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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Bill Courtney with an army and normal folks.

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Speaker 1: And we continue now with part two of our conversation

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Speaker 1: with Jen Andrews. Right after these brief messages from our

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Speaker 1: general sponsors, how long between the day they take your

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Speaker 1: foot and you actually get How long does that when

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Speaker 1: people have an amputation? What is that gap of time?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm going to preface this in case there

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Speaker 2: are any amputees listening, because I mentor a lot of amputees,

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Speaker 2: and I always share this information with a grain of

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Speaker 2: salt because I did not come out of a trauma situation.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't in an accident, I didn't have chemotherapy, I

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Speaker 2: didn't have all this additional healing to do. So I

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Speaker 2: went from like a surgery healing really well. Actually in

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Speaker 2: the hospital, they said I could be there anyway, anytime,

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Speaker 2: from like two days to two weeks or more. And

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Speaker 2: I was out of there on day two. And I

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Speaker 2: actually I have a really good story about that too.

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Speaker 2: So the nurse came in with all my things and

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Speaker 2: there was a walker and I was ready to go,

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Speaker 2: and she wheels in a wheelchair and I declined it

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Speaker 2: and I was like, no, thank you, and she said, well,

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Speaker 2: you have to go all the way down the hall

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Speaker 2: in the elevator, down through the lobby to the parking lot.

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Speaker 2: And I looked at her and I said, I walked

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Speaker 2: myself into this hospital. I'm going to walk myself out.

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Speaker 1: Would you use the thing to hop?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I use like an old man, and you hop

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Speaker 2: and I like step hop, step pop. And I walked

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Speaker 2: myself out of the entire hospital and I got in

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Speaker 2: the car and she just kind of sat there and

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Speaker 2: looked at me like I was insane. But for me,

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Speaker 2: I needed to do that, Like sitting in that chair, Well.

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Speaker 1: That's boss work for me.

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Speaker 2: I just knew where my headspace was. I knew where

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Speaker 2: my goals were. So to answer your question about the prosthetics,

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Speaker 2: I got my first prosthetic at four and a half

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Speaker 2: week's post out, which is pretty early, but again I

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Speaker 2: was only healing from surgery. I didn't have the trauma

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Speaker 2: of everything else.

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Speaker 1: Could deal with. Thob weeks to fop months, depending on

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Speaker 1: how long it takes to heal up and get that

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Speaker 2: Probably not five months, but I feel like four to

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Speaker 2: twelve weeks maybe, depending on sure.

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Speaker 1: What do you do use crutches? Or a wheelchair. In

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Speaker 1: the maintime, I did not.

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Speaker 2: Use a wheelchair ever. I used crutches, and then I

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Speaker 1: But people just in general amputees and oh.

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Speaker 2: Yes, amputees in general wheelchair. I also used the eyewalk,

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Speaker 2: which is like a handless crutch, where like for a

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Speaker 2: below the knee amputee you could use it, like for

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Speaker 2: someone who's had foot surgery, they would use it. But

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Speaker 2: essentially your knee is balanced on a platform with a

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Speaker 2: crutch under it. I'm seeing that, yeah, and so I

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Speaker 2: use that to get around a little bit sometimes. Initially, yes,

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Speaker 2: I fell with crutches. I was with my mom and

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Speaker 2: a shopping center. Thank god, they had this thing called

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Speaker 2: the Ampu shield. It was like a hard shell plastic

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Speaker 2: that they would put over your residual lem and thank

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Speaker 2: god I had that on that day. But I missed

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Speaker 2: the curb and I went down like a sack of potatoes.

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Speaker 2: And they were doing all this construction in this new

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Speaker 2: me and try to pick me up, and they're like, okay.

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Speaker 2: I was so embarrassed. But thankfully I had that shield

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Speaker 2: had I not had that, it would have been really bad.

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Speaker 1: Wow. All right, so up to this point, Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: a story of a girl who had a really bad

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Speaker 1: stroke a lot with a pe sized nodule, had to

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Speaker 1: get your foot amputated, and you and your friends did

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Speaker 1: this move for Jim Facebook thing. It was really supportive,

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Speaker 1: probably woke people up to having to not taking for

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Speaker 1: granted the things we do have. Great, but that's not

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Speaker 1: a foundation. No, How does Jim the mom with her

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Speaker 2: And why so in my initial prosthetic appointments when I

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Speaker 2: they don't make one that does everything. So you need

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Speaker 2: running blade. You need a waterproof foot if you want

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Speaker 2: to swim. They make snowboarding and skiing prosthetics.

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Speaker 1: Really yeah, how much are these sense costs?

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Speaker 2: They are anywhere between like with the socket and everything,

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Speaker 2: like between five and fifty thousand dollars depending on how

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Speaker 2: For what for the customized socket and the specialized foot.

