Everyday Creation

This is the fourth excerpt from a longer interview with family medicine physician Adeola Fakolade, MD. In this episode, Adeola talks about why having access to healthcare is so important and how we, as patients, can maximize the time we have with our doctors. 

The full interview with Adeola is episode 62, and the other excerpts are episodes 64, 65 and 66.

Hope you enjoy listening to this accomplished professional who's good-humored, personable and a delightful teller of her stories.

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This is Kate Jones. Thank you for listening to Everyday Creation®, available on YouTube and in podcast directories including Apple, Spotify, iHeart and Audible.

This is the third excerpt from a longer interview with family medicine physician Adeola Fakolade, MD. In this episode, Adeola talks about lifestyle medicine and disease prevention. 

The full interview with Adeola is episode 62, and the other excerpts are episodes 64, 65 and 67.

Hope you enjoy listening to this accomplished professional who's good-humored, personable and a delightful teller of her stories.

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This is Kate Jones. Thank you for listening to Everyday Creation®, available on YouTube and in podcast directories including Apple, Spotify, iHeart and Audible.

This is the second excerpt from a longer interview with family medicine physician Adeola Fakolade, MD. In this short episode, Adeola talks about having a positive outlook on life and also discusses the WHO (World Health Organization) definition of good health, which is about thriving.

The full interview with Adeola is episode 62, and the other excerpts are episodes 64, 66 and 67.

Hope you enjoy listening to this accomplished professional who's good-humored, personable and a delightful teller of her stories.

On a related note: If you like what Adeola says about the importance of having a good relationship with oneself, you may want to check out an earlier episode I did with Dr. Darcy Lord. That episode is about self-love, a concept that may sound selfish but is anything but. Darcy's full interview is available as are short excerpts. 

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I'm not a pessimist by nature. However, the 2016 election kind of threw me. I started thinking about it Sunday night, after reading a Substack post by Greg Olear about Leonard Cohen's song, "Hallelujah." In Olear's post, there's a link to Kate McKinnon singing part of "Hallelujah" for SNL's cold opening on Nov. 12, 2016. 

Her performance touched me deeply and prompted me to share this brief story eight years later, not that I expected to experience the same outcome in 2024 but to express the feelings that so many of us had back then. So here it is, a simple story and the profound lessons learned since.

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This is Kate Jones. Thank you for listening to Everyday Creation®, available on YouTube and in podcast directories including Apple, Spotify, iHeart and Audible.

Dr. Adeola Fakolade is an accomplished professional and a delightful person to talk with and get to know. She's a family medicine and public health and general preventive medicine physician who's passionate about patient access to high-quality healthcare and what that means for people in terms of their ability to thrive. 

To that last point, Adeola talks about the World Health Organization's definition of good health. WHO, she says, defines it as much more than the absence of disease. In this episode, she expands on that subject and talks about a range of topics that include the small pleasures of a long commute and ways to maximize your healthcare appointments.

Adeola also traces her own path from medical school in Nigeria to Ashtabula, Ohio, which is in Ohio's northeastern-most county. It's considered a rural area with many under-served residents, meaning they don't have adequate access to healthcare. Adeola is working to change that, one patient at a time. 

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This is Kate Jones. Thank you for listening to Everyday Creation®, available on YouTube and in podcast directories including Apple, Spotify, iHeart and Audible.

Welcome to Everyday Creation, a show about purpose, awe, and good vibrations. 

This short essay was the first episode of Everyday Creation when I started the show in early February 2024. It sprang from one of my journal entries and, since I first wrote and recorded it, I've tweaked it many times. This is the latest version, and I like it well enough that it's now the first in a series of spiritually themed musings. 

I also have other essays related to this theme. In case you want to check them out, they're Episodes 55 and 57: "Smile on a Summer's Day" and "Picturing a Kinder, Gentler World," and Episodes 30 and 69: "Less Stress, More Happiness" and a follow-up to Episode 30 titled "Less Stress, More Happiness: An Afterthought."

By the way, Episode 68 is the second in the "What if ..." series. It's about this grand adventure we're all on. 

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Marla Grant is an Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist and Founding Affiliate Leader of Helping Parents Heal Tampa. She helps parents who have experienced child loss, as well as individuals who are grieving other types of losses, move “from heartache to healing.” 

