Warriors Talk Podcast

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Encouraging, educating, and empower you into action. This is Warriors
Talk with your host, Lady Rachelle.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Good evening, Welcome to Warriors Talk, where we are moving
away from awareness towards taking action. I am your host,
Lady Rachelle, and we're diving into a conversation that's long overdue.
The real color of breast cancer is green. Pink doesn't
pay the bills. Every October the world is painted pink.

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Pink ribbons, sneakers, cereal boxes, and even cars. Pink has
become the color of awareness. But tonight I want to
talk to you about the real color of breast cancer,
and that color is green. Why green because treatment, medication,
and even recovery costs, and while companies profit off of

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the pink ribbon two minutes, these survivors are struggling to
pay their bills, afford their prescriptions, and even make it
to their appointments. Green is also representing growth, so renewal, rebuilding,
and even new life that comes after the battle. So
tonight we're going to talk about what happens when awareness

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meets accountability and how we can make sure our support
truly help those who are still fighting. So go ahead,
grab your water, your tea, your journals, your favorite snacks
and join in on this life saving conversation. On the
last episode of Warriors Talk, Rissala and I discussed then

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and now the evolution of breast cancer diagnosis, treatment and survivorship.
You can hit on over to YouTube, type in Intellectual
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The quote of the day is the true measure of
awareness is how many lives it changes, not how many

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ribbons we sell. I am encouraging you to save the day. Family.
Warriors Talk is coming up on our ninth annual Survivor celebration,
our Reflection Gala on Saturday, October eighteenth, eleven actually twelve
pm to four pm that is, and we're going to

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be at the Crystal Sky Banquets in McCook, Illinois. We're
celebrating all cancer survivors, warriors in battle, and we're also
going to remember those who have gone on and lost
their battle with breast cancer or any type of cancer.
That is. I just don't limit it to breast cancer,
because we're celebrating all cancers. So come out, support a survivor,

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become a sponsor, become a vendor, and help us celebrate.
We're also celebrating our book launch on that day. I
have five authors that are going to be presenting their stories.
We're gonna have a author's panel that day as well.
You will be able to purchase a book as well
as have your book signed and a picture with the authors.

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So come out on October the eighteenth and join us
for our ninth annual Survivors Celebration, a Reflection Gala. You
can go to warriorstalk dot org for more information. If
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valuable information. I'm so grateful for my sponsor. On today,
we have Pastor Michael Richardson with the Emmanual Church of
God in Christ who has a special message for us.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Greetings, I am Pastor Michael Richardson, and I am.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
First Lady and a Station Richardson from the Emmanual Church
of God in Christ. We're located at thirty fifty eighth
West Van Buren in Chicago, Illinois. We are building upon
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And we're inviting you to join us. Every Sunday morning
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this is Pastor Michael Richardson and.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
First Lady Anna Station Richardson, and we are from.

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The em Church of the Rice.

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We are building upon a solid foundation.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's my pastor and first Lady. I am so grateful
for their support. They are also sponsors of our ninth
annual Survivor Celebration or Reflection Gala, so I'm so grateful
for them. Our topic again today is the real color
of breast cancer is green. Pink doesn't pay the bills,

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and we're going to talk about First up is the
price of What is the price of pink? And even
though I'm wearing my pink shirt today, I'm not a
pink girl. I'm not a pink girl. But for the
sake of the topic of the show, We're gonna talk
about the price of pink. So let's start by looking

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at the business side of pink. The ribbon, first off,
is not trademark, so anybody can use the ribbon. You
can slap that ribbon on any type of product that
you want. Anybody can use it. It has been on
everything from fried chicken boxes to cleaning supplies, and while
it does raise awareness, it doesn't always raise an impact.

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So according to Breast Cancer Action, the breast cancer awareness
industry generates billions of dollars every single year, billions, but
sometimes only less than five percent of that of those
profits actually reach programs that help patients. So even though

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they're slipping that pink ribbon on those products, it does
not necessarily mean that all of those profits profits. The
majority of those profits are going to help those patients
that are in need. And this is actually called pink washing,
and if you haven't heard the term before, pink washing

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is when a company uses breast cancer as a marketing
tool to boost their sales, clean up their image without
actually supporting the cause. So they don't really have to
support the cause, but because it's breast cancer Awareness month
and they know that people are going to feel compelled
to buy things with the pink ribbon on it, so

