1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: Welcome back, happy our listeners, another happy Tuesday, and we 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 1: are thrilled to be here talking with you all today 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 1: because we have one of our absolute favorite women that 4 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: we have been wanting to have on since I think 5 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: even before Matt James this season started. She's a woman 6 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: that we unfortunately did not get to know at all, 7 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 1: which was such a huge bummer because I know, and 8 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:26,799 Speaker 1: I'm sure we're going to learn very quickly how incredible 9 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: her story is. And she was one that we had 10 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: our eye on since the bios were released in Rachel, 11 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 1: I actually think I said that she was way too 12 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: good for the show, so we've been dying to talk 13 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 1: to her. So today we are going to chat with 14 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: the beautiful Maggie. And before we began, Rachel, I know 15 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 1: you are thrilled to be having Meggie. And two, she's 16 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 1: one that we've talked about wanting on for quite some time. Yeah, 17 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,599 Speaker 1: let's without further ado, let's just bring her on. Like 18 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: you said, she's too good for bastelination, and how often 19 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: do we coin that term towards someone, So yeah, let's 20 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: bring her on. Maggie. Welcome to the show. Welcome Maggie. 21 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: We are thrilled to have you. I am saying, I 22 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: am a little bit o wom. Okay, I'm nervous to 23 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: start with, and I'm a little bit of wom because 24 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,679 Speaker 1: you boys are like somebody that I really appreciate and 25 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 1: I just never told I will see you guys, I 26 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: will talk to you. Hey, Hi, thank Oh my gosh, 27 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: we're rolling now, Maggie, don't listen. Let's just this is 28 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: your first podcast. We've been made. Where's your first podcast? 29 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 1: But like we want this to be like you are 30 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,959 Speaker 1: talking to one of your girls. We're sitting at the 31 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,400 Speaker 1: dinner table, just having a conversation about our lived experiences. 32 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: You are somebody that we have been so excited to 33 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,639 Speaker 1: talk to. You know, you were teased at the beginning 34 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: of the season, like we were told you it's such 35 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: a great story to tell and we didn't see it. 36 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: It's justice for Maggie. Why did we see it? So 37 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: we're gonna see it today on the podcast. We're so 38 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: thrilled to have you, so thank you so much for 39 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 1: being here. Like, take those nerves, throw them away, because 40 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: this is just like like family, just girlfriends, cast a 41 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: girl time. Thank you. Yes, so you are and you 42 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: are Maggie you are Maggie, Maggy, you are one When 43 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: when the cast bio was released for Matt James this season, 44 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,519 Speaker 1: you were one girl who Rachel and I were so 45 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:30,119 Speaker 1: excited to see you on our TV screens. I think 46 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 1: I made the comment I was like, damn, she sounds 47 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:34,799 Speaker 1: way too good for the show, even like, we can't 48 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: wait to see her to get to know her. And 49 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:40,799 Speaker 1: as Rachel said, unfortunately, so much of the drama overtook 50 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: everyone's storyline this season, So we can't wait to have 51 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 1: you here, to have our listeners actually get to know 52 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: Maggie for who you are and not you know what 53 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: was portrayed for two seconds on TV. So, as Rachel said, 54 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 1: throw the nerves out the window. We're just going to 55 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: have a good time. So before we really get into 56 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: any of the questions, we want to check in with you. 57 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: How have you been since you were obviously filming and 58 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: now that the season is wrapped it's an airing. How 59 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: have you been since all of that craziness. Oh, I've 60 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: been good. You know, I've been trying to stay busy 61 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: of course, working you know at my pharmacy, and I 62 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: work in different pharmacy every day. I get to meet 63 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 1: so many different people and it was very interesting because 64 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 1: I love meeting different people all the time. And yeah, 65 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: and as you guys know, COVID vaccines are out, so 66 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: I was giving so many of them and the interesting 67 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: thing is that people are so grateful to give them 68 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: the vaccine and they think it's like a holy water 69 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,119 Speaker 1: and fun back after I give them, they will come 70 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: to me asking me, hey, do you want water? Do 71 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: you want food? And just just be just so happy. 72 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: And that, you know, that keacked me a lot busy. 73 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: And also I was focusing more you know, for what's 74 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: going on in my hometown, integral, trying to create more 75 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: awareness and trying to find a way how to help 76 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: the children and the mothers there by giving my time 77 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: and money and find a way to create more awareness 78 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: so people we know about it because thousands of children 79 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: out of family and a lot of months, a lot 80 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: of family are displaced. It didn't have more food to eat, 81 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: and you know, focusing more time on that is what 82 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:29,840 Speaker 1: kept me busy after the show. And yeah, I think 83 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:33,159 Speaker 1: I'm still busy, but it's interesting, it's it's it's a 84 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: good kind of busy, and I'm grateful for that, you know, 85 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: what I just heard there purpose kept me busy after 86 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: the show. Real life, meaningful things that you've been been 87 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: working on even prior to the show, that hold a 88 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 1: special place in your heart have kept you busy, and 89 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: that's why. That's one of the reasons, many reasons that 90 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:56,559 Speaker 1: we were so excited to talk to you, because there's 91 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: so much depth there. So I want to start from 92 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 1: the beginning, tell us everything that we missed. I want 93 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: you to talk about like your childhood and growing up 94 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 1: in Ethiopia. And I have to tell you this now. 95 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 1: I don't know my heritage, but when I was in college, 96 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,719 Speaker 1: I used to say, like I would all these people 97 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:23,359 Speaker 1: from um um Eritrea would ask me if I was 98 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: Ertrian now not Ethiopian next door, but I would say no. 99 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: But then it kept coming people say, oh, are you 100 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: hab show? So I started saying, well, yeah, I am, 101 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: I am, so I have honestly, I have no idea. 102 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: I have no idea, but yes, can you tell us 103 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 1: your childhood and growing up and everything? Oh? Okay? Oh, 104 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: first of all, my wo name is Mared. Do you 105 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: know that my name is from social media? I guess 106 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: it means it means grace or grace. Yeah. I was 107 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 1: born in a small village in Adawa, it's grow north 108 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 1: part of Ethiopia, and from path. Growing up, we didn't 109 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,479 Speaker 1: have a running water, so I was fetching water every 110 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: day from the river and believing or not, I still 111 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 1: have my scars on my feet from falling carrying the 112 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: water path to the house. And that was interesting. But 113 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: I get to be a pharmacist in Ethiopia. Unfortunately, there 114 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: wasn't much job opportunity, so I applied for a lottery. 