Healing an Auto-Immune Disease with Functional Nutritional Therapist and Wellness Coach, Alyssa Abrahamson.

You know we love to talk and laugh! In the latest episode of Talking Smack 415, Debbie & Jamie the Great catch up.  It's just the two of us interrupting each other, sharing what we've been yacking about off mic.  
We chat about: 

• Menopause 
• Hormones 
• Crystals 
• And most important Jamie the Great shares a cancer update.  

Grab your coffee, grab your dog, grab your earbuds, and come hang with us! This episode is full of laughter and friendship to feed your soul. 

Don't forget to share with a friend or family member who needs some LOLS!  

In this episode of Talking Smack 415, Jamie the Great and I chat with viral TikTok sensation Brianna Apple.  We dive deep into her story and cover so many topics: 

• Being Jewish
• Stereotypes and misinterpretations of her work
• Struggles to keep content light and humorous for Jewish followers and not feed into the antisemitic backlash she has received
• Brand deals
• Content creation process
• Dating in New York and Hinge reviews
• Israel
• Camp
• Sleep habits
• And so much more! 

Grab your earbuds, start your commute, press play and get ready to LOL! 

You can find all things Brianna on TikTok or on Insta!

PS - Don't forget to share with your friends and little influencers.  

In this episode of Talking Smack 415, Jamie the Great and I chat with our friend from high school, JT Birds.  JT 's a bird watcher who goes birding every day.  He leads tours and is on a mission to share as much about birds as possible.   He'll inspire you to tune in and care about your habitat and the planet to change the way you move through the world.  We fly right in with lots of bird puns as JT shares his metamorphosis and perspective shift that emerged from the pandemic.   

We talk about: 

• Being present
• Meditation 
• Photography
• Videography
• Barry Manilow
• His future plans or birding

And we even fly way back to our past lives and roots and chat about our Yiddish names.  

Grab your earbuds and binoculars and head outside to listen and tune in to the birds.  

Please share with your nature-loving friends and family. 

You can find all things JT Birds  on jtbirds.net and on insta @JT_Birds 

Hit the gym, jump in your car, or get in the kitchen and listen to this episode!

Jamie the Great and I are interviewing Dr. Erika Siegel.  

Dr. Siegel is a: 

• Naturopathic Physician 
• Acupuncturist
• Mom 
• Juggler of life's abundance 
• She has been practicing Functional Integrative Medicine for over 20 years 

And, she just launched her first 2- volume book set, "Nourish Me Kitchen",  which offers essential health wisdom and wholesome everyday recipes.  

As you can imagine with all the naturopathic advice and a new book there's a ton to chat about.  Which creates lots of juicy takeaways for you. 

We chat about: 

• Aging gracefully 
• Anti-inflammatory foods
• Limiting beliefs 
• Why you may wanna add Himalayan salt to your water… pure hydration! 
• Soup - lots and lots of soup 
• Answer a listener's q on intermittent fasting and how it affects cancer cells
• Having grace and trusting your own body 
• Sauce on the side 
• Air fryers 
• Bone broth 

Of course, we LOL and get back to colonoscopies and breast health. 

Please share with friends and family who need to learn about aging gracefully! 

You can find all things Erika at www.nourishme.com and on instagram, @nourishmekitchen

• The other book Erika references in this episode is written by 
  Dr. Jason Fung and it is either, "The Complete Guide to Fasting " or "Life in the Fasting Lane."

In this episode of Talking Smack 415, we meet one of Jamie the Great's healers,  her therapist, Gregory Garber.  We chat about: 

• The emotional rollercoaster of cancer 
• Normalizing the feelings around it 
• Jamie as a  patient
• Cycles patients go through
• We try and make some jokes but cancer isn't that funny

Listen in to hear where Jamie is in her process.  And, please share with anyone who wants to keep up with Jamie's progress and or who may be learning how to live with cancer.  

PS: Shout out to Oyster House for being the most consistently delicious restaurant in Philly according to Gregory Garber! 

Jamie the Great is back on Talking Smack 415 a mere five weeks post major cancer surgery.  To remind you, they removed part of Jamie the Great's jaw and rebuilt it with a bone in her leg.  Now she's back on the mic, recording her story to share with you.  

In this episode, we chat about: 

• How phenomenal her husband Andy has been 
• How awesome her entire family has been
• All the love from you that is helping heal her
• Last day of work 
• Surgery & feeding tubes 
• TV
• Surrender, a total relaxing of the nervous system &  calmness 
• Throat & third eye chakra
• Healing with her dogs 

And, in the spirit of doing it messy, we continue recording through our technical glitch. 

Leaving you with this.... all Jamie the Great needs right now is space for her to heal along with your continued love.  Keep sending those love vibes because she feels it! 

xo,
Talking Smack 415 
Debbie Mink & Jamie the Great

On May 18Th Jamie the Great turns 50.  On May 19Th Jamie the Great goes in for major surgery to remove the top left side of her jaw to get rid of cancer in her mouth. The recovery time will be close to 6 months. As you listen to this episode send her love and healing vibes.  

I  Love you Jamie the Great! 

PS - We're pausing the podcast until Jamie is ready to record again! 

If you're like Jamie the Great and myself, you're close to 50 give or take a few years.  And, a hot topic amongst your friend group is colonoscopies.  

After my first one, I had so many questions and knew we had an opportunity to share our experiences, demystify the colonoscopy, explain the why behind them - spoiler alert - colon cancer prevention - and of course LAUGH about it all.   Enter our next guest, Gastroenterologist, Dr. Kevin Skole.  We go deep sharing our colonoscopy experiences and discussing everything from:  

• Types of procedures  
• Prep 
• Different sedation 
• Dr jokes  
• And more…  

Please share this informative episode with all your friends, coworkers and family members who are about to have a colonoscopy and or who have had one recently. 

If you're looking for inspiration and love hearing about artists’ processes and purpose then this episode is for you.  Jamie the Great and I interview commercial photographer, actor, musician, and creator of the “One a Day” photo documentary project, Brian Molyneaux.   

We dive deep into the, "One a Day” project and it’s evolution.  “One a Day” project started as a response to the political divide in our country and world in 2016, a handshake, a picture, and “maybe I’ll try this for a month” and has turned into an intuitive daily practice for over 7 years.   

We talk about: 

• Process 
• Stories 
• People 
• Cognitive decline  
• Light  

And, Brian shares ideas for his next project & all of his creative endeavors that he keeps exploring.   

And, naturally, there are plenty of interruptions!  

You can check out Brian’s, "One a Day" project on his Insta @Brianmolyneaux 

Grab your earbuds or headphones head outside for a walk and get inspired by this episode and share with someone who needs some inspo! 

If you're looking for some inspiration then this episode of Talking Smack 415 is for you!  Jamie the Great and I interview artist, comedian, influencer, content creator, and healer, Toni Nagy.  

We laugh and absorb so many mic drop moments on these topics: 

• Perpetual dissatisfaction 
• Speaking your truth
•  Duality
•  Co-Dependent Personality Disorder
• Patriarchy
• Play 
• Time & creativity 
• Healing 

You can find all things Toni on insta @toninagy

And you can find her Somatic movement classes at sidestreamstudio.com