Hosted By Dr. David Derose

Title: Healthy Communication, Healthy Communities Guests: Levi Rickert (Prairie Band, Potawatomie); David Hall, Center for Domestic Preparedness; Ken Denslow, SDA Church; Alma Ransom (St. Regis Mohawk) Description: Healthy communications are vital to optimal health of Native communities. Today’s show reveals how healthy living is fostered by healthy communications provided by: a native news service, a government agency providing training to tribes, a church fostering good health across Indian Country and an elder’s personal testimony. Refer listeners to: NativeNewsOnLine.net; cdp.dhs.gov

Throughout Indian Country health is being enhanced—as well as impaired—by lifestyle practices. Today’s show identifies some of the healthiest lifestyle choices—and provides insights into putting them to work in your own life.

Today’s show begins with financial planning experts sharing common pitfalls when it comes to giving to our posterity through our wills. The show concludes with guests sharing their joy by imparting the healing agencies of natural foods, music, and health education.

Dan Gabbert shares his own journey from an aimless young man with poor health to a dynamic health coach making a difference in the heart of Indian Country.

Health educator and author, Jim Brackett, shares how good tasting healthy foods impacted an entire nation. Lisa Quade completes the show with a segment on childhood education.

Denise Ellenwood (Port Gamble S'klallam) shares a personal journey of hope and inspiration. Her victories in the face of tribal suicides and personal lack of meaning and purpose resonate across Indian Country.

Gain insights into the power of education to impact whole person health from individuals working in settings as diverse as clinics for indigenous Guatemalans in Central America and schools for Native Youth in Arizona.