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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome to forty five Forward with host, journalist and speaker
Ron row Out. Ron's mission is to make your second
half of life even better than your first. Most of
us are just approaching our half life when we reach
the mid forties, with many productive years ahead. Ron is
here to help prepare us for this kind of longevity
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by providing vital strategies to shift the traditional waiting for
retirement model to a continuous, evolving journey of compelling life chapters.
So now please welcome the host of forty five Forward,
Ron row Out.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Welcome everyone to forty five Forward on Bold Brave TV.
This is your host, Ron Roell. Now, I know that
March is officially Women's History Month, but on forty five Forward,
I want to continue celebrating women today by having a
special guest, Diane Curly. Diane's registered nurse by profession, and
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she's a dynamic leader in the healthcare field, but she's
also a dynamic leader in creating the organization celebrating women.
The impression of celebrating women is to basically elevate the
voice and presence and recognize the contributions of women across
the planet. So Diana's going to talk about how she
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built her community. She's also going to talk about how
she's been involved and devoted to international volunteer work providing
humanitarian and antique excuse me and hope to victims of war, disease,
and natural disasters, for which she received an honorary degree.
So now i'd like to welcome Diane. Diane, welcome to
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the show.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Thank you so much, a pleasure to be on the show.
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Absolutely so. My introduction I gave a little bit of
a background for you. But and I know that being
a registered nurse is you know, part of your DNA
and it informed a lot of your work. But tell
me a little bit about how you got into you know,
got into the field, and what motivated you to be
in it and how it's evolved.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Well, this is a story I don't often tell. I
was Yeah, I was divorced. I was a single mom,
and I needed to work and support my child, who
was eight months at the time when I got divorced. Wow, yes, yes,
And the county that I lived in had a program
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where they would help you go to school and then
and when I help you with childcare as well. So
when my son was three, I was accepted into the program,
and I went to school to be an LPN. So
I was first a licensed practical nurse before I was
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a registered nurse, and all through the benefit of a
program here on Long Island that helped helped me greatly.
And then after I got my LPN, I worked full
time nights and went to school during the day to
get my r in and then I went back from
my bachelor's and then I went back for my masters.
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You know, you know it goes with these lifelong learners.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Absolutely, absolutely, that's great. I'm always fascinated by these stories.
You know that they're always a little bit by accident,
by intention and you just sort of find it and
it clicks. But it's never easy and it's never quite
what you thought it would be, right, But yeah, so
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and then you got involved and looking some of your background.
He did a lot of work actually during the pandemic
right in the field of healthcare field. So tell us
a little bit about that, because that was really quite
a period and a lot of uncertainty, a lot of fear,
and you know, and so what was that like, what
were you doing during that time?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
And you know what, I think it's good to still
talk about it, because I think people forget that thousands
of people were dying, you know, weekly, right, maybe more
weekly right here in our own communities and as well
as all over the world. And it was I worked
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at that time as a supervisor at my local hospital,
and the staff were afraid. I wasn't necessarily afraid because
I had done mission warble all over the world with
other you know, I was in Liberia for the Ebola epidemic,
and you know, I've done work like this before where
I had to be fully gowned and masked in order
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to take care of people. So I was It was
good because I was able to allay my staff's fears
a little bit and make sure they had the resources
to do the job.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And what was the job actually? What were.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well? When I was at the hospital, I was supervising
the staff taking care of the patients. But we closed.
Every unit was closed. We stopped doing elective surgeries, and
we every unit was a COVID unit. Every single spot
was taken up with COVID patients. And then the nurses
were redeployed from their different specialties to assist. And then
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I went to New York City and volunteered in the
I don't know if you remember the field tent hospitals
that were up in Central Park m hm, but yeah,
I volunteered there for gosh over a month, maybe two months.
But that was an amazing, amazing experience, and I'm really
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glad that I became a nurse because I get to
use these skills and these gifts to really help people.
It made it made a big difference being in that
field tent hospital, taking the burden off of the hospital
across the street and treating people with COVID and being
there amongst other professionals, side by side, hand to hand,
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heart and heart. I like to say, during a time
where you were either comforting someone who was dying or
comforting the family, or providing what we knew then to
be the most up to date and best care, and
that changed. That changes they got the evidence and the
science to support what we were dealing with. This was
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very early. I think that pandemic started in March and
I was in Central Park field tent hospital all of April.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Wow. Yeah, you know, it is important to remember, you know,
I mean we remember things like nine to eleven. COVID
was really traumatic and we didn't know what was going on.
