1145. A Passion for Disease Prevention Ignited
Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love
Don Hutcheson
5.0 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Daniel E. Kennedy is a healthcare executive, counselor, author, and filmmaker. His passion for disease prevention was ignited professionally while working with thousands of cancer patients at Oasis of Hope Hospital, and personally, by witnessing cancer and heart disease-related deaths in his family. His philosophy is simple: it's not good enough to live a long sick life when there's the opportunity to live a healthy long life. He has now ccompled a 8-episode Healthy Long Life documentary series.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm your host, Don Hutchison. |
| 0:16.6 | Every Tuesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. |
| 0:26.6 | On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular or interesting occupations or professions |
| 0:34.6 | who shares an insider's look of what it's really like to do what they do. |
| 0:39.1 | Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Daniel E. Kennedy. Welcome, Daniel. |
| 0:45.4 | Hey, so good to be with you today, Don. Thank you so much. Thank you. It is our pleasure. |
| 0:51.3 | Daniel, are you using your talents doing work that you love? |
| 0:55.0 | Well, surprisingly, I would say yes. And I'll tell you later why I'm saying it surprising. |
| 1:01.9 | Good, good. We certainly want to hear the entire story. Daniel E. Kennedy is a healthcare executive, |
| 1:09.5 | counselor, author, and filmmaker. |
| 1:11.9 | His passion for disease prevention was ignited professionally while working with thousands of cancer patients |
| 1:18.5 | at Oasis of Hope Hospital and personally by witnessing cancer and heart disease-related deaths of his grandmother, uncle, aunt, and father. His philosophy is |
| 1:29.1 | simple. It's not good enough to live a long, sick life when there's the opportunity to live |
| 1:34.1 | a healthy long life. Through the process of writing and ghost-writing 12 books on cancer and heart |
| 1:39.9 | health, Daniel honed the skills necessary to create right and direct the eight-episode |
| 1:46.7 | Healthy Long Life Documentary Series. His relationships with researchers and clinicians developed |
| 1:52.1 | over the last three decades has given him access to the world's top experts on healthy |
| 1:57.1 | life expectancy. Well, Daniel, that's a summary of your amazing life to this point. |
| 2:03.6 | Tell our listeners around the world what you're working on right now that has you engaged |
| 2:07.6 | and excited, please. |
| 2:10.6 | Well, I have transitioned my life into filmmaking and I think it took a whole career in the health field to figure out |
| 2:20.8 | that I should be making film specifically about health. And the way I realize is that there's |
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