I Feel You, A Fortify Wellness Production
Bettina Mahoney the Founder/CEO of @atfortifywellness is a rape survivor who started her brand after struggling to not only find a therapist, but multiple mediums to heal through her trauma. Fortify Wellness is a 360 holistic platform offering therapy, coaching, fitness, and meditation on one subscription platform. We dive deep with our trailblazing guests about overcoming adversity.
I Feel You, A Fortify Wellness Production
Bershan Shaw - Unmasking the Ultimate Warrior
Bershan Shaw: The Ultimate Warrior’s Journey
Bershan Shaw, a two-time breast cancer survivor, international motivational speaker, business coach, and mental health advocate, shares her powerful story of resilience, authenticity, and purpose.
In this episode, we explore:
🔹 Finding peace through meditation, prayer, and journaling to align mind, body, and soul
🔹 Recognizing when you’re living a lie—and finding the courage to step into your authentic power
🔹 Defying the odds after being given just three months to live with stage four cancer
🔹 Embracing resilience and pushing forward despite countless rejections
🔹 Building safe spaces for healing through the URAWarrior mental health app & Fortify Wellness digital wellness app
🔹 The power of integrity: following through on your promises
🔹 Reconnecting with your inner child and honoring your true self
🔹 The importance of self-honesty and living unapologetically
🔹 Using nature, especially water, as a grounding practice during stressful times
Tune in for an inspiring conversation that will challenge you to live with courage, purpose, and authenticity.
More about Bershan Shaw:
Bershan Shaw is the ultimate warrior—an international motivational speaker, business coach, mental health advocate, and two-time breast cancer survivor who defied a three-month prognosis. You may know her from The Real Housewives of New York, but her impact goes far beyond TV. She’s the founder of Warrior Training International and the URAWarrior mental health app, helping people unlock their greatness. With powerhouse clients like Amazon, Google, and JPMorgan Chase, Bershan’s no-nonsense coaching transforms leaders and lives. Get ready for an unstoppable force.
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Welcome to I Feel you a Fortify Wellness production season seven, where we explore the real stories and strategies that help you strengthen your mind, body and soul. I'm Bettina Mahoney, your guide on this journey to a healthier, more vibrant you. Here's a quick reminder this information shared today is for your inspiration and knowledge, but always consult a healthcare provider for any medical concerns. I am so excited to welcome my next guest, bershon Shaw, the ultimate warrior, an international motivational speaker, business coach, mental health advocate and two-time breast cancer survivor who defied a three-month prognosis. You may know her from the Real Housewives of New York, but her impact goes beyond TV. The Real Housewives of New York, but her impact goes beyond TV. She's the founder of Warrior Training International and the You're a Warrior mental health app, helping people unlock their greatness With powerhouse clients like Amazon, google and JPMorgan Chase. Bershon's no-nonsense coaching transforms leaders and lives. Get ready for an unstoppable force. Bershon Shaw is here and let's get into it. Hello Bershon, how are you? Thank you so much for joining me today on the podcast.
Speaker 2:Hello. Hi, I'm so excited to be here. Thank you so much. I love what you're doing, so I'm happy and excited for be here. Thank you so much. I love what you're doing, so I'm happy and excited for this call.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much. I'm so excited so I love to unveil the mask and get really vulnerable and grounded. So when you're alone, no makeup, hair undone, no cameras, just you in the most natural state. What brings you the most comfort and can you define yourself without the titles?
Speaker 2:When I'm not on these calls Zoom, speaking, coaching, working and I'm just in my room, I put the candles on and I get on the floor and I meditate.
Speaker 1:I love meditation too. It helps me feel grounded, especially as women that are high powered moving through life. It's good to get grounded into your thoughts, and I also pray. I love that connection.
Speaker 2:Yes, I pray too. Every morning I meditate, I pray and then I write in my journal Mind body soul experience.
Speaker 1:For sure, yes, Always yes. And being honest with yourself. You know and I think that's part of the inner work I was struggling after I was assaulted. I had to go through that whole journey of getting myself back together again, and so you kind of have to unveil the mask and be brutally honest with yourself. So I'm curious have you ever been untruthful with yourself because it felt easier? And then how did you pivot from?
