Latest / DA CREW Podcast / HALF WAY MARK_ SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST _ EPISODE _99_ HOST TRIVEDA HARRIS
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- 2:29where I am your host Trevita Harris. My guest tonight is Miss Michelle Steiner,
- 2:34and she's gonna be talking to us about her invisible condition disability that is
- 2:39called y'all, I am really gonna mess this up. I know it's called
- 2:44this coolia. It is a learning disability. But she's gonna help us with
- 2:49this pronunciation of this. But before we do any of that, and before
- 2:53I bring her up, you know, we have to go to God in
- 2:55prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for bringing us together tonight, as
- 3:00you do each and every time we are in front of you. Please let
- 3:02the words of my mouth be comforting to the ears that are listening tonight,
- 3:07and let those who are tuned in tonight learn something that they did not know
- 3:12before about people who are dealing with different disabilities that may be seen and unseen,
- 3:20and to understand that you created us all differently, so that we learn
- 3:24and we are able to exist together in your precious and holy name, Jesus,
- 3:30I pray amen. And now I'm going to bring up my guests,
- 3:34Miss Michelle Steiner, and she's going to help us pronounce this condition. Yes,
- 3:42so it's discalculia or discalcula. Yes, one of those. Yeah,
- 3:49I tried to do it with the phonic sound and it kept telling me I
- 3:54was missing a letter or the case I was. You know what, I'm
- 4:00just gonna let it be because that's one that I can't say. And as
- 4:05I was telling you earlier, the condition that I have is called Kiri malformation,
- 4:11and people mispronounce that often as well, so I definitely understand. But
- 4:17please introduce yourself and tell us a little bit more about you, and then
- 4:20I'm going to ask you a couple of questions. Sure sounds great. Well.
- 4:25My name is Michelle Steiner. I live in Pennsylvania with my husband Ron
- 4:29and our two cats, Jack and Sparrow. I work in the school as
- 4:32a parent educator with students who have disabilities and some who don't, and I
- 4:39also have a blog. I'm also a writer, speaker, photographer, and
- 4:44I have a blog called Michelle's Mission where I write about life with having a
- 4:49learning disability. I use a lot of nature metaphors to describe life with having
- 4:55one, and I also feature my photography because I'm not able to so I'm
- 5:00able to take some photographs on my walks and I put them on my store.
- 5:08And as I said, I do have a learning disability. I have
- 5:11dyscalculia, which is the math one. I also have limited hand dexterity in
- 5:15both of my hands and visual perception, but that's in my brain on in
- 5:19my eyes. Okay, well that is a lot. But I got a
- 5:25question. How did you get diagnosed when you were younger or as you got
- 5:30older. I was diagnosed whenever I was very young. Whenever I was in
- 5:34kindergarten. My teacher saw that I was really struggling in the classroom. I
- 5:40was struggling academically, especially with math, but things such as counting, tying
- 5:46my shoes, and adopted dot pages were also really hard. And socially it
- 5:49was really difficult for me as well. I was an only child, so
- 5:54I often played by myself, and I quickly after I was diagnosed, I
- 6:00was the bullying really started with that. Okay. Was it a hard diagnosis
- 6:08for your parents when they first figured out what was going on with you?
- 6:13And how young were you when they found out? It's five or six.
- 6:17When my parents found out, I think it was difficult for them in the
- 6:21very very beginning because I was my parents' first child, so they really didn't
- 6:26have a lot to based on child development on and I can just remember that
- 6:30was hard and my dad was really good at math, and they said,
- 6:33well, the one thing they did know at that time was that I wasn't
- 6:38going to be a math genies. They learning just was more of an umbrelative.
