The Pulse Check Podcast

The Pulse Check Podcast 🎙️Hosted by Sammy (@sam_thomas2)Where health, fitness, and real life collide. I am talking wellness, mindset, and what it actually takes to feel your best, plus unfiltered nurse stories, behind-the-scenes healthcare chaos, and the lessons no one teaches you.Raw. Relatable. A little unhinged.Expanding your horizons one episode at a time.

The Pulse Check Podcast is a education podcast hosted by SammyBShroyer, with 26 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

SammyBShroyer hosts The Pulse Check Podcast, a education show with 26 episodes published.

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  HYROX, Career Changes & Knowing When It’s Time to Move On w/ Hannah Smith

  Oct 3, 202659 min

  This week on The Pulse Check, I’m joined by my friend and former Neuro Trauma coworker Hannah Smith! We just took on HYROX together on September 20th, so obviously we had to talk about the race, the training, what nearly killed us, and what we learned from pushing ourselves way outside our comfort zones. But this episode goes a little deeper too. Hannah recently made the move from Neuro Trauma to the NICU, and I’m getting ready to make my own move into Med/Oncology. We’re talking about knowing when a job, season, or situation just doesn’t fit you anymore, how to tell the difference between something that’s hard and something that’s no longer right for you, and why moving on doesn’t mean you failed. Basically… HYROX, nursing, big life changes, and figuring out what’s next.

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  The Whole Woman: Anxiety, Depression & Women's Health w/ Tara Udy, FNP

  Sep 26, 202646 min

  Have you ever had that feeling of “I just don’t feel like myself lately”? In this episode of The Pulse Check, Sammy sits down with Tara Udy, FNP, to talk about anxiety, depression, hormones, women’s health, and why our mental and physical health are way more connected than we realize. Tara has spent years working in women’s health and recently co-opened Encompass, a practice focused on caring for the whole woman. We’re talking about the symptoms women often brush off, why so many of us are really good at saying “I’m fine,” how hormones can affect how we feel, advocating for yourself, and what to do when you know something feels off. This one is for any woman who has ever thought, “Something just doesn’t feel right.”

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  The Period I Lost: What My Missing Cycle Taught Me About Hormones, Food & Fitness

  Sep 19, 202631 min

  What happens when your period just… disappears? In this episode, Sammy gets personal about her experience with losing her period and eventually getting it back. She’s breaking down the science behind the menstrual cycle and talking about how the brain, ovaries, hormones, nutrition, energy availability, exercise, stress, weight changes, and hormonal birth control can all play a role in menstrual health. Sammy also talks about Nexplanon, functional hypothalamic amenorrhea, RED S, why low estrogen can matter for bone health, what a healthcare provider may evaluate when periods disappear, and the things she wishes she had understood sooner. Most importantly, this episode is about changing the way we think about periods. Your period isn't just about fertility. It isn't something you should automatically ignore when it disappears. And it definitely isn't something you need to feel ashamed of. Your period is data. This is Sammy’s personal experience, not medical advice, but she hopes this conversation helps you understand your body a little better and feel more comfortable asking questions when something changes. ️ The Pulse Check Podcast Beyond the bedside. Into real life.

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  We're Married?!?! A Year One Pulse Check

  Sep 12, 202625 min

  One year married and three years together. We're getting real about what marriage is actually like, from the biggest surprises and dumbest arguments to growing together, communicating, and finding quality time when one of us works night shift. No perfect marriage advice, just our honest first-year reality check.

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  Brain Attack: What Really Happens During A Stroke?

  Sep 5, 202639 min

  Stroke sounds like something that happens to “old people”… until it happens to someone you love. This week on The Pulse Check, we're taking you inside the brain and breaking down EVERYTHING stroke related without making you feel like you're sitting through a 3-hour nursing lecture. What's actually happening when a blood vessel gets blocked? What's the difference between an ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke? What the heck is a TIA? Why does atrial fibrillation matter? What is the NIH Stroke Scale? What happens when you get to the ER? How do clot-busting medications and thrombectomies work? And why does everyone keep saying “time is brain”? We're also talking about the stroke symptoms people miss, why strokes don't always look like someone dramatically collapsing, how a stroke can affect speech, movement, vision, memory and personality, and why young people aren't automatically off the hook. BE FAST. Because knowing what a stroke looks like could genuinely save someone's life. ️ Welcome to The Pulse Check — where we take complicated health topics and make them actually make sense.

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