Friends and Enemas
by Lindsey Shelton
Season Wrap-Up: Nursing Wins, New Adventures & Back-to-Work Realities
About this podcast
It's an emotional ride in here, ya'll, and all are welcome! Friends & Enemas is brought to you by me, Travel Nurse, Entrepreneur, and Content Creator, Lindsey Shelton! Join me for a healthy dive into the friendly and the shitty: Light-hearted stories, taboo topics, and things the industry sweeps under the rug. A place where healthcare workers can unite and the general public can understand; This is both the shit show you have been waiting for and the metaphoric soap suds enema we all need. So pass the soap and let's go!
New episodes every Wednesday!
Episodes
The newest 20 of 88 episodes
- Season Wrap-Up: Nursing Wins, New Adventures & Back-to-Work Realities · 1 h 15 min · Season 5 Episode 16In our season finale, Lindsey and Jared take a reflective look back at the year in nursing—celebrating wins, sharing challenges, and laughing at the chaos. Lindsey opens up about…
- Vital Signs of a Nurse Friendship w/ Addison · 1 h 38 min · Season 5 Episode 15Grab your coffee (or post-shift snack) and hang out with us 🩺✨ In this episode, Addison and I catch up on life lately—from what’s been happening at the bedside to what it’s…
- Life in Labor & Delivery: L&D New Grad Stories & Reddit Confessions · 44 min · Season 5 Episode 14TW: This episode contains mentions of miscarriages and pregnancy complications. On this episode of Friends & Enemas, we’re joined by Mama Tina, a labor and delivery nurse, for a…
- AI in Hospitals & Virtual Nursing: Remote RN Ava on the Future of Healthcare · 20 min · Season 5 Episode 13Join us in Las Vegas for a mini episode where I catch up with remote RN Ava at the HEALTH Conference to discuss the future of healthcare. From new medical technology to the…
- Saving Lives in Eldoret: Addressing Fistulas, FGM, and Maternal Health with Meg Vernon · 1 h 1 min · Season 5 Episode 13TRIGGER WARNING: This is an episode about women's health and includes stories and descriptions of childbirth trauma, including references to mutilated and deceased infants…
- Our Choice to be Child Free w/ Amanda @clockedoutdinks · 1 h 9 min · Season 5 Episode 12In this episode, Lindsey and guest, Amanda (@clockedoutdinks), reunite to catch up and open up about their lives, their careers, their decision to remain childfree, and why that…
- From Mad Nurses to Movement: Inside CA's nursing union with UNAC/UHCP · 1 h 32 min · Season 5 Episode 11In this powerful and NEEDED episode, Lindsey interviews Executive Vice President Peter Sidhu, RN, of UNAC/UHCP, one of the top nursing unions in California. Together they dive…
- From Blood Samples to Food Storage: Lab Scientist Marilyn Breaks Down Lab Life & Myths · 1 h 33 min · Season 5 Episode 10What really happens in the lab after you send off those samples? Friends & Enemas welcomes Marilyn the Lab Scientist, also known online as @marilynthescientist, to set the record…
- Lessons from the Dying: Deathbed Confessions and Hospice Stories with Hospice Nurse Julie · 1 h 7 min · Season 5 Episode 9What’s it really like to work in hospice care? Death, dignity, and compassion. Join Lindsey and Hospice Nurse Julie as they explore deathbed confessions from Reddit and from…
- Final Spooky Shift: Real Ghost Stories from Healthcare Workers · 48 min · Season 5 Episode 8Spooky Season Finale – Spooky Healthcare Stories with Lindsey & Jared! Lindsey and Jared are back — in full Halloween costume — to close out October with the creepiest listener…
- Vitals & Visions w/ Jennifer Stone · 46 min · Season 5 Episode 7Get ready for goosebumps! In this special Halloween episode, host Lindsey Shelton is joined by Jennifer Stone — registered nurse and beloved actress from Wizards of Waverly Place…
- Whispers From Beyond the Curtain: Hospice Tales · 39 min · Season 5 Episode 6In the third installment of our Halloween spooky episode, Jared and Lindsey, two ICU nurses, pull back the curtain on the world between life and death. Join us as they read…
- Convince Me It's Paranormal w/ Jason Wolf · 1 h 36 min · Season 5 Episode 5Join host Lindsey and special guest Jason Wolf for a the second installment of spooky eps with this fun episode where they dive into real-life ghost stories and paranormal…
- Hide and Shriek | Pediatric Unit Horror Stories from Healthcare Workers · 26 min · Season 5 Episode 4Step into the eerie side of medicine in this chilling episode of Friends and Enemas. Lindsey dives into listener submission stories from healthcare workers who have witnessed the…
- DNA Disasters: The Wildest Ancestry Test Stories · 49 min · Season 5 Episode 3What happens when your AncestryDNA results reveal way more than you bargained for? In this episode, Lindsey dives into jaw-dropping DNA surprise stories submitted by listeners…
- Knifepoint, Courage, Recovery: The Leigh Collins Incident · 1 h 33 min · Season 2 Episode 2In this gripping episode, we share the harrowing story of Leigh Collins, with guest LEIGH COLLINS! A California woman who survived a violent home invasion and fought off her…
- We're Back! Where have we been!? · 56 min · Season 5 Episode 1It's been a minute, I know. After we wrapped season 4, we took a vacation, had to say goodbye to our beloved sweet goodest boy, Murphy, adopted our new boy Grim, and have been…
- Our Choice to be Child Free w/ Amanda @clockedoutdinks · 1 h 8 min · Season 5 Episode 12In this episode, Lindsey and guest, Amanda (@clockedoutdinks), reunite to catch up and open up about their lives, their careers, their decision to remain childfree, and why that…
- Leaving the Bedside: Nursing in Alaska, Leadership Lessons, and Reinventing Your Career · 1 h 8 min · Season 4 Episode 23Have you ever wondered what it’s really like to be a nurse on America’s final frontier—or to leave the traditional hospital grind behind entirely? In this episode, we talk with…
- Rewiring the Nurse Mindset: Somatic Nursing, Trauma Healing, and The Nurse Dream Lab with Emily Knife · 1 h 10 minIn this episode, we talk with Emily Knife, nurse, entrepreneur, founder, and creator of The Nurse Dream Lab. Aimed at helping nurses with mental health, trauma healing, and…







