What's Going On: Penn Medicine Basser Center for BRCA, Careers at KenCrest, The Joys of Junk Removal
October 27, 2023 • 30 mins
Three of my husbands’ cousins have the BRCA Gene mutation which is a genetic alteration in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes - associated with an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer, as well as some other cancers. Awareness of the BRCA gene is crucial for individuals and their families to make informed healthcare decisions, manage their cancer risk, and contribute to ongoing research and advocacy efforts in the field of genetics and cancer prevention. I speak to Dr. Susan M Domchek, Executive Director, Penn Medicine Basser Center for BRCA which offers resources and a BRCA assessment quiz at Basser.org
I have nothing but a deep respect for the direct service professionals who work with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. As the host for many years of the Points of Transformation Awards which honors those in this field, I’ve seen the extraordinary warmth, empathy and dedication these folks express in their work. Now there’s a great opportunity to find a career as a Direct Service professional at KenCrest. I speak to KenCrest’s Karen Feeney, Vice President of Talent Acquisition and Development.
https://www.kencrest.org/careers/
Got too much junk in your trunk or basement or anywhere? I speak to Jarrod Hill Founder/Owner of 4Hills Junk Removal about the importance of maintaining a clean and clutter free environment for homes and businesses. Instagram: @4hillsjunkremoval @jhill215 Phone number: 215-446-8039
I have nothing but a deep respect for the direct service professionals who work with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. As the host for many years of the Points of Transformation Awards which honors those in this field, I’ve seen the extraordinary warmth, empathy and dedication these folks express in their work. Now there’s a great opportunity to find a career as a Direct Service professional at KenCrest. I speak to KenCrest’s Karen Feeney, Vice President of Talent Acquisition and Development.
https://www.kencrest.org/careers/
Got too much junk in your trunk or basement or anywhere? I speak to Jarrod Hill Founder/Owner of 4Hills Junk Removal about the importance of maintaining a clean and clutter free environment for homes and businesses. Instagram: @4hillsjunkremoval @jhill215 Phone number: 215-446-8039
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Good morning, and welcome to what'sgoing on? A show about making a
difference in our lives and our communities. I'm Lorraine Ballad Morrel. Got too
much junk in your trunk or yourbasement or wherever? I speak to an
entrepreneur who specializes in clearing up yourjunk and lightening up your space. Three
of my husband's cousins have the BRCAgene mutation that puts you at higher risk
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for cancer including breast and ovarian,prostate and colon. We'll talk to the
head of Penn Medicine's Basser Center,which is devoted to getting information out about
the BRCA one and BRCA two genemutation and what you need to know first,
a great career opportunity. For anumber of decades now, and I
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can say decades, I have beenthe MC for a wonderful event. It's
called the Points of Transformation Awards,and that award recognizes the extraordinary work of
those who are working in the intellectualdisabilities support services. And we know that
actually, having read the stories ofso many of the award winners, you
know that it takes a very specialperson to work in this field. And
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the rewards are tremendous. We're goingto be talking about opportunities in particular with
an organization called ken Crest. Joiningus right now is Karen Feeney. She
is vice president of talent Acquisition andDevelopment for ken Crest. Thank you so
much for joining us here today.Thank you well. Ken Crest has been
very prominently featured in many of theawards ceremonies that I have participated in.
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You have some amazing people, andI do know that ken Crest has been
doing great work in this field.So Karen, tell us more about what
ken Crest does for its clients tohelp them live their best lives. Sure,
we support individuals from a direct careexploring possibilities about what their options might
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be to engage with the community,as well as for individual supports and opportunities
to personally be enriched. Some ofit's more direct care, and some of
that is actually engaging in work opportunitiesor services that would be available to them.
Well, we do know that asa society we are evolving and those
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who are with intellectual disabilities can livea very full and rich life, whether
it's out in the world, workingin a job, living by themselves.
Those are all things that ken Christcan support an individual, and then there
are also services for those who aren'tquite there yet but still have lots of
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potential for living a very rich andrewarding life, and that's where your support
services folks come in. Tell usmore about the kinds of people that you're
looking to employ at ken Krest sure, well, you know one of our
core values is inclusion, and wewant to make sure that just as we
are focused on ensuring that happens forthe individuals we support, the community also
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looking at that as an opportunity forthose that are focused on that for their
professional career opportunities. Our employees arethe most valued resource, so we take
very seriously the commitment to identify andoffer job opportunities for those that really sincerely
want to make a difference, butalso want to be heard, to have
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a voice in the process, tobe able to have influence as well as
direct impact in ways that they can. You do not have to have experience
to work at Concrest that you haveto have a heart. You have to
have a commitment to helping individuals aswell as helping yourself grow. You mentioned
that individuals don't necessarily have to haveexperience, but tell us the kind of
person specifically you're looking for. Whatare some of the qualifications that you would
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prefer to have in someone applying fora job. Give us more details there.
Sure, one of the most popularand necessary roles that we have in
this industry is what we call thedirect service professional, and this is someone
who can go into somebody's residence orsometimes in a community type role where they
would take people to places you havean opportunity to engage with somebody. It
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can be with direct care background,so in other words, taking care of
medical needs and the feeding needs andother types of care that are involved in
somebody's home. We can also supportpeople through sharing of their residences and helping
support what we call shared living arrangements. We can also look for people that
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are able to simply drive people todifferent services that are out there and programs.
So there's a real variety in thetypes of jobs that are available,
and I'm sure that for many peopleit's not even just the job, but
it's about the culture of the organizationthat they're joining. Tell us a little
more about the culture of Cancrest foremployees. I love emphasizing how important the
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you is in culture because every voicedoes matter. At Cancrest, we are
committed and have been, especially inthe past few years, been very focused
on how can we help individuals herebe in the job they want to be
in and as well as identify opportunitiesto develop or simply become an expert in
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what they do. We recognize peoplethrough accreditation and tuition assistance, and we
offer people different shift options and locationoptions to really hone in on how they
can make an impact in a waythat'll make a difference, but also that
is just feasible and reasonable for peopleto work here. If someone is in
fact interested in joining the can Crestteam, what do they do? What's
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the first step they need to take? We have we're to site that our
careers portal site www dot cancrest dotorg our careers page. We have an
easy application for you to fill outand we will contact you very quickly and
tell us why should someone choose KenCrestas a place to work and thrive?
