Cancer Awareness In Our Community.

our friends and so many different things. And so I'm really excited about giving a moment to my friends to have her come on and talk about her struggle and her story. But then also men deal with cancer man, you know black men, especially in our community, cancer is one of the leads leading causes of death amulti black people. So you know, it's a very important show. UM. You know, I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, we we I wanna.

I wasn't able to be a part of the second interview that we're gonna have today with our brothers, um that when you had them on before, so we get a chance to have him back today and again just using Street Politicians as a place where people can come and really kind of tie everything together that we fight for because we don't have our health, we don't have wealth, we can't fight for in the streets, um, you know, for our political stability and our lives and not also

be really fighting for our lives by making sure that we're physically found. So, um, you know that work has to be done, and certainly during this month is an important time to hone in and focus on it. I was looking at the rundown that was created today, you know by our production team led by being sister Janets and um, they sent us some some really important points that I thought we should really make sure to mention today because I'm not sure that people really get how

serious cancer is. And of course we focused on breath cancer, but all types of cancer uh impact in our communities. And so the first thing, it says that breath cancer continues to be the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death among US women, that

all women. So the breath cancer being the most commonly diagnosed, but then also the the leading cause of death among women, and they're saying that is higher among black women compared to one right, right, right, I wonder and that's something I would like to dig deeper into, is like, is it more detection, more early prevention, or is it just cases in general, because that would be crazy that we

would get more more breast cancer. Wow. Then it says that about one in three Black men and women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime and one in five will die from the disease. Now that is scary as hell. That's that's that is incredible. That is the craziest that I've ever seen. Like you, if five people is in the room, that means one person it's gonna die from cancers and and one in three one in

three in general, madam. And then it says among African American women, there are three cancer types breast, lung, and colon cancer make up more than have of all new cancer cases. Wow, in colon cancers, nothing else we're gonna be focused on today. That's one of the main for many Black men are guy from coal cancer at alarming rates, right, and if they're in there. For black women, it's one of three. With breath lung, which we know long has

been I've been hearing more and more about lung cancer. Um, you know that that long breath and Colon are the three most new cases. So I'm ready to bring the guests on. But before we do that, I want to kind of veer off a little bit talk about something that I saw the last couple of days sort of

bubbling up on social media. And it's a part of my thought of the day because you know, I've been thinking, I mean, think you good, um, and it kind of just it hit homes so much, uh, for a lot of different reasons that I really lay still one day really deeply thinking about and processing this particular post. So Cardi b somebody said they tweeted that Cardy and he said, what happened? You used to speak on political issues all the time, and she responded and said, I stopped because, Um,

I was tired of getting bullied or bashed. That's no, no, the things she said, bullied something like that by the Republicans, but then also being bashed by the folks that I was standing up for. And it was on the shade room, and I sat and I really really contemplated it. Like I said, it hit me from a deep place because number one, Cardi being in the foreword of my book.

I know how just a little over a year ago when I was talking with her working on the forwards, how passionate she was, and I'm sure she still is today, but she was just in a different place, you know, she was in a in a in a space of being like, yeah, you know we we we really together

have to fight. But then the other part of it is that I've seen where the transition happened for her because it's happened within me several times over these rocky twenty five years of my career that I had these moments of being like, you know what, I'm fighting for my life literally, like I'm literally fighting against people who

want me day because of our outspokenness. Um, you know, because we're going up against the system, you know, as you know, we're we're out here under our real names in this struggle for real, for real dealing with being

blocked from being able to go to events. I had a friend of mine just took on a big political position in in the in the country, and um, you know, they mentioned to me that I wasn't that they that that that I was on the list of those being blocked from even going to the events of you know, their celebration event because you know, of course those people

that we fight against. And mind you, these are people who are supposed to be with us, but even they're afraid to have me in the room because they don't want the back last that comes along with it from the you know, the the negative press and what have you. But meanwhile, there are people who really think that I'm

just like this succested person within the movement. And the thing that really struck me was I wrote a comment on the post where are I wrote it somewhere where I said that, you know, I understood what CARDI was going through and I and I often feel that way. And somebody said, oh, you're not real, because if you are a real activist, you be dead. They kill people that are real, like true bona fide leaders, And I thought to myself, Wow, I'm not even forget about that

ignorant person who made that comment. But it's sad that we actually that there are people out here that identify you being a real leader with you dying at an early age. And I just said to myself, Wow, I can imagine that there are a lot of people out here who want to get into the worst. They want to be leaders, they want to fight, they want to be a part of the struggle, and they're not forget about because people are gonna talk about you and all

of that. We already know that, but that comment had me thinking that people might not want to be a part of the work because they believe that they have to be willing and we do. We do have to be willing to accept that we could die, but that the only way that they will ever be able to prove themselves as a real leader is that their life would have to be taken so that the world will

acknowledge them. And that's my issue around us waiting to give people their flowers until they're dead, rather than recognizing their sacrifices while they are actually alive. As so well stated what you just said, And I think that brings me to the situation that I'm watching Kyrie Irban deal with. And whether you a pro vaccine, anti vaccine, wanted or anything that is has nothing to do well what I'm

about to say right now. You know, when you watch your men like Kyrie, who has been vocal throughout his whole career about issues that marginalized communities deal with. He's donated his time, his money, he's built, he's giving resources he's been someone who has been civil rights savvy and

and connected his whole career. You know, and when you when you decided the man who's been in the league and you you you accumulated wealth, stature, you know, fame, and you decide that you want to utilize that fame

for something other than just basketball. You know, there comes a time like even when you're that talent, some people have a different calling on their life with this my skills that when God's gifted me with this, but maybe the gift that he gave me to do this was so I can have the ability to help people over

here and shot like on that. So when a man makes a decision that he's watching hundreds of thousand people be mandated to do something that's against their own will and lose their livelihoods, and some of them and pay their family because of their personal beliefs or religious beliefs, or whatever it is that they personally believe, and he decides that he wants to speak up and say that

that's not right. You know that you shouldn't be forced to do anything that you shouldn't be forced if you want to do it, if you believe that it's best for your help. But people should have the right to be able to discern information and take information and make guests and hypothesis and decisions for themselves. And when that

man said that, that's what he stood up for. And see the way he's crucified by his own brothers, you know, from people from the same people that he will go out here in support and been helping for years and being crusiveized by people that look like him, that the people that are supposed to Even if you don't agree with whatever it is, but you have to respect the man for want to take a stand, because everybody doesn't

want to take a snare. So it's not about whether you agree with what he's taking a stand for, but the fact that he's taking a stand, you should probably just mind your business. If you don't agree, you're to said what I'm saying, and that's what it is for me. It's like people will criticize you, they have destroyed you. They're trying to tear you down because they might not