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they will slap it on there. They will come up
with a campaign that draw you in so that you
can spend your money on the these pink products. So
some labels pink labels like alcohol, processed foods. They slap
it on cosmetics, and these products actually have ingredients in

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it that are linked to an increase risk in cancer.
And the concern is that pink washing is widely used
by companies that we know and that we love and
we support, but we don't think about it when we
are purchasing that product, like h, I'm purchasing some perfume

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which is made with chemicals. Unless they specify that it's
free from cancer causing agents, then you don't know. So
your best bet is to read the labels before you
actually purchase it, ask questions does this is this a

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cancer safe product to purchase? And most of the time
you would probably have to do your homework because it's
not going to be readily available for you. So we're
challenged with the idea that awareness alone is not enough.
Awareness cannot pay bills. Awareness doesn't cover rent when a

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woman or man has to miss work because of chemo.
Awareness doesn't buy groceries for a family when their provider
is sick and has to miss work. Awareness alone is
not enough. What do you do once you purchase that
pink product? Do you go home and you say, oh, okay,

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I got this pink product. Now I'm about to schedule
my mammogram. I'm about to talk to my family and
see what type of cancer is you know in our family,
what history I breast cancer history looks like? Like? What
are you doing? Once you buy that pink product? Do
you feel satisfied after you purchase the pink product just
to say I supported breast cancer. They're gonna do what

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they say they're gonna do with the money, or you
really don't care. Once you just buy the product, you
feel like, oh, I've done my job. I've done what
I was supposed to do, and they can do whatever
they want to do when it comes to the awareness
product or the profit side of it. And that's why

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we have to move away from awareness towards taking action.
There are real stories, real struggles when it comes to
breast cancer, and when it comes to the pink ribbon.
We always say breast cancer is not confined to just
the month of October. Breast cancer is all year round.

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Three hundred and sixty five days, seven days a week,
twenty four hours people are dealing with breast cancer and
according to statistics, studies show that nearly sixty percent of
cancer survivors experience financial distress doing their treatment, and that
pink ribbon may symbolize awareness, but the green represents action.

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And that green is the money. You show somebody some
money and you can get them moving to do just
about anything that you want them to do. And it's
heartbreaking that some survivors actually lose their job, lose their homes,
and sometimes they have to make the heartbreaking decision between
medication or meals. Should I spend my money on this

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copay or should I use this money to buy food
for my family or healthy food for me to eat
while I'm in treatment. And when I was walking through
my own journey, I learned that cancer doesn't just attack
your It testes your faith, your finances, your support system,

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and you truly learn who's in your corner. I had
people from my church bringing me food, giving me money,
making sure that my daughters were okay. My mom made
sure she stepped up, stepped in my daughters, my sons,
like my oldest daughter was there to help me with
the girls when I wasn't able to even comb their hair.

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Like so many things that we probably take for granted
on a daily basis, that when you're going through a
breast cancer diagnosis, you're not able to do so you
need people to help support you through that journey and
you find out just how important your support system is.
So awareness it didn't just pay for your treatment, right,

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Awareness pays for what that product that you buy, the
product that it costs for them to make that campaign,
That's what it pays for. But it's the green, it's
the money. It's the generosity of people who showed up
with meals, who donated, who just gives out of the
goodness of their heart that actually helped me and many

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others get through their cancer treatment. People need people. Money talks.
We've all heard that saying that money talks. When you
have money, people listen. You have zeros behind your name
and your bank account, people will listen to you. Again,

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sometimes people do some strange things for change, and when
it comes to October, you're doing something strange when you're
buying pink products and you have no idea where that
money is going and who it is going to help.
So tonight I want you to think differently about support.

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Pink may symbolizes awareness, a green represents action. So how
do you spot real impact when you are purchasing these
products when you want to be a person who helps
individuals that may be in need, and you may be

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given in purchasing products out the goodness of your heart
thinking that it's going to do that, and then it's
the organization, the person behind the organization that actually have
ill intent and they're not trueful upfront about what they're
doing with the money. So before you purchase something pink

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this month, I want you to ask yourself these three questions.
Number one, how much of this product actually go towards
the breast cancer cause? And you can definitely ask that
organization that question. You know this product is nine ninety nine,
how much is it it's going towards a breast cancer cause?

