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I Choose...To Advocate For My Health with Kate Walsh · I Choose Me with Jennie Garth

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garth. Hi, everyone,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to I Choose Me. This podcast is all about
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  Speaker 1: the choices we make and where they lead us. My
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  Speaker 1: guest today is known for her role as doctor Addison
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  Speaker 1: Montgomery on the hit shows Gray's Anatomy and Private Practice,
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  Speaker 1: and her role on the wildly popular Netflix show Emily
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  Speaker 1: in Paris.
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  Speaker 2: On this podcast, we.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about choosing ourselves, and today we're going to discuss
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  Speaker 1: a huge way we can all choose ourselves. It's an
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  Speaker 1: important message and I cannot wait to talk all about
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  Speaker 1: it with my guest. Please welcome Kate Walsh to the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: HII, oh my gosh. I'm really excited to talk to you.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing this because this subject matter that you are
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  Speaker 1: here to talk about is so important and I can't
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  Speaker 1: wait for you to share this information with our listeners.
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  Speaker 1: I remember, though, the moment you came on.
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  Speaker 2: To my TV.
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  Speaker 1: I loved your character, doctor Addison.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, no, doctor, I started with a M.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Addison Montgomery.
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  Speaker 1: Adison Montgomery, you were so bad ass, you were wonderful
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know, I just something ignited in me
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  Speaker 1: as a woman when I saw you on screen. Because
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  Speaker 1: you were strong and beautiful and intelligent.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I really loved your character.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you so much. I mean I could
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  Speaker 3: stay in your praises. But yeah, that's all. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's all all the things. So thank you very very much.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm so excited to come on and talk to
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  Speaker 3: you about you know, advocating for our health and partnering
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  Speaker 3: for me with GRAIL and M said testing very exciting. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know anyone who's lied, has has
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  Speaker 3: not been touched by cancer getting that terrible call or
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  Speaker 3: test results and including me. You know, both my parents
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  Speaker 3: were diagnosed with cancer. My dad died of lung cancer.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't have any kind of early detection in those days.
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  Speaker 3: My mother gratefully was a breast cancer survivor and after
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  Speaker 3: a double mestectomy, was able to live in other thirty years,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in great health. But early detection is where
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  Speaker 3: it's at. We know that with early detection and more options.
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  Speaker 3: So when I was approached by GRAIL for the multi
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  Speaker 3: cancer Early Detection Test, I was super excited to partner
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  Speaker 3: because this is literally technology that we've never had before.
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  Speaker 2: That's what's so exciting.
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  Speaker 1: And I love I you know, I don't love that
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  Speaker 1: you have this passion behind why you're involved, but there's
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  Speaker 1: such a meaning to your why when you're spreading this information,
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  Speaker 1: So that really comes through I think, and people know
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  Speaker 1: that it's so authentic and like this is something we
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  Speaker 1: have to talk about well, that you have this personal connection.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry about your dad and thank you. But
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  Speaker 1: what a I mean, I'm I've got to be honest.
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  Speaker 1: I'm terrified of getting cancer.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm terrified of getting any illness. Like I
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  Speaker 1: don't I don't want that. I don't think anybody wants that. No,
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  Speaker 1: And it's so powerful technology today because what you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about this m said test.
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  Speaker 2: What is the full name of.
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  Speaker 3: It, Multi cancer early Detection, Early detection. Yes, and it's
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  Speaker 3: incredible technology. It's one blood draw and it can test
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  Speaker 3: for many different types of cancer, even some of the deadliest.
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  Speaker 3: Now this is uh suggested in conjunction with regular cancer screenings,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so it's not meant to replace ovarian or
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  Speaker 3: you know, colon retal cancer screenings or what have you,
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  Speaker 3: or breast cancer or your screenings regular mammograms and ultrasounds.
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  Speaker 3: This is you know, in conjunction, and you can find
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  Speaker 3: out if you're if you're a candidate for it, you
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  Speaker 3: can go to gen possible dot com. There's a quiz there.