It did take I know that well, and we'll get
to your international work later to explain to people what
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you what you have been doing and continue to do.
But so so you you weren't scared in that sense,
but still it took a lot to really, you know,
because no one knew what was going on. People were,
you know, saying this, this is not really happening, and
and then you know, especially you know, I was not
in New York City, but I mean that was certainly
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an epicenter where people were, you know, really struggling. People
were and you know, people's bodies were being taken out
and put in refrigeration units, and it was just really
tough time. So what were some if you could think
back a little bit, so, what were some of your
takeaway from this experience? What did you feel you learned?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Well, I wish some of what we learned we hadn't
forgotten so quickly. It was a time when the country
really came together, citizens really came together. At night when
our shift would end at seven o'clock. We worked to
old hot with shifts but seven days a week, and
when the shift ended and we'd walk out onto the street,
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the people of the city were banging pots and pans
and clapping for us and screaming and shouting. They appreciate
us being there for them so much, and we just
felt their love and they felt our love. And I
think we've forgotten that sometimes. You know, we're still the
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same people. You know, we're still here. We're the ones
who survived, and let's continue that kindness and that love
for each other and take care of each other, right right?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I agree? Yeah, I mean, I there's a lot of
folks know. I wrote this guide called the Caregiving Navigator
for family caregivers getting care of their older loved ones.
And certainly there is that kind of direct feminial care.
But there's a greater question that you just raised about
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how do we care for each other in a greater sense?
You know, I think that's important. Hey, we're live, It's
okay with this life. Yeah, that's that's that's okay, not
a problem. A problem. So so, so let's transition a
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little bit to how you decided to found celebrating women.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, that happened in twenty eighteen, and on social media
a lot, and uh twenty eighteen into twenty nineteen, really
on social media a lot back then, and even till today,
I would still be on social media. But I got
hacked recently. That's another story. But I didn't like the
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it was. It was around the Me Too movement and
other things were going on in our country, and the
narrative surrounding women was quite frankly, unnerved me a great deal.
And I want to change this conversation. I want to
change the way we're talking about women right now, and
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I want to have women be empowered to be seen
and to be heard, and to be celebrated for their
influence and their impact rather than degraded and demeaned.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So that was your inspiration to do that?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
That was the impetus.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I was just like, okay, that's it. Doing something about this,
Like whatever small thing I could do, I had to resist,
you know what I mean? You have to resist? Yeah,
So that was my form of protest, if you will.
I was started writing a blog and I interviewed women
and shared their stories and really just amplify our voices
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and our visibility and celebrate them for the role models
that they are. And the tagline was every woman is
a role Model. So I did that for many years
and then as a blog and then it. Somebody approached
me to do a local cable TV show. So there
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we were. Yeah, there we were on cables.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah, so you launched his blog and so you're a writer,
and then you started doing other things you started. But
let's talk about this more broadly. Emission. So it's basically
to a fossils connections sparks engagement, inspires change in richest
lives and creates meaningful impact, reshaping how women are presented
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and recognized.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Absolutely so yeah, so let's talk about it, you know,
So how how can we do that better? I mean, let's,
you know, talk about some of the things you've written
about in your blog and ways that you think that.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I think that I think that we've gone a little backwards,
and I think that it's up to women to remember
what our sisters and our ancestors did for us not
that long ago, so that we could have the right
to vote, and the right to own a home, and
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the right to write a check without our husband's name
on it, and all those things are relatively new rights
that we have and h to be and even the
right to work or be allowed to wear pants. I mean,
just they fought so hard to make those changes and
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the women today we need to continue to resist, and
we need to continue to fight, not only to uphold
the rights that our sisters fought for, but to continue
them and then also preserve them and be able to
pass them down to our children when we're not here.
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So I think it's up to the women of today
not to forget and to continue to fight.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Right, Yeah, we're going to take a break shortly, but
before we do, I just wanted to emphasize what you're saying.
And I realized too that, you know what, because of
my involvement in writing this Caregiving Navigator, and you know,
one of the things I really work on a lot
is is what I call successful aging and caregiving family caregiving,
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and you know, that's that's a feel that is dominated
by women. And when I go to these events, I
kind of look around and go like, well, why is this?
You know, well, I mean, I I do understand, you know,
some of it. Just historically, you know, women aren't considered
caregivers and their mothers, and I get that that's important. Nevertheless,
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I was, you know, one of four sons who took
care of my mother, and you know, and there were
no daughters, but we did it, and it was important.
