childhood leukemia

I am joined again this week by building biologist, Nicole Bijlsma. In case you missed last week’s episode, Nicole joined me to chat about creating a healthy low-tox home. You can listen to that episode here.

Nicole is a building biologist based in Australia and the bestselling author of one of my favourite resource books Healthy Home Healthy Family. Nicole is also the founder of the Healthy Home (Building Biology) movement in Australia and CEO of the Australian College of Environmental Studies. 

In this episode, Nicole and I will be chatting about electromagnetic fields (EMFs), where we discuss:

• What EMFs (electromagnetic fields) are and how they impact our children;
• The first thing Nicole looks at in a home when it comes to where beds are positioned in the home;
• How Wi-Fi affects our children; 
• How EMFs alter melatonin production;
• The truth about baby monitors;
• Ways to reduce EMF exposure include:
  • The benefits of texting over phone calls;
  • Turning off Wi-Fi at night via a timer;
• Nicole shares a little more information about her best-selling book Healthy Home Healthy Family.

Episode Links:

• Purchase Nicole's book Healthy Home, Happy Family on Booktopia. 
• Check out Nicole's website here. 
• Learn from Nicole over on Instagram here. 
• Listen to Episode 144: Creating a healthy, low-tox home with Nicole Bijlsma

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Brynne is our guest today and she tells us about her experience when her 6 year old son, Brig was diagnosed with Leukemia. We loved hearing about little Brig! How tough he was and his experience going through treatments, how finding the positive helped them get through it, and then finding out that he had relapsed. Brynne did a great job of sharing all the ups and downs, and we are so glad that Brig is now doing great and cancer free. Thank you for listening!

On this episode of the podcast, Vanessa and Jonah are joined by musician Andrew McMahon (Something Corporate, Jack's Mannequin) to discuss how he defied the odds and instead of quitting piano lessons like we did, became a professional musician who wheeled a sticker-covered piano onto the stage of the Warped Tour and has became a well-respected musician who admittedly never really uses music theory. Vanessa and Andrew also finally reconcile a long-standing dispute about Andrew not emailing her back when she reached out to him as a complete stranger to talk about their shared cancer diagnosis and Jonah admits that he recently pulled a similar move when he was diagnosed with his own type of leukemia in 2019. We also play a special version of CEO TAKEDOWN: SOMETHING CORPORATE edition where we debate the Ok Go/Post Cereal controversy, the "Pepsi, Where's My Jet?" documentary and our complicated thoughts about A&W Root Beer's mascot. Be sure to check out Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness' new album "Tilt At The Wind No More" when it comes out on March 31st, just don't email him to tell him your thoughts because he probably won't write you back! 

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