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SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST_ EPISODE _156_ HOST DR_ CHENIZRA AKA DR_CHEN · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 4: Hey, Hay and welcome to another episode of the group idcast.
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Speaker 3: I am your visionary queen Angela and if.
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Speaker 4: Voice mm hmm.
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Speaker 6: Ok and greetings, greetings. Began to building in the legacy.
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Speaker 3: Party this ride.
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Speaker 4: Give us a minute, Give us a minute navigate through
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Speaker 4: some different changes here.
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Speaker 7: Oh yes, simon, have a groups and all you do
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Speaker 7: to make sure.
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Speaker 2: Headlines every day, so lill you do just make show.
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Speaker 4: Your life greeting, so tep it's been a moment. I
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Speaker 4: really would like to give thanks and praise to those
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Speaker 4: that are willing and available to listen to building a
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Speaker 4: new legacy with us Speaks. This is your host, Queen Mother,
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Speaker 4: Doctor Chincerrah of us Speaks, LLC, and a new parent legacy.
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Speaker 4: As much as we keep moving this forward, part of
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Speaker 4: what we're going to be sharing tonight is going to
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Speaker 4: be an extension of conversations more correctly life centered discussions
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Speaker 4: and sharings around new women rising, some of the initiatives
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Speaker 4: we've done with women girls, grandmothers, mothers, aunties, sisters over
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Speaker 4: the course of years, as well as listening to some
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Speaker 4: of the current activities programs efforts that are being reduced
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Speaker 4: not only here in Saint Croix, but throughout the Virgin Islands,
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Speaker 4: throughout the wider Caribbean, as well as throughout the forty
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Speaker 4: eight contiguous US, Africa, Eurasia, actually the globe. And we're
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Speaker 4: looking forward to being able to have our invited guests
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Speaker 4: that are coming from different parts of this region to
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Speaker 4: share with us. Just would like to give some context
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Speaker 4: for those persons that have family in Saint Kitts Nevas
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Speaker 4: which halfy Independence Day forty First, if I'm correct, I
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Speaker 4: think it's important to highlight the independence efforts that have
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Speaker 4: taken place around the globe and that some of our
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Speaker 4: sistern and brethren from spaces as small but Taloa like
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Speaker 4: Saint Kitts Nevus are actually celebrating this day, September nineteenth.
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Speaker 4: In that regard, I think it's also very critical, very
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Speaker 4: important to also look at the fact that there have
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Speaker 4: been these different declarations, these different convenings, whether they're happening
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Speaker 4: in the United Nations as we speak during this particular week,
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Speaker 4: as well as certain other activities that are really bringing
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Speaker 4: some truth to power in regards to how we begin
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Speaker 4: to look at different opportunities around how we facilitate women
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Speaker 4: working together, collaborating, building together, engaged in entrepreneurial activities. So,
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Speaker 4: for those that may not be familiar, how many of
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Speaker 4: you are really into intergenerational wealth, how many of us
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Speaker 4: are really about wealth building for our families and other
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Speaker 4: families that we care about that we'd like to support.
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Speaker 3: Here in Saint.
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Speaker 4: Croix, we have some special activities happening as current as
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Speaker 4: this weekend to really begin to have these types of
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Speaker 4: discussions and presentations around informing persons on opportunities for wealth buildings.
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Speaker 4: But we will get to that a little later in
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Speaker 4: the broadcast. With that being said, and I like to
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Speaker 4: get to the start and the thick of things in
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Speaker 4: the beginning, I'd like to ask our engineer to bring
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Speaker 4: in our guests that are with us at this point, and.
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Speaker 3: IO then begin to introduce them.
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Speaker 4: Greetings, greetings, So Tep and Prestonia, are you caring us well?
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Speaker 4: Are you able to turn on your sound? Uh? Oh,
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Speaker 4: we're having difficulty hearing you. And you're right there, and say, John,
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Speaker 4: we're not We're not far, You're not far. I just
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Speaker 4: need for you to turn on your audio. You might
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Speaker 4: have you might be mute. Okay, we're happy hear me now.
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Speaker 4: I sure can thank you very good.
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Speaker 3: That's what we need.
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Speaker 4: And I know that you need to plan, but just
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Speaker 4: know that that I might have to seer. I know
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Speaker 4: it's hot, but I want to thank you us from
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Speaker 4: the Isle of Saint. I know it's like I got
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Speaker 4: through leading no, but I'm really am grateful to have
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Speaker 4: you join us, coming from your entrepreneurial space of trendy Lione.
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Speaker 3: And for those that are not as familiar sister Queen Empress.
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Speaker 4: You'll see loyal Ebba here, but we know here it's
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Speaker 4: Empress Yea in the neighboring island of here in the
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Speaker 4: Virgin Island. So remember there's Saint Croix where where I'm
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Speaker 4: at now, between us Saint Thomas and then a horsewater
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Speaker 4: island near Saint Thomas and our love city. One of
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Speaker 4: the largest national park spaces in the Virgin Islands is
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Speaker 4: in Saint John. So I'm very grateful to be able
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Speaker 4: to introduce and have you on this broadcast, to be
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Speaker 4: able to share with us differents of information, culture, history,
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Speaker 4: heritage and a little bit well building in business from
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Speaker 4: the island of Saint John's. So with that, I'd like
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Speaker 4: for you to just share with some of our listeners
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Speaker 4: and viewers a little bit about your business as well
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Speaker 4: as a little bit about you.
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Speaker 1: My name is Tonya Severla Torell born in Puerto Rico,
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Speaker 1: residing in Saint John.
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Speaker 3: Mother of three. I currently work with the seniors.
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Speaker 1: On Saint John, but I have a hobby and design,
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Speaker 1: hence Trendy Lion is cousor.
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Speaker 3: I do.
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Speaker 1: T shirts pretty much, graphics, custom shoes. I have about
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Speaker 1: forty pair out of custom Italian shoes.
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Speaker 3: On my live site. I do VII products.
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Speaker 1: I customize T shirts, anything of that, so mugs, you know, swimsuits,
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Speaker 1: you name it, anything you need from top to bottom
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Speaker 1: my budget. I could do your business, home decor, you
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Speaker 1: name it. T shirts for your how do I say
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Speaker 1: basketball teams, school events, stuff like that. I also hence
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Speaker 1: Royal Abiba the name. I'm a vegan cook.
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Speaker 3: I do catering.
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Speaker 1: I haven't really done anything in a while, but I've
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Speaker 1: been focusing on the design.
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Speaker 3: But that's my love, you know. I'd like to create.
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Speaker 1: So food is a passion. So I create in the kitchen,
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Speaker 1: but I work with the seniors. I've been taking a
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Speaker 1: break and trying to sleep. Other than being up twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours, seventy two hours. Anybody that knows me know
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Speaker 1: I'll be up for days.
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Speaker 3: I need to sleep. I thought I was sleep. The
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Speaker 3: phone rings, I'm up. Oh I gotta get on. So
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Speaker 3: I'm here right right.
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Speaker 4: Well, it's a joint of privilege because I want I'd
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Speaker 4: like to come to some things. I'm really grateful that
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Speaker 4: you shared what your hobby is. That that is a
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Speaker 4: hobby that has an entrepreneurial piece to it because please
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Speaker 4: make sure to put your site inside the chat so
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Speaker 4: we can also share that. When you put it in comments,
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Speaker 4: it also populates inside of the Crew podcast platform and
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Speaker 4: that way other persons can see it. I think it's
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Speaker 4: important to share that. I also like to highlight that
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Speaker 4: when she's when Everstonians saying that she works with the seniors,
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Speaker 4: I think we need to be very clear and very specific.
