November 17, 2025 • 33 mins
Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Senita M. Hill.
Purpose of the Interview
- To spotlight Peace on Patuxent Incorporated, a nonprofit founded by Sunita M. Hill.
- To discuss the challenges women face when diagnosed with cancer and how the organization provides sanctuaries for peace, clarity, and empowerment.
- To inspire entrepreneurs and individuals to prioritize wellness and community support.
Key Takeaways
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About Peace on Patuxent
- Located in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
- Offers two-day retreats for women diagnosed with life-leveling cancers.
- Provides limousine pickup, red carpet welcome, prepared meals, and activities focused on stillness.
- Launching virtual sessions nationwide in January to reach women who cannot attend in person.
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Life-Leveling Cancer
- Defined as any cancer diagnosis that disrupts life and forces major changes.
- Emphasizes the emotional and psychological impact beyond physical illness.
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Senita’s Personal Journey
- Inspired by her mother’s battle with lung cancer to create a space for women to pause and regain control.
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Empowerment Through Pause
- Women often feel they have choices, but treatment paths are usually predetermined.
- Peace on Patuxent offers a moment of stillness to reflect and make informed decisions.
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Community and Cultural Impact
- Addresses stigma in African American and ethnic communities around illness.
- Encourages open conversations and sharing of resources.
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Access and Application
- Apply via peaceonpatuxent.org.
- Requirements: Over 18, healthy enough to be independent, ideally within two years post-diagnosis.
Notable Quotes
- “Every woman should allow herself the opportunity to come to peace.”
- “She matters—not just as a patient, but as a mother, daughter, coworker, and friend.”
- “When you hear the word cancer, it changes your life. It’s life-leveling.”
- “We’re not here to tell you how to run your journey. We’re here to allow you to pause your mind.”
- “The only way you’ll know your options is if you come out and have the conversation.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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guess is the founder and CEO or peace on Patassink Incorporated.
They create sanctuaries for women battling life leveling cancers. Peace
On Potassink is a nonprofit respite and wellness organization located
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in Prince George's County, Maryland, dedicated to affirming the worth
and well being of women diagnosed with life leveling cancers.
Please welcome the Money Making Conversation discuss all this masterclass.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Sanita m healed. How you doing, Sanita?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Well? Thank you? Thank you for having me. What an introduction.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Now let's talk about you, my friend. I'm very familiar
with Princess George. The first of all, let's tell us
talk to us about Prince because you said it in there,
Prince George's County, Maryland. What is that area and why
is it important to our conversation today?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Oh my goodness, I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Prince George's County, Maryland is and was dean the number
one area for wealth in black in the black community
around the world. In the United States, they just rezoned it,
so changed a little bit, but it is.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
It is the.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
City right adjacent to the District of Columbia, Washington, d
C where we work. So we go and we go
back and forth to Washington, d C. It's just a
rocks throw As a matter of fact, where I grew
up was also zoned when I was a kid as
Washington d C. Before we when we started switching off
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to give d C what it was. So it's very important.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It's very important to my younger brother lives in that
area down here is like a fool barber or in
a beauty salon. So I assume he's probably in that
erie down there, living good.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Living good.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
But let's talk about you. I would compably Upbet, I'm
a cancer survivor. Twenty fifteen, I was diagnosed with cancer
thyroid and it changed my perspective on life when I
was as a business owner, as a family man, as
a husband, as a father, because when they say the
word cancer, it is it is life leveling, whether you
know the level of the severity of the cancer or not.
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Every stereotype of every fear that you have heard or
been aware of, or we cancer jumps into your spirit,
jumps into your soul. Talk about this. Are you a
cancer survivor? Sanita m Hill.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I am a I am diagnosed with AMGUS and I
will say is the precursor to multiple maloma in the
African American community, specifically for women. However, when we talk
of when we hear amgess or when we hear of it,
usually we hear of it as leukemia, which is totally
different on outside of the spectrum. So since for twenty years,
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I've been watched for the gene to make sure, because
you have to be watched, it will hit milestones and
it will switch over before you can catch it. So
I've been with an oncologist every six months, sometimes we
switch back and forth for the past twenty years.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Now I brought this up into conversation because there are
a lot of people are in the entrenial, entrepreneurial spaceball
business owner space influencers.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Who are Type eight.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I'm a Type A person and because of that, you
know this, Every six months, do I have time or
how importantness? Talk about the whole process of your group
that you have around them, talking about your loved ones,
your coworkers, understanding the importantness for your sanity, for your
peace of mind. Why these six months to annual tests
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are important.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
So the annual tests are very important for me one
to it keeps me in touch with not being in denial,
because denial will cause me to just go and skip
these appointments where my numbers will change. And so then
we go off and we don't talk about it, and
no one is talking about it but our oncologists, and
it helps us to get into groups and to get
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more informed. That is what it does for me, and
that is what peace.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
On Atuxant does for women.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It allows them to come together with the community of
women who are going through various types of cancers.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
But the journey is the same, and it.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Doesn't mitigate the anxieties that we have from being diagnosed
as you just mentioned.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Although I may not look like I or I or the.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Other women may not look like they're going through cancer.
But on an end side, there's always this fere yes,
when is it gonna When is it gonna jump up?
One of my numbers is gonna change? What does this
mean for my family? So all of that is there,
but people don't see it.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It gives you an amazing sense of mortality that you
you don't have it in your twenties, thirties, and then
when you you know, once you get past fifty, you know,
we all know the finish line is coming, okay, and it's.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Gonna be real. You should know there's a finish line.
You know, when you're twenty, you don't see the finish line.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
You just literally your life, partying, going to college, you know,
having babies, having getting married out there, living to the
next dream and investing in the stock market. You get
past fifty, you go, okay, what does my life look like?
And that's the mortality that cancer can bring onto you
in your twenties, in your thirties, in your forties, and
the reality that it can happen to you today. That's
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why the family history is important.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Correctness Hill absolutely absolutely, and we talked We know about
sickle cell, which is one of the things that we discussed.
However we're not talking about the gene. My mother, who
transitioned from lung cancer, told me in her spirit she
knew she would bede. She would be the first who
in our family who had open cancer. She knew that
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and heard her dad pass from cancer. So knowing that
that's there and we begin to talk about it, it
gives you a different understanding or just awareness like Okay,
this is here. And so when we talk about mingus
and multiple myeloma, it then again brings it to the forefront.