115 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 1: I played a lottery to come to America, immigrant to America, 116 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: and thankfully I got it. I got the lottery. But 117 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: you know, that's why, you know, I'm here with the 118 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 1: guys that gave you the chance to come to this 119 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: country and to me, you to be at the barchelor. 120 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 1: And when I get here, I didn't want to be 121 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:04,840 Speaker 1: just a pharmacist. And I wanted to pursue my you know, 122 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 1: my modeling career because when I was back home, I 123 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: used to think, you know what, the life of America, 124 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: the life of a strong, beautiful woman, fashion educated. I 125 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 1: just have and I want to do it because I 126 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:21,119 Speaker 1: came away by myself this country and I get to 127 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: pursue my modeling career and I get to work as 128 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: a you know, at a motel and as a pharmacist, 129 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: I get to travel to different countries, to even America, 130 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: different parts of US. Also outside of you know, my 131 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: molley and my pharmacist, I get to spend most of 132 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:45,559 Speaker 1: my time on my nonprofits. Know it's called my shoes, 133 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: your shoes. Um found fat about that when I go up. 134 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: I didn't have shoes when I you know, when I 135 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: was going to school, and my dream was one day, 136 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: if I make it out of that village, I will 137 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: give shoes to the little girls in you know, developing 138 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: countries from it where I'm from. And um that you know, 139 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: my goal is now I focus more to give shoots 140 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 1: those little girls so they can't be able to go 141 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: to school and to be who they want to be someday. 142 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: And that's it. And that's a little bit about me. Currently. 143 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: I am a pharmacist. I do all link and uh 144 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 1: you know, I work on my own profit. Especially now 145 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 1: with the things going on back home, I'm trying to 146 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: feed people as much as I can, I know, just 147 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: to to be able to give back. And that's that's 148 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 1: that's me. Oh, Meggie, You, I mean just your heart 149 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,719 Speaker 1: and your soul and your dedication. It's incredible, Like we 150 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: really don't truly see women like you come through the 151 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: franchise all that often. I mean, it is a rare find, indeed, 152 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 1: to have somebody as incredible as you. Yeah, Meggie, when 153 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: when we saw the bit of you you at the 154 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: end of the episode, when you and Matt finally have 155 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: some alone time after a long night, I think you 156 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: had been lost in the pumpkins, floating in the pond. 157 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: You finally could sit down with your man to get 158 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: to know him a little bit more. And what does 159 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: Matt James do? He dances for you, but not just 160 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: any dance. He does a silent tick talk dance. Now 161 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 1: we all know how Rachel felt about that when we 162 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: watched ship, But what was going through your mind when 163 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: when that is what Matt James whipped out for you 164 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 1: in that moment um for us? I was hoping, you know, 165 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 1: like break it down kind of dance, you know, the 166 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 1: slow dance. Yeah, Like when he started, I was like, Okay, 167 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: Ma Jimes, I really appreciate you and thank you for 168 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: you know, making me smile. But I have said this, Um, 169 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 1: I was hoping, you know, the slow dance. But when 170 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 1: he starts talking, I was like, oh wow, sure this 171 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 1: is really happening. I I was like, if you can 172 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: see my face? I was like, okay, I like, what 173 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 1: do I need to do? I like just smiled, Maggie smile, 174 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: that's all. How do I make him stop? Yeah? How 175 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:16,319 Speaker 1: do I get out of this room faster? Because I 176 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 1: do like it? I do like it. I like the carriage, 177 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: you know, I like And I asked him to dance 178 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: at It was a rough day for me and I 179 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: was exhausted and it was a long night, and I 180 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 1: just asked him to make me smile, to dance for me. 181 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 1: He tried. I know, I need to give him credit 182 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: for that, but that sicto dance. Um I was expecting 183 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 1: more a little bit. Yeah, so well yes, yeah, Well 184 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 1: maybe you did live up to your name and you 185 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: gave him grace. You seemed very patient. But you, and 186 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: I think every woman watching in America was just like, 187 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:55,839 Speaker 1: he should have grabbed your hand. He should have pulled 188 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 1: you up, spun you around, maybe dipped you, maybe leaned 189 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 1: in for a little kiss or a hug, at least 190 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:10,079 Speaker 1: nice embrace, something other than what we saw transpire. I agree, Maggie. 191 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:12,079 Speaker 1: I was I'm so sorry for you in that moment, 192 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: going back too, because I want to I still want 193 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 1: to learn so much more about you, because I feel 194 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 1: like there's so much that you could give to our 195 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: listeners as a whole. So you mentioned that you would 196 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 1: the Diversity the Diversity Lotto coming to America. But how 197 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 1: long ago was that? How many years have you now 198 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 1: been here? And then also what was it like because 199 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 1: I'm assuming all of your family is still back in Ethiopia? Correct? Yes, 200 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 1: So what was that like knowing that you know you 201 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: were coming and hopefully going to be able to really 202 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 1: invest in all of these new opportunities over here, but 203 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: still having to leave your family, and like not knowing 204 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 1: maybe how often you'd be able to see them. What 205 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 1: was everything like when you finally came here. Yeah, when 206 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,560 Speaker 1: I went there asking us I got the lottery, I 207 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: was mixed of emotions. First of all, I am I 208 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: would be the first person making it out of Ethiopia. 209 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: And second, I was so excited I will be able 210 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: to help my mom because we are so many children's 211 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,080 Speaker 1: and I know you know what struggle she had. You know, 212 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 1: I was in bos When I came here, things weren't 213 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 1: as I expect them to be. Um, you know, as foreigner, 214 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 1: you know, special Africa, and you will think when you 215 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: come to America, I would be reached the first year, 216 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: I will have a car, I will have a house. 