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And what is your breast cancer cause? What is the
cause that you're donating it too? Are you donated it
to an individual, an individual and their family? Are you
donated it to what? What's the cause? Don't just donate blindly.
You might as well just take that money, burn it up,
throw it in the street, and let throw it up
in the air and let it just fall wherever and
let people grab it, like where how much of this

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purchase is actually going towards breast cancer? And you will
be surprised how much it actually is going towards breast cancer.
Sometimes out of a dollar, it may be five cents,
it may be less than that. The second question is
what organization receives this money? What cancer organization received this money,

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because a lot of times organizations that are collecting money
or selling products, they will already have their organizations picked
out that they want to donate this money too. And
it may be one percent of the profit, two percent
of the profits from the sales, maybe ten percent or
less than that. It could be okay, five percent of

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the profits that we sell is going to go to
let's just say the American Cancer Society, and they'll get
that maybe one or two percent of whatever they sell,
and the rest of that money is going to that organization.
The third question is what programs does it fund? Does

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it fund research, screenings, education, or direct patient support? Those
are important questions because you want to know. Maybe you
don't want your money going towards research. Maybe you want
to go going towards screenings, Maybe you wanted to go
towards education. Maybe you want to see your money go
directly to support a patient. And I will say, if

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that's the case, then put it in the patient's hands
so that you know they got the money and whatever
it is that the patient needs to spend that money on,
whether it's treatment, whether it's groceries, whether it's a copay
to pay a cell phone bill, or to pamper themselves,
then you know that you have done your part. So
win in doubt. Just put it directly into their hands

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or whatever. Buy or purchase whatever it is that they need.
You can buy. If they don't have a car and
they're trying to get to treatment, you can get them
an over gift card so they'll make sure that they
can get back and forth to treatment. You can get
them a gift card to their grocery store, local grocery store,

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make sure they have groceries. It's different things that you
can do to put it directly in their hands to
know that you have made an impact. And not to
say that donating to these organizations that collect these moneies,
that do these runs and these walks and these fundraisers,

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that the money is not getting to direct patient support,
But a lot of times if you ask, you will
be surprised where the money is going and how much
of it is going to support them. So ask those questions,
because if the company cannot answer those questions, then that's

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a big red flag. Because true support doesn't mean it
doesn't It doesn't come in the form of that ribbon,
that pink ribbon, but it comes from that organization being accountable,
being transparent, and actually being compassionate about what it is
that they're supporting. So you can make a greater impact

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again by giving to that person directly or giving to
your local organizations that help patients right here in your community.
Like Warriors Talk, we help individuals. We have our Warrior
in Battle Fund where we help individuals that are in
battle and we give them money directly to them. Like

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my money that I raised that individuals donate. It doesn't
go towards research, it doesn't go towards screening. It goes
directly to those who are finding cancer. So you may
have organizations right here in your community that helps with mammograms, transportation,

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or emergency aid. Warriors Talk doesn't just give money once
a year. I have survivors that contact me throughout the
year and say, Hey, I'm going through this is Warrior
Talk able to help whatever I'm able to help with.
Guess what I'm sending it to them. I also have
partners that I can call and say, hey, I have

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an individual who is going through this. How much can
you contribute? And then we will put our funds together
and we would send it to them. So let's be
intentional about where we give, how we give, and what
we stand for to make sure that you are making
an impact and that the patience that actually need it

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is actually getting to them, cause a lot of times
it may not be. Awareness is about accountability. When you
get the awareness, is it moving you to action? What
are you getting from awareness? I always say most of

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the people probably get home and probably don't even think
about what it is that people were trying to get
them to be aware about. Our attention span is so short.
You get home, you get busy, the kids are pulling
on you to do stop, the husband is pulling on you,
and you may forget the pamphlet that somebody gave you. You
may sit it to this side and never read it.

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And that's why we constantly push awareness. Right, We constantly
push it because awareness is successful at raising money, absolutely,
but it's not as successful as getting people to take action.

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So this October, don't just wear pink, but do something
powerful with your pink. Think about what it is that
you can do with your pink. There's an organization out
here called Equal Hope and they help individuals with mammograms, transportation.

