On today’s episode of The Dr. Mama Bird Show, Dr. Alex Pankoke chats with Courtney Butts, a therapist, doula, and owner of Soulfully Rooted Wellness. Courtney shares her journey from aspiring labor and delivery nurse to perinatal mental health advocate, emphasizing proactive mental health care from conception through postpartum. They discuss aligni…

Welcome back to The Dr. Mama Bird Show! In this episode, Dr. Alex interviews Dr. Becky Allen, a Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist, Entrepreneur, Coach, and Founder of Genesis PT and Wellness. with seven clinics in the DFW area. They discuss the importance of pelvic floor health, not just for pregnant and postpartum women but for everyone. Dr. Becky s…

In this episode, Dr. Alex welcomes Angie Heffner, a midwife and founder of North Texas Birth Experiences, to discuss the beauty and intricacies of home births. Angie shares her journey from a doula to a midwife and provides an in-depth look at what midwifery care can look like. Discover the differences between midwives and doulas, the benefits of h…

Welcome to The Dr. Mama Bird Show! In this episode, Dr. Alex welcomes Dr. Danielle Functional Medicine Practitioner and Pelvic Floor Therapist of 360 Health and Wellness Solutions in Plano, TX. They discuss women's health from a functional medicine perspective, focusing on root causes rather than symptoms. Dr. Bailey addresses common concerns like …

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America’s heartland is being reborn. From North Dakota and Michigan to Alabama and Texas, entrepreneurship, economic growth, and innovation are taking off. In this episode of TechEnabled, John is joined by Angie Cooper, Chief Program Officer of Heartland Forward, a “think and do tank” aiming to reframe the narrative about Middle America and improve…

The COVID-19 pandemic monumentally disrupted the American education system. The pandemic can be a catalyst for something better or it reinforce the status quo. On this episode of TechEnabled, John is joined by Michael Horn, the co-founder and distinguished fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation and author of From Reop…

With students returning to the classroom, the toll the pandemic has taken on our education system has only become more apparent. Students have fallen behind academically and teachers are overstretched. But the pandemic has also upended many long standing assumptions about education and created room to experiment with new approaches. A recent Echelo…

One of the most significant challenges facing Americans is misinformation and the systems by which it spreads and is amplified. Amid the debate around censorship and deplatforming has emerged a new approach - human-curated ratings and detailed "nutrition labels" to help empower people with gauging the trustworthiness of websites and news services. …

One of the greatest challenges of modern-day policymaking rests not in the development of new policies, but rather in their implementation. Some of the boldest policy ambitions of the last decade have been derailed due to the failure to understand how to deliver services through digital channels. This is why it is increasingly important for policym…

National trends are important. Local trends are more important. An interactive mapping service from PolicyMap helps leaders to quickly visualize and understand the trends within their communities. The data can reveal racial and economic disparities, identify areas lacking essential services, and help with planning where to deploy various resources …

One of the most significant technology trends over the last decade is the shift of services and computing power to the cloud. COVID-19 accelerated these efforts as companies stood up remote work operations, business operations moved online, and government agencies scrambled to deliver services through digital channels. The underlying technology tha…

Einstein once said, “If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.” The Governance Lab is helping organizations better define complex problems. We are joined this week by Beth Simone Noveck who directs the Governance Lab and serves as New Jersey's first Chief Innovatio…

One of the greatest challenges with COVID is forecasting where communities are in the transmission curve. Most of our models look backwards, not ahead. It was like knowing where a hurricane had been, but not having a forecast of where it was going. Carnegie Mellon University researchers are trying to change that. The Delphi group at CMU is at the f…

In this week’s episode of Tech Enabled, we’re joined by Jessica Robinson Co-founder Michigan Mobility Institute, Detroit Mobility Lab, and partner at Assembly Ventures who helps us understand the technologies enabling mobility - how we move people, goods, and services from one place to another. From self-driving taxis to the data from transit apps,…

One of the central questions facing policymakers and community leaders is how to best understand and improve economic mobility. Opportunity Insights was founded by economists Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Nathaniel Hendren. Their team of economists from Harvard and Brown University are working together to analyze new data and create new platforms …

The changing nature of work is providing both the fastest job growth and income gains to those with higher levels of skills and education. It’s vital then for governors, mayors, and education leaders to have better, real time data about their labor markets, including the skills most in demand. This has become even more important as leaders work to …

Small businesses are the lifeblood of the American economy. COVID-19 has been devastating for many small businesses who weathered through state closures, faced the uneasy task of reopening, only to face additional closures in some states. We’re exploring the insights we can glean from platforms like Thumbtack, an online marketplace that helps local…

Government websites were quickly overwhelmed during COVID and agencies have struggled to meet the surging demand for services. The US Digital Response is a nonpartisan group with more than 5,000 volunteers that are supporting state and local government during the COVID-19 crisis. They increase the capacity of government teams to rapidly update web …

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In March, Governors enacted a sweeping set of actions to increase social distancing to help slow the spread of COVID-19. The open question was whether people would heed these measures. The answer came from SafeGraph which has a dataset of foot traffic for 5 million businesses and organizations including 5,500 retail chains and 3 million small busin…

Dreading the first day of school.