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Speaker 4: She really admits her life drink to providing educational social
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Speaker 4: interaction trips to the beach, some of the most beautiful
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Speaker 4: beaches in Saint John I must have for our seniors
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Speaker 4: many times are relegated to just staying in their home,
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Speaker 4: perhaps doing something just inside and so at the multi
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Speaker 4: purpose room space at Saint Arthul's Church and Court, with
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Speaker 4: support from Sports and Recreation of the Government of the
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Speaker 4: Virgin Islands and just other entities in Saint John, she
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Speaker 4: has been able to really provide some elder engagement, you know,
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Speaker 4: amongst the elders, so that they do have opportunities to
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Speaker 4: do storytelling and crafts and they do have an opportunity
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Speaker 4: to share some of the history of the legacy of
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Speaker 4: Saint John as well as the wider Caribbean and American
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Speaker 4: journeys and spaces that they've had. I'm saying it's because
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Speaker 4: I've had the joint privilege of being around some of
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Speaker 4: them when I visit Saint John and the wealth of knowledge,
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Speaker 4: the amount of wisdom that is shared and gathered is amazing.
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Speaker 3: Plus they're funny. I just want to highlight that this
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Speaker 3: is like their own humor side.
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Speaker 4: There's a lot that's really shared in some of these conversations,
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Speaker 4: so that we can really begin to learn about how
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Speaker 4: do we deal with intergenerational engagement amongst the men and
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Speaker 4: women who are in their senior giveness and sometimes nowadays.
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Speaker 3: Senior is just over fifty.
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Speaker 4: But we're talking about those seas and Elvis that Empress
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Speaker 4: Tonia has a lifelong commitment for and I need to highlight,
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Speaker 4: and it's coming from a legacy even from her mother,
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Speaker 4: just a mother younder who had worked there how many
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Speaker 4: years thirty somethings thirty one?
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Speaker 3: Oh okay, So that's how there we're go. There we go.
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Speaker 4: And I think it's important to know that this legacy
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Speaker 4: of helping building, working with elders, providing a variety of
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Speaker 4: opportunities and services with them for them, it's really important,
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Speaker 4: you know, so I really would love thank you for
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Speaker 4: sharing that particular part. And then what are some of
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Speaker 4: the what are some of the actual pieces that you
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Speaker 4: would like to share around some of the work that
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Speaker 4: you're doing or some of.
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Speaker 3: The future ideas that you have in place in Saint
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Speaker 3: John's Emperor Son.
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Speaker 1: Well, currently, our seniors, I guess, have been misplaced from
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Speaker 1: their current location, which would have been the Saint Ursula's Church,
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Speaker 1: but due to the hurricanes years ago, the building still
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Speaker 1: hasn't been prepared.
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Speaker 3: So we are at Parking Recreations.
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Speaker 1: And I'm thankful for having the space, and when we're
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Speaker 1: not able to be there, we're at Bethany Moravian Church
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Speaker 1: during the summer times. So I'm thankful that the community
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Speaker 1: has been able to shelter us and provide us space
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Speaker 1: being at the park and Recreations, they have adopted us.
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Speaker 1: I will give a shout out to them with that
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Speaker 1: they have given us nothing of love. That they even
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Speaker 1: gave us a name for the team. And it's called
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Speaker 1: the Saint Ursula's Fit and Feisty Crew. Okay, so when
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Speaker 1: you hear that term, that's where that comes from. That
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Speaker 1: Fit and Feisty is there's a young I'm by the
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Speaker 1: name of Isaiah Thomas, and a young lady by the
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Speaker 1: name of Roshaw. No let me get right, I call
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Speaker 1: her role but her last name is Pharaoh. I kind
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Speaker 1: of remember your full name, Rome, Ronique or Ronie.
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Speaker 3: There it is. It's so beautiful. So Rone and Acito Isaiah,
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Speaker 3: they come and they work out the seniors.
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Speaker 1: They have an exercise class with them on Wednesdays, and
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Speaker 1: then that's why we go to the beach on Thursdays,
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Speaker 1: so you know, relax. So we pick the fit and
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Speaker 1: feisty crew because they are very active, loving, joyous bunch
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Speaker 1: and they are fit and feisty, they're ready to go.
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Speaker 3: And I'm the youngest of the bunch and they're ones that, okay.
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Speaker 1: Now do me and how much at forty five there
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Speaker 1: are people that are you know, have way above men
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Speaker 1: getting down a load and I can't get downe there anymore.
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Speaker 3: Fet FEISTI is very right.
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Speaker 8: So with us.
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Speaker 1: Being able to be taken to the beach or any
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Speaker 1: other extra curricular activities for the month, especially May month
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Speaker 1: is senior month, so that's why you'll be seeing us
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Speaker 1: out and about for the month the duration doing different things.
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Speaker 3: But each month I'm trying to see if.
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Speaker 1: We can put together some stuff with yourself where we
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Speaker 1: can incorporate some fundraising for our seniors because we don't
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Speaker 1: currently have transportation to get them around, you know, so
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Speaker 1: it's kind of limited mobility. So we just you know,
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Speaker 1: take it easy to go to the beach on a Thursday,
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Speaker 1: but if there's something that needs to be the other
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Speaker 1: center reaches that we all go.
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Speaker 3: So we do get out, but we would like to
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Speaker 3: raise funds to purchase a van in order to be
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Speaker 3: able to transport the seniors.
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Speaker 1: About I don't even mind if they donated to. Basically
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Speaker 1: it's for the church, it's for the seniors. So it's
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Speaker 1: like I just thought of to me, everything now has
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Speaker 1: become to meet Parks and Rec because they're a new home.
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Speaker 1: So it's like donated to parks and Rec because their
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Speaker 1: van is currently down. Why that came home, so they're
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Speaker 1: going through you know, fixing their you know where and tear.
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Speaker 1: They're taking care of the seniors.
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Speaker 3: And the youths so to that.
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Speaker 1: So I've seen that van run around for the tournaments basketball, baseball,
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Speaker 1: and the seniors. So the vans are being used, not
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Speaker 1: just sitting around. So I can understand where in tear.
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Speaker 1: So it's like, okay, we do need our own transportation
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Speaker 1: because our Human services senior buses going through its changes too.
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Speaker 3: So you know, for a number of years.
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Speaker 1: We've spoke of about doing things, but not to me.
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Speaker 1: I realized I myself, as my dad would say, if
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Speaker 1: I live long enough to see senior age, you know,
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Speaker 1: be a pleasure to be able to be treated with
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Speaker 1: such honor and respect as my mother has shown me.
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Speaker 3: That's why I could give it back to them.
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Speaker 1: So I'm like, well, I would like to see you
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Speaker 1: guys sit in a nice ac bust and taking you
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Speaker 1: all over the place.
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Speaker 3: You know you could drive, because I know you can
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Speaker 3: drive anything. But you know why I said that.
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Speaker 1: If anybody doesn't know, Doctor Ken and I go way, way, way,
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Speaker 1: way way back. I met her when I was giving
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Speaker 1: birth to my first kid in two thousand and six
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Speaker 1: is when he was born, So you know, this is
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Speaker 1: my godmother's big system. I love mother, you know, like
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Speaker 1: nothing but love and respect. So I've seen her in action.
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Speaker 1: I know what she's capable of. So for her to
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Speaker 1: say she was honored to join us, it's honored to me.
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Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to working with her to do
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Speaker 1: more culture programs with the seniors.
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Speaker 2: Dance.