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  Speaker 3: We suggest talking to your doctor about it, seeing if
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  Speaker 3: it's right for you. But we know it's a fact
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  Speaker 3: that with early detection there are more options for treatment
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  Speaker 3: full stop. And we also know if there's a big
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  Speaker 3: psychological component to self care and well being. It's scary.
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  Speaker 3: It's scary to go and advocate for yourself. It's scary
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  Speaker 3: to look your fears in the eye and go, oh
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  Speaker 3: my gosh. But I was so interested to know. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it truly is Generation possible. We did not have this,
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  Speaker 3: we didn't have it ten years ago. It's just this
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  Speaker 3: is just so exciting to me that you can, you know,
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  Speaker 3: go and talk to your doctor and see is this
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  Speaker 3: something that's right for me? And then I found out,
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  Speaker 3: which I didn't know, that after fifty or thirteen times
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  Speaker 3: more likely to be vulnerable to cancer. So I was like, WHOA, Okay, yeah, So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean my dad wasn't diagnosed until he was fifty eight.
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  Speaker 3: My mother was always getting mammograms and had biopsies and
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  Speaker 3: ultrasounds and everything, and she wasn't you know she got
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  Speaker 3: it when she was sixty two. So it's it's just
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  Speaker 3: great to have this information, to have this access to
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  Speaker 3: this technology, and to go to Genpossible dot com and see,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it even shows you and if you get nervous,
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  Speaker 3: because I get nervous when I go to doctors, for
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  Speaker 3: sure I did too.
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  Speaker 1: I got nervous signing on to the to the website
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  Speaker 1: that you just.
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  Speaker 2: Gave us last night.
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  Speaker 3: I took a deep time. I mean, yeah, it's like
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to look at it, but it's it
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  Speaker 3: is the most important thing. We're nothing without our health.
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  Speaker 3: And so but there was a questionnaire on there if
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  Speaker 3: you saw that, so it can help you even understand
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  Speaker 3: how to have a conversation with the doctor and I
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  Speaker 3: did you? How did? How did did? What was your experience?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I wasn't shocked that it suggested that I talked
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  Speaker 1: to my doctor about getting the test, and I've already
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  Speaker 1: sent an email. So I'm very grateful that this conversation
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  Speaker 1: is happening because I wouldn't have known about this technology,
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  Speaker 1: and I wouldn't have been had the impulse or the
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  Speaker 1: urge to take action. And I think that's what someone
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  Speaker 1: like you talking about this that's why it's so important,
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  Speaker 1: or just bringing this to people's awareness. Yes, I mean
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  Speaker 1: it's good that April is National Cancer Prevention and Early
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  Speaker 1: Detection Month. And yeah, I know that, like you said before,
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  Speaker 1: we've all been personally affected by cancer in one way
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  Speaker 1: or another, and it's not it's not fun. Nobody wants
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  Speaker 1: to hear that test result come back negative or positive.
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  Speaker 1: However it works, I'm not sure, but I'll know soon
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  Speaker 1: because I'm going to get it good.
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  Speaker 3: I know I plan to get it as well. It's
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  Speaker 3: also it's just that for me, I think that there's
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  Speaker 3: so much information out there too that can be overwhelming
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  Speaker 3: for people as well that you're like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 3: what do I do? And then people are just like
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  Speaker 3: freezing and they're not going to do anything. You're like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just going to go pull my put the covers
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  Speaker 3: over my head and pretend this is not happening. So
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  Speaker 3: this is something that I think it's so easy and accessible,
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  Speaker 3: and again you're not doing it alone. You go to
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  Speaker 3: gempossible dot com, take the quiz, talk to your doctor
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  Speaker 3: see if it's right for you. This is not something
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  Speaker 3: you just go on your own and go okay, and
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  Speaker 3: roll the dice and see and just that again. Not
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  Speaker 3: to you know, hit the nail on the head too
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  Speaker 3: many times. But early detection is critical. It gives more
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  Speaker 3: options for treatment. We know that.