217 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,199 Speaker 1: I will you know, buy my mom a car, house, 218 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 1: all that. But when I came here, I struggle. I 219 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:40,440 Speaker 1: you know, I couldn't find a job because the pharmacists 220 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 1: from back home, who was an equal pharmacist here, so 221 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: I had to take the exam. I had to work 222 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 1: as a technician, and I was walking to my work 223 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,439 Speaker 1: not to spend a dollar twenty five cents to buy 224 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 1: to get you know, to use the bus to go 225 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 1: to work. And I was struggling with splaying my house 226 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: frank because I I didn't have anybody to help me, 227 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 1: and you know, I was buying food. It was the 228 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,560 Speaker 1: first year. It was so hard, and I had these 229 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: all emotions missing home and not being able to send 230 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,320 Speaker 1: the money you know for them. And it was hard 231 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 1: the first year. But the second year, I started going 232 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:21,239 Speaker 1: to school that night while I was working the whole day. 233 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: And the hope for me, you know, just to you know, 234 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: to be able to work and to be able to 235 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 1: get financial aid to school and a little bit, you know, 236 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,199 Speaker 1: there is a hope for me. The second year was okay. 237 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: The third year, I you know, I started pharmacist school. 238 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: Then you know, life start to make sense. Okay, America 239 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: is not that easy. You know, there is a lot 240 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: of expectation, but if you work hard, you can't make it. 241 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: And that's what I you know, that's what I keep saying, 242 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:48,599 Speaker 1: and I keep praying God, please, like you got me 243 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 1: all right here and what am I doing? Like it 244 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,559 Speaker 1: was so hard, but you know, after third year of 245 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 1: being here, it was okay, just get I get, I 246 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: get to learn a little bit of the American life. 247 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 1: If you work hard, work hard, that's okay, work hard, 248 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 1: you will make it one day. And that helped me 249 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 1: to push myself and to be able to school. And 250 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 1: like when I'm standing, when I'm sitting right now with you, 251 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: and you know, looking back, the first year, it was 252 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: I couldn't breathe even thinking about the struggle that I had, 253 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: and like I always cry and I just bent my knee. God, 254 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 1: thank you for making me survive those years because it 255 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 1: was something you know, heard in every way, like not 256 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 1: having nobody, no money, I don't have anybody to ask 257 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: what We're just so hard all over and that I'm 258 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 1: here and I am I own it. I owe it 259 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: all to God and I am I am grateful. That's 260 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 1: that's a little of life story. I had a little bit, 261 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: a little bit life story. I'm telling you what you 262 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: just said in that statement is so not statement, just 263 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: like telling your story. It's so powerful because, like as 264 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: I'm listening to you, it just reminds me of things 265 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: that we take for granted, you know, whether it's because 266 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: we were born here or maybe like how we grew up, 267 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 1: just like little things that you were having to do, 268 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 1: and maybe what you thought America was versus getting here, 269 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 1: but then not letting that discourage you and to keep 270 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 1: going and knowing if I keep working hard, if I 271 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 1: keep moving forward, I'll eventually get to where I'm gonna go. 272 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: So thank you for sharing that story. I'm curious though, 273 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: and listening to you talk. What city did you come 274 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 1: into when you first got here? Baltimore? Oh God, shout 275 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: out to all our Baltimore listeners. But I'm just saying, 276 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: I'm just saying the first city to come here, I 277 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: can understand even more so how it's different. Can you 278 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: hear the Baltimore accent? I'm sure I didn't knew. So 279 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: they told me, like there is a Baltimore accent. There 280 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: is like English is English for me because I was 281 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 1: also struggling to speak English ABCD. So I was like, okay, 282 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: for me, it looks the same. But the more I 283 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 1: lived there, the more I start traveling, Oh the Bottomore 284 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 1: you know, like there is an accent. Yes, say avenue, 285 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: Say Avenue Avenue. Okay, So I was trying to see 286 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 1: if you had picked up the Baltimore accent or not. 287 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: But Baltimore, I still have my African accent. But I 288 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 1: didn't know. But I understand the first, like of all 289 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: the cities, Baltimore, like I can, I can? I can? 290 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 1: I can. That's why That's what I got robbed. When 291 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 1: I was waiting the bus to Good School, and it 292 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 1: was the day times. I remember I got my first paycheck. 293 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: I was excited I cash it because I didn't have 294 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 1: a bunk. I did to open a bunk then and 295 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 1: then cash it. I was waiting the bus to Good 296 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: School because I found a FOD bus then and this 297 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 1: guy came behind me he took my bag and he 298 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:07,880 Speaker 1: drugged me. I was like, I hold my bag from 299 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,400 Speaker 1: my life because there was money there. But I don't 300 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:12,880 Speaker 1: have the money. I'm not gonna survive the whole week. 301 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: I hold that bag and he drugged me away and 302 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,320 Speaker 1: he was and it was strong enough. He took the 303 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 1: bag and I run behind the him to say I 304 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 1: had no idea, and the woman says start no, no, 305 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: no, no no, don't don't don't run behind them. She just 306 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:27,879 Speaker 1: to start me. The only thing I had in my 307 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 1: mind was saving the bag, getting my money. Yeah, but 308 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: so yeah, I got robbed in Baltimore. So, oh my god, 309 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: I just started. You. You say it was a smile 310 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 1: on your face. Oh yeah, pecause I survived a lot, 311 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 1: and it's just like for me, it's it's less to 312 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:49,920 Speaker 1: like if I complain, I feel like I'm not I'm 313 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 1: not being grateful. I'm just like, you know, I know 314 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 1: I struggled a lot, but I just it's like me 315 00:17:56,040 --> 00:18:01,199 Speaker 1: showing smile, just I'm just grateful, you know. Yeah. Yeah, 316 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 1: let me ask you this then, because I mean, it's 317 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:08,920 Speaker 1: so interesting that you ever even went on the TV show, 318 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:12,440 Speaker 1: you know, because I look at it and you've lived 319 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 1: so many lives and you have so many different experiences 320 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: that especially women who grew up in America will never 321 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 1: ever have. So when you were on Matt's season, and 322 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 1: especially in the beginning, when there was so much drama 323 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: taking place between these you know, twenty thirty women, what 324 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:33,919 Speaker 1: was going through your mind? Because if I was you, 325 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: I'd be thinking, like, look, I lived through some really 326 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:40,919 Speaker 1: hard shit and there's somebody crying because they're not getting 327 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:44,119 Speaker 1: a date, or somebody crying because whatever it might be, 328 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 1: they don't have a crown or a tierra or a 329 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:51,040 Speaker 1: acept or anything. Like, how was that living like in 330 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 1: the bubble per se and knowing like what you've lived through, 331 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 1: what you know, you know, like the actual hardships that 332 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:02,199 Speaker 1: go on in this world. Yeah, um, I wasn't like 333 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:04,639 Speaker 1: I didn't know how I was handling it. But on 334 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 1: the first week the girls were like when every time 335 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: they asked me, I answered the question. And I remember 336 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:14,440 Speaker 1: Rachel one day, Maggie, I'm so jealous of you answer. 