Feeding Our Young
Encouragement for today's student nurse... and life lessons for the rest of us!
Have you ever heard the phrase “nurses eat their young?” Feeding Our Young® is more than a podcast – it’s a movement. It’s a desire to see new nurses of all ages be supported and uplifted by their peers.
Join the movement! COME and hear host Eric Miller's vision for a radical culture change - in nursing, healthcare, and elsewhere; then STAY for a stable of all-star nursing students, nurses, and nurse educators!
They might make you LAUGH...
they might make you CRY...
but they will all definitely make you THINK...
and be ENCOURAGED!
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 123
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
80 - Kara Buller Pt 1: I Threw My Name in the Hat
Join nurse manager and Vancouver, Washington native Honored Guest Kara Buller as she chats about being one of the first cohorts at her university, originally wanting to go into teaching, how a diagno…
81 - Kara Buller Pt 2: Enjoy the Ride!
Continue with nurse manager and Vancouver, Washington native Honored Guest Kara Buller as she chats about how she transitioned from bedside to management, her time in the unique role of administrativ…
79 - Elizabeth Jenkins: Sometimes It's the Simple Answers
Join nurse educator and Alabama native Elizabeth Jenkins as she talks about never having planned on being a nurse, the importance of reading your textbook, teaching students how to take notes, having…
78 - Aly Willard: It's So Worth It!
Join nurse, nurse educator, and Indianapolis, Indiana native Honored Guest Aly Willard as she describes her Haiti mission trip, not having a “light bulb moment,” having “300 other things” you can do …
77 - Amanda Shafer Pt 2: Sourdough, Consent, and Nursing
Continue with nurse and Omak, Washington native Honored Guest Amanda Shafer as she chats about changes in nursing, her career progression, your safe crying space, making mistakes, the utmost importan…
76 - Amanda Shafer Pt 1: Just Roll With Life
Join nurse and Omak, Washington native Honored Guest Amanda Shafer as she chats about sourdough, being pregnant with twins during nursing school, her super-unique NCLEX prep, lessons learned from rai…
75 - Samantha Lengerich Pt 2: You Have Overcome All of Your Hardest Days
Continue with nursing student and Salt Lake City, Utah native Honored Guest Samantha Lengerich as she talks about unconditional love in nursing, healthcare trauma, the most beautiful part of nursing,…
74 - Samantha Lengerich Pt 1: Climbing Hills Instead of Mountains
Join nursing student and Salt Lake City, Utah native Honored Guest Samantha Lengerich as she talks about having lived in Australia not once, but twice, dealing with debilitating panic attacks, her jo…
71 - Jennifer Evans Pt 2: Stop Shoulding on Yourself
Continue with nurse educator, bedside nurse, and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest “Jen” Evans as she discusses cellphone bias, being the new girl, “snapdragon,” adapting to the role of full-t…
73 - Izzie Wilkes Pt 2: We are Storytellers
Continue with nurse educator and Twisp, Washington native Honored Guest Izzie Wilkes as she describes teen moms being her favorite patients, the transformative power of nursing school, her first year…
72 - Izzie Wilkes Pt 1: Rock Bottom, Twisps and Turns
Join nurse educator and Twisp, Washington native Honored Guest Izzie Wilkes as she describes how she got her name, never being born, working research that was simultaneously fascinating and heart wre…
70 - Jennifer Evans Pt 1: I've Adopted You; You're My Kids Now
Join nurse educator, bedside nurse, and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest “Niffer” Evans as she discusses the event that made her know she wanted to be a nurse, how her students made her overc…
69 - Lauren Avery: A Dream Delayed (Bringing the Fight to Every Day)
Join prospective nursing student and Lisbon, Illinois native Honored Guest Lauren Avery as she emotionally describes her faith-challenging life circumstances that have so far prevented dreams from co…
68 - Sarah Byers: Being More Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
Join nurse and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Sarah Byers as she chats about going back for her FNP, getting active, her family influence, making the difficult decision to change jobs from …
67 - Nikki Hyche: You Can Do Anything as an Associate
Join tenured nurse and Selah and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Nikki Hyche as she talks about being the host’s “mom,” her time in Texas, wanting to save manatees, struggling during nursing…
65 - Tera Tveit Pt 1: All I Know So Far
Join nurse educator and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Tera Tveit as she waxes eloquent about how to pronounce her name, the song she shares with all of her nursing students, her rough star…
66 - Tera Tveit Pt 2: I Just Wanted to Be Numb
Continue with nurse educator and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Tera Tveit as she vulnerably opens a window into a very dark time in her career and how she (mis)handled it, how the COVID pa…
64 - Lindsey Gibson: Bedside, Management, and Educator - Oh My!
Join nurse and Curlew, Washington native Honored Guest Lindsey Gibson as she discusses her transition from bedside nursing to leadership and management, being a nurse twin, her big family, being inde…
63 - Jamie Felchlin: I Could Not See Myself Anywhere Else
Join recent grad and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Jamie Felchin as she talks about her family, being a "nurse" twin, the skeleton in the classroom, the uniqueness of nursing education, re…
62 - Kenna Perkins Pt 3: Don’t Compare Your Insides to Other People’s Outsides
For Part 3: Join recent grad and Northern California and Boone Street Zoo native Honored Guest Kenna Penelope Smith-Perkins as she talks about being a double major in psychology, how to advocate for …