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They connect you with services if you don't have insurance
that they help you with that. Those are organizations that
you can donate to that you know where your money
is going. You can educate your family about early detection.
Charity starts at home. Talk to your family, especially if

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you are a cancer survivor or if you just went
to an awareness event, go home and share with your
family about what it is that you learned. It starts
at home. And if we're not having these tough conversations
about breast cancer, about what type of diseases that are

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running in our family, if we are always running from
that conversation, people in our family are still getting sick,
they're still dying and they don't have to Because if
you know that breast cancer runs in your family, prosy
cancer runs in your family, you coding cancer runs in
your family. You can have these conversations with individuals in

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your family so that they know to get screening early.
They know to talk to their doctor about getting screened. Early.
My daughter diagnosed at forty three, so they know thirty
three they should be talking to their doctors about some
type of screening, monitoring something because they're at risk because

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I was diagnosed doesn't necessarily mean they're gonna get breast cancer.
But I want them to take charge of their breast health.
And part of that is having a conversation with their
doctor to find out what it is that they can
do to take charge of their health. You can advocate
for health equality. A lot of time, we don't go

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to extra step right we've access to healthcare is like
on the line right now with the government being shut down,
so many people are frightening about their insurance. And you
can write your congressmen and women to say, hey, you know,

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this is what we would like to see happen. We're
voting you in office, and we want to see our
community to have access to quality care. We wanna see
our community to have clinics that have machines, mammograms, X
ray machines that that our quality. We wanna have the

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same access to care that they have in these neighborhoods
that are wealthy, because our health is just as important.
And always try to bring God into the conversation because
faith is important, especially when you're going through a cancer diagnosis.

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According to James two and seventeen, it reminds us that
faith without works is dead. So you should be taking
some type of action. Whether it's with your health, whether
it's with your family, whether it's with writing your congressmen
and women, you should be taking some type of action.
And first John three and eighteen says, let us not

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love with words or speech, but action, and in truth,
we should be taking action. Awareness is never enough, So
let's talk about how you can move from awareness towards action.
What it is that you can do on a daily

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basis to take action with your health and to have
conversations with the people in your family that you love
so that they can stay healthy too. Open your mouth.
It doesn't take It doesn't take much to have a
conversation about, oh girl, let's go schedule mammograms. After that,

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we can go eat lunch, we can go shopping, you know,
make it a fun day. Let's not just talk about awareness,
but let's take action. Because the breast cancer color pink,
It doesn't it doesn't save lives. It just makes you

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aware that it exists. But the color of green, the
color of money. It gets people moving, It keeps your
lights on, it keeps your prescription spilled, and it gives
you hope. If somebody gives you some money and you
was feeling down, guess what it's gonna do. It's gonna

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lift your spirits. If somebody gives you a pink ribbon,
it's gonna be like, oh, okay, that's a breast cancer symbol.
And then you go home and you do what. So
let's think differently about breast cancer Awareness month. Right, Share
this broadcast with someone. I challenge you to do that.

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Share this broadcast with someone that you love, someone that
you want to take action. Part of your action would
be to share the broadcast out so someone else can
get this information and they can make informed decisions about
the money that they donate to organizations, about the action
that they take with their lives. When it comes to

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breast cancer awareness and moving beyond that awareness and moving
towards action, There's so many things that you can do
that we just don't because we just we just don't
have time. But believe me, breast cancer is not waiting,
is not waiting for nobody. Hey can you can you

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say come on here and teach. We have to make
sure that we are doing more than just spreadiness awareness.
Less than five percent of the Pink Ribbon product sales
go to research or to aid a patient that's in need,
less than five percent. Again, if you really want to

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make an impact, if you really want to help someone
who's going through breast cancer, put it directly into their hands.
Or donate to your local organizations that you know that
are helping. We two Care Agency, donate, make a donation.
They're out there on the front lines every single day

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helping individuals. And it doesn't take much to senti ZL
click that button to the cash app. At least you
know where your money is going. At least you can
see the people that is impacting in that community. It

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doesn't take much, it doesn't. I think sometimes when we give,
we'd be lazy about giving. We'll be like, oh, I
donated to that charity, and then you go about your business. No,
you should want to see where your money is going.
And it's so easy to see that when you donate
to a local organization. It's so you can come out

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and volunteer with the local organization, call them up and say, hey,
I see that you're collecting money for donations, and I
would like to come out and not only donate, but
donate my time as well. And then that way you
get to see firsthand exactly what it is that they're doing.

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And then word of mouth, you can spread that to
other people that you know and say, girl, I went
and I volunteered with we Care To Agency, and guess
what they're doing in the hood. Guess what they're doing
in their community. And that brings in more money, that
brings in more resources, and they're able to help more people.
They're able to make a bigger impact, and so do you.

