Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to by nutritional weight and wellness.

We are a Minnesota-based company that specializes in real food nutrition, education, and counseling.

My name is Leah Kleintraud, a registered and licensed dietitian, and your host for the show today.

My colleagues and I meet and work with real, everyday people who want to leverage their food as a way to help them get the most other lives.

That quality of life looks a little bit

different for everybody. This could look for one person like improving their ability to get around

with less back pain or less knee pain. For someone else, it might look like reducing urgent

trips to the bathroom so you can actually put something on your

schedule and know that you're not going to have to work around it. And then for someone else,

it might be getting through the winters with only a minor cold or two instead of getting

taken down every couple of weeks with a major illness. Really, as the longer I do this work, I am

continually amazed by the power of real food to nourish and to heal and to re-vitalize.

And today we've got a really inspirational story to share with one of those real everyday couples who are out there in the world doing their own form of powerful work supported by

a backdrop of nourishing real food. So Marcia Norwick and Mike Mullins are both lifelong

musicians and are recipients of cochlear implants for hearing loss, though each of their

journeys with hearing loss looks a little bit different.

So they now pass on their knowledge and their personal experiences along to their peers as

passionate volunteers for cochlear Americas. And they support people who are considering or who are

entering into the world of cochlear implants.

And to be really honest, they're better storytellers than myself.

So I'm going to be letting them tell their intersecting journeys of food, music, and hearing.

So we're so excited to have you guys on the show.

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