337 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: You answered like you're just so graceful and you just 338 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: don't get bothered, Like yeah, because you know, like why 339 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 1: wanted to get bothered? You know, I just like I 340 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 1: was in shock because, um yeah, going going there, I was. 341 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: I was supposed to meet every day, talking to him, 342 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: you know, getting more time, you know, being created a 343 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 1: special woman. It's every girl's dream. Of course, I want 344 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:45,199 Speaker 1: to be treated special. But that didn't happen. But that 345 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,919 Speaker 1: I still didn't lose who I am. I still like 346 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: being came to myself and seeing the girls in fight 347 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,199 Speaker 1: or think, I was like, oh my god, what did 348 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: I put myself into? That was the first thing that 349 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: came into my mind. But it took me time to 350 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 1: see them like they are not me. I'm not them, 351 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: and I cannot you know, we cannot be led to 352 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 1: what was my background was their background. That's why I 353 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 1: just you know, I didn't judge or anything. I was like, 354 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 1: oh my god, okay, okay, just be be me and 355 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:20,200 Speaker 1: be you and it's good. So that's how I started 356 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 1: about it. How did you go ahead make it on 357 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: the show in the first place? Did somebody apply for you? 358 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: Did you apply? How did that all work out? No? 359 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 1: A casting director from the show emailed me, and yeah, 360 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: I had not, like in a million years, I never 361 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,919 Speaker 1: told I would be in a reality TV or not 362 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 1: at all. So I got an email and I didn't 363 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: say yes. I waited and when they they announce Smart 364 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: with a Butler, it was passed due wait do I 365 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: emailed them back. I changed my mind. Sorry, I'm blades. 366 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 1: I can do it because I kind of had a 367 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:06,440 Speaker 1: crush on month, so I was so excited to meet 368 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 1: him in person. So yep, I said yes, and I 369 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:15,440 Speaker 1: did it. I was cos I just want press ahead 370 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: crush and I did. Actual, guy, you know, you're not alone. 371 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 1: There were thirty something other women that were most applicants, 372 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: the most people wanting to be in his season. Ever. Yeah, 373 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,960 Speaker 1: I heard. Yeah, that's an attractive guy. Like, we get it, 374 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 1: we totally understand. That's funny. He still makes you blush. 375 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 1: My gosh. I can only imagine having the life that 376 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: you've had are still having, and the story that you 377 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,640 Speaker 1: have walking into the room with those women and fak 378 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 1: my gosh, all these silly rabbits that are arguing over 379 00:21:53,880 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 1: over over the most insipid things ever. I mean, just wow, 380 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,639 Speaker 1: I can It's it's tough for all of us to 381 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 1: go through the show and like you have your highs 382 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 1: and lows, and it's a lot harder than people realize 383 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 1: because you expect one thing to happen and then something 384 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: else completely different happens. And you know what your experience 385 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 1: is on the show, but the audience doesn't get to 386 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: see it. So for you, what do you wish the 387 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:25,679 Speaker 1: Bachelor audience would have learned about you when watching the show. Um, 388 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 1: I wish they'll learn about me. There are millions of 389 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 1: women like me in a grant. They you know, they 390 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 1: made it here to America and they didn't get the 391 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 1: chance to express their love for guy because they get 392 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: to learn even from their generation, a guy has to 393 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 1: choose you and you don't get the chance to choose 394 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 1: a guy. But you know these woman she got, you know, 395 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 1: she got the courage to be at the show and 396 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: to be able to represent all these millions of women 397 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,399 Speaker 1: to fight for love to you know, just I am 398 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: a woman. If I want to choose a guy, I 399 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 1: can't make it and I am not obligated to have 400 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: an arranged marriage. And also for a lot of um, 401 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: you know woman that they think being chosen by a guy, 402 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 1: not to choose a guy is okay, that it's not okay. 403 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 1: And also like um, if you want, if you have 404 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 1: a plan as a woman, we are expected you know, 405 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 1: at a certain age, at certain time, you have to 406 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 1: get married, you have to have a kid. That's that's 407 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 1: why you're born here. No, no, no, no, you are 408 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,159 Speaker 1: a woman. You have full life. You are like you 409 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,919 Speaker 1: have a food guard given for life. You can't do whatever, 410 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 1: you play, whatever you want that you know that makes 411 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: you happy. I get like I came here. I was. 412 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 1: I was almost to get married when I was eight 413 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,440 Speaker 1: years old back home, arranged marriage to a rich guy. 414 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 1: Re and yeah, but thankfully my mom didn't fall for it. 415 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 1: She let me go to school. She fall for me 416 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: to go to school to be you know, trusting me 417 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:09,120 Speaker 1: to be who I am, and I get to come here. 418 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: The age didn't, you know, didn't bother me. The not 419 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 1: you know, not knowing the culture of America didn't bother me. 420 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: Not speaking the language, you know, people shouting at me 421 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,680 Speaker 1: for not speaking like them, didn't bother me. That. I 422 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 1: always wanted to be like a doctor or a pharmacy 423 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 1: and be a model. And you know, have a nonprofit 424 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 1: helped people and I get to do it. So I 425 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 1: wanted them to learn. You know, if you wish, if 426 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 1: you want to do it, work hard for it. You 427 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 1: can absolutely do it and make your own priority, not 428 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 1: the priority that the you know, the culture make it 429 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 1: to be like be a mom or something that is 430 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: you have priority, just do it when you can't. And 431 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 1: that's what I wish that people learn about the martial people. 