Families today are facing one of the most difficult and confusing challenges in healthcare—navigating senior care without clear guidance, support, or financial clarity.

In this episode of Healthcare Henry The Podcast, we sit down with Teleke Dorsey-Traylor, a senior care professional, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), and dedicated advocate for families in crisis.

As the founder of We Care More Senior Placement Services, Teleke’s mission is simple but powerful:

to help families and seniors navigate care options, understand available resources, and find assisted living placements that fit their needs and budgets.

In this conversation, she breaks down:

• Why so many families delay care until emergency situations happen

• How placement actually works behind the scenes

• The truth about affordability and hidden care options

• Why education is the missing link in senior care decisions

• How she helps families bridge financial gaps using available resources

• The emotional reality of caregiving in today’s healthcare system

Her work is rooted in advocacy—not just placement—ensuring families are supported, informed, and never left to navigate the system alone.

Teleke also shares how she and her team often step in to help families who cannot afford upfront costs, because access to care should not depend only on income.

If you are a caregiver, part of the sandwich generation, or preparing for aging loved ones, this episode is essential.

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Timoria McQueen never planned to become a healthcare advocate.

After surviving a traumatic childbirth, nearly losing her life, experiencing a miscarriage, and navigating years of recovery, she found herself asking a question that millions of Americans are asking today:

Why are people still falling through the cracks of our healthcare system?

In this episode, Timoria shares the deeply personal experiences that transformed her from a successful makeup artist into a nationally recognized maternal health advocate, policy strategist, and candidate for the Georgia House of Representatives.

We discuss maternal mortality, healthcare affordability, food insecurity, mental health, Medicaid expansion, rural healthcare deserts, and why she believes Georgia can do better for its families.

This isn't just a conversation about politics.

It's a conversation about people.

Watch the full episode and tell us: What healthcare issue needs to be addressed first in your community?

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Ty Lewis joins Healthcare Henry for one of the most emotional conversations we’ve had about caregiving, Alzheimer’s, hospice, faith, and the reality of caring for a parent with dementia.

Ty is part of the Sandwich Generation — raising children while also caring for her mother who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2014.

In this episode, we talk about:

• The real cost of caregiving

• Spending $90,000 out of pocket on dementia care

• Aging in place versus memory care

• Hospice and comfort care

• Anticipatory grief

• Why dementia feels like “the long goodbye”

• Raising children while caregiving

• Black caregivers and healthcare advocacy

• Faith during caregiving

• Why families are lost after a dementia diagnosis

• How children process dementia

• Similarities between dementia and autism

• Why hospice is about living, not giving up

Ty also explains why she chose to keep her mother at home — and how caregiving became part of her family’s purpose, faith, and calling.

This episode is not just about dementia.

It is about love.

Service.

Grief.

Family.

And what it truly means to care for someone through the end of life.

Watch the full episode.

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Derrick Jackson joins Healthcare Henry for a direct conversation about his plan for Georgia.

This episode goes beyond campaign talking points.

Derrick Jackson breaks down what he believes Georgia must do to fix healthcare, expand access, address homelessness, support healthcare workers, and protect public health.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Medicaid expansion

• Universal healthcare

• Restructuring Certificate of Need

• Rural hospital access

• Georgia’s doctor shortage

• Georgia’s 42,000 nurse shortage

• OB-GYN and pediatrician shortages

• Maternal healthcare access

• Public health and CDC funding

• Preventive care versus crisis care

• Healthcare worker pay and tuition support

• Homelessness and housing affordability

• Minimum wage and working poverty

• Why he says Georgia has the money to act

Derrick Jackson says Georgia is sitting on billions in surplus while people are still dying from lack of access to care.

His message is clear:

Georgia does not have a resource problem.

It has a leadership problem.

Watch the full episode and decide for yourself.

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Jason Esteves joins Healthcare Henry for one of the most important conversations we’ve had about the future of Georgia.

This is not politics as usual.

This is a real conversation about healthcare, caregiving, Medicaid, senior care, housing, maternal health, insurance, and what families across Georgia are actually experiencing right now.

After caring for his mother through Alzheimer’s, Jason Esteves says Georgia’s healthcare system is forcing families into impossible situations — making people spend everything they have before they finally qualify for help.

In this episode, we break down:

• Medicaid expansion in Georgia

• Senior care and assisted living costs

• Why families are forced into “spend downs”

• Certificate of Need reform

• In-home care and personal care homes

• Rural hospital closures

• Doulas, midwives, and maternal healthcare

• Insurance companies and denied care

• AI making healthcare decisions

• Prescription drug costs

• Affordable housing and homelessness

• The future of healthcare in Georgia

Jason also explains what he would do as governor to improve healthcare access, lower costs, support caregivers, and expand options for families across the state.