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Speaker 1: It's a thing that I know you do storytelling. I
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Speaker 1: want you to record their stories and I've let them
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Speaker 1: know to look out for you. So they're you know,
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Speaker 1: excited to know that people do still care about them.
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Speaker 3: So that's why it's like to be able to come
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Speaker 3: out here and speak on them.
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Speaker 1: There's a bigger, bigger, bigger project, like a ten million
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Speaker 1: dollar project out in the future that we could talk about.
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Speaker 3: When Doc sees fit. So my seniors they look forward
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Speaker 3: to taking trips, they look forward to taking the island tours.
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Speaker 3: They like to be treated.
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Speaker 1: So if anyone would love to sponsor at least two
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Speaker 1: dozen seniors, because my center is a Saint Ursula Senior
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Speaker 1: Center and we have sometimes for the summer, I could
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Speaker 1: drop down to ten and the maximum could be eighteen
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Speaker 1: in season that attend uh full raster when everyone's now
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Speaker 1: a few that are like I call them snowbirds. They
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Speaker 1: come in and out. So we have that much for
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Speaker 1: mine and if I add an Adrian, we have at
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Speaker 1: least thirty plus seniors on island that engage and commune
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Speaker 1: and have function and you know, devotion, and.
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Speaker 3: Eating events.
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Speaker 1: I call it eating events because it's always nice for
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Speaker 1: them to be treating to a nice seminar health, wellness, fitness.
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Speaker 3: Make sure.
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Speaker 4: Exactly and that's what I want to do.
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Speaker 3: I can say that I enjoy saying.
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Speaker 4: The conversations that they have, the old talk they go to,
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Speaker 4: some old talk in regard that they're growing up and woke.
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Speaker 4: Saint John, Saint Thomas, you look like you know what
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Speaker 4: used to happen in what we now know this Burgen
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Speaker 4: Islands of the West, but speak of it of a
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Speaker 4: time where the population was smaller, when persons didn't have
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Speaker 4: to lock their doors, right, when crimes were very few
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Speaker 4: and far between. And it's right, and it's great to
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Speaker 4: hear some of some of the songs they sing, some
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Speaker 4: of the prayers they it seemed like one person start
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Speaker 4: a particular scripture and the rest is like a choir
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Speaker 4: in the middle. And you know that can be while
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Speaker 4: you're activity in town in Brisbane, or if you're at
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Speaker 4: one of the wonderful beach sites that they get a
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Speaker 4: chance to go to. And what I love is that
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Speaker 4: some of us, this is how you know a senior
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Speaker 4: they know how to come to the beach slide in
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Speaker 4: the wads change as they come up on the rocks.
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Speaker 3: And be dry by the time they come INSTA don't right.
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Speaker 3: I have to share that because I and I'm like
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Speaker 3: you talking about and then put exactly exactly.
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Speaker 4: Exactly, and we sit back and I'm like, I just
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Speaker 4: went in a while to have to dry up, bring towel, blanket.
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Speaker 3: So I said, Senor is very very agile.
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Speaker 4: For sure.
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Speaker 3: I send here from ABC down to home depot. Mmmm mmmm.
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Speaker 4: That's why I'm saying, fits, what do you say fits?
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Speaker 3: And what fit Andy? There we go fit and iy.
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Speaker 4: I think it's important to speak in that regard of
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Speaker 4: how person really get an opportunity. I'm going to remind
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Speaker 4: you again to please put the website for you're what
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Speaker 4: you're calling hobby but has an economic connected to it.
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Speaker 3: I would appreciate that.
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Speaker 4: And my saying, my my seeing my granddaughter's hand, Okay,
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Speaker 4: greetings by royalty. Okay, so this is Princess's royalty and
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Speaker 4: she's a joy acted. That would be a whole of
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Speaker 4: the talk show. Believe me, that would be a whole
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Speaker 4: of the talk So we're going to prepare her for
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Speaker 4: those things in the future, not tonight. Per se because
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Speaker 4: we go where this mother before we get off, and
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Speaker 4: we do have a time limit, but I definitely would
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Speaker 4: love to encourage you to keep sharing with the seniors
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Speaker 4: in Saint John if you work with you know the love,
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Speaker 4: the care, the respect that is afforded to them. You know,
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Speaker 4: we're really working in a in a collaborative course to
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Speaker 4: see how we can have different members around our regional
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Speaker 4: international community to offer some forms of support, because this
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Speaker 4: is something that is always important. We say so many times,
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Speaker 4: we say the youth of our future, and we need
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Speaker 4: to respect our elderly and then when the opportunity comes
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Speaker 4: to do so, we need to work on that restoration
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Speaker 4: of our humanity. So thank you for sharing that, because
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Speaker 4: what you have here, I'm going to put this on
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Speaker 4: the chat so that persons can see that, so that
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Speaker 4: they can actually follow on Instagram.
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Speaker 3: O beautiful. Thank you, because I think it's important to
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Speaker 3: have that available.
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Speaker 4: Because persons always desire when we're having these types of
24:35
Speaker 4: podcasts for us to be able to you know, how
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Speaker 4: do you connect with persons, how do you engage with people?
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Speaker 4: And we always speak to that. I'd like to give
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Speaker 4: a moment of reflection as well, because we have been.
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Speaker 4: You know, I do a variety of different things, as
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Speaker 4: Prestonia has shared, and part of my work is to
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Speaker 4: really navigate how do we engage culture, healing, arts, tech,
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Speaker 4: knowledge and spirituality that actually supports life, inspiration.
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Speaker 3: Freedom and edification.
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Speaker 4: And I'm some people will just say education, that's part
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Speaker 4: of it, but we're looking for people to really edify,
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Speaker 4: to add that spiritual grounding, that spiritual context.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 4: See people who starting to already populate your other places.
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Speaker 4: They can find you on Facebook as well, So thank
25:23
Speaker 4: you very much for that. Sister Queen like no other
25:26
Speaker 4: angela who is the CEO, the other element that really
25:32
Speaker 4: makes all of what through podcasts, you know, making this
25:35
Speaker 4: platform available for us. And I think that it's important
25:39
Speaker 4: that persons also recognize that when you hear me say
25:43
Speaker 4: New Woman Rising, this is not like just the saying
25:47
Speaker 4: it is actually a project. Well, it started as a
25:51
Speaker 4: project and then ended up becoming more of a movement
25:54
Speaker 4: so that we were able to find ways to edify
25:58
Speaker 4: and engage in chats, culture, healing, our technology, spirituality that
26:02
Speaker 4: uplifted women and girls. It started through a health initiative
26:07
Speaker 4: to just get people to get our sisters, our daughters,
26:11
Speaker 4: our nieces, our granddaughters, our mothers, our grandmothers, our aunties,
26:18
Speaker 4: to take their help and their wellness more seriously and
26:21
Speaker 4: not just wait until a crisis to then deal with
26:24
Speaker 4: their health and their wellness.
26:25
Speaker 3: You know, we started with birth things that you were
26:27
Speaker 3: hearing and Tonia.