432 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, man, I feel like we should have 433 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 1: you on every week. You walked on here and you 434 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,720 Speaker 1: said that you were nervous to speak with Rachel and 435 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 1: I and I feel like I'm so inspired and in 436 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:16,719 Speaker 1: awe of you, and what your sentiment is right now 437 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaker 1: is what I would want any woman to hear. You know, 438 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:21,919 Speaker 1: you make your own life and you you make your 439 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 1: own priorities and you don't have to be on anyone's 440 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 1: time schedule or expectations. And I think that's an incredible thing. 441 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 1: Like you are just really like this shining beacon. And 442 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: one other thing that you had mentioned a little bit 443 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,120 Speaker 1: earlier that I think is truly incredible that I want 444 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 1: to learn more about is the nonprofit work not I 445 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 1: cannot talk is the nonprofit work that you do with 446 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 1: my shoes your shoes, and so I know you mentioned 447 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:50,160 Speaker 1: a little bit why you started it and just your upbringing, 448 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,639 Speaker 1: but tell us more about that because you do provide 449 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,440 Speaker 1: shoes to girls in Ethiopia, and I'm assuming it is 450 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 1: it more underdeveloped countries than just Eyopia as well. I 451 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 1: start from the place that I know. But my goal 452 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 1: is to you know, the feature is to move to 453 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:12,160 Speaker 1: all developing countries. I'm trying to have teams from different countries. 454 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,639 Speaker 1: If they showed me there is this deal legs they 455 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 1: need help. I am a one hundred percent help. You know, 456 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 1: willdn't help, but I just you know, you always have 457 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: to start from the place that you know. That's what 458 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 1: I did. So I start from Adua because hundreds of 459 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 1: women they walk. I was walking one hour to school 460 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 1: that a lot of my classmen they were like two hours, 461 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: like more than that, and their feet was sometimes leading 462 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 1: and they cover it because they were shy. The adult 463 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,880 Speaker 1: rich women, they don't have to make fun of them. 464 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: And you know, that's that's the mean, like you know what, 465 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: I don't care about anything. I don't care about any anything. 466 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 1: Just want to give them shoes. And that was the goal. 467 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,359 Speaker 1: Even though I started from Adua, I will you know, 468 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:58,359 Speaker 1: it will be all over the world. And I start 469 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 1: with the shoes, they will be able to walk to 470 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:05,159 Speaker 1: the school. The God willing. I want to provide in 471 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 1: a school supplies. That's what I've been doing so far. 472 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:12,399 Speaker 1: We you know, we've been reading thousands of shoes and 473 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: school supplies in Adua and surrounding school and um for 474 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 1: the future. I'm trying to get, you know, a delivery 475 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 1: hospital because there isn't like women like they are not. 476 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 1: It's it's it's a luxury to have shoes Indiopia or 477 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: in developing country, it's a luxury to deliver and a hospital, 478 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 1: you know. So I want I want to be in 479 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,159 Speaker 1: I want to open a delivery clinical hospital so the 480 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,679 Speaker 1: women can't have the chance to go to hospital and deliver. 481 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 1: So that's the goal that I have so God willing, 482 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 1: I hope it will happen. Well, we're running. We have 483 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,639 Speaker 1: our listeners go to to either learn more or to 484 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: help assist and maybe potentially donate shoes or money or time. 485 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 1: Where can we direct our all of our listeners. Yes, 486 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 1: they can go to msy shoes dot com. It's my 487 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 1: Shoes lushoes dot com. Okay, and all the information is there. 488 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 1: If they have any you know, any question, they can 489 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 1: m I am on ig Maguitarica. Any question you have, 490 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,719 Speaker 1: I would be there to answer. Okay, let me tell 491 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:27,440 Speaker 1: you something, Maggie. All right, the more you talk, the 492 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 1: more mad I get. And I'm not mad at you. 493 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 1: I am mad that this is the first time that 494 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 1: we are learning about you. I mean to think where 495 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 1: you've come from to now being on national television and 496 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:47,320 Speaker 1: they kept you hidden from us. I don't even care about, like, 497 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,880 Speaker 1: instead of learning about the fact that you are doing 498 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:52,880 Speaker 1: all the things that you said you were going to do, 499 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 1: and then you're not forgetting where you come from and 500 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 1: you're giving back to your community. You're not thinking about yourself. 501 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 1: You're thinking about your people and where you come from 502 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: and how you can help not just them, but in 503 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 1: the surrounding areas and beyond. And we're over here learning 504 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 1: about a woman who thinks she's a queen simply because 505 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 1: she shares the same namesake as the Queen of England. 506 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 1: I am living then the fact that they talked about 507 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,720 Speaker 1: you and said how great you are, which you are phenomenal, 508 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 1: by the way, and told us that we were going 509 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 1: to learn about you, and we didn't, and it was 510 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:36,280 Speaker 1: overshadowed by the silliest things. I'm enraged. Then you can't 511 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 1: say this you know what I mean. You're still in 512 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 1: a contract, so I'm gonna say it for you. I 513 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: am enraged that you that we just didn't get to 514 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 1: experience that, and I am and I know I speak 515 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 1: Rebecca as well. I am so grateful to still a 516 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,240 Speaker 1: word from you, that we are able to have this 517 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 1: opportunity to shine a light on you, what you're doing 518 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 1: and other women like you. Like you said, you are 519 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 1: representing a woman, a type of woman that I have 520 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 1: yet to see. And I'm not well versed in Bachelor 521 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 1: prior to my season that I have yet to see 522 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 1: on this show. And you have so much to offer 523 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 1: and you're so dynamic, and let this be a lesson 524 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: that we need to see more stories like you. You know, 525 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 1: I don't use you as a prop to tease the 526 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 1: season over how what great women we have. If you're 527 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 1: not going to give us these great women and there's 528 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: stories and what it is that they're trying to build 529 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 1: and better themselves and other people, I can keep going, 530 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 1: but I'm not, but I am so grateful for this. 531 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,959 Speaker 1: Please tell us what it is that you're doing next. Um, 532 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 1: you already told Becca, how you know we can we 533 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,560 Speaker 1: can help with what you're trying to do, but like, 534 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 1: what's next for you other than greatness? That's kind of 535 00:30:54,960 --> 00:31:01,560 Speaker 1: that's going for you, Maggie, nixt for me um personal, 536 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 1: Like like with my personal I'm trying, you know, I'm 537 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:10,400 Speaker 1: trying to find my person someday and then have a family. 