You have this dormant smoldering we called some call it smoldering.
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There's this smoldering thing that's sitting in your blood. What
will it do and when will it do? So stress
has to be kept at a minimum in your life.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
You have to try to maintain.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
It well stressed.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
That's why I think it's important to hear the word
peace on patescent.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Peace. You're trying to get peace.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And I've talked to a lot of people and my
version of how I reacted cancer and how.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Women react to cancer two different days.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
So I'm not even gonna jump into this lane and
act like my conversation and my relatability to women who
are suffering from cancer or been diagnosed with cancer or
been cured from cancer. But when you've been cured, they
always tell you to check every six months to a year,
so that that sensibility or sense of a calm or
peace will always be on the edge. Can it come back?
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Will it come back? If it comes back? If I
miss it? What's the severity? Will it be cured this
time around? So what inspired you to create peace on Potussic?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
So, my mother, as I mentioned, was diagnosed with let
me start here first. I was diagnosed with AM and
about six months later, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer.
And so in her journey, because I will share that
when my mother was diagnosed, I said on mine because
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hers was more important for me to help her. I
felt like it was more important for me to help
her run her journey or to get treated. So, you know,
to help her get treated. She was my mother, So
I sort of sit on mine although watching it, but
it was more important.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
So during her.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Journey, I saw our women and I again being here
in Bridge George's County. I saw how women of color
the resources were very nil. But I also saw what
was important to her. What was important was just sitting
in the garden, was sitting in the garden and just
being able to think about it and allowing her to
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run her journey, her race, her way. Hearing her voice
was important. And I believe that a doctor or your
medical team, if they are not sympathetic and understanding to
you running your journey your way, can make or break
your treatment. And so peace on Patuxin is not connected
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with any hospital or doctor, because we want the woman
to make to run her journey. I share with a
lot of people that when a woman is diagnosed, she's told,
when anyone is diagnosed, let's go that way. When a
woman is diagnosed, she's told she has choices. However, her
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choices are already made for her. You will take this treatment,
you will go this place, you will do that, And
then you have your family who has expectations of how
they want you to do it. No one has asked
or given you the time to sit and just pause
and think about maybe I don't want chemo, maybe I
don't want radiation. They don't give you that, and That's
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what Peace on Patuxin offers, just a place to pause,
think and be honored for the woman that you are
or you were, because you're still a wife, still a daughter,
still a coworker, all those things are still on your
back while you're running that journey.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
That is what Peace on Petuxin is.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I'm speaking to us, she said the founder and CEO
or Peace on Potetic. They create sanctuaries for women battling
life leveling cancers. Okay, let's go to those three words.
I just say, what exactly is life leveling cancers?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Life leveling cancer is any cancer, any cancer. It could
be skin cancer, because once you are told you have cancer,
it changes your life. You are on the floor, knocked down,
trying to figure out how I'm going to manage this thing.
So we have turned it life leveling. Actually, one of
our one of my betas in the beginning, who's also transition,
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helped to define life leveling. So it's from the women
that we draw what is that we need to communicate?
How do we communicate this to the community and two
people who doesn't who don't.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Understand, let me get this clear now, are these are
individual with terminal cancer diagnosis or people who are hovering
from cancer through therapy, chemotherapy. So I'm just, I just,
I just want to clearly understand when you said life leveling,
because I could be a life leveler because in twenty
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fifteen I was diagnosed, they gave me radition treatment and
I've been every test says comes back and says I'm negative.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
So is it the.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Terminal side of it, that that terminate that that that
demonstrates life level of what exactly is it?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Life leveling is once you're diagnosed?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Mos okay, okay that I needed it because it was
life leveling for me. My life passed before my eyes.
I will literally tell you it was two life levelings
for me. One when he told me I was negative.
And I remember to this day, Anita, this, this doctor
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walked in the room, he said, we looked at your test,
were fine, and walked out.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I went, what is he saying? What did we say find?
What does fine mean?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Because you have so many paths, so many emotions that
you have to deal with in dealing with cancer. I
remember chased them in the hall say hey, dude, do
do do dode? I need more clarity? What does fine mean?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
In your book. When it comes to cancer, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Fine fire, I find Hamburgers, I find cars. If they
define women, what does find mean? Okay, oh, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, meaning that you know negative, Just come and
see us every six months to a year, get on
the books, and you're the cancer that we saw.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
We killed them with the radiation pill and you're good
to go. So that put me into life leveling.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
But I am still I would tell everybody I am
still fearful that cancer can't come back.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Now I bring that up because I am a business owner.
I employ people.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I am building a company that I would like to
be will be here five years, fifteen years, fifty years,
fifteen years. Employees have devoted their time because I've sold
them on the idea that this is a company that
has value and you should put your time in. You
should make this a career opportunity. How does the life
leveling cancer people like me deal with that that you
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interact with.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
So what peace ontuxon does is it gives you the moment,
It gives you clarity.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
It allows you to just pause on clarity. Many times.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
You know, we come with women come with preconceived notions.
Once they get together in their communities, or they develop
these relationships or talk with other people. There are so
many different options out there. The option of I may
have come. I can share a story. I had a
young lady that when we were doing our beta process
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and she didn't have anyone else, so she thought, I
have to leave all of my possessions to my family
who don't even talk to me. It wasn't until she
showed up that she could hear and hear that that
is not where you have to that's not what you
have to do. And in her transitioning she left it
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to a church. But she couldn't hear the voice until
she came here, and she couldn't hear her voice until
she got still in her treatments and everything else. Until
she was still, she was able to make a sound
decision by herself.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
That's the voice.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Well, it gives you a sense of balance, absolutely clear understanding.
With that being said, how do we get in touch
with you?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
You can reach me at Sanata m Hill dot com.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Please spell Outanita.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
You know you just act like that SHERYLA Betty.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Let's try another way.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I am Sanita s E n I t A at
peace on tuxon and it's peace like stillness. P E
A c E on pat ux e n T dot
org And we are out there. We're on every social
media platform.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Please don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more
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Speaker 3 (15:25):
Awesome, Awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Now, as a message to women everywhere, if you could
leave one message with women who are carrying the way
to work, okay, family and illness, what would you want
them to hear from you today, Zanita Hill, I would.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Say that they are worthy of a moment of peace.