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Speaker 2: But what's crazy is the lifetime of these prosthetics is

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Speaker 2: you have to replace what is a socket.

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Speaker 1: I assume the socket is like the cavity of the

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Speaker 2: Fits into correct and it's custom made to you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be like molded. I would kind of

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Speaker 1: A foam mold or something.

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Speaker 2: They would actually cast you and then pour a mold

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Speaker 1: So you're sticking your limb into something that they cast you,

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Speaker 2: So if you think about, like if you were to

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Speaker 2: a carbon fiber that your leg will go in. Does

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Speaker 1: If you want to swim, you gotta have a waterproof one.

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Speaker 2: Well, everybody likes different things. Actually, it's funny. I was

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Speaker 2: have like microprocessors where it'll have like fluid ankle movement

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Speaker 1: But unfinishly crazy.

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Speaker 2: It is crazy. Yeah, So in those appointments, I said, okay,

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Speaker 1: Got another question. Oh yeah, god, I'm so sorry. I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking through this. Yeah, so if you're going on a

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Speaker 2: The beach, yeah, I have multiple feet.

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Speaker 1: That's my question. Yeah, well, then your luggage fees must

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Speaker 2: So actually it's funny. I have put them in my

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Speaker 2: lou Lemon now and they have a special prosthetic bag

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Speaker 2: for their Paralympic athletes that's not available for purchase, and

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Speaker 1: And with these things cost him that kind of money,

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Speaker 1: But that's the life of an ampte.

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Speaker 1: Wow? Okay, So I told you I chase stuff up

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Speaker 1: I was the keynote for the Paralympics, Were you really? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: And there's a girl there named Katie Holloway who you

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Speaker 1: She had her about the same place you did. Had

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Speaker 1: and she was athletic as she could be, and schools

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Speaker 1: play basketball, not special Paralympic basketball, straight up against everybody else, BASKETBA,

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Speaker 1: I said it was when you were getting your prosthetic

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Speaker 2: And they looked at me like I was crazy and said, okay, well,

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Speaker 2: I said, so you mean to tell me that I

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Speaker 2: lifestyle and insurance is not going to pay for me

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Speaker 2: health to decline and support that. And they said pretty much.

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Speaker 2: And I walked out of that appointment, and I was

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Speaker 1: So what I've read is the only stipulation so you

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Speaker 1: Seventy five hundred for a custom made socket for an AMPTP,

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Speaker 2: So the first person I raised money for was a

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Speaker 2: Occupation, right, well, that's what was he was in danger of.

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Speaker 2: So he was a fireman and he had sarcoma, and honestly,

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Speaker 2: No, And actually now I feel like he's even more

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Speaker 2: actually messaged me out too long ago about wanting to

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Speaker 2: come and run like our next race and be a

441
00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:23,879
Speaker 2: part of things, which is cool.

442
00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:28,520
Speaker 1: But when you did it and you saw how happy

443
00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:32,280
Speaker 1: he was, you just said, I relized. One, I need

444
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:33,080
Speaker 1: to do the rest of a lot.

445
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:40,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I found your purpose. Yeah, I think yeah.

446
00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,119
Speaker 2: And I am not one of these like everything happens

447
00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:44,680
Speaker 2: for a reason. I actually really hate that saying, because

448
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:48,280
Speaker 2: I don't think that I had cancer for any reason.

449
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,720
Speaker 2: I think I was very unfortunate in that way. But

450
00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,960
Speaker 2: I think that again, you can't control your circumstances, but

451
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,080
Speaker 2: you can control your response. And I was able to

452
00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:02,199
Speaker 2: take a really sad, an unfortunate situation and turn it

453
00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,440
Speaker 2: into good. So I always say like I'm a pro

454
00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:08,160
Speaker 2: at pivoting, like I'm a professional pivoter, And I always

455
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:14,240
Speaker 2: say that I'm just richer. Yeah right, I like your jokes. Yeah,

456
00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:16,920
Speaker 2: And I I'm good at making you know, lemonade out

457
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,159
Speaker 2: of lemons. Unfortunately, I've been handled a lot of lemons

458
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:20,960
Speaker 2: in life, and I don't know, like it's not the

459
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,479
Speaker 2: end all be all, like bad things can happen, but

460
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:25,919
Speaker 2: it happens. I mean, not everything happens to everyone, and

461
00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,160
Speaker 2: some people have an easier time and other people don't.

462
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Speaker 2: Like I can tell you from multiple aspects of life,

463
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,719
Speaker 2: I haven't had an easy time, but I'm not going

464
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:34,960
Speaker 2: to sit here and dwell in it. It's I get

465
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:36,480
Speaker 2: to be here, I get to be alive. I get

466
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Speaker 2: to go out and do everything I did before and more.