They get a nutshell, Lorraine.It's a place that we really have established
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as well as maintained a high qualityof care and commitment. There are a
number of employees who are celebrating thirtyplus or milestones because they understand and have
engaged in what they call a commitmentboth to themselves and to the people that
need to care the most. Ithink it can be very rewarding. Whether
it's for a shorter long term tocome join us in a part time,
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full time, whatever you can giveas far as commitment, it will make
a difference. It will touch yourheart, it will touch the hearts of
those you serve, and quite frankly, what a way to make a difference.
Karen, Before we close out anyfinal words, want to just let
everybody know that if you are interestedin supporting the dreams of individuals, remember
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that you can do that at Cancrestand support your own in the process.
Absolutely. If people again want moreinformation, can you repeat the website?
Thank you, Lorraine. It's wwwdot KenCrest dot org. Go to our
careers page please. Karen Phoene,vice President of Talent Acquisition and Development at
Kencres, thank you so much forjoining us here today, and hopefully some
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folks out there will hear what you'resaying and it will spark an interest and
they will check it out. Itcertainly is a career that can be so
rewarding and you can truly make adifference in the lives of people with intellectual
disabilities. Thank you so much forjoining us here today. Thank you,
Lauren. The brceag mutation refers toa genetic alteration in the BRCA one or
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BRCA two genes, which are associatedwith an increased risk of breast and ovarian
cancer, as well as some othercancers. Awareness of the BRCA gen it's
crucial for individuals and their families tomake informed healthcare decisions, manage their cancer
risk, and contribute to ongoing researchand advocacy efforts in the field of genetics
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and cancer prevention. To tell usall about the BRCA gene and why we
should know more about it is doctorSusan M. JOm Checks, executive director
of Penn's bass Or Center for BRCA. So thank you so much for joining
us here today, and let's beginby doing a little bit of a deep
dive into the BRCA gene mutation.How is that related to cancer? Well,
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thank you so much for having me. It's important to realize that we
all have BRC one and BRCA twogenes. These genes make proteins that help
us. BRCA one and two actuallyhelp repair damage to ourselves DNA damage in
ourselves, and in that way,having the gene work properly is really essential
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to not getting cancer. So someindividuals are born with a mutation in one
of these genes, and a mutationis just a bad copy of the gene
that doesn't work properly, and ifsomewhere along the way, that second copy,
because we have two copies of allof our genes, if that second
copy is lost, then cancer develops. And we just know from thirty years
of doing research in this area thatthey can. Cancers that are associated with
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these BRC mutations are as you mentioned, rest ovarian, pink gratic, and
prossy cancer. There is definitely avery important factor in families knowing about the
BRCA gene. As it turns outin my husband's family, one of his
family cousins, actually several of hiscousins in fact have the BRCA g mutation.
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But clearly it was critical that theywere tested. Once one came down
with breast cancer, then all therest of the sisters got the test and
found out they also had that gene. So clearly it is critical to know
what you're standing is regarding that tellus why it is so important, and
certainly that is a great example ofwhy it is. Yes, it's very
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important to know if you have aBERC mutation because you can make these very
specific changes to your health. Youcan institute early screaming, you can decide
on early intervi such as maths,tectomies. But in order to know that
you might ge at risk, youhave to know your family history. And
this is a situation where were inyears past people didn't really talk about cancer
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in their family. We sort ofhidden or covered up. It would seem
as shameful in some ways, andwe've really tried to break down all those
barriers. It's critically important to knowyour family history, so you know if
you're a good candidate for genetic testing, and even if your genetic testing is
negative, if you have a strongfamily history, often we still do recommend
extra screening. So talking to yourfamily, getting a good sense of what
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cancers people had and what ages iscritical to that next step. Doctor Demzek,
what are some of the red flagsin family health history that would be
a strong indicator to advise or recommendgenetic counseling and testing. So any breast
cancer under age fifty any type ofbreast cancers that is what we call a
triple negative breast cancer. People thinkof breast cancer as all the same,
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but there's actually three main types ofbreast cancer, and one of them is
this triple negative breast cancer that's formwrong receptor negative and something called hertune negative.
So early breast cancer, triple negativebreast cancer. Any diagnosis of ovarian
cancer, pancreatic cancer, are metastaticprostate cancer. Any of these things are
factors or just that you have alot of breast cancer in the families at
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any age. There are other geneticrisks too, by the way, related
to colon cancer, but for nowwe're really focusing on, you know,
breastnow bearing cancer. So who arethe folks who are more likely to get
or have this BRCA one or aBRCA two G mutation. Are there certain
populations that are more at risk forthis. It's really key to understand that
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any race or ethnicity, you canhave a ber SA one or two mutation.
By the way, men and womenare equally likely to have beer san
mutations. It may affect women somewhatmore because of the high risks of breastmo
Bearian cancer. But men can getbreast cancer too, and they certainly can
get aggressive prostate cancer and pancreatic cancer. So men women any race. It
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is more common in some ethnicity,So individuals who are Ashkenazi Jewish descent,
one in forty individuals has a VERCone or commutation compared to more like one
in two to three hundred in thegeneral population. But the key is knowing
your family history, because it doesn'tmatter your rates or ithnicity. If you
have a family history, you shouldget tested. There's certainly an issue with
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health disparities in our communities, andwe know that while black women might be
having breast cancer at slightly lower ratesthan white women, they are more likely
to die. And a lot ofthat has to do with early detection and
access to care, and let's talkabout that. Yes, it's a complex
issue and a frustrating one for allof us. Certainly, we want to
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see the outcomes which have steadily improvedin breast cancer over the past forty years.
We want that steady improvement to beacross the board for all women in
the United States. As you said, there are issues with access. There
are issues with black women not beingas likely to be referred to or get
their mammograms. They're less likely tobe referred for or get genetic testing,
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and so this is sort of afailure on a number of levels in the
healthcare system. It's also true thatblack women are more likely to get this
triple negative breast cancer, which isa more aggressive form of breast cancer.
I tend to get it at earlierages. So the patterns of breast cancer
are different in black women compared towhite women, and that really needs to
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be taken into account. It meansthat it's all the more important for black
women to talk to their physicians abouttheir family history and to really start their
screening at age forty or earlier ifthey're at high risk. Yeah, and
certainly I think it's also very importantto be well informed so that when you
go in for your checkups, thatyou go in and ask the right questions.
