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This week, Cal and Cathy get intersectional. Sirius Bonner joins the podcast to talk about adding fatness to our intersectional lens, being a Black woman in Portland Oregon, and the definition of "Blerd."

About Our Guest: Sirius Bonner is Vice President of Equity and Inclusion at Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette. She is an Experienced Equity Practioner, Consultant, and Educator with demonstrated successes in the health care industry, higher education, and the nonprofit sector. 

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• Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care"

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Welcome to Season 4 of Interdisciplinary, where we are diving right into the deep end. Cal and Cathy kick it off with Emily Clore, DVM and a hilarious, honest, and raw conversation about what it's like to be a human whose job is to care for animals. This episode includes discussions of suicide and suicide prevention.

About Our Guest:
Emily Clore is a former massage therapist and now practicing companion animal veterinarian based in San Diego. She’s an advocate for empowering pet owners to take an active role in their pet’s well-being through preventive healthcare, education and kindness. 

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Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapy

Giving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!

Other ways to help and join in:

• Leave us a review on  Apple Podcasts
• Let us know what you think! Send us an email: [email protected]
• Find bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!
• Check Healwell’s live and online classes
• Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community
• Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here
• Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care"

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Located in Chicago, Ujimaa Medics is a community-based organization that provides critical health care training to the community, in support of the people who live there. Part 2 of this conversation includes one of UMedics' supporters and volunteers and to share her personal experience and continue the discussion of caring for one another and mobilizing a community to take care of itself when the systems are not invested in care.

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About Our Guest:
Martine Caverl is one of the founders of Ujimaa Medics. UMedics are "Black community organizers, activists, pastors, healthcare professionals, mothers, brothers, sisters, fathers, cousins, and friends of African Descent in Chicago." 

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Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapy

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• Leave us a review on  Apple Podcasts
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• Find bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!
• Check Healwell’s live and online classes
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• Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care"

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Ujimaa is a Swahili word that refers to collective work and responsibility. Located in Chicago, Ujimaa Medics is a community-based organization that provides critical health care training to the community, in support of the people who live there. Part 1 of this conversation dives deep into questions of health justice, access to care, and the need for open-eyed awareness of structural racism's effect on health care.

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About Our Guest:
Martine Caverl is one of the founders of Ujimaa Medics. UMedics are "Black community organizers, activists, pastors, healthcare professionals, mothers, brothers, sisters, fathers, cousins, and friends of African Descent in Chicago." 

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Support the show

Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapy

Giving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!

Other ways to help and join in:

• Leave us a review on  Apple Podcasts
• Let us know what you think! Send us an email: [email protected]
• Find bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!
• Check Healwell’s live and online classes
• Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community
• Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here
• Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care"

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Cal and Cathy welcome back Dr. Jennifer Hutton, aka Dr. Jpop, to talk about all things allyship, solidarity, and staying in the work because the work isn't even close to done.

Find out more about Dr. Jpop's Building Allyship program

About Our Guest:
Dr. Jennifer Hutton, aka Dr. Jpop, is a pediatric physical therapist from Nashville, TN. She graduated from Loma Linda University with her Doctorate in Physical Therapy in 2008 and moved back to her hometown. She spent two years treating in an ortho setting before finally transitioning to her dream job with children. Jennifer enjoys treating the developmentally delayed population, as well as children with neurological and orthopedic diagnoses, both congenital and acquired. While the world reminds children with special needs of their limitations, she believes they are all capable of the impossible and helps them see that their special gifts will help them be their best selves. As a Black woman, Jennifer knows what it is like to identify as different, and it has helped in her quest to be an ally for children with disabilities inside and outside of the clinic. Now she is educating others on how to be effective allies to BIPOC and furthering her desire to create a diverse and inclusive space she calls Dr. Jpop’s Neighborhood. 

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Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapy

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Other ways to help and join in:

• Leave us a review on  Apple Podcasts
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• Find bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!
• Check Healwell’s live and online classes
• Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community
• Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here
• Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care"

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This week, Cal and our guest, Anna Valdez, consider the question: what if care providers just believed people? What if we just believed that people were telling the truth about their pain or discomfort? This week is a deep dive into assumptions, biases, and cultural habits that increase suffering for all humans.

About Our Guest: Anna Valdez, Ph.D., RN, PHN, CEN, CNE, CFRN, FAEN, FAADN. Dr. Anna Valdez has been a nurse, specializing in emergency nursing, for almost 30 years. She is currently a Professor of Nursing at Sonoma State University. 