467
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Speaker 2: I mean, I can tell you I walked. My goal

468
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,639
Speaker 2: was to walk and assisted without crutches at eight weeks

469
00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:46,760
Speaker 2: on my birthday, and I did it two days before.

470
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 2: And then I wanted to run a five k race

471
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Speaker 2: before or before the end of that year that first year,

472
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Speaker 2: and I ran my first five k in a running

473
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Speaker 2: blade without stopping at six and a half month's postop.

474
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Speaker 2: And then at my one year anniversary, I ran my

475
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 2: first ever ten k and Charleston the Charleston Bridge Run,

476
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,439
Speaker 2: and that was further than I ever ran on two feet.

477
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,879
Speaker 2: So again, I think it's just mindsets. Everything you know.

478
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 2: You can choose to feel bad for yourself and your circumstances,

479
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:14,879
Speaker 2: or you can say, like this sucks, but like, how

480
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,400
Speaker 2: do we make the best of it? And I get

481
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 2: to be here? Like, I can't tell you how many

482
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:21,320
Speaker 2: people I met their move for Jen who found out

483
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,280
Speaker 2: their diagnosis even with a low grade situation later than

484
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 2: I did, and they're in really unfortunate situations, are no

485
00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 2: longer here. And so like I know the reality of cancer.

486
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 2: I know that I'm so lucky that I get to

487
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 2: be here, and I'm lucky that I was able to

488
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 2: take my situation and share my story and help a

489
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Speaker 2: lot of people and be the person that they needed

490
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 2: when there's not a lot of people who can really

491
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 2: understand and be there in that way.

492
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Speaker 1: So how did it morph? All of this energy, all

493
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 1: of this purpose, dedication, all of this I'm not letting

494
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,880
Speaker 1: it beat me. All of that I helped one fireman.

495
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 1: I know this is what I want to do for

496
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 1: the rest of my life. Now, I know this is

497
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,160
Speaker 1: my purpose. I know this is my thing, and let's

498
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,399
Speaker 1: be have I mean, we talk about an army of

499
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 1: normal folks. You're a thirty year old woman with two

500
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 1: kids and a job. I mean, how much more normal

501
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,640
Speaker 1: could you be? Yeah to now doing this? So how

502
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:20,639
Speaker 1: does it more from that into what you're doing today,

503
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 1: how many people have you helped? What are you doing?

504
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:27,720
Speaker 1: Tell us about what this foundation is now that is

505
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 1: obviously beyond your just personal story.

506
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 2: That's what I love about it now, Like none of

507
00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 2: it is about me, Like nothing about it is about me,

508
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:39,240
Speaker 2: And that's why I love it now, the foundation now,

509
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 2: I mean, I just feel like everything kept organically growing

510
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 2: in it. And to your point about being this like normal,

511
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 2: you know, well now I'm forty one, but it's time

512
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,959
Speaker 2: thirty something, you know, mom with two kids. Now I'm

513
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 2: forty one with two kids. I think like being a normal,

514
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 2: relatable person is really what has I don't know, like

515
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,800
Speaker 2: just kept people supporting. Like I think I'm relatable. I

516
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 2: think people like listen and hear me and can make

517
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 2: correlations to their own lives, to my life or like

518
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 2: my efforts and what I'm doing, and people have gravitated

519
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 2: wanting to help make a difference. Like I think a

520
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,200
Speaker 2: lot of times people, normal people want to do good

521
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,680
Speaker 2: and they don't know how. And I think when they

522
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 2: see somebody who's normal, who's found a path, like it's

523
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:21,199
Speaker 2: easy to jump on.

524
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 1: We always talk about the real amazing things that happen,

525
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 1: is when somebody's passion and their abilities collawde.

526
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's this, Yeah, do it t Sea.

527
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 1: So how many people tell me what you're doing?

528
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 2: Yeah?

529
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 1: Tell me what this thing is. Tell me what's not today?

530
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 2: Okay. So we do a big five k race every year.

531
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 2: We just had our sixth one in February. Usually we

532
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 2: do it Q three Q four, but this year we

533
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 2: did Q one and I will never do Q one again,

534
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 2: So twenty twenty six is going back to Q three.

535
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 2: We do a big race every year. We usually have

536
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 2: about a thousand people out. It's a huge event for

537
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,719
Speaker 2: everybody for ever. Just no, no, no, yes, I do

538
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 2: let amputees run my race free because I try to

539
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,160
Speaker 2: encourage people to get out and move because you can

540
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,679
Speaker 2: and not feel again the financial burden. Some people might

541
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 2: think like, oh, I don't want to spend thirty dollars

542
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:12,640
Speaker 2: and run a race and what if I don't get

543
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 2: to do it. And I kind of want to like

544
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 2: eliminate all that. So like, if you're an amputee, reach

545
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 2: out to me, come run my race for free. We

546
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 2: do a kid's fun run, which is a mile long.