It was important experience. So I want to talk a
little bit more about that, you know, about the involvement
of engagement of men as we come to after the break. So, folks,
we are going to take a quick break, but we'll
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be back very shortly with much more from Diane Curley,
the founder of Celebrating Women, So don't go away.
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Speaker 2 (17:03):
Welcome back, folks once again. I'm Ron Roell, the host
of forty five Forward on Bold Brave TV. Today, I'm
talking with Diane Curley, the founder of Celebrating Women LLC.
And we've been talking before the break about, you know,
the issue of men and women really in terms of
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you know, uh upholding and uh the the representation of
women in terms of what the kind of the contributions
have been. Uh and I think in some ways changing
the narrative about women. And uh So I was talking
before the break about the need from my perspective of
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engaging men more in this conversation because I think that
that's that's a that's a problem that we haven't really
we you know, we haven't really sort of pulled men
to the table and said, listen, we go need to
talk about this because I think that you need to
be you know, men need to be involved in the
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conversation and understand and basically be there and hear the voices,
not just you know, women talking with other women. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yeah, Well, first, you know, we had to rally the troops,
you know, we needed women to recognize what was happening
and that they needed to be some conversation about it.
But yes, men can play a role in the conversation.
That I think a lot of it is the culture
has to change. Yeah, I think that's the culture of
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how you know, men are maybe think that they have
to be or should be, but it disempowers women If
men have to constantly be so what they consider as
masculinity by degrading in or taking rights away from us,
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that's that's a cultural shift that that needs to happen. Yeah,
it would be good if if they heard our stories
and listened to our stories and championed us. But until
they do, it's up to us. It's up to the women. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, well I think I think we're getting there. I'm
certainly you know an ally, so I think that that's
starting to happen. And I think that, but that's what
you know, you know, in order for women to be elevated,
men need to They do need to change also, And
one of the ways I think is just by you know,
hearing your stories. So I know that a lot of
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your your mission involves storytelling, and I think that's a
very powerful tool. So talk about the role of stories
because I think sometimes just instead of you know, electioning people,
just hearing people's stories I think is really effective.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, and that's that's what I do in the blog
and on the TV show. Is I I talk very
little the women that are on the show, you know,
I interview them and share their story and there. And
I got to tell you, I am usually so so
so inspired by the women that I've written the blog
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about or that have come on the show. It's been,
as I thought, I was doing it for other women,
and it turns out it was also benefiting me. I
was feeling stronger and happier and more fulfilled knowing that
there are women out there doing great things, and there
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are male allies out there. Absolutely, my husband.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Is one good good So could you give you some
examples of some of the stories of women you've had,
you know, on your show, and what's some of the
things they've done. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
I had a a woman who was blind and was
a teacher in a school for for children, even despite
or maybe it even made her better. Who knows her
her what was perceived as a disability and her ability
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to impact others, right, And yeah, so I and I
included like the women did not have to apply. Every
woman that wanted to be uh interviewed was interviewed. Just
no celebrities, because it had to be just everyday women.
Because that's what I wanted to share with the younger
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generation too, is look look to us, we are your
role models. Maybe not so much look to what's all
over social media or what's you know in Hollywood. Maybe
to look to the woman next door or the woman
at the you know that mean on the grocery line,
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you know, and start those conversations and share those stories
and be there for each other. That's that example for
the younger generation as well.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Right now, I just reading a little bit about you.
I know, I know that part of your storytelling started
with your own storytelling to your children. So talk about
the role of storytelling with your kids. What sort of
stories have you created for them?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Well, I always read to my children since birth, as
soon as they were born. I just was always and
it fosters connection. Reading together, foster's connection. And I want
that familial sense for my own children. And I wanted
them to have a loving connection and a routine around
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bedtime and to just make home a safe place. So
I always read to them since birth and them and
they would maybe a little bit older like toddlers, and
wouldn't fall asleep despite the fact that you just read
ten books. I started telling them stories. I couldn't read anymore,
but I could close my eyes and tell you a story,
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and that really worked out well. And then they loved
the stories and they would usually fall asleep after one
or two stories. So I think it's important for families
to read to children, one for the sake of literacy
to me, you know, up level literacy in the country,
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but also foster those familial those family connections that maybe
you know, it's so hard now everybody's working or looking
for work, everybody's so busy, but it's really important to
take that time out as a family to have a meal,
to read a story, to tell a story. It could
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even be a story of about your life when you
were younger. My kids loved those stories about because they
just can't they can't fathom it. They can't picture you
as younger and you're just their mom. So then when
you tell a story or two about your early childhood
or your teens or twenties, they just love that and
it builds connection in the family, and I think that
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generations ago, they used to do this all the time,
and maybe we fall away from the storytelling. So one
of the stories I wrote I made into a children's book.
