Alaska: The Sled Dogs Who Saved a Village with Dr. Shanté Cofield
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Sharon McMahon
4.9 • 15.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sharon sits down with Dr. Shanté Cofield, a business coach helping movement and health professionals succeed in the online space. The two connect to discuss the story behind the little-known 1925 Serum Run, which took place in the brutal Alaskan wilderness. During a health crisis, town doctor Curtis Welch was faced with diagnosing and treating an unknown illness, all before it infected the whole town of 1,400 people. Left with limited resources and a short deadline, the Alaskan people sprang into action to set up a sled dog relay to deliver the medicine. Sharon takes Shanté through the twists of the story, providing wit and history at every turn.
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| 0:17.0 | You're here! Yay! I love it. I'm so excited that you're here. I have a story for you today that is going to blow your mind. It is about some children whose lives were saved because of some sled dogs in Alaska. And I'm sharing this story today with my friend Shante Kofield who cracks me up non-stop. Do you have a friend in your life where you |
| 0:26.4 | communicate primarily via Tik Talks? You're like 90% of our ticks are via Tik-Tok. Yes, that is Chante. I especially think it's |
| 0:38.3 | funny that I chose this Alaska story for her because she finds cold weather disrespectful and |
| 0:45.2 | cold weather factors heavily in this story. Let's get into it. Let's get into it. |
| 0:48.9 | Let's get into the sled dog serum run. I'm Sharon McMahon. And welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast. |
| 0:56.7 | Shante, thank you so much. I thoroughly enjoy you. enjoy you. |
| 1:03.0 | A lot of our messages are like, |
| 1:05.0 | look at this ugly thing that is, that does not, |
| 1:08.0 | we need to stop talking about. |
| 1:09.0 | We don't even need to see this. |
| 1:11.0 | I have a story to tell you. has some weather that you're going to love. I'm going to be offended I already know. |
| 1:17.8 | You're already going to be offended by the weather and this story. So have you ever heard of the 1925 serum run? You know believe it or not I haven't heard of this. |
| 1:28.0 | So shocking. |
| 1:31.0 | Shocking. Most people have it. |
| 1:35.0 | It is a story that's going to offend you. |
| 1:37.0 | It's going to offend you. |
| 1:38.0 | It's going to offend you, mostly because it involves really bad weather. |
| 1:44.7 | Okay, so you know where Alaska is, it's not an island. |
| 1:48.9 | A lot of people think that. |
| 1:50.0 | They just think that. |
| 1:51.1 | Is an island off the coast of Arizona. |
| 1:55.0 | Because when you're looking at a map of the United States, it does not including Mexico. |
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