Because healthcare affects everyone.

Not just patients.

But caregivers.

Families.

Small business owners.

And entire communities.

Watch the full episode and decide for yourself.

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She spent over 20 years inside the insurance system.

Running operations.

Handling claims.

Managing approvals.

Seeing everything from the inside.

And now she’s telling the truth.

In this episode of Healthcare Henry, Heather Lacey breaks down what most people never see:

• How insurance companies actually operate

• Why claims get denied

• The real reason delays happen

• What’s broken behind the scenes

• Why the system feels so complicated

• And what patients can do to protect themselves

Because the problem isn’t always what you think.

Sometimes it’s not corruption.

It’s confusion.

Lack of accountability.

And a system that was never designed for the patient first.

If you’ve ever questioned your bill…

Your claim…

Or your care…

This episode will change how you see everything.

Watch the full episode and decide for yourself.

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This is one of the most powerful stories we’ve ever shared on Healthcare Henry.

At 25 years old, Kay Cotten signed hospice papers.

Not because she was old.

Because the healthcare system had no plan for her.

In this episode, we break down:

• What it’s like to be put on hospice at 25

• How the healthcare system failed her repeatedly

• Why hospice became the only place she could get real care

• The truth about insurance, access, and system breakdowns

• What happens when doctors run out of answers

• How hospice gave her something unexpected — relief

• And how she went from near death… to recovery

This is not just a healthcare story.

It’s a reality check.

Because what happened to her…

Is happening to more people than you think.

Watch the full episode and see what the system really looks like.

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This is one of the most real conversations we’ve had on Healthcare Henry.

In this episode, Dr. Ashley Nazon breaks down the truth about therapy, mental health, relationships, grief, and why so many people avoid doing the real work.

We talk about:

• Why Black men don’t go to therapy

• Why vulnerability is actually strength

• How childhood conditioning shapes adult behavior

• Why therapy is not comfort — it’s accountability

• Generational trauma and how it shows up in everyday life

• Why some family relationships are too harmful to keep

• Grief, loss, and learning how to live with it

• The impact of social media on children and adults

• Why anxiety shows up physically in the body

• Why mental health will only become more important in the future

This is not a surface-level conversation.

This is about looking at yourself honestly.

Because therapy does not fix you.

It shows you who you really are.

Watch the full episode and decide for yourself.

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If you want to begin your healing journey or learn more about holistic therapy, you can connect with her here:

Dr. Ashley Nazon

A Holistic Therapy Group

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This is one of the deepest conversations we’ve had on Healthcare Henry.

In this episode, Dr. Michael H. Forde breaks down the truth about public health, health equity, generational trauma, class, race, policy, and why trust in the healthcare system is still broken for so many communities.

We talk about:

• Preventative vs reactive healthcare

• Why “just eat healthy” ignores real barriers

• The difference between a system that fits you and one built for you

• Why Black and Brown communities still distrust medicine

• Misinformation vs disinformation

• The impact of stress on life expectancy

• Why policy shapes outcomes long before people get treatment

• AI, inequity, and who gets harmed first

• Why advocacy matters now more than ever

This isn’t just a healthcare conversation.

It’s a truth conversation.

Watch the full episode if you want to understand what health equity really means — and why it affects far more than hospitals.

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If you want to learn more about public health, health equity, and the realities shaping healthcare today, you can connect with him here:

Dr. Michael H. Forde

📲 Instagram: @drmichaelhforde

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What if staying alive meant sitting on a dialysis machine three times a week… every week?

In this powerful episode of Healthcare Henry, we sit down with Auslin Williams — a teacher, writer, mentor, and woman of deep faith — who is currently on dialysis as she waits for a life-saving kidney transplant.

She drives nearly 3 hours a day to teach her students.

She wakes up at 3:30 AM for dialysis before conferences.

She can’t travel internationally.

She can’t go swimming.

And yet — she still shows up with joy.

Auslin shares:

• What dialysis is really like

• The emotional toll of kidney failure

• The hidden cost of treatment in America

• How her faith carried her through fear

• What she would say to the person who could save her life

• Why she refuses to let this be the end of her story

“I do not want to die. I want to live.”

If this story moves you, share it. Someone out there may be the miracle she’s waiting for.

Register if you can.

Share if you can’t.

Help this reach the right person.

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