I published it in twenty twenty two. Yeah, yeah, very beautiful.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah, tell us a little bit about the story. What
it's about.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Well, it's an adventure through the alphabet, and it tells
the stories of how different animals and creatures and bugs
play during the day and then how they sleep at night.
So like the first one is, you know, the ants
were playing on the picnic blanket and now the ants
are sleeping, sort of to demonstrate to the children that
everybody plays and I know you want to play, but
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everybody also sleeps. Look the answer now sleeping even you know.
So the reason I went through the alphabet, and I
changed it up every night. I would change to different things.
Sometimes it was an airplane, you know, the airplane was
flying through the sky. Now the airplane is sleeping. But
for the sake of the book, I concentrated on live characters,
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and then I also put them in silly situations in
the book, like you know, a tiger sleeping in a
sleeping bag in the forest, you know, and the kids
love that because they're like tigers don't sleep in sleeping bags.
They're just so small, you know. And the connection, I
just love it. I love connecting with the kids. So
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that's what I do now. Is you know, my youngest
is twenty two, so I'm not reading to him anymore,
but he all my kids, all three kids, are avid readers,
so I think that had to play a part of it.
Of course, they're adults now and they choose, you know,
they choose to read. But I must be proponent of
but you know reading. You know, when we were kids,
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I read the back of the cereal box, you know,
or a comic book. It's okay, but just foster that
love of reading so they can carry that into adulthood
and pass it.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
On, right. Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of like.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
A little adventure through the alphabet.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yeah. Nice. A couple of things strike me. One is that,
you know, the power of stories. You know, it's there's
something deep in our you know, historical DNA, you know,
or just our psyche about storytelling, as you mentioned, so
I mean, you know, you know and old and really
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uh primeval times, you know, people would sit around a
campfire and tell us stories. Yeah, but I think it's so.
I think it's a really powerful tool that we don't
think about. But and I you know, even you know
when you're listening to somebody, you know, give a speech
or something. You know, you're sort of listening and then
they say, well, let me tell you a story about this,
and all of a sudden, you're you perk up, You're
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ready for it. There's something about it that it brings
out the real humanity in you, and there's a lesson
behind it. It's not didactic in the sense of being
a lectured too, you know, so it really is. And
so doing that, what you're doing with women and just
sharing their stories, I think is more effective than saying, well,
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you know, you should treat women better. You know, it's.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Unsetting the example, and I'm letting women use their voices
and their visibility of how women should be valued and treated.
Setting and using that platform as a way to say,
you know, we're not here for your entertainment. You know,
we're we have impact. We have an impact to make,
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and we're making it and you know, we can't be ignored.
Whether it's working you know, as a nurse or writing
a children's book or speaking. I speak all over the
country on women's empowerment issues as well. You know, Yeah,
you have to make an impact and storytelling is a
big part of that. And you mentioned generations ago right
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sitting around the campfire. Well to this day, I'm still
learning new things about my own mother. She will come
up with the story sometime and I'll be like, I
never heard that. It's so important, Like, Mom, I did
not know that about you, you know. So I think
it's important, yes, to have people tell stories, but maybe
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we should start asking some questions too, and have you know,
tell me about the time when you were when you
were a teenager, mom, what was that like? You know?
Or you know? So I have found out really really
interesting stuff about my mom, who's eighty five now, that
I had never known. So I think it's important And
it goes along with your caregiving that you write about
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aging and caregiving. Storytelling is so important for people who
are caregiving. It helps their memory and helps them connect
because sometimes caregiving, as you know because you wrote the book,
is very very difficult. So if you have us story
to telling as a tool to have a connection with
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your loved one that you're caring for, maybe take some
of the tension out of the moment and connect.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, that's absolutely that connection is so important. And I
think that, you know, in the latter part of my book,
I talk about you know, sense of legacy, right, and
that that sense of connection in two ways. I think
that one, you know, people you know as you get
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on in life and you start thinking, well, what is
my legacy? What do I want to remember about me?
Not just you know, what my assets are, what do
I know give in terms of my estate, but what
is my mental and emotional estate. I'm leaving behind what
I want my kids to know. And so you know,
when you talk about sharing stories, that's what they'll remember
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about you, That's what they want to remember it. So
I think that's really important.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
And I think the stories make you feel. Stories make
you feel something. And like when Maya Angelo said, people
will not always remember I'm paraphrasing what you did or
what you said, but they'll remember how you made them.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Feel, right, right.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
So if stories do that, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
There's an emotional residence, and there's you know, it makes
sense of life. You know, it's you're you're not just talking,
You're making sense of it through a story. And there's
a lesson and there's an outcome, and I think it's
a it's a really important tool. So I'm really glad
you're using this, and I know that you you use
them frequently in your various events. So let's start talking about,
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you know, more specifically, what kinds of events do you have.
