The Canary Collective Podcast discusses themes of believing womxn for their pain with indie band Y La Bamba's Luz Elena Mendoza. Join Kaeley Pruitt-Hamm of people power indie folk band KPH & The Canary Collective as she traces the themes of gender, healthcare, and environmental justice issues behind her songs through conversation with her fellow canaries, colleagues, friends and family.  The song "Creer" was co-written, interpreted, and translated in Spanish by Luz Elena Mendoza on KPH & The Canary Collective's album "The Canary Collective: Vol 1."  

You can listen to the full album, including the song "Creer," here: https://open.spotify.com/album/2V3CfUh3oJBz4OTpw2rQUk?si=ig2axxrPSamh2T1HfXhP3A 

Luz's music with Y La Bamba: http://www.ylabamba.com/

Luz's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luchamontana1/posts

BANDCAMP link to "Creer": https://kphmusic.bandcamp.com/track/creer-feat-luz-elena-mendoza

The Canary Collective Podcast Episode Three: Believe Her with Lisa Seilkopf Medical Medium Coach  

Join Kaeley Pruitt-Hamm of people power indie folk band KPH & The Canary Collective as she traces the themes of environmental and human healing behind her songs through conversation with her fellow canaries, friends and family.  

 In today's episode, Kaeley interviews Lisa Seilkopf, a health coach who shares a really similar health story to Kaeley. They both had been diagnosed with "autoimmune diseases" but did not get better from their debilitating symptoms until they started treating the root causes of their symptoms holistically. They ask questions such as "why are so many people getting diagnosed with autoimmune disorders? What are some potential root causes - such as chronic infections and toxins that the body is reacting to - that the mainstream medical community might be missing?" These gals are not doctors and are not giving medical advice, but it's fun to compare notes between canaries on their healthcare journeys and dream about a future in which it's easier to afford healthcare that actually addresses the whole body and environmental factors that influence our insides. You can book a session with Lisa by DMing her on Instagram: @feelfreetoheal https://www.instagram.com/feelfreetoheal/?hl=en

Join Kaeley Pruitt-Hamm of KPH & The Canary Collective for the second episode of The Canary Collective Podcast, an interview with Chiara DAngelo, Salish Sea activist.  

If you want to support her work on Glenda Brelier's campaign, a woman with Native American ancestry seeking to save the Salish Sea through work in the Washington State legislature, go here: https://www.glendaforwa.com/  

And if you want to support her work saving orca whales and restoring rivers with dam removal: https://www.whaleresearch.com/action?fbclid=IwAR2myxDa9A79aOK7-S02kHBNLJovQFD2jBbO0_zPCXRUS7gW5N9LGG-HgCU

Following the theme of the next track of the album of music, "Dam Dam," we will talk dam removal, orca whales, neurotoxins, housing, and pandemics.  Chiara chained herself like a mermaid to an Arctic oil drilling rig in protest for hours and hours. She's a badass.  I released an album "The Canary Collective: Vol 1" seeking to raise awareness about the connections between human and environmental health cries for healing. As a former community organizer mostly sidelined due to debilitating chronic illness, I have been feeling called to interview my friends and discuss the issues behind the songs and beyond.   

How are we feeling the Earth's ecosystem distress in our bodies' ecosystems? Who's at the forefront of that? What can we do to heal land, water, and bodies at all levels?

This episode features mother-son water rights activist team Luke and Nickie Sekera. Nickie's T-shirt saying "I've Been to the Future...and We Won!" -not to mention Luke and her badass work against water privatization - inspired me to write the first song on "The Canary Collective: Vol 1" album, "Been to the Future." We imagine and even pretend we won and revel in our success during a podcast reunion interview in the year 2045.

Support their work at https://www.communitywaterjustice.com/

Watch the video of our Zoom interview on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qxS5b0gv2s

Hi, I'm Kaeley Pruitt-Hamm of people power indie folk group KPH & The Canary Collective.

Being an activist and a musician have always been a part of who I am. I've always aspired to be a sort of "musical Erin Brockovich," helping connect the dots and not sit silently while my friends and family are made sick because of corporations taking shortcuts in the name of profit. Since becoming disabled by chronic illness in 2015 and sidelined from my job in the non-profit world, I'm feeling more than ever the need for conversation around healing - healing the ecosystems of our bodies and healing the ecosystems of our Earth.

So I started a podcast! During a global public health epidemic. What better time than now to interview canaries who are at the forefront of human and environmental crises? We'll talk about problems of the world - from orca whales going extinct to the rise of autoimmune diagnoses. And most importantly, we'll talk about solutions. And we'll even sometimes sing and play games on air dreaming up what the world would look like if it were healed of these problems.

In February 2020, I released an album of music called "The Canary Collective: Vol 1" full of songs about healing and building the world we want.

So this podcast is going to start out by tracing the steps of these songs and delving deeper through conversation, exploring the people and topics that inspired me to write these tunes.

So welcome! Join us! Let's sing our way out of this mine together!