agree with your position. You know, they might not agree with something you say, but the bottom line is mean there are very few people who are willing to stand up and be willing to be villainized and vilified and crucified and deal with what comes for the greater good of the masses. So, man, what you said it means a lot, man, because Cardi B was a voice. Cardi B wasn't chanting the most politically savvy person. She she she she exactly she, but she made a decision like

you know what, I know that's wrong. So I want to say it, you know, I want to say that. That's where I don't know the best worlds. I don't know all the big words. I don't know none of that. I just know that right there is not right. And you know, and when people stand on that, you know, like we we realize that you're gonna be crucified, You're gonna be attacked because nobody wants you to stand that strong. Nobody wants you to speak the truth to power. You know,

there's against especially against the status quo. Well, you know, I mean I so first of all, I support Kyrie not because again I think that he should or should not be vaccinated. In fact, I think that New York the NBA, and which we know it's not the NBA and totality, but the Brooklyn Nets. I think they have a right to set whatever standards they believe are in the best interests of their team. Right, and therefore, and you have you have to decide whether you accept those

things or not. What I would what I would say, is this right and this and this is what I would ask when when you said the government supported people by the people. Right, And if you say that, you're you're making a decision for the best for the team. If you're not asking the team what's best for them, right, If if you're in New York and you're just saying, hey, we want to do a consensus. How many people who think there should be a man? Well, let's see, I

don't I don't remember. First of all, I was in the process of speaking of your people. But here's the thing. I don't think that that's how medicine and pandemics work, right. Maybe it should change. Maybe they are people who should get together and decide on some new ways of seeing the world and the government operate. But that's not how pandemics have ever worked. It's not how any um you know, situation in terms of a disease or a virus that

has gotten out had worked. The government supposedly works alongside scientists and medical people who decide whether or not there should be something for smallpox and for all all measles, months,

chicken pox, all of these things. And they make mandates on schools, they make mandates on health, hair workers, they make mandates on you know, law enforcement, which we see that there have some issues there, and I think we should definitely do a show where we delve into how there are a lot of people who don't actually have to follow this mandate and what does that mean for other people who are being forced to write? So so, you know, I'll be honest, somebody said to me or

you just you just bouncing back and forth. How can you support Kyrie and then at the same time say you want people to be six feet away and then also say that you support those who have been vaccinated, and you know and and and um and that I'm not against the vaccination. Right. So, so, because I'm human, and as a human, I can have multiple things and thoughts and understanding happening all that once, and I can reconcile all those things and and use them to make

decisions for myself. And sometimes we just don't know. Sometimes we could just say I don't know, I think this might be good. I don't know. I don't know, but I still have a voice that I should be able to speak to what it is that I believe and

what's impacted me. I'm saying that since the beginning of time, the way that or that or not not time forever, but the time I know, the way that mandate and especially like I said, viruses that aren't that impacts a greater society not you know, you as one person who can choose whether or not you're going to smoke, or have unprotected sex or whatever. Those are things that you can say, I'm not gonna smoke, so more than likely I can save myself. And the vaccine individual and individual

not an individual choice. And the reason why I'm not talking about I'm not talking about and not talking about whether what the taking a vaccine for it the individual choices that I have to I don't have to smoke a cigarette, right, which can ultimately give me x y z things as an individual. A cyrus, which a pyrus that is that is is very um uh, it's easily transmissible. You can't choose if you get it and if you

give it to your mother, if you choose to. I don't under why you don't understand is because you're speaking over me and trying to insert also rather than listening to my full thought. So therefore you can't understand, because we can't understand nobody that we don't listen to. What I'm saying is that I'm talking about how things have operated for all of this time. I'm saying, maybe it's

something know that needs to happen. But what has happened in our society is that when there is a virus or a disease that can spread, that people can sit here and say I'm healthy, I'm this, I'm that, and the third thing. And so if I believe that if I get it, I can fight it, all right, that's your personal thing. But when you're in the room with twenty people and there are other people in that room that could potentially catch it from your healthy self, and

their unhealthy self could die. There have been processes in the past to try to vaccinate and or give people things that they need to stop it or slow it down, because there's no such thing as stopping it, which is one thing that you've constantly said that I agree with. But there have been mandates in our society that says we have to bring it down the issue. What I'm saying is that the NBA or the New York Nets have the right to say, we've got too many different

people around here with different issues in unal compromise. We've got people who have this, that, and the third is all different things, and this virus is something that concerns us. We gotta shut down the team playing if we get six people that have six this Senate third. So we've decided that we believe it is in the best interests of US as a as as a company to follow what the government is saying and what this vaccine is

supposed to do. Individual people have the right to look and say I don't want it, and therefore I'm not gonna work there, just like people have quit their jobs, their schools or whatever. But I do believe that they have the right to say it. You have a right to say I'm going home school my kids because I don't want my child to take X, y Z vaccines.

And that's that's what has happened so far. And I'm saying that if I in my house, if everybody coming into this house has to be vaccinated, you have to decide whether you're coming in my house or not. That's a fact. And those people who are the ones that are the boss of the of the of the New York Knicks, they have a right to say, this is what's gonna happen in our house. We, to your point, have to say, do we want to start our own league? Do we want to do other things that give us

the ability to have our own rules. That's what I'm in So now now can I respond? Please? And I would not interrupt you. So, based on what you're saying, the individuals right, Right, If you have a virus that affects everyone and spreads, the vaccine is supposed to protect the person who takes the vaccine. The individual takes the vaccine. The reason why you take the vaccine is so that it does the virus does not affect you, right, So tell me what I understand about the vaccine standing from

the medical professionals that I have heard. And I first of all, if I'm interrupting you, I don't want to know. I want What I've understood about the vaccine is that one, it is supposed to reduce the person's mortality and or definitely illness or very sickness. But it also it's supposed to help bring down the mutation of the virus because so many people are getting so so let me just

give you this one understanding that I had. I studied this about HIV because I used to believe that if I have HIV and you have HIV, we can have sex with each other without a condom, because why not, right, Like, we've both got it, so we just But what I learned is that when two people, especially if they have different strength ends of HIV or whatever, when they are passing bodily fluid, it makes it stronger, which means it can kill both people quicker, and it also can mutate

into a new form of it because of the fact that you've got two different bloods that have a sickness that are its basically combined. And it's not a good NIX. So what I'm gonna do when I'm understanding about what they're saying about COVID, is that when people are all around each other and they're passing it around, maybe you might not die yourself from it. But what we're doing is increasing the chance where a new mutation of the

virus can continue to live and keep going. So they're trying to bring down the because they say that if you have code, if you have if you are vaccinated, it's not that you can't give it to anybody, but the chance which has much less. So it's all about so two people who have the last name both catch um COVID and the and it too together Kenny music. Um. I don't so. First of all, I'm not I'm not a medical professional, and I always say that neither one