- 6:42But during that time it was just I was give me a math genius
- 6:46and he goes, well, what do you mean one plus one's always going
- 6:47to be too. And so in the beginning it was hard for them,
- 6:51but after they started working with the school and they got some of that education,
- 6:57it became a lot easier. And my mom and dad never gave up
- 7:00on me and not made all the difference. I definitely will say having good
- 7:04parents beside you, who encourage you to still be a child number one and
- 7:12to understand that, yeah, you may learn a little differently, but you're
- 7:15not incapable of learning. That is a major part. Because I know sometimes
- 7:20with kids, especially for me, for math, math is not my favorite
- 7:25subject. I still struggle with math. Word problems has always been a struggle
- 7:30for me. But my kids are excellent with math, but they get that
- 7:35from their father. For me, math is not my thing, but it's
- 7:40crazy for me, Math and science go hand in hand, and I was
- 7:45really good at science when it came to formulas, but it didn't make sense
- 7:49to me that I was able to do the science part with the formulas but
- 7:56not the regular math problems. It was absolutely crazy and like frustrated my teachers
- 8:01a lot with that as well. So I feel like maybe that was part
- 8:05of something that I probably had an issue with, but who knows. I
- 8:11can't say that I'm too old to be diagnosed with it now, because it
- 8:15probably should be tested. Yeah, do you recommend that somebody my age be
- 8:22tested for that? Sure, because they can definitely tell if somebody does have
- 8:28a disability that that can always be something and to be tested for. I
- 8:33know, to get services in college and as an adult when I wanted to
- 8:39try grad school, I had to be tested for having a learning disability all
- 8:43over again, and that was always one of those things that kind of frustrated
- 8:46me because I thought, well, my results really aren't going to change the
- 8:52only thing they did find out is I had limited hand dexterity. But if
- 8:54you wanted to get tested, a good agency to contact is Office for Vocational
- 9:00Rehabilitation. There it's a federal program. There's one in every you know,
- 9:07there's definitely one nearby in the United States, and you can call them and
- 9:11tell them about some of the issues that you have and they can all the
- 9:16testing is for free, and if you do end up having one, they
- 9:20can give you funding for college or job placement or just sometimes some information and
- 9:26some resources as well. Okay, well, the next question that I have
- 9:33is did you as you got older, did you ever feel like people were
- 9:37treating you differently because of your disability? Yes? I did. I can't
- 9:45remember. All throughout my years of school, I had specialty instruction eventually,
- 9:50and I had accommodations. I had to have extra test time. I had
- 9:52to have the test, but it allowed to me. But I was doing
- 9:56really well. I was in all regular classes except for math and a resource
- 9:58room. But whenever it was time to think about, well, what do
- 10:03I want to do with my life after outside of school, that's when we
- 10:05had some issues. I knew that I wanted to go to college. I
- 10:09was fearful. I had a learning support teacher who told me, I don't
- 10:13think that you can go to college because of your math disability, and she
- 10:20recommended a trade school for me, and I just nothing very interested me,
- 10:22so I decided I was going to go forward. Got involved with Office for
- 10:26a Vocational Rehabilitation and once I got involved with them, they were yeah,
- 10:33I had to get tested for having a learning disability all over again. And
- 10:37I've always been a bad test taker, and I scored really low on my
- 10:41test, and the psychiatrist who evaluated me said, well, you're most likely
- 10:46not going to go beyond community college. When I got to community college,
- 10:52I had an advisor that told me I was going to have a hard time
- 10:56finding a job and my choices would be really limited. And I had a
- 11:01stigma about using a disability accommodations. A lot of my peers thought that they
- 11:05were cheating or they were giving me an unfair advantage. So I didn't use
- 11:09them, and that was a really big mistake because my grades dropped. And
- 11:13I can just remember I had a professor and said, well, why don't
- 11:16we at least give you extra time when taking a test? And when I
- 11:20did that, I could pass her class. I did not do well at
- 11:22all, but I got my bachelor's I mean my associate's degree, and I
- 11:28was able to move out on my own, and I struggled with life.
- 11:31I mean, I loved having my independence because I couldn't drive, and I
- 11:35can just remember just being in some relationships with people. I can remember my
- 11:41ex breaking up with me saying, I think you could drive if you really
- 11:43wanted to, and he was tired of taking me places. So I struggled
- 11:48with that and I wondered, well, when am I going to meet somebody
- 11:50that is going to love me with a disability. And then I had financial
- 11:56problems where I moved back in with my mom and dad. I I always
- 12:00want a more for myself, but it was during that time I had that
- 12:03opportunity to. I decided that I'm going to go back to university, and
- 12:09I found a program that had the least amount of mouth and science possible and
- 12:13had a program that I loved with disability accommodations, and with that, I
- 12:20just made sure that I used them. And there was always that stigma.