547
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 2: We do a five k race and then we do

548
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 2: this whole post race festival with like a DJ and

549
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 2: food and vendors and health things and all these inflatables

550
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,399
Speaker 2: for kids. And we have our own beer called Hops

551
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 2: on one Leg. It's an ipa. So yeah, I love it, yeah,

552
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:40,919
Speaker 2: so yeah. And honestly, like we just I just have

553
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 2: so many amazing partnerships.

554
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 1: With the care. It's all the move for Gin Foundation.

555
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 2: Stuff, right, But I love it because like we're supported

556
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 2: by like mom and pop small businesses and Charlotte, but

557
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 2: we're also supported by like Lulu Lemon and United Healthcare

558
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,360
Speaker 2: and Lincoln Financial and like some of these like major corporations,

559
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 2: like some of the big banks. And it's great because

560
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,399
Speaker 2: but then we're also supported by like small restaurants and

561
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 2: small you know business, and I love supporting small business.

562
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 2: So I love finding ways that we can collaborate and like,

563
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 2: and I always say I never want to be a

564
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 2: foundation or a person that collects a check, like I

565
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 2: always want to use our platform, like how can we

566
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 2: elevate the people who are supporting us and highlight them

567
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 2: and show their efforts. And I think that's gone a

568
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 2: long way.

569
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: And so you're raising tens of thousands of dollars, hundreds

570
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 1: I guess.

571
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've raised over a million dollars to date. We've

572
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 2: given sixty three different prosthetics.

573
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: Sixty three different people. Yeah that specifically lost our und

574
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 1: two sarcoma.

575
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 2: So yes, but we have had or related We had

576
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 2: one woman who lost her limb, she had melanoma in

577
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 2: her foot and so she fell into our category. And

578
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,679
Speaker 2: we have had one other case where we had a

579
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 2: one off situation that our board allowed.

580
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 1: And how much money does one of these sixty three

581
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: people usually take to get all situated?

582
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 2: So it really depends because you know, for someone who's

583
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 2: a below the below the knee amputee obviously like a

584
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 2: socket and a foot, situation is much different than someone

585
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 2: who's an above the knee or at the hip, and

586
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,199
Speaker 2: they're going to need more components. Also, I know we

587
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 2: talked a little bit about like a microprocessing ankle, where

588
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,439
Speaker 2: like it has a you know, microprocessor that adds to

589
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,719
Speaker 2: the movement and the terrain and your cadence and all

590
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:28,160
Speaker 2: the things. That's much more expensive. It's also much heavier

591
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 2: in general.

592
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: Yes, it could be five to fifty thousand dollars depending

593
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:33,399
Speaker 1: on the person.

594
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean sometimes I can do it for a

595
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 2: little bit less. I have set pricing that I have

596
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 2: negotiated with all the different manufacturers, so that way it

597
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 2: kind of cuts out a middleman. So before, initially I

598
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,959
Speaker 2: would have to order through like a processus because all

599
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 2: the manufacturers will only sell to a medical office. But

600
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 2: now that we've established relationships with everybody, I have my

601
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 2: own house accounts, so I can go direct to the manufacturer.

602
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,719
Speaker 2: I know my set costs and it helps me stretch

603
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 2: my dollars further.

604
00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: That's so cool.

605
00:28:58,720 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is cool.

606
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Tell me about land Oh he such.

607
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 2: A sweet kid. Okay. So land In is a seven

608
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 2: year old boy who had osteosarcoma who I just surprised

609
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 2: with Scramo bone cancer. Yeah seven seven, Yeah.

610
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: So oh did they have to amputatee?

611
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 2: They did, and he had.

612
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: I know, but did they have to amputatee below above

613
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: the knee?

614
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 2: So he had a procedure that is becoming more common

615
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 2: with kids now. It's called rotation plasty. So essentially they

616
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 2: take out the portion of leg that is cancerous. He

617
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 2: didn't have it in his foot, he had it in

618
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 2: his leg. And so what they do is they remove

619
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 2: the portion of your leg that has the cancer. And

620
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 2: then they take your foot, rotate it one hundred and

621
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 2: eighty degrees, and your heel becomes your I know this

622
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 2: is wild, Yes, it's wild.

623
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 1: Slow down. They take the piece of cancer, the bone

624
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 1: that's cancer.

625
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 2: They removed the portion of your leg that.

626
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: Has cancer, and then they take your foot and it

627
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: around yep, and then they use your feel.