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  Speaker 1: I talk a lot about that with heart health and
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  Speaker 1: early section and prevention, and I think it's so key.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm really diligent about taking care of myself. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I have some bad family genetics in a few areas,
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  Speaker 1: So getting my stands in my exams is so important
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  Speaker 1: to me. And yeah, I want to know so that
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  Speaker 1: I can do something about I just completed my blood
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  Speaker 1: my fresh blood work, my papsmear, my black test for
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  Speaker 1: my heart, I have my mammogram schedule.
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  Speaker 3: And that's a lot to.
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  Speaker 1: Like coordinate and wrangle around if you're doing it on
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  Speaker 1: your own like I am. And so the thought of
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  Speaker 1: going to one blood test which can detect a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the things that I'm looking for individually, that's really cool.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's so great that it's one blood draw and
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  Speaker 3: it can test for even some of the most deadly cancers.
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  Speaker 3: It's incredible. Actually, we've never had this time. My parents
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  Speaker 3: generation did not have this technology. And we know too
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  Speaker 3: just what you're saying. You were just saying that how
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  Speaker 3: much work it takes to get all this stuff done.
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  Speaker 3: And even my partner is like, I gotta get my
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  Speaker 3: eyes tests. I mean these are basic things like yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think I should get my hearing test, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: have you done it? Have you made the appointment? Oh? No,
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  Speaker 3: I haven't. It's like people and I think we're so
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  Speaker 3: you know, socialized, and we're in this. The great thing
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  Speaker 3: about this age of information is that it's changing. Our
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  Speaker 3: consciousness around self care is changing, but it's still I
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  Speaker 3: think for most people the hardest thing to do. They
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  Speaker 3: put themselves last on the list, and it's like no,
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  Speaker 3: and they wait until something is wrong. Right, But this
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  Speaker 3: is just the you know, green light goat to not
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  Speaker 3: wait until something's wrong, have yourself checked out, and statistics
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  Speaker 3: of like, oh my gosh, over fifty thirteen times weren't
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  Speaker 3: susceptible to cancers?
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  Speaker 1: Right, Okay, yeah, it's it's very second.
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  Speaker 2: No, brand, I've been there.
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  Speaker 1: I've had that calendar scheduled nine am, call the doctors,
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  Speaker 1: scheduled this appointment whatever, And I will take that when
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  Speaker 1: I get busy, I will take that event in my calendar,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll slide it to the next day, and the
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  Speaker 1: next day we'll come and go and I'll be like,
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  Speaker 1: oop's got to get that done tomorrow, and it will
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  Speaker 1: slide for weeks sometimes, and I feel terrible about that
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  Speaker 1: because I probably, actually I know, I wouldn't do that
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  Speaker 1: for anybody that I love. I would get that done
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  Speaker 1: at nine am on Monday morning when I said I.
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  Speaker 3: Would, right, And that's if we.
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  Speaker 2: Do that to ourselves. I can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: I'm too busy. I've got other things i have to handle.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that that's such an important message that
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  Speaker 1: people hear that you're not alone if you're doing that too.
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  Speaker 1: We all tend to do that, but we have to stop.
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  Speaker 1: And this is like the ultimate I choose me moment,
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  Speaker 1: to choose to take care of yourself, to choose to advocate.
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  Speaker 1: And I was reading about you that when you had
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  Speaker 1: your mom struggling with her breast cancer, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: I think you were in your late twenties when that happened,
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  Speaker 1: and you said that you started advocating for yourself at
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  Speaker 1: that time and asking requesting for mammogram. Was that something
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  Speaker 1: that your doctor was like, honey, you don't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were pushing back about that. They're like, why
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  Speaker 3: do you need it. I'm like, because my mother had
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  Speaker 3: breast cancer, it's still a little early for you. I'm like, no,
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  Speaker 3: it's not. So I've had to push and advocate so often.
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  Speaker 3: But one of the things I wanted to circle back
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  Speaker 3: to what you were saying, like me first, or that
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  Speaker 3: if it was your friend, you wouldn't push it off.
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  Speaker 3: If it was your friend that had a really important
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  Speaker 3: appointment you were with her or whatever with them, you
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't put them on hold or push it and push it.
