September 22, 2025 • 30 mins
“They’re known as Boobs Without Borders and they’ve already run thousands of miles to support breast cancer research. Find out what this local breast survivor and two of her besties are now up to when they chat about their upcoming event that highlights the power of pink.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Am Sylvia Moss.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
This is Insight, a presentation of iHeartMedia, where we really
do care about our local communities and all our.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Listeners who live here.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You know, quite often I find myself thinking about all
the truly amazing and generous people have come through these
studios over the last almost thirty years. They're brave, they're strong,
they inspire me, and in so many ways I.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Really would like to be like them.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Today, you're going to meet three incredible local women for
over twenty years when they were in there, well I'm
not going to say how old they were, anyway, I
let them say that found they founded a breast cancer
advocacy organization known as Boobs Without Borders. Their focus has
been to turn their personal experience with breast cancer into
a nationwide movement for awareness, early detection, and with the
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funds they raised, are going to breast cancer research through
the Susan g Coman Foundations. Three Day Oh boy, I
still can't believe you guys are doing this three day
sixty mile walks across the country. Just wait, do you
hear about these wonderful women with us are the founders
of Boobs with Outborders. Marin Marilyn excuse me, Fuller Smith,
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who was diagnosed with breast cancer in two thousand and
her two besties Donna Am I saying this right? So
let'st I should ask you, Okay, cool and Jane Blake, kids,
this is going to be a good show. Let's begin
with your story. Marilynd you're the You're the point right there.
So it started with you tell us about it.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Well, do we want to talk about my breast cancer journey?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay, okay? You found out you had breast cancer.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And did and I found out early, and that was
the key to everything. I found out very very early.
My doctor found it and he was a general general practitioner,
and he found a lump while he was doing my
annual procedures and said, I'm going to make a mammogram
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for you for this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And I said, wow, that's a little scary. So I
took my husband. We went. I had the man and
the radiologist. At that point, they don't do this anymore.
But the radiologists took us back into a little dark
room and he said, you see this, you see this lump.
You see this darkness here on the screen that shouldn't
be there. And I went, is it cancer? And he said,
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I can't tell you that, but here's three doctors that
you could call their surgeons, and you need to pick
one of them and call them. So I called doctor
Angelis Soto Hamlin, who is, oh, yeah, exactly. Everybody feels
that way about She's just one of the very, very best.
And that was on the fourteenth of January, and by
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the tenth of February, everything was eradicated. Everything was done.
I had my lumpectomy and then I started and went
through radiation for the next six weeks. And this is
where the blessings are. And we talked about blessings earlier.
The blessing is that I worked for the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania and they had a very very good insurance program,
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and I worked for very kind, kind people. I was
able to take off all the time I needed, insurance
paid for every single time. My husband and I never
paid for anything for this whole entire process that I've
gone through. So that's how my early detection was found,
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and that's what we need to find for every single
solitary woman. Early detection, early detection, early detection.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Well, you know, your two girlfriends sit next to you.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I think I know rough things that I've gone through,
and I've never gone through breast cancer, but rough things
I've gone through. The ones that meant the most to
me were my girlfriends. They got it, they didn't judge me,
they'd move heaven and earth for me. Tell me about
the girls that next to you, what support.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
They are to you?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Well, I didn't know the girls when I got breast cancer. Okay,
but this is what happened is I started walking in
twenty eleven for Susan g Comen money, and I will
admit that there's the reason that I started walking with
them is another girl slid in beside me in a
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meeting and said, hey, I just signed up to walk
sixty miles and I said for what? She said, I
don't know, but I figured i'd lose some weight, and
I went, oh, that's cool, I'll do it too. So
it wasn't until that night that I went online that
I found out what Susan g Coman was. And I
went from two thousand to twenty eleven without giving back.
It was done, it was over, and I went on
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to other things in my life. Then I walked my
first sixty mile walk in Philadelphia that year in twenty eleven,
and I've just never.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Looked back sixty miles. Now this year it'll be white thirty.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
What Well, for me it will be thirty four and
thirty five. But these ladies have been walking right along
with me.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
So for me, it is my seventh.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Okay, it's only my third.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Only I'll be lucky if I get off this chair
this afternoon. It's only her third sixty mile walk. That's
what gets me. Let me ask you about this also.
I know you're very involved. This has been your life.
You've also been involved, very much involved with the Pennsylvania
Breast Cancer You're dear friends with Pat Halpin murphya our angel. Yes,
and you won a big award from them last year.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
We did, I did. These two were right there at
the table. They were you know, of course they were
along with the fan, along with family and friends. They
were there. I got the Pink Ribbon award that year.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
That's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It is, it really was. I didn't as often we don't,
you know, we're humbled when we receive awards like that.
We don't feel we deserve awards like that. And and
Pat said, you're just doing it. You know, we're giving
it to you. And that's just the way life is.
And that was a very special special Come on, come on.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
They had these walks all around the state and you
walk here, you walk there. Some places when they're doing
walk you can.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Do them one line. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
But sixty miles and you're not forgive me for this,
But these are three very beautiful women in front of me.
And I'll tell you what. At your age, my dear
at Maryland, I know you understand we're old enough to
talk to each.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Other that way.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
You think most people our age would say, I don't
need that crap.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I'm going to Flora.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But you move to do in your How many did
you say, forgive me thirty four to thirty five.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I'm going to do thirty four and thirty five, thirty four.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
And thirty five sixty mile walks?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Holy don't know, well, each one of us, you tell
me how do you get in the condition.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
To be able to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Somebody told me they see you walking all over Harrisburg
area and they're sitting in front of me with these
beautiful pink wreaths and a little hat. One of them.
