The Nourisher Podcast

For decades, women were told hormone therapy was too risky — then the science changed, and an entire generation was left with unanswered questions and providers too hesitant to help. In this episode, I sit down with Jennifer Soto, a family nurse practitioner and founder of Generation Wellness in Amarillo, whose 20+ years in patient care (including oncology) shaped her mission to close that gap. 

Jennifer breaks down what hormonal health actually means beyond estrogen and periods, why your body works like a symphony where one "squeaker" throws everything off, and why she believes women — who make 80% of medical decisions — hold more influence than they realize. This is also a personal episode for me as I share an important update about what's next for The Nourisher Podcast. Grab a cup of coffee and settle in for this one.

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Until next time, stay strong, stay connected, and keep growing!

The Nourisher Podcast is for the woman who feels alone in her journey and is yearning for connection and sisterhood built upon vulnerability, authenticity, and open hearts. 

Learn more about the mission and vision for The Nourisher Podcast at www.thenourisherpod.com. 

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What happens when the face everyone recognizes finally gets to just be herself?

Jackie Kingston spent nearly two decades as a familiar face in Amarillo building a career in local television while quietly wrestling with who she was beneath it all. In this episode, we talk about walking away from a role that had shaped her entire identity, what it actually looked like to rebuild her self-esteem on the other side, and how falling in love taught her what she was worth.

Jackie is now the Executive Director of the Amarillo Tribune — Amarillo's first community-supported nonprofit newsroom — and she brings that same honesty and warmth to everything she does. We talk about why local news is where your power is, how compassion is a muscle you have to keep flexing, and why curiosity might just be the antidote to almost everything.

Resources mentioned:
 — Amarillo Tribune: amarillotribune.org
— Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
— The Revolution from Within by Gloria Steinem
— All About Love (Trilogy) by bell hooks

Until next time, stay strong, stay connected, and keep growing!

The Nourisher Podcast is for the woman who feels alone in her journey and is yearning for connection and sisterhood built upon vulnerability, authenticity, and open hearts. 

Learn more about the mission and vision for The Nourisher Podcast at www.thenourisherpod.com. 

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Márcia Cook lost her two-year-old son in a tragic accident. Then a stillbirth. Then more miscarriages. Then her mother. All while battling her own health crisis on top of a childhood marked by abandonment, abuse, and racism. In this conversation, Márcia, author of Dare to Dream with Eyes Wide Open, talks about the moment she asked God if anyone in the world was hurting more than she was. The answer  changed everything.

She opens up about what faith actually looks like in the darkest seasons, how writing became the way she survived before it ever became a book, and the therapist's metaphor about a "bed of nails" that reframed how she thinks about healing. She also shares what it took to finally speak the words she'd kept buried for years and what she wants every woman in the middle of her hardest season to know.

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Website - https://marciacook.framer.website/ | TikTok | Instagram | Facebook

Until next time, stay strong, stay connected, and keep growing!

The Nourisher Podcast is for the woman who feels alone in her journey and is yearning for connection and sisterhood built upon vulnerability, authenticity, and open hearts. 

Learn more about the mission and vision for The Nourisher Podcast at www.thenourisherpod.com. 

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What does it actually mean to think for yourself, and why is it so hard right now? In this episode, I sit down with Cheryle Cooper (Amarillo writer, editor, and educator) for an honest conversation about one of the most important skills we can develop as women: critical thinking.

Cheryle shares how she intentionally wove critical thinking into her homeschool curriculum, why she believes we've been conditioned to outsource our thinking to outside voices, and what it looks like when we stop asking questions altogether. She also gets real about raising daughters who are now out in their communities doing exactly what she raised them to do — pausing, asking questions, and not just taking things at face value.

Read Cheryle's Published Stories

• Writing the Mother Road: Texas High Plains Writers Celebrates Route 66
• Backroads Literary Review Spring 2026 
• Clean Fiction: Spring Edition 2026
• With Words We Weave, Texas High Plains Writers 2026 Anthology: The Art of Turning Lemons into Lemonade

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• Instagram
• LinkedIn

Until next time, stay strong, stay connected, and keep growing!

The Nourisher Podcast is for the woman who feels alone in her journey and is yearning for connection and sisterhood built upon vulnerability, authenticity, and open hearts. 

Learn more about the mission and vision for The Nourisher Podcast at www.thenourisherpod.com. 

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Welcome back to a little sweet treat episode! Today we're slowing down for a few minutes to talk about something that's been on my heart heading into summer. If you're anything like me, last summer flew by way too fast and you're determined to actually live this one.

I'm getting personal about my own experience — the whirlwind of last summer, what I felt when it was over, and the simple intention I'm carrying into this season. Then I'm turning it around to you with one question I want you to actually sit with before summer hits.

This one is for the girl who wants a fulfilling summer, not just a full one. 

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DISCLOSURE: This episode contains open discussion of pregnancy loss, miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, and infertility. If any of these topics are sensitive for you right now, please listen at your own pace or save this one for when you're ready.

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Mother's Day is coming, and this episode is for the women who are navigating it with a heavy heart.

This week, I sat down with my friend Haleigh, and she gave us something really rare: the unfiltered truth about what it's like to walk through infertility, pregnancy loss, and the kind of grief that doesn't come with a roadmap.

