Feed Your Can: How to Thrive with Food Allergies Lindsay Schultz

Send us a Text Message.Think you're too young to be a leader in the food allergy community? Think again. This episode will introduce you to three dynamic teens who bust the myth that leaders have to be a certain age to make an impact. Lilia Vine, Maia Coplit, and Robert Vine are three inventors who developed a phone case that holds an Auvi-Q epi auto-injector (sercacase.com). In the same year they released their product, they also worked alongside their state legislation to help pass a food a...

Send us a Text Message.Meet Hemali, a junior in high school who turned a curious question about her food allergy journey into a helpful tool that helps parents of newly diagnosed kids navigate their journey more smoothly than her own initial journey. Reflecting back on her own experiences, she asked herself, "What do I wish my parents had known when I was diagnosed with food allergies?" Taking this question many steps further, Hemali built an online place for new food allergy parents to learn...

Send us a Text Message.Do you wish you could skip the awkwardness of going out to eat and talking about your food allergies but still have the confidence to eat safely?Kayla King is a certified nutrition coach and past restaurant manager who gives us the right language to understand how the kitchen works…the difference between the line, flattop grill, front of house, back of house and even some nuanced words where restaurants hear something differently than what we mean to say. Kayla was...

Send us a Text Message.Dr. Susan Eitel-Stack literally wrote the book on food allergies: Adulting with Food Allergies: Navigating Independence after Leaving Home. She and her husband Ken have successfully raised two sons to confidently manage their multiple life-threatening food allergies and even Type 1 Diabetes for one of them. The knowledge, thoughtful insights, practical tips, and detailed tactics will leave your pages highlighted, underlined and marked to go back and re-read a few ...

Send us a Text Message.Gayle Rigione is the CEO and Co-founder of Allergy Force, as well as a long-time allergy mom who raised her son with food allergies. He is now a thriving adult and we spent time reflecting backwards on the essential building blocks that were formative in shaping his independence as an adult.Grab a pen or prepare to take notes - this episode is packed with hindsight wisdom from over two decades of experience in raising a child from infancy into adulthood who navigates fo...

Send us a Text Message.Matt Bomes, the co-founder of Backstop, shares how his struggles with food allergies helped shape a one-stop-shop virtual care solution and app for caregivers of children who have food allergies. Using his lessons learned in sports, along with his own personal struggles as a young adult, Matt discovered a passion for mental health, fitness, and nutrition. He channeled his struggles and experiences into founding Backstop, a one-stop-shop virtual care solu...