26:28
Speaker 4: Speak about that and offering helpful to make sure the
26:31
Speaker 4: birthings were safe. It was around persons minimizing any type
26:36
Speaker 4: of external peace, you know, make sure that we dealt
26:38
Speaker 4: with our personal care to the best of our ability,
26:42
Speaker 4: that we ate the most nutritious foods right. And granted
26:46
Speaker 4: many of us are vegans, some are vegetarian, but even
26:50
Speaker 4: if you're not, to just make sure that whatever you're
26:52
Speaker 4: eating is of the best, most organic or at least
26:57
Speaker 4: sustainable quality possible. Try not to eat the trash that
27:02
Speaker 4: will actually dismant to your body system. So New Woman
27:05
Speaker 4: Rising became. It came out of like a health and
27:09
Speaker 4: wellness piece, and then it started looking at how persons
27:12
Speaker 4: engaged in wealth building, how people dealt with intergeneration of wealth,
27:15
Speaker 4: how persons began to market things in their respective community,
27:19
Speaker 4: and how do we begin to you know, have collaborations
27:23
Speaker 4: that help us grow help us strengthen one another as
27:27
Speaker 4: women and really moving that forward and navigating in a
27:31
Speaker 4: way that was respectful and that was grounded in spiritual upliftment.
27:37
Speaker 3: Spiritual I'm gonna keep saying that spiritual.
27:40
Speaker 4: Upliftment so that persons, regardless of what your practice is
27:45
Speaker 4: or was, that you can work together and build one
27:48
Speaker 4: another up. And so that was part of the whole initiative,
27:52
Speaker 4: and that was something that was really I mean, it's
27:55
Speaker 4: been in the making over twenty years. We have opportunity
27:59
Speaker 4: to do certain things with the US Department of Helping
28:02
Speaker 4: Human Services that became so effective that even the funding
28:06
Speaker 4: they were like, you don't need that company for this,
28:09
Speaker 4: because it became very effective of us going into every
28:12
Speaker 4: school in our community throughout Saint Croid, St. Thomas, Thank John,
28:20
Speaker 4: And that was part of the way that we were
28:22
Speaker 4: able to start to strengthen some of our relationships. I
28:24
Speaker 4: encouraged persons, you know, share when you hear us talk
28:28
Speaker 4: about new Women Rising and it's a simple hashtag. You know,
28:31
Speaker 4: it's just a hashtag of new Women Rising and people
28:33
Speaker 4: are like, not any w we say, and you right,
28:38
Speaker 4: new woman Rising. The whole idea is for us to
28:40
Speaker 4: bring that vibration together and move forward, because this is
28:45
Speaker 4: a time where our women, our girls are under a
28:50
Speaker 4: significant amount of trauma and so a lot of our
28:54
Speaker 4: engagement is to lessen the trauma, to be able to mitigate,
29:01
Speaker 4: ease the trauma, and of course to find different techniques
29:05
Speaker 4: and strategy, you know, forms of therapeutics, engagements, activities that
29:11
Speaker 4: helps heal the trauma, like really deal with trauma, and
29:16
Speaker 4: so doing things with elders because you know, elders will
29:20
Speaker 4: tell you their experiences in a way that can really
29:24
Speaker 4: support support feeling. Man, I always like the way they
29:29
Speaker 4: say it, but why are you doing? Smile and left.
29:34
Speaker 4: But they're gonna get you, especially when they love and
29:38
Speaker 4: care for you and they see that you are fancy
29:41
Speaker 4: respect and care for them.
29:43
Speaker 3: Notice that person word respect and care for them.
29:46
Speaker 4: They will bring it full circle in a way that
29:49
Speaker 4: may provide some support and engagement. Right.
29:52
Speaker 3: So with that being inspect about, you know, I decided
29:55
Speaker 3: I get excited. I get right.
29:58
Speaker 1: I'm literally I've you know, many of those seniors since
30:02
Speaker 1: I was a little girl in elementary.
30:05
Speaker 3: I have my like I think fourth grade teacher.
30:08
Speaker 1: Is ms Hyman, Missus Surrendo's daughter was my seventh grade
30:13
Speaker 1: math teacher, so in some way I'm affiliated and have
30:18
Speaker 1: known or like, you know, my last daughter's great great
30:23
Speaker 1: uncle is mister Penn, so it's like, hello, I've known him,
30:28
Speaker 1: especially mister Penn Gaffard.
30:32
Speaker 3: Oh, I love that guy. I've known him ever since
30:35
Speaker 3: I was a kid. And it's like, since I've started
30:38
Speaker 3: working with them, I never even heard him talk. I
30:42
Speaker 3: never knew it was so funny. So it's honored to
30:45
Speaker 3: be amongst them. So none but respect for that. Yeah,
30:50
Speaker 3: well that's a car mind.
30:50
Speaker 4: Know, I know that we have some things to really
30:55
Speaker 4: chat about and to really look into, and that's why
30:59
Speaker 4: some of the pieces, like even you know, speaking about
31:02
Speaker 4: you know, Saint Kitts Sneevis in their Independence Day today,
31:06
Speaker 4: that's like a major you know, there's all types of festivities,
31:09
Speaker 4: commemorative activities.
31:11
Speaker 2: You know.
31:11
Speaker 4: I also need to give a special shout out to
31:13
Speaker 4: one of my sister queens from when I was very young,
31:16
Speaker 4: Like we went to grade school together after my parents
31:20
Speaker 4: moved north out of the Caribbean, and that is none
31:24
Speaker 4: other than my you know, she's like my like a
31:27
Speaker 4: blood sister, even though you know, sister from another mother another.
31:30
Speaker 3: Fire right, and that's sister Queen Cheryl.
31:33
Speaker 4: We call it Cheryl Manette right, and she's you know,
31:36
Speaker 4: in the Jersey uh place where we grew up together.
31:39
Speaker 4: And it was hilarious because today is her birthday, you know,
31:43
Speaker 4: so she laughed when I called and started singing happy
31:46
Speaker 4: birthday songs, started reminding her of all the things we
31:49
Speaker 4: used to do when we were when we were younger.
31:51
Speaker 4: She was, she was, she was pretty keeps reminding me,
31:54
Speaker 4: She said, you remember doing all that?
31:56
Speaker 3: So I used to just watch you, I believe.
32:04
Speaker 4: And then you know, but again, you know, very very
32:06
Speaker 4: powerful sister, you know, has another platform of you know,
32:11
Speaker 4: dealing with podcasts, media publications, you know, providing consultation for
32:17
Speaker 4: persons that are involved in becoming global speakers, you know,
32:20
Speaker 4: doing a lot of work around the region. So I
32:23
Speaker 4: desfintely wanted to send a shout out to sister Queen
32:26
Speaker 4: Cheryl Manette. I know is Cheryl Cobb, but Cheryl Manette
32:30
Speaker 4: is her stage name. I'll put that in that frame
32:33
Speaker 4: and people can just go to her space and see
32:36
Speaker 4: some of the powerful, inspirational, edifying work that this other
32:41
Speaker 4: sister is doing. And to be able to celebrate her
32:45
Speaker 4: Earth Anniversary, her birthday. What we reposed with Earthstrong is
32:50
Speaker 4: always a privilege as well. I think it's also important
32:53
Speaker 4: for people to know that there's this is a time
32:56
Speaker 4: where we get an opportunity to really reflect going how
33:01
Speaker 4: to have resource. Almost everybody and go fund me is
33:05
Speaker 4: living proof. There are so many needs, so many causes.
33:11
Speaker 4: You know, you can go to global funding spaces. Persons
33:17
Speaker 4: have made an industry in requesting support through philanthropic means
33:24
Speaker 4: or just direct contributions, you know, whether they're five oh
33:28
Speaker 4: one C three, five oh one C eight charitable institutions
33:32
Speaker 4: or not.
33:33
Speaker 5: Right.
33:33
Speaker 4: And so this is a time especially and I'm gonna
33:37
Speaker 4: if I'm honing it in on our sisters, on our
33:39
Speaker 4: women folk right now.
33:41
Speaker 3: That part of what we speak of when we speak
33:45
Speaker 3: of new women rising.