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  Speaker 3: But one of the things I did is I even
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  Speaker 3: though I did play a doctor on tape, I would
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  Speaker 3: get super nervous, and so I brought people. I would
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  Speaker 3: bring someone with me to my appointments, you know, like
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  Speaker 3: when I was going through back in the day fertility stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm going to go on this office and
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  Speaker 3: to leave my body because I'm dissociate because I'm so
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  Speaker 3: scared and nervous and I can't. So I'd bring a
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  Speaker 3: friend with me. I remember my girlfriend game this was
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  Speaker 3: in La years ago, and she brought a little Yorky
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, Karenn, You're coming with me. Because you
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  Speaker 3: take notes and ask the questions that I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: probably forget to ask. So I think that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe that's a new way to think about putting me
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  Speaker 3: first or putting ourselves first.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, bring a friend with you. Make it it's
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  Speaker 3: not And also, let's be honest, I'd rather have a
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  Speaker 3: coffee any day, or you know, run a mile then
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  Speaker 3: go to go to the doctor's appointment. You know. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, maybe make it fun, make it like.
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  Speaker 1: A lunch, have lunch and you can come, and then
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  Speaker 1: next month we'll have lunch again and I'll go with you.
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  Speaker 3: I like that exactly, girl time.
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  Speaker 1: That's good stacking, by the way, that's like you know
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  Speaker 1: when you stack things in your calendar.
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  Speaker 2: I do that all the time.
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  Speaker 1: When I have something that like a lunch or something,
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  Speaker 1: I really am so busy I can't do it. But
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  Speaker 1: I'll stack that on my way to another meeting. And
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  Speaker 1: then I'll stack a workout somewhere on the you know,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm.
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  Speaker 2: The day stacker.
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  Speaker 1: So that theory works well for me.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, you know, yeah, cause it's not. I think
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  Speaker 3: that's getting support and I think that, you know, again,
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  Speaker 3: I can only speak for myself, but it's a I
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  Speaker 3: think to deal with medical stuff and with our health
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  Speaker 3: is just it can be really intimidating. And it's still new,
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  Speaker 3: not just this technology with grails M said stuff, but
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  Speaker 3: it's still so new. This consciousness is idea of prevention
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  Speaker 3: and early detection. So it's just important, you know, we're
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  Speaker 3: just retraining ourselves in the way we think and with this,
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  Speaker 3: with the access that we have, with this early detection testing,
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  Speaker 3: it's really it is truly generation possible. So it's it's exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And you said before early detection, prevention, longevity, it's all
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  Speaker 1: about implementing things in our daily routine that will have
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  Speaker 1: a positive impact, you know, for our overall health, not
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  Speaker 1: just the things that we're the most scared of. And
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  Speaker 1: I was wondering, what are some of your healthy practices,
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  Speaker 1: anything that you think people should be trying out other
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  Speaker 1: than this amazing test.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what of the things? I mean, I'm sure that
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  Speaker 3: you know, look at when I was in my twenties
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  Speaker 3: and thirties and even forties, I had a totally different lifestyle.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I was working, I could survive on four
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  Speaker 3: hours sleep, I would thrive, I was like, I'm fine,
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  Speaker 3: you know, go out and then go to work seventeen hours,
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  Speaker 3: then go out, you know, go home, go out whatever,
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  Speaker 3: eat burgers and drink and smoke and coffee and all
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  Speaker 3: the things. And then that changes. You're like that no
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  Speaker 3: longer works for me. That doesn't that just doesn't work.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, so those days are over. Those days are over.
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  Speaker 3: My life completely changed. I think it's really cool if
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  Speaker 3: this younger generation has so much consciousness and awareness and
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  Speaker 3: are so in many ways of just so much healthier.
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  Speaker 3: But I work out, I changed even my workout stuff,
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  Speaker 3: like once I learned to the possibility of having a
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  Speaker 3: compromised bone density. For me, I'm like, oh, weight training.
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  Speaker 3: I have to incorporate weight training into you know, beyond
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  Speaker 3: just you know and not and plates is great. I've
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  Speaker 3: always loved plates, yoga, I love, like, you know, all
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  Speaker 3: all of the things. I sort of mix it up
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  Speaker 3: a Weights was a big thing for me to incorporate
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  Speaker 3: into my practice. And I'm so.
