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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_ EPISODE #126_HOST BLAQUE DIAMOND · DA CREW Podcast

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m Hey everybody, this is Black Diamond from the Crew Network, episode number
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one twenty six and you're listening to Basic Black After Dark podcast, the show
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that meets you where you are and get you what you ask for now.
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Growing up, I had a problem, a big problem with my wing and
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I wasn't too comfortable in my skin. Well at least not until I became
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pregnant with my first child that I noticed. I had a glow on my
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body and nobody else had that, and it was shining all over on my
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face, my arms, and my belly. After I delivered my baby,
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I noticed I still had that glow now, not a pregnancy goal, but
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a glow of satisfaction. Tonight I was talking about satisfying and normalizing normal bodies
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in a positive name way with my guests Janet Forbes, welcome, Janee.
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Hello, Hey, how are you? Can you hear me? Okay,
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yes we can hear you. I'm doing well. How are you? I'm
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fine? And thank you for joining us tonight to talk about a topic that
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many shy away from, and that's normal bodies. Yes, yes, I
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am so glad that he was able to do this tonight. Let me ask
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you, what is five you to start a nonprofit or better yet, a
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modeling organization normalizing bodies. So it was actually during COVID when I was a
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stay at home mom. I was a new mom trying to learn to love
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my new body, and one of my followers on TikTok came to me and
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asked if I could put together a body positivity photoshoot and I was like,
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yeah, I would love that, And then I said to myself, what
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the heck am I gonna do with all these photos? You know? So
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I decided to put on a gallery event that helped raise moneys for whatever charity
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I choose at that time. And here I am two years later, still
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doing it. Wows two years Wow? Now models coming all shapes and sizes
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and a variety of backgrounds. Tell me more about your variety and your intentions
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with your organization. We got a little bit of stuck, and you said
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that we have a call coming in. So Jane just seems to be a
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little stuck. But she's been doing this for two years and she said that
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she started it during COVID, So you know, when COVID hit, we
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was doing just about everything right, Okay, now can you hear me now?
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Yeah, yeah, I can hear you. This is bad. You
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said that your models coming all shapes and sizes and the variety of backgrounds.
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More about your variety. So positivity NAY is a huge variety, Like we
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include pretty much everyone that walks through life. We have people in recovery,
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disability, people that fight cancer. Some of our bigger categories are trauma,
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boudoir mombods, and people of color for example, people of color. Is
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it just embraces all shades of you know, black and brown people because we
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come in all different shades and with mombods, we are learning to love our
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new bodies, if they went back to what they look like before, or
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if they have changed dresses with positivity. Nay, we include. We try
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to include all walks of life. I wish you had that mombod before I
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had my kids, because I could definitely use it because I put on a
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lot of weeds. What are the requirements to participate? Is their height,
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weight or age? Yes? What's that? What are your requirements? Is
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their height? Age, a weight? Can they gonna have to be like
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over eighteen? Under forty? Now? So this year I'm actually including children
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with my mom boughts category. Last year, I was still new to all
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this, so I didn't want to want to get kids too involved. But
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we have all ages. We Last year I had I call the mature ages,
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which were women that were pretty much fifty five and older, and they
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killed it. They killed that category. So we do not discriminate on age,
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sex, religion, orientation, any of that kind of stuff. Oh
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wow, and I've seen some of your your your stuff, I sort of
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mature women such as myself. I sat there, they were looking great as
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what I'm getting a makeup on and imposing and everything. Is there a fee
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for participating or joining Positive? Nay, So I wouldn't call it a fee.
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I just asked for a five dollar donation to be a model, because
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I get so many messages of people wanting to be involved, and you know
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how it is people say they want to do this, do that, and
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then they don't show up. So I figured if someone's paying a small little
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fee or donation, they're more likely to show up, and that donation goes
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right into the nonprofit to help put on the gallery show or to help do
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other things in the community. Oh well, that's some great fee. You
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know, more people should want to participating it. What positive impact has your
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organization had on the population that you serve? Oh? I think the biggest
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impact is just helping individuals find comfort within themselves to join me and their own
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self love journey, my positivity or my nonprofit Preacher's inclusion, which it just
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means there's a safe space to be who you are. People that get involved
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with Positivity name they feel wanted safe and include it. As mentioned before,
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this year, I'm including children because children struggle as much as our elderly population.
