Bold Beginnings
The foundational series every newly diagnosed patient should have. Turns fear into process in the first weeks — what to expect, how to think about insulin, how to work with the school, how to avoid the classic early pitfalls.
Curated audio you can share in about 30 seconds — print, email, text, or a QR code they scan in the room. Free for you and your patients: no logins, no paywall, no pharma editorial control.
The short version: the Juicebox Podcast is an independent Type 1 diabetes podcast — 1,800+ free episodes, hosted since 2015 by Scott Benner, the parent of an adult daughter diagnosed at age two. The clinical series are co-hosted with Jennifer Smith, RD, CDCES, who has lived with type 1 for 38 years.
Patients use it between visits: structured series for the newly diagnosed, core management concepts like pre-bolusing and basal testing, and a 100,000-member peer community. This page exists so you can hand the right piece to the right patient in under a minute — by print, text, email, or a QR code they scan in the room.
One box for the whole library — episodes, series, tools, guides, and routed answers. Type a keyword, a question, or an episode number.
“I wish I had known about this sooner and I wish they had recommended it. Clinicians cannot be there all the time and this podcast is there anytime I want it!”