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Support the show

Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapy

Giving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!

Other ways to help and join in:

• Leave us a review on  Apple Podcasts
• Let us know what you think! Send us an email: [email protected]
• Find bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!
• Check Healwell’s live and online classes
• Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community
• Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here
• Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care"

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Cal and Cathy talk with Ian Watlington about respect for bodies as they are, awareness of the whole human life cycle, and what we should all thank disability advocates for. (Hint: curb cuts are just the start.)

If you enjoyed this episode, Ian also recommends Disability After Dark Podcast with Andrew Gurza

Twitter: @ianwsays
Instagram: @ianwsaw

About Our Guest:
Ian Watlington is a Senior Disability Advocacy Specialist for The National Disability Rights Network in Washington, DC. 

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Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapy

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Other ways to help and join in:

• Leave us a review on  Apple Podcasts
• Let us know what you think! Send us an email: [email protected]
• Find bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!
• Check Healwell’s live and online classes
• Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community
• Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here
• Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care"

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Gene Dockery knows bad research when they see it, and in this episode, they are talking with Cal and Cathy about one of the most famous (and insidiously pervasive) bad research studies out there. It's the one that gave us the ideas about "latent homosexuality." In a deep, wide-ranging, and unflinching look at this study, and bad research in general, this episode challenges us to challenge our thinking. 

About Our Guest:
Gene Dockery is a third year doctoral student at Ohio University in Counselor Education and Supervision. They are also a licensed professional counselor working in community mental health specializing in queer populations and trauma. Their research focuses on addressing inequalities in both higher education and healthcare for members of the LGBTQIA community and other marginalized groups. 

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Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapy

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Other ways to help and join in:

• Leave us a review on  Apple Podcasts
• Let us know what you think! Send us an email: [email protected]
• Find bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!
• Check Healwell’s live and online classes
• Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community
• Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here
• Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care"

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It's a book review, it's a conversation, it's a podcast! This week, Cal and Cathy welcomes Janet Penny and Rebecca Sturgeon, co-authors of Oncology Massage: An integrative approach to cancer care. This conversation touches on the heart and soul of what we do when caring for other humans.

Buy "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care"

About Our Guests:
Janet Penny, RMT has extensive experience working with people living with cancer in both her private practice and at an integrative cancer center. Janet has developed a treatment approach that addresses the multi-faceted needs of oncology massage clients. Her approach focuses on pre- and post-surgical treatments, scar tissue, radiation fibrosis, neuropathy and pain within the complex context of the client’s emotions that pervade and influence the body. Janet is forever amazed at the resiliency of the human body and all it goes through.

Rebecca Sturgeon, LMT started her career as a massage therapist in 2008 and began working with oncology patients in 2010. She has worked in clinical and community environments providing massage and manual lymphatic drainage. She has been a massage therapy educator for the majority of her career and currently works as the Education Director for Healwell. 

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Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapy

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Other ways to help and join in:

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• Find bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!
• Check Healwell’s live and online classes
• Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community
• Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here
• Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care"

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This episode originally aired in November 2020 on the "Massage Therapy Without Borders" podcast

Cal and Cathy talk with Ann Blair Kennedy and Kemi Balogun, where they discuss the lack of diversity and inclusion in the health care professions and possibilities for moving to a more inclusive place.

About Our Guests:
University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville Kemi Balogun is a fourth year medical student at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. In 2016, she received her B.S. in Biology with a minor in Psychology at Wake Forest University. She has a special interest in women’s mental health and health care disparities.

Dr. Kennedy is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville in the Department of Biomedical Sciences. She became a board certified and a South Carolina licensed massage therapist in 1999 and was in clinical practice prior to pursuing her Doctor of Public Health degree in Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior from the University of South Carolina. She completed her Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Human Performance Lab at the USC School of Medicine Greenville in April 2017. Dr. Kennedy’s specific research interests include: patient and stakeholder engagement in research, implementation monitoring and process evaluation, integrative medicine, and stress/wellness particularly in health professionals. Finally, she is the Director of the Patient Engagement Studio and the Executive Editor/Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork. 

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Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapy

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Other ways to help and join in:

• Leave us a review on  Apple Podcasts
• Let us know what you think! Send us an email: [email protected]
• Find bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!
• Check Healwell’s live and online classes
• Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community
• Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here
• Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care"