Women Warriors: Advocating for Indigenous Women's Health

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Shelley Wiart is Métis and a member of the North Slave Métis Alliance, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. She is currently enrolled full-time at Athabasca University in her fourth year of a four-year B.A degree – Concentration: Sociology, Minor: Women & Gender Studies. She is the proud mother to three girls and has a passion for running and fitness. Shelley is the co-founder of an Indigenous-focused holistic health program, Women Warriors aimed at improving Indigenous women’s health outcomes. She facilitated this health promotions program from 2015-2018 and co-authored the 8 Weeks to Healthy Living manual. She trained Women Warriors facilitators for programs at Onion Lake Cree Nation (2018-2019) and through the City of Calgary (2018-2019). Shelley is now focused on the impact of digital storytelling in healthcare with her research project, Digital Storytelling as an Indigenous Women’s Health Advocacy Tool: Empowering Indigenous Women to Frame Their Health Stories Visit WomenWarriors.club to learn more.

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0:00.0	I'm Lisa Yuso, a digital producer at Ideas, the podcast that likes to feed your curiosity.
0:07.8	I ask my colleagues why they think you should listen.
0:11.8	Ideas can make you the smartest, most interesting guest at your next dinner party in less than 60 minutes.
0:18.7	It's got the best of a storytelling podcast
0:21.2	with the best of a great lecture.
0:23.6	You can pretty much never predict
0:25.4	where an episode will take you,
0:27.0	but you can count on every episode
0:29.0	to shift your perspective,
0:30.9	even just a little.
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0:33.7	wherever you get your podcasts.
0:39.8	This is a CBC podcast.
0:43.5	Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk about what it's like to be sick.
0:47.6	This week's guest is Shelley.
0:49.1	She's the founder of woman warriors and an advocate for indigenous women's health.
0:53.7	Let's talk about it.
0:59.7	All right.
1:01.1	Here we go.
1:02.0	We're doing it.
1:03.9	All right.
1:05.9	Shelly, this is, I'm excited to sit down and talk to you.
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