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So we also do things like around Christmas time We help families and need
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if they need food or if they're struggling to get items for their children to
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put underneath the Christmas tree. We also helped the homeless neopulation with some food
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and clothing, especially for the winter months. We collect hand goods and give
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to different organizations, so we do more than just model. Oh that's great
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because you when you hear models, you're just thinking, no food is involved.
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They starving themselves, so they are some challenging And I saw you did
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something recently with some hogies right myself, which I was closer to be able
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to do that. But I definitely want to get involved because it sounds the
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great program and I'm just loving every bit of it. Now you're not only
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the founding creator but one of the models as well. How do you stay
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focused? So honestly, I don't really consider myself one of the models.
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The models always yell at me, come on, Janet, come model with
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us, come on, you're you know you did this, you put this
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together. But with my following, they see my body all the time.
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I embraced my body all the time. So for me, I'm I'm more
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behind the scenes with my big mouth, you know, directing and trying to
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stay calm and organized. But I do pop in a category or two,
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especially if we need like the extra bodies and whatnot. Now I don't I
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don't know what you're talking about. You saying that you don't model. Have
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you seen your pictures? Have you seen? Yeah, anybody's go on Facebook,
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go to her page, go to my page. It's plastered and I'm
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loving it, so you know I'm coming for it. I love I love
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the background. I just love so much of it. It's just it's just
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unbelievable. Do you help place your models in other markets or are you local?
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I'm pretty much just local. Like I said, I don't consider myself
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like a modeling agency. I don't have connections to that that world yet,
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but I will do my best to find like I do research. I'll try
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to use my following to help other people if they do want to pursue this
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line of work. But mine is just pretty much for charity right now.
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Now, I've seen New York Fashion Week and I've seen some of your models.
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Well, i've seen most of your models, and they look like they're
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headed that way. Yeah, yeah, I'm just you know, I don't
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know whether they know it or not. You know, I understand that this
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is all about positivity and the organization, but at the same time, you
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have some awesome models there. Yes, especially it's just ready to take off,
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Yes, especially with the fashion world being more accepting of different bodies,
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not just tall and thin. So yeah, do your models do they have
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to sign a contract with you when they when they join, when they add
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the five dollar fees day a contract with that. Yes, I have them
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sign a contract the day of the photo shoot. And the contract just states
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that it's not a paid job, it's for a nonprofit. You're giving me
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permission to use the photos, and my giving my photographers permission to take the
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photos. I plan on having billboards this year, So the contract just states
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that that they might be you know, used for billboards or advertisement, and
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that I used them on the social media. So wow, So this thing
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is just gone. We are you located? I'm in central Pennsylvania out too,
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now, Okay, all right, so he's on the map now they
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weren't before. They're definitely on the map with this. We're gonna take a
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small break if there's anybody that wants to go in to speak with miss Genee
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about positive positivity. How do I pronounce it positive? Nay? Am I
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saying it wrong? Okay, because anybody, anybody want to call in,
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they could put some comments in. She's here, she can answer all your
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questions. I'm just here smiling and trying to look good at the same time.
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So you know I can't come in here look at all busted. Well,
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I was like, I can't on today. But I'm you know what,
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I'm embracing my natural luck, right, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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That's something else I wanted to find out with the natural look. So
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when we come back after the break, I'm gonna talk to you about the
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natural look as far as you're normalizing bodies as well. We're gonna go on
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a break for now. Okay, okay, turn off the lights, then
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a can tonight. I'm nothing. I'm imagine let's take a shower shower together.
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I don't watch your bud you watch d so oil day saying, turn
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on that girl, I wanna give you with special treat. You're so sweet,
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turn on it. Hey, we are back. We are back.
