Life Sounds Good!

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Looking at the Patient Experience, with MJ DeSousa

2025-01-0827:13

Audiologist MJ DeSousa, Director of Patient Experience, North America for Beltone, joins Mike and Wendy to discuss the ins and outs of the patient journey.

April Corner takes on hearing loss

2024-12-1038:22

Wife, mother and social media personality, April Corner, joins Mike and Wendy to talk about being diagnosed with hearing loss at age 25. It didn’t slow April down. Her website HardtoHearIt.com is a place for people of all ages to get support for hearing loss.

Hearing and The Arts

2024-09-1022:23

Dan Watson, Executive Director of the Huntsville Festival of the Arts, joins Mike and Wendy to talk about how hearing and sound affect the making of art as well as the enjoyment of it. As Dan says, “Hearing is integral to any art form.”

Relationships

2024-04-1043:47

Join hosts Wendy and Mike in conversation with the eloquent Nancy Holmes of London, Ontario who shares her experiences with her father’s hearing loss. A touching tribute to her brilliant father with some real nuggets of wisdom for communication partners of those with untreated hearing loss.A note from our guest, Nancy Holmes:Isn’t it always the way … you engage in a stimulating conversation, but it’s too late, on the way home that you think of the important thing that you should have said!As ...

International Gift of Hearing – Rwanda

2024-03-1531:38

Members of Hear Well Be Well Hearing Clinics traveled to Rwanda in late 2023 to share their knowledge with local doctors and nurses, as well as do some hearing aid fittings and programming at a teaching hospital.

Tinnitus

2024-02-1443:43

Buzz, buzz, ping, ping. A super informative episode with Elliot Tiede, hearing instrument specialist, about tinnitus with a digression into more than you probably ever wanted to know about ear wax. The science and the real life of it are fascinating.

The risk of ignoring hearing loss

2024-01-1529:10

Join host Wendy, researcher and journalist, as she chats with co-host Mike about the research around the health effects of leaving hearing loss untreated. Some pretty surprising stuff. If you’re interested in all the research and its sources, visit the Hear Well Be Well website.

DeafMetal

2023-11-2945:22

In this special extended edition of Life Sounds Good, hosts Wendy and Mike chat with Jenni Ahtianen, the creative force behind DeafMetal, jewelry for hearing devices. This award-winning company whose home is in Finland, has shown folks that having hearing devices or cochlear implants doesn’t have to be boring.

Hearing aids can change everything

2023-11-1020:37

Roger and Nina from Bolton Ontario Canada share their thoughts and experiences around how hearing aids changed their lives and the difference hearing aids made to Roger living with Lewy Body Dementia.

Barriers

2023-10-0323:29

Today we talk with Elliot Tiede a hearing instrument specialist, and Nancy Robinson a customer experience manager about what makes Hear Well Be Well different from other hearing clinics, and some of the barriers that people have to treating their hearing loss.

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