# health hats (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover health hats. Page: Feed: --- ## [2-Minute Bitch Session in 14 Minutes](https://healthhats.substack.com/p/2-minute-bitch-session-in-14-minutes) _2026-08-19 · Health Hats · Health Hats' Substack_ Pathological optimism doesn’t mean things don’t suck. ## [I Love This So Much I Have to Do Less of It](https://healthhats.substack.com/p/i-love-this-so-much-i-have-to-do) _2026-08-05 · Health Hats · Health Hats' Substack_ 600 blog posts and 250 podcast episodes in. ## [296 Pages of Data, Zero Bites of Information](https://healthhats.substack.com/p/296-pages-of-data-zero-bites-of-information) _2026-07-21 · Health Hats · Health Hats' Substack_ Proem I usually ask the questions. ## [She asked AI what was happening to her, alone in a dark hospital room](https://healthhats.substack.com/p/she-asked-ai-what-was-happening-to) _2026-06-17 · Health Hats · Health Hats' Substack_ A writer in New Zealand on twenty years of being dismissed, the spreadsheet that found what her doctors missed, and why she'll use any tool that helps her drive her own care. ## [Alone in a Dark Hospital Room, She Asked Claude](https://health-hats.com/pod249/) _2026-06-14 · Health Hats, the Podcast_ Using AI to track symptoms, weigh medication options, and advocate. Not a cure, a toolkit. An honest, careful path without handing over the wheel. Summary Health Hats reviewed Melissa Reynolds’ book on pregnancy in 2019, and they bonded over the fact that a man had blurbed it. Now she’s on to something new: she’s been figuring out how to use AI to manage a body that’s been hard to live in for two… [Listen](https://media.blubrry.com/healthhats/content.blubrry.com/healthhats/HHP249-MelissaReynolds-composite-postauph-2020612.mp3) ## [Same building. Same purpose. Since 1757.](https://healthhats.substack.com/p/same-building-same-purpose-since) _2026-06-03 · Health Hats · Health Hats' Substack_ How did it survive war, famine, and pandemic? [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/198482200/9ed41bdb3621b63994c0c6e660d37d19.mp3) ## [One fix dropped newborn deaths by two-thirds. No new medicine. Just air.](https://healthhats.substack.com/p/one-fix-dropped-newborn-deaths-by) _2026-05-27 · Health Hats · Health Hats' Substack_ https://health-hats.com/pod248/ [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/198481966/27ba7b96de09662acf52ae5772b6615f.mp3) ## [He escaped through a castle window and hid in the mountains — all to open a hospital.](https://healthhats.substack.com/p/he-escaped-through-a-castle-window) _2026-05-20 · Health Hats · Health Hats' Substack_ https://health-hats.com/pod248/ [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/198481656/c7b9f567aaf0f91eff23af5624cea137.mp3) ## [He Lost His Wife, Then Changed Childbirth Forever](https://healthhats.substack.com/p/he-lost-his-wife-then-changed-childbirth) _2026-05-16 · Health Hats · Health Hats' Substack_ Doctors were penalized for delivering babies. He did it anyway. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/198031139/05766cdff719920be0b7fe201f70d0b0.mp3) ## [Nurses’ Week, Handel’s Messiah, Oldest Maternity Hospital!](https://health-hats.com/pod248/) _2026-05-11 · Health Hats, the Podcast_ From a 10-bed lying-in hospital to Handel’s Messiah, the Rotunda Maternity Hospital has operated continuously for 281 years. A Nurses’ Week story. Summary Across the street from Danny’s Dublin hotel stood a large white institutional building with no signage. It turned out to be the Rotunda Hospital — the oldest continuously operating maternity hospital in the world, delivering babies in the same… [Listen](https://media.blubrry.com/healthhats/content.blubrry.com/healthhats/HHP248_Rotunda_Hospital_postauph_20260511.mp3) ## [Play Both Sides Of The Lie (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/8b9PFJI7pdds) _2026-05-11 · **Sponsored**_ Two operatives, one manufactured war — uncover the Complete Truth after both campaigns. ## [Participatory Governance: Right People Right Question](https://healthhats.substack.com/p/participatory-governance-right-people) _2026-04-20 · Health Hats · Health Hats' Substack_ This episode is about listening as leadership — the gap between where knowledge lives and where decisions get made, and what it costs when we pretend that gap doesn’t exist. ## [Transparency in AI: How the Sausage Gets Made](https://healthhats.substack.com/p/transparency-in-ai-how-the-sausage) _2026-03-11 · Health Hats · Health Hats' Substack_ Transparency sounds simple until you’re standing in a meatpacking plant. Health Hats digs into what we want to know—and why it matters. ## [Crutches, Caves, and Currents: Tubing in Belize](https://health-hats.com/pod245/) _2026-03-01 · Health Hats, the Podcast_ Health Hats walks & floats through ancient Maya caves in Belize with forearm crutches, teamwork, trust, and shared decision-making every step of the way. Watch this episode on YouTube. Audio is published, but not the same Podcast episode on YouTube Summary What does it take to go cave tubing in Belize when you use forearm crutches and have no electric wheelchair? For Danny van Leeuwen, it takes… [Listen](https://media.blubrry.com/healthhats/content.blubrry.com/healthhats/HHP245_Belize_tubing_20260301_ostauph.mp3) ## [If You Have a Body, You’re an Athlete: Training for MS](https://health-hats.com/pod244/) _2026-02-08 · Health Hats, the Podcast_ Former Nike exec Mark Hochgesang interviews Danny on Heavy Hitter Sports Podcast about MS & being an adaptive athlete. Just back from Belize! Training works. Summary My friend Mark Hochgesang, former Nike exec and host of Heavy Hitter Sports, recently interviewed me. While I usually wear my life on my sleeve on Health Hats, this conversation revealed something different—how I think about myself as… [Listen](https://media.blubrry.com/healthhats/content.blubrry.com/healthhats/HHP244_Heavy_Hitter_postauph_20260207.mp3) ## [Retirement Improvisation – Onward: 2025 Holiday Letter](https://health-hats.com/pod242/) _2025-12-28 · Health Hats, the Podcast_ Health Hats Danny celebrates 50 – years with his honey & pounds lost. With gratitude for privilege, & best health thru family, media, music, travel, & advocacy. Summary Think of 2025 as Danny’s Sofrito year—familiar and unexpected ingredients simmering together. The base: 50 years married, daily saxophone practice, steady MS management. The aromatics: Cuban jazz immersion, co-founding a Personal… [Listen](https://media.blubrry.com/healthhats/content.blubrry.com/healthhats/HHP242_2025_Annual_Letter_postauph_20251227.mp3) ## [A Third on the Shelf: Rethinking Power in Community Research](https://health-hats.com/pod241/) _2025-11-24 · Health Hats, the Podcast_ Kirk & Lacy on shifting research funding away from federal grants: what happens to community partnerships when the money—and the rules—change? Summary Three Audiences, One Report Lacy Fabian and Kirk Knestis untangle a fundamental confusion in community health research: there are three distinct audiences with competing needs—funders want accountability, researchers want generalizable knowledge,… [Listen](https://media.blubrry.com/healthhats/content.blubrry.com/healthhats/HHP241_Kirk_Lacy_post_auph_20251123.mp3)