of us are medical profession that defination. And I'm what I'm gonna say is I do not believe. I do not believe, but I have not studied it. And maybe somebody who's listening to the production side wants to chime in. I don't believe that two people who are vaccinated are passing COVID back and forth. I think that more than understand. In other words, what in other words, what I'm saying is it is if I'm vaccinated, if I'm vaccinated in January, more than likely me and Janice are not gonna give

it to each other. That most so these two people that don't wait, let me say so, two people who don't have COVID, I mean, who don't have the vaccine who have COVID can give it to each other. But two people have vaccinated that we can't give it to people who are anything. That's what you just said. You said, if I'm vaccinating, you're vaccinating. We can't tactly back and forth. I'm just I want to understand what you're you're understanding it because I think two people who are vaccinated can

pass it back and forth. Things I'm saying one person who is not vaccinated had I'm from what I hear I hear, and I could be completely wrong because I can really careful about that because I do respect medical professionals who have actually study so but you know what, the slimmer chances listen to me more every day, the rising of people who actually vaccinated catching COVID and spreading COVID is raised in every day. And that was those

odds that they had was based on smaller tests. So every day there's more people who have the vaccine, let's getting the virus. This is the fact everything that we know people that have our vaccine that have gotten COVID. But what what I'm suggesting, I'm suggesting to you is again I think that things are not about elimination, it's about reduction. Pretty much what I was what I was saying is there's so many different different researchers, there's so

many different scientists, so many different doctors. That people were telling you that the antibodies are created when you get to that when you don't have the vaccine, and which protects you after you after you've already had, it makes you a lot less likely to get their studies that show that that your antibody is alone even stronger than

the vaccines that people who say it's not. There's so many different things, right, So when you make a mandate and it's fifty one state in two or three, you only make those mandates, right, then you have to say the other you you're making a decision about somebody's life who did twenty years in school, right their nurses and doctors who refused to to get the vaccine because the medical healthcare people with their whole life, they're medical health

care people that speak to every day that said that they're not getting the vaccine. They study science their whole life. So you made a decision based on something that you studied probably the last year. That's gonna affect somebody who's been the hand of profession for twenty and thirty years, they decided that they're willing to lose their professions right because they're not sure about them. To me, that's just

not fair. That's just unfatiously I think. I think in the in the effort to move through the conversation, we're saying stuff in that neither one of us a hundred per st clear. I don't think somebody just started studying for the last year and a half. I think this thing has only been here a year in the half. So there's no way you can study something that wasn't here before that. You said, these people do their nurses or you know, people health care specially been studying all

their life. Everybody, it's either everybody has just been studying this for a year or so, or people locks them different. That's not what I'm saying. Let me let me break it up. And the clarity I want you to say is they are doctors who have been studying their whole life, who have been studying medicine their whole life, right exactly now, the doctors who have been studying COVID have could have never been studying COVID. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying,

and I'm saying or you're not listen. There's no you can't study that ain't been here. My sign, my sign, my sign. That's why I'm saying, so we have to be responsible. Right, it's a it's a novice virus. It's just but my song, my sign. Just like you and others may be willing to rely on people who have been studying science their old lies, and they believe that's your own antibodies, that your own healthy data, that all

those things can help you fight viruses. They also haven't studied COVID for more than two years because they only knew about it at that time. And that's what I'm saying.

Our doctors studying viruses their whole lives and they and they believe the not not necessarily that they couldieve the opposite, but they believe some some different set of what when I'm saying it, So when I'm saying that, so that we cannot because we don't know you and you listen to what I'm saying, so it looks what I want you to get clear when you don't know who can't you're not listening to what I'm saying. No, no, no, no, no, I'm not gonna stop because you're not what I'm saying,

I'm wrong. If what you don't know, if you can, if people could clearly call us the novices every day they said, well, then you're trying to figure out they don't know. In the last two years, they're figuring out

things that're learning different. Sometimes you probably if you can make a decision based on what you figured out or don't know or think you know in two years, that can affect somebody who's been doing their life, their lovelies, books, who pay their bread, who supports their kids for the last thirty years, who had took they went to school, they did something, they pay their mortgage, they do oh ya,

none of us. They don't know science. So I'm sure they explain to you, right because this man they can change next year. Next lit to me, Listen to listen to what I'm saying. The man, the man they can change next year. And you perfected hundreds of thousand, not millions of people's livelies. But who can't survive right now because you whoever answer you with that they have the right to choose the set adoptors that they believed might happen.

But if they okay, so if I'm making this, if I wake up right, and so I'll wake up today, right, I wake up today. Thirty people on my roster right heaven studied to come work for me for thirty years. They've been in this. This is how they pay their bills, this is how they do all this ship right my The belief is that this right here needs to happen. So based on that the contract you signed, everything you've done, I decided that you can't come back here no more.

And you let me tell you how that works. So I'm saying to you, is that for you and others like you who feel that there should be some changes to that, then there's the movement that needs to be created with real lawyers and others who can get in and figure out how we deal with mandate because pandemic allows for mandate. That's what I'm saying. So you know we're running themes is that we have a friend um

who is joining us today. And you know when people say that there's no one doing anything and nobody's speaking out, no one's organizing around the issues, and we don't hear we defied that because we have so many people who are doing incredible work in so many different areas and I always tell folk, um, I know you and I talked about it all the time life that everyone can't and shouldn't do the same exact thing that we need to ask people in different areas who are focused on

the entire circumstance, if you will, of black life and black culture. And this young lady who's joining us today is somebody that I'm really really proud of. Um. She is known as the Warrior Coach uh thus CEO of a tech company that's focused on mental health called you Are a Warrior, So that's you the letters you are a area. She's you know, definitely creative and always finds a really sexy and saffy and savvy way um to uh make folks pay attention to all that she does.

She's also a TV personality, one of the cast members of Real House Wise of New York. I've been watching the show here and there. Some of my friends are on different shows, as you know, Mice and I I watched them and Chine and on all that's happening, um,

you know, across the border on on reality TV. UM. She's also though, and what I where I met her and became really really an admirer of this young woman is because she's a breast cancer survivor and as we are UM in breast cancer wariness months who wanted to have a show that focuses on not just people who've been through the experience, which is important, but people who have turned their pain and their child's and tribulations into a passion that's helped others, and certain and a purpose

and certainly verss on show. International speaker Motivator is one of those. So thank you very Shawn, thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you. I'm like, who is that girl? Y'all? I love it? Thank you, thank you so much. I've been a part of so many different shows, and I like for my bio to be short.

