After a long stretch of featuring guests on the podcast, Gunnar and Tiffany return to the show’s roots and have a chat with each other. Tiffany, who just returned from Hawaii with her boyfriend, Jeff, talks about being able to enjoy an active vacation after years on the transplant list. Now that she’s post transplant,...
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Chelsea Spruance rejoins the podcast along with Katie Malik, executive director of CF Yogi, to talk about their organization’s free virtual yoga classes for the CF community! Katie talks about the origins of CF Yogi, and where it’s headed thanks to a grant from the Boomer Esiason Foundation. Gunnar shares that he went to his...
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As May comes to a close, Breathe In wraps up CF Awareness Month with two final sprint interviews. Lise-Courtney D’Amico rejoins the podcast to chat with Gunnar about how their college experiences differed despite going to the same university – Boston College. They also talk about their next chapters in life as both Gunnar and...
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Gunnar and Tiffany continue May with another week of spring interviews! Tiffany talks with Tyler Smith, 23, who is living with cystic fibrosis and almost a year out from his double lung transplant, Tyler talks about his life growing up with CF and how sport was something that kept him healthy. He played golf and...
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Breathe In features two more interviews this week as we continue charging through CF Awareness Month. Danielle Mandella, 32 with CF, joins Gunnar to talk about her very unique path through transplant. As one of the very few people with cystic fibrosis to have ever received a living donor lobe transplant, in lieu of a...
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In keeping with the theme for May, Breathe In features two interviews this week! Gunnar chats with Will Marler, 24 with cystic fibrosis from the UK. Will is the producer of ‘Straight From the Lungs’ podcast, which features Gunnar and 22 other people with cystic fibrosis! Will talks about the project, which began in 2016,...
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It’s May… CF Awareness Month! Throughout the entire month, Breathe In will be featuring several people with CF or people who play a role in improving patient health and wellness in each episode. This week’s episode features Chelsea Spruance, 26 with cystic fibrosis, and Karen von Berg, a physical therapist at Johns Hopkins who works...
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