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Voices in Health and Wellness

Dr Andrew Greenland

62 episodes

3 days ago

Send us a text The headlines say ADHD is “everywhere.” We ask why it took so long to see it. Dr Antonietta Pirello, consultant clinical psychologist and founder of the Spectrum Clinic, joins us to map the real forces behind rising diagnoses: updated DSM‑5 criteria, long‑ignored inattentive presentations, and a culture that is only now recognising how masking hides girls and women in plain sight. Across a candid, story‑rich conversation, we contrast media noise with what rigorous assessment l...

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Send us a text The headlines say ADHD is “everywhere.” We ask why it took so long to see it. Dr Antonietta Pirello, consultant clinical psychologist and founder of the Spectrum Clinic, joins us to map the real forces behind rising diagnoses: updated DSM‑5 criteria, long‑ignored inattentive presentations, and a culture that is only now recognising how masking hides girls and women in plain sight. Across a candid, story‑rich conversation, we contrast media noise with what rigorous assessment l...

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Entrepreneurship

Health & Fitness,

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Voices in Health and Wellness

From Trend To Truth: What Rising ADHD Diagnoses Really Mean with Dr Antonietta Pirillo

Send us a text The headlines say ADHD is “everywhere.” We ask why it took so long to see it. Dr Antonietta Pirello, consultant clinical psychologist and founder of the Spectrum Clinic, joins us to map the real forces behind rising diagnoses: updated DSM‑5 criteria, long‑ignored inattentive presentations, and a culture that is only now recognising how masking hides girls and women in plain sight. Across a candid, story‑rich conversation, we contrast media noise with what rigorous assessment l...

5 days ago

37 minutes

Voices in Health and Wellness

From Pitch-Side Physio To Scalable Digital Triage For Musculoskeletal Health with Peter Grinbergs

Send us a text If you could cut months of waiting into minutes of meaningful help, how much would outcomes improve? We sit down with Peter Grinbergs, co-founder of EQL and former elite sport physio, to unpack how musculoskeletal care can be faster, safer, and more equitable when data, design, and clinicians work together. Peter traces the path from pitch-side rehab—where variables are controlled and recovery is predictable—to everyday healthcare, where duplication and delay often end with a ...

5 days ago

35 minutes

Voices in Health and Wellness

Why Health Practitioners Don’t Need To Be Everything To Everyone with Ben Fleisher

Send us a text Burnout thrives in the space between good intentions and leaky boundaries—and that’s exactly where we go with licensed acupuncturist and zero balancing teacher, Ben Fleisher. From early studies in Buddhism and meditation to founding Woodstock Healing Arts in upstate New York, Ben shows how grounded rituals and collaborative care can protect a clinician’s energy while improving outcomes for patients across ages and conditions. We trace the arc from philosophy to practice: a thr...

1 week ago

30 minutes

Voices in Health and Wellness

Authenticity As Competitive Advantage In Eye Care with Helena Stengel

Send us a text Walk into a busy independent optician and you’ll feel it right away: the pace, the care, the quiet choreography that makes a complex clinic look effortless. Helena Stengel, a dispensing optician and director of a 90-year-old UK practice, takes us behind the counter to show how authentic communication and advanced technology can coexist without losing the human touch. We explore what it takes to keep patients seen and heard while running double clinics, mentoring trainees, and s...

1 week ago

25 minutes

Voices in Health and Wellness

How A Former NFL Player Rebuilt Purpose And Designed A Trauma-Informed Recovery Model with Tim Massaquoi

Send us a text What if healing looked less like a waiting room and more like a community hub filled with movement, mindfulness, and real-world support? That’s the vision Tim Massaquoi brings as Executive Director of a recovery centre serving families after a mass shooting in Southwest Philadelphia. His journey from the NFL to psychotherapy and leadership sets the stage for a candid look at how trauma-informed, culturally responsive care can meet people where they are—and help them move forwar...

1 week ago

33 minutes

Voices in Health and Wellness

How Tiny Behaviour Changes Beat Complex Illness And Slash Hospital Visits with Dr John Oberg

Send us a text What if the fix for “non-adherence” isn’t motivation, but the size of the next step? We sit down with Dr John Oberg of Precina Health to unpack a protocol that treats the whole person and then shrinks change until success is likely. Starting with medication correctness and adherence, and only then moving to lifestyle when someone is ready, John’s team has posted outcomes that stand out: a rural pilot moving average A1C from 9.6 to below the diabetes threshold with two years of ...