So often, or as women oras individuals in general, not just
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women, but I think sometimes we'revery intimidated by the process of going in
for a checkup or even asking theright questions, often thinking well, the
doctor knows everything right and they shouldknow to ask me the proper questions.
But sometimes it really has to bebeing assertive on the part of the patient,
right, absolutely, and I thinkthis is frustrating. It shouldn't fall
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on patients to make sure they getthe right care. But we also recognize
that physicians offices, our healthcare provider'soffices are very busy, and sort of
knowing the questions that you want answeredwhen you're going in is incredibly helpful.
And one of the commonness perceptions forinterest is that genetic testing is very expensive.
That has changed substantially over time.So a test that used to cost
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many thousands of dollars, now outof poking can cost as little as two
hundred and fifty dollars, and ifyou meet eligibility for your insurance company,
it can cost you nothing. Sowe are hearing too often, particularly from
black women, and now their healthcareproviders told them, oh, don't bother,
the test is really expensive. That'snot true, So continue to ask
those questions. That's such an importantpoint to make. I'm so glad made
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it early. Detection is absolutely criticalhere, and certainly when you talk about
the BRCA one and BRCA two geneticmutations. The earlier that any kind of
cancer is detected, right, themore likely you are to be able to
manage it or to even cure itwith the proper treatments. That's exactly right.
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So this is in individuals in familiesthat are known to have a BRCA
learners mutation. We test the womenat twenty five and that's actually when we
start rest MRI screening. Rest MRIscreening. Not all women need it,
but if you're at elevated risk,it adds a lot to mimography. And
that's why you know at twenty fivewe want people sitting around and thinking what
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is my family history, like doI need something extra and talking to their
doctors about it. We have aways to go with ovarian cancer early detection.
So right now, the way thatwe prevent ovarian cancer is to remove
ovarias. But in beer SA onecarriage, for instance, their lifetime risk
of ovarian cancer is forty five percent. That's a massive number compared to one
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to two percent in the general population. So it's why genetic testing is important
because it can really help us stratifythe interventions that we need to do to
literally in sove people's lives, weserve our popular culture. Knowledge of BRCA
one and two has to do withwith breast cancer, but we do know
that it does raise as you mentioned, forty five percent, my gosh,
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a higher risk of ovarian cancer andalso cancers for men as well. Yes,
and men often a sort of ifyou will, for gotten or the
men themselves don't think it's relevant tothem, And this is why we really
like to stress this point. Particularlyfor BRC two mutations, men have a
very elevated risk of crost a cancer. That risk could be as high as
forty percent. And this is notthe kind of prostate cancer you sort of
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die with. This is the kindof prostate cancer that you die of.
It's aggressive forms of prostate cancer.So, with all the discussion out there
about does prostate cancer screening work,who should get it? Individuals who have
buers one atteamutations, men should getprostate cancer screening, and particularly you know,
black men have a higher rates tothe breastive prostate cancer as is,
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so it's particularly important. And pancreaticcancer is a very serious cancer. The
lifetime rest of the pancreatic cancer forBERC two is more than the seven percent
range. But we're getting better withour ways to screens for pancreatic cancer,
and so that's important for both menand women. Both men and women can
pass these genes along to their familiesand it is important for them to know
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that to have that discussion because thereare also opportunities to go through certain type
of advanced reproductive technologies and have thatnot be the case. This is such
an important topic to be talking aboutright now. As I mentioned before,
people in my husband's family, oneof the sisters did pass away from triple
negative breast cancer, but because shehad it, all of the rest of
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the sisters got tested, which wasthe smart thing to do. And so
family history is absolutely critical. Ifyou have a family history of breast cancer,
you should be tested. And ifpeople would like to know more about
their risk for BRCA one or twomutation, tell us more what the Bassar
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Center provides. The Bassord Center atPEN is really a full service organization where
we do a lot of research interms of basic science, but also ways
to help people get tested. Sowe do that across the board as well
as provide clinical care. And soif you go on Bassard dot org,
there is a whiz that you cantake that ask the questions that will help
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you figure out whether you're at highrisk of having a beer satan teation and
then also put you in the rightdirection of where you can get that testing
done. So we have resources,you know, beyond pen at other centers
as well. So we're just tryingto make it as easy as possible for
people to get this done. FantasticAnd what is that website again? Bastard
dot org, BA s ser dotorg. The BRCA gene is crucial for
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individuals and their families to make informedhealthcare decisions, manage their cancer risk,
and contribute to ongoing research and advocacyefforts in the field of genetics and cancer
prevention. The more we know,the better things can be. You would
want to know if you have anelevated risk of cancer or if family members
have that elevated risk. This isinformation that is absolutely critical in my own
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family, whether it's my family orpeople that I know. So many people
have passed away because of triple negativecancers that weren't caught in the nick of
time, and so we want thatto end. We want to get down
to zero, right, doctor,I would love to be put out of
business for sure. Love it.Doctor Susan M. Donchek, Executive director
of Penn's Bassar Center for brc A. Thank you so much for joining us
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today. Thank you. How manyof us have a lot of junk in
our trunk or in our basements orin our backyards. Well, we're going
to be talking with Jared Hill.He's founder and owner of Four Hills Junk
Removal. We're not only going totalk about his personal story, his journey,
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but also about what it means toget rid of that excess junk in
our lives because it can be veryfreeing. Jared, very nice to meet
you and nice to have you intothe studio live and in person in RL
right. Yes, yes, thanksfor having me, Miss Lorrain, I
appreciate the opportunity. First of all, how did you get into the junk
removal business? Great question. Soit all started about seven years ago a
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buddy of mine who was involved inreal estate. He was doing a lot
of flips and renovations on the propertiesthat he was buying. He introduced me
to that world. I started doingthat maybe ten years ago. Quite honestly,
I was shocked by how much moneyI was spending on drunk removal because
we were purchased and properties that wereblighted. Sometimes the properties would have furniture
and things and a property that needto be removed and also needed to be
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demolished. I was actually shocked byhow much money we were spending on drunk
removal, so we kind of startedflirting with the idea of starting our own
drunk removal business. Then we kindof took it serious, started doing some
research, and about seven years ago, we jumped right into the business.
