319: Innovative Approaches to Public Health that are Disrupting the Norm: Affordable Healthcare for Wellness Entrepreneurs, How Music Changes Lives, and Battery-Powered e-Bikes
Food Heals
Allison Melody
4.8 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2020
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
Public health has been defined as the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and improving quality of life through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, communities and individuals.
Todays guests are pioneers in the health space who are disrupting the norms and taking new and innovative approaches to health and healing.
First up we're talking medical cost sharing with John Iorillo. John and his partners started PureHealth in 2019 after discovering the solution to their own problem of finding affordable health insurance for both themselves and their clients. Their goal is to help you get high-quality healthcare for a cost that is up to 60% less than either your current health insurance, or any of the other options available in the marketplace, while also lowering your out-of-pocket costs.
Then you'll hear from CEO and Founder of Music Changing Lives, Josiah Bruny. Josiah worked for some of the greatest stars in the music industry such as Master P and Ice Cube and learned the “ins and outs” of business in order to develop a path for at-risk youth to create music in their communities and learn entrepreneurial skills and help them retain their rights to their music. What started as a one-room studio inside his home garage has today grown into a robust after school program, serving more than 300 youth in three community centers and four schools in California.
Finally, we're chatting with Rob Rast, a vegan entrepreneur who dropped out of college, moved to China, starred in a reality TV show, and launched multiple successful businesses. Rob's mission is to get people out of cars, and get them back onto bicycles with his one of a kind electric bike, The Babymaker which he crowdfunded over $12 million dollars for on IndieGogo. He believes caring for others starts with caring for yourself. “Invest in yourself, Make yourself powerful and you’ll gain the power to change the world.”
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| 0:00.0 | holistic voice presents the food heals podcast with your hosts alison melody and susie hardy join the food heels nation and learn the secrets to go from feeling unwell to healing yourself warning side effects of this podcast may include increased health and vitality thoughts of living longer an increase in sexual activity feelings of joy cravings for kale and kinawa, and a spike in Tinder matches. In rare cases, people have experienced a strong desire |
| 0:25.0 | to put in their lulu lemons and take a yoga class while drinking a green juice. If you experience |
| 0:28.8 | any of these symptoms, text your priest immediately. All right, welcome, Food Heels Nation. Thanks for joining |
| 0:33.9 | me. I'm Alison Melody, and it's November 4th. It is the day after Election Day 2020. And as of this recording, we still have no president. So if you need an escape from the chaos, I definitely have a great show for you, non-political. And it's really three fascinating people doing really cool things. And real quick, I just want to talk about voting |
| 0:56.1 | because, yes, voting is important. I love doing my part to be civically engaged. But I see all |
| 1:02.0 | these ads about voting and vote like your life depends on it because it does. And yes, I agree. |
| 1:08.0 | But also, we can vote every single day. We can vote with our shopping cart, |
| 1:13.5 | with what foods we choose to consume by creating more demand for healthy, affordable food. |
| 1:18.5 | This is food heals, right? We can vote every day for the food heals world. We can vote with |
| 1:24.0 | our wallet and donate to causes or nonprofits with missions we believe in, |
| 1:28.1 | that we admire, that we support. |
| 1:30.3 | Think about this. |
| 1:31.3 | When you shop at a local business, you tell the world, your neighborhood, and the people in |
| 1:35.7 | your community are worth more than that big box store or that big online place, right? |
| 1:41.7 | You know what I'm talking about. |
| 1:42.7 | I don't need to call anyone out. |
| 1:43.7 | When you |
| 1:44.2 | purchase organic food, you tell the world that you want more farmers to grow healthy organic food. |
| 1:49.5 | When you buy from a business owned by a woman or a person of color or anyone who's been |
| 1:54.3 | marginalized in society, you help build a more inclusive economy. When you buy certified, |
| 2:00.7 | fair trade, you literally fight poverty. |
| 2:03.7 | When you don't buy something, when you choose not to choose consumerism, you tell the world that |
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