Speaker 2:that. So I was untruthful. When I was married, what was? I had this great lifestyle. I had this high powered partner. I owned restaurants and I was sort of in my own zone and I think I was living a lie. You know, he was an alcoholic and he wasn't the nicest to me and I was a motivational speaker, right. So I'm preaching positivity and inspiration and motivation and standing your power, and I don't think I was standing in my power. I think I was suffering in silence because I had this lifestyle. I lived in Soho, I had a place in the Hamptons, had a place, you know, in St Barts, and it was this lifestyle, but behind closed doors. I was suffering, I wasn't happy, I was playing small, my business was taking off. I never could talk about it. I couldn't share my reel about what was going on. So I would say that was when I was lying to myself.
Speaker 1:And what gave you the guts to go? I need to leave. I need to walk away from this.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, believe it or not, I did an event with Tony Robbins in San Diego and I was speaking to a crowd, thousands of people, and I remember saying you know, because my mantra is be a warrior, be unstoppable, stand in your power. And this woman came up to me afterwards crying, and she was like how do you stand in your power? I'm married, I'm miserable, I'm lying, I'm not getting what I'm supposed to, but I'm acting like I am and I know I'm not. And that moment just hit me Because I was living the same life. And here I am. I was the speaker, I was, you know, the girl who had the story. I went viral, everyone knew me, but really I was like wow, and it just touched me. In that moment I said you know what you have to do Leave and stand in your power. You got to be authentic to you. And then, from that moment, I went in the bathroom, I cried, and that's when I started my process.
Speaker 1:What did that feel like? To kind of unshed and cry and have that vulnerable awakening experience.
Speaker 2:You know it felt real, it felt honest. It was honest because a lot of times you know I'm in the mental health space and I'm into mind, body, spirit and what we do is we deflect, we lie, we don't want to deal with it, we make up stories. But the real truth is like stand in your power and be honest with yourself. Right, because I was a people pleaser all of my life and I was the girl who was fun outgoing and I fell into that. But I was like it's time to be real, it's time to be truthful time to be truthful Now.
Speaker 1:I was so inspired by you because I think we're both warriors in a sense, in different ways. Yes, we are. You've overcome a lot and you were given a stage four diagnosis in 2007 and you just moved through it with strength. And many people are offered a path to transformation but they don't recognize it, they don't take you know that. They don't listen to their bodies, like listening to your body can really save your life. It saved my life in a lot of ways when I started to love myself hard enough to go. This isn't serving, whether it's a social setting, a relationship, a partnership. I now love myself enough to go. I'm gonna leave that. What was the moment when you realized you were being given a chance to fight?
Speaker 2:I realized it when I mean because every day I literally was on the ground praying to God, please, god, don't take my life. I'm not ready to go, please. And I think when I did a speech at Johns Hopkins University, my doctor, dr Alicia Emmons, said I want you to speak and be the keynote speaker. And I said me. But she said yeah, she was like you know what? You're so bubbly, you're alive and you're living and not dying. And you know, when you get a diagnosis like stage four, I mean everyone's like grim. Support groups were like oh well, you know, what are you going to do? How are you going to plan your death? How's your funeral? What are you getting? I just had to stop the noise, I just had to get out of these support groups and get. But I think I think, standing there and I remember saying to the audience I was just like you know I'm not a statistic and neither are you, don't be a statistic. You know they gave me three months and I was doing the speech.
Speaker 2:I was a year and a half later. I'm a year and a half later and like I was crying and crying and crying and I just said I raised my hand, I was like I'm riding this to the wheels fall off, I'm riding this thing called life to the wheels fall off. I'm a warrior, I am not dying, and like I think it was just that one moment was me like, and this woman, this beautiful woman she was Caucasian blonde hair. I still she said I'm a warrior. And then everyone was like I'm a warrior, and it was like.
Speaker 2:It was like when I was just crying and I was talking, and I think it was the moment of freedom. It was the moment I felt free, like wow, this is something. And when that speech was over, when I tell you, I had a line of people standing there to talk to me. It may have been a hundred people and I was like what it was? Just it just became like wow, and I think that was the start of my movement. That was the start of my freedom and that was my start of my chapter two movement.
Speaker 1:that was the start of my freedom and that was my start of my chapter two. Wow, thank you for sharing that. It kind of gave me chills when you talked about statistic, because when I was raped in college I was like, oh no, now I'm a walking statistic and that almost crippled me until I moved to New York from Boston and something very different and magical happens. I feel like when you move to New York and I started to stop dissociating and I just started to gain my power back bit by bit as I was building out my business.
