Feeding Our Young®

Feeding Our Young® is a nursing support show with the shape of a friendly interview and the purpose of an encouraging conversation. Eric Miller speaks with nursing students, nurses, and nurse educators about the lives behind the scrubs and the habits that help people last in the profession. The show is informal. It often begins with jokes, pets, board games, family stories, home, holiday mix-ups, or playful second-episode traditions before settling into more serious material. That looseness is part of the appeal, because the professional lessons arrive through ordinary human context rather than a lecture format. Recent episodes move from night shift recovery to nursing school pressure, from charge nurse perspective to the difficulty of staying fair when workplace politics are swirling nearby. Guests talk about entering nursing after family life, choosing healthcare after childbirth experiences, finding confidence as students, and seeing education as a place where wisdom gets passed down. The show treats encouragement as practical behavior. It is not just praise. It is asking better questions, noticing overload early, admitting anxiety or depression before they take over, and refusing to let a bad workplace interaction define someone’s worth. Eric Miller’s role is part interviewer, part encourager, and part clinical instructor, with a habit of pausing to underline what a guest has just modeled. The conversations can be sentimental. They can also be very concrete. A guest may describe making patient-flow puzzle pieces fit as a charge nurse, then pivot into the personal discipline of not letting workplace talk shape a working relationship. Another episode can turn board gaming into a conversation about safe practice, teamwork, and real-world learning. Feeding Our Young® is especially useful for student nurses and newer nurses who need to hear that struggle is common and support is not weakness. Nurse educators and experienced nurses may hear a challenge too. The show asks them to be the kind of colleague a student remembers for the right reasons.