We started googling and we watched acouple of YouTube videos, and I want
to say maybe a week or twolater, we purchased a dump truck.
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He came from the real estate world, so we felt as though with the
connections that we had that we cankind of hit the ground running, and
we also knew a lot of contractorsthat needed to utilize our services. So
funny story, actually, the daythat we bought the truck, we had
two jobs lined up, so wewere in a dealership anxious to get out
of there to hurry up to getto our jobs. So that's how it
all came about. Let's talk alittle bit about junk removal because I personally
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have an experience with that. Werenovated basically a shell, so there's a
lot of crap and filled a bunchof what are those big things, big
content containers, yes, roll offdump roll off containers ten twenty thirty yards
Yeah, or like those little greenbags. Oh no, it was more.
It was a big thing that weput a lot of crap in there.
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Yeah, and it was expensive.And so I imagine that there are
all kinds of interesting stories that comearound junk removal. I am an obsessive
watcher of hoarders, so I thinkthat is the epitome of junk removal when
you see those guys come in andtry to remove you know, decades worth
of people's collected crap. So,what has been the most unusual junk removal
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story that you have to tell.We've done our fair share of hoarder homes.
I want to say the most interestingone was where they were active squirrels
in the property. So when thisparticular property, in the master bedroom there
was a drop ceiling. First ofall, we couldn't even open the front
or to get into the property.But once we cleared out the first floor
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and was able to get up thesteps and get to the master bedroom,
one of my guys yelled down andsay, hey, there's squirrels in the
in the bedroom, So I'll goup there, and the mother had made
a nest like in the drop ceiling, and she was peeking her head down
and like screaming at us. Thatwas probably the most interesting one. We
didn't remove her. She kind ofsaw that we weren't there to hurt her,
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we weren't there to steal her babies, and she kind of just retreated
and we finished the job. Butyeah, it's not for the faint of
heart. We come across a lotof very interesting jobs. Active rodents all
the time, bed bugs, roaches. But yeah, like you said,
a lot of people just don't knowwhere to start. So that's where we
kind of come in and kind ofrelieve that trust for people. Sometimes,
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you know, people don't want toget rid of items, you know.
So yeah, yeah, so it'snot we're not only a drunk company yet
sometime, but I feel like sometimeswe're like psychologists and counselors trying to get
people just to get rid of thethings that you know, that they haven't
seen in fifteen twenty thirty years thatthey still want to hold on to.
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Well, in addition to demolition,I'm sure you also do basement removal stuff.
You know, someone says, ohmy gosh, you know this this
basement is just full of crap,and I just need to clear it out.
And I wonder if you can talka bit about what it is.
Not necessarily a horder, but justlike your average person who just because of
life and whatever, accumulates stuff andit's down there and it kind of weighs
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you down, right, it does. You know. I just did a
job a few days ago, andin this particular basement there were probably forty
to fifty bends, like those plasticbends that was just full of stuff that
the homeowner had no idea what waseven in this particular lady was in her
maybe in her fifties, so shehad items in there from when her children
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were in kindergarten, like awards thatthey had, yeah, and paintings and
pictures, and she was into crafts. She was selling the home, so
she was kind of up against thegun when we were there. We were
there a day or two prior toher settlement date. We didn't force her,
but she was under the gun,and she was downsizing to a smaller
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property, and she had already movedall of the things that she thought that
she wanted to keep into the property, and she had forgot about this certain
section of her basement. It wasvery It was sad for her because she
didn't want to get rid of thoseitems. And then her daughter came down,
and her daughter had just graduated highschool, but she didn't want to
get rid of the things that shehad made for her mother when she was
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like in kindergarten, elementary school.Yeah, I guess psychologically it's tough.
I went through and looked at abunch I had a bin of all of
my son's stuff, and so whatI ended up doing is I took pictures
of a bunch of stuff. Andthen I kept this one little book that
he made about a like a littlecrab, and I have it next to
my on my night table. Andso I was able to let go.
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But it wasn't easy. For sure. It's not easy. It really isn't.
And you know, this particular woman, she left us a really good
review on Google and she kind ofpointed out the fact that not only were
we there to remove the junk,but we kind of helped her get over
getting rid of some things that sheneeded to get rid of. Yeah,
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Yeah, letting go. It isso hard, but once you do it,
it's very freeing. I know thatI did go through into my basement
and I actually hired somebody whose jobthat's what she did, and it was
hard. You know, she wasbrutal, man, she was brutal.
I'm still traumatized, to be honestwith you, but I have to say
that it was nice to be ableto see the floor. Oh, that
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was a good thing. And itdoes lighten your spirit because sometimes crap like
that does weigh it down as youare a entrepreneur. Yes, what does
it feel like to be your ownboss? It's a rollercoaster ride. You
know, there's good days, there'sbad days. I worked in corporate America
for sixteen years prior to doing this, and specifically I worked in corporate sales.
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A big part of sales is youkind of feel like you're your own
boss. Like I had my ownterritory, I had my own book of
business. I had clients that onlywanted to do business with, maybe just
based on the relationship. And I'vealways had an entrepreneurial spirit. Once I
got to a place financially and mywife got settled in her career, I
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decided to take the leap, andthat was I want to say, twenty
months ago, and it was asa combination of the best choice I've ever
made in my life combined with thescariest thing I've ever done in my life.
You know, there's EPs and flowsin the business. I'm really glad
that I did it, and Ikind of wished I did it earlier.
So what would be your advice topeople out there who have a lot of
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junk in their trunk and are reluctantto get rid of it. What would
you say to them, Sometimes it'sgood just to hit the reset button.
That's what I would encourage people.If there's a space that you are looking
to reclaim, reach out to areliable junk removal company that can assist.
For me myself, it's hard forme to operate in a space where there's
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clutter and I don't know where certainthings are For me personally, I can't
operate like that. Oh so you'rein the perfect position there, I am.
I am because I'm like, I'mkind of like a neat freak.
You know, I'm not an insaneOCD person where you know, everything has
to be in its perfect place.But I need order, and I find
that when I have order in myhome and in my life, not only
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does my personal life run more smoothly, but my business runs more smoothly as
well. Just try to reclaim someof that space and hit the reset button.