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  Speaker 2: Scared of weights. They think they're going to get like.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to get big and bulkal Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's not it's not true.
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  Speaker 1: I've been doing weights for a number of years now.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't feel like I'm a I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: grease up and do the show.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I know. No, that's I think that
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  Speaker 3: that is sort of like a yeah, misnomer that you
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  Speaker 3: think you're going to become. But I get it. You're like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to get bunky, but I but it's
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  Speaker 3: truly amazing that it actually helps strengthen your bones. I
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  Speaker 3: mean it's I've taken tests before and after and you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you were sort of in osteopenia. Now you're not like, Okay, great,
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  Speaker 3: it's working. So I love things that are effective. I eat.
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  Speaker 3: I like to eat food. I like to cook. I'm
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  Speaker 3: half Italian. I'm like, I'm going to cook and I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to eat. But everything in moderation and sleep is
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  Speaker 3: a big one. Sleep hygiene. It's been in tho geys
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  Speaker 3: for a number of years now, but it's really really
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  Speaker 3: critical for me, and I feel it and then hormone
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  Speaker 3: help all of it. I'm like, guess what here I am.
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  Speaker 3: It's happening. Oh yeah, and.
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  Speaker 2: What can you do?
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  Speaker 1: You have to embrace it and just love yourself even
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  Speaker 1: more through all of it, because if you try to
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  Speaker 1: fight it it's not good for us. It adds more stress,
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  Speaker 1: change our hormones. You know, it just kind of offsets
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  Speaker 1: everything and puts your body in that data stress and
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  Speaker 1: it's not doing the things it's supposed to be doing,
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  Speaker 1: which is keeping us healthy and strong.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think too that I don't know, I
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  Speaker 3: can only speak for myself, I guess, but I feel like,
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  Speaker 3: and I'll say, as women, we're just there isn't a
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  Speaker 3: lot of teaching or consciousness around rest, around surrender, acceptance,
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  Speaker 3: around like Okay, this is like now it's changed. Things
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  Speaker 3: are changing. I think there. I think there's more of
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  Speaker 3: it than ever before in many ways, like and there's
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  Speaker 3: more options for women who are living longer and healthier.
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  Speaker 3: But it's also like, oh yeah, we have to like
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  Speaker 3: part of that is acceptance, like I'm not who I
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  Speaker 3: wasn't in my twenties I was in my thirties, and
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  Speaker 3: I love the way that it's not a negative thing,
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  Speaker 3: but it's also everything is different, and like you said,
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  Speaker 3: to try to fight that is ridiculous. It's like, no,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: I can't try to go back, you know, get that.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I feel like, so, you know, being in the industry
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: that we're in, I feel like I've seen so many
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: I won't just say women. So many people try to
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: fight it so so hard instead of embracing it and
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: resetting the narrative in their head. Because we both come
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: from an industry that gave us pretty toxic narratives about aging,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: and I think all women in the world are given
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of toxic messages about how we should look
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: and how we should feel and how we should present
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: ourselves and all of those things. But yes, it's about
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: accepting where you are and embracing it and like loving
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: yourself enough to hold your own hand through any of
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: those uncertain times when when you're you're grappling with like
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I'm aging and I'm changing, my body is changing and
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: my needs are changing.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: It's it's something really interesting to sort of like embrace
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: and investigate as we because I'm fifty three. I just
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: turned fifty three recently, and I've learned more in my
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: fifties about most things in life, but specifically about myself
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: than I ever have before.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, same, same, Isn't it cool? It's really cool? And
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: I think you find your people and you find community,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: you find people that are like minded in that sense
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: of because other. I mean, resistance is futile, but also like,
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: oh yeah, our bodies are changing. How cool, Just like
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to look the way I looked when
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: I was seven, when I'm ten, or when I'm thirteen
