit that needs to be reconstituted, there's a nasal spray, there's a shot.   Frank Sanders  17:22 Now this was this is so second log is indicated for the treatment of severe hypoglycemia, and pediatric and adult hit and adult patients with diabetes. Ages, six years and above, we're going to be launching it with two forms available. We're one of those is going to be an auto injector a single dose auto injector and the other will be a single dose prefilled syringe, but both of which can be used immediately without requiring reconstitution that may allow for easier use at that moment when it's needed. And so you know, that really at a basic level, that's that's core to what what Zegalogue is. And we again, believe that based on the clinical study that David David has talked about the study data all three is that what distinguishes like a log is really the the median time to recovery of 10 minutes across all clinical trials and the consistency of response rates and adults in pediatric patients again, referring back to the data that David presented. So we're eager to introduce this product again and a couple short weeks here and offer this begin to offer this to patients and caregivers alike.   Stacey Simms  18:25 shelf life, you know, do I need to put in the fridge? Can you speak to that?   Frank Sanders  18:28 Very good question. So I'll talk a little bit about the storage and stability and David if I if there are details to add, please add but Zegalogue has a three year total shelf life when stored in refrigerated conditions in once removed from refrigerated conditions that can be kept at room temperature for up to 12 months. So stability and storage conditions of Zegalogue provide for options for people with diabetes, you're at risk of severe hypoglycemia to have this available at home, you know, in the refrigerated conditions for up to three years or out of you know, refrigerated conditions, either at home or away from home for up to a year and event that it's needed. So we believe that these dual storage conditions will be attractive to the lifestyle of patients with diabetes   Stacey Simms  19:12 couple of years ago, gosh, was it ready for the pandemic It must have been in the fall of 2019. So not too long ago, I ran into Ed Damiano of beta bionics and asked him you know what's going on? How are things and you know, they've got their own, we're actually talking to them in a couple of weeks. So let's talk about this as well. But my understanding correct me if I'm wrong, is that this is the brand of glucagon that they want to put in the dual hormone pump down the line. I don't know how much anyone can speak to any of this. So feel free to say no, because I know it's it's not coming. Now, this is not what we're talking about here To be clear, but this is one of the most anticipated developments in pump therapy. And I'm curious, can you speak to this is that correct?   Frank Sanders  19:57 Well, let me tell you this and then David, you could you can add to this as well. as you see fit, but yes, I mean that's a glucagon we consider this a platform therapy, you know. So obviously we're launching dasiglucagon in the form of Zegalogue as a rescue therapy for severe hypoglycemia. But it's the first of a long string of other potential launches with dasiglucagon. In the future you had mentioned, the partnership that we have in place with beta bionics that what I will say is that it's a great partnership, we're very pleased with the progress that we're making with this program, as we near the initiation of phase three trials. And so you know, everything is really moving forward at a steady rate there with that partnership. And we also have the David can touch on as well with dasiglucagon a program and place for use in congenital hyper and hyper insulin emia as well. So so the product itself is being studied for multiple applications to benefit multiple patients, not just with severe hypoglycemia, but with other with other specialty and rare disease areas. So it's just the beginning, if you will, it's like a log is this really the beginning for the use of the molecule much, much more to come over the next three to five years. Like Frank said, we're   Dr. David Kendall  21:05 really excited to be in the partnership with beta bionics I had in his team dasiglucagon is the platform and that Frank described, we see it as helping us leverage opportunities across what we call the hypoglycemic spectrum. So testing it, we hope in weeks and months ahead in phase three in the bio hormonal we call it artificial pancreas, the bionic pancreas, with beta bionics, but also for other hypoglycemic disorders, some in the setting of diabetes, like small doses that may be used for exercise or during illness, where it's not an emergency situation, all of these are planned investigations, but not yet part of the approved use of Zegalogue. Similarly, the condition, Frank alluded to congenital hyperinsulinism, where children are born with the dysregulated continuous secretion of insulin, so it's not diabetes, but they suffer recurrent and significant hypoglycemia, then there are very limited therapies. Thankfully, it's an ultra rare disease, but one that is really want for better therapies. And similarly, there are other health conditions where unexpected low blood sugars occur outside of the setting of diabetes. And we think because of some of the unique characteristics that deci glucagon has the stability at room temperature that it can and we hope will be applied, certainly in clinical studies, we hope in the future for patients with some of those conditions.   Stacey Simms  22:38 So it's interesting a couple of weeks ago, maybe a couple months ago, now we spoke to Leo Brown, who was on The Amazing Race, we will he lives with diabetes, I guess, but he has congenital hyperinsulinism. And his they basically removed most of his pancreas. And is that the kind of thing you're talking about where this would be an alternative treatment for somebody like that, perhaps?   Frank Sanders  22:57 Precisely. And so that's one of the approaches, historically to this condition, congenital hyperinsulinism was to remove the offending organ, the pancreas, which, as you witnessed, will leave somebody living with insulin deficient diabetes, so a form of type 1 diabetes that's surgically induced, but it was one of the only available therapies, we feel like that see, glucagon. And other approaches can counteract that hyperinsulinism, particularly in the youngest children, where there are the greatest dangers for these low blood sugars. And we hope either limit the need obviate the need for surgical interventions, and add to the tools that pediatricians in particular can use to manage this incredibly challenging disease.   Stacey Simms  23:45 And just back if I could to beta bionics, can you share anything about Gosh, I feel like we've just been waiting for this for a very long time. In terms of how it works. I know that, again, that's in clinical trials coming up. So you can't talk about a lot, but I'm just trying to picture what I you know, we fill the insulin pump with insulin, then we just fill the other chamber with the gun. I mean, it just to me seems so revolutionary. I'm trying to kind of parse any information that you can share with us.   Dr. David Kendall  24:10 Yeah, it's you're spot on Stacy. It's basically a two chamber pump. So think of how current insulin pumps are programmed. And in fact, with the hybrid closed loop systems, they were tied to continuous glucose monitoring to adjust the insulin delivery and those systems that have that capability. Add to that the same sort of functionality, but with glucagon, or in this case, dasiglucagon infusion that is regulated by the pump and by the glucose measurements. So with insulin being one side of that equation, when glucose does go lower, instead of simply shutting off the insulin and waiting for it to clear from the system, you have counterbalance, or the ability to counter regulate with the glucagon infusion and small little delivery boluses just Like insulin does for higher glucose is so similar to and in fact managed in much the same way as the insulin infusion for high glucose. The glucagon chamber and infusion wouldn't give those doses as glucose values declined, or were at certain levels,   Stacey Simms  25:15 if they're a second inset on the body for that I can't imagine goes to the same inset as the insulin.   Dr. David Kendall  25:21 Yeah, so So all of that is part of the development process. Obviously, these are two separate hormones. And one of the components of dasiglucagon, as Frank talked about is it's, it's stable in this so called aqueous solution, which for you will need that saltwater, the things that circulate in the body. So you know, while in theory, they could come through the same system, the plans in place, and the previous studies have been done with two separate fusion sites. But again, connected to the same pump system. So yeah, there's some sophistication involved. And I think back to pre CGM, when people said I have to wear this device now people often do quite well wearing two devices, their CGM and their pump. So depending on the ultimate design and approach to this, we certainly see the clinical promise as being something that's very encouraging. And then overcoming those engineering and technical challenges will be part of what faces our team with the beta bionics team. Really interesting. I   Stacey Simms  26:22 can't wait to talk to them to to get more information. Thanks for sharing what you could I appreciate? Absolutely. Let's talk about cost and access. What is this going to cost? I mean, I know that a lot of it depends on insurance. You started out by saying you were talking to payers, it's so sad that that's the first thing we have to talk about.   Frank Sanders  26:38 That's a good, it's a good question. These are obviously obviously amongst the first questions we always get when we're launching any product. So so we our strategy, from a pricing perspective, is the price Zegalogue at parity meaning add or are the same as existing products on the market? And we've based this strategy really on the value that psychologic provides? I think you're the bigger question is, is it going to be accessible for patients at launch. And you know, and really, that's, that's the reason why we are out actively engaging managed care customers today, both at payers and pbms, and Medicaid providers. And so I'll share that the the conversations have been have been very good that the profile Tagalog is being received very favorably, and we do expect to have favorable accesses, that is ecolog. At launch, that will continue to build as with any new product launch that will continue to build and improve over the first six months of launch. And I think as as you know, Stacey, from our conversations a little bit earlier, as I'm a caregiver myself, in my in my life, my my wife is been, you know, suffering for from stage four cancer for a number of years, and she's doing doing very well. But we we every day, interact with the healthcare system, and really have to think through barriers to access, whether that those are financial barriers or barriers to delivery of the product through specialty pharmacies, and we are really designing our patient support capability at Zealand. With that in mind, meaning, how do we make sure that when we're launching a product, we're able to provide the resources and forms of financial assistance and other resources to help address any sort of access barriers that may exist. So so there's really don't become transparent, so do we, so to speak, or, or, or a barrier for patients. And it's not just things like financial assistance, we are also putting programs in place to be able to make access easy in terms of product acquisition and distribution, for example, by looking at at home delivery solutions and other things so so we really are going to roll out a patient support system that is really fit for launching a product like this, in this error today where we also have to worry about COVID. So we're ready to go on all fronts in that area.   Stacey Simms  28:50 And we'll link up information as it comes out on patients assistance and access and things like that. But I'm always curious. And I I know the US health system is very complex. But why budget parity, why not launch and say we're gonna be $30? Less? How come nobody ever launches and says we're gonna come out and we're gonna make it affordable out of the box?   Frank Sanders  29:09 Yeah, I mean, we we look very carefully at multiple different pricing options and research it very carefully before we make a decision around it. And the price that we choose, really any company chooses. But in this case, I'll just talk about what Zealand does is the one that we that we think is going to ensure that we are going to get the best access possible for the product at a price point that that is representative of the value, the clinical value that the product brings to the market and that and that really led us to a parody pricing strategy, not a premium pricing strategy, not a discounting strategy, but one that is at parity with the rest of the market. And you know, again, based on the feedback that we've had in advance of setting the price and after setting the price and discussing with managed care organizations, we feel that we got it right.   Stacey Simms  29:56 Yeah, but you didn't get that from patients with all due respect. I can't imagine a patient said that's the right price.   Frank Sanders  30:01 Well, I think if we ask anyone, any consumer about about the price of the medicine, you know, the will will always get the response of, can we why that can cannot be lower? Can it be lower? That's absolutely fair.   Stacey Simms  30:14 Before I let you go, as I was looking through everybody's bio here, David, I can't let you go without asking you about the diabetes control and complications trial and the edic trial, I love to talk about these studies. I have I talked to a lot of parents whose children have been diagnosed, you know, recently, I run a very large Facebook group for Charlotte, North Carolina area. And I always say like, you've got to look at these these amazing trials that were done years ago, that show how much better things are getting. And I would love to just, I don't even know what I want to ask you. But I would love to give you the floor to just say that we didn't even know that a one c mattered, we didn't know the control made a difference. And to me, the edic trial is the one that shows me how much things are getting better. I do my right on any of that.   Dr. David Kendall  30:59 And well, you're talking to a very biased audience of one in me. So I grew up in the dcct edic era, I started in diabetes research in 1981, just as dcct was kicking off. So I've been either close to or seeing patients in dcct edic, through its entire history. And we're now 40 years out from the start of that trial. And yes, absolutely. These are 14 141 of the most courageous, incredible people who committed literally decades of their life to helping us understand what benefits may come from improving glucose control, particularly early on in the course of type 1 diabetes. And what I love is that many of these are patients I know to this day who are celebrating their 17th and 18th birthdays, I'm in the setting of type 1 diabetes. And unequivocally dcct, in my mind is one of the 10 great research studies in medicine, it demonstrated the benefit of having blood sugars as well controlled as possible, as early in the course of diabetes as possible. and maintaining that for as long a period as possible that I always catch that by saying, you know doing it as rationally and safely as possible. And what we're talking about here today, meaning severe hyperglycemia was first really made evident to us in the dcct. where, you know, on average, every patient had a severe event per year during the study, because we were working so hard to control glucose. So it ties back to our topic. And yeah, for the next three and a half hours of this podcast. I'd be happy to add more if you'd like. Frank will never invite me back. So   Stacey Simms  32:48 Oh, no, no. Okay, wait, one more question about the dcct edic. Is there a follow up? Will we get another one of all these people soon? Or is it kind of   Dr. David Kendall  32:58 it continues to this day, and there are various components to it, it is much less thorough and intensive in terms of the follow up, but the 30 and soon 40 year follow up of those patients has been and will be published and presented as the years go ahead. So this is the study that probably will only end when we run out of investigators and individual volunteers for the study.   Stacey Simms  33:26 I gotta say I look at those studies. And I'm so glad you mentioned the brave and wonderful people in them. Because that has my son was diagnosed right where he turned to 14 years ago. And what they have done, has changed his outcome. It's just fabulous. So thank them next time you see I'm telling Stacy and Charlotte. Before we finish it, was there anything about that video segment that we didn't cover?   Dr. David Kendall  33:48 Yeah, I'll close and then toss it back to Frank. But I think one of the things that first attracted me to Zealand but also the work around Zegalogue is that hyperglycemia really remains one of those conundrums, one of the rate limiting features of managing diabetes most effectively, and bringing forth the two legs Zegalogue to help patients have the peace of mind make a plan for when the unthinkable might happen, a severe event. And doing so with the data that we've talked about where you have this very rapid and reliable response to Desi glucagon and the clinical trials for this, like many other emergency therapies, you don't want to have it, but you certainly want it on hand if you need it. So all of that, to me is central to what we're doing, not just with the clinical studies, but with the clinical launch of Zegalogue.   Frank Sanders  34:43 Now very good. I would just just close by saying what excites us about this launch in particular, is that there are 4 million people in the United States with diabetes on multiple daily injections of insulin and these patients are at higher risk of having severe hypoglycemic event. And despite the fact that there are 4 million people in the US with diabetes on on multiple daily doses, only approximately 14% of that population is prescribed a glucagon rescue therapy. So So what's been interesting is and positive is this is with the introduction of newer innovative therapies over the last year and a half, two years, more people are becoming aware of these treatment options, and the market is growing by by 10%. And we believe that that's really just the beginning is the you know, having Zegalogue in the market, that's yet another innovative option has the ability to further grow this by increasing awareness. And we're excited about the positive impacts effect that will have on patients and their caregivers.   Stacey Simms  35:44 Well, Frank Sanders, Dr. David Kendall, thank you so much for joining me and explaining all this. I really appreciate you spending so much time with me. Thank you.   Announcer  35:56 You're listening to Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms.   Stacey Simms  36:02 I will link up more information about Zegalogue. And about the DCCT EDIC trials as well. And if you haven't heard our episode, evidence-based hope, I highly, highly, highly recommend it, especially for newer diagnosed people and families. It's not just a look how far we've come kind of thing. But it also puts in perspective, a one see numbers, things right now that you can do to live a long and healthy life with diabetes. And it doesn't mean that you need to always have you know, a super low A1C I think especially as parents, we often lose track of the happy, good life thriving with diabetes, because we're so focused on getting that that time and range and those super low a one season those trials really put it in perspective for me, and what you need to really live well. And it's not what a lot of people on Facebook, what have you believe in just a second, I want to give you an update on how Benny's doing and wrestling has started. And oh my goodness, but first Diabetes Connections is brought to you by Dexcom. And it really is hard to remember what things were like before we started using Dexcom. I had a woman asked me what was our plan for kindergarten. And we were still a good four or five years away from Dexcom at that point, so it's really interesting to look back because it is so different. Now we were doing something like 10 finger sticks a day when Benny was going to kindergarten. I mean, even when he got older, we still did at least six to eight every day more when he wasn't feeling well or something was off. But with each iteration of Dexcom we've done fewer and fewer sticks. The latest generation the Dexcom g six eliminates finger sticks for calibration and diabetes treatment decisions. Just thinking about Benny's little worn out fingertips makes me so glad that Dexcom has helped us come so far. It's an incredible tool and Benny's fingertips are healthy and smooth, which I never thought would happen when he was in kindergarten. He for glucose alerts and readings from the G6 do not make symptoms or expectations. Use a blood glucose meter to make diabetes treatment decisions. learn more, go to Diabetes connections.com and click on the Dexcom logo.   Aren't if you've been listening for a long time or you follow me on social media, then you know that Benny is finishing up his sophomore year in high school and he started wrestling when he was a freshman he got injured right at the beginning of the season. He tore his meniscus. And he was out for the 2020 season, which was right before COVID. They were able to get a full season in and he was part of the team. He was like manager and he went on crutches to every match. And he was pretty incredible season they won the state championships for the first time. It was just a really fun year, but he had to sit on the sidelines. So that was kind of a bummer. But he is back. He's worked really, really hard. And of course with COVID they kept putting off the season. And we always thought there is absolutely no way there's going to be wrestling. So he actually went out and got a job. I've mentioned before he got his vaccine, he's at a grocery store. And he's been working really hard. And so when wrestling came back, it was kind of a tough decision to make. But he was able to work it out with his work schedule. And this kid is so busy, and they had their very first match. As you're listening it would be last week. So Benny had his very first you know, match. But that's not the story. I want to tell you what was amazing. And by the way, I can't watch wrestling. Do you watch wrestling if your kids wrestle? I can't watch any sport my kids play because I'm the loud mouth mom. So I'm always the one like trying to look at her phone. So I'm not screaming I'm not being rude. I'm not not paying attention. But I'm shockingly I have comments. So I try to keep them to myself. But wrestling is just so gross. It's so rough. I can't stand it. But they come out on the mat and the ref comes out and he's like you know our loved ones with clean Theodora and I'm looking at the ref and I immediately Look at his belt line because there's a T slim pump. He's wearing a T slim next to you know, it's right on his back. And I was sitting very close. So part of me wanted to yell like, excuse me. Hello, sir. But I didn't do anything. I didn't say anything. I did take a couple of pictures which was probably very inappropriate, this poor man, but I couldn't help myself. It was so exciting. They faced two different schools. So it was the match that He was in and then there was another match. They didn't wrestle in, and my daughter had just come home from college. So after that first match, I said goodbye. I said, Okay, if I go and I left, I went home because my daughter, Lea, I haven't seen her in a while. So I wanted to run home to her. And I couldn't talk to the ref, because he went from one match. Immediately, he crossed the gym and went to the other match. Then he came over to kind of talk to me as I was leaving, and I told him and I, you know, it wasn't sure if he'd be like, Mom, it's so lame. You know, who cares. But he lit up, he was excited, and he wants to go say hi, but it was just such a busy night. And these reps are just working, working, working that, you know, as I said, I didn't get a chance to talk to him, but he didn't get a chance to talk to him. So I'm hoping that we see him again, as these wrestling matches go on. But hey, if you're listening ref in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, drop me a line. And thank you very much for not noticing the bananas lady behind you taking pictures of your back.   Before I let you go quick note I will be speaking at the camp Nejeda event survive and thrive. That is on June 5. It's a virtual event. We are looking forward to friends for life in July, I will be there I'm not sure in what capacity as a speaker yet waiting to hear from them. Because it's very different this year, far fewer speakers, but I will be there as a vendor. So I hope I can meet at least some of you. And please join me tomorrow. If you're listening as this first drops on Wednesday, May 12, as I'm doing every Wednesday in May 4:30pm. Eastern on my Facebook page Diabetes Connections i will be doing in the news, my newscast that I'm trying out and then we'll turn that around and drop it as podcast episode. They're very short. My goal is to make them not only less than 10 minutes, hopefully less than eight or seven minutes. I'm really trying to keep it very tight and just have some headlines. But the top stories of the past week, all types of diabetes really be useful for you to make it bite size make it relevant. So let me know what you think. Thank you, as always to my editor John Bukenas from audio editing solutions. Thank you so much for listening. I'm Stacey Simms. I'll see you back here in just a couple of days. Until then, be kind to yourself.   Benny  42:19 Diabetes Connections is a production of Stacey Simms Media. All rights reserved. All rounds avenged

