The Queen of Embarrassing Moments

05/06/21 • 32 min

In this week’s episode, Caroline Verdon joins Shandee to chat about her embarrassing moments and funny anecdotes she has from her years in the industry. We put on our headphones for a stimulating chat with this award-winning radio presenter, producer, journalist, and podcast host of "At Least You Didn't". This hysterical conversation will make you laugh out loud!

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Food Allergy Advocacy Through Legislation

In this episode, Shandee converses with food allergy advocate Stacey Saiontz. Stacey’s journey into food allergy advocacy began because her son was diagnosed with 27 food allergies. Stacey works closely with FARE and has spearheaded the passage of several pieces of legislation in New York State, including training of educators to recognize anaphylaxis and how to treat it; and allowing students to self-carry prescribed epinephrine. Impressively, her son also supported the cause by championing particular legislation that proposed school buses carry epinephrine. Stacey shares her advice and experience being a mom with a son with food allergies, while navigating school and friends. She also chats with Shandee about her work with several holocaust education and breast cancer charities.

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Food Allergy Rock Star

We kick off Food Allergy Awareness week with Kyle Dine, CEO and Founder of Equal Eats. Kyle shares his personal transformation as an 80’s child with limited information surrounding food allergies and taking risks and being dismissive about his allergies through a severe food allergy reaction in which he wasn’t prepared. The anaphylactic reaction was his moment to realize he needed to reevaluate his life and determined that his life’s mission was to help others. His professional journey includes a decade of work in allergy education as a trusted speaker and musician. And as an avid traveler, Kyle realized the language barrier can be problematic especially with food allergies, and found the importance of putting allergy information in writing and in their language. He solved this issue by creating Equal Eats which provides professional translation cards to help the allergy community convey allergens in foreign languages. Kyle and Shandee talk about the difficulty of eating out with food allergies and how they are on a mission to help both the service industry and customers with their needs. Kyle also treats us to his song, “Food Allergies Rock.”