Speaker 1:But one of the promises I made to myself was I'm not, I'm going to work on myself. If I'm going to go out there and tell people that life will get better and you can use this mind, body, soul, experience to get better, I'll be getting better myself. I have my soul coach, I hop on my Peloton, I am journaling, I am going to a nice sound bath. I am fulfilling all those things because you don't have to let experience determine the rest of your life. Yeah, I remember having a moment in my New York City apartment where I literally said out loud rapist, I'm giving you that energy right back to you.
Speaker 2:You don't own me anymore, don't let one moment define you, so I would say cancer was my diagnosis, not my prognosis. Right, I'm not letting it define me. I want to ask you a question. Can I ask you a question? Yeah, okay, so you're raped. Did your rapist? Did they ever go to jail? Did they ever or no?
Speaker 1:No, no. This person was a serial rapist. Did it on campus five other times before me and the women were afraid to go forward. So he was on campus and that was told to me by a campus safety officer at the college.
Speaker 2:Wow, and everyone was afraid. And so, wow, was he like a football player, a basketball player, I mean, was it one of those? That's why they didn't want to.
Speaker 1:No, the women were afraid to, just because it's very, um, it's traumatic, yeah for sure, and you know, when you don't feel safe to come forward, um, it can be really hard and I think a lot of people. It takes years within your body to acknowledge it and I made the choice not to, because it felt good and safe for me to not do it, and you know I'm okay with it. You know it's interesting. I actually never shared this, but I had a really interesting opportunity to meet with the powers that be at my university because I really wanted to sell my app to them and I got on the call and I never thought I'd have this opportunity to sit on a call and tell the people that hurt me and covered up for this person that they hurt me and I thought you know you'll appreciate this because you're a coach I thought that this is going to be one of the things that really helps me in my healing journey and I'm talking to them and it's like talking right through a soul, nothing that.
Speaker 1:And I was shaking under the table. I couldn't wait till this call was over. I was, yeah, upset. I hopped off the call, I called up my soul coach and I'm bawling my eyes out, and it became so clear to me you cannot get closure externally, you have to get it within yourself. And I knew in that moment I made the right choice of how I handled my healing journey and what I did moving forward. But it was just, it was so telling and so for me, I, I, it's hard, it's a really tough, but I, I really find that god put me in this position to help people, to tell other people like I went through, I walked over the mountain and now you can too, and it's a privilege and, um, it was tough, a really tough experience, and I'm not in that trauma victim consciousness anymore all the time I'm not there anymore.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Other side.
Speaker 2:You're a warrior there, it is Right, I love it. No, and it's a, it's a journey. It's a journey, so, and I always tell people you know when I, when I speak or just in life, like, get busy living, not dying. We can make the loop and keep on telling ourselves something over and over again and keep reliving it, or we can move past it and live in the present and really live. I chose to live.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. I love that and I know your faith in God is really strong.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I'm curious how has that journey with your health kind of deepened or maybe challenged your faith?
Speaker 2:You know, in the beginning it was anger, mad, depressed, angry. Why me? And then I went on the other side and I said, why not me? Right? I didn't realize when this was happening, how many people I was supporting, saving and helping, and I say that because so many women and men around the world I mean when I tell you on social media, dm me, my team, what did you take, how did you do it, what gave you strength, how did you? I mean there's so many things and I'm like, wow, I'm really influencing people.
Speaker 2:So I'll tell you this story, and this is a young man that I have followed. I still have this picture. There's a young kid named Marco. He's 10 years old. He came to hear me speak with Les Brown. Les Brown, you know, is a huge speaker. His mother brought him to speak while she came near me.
Speaker 2:So the kid is waiting for me to give my autograph and sign my book. And the kid says, wow, ms Shaw, you've changed my life. I've never heard anyone speak like this, but I've never gotten a message like this. And I'm like, how old are you? And he's 10. So do you know? He wants to go pro in football. So every year he'll text me, he'll tweet me and I'll say make sure you stay focused, get your goals together. Dah, dah, dah. And so he's. Finally, he got into college and I'm crossing my fingers because he's going to go pro.
Speaker 2:So this is someone that I have kept in touch with for like, what is this? Uh, what? Eight, nine, 10 years, 10 years, 11 years. And this guy was like it was from your speech, because I said be a warrior, be unstoppable, don't let anyone put you in a corner, just do it, push through it. So all you got to do is push through it and if you fail, fail forward. And if you fall, fall back. You can look up, you can get up, but keep going. And so it really touched my heart.
