This week on The Open Wide Podcast, Jenny straps into an actual MIT-designed aging suit (nicknamed SASS — Sarasota Aging Sympathy Suit) with Sue and Kelly from the Sarasota County Department of Health, and the experience is eye-opening in the most literal way. Between the weighted vest, the neuropathy-simulating shoes, the macular degeneration goggles, and the neck collar, this suit recreates what it physically feels like to age 30+ years in just a few minutes — and it hits hard.

By the end of this episode, you'll understand exactly how sitting, poor balance, and sensory decline contribute to falls (which cost an average of $31,000, and up to $54,000 if hospitalized), and — more importantly — what free, evidence-based programs exist right now to help prevent it, no matter your age or starting point. If you have aging parents, work with older adults, or just want to protect your own future mobility, this episode is worth every minute. Share it with someone who needs to hear "it's never too late to start," and subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday drop.

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This week on The Open Wide Podcast, we sit down with a globally recognized fragrance expert with a 40-year career creating iconic scents for Tiffany, Burberry, Lancôme, and celebrities like Zendaya and Jamie Foxx. She takes us through her wild journey from a childhood in Johannesburg to studying at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, to becoming "the alchemist of scent, memory, and emotion" — including the moment a shattered perfume bottle in a department store changed the entire trajectory of her career.

By the end of this episode, you'll understand the real science behind why scent is tied so powerfully to memory and emotion, why your perfume might not be lasting as long as it should, and the incredible story of how she helped people recover their sense of smell after losing it entirely. If you've ever wondered what actually goes into your favorite fragrance — or want to find your true signature scent — this episode is for you. Share it with the friend who always asks "what are you wearing?", and subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday drop.

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This week on The Open Wide Podcast, we're getting real about what it actually takes to turn a passion into profit — no fluffy hustle-culture nonsense, just two women sharing exactly how we built our own businesses out of necessity, risk, and a whole lot of learning as we went. We talk through starting Sarasota's first home watch company, launching a culinary tour business, and how one of us didn't even realize dentistry was her passion until she was years into it.

By the end of this episode, you'll walk away with real, practical steps — from working the corporate grind first to learning the ropes, to finding a mentor, doing your homework, and knowing when it's finally time to jump. If you've ever sat at your 9-to-5 wondering if you could actually make your passion pay the bills, this episode is your permission slip. Share it with a friend who needs to hear "jump and the net will find you," and subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday drop.

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This week on The Open Wide Podcast, we're trading true crime for something a little lighter (and a lot greasier) — a full-on bacon cheeseburger showdown between Five Guys and McDonald's. We break down the bun, the bacon, the price, and the overall vibe of each burger, and yes, we eat both of them on camera so you can watch our real, unfiltered reactions in real time.

By the end of this episode, you'll know exactly which burger we think is worth your money, why "replicatable business model" doesn't always mean "better burger," and whether the $12 price tag is actually justified. If you've got a strong opinion on Five Guys vs McDonald's, drop it in the comments — we want to know who's Team $5 and who's Team $12. Subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday drop.

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This week on The Open Wide Podcast, Dr. Jenny flies solo and gets brutally honest about her nickname — BFM, Big Fat Mouth — walking through real, cringe-worthy verbal mistakes she's made over the years. From mistaking someone's wife for their daughter mid-appointment, to accidentally accusing a friend of rewearing an outfit, she breaks down exactly what went wrong and, more importantly, what to say instead.

By the end of this episode, you'll have real, practical swaps for the moments that trip everyone up — commenting on someone's haircut, their weight, their plate at dinner, or even saying "I miss you" one too many times. It all comes back to one simple idea: keeping your ego in check makes everyone around you feel more comfortable. If you've ever said something and immediately regretted it, this episode is your permission slip to laugh at yourself and do better next time. Share it with the friend who always says the wrong thing (we all have one), and subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday drop.

