Renal Diet Podcast 001 - Introduction

Episode 1, Renal Diet HQ Podcast  As our inaugural episode, I want to welcome you to the first Renal Diet Headquarters podcast.  As your host, Mathea Ford, Registered Dietitian and CEO of Renal Diet Headquarters, I take time in this episode and talk about what we are going to bring you in this format.  I am looking forward to bringing this new format to you. This episode is being released on Christmas Day, December 25, 2013, and here are the links and information talked about. Hi, and welcome to the Renal Diet Headquarters Podcast. I'm your host, Mathea Ford, Registered Dietitian and CEO for Renal Diet Headquarters, and I'd like to welcome you to our first podcast. You'll find find show notes and other information on our website at www.renaldiethq.com/001 for this specific podcast. Those are numbers at the end of the link. Not like O's or anything, it's just renaldiethq.com/001. Thank you for joining me today. This episode is being released on Christmas Day 2013 and is just an introduction to our radio show. First of all, I want to tell you about Renal Diet HQ. Our mission is to be the most valued resource on kidney disease on the Internet for people to use to improve their health. Our website provides extensive information about dealing with chronic kidney disease. Each week we have new information based on topics requested by members of our audience. That includes you. You can send in a request as well. If you want to find out about our new posts every week, and when they come out, head on over to renaldiethq.com/001 and I will have a link in the show notes so you can sign up for the newsletter. We have a weekly email newsletter that comes out and you can learn more about everything that happened that week. The next thing is I want to tell you a little about myself. I've been a Registered Dietitian for 15 plus years. Seems like it's a long time, but it seems to have gone very quickly. I have spent the majority of that time working with customers, patients, then their families, planning menus for different health conditions. So, I've worked as both a clinical dietitian, an inpatient dietitian, an outpatient dietician, and I've worked as it's called an administrative dietitian, where I manage the inpatient food service and menus, which is what I do now. As of now, I have also released 19 books on Amazon. Most of them are about chronic kidney disease, and if you want to find those, you can go to renaldiethq.com/go/author that's, go forward slash author, author. And that'll take you to my author page. But, some of those books are also about gestational diabetes. I had gestational diabetes when I was pregnant with both my children, and I feel a certain amount of empathy, sympathy, need to talk to those women and help them out. So, I have about five books about gestational diabetes and then the rest of my books are about chronic kidney disease. And in the future, I will have more books about specifically diabetes and heart disease. So I'm working on branching out and trying to help people who have diabetes who may not have chronic kidney disease yet, to have a resource as well and to help prevent developing kidney failure. My past work history, I've been in the United States Army, I am a veteran and I worked in hospitals for most of my career. I spent about five years designing kitchens and traveling around installing room service, but still in hospitals. I've mostly worked in hospitals in Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma. I'm originally from Kansas and I currently live in Oklahoma with my family. And I work at Renal Diet Headquarters and Healthy Diet Menus, those are my two online businesses and our businesses have been around for about four years and so working on this for a while and developing the programs that we have. And I work with my husband, Keith,