Well, if people want more informationabout your business, Four Hills Junk
Removal, how do they find outmore? Sure? You can find me
on Instagram at four Hills Junk Removal. You can email me at the number
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four Hills Junk Removal at gmail dotcom. You can find us at Google
on Google this type in four HillJunk Removal. We have five star reviews
on Google. You can reach mevia phone or via text at two one
five, four four six eight zerothree nine. All right, well,
very nice to meet you. JaredHill, founder and owner of four Hills
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Junk Removal. Giving us some tipson you know why, it might be
good to release some of the stuffthat we have been collecting over these many
years. You'll feel a lot betterif you do. And it's also good
to see how one entrepreneur has evolvedhis business and his career. And it
sounds like you're doing a great job. Jared Hill, Thank you so much
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for joining us to thank you somuch for having me. I appreciate it,
Miss Thrie. You can listen toall of today's interviews by going to
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Lorraine Ballard. I'm Lorraine Ballardmorrow andI stand for service to our community and
media that empowers. What will youstand for? You've been listening to what's
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going on, and thank you
Good morning, and welcome to what'sgoing on? A show about making a
difference in our lives and our communities. I'm Lorraine Ballad Morrel. Got too
much junk in your trunk or yourbasement or wherever? I speak to an
entrepreneur who specializes in clearing up yourjunk and lightening up your space. Three
of my husband's cousins have the BRCAgene mutation that puts you at higher risk
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for cancer including breast and ovarian,prostate and colon. We'll talk to the
head of Penn Medicine's Basser Center,which is devoted to getting information out about
the BRCA one and BRCA two genemutation and what you need to know first,
a great career opportunity. For anumber of decades now, and I
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can say decades, I have beenthe MC for a wonderful event. It's
called the Points of Transformation Awards,and that award recognizes the extraordinary work of
those who are working in the intellectualdisabilities support services. And we know that
actually, having read the stories ofso many of the award winners, you
know that it takes a very specialperson to work in this field. And
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the rewards are tremendous. We're goingto be talking about opportunities in particular with
an organization called ken Crest. Joiningus right now is Karen Feeney. She
is vice president of talent Acquisition andDevelopment for ken Crest. Thank you so
much for joining us here today.Thank you well. Ken Crest has been
very prominently featured in many of theawards ceremonies that I have participated in.
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You have some amazing people, andI do know that ken Crest has been
doing great work in this field.So Karen, tell us more about what
ken Crest does for its clients tohelp them live their best lives. Sure,
we support individuals from a direct careexploring possibilities about what their options might
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be to engage with the community,as well as for individual supports and opportunities
to personally be enriched. Some ofit's more direct care, and some of
that is actually engaging in work opportunitiesor services that would be available to them.
Well, we do know that asa society we are evolving and those
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who are with intellectual disabilities can livea very full and rich life, whether
it's out in the world, workingin a job, living by themselves.
Those are all things that ken Christcan support an individual, and then there
are also services for those who aren'tquite there yet but still have lots of
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potential for living a very rich andrewarding life, and that's where your support
services folks come in. Tell usmore about the kinds of people that you're
looking to employ at ken Krest sure, well, you know one of our
core values is inclusion, and wewant to make sure that just as we
are focused on ensuring that happens forthe individuals we support, the community also
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looking at that as an opportunity forthose that are focused on that for their
professional career opportunities. Our employees arethe most valued resource, so we take
very seriously the commitment to identify andoffer job opportunities for those that really sincerely
want to make a difference, butalso want to be heard, to have
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a voice in the process, tobe able to have influence as well as
direct impact in ways that they can. You do not have to have experience
to work at Concrest that you haveto have a heart. You have to
have a commitment to helping individuals aswell as helping yourself grow. You mentioned
that individuals don't necessarily have to haveexperience, but tell us the kind of
person specifically you're looking for. Whatare some of the qualifications that you would
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prefer to have in someone applying fora job. Give us more details there.
Sure, one of the most popularand necessary roles that we have in
this industry is what we call thedirect service professional, and this is someone
who can go into somebody's residence orsometimes in a community type role where they
would take people to places you havean opportunity to engage with somebody. It
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can be with direct care background,so in other words, taking care of
medical needs and the feeding needs andother types of care that are involved in
somebody's home. We can also supportpeople through sharing of their residences and helping
support what we call shared living arrangements. We can also look for people that
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are able to simply drive people todifferent services that are out there and programs.
So there's a real variety in thetypes of jobs that are available,
and I'm sure that for many peopleit's not even just the job, but
it's about the culture of the organizationthat they're joining. Tell us a little
more about the culture of Cancrest foremployees. I love emphasizing how important the
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you is in culture because every voicedoes matter. At Cancrest, we are
committed and have been, especially inthe past few years, been very focused
on how can we help individuals herebe in the job they want to be
in and as well as identify opportunitiesto develop or simply become an expert in
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what they do. We recognize peoplethrough accreditation and tuition assistance, and we
offer people different shift options and locationoptions to really hone in on how they
can make an impact in a waythat'll make a difference, but also that
is just feasible and reasonable for peopleto work here. If someone is in
fact interested in joining the can Crestteam, what do they do? What's
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the first step they need to take? We have we're to site that our
careers portal site www dot cancrest dotorg our careers page. We have an
easy application for you to fill outand we will contact you very quickly and
tell us why should someone choose KenCrestas a place to work and thrive?
They get a nutshell, Lorraine.It's a place that we really have established
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as well as maintained a high qualityof care and commitment. There are a
number of employees who are celebrating thirtyplus or milestones because they understand and have
engaged in what they call a commitmentboth to themselves and to the people that
need to care the most. Ithink it can be very rewarding. Whether
it's for a shorter long term tocome join us in a part time,
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full time, whatever you can giveas far as commitment, it will make
a difference. It will touch yourheart, it will touch the hearts of
those you serve, and quite frankly, what a way to make a difference.
Karen, Before we close out anyfinal words, want to just let
everybody know that if you are interestedin supporting the dreams of individuals, remember
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that you can do that at Cancrestand support your own in the process.
Absolutely. If people again want moreinformation, can you repeat the website?
