Health Revel-ations

Revel Digital Collective, Inc.
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Health Revel-ations is a micro-podcast from Revel, the award-winning health content agency founded by Cristina Goyanes and Amanda Jedeikin. We ask industry insiders to share the moment they changed their minds about health — because real expertise isn’t certainty. It’s the willingness to evolve.

Episodes

  1. Aug 11

    Death Doulas Are Where Birth Doulas Were a Decade Ago

    When Allison Grant isn’t scaling startups, she’s thinking about death. As a trained death doula, she serves as a non-medical guide for the dying and their families through the end of life journey. Death doulas are roughly where birth doulas were a decade ago, before insurance covered them and hospitals offered them as standard of care. 85% of Medicare spending happens in the last six months of life, much of it on interventions the data says make quality of life worse. The conversation that could shift some of that is the one doctors aren't trained to have, but people like Allison are. 15 minutes

  2. Jul 6

    We Have the Technology to End Cervical Cancer. So Why Are We Losing 350,000 Women a Year to It?

    Anu Parvatiyar spent two decades designing health technology before co-founding Ananya Health, a medical device company working to end cervical cancer. The tools to prevent it have existed for decades: a vaccine since 2006, Pap smears since the 1950s. And yet thousands of women still die from it every year. What is standing in the way of eradicating cervical cancer once and for all? Human behavior. Anu describes the simplest problem and the complex solution. 8 minutes

  3. Jun 17

    What Journalists Got Wrong About Hormone Therapy

    Tracy Middleton has spent five years building the Edge, Hone Health's science-backed blog on hormonal and longevity health, read by more than a million monthly readers. She's also in perimenopause. That combination puts her in a specific position: covering a topic while living it, and trying to get the science right when the science itself keeps shifting. This episode centers on the WHI, the 2002 study that scared a generation of women and their physicians off hormone therapy. In fall 2025, the FDA removed the black box warning that had defined the conversation for two decades. Tracy discusses what it takes to cover that kind of reversal while helping women figure out who to trust. 13 minutes

  4. May 27

    Good Science Content Doesn't Have All the Answers

    Lauren Joskowitz was deep into a Hollywood career as an entertainment and sports reporter when a routine dermatology visit found melanoma on her arm. Two days later, she was in surgery. The diagnosis cracked something open: what am I actually doing? She quit her job. Left LA. Spent three years in a holistic nutrition therapy program. Now she creates science content for LMNT and sits with one of health communication's most uncomfortable truths every day: people want certainty, but the evidence rarely delivers it. How she handles that gap is what makes her work worth paying attention to. 10 minutes.

  5. May 27

    Why Simply Informing Your Audience Isn't Enough

    Nicole Zeman spent years editing at Cosmopolitan and Women's Health before moving into health marketing for brands like pelvic floor therapy platform Origin and mental health platform Alma. What she brought from her time in magazines that most marketers miss: the most powerful thing content can do isn't inform people. It is make them feel understood. That distinction reshapes how you write, what you publish, and who you actually reach. 15 minutes.

  6. May 27

    Is “Health Optimization” a Trap?

    "Optimize yourself" sounds empowering until your body starts to feel like a problem that needs fixing. Caitlin Shure, PhD in Communications and Head of Product & Content at Smartbuds by NextSense, lives in this tension daily. Health language can build trust or quietly manipulate, and the difference often comes down to a few word choices. This episode: what health marketers get wrong, and the question she can't stop asking: how do you communicate the value of health data without creating shame? 13 minutes.

  7. May 27

    A Doctor Couldn't Get Her Patients Off Sugar. So She Made a Better One.

    Sylvia Charles Royston, M.D. watched her patients fail to quit sugar even when their health depended on it. So she went home and made date syrup. Two months after selling it at local San Francisco stores, Whole Foods called. Nearly a decade later, her brand Just Date has more than 500,000 customers. This is the story of a physician who stopped prescribing a solution and started building one. 10 minutes.

  8. May 27

    “Ask Me About My Hysterectomy”

    Meghan Rabbitt spent her career writing about women's health. She's an award-winning journalist and author of The New Rules of Women's Health (foreword by Maria Shriver), and while doing research for that very book, she realized she'd been ignoring her own troubling symptoms. The diagnosis that followed was a shock. What came after was a masterclass in not apologizing for your own biology. 13 minutes.

  9. May 27

    That Supplement You're Taking? It Hasn't Been Tested.

    When Kate Winick learned she had a rare autoimmune liver condition, she did what any former health journalist and social media expert (Klaviyo, Peloton) would: researched everything. What she found about the supplement industry—largely unregulated, sometimes genuinely dangerous—changed how she shops. 6 minutes.

  10. May 27

    How Blood Sugar Became Everyone’s Business

    If you've heard anyone talk about blood sugar or CGMs lately, Mike Haney probably had something to do with it. As Editorial Director at Levels Health, he helped move metabolic health out of biohacker territory and into mainstream conversation. This episode: how that shift happened and why your blood sugar numbers might matter more than you think. 9 minutes.

  11. May 22

    How Art (and Time) Healed Me More than Meds

    When a traumatic brain injury sidelined Kristina Libby—marketing & communications executive and Moth-winning storyteller—the medical path forward was murky. What she found instead, through painting and slowing way down, rewired her understanding of how the body actually heals. 11 minutes.

  12. Season 1 Trailer

    Welcome to Health Revel-ations

    Health advice changes. Experts contradict each other. And in an era when everyone's questioning who to trust, the loudest voices aren't always the most honest ones. Health Revel-ations is a micro-podcast from Revel, the health content agency, built around one question: when did you change your mind? Each episode, a health industry insider shares the moment new evidence or lived experience shifted what they thought they knew. 2 minutes.

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Health Revel-ations is a micro-podcast from Revel, the award-winning health content agency founded by Cristina Goyanes and Amanda Jedeikin. We ask industry insiders to share the moment they changed their minds about health — because real expertise isn’t certainty. It’s the willingness to evolve.

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    Revel Digital Collective, Inc.
  • Episodes
    12
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