My journey from writing to blogging to podcasting: A 45-year story with sparks and nudges along the way. Now, I can 't help it. I'm a content machine. I'm making a ruckus, sharing stories of learning on the journey toward best health; asking hard questions; and translating those stories and lessons so a diverse and varied audience can appreciate them. 

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Writing for fun and learning 00:51. 1

First, blogging 03:51. 1

Then, podcasting 08:22. 2

Today’s story 10:08. 2

Why do it? 11:05. 3
Links
Ken Nordine Word Jazz
Health Populi
WEGO Health
Abridge

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Credits
Inspired by David Nebinski. Check out his Portfolio Career podcast

Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, New Orleans Drummer, Composer
About the Show
Welcome to Health Hats, empowering people as they travel together toward best health. I am Danny van Leeuwen, a two-legged, old, cisgender, white man with privilege, living in a food oasis, who can afford many hats and knows a little about a lot of healthcare and a lot about very little. Most people wear hats one at a time, but I wear them all at once.  We will listen and learn about what it takes to adjust to life's realities in healthcare’s Tower of Babel.  Let's make some sense of all this.

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The Show
Writing for fun and learning
Someone asked me the other day, "How did you get to podcasting?" I can piece the story back to 1969, freshman year at Wayne State University in Detroit. I took a creative writing class. My professor scoffed at my desire to combine creative writing with scholarly writing. "Forget it. Can't be done. They're totally different." I wrote some bad poetry and a short story for the class. I got a C. In my second year of college I was ready to drop out and travel. Trying to keep me enrolled, a professor suggested I do a series of independent studies while traveling. I drove to Mexico with my second family, the Keeneys. While lying in a hammock in Zihuantanejo, with severe diarrhea, I wrote a story cribbing the style of Ken Nordine's word jazz, Flippity Do Dah, Flippity Day. Then I went to Europe, hitchhiking for 8 weeks and I wrote a travelogue in the style of Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad and Roughing It. What a hoot.  I dropped out anyway.

A few years later I went to nursing school and became a direct care nurse.