Thank you, Lorraine. It's wwwdot KenCrest dot org. Go to our
careers page please. Karen Phoene,vice President of Talent Acquisition and Development at
Kencres, thank you so much forjoining us here today, and hopefully some
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folks out there will hear what you'resaying and it will spark an interest and
they will check it out. Itcertainly is a career that can be so
rewarding and you can truly make adifference in the lives of people with intellectual
disabilities. Thank you so much forjoining us here today. Thank you,
Lauren. The brceag mutation refers toa genetic alteration in the BRCA one or
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BRCA two genes, which are associatedwith an increased risk of breast and ovarian
cancer, as well as some othercancers. Awareness of the BRCA gen it's
crucial for individuals and their families tomake informed healthcare decisions, manage their cancer
risk, and contribute to ongoing researchand advocacy efforts in the field of genetics
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and cancer prevention. To tell usall about the BRCA gene and why we
should know more about it is doctorSusan M. JOm Checks, executive director
of Penn's bass Or Center for BRCA. So thank you so much for joining
us here today, and let's beginby doing a little bit of a deep
dive into the BRCA gene mutation.How is that related to cancer? Well,
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thank you so much for having me. It's important to realize that we
all have BRC one and BRCA twogenes. These genes make proteins that help
us. BRCA one and two actuallyhelp repair damage to ourselves DNA damage in
ourselves, and in that way,having the gene work properly is really essential
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to not getting cancer. So someindividuals are born with a mutation in one
of these genes, and a mutationis just a bad copy of the gene
that doesn't work properly, and ifsomewhere along the way, that second copy,
because we have two copies of allof our genes, if that second
copy is lost, then cancer develops. And we just know from thirty years
of doing research in this area thatthey can. Cancers that are associated with
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these BRC mutations are as you mentioned, rest ovarian, pink gratic, and
prossy cancer. There is definitely avery important factor in families knowing about the
BRCA gene. As it turns outin my husband's family, one of his
family cousins, actually several of hiscousins in fact have the BRCA g mutation.
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But clearly it was critical that theywere tested. Once one came down
with breast cancer, then all therest of the sisters got the test and
found out they also had that gene. So clearly it is critical to know
what you're standing is regarding that tellus why it is so important, and
certainly that is a great example ofwhy it is. Yes, it's very
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important to know if you have aBERC mutation because you can make these very
specific changes to your health. Youcan institute early screaming, you can decide
on early intervi such as maths,tectomies. But in order to know that
you might ge at risk, youhave to know your family history. And
this is a situation where were inyears past people didn't really talk about cancer
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in their family. We sort ofhidden or covered up. It would seem
as shameful in some ways, andwe've really tried to break down all those
barriers. It's critically important to knowyour family history, so you know if
you're a good candidate for genetic testing, and even if your genetic testing is
negative, if you have a strongfamily history, often we still do recommend
extra screening. So talking to yourfamily, getting a good sense of what
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cancers people had and what ages iscritical to that next step. Doctor Demzek,
what are some of the red flagsin family health history that would be
a strong indicator to advise or recommendgenetic counseling and testing. So any breast
cancer under age fifty any type ofbreast cancers that is what we call a
triple negative breast cancer. People thinkof breast cancer as all the same,
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but there's actually three main types ofbreast cancer, and one of them is
this triple negative breast cancer that's formwrong receptor negative and something called hertune negative.
So early breast cancer, triple negativebreast cancer. Any diagnosis of ovarian
cancer, pancreatic cancer, are metastaticprostate cancer. Any of these things are
factors or just that you have alot of breast cancer in the families at
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any age. There are other geneticrisks too, by the way, related
to colon cancer, but for nowwe're really focusing on, you know,
breastnow bearing cancer. So who arethe folks who are more likely to get
or have this BRCA one or aBRCA two G mutation. Are there certain
populations that are more at risk forthis. It's really key to understand that
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any race or ethnicity, you canhave a ber SA one or two mutation.
By the way, men and womenare equally likely to have beer san
mutations. It may affect women somewhatmore because of the high risks of breastmo
Bearian cancer. But men can getbreast cancer too, and they certainly can
get aggressive prostate cancer and pancreatic cancer. So men women any race. It
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is more common in some ethnicity,So individuals who are Ashkenazi Jewish descent,
one in forty individuals has a VERCone or commutation compared to more like one
in two to three hundred in thegeneral population. But the key is knowing
your family history, because it doesn'tmatter your rates or ithnicity. If you
have a family history, you shouldget tested. There's certainly an issue with
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health disparities in our communities, andwe know that while black women might be
having breast cancer at slightly lower ratesthan white women, they are more likely
to die. And a lot ofthat has to do with early detection and
access to care, and let's talkabout that. Yes, it's a complex
issue and a frustrating one for allof us. Certainly, we want to
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see the outcomes which have steadily improvedin breast cancer over the past forty years.
We want that steady improvement to beacross the board for all women in
the United States. As you said, there are issues with access. There
are issues with black women not beingas likely to be referred to or get
their mammograms. They're less likely tobe referred for or get genetic testing,
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and so this is sort of afailure on a number of levels in the
healthcare system. It's also true thatblack women are more likely to get this
triple negative breast cancer, which isa more aggressive form of breast cancer.
I tend to get it at earlierages. So the patterns of breast cancer
are different in black women compared towhite women, and that really needs to
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be taken into account. It meansthat it's all the more important for black
women to talk to their physicians abouttheir family history and to really start their
screening at age forty or earlier ifthey're at high risk. Yeah, and
certainly I think it's also very importantto be well informed so that when you
go in for your checkups, thatyou go in and ask the right questions.
So often, or as women oras individuals in general, not just
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women, but I think sometimes we'revery intimidated by the process of going in
for a checkup or even asking theright questions, often thinking well, the
doctor knows everything right and they shouldknow to ask me the proper questions.
But sometimes it really has to bebeing assertive on the part of the patient,
right, absolutely, and I thinkthis is frustrating. It shouldn't fall
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on patients to make sure they getthe right care. But we also recognize
that physicians offices, our healthcare provider'soffices are very busy, and sort of
knowing the questions that you want answeredwhen you're going in is incredibly helpful.
And one of the commonness perceptions forinterest is that genetic testing is very expensive.