628
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 2: To become your knee, so you have an active joint.

629
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:24,479
Speaker 2: It's wild.

630
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, they can do that.

631
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 2: They can do that, and what there they found is

632
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 2: that it gives kids a lot more mobility than being

633
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 2: in above the knee amputee.

634
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, so they did that to this pork.

635
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 2: Yep, So he had that. So a girl that I

636
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 2: was acquaintances with through mutual friends from college, she had

637
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 2: shared his GoFundMe on Facebook and I randomly caught it.

638
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 2: I don't know how it showed up in my feed,

639
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 2: but I guess the algorithm caught sarcoma. And I clicked

640
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 2: it and I read his story when I saw that

641
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 2: he had cancer, and I saw he was an amputee,

642
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 2: so automatically I knew, nine times out of ten, ampute

643
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 2: is sarcoma. So I reached out to her and I

644
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 2: was like, can you connect me with this family because

645
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 2: I want help? And so she was like yes, Like

646
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 2: I actually thought about that, and I don't know why

647
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 2: I didn't make the connection. So she connected his mom

648
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 2: Jen and I her name is Jen also, and we

649
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 2: started talking and I started mentoring her through the process

650
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 2: because I feel like when like you first become an amputee,

651
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 2: like you don't know what to ask for at the

652
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 2: prosthetic office, you don't know what kind of feet to

653
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 2: look for, what you want a demo or what? You

654
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 2: know nothing? And I knew nothing like I wouldn't blind. Yeah,

655
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 2: you're scared, absolutely, and you don't want to make the

656
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 2: wrong choice.

657
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: You're even really scared once you're a seven year old kid.

658
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, that's worse than it happening to you one

659
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 2: hundred percent. So I reached out to her and I

660
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 2: was like, Hey, you don't know me. I'm a friend

661
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 2: of SO and so this is my organization. I read

662
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 2: Landon's story, like I want to help you anyway I can.

663
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 2: I know you're probably gearing up for prosthetics, Like can

664
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 2: we connect, like I'll talk you through everything, and she

665
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 2: was like please. So we got on the phone and

666
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 2: we started talking and I started you know, she would

667
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 2: ask me what to ask. I would tell her what

668
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 2: to ask for, tell her what to you know, what

669
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 2: feet he should try, like what paths she should go,

670
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 2: what's important, what to advocate for, because like you just

671
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 2: don't know. And she started crying and she's like, I

672
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 2: feel like God sent me you to me because I

673
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 2: didn't know what I was doing. And I finally feel

674
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 2: like I have direction. And I was like it's okay,

675
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 2: Like it's gonna be okay. And the more we started talking,

676
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 2: I was like, we have to help him, like further

677
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 2: than this. So I said to her, like, would you

678
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 2: be willing to come to Charlotte soon? And she was

679
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 2: like sure, Like what's going on? I was like, well,

680
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 2: we have our golf tournament and normally we keep it

681
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 2: a surprise, but because he's your son, like I want

682
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 2: to make sure you'd be comfortable. But like I would

683
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 2: love to give him a running blade. We would love

684
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 2: to give him a running blade at our event because

685
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 2: we always give surprise grants, so at every event that

686
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 2: we have, like I always love to show people where

687
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 2: their money goes, Like you can read stories all day

688
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 2: and that's great, But when you get to be part

689
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 2: of a moment where you're giving mobility back to someone,

690
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 2: it's something that is really like it's relatable to everyone,

691
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 2: Like you walked into my event, like you you walked around,

692
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 2: you got yourself a coffee, Like you're getting in a

693
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 2: golf cart, like you're moving the whole day. Like you

694
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 2: can put that correlation together and think like, wow, if

695
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 2: this kid doesn't have this, like he doesn't get to

696
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 2: do that. And so they came to Charlotte and we

697
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 2: surprised him with a running blade. But the coolest part

698
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 2: about our golf tournament this year, and actually a lot

699
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 2: of people said this, We'll sometimes have amputees come to

700
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 2: different things, and obviously we give surprise grants at all

701
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 2: of our events, but there were so many amputees this

702
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,479
Speaker 2: year who came to play golf and it was so

703
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 2: cool because it was like every couple holes you went to,

704
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 2: there was somebody with a prosthetic and it just created

705
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 2: this sense of community that I feel like I've been

706
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 2: striving for but like didn't even realize that we created

707
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 2: when we created it, and it was just a really

708
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 2: cool moment. But the best part so when Landon got

709
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 2: to the golf trnament, he was really shy, and we

710
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 2: gifted him the running blade in front of everyone, and

711
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:49,719
Speaker 2: we also gifted a woman a microprocessing foot for hiking.