She also teaches Mental Fitness Mastery as a Certified Positive Intelligence Coach to help clients infuse their world with more kindness and empathy and less judgment and stress.

In this extraordinary interview, which covers physical loss and spiritual connection, Marla shares what she's learned and how she's grown from the loss of three of her children. She encourages individuals who have experienced grief to seek help and support, and to know that healing is possible.

She says that personal responsibility, acceptance and willingness (PAW for short) all were important for her own healing. To learn more, please listen to the episode and visit Marla's website. 

You also can find her on Instagram and Facebook under Inspired Grief Recovery.

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Jared Gleaton is the author of “A Feast for the Senses: The Psychological Art of Eating Well.” He also hosts “Jared Gleaton Eats” on YouTube.

A school psychologist in Skiatook, Okla., Jared applies his professional expertise to writing about food and reviewing restaurants. One of his goals is to help people expand their palates to appreciate different kinds of dishes and preparations, and, in so doing, perhaps overcome biases in other aspects of their lives too.

In this interview, he shares his experiences with food growing up with his father, an unabashed "pie fiend." Jared didn't have his father's metabolism, though, and found himself gaining a lot of weight. He talks about how he lost the excess pounds eight years ago and has kept them off, and says he hopes that sharing his story will help others who also want to improve their relationship with food.

“A Feast for the Senses: The Psychological Art of Eating Well” is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million. It comes in audio and ebook as well.

And here's a link to "Jared Gleaton Eats." Enjoy the "Feast."

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Scarlett Lam and Mindy Lee, creators of the children's board book "THE LIGHT," believe that together we can make the world a little bit brighter, one light at a time.

Their delightful book evolved from that belief and from their commitment to help kids — and adults who are kids at heart — realize that they're awesome just the way they are.

It's an empowering message that's being received very well given that the book is now in its second print run.

To buy your own copy, go to readthelight.com. Scarlett is offering 10% off with the code EVERYDAYCREATION10, good through 2025.

On the website, there's a listing of stores that carry the book. If you want any of your favorite stores to carry it too, please reach out to Scarlett. She'll be happy to contact them.

Also, check out Scarlett's Instagram and TikTok posts, and see more of Mindy's work on her Instagram account.

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At age 23, American classical pianist Van Cliburn achieved worldwide recognition during the Cold War after winning a gold medal in the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958. The Russians absolutely loved his playing.

Astrologer Christine Rakela, the author of "My Private Relationship with Van Cliburn," says that he was not only one of the greatest pianists in history, he was a wonderful person who sought to bring out the spirituality of classical music. The two became dear friends based on mutual trust and good moral values.

Cliburn's mother was his adviser for much of his life. After she died, Christine took on that advisory role when some of her clients, who knew Cliburn personally, recommended her.   

Christine describes him as a gentleman who went the extra mile for people and who always did his best for audience members, who included concert-goers around the world, heads of state, royalty, and U.S. Presidents.

He also was a social being who had celebrity friends, including the actress Angie Dickinson.

In this episode, Christine talks about how she used astrology to guide Cliburn in his career and other important areas of his life. She says that astrology is a tool that can help people make the most of their lives.

She also talks about her previous career as a ballet dancer as well as her 22 years as producer and host of "Astrology Connection," which aired on Manhattan Cable.

Christine's final conversation with Cliburn took place on February 15, 2013. Two days later, he had dinner with Dickinson; his attorney; and his assistant. That evening marked the end of what was a busy social time for Cliburn, despite his having a terminal illness. He died on Feb. 27, 2013.

To learn more about Van Cliburn and his legacy, visit The Cliburn website. The Cliburn is another name for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, first held in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas, and hosted by the Van Cliburn Foundation. You also can check out Cliburn's biography on Wikipedia.

Christine is a professional astrologer certified by the National Council for Geocosmic Research. You can learn more about her, as well as buy a copy of "My Private Relationship with Van Cliburn," on her website. The book is available on Amazon too. The photo on the book's cover was used courtesy of The Cliburn. You'll see the cover pictured in several of this episode's chapters. 

Christine also wrote "Traveling By The Stars" and "The Love Relationship Formula," which you can find on her website.

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This is Kate Jones. Thank you for listening to Everyday Creation®, available on YouTube and in podcast directories including Apple, Spotify, iHeart and Audible.