Speaker 1:Sometimes the strong women they need and people in general, they need the support too. You know, there are times when I'm very honest with myself again going back to listening to my body. What do I need if I'm stressed? Sometimes I will just, in the middle of the day, I'll just hop on my Peloton, go outside, because sometimes it can feel like the weight is on your shoulders.
Speaker 2:So I'm curious for you when you're having one of those days and everyone expects you to have it all together. How do you cope with that? I walk, I go for a walk, I love walking, I love walking. I will just walk wherever I love to walk and in the morning like, and I love water. So everywhere I move, I try to move near water. So I live near the water and I like in the morning this morning get my green tea and I just walk and I do my affirmations, I do my manifestations and I just walk and talk to God. It just brings peace to me.
Speaker 1:It's so nice walking in New York City. Yeah, you know I, cause I came from a very small town outside of Boston and I always wanted to move here, so I never take that for granted. I'm like very much. There's different types of meditation and part of my meditation is just being very aware, looking up for my phone. You know very like we don't see a lot of green and grass and yard in New York.
Speaker 1:City a central park, but I try to be present. Look at the buildings, you know, smell the smells like. Sometimes they're not amazing, but just being really grounded in that it's beautiful. I'll never take it for granted.
Speaker 2:Oh, I love that, Me too. I love New York, Me too.
Speaker 1:And I'm curious what's one thing that you struggle with that might be too hard to say out loud?
Speaker 2:You know, I'm a workaholic I really am and I don't know how to stop, like I don't. I would lie if I didn't say you know, success means a lot to me and I keep going and I keep going and I keep going and, like, I want to know how to stop. Not stop Maybe, maybe, like like I don't believe that it Maybe maybe, like like I don't believe that it's like work-life balance I don't believe anything is 50-50. Sometimes it's 70-30, 60-40. But I guess you know, I had a father who was so driven, I had a mother who was so driven, my ex-husband was so driven. It's just, I don't stop. And so what I would want to learn how to do really is breathe and just relax.
Speaker 1:I also have trouble stopping and sometimes I have to force myself. Sometimes I can be a little afraid to stop because I'm like what would it reveal? Yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 2:Because I'm like what would it reveal? Yeah, I think you're right. I think I in my life, I think I've worked so hard to prove myself. I don't really need validation from anyone, but I think I keep going and you know, I look at it and I even teach people this. Like there's no gold star, I'm not getting a medal from heaven, there's nothing coming down on me, but I just can't stop. I'm not getting a medal from heaven, there's nothing coming down on me, but I just can't stop, I don't stop and I wish I had a little more balance.
Speaker 1:Yes, and why don't we get a gold star, like, why can't, as adults, we go? Yes, vershawn, you're killing it today.
Speaker 2:I know I wish we could get a gold star. Let's talk to God.
Speaker 1:Let's start giving you some gold star. Let's talk to God. Let's start giving you some gold stars. I love it and I'm curious because you seem like such an authentic person. And I'm just curious were there any times when you've seen yourself on TV and didn't recognize that person? Or do you feel like you had? Do you feel like you had to shape yourself or change yourself for entertainment?
Speaker 2:Yes, so that's a good question. I was on a show called Real Housewives. So if you Google me, people say actress. I'm not an actress but because Housewives of New York has over 100 million impressions, that comes up first Because you know, google and all that takes what's first and has the most impressions. You know I went on the show to be a coach. You know I have a consulting coaching business and all of that. And I think because I have a big personality, I think the drama, because they like drama, and I'm not a drama person, I'm someone I really am, a person who likes positivity, who I don't spend time on negative stuff. But I think I got caught up in the madness of that show, you know, and I became. I mean, people love me, people are like oh, you're so authentic, you're real, we love you, you're our favorite. But I think I mean I didn't get, it's just madness and I don't subscribe to that Is there anything that you wish you could have revisited on the show and done differently?
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I mean so what I realized is that they poke holes because they want the action and the negativity and the drama. I was just really trying to coach and I think there was an argument that happened between Sonia he was JPM Morgan Chase's wife and I wish I would have not argued and gone down a rabbit hole with her Because it was silly. It was silly but I mean I came out on top. I mean people loved me for it and they were like thank God you told her off. But it was like that's not even who I am. I'm not even that person. I'm a businesswoman.
Speaker 1:I don't really care about nonsense, I really don't, but I think those shows poke holes to make the drama and did you find time when you were filming to talk to God and find those moments of meditation to recenter yourself? Or was it kind of challenging with filming?