2 weeks ago

33 minutes

Voices in Health and Wellness

It’s Not “Just Teeth”: Why Your Jaw Runs The Show with Dr Suzie Bergman

Send us a text A car accident in her teens didn’t just change Dr Suzie Bergman’s life; it changed her field. After years of surgeries and a total TMJ joint replacement, Suzie turned personal pain into a mission to rebuild how we care for orofacial pain—by uniting dentistry with medicine, sleep, rehabilitation, and behavioural health. We dig into why chronic jaw pain resists quick fixes, how misdiagnosis happens, and what it takes to form a team that can see the whole person rather than isolat...

2 weeks ago

29 minutes

Voices in Health and Wellness

Work, Health, And The Disability Gap with Dr Karen Wallace

Send us a text What if healthcare could keep more people in good work, not just treat them after they fall out of it? Dr Karen Wallace, GP and Director of Clinical Partnerships at Maximus UK, takes us inside disability medicine and functional assessments, where the focus shifts from diagnosis to day‑to‑day function and real‑world capability. Across an honest, practical conversation, we unpack how post‑COVID trends have driven a rise in long‑term sickness, why younger people are staying out of...

2 weeks ago

28 minutes

Voices in Health and Wellness

How A Surgeon Built Lean, Patient-First Orthopaedics with Mr Murali Bhat

Send us a text What if half the fracture clinic queue never needed to be there at all? We sit down with a veteran hand and upper limb surgeon whose career spans elite sport, complex wrist trauma, and a passion for redesigning care so patients get help faster, safer, and with far less hassle. From the early days of noticing waste in patient pathways to formal lean training inspired by the Virginia Mason method, you’ll hear how small, focused changes add up to a system that actually works for p...

2 weeks ago

31 minutes

Voices in Health and Wellness

From Branding To Better Therapy: Rebuilding Mental Health Service Around Dignity with Maryam Meddin

Send us a text A single two-hour session that left more questions than answers became the catalyst for change. We sit down with The Soke founder Maryam Meddin to trace how a painful first brush with psychotherapy pushed her to redesign the entire care journey around human dignity, safety, and clarity. From the first phone call to the moment a client steps back onto the street, every touchpoint is treated as part of the therapeutic process. Maryam shares how a trained client services team tra...

2 weeks ago

41 minutes

Voices in Health and Wellness

Sleep Without The Quick Fix with Emma Gawne

Send us a text Sleep shouldn’t demand that parents ignore their instincts. We sit down with Emma Gawne, a certified sleep coach and founder of Help Baby Sleep, to unpack a humane, evidence-based approach that respects infant biology, attachment, and the realities of family life. Emma’s personal journey through poor guidance and postnatal depression led her to build a model that moves beyond quick fixes and one-size-fits-all programmes, offering nuanced support that helps families find rest, r...

3 weeks ago

38 minutes

Voices in Health and Wellness

How Exposure, Creativity, And Compassion Rewire Anxiety with Jonny Baker

Send us a text The gap between fear and freedom is often smaller than it feels. We sit down with therapist and coach Jonny Baker to unpack how integrative hypnotherapy, NLP, guided meditation, and psychotherapy principles combine to help people move from spirals of anxiety into steadier, more connected lives. Johnny’s route from art school to hypnosis shaped a practice that prizes imagination, pacing, and relationship over rigid protocols, and his approach shows why creativity is not a luxury...

3 weeks ago

36 minutes

Voices in Health and Wellness

Hidden Epidemic: Low Testosterone And Men’s Health with Dr Zak Zafrani

Send us a text Feeling flat, foggy, or unlike yourself is not a personality flaw. It can be a hormone story hiding in plain sight. We sit down with Dr Zak Zafrani, a GP with a specialist focus on men’s health, to unpack why testosterone deficiency is often missed, how stigma keeps men quiet, and what a safe, evidence-based path forward looks like when symptoms start to stack up. We start with the realities of primary care: short appointments, rigid lab cut-offs, and the quiet discomfort men ...

