Brighten Up Podcast
What is the most impactful factor in one's life? FAMILY! The things you like, the habits you form — or don't form 😏, and the personality you have are all heavily influenced by your family.
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Donna Kuo is on a journey to explore the various ways to improve family mental health and well-being! Forget all the phony pop-psychology and embrace an attitude of constant growth and learning by hanging out to listen to talks with professionals of various fields that relate to all things mental health!
Podcasting since 2024 • 11 episodes
Brighten Up Podcast
Latest Episodes
The Pink Battlefront: The Role of Community in Surviving Breast Cancer
The old African proverb, "It takes a village to raise a child" is widely known, but is enough attention paid to the power of community in overcoming family hardships? Of all the difficulties the family unit faces, few are as daunting as a breas...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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42:40
Virtual Frontier: Video Gaming & Teenage Boys
Frontiers are often characterized as unknown territory because of the lack of knowledge there is to them. The same rings true for the video game industry. It has only been a short time since children began growing up with them. Those that did a...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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32:09
You Are Not Alone: Let's Talk about Prevention
It cuts across economic status, it affects all age groups, and it touches so many lives. . . It is suicide. It is such a heavy discussion, yet such a dire one. Brave spaces are needed for brave people to talk, to reach out, to de-stigmatize.
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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42:42
Rising Invisible Threat: Cybersecurity for Senior Citizens
Have you heard of Pig Butchering Scams? Long gone are the days of "Nigerian Princes" seeking our bank info to park their money in exchange for a monetary gift for us. Online scams have become far more sophisticated today, from copycat websites ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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41:05
Fammelly is What You Make it
WARNING: Laughter and Joy are contagious in this episode! Donna sits down with one of America's favorite families — The Donnellys! No, seriously. What started as a humble attempt to showcase a daughter's gymnastic prowess on YouTube quickly bec...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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54:33