I hate for people to feel like they need to go through all my accomplishments, but I do like for them to name the incredible things that I've done at a mouth zones, you know, sometimes people sitting and read along virus like, I don't want you to read all of that, but it's good to have people acknowledge and take the time to talk about those things that make us the brilliant um women and individuals that we are. And so we're happy to have you as a guest

on Street position. You know, you're my girl, So it's just like talking to family. Yes, totally, we go back a long time. So look at you, look at it. I love this podcast. I love everything you're doing. I stayed behind it all the time. Every time I see your posts, I'm like, yeah, okay, girl, let's give them. Uh you know, anything you do, so kudos to you and thank you for having me. Thank you well. You know,

I hate to interrupt this family reunion. You know, you guys two amazing melanated queens who do the work who you know, impact this world tremendously in both of their perspective, you know, Lanes, you know, but today we're interviewing you because to me, we always interviewd Tomka and he gets a lot of love. But she has so many different friends. But the amazing work you do give us, like tell us your story, you know, give us a synopsis of what's okay? Um, you know my story is um. In

two thousand and seven, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. UM. I did what we should do. I didn't want to tell anybody because I didn't want to be known as the sick girl. I was young, in New York City, you know, embarrassed, a shame so um. I didn't tell a soul um and I went through that by myself. What you shouldn't do, everybody to get a support do not do what I did. But because you know, growing up black, we always think, oh we can get through it.

Push through it, don't cry and make it happen. Don't tell anybody because we gotta make it seem like our lives are perfect when they're not. Um two years later, it was stage four cancer was all over my body, I mean hit me. And I remember the day I went to the doctor because I couldn't even been down like my back. I was like, what's going on? I can't pick up anything, I can't move, I can't what is going on. I went to every chiropractor, doctor therapist.

Everybody thought it was a slip this until I went to the doctor at Columbia Press Mayteriy. He was like, then you need an m R. And I took an m RA. And I remember the day I went in and I thought I was just gonna go in and talk to the doctor and like, you know, slip this, here's some medicine. And he said a young lady. I think you need to sit down. And I was like, let's sit down. He's like, yeah, no, I think you gotta sit down. Um. And I remember the day he said,

you have terminal breast cancer. He said, it's all over your body. And I'm telling you to this day. It always hits me because you know, you're thinking, like what hold on, terminal breast cancer? Hold on? Like I just didn't have a I didn't even know what and um, he said, yeah, I think there's something we gotta talk through. You're not going to lunch right now. And I would think I was just stuck on stupid. I don't even know what to say. You know how you think he

was great? I was just like, how can this happen to me? Why? Mad angry? I wasn't married, I was young, no kids. It's just it turned my life upside down. So I think when I got staged four kids. So I remember that day I went into the hallway and I said, I just saw watching out crying. I said, God, if you keep me alive, just keep me alive. I will do all I can to inspire, motivate and help the black race in like realizing that you know, we could do anything with you. You know, you know it's possible.

Just give me hope. And I said, every year, just give me hope and I will do my best to motivate, inspire, help, support, And I think that became my purpose. And you know when you said, um, I turned my pain into my purpose. And I was so young I didn't know anything about it. So crazy. I'm still teared about it because I turned my business into a big training institute. Right. So I speak all over the world India, Africa, Australia, London, Paris, but I do leadership coaching, I do business. I do

life coaching because it was bigger than cancer. It's what's the cancer that's happening in your life? You know. I I call it the Warrior method now. But then I didn't know. I did everything. I was like, look, I was like God, just every day you give me something, I'm gonna do it. I'll tell you my five things that I still do to this day that I did then. Um. Affirmation, Right, I don't care when nobody say people think they're hockey. I do that s h one C. I do that

ship every day. Affirmation is like, you know, I'm enough, I'm smart money, comes to me. My health is everything. I live a healthy body. I do manifestations. I write in my journal. I'm manifest every day because I wake up at six o'clock every day, exercise, I'm on the bike or I'm walking or running every day. Um, I changed my diet. I do a green juice and green tea every single day, and I read something positive every day. So when people are like, oh, you're so positive, that'ship fake. No,

it's not. See. The thing is, I'm not saying I'm happy every day. I'm not saying I don't get depressed. I'm not saying a guy, ain't you know, did something crazy to me. I'm not saying my friends ain't never do something crazy. I'm not saying I didn't get a divorce. I'm saying, yes I have all the things happened to me, almost bank for up, lost a lot of money, all of that. But I'm saying when I fall, I get back up. That's all I'm saying. And so that's what

I do every single day. It's not about being happy, it's about a choice. I make a choice every day because yes, I could be in that room depressed, don't want to get out of the bed. I could be in the room saying, my father is getting older. He's eighty seven. When you see your father who was a boss, who was super boss, one of the first millionaires in DC. He showed me what entrepreneur is. He showed me he walked and marched in something. He walked um um um in um d C. He lived in a two bedroom

with nine kids in the room. You know what I mean when you see that, he picked cotton. So he's always like, there is no other way to go, do it other way. I love your relationship with your father. Um. I watched you go through all of his challenges and also your happy moments with him, and it reminds me so much of my relationship with my dad. My father is my everything. He's like, you know, the star of my life and and my biggest supporter. And it's nothing

that I do. Just recently, I did something that I know he's not a hundred percent in support of. And when I my mom and I were different. That's that's my girl. Though you know we rock out, but when she she's gonna challenge me. So I said, you know, I didn't necessarily have to do that thing, and she's ready to tell me all the reasons why that's right. But my Dad's like, you know, because that's my guy.

It's a different relationship. So when I think about you and your dad, and I also realized they're getting older and if things go in the nation of your progression, there will come a day when we will have to lay them to rest. It's really really tough. That's almost like worth than any sickness that could ever be inflicted on me. You know my parents, That's how I feel. My father is my ride or die and it's bazing.

That's why I love you, your your relationship because people don't know it's just a bond that is unbreakable and no one can no one can understand. Right, I'd rather take him to a nice dinner or to an event. I'd rather come on, let's right, the car. He I'd rather be with him because when you have as a little girl, somebody supporting you and pushing you, that means everything. That support and that like, wow, you can do it, you know what I mean? That means everything to me.