3 weeks ago

31 minutes

Voices in Health and Wellness

From SEO Myths to Meaningful Growth: Dr Larry Stanleigh on Trust, Teams, and Relationship-Based Healthcare

Send us a text A bigger ad budget won’t fix a leaky back door. Dr Larry Stanleigh joins us to show how sustainable growth in healthcare comes from relationships, not campaigns—and why most clinics overspend on SEO while underinvesting in trust. Larry’s path spans general dentistry, cosmetic work, periodontal care, and a deep niche in orofacial pain and TMJ, plus leadership in sports performance mouthguards that have supported Olympians to gold. That breadth shapes a clear stance: treat the pe...

1 month ago

34 minutes

Voices in Health and Wellness

Reimagining Therapy: From Talk to Energy, Trauma to Transformation with Ruthie Smith

Send us a text What if therapy could feel lighter, calmer, and more grounded—without losing depth? We sit down with psychotherapist, trainer, and author Ruthie Smith to explore a practical way of working that brings the mind, body, and subtle energy into one coherent process. Ruthie shares how a formative career in psychoanalysis evolved after one client calmed within minutes using gentle energy techniques, and why today’s trauma-informed care increasingly leans on somatic regulation, tapping...

1 month ago

33 minutes

Voices in Health and Wellness

When Parents Lead: Nicole Runyon on Tech, Limits, and Raising Resilient Kids

Send us a text A wave of teen distress has swept through otherwise loving, intact families—panic attacks, self-harm, school avoidance—without the trauma histories clinicians typically expect. Psychotherapist and parent coach Nicole Runyon traces a common thread: unbounded devices and a culture that prizes comfort over challenge. We dive into how the modern home and school environment can quietly derail development, and why the fastest path to change is helping parents reclaim calm authority, ...

1 month ago

29 minutes

Voices in Health and Wellness

How a Paediatrician-turned-Entrepreneur Built a Lean, Tech-Savvy Allergy Practice that Makes Immediate Impact with Dr Loren Isakson

Send us a text What does it take to build a modern allergy and immunology clinic that actually moves the needle for patients? We sit down with Dr Loren Isakson, founder of North Star Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, to unpack the choices behind a lean telemedicine launch, a thoughtful pivot to in-person care, and a day-to-day practice that treats sneezes and immune deficiencies with the same precision. From the first spark of curiosity in research labs to leading services at an Air Force base,...

1 month ago

23 minutes

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Inside a Psychiatrist’s Craft: Care, Balance, and Better Medicine wih Dr Sharon Winters

Send us a text What if “work-life balance” isn’t a tug of war at all, but a single timeline you learn to steer? That’s the lens Dr Sharon Winters brings to four decades in psychiatry, blending rigorous medicine with a deeply human, relationship-first approach that feels increasingly rare. We sit down with the board-certified psychiatrist and child fellowship clinician to unpack how 30-minute follow-ups, clear priorities, and better-tolerated medications are reshaping outcomes for people manag...

1 month ago

37 minutes

Voices in Health and Wellness

From CPAP Confusion to Confident Nights: Carissa Hankins on Reinventing Sleep Care

Send us a text What if CPAP success isn’t about willpower, but design? We sit down with nurse practitioner and founder Carissa Hankins to explore a coaching-first model that finally makes therapy tolerable, personal and effective for people living with obstructive sleep apnoea. From the first “why does this mask leak?” to the moment the data actually matches how you feel, Carissa shows how small, human-centred changes create big, sustainable wins. We start with crystal-clear foundations—what...

1 month ago

29 minutes

Voices in Health and Wellness

Building a Patient-First Pediatric Dental Network in Rural Pennsylvania with Dr Alesia Walsh

Send us a text A stage 3 cancer diagnosis during dental school could have ended a career before it began. For Dr Alesia Walsh, it lit a fuse that now powers four paediatric dental clinics serving mostly underserved families across Northeastern Pennsylvania—without sacrificing kindness, safety or standards. We talk about why she traded a big‑city career for her hometown, how COVID exposed a deep access gap, and the patient‑first systems that let her team treat every child the same whether they...

1 month ago

35 minutes