Here's Episode #9 of Till Victory (a podcast about WWII and Peace)! Leo Brown, a Sergeant in F Company, 359th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division "Tough Ombres", is one of the 50+ soldiers honored in Till Victory. To celebrate the worldwide release of the book, here's his whole story and letters read by the author, followed by a fascinating conversation with the veteran's daughter Leota and son-in-law Randal. We'll talk about his gruesome experience of Normandy and the PTSD that troubled him all his life, what a fantastic man Leo was, and what set the "Greatest Generation" apart!   Clément Horvath, French author of "Till Victory : the Second World War By Those Who Were There" talks in this new series of podcasts with WWII veterans and their families about their war stories, the heritage of World War 2 and the future of peace. Clément's latest book is the English version of his award-winning "Till Victory, lettres de soldats alliés", a best seller in France focusing on frontline letters from war-torn Europe, and the result of 15 years of research. The book was published in November 2020 by Pen & Sword Books (in the UK & Europe) and by Casemate in the US and Canada in January 2021. It is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your can order it from your favorite bookstore ! Just don't buy the ebook version that I was not involved with, Till Victory is supposed to be read on paper... https://www.tillvictory.com

Leo Brown played in the Milk Cup and for Northern Ireland. He went across the water to Birmingham. Leo talks about racism in football and culture. He is currently the ambassador for the Rio Ferdinand Foundation. Support the show

