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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_ EPISODE #77_HOST NATALIE HARVEY(SHOW #4) · DA CREW Podcast

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  Don't forget about the little bird you want. Don't matter what you're going
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  into, they're still super woman living inside you. Well given and welcome to
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  a another addition of Let's Chat with Nat. I am your host, Natalie
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  Harvey, and I just want to welcome you guys again and thank you for
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  joining me as we dive into yet another great Sunday of conversation live here on
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  the Cruel Podcast. Share it, Share it to your friends, share it
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  to your family, share it to your enemies, even don't here just to
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  share it to everybody. Tonight's episode is going to be a continuation of last
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  week's conversations where we talked about do you know your family medical history? So
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  I just don't you know? Recap and piggyback off of what we talked about
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  last week where it's important to know the different diseases or ailments, so just
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  things in general that we may have experience or that people in our families have
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  experienced. You know, it's always good to talk to your elders, took
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  to those that's around you, because you never know what you may experience that
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  somebody else has experienced in your family, you know, So it's always good
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  to have those conversations. It's always good to just follow up and see what's
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  going on. Get your regular checks, the you know, have those conversations
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  with your doctors, or when you go to your doctor, you're gonna have
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  questions acts about well, who has what on what side, or who has
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  this a It's just a rare of different things that goes on with knowing your
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  family medical history. You know. Last it got that for me. It
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  was something that I experience throughout my childhood and throughout my adulthood. Was knowing
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  that I was able to know and I had that opportunity to ask questions or
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  the things that I didn't get to ask questions. You know, I was
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  able to do research on so UM and it played a vital part in my
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  everyday life now at this stage in life, going through different things that I've
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  gone through my life. It played a vital title and a very important role
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  history. So tonight, what I want to really touch on is the importance
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  of the conversation. And many of us, you know, we especially if
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  we grew up in that if we're eighties, nineties babies, two thousand babies,
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  you know, we come from an era where we were now getting into
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  you know, a whole lot of technop technology was coming into our generation.
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  I always say my years, the eighties, we're probably the last ones that
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  really was able to play outside. You know, I couldn't play outside.
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  But another conversations, but you know, we we were the last group that
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  really went outside and played outside or did anything outside. Now this generation they're
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  more technoledgely, they're they're savvy with their techno technology. I can't see today.
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  I don't know what's going to don't charge from my head and my hard
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  you know what I'm saying. But anyway, this generation is more tech savvy
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  then my generation was coming up. But you know, it's good to sit
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  back and recollect on certain things because talking with our others and talking with those
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  in our close net of family circles, you get to learn things. You
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  get to know a whole lot of who you are. You get to know
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  a whole lot of people from your past, like your ancestors. Those people
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  you get to know and put the pieces of the puzzle together that some people
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  don't always have the opportunity to know. And if you're fortunate enough to get
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  to have those opportunities, you should really be able to grasp the wisdom and
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  the knowledge that you get from those opportunities to have those conversations to under stay.
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  And you know, our parents and our grandparents generation, they were very
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  health conscious, or not even so much health conscious, but what they used
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  and what they had to use cast them alive a whole lot longer, if
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  you noticed, than the generation that we're in now. You know, our
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  generations and we want something quick, We want the next quick thing. We
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  want to be able to take a town or take something and it be over
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  it. But the previous generations they didn't necessarily have those advantages as to what
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  we have now. You know, they went back and they used a lot
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  of homeopathic remedies or just stuff that they were able to conjure up in their
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  communities or in their gardens or whatever it is that they had. They were
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  able to use that, and that's why a lot of them, if you
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  noticed lived well into their seventies, eighties, nineties, and even the hundreds,
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  you know, so it's good to sit down and talk to find out
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  what what can I do? What can I you did this person do?
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  Because and again, a lot of our elders live or probably came from countries
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  or lived in areas where it was hard probably get to a doctor, or
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  if they was a doctor in their area, that doctor had to see everybody
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  that lived in that area. So you may not have always been able to
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  have that one on one with your physician as we do. Now. We
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  can pick up the phone or go on our app and message our physician with
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  the question and we get a response in two point five seconds. It's you
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  know, I may be exaggerating, not really, but you know we can
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  pick up. We have that technology now where everything is quick, while our
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  elders they didn't necessarily have that. So now that we are in like our
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  I guess you call it our middle stages or wherever we are in life,
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  we need to be able to have those conversations with one another within our families
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  to get to know, well, how did you do this? Because we're
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  able to do this now, but how did you guys, do this,
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  How would this? How did this work? See you? You know,
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  if you weren't left there and you're not this issue, what did you do?