That has changed substantially over time.So a test that used to cost
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many thousands of dollars, now outof poking can cost as little as two
hundred and fifty dollars, and ifyou meet eligibility for your insurance company,
it can cost you nothing. Sowe are hearing too often, particularly from
black women, and now their healthcareproviders told them, oh, don't bother,
the test is really expensive. That'snot true, So continue to ask
those questions. That's such an importantpoint to make. I'm so glad made
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it early. Detection is absolutely criticalhere, and certainly when you talk about
the BRCA one and BRCA two geneticmutations. The earlier that any kind of
cancer is detected, right, themore likely you are to be able to
manage it or to even cure itwith the proper treatments. That's exactly right.
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So this is in individuals in familiesthat are known to have a BRCA
learners mutation. We test the womenat twenty five and that's actually when we
start rest MRI screening. Rest MRIscreening. Not all women need it,
but if you're at elevated risk,it adds a lot to mimography. And
that's why you know at twenty fivewe want people sitting around and thinking what
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is my family history, like doI need something extra and talking to their
doctors about it. We have aways to go with ovarian cancer early detection.
So right now, the way thatwe prevent ovarian cancer is to remove
ovarias. But in beer SA onecarriage, for instance, their lifetime risk
of ovarian cancer is forty five percent. That's a massive number compared to one
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to two percent in the general population. So it's why genetic testing is important
because it can really help us stratifythe interventions that we need to do to
literally in sove people's lives, weserve our popular culture. Knowledge of BRCA
one and two has to do withwith breast cancer, but we do know
that it does raise as you mentioned, forty five percent, my gosh,
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a higher risk of ovarian cancer andalso cancers for men as well. Yes,
and men often a sort of ifyou will, for gotten or the
men themselves don't think it's relevant tothem, And this is why we really
like to stress this point. Particularlyfor BRC two mutations, men have a
very elevated risk of crost a cancer. That risk could be as high as
forty percent. And this is notthe kind of prostate cancer you sort of
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die with. This is the kindof prostate cancer that you die of.
It's aggressive forms of prostate cancer.So, with all the discussion out there
about does prostate cancer screening work,who should get it? Individuals who have
buers one atteamutations, men should getprostate cancer screening, and particularly you know,
black men have a higher rates tothe breastive prostate cancer as is,
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so it's particularly important. And pancreaticcancer is a very serious cancer. The
lifetime rest of the pancreatic cancer forBERC two is more than the seven percent
range. But we're getting better withour ways to screens for pancreatic cancer,
and so that's important for both menand women. Both men and women can
pass these genes along to their familiesand it is important for them to know
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that to have that discussion because thereare also opportunities to go through certain type
of advanced reproductive technologies and have thatnot be the case. This is such
an important topic to be talking aboutright now. As I mentioned before,
people in my husband's family, oneof the sisters did pass away from triple
negative breast cancer, but because shehad it, all of the rest of
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the sisters got tested, which wasthe smart thing to do. And so
family history is absolutely critical. Ifyou have a family history of breast cancer,
you should be tested. And ifpeople would like to know more about
their risk for BRCA one or twomutation, tell us more what the Bassar
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Center provides. The Bassord Center atPEN is really a full service organization where
we do a lot of research interms of basic science, but also ways
to help people get tested. Sowe do that across the board as well
as provide clinical care. And soif you go on Bassard dot org,
there is a whiz that you cantake that ask the questions that will help
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you figure out whether you're at highrisk of having a beer satan teation and
then also put you in the rightdirection of where you can get that testing
done. So we have resources,you know, beyond pen at other centers
as well. So we're just tryingto make it as easy as possible for
people to get this done. FantasticAnd what is that website again? Bastard
dot org, BA s ser dotorg. The BRCA gene is crucial for
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individuals and their families to make informedhealthcare decisions, manage their cancer risk,
and contribute to ongoing research and advocacyefforts in the field of genetics and cancer
prevention. The more we know,the better things can be. You would
want to know if you have anelevated risk of cancer or if family members
have that elevated risk. This isinformation that is absolutely critical in my own
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family, whether it's my family orpeople that I know. So many people
have passed away because of triple negativecancers that weren't caught in the nick of
time, and so we want thatto end. We want to get down
to zero, right, doctor,I would love to be put out of
business for sure. Love it.Doctor Susan M. Donchek, Executive director
of Penn's Bassar Center for brc A. Thank you so much for joining us
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today. Thank you. How manyof us have a lot of junk in
our trunk or in our basements orin our backyards. Well, we're going
to be talking with Jared Hill.He's founder and owner of Four Hills Junk
Removal. We're not only going totalk about his personal story, his journey,
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but also about what it means toget rid of that excess junk in
our lives because it can be veryfreeing. Jared, very nice to meet
you and nice to have you intothe studio live and in person in RL
right. Yes, yes, thanksfor having me, Miss Lorrain, I
appreciate the opportunity. First of all, how did you get into the junk
removal business? Great question. Soit all started about seven years ago a
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buddy of mine who was involved inreal estate. He was doing a lot
of flips and renovations on the propertiesthat he was buying. He introduced me
to that world. I started doingthat maybe ten years ago. Quite honestly,
I was shocked by how much moneyI was spending on drunk removal because
we were purchased and properties that wereblighted. Sometimes the properties would have furniture
and things and a property that needto be removed and also needed to be
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demolished. I was actually shocked byhow much money we were spending on drunk
removal, so we kind of startedflirting with the idea of starting our own
drunk removal business. Then we kindof took it serious, started doing some
research, and about seven years ago, we jumped right into the business.
We started googling and we watched acouple of YouTube videos, and I want
to say maybe a week or twolater, we purchased a dump truck.
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He came from the real estate world, so we felt as though with the
connections that we had that we cankind of hit the ground running, and
we also knew a lot of contractorsthat needed to utilize our services. So
funny story, actually, the daythat we bought the truck, we had
two jobs lined up, so wewere in a dealership anxious to get out
of there to hurry up to getto our jobs. So that's how it
all came about. Let's talk alittle bit about junk removal because I personally
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have an experience with that. Werenovated basically a shell, so there's a
lot of crap and filled a bunchof what are those big things, big
content containers, yes, roll offdump roll off containers ten twenty thirty yards
Yeah, or like those little greenbags. Oh no, it was more.
It was a big thing that weput a lot of crap in there.
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Yeah, and it was expensive.And so I imagine that there are
all kinds of interesting stories that comearound junk removal. I am an obsessive
watcher of hoarders, so I thinkthat is the epitome of junk removal when
you see those guys come in andtry to remove you know, decades worth
of people's collected crap. So,what has been the most unusual junk removal
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story that you have to tell.We've done our fair share of hoarder homes.
