Supporting Your Family Member with Diabetes Without Being a Nag – E91

Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience

Mastering Diabetes

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Stacey Simms is the host of the award-winning podcast, Diabetes Connections and the author of “The World’s Worst Diabetes Mom.”

Stacey's son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2006, one month before he turned two, and Stacey started blogging about her family's experience with T1D a few weeks later. For more than a decade, she hosted Charlotte’s Morning News on WBT-AM, the city’s top-rated morning radio news show.

Stacey's been named to Diabetes Forecast Magazine's "12 People to Know,” the Charlotte Business Journal’s “Forty under 40” and as one of the “50 Most Influential Women in Mecklenburg County” by the Mecklenburg Times.

Diabetes Connections has been awarded the WEGO Health Top Ten Best in Show – Podcasts; The Podcast Awards – People’s Choice - Top Ten Health; and Diabetes Forecast Magazine: Top Diabetes Podcasts.

Stacey lives near Charlotte, NC with her husband, two children and their dog, Freckles.

Link to her podcast episode with Robby: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/diabetes-connections-with-stacey-simms-type-1-diabetes/id1006168716

We cover many topics including:

Raising a child with type 1 diabetes
Becoming a HELPFUL family member for someone living with any form of diabetes
The problems with over-sharing a child's health info on social media
How the media covers diabetes
Why it's not great for laypeople to give diet dosing advice (like we see on social media every day)

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Thank you for listening!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, where we teach you how to sit in the driver's seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life.
0:21.1	We'll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, gain energy,
0:26.7	and get your best A1C following more than 85 years of evidence-based research in the mastering
0:32.9	diabetes program.
0:34.2	Our program teaches you how to reverse pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes and
0:40.3	how to simplify your life with type 1 diabetes by maximizing your insulin sensitivity
0:45.3	using food as medicine. We're on a bold mission to reverse insulin resistance in
0:51.3	one million people. We're glad to have you joining us.
0:59.6	I am very excited to be here today with Stacey Sims.
1:03.7	Stacey, how are you?
1:04.8	I'm great. Thanks for having me.
1:06.6	Fantastic. Yeah, thanks for being here.
1:08.7	So Stacey, for those of you who don't know who she is,
1:11.0	she's the host of the award-winning podcast Diabetes Connections. And she's the author of a book
1:17.6	with a hilarious title called The World's Worst Diabetes Mom. And we can go into some detail
1:22.4	about why she refers to herself as the worst diabetes mom. Now, Stacey's son was diagnosed
1:27.2	with type 1 diabetes
1:27.9	in 2006, one month before he turned two years old. And Stacey started blogging about her
1:32.9	family's experience with type 1 diabetes actually a few weeks after that. Now, for more than a
1:37.5	decade, she hosted Charlotte's Morning News on WBTAM, which is the city's top rated morning news show. Stacey has been named to Diabetes
1:48.1	Forecast Magazine's 12 People to Know, the Charlotte Business Journal's 40 Under 40, and as one of
1:54.1	the 50 most influential women in, how do you pronounce that, Mecklenburg County?
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