You can't miss him, Miss him. Do you wear those
those wreaths and things all time?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
No, we don't wear them all the time. We certainly
don't feel uncomfortable everywhere I know. I yeah, we're always
in pink, right, we always have on pink.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Okay, tell me about those little ringlets that come down
off of it.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Jane Donna.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
This started when we started wearing the reth When did
we start that? Twenty nineteen maybe okay, I don't know,
maybe twenty eighteen. But we put people's names on them
that are battling breast cancer or have survived or have not.
And friends and mothers and aunts and people come up
to us and give us their names and honored to
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place their name on a ribbon. And then while I'm walking,
I walk in their honor.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Now, this is this going to be going on in
this area at all? And they're coming out? No?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
No, no, no this year? No, Okay, we don't walk
the sixty miles walks here. The closest one was Philadelphia,
and they're not doing one in Philadelphia. Okay, But I
wanted to mention too that Donna, yes carries this very
special one on her ribbon. Who do you walk for?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Well?
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I have many, but My mom was diagnosed with breast
cancer when she was eighty three. And you know, one
thing that I think personally is important is a lot
of older women stop getting mammograms, and I'd very much
like to emphasize that they still need to.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Well, you know, it's funny because I'm sorry, dear finch.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Rad And I also have an aunt in her eighties
that was just diagnosed two years ago. And I have
a cousin that has had breast cancer for twenty to
twenty five years on and off and has constantly, you know,
gone through several rounds of chemo and radiation and so forth.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
As you get older.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I don't know if the insurance companies don't want to
pay for it, but as you get old, there's a
lot of different things that we can possibly go through,
and they'll say, well, you didn't get it yet, you
won't get it. It's almost like, you know, but breast cancer.
I've had women in mind, I've had girlfriends die in
their one died in her twenties, one in her forties,
one in her fifties, and other women I know were
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friends of mine later in life. I mean, it's everywhere,
and that's what you're Boobs without Borders.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
It's all about that is exactly why we named it
Boobs without Borders, because breast cancer is everywhere. It's in
this little small community that we live in, it's in
the state, it's in the country, and it's worldwide and
we're trying to find a cure. Susan g Commen, Pat
Help and Murphy with PBCC, all of these small and
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the big organizations are trying to find that cure, and
we want a cure for the world. We want it
to be stopped for the world. So we're Boobs without
Borders because there are no borders where breast cancer is concerned.
And then the bottom line is, of course, because breast
cancer is everywhere, absolutely, So that's what we're doing, and
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that's why we're here doing what we're doing, and we
thank you for inviting this.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You're like my sisters, you know, someone my right right.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
One of the other things I want to ask about
is that.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Are there days when you feel like because I start
listening to this lady, her name is Meil Robbins, you
know Mail Robins, and there's days when you think like, oh,
I don't know if I want to do this, But
then I start reading about her, saying about five four
three two one. It's a system she has. Are the
days when you feel like I can't do this? What
do you think I mean, will.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I'll let you ladies? Yeah, girl, I ever have a
day like that.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
I think the biggest thing with us it's commitment, you know.
I mean, once you have a group and you have friends,
and you do this with friends. If you commit to
meet at the flags at seven or six thirty in
the morning, you're at the flags at six thirty in
the morning, or if it's Nagley Park, or if it's
the green Belt wherever we're going to start. Once we
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say we're going to meet, you're there, and so that's
really it. It kind of takes it out of my mind.
And we do this all the time. I mean we
don't we walk you losked earlier. How do we prepare
for sixty miles? The only way you prepare for sixty
miles is by walking sixty miles. So we train a lot.
We will do ten to fifteen in a day twenty
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twenty six, and then we've trained. Once we've done our
twenty six mile er, we know we can turn and
do twenties and it feels easier, and that's twenty six
in a day. And once we've done twenty six point two, right,
then exactly we know we can do it.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You know, we know down you were talking about your
mom and losing your mom. It's any time in your life.
It's tough when you do it. But there are so
many incredible women out there that have got involved at
the cause of breast cancer. And you know, it's funny
we were talking about life and prior to you getting
breast cancer, had you been had that been something that
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you had been involved in before. Nope, see that's what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
No, not at all. It changed my life in ways. Actually,
twenty eleven is when it changed my life. Yes, there's
no question about it. Getting the breast cancer was.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh my god, you know, oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
But twenty eleven when I started giving back, is when
I realized this is my mission. My mission in life
is to help raise money to find a cure for
breast cancer. And you know, when you have a mission,
you meet people. You meet the Jans, and you meet
the Donnas, and you meet I am so blessed to
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have met hundreds of women and men over these past
many years and we you know, I know their families,
I've gone to their weddings. We from all over the country,
and we have the same mission.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
How about you girls? Was it the same thing with
you before you got involved in this? Did you ever
think about you would get involved in it with a
cause like breast cancer or something else.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I really didn't.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
The only thing I had really done with regard to
breast cancer was a cruise that I went on to
Alaska with my parents back in two thousand and eight.
They had they had like a little breast cancer walk
on board, and I did that. But and I had
this T shirt. So when I got involved in this,
I'm like, oh, I already have a you're ready to
go a breast cancer T shirt?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Being involved in all this, how did this change your
life at all? Because if you want, would you mind
me asking you what you did for a living?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
This is these are tough broads here.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
I was a federal agent with the Beera of Alcohol
Tobacco firem Center.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yeah she was tough.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
She's still tougher. She would be doing this. But I'm
sorry you were saying.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
What was I saying?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
How has this changed changed? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Well, first of all, it gave it gave me a
new purpose because my career was always my identity and
I had a real struggle in twenty seventeen when I retired,
trying to figure out what my purpose in life was.