- 12:22There was always that oh, you're not trying hard enough. But I had
- 12:26to learn to just quiet that voice and to use that. After I graduated
- 12:31with my bachelor's degree that I was told I would never get, it took
- 12:37me a while to find the right kind of job. I can't remember just
- 12:41I went for jobs and said they were disability friendly and they weren't. And
- 12:46sometimes, yeah, it's just really a matter of trying and finding out what
- 12:52works and being able to advocate for yourself. That is very, very true,
- 12:56because I know for me with my I can't always tell people what I
- 13:03deal with because when I have aurops and things, it's gonna take me down
- 13:07for quite some time, and I never know what's gonna happen from day to
- 13:13day. My biggest fear for myself is falling, is going to sleep at
- 13:18night because I've woken up the next day in a different state where my speech
- 13:24is compromised and you know, my body's compromised and things of that nature.
- 13:30But I am so glad that you did not let what other people said was
- 13:35your limitation stop you, because I feel like sometimes we let those seeds of
- 13:43doubt plant and they start to take root and we don't continue on to be
- 13:48better than what they've said. Because I had a doctor who told me after
- 13:54having a stroke that I should just get used to not being able to use
- 13:58the left side of my body and to just get used to not being able
- 14:03to talk and all of that, and that was frustrating to me, and
- 14:07I was like, you know what, I don't have to get used to
- 14:09that, and I don't have to get used to you. And so I
- 14:11commend you on understanding your ground and moving forward and not letting other people tell
- 14:18you what you were limited in. It's just a matter of how your brain
- 14:22comprehends what it is that you need, and you've been able to move beyond
- 14:28that and now you help other people. How has that journey been. It
- 14:33has been so rewarding to be able to help other people out. I love
- 14:37that I get to be that chance to be that voice that encourages other students.
- 14:41Sometimes whenever I work for six grader, I work for sixth grade this
- 14:46year, and I can remember here sometimes like here we are recording myself at
- 14:52that age. I hate my learning disability. It makes me stupid, And
- 14:56I get to be that voice that says, well, no, having learning
- 14:58this, it doesn't mean you're stupid, it means your brain's wired differently.
- 15:03And I get to help them out with reading a test to them, encouraging
- 15:07them and showing them how to advocate. And that is just so rewarding because
- 15:11somebody did that for me, and that made all the difference in my life,
- 15:13and now I get that chance. And also with my writing, that
- 15:18has given me a voice, because without that I sometimes I was really hesitant
- 15:24to share my story for fear of rejection. Book Now I have a voice
- 15:28where I can not only help myself, but I can help other people out
- 15:31as well. And one of my favorite things is whenever I have somebody that
- 15:35will comment on a story or a blog entry and they'll say, that's my
- 15:39story or that's something I struggle with too, and I don't feel so alone
- 15:45anymore. And if I can just help out one person, then that made
- 15:48all the difference. And I agree with that too. All it takes is
- 15:52just that one person to be able to resonate with something that you've been through
- 15:56and to see how they like when you share your trials and you're overcome,
- 16:04you're the way that you've overcome what you've been through. That's a blessing.
- 16:08And being able to see young kids grow from what you've been able to grow
- 16:14from because they're young and they don't know that they still have their whole lives
- 16:18ahead of them. And being able to see someone who has overcome the limitations
- 16:23that they feel themselves. That they're not good enough. But to have someone
- 16:29that's pouring into them and telling them that they are good enough and there's absolutely
- 16:33nothing wrong with them is very, very valuable. And I commend you for
- 16:38doing that and having the patience and the heart to do that, because that's
- 16:42not always easy either, because we do want to stay so sheltered because we
- 16:48don't want to be rejected by others. Because when I got sick and the
- 16:56I started having tremors and I was in I didn't want to go out and
- 17:02my voice trembled and things of that nature, and I didn't want to be
- 17:04around people because I thought people were going to laugh at me, they were
- 17:07going to make fun of me because I could not, you know, form
- 17:11a sentence without you know, having all of these different body parts moving in
- 17:18places that they shouldn't have been moving, people thinking that I'm cold when I'm
- 17:22not cold. It's just the fact that my body's doing whatever it wants to
- 17:26do at this time. I was embarrassed by that, and so I stayed
- 17:30in my house. I didn't go places unless I absolutely had to, and
- 17:36I stayed in like a certain area to where I didn't get a lot of
- 17:41attention but after a while it was like, Okay, God placed me in
- 17:45this situation, in this position, and I need to get out of my
- 17:48head and get out of my way and be able to do what I need
- 17:52to do. And once I understood that part of it, it made it
- 17:56a whole lot better for me. And being able to share what you've been