They should allow every woman should allow herself the opportunity
to come to peace on protection.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Here.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Women look like you, They look like you, They are
going through what you're going through. There is a you
can find the connection. That's what I want, And I
would say, and she deserves it. Just take the break
and is that no cost?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Now? Online? This is available online, This is on online.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
We're getting ready to launch an online platform.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
But you had to because you know I'm about to
I'm about to jump up or jump through this camera
like you know, this type of off information. There are
people in California, that people in Texas and people in Chicago,
the people.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
In the you know and woman who.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Need this this service. This uh, this homecoming, but it's
not a homecoming. But it also gives you a sense of
balance because you know, I would be honest with you
when I would. I became very selfish when I was
informed I had cancer because I didn't want to tell people.
And I want to talk about that. Because of the
fact that you get cancer at a certain age, you
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can be stereotyped. You can you can may potentially think
you could lose your job, you potentially lose career opportunities.
People look at you different way, and I really strive
to look different or the stereotype what a cancer victim
looks like.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
You have to deal with that as well.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Correct Yes, yes, yes, And what we see and what
I see is that in that how do we give
ourselves permission? How do we work again? That's the community. However,
what I see on the other side is the the
isolation I share with many people because we're we're we're
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intentionally with ethnicity in our ethnic community. First of all,
we African Americans haven't been out there. We have we
were hiding our families in the closet when they had.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Cancer years ago. So here we are.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
We're trying to embrace it, but we need to be
able to step into it and own it as well.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
And look at our other communities, our Asian communities, our
Indian communities.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
How do they how do they how do we get
them our Latino community specifically, how do we get them
to come out and say it's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
And you not be banished for it. So that is
what we're trying to do. I'm here.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I enjoyed these interviews because as far as the Black community,
we've that closet that you was talking about was pat
The gay community was in that closet, you know what
I'm saying. You know, mental health people issues was in
that closet. You know, old people in that closet, sick
people in that closet. As Black people, we have always
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hidden the truth from ourselves, which prevented us from really
growing as a family and as a community because we've
always been a community of the night. Social media I
think has helped that and also hurt that in a
lot of ways. But also note that this is a
male perspective, being that we're talking about a female issue.
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Now the meaning of the word she matters. Talk about
that affirmation.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
She matters again, women have women are still daughters. I'll
start with myself.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Your daughter, your mother, your coworker, your friend.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
You have all of that and your diagnosed, and then
you have your diagnosis and.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
You're moving through it.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And what we want them to know, what we want
women to know when they come to Peace on the
Texan is that they matter.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
She matters.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Not only do we provide an atmosphere that you can
just I tell everyone it's more of an atmosphere of
a bed and breakfast, but we send a limousine in
the state of Maryland to pick that woman up. So
we're not just telling her to come here because she
doesn't even know what she's getting into. We provide her
with a limousine door to door limousine, not uber and
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it has to be a limousine service and understand the
challenges that they're picking that woman up. Once she gets here,
she's greeted with the rig carpet and she has a
cheering squad, so then she's treated. Once she comes to
the door, she is then served. Our volunteers serve her
we have someone who prepares their meal. So for two
days you are prepared, your meals are prepared. You don't
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pick up any any food. You don't take away your dinner,
you don't take your plate. You do nothing but stillness. Right,
and we may have an activity and then we and
then we send and give you a sindoff.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
So I'll be fighting now, I'm telling you, missile. After that,
I've been picked up in a limbo. Two days of
whining and dining and my feet up in the air.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
It has to be some people holding off to the
exit door.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
And let me tell you, with their crowns, because we're crowned.
When they leave.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
They are always saying they leave with their crowns on.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I've had a picture sent back. They tell me this
is what I have.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
My feedback is that whenever they feel bad, they go
put their crown on and they know that she matters,
like I don't have to hide and it's okay that
I have a have a still miss on the inside.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I think it's important that again, thank you for that story,
and thank you for how you're are you creating.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
These moments because everybody needs a moment.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I would tell people, you know, a memory is powerful
a memory and if you don't have good memories, then
you really it could leads you into depression. Because I'm
a type A person and I I only survive tied
to my memories that have good memories, have bad memories,
but the good memories outweigh the bad memories.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
And there's there.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
So it's so incredible that I can It's tied to music,
it can be tied to food, it can be tied
to vacation, a moment, but memories are powerful. And so
by giving these cancer victims a powerful memory that they can.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Just pull up real quick with a crown.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Come on that you win it? You winning it in
my book? Now, now when is this? When is the
timeline or not exact day? This is a couple of
months online? What happened? And when it becomes online? What
is the website that we need to go to to
find it?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So we have our website. Our website is online. We
are active website. We are going to launch a virtual
platform where for a woman who cannot come to peace
on Protuxant or during those moments, say from Christmas. We're
going to launch the virtual sessions in January because we
know that after Christmas, we pause our sessions.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I'll start. Let me go back.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
We pause our sessions from October from October last session,
and then we pick back up again in May. But
in between, how do we reach the masses? How do
we reach those? So that is going to be an
online virtual session where women can gather and in the interim,
because we're not closed, we're just trying to figure out
how to make it better for you next year. That is,
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and that will go live in January.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Okay, now you know me.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I'm in sponsorship mode here, you know, I'm trying to
figure out how this is an incredible relaxing Do you
have a press kit?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I have a press kit.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I just finished Speak Cell Shine, and so we have
a press kit because that was one of my guests
as the as the winner.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Uh, we were both there.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I won as the top woman's issue for this year
was Speaks Sales Shine. So I do have a press
kit and a PR person, doctor Pam Perry.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Okay, cool, we need to talk. Okay you're talking these
these down times. We're talking to see when you get
uplifted if we can bring some nice things along the
line based on people I know, you know let's let's
talk about vision to reality. And I'm talking to I
keep I keep referring back to to dreams and people
who are I I'm under saying that people who work
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forty hour week don't have do not have dreams, but
they're in a much more structured environment. And we're an entrepreneur,
small business owner, influencer and running nonprofits. That forty hour
week is on you.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
And when you have.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
These major life threatening hiccups that come into your life,
it also can impact your dream.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Now you were formed, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
That you have a potential that can happen in your life,
but you're still moving on.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
How do you go from vision to.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Reality when you're when you're dealing with issues like this,
Sanita M.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Hill. So, I tell you my network keeps me grounded.