 Meet Leo Brown from this season of The Amazing Race! He lives with diabetes, but his story isn’t a typical one. Leo was born with congenital hyperinsulinism, where the body makes too much insulin, and had almost his entire pancreas removed. Leo will share his unique story and tell us about running the race with his girlfriend, Alana. Learn more about congenital hyperinsulinism In Tell Me Something Good, babies! Weddings! And a football first for someone who’s been kicking t1d every day for a long time. This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider. Check out Stacey's new book: The World's Worst Diabetes Mom! Join the Diabetes Connections Facebook Group! Sign up for our newsletter here ----- Use this link to get one free download and one free month of Audible, available to Diabetes Connections listeners! ----- Get the App and listen to Diabetes Connections wherever you go! Click here for iPhone      Click here for Android Episode Transcription: Stacey Simms  0:00 Diabetes Connections is brought to you by One Drop created for people with diabetes by people who have diabetes by Gvoke Hypo Pen, the first premixed auto injector for very low blood sugar, and by Dexcom take control of your diabetes and live life to the fullest with Dexcom.   Announcer  0:23 This is Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms.   Stacey Simms  0:28 This week, meet Leo Brown, a contestant on this season of The Amazing Race who lives with diabetes. Now on the show, he's racing around the world with his girlfriend, Alana, but they had what could have been their biggest setback before the race even got started.   Leo Brown  0:42 I think I was actually on the flight to LA at the start line. When I realized I had left all my insulin at home. There was one thing I didn't remember it was in the fridge. It was lined up like little soldiers.   Stacey Simms  0:57 Oh my gosh. Well, Leo's story is not a typical diabetes one. He was born with congenital hyperinsulinism, where the body makes too much insulin and had almost his entire pancreas removed. He developed diabetes at age 19. And he'll share his unique story and tell us about the race In tell me something good babies, weddings, and a football first for someone who's been kicking T one D every day for a long time. This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider. Welcome to another week of the show. I love The Amazing Race. I started watching when I was pregnant with my daughter Lea. And that was 19 years ago, I realized that talking to Leo and doing this episode Oh my gosh. Anyway, welcome. We aim to educate and inspire about type 1 diabetes by sharing stories of connection. My son was diagnosed almost 14 years ago, when he was a toddler. I have a background in broadcasting and that is how you get the podcast. It has been two years since the last version of The Amazing Race aired and I really have been excited to see it come back. It's just great to see people traveling again. As soon as the first episode of the season aired in mid October, my eagle eyed diabetes friends started posting photos of Leo at one point he's playing the steel drums and you can clearly see the Dexcom on his stomach. I like many of you jumped to the conclusion that he lives with type one. But it turns out his diabetes story as I've already teased a bit is very unique. And we'll talk about that with him in just a moment. But first Diabetes Connections is brought to you by One Drop. One Drop is diabetes management for the 21st century. One Drop was designed by people with diabetes. For people with diabetes. One Drops glucose meter looks nothing like a medical device. It's sleek, compact and seamlessly integrates with the award winning One Drop mobile app, sync all your other health apps to One Drop to keep track of the big picture and easily see health trends. And with a One Drop subscription you get unlimited test strips and lancets delivered right to your door. Every One Drop plan also includes access to your own certified diabetes coach have questions but don't feel like waiting for your next doctor's visit. Your personal coach is always there to help go to Diabetes connections.com and click on the One Drop logo to learn more. My guest this week is Leo Brown from Season 32 of The Amazing Race. His partner on the race is Alana Folsom, they have been dating for less than a year when the show started. And they're now married. So we don't know how they did on the show. But that's a great outcome already. Leo and I recorded this interview over zoom and there is a video version which I've put on the YouTube channel. And that's just Diabetes Connections over on YouTube. But there's two things you need to know as you listen, the audio is a bit sketchy here and there, Leo and Alana upgraded their Wi Fi during the interview. Literally during the interview, she called and got the Wi Fi upgraded we stopped and started a bit before that happened. I took all of that stuff out. But you can hear some stuff here and there. And if you see the video, you will see the shirt that I am referring to as we start out here. But if you're only going to listen, I promise you will get the gist. Leo, thank you so much for being here. I appreciate you spending some time with me tonight.   Leo Brown  4:23 Thanks for having me excited to have a chat.   Stacey Simms  4:26 All right. Well, first of all, I have to ask you about your shirt. Because I saw that hashtag on Twitter that you guys were using. What is beloved lovers? I wanted   Unknown Speaker  4:35 to hear you say it first.   Stacey Simms  4:37 Wait, let me do my radio voice! Tell me about – beloved lovers.   Leo Brown  4:41 Oh, absolutely. So Alana I got married over a month ago. And we have a Ketubah which is a Jewish wedding contract. And in a traditional Ketubah it says you know the man this and that husband this wife that right and We wanted our Ketubah to be egalitarian. And we didn't really see a need to indicate our gender. But that's not really what what relationship is about. And so we talked to our Rabbi who's extremely, you know, open minded and accommodating. And he came up with some text that is egalitarian. And the translation from Hebrew to English was beloved lover, and really like that. And so in the in the wedding, which we live streamed, because we couldn't invite most of the people we wanted to, because the COVID, he explained that and there was a live chat on the YouTube live stream that was happening, everyone was like, beloved lover, and then they started writing hashtag beloved lovers. And then I think somehow that got picked up by some news source that like follows Amazing Race, or it was like doing some promo about Amazing Race. And so when they were introducing the teams, and it was just this little this article that got that was going around, they said, Will and James dating Hung, and Chee married Leo and Alana lovers. And so our cast has all had already kind of decided since our wedding because they had all called into the wedding that we were having, like beloved lovers. And so we went with that. And this is our beloved lovers shirt on the back and says Leon & Alana, and a little globe, that is where beloved lovers came from our relationship and our wedding.   Stacey Simms  6:25 So okay, my husband and I have been married for 21 years. I'm making a note for our when we renew our vows for our tuba, maybe at 25. Oh, yeah, back and change the language   Leo Brown  6:35 as a couple that had to severely downsize our wedding. We are strong believers in renewing vows, or just having another wedding whenever you feel. Stacey Simms Well, you know, weird way you kind of put the honeymoon first with The Amazing Race. So let's talk about that. Because you both were I mean, I didn't know if I could ask you about your relationship, just because you're never sure on the show. I've seen I've watched the show for years and people are dating that they break up before the race even ends. Or maybe they stay together. Well, obviously, this had a really happy ending. But take us back to the beginning. When did you all decide to sign up for the race? You were just dating? Leo Brown Yep. So we met on Tinder in January of the year of the race. And then on our second date, I think we were watching The Amazing Race with my roommates at the time because they were fans and a lot. I was a fan and I hadn't seen an episode or two. And that was the first time when it was my roommates who said you better be great on the race. And I thought yeah, sure, I think we could be and, you know, nothing else really came of it. And then six months later, Ilana and I moved in together, I think it was our second night of living together when we had it. All right, let's make this video. Let's send it in. Let's see what happens. And that was in July. And then a couple weeks later, we got a call from casting. And then over the course of the summer and fall that we went to LA a couple times. And then the start line was our 10 month anniversary. So that was a that was a really fast and an incredible progression that we weren't expecting,   Stacey Simms  8:11 we will return to the Amazing Race to your relationship to your reading lots of questions there. But tell me about your experience with diabetes. Very unique. What happened? Tell us your story. Sure. So I   Leo Brown  8:23 can start long before I knew I had diabetes. Because I wasn't diagnosed with diabetes till I was 19. As an infant, though, I was diagnosed with congenital hyperinsulinism, which I always explain as kind of like the opposite of diabetes, instead of making not enough insulin, I made way too much. So it's a rare genetic condition that you're born with and usually presents at birth. And it's an emergency, once you're born, you have low low low blood sugars. And one of the biggest challenges is that doctors who delivered you and you know, like neonatal care doctors might not have ever heard of congenital hyperinsulinism. And to make matters worse, infants sometimes have low blood sugars, as like a natural and okay thing. And so many parents, including my own then are told initially some version of Oh, that's nothing really to worry about. And the story you hear time and time again from these congenital hyperinsulinism parents is I knew something was off like I'm not a medical professional, but my child needs help. And in my case, will that eventually led was to subtotal pancreatectomy ease. And so the first one was when I was six weeks old, and that was like 95% of my pancreas was removed a big scar across my stomach from that. And then when I was six months old, much of remained was also removed in a second subtotal pancreatectomy and after that, by the time I could remember, basically, I have like very early memories of my blood sugar being tested because my blood sugar was of interest at that point, everyone needed to know what it was and why it was okay. And for the first couple years, my parents had to do a lot to help manage that. And lots of doctors involved and try different drugs and eventually figured out something that could sort of stabilize my blood sugar and help me start to live a normal life. And by the time I could remember, I pretty much did live a normal life. You know, I went to kindergarten like any kid, I had a scar, I had a second scar from a feeding tube that was called my second belly button, because I have an outie. But then there was this any nearby. And as life went on, I felt very much like a normal kid who had this, you know, this complicated beginning, but I thought that was all kind of behind me.   Stacey Simms  10:56 But let me ask you before you go on, and I'm sure your parents have shared with you what actually happens when when a child is born with low blood sugar? Like you said, it's not as though something they're not often looking for that kind of thing. And it's extremely dangerous. Do they just are they poking your fingers when you're an infant? Or the you know what happened? Yeah,   Leo Brown  11:15 my parents may remember, even better memories than I do. But I know that you test a baby's blood sugar at, you know, most hospitals, good hospitals when they're born. So I mean, I think that tests This was 30 years ago. So longer, or like longer land sets, but generally a lot has remained the same in in that you test a baby's blood sugar. And if it's low, if you're lucky, someone says, Yeah, could be serious. It could be totally fine. But I think they had a lot of experience testing their tiny baby's blood sugar.   Stacey Simms  11:54 Did you go I guess my question is, did you go home? And then have these emergencies where you had to be re, you know, brought back your parents didn't know what's going on? Or did they know before they even left the hospital?   Right back to Leo, answering that question and explaining more about congenital hyperinsulinism. But first, Diabetes Connections is brought to you by Dexcom. It's hard to think of something that's changed our diabetes management as much as the Dexcom, share and follow apps. The amazing thing to me is how it's helped us talk less about diabetes, that's a wonderful thing about share and follow as a caregiver or parent, spouse, whatever, you can help the person with diabetes manage in the way that works for your individual situation. Internet connectivity is required to access Dexcom, follow separate follow app required, Learn more at Diabetes connections.com and click on the Dexcom logo. Now back to Leo, who by the way, has a great Dexcom story later on in the interview. Oh my goodness. But here, we are talking about his parent’s early days of his very scary diagnosis.   Leo Brown  13:04 I believe my parents didn't have a clear diagnosis before I was discharged at the very beginning. And then within weeks, if not days, I was brought back, you know, they said he's having, you know, he had a seizure. He's not getting better, like this low blood sugar thing is, is here to say and I I'm again, my parents would have a lot more to say. But at some point, they were equipped with a blood sugar testing kit to you know, check me regularly at home. But I think that within those first couple of days and weeks, they quickly discerned that something was off. My parents used to have this box and at some point I said I need the box because once in a while I need to be able to explain to people not in an interview, but in a doctor's office what exactly happened. But yeah, it you know, it from what I know congenital hyperinsulinism and other stories I've heard from other parents, honestly, that I can tell you as much about that as my own early early story. The prevailing pattern is that the parents are told that the low blood sugar is not something they need to really worry about, because babies have that sometimes. And right, a large part of what the community and an organization I'm working with congenital hyperinsulinism International is trying to help medical community understand is you need a checklist saying this could be congenital hyperinsulinism. Obviously research for early diagnosis, treatment, but early diagnosis is in some ways more important because if people aren't looking for it, then it is a you know, it's a very rapid escalation. As you can imagine. It's just like if you were getting injections of insulin that you didn't ask for.   Stacey Simms  14:54 Yeah, scary stuff. Yeah. So you have these operations. You're growing up just fine. But you have been told your family's been told that you will eventually most likely develop type one diabetes or something that's very similar.   Leo Brown  15:06 Actually, that didn't become what people were told until more recently, this, I think, has to do with better research and sort of documentation about the progression of the disease also, as early treatments have become more effective, and there's still a long way to go there. I'm you know, most people don't get to go to kindergarten like I did without some sort of special needs. Or even just like having a continuous glucose monitor, right? You might not be I mentioned special needs, because like, as soon as your blood sugars are low, you could have that could affect your brain in some way. But also, even if you don't have that consequence of the low blood sugars, you might still have a lot of trouble controlling your blood sugar's early in life or throughout your life. And so the fact that I didn't have any of that, from nursery school, kindergarten and on through the beginning of college is sort of unusual. But to your question, my parents were not told that I would get diabetes, part of the reason, I think is because my pancreas was making so much insulin, there was a thought that removing just the right amount would lead to me being just fine. Or, you know, you might not remove enough like, I might still have low blood sugars, like there was no assumption that I would have diabetes, although my understanding is more recently, that's become more of a an assumption that like you do this type of operation. And then no one knows when, but eventually you will have diabetes,   Stacey Simms  16:38 or and now I have one more dumb question or the surgery for we move on. I know, everybody wants to know about you, and the Dexcom and The Amazing Race, right. But I'm so curious, we think about the pancreas, and I think most people in the diabetes community understands that it's not dead, you know, it didn't stop doing everything it's supposed to do. But we don't think about it as doing anything much more than producing insulin, you have like this much of a pancreas left, and you have been living this happy, healthy life, even though we're gonna talk about your diagnosis. Are people generally surprised when they hear that it's, it's more of an education for you to do? Because I gotta tell you, when you told me that, I thought that's not at all what I felt what happened?   Leo Brown  17:13 Yeah, I wish I could read the logs of my pancreas to tell you exactly what it's doing and what it's failing to do, like if you were trying to debug it. And, you know, there's not an easy way of getting in there. And and finding that information. I mean, you really would have to, you know, I engage any doctors I encounter and try to get those kinds of answers out of them. Like, what is it that my pancreas is not doing? Like, I know, it produces all sorts of hormones, other than insulin, I don't have the background to even ask the right questions, right. But all I can say is that with a little bit of pancreas, you can get a little bit of function. And I guess enough such that I don't I'm not diagnosed with anything other than diabetes. But it is a great question. And there's not a ton of patients to do this research on. Nor is it something that you'd want to interfere with someone's life to do research on, like, you were to poke around in there, like you could cause a problem. So on some level, you kind of just keep an eye on it. But one thing I do quickly want to add is that my parents and I, after I was diagnosed with diabetes, we were really kind of kicking ourselves like, doesn't it make sense? You took my pancreas out? Why didn't anyone mentioned that? This could just it seems like common sense. I mean, not I'd never thought about diabetes before. But my parents had certainly thought a lot about blood sugar. And they were like, course, like diabetes?   Stacey Simms  18:43 Nah, I gotta say, in everybody's defense, I think I would just be very happy that my baby who was going super low, all of a sudden, they figured out was wrong. They fixed it. You went to kindergarten, if the doctors aren't telling you why we're going to   Leo Brown  18:57 we think, clear. And you know, we weren't testing my blood sugar after I was, you know, in first or second grade, like and, and there's no indication that there was any need to at that time, no symptoms. Yeah.   Stacey Simms  19:10 So what happened? Did you go to college and start having issues or did it come suddenly. So   Leo Brown  19:14 I went to college, I look back and I wonder when the symptoms really began. But by the time I was diagnosed, I was working. I was with summer after my freshman year, I was working at like a family run vegetable farm in the Berkshires in Western Mass where I was in college. And I thought I was you know, I'm a pretty fit person. I'm not a college athlete. And I was with a couple of college athletes on on this farm. And so that was what made me kind of doubt that will maybe I'm not cut out for this. But long story short, I couldn't really make it through the day. There was a moment I remember where I was trying to get into the pickup truck that we were driving around, and I could get in but I had to like I would just like go put my hands on the wheel and just use my arms to just like, drag myself into the pickup truck. And that was odd. I'm not used to having that much trouble with something that seems simple. Why wasn't I using my legs? Right? I probably was, but it was I wasn't using my body the way I normally would. And then I also, again, no surprise to the community, I had to pee all the time. These guys I was working with were thinking like, what's wrong with Leo, like, all he does is go to the bathroom. And he's not very good at any of this manual labor. And I was starting to think maybe I just am sickly. I'm just someone who is not as fit and capable as I thought I was. You know, I'm not one of these college athletes. So who knows. So I went home for a couple weeks, I said it was a vacation, you know, I'd kind of plan to take two weeks off at some point in the summer anyway, I was at my girlfriend's house at the time hanging out with her and her family, just in the living room, really low key, like someone was watching TV, someone's reading the newspaper, we might have been playing board game, and I was just lying on the floor, basically, I would only get up to go to the kitchen and get like a tall glass of milk. And I think I went through an entire gallon of milk. And then I you know, I was like super comfortable in this environment. So I wasn't pretending to feel any better than I was. But I also wasn't, I wasn't unhappy. I just had no energy. I was like, I was completely down for the count. And her mom is a scientist. And she said, You're not well, and you should go to the doctor, you should go home and go to the doctor. And I did and they tested my blood sugar. And it was 650. And so that was you know, right away, they put me on insulin. And skipping forward a bit. I went back to the farm Two weeks later. And they were astonished by like, I'd gained 20 pounds back. I had an I could do stuff. Do you remember how different you felt? Once I was on insulin right away? I had, yeah, like 10 times the energy, things felt easy, I think is the biggest thing. Like I wasn't unhappy. I just was confused by why I couldn't do what the type of thing that I thought I would be able to do. And again, I'm not. I don't think of myself as physically fit first and foremost. So in the back of my mind, I was always thinking maybe I'm not as fit as I thought I was versus an athlete, student or professional, who would sort of automatically know my performance is going down like something's wrong. I didn't think that.   Stacey Simms  22:33 All right, well, that's a fun way to start talking about the amazing race. Because I have been watching this show for I realized recently 19 years. And I've always thought, oh, that'd be so fun to do. And then I remember each season, why would never succeed, because the athletic ability you need just to survive and run from place to place is unbelievable. So I have lots of questions from listeners. I have lots of my own questions about the race. But the really the biggest one we get is, you know, how do you manage diabetes in a situation like that with travel and running? So if we can ask, we all saw you with the Dexcom while you're playing his steel drums and episode one that got everybody's attention and diabetes,   Leo Brown  23:12 even I didn't notice that in the clip.   