712
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 2: And afterwards I said to land and I was like,

713
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 2: can I take you for a ride on the golf cart?

714
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 2: And he was like, yeah, that'd be great. So I

715
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 2: took him and his family around on the golf cart

716
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 2: and we stopped and every golf or fist bumped him

717
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 2: and high fived him and talked to him. But he

718
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 2: got to meet so many amputees on the course.

719
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: That's so he got to feel not weird and got

720
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: to feel normal.

721
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 2: Correct. It normalized so much.

722
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: He made everything okay for him right.

723
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 2: And so he had just started walking two weeks before that,

724
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 2: so he was still with crutches and learning and balancing

725
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,439
Speaker 2: and learning how to wait there. And he went from

726
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 2: being this shy, reclusive kid when he first got there

727
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 2: to like, do you play roadblocks? Your kids play roadblocks?

728
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 2: Like can you come and hang out with me in

729
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 2: Curnersville where I live, and can we run together? And

730
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 2: I want to come to Charlotte and hang out with you.

731
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 2: And he was just a sweet I mean, he opened

732
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 2: up completely, and when he left, his mom messaged me

733
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 2: and said that he told her on the way home

734
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 2: that he was going to work really hard to not

735
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 2: need crutches so he could be like everybody else at

736
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 2: the tournament. And that to me was like, what move

737
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 2: for gens all about. It's a payoff, normalize it, give

738
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:51,400
Speaker 2: people back what they're meant to do.

739
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 1: And we need to remember many adults might have any depressants,

740
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 1: in any anxiety medicine to get through.

741
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 2: That doesn't happen for us, No, it does not.

742
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: So he's processing absolutely.

743
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:09,399
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah, maam, let's talk.

744
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, but how's he doing.

745
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,320
Speaker 2: He's doing really good. Yeah, he's doing great. He's not

746
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 2: running yet because still early, but he's getting there. He's

747
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,320
Speaker 2: want to walk one hundred percent. He will without question.

748
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,760
Speaker 2: There's a girl that we funded who lives in Carrie,

749
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 2: North Carolina, and I helped her mom through the process.

750
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 2: She was in a flier. Her name is Addison. If

751
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 2: I would have met her mom in college in a bar,

752
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 2: we would have been best friend. So we hit it

753
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 2: off like right away. But she was in the wrong

754
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 2: kind of prosthetic. She was in something that didn't fit well.

755
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 2: And I caught her video on Instagram that was shared

756
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,240
Speaker 2: by like a prosthetic office or something, and I reached

757
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 2: out and I was like, I want to I want

758
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 2: to help you, Like, let's why does she not have

759
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 2: a running blade? And she's like, well, we don't really

760
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 2: know about any of this stuff. And I was like, well,

761
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 2: let's change that. And so, come to find out, she

762
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,399
Speaker 2: was in the wrong kind of socket, the wrong kind

763
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 2: of foot. And I'm not a prosthetist, but like, I

764
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 2: know enough to dangerous at this point, and so I

765
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 2: made recommendations. We found a new procetist for her to

766
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 2: work with who works with active kids, not geriatric adults,

767
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 2: and everything changed for her. And now we've given her

768
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 2: two different walking feet, one or two running blades I

769
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 2: can't remember. And she literally does everything like she swims,

770
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 2: she does gymnastics, she does horseback riding. She plays soccer

771
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 2: like she literally does play soccer.

772
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, every how can you play soccer with this

773
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: thing on?

774
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 2: With a running blade? You just you run? I mean

775
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 2: she has a running blade that has a special heel

776
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 2: on it that one of the manufacturers make. It's actually

777
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 2: like a really great one for kids, and she's able

778
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 2: to run and keep up with the rest of the team,

779
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 2: and same thing. Like her mom initially was like I

780
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 2: hate that she's not keeping up with the kids in

781
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 2: the neighborhood, like they're playing tag and she can't keep up.

782
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 2: But now she can. And her mom will literally send

783
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 2: me videos of her doing like every activity possible. I mean,

784
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 2: she was like at a rock climbing park. She's swimming,

785
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 2: she's jumping, she's paddleboarding at the ocean, like she literally

786
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 2: does everything, and like that to me is the biggest payoff.

787
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: So I'm a person named Connie said, I just want

788
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 1: to thank you again, not just forgiving me the grant,

789
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,359
Speaker 1: which has changed my life so much in a few

790
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: weeks that I've had the blade, but even more support,

791
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,319
Speaker 1: you know, the toll that being an amput can have

792
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: on you physically and mentally. It's been a challenge finding

793
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:22,760
Speaker 1: my place again after my imputation. Sometimes I feel misunderstood

794
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: or people try to cater to me just because I'm

795
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 1: an ampt and pity me, or more so that I

796
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: don't fit into that normal body box anymore. I haven't

797
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to find many people like me or

798
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: people that see me for who I am beyond an

799
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 1: amputee or people that accept me for who I am

800
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: and treat me like a normal person. What you've given

801
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: me is so much more than a grant. You've given

802
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:52,280
Speaker 1: me a place where I'm fully supported and truly seen

803
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: as an able bodied person. You've helped me in more

804
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 1: ways you have when you hear them, what do you think.

