Episode 3: From Treating Pain to Building Health
What if the same things that help pull us out of chronic pain are also the things that can help keep us healthy in the first place? In Episode 2 of Because Our Health Matters, host Shannon Johnson sits down with Jessie Podolak, physical therapist, Wellcoach, pain science educator, lifestyle medicine advocate, and TrueWellness Clinical Advisor. Jessie shares her journey from growing up on a dairy farm to nearly three decades in physical therapy, and how her understanding of health expanded beyond movement to embrace the six pillars of lifestyle medicine. From pain neuroscience and prevention to the power of friendship, community, sleep, nutrition, stress management, and daily movement, this conversation explores why health isn’t something that simply happens to us, it’s something we build together.