My support group keeps me grounded. Piece on Patuxent. When
I started it, I thought I started it because.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Of my mom.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
But when when When the first gathering came, the first gathering,
there were a bunch of us and they showed up.
The last car that pulled up and she double parked
her car. She double parked the car and she ran
into the property. And when she ran in everybody that
was sitting there was like, and who is this woman?
And I looked up and it was my nurse. And
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I had to tell the truth. I had to stand
in mind and say, this is my oncologist, this is
my uncologist, nurse who's been following me. So my team
makes me stay and in my reality, where are you today, anito?
What is going on with you today? What are your numbers?
So they're always checking me and when are you rested?
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So what I do is I take every three months
and I take a break and I'll go somewhere, whether
it be local, just to take a break from all
of this.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Can I take a page out of your book, the
resting page? You know, because my wife looks at me,
going okay, Rashaan. Two ways you can rest that the
one you one way you don't ever want to get
to because I can't talk to you no more.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Women giving back to power palls? What exactly is the meaning.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Of the palls?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
That's p A U S p A U S E.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
SI absolutely and that, oh my gosh, that was that
was how do you just stop? As I said earlier,
women were told, women aren't told.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
They think they have a choice. They think they have.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Choices because they lie all the choices out to you
when you when you get when you're diagnosed, you can
do this, that you're gonna do this, you can and
it sounds like you have choices, but it's already mapped
out for you. And we're saying in that you can pause,
you can pause, and it's okay. We're not here to
tell you how to run your journey. We're just here
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to allow you to pause your mind.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Am I hearing this correctly?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
What you're telling us in this interview, Sanita, is that
first of all, the doctor's gonna say one thing, just
like the doctor told me, I was cured and walked
out the door because I was just another patient. You're
trying to put another voice in a person's head to
say there's a reality. There are people who you can
talk to, the people who have similar outcomes like you.
(26:52):
But we're not sitting over here being sad. We're not
looking at life as over We're not afraid of life.
We're not fraid of planning. We're not running from potential love,
we're not running from potential relationships, we're not running from
potential business opportunities. And that's what that diagnos dignosis can
do to you. It can make you stop, It can
make you run in the corner and you go and
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feel sorry for yourself. And then also can stereotyping. Like
I was telling you earlyer, i'mmember run I was diagnosed.
You know, I was like afraid to tell people out
going well, you know, in my fifties. They might think,
I'm I can't do a certain job, or they might
not give me a future job opportunity because you tie
age and cancer. Why would I want that old person
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around who's about to die. So when you hear those
things coming out of my mouth, your motivation is to
do the exact opposite correct city.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Absolutely absolutely, and I'll tell you and the African community,
African American community, and the Latin then the ethnic community.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Right, we only know.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
What they give us, what we get the information that
we get, But there is so much more information out there.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
There are so many different options.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I can't tell you what the options is only someone
who has been through it. Maybe someone lives on the
north side who has access to a different option that
you're not getting over on the south side. So how
are you gonna know if you don't come out and
have the conversation. Maybe there is someone who has been
into another group of another persuasion knows that they're doing
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a whole different treatment over there, but they're not giving
it to us over here. The only way you're gonna
get that information is if you come, sit down, be
willing to talk, and then you may be interested, maybe
just maybe, but that's what's happening in your community.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
You're only going to get what they give you.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
And again, I gotta go through. I gotta got do.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
We get in touch with you, go through the experience,
because I do want everybody be excited.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I'm just happy that.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yet me tell you something, this is not turning around
in this circle. Everybody looking and sad, talk about what
could have happened. I wish I'd have done this in
my life. This is not what we're talking about in
this interview. When I got an opportunity to bring Saneita
m Hill on my show, I'm bringing on those shows
so I can kind of like share my story to
the men out there that Rashan McDonald was diagnosed in
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twenty fifteen and have been running on fast. Not because
I feel their end is near. I'm enjoying my life.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I vacation more.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I smell the roses a lot more, and I understand
that I'm not I'm Type A, but I'm not a
loud type A like I used to be. And so
I value relationships a lot more because cancer will do
that to you. It makes you understand who you are,
what legacy you want to leave when you leave. But
with that being said, the process, how do they is
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an application they submit Sanita hip? What is the requirements
and why are people are selected?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Okay, so the application is online at www dot piece
on protection dot Org and you can say I think
it's a invite, I want to come or I want
to visit. So you can go to our website and
it's there you submit the application from there. What COVID
taught us, and what COVID taught was that let's do interviews.
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So each woman self attests the only there are two requirements.
You have to be over eighteen and you have to
be healthy enough to be independent, because we don't allow
any other persons here.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
It's just you.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
So you have to be healthy enough to be on
your own, feed yourself, walk around. We don't have we're
not wheelchair accessible. You have to be healthy enough. So
a lot of times we understand that once when we
interview someone and it's on camera. We do our interviews
virtual and it's very easy. But we want you to
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self a test. We don't ask you to bring in
a doctor's a referral from your doctor or your social worker.
We want you to self a test and we trust
that you are within your two years because you the
most is two years post diagnosis, and that allows other
women to come. And so with all of that, we're
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able to say, okay, we can once we interview you.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
And we accept you.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
That's the process, and we have a social work team
that reviews the applications. We also understand that when you
think you're doing well, if you're in the middle of
your treatment, you just want to reserve your spot. But
if you're not feeling well and that time comes, your
slot comes up and you're not feeling well, you can
come another day.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
The team is not so rigorous like, oh, she can't come.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
We understand, right, We respect your decision or you're not
feeling well, because that's what it's all about.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
We want you at your best.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
A name is Sanita Hill, founding CEO of Peace on
Protestant Incorporated. They create sanctuaries for women battling life leveling cancers.