Stacey Simms  23:15 Do you do if you don't mind it? Again, this is kind of personal. Do you take insulin pens? Do you use a pump anything like that? Yeah,   Leo Brown  23:21 I've tried different things over the years. And again, because my diabetes isn't type one or type two, it's hard to sort of draw comparisons. But the number one thing I do to manage my diabetes is through diet. So I eat a very low carb diet. And that is something I've always tried to do as much as I can have over the years. And at times that's enabled me actually to get off of insulin. However, there are so many variables. And on the race, I was not on regular insulin prior to the race, but I brought insulin on the race and had to use it in particular, because I would encounter food situations that I would not have chosen. And I also just didn't know what I was going to encounter. And that was also why I had the Dexcom, which I had. Well, I shouldn't say that's why I had the Dexcom. I've been using the Dexcom for some time. And that is also part of what has enabled me to kind of use insulin as I need it more recently, just to provide a little bit of context. When I was diagnosed, I did use Lantus and homologue, kind of a traditional prescription of insulin, as I discovered that I could use less insulin, if I ate fewer carbs, I over time would sort of rebalance my insulin with my diet. There are times that I wasn't using the insulin that I should have been. And I would sort of tell myself that I didn't need it. And if I didn't test my blood sugar, then I couldn't prove that I needed it. And then more recently, since the race and I'm not sure if this is you know an age thing or like an age pancreas thing, I have found that it's sort of floating higher Even with like, when I'm sure I'm, and legitimately, perfectly executing a low carb diet, and it's higher than I would have, you know, not high like 121 3140. Like, I wouldn't see the numbers like that if I had everything else controlled, and yet, somehow I do. But then if I start running more frequently, it kind of goes back down. So there's all these variables. And for the race, when there's so much that I can't control, I knew the Dexcom would be a CGM in general would be crucial. And having insulin available would be crucial. So I didn't want to go with an omni pod, because I got a couple of infections, actually, from the site, not saying that Omnipod, but just in general, like, I don't have a ton of body fat. And so like, I think there was just the wrong spot. And that can happen with any device. But for the race, I really want to do avoid that kind of thing. That's the sort of thing that could have actually put me out of the race, you know, if I had like a real infection, and so what I ended up bringing on the race was syringes, like old fashioned syringes with a vial of human slug. And the reason I went that route, actually, is because oh, no, I actually think that was just all I had at the time, because I had the syringes around for the token like a true diabetic. Yeah, I had the syringes and they were around from the Omnipod. And then I have to include this, which I had forgotten about, but we were at the hotel ready to go, you know, we're not sure when this starts going to be. And I think I was actually on the flight to LA at the start line. When I realized I had left all my insulin at home. There's one thing I didn't remember, it was in the fridge, it was lined up like little soldiers. So there was a whole production of gold, having someone having a production assistant go to Walgreens, like paying out of pocket, months later figuring out reimbursement. So that was it was a major part of preparing for the race.   Stacey Simms  27:05 Okay, I have to tell you, I have so many friends with so many stories of forgetting insulin and for getting supplies you have just made our day. So thank you for acknowledging that you're human. Oh, yeah, that's crazy. Oh, you went over here. So the other question was, this question kind of comes from the food? I thought I knew the answer this after all the years, but I wasn't sure. How do they feed you on the race? We see the crazy food contests. What are you eating day to day? And then the question was, how did you manage that?   Leo Brown  27:31 Yep. So I only ate in between legs. Mainly because I didn't want the distraction the production, the possible possibility of a higher low blood sugar during legs. Now keep in mind, I was not using a basal insulin at this point. And so I didn't really need to worry about my blood sugar floating low unless I had a short acting insulin in my system. And with the adrenaline happening during the race, I did not feel the need to be eating. And then in between legs, teams stay in a hotel, the race provides food. I'm being a little careful, because we're not supposed to talk too much about behind the scenes stuff. But what I'll say is that, you know, the food I would ask for I would eat what I could have it. And if I needed more, I would ask for more. That brings me to the topic of what I generally which is if you gave me a slice of pizza, I would eat only the top. In fact, that's a business idea that one of the other teams and I the blondes and I want to start pizza tops. I know we haven't made any progress on that. But like pizza tops, very delicious. Sometimes you can even find someone who's lactose intolerant, and you split the slice of pizza horizontally. So that's the kind of food strategy or trick I would use. There was food available to all the teams and sometimes I would have to ask for a little bit more to make sure that I can eat enough. Okay,   Stacey Simms  28:57 I am a Jewish mother. You were not super hungry during the race. I mean, again, I know we can't we have to be very careful. We don't know how far you got. We know you've got through episode one. But I'm thinking even an episode when you were swimming. You were running around or playing the drums. It's a long day. We don't have to eat a whole lot of adrenaline.   Leo Brown  29:16 And I you know, I always had a bar. I always had sugar tablets with me. So I should point that out. But you know, your heart's racing. You're competitive. Your adrenaline's high. And on that note, you're probably going to ask me about this. My blood sugar went high from that. Yeah, right. So like my blood sugar shoots up when I play coed softball in a league, you know, that I pay to be here. Right? Like it's not a competitive situation. But like, you know, The pitcher winds up. I'm at third base and like my heart's racing, and then I look at my Dexcom later and my but the first time this started happening, I was so confused. I know. I didn't eat anything like and yeah, so that happened a ton during the race to the point where I didn't Security actually said the security staff was who was really tasked with sort of keeping an eye on me from a medical perspective. And they, they would say, like, you can't let your blood sugar get that high. And I would say, well, like, Yeah. Like, what? Also what do you want me to do take insulin? Like, I don't think you want that. It'll go back down pretty quickly when I calm down, but right now, yeah, like, I've always found it's not worth trying to treat the adrenaline highs, because then I don't really under like, I can't do the same calculation around eating something like, How high is it gonna go? How excited was I? Like, how long will it last? Honestly, I've thought about trying to control that sort of thing through mindfulness, or meditation and sort of just like slowing down my adrenaline in general, although I don't want to change who I am as a person and you know, being hated about things. So that's a trade off, I guess.   Stacey Simms  30:55 Yeah, I think adrenaline highs from sports is just something that most people with diabetes that I know learn to figure out and kind of work around and not dose for, as I said, because you it's it's so tricky tolerate, um, time zones came up, too. But since you're not dosing basal insulin, that's not really a question, right? I mean, time zones, I assumed would affect you, but not really in the same way as someone was dancing that way. What   Leo Brown  31:17 Yeah, I didn't go space all during the race. And I think time zones affected all of us in an odd way. But, you know, we weren't sleeping in 24 hour cycles, we were sleeping during breaks between the legs, and the legs were not, you know, they didn't start when the sun came up, and when the sun went down, so yeah, I don't know. I mean, I think if I had been dosing basal, I would have had to just, you know, set a timer and decide that's when the next day began.   Stacey Simms  31:46 All right, any tricks and tips to keep your Dexcom on? Did it stay on in the water? Did it stay on with the sweat? And the reason the whole thing? That was what I was thinking about?   Leo Brown  31:54 Yeah, incredibly, it did. Since the race, I've gotten more experience with using the Dexcom and have started to use three M tape. And at this point, I just put it on preemptively. And aggressively. So it's like all over the site. I was, I think, kind of lucky during the race, the biggest issue I had with a Dexcom. And this gives you some insight into like the level of excitement and my state of mind was, at one point, we were on an airplane, and I was checking my blood sugar on, I actually was using, not my phone, but the little device that it comes with, because we didn't have our phones. So I was fiddling around with this device. And my mind's racing a mile a minute, right, like probably the entire race. I mean, to like, say, exit out of the part of the app that I'm in. And I decommission the sensor. Oh, no. Unlike the I was installing the sensor, no, I installed the sensor. And then I said the sensor is over right. Now, it is not possible to reverse that. And I was so distraught. And olana pointed out at that moment, that I had brought four sensors for 30 days, because I brought an extra and that was when I used the extra. At that point. I didn't have an extra. But at least I had that one. That was like, I don't know if there was a moment in the race when I was more horrified then when I installed Dexcom and then immediately decommissioned it.   Stacey Simms  33:32 Oh my gosh, yeah. I think a lot of us have done that. You guys were very early in your relationship, as you said. Very brave thing to do. exciting thing to do. Did you have fun? I mean, you're married.   Leo Brown  33:44 Yeah, we had a lot of fun on the race. It was also I will say a very stressful experience in general. You know, our first time on TV, you know, we really wanted to keep racing. You might have noticed in the first episode, we were on the second flight, we were in 10th place at a certain point, the oil drums were huge and hard to handle. The fish numbers challenge was horrible. Try remembering for numbers and the numbers were okay. But the colors. The problem with the colors is that what are you reading the fish nose to tail left to right, like you flip it over upside down? Right? It's sort of like you can reverse the fish in all different directions. And we were just like, really, things were not getting any easier. And then the skill drum challenge Fortunately, I felt pretty comfortable with so that was Trinidad and Tobago, and we had a blast, but we also had a lot of anxiety. You know, as far as our relationship, I think we kind of knew what we were getting into, in a way. I mean, I suppose it was more intense in many ways than you could have imagined. But we knew we wanted to do this big adventure like we knew it was a once in a lifetime opportunity. We wanted to travel we wanted to get to know each other. We wanted to get away from our jobs like It was a no brainer. And I think that our relationship from day one has always been that we want to do things together, and not like shy away from experiences. And we're just both wanting the same thing out of life in so many ways. And so it would have been against our nature to hesitate to do this thing together.   Stacey Simms  35:20 So this was taped in 2018. This is pre COVID. But this is a long time ago. How hard is it been? I mean, I don't know exactly when it wrapped up, or if you know, when it ramped up production. But how hard has it been for you guys to sit on this for all this time? You can't say anything?   Leo Brown  35:35 Yeah, it's been a big secret. And it's been a huge relief to share. We were able to share with close family, initially, MBAs, everything we couldn't share with work, we couldn't share with friends, we couldn't share it, my friend who was house sitting for us. And we have been able to stay in touch with the cast. We're really close with the rest of the cast. The fact that it took so long to air is I think part of that, like we've had a chance to see each other go through stages of life together. A couple of them were at our wedding, everyone else was live streamed into the wedding. So having the cast as sort of a support system through this has been really huge. It's just a Yeah, it's a huge relief to be able to share that. That's unbelievable. And I have to say, just watching the first episode, and I haven't watched the show in a few years. And now I'm back in I'm very excited. Good. But it was a joy. Great season. Well, I'm glad to hear it. But I gotta tell you, it was a joy to see travel. It was exciting to see the world again. escapist is voyeuristic. Yeah, it's, it's what we need right now. Of course, being able to see myself through those things is a trip and feel so great. But also, you know, just being able to see people interacting, like we used to, I'm sure there's going to be some airplane footage. The first episode was notably absent airplane footage, which I think everyone was sort of would you know, that's what you want to see right now is like everyone like squeezing onto a plane. But there will be some of that the carnival in Trinidad. Imagine, you know that today? You want to see that back to the way it was, when it can be. But yeah, I do think it's the perfect show to be airing at this time, unlike Big Brother, where you're locked in a house. And it's kind of the same as you know, you get everyone tested, and then you can be in the house. But the race is obviously the opposite. And we are we're all hoping they'll be able to you know, keep running it again soon. You know,   Stacey Simms  37:39 I I would like to know, and I, again, I've watched the show for 19 years, you know, what's the crew? Like? What's it like traveling with those other people that we never see?   Leo Brown  37:48 Yeah, first of all, the crew is many in number. And they're an integral part of the experience. They are supportive. They're excited to be there. They do incredible physical things with you know, 50 pounds of equipment, trying to keep up with us. We're trying to go as fast as we can. And then they're, you know, jogging alongside us. They haven't a job that is would have been hard to imagine. I mean, now I've kind of seen them do it. But you know, they travel around the world. A lot of them work on other shows. Some of them have been doing the race since the beginning. And now we follow a bunch of them on Instagram, and they all post great photos of their non office jobs. Like to them   Stacey Simms  38:28 you've got the goats, right, and you're running to the mat. Where are they? They're behind you. They're in front of you. They're trying not to get trampled by goats. I mean, it's got to be an incredible skill on their part to   Leo Brown  38:37 Yeah, so also keep in mind that there's equipment like drones that they can deploy. So generally speaking, 90% of the footage, I would think is from a person carrying a gigantic camera, just running around. But if you think about like the water challenges, actually, I think they've had cameras on boats, you know, I probably shouldn't get too into that. You'd probably just do drones. Yeah, sometimes it's   Stacey Simms  39:06 drones. And what's Phil like, Phil is nice. Don't tell me if Phil isn’t nice.   Leo Brown  39:10 No, feels great. Phil is just like he is on the show. Except if anything quicker wittier than you might expect, like none of it's scripted. As far as I know. He's really fun, really warm, and he wants us to do our best. You know, one thing I did want to ask before I let you go, I found you on Twitter because someone in the diabetes community was talking directly to you and saying, Hey, we watched the show. My daughter just got to Jack's calm and saw you with yours on TV and it made our night. You are while of unusual case in the diabetes community. You are in the community now. And I'm curious what that's like for you. When you see people reacting so positively and so excited to see you on the show. I was definitely surprised that people picked up on it right away. You know, I didn't see the Dexcom in the episode. And it's an incredible feeling to have that be an inspiration for people. And I know how I felt when I was first diagnosed with diabetes. And I didn't know what I would be able to do, it took me some time to realize that I wasn't going to get a break from it. And to kind of there's the diagnosis, which was a relief, actually, because then I could do things that I wanted to be doing and thought I could be doing, I just, you know, they told me, I just have to do this and that, and then I can live my life. And then it was probably a couple months later, where it sort of hit me that, you know, I wouldn't be able to go back to the way it was before. And I remember my sister who's a couple years older, she was watching this happen. And I was a freshman in college, I just finished up freshman year of college. And I had to I realized, and especially because I was making such an effort to manage with diet, I realized like, I wouldn't be eating birthday cake, I wouldn't be eating a hot dog button. And the way she saw it was that I had to grow up really fast, because I have a sweet tooth. Like I love candy. And I don't eat cake. I mean, I eat dark, dark chocolate, but I don't eat candy. And oh, what I'm about to go make for myself after this interview is a hot chocolate, which is made of half and half and cocoa powder, no sugar, and I mix it together and I heat it up in a saucepan. And it gets like to be to me indistinguishable from like a chocolate syrup that I want to drink. But it's got no sugar. So I recommend that. Anyhow, I'm on a tangent. It's really exciting to me to be able to hopefully, give people who were in my shoes. I think the person who commented that was her daughter's first couple days with Dexcom. So I remember what that was like. And on one hand being really hopeful that I had a solution for myself. But on the other hand, accepting that, you know, there were real compromises. The solution was not one that I was always going to love. But for the race, those are solutions that helped me run the race. Yeah.   Stacey Simms  42:13 Well, I can't thank you enough for jumping on so quickly for sharing your story. And for being so open about everything. And thanks for hanging through the technical stuff, too. I appreciate.   Leo Brown  42:24 I think we got a lot I got us a Wi Fi upgrade in the course of this interview. So she's she's busy. Behind the Scenes love it.   Stacey Simms  42:32 Yeah, I appreciate you doing that so much. So look, we'll check in. We'll see how it goes. And maybe we'll follow up. But thanks again for spending so much time with me. Okay,   Leo Brown  42:42 thanks a lot, Stacey.   Announcer  42:49 You're listening to Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms.   Stacey Simms  42:55 More information on the foundation that Leo talked about. I will also link up stuff on hyperinsulinism. If you'd like to learn more, all of that at Diabetes connections.com. Click on the episode homepage where there is also a transcription and I'll put a link into the amazing race because they've got some cute behind the scenes videos each week. And oh my gosh, I hope they win. You know as we're taping this, the second episode hasn't even aired yet. So I don't know if they've made it to the third episode. And but you know how this works. You've been with me with other contestants. We've had people from the Titan games and from the baking shows the Food Network kids baking show, American Ninja Warrior, you know, the Christmas light. We've had people from all different reality shows and you never know but it's always great to talk to them and just making it to the show is a pretty incredible achievement way. I hope they went Tell me something good coming up in just a moment. But first diabetes Connections is brought to you by Gvoke Hypo Penn and almost everyone who takes insulin has experienced a low blood sugar and that can be scary. A very low blood sugar is really scary. And that's where GMO hypo pen comes in. It's the first auto injector to treat very low blood sugar Gvoke Hypo Pen is pre mixed and ready to go with no visible needle. That means it's easy to use in usability studies 99% of people were able to give Gvoke correctly. I'm so glad to have something new. Find out more go to Diabetes connections.com and click on the Gvoke logo Gvoke should not be used in patients with pheochromocytoma or insulinoma visit Jeeva glucagon.com slash risk.   Tell me something good. This peak is full of weddings and babies and celebrations. Congratulations to so many people in the community who took a big step this month. Rob Howe got married in early October so congratulations to Rob and to Erica. Rob is the founder of diabetics doing things the host of that podcast and and so much more. It is Rob that he's my Instagram guru, but I'm so bad at Instagram. I once I think I once was it Rob I once called him through Facebook messaging or Instagram messaging, I don't even know. I don't know how I did it. He was so polite. He was so nice. I felt like I was 75 years old. It was, it was not great. But congratulations to rob and Erica, who had a beautiful backyard wedding, you know, as we have to do these days, we wish them many years of health and happiness. Congratulations to Patrick Mertes, who had a baby with his beautiful wife, Patrick is one half of the team that made up 50 and 50. And these two guys who decided to go around the country last year, and climb the highest peak in all 50 states and try to do that in 50 days. And Patrick completed it Michael, his partner had an injury, halfway through and completed it. But later on, they did something else recently called race along the trace, which was three states. And 460 miles, it looks like a bike ride. He called it the last hurrah before fatherhood. So we'll we'll catch up with him and talk about that. But Patrick is also the director of the diabetes camp where my son goes every summer. So we are excited to see how a camp guy tackles fatherhood, I'm sure he's gonna do an amazing job because he's corralled all those kids for all those years. And finally, congratulations to Ken Rodenheiser, who also had a baby in October. He's a pediatric CDE in Philadelphia, and I think it's at the hospital where he himself was diagnosed years ago. But he has been a very big part of the children with diabetes organization and the friends for life conference. I believe he leads the tween program there, Ken and I have gone back and forth for years about getting him on the show. And we will work it out very soon. But I just wanted to highlight him in this segment and say congratulations to him and his wife and their babies name is Elliot, this adorable little girl. And I just realized as I'm reading this, I didn't put two and two together. But my next Tell me something good is also an Elliott. But this is Elliott Fry. He is the former kicker and all time leading scorer for the University of South Carolina, he lives with type one. And earlier this month, he kicked his first field goal in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons in the Carolinas. Elliott is very well known for working with kids for being really out front with JDRF. And just being you know, out there as a great role model and example of somebody who plays sports and plays them at the highest level with type one. So it was really exciting to see him get that very first field goal in the NFL. And that's Tell me something good. Do you have something for me send it my way, Stacey at Diabetes connections.com. You can also post in the Facebook group, you don't have to have a baby or get married. It can be as easy as your son or daughter did their first sight change, without crying and running away oh my goodness, that used to be such an ordeal with Benny, anything that feels momentous anything you want to celebrate with the diabetes community, I would really love to know about you can go ahead and tell me something good.   It's hard to believe that it's going to be November in a couple of days. And I know we're all stressed out about the election and the possible aftermath. But it's also diabetes Awareness Month. And I don't know how that's gonna get any play this year with everything else that's going on in the world. But I'm gonna try and I always say diabetes Awareness Month is for the non diabetes community. I mean, we're aware every day of the year, this is our chance to educate. So I have a few things in mind to try to get the word out in other media. And I won't be talking so much about that here. But I'll share if anything exciting happens. But I am going to be doing two different things. If you're on Instagram, I will be having a contest I'm probably gonna start that the second week of November because I want to get past this election to that's just going to be a fun giveaway, to celebrate each other to be part of diabetes awareness. It's going to be fun and easy. I have some great companies lined up already that want to donate stuff and give it to you. I mean, you work hard all year round. Let's celebrate a little bit. And we have a big episode milestone, the numbers I'm so excited to share this with you. The second one is going to be on Facebook only. So we're going to have an Instagram only and a Facebook only. And the Facebook is going to be a little bit more work on your part. But the prize is going to be bigger, that one's going to be a cash prize. So I will keep you posted. The best way to keep track is to be in the Facebook group. Or to subscribe to the newsletter. If you're not already subscribed to go to Diabetes connections.com the cute little please sign up should pop up. But if it doesn't just scroll all the way to the bottom and you can sign up for the newsletter right there. So two contests coming up. I want to make it easy for you. I think it's gonna be fun. We just need a little brightness around here. And I hope I can provide some of that. All right thank you to my editor John Bukenas from audio editing solutions. thank you as always for listening. I'm Stacey Simms. I'll see you back here next week. Until then, be kind to yourself.   Benny  49:46 Diabetes Connections is a production of Stacey Simms Media. All rights reserved. All wrongs avenged