So when I started walking in twenty nineteen twenty twenty,
I guess it was that gave me a new purpose
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and something to look forward to. And the camaraderie that
we have is incredible. The laughter we share, the sadness
sometimes we share, the joy, you know, every day just
walking and talking about, you know, the wonderful, wonderful things
we have and the hope we have for the world
and so forth.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
How about you, Jennie, I really much like Marilyn. When
I started, it was all about getting back in shape
because I had sort of slipped out of shape, and
you know, so that was my reason for first starting
to walk. Quite frankly, I didn't know they were doing
the sixty mile ers in twenty seventeen, and then by
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twenty eighteen she said, hey, you want to do one
with me? And I said, sure, okay, because I that's
what it gets you hooked. You do one. But to
that end, once we start, I mean, look, you know,
then then you get hooked and you see, I have
friends from Massachusetts, which you can tell on front.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, because you parked your car there car.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
But I have friends that you know that from my childhood.
That's you know, like people in the family that have
now passed and have reached out to me, and it
becomes very personal, you know, along the way in supporting
Marilyn as a survivor and the people I have met,
and to that end, that's why we're doing this. We're
doing that art auction coming up.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
October fifth, and.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
We need the support of the community, you know, because
together we can raise these funds to put an end
to this. The people we walk with, it's just incredible.
Some of the women we see them where they're disfigured, yeah,
and have done beautiful tattoos to cover the disfigurement, but
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you know, the disfigured.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
But it shows the strength. And we were talking to
this prior to taking this that about women. I had
mentioned that Prospect cancer has increased in Pennsylvania and they're
having a hard time getting the word out to men
because of a couple of different reasons. There's a stigma
attached or everything, and the gentleman the executive director said,
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how does the preast cancer collision? I mean, I said,
they rally around. That's how we are. That's just how
we are.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
We rally around our girlfriends, right, we do.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
But then you have to remember, like with Pat help
and Murphy. Yes, that was back in nineteen ninety two, Yes,
that Pat started this, and it was it was not
as big as it is now. They didn't have all
the resources that they that they have now. And it
was her gumption, her need, her desire to make this
organization work for the people of Pennsylvania and to find
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that cure, you know. And so when we do things
like Jamie's talking about, when we have these art auctions,
when we actually art auctions, that's a pretty funny story.
Let me just tell you how that came about.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Okay, cool.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
So we have each raised money individually.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Let me talk about that because I wrote something and
correct me if I'm wrong. Okay, sure, it's all right.
Let mean I got my notes here, all right. Let's
start with the main the main broad here.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
How much you you have the main broad you're talking
about me.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I'm talking about you.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Okay, you have raised Let's see between the three you
raised over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Correct. Sure, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
We walked together. You walk together for twenty nine years.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
No, that's not true.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Okay, maybe I don't know where I got that one from,
but go ahead, sure, Okay, maybe it's a accumulatation. You've
been doing it for twenty years. Okay, you were saying
you had this awesome art auction coming too, and okay,
how did that start?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Right? Well, so we each have we have to we
each raise at least twenty three hundred dollars a year,
and what we've started doing is five thousand dollars a year.
And I've been fortunate because there have been a year
or two when I've walked a lot more walked. I
did seven walks in one year. And so so this
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we raise money by doing fifty to fifties. We've had
some mega yard sales, we've we've done beg borrow steel,
whatever we can do to raise money for breast cancer.
All right, So this year we're you know, we're out walking,
not surprisingly, and we could have been having coffee at
one of our haunts where we stop while we're watch
a little plug there for little lamps. We love our
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little lamps on State Street and anyway, so we're talking
and you know, what are we going to do this year?
And I said, oh, let's have an art auction. And
the look on the tour of their face is We're like,
what are you talking about? We don't know anything about
doing an hard auction. And I said, forgive me please
for saying this. I said, how difficult can it be? Well,
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we hit fat it has been. We have learned a
great deal, you know, we have learned a great greeting. Yes,
we are. Actually we have thirty seven pieces that are
going to be in a silent auction, every single one
of them done by local artists. And there are just
pieces that are rock star pieces, absolutely fantastic. And then
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we have three that are in a live auction, which
are I don't even know how to describe there, so fantastic,
just fabulous. And then we're having a raffle too where
and when okay, October fifth, from two to four, and
you can get you can. The door is open actually
at one thirty and we're going to have it at Burig's.
I'm gonna this is what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna
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turn this over to Donna because she has been our
spokesperson to not only where it is, but the address.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Take it, Donna, Donna, you're gathering place twenty five East
Main Street, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
What's that close to It's close. It's close to the square.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Right, Okay, So it's coming into Mechanicsburg from from the
Drindle Road that way.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yes, Okay, cool, cool.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
And it's just one like there's one thing between that
and Buck's Funeral Home.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Okay, okay, And go ahead, and.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
You park in the back, and you park in the back.
There's tons of parking in the back, and.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
We'll tell us about something.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
You talk about some of those items and some of
them the one in particular we talked the one you
have at your house, Donna, I mean Maryland, Maryland.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I'm sorry, Well, I have all the art pieces at
my house.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
It talks to you.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Oh, the one that talks to me. God dev Fassini,
who is one of our friends and a local artist
who is just fantastic, and she painted a photo. Well
it came from a photo. I believe it came from
a photo of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And we all we
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love Ruth. That's kind of hard not to love her
and everything that she stood for and the way she
painted her is. She has Ruth looking right.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
At you like the jesusze it following Honest.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
To God, I sit down every morning with my coffee
and I look over and Ruth says to me, go
do it, girl, Go do what you need to do
the right way today. It is an absolutely fantastic piece.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It's a you can see it online.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Yes, you can see it without borders dot com and
you can see every single piece that is in the
Silent auction, in the raffles and the live and going
to boobs without borders dot com. You can also click
on buy a ticket. We need you to buy a
ticket to be able to purchase any of the items,
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so buying a ticket is extremely important. We have two
weeks left and I know that everybody puts it off
to the end, but this is getting towards the end, yes,
and we want you to buy your tickets and buy
them now.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
We have a pretty cool auctioneer.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Chris Baldridge. Chris Baldridge owns Susan's Treasure along with his husband,
and it is anybody from the area knows Susan's treasure
and he has done this for several different auctions and
he's you don't have to give him a script. He
just kind of goes with it. He knows what he's doing.
