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Tara Williamson and Alex with Pink Ink Tattoo on G105 · The Erica Show

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  Speaker 1: Two and I five. It's the Erica Show. It is an
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  Speaker 1: honor to sit down with Tara Williamson, the founder of
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  Speaker 1: Pink Ink tattoo in her son Alex. She is a survivor,
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  Speaker 1: a thriver, just one the remarkable Women for CBS seventeen
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  Speaker 1: and made it all the way to Jennifer Hudson's show
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  Speaker 1: on Monday where she was recognized as one of the
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  Speaker 1: five women in our country doing incredible things. And Tara
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  Speaker 1: is not only a breast cancer survivor, but she is
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  Speaker 1: making a difference as a global leader for Aerola tattooing
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  Speaker 1: across the globe. Tara, tell us a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: your story.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first, thank you for having me here, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for having both of us here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Sally.
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  Speaker 2: In the beginning, you know, I was thirty nine years old,
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  Speaker 2: just living my life and I was diagnosed with breast
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  Speaker 2: cancer with no family history. Thank god, I had a
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  Speaker 2: great doctor that said let's do a mammogram, and that's
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  Speaker 2: when kind of everything just flipped upside down. I had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of surgeries and then the reconstruction part. Well,
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  Speaker 2: at the end, my plastic surgeon said, hey, what about
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  Speaker 2: you know, Aerola tattooing and I was floored, like, oh
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  Speaker 2: my gosh, what is this about. Yeah, I need to
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  Speaker 2: meet this expert. And back in twenty thirteen, there just
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  Speaker 2: really wasn't an expert. There were a couple of traditional
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  Speaker 2: tattoo artists and they did great work, but that just
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  Speaker 2: was not the fit for me. Like this was so special.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted it to be special, and I didn't have
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  Speaker 2: that option. So I ended up having the nurse do
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  Speaker 2: it who had been trained, you know, two three times,
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  Speaker 2: And it's unacceptable. It should have been just part of
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  Speaker 2: the treatment process. You get diagnosed, here's your treatment. At
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  Speaker 2: the end of it, you're going to have a fabulous,
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  Speaker 2: you know, outcome. Because this is what we can do,
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  Speaker 2: and that is just how it should be. That should
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  Speaker 2: be the standard, and it wasn't, so I'm making it
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  Speaker 2: the standard. I left my nursing career in twenty fourteen
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  Speaker 2: founded Pinkink Tattoo, and that is where women and men
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  Speaker 2: can come and you know what, they have their voice heard,
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  Speaker 2: they can choose their color, their size, their music, whatever
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  Speaker 2: they want the people in the room with them because
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  Speaker 2: it's all about them and that's how it should be.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's not another procedure it's the most important part
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  Speaker 2: at the end of your breast cancer journey and for
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  Speaker 2: a lot of women.
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  Speaker 1: Tarallams and it's the air show making a difference, a
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  Speaker 1: global leader with ariel La Tattooing, making sure your voices
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  Speaker 1: are heard, which you can listen to this entire interview.
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  Speaker 1: So much information that you can learn from Tara her Son,
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  Speaker 1: Alex g n I five dot com, the Erica Show podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Also a bit congratulations to Tara who was recognized on
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  Speaker 1: The Jennifer Hudson Show among five women nationally complete Battie
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  Speaker 1: and a trailblazer for women and men. Thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for coming in today, Thank you for having us.
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  Speaker 2: You're amazing. Thank you