538 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,400 Speaker 1: But before that, while I'm doing that, you know, with 539 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: the crowd situation, what's going on in my country. To 540 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 1: be honest, I'm just I've been hiring hard time trying 541 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,360 Speaker 1: to do my personal thing, and I'm so far and 542 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 1: I was able to hear about my family. They are okay, 543 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 1: and that's the great thing. But I still have so 544 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 1: much to do, you know, to help to feed the 545 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 1: people and you know, as much as I can, and 546 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 1: I'm trying to create more awareness on that and quiet 547 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 1: to get more donations so that people can have food 548 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:46,640 Speaker 1: to eat. And if you know, when everything goes to 549 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 1: normal in my back home, I will be more actively 550 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:56,040 Speaker 1: participating on finding my person because I know my person 551 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: is out there and I am so excited to meet him. 552 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 1: What a lucky man. Well, I'm going to say nothing 553 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 1: but the best for our Maggie, because you truly, when 554 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,960 Speaker 1: I say you shine, you shine and you just need 555 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 1: somebody to match you. And you know, like I don't 556 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 1: want to say it was a blessing in disguise that 557 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 1: it didn't work out with Matt, but like you're just 558 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 1: so many big, better, more incredible God willing things to 559 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,000 Speaker 1: come your way. And again, like for our listeners, I 560 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 1: want to urge anyone who can help out or can 561 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,160 Speaker 1: even just learn more and donate, please go to I 562 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 1: know Maggie said it, but it's msyshoes dot org because 563 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: I mean, we can all do our part to help 564 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 1: this world. Like there's just so much nastiness going on 565 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 1: in every country, every fast, every corner of the world, 566 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,200 Speaker 1: and so if we have incredible people like Maggie who 567 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,720 Speaker 1: is fighting hard to make it a little bit better, 568 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,960 Speaker 1: please do so. So everyone please go check it out. 569 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: And maybe, like we ask all of our guests this, 570 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 1: and I hate to even do it because we always 571 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 1: ask like what's next? Would you potentially do a paradise? 572 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,200 Speaker 1: Would you be on the show again? And if that 573 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,040 Speaker 1: is something you wanted, would you say yes? Or are 574 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,000 Speaker 1: you kind of done with the franchise And would you 575 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 1: rather find your mister right on your own terms? I'm 576 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 1: thinking about it. I'm thinking about it. I'm still fighting, 577 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,400 Speaker 1: you know, with my culture. You know, that's one of 578 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 1: the main things that keeps me, like I don't get 579 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,400 Speaker 1: used to like I never told mart how I feel 580 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,080 Speaker 1: about him. I never get to make out or anything 581 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,960 Speaker 1: with him, because in my culture it's not that easy. 582 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,120 Speaker 1: You know. I'm still fighting with that still in me, 583 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 1: Like how am I gonna took a guy who I 584 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:54,000 Speaker 1: know talking to another woman. I'm still struggling, But I 585 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 1: am thinking about it because you know, I really want 586 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 1: to need my person. I don't freaking tell your ussy 587 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:05,160 Speaker 1: I'm because I'm so classy. I'm not gonna curse. But 588 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:09,640 Speaker 1: they better they better tell your story. They better let 589 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,080 Speaker 1: you because you Oh gosh, you're just You're I think 590 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:17,200 Speaker 1: you're amazing. Um what did and this just made me 591 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:18,880 Speaker 1: just think of this when you just said, you know, 592 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,239 Speaker 1: from your culture, like it's not you don't come from 593 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,920 Speaker 1: a place of like being the one to like talk 594 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,680 Speaker 1: about your feelings and you know being that and I 595 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,560 Speaker 1: understand that as well. But what did your family say 596 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 1: when you said I'm gonna go on this show? Um? 597 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 1: I know you, I know I came here to go 598 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,680 Speaker 1: to school and to become a pharmacist. But now I'm 599 00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,160 Speaker 1: gonna go on this show they call The Bachelor, where 600 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,719 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be one of thirty something women dating one man. 601 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:52,640 Speaker 1: What what did your face say? Well, I didn't talk 602 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 1: my I didn't talk to my family when I went there. No, 603 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,000 Speaker 1: none of them knew about it. I only told them, Hey, 604 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,400 Speaker 1: I would be away for a couple of months. I'm okay, 605 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,960 Speaker 1: I'm just taking a break. Don't worry about me. You know, 606 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,600 Speaker 1: if you need money already stend to you. Just don't worry. 607 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,200 Speaker 1: I will call you an I come back. That was it. 608 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,719 Speaker 1: Then when I went back and I called my mom, Hey, Mom, 609 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:18,160 Speaker 1: yam back. Everything is good. I'm gonna tell you, you know, 610 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,440 Speaker 1: have something to tell you. And before I talk to her, 611 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 1: you know, the world happened and everything was shut down 612 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:29,200 Speaker 1: until until January. So when I get to talk to her, 613 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,719 Speaker 1: I told her, Hey, remember that time I told you 614 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,439 Speaker 1: I would be away for you know, over a month 615 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,960 Speaker 1: or so. Yeah, it's called the Bachelor. It's you know, 616 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,000 Speaker 1: you know, you will there to meet a guy. I 617 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:44,080 Speaker 1: didn't told her how many women. She will still kill me? 618 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:48,520 Speaker 1: I think I told her, Yeah, it's you know, find 619 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,200 Speaker 1: a guy. You know, to meet a man. Oh was 620 00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,040 Speaker 1: he nice? Yeah? His brain nice. You know you know 621 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,240 Speaker 1: this guy that a kid he's told me is handsome? 