Let's talk about some of your you know, I know
you have a digital magazine, a podcast, a TV show,
and then you have a planner journal, right and as well. Yeah,
so this was.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
A wonderful thing that came out of the blog was
I captured the women's quotes because one of the questions
on the when I was writing the blog was what
do you want to share to inspire another woman or
young girl? So these were then their words of inspiration
for the next generation or a woman you know of today.
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So I took the answer to that question and I
made a planner journal with fifty two weeks of quotes
from those women's stories.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I see, okay, And then of.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Course, you know, I added in the days of the
week and the month and the you know, so you
could do that kind of planning in it, and it
included their quotes attributed to them. Again, further amplifying their
voice and visibility. And then I had, uh, you know,
the a page for journaling, a page for reflection, a
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page for planning, you know. So it was quite quite
the labor of love that was, and I'm very proud
of that.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Right nice, So again, the time's going quickly, but we
need to take another quick break. We're going to sneak
one in right now. But don't go anywhere, folks. We
have won a couple more very dynamic sections coming up
with Diane Curley, the founder of Celebrating Women.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Mike Zurich are three time California state champion in Greco
Roman wrestling at one hundred and fourteen pounds. Mike blind
sis birth, was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a
six time national placer, including two seconds, two thirds, and
two fourths. He also won the Veteran's Folk Style Wrestling
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twice at one hundred and fifty two pounds. In all
these tournaments, he was the only blind competitor. Nancy Zurich
a creative spirit whose talents have taken her to the
stage and into galleries and exhibitions in several states. Her father,
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Welcome back, folks. I'm Ron Rowell with forty five Forward.
I'm Bold Brave TV. We're talking today with Diane Curley,
the founder and CEO of Celebrating Women LLC, a dynamic organization.
We were talking a lot about what she does. We're
going to continue talking about that, but before we continue,
I want to just let you know, tell your friends
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platforms as well, like Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon and so forth.
So we were talking with Diane about her various events
and ways in which she basically celebrates her mission. We
were talking about some of her planner journal, and so
(36:03):
tell us a little bit more about other kinds of
events and that you're involved with. I know you do
a lot of keynote speaking. Anything coming up I should about.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Oh gosh, there's there's always stuff going on, but like
I wasn't prepared to answer. I'm sorry, that's okay, but yeah,
well I do post stuff on the website and on LinkedIn,
and I have a lot of friends who hold events too,
(36:33):
and we kind of work together to put stuff together.
And and that's an important piece of of you know,
connection to is networking with other women. So then you can,
you know, come together and have events because you it's
not the kind of thing you should do alone. It's
it's defensive and time consuming, and you know you want
(36:57):
you want every detail to be just so wonderful for
the attendees, so you know, do it together with someone.
I have my best friend, her name is May, and
we collaborate a lot on a lot of our work.
And the events are I keynote speak at events for
(37:18):
mainly what I talk about is women's empowerment. And then
you know, having an event where women can come together
and celebrate one another and learn from other speakers, and
you know, enjoy the day together, pouring into themselves and
pouring into each other. And I think that those events
(37:39):
are important and not not not frivolous at all. It
might be like, oh, you're going, you know, you're going
to have dinner and listen to some speakers and you'll
be gone for a couple of hours. It's important. It's
together like that.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
So people can find out. So your website is Diane
Curly dot com. Right, yes, yes, so it's Diane no
no no period, right, Diane Curly c U R L
e Y dot com. Okay, So people can go there
and find find out, see your blog, the blog, see.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
The TV shows. Everything's on there, connect with me on
their contact form on there to connect and continue the
conversation and go boldly forward together.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Right right, bold Brave TV together right okay, yeah, yeah,
and so and then you now you have a TV show,
so right, that's.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Yeah on Public Access TV, which is a beautiful thing.