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And we also have food presented by.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, that's what that's Central Pennsylvania. We need to be fed.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Yes, we have Capital Blue Cross and Chef de Crepe
that are providing our little suites that we will it's
going to be fair fantastic.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
And who's Alicia Richards. How nice he's a girl that'll
be and we're really looking forward to that too. So
you guys ahead of time know it's there and you
get a chance to check this out. You already haven't
figured out what you're going to bid on.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Well, this is very funny. My husband's a lawyer, and
he says, I don't know that your girls can bid
on it because that will be kind of making up
is if you're pumping the prices up. So mm hmm,
it's going to be a little hard not to but no,
probably we won't bid on anything really well, you know,
I think I don't.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Yeah, I say she had that conflict of.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
There's too many beautiful pieces.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
It's going to be hard and it's not all like
paintings or photographs, right, there's all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Tell us about some of the others.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
We have jewelry, Yep.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
We have. We have some beautiful pieces a jewelry from
different artisans. We have some from Carmen Factler and.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Shadetist.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Oh my god, she does.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Then we have a pottery piece that is just unbelievable
for anybody who knits. That. I mean, it's actually to
me it looks like it's a big bowl, but it
almost it's so sculpted that it just looks great on
any table anyway. But it is for yarn for people
that knit, and you pull it through. Don't ask me,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Wait a second, So do you guys go over and
visit these pieces at Maryland.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
We just left Maryland. Tell us we're going back.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
There's a lot involved in this.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
This is what I love about what these women do.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
And you know, we had this other conversation too, about
how we always rally around each other no matter what.
You don't have to ask, we feel it.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
We and and.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Sometimes women have a hard time standing up for themselves
at a job or whatever. But when it comes to
the people we love, we're there. I mean, there's no
way you can keep as a way. We move heaven
and earth for that. And I think that says a
lot where they say the hand that rocks the cradle
rules of the world. That's absolutely true, isn't it, Which
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brings me to another part and or two? Do you
have children, your families, all your families? What do they
say when they found out you three guys are walking
all these like you started it? Did your husband say,
sit on your ass, you've been sick? Now?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
My husband would never tell me no, no, he no,
we don't have that kind of a relationship and he
wouldn't do it anyway. But I will say to you.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
No, What I mean that way means like he loved
you enough because you've been through that.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Okay, got it?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
So this is this is an experience that you know
you have some in your lifetime that you just don't forget.
It bring you to tears, And I'm going to try
not to be tearful right now. All right. So in
twenty eleven, I said, I walked in Philadelphia and the survivors,
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unbeknownst to me, the survivors all come into the area
where all of the other women and men who have
walked the walk or standing and they've all taken their
at least one shoe off, and they put it up
and the survivors walk through this salute to all the survivors.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Oh my god, and I.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Have chills now thinking about that. And I've done thirty
three of them so far, and it's still that way.
Well back in the day, then all the survivors would
go up on stage, this round stage, and the music
was going and it was I'm jumping, you know, I'm
just so excited. And I look out and there's my
husband and my son and my daughter in law and
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my daughter and my grandson and my granddaughter and they're
all there and they're crying. Oh my, you know, and
it was it was one of those moments you don't
ever ever forget. And then my daughter in law, Cheryl,
has walked many of these walks with me. They're extremely
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supportive of what I do.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Well, let me ask you this.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
When you do any of you you raise money you
do want and get sponsors for this.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
How does it work? How do you raise the money
for the art auction? No, no, no, for your walks?
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Generally for the walks, we were doing fifty fifties and
yard sales, and what was happening is the three of
us were pulling from the same crew of people over
and over and over again and very supportive. I mean,
who doesn't want to try to win a thousand dollars?
But it got kind of redundant and so we needed
something new. And for the art auction, we do have sponsors.
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We have a wonderful group of sponsors that are with
us and couldn't have been gotten to the place we're
at right now without them, and not the least of
which the artists themselves have stepped up and and donated
their their their work. You know, these are all local
artists and they're great pieces, just terrific pieces. One not local.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Right, what do you need at this point? What do
you need for your aufice?
Speaker 3 (28:23):
We need desperately for people to buy their tickets.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
And come get online. Right, oh yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Online Boobs without Borders dot co dot com. And we've
been saying that so long. Booms without Borders dot com
and click on purchase tickets and then they purchase a
ticket and then they bring that and come it'll be online.
You'll get it on an email to show you that.