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  How did it play out? So those are things and I know,
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  for me personally, i'd love to hear how things were done previewsviously because it
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  gives me the opportunity to appreciate what I have. Our ancestors weren't as fortunate
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  as we are, and a lot of them didn't have the knowledge that we
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  have. A lot of us have our degrees, We go to college,
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  we go displace that place in the third and we get to intermingle with different
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  people from all walks of life, and we get to hear things, We
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  get to know things. But a lot of our others didn't, may not
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  have even left their four corners of the world to get to know these things.
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  So, you know, it's important to really have these conversations because at
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  the end of the day, when you do have to go to your physician,
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  or if something does happen with you and you have to have the con
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  or you need to know. If you don't know, sometimes it's a real
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  disadvantage, but other times it becomes a blessing. Now what happens if you
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  don't have that at all. You know, some people are adopted, some
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  people don't know their their by logical families. Some people's families even if they
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  did, don't, you know, something may have happened. So you're not
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  a half that information. That's thing that you can do is try to and
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  I you know, try to probably have some kind of testing if there's any
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  of that accessible to you, or just try to do the best that you
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  can with the information that you have. Information is powerful. Information is knowledge,
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  and information is your the wealth that you have to do the service for
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  yourself. It's not a disservice, it is a service. You know.
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  Knowledge is what's gonna get you to the next level. And for me,
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  being able to sit and learn and then read and you know, transition into
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  what I do now in the health care field, I'm able to understand things
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  more as to why this plays such a big part. And I feel for
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  us as African Americans, Latinos, West Indians, whatever we wherever we come
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  from, we need to do our community and we need to do ourselves a
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  service to get to know what it is. You know, there's certain things
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  like for instance, my family We're from the West Indies and we love high
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  flavored, high seasoned food. We love things that are just it cain't have
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  to taste good basically, but some of those things that we love also trigger
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  some of these ailments that we deal with. Yes, there are ways that
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  you can find out about something along that line to find that infimilation out.
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  But there are ways that you can go up about out getting to learn of
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  what may have, what maybe or what there is you know. I recommend
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  it doing testing, a genealogy testing or genetics testing rather because it does helps.
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  It helps, and it may not combat what you're facing at that particular
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  moment, but just to get able to say, Okay, I have a
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  plan of action, I know what to do, I know how I'm going
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  to go ahead and just deal with this situation. It's always wise to have
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  that knowledge. But like I said, if you're not able to get it,
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  do the best with what you have because it'll still take you to where
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  you need to go. And you and your physician, whoever, your family,
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  whatever it is you guys, sit down and talk because it starts with
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  just one Having that conversation with just one person and your family makes a wealth
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  of difference, Having that kindnversation at all makes a wealth of their friends.
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  You may it may not be for you, but it may be for somebody
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  down the line, one of your descendants. Whoever it is a niece,
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  a cousin, an't gonna aunt a grand child. It's going to help them
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  because then they're able to say, well, okay, this information was passed
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  down to me because this person dealt with this, and this is what it
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  is, and this they listed. And sometimes we don't our world and our
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  lives are so busy that we don't get to write down everything. But again,
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  having that one on one conversation talking this thing here called our mouth,
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  instead of using it just a gosslip, because you know, we love a
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  good gosslip, and I'm gonna say I love a good gosslip. But instead
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  of using it for that, use it for sharing knowledge, use it for
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  passing down information. Because I tell people, I am so glad that I
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  Again, I was inquisitive as a child to know and to listen. And
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  you know, back then, when were kids, we weren't supposed to eat
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  driversations. But I be dropped on a lot of stuff, And honestly,
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  I'm glad that I did at times because now I get to understand. Now
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  that I know, I understand where and what the information fortune to have,
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  how it how it's helping others in my family, how it's gonna help my
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  future generations when my children have children and they are children have children. You
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  know, so you glad to be able to and you have. You can't
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  hold it. You have to share it is it's for it. It is
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  vital to you. Sorry if you did if I think it probably just but
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  that's okay. Um Um. One of the things I'm gonna say about knowing
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  your fa family, his family, medical history, and your family history on
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  a whole understand you get to learn. You get to realize that you didn't
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  you you come from to come from people that had a sense of I'm gonna
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  keep on going, no matter how hard, no matter what it is that
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  I'm going through, no matter what it is. They got up every day,
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  they kept it and they went on. Yeah. I see the connections
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  going in and out. Not sure why, but we're gonna keep rocking and
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  rolling. But um, you know, I encourage everybody to talk to your
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  practitioners, your doctors and see if there's any kind of genetic testing that you
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  can do just to see the endpoint, Well, where did this come from?