Public ss TV is available for all of us and
you can not only watch the shows, but you can
have a show on Public Access TV. And it was
a differentiator for me because a lot of a lot
(39:01):
of friends, you know, maybe doing a podcast, right, which
became very very popular, especially with the advent of COVID
and the pandemic. But the TV show was a little
bit of a differentiator, and people would the people I
interviewed obviously were local from Long Island or the city,
(39:22):
whereas my blog I could do from all over the world,
so this was a little more intimate, and you know,
they were just thrilled to me on the show. Was
a differentiator for our company for celebrating women, the way
that we were operating and giving these opportunities for women
to just like you've given me the opportunity to be
(39:43):
on your show, I was given women the opportunity to
be on my TV show and they would have a
viewing party and it was just beautiful celebration of them.
So it was very nice. Right now, the show is
on hiatus. Oh we're looking to start it up against
pretty soon.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Good Okay, good, good, good. So let's talk a little
bit more about your international volunteer work, because this is
really quite something a lot of work. So tell me
how you got involved with it. I guess part of it,
you know that is you know, basically, you know, driven
by your your work in the healthcare field as a
nurse and so tell us some about your experiences and and.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
By my it's it's driven by my nursing career, but
it's also driven by my faith. And I think, yeah,
all all of the major faiths teach to love and serve.
So that's what I was doing. I was living out
the mission of my faith and by loving and serving,
and I used my skills as a nurse to do so.
(40:48):
It was like the perfect perfect marriage. So how I
got involved was there was an organization that was children
over that We're going to have some surgeries and they
needed places for them to stay. So my husband and
I thought, well we could do that. We could have
(41:09):
the child stay with us. I'm a nurse. It would
be perfect that, you know, could provide care if needed
after the child surgery. And so we sponsored a child
to come over from Ethiopia. His name is Seyfu, and
after he was with us for a month and recuperated
(41:31):
from his surgery, he went back to Ethiopia. He's an orphan,
a true orphan, no parents and lives in an orphanage
with hundreds of other boys. So after he went home,
I thought to myself, I'd like to continue to work
with this organization because they were doing work at the orphanage.
So I did a fundraising event to raise money, and
(41:52):
I went with them on their next trip to Ethiopia,
where we did a lot of work on the orphanage
and bought with our donation money that people had donated.
We bought the boys fruit because they very often don't
get fruit. They just eat, you know, a special bread
and water, and the water's not even clean. So we
(42:12):
would go to the market and buy them mangoes and
bananas and they were just oranges. Oh my god. They
just loved it when we came with that. And then
I also bought with me reading glasses because the workers
at the orphanage didn't have health care, and the women
(42:33):
that were working as the caregivers there cooking and cleaning
couldn't see much like here in America. As you get
a little older, you might need a pair of readers, right,
I do. So I brought readers over and with a
little a chart for testing there which calibration was the
(42:56):
right one for them. And when they would put on
these glasses and be able to read, and then they
would cry that they could see again a little. Yeah,
it was just so beautiful. Like you gets such a
small thing. I got the glasses with my own money
from the dollar store. I just went and bought a
hundred pair of glasses, you know, of different calibrations, and
(43:19):
you know what they said to me through the translator
because they speak Amharic and I speak a little now.
But back then, none was that. They could read their
Bibles again or the Torah again. They could see their
spices as they were cooking. They could see how much
they were putting in, which they weren't able to do before. Yeah,
(43:40):
so small everyday things can make a really beautiful life,
and that made a difference for them, and that was it.
I've been going every year. I used to go two
to three times a year, but then I started doing
mission work in other parts of the world as well,
and as well as in the United States, and it's
(44:00):
been the highlight of my career to do that work, honestly. Yeah,
so I met before. I was in Liberia during the
Ebola epidemic. I've been to Greece during the Syrian refugee
crisis when they were not allowed to cross over into
Turkey and they were being held in Greece providing medical care.
(44:22):
Zimbabwe let's see El Salvador at our own southern border.
When we had a surgeon migration, one of the surges,
a group of us went down to help. I don't
work alone, I work with an organizations.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
That organization, yeah, well, when I.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
Went to Liberia with ebola, it was Partners in Health.
They're based here in the States in Boston, and their
leader was Paul Farmer. He's since passed recently but the
last couple of years, but the work still carry on.
Great organization, and you know, they gave us some training.
(45:06):
You know, they want to experienced nurses, but they also
gave us some training specifically to what we're going to
be facing over there with ebola. And the healthcare workers
over there were dying there. The caregivers were dying from
caring for the patients with ebola. So they were it
was really difficult time for them, and you know, you
(45:28):
just have to you have to come alongside people. That's
what Partners and Health does. They don't come in and
push you aside and save the day. They come in
alongside you, They accompany you and together we're going to
get through this. And that's just what we did. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Yeah, how long are your stays in these places.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
It depends. Oh no, usually usually a month, sometimes longer. Yeah,
you can. You could stay six or eight weeks, even longer.