Peace Ontesson is a nonprofit wellness organization located in Prince
George's County, Maryland, and they are about to start an
online service that allow you across the country to be
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participants in this life. I want to say life serving,
but life a gracious way to understand what you're dealing
with and the community with people who want to continue
to uplift you despite your diagnosis of being involved in
a life threatening illness that most people consider terminal, but
a lot of people living a great life test to
that when they've been diagnosed with cancer. Again, Miss Hill,
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thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation Masterclass.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Any closing thoughts, No closing.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Thoughts, I would tell every woman. First of all, we're
the only one, the only organization in the United States
that is founded by an African American woman. We are
and we provide transportation, so there is room here for
you do use these services.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Thank you very much for coming on Money Making Conversation.
Her name Sanita, That's s. E. N. I. T. A. M.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Hill.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Peace on Patescent Incorporated. That's a river that flows through Maryland.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Thank you so much for jing.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
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Hi.
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guess is the founder and CEO or peace on Patassink Incorporated.
They create sanctuaries for women battling life leveling cancers. Peace
On Potassink is a nonprofit respite and wellness organization located
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in Prince George's County, Maryland, dedicated to affirming the worth
and well being of women diagnosed with life leveling cancers.
Please welcome the Money Making Conversation discuss all this masterclass.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Sanita m healed. How you doing, Sanita?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Well? Thank you? Thank you for having me. What an introduction.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Now let's talk about you, my friend. I'm very familiar
with Princess George. The first of all, let's tell us
talk to us about Prince because you said it in there,
Prince George's County, Maryland. What is that area and why
is it important to our conversation today?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Oh my goodness, I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Prince George's County, Maryland is and was dean the number
one area for wealth in black in the black community
around the world. In the United States, they just rezoned it,
so changed a little bit, but it is.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
It is the.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
City right adjacent to the District of Columbia, Washington, d
C where we work. So we go and we go
back and forth to Washington, d C. It's just a
rocks throw As a matter of fact, where I grew
up was also zoned when I was a kid as
Washington d C. Before we when we started switching off
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to give d C what it was. So it's very important.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It's very important to my younger brother lives in that
area down here is like a fool barber or in
a beauty salon. So I assume he's probably in that
erie down there, living good.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Living good.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
But let's talk about you. I would compably Upbet, I'm
a cancer survivor. Twenty fifteen, I was diagnosed with cancer
thyroid and it changed my perspective on life when I
was as a business owner, as a family man, as
a husband, as a father, because when they say the
word cancer, it is it is life leveling, whether you
know the level of the severity of the cancer or not.
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Every stereotype of every fear that you have heard or
been aware of, or we cancer jumps into your spirit,
jumps into your soul. Talk about this. Are you a
cancer survivor? Sanita m Hill.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I am a I am diagnosed with AMGUS and I
will say is the precursor to multiple maloma in the
African American community, specifically for women. However, when we talk
of when we hear amgess or when we hear of it,
usually we hear of it as leukemia, which is totally
different on outside of the spectrum. So since for twenty years,
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I've been watched for the gene to make sure, because
you have to be watched, it will hit milestones and
it will switch over before you can catch it. So
I've been with an oncologist every six months, sometimes we
switch back and forth for the past twenty years.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Now I brought this up into conversation because there are
a lot of people are in the entrenial, entrepreneurial spaceball
business owner space influencers.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Who are Type eight.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I'm a Type A person and because of that, you
know this, Every six months, do I have time or
how importantness? Talk about the whole process of your group
that you have around them, talking about your loved ones,
your coworkers, understanding the importantness for your sanity, for your
peace of mind. Why these six months to annual tests
(04:06):
are important.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
So the annual tests are very important for me one
to it keeps me in touch with not being in denial,
because denial will cause me to just go and skip
these appointments where my numbers will change. And so then
we go off and we don't talk about it, and
no one is talking about it but our oncologists, and
it helps us to get into groups and to get
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more informed. That is what it does for me, and
that is what peace.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
On Atuxant does for women.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It allows them to come together with the community of
women who are going through various types of cancers.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
But the journey is the same, and it.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Doesn't mitigate the anxieties that we have from being diagnosed
as you just mentioned.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Although I may not look like I or I or the.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Other women may not look like they're going through cancer.
But on an end side, there's always this fere yes,
when is it gonna When is it gonna jump up?
One of my numbers is gonna change? What does this
mean for my family? So all of that is there,
but people don't see it.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It gives you an amazing sense of mortality that you
you don't have it in your twenties, thirties, and then
when you you know, once you get past fifty, you know,
we all know the finish line is coming, okay, and it's.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Gonna be real. You should know there's a finish line.
You know, when you're twenty, you don't see the finish line.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
You just literally your life, partying, going to college, you know,
having babies, having getting married out there, living to the
next dream and investing in the stock market. You get
past fifty, you go, okay, what does my life look like?
And that's the mortality that cancer can bring onto you
in your twenties, in your thirties, in your forties, and
the reality that it can happen to you today. That's
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why the family history is important.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Correctness Hill absolutely absolutely, and we talked We know about
sickle cell, which is one of the things that we discussed.
However we're not talking about the gene. My mother, who
transitioned from lung cancer, told me in her spirit she
knew she would bede. She would be the first who
in our family who had open cancer. She knew that
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and heard her dad pass from cancer. So knowing that
that's there and we begin to talk about it, it
gives you a different understanding or just awareness like Okay,
this is here. And so when we talk about mingus
and multiple myeloma, it then again brings it to the forefront.
You have this dormant smoldering we called some call it smoldering.
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There's this smoldering thing that's sitting in your blood. What
will it do and when will it do? So stress
has to be kept at a minimum in your life.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
You have to try to maintain.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
It well stressed.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
That's why I think it's important to hear the word
peace on patescent.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Peace. You're trying to get peace.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And I've talked to a lot of people and my
version of how I reacted cancer and how.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Women react to cancer two different days.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
So I'm not even gonna jump into this lane and
act like my conversation and my relatability to women who
are suffering from cancer or been diagnosed with cancer or
been cured from cancer. But when you've been cured, they
always tell you to check every six months to a year,
so that that sensibility or sense of a calm or
peace will always be on the edge. Can it come back?
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Will it come back? If it comes back? If I
miss it? What's the severity? Will it be cured this
time around? So what inspired you to create peace on Potussic?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
So, my mother, as I mentioned, was diagnosed with let
me start here first. I was diagnosed with AM and
about six months later, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer.