Haleigh shares her journey through five miscarriages and two ectopic pregnancies, what it felt like to consider IVF, and what nobody tells you about trying to grow your family after you've already had a baby. We talk about the things people say that don't help, the moments she felt completely alone, and what it finally feels like to be on the other side even when the journey isn't over.

If you're struggling with infertility, pregnancy loss, secondary infertility, or just dreading Mother's Day, you are not alone.

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Until next time, stay strong, stay connected, and keep growing!

The Nourisher Podcast is for the woman who feels alone in her journey and is yearning for connection and sisterhood built upon vulnerability, authenticity, and open hearts. 

Learn more about the mission and vision for The Nourisher Podcast at www.thenourisherpod.com. 

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She packed up her family, moved to Ohio on an air mattress, and bet everything on a drone.

Beth Flippo is the CEO and founder of DEXA — a drone delivery company that earned the same FAA certifications as Amazon and Google with a team of 25 people and a fraction of the budget. She's an embedded software engineer, a former Wall Street quantitative analyst, a mom of four, and the first female CEO of an unmanned airline. And in this episode, she holds nothing back.

We dig into what it actually costs to chase something you believe in, the sacrifices, the self-doubt, and the moments where quitting would have been so much easier. Beth gets real about imposter syndrome at the CEO level, what it's like to still be underestimated in rooms she's earned her way into, and why she refuses to hide her femininity in one of the most male-dominated industries in the world.

This one is for the woman who's been told to think smaller. The one sitting on an idea she hasn't acted on yet. The one who assumed women at the top have it all figured out. Fun Fact: they don't. They just keep going anyway.

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Until next time, stay strong, stay connected, and keep growing!

The Nourisher Podcast is for the woman who feels alone in her journey and is yearning for connection and sisterhood built upon vulnerability, authenticity, and open hearts. 

Learn more about the mission and vision for The Nourisher Podcast at www.thenourisherpod.com. 

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There are two kinds of tired. The kind you sleep off, and the kind that's been quietly building for years. In this episode, I sat down with Marcy McKay — author, speaker, and mindset coach — and y'all, she had me looking at my own life by the end of it.

Marcy opens up about her 2017 house fire and how it forced her to uncover something she never expected: perfectionism, over-functioning, and a lifelong need to be the fixer for everyone around her. What started as the worst thing that ever happened to her became the wake-up call she didn't know she needed.

We talk about what high-functioning burnout actually looks like, the difference between CARE and CARRY, and why so many women are still hauling weight from 2020 that they never put down. Marcy even turned the mic on me a little!

If you've ever driven somewhere and couldn't remember the drive, said yes before you even checked in with yourself, or reloaded the dishwasher because your husband did it wrong... this one's for you.

Check out Marcy's books on Amazon!

Transforming Your Stress - https://amzn.to/4cmPgWS

Pennies from Burger Heaven - https://amzn.to/4vj1xUB

Bones and Lies Between Us - https://amzn.to/3PPYTFV

Stars Among the Dead - https://amzn.to/3PPutDI

The Moon Rises at Dawn - https://amzn.to/3PTFfsB

Work with Marcy McKay - https://marcymckay.com/

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The Nourisher Podcast is for the woman who feels alone in her journey and is yearning for connection and sisterhood built upon vulnerability, authenticity, and open hearts. 

Learn more about the mission and vision for The Nourisher Podcast at www.thenourisherpod.com. 

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What happens when the job that defined you for 32 years is suddenly gone AND you're 50 years old, starting over?

In this episode, I sit down with my best friend Dorelen, a woman who built herself up from a customer service rep at 19 to Vice President and Director of Operations, growing a company from one location to five and becoming the heartbeat of everything she touched. And then, in an instant, that chapter closed.

Dorelen gets refreshingly honest about what the transition has actually looked like from the grief, the loss of identity, the silence where a full inbox used to be, and the unexpected places she found herself again. Spoiler alert: it wasn't a new job title. It was a patio, a good drink, and the friends who didn't need her to have it all together.

This one is for the woman who has ever tied her worth to what she does. For anyone in the middle of a season that didn't go according to plan. And for anyone who just needs permission to still be figuring it out.

Until next time, stay strong, stay connected, and keep growing!

The Nourisher Podcast is for the woman who feels alone in her journey and is yearning for connection and sisterhood built upon vulnerability, authenticity, and open hearts. 

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If you’re in a season of change — a move, a new chapter, a total life shake-up — this episode is for you.

In this little treat of an episode, we’re digging into something most women don’t talk about: the quiet grief that comes with life transitions, and the sneaky trap of trying to rebuild your old life instead of actually growing into your new one.

The version of you that had it all together? She’s gone. And that might be the best thing that’s ever happened to you.

This isn’t a self-help lecture. It’s the kind of conversation you’d have with your best friend over girl dinner and a glass of rosé. Because personal growth doesn’t have to be a TED Talk. Sometimes it’s just an honest moment of asking yourself "what do I actually want to bring into this next season?"

Until next time, stay strong, stay connected, and keep growing!

The Nourisher Podcast is for the woman who feels alone in her journey and is yearning for connection and sisterhood built upon vulnerability, authenticity, and open hearts. 

Learn more about the mission and vision for The Nourisher Podcast at www.thenourisherpod.com. 

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