I would Usually I was using my vacation time as
a nurse, and my sick time all saved up, so
I'd go in the spring, and I would go in
the fall. And and I worked for an organization that
(46:17):
was very proud and happy to know that that's that's
how I was spending my time, so uh, I didn't
get a hard time trying to get time off to
do that work.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
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Speaker 3 (46:32):
And then one of the other things I did recently was, uh,
I wanted I wanted to start writing about those stories. Ron.
I want to start writing about the over a decade
of mission work all over the world, the different places,
the different people, the different poverty, famine, disease, it's it's everywhere,
(46:59):
and we really can't close our eyes to it. When
we had the hurricane in the Bahamas, I was down
in the Bahamas. The hospital was wiped out. I went
with Samaritans Purse and another well known organization and we
set up a field tent hospital. And because my background
was in I was an operating room nurse. For a while.
(47:21):
That's what I did. I worked in this makeshift operating
room in it in the Bahamas. It was just and
the people were were happy to be cared for and
they gave us so much love in return, so much love.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
Yeah, yeah, great. So we're going to take our final
break and then we'll come back and do a wrap
up various things. Get some of your final closing thoughts.
So folks, don't go away. We have a really nice
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Speaker 2 (50:01):
Welcome back, folks. This is Ron Roell, the host of
forty five Forward Unfold Grave TV. We've been talking today
with Diane Curley, the founder of Celebrating Women. Also before
the break, we were talking a lot about her not
only work with women, but her international volunteer work, which
is quite impressive, starting in Ethiopia, but that's spending to
(50:23):
lots of parts of the world and for which I
understand You've got an honorary doctrine in humanitarianism, right.
Speaker 3 (50:31):
Yes, that was quite the honor, and I was very grateful.
You know, we were talking a little bit before about
my faith and one of the things is I thought
to myself, when I'm not on this earth anymore, I
hope to hear, you know, well done, good and faithful servant.
And with getting this doctorate, this honorary doctor because I
have my master's degree, it was really a beautiful expression
(50:55):
of like, right here on earth for somebody to say
well done, good and faithful servant, right here on earth.
So I'm really honored and humbled by it and grateful
for that honor.
Speaker 2 (51:09):
Yeah, and you know, during the break, I just want
to tell her, and we were chatting a bit and
you mentioned like, well, you know, but most days I'm
just an ordinary person. And that's what I think is
really impressive about it. And it goes to your part
of your slogan before about with women, like every woman
is a role model, but every person like you, we don't,
(51:31):
you know, you can be quote unquote an extraordinary, ordinary person.
That's right.
Speaker 3 (51:39):
Well, thank you for letting me tell my story. So
you were back to stories, see how important they are?
Speaker 2 (51:44):
Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. So we just have a few
minutes left. I just thought maybe we can reflect a
little bit back on you know, your your thoughts about
going what you've done and what you perhaps what you
might want to do going forward, and any thoughts or
anything that we haven't talked about that do you want
(52:06):
to uh leave as a closing thought, Well, I would.
Speaker 3 (52:11):
Really like to continue speaking, you know, within the United
States and around the world about different empowerment topics as
I enjoy that greatly. I'd like to do more of that,
and I hope to finally write that book about the
medical missions and saying that.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Yeah, that would be great. I mean those stories would
be terrific. Yeah, yeah, so do you have a timeline
for that, You're thinking maybe by next year, you think.
Speaker 3 (52:37):
I have made that timeline and passed it at least
three times now. Well, see that just shows you I'm
just normal, right, It's just life. You know, we work,
the kids, you know, are volunteer work, whatever we're doing,
and and then sometimes life gets in the way of
some of the things you.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Want to do, you know, but you're still there. You'll
get it done, just you know, at some point you'll
figure it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So let's see. So
once again we're close to the end of our show.
Is there's much more to talk about, but I just
want to thank you for a terrific show. There's always
I'm sure we'll have much more to talk about. Maybe
(53:18):
we can come back another time and talk, you know,
take a deeper dive in your international work, Souse. I
think it's something that I think is really important, especially
now because you know, I think we are kind of
in a period now of isolationism. You know, we're going
to cut off and we are connected. So going to
your theme of connection, we're connected to the world and
(53:40):
what we do matters, and I think people really appreciate it.
So I think it's important work. We shouldn't just say, well,
you know, it's time to just focus on us. Part
of us is, you know, is the world. I mean
that's what for me, the United States is. You know
that we are the world. So thank you for work.