622 00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,920 Speaker 1: Is he Christians? Said? Yeah, it's Christian? Yeah, so how 623 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,000 Speaker 1: wasn't No, you know, I get to know him, so 624 00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:05,040 Speaker 1: we just wes have different interests. So but yeah, it 625 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:09,000 Speaker 1: was really good. That's all she knows. She didn't watch 626 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,560 Speaker 1: this show yet. Hopefully one day I will sit with 627 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:17,839 Speaker 1: her and explain to her watch the show with her. 628 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:23,400 Speaker 1: So that's that's the goal. That's funny. No, I listen, 629 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,160 Speaker 1: I get it. People two on me going on the show. 630 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:32,240 Speaker 1: Either I should Yeah, I can't even. Oh my gosh, 631 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:36,760 Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, how many siblings do you have? Oh? Okay, 632 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,160 Speaker 1: we are a lot. I have one girl and um 633 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:46,520 Speaker 1: five brothers. Okay, big family. And are you and you're 634 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:51,279 Speaker 1: the very oldest? No, I am the middle. But yeah, 635 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:54,560 Speaker 1: but you know, being a girl, being in the middle, 636 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:58,600 Speaker 1: you're always the one who's taking care of the family. Yeah, 637 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,440 Speaker 1: act both sides. Yeah, yeah, do you I know It's 638 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,400 Speaker 1: it's a hard question to ask right now because we 639 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,000 Speaker 1: are still in the middle of this pandemic. But once 640 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,520 Speaker 1: the world opens up again, do you have any plans 641 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:14,640 Speaker 1: to go back to Ethiopia right away. Absolutely, I was 642 00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:18,400 Speaker 1: gonna go there for on September. We celebrate nearly on 643 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,640 Speaker 1: in Ethiopia on September elevel, So my plan was good 644 00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:25,640 Speaker 1: there and COVID happened and I didn't get a chance. 645 00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:29,680 Speaker 1: So I scheduled my vacation for Journey Wary and Journey 646 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:33,560 Speaker 1: why the war happened. I was like, it was crazy 647 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:38,040 Speaker 1: two years and I'm hoping and when everything goes back 648 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,040 Speaker 1: to normal, I don't care that much about the vaccine 649 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:44,160 Speaker 1: because like I'm trying, you know, I would be careful 650 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,319 Speaker 1: using my knowledge and all that, but I'm worried more 651 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,520 Speaker 1: about the you know, the constitution happening in my country. 652 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:54,719 Speaker 1: When that things goes normal, I cannot wait to go 653 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,359 Speaker 1: home because I honestly miss my mom. And the last 654 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,439 Speaker 1: time I've been there was thousand seventh. That's that's that's 655 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,600 Speaker 1: a lot. Sometimes I feel like I can't always even 656 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,320 Speaker 1: like thinking like how much a news A yeah, I 657 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,560 Speaker 1: will both someday. Well, Maggie, I hope you make it 658 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,719 Speaker 1: back soon. Look coming from a girl, I haven't seen 659 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,200 Speaker 1: my mom since September, and I cannot even complain I 660 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:22,160 Speaker 1: can't even imagine having it be several years. So we 661 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:26,040 Speaker 1: hope that everything within your country alleviate soon that you 662 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,120 Speaker 1: can make it back and just hug and kiss and 663 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:33,400 Speaker 1: just soaking all of the time with your family. Before 664 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,960 Speaker 1: we let you go, we ask all of the contestants 665 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,600 Speaker 1: who have ever been on the show the same question, 666 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,840 Speaker 1: but overall from the season and the time that you 667 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,600 Speaker 1: were on, what was your rose and what was your thorn? 668 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,960 Speaker 1: So your highlight and low light of the season? Um, 669 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:56,320 Speaker 1: can you sad? The lowlight? Yeah, was me being stalker 670 00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:01,960 Speaker 1: in the pumpkin. First of all, I didn't know how 671 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,719 Speaker 1: to swim, and you cannot put an African woman on 672 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,239 Speaker 1: the lake. I don't know how to do kayokee. It 673 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:12,480 Speaker 1: was my first time. I obviously, oh that was bright. 674 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,040 Speaker 1: I would have said after facu I would be like, nope, 675 00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:18,759 Speaker 1: I was in the middle. I was in the middle 676 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,520 Speaker 1: of the lake and I don't know. I can't go back, 677 00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,200 Speaker 1: I can't go front, and I'm looking back they coming. 678 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,440 Speaker 1: Nobody was coming to say how did you end up 679 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,360 Speaker 1: gidding out? That's a lot of people asking me. I 680 00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,880 Speaker 1: try admit it to the front when I made it 681 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,879 Speaker 1: to you know, to the front. All the game was done, 682 00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,520 Speaker 1: Bachelor Nation. I made it to the front, and it 683 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,880 Speaker 1: took me time to work my way, but I'm a 684 00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,600 Speaker 1: first learner, so I made it. Thank you good for 685 00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:52,520 Speaker 1: you say once again, did it? Did it? Give up? 686 00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,000 Speaker 1: There you go, And you want to know why. You 687 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,560 Speaker 1: probably had the right idea good thing that you were 688 00:39:57,600 --> 00:39:59,840 Speaker 1: start because you bypass all of the extra drama go 689 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,520 Speaker 1: going on. So you were just enjoying this nice little 690 00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:08,799 Speaker 1: stroll paddle session by yourself. Yeah, and my eyes were 691 00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,759 Speaker 1: being able, you know, to meet this amazing woman. Like 692 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,960 Speaker 1: we were sitting there talking to them about blog. I 693 00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:20,160 Speaker 1: was happy gigually with all of them. Like I was like, 694 00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:23,120 Speaker 1: I don't have anybody that I don't like. I was 695 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,160 Speaker 1: like I was friend this with all of them, even 696 00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,319 Speaker 1: that I was so close with a couple of them 697 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,080 Speaker 1: because I connet so much, but I was friend this 698 00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,560 Speaker 1: is all of them. I get to meet those amazing women, 699 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,760 Speaker 1: you know, hear their story like all the time. Wow, 700 00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:38,600 Speaker 1: Like it's just something that I never thought I would 701 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:40,840 Speaker 1: be And you know, I get to make an amazing 702 00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:44,320 Speaker 1: people and I have that friendship you know with me, 703 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:47,759 Speaker 1: and I'm very very grateful and I need to meet 704 00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:52,120 Speaker 1: you both right now. She's amazing. Sorry, I'm happy. Oh 705 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:56,879 Speaker 1: those are too. But we are so hard that you're here. 706 00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:00,640 Speaker 1: I mean it truly is our plan to have you 707 00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,239 Speaker 1: on this podcast, to get the op money to talk 708 00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,640 Speaker 1: to you. M Maggie. Thank you so much for being 709 00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:10,880 Speaker 1: here and for being a part of bastur Nation. We 710 00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:14,600 Speaker 1: hope that you are paving away and more people like 711 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:19,000 Speaker 1: you come on this show. Um. Yeah, we can't wait 712 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,200 Speaker 1: to see what you do. Admire you from a distance. 713 00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:28,359 Speaker 1: Keep posting those fabulous modeling pictures. My goodness, a work 714 00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:32,960 Speaker 1: of art. Yes, and thank you yeah yeah, thank you 715 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,359 Speaker 1: so much for me. Yes, Maggie, it has been having 716 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,279 Speaker 1: an absolute pleasure to get to learn your story and 717 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,960 Speaker 1: more about who you are. And please, like you have 718 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,279 Speaker 1: a friend in Rachel and I now like, please feel 719 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,640 Speaker 1: free to reach out to us if you ever need help, 720 00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,920 Speaker 1: like we are here, like we are here to support you. 721 00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,080 Speaker 1: You have friends in us, and I'm just so incredibly 722 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,120 Speaker 1: grateful that we've had this, you know, forty five minutes 723 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,080 Speaker 1: to finally sit down with you. Thank you, Thank you 724 00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,000 Speaker 1: so much for having me. It's a pleasure, and I 725 00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,640 Speaker 1: really think you a lot. We'll say in touch. Yeah, 726 00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,960 Speaker 1: I will, I will. I love you both. We love 727 00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,919 Speaker 1: you too. Make I want to hug you will. What's 728 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:14,360 Speaker 1: going to open up? Come out here? Look at me. 729 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:16,640 Speaker 1: I'm saying it now for the first time. I come 730 00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:20,160 Speaker 1: out here. I never tell people because she doesn't. Usually 731 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,040 Speaker 1: it's me inviting people. And Rachel's like, gosh, dang it 732 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,520 Speaker 1: back and stop saying that. But Angel says it. She 733 00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:31,719 Speaker 1: means it, thank you, thank you, good training too, all right, 734 00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:42,759 Speaker 1: by bye? Why are we too? Oh again, I'm in rage. 735 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:44,440 Speaker 1: I don't even want to talk about it because it's 736 00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,279 Speaker 1: it's a it's a damn shame. Now I curse because 737 00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,040 Speaker 1: Ma's gone something about me. Didn't want a curse in front. 