33:46
Speaker 4: We're always looking at the context in the form of
33:49
Speaker 4: how to bring some of this work into tuition. Now,
33:53
Speaker 4: my other guest that was planning to join us tonight,
33:55
Speaker 4: and I believe she's having she may be having some
33:58
Speaker 4: issues in tech difficulties coming in and that's why I
34:02
Speaker 4: chose to stay because some of the issues I've been
34:05
Speaker 4: having here in the Virgin Islands, and we're going to
34:08
Speaker 4: keep that knock on wood has been you know, whether
34:11
Speaker 4: it's internet connectivity from hurricanes rain, because it seems like
34:15
Speaker 4: this year we've been having like a plesthora, just a
34:18
Speaker 4: host of different storms.
34:19
Speaker 3: And even if it's just we're used to don't call it.
34:23
Speaker 4: We've had up to category five hurricanes come back to back.
34:28
Speaker 4: So when we see a Category one sometimes we don't
34:31
Speaker 4: have our thrust up. You know, we're not fully prepared.
34:35
Speaker 4: But the last couple of hurricanes it passed through were
34:38
Speaker 4: barely categories one, the categories two and still interfere with
34:42
Speaker 4: our infrastructure, hence making some of our connectivity, you know,
34:46
Speaker 4: Internet services sell services, not function. Hence we miss out
34:53
Speaker 4: on opportunities like this to exchange share some of our wisdom, teachings,
34:57
Speaker 4: some of the knowledge and skills and talents and certise.
35:00
Speaker 3: That we would like to share with the world.
35:02
Speaker 4: And so to be able to resume this particular broadcast
35:07
Speaker 4: with season two the Crew Podcast, but we really get
35:14
Speaker 4: an opportunity to really change this to another space and
35:17
Speaker 4: be able to share some of the music. And I've
35:20
Speaker 4: been very cautious because at one point someone had to
35:23
Speaker 4: pull me up because I wanted to play all types
35:25
Speaker 4: of music, just make it like a a whole, right,
35:31
Speaker 4: and then people are.
35:31
Speaker 3: Like, copyright d am I you know this kind of
35:37
Speaker 3: pulled me and railed me in.
35:38
Speaker 4: So the music that you hear are the poetic bursts
35:42
Speaker 4: of the spoken word that you hear are either things
35:44
Speaker 4: like how we open tonight would have a purpose. That's
35:47
Speaker 4: one of my own productions, right, and I try to
35:52
Speaker 4: play things that I know we have the copyright the permission,
35:55
Speaker 4: so there's no issue, especially with the sensitivities of copyright
36:01
Speaker 4: infrigement issues that could exist on spaces like YouTube, Facebook, lineo, Instagram,
36:10
Speaker 4: et cetera. With that being said, I would love for
36:13
Speaker 4: you to also share with us or I'm feeling it,
36:17
Speaker 4: Sister Queen and Prestonia, if you were to have a
36:23
Speaker 4: you did share with this Chester Van some space select repairs.
36:28
Speaker 4: But what would be your ask if you if without
36:33
Speaker 4: h oh, I lost you again. I need you to
36:35
Speaker 4: come back because I don't want this to just be me,
36:39
Speaker 4: but I need you to come back into the platform.
36:41
Speaker 4: I hope that she didn't tap a button and it
36:44
Speaker 4: took her out right, So because I always put that
36:47
Speaker 4: question out in the forefront, what is your ask and
36:52
Speaker 4: how do you express your not just your need but
36:58
Speaker 4: the desire or whether it's a nonprofit organizations goal and objective,
37:05
Speaker 4: if it's an entrepreneurial investment opportunity that you're looking for,
37:12
Speaker 4: is there that inner generational wealth building opportunity? And the
37:18
Speaker 4: reason I keep coming back to that is because inside
37:23
Speaker 4: of some of our community work here have had an
37:27
Speaker 4: opportunity to really be exposed to some really wonderful people
37:35
Speaker 4: that care about family and community. And sometimes when we
37:40
Speaker 4: talk about these things, persons get like, oh, it must
37:44
Speaker 4: be multi level marketing and look, and I keep telling
37:47
Speaker 4: persons nothing is further from the truth. Many times when
37:52
Speaker 4: we're talking about having a so soon, I know it
37:56
Speaker 4: is a so soon having a hand everybody supporting a
38:01
Speaker 4: particular person or their family and sharing the wealth and
38:06
Speaker 4: being able to make it so that we can actually
38:09
Speaker 4: build on things. And so I always encourage persons before
38:13
Speaker 4: they say, oh, well, I don't want to participate in
38:16
Speaker 4: that because that's this, that and the other and so forth.
38:19
Speaker 3: Always go and listen and listen with an open.
38:25
Speaker 4: Mind, a balanced card, because you don't want to let
38:31
Speaker 4: anything in that doesn't belong of course, and at the
38:35
Speaker 4: same time, think about how this opportunity that may be
38:40
Speaker 4: presented to you will facilitate your.
38:44
Speaker 3: Great she's returning. I hope yes, Okay, did I call it?
38:51
Speaker 3: Did something happen? How do you ask me the powerful
38:56
Speaker 3: question and then sit me out?
39:00
Speaker 4: I have no problem, no problem, I'm okay. So I'll
39:04
Speaker 4: come back on that powerful question and just request guidance
39:08
Speaker 4: because that ask and the reason I say that asks
39:12
Speaker 4: because I have an idea what you could say. I
39:15
Speaker 4: just know that one of the things that I've always
39:18
Speaker 4: observed with you at Pisonia is that you are not
39:21
Speaker 4: afraid one You're not afraid of money, You're not afraid
39:24
Speaker 4: of numbers with long zeros, and so I'm.
39:28
Speaker 3: Clear on that.
39:29
Speaker 4: And some people will be like, I only need five
39:32
Speaker 4: thousand dollars, when in actuality they really need fifty or
39:36
Speaker 4: five hundred thousand dollars. And you don't have any problem
39:39
Speaker 4: going into the millions. I don't know, because the US
39:42
Speaker 4: dollar has been kind of weakening a little bit, and
39:45
Speaker 4: you know that you really need a lot.
39:47
Speaker 3: To get things done. But I think it's important that.
39:51
Speaker 4: You share because you started to say that when you
39:53
Speaker 4: were talking about how important it is to have certain
39:57
Speaker 4: amenities and resources for the seniors that you serve on
40:01
Speaker 4: a daily basis, and you shared your appreciation for the agencies,
40:08
Speaker 4: the individuals, the businesses in the community that have actually
40:12
Speaker 4: supported just being able to do the part that's happening already,
40:17
Speaker 4: and that you have an ideal, you have a desire
40:24
Speaker 4: to be able to offer more because the intention is
40:27
Speaker 4: where we are now. We hope to be able to
40:30
Speaker 4: have more improved resources, a wider depth and breadth of
40:37
Speaker 4: resources for the next generation of elders and seniors that
40:43
Speaker 4: are coming, because we know we have certain limitations in
40:46
Speaker 4: granted to spend you know, hurricanes twenty seventeen, COVID twenty twenty,
40:52
Speaker 4: other hurricanes going in and out, twenty twenty three, even
40:56
Speaker 4: if it was just flooding, you know, even if it
40:59
Speaker 4: was just minor image, you know, as well as twenty
41:01
Speaker 4: twenty four. And we're not finished in the season. Our
41:04
Speaker 4: season is from June to November, and it's only September,
41:08
Speaker 4: and we've already had some pretty engaging visitation from hurricanes
41:13
Speaker 4: that again are category two or less, you know, But
41:17
Speaker 4: because we have this experience, you know, it's like we say,
41:20
Speaker 4: Hugo made me a doune right. We actually have a
41:23
Speaker 4: song you go made me. I don't think people understand
41:26
Speaker 4: that was a hurricane of nineteen eighty nine that devastated
41:31
Speaker 4: like ninety to ninety five percent destruction in the Virgin Islands.