And so in her journey, because I will share that
when my mother was diagnosed, I said on mine because
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hers was more important for me to help her. I
felt like it was more important for me to help
her run her journey or to get treated. So, you know,
to help her get treated. She was my mother, So
I sort of sit on mine although watching it, but
it was more important.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
So during her.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Journey, I saw our women and I again being here
in Bridge George's County. I saw how women of color
the resources were very nil. But I also saw what
was important to her. What was important was just sitting
in the garden, was sitting in the garden and just
being able to think about it and allowing her to
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run her journey, her race, her way. Hearing her voice
was important. And I believe that a doctor or your
medical team, if they are not sympathetic and understanding to
you running your journey your way, can make or break
your treatment. And so peace on Patuxin is not connected
(09:03):
with any hospital or doctor, because we want the woman
to make to run her journey. I share with a
lot of people that when a woman is diagnosed, she's told,
when anyone is diagnosed, let's go that way. When a
woman is diagnosed, she's told she has choices. However, her
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choices are already made for her. You will take this treatment,
you will go this place, you will do that, And
then you have your family who has expectations of how
they want you to do it. No one has asked
or given you the time to sit and just pause
and think about maybe I don't want chemo, maybe I
don't want radiation. They don't give you that, and That's
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what Peace on Patuxin offers, just a place to pause,
think and be honored for the woman that you are
or you were, because you're still a wife, still a daughter,
still a coworker, all those things are still on your
back while you're running that journey.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
That is what Peace on Petuxin is.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I'm speaking to us, she said the founder and CEO
or Peace on Potetic. They create sanctuaries for women battling
life leveling cancers. Okay, let's go to those three words.
I just say, what exactly is life leveling cancers?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Life leveling cancer is any cancer, any cancer. It could
be skin cancer, because once you are told you have cancer,
it changes your life. You are on the floor, knocked down,
trying to figure out how I'm going to manage this thing.
So we have turned it life leveling. Actually, one of
our one of my betas in the beginning, who's also transition,
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helped to define life leveling. So it's from the women
that we draw what is that we need to communicate?
How do we communicate this to the community and two
people who doesn't who don't.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Understand, let me get this clear now, are these are
individual with terminal cancer diagnosis or people who are hovering
from cancer through therapy, chemotherapy. So I'm just, I just,
I just want to clearly understand when you said life leveling,
because I could be a life leveler because in twenty
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fifteen I was diagnosed, they gave me radition treatment and
I've been every test says comes back and says I'm negative.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
So is it the.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Terminal side of it, that that terminate that that that
demonstrates life level of what exactly is it?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Life leveling is once you're diagnosed?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Mos okay, okay that I needed it because it was
life leveling for me. My life passed before my eyes.
I will literally tell you it was two life levelings
for me. One when he told me I was negative.
And I remember to this day, Anita, this, this doctor
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walked in the room, he said, we looked at your test,
were fine, and walked out.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I went, what is he saying? What did we say find?
What does fine mean?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Because you have so many paths, so many emotions that
you have to deal with in dealing with cancer. I
remember chased them in the hall say hey, dude, do
do do dode? I need more clarity? What does fine mean?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
In your book. When it comes to cancer, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Fine fire, I find Hamburgers, I find cars. If they
define women, what does find mean? Okay, oh, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, meaning that you know negative, Just come and
see us every six months to a year, get on
the books, and you're the cancer that we saw.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
We killed them with the radiation pill and you're good
to go. So that put me into life leveling.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
But I am still I would tell everybody I am
still fearful that cancer can't come back.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Now I bring that up because I am a business owner.
I employ people.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I am building a company that I would like to
be will be here five years, fifteen years, fifty years,
fifteen years. Employees have devoted their time because I've sold
them on the idea that this is a company that
has value and you should put your time in. You
should make this a career opportunity. How does the life
leveling cancer people like me deal with that that you
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interact with.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
So what peace ontuxon does is it gives you the moment,
It gives you clarity.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
It allows you to just pause on clarity. Many times.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
You know, we come with women come with preconceived notions.
Once they get together in their communities, or they develop
these relationships or talk with other people. There are so
many different options out there. The option of I may
have come. I can share a story. I had a
young lady that when we were doing our beta process
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and she didn't have anyone else, so she thought, I
have to leave all of my possessions to my family
who don't even talk to me. It wasn't until she
showed up that she could hear and hear that that
is not where you have to that's not what you
have to do. And in her transitioning she left it
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to a church. But she couldn't hear the voice until
she came here, and she couldn't hear her voice until
she got still in her treatments and everything else. Until
she was still, she was able to make a sound
decision by herself.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
That's the voice.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Well, it gives you a sense of balance, absolutely clear understanding.
With that being said, how do we get in touch
with you?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
You can reach me at Sanata m Hill dot com.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Please spell Outanita.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
You know you just act like that SHERYLA Betty.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Let's try another way.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I am Sanita s E n I t A at
peace on tuxon and it's peace like stillness. P E
A c E on pat ux e n T dot
org And we are out there. We're on every social
media platform.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Please don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more
Money Making Conversations master Class. Welcome back to Money Making
Conversations master Class with me Rashaun McDonald.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Awesome, Awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Now, as a message to women everywhere, if you could
leave one message with women who are carrying the way
to work, okay, family and illness, what would you want
them to hear from you today, Zanita Hill, I would.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Say that they are worthy of a moment of peace.
They should allow every woman should allow herself the opportunity
to come to peace on protection.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Here.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Women look like you, They look like you, They are
going through what you're going through. There is a you
can find the connection. That's what I want, And I
would say, and she deserves it. Just take the break
and is that no cost?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Now? Online? This is available online, This is on online.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
We're getting ready to launch an online platform.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
But you had to because you know I'm about to
I'm about to jump up or jump through this camera
like you know, this type of off information. There are
people in California, that people in Texas and people in Chicago,
the people.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
In the you know and woman who.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Need this this service. This uh, this homecoming, but it's
not a homecoming. But it also gives you a sense of
balance because you know, I would be honest with you
when I would. I became very selfish when I was
informed I had cancer because I didn't want to tell people.
And I want to talk about that. Because of the
fact that you get cancer at a certain age, you
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can be stereotyped. You can you can may potentially think
you could lose your job, you potentially lose career opportunities.
