BeingHealthy.tv interview

What in your own background led you to start a podcast about health?



It all started with my parents. They instilled in me that exercise was a core part of life.  It was like eating, drinking, sleeping or breathing.  You had to do it.  But it was more than that, it was also something you enjoyed. Because of my passion of exercise, I went to school to become a physical therapist. It’s a great job that lets me help people who are injured to heal and to return to doing all the things they enjoy.

While treating patients, I see that a lot of them want more than just rehabilitation and education about injury prevention and exercise.  A good portion of them have a lot of questions about diet, nutrition and other general health topics.  Unfortunately, I just can’t answer the questions as thoroughly as I would like during their sessions because I have to focus on rehabilitating their injuries. So, I decided that I wanted a place that I could address all the questions and concerns that people were having. Podcasting and blogging seemed like the perfect way to do that. It gave me someplace that I could send my patients where I could give them the answers that I didn’t have the time to cover or the time to research during their appointments.  Plus, anyone in the world with an internet connection could get that same information allowing me to reach so many more people.

What does a typical episode of the podcast consist of?


A typical episode is around 15-20 minutes long. It consists of a main topic related to general health. It could be concerning exercise, nutrition, injury prevention, stress management, etc. Basically the main topic will explain an aspect of health in a straightforward manner and give some tips or tricks towards how to be healthier in relation to that aspect. I focus on making the content quick and easy to understand with several actions to take so that there will be something that even the busiest person can do to make themselves just a little bit healthier. And at the end of the show I answer questions that are sent to me via email, voicemail, blog comments or Twitter.

What can readers gain from the separate blog entries you post on your site?


I created the separate blog entries mainly because I wanted to keep the podcasts relatively short and focused on one topic that I wanted to go into in more depth. The blog entries are where you can go to get some even quicker health tips. It’s great for someone who has less than 5 minutes and is sitting in front of a computer screen. The topics are different than what I cover on the podcast but, for the podcast listeners, I mention the topics of the blog posts during the podcast. That way, they can go to BeingHealthy.tv and check them out if they are interested.

Can you give us a couple quick tips for improving our overall health?


Make your health a priority. All too often, people put everything else first. By the time they get to the end of the day, they’re too tired to exercise or even make a healthy meal. Despite what people say, there is time for us to build being healthy into all of our busy schedules. I know, I’m about as busy as you can get with a job, a one year old son, housework, my blog, my podcast and the video podcast I’m working on.  We just need to plan ahead and prioritize what we do.

There are two key things you need to start with. Make sure you have healthy food on hand to eat for when you get really busy and put your exercise into your schedule in pen. Eating healthy and exercising is every bit as important as every other thing that you have to do in your schedule. Since it keeps you healthy and able to do all the other things, I’d argue that it might actually be even more important in most cases.

What else do we need to know about you?


Well, right now I’m putting together a video podcast. That will be in addition to the blog posts and the audio podcast, so those won’t be going anywhere.  The video podcast will be dedicated to covering health topics that have a visual component that is hard to bring across in audio. I’m planning to have the episodes run about 5-7 minutes long on average. So, they’ll be about a third the length of the audio podcast. Hopefully, the first episode will come out in about a couple months. I’ll definitely have more details about that on the blog and on the podcast as we get closer and the date becomes a little firmer.