And so he's been there for me throughout my entire but there was your was your family a big part of your healing process. Yeah, yeah, and and I and I gotta know you how I became the warrior coach is my doctor. My doctor was like, for Sean, I want you to speak and I was like me, so rumor, this is like twelve thirteen years ago. I was like. She was like, yeah, because I used to go into chemo child with red lipstick, fur coat, you know, and some and some hot heels. And I was like, I'm

not wearing a sweatsuit. I'm living. I'm being full faced, like literally full face and everything. And uh, this woman when I spoke, I was just crying and I said, you know, I shouldn't be here today. It's so crazy that I'm here. And she said you're a warrior. And everybody started chanting you are a warrior. And my father pull me to the side. You said you can do anything. You're a goddamn warrior. How it hit me and and

it's stuck. So tell us about, um, you are a warrior and and how this tech company now comes into play with your experience. So so, remember when I was going through cancer, my mental health was not right. I was depressed every day, crying, lonely, anxiety, waking up in the middle of night, I didn't know there was nobody to talk to. Right, we as black, we gotta make

it seem like we're okay. We gotta push through. Remember, don't cry girl, get your stof together and get it on going for the men and a women, right, you know. And I never could talk to anyone. I never felt like anybody could help me. Therapy was like, if you go to therapy, it's a lot. You're crazy. You know, nobody wants to go to therapy because little coaching wasn't you know big. It's like, who's spending money on that? You know, get yourself together girl? And so I realized

that my mental health was not good. And so during this I was like, you know, what where do people go to get help with? Where do we go? Nowhere? Where do we feel safe? Not on Facebook? Right, don't feel safe on Instagram. Look, they talk about the number one way they make money. It's through hate and kkke and bullying and suicide. So Instagram and me, every time somebody post up, I even see when you say something right,

somebody like girls shut up you. I mean my damn, nobody can post something and you you gotta say, you gotta troll and say something evil. Somebody else just post up and they were like, you're like you have to have thick skin when you go online. You gotta happen. You gotta be serious, Like I mean, somebody posted on somebody girl go home and die. No, but I mean like it's like you're listen to me. The incident is

like the jungle. You're going up in my comments. Nobody goes in my comments I've had I've had everybody DM me like yo, it's it's like war instide your comp Like I don't even know where these people live bat because I've never met people with this type of energy like in real life. They only exist in soudal life. Just hate. They hate you like that throw oh you ain't really happy, you're phony and should come out on my face home and sit down with your low vibration.

If you need a hug, get a hug, girl, don't come to me. It's like, I mean, it's just a spew hate and so nowhere to go. And you're trying to figure out where to pour your in it like where where to turn with your story? Yeah, and so it was nowhere to turn. So you know, COVID really woke me up because my next door neighbor killed himself, jumped off the building. Yeah, and he was you would never know, wealthy, successful doing it. Now. Meanwhile, he didn't

have cancer all over his body. Probably right, we don't know, but more than likely he didn't have that. And yet he turns to suicide. Imagine, like, look at how God kept you because there are people who in your situation. What is that? It's no way I can Maybe I can't beat cancer all over my body exactly exactly. And that's why I said, Man, with God, everything is possible. You see, we don't want them to use our faith. Let me tell you, faith is all I got. I

walked through faith. That's all. That's all I lived by, and so and and and that was it. Right, So he committed suicide. My nephew, black, young guy, thirty, good looking. I was like, you know what, I'm feeling a little depressed and I'm feeling weird. I don't want you to talk about it, but you know, I don't like how I'm feeling. I don't know how to get out of this. And then I read Elon Must say something. Elon Must said, I'm at the top of the game. I'm a billionaire.

I could do anything I want, but there's nowhere to go where I feel safe. And you know because and then my black gay friend who's married checked this out, black gay friend who's married but really lying living undercover, and that's when I said, damn, we need a place to go. And so I was like, I went to talk to the about opers and I said, I wanted uh, I wanted a black team, right because I wanted a black team. And I was like, I want to put

together an app for mental health right for us. It's for everybody, but especially for us, because I know we don't know where to go. Um. And so I put my money where my mouth was. I was like, mental health is huge, let's get it. So I found some black developers. They used to work at Google. I found some African American women in tech because I'm all about diversity, but I'm all about black people in technology making money because you see, you see all of white boys making

money in Silicone Valley. We're not even in the industry. We're not making anything. So I mean, they started the whole industry and it's like one person in and so that's what I did. So you are a warrior, Go sign up www but you get help, like you can get on and therapist. So like what's the what's the launches and launches in November, um, and so what what it's about is you'll be able to express yourself. No bullying, no trolley, no negativity. You get kicked off immediately, like

you get kicked off. Um, we're gonna have like a place where you can express yourself. You can be a nominous or you don't have to be. We'll have groups like anger management, UM, finance, real estate, all these things that we need to talk about and like divorce, relationships. Then we'll have a place where you can hear experts, celebs, coaches.

We'll have a chat, a buzz room. It's called a buzz room, the Warrior buzz room where you can text it through a moderated coach or or celeb or UM expert and um, we'll have a forum where it could be one to one one at all. So gonna have coaches, We're gonna have therapists, gonna have all that. It's like a one stop shots. Yeah, how you really feel, tell me how y'all feel? They don't gotta say it. How do you feel? You don't say the places we don't. We don't really play a thing. No you hear, we

would say, but why don't you? But instead of that, I know it's necessary. Mental listen. I talked about it all the time because it has I have to, you have to. I learned that a part of my healing process from what I told you the other day about the addiction issues that I suffered, is talking about it and just being honest about what happened and the process

towards getting yourself together, right. I just need to do that for me, And there are a lot of people and even I when I first came out of rehab it. First of all, when I went to rehab, I was so concerned about other people there knowing me that I had my name changed, I was under an alias, I did all the things I did. All of that stressed myself out, trying to hide to come out and tell people I was addicted to pain fills and any kind

of fill you would give me. And now I'm just talking about it wherever because I realized that it wasn't my story to keep. It was actually God's story to tell what happened and how I made it over from depression. That was really, really serious ninety eight pounds down because I was so stressed about what the world and what's the internet and the newspapers and white folks and black people who were against me and you know, all of that.

I was worried about that and the fact that I had been up until that point, um, you know, protected and guarded, and this was the first time in life that I had to deal with the attacks and the blows by myself, you know. And so I turned to what I thought made me comfortable, which ended up being a nightmare. And um so when I hear you say you you are a worried it's a place to go

talk about it. I feel like sometimes when I'm speaking to people who've never experienced addictions, they really don't get it. And by the way, it's like, all right, why are you. I need a place sometimes to go and speak the other individuals in the midst of my day because me going to a program to sit down and say, my name is Tamika and I'm at that probably won't happen. But if I could pick up my phone we get

some advice that would actually be helpful. See, And that's where thank you for that, And that's where I wanted it to go like when you pick up your phone and you can get some help, or you can see and see other people's story because you learn from other people's stories. Right, So that's what you said. So just like me, hiding depressed, wanted to make it seem like

I had this perfect life. Everything was going well. No, ship wasn't going wrong, didn't the money was funny, um, you know, career was funny to right, all this stuff, nothing was going right. And then I gotta tell you, and let me tell you this is why I'm real passionate about this. Why I said I want to change

it because I coach. I mean I coach a lot of people, celebs exactly all of this a politicians and what when I was going through it, I was like, you know, I was asking some sisters like you know, and so some some black women didn't help me out. They didn't look out whether it was for like hey can you recommend me as a coach or hey can you do this? Hey? And I was like, damn, you know, why is it that we can't support each other one

of those systems? Why can't we say you know what, hey girl, let me say, Tamika, you need to meet her, meet Lisa, let me put her on. And you know what I mean, because we have this crab and the bart barrel, it can only be us, it can only be one. And that's not true. That's living on a low viperation. So I said, I'm gonna get this app. I'm gonna start a foundation, a mental health, mental wellness

foundation I want to get. I want to start a movement and show what we support each other and show that we give back, and show that it's not just about us. Because I heard it from some white people that oh, yeah, you know what, you guys are so fragmented, you're broke, you're never help each other. And I wanted to show this. So that's why I said, no, I'm gonna be clear. I want black developers, I want black women.

