Tiphany Kane: Medical Gaslighting, Women’s Health, and Fighting to Be Heard

Season 20 continues with Part 2 of our conversation with Tiphany Kane, where finding your voice becomes more than personal growth. Tiphany joins G-Rex and Dirty Skittles to share what happened when she had to fight to be heard while living with dangerously uncontrolled hypertension and repeatedly being told anxiety was the problem.

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“You’re supposed to share your story. You’re supposed to be heard and seen.” — Tiphany Kane

Episode Description

What do you do when you know something is wrong with your body, but you keep hearing that it’s anxiety?

You keep fighting to be heard.

In Part 2 of our Season 20 opener, Tiphany Kane takes G-Rex and Dirty Skittles deeper into the medical journey that turned her hard-won voice into one of her most important tools.

Tiphany was dealing with dangerously uncontrolled hypertension alongside lifelong congenital organ abnormalities. After one medical appointment left her sobbing before she could even make it to her car, she found a clinical trial through UCI Health for people with resistant hypertension.

Two days after an appointment where she felt completely dismissed, she walked into a room where people listened.

Tiphany was accepted into the clinical trial and eventually underwent renal denervation. Months later, she says her blood pressure was controlled with medication, and she had something back that she’d desperately missed: quality of life.

But those years came with consequences. Tiphany discusses lasting damage involving her eyes, kidneys, and heart.

This conversation isn’t about pretending every doctor is terrible or that anxiety can’t affect the body. It’s about recognizing that mental and physical health can exist in the same damn body at the same time.

Having anxiety doesn’t make every physical symptom anxiety.

Tiphany’s story is a powerful reminder to ask questions, document what you’re experiencing, bring support when you need it, and keep advocating for yourself when something doesn’t feel right.

Keywords: Tiphany Kane, medical gaslighting, women’s health, patient advocacy, self-advocacy, anxiety stigma, chronic illness, resistant hypertension, healthcare trauma, trusting your body, women’s mental health, medical dismissal, emotional resilience, finding your voice, patient empowerment

Meet Our Guest — Tiphany Kane

Tiphany Kane, M.Ed., is an award-winning producer, entrepreneur, public speaker, and storyteller whose own medical journey has added another powerful chapter to her work: speaking openly about what happens when people have to fight to be heard and believed.

• CEO & Co-Founder, KaSa Media Productions — Tiphany produces podcasts, video, live events, and other story-driven media.
• Founder, J4F MORE Foundation — Her work reaches beyond production into advocacy, storytelling, and creating opportunities for other voices to be heard.
• Medical Advocacy — After navigating lifelong complex health issues and feeling dismissed during her medical journey, Tiphany began publicly sharing what happened so other people would know they aren’t alone.
• Just 4 Feet Studio — She is building a 5,500-square-foot state-of-the-art Dolby Atmos recording and post-production studio in Orange County, California.
• Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts — Tiphany is an AIVA member and serves as an AIVA juror.
• Website — http://www.kasamediapro.com
• Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/tiphanykane/
• Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/tiphany.k
• YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/@J4Fstudio
• LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiphany-kane-m-ed-514264175/

Key Takeaways

• Mental health and physical illness can exist at the same time. One doesn’t automatically explain away the other.
• You live in your body every damn day. If something feels wrong and keeps feeling wrong, it’s okay to keep asking questions.
• Self-advocacy isn’t about picking a fight with your doctor. It’s about being an active participant in your own care.
• Sometimes you need another person in the room. An advocate can listen, take notes, ask questions, and help when you’re too sick, exhausted, or overwhelmed to do everything yourself.
• Being listened to changed Tiphany’s medical experience. Feeling heard shouldn’t have to feel like winning the lottery.
• The voice Tiphany spent decades learning not to suppress became exactly the voice she needed when the stakes got serious.

Actionable Items

• Walk in prepared. Keep a simple timeline of your symptoms, medications, relevant medical history, changes you’ve noticed, and the questions you don’t want to forget.
• Bring backup when you need it. Ask someone you trust to attend an appointment with you, and tell them beforehand exactly how you’d like them to support you.
• Ask one more question. If a physical symptom is being attributed to anxiety, ask what physical causes have been considered and what findings support that conclusion.

Important Chapters

• 00:00:45 — What Happened After the Appointment?
• 00:01:14 — Finding the Clinical Trial
• 00:02:58 — Renal Denervation and Getting Her Blood Pressure Controlled
• 00:04:06 — The Lasting Physical Damage
• 00:05:03 — Getting Her Quality of Life Back
• 00:06:33 — Why Did Tiphany Have to Find the Answer Herself?
• 00:08:57 — Finally Being Taken Seriously
• 00:12:44 — When Trust in Healthcare Breaks Down
• 00:14:20 — Insurance, Chronic Illness, and Access to Care
• 00:19:51 — Why Having an Advocate Matters
• 00:20:59 — Anxiety and Physical Illness Can Coexist
• 00:22:17 — What Tiphany Wishes She Had Said
• 00:23:43 — Using Her Voice to Help Others
• 00:24:40 — What She Would Tell Her Younger Self
• 00:26:21 — Divorce and One of Life’s Hardest Lessons
• 00:29:27 — Where to Find Tiphany

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