And then the other thing that you can do right
there is you can make a donation if you want
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to be a donor or if you could still you
could be a sponsor if you'd want to, and if
you want to, if you want to donate, you could
donate like in honor of that sounds great, all right,
or in memory of someone, and then we put that
on the website also.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
And again let's tell our listeners when and where.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
October fifth. Okay, if you're a gathering place two to four,
two to four, get your tickets, Get your tickets.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
It's gonna be great. I'll see you there.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Marilyn full Or Smith, Donna Slusser and Jane Blake. Oh
my god, these wonderfully amazing ladies. They don't stop at walks,
They just keep on going. How about it. Thank you
so very much for coming to Thank you. We'll check
in with you again to see how things are going,
and we can go back again.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I'm Sylvia Moss.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
This has been insight. Don't forget to catch Inside every
Sunday in one of our ten iheartstations or anytime on
your favorite podcast app.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
See you next week.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Four
Am Sylvia Moss.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
This is Insight, a presentation of iHeartMedia, where we really
do care about our local communities and all our.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Listeners who live here.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You know, quite often I find myself thinking about all
the truly amazing and generous people have come through these
studios over the last almost thirty years. They're brave, they're strong,
they inspire me, and in so many ways I.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Really would like to be like them.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Today, you're going to meet three incredible local women for
over twenty years when they were in there, well I'm
not going to say how old they were, anyway, I
let them say that found they founded a breast cancer
advocacy organization known as Boobs Without Borders. Their focus has
been to turn their personal experience with breast cancer into
a nationwide movement for awareness, early detection, and with the
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funds they raised, are going to breast cancer research through
the Susan g Coman Foundations. Three Day Oh boy, I
still can't believe you guys are doing this three day
sixty mile walks across the country. Just wait, do you
hear about these wonderful women with us are the founders
of Boobs with Outborders. Marin Marilyn excuse me, Fuller Smith,
(01:08):
who was diagnosed with breast cancer in two thousand and
her two besties Donna Am I saying this right? So
let'st I should ask you, Okay, cool and Jane Blake, kids,
this is going to be a good show. Let's begin
with your story. Marilynd you're the You're the point right there.
So it started with you tell us about it.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Well, do we want to talk about my breast cancer journey?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay, okay? You found out you had breast cancer.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And did and I found out early, and that was
the key to everything. I found out very very early.
My doctor found it and he was a general general practitioner,
and he found a lump while he was doing my
annual procedures and said, I'm going to make a mammogram
(01:53):
for you for this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And I said, wow, that's a little scary. So I
took my husband. We went. I had the man and
the radiologist. At that point, they don't do this anymore.
But the radiologists took us back into a little dark
room and he said, you see this, you see this lump.
You see this darkness here on the screen that shouldn't
be there. And I went, is it cancer? And he said,
(02:18):
I can't tell you that, but here's three doctors that
you could call their surgeons, and you need to pick
one of them and call them. So I called doctor
Angelis Soto Hamlin, who is, oh, yeah, exactly. Everybody feels
that way about She's just one of the very, very best.
And that was on the fourteenth of January, and by
(02:39):
the tenth of February, everything was eradicated. Everything was done.
I had my lumpectomy and then I started and went
through radiation for the next six weeks. And this is
where the blessings are. And we talked about blessings earlier.
The blessing is that I worked for the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania and they had a very very good insurance program,
(03:01):
and I worked for very kind, kind people. I was
able to take off all the time I needed, insurance
paid for every single time. My husband and I never
paid for anything for this whole entire process that I've
gone through. So that's how my early detection was found,
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and that's what we need to find for every single
solitary woman. Early detection, early detection, early detection.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Well, you know, your two girlfriends sit next to you.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I think I know rough things that I've gone through,
and I've never gone through breast cancer, but rough things
I've gone through. The ones that meant the most to
me were my girlfriends. They got it, they didn't judge me,
they'd move heaven and earth for me. Tell me about
the girls that next to you, what support.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
They are to you?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Well, I didn't know the girls when I got breast cancer. Okay,
but this is what happened is I started walking in
twenty eleven for Susan g Comen money, and I will
admit that there's the reason that I started walking with
them is another girl slid in beside me in a
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meeting and said, hey, I just signed up to walk
sixty miles and I said for what? She said, I
don't know, but I figured i'd lose some weight, and
I went, oh, that's cool, I'll do it too. So
it wasn't until that night that I went online that
I found out what Susan g Coman was. And I
went from two thousand to twenty eleven without giving back.
It was done, it was over, and I went on
(04:30):
to other things in my life. Then I walked my
first sixty mile walk in Philadelphia that year in twenty eleven,
and I've just never.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Looked back sixty miles. Now this year it'll be white thirty.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
What Well, for me it will be thirty four and
thirty five. But these ladies have been walking right along
with me.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
So for me, it is my seventh.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Okay, it's only my third.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Only I'll be lucky if I get off this chair
this afternoon. It's only her third sixty mile walk. That's
what gets me. Let me ask you about this also.
I know you're very involved. This has been your life.
You've also been involved, very much involved with the Pennsylvania
Breast Cancer You're dear friends with Pat Halpin murphya our angel. Yes,
and you won a big award from them last year.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
We did, I did. These two were right there at
the table. They were you know, of course they were
along with the fan, along with family and friends. They
were there. I got the Pink Ribbon award that year.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
That's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It is, it really was. I didn't as often we don't,
you know, we're humbled when we receive awards like that.
We don't feel we deserve awards like that. And and
Pat said, you're just doing it. You know, we're giving
it to you. And that's just the way life is.
And that was a very special special Come on, come on.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
They had these walks all around the state and you
walk here, you walk there. Some places when they're doing
walk you can.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Do them one line. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
But sixty miles and you're not forgive me for this,
But these are three very beautiful women in front of me.
And I'll tell you what. At your age, my dear
at Maryland, I know you understand we're old enough to
talk to each.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Other that way.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
You think most people our age would say, I don't
need that crap.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I'm going to Flora.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But you move to do in your How many did
you say, forgive me thirty four to thirty five.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I'm going to do thirty four and thirty five, thirty four.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
And thirty five sixty mile walks?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Holy don't know, well, each one of us, you tell
me how do you get in the condition.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
To be able to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Somebody told me they see you walking all over Harrisburg
area and they're sitting in front of me with these
beautiful pink wreaths and a little hat. One of them.
You can't miss him, Miss him. Do you wear those
those wreaths and things all time?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
No, we don't wear them all the time. We certainly
don't feel uncomfortable everywhere I know. I yeah, we're always
in pink, right, we always have on pink.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Okay, tell me about those little ringlets that come down
off of it.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Jane Donna.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
This started when we started wearing the reth When did
we start that? Twenty nineteen maybe okay, I don't know,
maybe twenty eighteen. But we put people's names on them
that are battling breast cancer or have survived or have not.