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This week on The Open Wide Podcast, we're doing something a little different — we brought in Angie, a criminal justice student (and our own show helper) who's spent years studying the psychology behind cases like this one, to help us go deeper into Jeffrey Epstein than we've ever gone before. We get into the recruitment tactics, the blurry line between victim and perpetrator, Ghislaine Maxwell's own complicated backstory, and the questions surrounding Virginia Giuffre's death that a lot of people are still asking out loud.

By the end of this episode, you'll walk away with a clearer picture of how manipulation actually works, why "broken home" isn't a throwaway phrase but a documented pattern in these cases, and why so many of the people connected to this story still haven't faced consequences. If this episode makes you think differently about justice, power, or who gets believed — share it with a friend who needs to hear it, and subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday drop.

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Dr. Jenny named her dental office AI receptionist Marilyn, trained her for months, and then Marilyn started double and triple booking patients because she could make appointments but could not delete the old ones. It was a mess. Jenny still believes in AI and would try it again with a better company. That is the kind of honest take you get in this episode.

Susan's friend just sold a million dollar business using AI for the contract, the negotiation, the appraisal, and pretty much everything else. Jenny is using AI on her dental X-rays and it flags bone loss and cavities in real time, which is incredible until it starts flagging everything and an inexperienced dentist uses it as a selling tool. They also talk about autonomous cars, AI phone systems for small businesses, what happens when the internet goes down, and the moment Siri hijacked the recording and nobody could make her stop. If you run a business or just want to know what AI is actually useful for right now versus what is still a work in progress, this one is worth your time. Subscribe and share it with someone who keeps saying they need to figure out this AI thing.

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Jenny watched all four episodes of Trust Me: The False Prophet on Netflix and came in ready to talk. Samuel Bateman ran a sect inside the Mormon community in Utah, had somewhere between 15 and 20 wives, nine of them underage, and was taken down partly because a filmmaker named Christine embedded herself in the community for two years, gathered evidence the local police kept dismissing, and eventually handed everything to the FBI. The story of how he was finally caught involves a trailer on a highway, fingers visible through a gap in the door, and one person who decided to call it in.

Jenny and Susan break down what cult psychology actually looks like, why people join and cannot leave, what the warning signs are that most people walk right past, and what happened to the women after the FBI got involved. They also get into what each of us can do when something feels wrong and we are not sure whether to say anything. This one is heavy but it is worth it. Watch Trust Me: The False Prophet on Netflix first if you can, then come back and listen. Subscribe and share this with someone who needs to hear it.

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Jenny grew up in West Virginia next to a country club on a golf course, with a farmhouse, a massive garden, and six brothers who had a small side business growing marijuana in the backyard that her mother never found out about. Susan grew up in New England with Irish immigrant grandparents who remembered discrimination firsthand, a father who ordered Ebony Magazine to a very white neighborhood on purpose, and a hairdresser who operated out of her living room while a neighbor came in to sell eggs during the appointment.

Two completely different childhoods. Two women who turned out to have a lot more in common than you would expect. They get into what small town life actually builds in a person, what it felt like to leave it, the foods that are specific to each region that they will defend forever, and the one thing both of them say they genuinely miss about where they came from. Subscribe, share this with someone who grew up somewhere nobody else seems to understand, and tell us in the comments where you grew up and what it made you.

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Jenny and Susan pull back the curtain on how they actually built their businesses from scratch. Jenny started her dental practice with one chair, a bank loan, and a very specific strategy of taking every specialist in town out to lunch before she had a single patient. She also gave away free exams and cleanings for the first year because she knew if people could just experience her work, they would stay. Most of them did.

Susan built two businesses by spotting what nobody else in town was doing yet. Her estate and home watch company Key Concierge grew out of her own frustration as a homeowner, and the realtor community helped her get it off the ground before word of mouth took over. They also get into the networking groups that wasted their time, the hats you have to wear before you can hire anyone, and why the first year almost always looks nothing like the plan. If you are thinking about starting something or just wondering how other women did it, this one is worth your time. Subscribe and share it with someone who is on the fence.

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