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: or twenty one. Like, no, we are constantly evolving and changing,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: and we have this great gift of living longer and
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: an awareness of how to take really good care of ourselves.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: I should also mention in the holistic aspect of all
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: that meditation community joy. I have a joy list. I'd
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: have a dry rise board in my office and I
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: have a list of twenty things twenty fun things to do.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: This was on suggestion of an older lady friend mentor
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: of mine. She's like, let's here, do a joy list.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Write down twenty things that give you joy, and try
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: to do five a day. Like, hold up, that's a wow. Listen,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: but listen, this is really a day. This is really interesting.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: She's like. It can be as innocuous as taking a
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: nap or a walk, or calling a girlfriend, or hanging
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: out with your cats or dogs, whatever, being with you.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: It can be as big as an exotic travel. It
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: could be seeing a movie. It could be cooking, it
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: could be enjoying grocery shopping, So it can be any
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: of these things, you know, singing, just dancing around the house.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: So I just make a list of twenty from you know,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: like I said, exotic travel or travel to just I
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: like cooking. You know, cats, Cats are at the top.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: So my god, but he'd much yeah so, but but
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: it's like you actually find out. First of all, for me,
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: I was super aware of how much conditions I put
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: on fun, like, oh, it has to be earned. I
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: haven't done X, Y and Z. I need to earn
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: fun or earn my joy and like, nah, that starts
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: to go. So that is really my little joy list.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: And then meditation. You know, meditation is a big one.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Do you meditate every day?
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: I do, and I don't. I'm in and out. But
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: I also trying to be kind about that, like I'm
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: not a rigid person, and I'm like, you know, my
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: life is different every day, and so I'm also you know, look,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: I live in Australia most of the time. I still
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: have my apartment in New York. But I'm really lucky
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: to be by the ocean. Nature is my one of
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: my greatest sabs and joys. So I you know, kind
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: of want to see keep my schedule. I have a
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: friend who says she has a ventilated schedule. So if
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: I can so as much as I can, I can
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: stack too go up. Then I have like real like
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: chill days of like what's what's the world going to bring?
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: What's life going to bring me today?
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I tend to get super wrapped up in
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: my schedule and my calendar and all the entries in it,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: and I got to get check everything off in the
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: day or else I have even more to do the
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: next day. But I think, yeah, it's really important. I'm
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: absolutely going to put a joy list up on my wall.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, just twenty things. It could be a nap,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: it can be a crossword, it can be just calling
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: a girlfriend. It's just but just to be conscious of it.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: And then I have it and I tick it off
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, okay, did I do my five things today?
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: And then you're aware of like, actually this is really cool.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: I can't because I have that habit of anxiety and
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: worry of like, oh, and the meditation definitely helps her out,
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: but I'm working out all the things help but I'm like, oh,
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: there's not enough time, and I'm like, okay, but okay,
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: but that's just a thought and a feeling. But actually,
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: look at all the delightful things that I got to
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: do today, you know, so I.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Those are such such good tips.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: It's funny you said you played a doctor on TV
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: for many.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Years, because I don't know about you, but like people.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Think that you are a doctor somehow, and.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: You're read.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Cause you are really good at playing the doctor.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: So there, thanks. Yeah, it's so crazy.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Switching gears for a second.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I mean a lot of our listeners love Emily in Paris. Yeah,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: you are we going to be seeing you coming back
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: or how's that?