This week Ask the D-Moms is back, answering a very different kind of question. How do you know what diabetes news is reliable? Moira McCarthy and Stacey both have backgrounds in professional news media. We’ll talk about medical studies, news sources and, community & social media info. Check out Stacey's book: The World's Worst Diabetes Mom! In Tell Me Something Good what do prescription swim goggles have to do with diabetes? Nothing really, but it ties into a new realty tv contest where we spotted a Dexcom. This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider. Join the Diabetes Connections Facebook Group! Sign up for our newsletter here ----- Use this link to get one free download and one free month of Audible, available to Diabetes Connections listeners! ----- Get the App and listen to Diabetes Connections wherever you go! Click here for iPhone      Click here for Android Episode Transcription: Stacey Simms  0:00 Diabetes Connections is brought to you by One Drop created for people with diabetes by people who have diabetes by Gvokek Hypo Pen the first premixed auto injector for very low blood sugar, and by Dexcom, take control of your diabetes and live life to the fullest with Dexcom.   Announcer  0:22 This is Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms.   Stacey Simms  0:27 This week, ask the D moms is back answering a very different kind of question. How do you know what diabetes news is reliable? Moira McCarthy and I both have backgrounds in professional news media. We'll talk about news sources, medical studies. And as Moira touches on here, community info.   Moira McCarthy  0:47 When you're delving into that kind of anecdotal sharing, everyone is right, and everyone is wrong. Some things speak to some people and some things speak to others   Stacey Simms  0:59 in Tell me something good. What do prescription swim goggles have to do with diabetes? Nothing really. But it's all about a reality TV contestant you're gonna want to follow. This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider.   Welcome to another week of the show. I am so glad to have you along. I am excited about this episode I love every week, of course, this one where more and I get to break down from our personal experience, what we think of what's going on news business, how you can better use information. This is right in my wheelhouse. And it's one of the reasons why way back when I started this podcast, hey, if you're new welcome. We aim to educate and inspire about type 1 diabetes by sharing stories of connection. My son was diagnosed with type one, almost 14 years ago. And it was really almost six years ago that I decided to start the podcast and did a lot of research. And it really took me until almost a year later to get it going. We started in June of 2015. But what brought me to start the show was that I listened to a lot of podcasts. I've listened to podcasts since I don't know 2005 2008 way back when when you had to actually plug your iPod into your computer and download the shows. And if you don't know that's where podcast comes from the actual iPod was the only device you could do it on way back when and I'm sure somebody with Android will correct me and it was all about mp3. But you know what I mean? That's where the word comes from. But I would walk my dog and drive in my car and listen to shows with people who had incredible personal stories about diabetes. There were so many really good personal experience shows people talking about their diagnoses, just talking about day to day some technology stuff, but nothing that was a conversation that was from more of an informational standpoint. You know, it was basically nobody was asking the questions that I wanted to ask personally. And the great thing about podcasting is, if you don't hear what you want to hear, if you notice something is missing in the niche, or the community, you can jump in and start your own show, which is what I did. Of course along the way, I give you a little bit of personal information. Although the show is definitely not all about my family. I have been mentioning lately that we were supposed to go see Benny's endocrinologist and we went in the beginning of October, then he had his lowest A1C ever, which is of course fabulous news. If you are new to the show, we started the control IQ system from Tandem in January. And we have watched him spend more time and range with less work all year long. It's really been amazing to see I give him a ton of credit. Of course, he still has to do a lot of hard work that goes along with it. He is far from perfect. God forbid I say nice things about Benny. But really, he's doing great, but it's still really is a lot of work. And you know, you have to wear all the devices. So I give him a lot of credit. I give all of you live with this an awful lot of credit, you know that. But boy, it's amazing to see that time and range go up, and the actual bolusing and the nagging for me down. It's been phenomenal. He also grew a little bit more, which makes him very excited because he is afraid he is done growing. Of course, he's been taller than me for a while now. We also talked with the endo about insulin. And if you've been following on social media, or if you're in the Facebook group, you've seen me talking a little bit about this switchover, my insurance has us going from Humalog to Novolog. And I'm going to talk about that at a different episode. I did hint about that in the bonus episode I put out last week and I'm not trying to be cagey. But I want to give you the total context. There's a lot going on with this. And I want to make sure I get everything right and get all the ducks in a row before I tell you the whole story, which is a good segue into news and to sharing a good and accurate picture. So I promise more to come on our insulin front as soon as it all wraps up, fingers crossed. All right. So with everything that's going on these days, I thought a show about news and information how to know whether your source is reliable. are worth listening to her, okay to ignore would be very timely. We're really only talking about diabetes news here. But that's almost more difficult because it's one of the few conditions that you can think of where we rely so much on community support and information from each other. Because we get so little time with health care professionals and diabetes is 24. Seven. And while so much of that peer to peer and community support is wonderful and helpful and is supportive, a lot of it is inaccurate or outdated, or it doesn't apply to you, or it is actually harmful. So we're going to talk about it. Of course here to join me on Ask the D moms, as always is Moira McCarthy, a fellow diabetes mom, of course, and a fellow news professional, if you are new, we will also tell you about our backgrounds and why the news media, which everybody hates right now is so important to us. But first of Diabetes Connections is brought to you by One Drop, and it is so nice to find a diabetes product that not only does what you need, but also fits in perfectly with your life. One Drop is that it is the slickest looking and most modern meter My family has ever used. And it's not just about their modern meter setup. You can also send your readings to the mobile app automatically and review your data anytime, instantly share blood glucose reports with your healthcare team. It also works with your Dexcom Fitbit or your Apple Watch. Not to mention, they're awesome test strips subscription plans, pick as many test strips as you need, and they'll deliver them to your door when dropped diabetes care delivered. learn more, go to Diabetes connections.com and click on the One Drop logo.   Hey, Moira, it's always great to talk to you. How are you doing?   Moira McCarthy  6:39 I'm doing pretty well. It's always good to hear your voice how's things down in the warmer part of America, I am looking out at the beginning of foliage. And all day here in Massachusetts. I always   Stacey Simms  6:50 laugh because I am in Charlotte, North Carolina. Growing up in the New York area. I grew up just outside of New York City and spent a lot of time upstate New York. It's so funny here because there is beautiful foliage in places. But the season is so different. The first year we had kids and I wanted to go apple picking. I was all set in October. I was like cuz I spent you know, my childhood, going apple picking in October and the crunchy leaves and the crunchy apples. And they were like no, no, you have to go apple picking in August.   Moira McCarthy  7:16 Oh my gosh, that makes sense. Like that.   Stacey Simms  7:21 It is but it's gross. wants to sweat while you're picking apples. Yeah, no, no. But I'm glad New England must be beautiful.   Unknown Speaker  7:29 And as it's my   Moira McCarthy  7:32 favorite season, it's one of my favorite seasons I enjoy.   Stacey Simms  7:37 All right, so interesting topic this week. And we're gonna stick on one question pretty much the whole time here on the D mom's. And that's about news information, how we know kind of who to trust in this community? How do you know what information to trust? And before I ask the actual question, I think it's important to back up and kind of talk about our experience, because I think it's one of the reasons why we're friends. Moira, and I have an awful lot in common, including working in the news business more, take me through your your experience. But I mean, all kidding aside, you've been a journalist for many years.   Moira McCarthy  8:10 So it's funny you asked because I was visiting the Newseum, which was a wonderful Museum in Washington, DC that just closed down about the news industry. They have a whole of technology, like all the technology from the beginning of time, and I said somebody's daughter, oh my gosh, I'm so old. And I've been a journalist for so long that I've used three quarters of the hall of technology. But I am, you know, I just want to start with that. I think it's if it's okay, I think it's really good to kind of stick up for my profession right now. Because it's been a rough couple of years, I guess. Now I know what it's like to be a lawyer. You know, I've run you always say the lawyers were all liars. But um, journalism for people like me, is a vocation. It's what I always wanted to do. And when I went to college, I didn't just learn how to write, we learn how to it's called the canons of journalism. And we actually learned how to be responsible with our information and with our sources and everything else. And it's something that I carry with pride. And I just want people to know that when you're dealing with true journalists, people who work in the field and we're trained in it, you really are dealing with people who are trying their best to give you you know, the truth. And in fact, so that's, that's just my little stick up for journalism thing, but I am, I was the editor of a group of 23 newspapers when I was about 21 years old. I went on to be a full time crime reporter and bureau chief for a daily newspaper for about 11 years. And then I went to work for the New York Times doing adventure travel, which I did for a good long time. And now I am the travel editor of a newspaper in Boston called the Boston Herald and I also do their ski section and it can be contributing editor and writer at ski magazine. But my new exciting thing is for about a year and a half now, I've been writing as a medical journalist for helpline media. So that's where my background is with a lot of other things in between. Yeah, tell us yours   Stacey Simms  10:14 Sure. And I will also stand up for my profession, by adding by adding that journalism is the only profession singled out in our country's constitution. It is an incredibly important part of our government, and country function. And my personal feeling, and you know, you can disagree with me on this, as you listen to more as well, is that most people who are angry at journalism are angry at talking heads and opinion pieces. And the line has just blurred because of 24, seven cable, and lots of other things and talk radio. It's just become a real mess, in terms of the definition of journalism is, is my feeling on that. But I yeah, and I'm with you. I mean, when I was in college, we took communications law, we took lots and lots of classes on this. And I had some incredible news directors during my career. So I was a radio reporter. In college, I say I was the world's worst radio reporter. And I really was terrible, because they hired me, but didn't tell me how to do anything. So I drove around Central New York looking for stories. I mean, I was terrible. But I made it and I learned a lot. Then I spent 10 years in TV news and local TV news in upstate New York, and in Charlotte, North Carolina, where I am now. And then I spent 10 years doing news. And this was a really interesting job. I did a morning news show for a conservative talk radio station. So there was a firewall, you know, between the the news department and the talk part of the radio station. But as I said earlier, you know, I don't think a lot of people make those distinctions as they listen. And so it was a very interesting place to be. Let's put it that way. And then of course, for the last five years, I've done the podcast, which I've really tried to instill with those, you know, journalism, ethics and disclosures and all that stuff. So that's our background, which is why I thought this is a perfect topic for ask the D moms. I don't know where this discussion is going to go. I'm excited to hear what you have to say Moira, I'm so excited to see or, you know, find out what listeners think. So let's jump in. This was a question. I'm not going to read this person's name because I pulled it out of a Facebook group. But I think it's a fabulous question. This person says, My 12 year old was diagnosed last week, we are absolutely new to the world of T1D and my brain is seriously about to explode. I have no idea who to trust for information. Who do you trust? Any tips on how to navigate the flood of information out there? I've only been at this a few days. It seems like everything's a contradiction. Go low carb, don't go low carb. read this book. No, don't read this article. Read this instead. And she goes on and on about all of the contradictions in the community and I'll get to more of them. You know, CGM changed our lives CGM is too much hassle. Technology is great technology is terrible, he can do anything he is about to die. I mean, she really lays it out. All the things that you and I have kind of talked about for years. So I want to tackle this in a couple of ways. I want to tackle this in terms of reporting in the diabetes community and studies. And I want to tackle what people just say, right community advice. So let's start with the information. And I I'm glad you brought up Healthline, because you may know more about when this started. But Healthline has this really fantastic thing that where they put on the article, not just the author of the article, the journalists behind it, but they see fact   Unknown Speaker  13:38 checked by?   Stacey Simms  13:40 Yeah, so somebody goes through all your stories,   Moira McCarthy  13:43 right, and and what people probably don't know is that that has been the case, every single place, I've worked for the 40 years that I've been a journalist and help one, I'm guessing, I probably should ask my boss for this, I'm guessing made the decision to highlight the fact checkers, for the readers peace of mind so that you can see there's a fact checker there. And then second, because they're becoming more and more important in this weird time and how journalism is evolving into, as you said, a little bit of a confusing thing. So I think that's why they put it right out there. But I have always worked for quality publications, and every single thing I've ever written has always been edited, in fact checked. And I think that that's an important distinction for people to understand. And I can talk a little bit about how you can figure that out. Because one of the things you know, as a journalist and you'll agree with me, Stacey is everything ever written needs at least a second pair of eyes on it before it's published at least a second pair of eyes No matter how good you are as a journalist, you get fact checked and looked over by someone before it runs if you're Woodward and Bernstein you do and if you're me, you do now I think the blur comes a little bit in that blogs and ziens and other online things that may just be done by one person look the same on the internet, as the New York Times does or as the Hoboken journal does, whatever it is that you read, do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, it's a great point. It's a grand. So I'm not saying that people who write those kind of things aren't smart and and don't know, but that's actually not a full journalism, experience, for lack of a better word. And what I usually say to people is, when you're reading things, first of all, figure out what the sources you know, if if the name of the quote unquote publication, when you look at it online is like, I am smarter than you.com. It's probably not a really great source. But if you start to read something, and you feel like you'd like their boys, then that's a reason to read it. But understand that you're not dealing with full on journalism set up in the classic way back. Does that make sense?   Stacey Simms  16:19 Right back to my discussion with Moira. But first Diabetes Connections is brought to you by Gvoke Hypo Pen.  almost everyone who takes insulin has experienced a low blood sugar and that can be scary. A very low blood sugar is really scary. And that's where Gvoke Hypo Pen comes in.Gvoke is the first auto injector to treat very low blood sugar Gvoke Hypo Pen is pre mixed and ready to go with no visible needle. That means it's easy to use how easy you pull off the red cap and push the yellow end onto bare skin and hold it for five seconds. That's it. Find out more go to Diabetes connections.com and click on the Gvoke logo. Gvoke shouldn't be used in patients with pheochromocytoma or insulinoma visit Gvoke glucagon comm slash risk. Now back to Moira and me interesting timing. Following this endorsement, we move to talking about disclosures and commercials. But she left off asking me for last point about looking for clues in something as simple as a blog name made sense.   I think it does. I think it's great advice. It's also helpful when you're reading a blog or you're reading a personal new non-medical testimonial, something like that, that you also ask yourself the question. Are there disclosures on this website? In other words, if this is a blogger or a podcaster, you who are they sponsored by? And are they disclosing those sponsors? In other words, who is paying them? Just because this is a good example of this show, we take sponsorship and I talk about this all the time, whenever we have somebody on the show who is one of the sponsors, I disclose it again, and I talk about how Look, they're not paying for the content, they don't tell me what to ask, they're paying for the commercial, that sort of thing. But you know, as you listen to that that is happening. And so if you're on a blog, or you're on a podcast, and they're not disclosing who the sponsors are, that's a red flag, it's also really important in our community to kind of know what the person is using device wise. Because while that doesn't mean doesn't make them biased, it doesn't make them their information incorrect or wrong. It does influence how we live with type one, we all have our little fandoms. And I think it's really important to acknowledge that. So if you're hearing or reading some information, it's okay to question   Moira McCarthy  18:35 it is but to go backwards as a journalist, when I write for someone like helpline, or if I was, you know, when I write for a newspaper, whatever, that should matter, not one bit. In other words in in these things like podcasts and blogs and, and other things that are sort of, you know, it's a new world in a different way than then that does. But my job as a journalist, when I write for classic journalistic publications, is to not bring what my opinions are to the final product.   Stacey Simms  19:09 Absolutely. And that's, you know, we've already talked about blurring the lines here, when I'm speaking about disclosures, all that, look, if you're a journalist writing for health line writing for a magazine writing for newspaper, you shouldn't disclose your sponsors, because you shouldn't have any, Moira McCarthy I don't have any Stacey Simms right. You know, to be clear, we were kind of talking about two different types of writing there. And that does make it confusing. Let's talk about reading studies. Because I think most people after they're in the diabetes community for a month, know to look past the headlines.   Moira McCarthy  19:42 Yeah. And even some of the studies I remember years ago, I don't remember what study there was that I don't even know if there was email, maybe email was new back then, and I emailed it to the Lauren's endocrinologist, and he called me up and he said, just so you know. person can create a study to prove and be successful that women who drive in red convertibles, when they're teenagers, at least once are more apt to have a child with diabetes. In other words, you can take anything and link it to something else and sort of prove it. So so what I always say to people and, and we maybe will talk to you about how you react when friends send you all those headlines that are not really true, because you sound like such an over when actually you are. So first of all, forget the headlines, read, read what it is. And then if you're reading a story about a study, you can almost always get your hands quite easily in the internet on the actual study, and read the actual study so that that's what I usually suggest. And anything that says, you know, cure diabetes in mice, my old story is when Lauren was very little, the movie, Stuart Little came out, and they gave all the money to JDRF the first night. So we went to a movie theater, opening to see it. And on the way home, my little daughter said, Oh, Mommy, I understand why Stuart Little wants to help diabetes, because he can be cured. He's a mouse.   Unknown Speaker  21:13 So So what I'm saying is,   Moira McCarthy  21:17 is read carefully and dig into it. And and my advice when friends send you articles about studies is just thank them. Like, you know, just say thank you so much. It's so interesting. And if they push further and say, why aren't you going to get back here? Then you can explain more. But I guess so I guess my advice on reading studies is actually read the studies, or at least the summary of the study,   Stacey Simms  21:40 get exactly the first thing I do. It's funny about Stewart little, the first thing I do, and I just saw study yesterday, but some like electromagnetic field, these researchers were so funny that the headline was like, we built a remote control to cure diabetes. And they were I'm laughing that they were funny. They were very young, which is what made me smile. So I think there was a college study or something. But I clicked on it to read more. And the first thing I did was scroll down. And of course it was in mice. And you know, nothing was proven. It was all correlation, not causation. And it was very interesting. But it wasn't, it didn't prove anything. And they may move into human trials someday. So what I also talk about a lot is, and I've learned this over the years, which I find kind of disappointing, but also it's good to live in the real world, is to realize that, especially with a lot of companies, the marketing department can get ahead of itself can get ahead of the rest of the company. Yes. So sometimes they'll say something and make a big splash. And you know, a great example of this, and I'm so sad is Animas Corporation, that I loved Animas Corporation, part Johnson and Johnson, they made this wonderful insulin pump that my son used for 10 years. For years, they were talking about their hybrid closed loop, they seem to be ahead of everybody. And they were getting these incredible studies out of Europe. And it really looked terrific. And then of course, Johnson and Johnson closed up the whole company. And it never as far as I know, it never even got to trials in this country. So that was a lesson for me, unfortunately, in I mean, get excited, get optimistic, you know, let go, obviously great things are happening. But be careful about letting marketing get ahead of what's actually happening. And so when we're reading articles, we're reading studies, like you said, actually read the study is probably a really good way to go. And a good thing to point out too is I don't know about your experience. I have never written my own headline for anything. You never get to write your own headline,   Moira McCarthy  23:32 right? Oh, no. And and Healthline actually has a team that writes the headlines. Yeah. Like, that's their job. And I did you know, when I was an editor of a newspaper, I was, you know, oversaw the headline writers and everything, but I know, I don't write my own headline. Um, you know, I was just thinking to that this is kind of a good conversation to have right now. Because one of the reasons, you know, beyond being a medical journalist and covering it, but one of the reasons that I've been able to follow the vaccination news, with, with confidence, and what I understand and what I know I shouldn't care about is my experience all these years and reading studies and reacting to things that I hear about diabetes. So it's a good time for people to know how to dig deeper when they see a headline.   