People look at you different way, and I really strive
to look different or the stereotype what a cancer victim
looks like.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
You have to deal with that as well.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Correct Yes, yes, yes, And what we see and what
I see is that in that how do we give
ourselves permission? How do we work again? That's the community. However,
what I see on the other side is the the
isolation I share with many people because we're we're we're
(17:31):
intentionally with ethnicity in our ethnic community. First of all,
we African Americans haven't been out there. We have we
were hiding our families in the closet when they had.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Cancer years ago. So here we are.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
We're trying to embrace it, but we need to be
able to step into it and own it as well.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
And look at our other communities, our Asian communities, our
Indian communities.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
How do they how do they how do we get
them our Latino community specifically, how do we get them
to come out and say it's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
And you not be banished for it. So that is
what we're trying to do. I'm here.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I enjoyed these interviews because as far as the Black community,
we've that closet that you was talking about was pat
The gay community was in that closet, you know what
I'm saying. You know, mental health people issues was in
that closet. You know, old people in that closet, sick
people in that closet. As Black people, we have always
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hidden the truth from ourselves, which prevented us from really
growing as a family and as a community because we've
always been a community of the night. Social media I
think has helped that and also hurt that in a
lot of ways. But also note that this is a
male perspective, being that we're talking about a female issue.
(18:54):
Now the meaning of the word she matters. Talk about
that affirmation.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
She matters again, women have women are still daughters. I'll
start with myself.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Your daughter, your mother, your coworker, your friend.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
You have all of that and your diagnosed, and then
you have your diagnosis and.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
You're moving through it.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And what we want them to know, what we want
women to know when they come to Peace on the
Texan is that they matter.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
She matters.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Not only do we provide an atmosphere that you can
just I tell everyone it's more of an atmosphere of
a bed and breakfast, but we send a limousine in
the state of Maryland to pick that woman up. So
we're not just telling her to come here because she
doesn't even know what she's getting into. We provide her
with a limousine door to door limousine, not uber and
(19:47):
it has to be a limousine service and understand the
challenges that they're picking that woman up. Once she gets here,
she's greeted with the rig carpet and she has a
cheering squad, so then she's treated. Once she comes to
the door, she is then served. Our volunteers serve her
we have someone who prepares their meal. So for two
days you are prepared, your meals are prepared. You don't
(20:10):
pick up any any food. You don't take away your dinner,
you don't take your plate. You do nothing but stillness. Right,
and we may have an activity and then we and
then we send and give you a sindoff.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
So I'll be fighting now, I'm telling you, missile. After that,
I've been picked up in a limbo. Two days of
whining and dining and my feet up in the air.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
It has to be some people holding off to the
exit door.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
And let me tell you, with their crowns, because we're crowned.
When they leave.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
They are always saying they leave with their crowns on.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I've had a picture sent back. They tell me this
is what I have.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
My feedback is that whenever they feel bad, they go
put their crown on and they know that she matters,
like I don't have to hide and it's okay that
I have a have a still miss on the inside.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I think it's important that again, thank you for that story,
and thank you for how you're are you creating.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
These moments because everybody needs a moment.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I would tell people, you know, a memory is powerful
a memory and if you don't have good memories, then
you really it could leads you into depression. Because I'm
a type A person and I I only survive tied
to my memories that have good memories, have bad memories,
but the good memories outweigh the bad memories.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
And there's there.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
So it's so incredible that I can It's tied to music,
it can be tied to food, it can be tied
to vacation, a moment, but memories are powerful. And so
by giving these cancer victims a powerful memory that they can.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Just pull up real quick with a crown.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Come on that you win it? You winning it in
my book? Now, now when is this? When is the
timeline or not exact day? This is a couple of
months online? What happened? And when it becomes online? What
is the website that we need to go to to
find it?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So we have our website. Our website is online. We
are active website. We are going to launch a virtual
platform where for a woman who cannot come to peace
on Protuxant or during those moments, say from Christmas. We're
going to launch the virtual sessions in January because we
know that after Christmas, we pause our sessions.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I'll start. Let me go back.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
We pause our sessions from October from October last session,
and then we pick back up again in May. But
in between, how do we reach the masses? How do
we reach those? So that is going to be an
online virtual session where women can gather and in the interim,
because we're not closed, we're just trying to figure out
how to make it better for you next year. That is,
(22:46):
and that will go live in January.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Okay, now you know me.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I'm in sponsorship mode here, you know, I'm trying to
figure out how this is an incredible relaxing Do you
have a press kit?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I have a press kit.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I just finished Speak Cell Shine, and so we have
a press kit because that was one of my guests
as the as the winner.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Uh, we were both there.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I won as the top woman's issue for this year
was Speaks Sales Shine. So I do have a press
kit and a PR person, doctor Pam Perry.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Okay, cool, we need to talk. Okay you're talking these
these down times. We're talking to see when you get
uplifted if we can bring some nice things along the
line based on people I know, you know let's let's
talk about vision to reality. And I'm talking to I
keep I keep referring back to to dreams and people
who are I I'm under saying that people who work
(23:40):
forty hour week don't have do not have dreams, but
they're in a much more structured environment. And we're an entrepreneur,
small business owner, influencer and running nonprofits. That forty hour
week is on you.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
And when you have.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
These major life threatening hiccups that come into your life,
it also can impact your dream.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Now you were formed, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
That you have a potential that can happen in your life,
but you're still moving on.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
How do you go from vision to.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Reality when you're when you're dealing with issues like this,
Sanita M.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Hill. So, I tell you my network keeps me grounded.
My support group keeps me grounded. Piece on Patuxent. When
I started it, I thought I started it because.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Of my mom.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
But when when When the first gathering came, the first gathering,
there were a bunch of us and they showed up.
The last car that pulled up and she double parked
her car. She double parked the car and she ran
into the property. And when she ran in everybody that
was sitting there was like, and who is this woman?
And I looked up and it was my nurse. And
(24:49):
I had to tell the truth. I had to stand
in mind and say, this is my oncologist, this is
my uncologist, nurse who's been following me. So my team
makes me stay and in my reality, where are you today, anito?
What is going on with you today? What are your numbers?
So they're always checking me and when are you rested?