I want to say the most interestingone was where they were active squirrels
in the property. So when thisparticular property, in the master bedroom there
was a drop ceiling. First ofall, we couldn't even open the front
or to get into the property.But once we cleared out the first floor
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and was able to get up thesteps and get to the master bedroom,
one of my guys yelled down andsay, hey, there's squirrels in the
in the bedroom, So I'll goup there, and the mother had made
a nest like in the drop ceiling, and she was peeking her head down
and like screaming at us. Thatwas probably the most interesting one. We
didn't remove her. She kind ofsaw that we weren't there to hurt her,
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we weren't there to steal her babies, and she kind of just retreated
and we finished the job. Butyeah, it's not for the faint of
heart. We come across a lotof very interesting jobs. Active rodents all
the time, bed bugs, roaches. But yeah, like you said,
a lot of people just don't knowwhere to start. So that's where we
kind of come in and kind ofrelieve that trust for people. Sometimes,
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you know, people don't want toget rid of items, you know.
So yeah, yeah, so it'snot we're not only a drunk company yet
sometime, but I feel like sometimeswe're like psychologists and counselors trying to get
people just to get rid of thethings that you know, that they haven't
seen in fifteen twenty thirty years thatthey still want to hold on to.
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Well, in addition to demolition,I'm sure you also do basement removal stuff.
You know, someone says, ohmy gosh, you know this this
basement is just full of crap,and I just need to clear it out.
And I wonder if you can talka bit about what it is.
Not necessarily a horder, but justlike your average person who just because of
life and whatever, accumulates stuff andit's down there and it kind of weighs
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you down, right, it does. You know. I just did a
job a few days ago, andin this particular basement there were probably forty
to fifty bends, like those plasticbends that was just full of stuff that
the homeowner had no idea what waseven in this particular lady was in her
maybe in her fifties, so shehad items in there from when her children
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were in kindergarten, like awards thatthey had, yeah, and paintings and
pictures, and she was into crafts. She was selling the home, so
she was kind of up against thegun when we were there. We were
there a day or two prior toher settlement date. We didn't force her,
but she was under the gun,and she was downsizing to a smaller
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property, and she had already movedall of the things that she thought that
she wanted to keep into the property, and she had forgot about this certain
section of her basement. It wasvery It was sad for her because she
didn't want to get rid of thoseitems. And then her daughter came down,
and her daughter had just graduated highschool, but she didn't want to
get rid of the things that shehad made for her mother when she was
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like in kindergarten, elementary school.Yeah, I guess psychologically it's tough.
I went through and looked at abunch I had a bin of all of
my son's stuff, and so whatI ended up doing is I took pictures
of a bunch of stuff. Andthen I kept this one little book that
he made about a like a littlecrab, and I have it next to
my on my night table. Andso I was able to let go.
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But it wasn't easy. For sure. It's not easy. It really isn't.
And you know, this particular woman, she left us a really good
review on Google and she kind ofpointed out the fact that not only were
we there to remove the junk,but we kind of helped her get over
getting rid of some things that sheneeded to get rid of. Yeah,
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Yeah, letting go. It isso hard, but once you do it,
it's very freeing. I know thatI did go through into my basement
and I actually hired somebody whose jobthat's what she did, and it was
hard. You know, she wasbrutal, man, she was brutal.
I'm still traumatized, to be honestwith you, but I have to say
that it was nice to be ableto see the floor. Oh, that
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was a good thing. And itdoes lighten your spirit because sometimes crap like
that does weigh it down as youare a entrepreneur. Yes, what does
it feel like to be your ownboss? It's a rollercoaster ride. You
know, there's good days, there'sbad days. I worked in corporate America
for sixteen years prior to doing this, and specifically I worked in corporate sales.
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A big part of sales is youkind of feel like you're your own
boss. Like I had my ownterritory, I had my own book of
business. I had clients that onlywanted to do business with, maybe just
based on the relationship. And I'vealways had an entrepreneurial spirit. Once I
got to a place financially and mywife got settled in her career, I
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decided to take the leap, andthat was I want to say, twenty
months ago, and it was asa combination of the best choice I've ever
made in my life combined with thescariest thing I've ever done in my life.
You know, there's EPs and flowsin the business. I'm really glad
that I did it, and Ikind of wished I did it earlier.
So what would be your advice topeople out there who have a lot of
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junk in their trunk and are reluctantto get rid of it. What would
you say to them, Sometimes it'sgood just to hit the reset button.
That's what I would encourage people.If there's a space that you are looking
to reclaim, reach out to areliable junk removal company that can assist.
For me myself, it's hard forme to operate in a space where there's
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clutter and I don't know where certainthings are For me personally, I can't
operate like that. Oh so you'rein the perfect position there, I am.
I am because I'm like, I'mkind of like a neat freak.
You know, I'm not an insaneOCD person where you know, everything has
to be in its perfect place.But I need order, and I find
that when I have order in myhome and in my life, not only
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does my personal life run more smoothly, but my business runs more smoothly as
well. Just try to reclaim someof that space and hit the reset button.
Well, if people want more informationabout your business, Four Hills Junk
Removal, how do they find outmore? Sure? You can find me
on Instagram at four Hills Junk Removal. You can email me at the number
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four Hills Junk Removal at gmail dotcom. You can find us at Google
on Google this type in four HillJunk Removal. We have five star reviews
on Google. You can reach mevia phone or via text at two one
five, four four six eight zerothree nine. All right, well,
very nice to meet you. JaredHill, founder and owner of four Hills
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Junk Removal. Giving us some tipson you know why, it might be
good to release some of the stuffthat we have been collecting over these many
years. You'll feel a lot betterif you do. And it's also good
to see how one entrepreneur has evolvedhis business and his career. And it
sounds like you're doing a great job. Jared Hill, Thank you so much
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for joining us to thank you somuch for having me. I appreciate it,
Miss Thrie. You can listen toall of today's interviews by going to
our station website and typing in KeywordCommunity. You can also listen on the
iHeartRadio app key Words Philadelphia Community Podcast. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram at
Lorraine Ballard. I'm Lorraine Ballardmorrow andI stand for service to our community and
media that empowers. What will youstand for? You've been listening to what's
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