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Speaker 1: This is Kelly Henderson and you are listening to the

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Speaker 1: Velvet Edge podcast. I will be back next week with

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Speaker 1: an all new podcast, but it felt very important to

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Speaker 1: me to pause this week and support the blackout and

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Speaker 1: amplified melanated content challenges taking place on social media. In

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Speaker 1: all honesty, this is the most overwhelming time I have

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Speaker 1: felt in our country, with so many different crises happening. However,

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Speaker 1: I cannot help but feel like none of this is

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Speaker 1: happening by mistake. In my experience, sometimes it takes hitting

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Speaker 1: a true rock bottom before we are in enough pain

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Speaker 1: to actually make a change. I'm truly hoping that that

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Speaker 1: is what is happening in our country right now. I

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Speaker 1: wish that I could say I knew more about the

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Speaker 1: specific ways in which change could happen, but I'm also

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Speaker 1: just learning. So I put up a post on my

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Speaker 1: Instagram account at Velvet's Edge with the different organizations that

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Speaker 1: I've heard about, specifically supporting the Black Lives Matter movement

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Speaker 1: and racial injustice. There are also other accounts, book references,

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Speaker 1: and organizations that some of you guys were so kind

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Speaker 1: to pass along that are listed in the comments section.

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Speaker 1: While I'm learning and educating, myself more. I'm also putting

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Speaker 1: a positive and hopeful energy into this that this is

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Speaker 1: the time to learn to love outside of ourselves, the

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Speaker 1: time to grow an empathy and understanding of others, the

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Speaker 1: time to live openly and with the fullest hearts, to pause,

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Speaker 1: to reflect, to educate, to change, so that no matter

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Speaker 1: what your race, your gender, your sexuality, you are being

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Speaker 1: treated with all of the kindness and all of the

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Speaker 1: love and all of the equality that you deserve. I

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Speaker 1: love you, guys, and I'll see you back right here

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Speaker 1: next week.