In fact, I want this, so I was clear to show the technology world that we can do it well. That is you know, Rashaun, I just wanted to say that you're very inspirational. You know, I'm currently dealing with a situation with my mother who was fighting against cancer right now and she's pretty much overcame. She she has no cancer. Inside of what she's dealing with a lot of complications through through you know, from radiation and keymore else. She's dealing with that, and the other day was like

a real scary day for me. You know, she was her energy was gone and I was the only person they're trying to give her that energy. So you know, so I'll be needing that, you know, and she needs that. So I hope one day, one day I might want to call you with her. You used to give her this energy because she might really need that because you know,

she's currently in the hospital right now. You know, she's dealing because she had she had stage three lunkheads, you know, so she's dealing with a lot of different adverse things that come from little surgeries with her sophoks and her win for a lot of different things. So right now she needs that energy. You know. Me and we've been trying to get everybody's been trying to give her this energy, you know, with your energy. Just gave me energy, so

you know I would love it. I can get on the phone with you, but I don't want my son to get in trouble. So you learned by yourself. Your brother and your sister was there with you. Because yeah, I mean everybody's trying to get because you know, brother to be like you wouldn't spent. Yeah, that's why I said the word we we we know, but but look by let me tell you. You don't know how many d ms got get a day. I'm probably about three

hundred a day. I've hired a whole social media team because I want to talk to them because I know how it is when no one knows how you're feeling and you feel alone and you can't do it. Believe me, I want people like I give out my recipes what I did, so I really that's a passion of mine. I advocate for that. Like you know what I mean, people don't You don't even understand when you have cancer and you feel like you're by yourself, who's there? You're

gonna die? Like nobody can understand it. And I do that, Like, so that's my it's my heart, it's my passion. My father prostate cancer, lung cancer, beat it. I mean, my mother unfortunately didn't make it. You know, she didn't beat it. But I think that's why I'm hearing. My dad is here to show you know that it is possible. For first on show the word man, Thank you very much, continue to inspire and motivating, be great. ERGI is amazing.

People need that. Thank you all, and please www dot the letters are a warrior w A R R I R dot com sign up. It's a landing page now in launch is in November. We're gonna upgrade the stander page. But I just really, I really fight for mental health because we are black. We need it. We need it, need it. We needed were definitely. We're actually on the Black Effect Network, which is UM, which was founded by Charlemagne the God. You and I talked about him the

other day when you talked about making those connections. That's what my son and not do all the time. We have to make sure that you and Charlomagne get together because he is so INTI mental health. So please, it's so please, please introduced me. It's so needed because I talked to people. Let me just tell you real quick. And then I talked to a woman. She's, she's, she's. She said, I'm calling you girl because I heard you on so many podcasts and this is it. I'm tired,

I'm depressed. I hate myself. I'm a seventh figure woman, I'm an executive, but I date below me. I don't love who I am. I'm pretty as a bad bug. I tried to hurt my boyfriend. I got so many issues because I don't love my soul. To help me. I need help now. It took me listening to everybody to know I got issues and my boyfriend had so many issues together too, And she said I want to come and get help. I was like, thank you God that we're starting to stand up and speak up. Well,

I'm want because I need help too. My girl called me girl, I got you so yeah, yeah, no, thank you you guys, thank you. Um, I want to help your mom out. Please call me, She'll connect. Yeah. Thanks for Sean. Love, take care, baby, have a good one. For Sean is incredible. And I remember I was there, you know, not when she was experiencing the initial part of her cancer diagnosis, but very soon after watching her, you know, fight through the struggles. Um. And she's always

been so inspired. It. It's crazy because the people who are often most her harns um and and going through it can sometimes be those that are the most inspiring because I don't remember a time when her depression shows and you know, people say, well, I don't know it just it does something to me to hear her say that people online or people in general would say that she's fake when she's smiling and and and and expressing the happiness and the joy of like fighting her way

through and just being able to wake up every day. People who have never experienced what she's been through. It's like, yo, what's wrong with people? You know what? You know I've been saying. Luckily, we just you know, just on on and just talking about things like that. And it's two stands that I have, you know, One is people hate your strength because it reminds them of their own weaknesses.

You know, there's a lot of people like that, right They look at you and they're so mad that you're able to be strong when the time they feel like they would be weak. So rather than just to be motivated by that or say, you know what, let me use this this person, I can be strong, they are angry with you. They don't because they don't even want to try to be strong. They rather just continue to say, no, this is I don't want to be strong. I want to just widing my weakness, and you shouldn't be able

to be strong either. And then I also said that courage looks like insanity to a coward, right, So when you it's the same same premise when you have courage and you will going to stand up, and someone who doesn't have that courage, someone who is not as brave as you, thinks that you're crazy. So they gotta find

everything else. They gotta find ways to diminish what it is that you do, try to devalue you, try to make it seem like what you're doing is crazy because they don't have the strength of the So that's what That's what I think we live, especially in this cybal world, you know, with these people that come on in and it's really sad that somebody that inspirational, someone who beat stage four cancer, Like that's not even a story that you really that's very rarely heard of that someone reverses

stage four cancer when they tell you have three months to live. I've seen people who who you know, excelled and being able to live for a year to after, but just to completely live five and sixty and be just what I'm trying to say, twelve years after you've been like, that's not something that I've ever heard of. So why will we not congratulate somebody and celebrate somebody that she still has a story, that she's still happy,

that she doesn't look like what she's been through. And some people are just miserable so much, they're so miserable and so easy with the world that, like you said, they can't stand to see you smiling and and and and trying to, you know, push through in a way that even though I'm going through something, I'm not gonna just walk around with my head hanging down. And you know, and unfortunately, I just gotta say it. It's like, black

folks have to do better. We have to do better, you know, because as I was saying earlier about the whole issue around Cardy Be saying, she now you know, doesn't want to speak as much on issues. It's like, Yo, I get that once we've become public figures, we have to deal with what goes along with that, which is people's trauma and people's paying people hate and all of that.