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You made it the impact as well, So don't be
afraid to get out and get your hands dirty. Sixty
percent of survivors experience financial distress during their treatment, according
to the Journal of Clinical Ecology. You would be surprised
at individuals when they're going through treatment that sometimes they

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may be fatigued, Sometimes they may have to go down
to work in part time and not able to work,
and sometimes they just may have to resign take a
leave of absence, especially if they are a bread winner
in that family. Now they have to depend on getting assistance,

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and that alone can be stressful while you're trying to
fight cancer. You should not have to worry about where
your funds are coming from. One in three women skip
or delay care due to the costs after a diagnosis.
Sometimes you're left with bills. You have bills, bills on

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top of bills, and you may skip or delay because
you don't want to wrack up any more bills. You
don't want them sending those bills to collections. So sometimes
you may skip it, you may delay it, and that's
not going to help anybody, especially when it comes to cancer.
The last thing you want to do is to delay anything.

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The average cost of breast cancer treatment ranges from twenty
thousand dollars to one hundred thousand dollars depending on your
stage and the type of breast cancer that you have,
and this is according to the American Cancer Society. That's
a lot of money. And if you have how many

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treatments I was going through. I think I had sixteen
rounds of chemo and thirty three rounds of radiation. That's
a lot of money. And that's why that's why the
color is green instead of pink. Twenty survivors report using
their retirement or credit cards to pay for treatment. According

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to the National Cancer Institute, you should not have to
dig into your retirement or your credit cards to pay
for treatment. You should not have to do that. Then,
when you retire, what are you going to rely on?
Now you're stressed out about retiring. Now you may not
even be able to work because sometimes when you go

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through cancer treatment it decreases your quality of life. So
you may not even be able to work because you
don't have the energy, or you may walk away with
some type of disability from treatment. You may have limpidemia, lymphoedema,
you may have neuropathy, you may not be able to work.

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So if this conversation has made you think differently about
Breast Cancer Awareness Month, then I've done my job. We
should be thinking differently. It's not all about pink, but
it's about what you do with that information. What do

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you do when Breast Cancer Month is over, when they're
the galas are not there, when you don't see any
of the pink campaigns flashed all over social media. But
behind the scenes, those survivors they're still fighting, they're still struggling.

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The bills are still due, they're still hungry, they're still
trying to get to treatment. They still have ways. What
are you doing then, And not to say that you're
responsible for someone who's going through treatment, but if they

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don't have the necessary funds to do it and they're
reaching out support them. Tracy Kinka is selling T shirts
and hats to help support herself through her breast cancer diagnosis.
You can go to Tracykinka dot com and support her

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and you know that the money is going directly to
her as she is in active treatment. It doesn't take much.
If you are tuned in right now, I'm live on
Intellectual Radio. This is Warriors Talk with Lady Rachelle, and

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I'm talking about the real cost a breast cancer is
green because pink does not pay bills. There are some
organizations that have cases that are questionable when it comes
to pink campaigns and charities, and one of them is

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the Women's Cancer Fund or the Cancer Recovery Fund. And
these organizations have had according to a lawsuit, that is,
they have had several organizations where they have raised money
and the money not get to individuals. So the Women's

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Cancer Fund and the Cancer Recovery Fund, they had a
lawsuit that was filed and several of the money that
was raised. In fact, eighteen point twenty five million dollars
that was raised between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty two
claim to help women with cancer. But guess what, Only

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one hundred and ninety four thousand, eight hundred and nine
dollars one percent went directly to aid patient services. Most
of the funds went to the president's salary and for
profit fundraisers. That's so sad. Eighteen million dollars and only

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one hundred and ninety four thousand went to help, But
the president is sitting on a big salary to do what.
This is why it's important to ask those questions, ask
the questions as to where this money is going. Yes,
we want to donate, we want to we want to donate,

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we want to be able to help individuals. But if
you have no idea where that money is going, you've
been deceived about how they're using their money. Susan G.
Coleman Well is a foundation that we all know, we
all identify with when it comes to breast cancer. While

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not exactly the company, but Coleman is often cited in
the Pink Ribbon Partnership, and they have faced criticism over
their financial allocations and pink washing because they have the
ties to organizations that pink washed. So at some point

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it was reported that twenty nine or twenty point nine
percent of the funds was going towards research and the
rest was going towards the administrative fees, awareness, and overhead.
That's a lot of money that is missing from research,
that's missing from screenings, that's missing from direct patient care.