Stacey Simms  24:16 And you mean the COVID vaccine. Moira McCarthy I do. Yeah. Stacey Simms This is a time when we need good health news.   Moira McCarthy  24:24 No, no, maybe that'll be one of the silver linings, people should know how to at least basically understand medical research of all different kinds. So understanding how to read about it. That may be a good thing that comes out of this. That's a really good point. Then, of course, there's the whole world of information that newly diagnosed families like this person whose question you read are thrown into now. And I want to tell you that my first advice when people Reach out to me, you know, connect me to a friend whose child was diagnosed her car is do not go on the internet for a while other than basics. And that's because it must come at you like this woman described like you're almost being assaulted with all these different things that completely conflict with each other. And I think that in the beginning, one of the reasons that I was able to build somewhat of a confident foundation for my family after my daughter was diagnosed 23 years ago, is that there was no internet. And so I read books, you know, Merck medical journal, and the Pink Panther book and things like that. But most of my information came from the most reliable source you can have. And that's a qualified medical team. And so before we talk a little more about, you know, how you figure out what's right, and what's wrong with people, I just want to say that it has to be incredibly difficult. And I actually strongly believe that that environment is one of the reasons that studies are now showing that parents are more concerned and more afraid than they were 20 years ago, I think it's the the overflow of information coming from every direction.   Stacey Simms  26:17 I agree. Oh, absolutely. It's, it's like, it's always like drinking from a firehose, when you learn about type one. But it has become, you know, like trying to drink the ocean. Because it's not just information from the medical community, it's, I'm going to put this in quotes. It's, quote, information, and judgmental advice from the community. What I tell people is, same thing as you try to stay off the internet, try to join a local group. Interestingly, this question was posted in one of the largest diabetes Facebook groups that I am in, and it is full of people at different stages and ages. And it's type one, kids and type Well, it's type one parents, you know, and adults with type one, it's just it's an enormous group. But it's funny when you mentioned staying off the internet for a little while, you know, I have an I promise, this is not a book promo. But with the world's worst diabetes Mom, I have a program called the book to clinic program, where I'm able to give pediatric endocrinologist to read the book and are okay with the worst, you know, the world's worst moniker, they can give it to families for free. And we've decided that it's probably not a great idea to give this to newly diagnosed families and to wait until at least three if not six months, in, not because the information is too complicated to comprehend. But because they're getting enough, they need to focus on insulin dosing, and checking blood sugar and getting routines in place. And then they can branch out more information and these other things that just come at them. I mean, we have a program here in Charlotte, where they put technology on these kids in the hospital. And I know everybody loves that. But then you come into my local Facebook group, and everybody doesn't love it, they are overwhelmed. And so   Moira McCarthy  28:02 another time, exactly. I was going to interrupt you when you're talking about your book and say, I want to suggest that you not give them to the give them out till three or six months after diagnosis, and you already are. So here's what I think. I think that when you're delving into that kind of anecdotal, sharing, everyone is right, and everyone is wrong. Because some things speak to some people and some things speak to others. And so my advice is, if you read something online, that makes you feel uncomfortable, or makes you feel judged, or makes you feel like you're doing it wrong, share exactly what you read with your medical team. Like say, I just want to run this by you when and and let's say it says I don't know I'm gonna make something up so that no one's offended by it. Let's say it says, You absolutely have to keep a pink bow on top of a helmet every day or your blood sugar is never going to be stable. So then you call your endo your CDE. Or you send them a note you say, Hey, I just sometime the spine because we don't have a pink bow on a helmet on our son. So can you let me know if this is true? And then they will say, either? Yes. I can't believe we haven't shared this with you. You need to do it or Now's not the time or pay no attention to this. Find the medical team you trust and let that be your true north   Stacey Simms  29:31 Yeah, right. Oh, without a doubt and I love love love that every everyone is right and everyone is wrong. Yeah, that I may have to put that on a bumper sticker to be able to offer stickers. Yes, it   Moira McCarthy  29:43 applies to much more than diabetes right now, doesn't it? But but so so what the way that I was already far into diabetes by the time Facebook and the internet existed, but I have a group of friends that I've made through that. And what I found was, you just sort of noticed these people That kind of fit in harmony with you, you know, and then you're like, Oh, I think I'll message them and see if we should be Facebook's Facebook friends. And then you figure out, you know, most of my, I have a diverse group of friends, but most of my very close diabetes mom, friends and adults with diabetes, subscribe to the same philosophy that I subscribed. And so I'm nada. Had my daughter on low carb through her childhood person. I don't have any problem with those people, they can do their own thing, but it wouldn't be someone who was really into that I'd probably be like, yeah, that might not be a good fit, just because, you know, yeah. And of course, you might like someone and they're funny and nice. You just disagree with their diabetes care, that's fine, too. But I guess what I'm saying is, don't take it all. So seriously, it is just boats shoot the breeze. It's anecdotal. You don't know there's this old New Yorker cartoon I love we should try to find it or in we should put it on my page. It's two dogs, and one of the dogs is on Facebook. And he's saying that the other dog The great thing about Facebook is no one knows your dog. And and what that means is you don't you don't know what's real, and what the whole story is behind that. For me, it was always everyone was always doing perfectly with their teenager except me. And he come to find out when you dig down that that's not really true. Most people struggle a little bit most years or don't do it some other time. And so, if I had, if I had Facebook back then which they didn't, and my daughter was struggling and I had gone on and all these people were just saying, you know, take her to take her to a dialysis center and show it to her, she'll, she'll change I might have bought into some of that, when it might not be what's best for my child. So again, my best advice with for anecdotal advice is they're all right, they're all wrong. Talk to your endocrinology team about what's right and wrong for your child or for your family.   Stacey Simms  32:06 I absolutely agree with that. And I always say, you know, we all parent in our own way. So we're going to parent with diabetes in our own way. There's only a couple rules, you know, put insulin in and know where your blood sugar is. Everything else is fair game. So if you you know, if you want to do a sleep over, and your friend on Facebook says that's the worst thing you could possibly do. It's okay to disagree. I think what happens sometimes, though, is people will post with such conviction, and such surety in their method that it comes across, like an information source. And I this might get uncomfortable, you're much nicer than I am with the pink bow on the helmet. I don't mind getting a little specific. I'll talk I'll put some examples out, you know, when I when I do Diabetes Connections here on the podcast, if you're a longtime listener, you know, we have talked to people who manage diabetes in so many different ways, super low carb, you know, keto super athletes, super laid back. You know, we've had a lot of people on the show, and I try, you know, when I'm editorializing or sharing my experience, I really try to give a platform I mean, I'm not gonna put anybody out who's not safe. But or you know, who's i think is not reputable. But we do give a platform here for many different types of management. And I'll give the example because I know they can take it the Mastering Diabetes guys, these are the guys, Moira I don’t know if you’re familiar with them, they have a book, they’re very popular. You see them they're holding like giant baskets of fruit. I'm not going to explain it well. But you can go back and listen to the episode or read their book, their whole thing is, if you eat tons of calories that come from fruit, tons of carbs that come from fruit, your insulin sensitivity will go down and you'll be able to eat enormous amount of food as long as you eat this type of food. And you can hear in the interview, I am having none of this, I can't imagine a more miserable way of living. It would never work for me. There are people who love it, who are happy with it and are thriving on it. So that's a bit of information in a way of living that I would suggest you as you listen, dismiss or embrace like Moira said, everybody's right. Everybody's wrong. That may work for some people. It doesn't mean it is factually the thing to do. And I think that's what makes me crazy about this well meaning community, you may be great. At 85 you may be great setting your Dexcom alarm for your kid at 120 I can't think of a better way to ruin my relationship with my son. It would never work for me. I have friends who text their kids six times a day and they say they have a great relationship with their kid. Mazel Tov wonderful, never would work for us in a million years. That's the kind of stuff I'm talking about is contradiction. Well, because if it works for them, why wouldn't it work for us? Because it doesn't.   Moira McCarthy  34:54 So So advice that pops into my head is if someone says something to you on line like, you're harming your child, if you're not doing it this way, or I love my child enough to make this effort, maybe you don't, or ever, your child's going to have complications, I would shut that person down immediately. Because that's not a rational way to look at the diabetes sphere in general, because we are all so unique. And one of the things we know about diabetes is it's very individualized. It's one of the big challenges for it. So if someone if someone is writing something, or sharing something online with you, and they tell you that if you don't do it their way, you know, there's trouble, I would dismiss them immediately as as not a good source. Other than like, you know, I don't know, don't club baby seals, and don't, don't tie your children to the bumper and drive them full speed. I'm talking about semi reasonable things. Of course, it makes me sad when I see certain groups who believe certain things, being aggressive about it, because I'm sure that it comes from the right place, and they feel like they found an answer. But they, they've only found an answer in this moment for themselves. They haven't found an answer for everyone in the world. They haven't even found the answer themselves forever. They don't know what's coming down the road. I'll share a funny story too, when you say about the other parent saying their kids are fine with it. When my daughter was a teenager, I said to her CDE one day, can you please tell me why every other 14 year old on earth with diabetes, A1C is like 6.9. And my daughter's isn't, and I'm struggling and no one else's. And the CDE said, because the rest of them are all lying. I know because I treat them. I can't tell you details, but trust me that they're not sharing. And you know what? That's not all wrong. It's not It's not that bad to put a rosy picture out for the world. But don't push it into advice and and be aware of that, too. Like, if someone tells you everything's perfect all the time, I would just be like, yeah, good for you, and then maybe cross them off your list. You know, because I don't know of a person who raised her child with diabetes, or who's had diabetes who does not have bumps in the road?   Stacey Simms  37:22 I can’t  believe you would say that to my face.   Moira McCarthy  37:27 You the world's best diabetes mom, everybody else has problems with that just because you love anymore. If my daughter, she wouldn't have like spikes, post meals or have done phenomenon, right? You're   Stacey Simms  37:41 just gonna try harder. I would also add, and I do this, and I really have to stop because I'm on my phone way too much. You know, this this year, especially has just been difficult for people who enjoy information. But But I post all the time in diabetes groups, when I see something and in my group as well. Interesting, what's the source? You know? Or what? Where did you read that? Where did you find that out? And if they don't have one, then you know what, you can ignore it. You don't have to internalize it, you don't have to act on it. If someone posts something that just seems weird or off base or brand new, unless there's a source of study a medical professional behind it. Um, you know, I wouldn't recommend you fight. I mean, let's not get crazy. It's okay to walk away. It's not a real conversation. You know, you can you can say No, thank you. But I always ask for sources. And I've learned a lot from people posting the sources. I didn't realize that or people posting the source and saying, No, but you know, that that blogger was discredited A long time ago. So just, it's okay to ask for that. I think it's also a really good way to get more information.   Moira McCarthy  38:53 Yeah. It's also okay, that, lets say not just anecdotal, chatting back and forth. But if you read a blog, or you listen to a podcast that's giving medical advice, I think that it's perfectly fine to reach out to them and ask them what their medical background is. And if they don't have a medical background, then you really shouldn't take medical advice from I know, you know, hey, I want to just wrap back to the beginning because I just had an email come in, sorry, but while we're chatting, I'm I'm on a deadline. And it's from my boss said helpline, and it says, Hey, more your important formative story on Blank is on the site. Now, on advice of your fact checker, I took out the paragraph on the notion that blank blank while you did show us a study or two there are conflicting research on those points. It looks great without it so don't worry about it. So I think that shows that when you when that people should trust real news sources, that's what happens. You know, I researched I found studies but they researched a little further and found a Couple conflicting ones. Since we want to go with the story, we'll take out the studies that I did that I've got a good illustration, right?   Stacey Simms  40:07 I do. That's great. Thank you for sharing that. That's fantastic. Just came in. Oh, hot off the presses.   Unknown Speaker  40:15 Um, so Stacey, where are you traveling to to speak, he's coming   Unknown Speaker  40:21 out of the family room, I'm in the living room. Now, my   Stacey Simms  40:25 family will say, Oh, my gosh, I never took all the stuff off my calendar. So I was supposed to be all these places, you know, this month in the next couple of weeks that I'm like, gosh, I gotta take this off my calendar because it's   Unknown Speaker  40:38 Oh,   Unknown Speaker  40:40 so I'm like, stop it. I'm not going there. But I did   Stacey Simms  40:43 go, Benny. And I went to the endocrinologist this morning. So actually put on real pants.   Benny  40:50 And they said and makeup.   Stacey Simms  40:52 Yeah, it was very funny. It was very funny makeup. I know. I know. I didn't mean but who puts lipstick on anywhere where he's wearing masks? No, it was great. It was great. And I did, I did get to ask our endo. I always have a list of questions even after all this time. And it's so great to have him as a resource. You know, to answer the questions. I mean, I know we're harping on it this whole time. But really, as you listen, and I think, you know, podcast listeners, you're We know you're smart. You're looking for information. share this with your friends, post this in Facebook groups where people are concerned about the information they're getting teach people, let's help each other be smarter. And fact check stuff about diabetes, because then there's so many we already we deal with it for people outside the community, we want to talk about okra and cinnamon. Right? We don't need to deal with nonsense within the community. We just want to help each other.   Moira McCarthy  41:41 Right. And and like I said in the beginning, I think this is a good time for us to talk about this because we all need going forward to know how to understand what is news, what is opinion, if you read a headline, how to dig down in it that, like you said so eloquently at the beginning. I mean, journalism is a pillar of American democracy. And I know it sounds all Whoa. But it really is true and, and weak. We journalists care about what we do. And we want people to be able to trust what they read. But unfortunately, the way the world is now that means the reader has to do a little more work.   Stacey Simms  42:21 Moira, thank you so much. As always enjoy your trip to the living room. Be careful. You know,   Moira McCarthy  42:25 I will I'll send you a postcard   Stacey Simms  42:27 navigate the traffic. And we'll talk again soon.   Unknown Speaker  42:31 All right, talk to you soon.   Announcer  42:38 You're listening to Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms.   Stacey Simms  42:44 How would you have answered that question from that Facebook group? What are your sources? What are your go to sources of information? I'm going to put that question in the Facebook group this week, because maybe we'll learn some new great ones. Maybe we'll learn about some pitfalls. I'm curious where you get your reliable information. And if there are people in the community as well, that we should be looking at that we haven't found so far. And if you have a question for ask the D mom's just a regular diabetes question, feel free to shoot me an email Stacey at Diabetes connections.com Moira, and I'd love to catch up with each other these quote unquote interviews usually go for about half an hour longer than what you hear because we spend the time catching up as well. It's amazing, isn't it? How many of us makes such good friends because of stupid diabetes? It's the only good thing that comes out of this condition. Hey, tell me something good is coming up in just a moment. We're going to talk about the amazing race. One of my favorite shows the Diabetes Connections is brought to you by Dexcom. And when Benny was very little and in the bathtub or at the pool, I always noticed his fingertips. I mean, you know what I mean? Right? They were poked so much. They were just full of little pinprick holes that you could really see when they got wet. He's 15. I don't see his hands much anymore. But at the end, oh, earlier this month, they always check his fingertips and it's amazing. We've been using Dexcom for almost seven years, and Benny's fingers look completely normal that I cannot believe it is such a visualization. I wish I'd taken a picture seven years ago. But you know the latest generation, the Dexcom G6 eliminates finger sticks for calibration and diabetes treatment decisions. Just thinking about doing 10 finger sticks a day in the past makes me so glad that Dexcom has helped us come so far. It's an incredible tool. If your glucose alerts and readings from the G6 do not match symptoms or expectations. Use a glucose meter to make diabetes treatment decisions. Learn more go to Diabetes connections.com and click on the Dexcom logo.   In Tell me something good this week. If you are not already a fan of The Amazing Race, I think you're going to be quite soon. Now a couple of years ago I think it was 10 years ago a couple like it was yesterday. Nat Strand Dr. Nat strand won The Amazing Race. We've had her on the show before I've talked about this because the media Race is one of my favorite shows. I started watching it when I was pregnant with my daughter, Lea, who is going to be 19. A couple of weeks. I've been watching the show for a long time. I actually haven't seen it in a couple of years. But I just last week said, I gotta start watching again. Maybe I'll start from the beginning. I don't know if I want to do that, or where am I going to jump in? But I got my answer, because this season of The Amazing Race features somebody with diabetes. I was watching the promo. And you can see this little clip of Leo Brown, he's got a Dexcom on his stomach. He is part of the team with his girlfriend, Alana Folsom. Everybody in The Amazing Race gets little nicknames because there's teams have to sort of keep them straight. Because you don't know anybody's names. They always boil them down to the essence. So you know, baseball bros, brother and sister longtime dating, which is what Alana and Leo are. So here's a little clip of them talking about getting ready for the race.   Leo  46:02 We've investigated past participants on Instagram.   Alana  46:05 Leo has a manual transmission car which came in huge I think the main thing we've been doing is CrossFit.   Leo Oh, we also did a ropes course basically for the last six months, it's been our primary activity trying to gain new skills. Alana Oh, we also got to buy prescription swim goggles or team   Leo prescriptions from goggles. Realty.   Stacey Simms  46:26 I have reached out to Leo, I am really hoping that he will come on the show and talk about the experience. Because not only do I want to know about being a person with diabetes on an event like this, which Nat has shared before how she did it, but that was more than 10 years ago, and the technology has changed. So be fun to find out what what helped Leo and maybe what did not. I was also laughing because I saw the preview of the show. And DeAngelo Williams is on this season. Now I know maybe that doesn't mean anything to you, but I'm in the Charlotte North Carolina area. He's a former Carolina Panthers. But he's one of these community guys. Like even if you don't know football, you know, D'Angelo, it's gonna be a really fun season to watch. I haven't seen the first episode yet it aired out last week, as you are listening to this show. I don't know maybe they got voted off. Maybe D'Angelo got voted off as well. But I really hope I can get Leo on the show to talk about his experiences on The Amazing Race. We are coming up on diabetes Awareness Month. And this is a year like no other Can I sound like every commercial you've ever seen. But I think this diabetes Awareness Month is going to be very different as well. We've got to get through the election before anybody's gonna pay attention to anything else. And I always say diabetes Awareness Month is for people outside of the community, not necessarily in I mean, you're kind of aware of diabetes already. So I'm going to be doing my usual news push to see if I can get some news out there to people who may need it and don't really understand about diabetes. But I'm also going to be doing a little something for us because boy, we need a little something. I'm going to be running a contest through the month of November. I've got some fun prizes. I've got some great companies, we just want to make you smile a little bit. So that will be going on in the Facebook group Diabetes Connections, the group and on my Instagram account over at Instagram. I'm just Stacey Simms, so follow me there or jump into the group. If you're not already there. We're going to have a good time. We're going to give away some stuff. And we're going to keep it kind of low key because I don't know that I have the wherewithal to keep it any other key right now. Thank you, as always to my editor John Bukenas from audio editing solutions. Thank you so much for listening. I'm Stacey Simms. I'll see you back here next week. Until then, be kind to yourself.   Benny  48:38 Diabetes Connections is a production of Stacey Simms Media. All rights reserved. All wrongs avenged