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know, not this season. I have no idea.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: I would love to go back. I mean it was
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: what a joy. I mean working in Paris, and I
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: love Darren Starry is so fun and I mean and yeah,
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: I mean he's She's just a delight and love. I
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: just so that was so fun. So I have no idea.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: We'll see, but it's I loved playing a character is
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: so ridiculous and funny, and creating their costumes with Madly
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: and Patussi and Patricia Field. It was just delightful.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: So I mean alone being by those two powers I
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: know in Paris. Like, there's so many upsides of that job.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Those are all on my joy list.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: It was a good dream. It was all a good dream. Like, wait,
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: what we're shooting at Versa today? Oh, I'm at the
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Oh you've shut down the Eiffel Tower so we can
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: go to the restaurant at the top. Okay, Like it's
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: just nuts. It was just like so much fun. I'm
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: so glad and I think I'm so thrilled for all
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: of the women on that show and the guys. But
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: it's because it is just fun and escapist and delightful
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: and so yeah, I have a really good time. But
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: right now I'm doing what am I? I'm just developing
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: a show to shoot here, a streaming show, so we'll
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: see how that goes. You know, it takes forever to delp.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: You said you are happy where you are living in Australia.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I asked if you were going to be if you're
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: working there, and you said, no, I'm just here for love,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and I'm so I love that so much.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he seems.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Really happy and like whole and I don't know, there's
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: just a beautiful light coming out of you, even at
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: this early hour, you're really.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Thank you good things, thank you, thank you.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: I want to.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Circle back before we end this and mind people where
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: they can go.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Give us the website one more time.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's genpossible dot com. This is for Grail's m
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: said M SAIDs danced for mult cancer early Detection. Go
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: to gen possible dot com. There's a quiz there to
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: help you understand if you think this is viable for you,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: how to have a conversation with your doctor about it.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: You definitely want to have a conversation with your doctor
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: and see what they think.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: What if they say no, though, Kate, like, what if
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I went to the website, I took the quiz. I'm
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: really intrigued by this, and I even watched the testimonials.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I went deep and what if I go to my
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: doctor and say I haven't experienced similar to what you had,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: and they push back and they say, oh, you don't
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: need that, or.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I can't order it for you or whatever.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: They should be able to order. They should be able
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: to order it. Be if you're over fifty then that's
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: one of the things I had said earlier is I
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: realized that you're thirteen times more likely to be vulnerable
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: to cancers. So that's a pretty high statistic. If there's
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: any concern in your family. I mean, I just really encourage.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: I don't think you're going to get pushed back from
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: a doctor. But there's all of the information is on
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: gen possible. So yes, yes, it's there, And I always
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: encourage people to really be advocate for their own health.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: You know, I certainly have had to, and it's critical,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: and this is a great asset. It is early detection.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: We know with early detection there are more options for treatment.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: And this is not meant ps. I want to also
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: just reiterate, it's not meant to be substituting for the
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: regular cancer screenings Mamma brands, ultra sounds, you know, ovarian,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: all the other typical cancers that we are colon rectal.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: We still screen for those of those tests. But this
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: has meant and said conjunction. It's one blood draw, it
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: can screen for many, many, many cancers. So yeah, it
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: truly is generation possible.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's exciting, so exciting.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you shared this with me and
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: with everybody listening. It's really important and I think also
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I hear this a lot when it's sort of directed
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: at me. But I'm just going to reflect it back
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: to you. What you're doing by speaking of about your
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: challenges in life, your health challenges, your mental challenges, whatever
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: it is. It makes people feel so less alone, so
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: braver when they have somebody leading the way like this.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: So I commend you for that and thank you.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: For using your cloye.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Thanks so much.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: You're so welcome.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Before I let you go, though, Kate Walsh, what was
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: your last I Choose me moment?
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, A great question. I'm gonna I'm not gonna lie.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: It was earlier today. It's just like I just it
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: was really pretty innocuous. I'm like, I'm not gonna do
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: that work. I'm gonna go take a nap. My gosh,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: I took a.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: NAP's ohs big time.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna take a nap.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a crossword first and then gonna do
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: take a nap.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna I'm not gonna lie. I love bed if.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: I just joke when I was in la if I
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: could take bed down the four or five, I would have.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: I love reclining. I love me too, so I'm made
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: to rest. I know me too, and I think that
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: that I swear to God, there should just be like
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: a whole episode on relaxing and women. And that is
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: it so hard? Rest? Rest? Rest? It's really hard. I
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: feel like rest means you have to deal with for me, anxiety,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: the worry that am I good? And all the negative,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: all the stuff that comes like wait at work, who
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: do you think you are? What are you doing? Who
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: are you right?
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: It's so important though we ought to take care of ourselves.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: I have to choose ourselves. And that's a perfect example. Well,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: Gooday.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know, it's so like Australian gooday, you have
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: a wonderful day.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Good day, okay, thank you, Thanks Jenny, take good care
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: you too. Thanks so much,