And friends and mothers and aunts and people come up
to us and give us their names and honored to
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place their name on a ribbon. And then while I'm walking,
I walk in their honor.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Now, this is this going to be going on in
this area at all? And they're coming out? No?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
No, no, no this year? No, Okay, we don't walk
the sixty miles walks here. The closest one was Philadelphia,
and they're not doing one in Philadelphia. Okay, But I
wanted to mention too that Donna, yes carries this very
special one on her ribbon. Who do you walk for?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Well?
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I have many, but My mom was diagnosed with breast
cancer when she was eighty three. And you know, one
thing that I think personally is important is a lot
of older women stop getting mammograms, and I'd very much
like to emphasize that they still need to.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Well, you know, it's funny because I'm sorry, dear finch.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Rad And I also have an aunt in her eighties
that was just diagnosed two years ago. And I have
a cousin that has had breast cancer for twenty to
twenty five years on and off and has constantly, you know,
gone through several rounds of chemo and radiation and so forth.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
As you get older.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I don't know if the insurance companies don't want to
pay for it, but as you get old, there's a
lot of different things that we can possibly go through,
and they'll say, well, you didn't get it yet, you
won't get it. It's almost like, you know, but breast cancer.
I've had women in mind, I've had girlfriends die in
their one died in her twenties, one in her forties,
one in her fifties, and other women I know were
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friends of mine later in life. I mean, it's everywhere,
and that's what you're Boobs without Borders.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
It's all about that is exactly why we named it
Boobs without Borders, because breast cancer is everywhere. It's in
this little small community that we live in, it's in
the state, it's in the country, and it's worldwide and
we're trying to find a cure. Susan g Commen, Pat
Help and Murphy with PBCC, all of these small and
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the big organizations are trying to find that cure, and
we want a cure for the world. We want it
to be stopped for the world. So we're Boobs without
Borders because there are no borders where breast cancer is concerned.
And then the bottom line is, of course, because breast
cancer is everywhere, absolutely, So that's what we're doing, and
(09:49):
that's why we're here doing what we're doing, and we
thank you for inviting this.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You're like my sisters, you know, someone my right right.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
One of the other things I want to ask about
is that.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Are there days when you feel like because I start
listening to this lady, her name is Meil Robbins, you
know Mail Robins, and there's days when you think like, oh,
I don't know if I want to do this, But
then I start reading about her, saying about five four
three two one. It's a system she has. Are the
days when you feel like I can't do this? What
do you think I mean, will.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I'll let you ladies? Yeah, girl, I ever have a
day like that.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
I think the biggest thing with us it's commitment, you know.
I mean, once you have a group and you have friends,
and you do this with friends. If you commit to
meet at the flags at seven or six thirty in
the morning, you're at the flags at six thirty in
the morning, or if it's Nagley Park, or if it's
the green Belt wherever we're going to start. Once we
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say we're going to meet, you're there, and so that's
really it. It kind of takes it out of my mind.
And we do this all the time. I mean we
don't we walk you losked earlier. How do we prepare
for sixty miles? The only way you prepare for sixty
miles is by walking sixty miles. So we train a lot.
We will do ten to fifteen in a day twenty
(11:14):
twenty six, and then we've trained. Once we've done our
twenty six mile er, we know we can turn and
do twenties and it feels easier, and that's twenty six
in a day. And once we've done twenty six point two, right,
then exactly we know we can do it.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You know, we know down you were talking about your
mom and losing your mom. It's any time in your life.
It's tough when you do it. But there are so
many incredible women out there that have got involved at
the cause of breast cancer. And you know, it's funny
we were talking about life and prior to you getting
breast cancer, had you been had that been something that
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you had been involved in before. Nope, see that's what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
No, not at all. It changed my life in ways. Actually,
twenty eleven is when it changed my life. Yes, there's
no question about it. Getting the breast cancer was.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh my god, you know, oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
But twenty eleven when I started giving back, is when
I realized this is my mission. My mission in life
is to help raise money to find a cure for
breast cancer. And you know, when you have a mission,
you meet people. You meet the Jans, and you meet
the Donnas, and you meet I am so blessed to
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have met hundreds of women and men over these past
many years and we you know, I know their families,
I've gone to their weddings. We from all over the country,
and we have the same mission.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
How about you girls? Was it the same thing with
you before you got involved in this? Did you ever
think about you would get involved in it with a
cause like breast cancer or something else.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I really didn't.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
The only thing I had really done with regard to
breast cancer was a cruise that I went on to
Alaska with my parents back in two thousand and eight.
They had they had like a little breast cancer walk
on board, and I did that. But and I had
this T shirt. So when I got involved in this,
I'm like, oh, I already have a you're ready to
go a breast cancer T shirt?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Being involved in all this, how did this change your
life at all? Because if you want, would you mind
me asking you what you did for a living?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
This is these are tough broads here.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
I was a federal agent with the Beera of Alcohol
Tobacco firem Center.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yeah she was tough.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
She's still tougher. She would be doing this. But I'm
sorry you were saying.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
What was I saying?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
How has this changed changed? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Well, first of all, it gave it gave me a
new purpose because my career was always my identity and
I had a real struggle in twenty seventeen when I retired,
trying to figure out what my purpose in life was.