But I just wonder sometimes, you know, why are we okay with tearing folks down, even though a person may not be doing it perfectly for a lot of us or a lot of people, they're not willing to do half of what you will do the same thing. You know, I listened to Tesla and all the time shout out to our tad go said, what do you say? Figure out? Um? You know, uh uh what is this straight shot no chaser.

She's also a podcaster on UM the Black Effect Network, but also always on Fox News Channel, and you know, also making her own news on her home on her Instagram page. And she always talks about the fact that a lot of people have the nerves to challenge someone else who's not doing it exactly as you want them

to advocate and be a leader. But yes, you're not being a leader at all, Like you're you, you're scared to say boots and yet and still you want to challenge somebody else, and you hiding under a faith name on social media going on then trying to tell other people down. And it's like yo, people their mental health becomes affected by the constant ridicule and live and ensuing

of hate. And fortunately it's like for us, we can fight the demons of those people who are opposition because we already know that that's those are the people we're going after. But I mean, I'm saying a bunch of stuff all over again that the reality is that fighting

your own people can get to be even more difficult. However, you have to build up a shell around you that says, even even those people who I'm trying to help that harm me, I still despite you have to support you and and and be there to you know, fight the battle that God has chosen me to fight. I know I said the same thing again, but it was first. But sometimes you sometimes people need to hear it in different ways. You gotta come back, You gotta reiterated, because

they're only hearing man, you know. And we're gonna keep with the themes about cancer, you know, and it's more things that are killing us in birth cancer, you know. Unfortunately, so many people my friendly have died from so many different kinds of cancers. I've watched and I believe if it's not the number one, probably the number one killer or two killer of black people just worldwide, you know.

So you know, um, I want to send some respect the love about to chat with who you know who actually and he wanted the people and we cohen cancer is something that we we don't focus on a lot of black man, you know. I think it's time for me to go get my cold and check, like your black man in your forties, maybe even late thirties. Just get you some check up, just to make sure, man, because you don't never want to wait till it's too late to find out what's going on with your body. Man.

You know, Um much love to the brother can go from U TFO Crew you know, can't go kids. Um, I had did an interview with him and he was going he had been diagnosed with coen cancer and he was preparing to go get an operation, you know, So I just want to send out some love to him on with us today. Um. But you know has been de with you know all that unfortunately cancer presents and you know, we want to send him some love and

strength where he is. I wasn't able to be with you for the interview that you did with him the day that he came on. And some people may not know who can Go is or what U TFO is from the eighties. Man eighties one of the pioneers originated and the hip hop originated U TFCO Crew. Can't go kids, do your research. Man, you don't know that you ain't know real hip hop. Yeah, but you don't got to not be real hip hop because you don't know do

some research, man, do some research, you know. I feel like for me when hip hop is is doing a little bit of research, you gotta know the pioneers. And when people ask you who is some of the top first ten hip hop looser all the time like you should be able to look in and said, okay, but it depends on where you look because different people have a top ten that some folks now say top ten. I said, first time. Okay, Now you can't change the

first people who did so that's true, that's true. Well, these do a little history, a little history history revisionists on the internet or have it looking like, you know, some of us have never done the things we did so but anyway, that's a whole different days show. Shout out to our brother Can't Go, you know, who is experiencing challenges and just fighting the fight and we want

to send him love. He is obviously welcome to come to Street Politicians whenever we wanted to happen with us today and Um, I think that our production team would like to insert um in our interview today and remind folks of some of the things that he said a few months ago when he was on Street Politicians with you so yeah, I'm you know if I'm humbled and blessed to see you. Man, thank you, you know, knowing what it is that you mean to this game. Man,

what's been going on with you? Man? Well, look I stopped by here. Um, I know how you reached the fellas you know, I mean, your reach is incredible. I I salute you to congratulate you on how you reach, but UM, I needed to get to you so that you can get to them on something that's taken place with me. I've been an advocate for the fight against breast cancer. I had hip Hop coming together and do that and I won an award from the American Cancer

Society for doing this. Um then Cool Hirk, when Cool Hirk was going through his health issues, I UM partnered with h HC to get hip hop healthcare. And so I've always been that dude behind the scenes trying to make it happen, you know, for for the underdogs in terms of health. And funny enough, at the top of the month, UM, I find myself on the other side of that fence. And so what's happening is I've been diagnosed with colvid cancer and you know I can say it,

you know, verbally right now with you. Two weeks ago, when I was hit with this, it crushed me. I couldn't believe how myn on the other side and how does one go through it? Neglect? It's just that simple. Us fellas. You know everyone for that matter, but us

fellas need to get ourselves checked properly. You know what I mean, on on a on a regular basis, if it's yearly or however, it goes down, especially when you reach a certain age and you know my neglect, I had issues in terms of insurance, so I had to make sure I had my insurance set up in Jimbo played a role in, you know, making that happen for me as well, and so once I got all that locked in, UM, I definitely need to get myself checked.

But there were signs prior to that that UM led me to say, Yo, I need to get you know, see what's going on with this? And UM, you know I'm be a little graphic right now, but I need to be for everyone. Need I need to understand. So UM. One of the early things that would take place is when I would use the bathroom and I'm wiping, I'd see blood. You start thinking, what could that be, you know, is that prostate? Is that so so so many things that it can be, but it's definitely a sign that

something needs to be addressed. That would continue and then after a while it would stop. So I'm figuring, you know, I'm good now. You know that graduated from from that too. Now it's in my stool and uh, you know, and the coloring is different, and uh, you know, I'm not producing the log that I once produced and it's coming out different now. And so that the actual thing that

took place that made me go, can' stop playing? Is I'm in the privacy of my own room and uh, you know, I had to fart, but it came out with substance, so I'm like, yo. Then I just shot, like what the hellse I ran in the bathroom to go check this, to clean this up or see what it was, and it was a bloody mucus. I said, all right, can't stop playing, bro, go get yourself checked. I got my colonoscopy and they they found a mass and um, they said, you know, luckily they called it.

Or it's gonna be a long run here. It's not just gonna be an adwater and stir operation and you know, back to normal. From what I'm told, I'm going to have a two month recovery period. They'll determine what exactly will take place in post treatment after they've taken the mass out and analyze it and see what the deal is. So I don't know if I'm looking forward to radiation or key mode or neither. I hope that they grab what they need to grab in I'm good. You know

that that's that's the crossing the fingers. They described it like putting pipes together, So they're gonna take a piece of the pipe out and it takes the remaining and do that. You know, I'd be lying to you right now if I told you I wasn't, you know, afraid or scared and reflex man. We have the right to have the right to be you know, the fact that

we're facing off is is what makes us man. You know, we're taught to be strong and not expressed us and brush it off and don't show people that you're vone boy. Let people know what's hurting you. And when you do show it, like oh man, he weak looking at him, it's like, but you can't win, but we gotta win, you know. But the bottom line is that you're doing right now is heroic, man, you know, because what you just said, I never had any conversation like I've heard Cohen.

