Meet Brian Wright, owner of Crossway Mechanical LLC based out of Tomball, Texas, located in the greater Houston area. Brian has taken a special interest in mold and how it impacts the lungs of the home, so much so that a large percentage of his client base specifically seeks out his company to get the answers they desperately need, making him a popular choice for creating a healthy home. He is data and research driven, and takes a forensic approach to his HVAC inspections, including looking at air balancing, duct system optimization, and more.

In this expert interview, Brian shares what he sees in his industry and what some of the culprits are for HVAC failures, especially in new construction homes. In this episode you'll learn what the Manual J, Manual S, and Manual D are, and why they are so important to the health of your system and home, and how an improperly designed system can lead to mold growth. Learn why the fan should never be set in the "ON" position and how that can create moisture and mold issues.

More about Brian below:

- Brian has been in the residential side of the HVAC industry for 28 years and specializes in the retrofit replacement market.

- He is a Nate Certified technician, and is a certified NCI member.

- He is Air balancing certified, is an expert on Carbon monoxide and combustion analysis, duct system optimization, and is a residential HVAC system performance specialist.

- He is also BPI certified in blower door testing.

Cristina Greenfield is a lawyer by trade, a mold survivor and has created a passionate hobby around building practices. She is the founder of @rebuildingrevival and wants to ensure people are fully equipped as they look at finding safe housing after mold.

Dr. Peter Osborne is a doctor of chiropractic, doctor of pastoral science, an expert in functional nutrition, and is Board Certified with The American Clinical Board of Nutrition.

Often times referred to as “The Gluten Free Warrior”, he is one of the most sought after alternative and nutritional experts in the world. He has had the honor and privilege or sharing the stage with some of the world’s most well known and internationally recognized experts to include Alessio Fasano, MD, Russell Jaffe, MD, PhD, Steven Gundry, MD, Joe Mercola, DO, Yehuda Shoenfeld, MD, and Dr. Josh Axe.

He is one of the world’s leading authorities on gluten sensitivity, and lectures nationally to both the public as well as doctors on this and many other nutritionally related topics. He is the founder Gluten Free Society, the author of The Gluten Free Health Solution and The Glutenology Health Matrix, a series of digital videos and ebooks designed to help educate the world about gluten. In addition, he is the author of the international best selling book, No Grain No Pain, published by Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), which was also printed in 5 languages and turned into a PBS special that aired nationwide.

Because of his work with gluten, Dr. Osborne was invited to speak at the Harvard Faculty Club with functional medicine advocate, New York Times best selling author and TV icon, Suzanne Somers. Because of his passion to educate the world about the relationship between gluten and autoimmune disease, he founded, financed, and hosted, The Autoimmune Revolution I & II– a free online educational series featuring more than 40 of the world’s leading experts on autoimmune disease and nutrition.

Dr. Osborne has been a featured expert in a number of documentaries including, Betrayal, Autoimmune Secrets Revealed, and the Netflix series, Afflicted.

Dr. Osborne has served as the executive director and the vice president for the American Clinical Board of Nutrition. He was an adjunct professor at HCC and Texas Women’s University teaching nutrition and neurophysiology to nursing and occupational therapy students. He currently serves on the advisory board for Functional Medicine University.

He has been featured in or on Netflix, Fox News, CBS, PBS, The New York Post, Muscle & Fitness Hers, Celiac.com, The Gluten Summit, Radio MD, The People’s Pharmacy Radio, The Journal of Gluten Sensitivity, and many other nationally recognized publications.

Jason Kester talks about the mold industry, standards of testing, what to be wary of when hiring a Mold Inspector or Mold Remediator and how his reputation truly sets him apart.

Jason Kester owns and has operated Kester Clear, KCES, since 2013. KCES is a Pacific-Northwest company, which has been well known in the industry for its superior expertise in Mold and Mycotoxin assessments in both residential and commercial settings. What sets them apart from traditional mold inspectors is their positive relationship with local healthcare practitioners and testing laboratories in order to fully understand the biochemical effect of Toxic Mold and Mycotoxin on their clients. KCES has pioneered a new standard in the field of Mold Assessments.

