Well first of all, welcome! Welcome to the Intuitive Parents Podcast. Hosted by Dr. Frances Malone ARNP. In today's episode we get to know our host, Dr. Frances Malone just a little bit better. So we asked the question.. WHO is Dr. Frances Malone? In the first episode of the Intuitive Parents Podcast you will hear a bit more of Dr. Malone's back story and what has brought her here to us today!

The Intuitive Parents Podcast is a place for parents to go who are seeking holistic support on their journey of consciously raising naturally healthy kids. Hosted by Dr. Frances Malone ARNP, PhD founder of The Intuitive Parents Collective, Malone Pediatrics, DogFish Moon Sanctuary, and Chartreuse Skincare.

Dr. Frances Malone has dedicated her career towards serving her community through her research, study, and care. She believes that each family unit is unique and deserves personalized care.

Through this podcast it is Dr. Malones mission to educate and support parents. From solo episodes to magnificent conversations with expert guests- The Intuitive Parents Podcast will be the next favorite on your playlist!

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Hi, this is Dr. Francis Malone, founder of the intuitive parents

collective. I've been working with children and their families

to provide holistic relationship based medical care throughout my

career. This podcast is for parents interested in

consciously raising naturally Healthy Kids. Here, we will dive

into topics that spanned childhood, and parenting as well

as hosting exciting guests. So whenever you find yourself at

the end of her parenting rope, tune into the intuitive parents

podcast to get new ideas about making parenting fun.

thrilled to be here and to be beginning conversations about

who I am and what I have to bring to this community. I have

had a long history, and that just happens when you get kind

of long in the tooth, I guess. I grew up in a household where my

parents did not rely on medications too much as a

background to mostly just healthy foods and lots of

outside time. And But then, when I hit my college years, I

actually was dramatically ill in a number of different ways, and

interfaced with Western medicine, in in life saving ways

at the time, and that were positive. And then also in

negative ways where my chronic epstein barr, or chronic mano

was minimized for a year. And I was told that it was all in my

head, which is really difficult to hear when you are a type a

student who is pushing themselves in academics and

failing, when you've never had that experience before. So I

would say that, having had those flip side experiences of Western

medicine, and then my own, I was already in the biology, pre med

track at the time and my own love of the human body nature,

how the world works, just got fueled by needing to understand

a little bit more. That whole system. And so I went to school,

I actually had a biology degree and a minor in neuroscience, and

then a nursing degree, a BSN, and a master's in nursing, which

is as a nurse, pediatric nurse practitioner from University of

Penn. So I have a really solid, great education. And then I was

afforded the luxury of attending the University of Washington,

which is the premier nursing research school in the country

for bio behavioral nursing. And there I got all of the ideas and

structures and the previous theoretical stuff sort of opened

up and splayed for you like PhD programs are intended to do and

then reformulated right. And University of Washington has an

incredible strength of creating research driven nurses. And so I

graduated from there and worked at Seattle Children's in the

solid organ transplant program, developing the intestinal

failure program with my colleague, Simon horseman and

hurry, right. So that was incredible opportunities to

really stretch myself in research and research projects

in both of those places in the University of Washington and

then Seattle Children's. And also to work utilizing the

premium way that you would need to use Western medicine which is

an organ transplant, because there really isn't another

opportunity for many of us children, other than moving

forward with new technology in medicine. But the way I raised

my own three children during that time, so I have three boys

and a steps on. The way I raised them was with a foundation of

nutrition and Outdoor time and respect and giving them freedom

and autonomy as much as i was able at their different ages.

And that experience really honed for me some of the places where

I have a natural trust or trust in the natural therapeutics,

because I was able to use those for my own kids, and my circle

of friends, children, and to see how well supported a child can

be without really leaning too heavily on

pharmaceuticals. And then I started my own pediatric

practice in 2016, on Bainbridge Island. And that has been

probably another of the harder things I've done in my life

because I really had to dig deep within myself to acknowledge

that I had the skills and I have the ability to figure out how to

create a practice on my own and to be a solo practitioner when

that type of practice is slowly dying away. And then I've had

the joy of caring for, you know, hundreds of other people's

children who bring light and brightness to my days on an

hourly basis. So that's how we got to where we are right now.

Hi, this is Francis. Thank you for tuning in to today's episode

of the intuitive parents podcast. We are thrilled to have

you here and hope that you enjoyed it. Please share our

podcast with others who may benefit and leave us a review.

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francis.com. Take care. I look forward to working with you.