In this episode of Calling in the Healers, host Nick Pineda sits down with Rebekka Schlichting (Ioway)—filmmaker, Professor of Practice at the University of Kansas, story keeper, and community healer in Lawrence, Kansas.

Rebekka shares about how tending stories across generations and the land is part of generational healing, navigating the challenges of growing up native in Lawrence (for her mother) and growing up on the Reservation (for her) and joys of raising children in Lawrence today, working in film, and living in a world that's colonized.

Whether you’re passionate about community care, decolonizing leadership, Indigenous wisdom, or place-based healing, this conversation will remind you that healing is relational, intergenerational, and deeply rooted in place.

Listen if you’re curious about:
✅ Storytelling as a tool for personal and collective healing
✅ Navigating the preservation of traditions and cultural protocols
✅ How to connect with your lineage and local land
✅ What perspectives we get to see through native-made film
✅ An invitation to step-up how it centers the native members of its community

✨ New episodes of Calling in the Healers drop weekly, sharing local voices and hyperlocal healing stories rooted in Lawrence, Kansas—ancestral Kaw, Osage, and Shawnee land.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or iHeartRadio.

Are you organizing your life so you can move the way you want to for the rest of your life?

In this episode of Calling in the Healers, we sit down with Zach and Whitney Schneider, personal trainers and co-owners of a community gym in Lawrence, Kansas. Together, we talk about movement. Both how movement heals, as well as the work it takes to heal when we can't move the way we want to (e.g., recovering from a debilitating injury). Throughout the episode, we unpack the way commitment to our health in the long term sets us on a path to personal resilience, community connection, and lifelong strength.

You’ll hear about:

• Inclusive fitness practices for every type of body

• How to build a gym culture rooted in compassion, not comparison

• What this approach to fitness teaches us about adaptation and community healing

• Growing up in rural Kansas, recovering from injury, and staying rooted in place

Whether you’re a fitness professional, a community leader, or someone healing their relationship with their body, this episode offers powerful insights into how movement can become medicine.

What if the land could teach you everything you forgot you knew?

In this episode of Calling in the Healers, Nick Pineda sits down with Courtney Eddy King—Indigenous scientist, cultural steward, and greenhouse manager at Haskell Indian Nations University—for a conversation about the work of healing land, memory, and self.

Courtney shares her journey into ecological restoration and her relationship with the land—as someone reclaiming cultural knowledge that colonial systems sought to erase. Together, they explore what it means to rebalance ecosystems and why public land care serves as a mirror for how much we truly value the land and sovereignty of the other-than-human species that live on it.

With honesty and reverence, Courtney invites us to move beyond theory and into the practice of care—starting with plant identification, accountability, and deep listening to the beings who have always been here.

In this conversation, we explore:

• What it means to restore not just prairie ecosystems—but cultural memory

• How the land can become a teacher when ancestral knowledge is missing or broken

• The tension between progressive environmentalism and lived Indigenous realities in Lawrence

• The emotional and ancestral depth of working with plants as material and kin

This episode is for anyone hungry to feel rooted again—anyone looking to begin, or begin again, with the land beneath their feet.

📍 Recorded on ancestral Kaw, Osage, and Shawnee land, at the Lawrence Public Library.
🔗 Show notes include resources on restoration, land care, and local action in Douglas County.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube.
💬 Follow along @leadwithkapwa for more reflections and community conversation.