41:35
Speaker 4: So people still have that in their mindset. So the
41:39
Speaker 4: seventeenth and September was thirty five years today is linked
41:45
Speaker 4: to another set of anniversaries. You know, it's not everybody
41:49
Speaker 4: likes to talk about Irma and Maria because it just
41:51
Speaker 4: kind of shakes people up. So I'm grateful that you
41:56
Speaker 4: again share with us. You know, if you had that
42:00
Speaker 4: ask before your stuff tries to blink out again. It
42:04
Speaker 4: doesn't have to be the house, doesn't have to be
42:07
Speaker 4: anything like that. But just if we could just get
42:10
Speaker 4: people to be aware of not just the need, but
42:15
Speaker 4: some of the desires and definitely that project, that oral
42:20
Speaker 4: history project, because that requires time.
42:24
Speaker 3: And resource right to be able to do.
42:27
Speaker 4: We don't want to just do We could do it
42:28
Speaker 4: with our phones, because everybody seems to think that phones
42:31
Speaker 4: now are equivalent to professional cameras. However, we would like
42:35
Speaker 4: to do it on the level that it would be
42:37
Speaker 4: preserved well, can be archived and with the type of
42:42
Speaker 4: respect and value that it deserves. Then we're going to
42:47
Speaker 4: have to have you know, professional videographers, proper sound engineering crew,
42:52
Speaker 4: proper editing crews, and things of that nature. So I
42:55
Speaker 4: kind of would like to start with that particular project
42:58
Speaker 4: so that you can publicly remind me when we're starting that.
43:07
Speaker 4: Uh oh sound sound sound check, your sound check, your sound.
43:18
Speaker 3: Wow, what happened?
43:19
Speaker 4: Take your time?
43:22
Speaker 3: H uh oh.
43:29
Speaker 4: Okay, We're gonna take a moment for her to address
43:32
Speaker 4: her sound issues because part of what we were moving
43:36
Speaker 4: in the direction of and I just would like to
43:38
Speaker 4: highlight that because I know we have a limited.
43:43
Speaker 3: I can hear you now.
43:45
Speaker 4: Okay, so your question again, actually, when would you like
43:54
Speaker 4: to start this project, this oral history project with the elders.
44:02
Speaker 3: It all depends on your schedule.
44:04
Speaker 2: We have.
44:07
Speaker 3: In November our Thanksgiving luncheon.
44:13
Speaker 1: We invite all the seniors for both centers on Saint
44:17
Speaker 1: John and the seniors from Saint Thomas, so you have
44:22
Speaker 1: everybody in the house, everybody, and we all also invite
44:30
Speaker 1: like the community members that are seniors or you know who.
44:37
Speaker 3: I would think we want to hang out and spend
44:39
Speaker 3: time with us that day.
44:40
Speaker 1: The firefighters, police department, like you know, different community members
44:46
Speaker 1: and government officials, administrator, you know, the senators.
44:54
Speaker 3: Senator Dwayne de Graf and his team have been like
44:59
Speaker 3: the big brother, the big uncle, and the aunt. You know,
45:03
Speaker 3: they come and they look out for the seniors. And
45:05
Speaker 3: they just visited us yesterday, so at the beach.
45:09
Speaker 1: We're hanging out at the beach. So they normally host
45:12
Speaker 1: the Father's Day luncheon. So out of respect, if you
45:16
Speaker 1: do something for us, you get to come and hang
45:18
Speaker 1: out with.
45:18
Speaker 3: Us any day.
45:20
Speaker 1: So we invite them up for Thanksgiving. So if you
45:23
Speaker 1: want to come over, I'd have to look at the calendar.
45:27
Speaker 1: They would be you know, probably the mid my memory
45:31
Speaker 1: serves me correctly. The thirteenth is a Wednesday, and we
45:38
Speaker 1: would probably do it the week after.
45:41
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah right, it'd be like the twentieth.
45:45
Speaker 4: I mean, the actual Thanksgiving Day is being observed on
45:49
Speaker 4: the twenty eighth, and I know that, you know, depending
45:54
Speaker 4: on what the schedule is, you know, because most pierces
45:55
Speaker 4: would spend that day like with their family directly, so
45:58
Speaker 4: you wouldn't want to.
46:00
Speaker 3: Oh, say, can do it on that day. We do
46:02
Speaker 3: it a week before.
46:03
Speaker 4: So that's why that twenty okay, perfect? Yeah, in the week,
46:08
Speaker 4: so because.
46:08
Speaker 1: You would have, of course spent time with your family,
46:10
Speaker 1: but we want to make sure that it's during the
46:12
Speaker 1: week that you know, the seniors can attend and then
46:16
Speaker 1: we invite the community.
46:18
Speaker 3: It sponsored.
46:19
Speaker 1: The luncheon is sponsored by Starfish Market, So I give
46:22
Speaker 1: thanks for the Starfish team. They've been doing that for
46:26
Speaker 1: years with my mom, way before I came. So that's
46:29
Speaker 1: something that they've done for years. Like I'm forty five
46:33
Speaker 1: years old, my mother has been working with that center
46:35
Speaker 1: ever since I was in how can I.
46:37
Speaker 3: Say, probably in first grade and I don't remember. I
46:40
Speaker 3: just remember she wasn't home and I didn't like it.
46:45
Speaker 3: Rather do at work, yeah someone and my mom was
46:48
Speaker 3: always at home and it's like, wait a minute, I'm
46:50
Speaker 3: at home with my dad. Where's my mother. Yeah, that's
46:54
Speaker 3: where she started dedicating her time to the seniors.
46:58
Speaker 1: So she was out and.
46:59
Speaker 3: About with that. But they started she started doing that,
47:05
Speaker 3: you know, something for them. Starfish does the whole spread,
47:08
Speaker 3: the turkey.
47:11
Speaker 4: The whole work, so had they do everything in terms
47:13
Speaker 4: of the celebration. And I think it's important to also
47:16
Speaker 4: note that while the rest of the region, well, this
47:20
Speaker 4: particular part of the world highlights the thanksgiving, you know,
47:24
Speaker 4: families coming together and so forth. That in Saint John
47:28
Speaker 4: in particular, November twenty third is a significant anniversary of
47:35
Speaker 4: one of the first African revolutions in seventeen thirty three,
47:40
Speaker 4: that started literally on November twenty third, seventeen thirty three,
47:44
Speaker 4: where they formally enslaved Africans led revolutionary rebellion, rebellion to
47:52
Speaker 4: some insurrection to others, and it had it had the
47:56
Speaker 4: ability to hold the island as an independent African nation
48:02
Speaker 4: until May twenty fourth, seventeen thirty four. So even in
48:07
Speaker 4: our Virgin Islands Code now in the law books, November
48:11
Speaker 4: twenty third is known as Virgin Island's Freedom Fighter Day.
48:15
Speaker 4: And I'm seeing that our guest who was having some
48:18
Speaker 4: issues coming in, she came in in a perfect time though.
48:21
Speaker 9: So but I have no idea what has transpired before
48:27
Speaker 9: I got here.
48:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, But the first and foremost, I'd like to ask
48:33
Speaker 4: for a moment of reflection.
48:35
Speaker 3: We've been joined by.