Speaker 2:No, yes. So you know, when I got home, I was like which is why, you know, I came on to be a coach and to have my teams coach them, but then they loved my personality and they turned it turned into something more than I wanted. That's not what I wanted. That wasn't who I am from the inside, so I had to bow out, you know.
Speaker 1:Yes, I mean. I think you've built such an incredible brand inspiring other people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thank you, yeah, so I bowed out. I was like that's not me, you know.
Speaker 1:But you know, I think, I think we get to own every part of our life. You know, like, obviously you were given a platform to empower people and I think that get to own every part of our life. You know, like, obviously you were given a platform to empower people and I think that's a really strong upside to your experience there.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But was there a moment just in your life not really with the show but was there a moment where you felt like you lost yourself in the process and had to pay the price for your brand?
Speaker 2:Oh, I had to pay the price for your brand. Ooh, I had to pay the price for my brand. I mean I don't, I try. Look, I'm not Mother Teresa, believe me, I don't. I'm not. Like I'm not Gandhi or God, like I'm not. That you know I'm human, right. So humans make mistakes, humans do things wrong. I mean I try to, I try to really live with integrity.
Speaker 2:You know, I'm the one who, who checks myself right. I'm not a talker, like if I do it, I'm looking at myself and I like to say the reason. You know my team and people and you know they work with me because I do do what I say I'm going to do. Like, if I say I'm going to do it, I do it. I'm not flaky. You know people. I'll tell you one thing People, I have a big personality right, and so people think, oh, she's a diva, she's flaky.
Speaker 2:I'm really not flaky at all. Like if you say, you know, come at eight o'clock and I'll be there. If you say, hey, I'm really in a jam, I need to borrow money, and I do, like it's integrity, I'll do it because I said it. If you say, you know, come visit me in the hospital, like I do what I said and I think what, what I don't like is when people don't have integrity and do what they say Like. So that's what like it really gets me, it gets to my core, like, because I'm and maybe I'm too to a default, I'm too loyal, right, and so I go all the way in If you say it and you got like, you got me like, I'm near, I'm solid as a rock, and what I realized is that many people aren't. And I go down this whole thing and I'm like why are they not in the book? Let them the book, let them. People are people, who they are. So I think that Let them.
Speaker 1:And then the other part that people forget is let me.
Speaker 2:Let me and let them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I totally. I literally say to my team all day long we are doers, we are just doers by nature. We get ish done. And there is, there's, a lot of people that say a lot and don't do, and I can't identify with that because I think I, I part of me, I feel like I was born with this maybe and of course, god, I don't know but I was always a born go-getter, I was a dancer and I was just so regimented. And I think one of the things I learned and you'll identify with this, is when you have an adversity that changes your life. You learn what you're made of and then it becomes one of those things where, like nothing can really shake you. You're like I am determined to get everything done because I realize that I deserve it. And I do the same thing. I show up for people in my life. They're loyal, you know, because that's important. It's all part of life. We. We have to take care of one another.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's how I feel and and that's exactly how I feel and thank you for that, bettina. I'm just, I'm a real one. I'm authentic. Like you know, if I believe in something, I put my time, my energy, my money behind it. And you got me right. You know, if I go down, I'm going down with you. Like I always say I'll do anything, once I will, but I just won't do anything criminal. I'm just, it's just not. I don't want to be in orange clothes or black and white. I do not want to do anything criminal. Like you won't have me on that one. Like I will step away long, I don't even put me in it, I'll walk away. But like, I'm just a real one, I'm very authentic. I do what I say and you know I'm not the one who will say one thing and do another. That's not me at all.
Speaker 1:I was saying this the other day, I was on a panel and I always ask them like, how can I serve you, especially in the wellness industry? I like to walk the walk, I like to run, I like to say run the talk. But I like to make people feel like they are taken care of, even in the, the workplace, because we can't pour from an empty cup, as you know so well. And again, we have to take care of each other and live the mission in every part of our lives I love that.
Speaker 2:Yep, I agree, I am a thousand percent with you.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, yes, yes and I'm curious if you could go back and talk to your inner child, what would you say to her?
Speaker 2:Oh, when I was young and 18, just do it Right. I mean, I think I learned to be bolder and to live with confidence. Older, I think, as a young, younger girl, I was a people pleaser. You know, old saying my dad used to say just do it, they're going to talk about you anyway. Who cares? When you're doing good, when you're making money, when you're successful, they're going to talk about you. When you're doing bad, they're going to talk about you. So just do it anyway. No matter what, just do it anyway. Let's do it. I think that's what I would tell myself at at 18.