I've never had a conversation with anybody who told me what the symptoms were. You know, I've heard people to say I was diagnosed to coin cancer. You know, the fact that you just gave somebody symptoms that they can pay attention to and say, whoa, this sounds like what King was going through. Yeah, you know this is something you know, and we don't even want to get it to that stage which we want to do. You want to take care of it before I get that. Don't

don't do don't be me. You know what I'm saying. You want to get that's regularly, start just checking, you know. And there was a lot of stigmas that go with that. You don't want people in your calling, You don't want people and you know it's if there's so many things that we're dealing with. But the bottom line is our health is important. It really is, man, especially if you are a family man, you know what I mean. So me not taking care of myself is selfish to my family,

That's right. You know what I mean so well, I just want you to know we're with you, man, We support you. You know, we want to just commend you, just commend you on the bravery, you know, the honesty,

you know, the wherewithal to say. You know, this is something that I don't want to keep to myself, you know, and one and coming over here to street politicians and having this conversation with me, you know, I was just happy to celebrate, to see you as one of the one of the pioneers and idols that I grew up on, you know, and and to here you come with this, you know, even know it's something that I wish we

didn't have to deal with. Right But don't get me wrong, I don't think I'm happy to come here and heroism and bravery that you know that I have to commend you further. You know, it goes deeper than hip hop. Now,

I commend you just as a man. Just understand that, you know, you have an obligation and the duty for people who look up to you to dedicate them, you know, and m and inform them about things, especially us as black man dealing with so who want you to know that our prayers to what you brother, thank you bro. You know from our moms to guards is everything will be fine. He'll move through this fun and you know, and and other brothers will be will take precautions. Please.

If I saved one life with this, it was worth it, you know. So you know what I mean, Will you definitely will? Man? I just wanted you know. It just brings me to my own situation, man, Like I told for Shan. You know, my mother's situation had me a couple of days ago just having me really you know, nervous just watching her go through it. And a lot of times people don't have energy and they don't have the energy to fight, you know, especially with just the

way cancer is killing out our course. Like I told you before, you know, I've watched all of my aunts, nine out of I probably have two aunts left, and all of them died from cancer. Uncles of my grandmother, had nonsenses and brothers, and with the exception of probably two or three of them that's left, all of them passed away from cancer. My grandmother passion cancer, my grandfam my father's father, and my mother's life. So it's like

a curse in my family. Man. So you know, I have to be real attentional about making sure that we get screamed, you know, and that brings me to my I don't get it right now, you know, I really don't get why black especially black people are so scared to get tested or don't see the real need or don't be it's not intentional about something that is killing

us a higher rag than anything else. You know. We talked about COVID, and it's a big thing, and yes, get your COVID screen and make sure you're tested, do whatever you need to do to make sure you know that you fight COVID. But cancer is something that's killing us by the millions daily, you know, daily, hundreds of thousands of us, especially black people, are dying from cancer. So I don't get while this isn't this big emphasis, especially by our culture, to make sure that we focus

on them, you know. And so it's a lot, man. You know, I think I'm personalizing because of what I've been dealing with my mother's lakey man, you know, you know I think that, and we talked about it on on our last show. Just that it's it's all about design, like none of this is happening just because black folks woke up one day and said, Oh, we don't care about our health and we don't care about cancer. That's

really not it um. I think there, first of all, the disparities within the healthcare industry leaves us vulnerable and unprotected most of the time when we go to the doctor to complain of pain. Just think about what Brushawn was saying. She was saying, like, I can't lean down,

something's happened, and she's going to different doctors. The first thing they did was Misside noted her as having a flip disc and she kept going to doctors until she ended up in Columbia Presbyterian and where somebody decided to give her an m r R. But if it would have continued without her getting the type of support that she needed, she may have not been able to turn around having cancer spread all throughout her body. And if you don't have advocates, especially so it's it's it's you.

There's one step that you need a doctor who cares about you, who cares about black folks, who cares about humans, and it's really trying to do their job. But then you need family members and friends and a community that's willing to support to be there watching what you all are doing in your family, you know, with your mom and seeing up close how y'all are really like in there fighting for and with her watching you know my story, you go, you all, all of my friends, all of

y'all were there. My mom didn't have cancer, but you know when she dealt with her stroke, it was the same thing that they had to be advocates in that hospital building, letting the doctors and the nurses know that listen, this lady needs to live like you know, we were here to support our loved one. Because when people don't have that type of support, they get caught in the system, and and and the stories go on and on. You know, those that get the most care are those people who

have the strongest support system around them. And so you know, when we think about black folks in general, I think, you know, one of the things I've been I've been really trying to process as a leader is this idea that we are I there are things within the education system and the health system and this and you know, health care and all kinds of systems around us that I want to see get better, right, And I want to think and dream of what would it look like

to have equitable systems that work for us, that include us, that that that really are there to ensure that our communities UM have what we need to succeed. But we're still it's in the process of trying to get things like anti lynsion bills past. We're still trying to get UM the George Floyd Justice and Police and Act pass, which is just a second, third, fifth tense iteration of other bills that have come before. They just have to keep us from being killed. So we're still in the

process of trying to stop the bleeding. And then on top of that, we have all these health disparities and other issues that we need to fight as well. And I think that that's why so many people in our communities, and particularly black men, don't necessarily want to go to the doctors. They don't feel like it's a place of safe place. Now I will say that, UM, you know, we also have to talk about not just the disparities,

but like real danger that has been done. When we think about the vaccine and how hard it is to get people UM to to to believe in and to to a agree to get vaccinated because of what we have experienced in terms of literal criminality, against our communities within the health care system. So you've got all of that happening at once, and yet we're dying and we

need to get the help. So I think that what you're talking about and being an advocate and having people like Roshawn and using street politicians as a way to get this information out there that has to happen, we all have a responsibility to toge with definitely doing what that said. You know, um, I need everybody. If you haven't, if you know that you're in the age group, or you're feeling sing wrong with your body, go get checked up, don't sit around, don't wait, don't be scared, you know,

because early detection is key to survival. It is definitely key to survival. So what that said, I'm not gonna always be right, SMIK is not gonna always be wrong. We will both always be authentic, authentic early detection. Pie. Listen to Street Politicians on the Black Effect Network on I Heart Radio and catch us every single Wednesday for the video version of Street Politicians or I Women Dot TV