(25:11):
So what I do is I take every three months
and I take a break and I'll go somewhere, whether
it be local, just to take a break from all
of this.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Can I take a page out of your book, the
resting page? You know, because my wife looks at me,
going okay, Rashaan. Two ways you can rest that the
one you one way you don't ever want to get
to because I can't talk to you no more.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Women giving back to power palls? What exactly is the meaning.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Of the palls?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
That's p A U S p A U S E.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
SI absolutely and that, oh my gosh, that was that
was how do you just stop? As I said earlier,
women were told, women aren't told.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
They think they have a choice. They think they have.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Choices because they lie all the choices out to you
when you when you get when you're diagnosed, you can
do this, that you're gonna do this, you can and
it sounds like you have choices, but it's already mapped
out for you. And we're saying in that you can pause,
you can pause, and it's okay. We're not here to
tell you how to run your journey. We're just here
(26:22):
to allow you to pause your mind.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Am I hearing this correctly?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
What you're telling us in this interview, Sanita, is that
first of all, the doctor's gonna say one thing, just
like the doctor told me, I was cured and walked
out the door because I was just another patient. You're
trying to put another voice in a person's head to
say there's a reality. There are people who you can
talk to, the people who have similar outcomes like you.
(26:52):
But we're not sitting over here being sad. We're not
looking at life as over We're not afraid of life.
We're not fraid of planning. We're not running from potential love,
we're not running from potential relationships, we're not running from
potential business opportunities. And that's what that diagnos dignosis can
do to you. It can make you stop, It can
make you run in the corner and you go and
(27:15):
feel sorry for yourself. And then also can stereotyping. Like
I was telling you earlyer, i'mmember run I was diagnosed.
You know, I was like afraid to tell people out
going well, you know, in my fifties. They might think,
I'm I can't do a certain job, or they might
not give me a future job opportunity because you tie
age and cancer. Why would I want that old person
(27:35):
around who's about to die. So when you hear those
things coming out of my mouth, your motivation is to
do the exact opposite correct city.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Absolutely absolutely, and I'll tell you and the African community,
African American community, and the Latin then the ethnic community.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Right, we only know.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
What they give us, what we get the information that
we get, But there is so much more information out there.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
There are so many different options.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I can't tell you what the options is only someone
who has been through it. Maybe someone lives on the
north side who has access to a different option that
you're not getting over on the south side. So how
are you gonna know if you don't come out and
have the conversation. Maybe there is someone who has been
into another group of another persuasion knows that they're doing
(28:28):
a whole different treatment over there, but they're not giving
it to us over here. The only way you're gonna
get that information is if you come, sit down, be
willing to talk, and then you may be interested, maybe
just maybe, but that's what's happening in your community.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
You're only going to get what they give you.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
And again, I gotta go through. I gotta got do.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
We get in touch with you, go through the experience,
because I do want everybody be excited.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I'm just happy that.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yet me tell you something, this is not turning around
in this circle. Everybody looking and sad, talk about what
could have happened. I wish I'd have done this in
my life. This is not what we're talking about in
this interview. When I got an opportunity to bring Saneita
m Hill on my show, I'm bringing on those shows
so I can kind of like share my story to
the men out there that Rashan McDonald was diagnosed in
(29:20):
twenty fifteen and have been running on fast. Not because
I feel their end is near. I'm enjoying my life.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I vacation more.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I smell the roses a lot more, and I understand
that I'm not I'm Type A, but I'm not a
loud type A like I used to be. And so
I value relationships a lot more because cancer will do
that to you. It makes you understand who you are,
what legacy you want to leave when you leave. But
with that being said, the process, how do they is
(29:54):
an application they submit Sanita hip? What is the requirements
and why are people are selected?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Okay, so the application is online at www dot piece
on protection dot Org and you can say I think
it's a invite, I want to come or I want
to visit. So you can go to our website and
it's there you submit the application from there. What COVID
taught us, and what COVID taught was that let's do interviews.
(30:26):
So each woman self attests the only there are two requirements.
You have to be over eighteen and you have to
be healthy enough to be independent, because we don't allow
any other persons here.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
It's just you.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
So you have to be healthy enough to be on
your own, feed yourself, walk around. We don't have we're
not wheelchair accessible. You have to be healthy enough. So
a lot of times we understand that once when we
interview someone and it's on camera. We do our interviews
virtual and it's very easy. But we want you to
(31:02):
self a test. We don't ask you to bring in
a doctor's a referral from your doctor or your social worker.
We want you to self a test and we trust
that you are within your two years because you the
most is two years post diagnosis, and that allows other
women to come. And so with all of that, we're
(31:24):
able to say, okay, we can once we interview you.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
And we accept you.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
That's the process, and we have a social work team
that reviews the applications. We also understand that when you
think you're doing well, if you're in the middle of
your treatment, you just want to reserve your spot. But
if you're not feeling well and that time comes, your
slot comes up and you're not feeling well, you can
come another day.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
The team is not so rigorous like, oh, she can't come.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
We understand, right, We respect your decision or you're not
feeling well, because that's what it's all about.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
We want you at your best.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
A name is Sanita Hill, founding CEO of Peace on
Protestant Incorporated. They create sanctuaries for women battling life leveling cancers.
Peace Ontesson is a nonprofit wellness organization located in Prince
George's County, Maryland, and they are about to start an
online service that allow you across the country to be
(32:21):
participants in this life. I want to say life serving,
but life a gracious way to understand what you're dealing
with and the community with people who want to continue
to uplift you despite your diagnosis of being involved in
a life threatening illness that most people consider terminal, but
a lot of people living a great life test to
that when they've been diagnosed with cancer. Again, Miss Hill,
(32:44):
thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation Masterclass.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Any closing thoughts, No closing.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Thoughts, I would tell every woman. First of all, we're
the only one, the only organization in the United States
that is founded by an African American woman. We are
and we provide transportation, so there is room here for
you do use these services.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Thank you very much for coming on Money Making Conversation.
Her name Sanita, That's s. E. N. I. T. A. M.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Hill.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Peace on Patescent Incorporated. That's a river that flows through Maryland.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Thank you so much for jing.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
This has been Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashaun McDonald
thanks to I guess and our audience. Visit Moneymakingconversations dot
com to listen and register to be a guest
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