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Your Guide Through Mold Recovery
After my own battle with mold illness, I started this podcast to share what I wish someone had told me. Each episode dives into real stories, expert insights, and practical steps you can take today.
Whether you're just discovering mold might be affecting your health or you're deep in recovery, this podcast is your companion. No fluff, no fear-mongering. Just honest guidance from someone who's been there.
Mold Illness Episodes, Sorted by What You Need
89 | 3 Mistakes I Made in My Mold Illness Journey That Cost Me Years. Are You Doing One?
Duration: 29 min
This episode answers what keeps people stuck for years when mold illness might be behind their symptoms: three testing mistakes. Host Aubree Felderhoff, Mold Illness Recovery Specialist, walks through her own 12 year, seven to eight year diagnostic detour through Hashimoto's, heavy metal testing, and the Shoemaker protocol before she understood mold was the root cause. She explains why body testing should come before environmental testing and why not every mold test gives a clear answer.
Listen and read the episodeMold Illness Symptoms
Fatigue, hormones, brain fog, and the symptoms doctors miss.
This episode answers why fatigue lingers long after mold exposure ends, and how to tell physical, mental or emotional, and spiritual fatigue apart. Aubree Felderhoff hosts Michelle McCoy, a board certified holistic functional health coach, who explains why the body keeps holding onto stress and mycotoxin exposure and shares simple daily practices to help restore energy.
This episode answers whether mold exposure can contribute to infertility and miscarriage, and the answer is yes, because mold is inflammatory and disrupts the endocrine system in ways that affect ovulation and progesterone production. Host Aubree Felderhoff talks with Bekah Yawn, a FEMM educator, hormone coach, doula, and childbirth educator, about cycle charting, estrogen dominance from xenoestrogens, and why root causes like mold, gut, liver, and thyroid issues often sit beneath fertility struggles.
This episode answers whether mold exposure can wreck your hormones, and explains why cortisol and insulin sit above thyroid and sex hormones in what Sara Moreira calls the hormone hierarchy, meaning stress and blood sugar dysregulation often drive the sex hormone symptoms women notice first. Aubree Felderhoff, host of Mold Free Mom, talks with Sara Moreira, a registered nurse, FDNP, and founder of Functional Mom, about mineral depletion, blood sugar testing, and circadian rhythm as starting points for rebuilding hormone health after mold exposure.
This episode answers why mold-related illness is so often missed and misdiagnosed as other chronic conditions. Aubree Felderhoff, Mold Illness Recovery Specialist and host of Mold Free Mom, shares her own years-long path through misdiagnosis and explains why testing the toxin load inside the body matters more than testing what is leaving it.
This episode answers what mold-related illness can actually look like in adults and kids, since it often shows no visible signs or smell. Host Aubree Felderhoff, a Mold Illness Recovery Specialist, walks through the long list of physical, mental, and cognitive symptoms she and her three sons experienced across two mold-affected homes over nearly 12 years.
Testing and Labs
Which tests show mold in the body, and which ones mislead.
This episode answers why standard labs can look normal while someone still has severe mold and toxin related symptoms, and why the order of healing steps matters more than the tools themselves. Host Aubree Felderhoff talks with Kyle Peche, a mineral balancing practitioner who recovered from years of debilitating illness, about drainage, mast cells, hair tissue mineral analysis, and why jumping straight into detox or killing protocols so often backfires.
This episode answers why clean living alone often fails to resolve mold-related illness: internal colonization in the sinuses, lungs, or gut can persist even after leaving a moldy environment and eating a strict diet. Host Aubree Felderhoff talks with Danielle Tarjoman, FNLP, a functional health practitioner and founder of Mold Mend, about the limits of urine mycotoxin testing, the role of blood-based mycotoxin screening, and why nervous system regulation and environment come before supplements or antifungals in recovery.
This episode answers which mold tests actually help you find mold in your body or home, based on Aubree Felderhoff's twelve years of experience. Aubree, Mold Illness Recovery Specialist and host of Mold Free Mom, walks through blood serum testing through Dr. Andrew Campbell, why petri dish and air quality tests waste money, and why an accredited mold inspector with a PhD found what an ERMI test missed.
Finding and Fixing Mold at Home
Inspections, remediation, and how mold gets into a house.
This episode answers what commonly causes hidden mold growth in homes that look perfectly fine on the surface. Aubree Felderhoff talks with Harmony Brownwood, founder and CEO of Greenworks Inspections, Engineering and Environmental, and Aaron Cantu, VP of environmental consulting at Greenworks, about the building and lifestyle factors families overlook. They walk through real examples of missed water sources, HVAC issues, and even overwatered houseplants that turned into mold problems.
This episode answers how families can avoid getting mold remediation wrong by treating visible mold as a symptom of a building failure, not the failure itself. Aubree Felderhoff talks with Cristina Greenfield, founder and president of Conscious Healthy Home and a commercial attorney, about reviewing inspection reports, spotting red flags in remediation contracts, and building a team that traces the actual source of moisture problems. Cristina also shares how she guides families building new homes or buying existing ones to avoid repeating past mistakes.