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We are back. Welcome back to our episode on normalizing bodies with Fountain Creative
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Janny Wards. We had a call during our little break and we had somebody
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that was special on this call. That was your mom. She says that
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she is so proud of you, and yes she is. I think you
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may be able to hear if you want to say something, mom, Yes,
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you you you can hear you. You're live, Hi, mommy,
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And I'm so proud of you. And just keep doing what you gotta make
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me cry on live Huh, she said, you're gonna make a cry.
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No, I'm not gonna make you cry. You're gonna make me cry.
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So many people who think thank wasn't normal, And I just want you to
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know I love you and I love everything that you're doing because you touched my
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life too. She almost intense. All Right, thank you so much for
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calling in. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Have someone here
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saying I'm talking about natural bodies. What do you say to those who have
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had surgery that has changed them? Oh, that's a good one, because
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I'm one of those people. So my surgery was gosh bypassed. And people
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always think that is like the easy way out to lose weight, and it's
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not. I struggle. I'm six years out and I have struggled every day
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since those six years. And then the other end of the end of the
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line, I worked in plastic surgery. Yes, I embrace normal bodies,
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but how do you define what's normal? I also embrace you want to do
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to your body, then so be it. You know, there's nothing wrong
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with alternating your body if that makes makes you happy. Yeah, it's also
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for health reasons for some when they want to do the surgery. And I'm
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I'm gonna tell you too, I'm honestly I'm gonna survival of that surgery,
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the same exact surgery seven years out now. And yeah, it was.
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It was hard, you know, walking up a hill and I'm not I'm
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gonna sit there and say it. Over three hundred pounds couldn't even make it
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to the top of that's it. That's it. I went for the surgery
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and I haven't looked back since. And it is a struggle every day to
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try to keep it off. And people think, oh, you cheating,
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you you know you did this for you know, because you want to look
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a certain way. No, I want to be healthy, so I do
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get it. And and the person who had just wrote in you know,
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yeah, it is a struggle and in every way. But I'm thinking that
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she's talking about something a little bit more than just the surgery. She's talking
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about maybe something that she had been through. We have somebody to say,
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Oh, that's so sweet. I miss my mom and I'm so sorry that
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you know your mom is no longer with you. But I'm hoping that we
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I could share my mom with you and then we're here to just continue to
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talk and just to get everybody into a positive way with positivity name. Okay,
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so how do you identify and target new models? And I heard you
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said that he was bringing kids? What about new model? New models?
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So I have a lot of new faces this year. And what I do
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I honestly, I just posted social media, you know. And then my
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I call them my veterans. So my veteran models they helped me recruit too.
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I have a great support team. I have a great following. I
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try to use my TikTok. I have over ninety thousand followers on TikTok.
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I have people that fly in and drive in to do participate in this.
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So social media is definitely the key to recruitment. We have somebody says the
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takeovers right, and then and she says specifically for cancer patient to lost the
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abreast. You know, how do you embrace them and how do you incorporate
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them into your organization? So this would be a breast cancer survival I actually
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yes, I have a couple breast cancer survivors in every category. I try
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to push people within their comfort. So, for example, my breast cancer
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survivors, if they have if they lost one breast or if they lost both
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breasts, we embrace it. We embrace it by them holding where their breast
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used to be. We embraced taking pictures of their stars, and we let
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them know they're not alone. You know, there's other people fighting the same
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battles. I've seen some of your models even showing their stretch monks after having
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babies, and you know, that's that's a beautiful thing. Some people may
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say to this, but this person just went and brought life into this world
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and they have the blueprint on this right to show it. And that that's
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what I consider it a blueprint and it's a wonderful thing. So if you
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are a breast cancer survivor, get in touch with this gene here, you
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know, and see what can what you can do to make yourself feel better.
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About your body because you should be shamed it. Oh, you shouldn't
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feel any negativity towards it, towards you know, not having your breast.
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I know that's the epitome of some women, where you know, my breast
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is everything, but life is ever, you know. So that right?