- 18:03through with other people is always a blessing. But I do know that we
- 18:07do sometimes get in our heads and we doubt ourselves because we don't want that
- 18:11judgment from other people. But when they don't know what you're going through,
- 18:18they really are judging based on lack of knowledge, and when they do have
- 18:22the knowledge, they don't judge us as much as they once did without that
- 18:30exactly because I have a lot of people that will say to me if I
- 18:33tell them I have a learning disability, they said, well, you don't
- 18:36look like you're disabled, and I have to explain, well, sometimes we
- 18:38can see disabilities, sometimes we can't. And I also people that know who
- 18:44I am or have known me for years sometimes we'll say, well, you've
- 18:47overcome your disability and you must not have one anymore. And I have to
- 18:52tell them, well, I've been able to have success. But that's because
- 18:55I found a way to be able to work with that. And as long
- 18:57as I have those ways, then that works for me. But yeah,
- 19:02a lot of times people don't understand because they can't see it, or they
- 19:07may not have ever heard of it, or they just don't have an understanding
- 19:11of it. Yeah, I think people feel like a disabled person has to
- 19:17look a certain way, they have to sound a certain way, but disabilities
- 19:22aren't always visible. One thing that I say sometimes, and I know it's
- 19:26probably not the nicest thing to say, and that is stupidity doesn't have a
- 19:30certain look either, but we all know that it exists. You know,
- 19:36it's not the nice thing to say, but it is the truth. You
- 19:41know, stupidity have a certain look, but we do know that it exists,
- 19:45you know, so we have to be mindful of that. Yeah,
- 19:52it's just one of those things. And it's like, you try not to
- 19:59be mean, you try not to call people stupid, but sometimes it's like
- 20:07my father in law told me something years ago when I was seventeen years old.
- 20:14He's passed on now, but it was one of those things that he
- 20:17said that I did not understand, and it was stupidity is forever. We
- 20:22all have dumb moments, and I was like, what do you mean?
- 20:26And it didn't make sense to me then because I was like, dumb and
- 20:30stupid is pretty much the same thing. And he was like, no,
- 20:33stupid, you can't fix. You can't fix stupid. Everybody has a dumb
- 20:40moment because they're willing to learn so that they don't look dumb forever. But
- 20:45stupid is forever and you can't fix it. And as I've gotten older,
- 20:51it makes a little bit more sense because I work in healthcare and that's the
- 20:56challenge in itself, and every day there is a I question a lot of
- 21:03people on how they get dressed in the morning because the questions and the things
- 21:10that they ask, like I have, is it never fails. Every morning
- 21:15there is going to be at least two people out of my entire twelve hour
- 21:18shift that is going to ask or come in and say that they've been in
- 21:22the location before, no name, no anything, that they've been here before.
- 21:27And it makes me question, do they go into restaurants and say,
- 21:32yeah, I've been here before with nothing else. They don't say that they
- 21:36want to, you know, be seated that they're here, you know,
- 21:40it makes me wonder, but it happens at least twice a day out of
- 21:44my entire twelve hour shift. Wow. Yeah, you would think you would
- 21:51know where you're if you've been there before or not, and you certainly can
- 21:55tell, and they don't give you a name or anything, and they just
- 22:00say, Yep, i've been here before. Okay, well what's your name?
- 22:07I haven't seen you before. Someone else may have been here on the
- 22:10day that you were here. I have, you know, now, with
- 22:15some of my patients, and I remember when they come. But you know,
- 22:18working in urgent care, you're going to see a lot of different things
- 22:22on different days and different people. But I'm like, I have no idea
- 22:26that you've been here before. I don't even know your name, you know,
- 22:30but it would be helpful if you give me a little bit more information
- 22:33then you've been here before. That helps me. The next question that I
- 22:44have to ask you. You know, you said you haven't been able to
- 22:48drive. Do you think that has been a hindrance for you or not,
- 22:51because you know, driving isn't all is cracked up to be. I would
- 22:55love to be a passenger princess in my car, but I haven't been so
- 22:59lucky. So how has it played effect in your life not being able to
- 23:04drive. Really, it hasn't had that much of a negative effect. It's
- 23:10had some things where I've had to sometimes just do some extra planning. I
- 23:15live in a central location. I know that living out in the country is
- 23:21not an option for me. I did that when I lived with my parents,
- 23:23and they were great about giving me rides. But I like to have
- 23:27that independence where I'm able to take the bus or I'm able to take a
- 23:30walk. I also have a great support system my husband. He takes me
- 23:36to work in the morning, and I have a wonderful coworker who takes me
- 23:38home. And I also live close by, so if for some reason I
- 23:42can't get a ride, or somebody's off that day, or it's just not
- 23:47a possibility, I'm able to take myself. And that's always been really key
- 23:51for me. I like having that independence to be able to do that.