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And these organizations have faced criticism for the expensive executive
salaries and the marketing heavy stress campaigns that they have
and not being transparent about what they're giving. Again, that
pink ribbon is not trademark, so anybody can use it

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and slap it on any type of product, and those
products can be harmful to individuals and they can increase
your risk of cancer. So just think about the product
that you're buying and the ingredients that's in that product

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that could potentially be link or increase your risk to cancer,
the chemicals when you're buying processed food that has that
pink ribbon on it, fast food campaigns that slapped that
pink ribbon on it, think twice KFC slapped it on
the bucket, the Chicken bucket for Cure I'm encouraging you

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to think before you pink. Your play was doing the
pink lids with their yogurt, and they was criticized because
although their lids drew awareness in cells, the dairy product
that they were using produced hormones, producing criticism because it

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was inconsistent with causing or increasing your risk of getting cancer.
People was putting ribbons on generic products as well. A
lot of times less than ten percent that they're raising

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is going towards breast cancer. Now they may breast cancer
Month may be over, but that pink ribbon may still
be on those products, but they pick out a charity
that they want to donate to. So they may pick
a charity that they want to donate to for breast
cancer Awareness Month. And when that month is over and

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they have donated their less than one to five percent
to that charity, if that pink ribbon is still on
that product, then the product profit goes to that organization. Yes,
and sometimes the product wants you to do extra things

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like mail in proof of purchase or go online and
activate this. And a lot of times when you get home,
you're not doing it. You don't donate it. But a
lot of times when you get home, you're not doing
all of that because you just don't have the time.
So pink washing can be harmful to individuals who think

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that they are doing the right thing by donating because
organizations slept that pink ribbon on your products. By encourage
you to think about it before you purchase any pink products,
whether it's clothing, whether it's food, whatever it is, think
about it and how it's helping breast cancer patients. Ask

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the questions. Go on their website, read the campaign that
they have, See where that money is going, what percentage
is going towards breast cancer patience mammograms. Before you make
a donation, always think before you pink. Don't just give blindly.

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Ask where the money is going, how is it helping
breast cancer patients, how many breast cancer patients is going
to help? And what was the profit that you made
last year when you ran this campaign and how much
was donated to that organization at that time. And I

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guarantee you that you would be surprised at how much
is being donated. And I don't want to discourage you
from donating, but do a little research when you donate.
Don't just give blindly. All right. I hope that I

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have encouraged you guys to think, be for you pink
and to remember that the real color of breast cancer
is green. Because pink don't pay any bills and because
awareness is not enough. So again, you can take action

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with today's show by sharing out this life to an
individual that you know that donates all the time and
they're satisfied, which is donating and not knowing where their
money is going. Put the money directly into the hands

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of that survivor that's fighting. Donate to your local organizations,
volunteer with your local organizations. All right, that's my rent
for today. I encourage you to think before you pink.
I want to highlight my sponsor, Gloria Dotson with Mary Kay.

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She is catering to all of your beauty needs from
here to toe. You can go to Marykay dot com
and you can purchase some beauty products from her. Let
her know that Warriors Talk sent you, and Warriors Talk
is always looking for individuals to share their story. You
can inbox me at warriors Talk dot orger. You can

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inbox me as well. Marie Kenya's comment, she says, do
your research before you donate. Amen, do your research. Don't
don't just donate blindly. You guys, do your research and
don't forget that. Warriors Talk is having our ninth annual
Survivor Celebration a Reflection Gala's taking place this Saturday at

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the Crystal Sky Banquet twelve pm to four pm. You
can come out and support, purchase a ticket, you could
be a vendor, you can and be a sponsor, and
you can be there as we donate money to an
individual that's in battle at that moment. And don't forget

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you will be able to witness the book launch and
signing for when Warriors Talk Faith emerges. The authors will
be on site to sign a book, take a picture
with you, and you can support them in their journey.
I will leave you with these words of wisdom. Awareness

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raises millions, but action save lives. So join me next
Monday at six pm right here on Intellectual Radio. As always,
thank you for tuning in to Warriors Talk with author
and founder Lady Rachelle, where we are changing lives, one
warrior at a time.

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