This townie tried to escape when touring the country as a traveling nurse. Now married to a farmer, living in the country and mothering to a little boy and girl, she has planted her roots firmly in the Midwest while working as a nurse practitioner.
 
  Listen as this guest (and fellow Franklin Magnet Middle School Knight) reunite to explain how she made friends while moving rapidly from city-to-city in the world of health care. A slip in the grocery store and a mom’s intuition turned what Leah thought as an unsightly bump into a life changing mass with a 50 percent, 5-year survival rate. Leah shares how she was in the right place at the right time when a normally pediatric cancer aggressively took hold of her leg causing her to undergo surgery and treatment that would result in an adorable pixie cut and endless days without work and feeling down and out. In an emotional recollection, she remembers the countless people who reached out to wish her well. These moments, people and trinkets kept her afloat during the hardest days.  

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This longtime Champaign resident and neighbor of mine is a kindred spirit. She has created businesses based on her knack for organizing and her ability to disarm those she helps with a non-judgmental, sweet-natured approach.  

 Listen as this guest explains the cluttered, unsafe and unhygienic environments she has found herself spanning the past 15 years in this business. Karen explains the endless amounts  of books, files and papers she has found herself surrounded by. Literally piece by piece and under the watchful of the client, she has to coach the client into letting go. Usually born of a trauma and a lack of resources at one time, she carefully navigates the slow, tedious and exhausting process with her clients. She explains how this disorder can isolate and cause shame to the afflicted person. Unearthing beds, creating pathways to move around a stuffed home and helping the client toss something as seemingly insignificant as a broken pen cap brings Karen a challenge she welcomes.

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If you keep sharing stories and keep listening—I will keep going CU (and beyond). I recorded a storytime after a meeting that was decades in the making. I was waiting and debating about when to put it out. This seemed like the right moment—this milestone episode celebrating the podcast. I’ve also included an opportunity to win a $100 gift card to any of the previous sponsors. Prove that you’ve shared this podcast (audio note, screenshot, email forward, etc.) to my email [email protected], and you will be in the running to win!

 Listen as this host acknowledges the main players that helped guide her in the right direction, get this podcast off the ground and keep it running for 52 consecutive episodes. Steve Holstein (mentor and communications expert) Nicole (Beals) Paul (patient editor and radio host on WIXY) have truly been instrumental in the success of the podcast. The guests, listeners and sponsors have also given content and motivation to keep it going. The vulnerability, feedback and confidence in the platform is beyond. Thank you. The podcast has given me creative freedom, purpose and forever linked me with the most amazing people. 

Are you looking for a first-person testimony of your business, product or service? Let HyperLocal(s) help. I can provide unique, approved copy highlighting your business for approximately 1:30 seconds at the beginning of the podcast. I hope you listen, subscribe, share and give me the opportunity to promote your business. Let me know if you have any questions at hyperlocalscu.com

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This retired City of Champaign employee, owner of Anything Wild Animal Control and rural Urbana resident tells some crazy tails (pun intended) of the most common animals in our area: beaver, coyote, fox, geese, possum, racoon, skunks and more.

 Listen as this guest explains the behaviors of area troublemakers with decades of knowledge and field experience behind his encounters. Skunk sprays, subduing angry geese, cockroach couches and midnight bat emergencies are all on Steve’s extensive list of house calls. Following licensing, rules and protocol to an absolute “T,” he traps, transfers, releases or euthanizes animals depending on their potential to carry disease. Steve also explains how pissed off passersby will sabotage his set ups and how I am illegally trapping rabbits in my backyard. Uh oh.

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This honest mama and Villa Grove native talks candidly about body image, mental health, disordered eating and the connection with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and a childhood that caused the need for peace and stability.
 
  Listen as the self-appointed CEO of ACE Homes, workhorse, content creator and full-time working woman, Alyssa, talks about building a 13K social media following while documenting the creation of their dream home and an aching struggle with mental health post-baby. Why did she choose to be a family of three? This episode focuses mostly on body image and why we never appreciate our body, how getting positive reinforcement for the way your body looks only fuels the disorder, making therapy a normal part of life, obsessive and controlled eating as part of OCD, saying goodbye to “skinny jeans” and finally, and most importantly, how not to push your issues with eating/body on your kids.

Are you looking for a first-person testimony of your business, product or service? Let HyperLocal(s) help. I can provide unique, approved copy highlighting your business for approximately 1:30 seconds at the beginning of the podcast. I hope you listen, subscribe, share and give me the opportunity to promote your business. Let me know if you have any questions at hyperlocalscu.com

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My couple friends return from episode 7 to talk about what happened after we stopped recording 10 months ago. 

 Listen as Mike, Champaign native, and Jordan (Oakes), Tolono honey, share the continuation of their fight to conceive, the importance of advocating for yourself within the labyrinth of the medical system, chilly nurses, resentments and never shaking the feeling that something will go wrong. Did this couple get what they have invested, stressed and dreamed over? Download to find out.

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This Urbana native has limitless talents and titles. She can sing, play multiple instruments, landscape, build outbuildings, nurse and has made a business out of being a chandler. AKA a candlemaker! Kayla did it all until she couldn't anymore.

 Listen as this member of three local bands talks about how a personal need turned into a thriving business, Fire Doll Studios, why her "interesting" childhood led to a few bad habits and why she graduated high school with a different class than her own. For over a year now Kayla has lived a sober life after finding herself on the floor of her downtown business sick and tired and ready for a change. She describes the months, nights and days that led to this pivotal change and how her future is looking bright. 

Are you looking for a first-person testimony of your business, product or service? Let HyperLocal(s) help. I can provide unique, approved copy highlighting your business for approximately 1:30 seconds at the beginning of the podcast. I hope you listen, subscribe, share and give me the opportunity to promote your business. Let me know if you have any questions at hyperlocalscu.com

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My husband and defensive driving expert, Andrew Harrington, and I travel with our two little ones overnight (and well into the next day) from Illinois to Florida. While making our own memories, we reflect on the road trips of our own childhood.

 Listen as two townies hit the dusty trail already behind schedule and with bad moods setting in. Vomit, coffee-cup pees and an expensive meet-and-greet with a Georgia police officer are all documented periodically during the course of this long trip where my husband refuses to let me drive and verbalizes his resentment for his sleeping passengers. This one is packed with relatable and cringey moments from the road.

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This spirited townie has an intuitive nature. She senses, sees and feels what a typical passerby may not. From local haunted houses, to premonitions regarding someone's future to guiding the lost through a potential minefield, Deb has a way with interpreting someone's thoughts and feelings.

 Listen as this former flower child, costume designer, creative and current intuitive talks about the resurgence in popularity of mystical practices like crystals, saging and reading tarot and the difference in psychics, mediums and her title of intuitive. Finally Deb sees something from my own life that rings true and zeros in on my aversion to risk by reading my cards! Cue the goosebumps. 

Are you looking for a first-person testimony of your business, product or service? Let HyperLocal(s) help. I can provide unique, approved copy highlighting your business for approximately 1:30 seconds at the beginning of the podcast. I hope you listen, subscribe, share and give me the opportunity to promote your business. Let me know if you have any questions at hyperlocalscu.com

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