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Help The Fight Against Women's Cancer with Bojangles and Kay Yow Cancer Fund · The Erica Show

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  Speaker 1: Erica DeLong here with iHeartRadio and Jenny palm Te, your
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  Speaker 1: CEO of the KO Cancer fun and you're just easy
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  Speaker 1: you come in. You've been doing this for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: You've been with the kW Cancer Fund for a very
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  Speaker 1: long time with KO. Tell us what's going on this
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  Speaker 1: year because you're partnering again with Bojangles.
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  Speaker 2: We are, can you believe it? We were looking back
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  Speaker 2: not long ago. This is going to be year nine
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  Speaker 2: of our partnership with Bojangles and the impact that we've
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  Speaker 2: been able to make. Last year, I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you all would remember, but they Bojangles Support crossed the
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  Speaker 2: million dollar mark of support in the fight against all
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  Speaker 2: cancers affecting women. And so we're super excited again about
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  Speaker 2: this year. We are running the promotion, the bow Berry Promotion.
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  Speaker 2: It runs January nineteenth through February first, and all proceeds
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  Speaker 2: of bow Berry biscuits bought during that time will go
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  Speaker 2: one hundred percent to the KAL Cancer Fund. So super excited.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the Triangle area Bojangles, and it's just
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  Speaker 1: easy to go in there and get a dozen of
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  Speaker 1: Boberi biscuits or however many if you're hosting some friends
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, just rab and boom and then all of
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  Speaker 1: that is going to help KO Cancer Fund. Now, can
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  Speaker 1: you explain everybody? And of course k and the organization
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  Speaker 1: is well known around here, but some people maybe moving
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  Speaker 1: to the area don't know. What does the Ko Cancer
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  Speaker 1: Fund do? What does it stand for? And how did
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  Speaker 1: it begin?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it started and was founded by the late Coach
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  Speaker 2: Kow who spent belief thirty three years at NC State
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  Speaker 2: coaching women's basketball pack. Well, she had her own twenty
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  Speaker 2: two on again, off again battle with breast cancer, and
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  Speaker 2: so she wanted to then the last years of her
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  Speaker 2: life be able to use her platform to inspire and
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  Speaker 2: encourage and provide hope to cancer survivors and thrivers people
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  Speaker 2: that were going through something really tough, and so she
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  Speaker 2: established the Ko Cancer Fund. We have a three prong
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  Speaker 2: mission statement. The first thing we do is we raise
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  Speaker 2: money for cancer research and drugs that are life enhancing.
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  Speaker 2: The second thing we do is we fund programs that
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  Speaker 2: provide access to care for under resource women, which was
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  Speaker 2: at the heart of coach how she was a servant
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  Speaker 2: leader at the core and so that's such a reflection
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  Speaker 2: of something that was very important to her from day one.
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  Speaker 2: And then the third prong is to unite people for
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  Speaker 2: a common cause, and we do that a couple different ways.
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  Speaker 2: We have a national grassroots movement in sports called Play
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  Speaker 2: for K. It will amazing, it'll culminate in February. You'll
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  Speaker 2: see all the pink and primarily women's basketball teams, but
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  Speaker 2: other sports and men's women's as well. And then we
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  Speaker 2: also host two events, signature events, and one is a
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  Speaker 2: celebration run walk that we host in February.
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  Speaker 1: And you've been with an organization, first of all, you're
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  Speaker 1: a player yourself, you've been assistant coach, you've come up
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  Speaker 1: now as the CEO, and you know how important collaboration is.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, teamwork. Teamwork makes the dream work the right team.
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  Speaker 2: I could go all the sayings that I learned from
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  Speaker 2: Coach how but it's just so true. I Mean, there's
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  Speaker 2: just something about coming together and Coachoo wanted to really
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  Speaker 2: unite communities across the country in the fight against cancer.
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  Speaker 2: And I think everything that we do is reflective of that,
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  Speaker 2: and we see the impact and it just makes you
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  Speaker 2: feel different to know that you're a part of something
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  Speaker 2: bigger than yourself.
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  Speaker 1: So the Area Triangle Bojangles, y'all partner again nine years in.
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  Speaker 1: What does everybody need to know to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: they are helping in the fight against cancer, all women's cancers.
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  Speaker 2: One, you need to know that those bow Berry biscuits
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  Speaker 2: are delicious, and I would highly recommend that everybody go
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  Speaker 2: eat some bow Berry biscuits. Go purchase some bow Berry biscuits.
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  Speaker 2: Every dollar race Triangle Bojangles will be donating to the
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  Speaker 2: ko Cancer Fund and we will be making an impact
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  Speaker 2: in the fight against all cancers affecting women with that donation.
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  Speaker 1: So January nineteenth through February, first stop by the Triangle
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  Speaker 1: area Bojangles. Pick up those Bowberi biscuits. You can't just
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  Speaker 1: have one, get as many as you can for your household,
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  Speaker 1: and all proceeds go to the KAL Cancer fun That's it.
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  Speaker 2: We're super excited.