48:38
Speaker 4: One of my eas one of the queen mothers that
48:42
Speaker 4: guides and guards a lot of the work I do,
48:45
Speaker 4: Queen Mother Yah ten Die, and I am also extending it,
48:52
Speaker 4: not just as a spiritual eldress to me, but also
48:57
Speaker 4: one of this country's most esteemed and sought after educational leaders,
49:06
Speaker 4: educational consultants, sought organizers, revolutionary spiritual priest.
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Speaker 3: That I could do like a whole piece on her.
49:18
Speaker 4: I don't have enough time, but I just wanted to
49:20
Speaker 4: really give thanks and praise that you were able to
49:23
Speaker 4: navigate through the stream yard platform to join us, even
49:27
Speaker 4: if it's just for these last few minutes, and we
49:30
Speaker 4: would leave.
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Speaker 3: Some reflections because what we've been.
49:32
Speaker 4: Talking about is new woman rising, sister and Prestonia here
49:36
Speaker 4: is in Saint John.
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Speaker 3: She was sharing some of the work that she does
49:41
Speaker 3: with her.
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Speaker 4: Hobby slash entrepreneurial business, online trendy trendy lionessed courtier. She
49:52
Speaker 4: was also sharing her daytime work of helping and working
49:58
Speaker 4: and serving as a coordinator with seniors in Saint John
50:02
Speaker 4: in particular and the types of culture, healing, education and
50:07
Speaker 4: all types of field trips. All I want to highlight
50:10
Speaker 4: that powerful. You know, I love anybody that goes to
50:13
Speaker 4: the beach, so when I can like field trip, but
50:20
Speaker 4: I'm saying to some of the most beautiful historic spaces
50:24
Speaker 4: and places to really give the seniors in Saint John
50:28
Speaker 4: all that they're deserving of in their years where people
50:32
Speaker 4: like to refer to as twilight, you know. So that's
50:35
Speaker 4: pretty much so what we've been talking about. So she
50:38
Speaker 4: was given some of that, sharing some of the things
50:40
Speaker 4: she desires, asking persons to just be aware, you know,
50:44
Speaker 4: Saint John.
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Speaker 3: So if you're coming to the Virgin Islands, I'm putting
50:47
Speaker 3: that out there to the Crew podcast. I'm just gonna
50:53
Speaker 3: put it out there. It would be fabulous.
50:56
Speaker 9: Yes, I have been to Saint John a couple of times.
51:03
Speaker 9: Once when the historically black colleges and universities did a
51:08
Speaker 9: conference there and I went over to Saint John because
51:13
Speaker 9: I brought a whole crew of black folks trying to
51:16
Speaker 9: find the black owned businesses so that I didn't want
51:19
Speaker 9: them to deposit their money only in with the hotel
51:23
Speaker 9: and with you know where the cruise ships.
51:26
Speaker 3: Got so.
51:29
Speaker 9: Family, I brought a group over and then subsequently I
51:33
Speaker 9: am an evaluator for Title three programs with the Virgin Island,
51:39
Speaker 9: the University of the Virgin Islands. So when there was
51:43
Speaker 9: the center on Saint John and they were trying to
51:48
Speaker 9: establish it so that students would be able to take
51:50
Speaker 9: their courses online at that time, you all were ahead
51:55
Speaker 9: of most people technologically, but of course with all of
52:01
Speaker 9: the political kinds of things or whatever, it didn't pan out.
52:05
Speaker 9: And I know I had made some recommendations in terms
52:07
Speaker 9: of how they could expand on it, but they didn't
52:12
Speaker 9: do too much because they were looking at commercial But
52:18
Speaker 9: with you doing it as but you working with young
52:21
Speaker 9: people makes me think about a little nonprofit organization that
52:25
Speaker 9: I work with. It's called a DOSSI, the African Diaspora
52:29
Speaker 9: Ancestral Commemoration Institute, and one of the programs that we
52:34
Speaker 9: have done in the past is work with elderly who
52:37
Speaker 9: were in elderly homes, and we connected them with African
52:43
Speaker 9: Dance Troop and had the African Dance Troupe to work
52:48
Speaker 9: with the elderly to get them to understand the transition
52:52
Speaker 9: from the original drums and whatnot in Africa bringing it
52:57
Speaker 9: forward to hip hop, so that we could get them
53:02
Speaker 9: to better embrace the youth, you see, and the youth
53:07
Speaker 9: to embrace them. So it made me think about that
53:11
Speaker 9: when she just said that, because I would love for
53:15
Speaker 9: you to do something like that.
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Speaker 3: You don't know, I would love to work with you
53:20
Speaker 3: do It's how you can love to see you do that.
53:26
Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying, Because you all have all
53:28
Speaker 9: the elements there, you just gotta put the pieces together.
53:32
Speaker 4: Right right right, It's coming, It's coming. I mean, this
53:35
Speaker 4: is the fact of going. And again that's part of
53:37
Speaker 4: what we're talking about, the collaborations, the networking and being
53:43
Speaker 4: able to do these types of things together and being
53:47
Speaker 4: able to have them so that that keyword that you said, institute,
53:52
Speaker 4: so that these things are institutionalized, so this is regular.
53:55
Speaker 4: This isn't like just a project or just a one
53:58
Speaker 4: time and done right that it's actually something that will
54:04
Speaker 4: be multi generational. It would be generational, it would be
54:09
Speaker 4: trans cultural, and it would be long term. So that's
54:12
Speaker 4: part of what we were speaking about for you know,
54:15
Speaker 4: most of tonight's broadcast, and just being able to share
54:20
Speaker 4: some of the ways in which we do that and
54:22
Speaker 4: being able to share so I was able to put
54:24
Speaker 4: at least the Facebook page for a DOSSI so person's
54:27
Speaker 4: you know, African Diaspora Ancestral Commemoration Institute, so that that
54:34
Speaker 4: way you can find some more information. And then in
54:37
Speaker 4: the future we definitely would have I'm looking forward to
54:40
Speaker 4: having you join perhaps in our next I do my
54:42
Speaker 4: broadcast on the first and third Thursday of every month,
54:48
Speaker 4: so perhaps in October we can have you now that
54:51
Speaker 4: you know how to get in and out of the platform,
54:53
Speaker 4: so that that way we can spend some time talking
54:55
Speaker 4: about Adossi and then letting persons and other pieces, because
54:59
Speaker 4: I mean, you could easily go to Appeal and all
55:01
Speaker 4: these other network platforms that you've been grounded in founding, etc.
55:07
Speaker 4: So we can start to bring some of this information
55:10
Speaker 4: where people can learn and engage and really insen. Right,
55:15
Speaker 4: And I would ask, because we have about five minutes left,
55:19
Speaker 4: and I would just ask for you, Sister and Prestonia
55:23
Speaker 4: to give like a final commentary, and then I'll ask Via.
55:29
Speaker 3: To do the same. I thank you all.
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Speaker 1: Forgiving me the opportunity and you're listening here this evening
55:40
Speaker 1: to talk about my fit and feisty seniors of Saint John.
55:45
Speaker 1: And to anyone visiting Saint John US Virgin Islands, you're
55:49
Speaker 1: always welcome to visit us. We're at the Parking Recreations
55:54
Speaker 1: Center in town, right down the hill from the roundabouts,
56:00
Speaker 1: up the street from the ferry. If you're walking, it's
56:03
Speaker 1: walkable Monday through Thursday. Well, I should say Monday through Wednesday. Thursday,
56:09
Speaker 1: they'll be there until about ten thirty because then they'll
56:12
Speaker 1: be headed out to the beach.