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And I know I have a couple of different resources that and connections that I
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can help with U if you're struggling with body image because of losing breast.
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Okay, so she's doing more than just giving you information as far as for
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her organizations, she's resources too. I see your organization is doing some wonderful
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things for women and men. What is it like working with the men?
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Men are the hardest. I tell yeah, you were thinking out women,
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like obviously most women struggle, but men struggle with body image too. That
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is the hardest category out of all fifteen of mine. I I just have
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a hard time recruiting men. They don't want to show off their dad bods
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or their six packs or whatnot. And I'm just like women are out here
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showing off. You know, they're keeni bodies, they're mom bods, they're
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and their brow and underware. You can get down to your boxers. And
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my boyfriend, he's my biggest supporter and he he hates it, but he'll
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do it for me. Well, the man, you shouldn't be embarrassed.
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You know, women got those, We got handles. You may have the
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big bellies, but we got handles, and we're just letting it all out
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and you'll be surprised. You know. Some women love that. Some women
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love the big belly. And you're just being a natural man. So come
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on out and just going in and just do what you have to do.
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Was there ever a time that you thought that you weren't going to pull this
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off? Oh? Yeah, tell me about that. So it comes down
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to finances, especially being a new nonprofit, a minority, a woman living
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in a small city. No one knows who I am. So are like,
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why am I donating to this cause? Why am I? You know,
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I don't know who you are. I don't want to donate. So
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last year putting this event, people don't know that I put X amount of
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money of my own into it just to pull it off. And I'm so
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very thankful for the sponsors that I did have last year. But putting together
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a gallery event, it's expensive and very time consuming. But I have a
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strong mother and she always taught me when you want something to go for it
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and put your mind to it, you can accomplish it. Wow, it
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sounds like a wise woman. How do you stay creative throughout the whole?
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It is and innovative. My mind does not shut off. I I don't
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even know if it shuts off when I'm sleeping, but I just I come
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up with ideas and my photographers probably get sick of me. It's like two
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am. I know they're sleeping, or it's four am. I'm getting ready
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for nursing school and everybody else is sleeping. But I have to text them
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right away and let them know what I came up with. But again,
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it's not all about me. This is a team. I consider my nonprofit
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as a team. People give me ideas and I just try my best to
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execute them. So yeah, the time, he says that she has handles
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and stretch marks as well, so she's embracing hers as well. So that's
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a great thing. You have this event coming out charity, tell us about
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it. So this year, I don't want to give away a lot of
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details, but it's three days instead of one day. Friday, November seventeenth
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is a vendor event where I'm hoping to have different businesses in the fashion and
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beauty industry come together and just show the community what they're what type of business
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they are, because we have so many small businesses that people don't know that
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we have or what they do, what they specialize in. So that's a
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free event. Saturday the eighteenth is the main gallery event where the photos will
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be on display. There will be a buffet style catering and music, auctions
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for different items and the goal is to raise money and donate to a charity
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in our area. And then Sunday is a Brunch of Memosa Day that you'll
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be able to view the gallery and you will also be able to meet and
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greet me and some other the other models. So it's a it's a really
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nice time. Last year we had probably two hundred and fifty people. Oh
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wow, that's a great turn out. So is it every year you do
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a different charity or is there one specific charity that you focus on. This
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is only year two, so I am going to try to choose a different
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charity because I just there's too many people out there to help, so I
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don't want to just focus on one charity. Even though I consider myself a
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charity because I'm a nonprofit, I figured I can use my platform to help
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others. Now I hear that you're a nursing student, a mother of five
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with four bonus children. Tell me about Janet. You told me about your
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charity, how you're helping other people. Tell me about you. Oh gosh,
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So I actually have six kids and five bonus kids. But yes,
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I'm a nursing student and I hope to graduate in December with my r end.
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I just I just love I love life. I love helping people,
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and again that comes down to my mother always helping people and being an awesome
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role model. But I'm thirty two years old. Like I said, I
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have six kids and a nursing student. I hope to continue with positivity.