- 23:56And whenever I had a lot of my friends whenever I was growing up,
- 24:00they were a little few years older than I was and they took me places,
- 24:03so it really was never an issue socially. I've had to sometimes have
- 24:10had some jobs where I couldn't go to because I just didn't have the transportation.
- 24:15But those weren't the right places for me. And it also has given
- 24:19me a really hidden treasure. I'm able to notice details that other people miss
- 24:26whenever I'm in the vehicle. I will be in the car and I ask
- 24:30my husband, did you see that, And he's like, no, focused
- 24:32on the road. He is getting a little bit better about that. He
- 24:36listens to these and I get the chance to go back and take a picture
- 24:40of a flower or a butterfly or something else that I wouldn't have that opportunity
- 24:45to do if I was driving a car. So I get to stop and
- 24:51literally smell the roses. So it has really had a positive impact on my
- 24:56life. And I get to put my pictures on my store, and I
- 25:02just get that opportunity that I would miss otherwise. Yeah, you're definitely getting
- 25:07the best of that because being able to stay focused on the road and drive.
- 25:12Like I'm a big scenery type person, so I love to look at
- 25:18the clouds and look at, you know, the flowers and the trees,
- 25:21and so I have to tell myself focus on driving because I will stare at
- 25:26the clouds and I'm like, especially if we're at a stoplight or something.
- 25:30That's when I get my time, and I'm usually have my phone to where
- 25:33I'll take pictures of the skyline if we're at a stoplight or something like that,
- 25:37and I'm like, you have got to stop doing that because that is
- 25:40not safe. It's not cool because you're doing that. But I love nature,
- 25:44I love the scenery. So I definitely envy you for that because you're
- 25:48on the passenger side and you're getting to get all of these wonderful photos and
- 25:53pictures of life itself, you know. So that's a plus that it hasn't
- 26:00had a negative outlook on you, because I will say driving is not all
- 26:04it's cracked up to be. It's great to get you where you need to
- 26:08go, but it's definitely not all it's cracked up to be. I would
- 26:12love to definitely be on the passenger side more so than on the driver's side.
- 26:18I was in the car with my daughter and my son in law,
- 26:22and I was actually in the backseat of my jeep and I had told them
- 26:26with my grandbaby, and I was like, you know, I've had this
- 26:30jeep now almost two years and I have never been in the backseat of it.
- 26:37So I was so fascinated to be able to sit in the back seat,
- 26:40and they were like, what are you doing? I was like,
- 26:41I haven't looked at this backseat, let alone been in the backseat to see
- 26:48what it feels like back here and to be driven around. Oh my god,
- 26:52I am in heaven. I don't care about nothing else that's taking place
- 26:56today. Y'all do what y'all need to do back here with my grandbaby,
- 27:00and I am enjoyed being in the backseat, So whatever y'all got to do,
- 27:04I don't care. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for me,
- 27:08so I'm just gonna enjoy it. But I feel like you have been
- 27:15able to shed light where there may have been darkness for some people with thinking
- 27:22that disabilities are limitations. You know, limitations are only set to our standards,
- 27:30and if you allow someone else to tell you what you can't do,
- 27:33you'll be stuck. And you didn't even let that let you stick in that
- 27:37space, even as a young kid, and as an adult now you're still
- 27:44setting bounce, setting well, I can't even say you're setting limits. You're
- 27:48exceeding the limits that anybody places on you and for them to say, well,
- 27:52I don't see your disability, you must have outgrown it and all of
- 27:56those crazy things. It's like, you don't not grow a disability, you
- 28:02have it and it's for life, you know. You just learn how to
- 28:04adjust your life to what you've been given. And I feel like God never
- 28:10places anything on us that he will not teach us how to endure. How
- 28:15do you feel about that for yourself? I definitely feel that because I can
- 28:19remember when I was young, I would pray and I would think, Okay,
- 28:22if my disability went away, it'd be perfect. And I can remember
- 28:26praying and saying, God, where is my purpose? Where is my good
- 28:29plan for all that? And God is just telling me, just wait,
- 28:33I'm going to use this and it's not just going to benefit you, but
- 28:37it's going to benefit a lot of other people, and it's going to bring
- 28:38worry to me. And that is just something that has really come out of
- 28:44that. I can remember earlier this year, I was in a class trying
- 28:48helping students and math came up despite me telling them I can't do it,
- 28:53and I can remember I just looked up into the heavens and I said,
- 28:57why am I here and somebody said, there's a student that's crying. And
- 29:02I turned around and one of my students was crying because he was so frustrated
- 29:06with the work. And I got the chance to get on eye level with
- 29:08him and say that I have a disability and I know how hard it is,
- 29:11but I want you to tell me when you need help. I can't
- 29:15help you, but I'll find someone who can. And before I knew it,
- 29:19he was raising his hand and then he could do the work independently.