This week “The Legendary Brew Crew” do their first live stream podcast. They talk W.A.P, the silence surrounding the Megan Thee Stallion shooting including a conversation regarding not protecting Black Women, and the NBA Playoffs with special guests William Moore, COO of Down Home Brewing, Undeniable Vixen, Leo Brown, Owner of Barrels N Leafs and Dennis Carradin Jr., Founder & CEO of Trauma Survivors Foundation. Even A Black Girl & Her Beer stopped in to say hello. This Episode was sponsored by Down Home Brewing. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brewsingbanter/message

Cuff and Mo catch up with one of the most colorful personalities in the cigar world, Leo Brown. The guys jump into how Leo actually got started smoking cigars during his time in the US Navy and how his curiosity about pairing cigars and drinks served as the basis for his company Barrels and Leafs. Brown, a Chicago native, talks about the importance of believing in yourself even when nobody else does. Leo also talks about some things he would like to see in the cigar industry and he even drops a special promo code for TVLP listeners. The guys wrap up with Leo telling us what we can expect from Barrels and Leaf in the future and what he would have told himself five years ago. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ryan-cuffee4/message

On this special episode, we will welcome Scott Robinson from Beyond the Humidor, and Leo Brown from Barrels n Leafs to HBTC Live. The topics are far more important than the premium cigars we love so much. Visit https://HowBoutThatCigar.com  - Thanks for listening and remember to Burn Cigars, Not Bridges. #HBTCigar #HowBoutThatCigar #Cigars #PremiumCigars #CigarPodcast #CigarShow #HBTCLive #PremiumTobacco #CigarLife #CigarCulture #BOTL #SOTL #ISmokeCigars #BurnCigarsNotBridges #semperincendium #BarrelsnLeafs #BeyondTheHumidor 

This week “The Legendary Brew Crew bring some guest to the social distancing virtual happy hour. The Undeniable Vixen, Leo Brown aka BarrelsnLeaf, and B. Mont aka BlackBeerTravelers join the fellas and tell them how they got started in craft beer plus they play “Two Truths & a Lie” and Name That 90’s R&B. In this episode they feature beers from Bellefonte Brewery, Union Craft Brewery, Left Hand Brewery, Crooked Hammock, Smittox Brewing, Thunderhawk Alements, and Abnormal Beer Co. (9:52). Grab a Drink and Pull Up a Chair! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brewsingbanter/message

If you were driving to work in Lexington in the late 2000s, chances are, you used to hear Leo's voice - but back then, he went by Freakdaddy - and he was the host of one of Lexington's top-rated morning drive programs.  But his story doesn't start or end there.  Leo has been an actor, a musician, a salesman, and these days he works in real estate.  Tune in to hear the twisting, turning story of one of Lexington's most colorful characters.  

Tune in to Scott Pitney’s interview of Leo Brown – psychic medium, life coach, motivational speaker, author and “regular guy” as he tells his story of surviving a diagnosis that made doctors believe he wouldn’t live past the age of 30 to becoming an inspirational force that will empower your life to be the best […]

8:00pm PTRN - Lunatic Mondays Why should Fridays have all the fun? Go crazy on Mondays with Laura Gonzalez on 'Lunatic Mondays'..... Anything can happen!!! Tonight our guests are: Leo Brown, chatting with Laura Gonzalez about his book “Honey I'm Fabulous and So Are You” and his Tarot practice. River Higginbotham will join us for the second hour of our show, chatting about the St. Louis Pagan Picnic and PSG! Join us on the chat room or by phone to ask your questions!! (347) 308-8222 *Remember to stay tuned after the interview to listen to the Tarot/Runes/Oracle reading for the week*

Leo Brown, a Belleville-based author and psychic stopped by the studio to talk shop. She is the author of "Honey, I'm Fabulous and So Are You"

Welcome to the Season 2 Episode 28 of The Coaching Parlour podcast! This episode is centered around The Act of Personal Responsibility and Empowerment Through Forgiveness with Leo Brown.     In this episode Leo Brown and I discuss 3 words that describe LEO BROWN and his platform and how are you showing up, influencing, and healing the world as a coach, psychic medium, and author? The meaning and importance of "I didn't understand nor did I WANT to understand that YOU are responsible for EVERYTHING in your life." Forgiveness, and why is it important for the individual when it comes to moving forward. The mis-truths about forgiveness when it comes to taking personal responsibility for that healing process. How the mixed messages of love, emotional dependence, and fear growing up influenced his behavior patterns, and how the Healing Process help align with his true calling. AND MORE!   To get the show notes, visit: www.danielleholdman.com/028 To get private 1:1 coaching, visit: http://danielleholdman.com/about-offerings/ Need some spiritual tools, readings, lifestyle products, & resources: www.thealchemyparlour.com   

Two wonderful guests on this week’s show! First, Margie Scoby wrote the book:  The Atchafalaya Riches: Becoming rich wasn’t easy, which is about her childhood in the Bayou and how she was able to move beyond her painful experiences. Then, Leo Brown, psychic medium discusses his ‘down to earth’ work as a psychic medium. His goal is to … Read more about this episode...

Life Changing Insights with Dr. Alan Simberg and his guest Leo Brown & Stephanie Trager: Despite the odds placed before Leo Brown, (told by doctors that he wouldn't live past the age of 30, born with cerebral palsy.) At the tender age of 21, Leo discovered that he, like others in his family, possessed what people down south called 'The Gift'. As time went on, Leo decided to take the time to develop his intuition and soon noticed that he could not only help people to heal but also, in some strange way, heal himself. He is embarking on his mission of helping people from all over the world, with clients ranging from A-list celebrities to the boy/girl next door. Stephanie Trager is the author of the forthcoming book, "Soul Success: Success from the Inside Out." Also a licensed attorney, certified mediator, certified coach in several modalities, herbalist, & certified energy medicine practitioner, Stephanie combines her eclectic mix of education, training and life experience to propel others forward while tapping in and honing their intuition. With a background in human rights, immigration, and corporate law, -among many other things- She has created a unique method for driving results and works with her clients to resolve old patterns that allow them to undergo deep personal transformation while simultaneously stretching their business and income paradigms.