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Nay. I have a loving boyfriend that's super supportive of everything I do.
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I hate talking about myself. I get used to it because I see a
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lot coming your way. Definitely get used to it. Where can people send
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donations to your your nonprofit? So there is a website. It's called Central
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Pennsylvania Gives, Central pa gives dot com. If you have PayPal, you
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can make donations on the website, or you can mail a check to the
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address that they provide. If you have Venmo cash app any of those type
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of money exchange services. You can always Facebook me on positive Nay or just
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reach out to me on Facebook. But most people they email a check to
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the YEP P O S I T I V I n A Y positive v
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NAY and the first place you had mentioned for them to send it off to
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that they choose to send it. Say that one again, Central Pa.
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YEP Central Pa gives dot com how I'm funded through the I'm sorry, go
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ahead. I was gonna say I'm funded through the Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation,
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so they kind of oversee, you know, the finances and whatnot. But
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if you want to get in touch with me, my name's Jane Forbes on
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Facebook. My nonprofit page is Positivity name that I spelled a couple of seconds
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ago. Can you put them on chat? Oh? Yeah, I can
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put it. You can put it in the chat so they can put it
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on the screen so all of viewers can see where where it's going, and
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then also bring in how they can contact you if they want to participate.
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Okay, so this sounds like a great charity people get involved in. It
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doesn't matter where you're at. You can send in pictures, you could get
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in contact with Janet and she'll give you further information as far as how you
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can participate, how you can join, how you can donate, you can
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come out. I'm gonna get the information as far as tickets to be able
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to come to the gala. And it's going to be a heck of a
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weekend. So this I believe, she says, say to date again November
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seventeenth through the nineteenth. Okay, there you go, November the seventeenth through
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the nineteenth. And how to the ticket? You said it was free or
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is there a price for the tickets? Friday is free? Saturday. I'm
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still working out the prices, but it's probably between forty to sixty dollars,
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and like I said it, that includes the food, the tickets to the
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gallery viewing, drinks and music and whatnot. And then Sunday, I'm still
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working out the prices for that, probably between twenty and thirty dollars. I
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try to make it budget friendly for people. You know you do you have
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a location already as far as we will be in Pennsylvania, yep, it's
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here and out Tuna Well, Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania at the US Hotel. Can
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you put that information in there as well? So this is way people can
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actually see all of this information. Yea. And there is an event page
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on Facebook two with all the information. Oh wow wow. So what is
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the future for a positive Day? What is the future? What is the
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whole for you? To continue to grow, continue to grow and help people.
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I do have a five year plan. Hopefully I have a location.
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I don't want to give out too many details about that, but hopefully I
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have a location that will continue to help people in the community. My overall
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goal is to kind of have like a retail spot, but not be so
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retail where I'm making money off of it, but retail where people in need
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need to come gather supplies. Like I said, I don't want I don't
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want to give out too much details on that. Okay, well, we're
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definitely gonna be looking forward to that. So what's next for you? Not
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just with positive to name? What's next for you? I know you said
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you're graduating, You're graduating in decent I'm sorry to say it again. Yes,
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can you repeat that? I said? Yes, graduating nursing school.
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Yeah, and then what do you want to graduating nursing school? You're gonna
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just work or take a break or I'm probably just gonna work. Yeah,
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I'll continue to go back. Maybe the goal is to possibly become a nurse
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practitioner. Okay, so look this, this young lady is doing things.
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She's doing some positive things there in Pennsylvania. Are you considering going to different
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states to bring positive NAVYA would you just say local? We would actually reached
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out to me, Oh, I would the only thing. Yes, someone
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reached out to me in California wanting me to put on an event like this
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for them. That was a couple of months ago. We really haven't followed
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up on it, but yeah, I would definitely be more than willing to
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go to other places. This. Wow, So you gotta do some asking
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calls in every place. Just keep posting it, buying the locations you had.
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You hear Rady on Basic Black after dark. She's willing to go to
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other locations. So you big cities look out, because here she comes,
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here she comes, and I see that I see nothing but greatness for you.
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