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  Or what's what? You know, if you have a parent they're still
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  alive, or a grandparents they're still alives, try to go to the doctor
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  with them, just to see what's going on with them on a whole,
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  because there's so many things. Like for me, I try to figure out
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  what's going on with the elders in my family so that I know what to
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  look for. You know, those are little jewels and the tokens of wisdom
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  that we all need, you know, Like I have my uncle, for
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  instance, he comes back and forth from here to Barrios to go to the
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  doctor, and I'm the one that makes the doctor appointments for him. And
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  if there's anything, I gotta fight with him, to fight with the insurance
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  companies. But we sit and we talk and we hear what the doctor have
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  to say, and they're telling me, well, this has to be done,
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  that has to be done. Take me with my grandparents, you know,
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  I get to my grandmother will tell me, well this is going on
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  and that's going on, and I need to do this and not get involved.
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  Don't just wait until something is about to happen or something has happened to
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  not know, get involved from now, especially if you're if you're an adult,
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  if you're away and you have children, you have a family of your
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  own, the other things that you should be doing anyway, you know.
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  Yes, we all have busy lives. Yes things are always ever going,
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  ever evolving, but there's no the simple things because it's gonna help you,
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  it's gonna help others that's around you. So we're gonna take a really quick
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  our message alive all right, and we are back and where he's gonna We're
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  gonna start to wrap up tonight's episode. But I want you guys have a
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  little task for everyone to do. And this task is if you have an
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  elder in your family, or maybe if you don't, if you don't have
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  anyone that's older or elder, but you know, there's things that you could
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  recollect from growing up or growing up or being around people in your family,
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  start to write down, make a list. If you yourself have something going
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  on, you know, it could be diabetes, hype of pressure, whatever
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  it is. But if you yourself have something going on, what you're gonna
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  do is this is what I want you guys to do. I want you
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  guys to take your phone a notebook whenever it is, start jotting it down.
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  And as you start to write, if you can think back so who
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  you know, back to your family and start connecting, you're gonna realize that
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  you're gonna make like a treat and it's gonna be like a family You know
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  how you make a family tree, but this tree is gonna be your family
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  medical history treat. And I want you to do this, and I want
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  you to see how you're at the top and how it just branches off.
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  If you're able to do it, you know, and I want you to
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  use that and keep that, because you're gonna see how violet is for the
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  next time you go to have like your physical or if something comes up and
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  you feel something and you're able to start connecting those dives or those branches start
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  to extend. I want you to see how everything plays and everything is intertwined
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  to each other. And I want you to keep that, Keep that and
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  somewhere safe or somewhere that you know you're gonna be able to find it and
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  be able to share it. And just notate it when you do it,
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  not tate the date that you started it, and just put my family family
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  medical History treat and you're gonna see how this is gonna be so helpful and
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  so vital to you. It's gonna be like, wow, I couldn't realize
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  or wow, I didn't remember. So use it, use it to your
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  event, vantage use it to help you, use it to help anyone in
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  your family, because honey, it is going to be so important. It's
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  gonna be so needed, and you're gonna be like, oh my goodness,
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  I did not know I needed to have this information. It's gonna blow your
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  mind when you do it, and It's gonna help you to open your eyes
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  even more to how the family role in the family dynamic is so important to
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  us in art in this world especial me now and do these times because these
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  times are crazy times. Do it because then it's gonna help you to reach
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  out more to your family. It's gonna help you to understand why certain things
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  in your family. And it doesn't just have to be an ailment. It
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  can be for mental issues because our families go through mental issues as well.
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  Trust me, this is going to work. This is gonna help you,
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  This is gonna help somebody in your family, and it's gonna be mind blowing.
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  So with that, I'm gonna say thank you for joining me again tonight.
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  I may do a part three sometime in their future, but when I
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  do that, Part three is gonna be really special with somebody really special to
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  me, and we're gonna have the conversation, and when I do the part
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  three, you're gonna get to see how what I'm talking about with the interacting
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  and the understanding and being able to connect the thoughts in your family, in
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  your health, in your body and what you deal with on an everyday basis
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  and throughout life. Um. Next show is going to be July twenty third,
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  thing in back that stage the same that time. That topic is gonna
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  be orguments. I'm right tell y'all, I was gonna be talking about it.
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  Yeah, but just don't come and come ready to have a conversation because
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  I want some of my viewers to come in the box and have a talk
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  with me as we talk about what we're gonna talk about the next time.
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  But I ain't gonna tell y'all to like, oh I get this. But
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  with that being said, I just gonna take you again. Thank you for
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  taking the journey with me. Thank you for coming on every first and for
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  Sunday. Thank you for supporting the Crew podcast. Because we are doing big
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  things in our community, all right. We're planning on taking over, taking
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  over Black Meat Media and being the best that we can be. So continue
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  to follow us, continue to join us. When you see us, pop
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  up on your feet, come on and see what we got going on.
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  All right, So until next time, this is Natalie. Thank you for
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  joining me, Thank you for joining us. Chat with that and have a
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  good night. Bye bye story True, don't forget about the rout to do No man