Intuitive Counselor,Writer, Teacher, Radio Personality, Empowerment Coach, Motivational Speaker and Entertainer. Leo Brown is a one-man force of nature! If Wendy Williams, Rupaul and Oprah had a love child Leo would be it! He is a featured co- host of blog talk radio's own 'Hers and His Radio', Founder and C.E.O of Psychic Leo Brown, Inc and Fierce Spirituality, Inc. A natural charmer as well as intuitive since his late teens, Leo possesses a great sense of warmth, truth and compassion. He has been counseling people from every walk of life for over ten years. He currently resides in St. Louis, Mo. He can be reached on website http://www.PsychicLeo.com

Alright Everyone it's another Fierce Friday! Are you ready to be motivaited? Wanting to get up out of your funk? Are you a member of the LBGTQ community searching for a spirtiual path? Well, tonight we're going to get into all of that and more. Please join me in welcoming to tinto the 'Fierce Family' Motivational Speaker and Inter-Faith Minster Dulani Moore! This man does it all and he's a cuite to boot. Dulani S. Moore is an interfaith minister, inspirational speaker, facilitator and spiritual teacher who has successfully helped hundreds individuals and couples design and build the lives they have desired to experience.  His purpose in life is to help others find purpose and reclaim the power to change their lives. Using a unique combination of life coaching, intuitive counseling and the teaching of spiritual principles, he teaches his clients to "Love themselves into the life they want" by helping them to discover the inner resources to become master creators of their own lives through the reevaluation of their foundational beliefs and the fostering of self-love.  His no nonsense style challenges clients to become aware of how they hold themselves back while showing them how to reclaim their power to choose their course in and experience of life.ev.

Alright Everyone it's another Fierce Friday! Are you ready to be motivaited? Wanting to get up out of your funk? Are you a member of the LBGTQ community searching for a spirtiual path? Well, tonight we're going to get into all of that and more. Please join me in welcoming to tinto the 'Fierce Family' Motivational Speaker and Inter-Faith Minster Dulani Moore! This man does it all and he's a cuite to boot. Dulani S. Moore is an interfaith minister, inspirational speaker, facilitator and spiritual teacher who has successfully helped hundreds individuals and couples design and build the lives they have desired to experience.  His purpose in life is to help others find purpose and reclaim the power to change their lives. Using a unique combination of life coaching, intuitive counseling and the teaching of spiritual principles, he teaches his clients to "Love themselves into the life they want" by helping them to discover the inner resources to become master creators of their own lives through the reevaluation of their foundational beliefs and the fostering of self-love.  His no nonsense style challenges clients to become aware of how they hold themselves back while showing them how to reclaim their power to choose their course in and experience of life.ev.

 Join me in welcoming to the Fierce Family Relationship Coach, Author and Spirtiual Healer Jason Hairston! Tired of becoming a victim of your circumstances? Are you wanting to know the secret of how to truly love yourself.Be sure to 'Like' Fierce Firdays on Facebook and follow me on twitter.   About Jason HairstonJason Hairston has always been a curious soul.  His undying curiosity led him to new information and spiritual experiences that broadened his view of the world and its people.  From this broadened perspective, a new life emerged for Jason anchored in peace and tranquility.  Since his transformation, he has been very passionate about helping people find their inner strength so they too can live in harmony.

 Join me in welcoming to the Fierce Family Relationship Coach, Author and Spirtiual Healer Jason Hairston! Tired of becoming a victim of your circumstances? Are you wanting to know the secret of how to truly love yourself.Be sure to 'Like' Fierce Firdays on Facebook and follow me on twitter.   About Jason HairstonJason Hairston has always been a curious soul.  His undying curiosity led him to new information and spiritual experiences that broadened his view of the world and its people.  From this broadened perspective, a new life emerged for Jason anchored in peace and tranquility.  Since his transformation, he has been very passionate about helping people find their inner strength so they too can live in harmony.

Alright Everyone, It's that time again! Time to put our love mojo to work! If you're happily single or alone and booless. Tonight's show is about turning you're inner love light on. Please join me in welcoming to the 'Fierce Family'  Psychic, Relationship specialst and all around every woman Pamela Cummins Be sure to 'like' Fierce Friday's on Facebook and Keep with me on Twitter! Pamela Cummins specializes in love and relationships, personal growth, life direction, dream interpretation, career and finances. She has been blessed with the psychic abilities of clairaudience, clairsentience and clairvoyance.  She uses Egyptian and Goddess tarot to enhance her gifts. She is a medium for loving angels, guides, and ancestors of both her clients and her own.  Because she loves music so much her angels often use words from songs to get a message across.  She is often called "the musical psychic" by her clients.  Pamela is also an ordained interfaith spiritualist minister, hypnotherapist, energy healer, teacher, and writer. Please visit her website at www.successfulrel.com

Alright Everyone, It's that time again! Time to put our love mojo to work! If you're happily single or alone and booless. Tonight's show is about turning you're inner love light on. Please join me in welcoming to the 'Fierce Family'  Psychic, Relationship specialst and all around every woman Pamela Cummins Be sure to 'like' Fierce Friday's on Facebook and Keep with me on Twitter! Pamela Cummins specializes in love and relationships, personal growth, life direction, dream interpretation, career and finances. She has been blessed with the psychic abilities of clairaudience, clairsentience and clairvoyance.  She uses Egyptian and Goddess tarot to enhance her gifts. She is a medium for loving angels, guides, and ancestors of both her clients and her own.  Because she loves music so much her angels often use words from songs to get a message across.  She is often called "the musical psychic" by her clients.  Pamela is also an ordained interfaith spiritualist minister, hypnotherapist, energy healer, teacher, and writer. Please visit her website at www.successfulrel.com

  Please join me in welcoming to the 'Fierce Family' world renowned psychic medium and actress Patti Negri! I am delighted to be in the woman's presence. Patti Negri. This woman does it all! Singer, Actress, Witch and Producer. What can't she do? Tonight we'll find out about her and a whole more!  Patti has been practicing natural earth magick for over 20 years. She is a psychic medium with a talent for conjuring spirits from the other side - and having people (both believers and non believers) be able to see and be in contact with them.  Patti has been able to communicate with the spirit world since she conducted her first successful séance at age eight and since then, she has conducted séances on radio, film, TV and in living rooms across America.  Be sure to follow Leo on Twitter and Like 'Fierce Friday's' on Facebook!

  Please join me in welcoming to the 'Fierce Family' world renowned psychic medium and actress Patti Negri! I am delighted to be in the woman's presence. Patti Negri. This woman does it all! Singer, Actress, Witch and Producer. What can't she do? Tonight we'll find out about her and a whole more!  Patti has been practicing natural earth magick for over 20 years. She is a psychic medium with a talent for conjuring spirits from the other side - and having people (both believers and non believers) be able to see and be in contact with them.  Patti has been able to communicate with the spirit world since she conducted her first successful séance at age eight and since then, she has conducted séances on radio, film, TV and in living rooms across America.  Be sure to follow Leo on Twitter and Like 'Fierce Friday's' on Facebook!

The Temptations Thursday is back and toting gifts of love!Tonight's show is prepping you for the one day set aside ESPECIALLY for love and romance- Valentine's Day. We'll be taking your dedications, playing your requests, and talking all about love and romance.It's going to be fun, fun, fun...Also, enter to win a special gift of luscious goodies to enjoy with your mate- or by yourself- including strawberry body souffle, white chocolate body paint and strawberry honey dust!Call us and take part in the LIVE show: (909) 265-9269 CALL IN WITH YOUR LOVE DEDICATIONS...WOULD YOU LIKE TO DEDICATE A SONG TO SOMEONE SPECIAL? EMAIL US BY 6PM EST THURSDAY... HERSANDHISRADIO@GMAIL.COMALSO FREE PSYCHIC LOVE READINGS by our resident psychic Leo Brown!

The Temptations Thursday is back and toting gifts of love!Tonight's show is prepping you for the one day set aside ESPECIALLY for love and romance- Valentine's Day. We'll be taking your dedications, playing your requests, and talking all about love and romance.It's going to be fun, fun, fun...Also, enter to win a special gift of luscious goodies to enjoy with your mate- or by yourself- including strawberry body souffle, white chocolate body paint and strawberry honey dust!Call us and take part in the LIVE show: (909) 265-9269 CALL IN WITH YOUR LOVE DEDICATIONS...WOULD YOU LIKE TO DEDICATE A SONG TO SOMEONE SPECIAL? EMAIL US BY 6PM EST THURSDAY... HERSANDHISRADIO@GMAIL.COMALSO FREE PSYCHIC LOVE READINGS by our resident psychic Leo Brown!

In continuance with our indpendence month theme, Join me for in depth interview with world-famous motovational speaker and aurthor  Barbara Hofmeister. Tired of feeling blocked when it comes to you're money? Wanting to live a better, more postive life? On tonight's show find out how as Barbara and I will be taking you're calls, questions and comments. It's going to be a great show.                  About Barbara Hofmeister Barbara Hofmeister is a refugee from Communist Germany and knows first hand what it is like to be living in adverse circumstances. Severely abused and with low self-esteem she set out to live her personal dream traveling the world sharing what she learned from the “University of Hard Knocks” with a wide audience. Barbara became involved in her own personal development in 1978 when a friend gave her a book by Dr. Wayne Dyer and she has not stopped since to further her knowledge on the topic. Her never ending enthusiasm and passion for her work shine through every presentation she gives. You will not be able to stay untouched as Barbara has a way reaching deep inside of you so that you can rediscover your hidden dreams and – if you so choose live your life’s true purpose. Barbara uses a practical step by step approach that allows ANYBODY to move towards their dream life.“I come from behind the Berlin Wall. Tragically most people build their own Berlin Wall for ‘protection’ but in reality they are imprisoning themselves. I want to change that and make it my first priority to help people tear down that Berlin Wall in order to be able to live their full potential." Note: Readings will Not Be given tonight.

In continuance with our indpendence month theme, Join me for in depth interview with world-famous motovational speaker and aurthor  Barbara Hofmeister. Tired of feeling blocked when it comes to you're money? Wanting to live a better, more postive life? On tonight's show find out how as Barbara and I will be taking you're calls, questions and comments. It's going to be a great show.                  About Barbara Hofmeister Barbara Hofmeister is a refugee from Communist Germany and knows first hand what it is like to be living in adverse circumstances. Severely abused and with low self-esteem she set out to live her personal dream traveling the world sharing what she learned from the “University of Hard Knocks” with a wide audience. Barbara became involved in her own personal development in 1978 when a friend gave her a book by Dr. Wayne Dyer and she has not stopped since to further her knowledge on the topic. Her never ending enthusiasm and passion for her work shine through every presentation she gives. You will not be able to stay untouched as Barbara has a way reaching deep inside of you so that you can rediscover your hidden dreams and – if you so choose live your life’s true purpose. Barbara uses a practical step by step approach that allows ANYBODY to move towards their dream life.“I come from behind the Berlin Wall. Tragically most people build their own Berlin Wall for ‘protection’ but in reality they are imprisoning themselves. I want to change that and make it my first priority to help people tear down that Berlin Wall in order to be able to live their full potential." Note: Readings will Not Be given tonight.

Join Me in Welcoming to 'Real Talk' Internationally Known Singer, Actress and Author Fiona Horne. This woman is a powerhouse and is here not only to uplift us but to empower our lives.About Fiona Horne Fiona Horne is known in the USA, UK and Australia, as a television and radio personality, accomplished author, rock star, actor and worldwide authority on witchcraft and the paranormal. Born in Australia, Fiona was lead singer of Number 1 electronic rock group, Def FX for seven years before moving to Los Angeles in 2001.  She now enjoys a varied broadcasting and publishing career. Fiona wrote and hosted 2002's U.K. magical love-advice show Sexy Spells (Granada/Sky Broadcasting).  On Australia’s Nine Network Fiona was a regular guest on the most watched show in the country, Hey Hey It’s Saturday and hosted her own music show for the 10 network, Ground Zero.  Her guests included Britney Spears, Melissa Etheridge, Marilyn Manson and Tom Jones. For four years she was a regular panelist on Beauty and the Beast, Australia's number one daytime talk show (and sister show to USA’s ‘The View’).   2004 saw Fiona as a star cast member in USA SciFi Channel's hit original reality series Mad Mad House.   In May 2006 she was a special guest at Harvard University where she spoke on Witchcraft and the Paranormal in contemporary media. In 2007 Fiona hosted the paranormal documentary, Ghost Encounters-The Queen Mary (SciFi Channel) Fiona is the author of eight books on Witchcraft and the Paranormal including her worldwide bestseller Bewitch A Man (Simon & Schuster, 2007) which has been published in nine countries. Fiona has been a featured guest on The Tyra Banks Show and Good Morning America.

Join Me in Welcoming to 'Real Talk' Internationally Known Singer, Actress and Author Fiona Horne. This woman is a powerhouse and is here not only to uplift us but to empower our lives.About Fiona Horne Fiona Horne is known in the USA, UK and Australia, as a television and radio personality, accomplished author, rock star, actor and worldwide authority on witchcraft and the paranormal. Born in Australia, Fiona was lead singer of Number 1 electronic rock group, Def FX for seven years before moving to Los Angeles in 2001.  She now enjoys a varied broadcasting and publishing career. Fiona wrote and hosted 2002's U.K. magical love-advice show Sexy Spells (Granada/Sky Broadcasting).  On Australia’s Nine Network Fiona was a regular guest on the most watched show in the country, Hey Hey It’s Saturday and hosted her own music show for the 10 network, Ground Zero.  Her guests included Britney Spears, Melissa Etheridge, Marilyn Manson and Tom Jones. For four years she was a regular panelist on Beauty and the Beast, Australia's number one daytime talk show (and sister show to USA’s ‘The View’).   2004 saw Fiona as a star cast member in USA SciFi Channel's hit original reality series Mad Mad House.   In May 2006 she was a special guest at Harvard University where she spoke on Witchcraft and the Paranormal in contemporary media. In 2007 Fiona hosted the paranormal documentary, Ghost Encounters-The Queen Mary (SciFi Channel) Fiona is the author of eight books on Witchcraft and the Paranormal including her worldwide bestseller Bewitch A Man (Simon & Schuster, 2007) which has been published in nine countries. Fiona has been a featured guest on The Tyra Banks Show and Good Morning America.

It all started July 4th 2010, 'Real Talk with Leo Brown' made it's debut. Now, an entire year has passed. Today we're going to celebrate! Call in with you're likes, dislikes or anything else that is on you're mind reguarding the show. I cannot wait to hear from all of you. Also tune into my special interview with Singer, Actress and Best-Selling Writer La Toya Jackson! This also marks the start of 'Independence Month' each week, I'm going to pick an issue along with a featured guest to go along with the theme of the month's show. Note: Psychic Readings will NOT be given tonight.

It all started July 4th 2010, 'Real Talk with Leo Brown' made it's debut. Now, an entire year has passed. Today we're going to celebrate! Call in with you're likes, dislikes or anything else that is on you're mind reguarding the show. I cannot wait to hear from all of you. Also tune into my special interview with Singer, Actress and Best-Selling Writer La Toya Jackson! This also marks the start of 'Independence Month' each week, I'm going to pick an issue along with a featured guest to go along with the theme of the month's show. Note: Psychic Readings will NOT be given tonight.