So when I started walking in twenty nineteen twenty twenty,
I guess it was that gave me a new purpose
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and something to look forward to. And the camaraderie that
we have is incredible. The laughter we share, the sadness
sometimes we share, the joy, you know, every day just
walking and talking about, you know, the wonderful, wonderful things
we have and the hope we have for the world
and so forth.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
How about you, Jennie, I really much like Marilyn. When
I started, it was all about getting back in shape
because I had sort of slipped out of shape, and
you know, so that was my reason for first starting
to walk. Quite frankly, I didn't know they were doing
the sixty mile ers in twenty seventeen, and then by
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twenty eighteen she said, hey, you want to do one
with me? And I said, sure, okay, because I that's
what it gets you hooked. You do one. But to
that end, once we start, I mean, look, you know,
then then you get hooked and you see, I have
friends from Massachusetts, which you can tell on front.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, because you parked your car there car.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
But I have friends that you know that from my childhood.
That's you know, like people in the family that have
now passed and have reached out to me, and it
becomes very personal, you know, along the way in supporting
Marilyn as a survivor and the people I have met,
and to that end, that's why we're doing this. We're
doing that art auction coming up.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
October fifth, and.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
We need the support of the community, you know, because
together we can raise these funds to put an end
to this. The people we walk with, it's just incredible.
Some of the women we see them where they're disfigured, yeah,
and have done beautiful tattoos to cover the disfigurement, but
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you know, the disfigured.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
But it shows the strength. And we were talking to
this prior to taking this that about women. I had
mentioned that Prospect cancer has increased in Pennsylvania and they're
having a hard time getting the word out to men
because of a couple of different reasons. There's a stigma
attached or everything, and the gentleman the executive director said,
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how does the preast cancer collision? I mean, I said,
they rally around. That's how we are. That's just how
we are.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
We rally around our girlfriends, right, we do.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
But then you have to remember, like with Pat help
and Murphy. Yes, that was back in nineteen ninety two, Yes,
that Pat started this, and it was it was not
as big as it is now. They didn't have all
the resources that they that they have now. And it
was her gumption, her need, her desire to make this
organization work for the people of Pennsylvania and to find
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that cure, you know. And so when we do things
like Jamie's talking about, when we have these art auctions,
when we actually art auctions, that's a pretty funny story.
Let me just tell you how that came about.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Okay, cool.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
So we have each raised money individually.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Let me talk about that because I wrote something and
correct me if I'm wrong. Okay, sure, it's all right.
Let mean I got my notes here, all right. Let's
start with the main the main broad here.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
How much you you have the main broad you're talking
about me.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I'm talking about you.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Okay, you have raised Let's see between the three you
raised over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Correct. Sure, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
We walked together. You walk together for twenty nine years.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
No, that's not true.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Okay, maybe I don't know where I got that one from,
but go ahead, sure, Okay, maybe it's a accumulatation. You've
been doing it for twenty years. Okay, you were saying
you had this awesome art auction coming too, and okay,
how did that start?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Right? Well, so we each have we have to we
each raise at least twenty three hundred dollars a year,
and what we've started doing is five thousand dollars a year.
And I've been fortunate because there have been a year
or two when I've walked a lot more walked. I
did seven walks in one year. And so so this
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we raise money by doing fifty to fifties. We've had
some mega yard sales, we've we've done beg borrow steel,
whatever we can do to raise money for breast cancer.
All right, So this year we're you know, we're out walking,
not surprisingly, and we could have been having coffee at
one of our haunts where we stop while we're watch
a little plug there for little lamps. We love our
(18:49):
little lamps on State Street and anyway, so we're talking
and you know, what are we going to do this year?
And I said, oh, let's have an art auction. And
the look on the tour of their face is We're like,
what are you talking about? We don't know anything about
doing an hard auction. And I said, forgive me please
for saying this. I said, how difficult can it be? Well,
(19:10):
we hit fat it has been. We have learned a
great deal, you know, we have learned a great greeting. Yes,
we are. Actually we have thirty seven pieces that are
going to be in a silent auction, every single one
of them done by local artists. And there are just
pieces that are rock star pieces, absolutely fantastic. And then
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we have three that are in a live auction, which
are I don't even know how to describe there, so fantastic,
just fabulous. And then we're having a raffle too where
and when okay, October fifth, from two to four, and
you can get you can. The door is open actually
at one thirty and we're going to have it at Burig's.
I'm gonna this is what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna
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turn this over to Donna because she has been our
spokesperson to not only where it is, but the address.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Take it, Donna, Donna, you're gathering place twenty five East
Main Street, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
What's that close to It's close. It's close to the square.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Right, Okay, So it's coming into Mechanicsburg from from the
Drindle Road that way.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yes, Okay, cool, cool.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
And it's just one like there's one thing between that
and Buck's Funeral Home.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Okay, okay, And go ahead, and.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
You park in the back, and you park in the back.
There's tons of parking in the back, and.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
We'll tell us about something.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
You talk about some of those items and some of
them the one in particular we talked the one you
have at your house, Donna, I mean Maryland, Maryland.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I'm sorry, Well, I have all the art pieces at
my house.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
It talks to you.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Oh, the one that talks to me. God dev Fassini,
who is one of our friends and a local artist
who is just fantastic, and she painted a photo. Well
it came from a photo. I believe it came from
a photo of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And we all we
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love Ruth. That's kind of hard not to love her
and everything that she stood for and the way she
painted her is. She has Ruth looking right.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
At you like the jesusze it following Honest.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
To God, I sit down every morning with my coffee
and I look over and Ruth says to me, go
do it, girl, Go do what you need to do
the right way today. It is an absolutely fantastic piece.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It's a you can see it online.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Yes, you can see it without borders dot com and
you can see every single piece that is in the
Silent auction, in the raffles and the live and going
to boobs without borders dot com. You can also click
on buy a ticket. We need you to buy a
ticket to be able to purchase any of the items,
(22:07):
so buying a ticket is extremely important. We have two
weeks left and I know that everybody puts it off
to the end, but this is getting towards the end, yes,
and we want you to buy your tickets and buy
them now.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
We have a pretty cool auctioneer.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Chris Baldridge. Chris Baldridge owns Susan's Treasure along with his husband,
and it is anybody from the area knows Susan's treasure
and he has done this for several different auctions and
he's you don't have to give him a script. He
just kind of goes with it. He knows what he's doing.
