A Better Pill To Swallow

Just a spoonful of humor helps the medicine go down. Inspired by his brother’s suicide David unleashes his outlandish banter and passion for mental health with his good friends and experts alike. He challenges the over-medicated status quo, asking questions and exploring new holistic alternatives with his guests from a wide array of experience and discipline.

A Better Pill To Swallow is a health podcast hosted by David Neiman, with 36 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

David Neiman hosts A Better Pill To Swallow, a health show with 36 episodes published.

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  Episode #37

  37. From Broadway to Motherhood: Postpartum Depression and Finding Yourself Again

  Mar 25, 20261h 25mS3

  <p>There’s a moment in this conversation where Emily says she doesn’t recognize herself anymore—and somehow, it opens the door to something more honest.<br/><br/>Emily Walton—Broadway actress (Come From Away) turned mental health counselor—joins me for a conversation that moves between humor, identity, and what it means to stop performing in your own life.<br/><br/>We talk about growing up in a world where performance and self blur together, the strange safety of playing someone else, and the pull toward something more authentic.<br/><br/>And then parenthood enters—and everything shifts.<br/><br/>Emi...

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  Episode #36

  36. The Grief of Losing A Child: "You Lose The Future"

  Mar 4, 20261h 12mS3

  <p>A healthy baby. A seizure in the middle of the night. And a reality no parent is prepared to face. Susan Weissman shares the story of losing her son Nathan just weeks before his second birthday — what it was like to bring him home knowing he would die, the silence and discomfort that followed, and the long, uneven path of learning to live again.</p><p>We talk about denial, marriage under strain, faith, anger, ritual, and the myth that grief has a timeline. About what actually helps when someone you love is gone — and what absolutely doesn’t.</p><p>T...

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  Episode #35

  35. Advanced Voice Biofeedback: How It Can Help Your Mental Health

  Feb 4, 20261h 30mS3

  <p>At the heart of A Better Pill to Swallow is the belief that mental health in the modern era demands new modalities—approaches that go beyond insight alone and actually meet the body and brain where change happens. That’s what makes a conversation like this so important. Biofeedback therapy speaks directly to the subconscious, where most of our patterns, reactions, and choices are formed. Using subtle frequencies delivered through the hand, the technology communicates with the nervous system to help identify and release long-held blocks that traditional talk therapy often can’t reach. Deepak Chari has worked with people...

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  Episode #34

  34. Teaching Young Teens, Finding Purpose, and Shaping Our Future

  Jan 14, 20262h 12mS3

  <p>On this week’s episode, I share my conversation with Karl Mauks-Kopke — eighth grade math teacher and not-so-secret philosopher. Karl is a dear friend and one of the most thoughtful people I know. (Some call him heaven.)</p><p>We talk about Karl’s work inside the middle school classroom, including how he motivates kids who don’t always see the point of school, or math, and why learning math is a lot like weightlifting. Karl explains his reverence for his students and how he fuels his own sense of purpose in his work. </p><p>From there, we zoom out...

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  Episode #33

  Supporting a Mentally Ill Child, Grieving a Son, and Leaning on Community

  Dec 17, 20251h 18mS3

  <p>Today’s episode cuts to the origin tale of how this very podcast was created. I’m interviewing my mother, Laine Neiman, about parenting a child with mental illness, handling the grief of losing him, and opening up to the community for support. Lainie (a.k.a. Mom Neiman) is an executive and leadership coach, as a family business consultant. More importantly, she spent the last 30 years in the trenches of loving someone with bipolar disorder. We tragically lost my brother, her son, Andy Neiman, 4 years ago last June. My mother saw him through his initial diagnosis and treatment, the...

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