This episode answers whether a mold detection dog can find hidden mold that a standard inspection misses, and the answer is yes, because dogs can detect scent embedded in materials with no visible growth. Aubree Felderhoff talks with Lindsay Reeves, owner and operator of Hope the Mold Dog and co-founder of Safe Mold Inspections of NWA, about losing her home to toxic mold and building a joint inspection process with her husband Blake and their dog Hope.
This episode answers how to find mold in your home even when there are no visible signs, walking through home history, family symptoms, and a visual and smell inspection. Host Aubree Felderhoff, Mold Illness Recovery Specialist, draws on her own experience of denying mold in a home with zero visible signs before learning it was making her family sick for years.
Healing and Recovery
Detox, diet, supplements, nervous system work, and the order it happens in.
This episode answers what keeps people stuck for years when mold illness might be behind their symptoms: three testing mistakes. Host Aubree Felderhoff, Mold Illness Recovery Specialist, walks through her own 12 year, seven to eight year diagnostic detour through Hashimoto's, heavy metal testing, and the Shoemaker protocol before she understood mold was the root cause. She explains why body testing should come before environmental testing and why not every mold test gives a clear answer.
This episode answers which supplements actually help mold illness recovery, and Aubree Felderhoff explains that it comes down to targeted support across four buckets rather than taking dozens of random pills. She walks through specific nutrients mold depletes, ways to rebuild the brain and nervous system, how to calm inflammation, and how to heal the gut so detox does not just go in circles.
This episode answers what to do when healing from mold-related illness or chronic illness feels impossible, with host Aubree Felderhoff, Mold Illness Recovery Specialist, sharing five practical steps drawn from her own decade-plus recovery journey. She walks through starting each day in prayer, choosing to believe healing is possible, surrendering control, making room for fun, and seeking support from people who have already recovered.
This episode of Mold Free Mom answers whether nervous system retraining can support healing from chronic illness, and Aubree Felderhoff explains that when the body is stuck in fight or flight it cannot prioritize repair. Aubree shares her own nine year health struggle with mold and how neuroplasticity training helped her nervous system move into a rest and digest state where healing could occur.
This episode answers whether diet can support mold illness recovery, and Aubree Felderhoff says yes, describing how a gluten free diet dropped her thyroid antibodies from over a thousand to 36. She walks through lowering inflammatory foods, why gut healing protocols often fail while still exposed to mold, and when a lower histamine diet may help.
This episode answers what to do when you have handled the mold basics but still are not fully well, and the answer is cleaning up toxin load, opening detox pathways from the bottom up, and being intentional about supplements and medication. Host Aubree Felderhoff, Mold Illness Recovery Specialist, closes out her four part mold illness series by walking through the more advanced steps she used to move the needle after the non-negotiables were already in place.
This episode answers what to do first if you suspect mold is making you sick, and Aubree Felderhoff says the order matters: surrender to God, regulate your nervous system, then find clean air. Aubree, host of the Mold Free Mom podcast, draws on her own two mold journeys and over a decade of research to explain why physical healing steps rarely work until the first two are addressed.
This episode answers how to stop worry and anxiety from spiraling by scheduling a set 10-minute time each day to worry, then putting the thought back in a box until the next scheduled time. Host Aubree Felderhoff, founder of Mom Intentional, shares a personal update on a recent health relapse and the fear it triggered, and explains how this technique has helped her stay present.
Stories and Faith
Families who lived it, and what carried them through.
This episode answers how to keep trusting God when chronic illness, including mold-related illness, makes healing feel impossible. Aubree Felderhoff talks with Heather O'Brien, a prophetic healing coach, Bible teacher, and host of the Heal With God podcast, about discerning God's voice, working through shame, and using worship and community as first steps toward hope. Heather shares practical ways to tell God's voice apart from fear or pride, and Aubree connects it to her own experience navigating a recent mold exposure in her family's home.
This episode answers why Aubree Felderhoff renamed her podcast from Mom Intentional to Mold Free Mom, and the answer is a second mold exposure in her own home pushed her to focus fully on helping families recognize and recover from mold-related illness. Aubree shares her personal history of chronic illness, a remodeling project gone wrong, and her decision to build a new resource for moms dealing with unexplained symptoms.
This episode answers how to tell if what you are hearing is God's voice or your own by pointing to stillness, confirmation through scripture, and alignment with God's character rather than dramatic signs. Aubree Felderhoff, host of Mom Intentional, talks with Megan Nilsen, Kingdom Life coach, author, and host of the Kingdom Life Coach podcast, about the still small voice, the three reasons prayers seem to go unanswered, and how to rebuild faith after feeling hurt or abandoned by God. Megan also shares how adopting two children from Ethiopia led her into coaching after a counselor told her motherhood was not her highest calling.
This episode answers what happened when Aubree Felderhoff, host of Mold Free Mom and Mom Intentional, discovered mold growing under brand new cabinets and flooring in her recently renovated home. She walks through eight weeks of testing multiple Airbnbs, finding hidden mold in several of them, and the physical symptoms, including racing heart, migraines, facial swelling, and a Parkinson's like tremor, that led her to realize she was dealing with mold exposure again despite years of precautions.
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