738 00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,360 Speaker 1: I just know it's like her name means grace. We 739 00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,759 Speaker 1: have to keep it together. Oh my gosh, I just 740 00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:58,839 Speaker 1: like all I want to, like all that is going 741 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:02,120 Speaker 1: through my mind right now. It's just be still my heart, like, yeah, 742 00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:06,560 Speaker 1: the world was robbed of learning her story and getting 743 00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:09,280 Speaker 1: to know her, and it's so unfortunate. But I actually 744 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,919 Speaker 1: feel very grateful that you and I had the opportunity 745 00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,719 Speaker 1: to be her first podcast and really sit down and 746 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:21,000 Speaker 1: now share with vater Nation this incredible, amazing woman, and 747 00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:23,839 Speaker 1: I feel like those words don't even do her justice. Yeah, 748 00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:25,840 Speaker 1: you know what it is, It's like we're living in 749 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:27,600 Speaker 1: a time. We're living in a world right now where 750 00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,640 Speaker 1: things are so divided, things are so toxic, and if 751 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,880 Speaker 1: we're just and if I'm narrowing that down, just subastnation. 752 00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,279 Speaker 1: You know, there's so much division. We don't know how 753 00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:39,640 Speaker 1: the show is moving forward. There's so many people who 754 00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:42,320 Speaker 1: are confused by the things that happened. They don't get it, 755 00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,879 Speaker 1: they don't want to get it. And just to sit 756 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:51,359 Speaker 1: and have a conversation with Maggie, who talks about things 757 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:55,200 Speaker 1: in such a way where it's like, you're right, none 758 00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,680 Speaker 1: of this matters except for the things that she's talking about. 759 00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:02,239 Speaker 1: To hear her story, to hear how she came here, 760 00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,520 Speaker 1: to hear the struggles that she had when she got here, 761 00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:09,239 Speaker 1: but none of that defeated her. She allowed none of 762 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,600 Speaker 1: that to defeat her, and she just continued to keep going, 763 00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,560 Speaker 1: to keep moving because she was grateful for the little 764 00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,920 Speaker 1: things that she could appreciate that we take for granted 765 00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:21,680 Speaker 1: every single day. And I hope that for all our 766 00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,520 Speaker 1: batter happy, our listeners, that if you've got nothing else 767 00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:28,320 Speaker 1: from this podcast, from this season, from batter Nation, just 768 00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,840 Speaker 1: in general, in a really long time. I hope that 769 00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,239 Speaker 1: you were able to at least take those nuggets in 770 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,239 Speaker 1: so many more away from this conversation that we had 771 00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,840 Speaker 1: with Maggie. Yes, I mean, she is the epitome of 772 00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:43,560 Speaker 1: just again living up her name grace and elegance and 773 00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:47,320 Speaker 1: such a fighter and if you know, like it's so 774 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:49,320 Speaker 1: easy for us to get in our heads and to 775 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,759 Speaker 1: get down and to get frustrated over the tiniest, most 776 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:57,680 Speaker 1: minute stupid bs things in our life, and like her 777 00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:00,120 Speaker 1: country is going through a war, like she has not 778 00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:05,320 Speaker 1: seeing her family in almost four years, four three four years, 779 00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,919 Speaker 1: and all of the other toxicity and just hate that's 780 00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,440 Speaker 1: going on, especially within our country. Like the fact that 781 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:17,160 Speaker 1: she can smile and that she is still so grateful 782 00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:20,719 Speaker 1: and can look at little things to make that doesn't matter, 783 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:22,800 Speaker 1: like what I'm doing, what I'm working for, like my 784 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,600 Speaker 1: purpose in life is what matters and doesn't let anything 785 00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,239 Speaker 1: derail her. Is incredible. And I'm going to say one 786 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:31,000 Speaker 1: more time for all of our listeners, if you missed 787 00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:32,960 Speaker 1: the first couple of times we said this, please go 788 00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:37,840 Speaker 1: check out her nonprofit it is at MSY shoes dot org. 789 00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,759 Speaker 1: And again, if you can donate money or shoes or 790 00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:43,960 Speaker 1: whatever Maggie on the website is asking for, please go 791 00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:46,400 Speaker 1: do So. I'm going to the second I hop off 792 00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,680 Speaker 1: of this podcast because I think it's so important to 793 00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:53,640 Speaker 1: help her and this incredible cause. So, I mean, I 794 00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,000 Speaker 1: feel like, how do we talp that? How do we 795 00:45:56,120 --> 00:46:01,040 Speaker 1: talk like this incredible outstanding? I don't know, like I 796 00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:03,799 Speaker 1: don't know who our guests next. You don't try to, Nope, 797 00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:06,000 Speaker 1: you just let it sit there and let people soak 798 00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:10,040 Speaker 1: it in. Yeah, you don't, you know exactly, y'all go donate. Yeah, 799 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,320 Speaker 1: Beck and I are donating. I'm literally on the website 800 00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:18,120 Speaker 1: right now. So yeah, yeah, I mean I think with that, 801 00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:22,239 Speaker 1: just to let it sit and soak in and stop 802 00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:24,120 Speaker 1: listening to me ramble on. So you can go check 803 00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:27,799 Speaker 1: out Maggie's Instagram and her nonprofit. But you, guys, thank 804 00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,440 Speaker 1: you again for another week hanging out with us. We're 805 00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:32,520 Speaker 1: happy to be back together and in the swing of 806 00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:35,560 Speaker 1: things as a duo. As always, you guys, please keep 807 00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,680 Speaker 1: writing to us and letting us know your thoughts, comments, concerns, 808 00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:41,240 Speaker 1: any guests you want to have on in the future. 809 00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:43,839 Speaker 1: We're here, we will listen, and we will go from 810 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,200 Speaker 1: there and I can't wait to be back again next week. 811 00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:47,719 Speaker 1: And in the meantime, if you don't know where to 812 00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:49,920 Speaker 1: find us on social media, it is at Batch or 813 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,080 Speaker 1: Happy Hour on Instagram and at Batch Happy Hour on 814 00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:55,680 Speaker 1: both Facebook and Twitter. And if you never want to 815 00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:59,439 Speaker 1: miss another episode, an incredible episode like this one, please 816 00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:01,879 Speaker 1: subscribe to our podcasts and you can do that through 817 00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,239 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, the Wandering App, or wherever you are 818 00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,200 Speaker 1: listening to us right now. Thank you, guys for listening 819 00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,800 Speaker 1: in on this Tuesday, and thank you so much Maggie 820 00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:14,280 Speaker 1: for joining us. Yes, hi, hi, guys.