(22:41):
And we also have food presented by.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, that's what that's Central Pennsylvania. We need to be fed.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Yes, we have Capital Blue Cross and Chef de Crepe
that are providing our little suites that we will it's
going to be fair fantastic.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
And who's Alicia Richards. How nice he's a girl that'll
be and we're really looking forward to that too. So
you guys ahead of time know it's there and you
get a chance to check this out. You already haven't
figured out what you're going to bid on.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Well, this is very funny. My husband's a lawyer, and
he says, I don't know that your girls can bid
on it because that will be kind of making up
is if you're pumping the prices up. So mm hmm,
it's going to be a little hard not to but no,
probably we won't bid on anything really well, you know,
I think I don't.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Yeah, I say she had that conflict of.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
There's too many beautiful pieces.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
It's going to be hard and it's not all like
paintings or photographs, right, there's all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Tell us about some of the others.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
We have jewelry, Yep.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
We have. We have some beautiful pieces a jewelry from
different artisans. We have some from Carmen Factler and.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Shadetist.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Oh my god, she does.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Then we have a pottery piece that is just unbelievable
for anybody who knits. That. I mean, it's actually to
me it looks like it's a big bowl, but it
almost it's so sculpted that it just looks great on
any table anyway. But it is for yarn for people
that knit, and you pull it through. Don't ask me,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Wait a second, So do you guys go over and
visit these pieces at Maryland.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
We just left Maryland. Tell us we're going back.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
There's a lot involved in this.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
This is what I love about what these women do.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
And you know, we had this other conversation too, about
how we always rally around each other no matter what.
You don't have to ask, we feel it.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
We and and.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Sometimes women have a hard time standing up for themselves
at a job or whatever. But when it comes to
the people we love, we're there. I mean, there's no
way you can keep as a way. We move heaven
and earth for that. And I think that says a
lot where they say the hand that rocks the cradle
rules of the world. That's absolutely true, isn't it, Which
(25:21):
brings me to another part and or two? Do you
have children, your families, all your families? What do they
say when they found out you three guys are walking
all these like you started it? Did your husband say,
sit on your ass, you've been sick? Now?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
My husband would never tell me no, no, he no,
we don't have that kind of a relationship and he
wouldn't do it anyway. But I will say to you.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
No, What I mean that way means like he loved
you enough because you've been through that.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Okay, got it?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
So this is this is an experience that you know
you have some in your lifetime that you just don't forget.
It bring you to tears, And I'm going to try
not to be tearful right now. All right. So in
twenty eleven, I said, I walked in Philadelphia and the survivors,
(26:09):
unbeknownst to me, the survivors all come into the area
where all of the other women and men who have
walked the walk or standing and they've all taken their
at least one shoe off, and they put it up
and the survivors walk through this salute to all the survivors.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Oh my god, and I.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Have chills now thinking about that. And I've done thirty
three of them so far, and it's still that way.
Well back in the day, then all the survivors would
go up on stage, this round stage, and the music
was going and it was I'm jumping, you know, I'm
just so excited. And I look out and there's my
husband and my son and my daughter in law and
(26:59):
my daughter and my grandson and my granddaughter and they're
all there and they're crying. Oh my, you know, and
it was it was one of those moments you don't
ever ever forget. And then my daughter in law, Cheryl,
has walked many of these walks with me. They're extremely
(27:19):
supportive of what I do.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Well, let me ask you this.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
When you do any of you you raise money you
do want and get sponsors for this.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
How does it work? How do you raise the money
for the art auction? No, no, no, for your walks?
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Generally for the walks, we were doing fifty fifties and
yard sales, and what was happening is the three of
us were pulling from the same crew of people over
and over and over again and very supportive. I mean,
who doesn't want to try to win a thousand dollars?
But it got kind of redundant and so we needed
something new. And for the art auction, we do have sponsors.
(27:54):
We have a wonderful group of sponsors that are with
us and couldn't have been gotten to the place we're
at right now without them, and not the least of
which the artists themselves have stepped up and and donated
their their their work. You know, these are all local
artists and they're great pieces, just terrific pieces. One not local.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Right, what do you need at this point? What do
you need for your aufice?
Speaker 3 (28:23):
We need desperately for people to buy their tickets.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
And come get online. Right, oh yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Online Boobs without Borders dot co dot com. And we've
been saying that so long. Booms without Borders dot com
and click on purchase tickets and then they purchase a
ticket and then they bring that and come it'll be online.
You'll get it on an email to show you that.
And then the other thing that you can do right
there is you can make a donation if you want
(28:52):
to be a donor or if you could still you
could be a sponsor if you'd want to, and if
you want to, if you want to donate, you could
donate like in honor of that sounds great, all right,
or in memory of someone, and then we put that
on the website also.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
And again let's tell our listeners when and where.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
October fifth. Okay, if you're a gathering place two to four,
two to four, get your tickets, Get your tickets.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
It's gonna be great. I'll see you there.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Marilyn full Or Smith, Donna Slusser and Jane Blake. Oh
my god, these wonderfully amazing ladies. They don't stop at walks,
They just keep on going. How about it. Thank you
so very much for coming to Thank you. We'll check
in with you again to see how things are going,
and we can go back again.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I'm Sylvia Moss.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
This has been insight. Don't forget to catch Inside every
Sunday in one of our ten iheartstations or anytime on
your favorite podcast app.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
See you next week.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
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