Healthy Wealthy & Wise

For more than half a century, American educators and policymakers
have been grappling with a problem that just keeps getting worse:
A lot of American children don’t learn how to read, at least not
very well, and despite new programs and curricula, the literacy
gap keeps growing. In Louisiana, the problem is particularly
acute – studies show that more than a quarter of our population
has a low literacy rate.


Baton Rouge author Susie Shepherd is working to change those
statistics. She is a children’s book author, with eight titles to
her name, who volunteers her time promoting reading and literacy
among children.


Susie is a retired teacher from Baker with more than two decades’
experience working in special education and also has a masters in
autism spectrum disorders, so is particularly keyed into the
needs so many young learners have.


In addition to her children’s books, Susie also has published a
collection of poems. 


Literacy is just one of our many challenges in Louisiana, and
while Susie is focused on helping young people learn how to be
better readers, Yolanda Robertson - better known as Yogi Rob - is
focused on helping them lead healthier more well-balanced lives,
because Louisiana is not exactly the healthiest state in which to
live.


Yogi Rob is the founder and creator of an online platform, called
variously The Yonk or OrganicMePlease, dedicated to helping
customers on a journey to self-healing and well-being through a
wide range of services and resources to support holistic healing,
including homemade organic skincare products and holistic healing
advice.  


Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at Mansurs On the
Boulevard. You can find photos from this show at itsbatonrouge.la


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