- 29:23And I just heard a little voice saying, see, that's why I had
- 29:27you there, not to teach a math, but you were there to comfort
- 29:30that person. And God has just taken so much of that pain and He's
- 29:36driven into a purpose with life. And it's so much more empowering when I
- 29:41focus on what I can do and what God has given me than when I
- 29:45focus on what I can't do and just wasn't really meant for me to be
- 29:49doing with my life. Yeah, I agree with that wholeheartedly. When we
- 29:55focus on what we are able to do versus what we can't do, the
- 29:59world opens up to us a whole lot more than just being stationary and putting
- 30:06in that space of limitation. So God will always provide the purpose for whatever
- 30:11it is that we're going through. It's up to us sometimes to sit in
- 30:15silence to understand what it is that he's trying to get us to see.
- 30:21Because He's equipped us with everything that we need to get through everything that he's
- 30:26put on our plates. Sometimes we're a little stubborn, we're a little hard
- 30:29headed, and we don't want to listen to what he's trying to tell us
- 30:32to do. But He's will never put us in a place that he won't
- 30:37provide the reason why we're there. And I know people will say, well,
- 30:41you're not supposed to question God. Well, sometimes that question is necessary
- 30:45so that he can provide the answer. So if you don't ask him a
- 30:48question as to what is this for, you're not going to get the answer.
- 30:53Now. It may not be the answer that we're seeking, but it
- 30:56is the answer that is necessary. Now. I have one other question,
- 31:02and then I'm going to let you go for the evening, and that is
- 31:06what would you give What advice would you give to those who feel as if
- 31:11their disability is keeping them in a I guess you could say a stagnant place
- 31:18of not wanting to be judged or feel bad about themselves, and they don't
- 31:23know how to get out of that space. What would you say? What
- 31:27advice would you give encouraged that person to reach out to other people and to
- 31:34share their story. I know that whenever I finally had that courage, I
- 31:41had a friend that told me you really should talk about your experience with writing
- 31:45or your experience of having learning disability to write about it, and I thought,
- 31:49oh, no, that's too personal. But when I finally got that
- 31:52courage, I found people that were running towards me rather than running away from
- 31:56me, and I would just encourage them to find I mean, there's different
- 32:00expressions. Some people might do that through music, other people might do that
- 32:04through painting, some people do it through speaking, and there's just finding those
- 32:09people that you can talk to and not to be ashamed about having it.
- 32:15And that's what I would encourage people to do, is just to be able
- 32:19to share their story. Okay, Well, if anybody has any questions or
- 32:22anything that they want to talk to you about, how can they find you,
- 32:27how can they reach out to you? You can find me at my
- 32:30blog missus Michelle's mission dot com and I'm also on Facebook and Instagram as well.
- 32:36All right, well, I thank you so much for being here tonight
- 32:38and talking about what you have accomplished and not your limitations at all, because
- 32:45that is a beautiful transition and story and testimony all in it. So I
- 32:51thank you for being here. The one thing that I always say before I
- 32:55end any show, and that is stay out of God's business. Do only
- 33:00thing that God needs you to do is be obedient to what He's called you
- 33:02to do. And until next time you, guys. I will see you
- 33:07in two weeks and we will be doing a memorial show for my mom.
- 33:10It will be the one year passing, so we're gonna celebrate her. So
- 33:16I hope to see you there as well. But until next time you,
- 33:22guys, I love you, and thank you so much for tuning in until
- 33:25July the fourteenth. See good night, Sweezee sweeze No