KCES supports customers and doctors across Washington and Oregon as well as throughout the US.

https://kesterclear.com/environmental...

Megan Carson shares her journey with mold exposure and how mold impacted every aspect of her life. Megan noticed gaps in the mold industry and in mold victims knowing how to advocate for themselves. From this place she founded The Guided Well. She talks openly about both in this open interview with guest co-host Cristina Greenfield.

In November of 2020 Olivia was diagnosed with Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, but that was not where her health journey began. In 2016 she moved into her first apartment that unbeknownst to her, had black mold hiding in the crawlspace of the home. Olivia's health quickly started to decline, at first just feeling more tired than normal, then leading to infections I couldn’t not get over, then continuous antibiotics, then antibiotic resistance, then multiple surgeries, nothing was fixing the problem. My mom put it together that these issues only began after moving into the home. After having the home tested, we got a call on the weekend of July 4th in 2018, that we couldn’t spend one more night in the home, the levels we categorized as uninhabitable. At that moment, I didn’t know that news would change my life forever and put me on a mission to regain my health as well as fight for others in this situation.

I was told after getting out of that environment that I would see improvement, but I did not. An infectious disease doctor put me on a picc line for antibiotics, this didn’t fix the problem but did land me in the hospital with a blood clot in my arm. All of these unexplainable systems continued to occur though the doctors would tell me “your young and healthy”, everything looked good on paper. I was starting to feel hopeless that I would never regain my health until I came across the website called Survivingmold.com. As I continued to read more about CIRS, everything started to make sense. I could finally see that all of my symptoms were not random at all and in fact, I was not a hypochondriac!

Links:

Olivia Farabaugh on Instagram

/ oliviafarabaughofficial

After personally experiencing the impact of mold exposure, Ryan Richardson began to struggle with family and friends understanding the legitimacy of his illness. More than that he struggled with trying to convince people that mold is a prevalent issue that many people struggle with.

He wanted to rectify this issue, desiring to create videos that those experiencing mold illness could show apathetic family and friends. From this came his YouTube Channel, "Toxic Mold in the Media".

Here Ryan compiles news clips, from all over the world, of mold impacting those exposed to it.

To view his channel go to

/ @toxicmoldmedia

When a person wonders what a parent advocate looks like; they need to not look further than Megan Olson. Megan shares, openly and honestly her two - year old's life long battle with mold exposure and CIRS. She shares how it has caused her to find faith, struggle with the balance of being a mom of two and how it has created a new sense of purpose for her family's journey.

If you would like to reach out to Megan, you can email her at Meganolson4921@gmail.com

Resources discussed: https://a.co/d/1XQkghU

-Mold Illness: Surviving and Thriving: A Recovery Manual for Patients & Families Impacted By Cirs (1) https://a.co/d/5yyal68

-Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities , and Chronic Environmental Illness https://a.co/d/1XQkghU

Josh Rachal is the President of Texas Mold Inspectors, A company that specializes in Forensic Litigation Based Mold Assessments as well as mold assessments for the hypersensitive. Josh is licensed as a Mold Assessment Consultant in the state of Texas and is also Certified as a Master Inspector. He has performed over 2000 Mold Assessments and has personally been involved in representing his clients in over 120 individual cases regarding mold exposure & property damage. His company Texas Mold Inspectors was created after his own family went through and experienced mold which severely injured himself, his family and resulted in the death of their dog and their second son Malachi. Josh now travels the country to help Attorney’s and their clients as well as patients of doctors that refer him.

You've heard of Trains, Planes and Automobiles. We bring to you the mold version; Houses, RV's and Tents. Kristi is a fierce woman who is the embodiment of perseverance and courage. After moving, we're talking into the double digits, due to mold; she has chosen to bring hope to those who have lost hope through creating bracelets. She is a firm believer that "Hope Lives Here", hope doesn't disappear even when life gets incredibly hard. This is a raw honest conversation that Kleenex is a must for.