805
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:02,399
Speaker 2: I did my job?

806
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,760
Speaker 1: I would think if any human being could do something

807
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 1: that would have another human being say that about their

808
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: efforts that you know, you've reached a place that you

809
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,719
Speaker 1: feel pretty good about life and what you're doing. So

810
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: what's next?

811
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 2: What's next with the foundation? Yeah, there's a lot of things.

812
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,919
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously I hope we continue to grow. We're

813
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 2: looking at different ways to expand our network, expand our outreach,

814
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 2: different ways to I mean, it's a nonprofit, but it's

815
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 2: still a business, so you have to look at it

816
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 2: that way. I think initially I looked at it more

817
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 2: emotionally than professionally, and now it's definitely like a mixture.

818
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 2: Obviously it's personal for me, but at the end of

819
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 2: the day, it's a business. And so the summer we're

820
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 2: actually hosting our first intern programs so I have twelve

821
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,320
Speaker 2: interns this summer that I'm leading through a whole summer

822
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 2: program and so that's been fun. That's cool, And we

823
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 2: have some new events coming for the fall and just

824
00:38:56,360 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 2: really looking to expand our outreach, expand our funding, expand

825
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 2: our give and obviously I love speaking. I do a

826
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 2: lot of initiatives when I can, and so any way

827
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 2: to I guess like share the mission and help more people,

828
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 2: like that's always the.

829
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 1: Goal, which we How do people find you?

830
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 2: So you can go to move forgen dot org with

831
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 2: two ends Jen with two ends f O R J

832
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 2: E n N dot org. Obviously also on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram.

833
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 2: I feel like we're most active on Instagram. It's at

834
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 2: move for gen is the handle. But yeah, you can

835
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 2: go on our website and we share all the stories

836
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 2: of everything. We have blogs on people we help in

837
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,879
Speaker 2: different events that we have obviously different fundraising initiatives. July

838
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:42,879
Speaker 2: is our come awareness months, so we have a lot

839
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 2: going on this month to bring awareness and raise funding

840
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 2: and help more people. So that's kind of what we're

841
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 2: all about.

842
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:50,720
Speaker 1: That's really cool.

843
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:52,839
Speaker 4: Jen said she's game to share her email too.

844
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can share my email. It's Jen j Nn

845
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 2: at movefogen dot org.

846
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, for anybody that wants to help, anybody has a

847
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 1: friend that maybe needs help, anybody that wants to donate,

848
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,800
Speaker 1: or if you're an amputee and you're feeling a little

849
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: lost and you don't have anybody around you as perspective,

850
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,280
Speaker 1: imagine people in your organization.

851
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 2: Have just that for sure. And honestly, my foundation is

852
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 2: sarcoma based, and obviously for funding we are sarcoma specific.

853
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 2: But when it comes to mentorship, I help everyone. Like

854
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,959
Speaker 2: I'm helping a woman right now out of Georgia who

855
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 2: was in a really bad car accident and lost her limb,

856
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 2: and she's like one of the most incredible women I've

857
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 2: ever encountered, Like I just think so highly of her.

858
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 2: We haven't even met in person yet, but she is

859
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 2: literally me through this journey. And it doesn't have to

860
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 2: be like the mentor side. It doesn't have to be

861
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 2: sarcoma focused. It can be, you know, just anything. I'm

862
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 2: always happy to be a resource and a person.

863
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: I got to have price pedicuresto.

864
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 2: I love that you ask that. So there is one thing,

865
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 2: there's one a salon near me that I actually love

866
00:40:56,719 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 2: the most and they do charge me half price is

867
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 2: really really nice.

868
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, so maybe you can't laugh.

869
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 2: I literally tell people that all the time. They're like,

870
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 2: you make the worst jokes. I'm like, if you don't laugh,

871
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,319
Speaker 2: you cry. So it is what it is.

872
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: I mean, look, man, I grew up fat and red headed.

873
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Speaker 1: You got to joke at stuff. What are you going

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Speaker 1: to do? Right?

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Speaker 2: That's funny, you know what.

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Speaker 4: I want one random idea story to put you on

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Speaker 4: this podcast. But you thought about like races and other communities,

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Speaker 4: like say here in Memphis. If people do race here,

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Speaker 4: I think that could be an interesting way.