Speaker 1:hmm, yes, I think when you're young, fear can get in the way. You know, I my fear is when I'm not in the arena and I'm not playing. Like you know, growing up as a competitive dancer it's like you hear no 90 percent of the time. It's like I keep moving, I keep pushing through. Yeah, you know, you seem like a very resilient person. It's so interesting the common denominators women, people in general that we have on here. They're just so resilient. Where did you learn that from?
Speaker 2:My dad, you know, I mean you know poor Black man from Gilbert, louisiana, eight kids living in a two-bedroom. He said I am not going to live like this anymore. Became very successful in DC you know one of the first Black millionaires and just said don't let anyone stop you, no matter what, keep going. They will try to deny you, they will try to hurt you, they won't want you to win. Life will beat you down, people will be jealous, keep going. He was like all the no's I've heard find your yes. And I just keep going until I find my yes, because they will say no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Until you find your yes, I find my yes, that's beautiful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no is just static noise to me, it is. It is right, that's what I say. I am heads down and if someone says no, like of course in business, if someone says no, I'm like wrong person.
Speaker 2:Next, Wrong person. I find a way. That's it. I've heard no so many times. I find my yes.
Speaker 1:Absolutely so. What do you have coming up in your world that you're excited to share?
Speaker 2:So I have a mental wellness app called you Are A Warrior the letter U are a warrior altogether and I'm just excited about it. I'm excited because it's community-based. It's a community app with peer-to-peer support. Ai it's 24-7. It's daily motivation, daily challenges and daily coaching. Like we're in a world where there's a lot of trauma, negativity, there's a lot going on and it's going to get worse, it's going to get bad. I think people need a space. They need a safe space, they need a place where they can vent, share and get support, and that's what I'm providing.
Speaker 1:I agree. I mean, I remember like being completely bed bound after I survived my trauma and I mean we have everything at our fingertips now, but it's what I found it was so oversaturated and you don't know where to turn, you know, and so that's why I built my app, like my HIPAA compliant 360 app, because I was like people deserve fundamental care and I believe it's for everybody Strong women supporting each other. I'm excited to support you. Yes, I want to support you. It's so empowering to you know, know and meet other women that are down that same road of like. We want to change this. We're not satisfied with the current care out there. I don't think it's great and for the average person like it needs to be affordable, it needs to be accessible. And then the other part that I think people miss is not only the services, but applying the services, applying the lessons learned to be able to live a sustainable life. Yeah, that is the chef's kiss.
Speaker 2:Exactly that's why I love what you're doing. I think what you're doing. I wanted to be on this show because I think what you're doing is amazing and we need a whole 360 wellness mind, body, spirit. Right, we need all of that and ours are complimentary. Mine is, you know, personal development, self-improvement, motivation and support. Right, you are a warrior. It's community. We're in it together because we all have warrior stories. We all have a story to tell.
Speaker 1:I agree. Thank you so much for joining me today. I appreciate you and your energy, and I'm curious to wrap it all up in one word what do you want to be remembered for? And I'm curious to wrap it all up in one word what do you want to be remembered for? I?
Speaker 2:don't know In life, warrior being a warrior, carrying that light Right, right, being a trailblazer, being a trailblazer.
Speaker 1:You know what's so cool? Someone I had on Tuesday she said when I think of the first question I asked, which was when you take away all the titles, who are you? And she said I'm. I'm my little seven-year-old self. I'm sitting in my chair, my feet can't touch the floor and I'm just having fun. You know, whenever we're mean to ourselves, whenever we're just not feeling our best, I think pull out that photo, that younger version for you at your 18 year old doll For me. I will send it to you later. Three-year-old me I didn't have, I didn't have hair. I used to wear leopard pants in my head.
Speaker 2:You're right Because your little kid is, it was who you really want to be and who you are right. It's our parents that stunted us, or our friends, or experiences or beliefs or social media, right. But we all have a little kid inside of us and, like I would say, I'm doing it right. Community, let's all get along. We've gone so far from love who we are as human beings. We've gone so far to being divisive, to hate, to all of this stuff. But human beings just want love and connection. That's all we want.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you so much for your connection, thank you, and thank you for joining me.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much. What a great session. I appreciate it.
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