Episodes

  • Looking at the Patient Experience, with MJ DeSousa
    Jan 8 2025

    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.

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    27 mins
  • April Corner takes on hearing loss
    Dec 10 2024

    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.

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    38 mins
  • Hearing and The Arts
    Sep 10 2024

    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.”

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    22 mins
  • Relationships
    Apr 10 2024

    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 I drove home this morning, I realized I should have told you about my father’s final wishes. The life-long learner, the career scientist and educator wanted to donate his body to Schulich Medical School, intending to continue teaching, even in death.

    Unfortunately that did not happen, for a number of reasons. However, it occurred to me that, perhaps in a rather perverse legacy, perhaps someone will learn something valuable from our interview about his experience with hearing loss and my own as caregiver. The Professor lives on!

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    44 mins
  • International Gift of Hearing – Rwanda
    Mar 15 2024

    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.

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    32 mins
  • Tinnitus
    Feb 14 2024

    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.

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    44 mins
  • The risk of ignoring hearing loss
    Jan 15 2024

    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.




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    29 mins
  • DeafMetal
    Nov 29 2023

    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.

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    45 mins