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Speaker 1: For especially given Saint Jude's around.

881
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Speaker 4: Community, especially to have other runners using prosthetics for them

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00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 4: to meet them in person there and make a grant

883
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 4: there and you can always.

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Speaker 1: There's a huge running community. There's a huge running community here.

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Speaker 1: But I guarantee there have been kids a Saint Jude

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Speaker 1: that have that are amputas.

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Speaker 2: Oh. I've actually funded one because from Memphis. She's not

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00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 2: from Memphis, she lives in Arizona, but she was a

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Speaker 2: Saint Jude kid and Saint Jude will pay for a

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Speaker 2: certain number of prosthetics, certain number of resources. But she

891
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Speaker 2: needed she wanted, like a leg that looked like a leg.

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Speaker 2: Does that make sense to like? She didn't want a

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Speaker 2: leg that looked like a prosthetic. She wanted like a

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Speaker 2: skin tone one that when she wore leggings, like she's

895
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Speaker 2: going into high school, Like it would fill out the spot.

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Speaker 1: Completely understandable. Somebody would want, but.

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Speaker 2: Saint Jude wouldn't fund that, and I did, so, Yeah,

898
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 2: there's always a gap.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So if anybody's listening, you know, would you be

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00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:30,919
Speaker 1: willing to talk to somebody about doing races in other

901
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: cities and growing?

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Speaker 2: I I'm always open to growing. I'm always open to brainswimming.

903
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Speaker 2: I will say the race is definitely a labor of love.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of work at this point. The one

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00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 2: in Charlotte's a well oiled machine, but it would take

906
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 2: a lot. I would need to make sure that the

907
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 2: presence was there.

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00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: Well, let me speak for you, Okay, in one way, yes,

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Speaker 1: she'd do it, but bring sponsors.

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Speaker 2: But bring sponsors.

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00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: If you bring sponsors, you could pull anything off. But

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Speaker 1: from somebody who's done some of that kind of work before,

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Speaker 1: bring sponsors.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if so, I'm in Yeah, Jim.

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Speaker 1: Safe travels home. Thanks for telling your story. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: coming to Memphis, but more importantly, thanks for the amazing

917
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Speaker 1: work that you're doing for folks in a community that

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00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 1: many people don't even understand, for sarcoma for one, amputees

919
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:25,320
Speaker 1: for another. And I appreciate the education. I've always wondered

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00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: about some of the things I asked you, and it's

921
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: neat to speak with somebody who's so open and transparent

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00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 1: about that. You don't feel guilty or like you're imposing

923
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Speaker 1: when you ask somebody questions about the stuff. So I've

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00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: learned a lot.

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Speaker 4: And one more thing. Yeah, you asked about foundation goals.

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Speaker 4: Tell them about your personal goal. What race you're doing

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Speaker 4: coming up?

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00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 3: Oh?

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00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not running a marathon. I was wondering about that.

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Speaker 1: I should have asked earlier.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So I signed up for the Chicago Half on

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Speaker 2: September twenty eighth. I'm trying to train for it. I'm

933
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Speaker 2: having some trouble with my prosthetics, but I am scheduled

934
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Speaker 2: to run a half marathon, my first half marathon September.

935
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Speaker 1: How far is I half marathon?

936
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Speaker 2: Thirteen?

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00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: Wow?

938
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Speaker 2: Does it hurt when things don't fit properly? Yes? And

939
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Speaker 2: I'm dealing with that right now. So when things fit,

940
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:16,800
Speaker 2: it's okay. So I gotta have some adjustments made in

941
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Speaker 2: the next a little bit.

942
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Speaker 1: I have the sneaky suspicion you're going to power through

943
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Speaker 1: and figure it out.

944
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 2: I sure am, And you're going to do it in Chicago.

945
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Speaker 2: I'm in Chicago.

946
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Speaker 1: I don't wear a shirt that says, you know, do

947
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Speaker 1: you wear your your Move for Gin stuff when you run.

948
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Speaker 2: I will wear something Move for Gen. I mean, yeah, exactly,

949
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Speaker 2: So I'll probably wear something Lula Lemon and then have

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00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:40,399
Speaker 2: it branded with Move for Gen. So yeah, Lula Lemon

951
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 2: has been very good to me in so many ways

952
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 2: and so good to Move for Gen, and I'm super

953
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Speaker 2: thankful for that partnership.

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Speaker 1: Well, good luck and we'll be cheering you on from Emphis.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Travels home. Thanks for your story. It's our coma sacks.

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Speaker 2: What coma sax.

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Speaker 1: Officially sacked?

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Speaker 4: John Norman always posts that on his Instagram Arcomas circummaces.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, thanks here, thank you and thank

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