Welcome
Wenimomoto and welcome to the virtual home of the Raatior Ventures. You can find information about me, the services I can provide, and the social enterprises that we either lead or support through our paid services. You can also find my blog on the issues that I find interesting, encouraging, disconcerting, enlightening, disturbing,...
Services
Do you need help with your school’s academic and technological needs? Are you in need of a marketing and public relations coordinator for your nonprofit organization, business, political campaign or civic association? Do you want to take advantage of the social networking opportunities such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn,...
Projects
When I’m not at my daytime job at Santa Clara University and my full-time gigs as husband and dad, you can find me working on my projects. These are work of love and ways to keep me focused on the needs of others…something I learned from the Jesuits who trained me. These are not projects that will change the world, but hopefully...
Desha and the human race
Losing to Gain: my weight loss journey
I’ve been invited to speak this Saturday at the Weight Watchers Center in Capitola on my weight loss journey. This is as much my story as it is about my daughter Keala and my partner Desha. After all, the inspiration to commit to a life-long journey to a healthy lifestyle began after Keala came into our lives in May, 2006. Her life became my pathway (Keala means pathway in the Hawaiian language) and inspiration to live longer. Her cries for nourishment became my challenge to reshape my own views and approach to food consumption. And it’s also about Desha who has been my #1 cheerleader on this path for which I am eternally grateful. Without their love, inspiration and support, this journey would have been much much more difficult to start and sustain.
Read More10 Things: An un-Micronesian exercise in healthy lifestyle
This week’s Weight Watchers group assignment is an exercise in recognizing one of the necessary steps in recovery to a healthy lifestyle; namely, finding the good in oneself. We were asked by our inspirational leader Susan to write down 10 things we love about ourselves. It was immediately met with, “That’s hard!” by one our members. It is hard for those of us who have had the misfortune of an out of control weight problem. It just seems so hard to know and see the positive aspects of our gifted lives. But it is in fact one of the most important steps toward recovery to a healthy lifestyle. This exercise follows the previous week’s assignment of forgiveness, i.e. forgiving one from failing to maintain daily or weekly goals and move on. Now we are being asked to focus on the positive things we love about ourselves…to look inward and find the positive aspect of ourselves…being self-ish in a positive way.
Read MoreKiva loans
I have microlent to:
Mugandu Group, Kihihi
| Location: | Uganda, Kihihi |
| Activity: | Livestock |
I am Vid Raatior, an international educator, web designer, social entrepreneur, and blogger from the outer islands of Chuuk, Micronesia. I live in Northern California and work at Santa Clara University. 