56:14
Speaker 3: There we go. That's why I come on Thursday. This culture, so.
56:28
Speaker 1: On Thursdays we go to the beach and that's our
56:31
Speaker 1: field trip. I guess, the most relaxing day of the week.
56:35
Speaker 1: So we meet and we go there until two o'clock.
56:38
Speaker 1: So they meet about ten thirty to two. So you're
56:41
Speaker 1: always welcome to come and visit us or join us
56:45
Speaker 1: at the beach, and we would look forward to I
56:48
Speaker 1: guess talking to you soon. And Royalty came to say
56:51
Speaker 1: good night.
56:55
Speaker 4: I love you, Princess Royalty, thank you so much, Thank
57:03
Speaker 4: you again, and thanks you having me.
57:05
Speaker 3: It's been a joint of privilege. And please Queen Mother
57:09
Speaker 3: Iyah and I go ahead and let us get ready
57:14
Speaker 3: to close out.
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Speaker 9: I do apologize for joining you so late. I did
57:19
Speaker 9: have I have used stream Yard, but for some reason
57:22
Speaker 9: I couldn't get in and I had to not use
57:25
Speaker 9: it on my phone and go back to my computer
57:27
Speaker 9: to get it to work.
57:28
Speaker 4: Okay, So yeah, I.
57:31
Speaker 9: Have used it for other programs because one of the
57:33
Speaker 9: other little things that we did, uh, two brothers and
57:36
Speaker 9: myself because you know, Title three programs at the HBC
57:40
Speaker 9: uses the largest grant that all of them received, and
57:45
Speaker 9: we hadn't done much as we have a Title three association.
57:49
Speaker 9: So the brothers and I created the HBCU Forever Foundation, okay,
57:55
Speaker 9: And what we do at the little foundation is we
57:58
Speaker 9: raise a little bit of money. It's five oh one
58:02
Speaker 9: C three, so it's taxed. Your donations are tax deductible,
58:06
Speaker 9: as is a dossi uh. And what we do is
58:10
Speaker 9: we give five hundred dollars book scholarships to students who
58:15
Speaker 9: are enrolled in HBCUs. So they don't have to be
58:18
Speaker 9: high performing students. They just have to make a request
58:25
Speaker 9: and it's very simple, and we send them a check
58:28
Speaker 9: for five hundred dollars and we don't follow up to
58:30
Speaker 9: see if the only thing they spend it on was books,
58:33
Speaker 9: because we know that the students have a need, so
58:36
Speaker 9: whatever they want to use it for is fine.
58:40
Speaker 3: But it's just a few of the little things.
58:42
Speaker 9: As you see also with my beloved Queen mother here Censerah,
58:46
Speaker 9: that we're engaged in anything that is going to try
58:49
Speaker 9: to help uplift our people in any kind of way.
58:52
Speaker 9: And two areas that I that have my heart are
58:56
Speaker 9: the babies like the one I just saw you, my
59:02
Speaker 9: young you, my young people, and the elderly. I'm an
59:06
Speaker 9: elderly person now who doesn't who still reaches for other
59:11
Speaker 9: folks to be elder But I'm saying, mama.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
59:15
Speaker 9: Even people who are older than me call me mama.
59:18
Speaker 9: Tien die okay, because it's that motherly motherly. I was
59:24
Speaker 9: gonna say motherly love.
59:26
Speaker 3: But it's like.
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Speaker 9: The mother hen they spreads their wings and pulls all
59:31
Speaker 9: the youngins up under her. So you you under there now, Mama.
59:37
Speaker 6: It's an honor, sasure, thank you, and I'm.
59:43
Speaker 9: So pleased to hear what you were doing.
59:45
Speaker 3: You uplift my.
59:46
Speaker 4: Spirits, so thank you, thank you. You have a blessed
59:50
Speaker 4: me right well, I just want to think both of you.
59:53
Speaker 4: It's been an honor and a privilege. I'm grateful that
59:56
Speaker 4: you were able to join me on the Crew podcast
1:00:00
Speaker 4: this particular episode one five six. I'm feeling that they
1:00:03
Speaker 4: got numeration for this. It gives us an opportunity to
1:00:06
Speaker 4: really take this work to the next level for those
1:00:09
Speaker 4: that are listening, those that are viewing, those that are
1:00:11
Speaker 4: looking at this podcast after it's been done live. This
1:00:14
Speaker 4: has been your host, Queen Mother, doctor Chinzera, building a
1:00:19
Speaker 4: new legacy. This is how our speaks, and when we
1:00:22
Speaker 4: speak of our speaks, we're speaking of ancient, sacred traditions.
1:00:28
Speaker 3: Let's keep that in mind, you know, truth to power.
1:00:30
Speaker 4: We're always speaking of culture, healing, arts, technology and spirituality
1:00:35
Speaker 4: for life, inspiration, freedom and education. And just remember that
1:00:39
Speaker 4: spirituality really grounds many of us. Land is one of
1:00:43
Speaker 4: our foundations, and our harmony will keep us being able
1:00:48
Speaker 4: to live in truth, justice, order, reciprocity, balance, divine righteousnes
1:00:54
Speaker 4: and harmony into eternity. So with that, I would like
1:00:57
Speaker 4: to thank all of the crew for making this happened special.
1:01:00
Speaker 4: Shout out to Queen Angela and I with my song
1:01:05
Speaker 4: because I love my have a purpose, I can do.
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Speaker 3: My little, my little dance.
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Speaker 9: Not only that, Mama, but also with that. In addition
1:01:13
Speaker 9: to the harmony, it's the rhythm.
1:01:17
Speaker 5: Verse.
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Speaker 8: It seems like people than now we have a purpose
1:01:53
Speaker 8: in this life.
1:01:54
Speaker 3: Song live a purpose every day. It just makes show
1:02:02
Speaker 3: you live in that way, have a purpose and all
1:02:07
Speaker 3: you do so your life.
1:02:09
Speaker 4: It's for.
1:02:15
Speaker 3: It's true.
1:02:22
Speaker 8: We have to live the life because so we can
1:02:26
Speaker 8: have pressed the prosily. We have to live the lifelike.
1:02:31
Speaker 6: Tit all intelligendistru.
1:02:36
Speaker 4: If you have a purpose along the way, that's all
1:02:41
Speaker 4: the time, so your life like you know, you can
1:03:00
Speaker 4: tell a little younger, but yeah, it's just.
1:03:11
Speaker 3: Listen.
1:03:12
Speaker 4: And we've got to give a special shout out to
1:03:14
Speaker 4: Brother Army because he's heard me doing poetry and then
1:03:18
Speaker 4: opened up the mic and let me really sing it
1:03:21
Speaker 4: and record it. And I was like, get thanks again everyone, thank.
1:03:28
Speaker 3: You for listen. Come in backing the day, back in
1:03:33
Speaker 3: the day.
1:03:34
Speaker 4: We got to do all these other things first, but
1:03:36
Speaker 4: I want to just thank the crew podcast all of
1:03:39
Speaker 4: the support. Just keep it going. There's some books that
1:03:41
Speaker 4: we need to talk about. There's some intergenerational wealth building
1:03:45
Speaker 4: we'd like to talk about. But remember that at the center,
1:03:48
Speaker 4: it's how we really elevate and really really ascend in
1:03:52
Speaker 4: these present times. So let's keep working together and keep collaborating.
1:03:56
Speaker 4: I'm grateful. I'm grateful, and we're done.
1:04:00
Speaker 3: Exactly attack M. Thank you my sisters. Has been a blessing.
1:04:05
Speaker 3: Grateful to you.