Speaker 3 (54:01):
And you know it might be a cliche to say,
but people all over the world are our brothers and sisters.
We need we need to we need to love and
serve them as they and love and serve each other.
Speaker 2 (54:17):
Right, great, I agree. Right. So if people want to
contact you, Diane, what's the best way to do that
is through email?
Speaker 3 (54:24):
Yeah, the best way is through my website because I
have a contact form on the website that they can
write to me, ask any questions, reach out. I'd love
to connect absolutely.
Speaker 2 (54:34):
Okay, great, So before I go, I just want to
thank my terrific engineer, Alex, who will guides me through
every show. I really appreciate his help, and I want
to thank you for the audience for spending this hour
with me, helping us learn and grow together and hear
inspiring stories about all of how all of us can
make our journey in the second half of life even
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until then next week, keeping forward, forty five forward.
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Speaker 2 (01:02):
Welcome everyone to forty five Forward on Bold Brave TV.
This is your host, Ron Roell. Now, I know that
March is officially Women's History Month, but on forty five Forward,
I want to continue celebrating women today by having a
special guest, Diane Curly. Diane's registered nurse by profession, and
(01:23):
she's a dynamic leader in the healthcare field, but she's
also a dynamic leader in creating the organization celebrating women.
The impression of celebrating women is to basically elevate the
voice and presence and recognize the contributions of women across
the planet. So Diana's going to talk about how she
(01:45):
built her community. She's also going to talk about how
she's been involved and devoted to international volunteer work providing
humanitarian and antique excuse me and hope to victims of war, disease,
and natural disasters, for which she received an honorary degree.
So now i'd like to welcome Diane. Diane, welcome to
(02:07):
the show.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Thank you so much, a pleasure to be on the show.
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Absolutely so. My introduction I gave a little bit of
a background for you. But and I know that being
a registered nurse is you know, part of your DNA
and it informed a lot of your work. But tell
me a little bit about how you got into you know,
got into the field, and what motivated you to be
in it and how it's evolved.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Well, this is a story I don't often tell. I
was Yeah, I was divorced. I was a single mom,
and I needed to work and support my child, who
was eight months at the time when I got divorced. Wow, yes, yes,
And the county that I lived in had a program
(02:57):
where they would help you go to school and then
and when I help you with childcare as well. So
when my son was three, I was accepted into the program,
and I went to school to be an LPN. So
I was first a licensed practical nurse before I was
(03:20):
a registered nurse, and all through the benefit of a
program here on Long Island that helped helped me greatly.
And then after I got my LPN, I worked full
time nights and went to school during the day to
get my r in and then I went back from
my bachelor's and then I went back for my masters.
(03:40):
You know, you know it goes with these lifelong learners.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Absolutely, absolutely, that's great. I'm always fascinated by these stories.
You know that they're always a little bit by accident,
by intention and you just sort of find it and
it clicks. But it's never easy and it's never quite
what you thought it would be, right, But yeah, so
(04:06):
and then you got involved and looking some of your background.
He did a lot of work actually during the pandemic
right in the field of healthcare field. So tell us
a little bit about that, because that was really quite
a period and a lot of uncertainty, a lot of fear,
and you know, and so what was that like, what
were you doing during that time?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
And you know what, I think it's good to still
talk about it, because I think people forget that thousands
of people were dying, you know, weekly, right, maybe more
weekly right here in our own communities and as well
as all over the world. And it was I worked
(04:47):
at that time as a supervisor at my local hospital,
and the staff were afraid. I wasn't necessarily afraid because
I had done mission warble all over the world with
other you know, I was in Liberia for the Ebola epidemic,
and you know, I've done work like this before where
I had to be fully gowned and masked in order
(05:09):
to take care of people. So I was It was
good because I was able to allay my staff's fears
a little bit and make sure they had the resources
to do the job.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And what was the job actually? What were.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well? When I was at the hospital, I was supervising
the staff taking care of the patients. But we closed.
Every unit was closed. We stopped doing elective surgeries, and
we every unit was a COVID unit. Every single spot
was taken up with COVID patients. And then the nurses
were redeployed from their different specialties to assist. And then
(05:50):
I went to New York City and volunteered in the
I don't know if you remember the field tent hospitals
that were up in Central Park m hm, but yeah,
I volunteered there for gosh over a month, maybe two months.
But that was an amazing, amazing experience, and I'm really
(06:12):
glad that I became a nurse because I get to
use these skills and these gifts to really help people.
It made it made a big difference being in that
field tent hospital, taking the burden off of the hospital
across the street and treating people with COVID and being
there amongst other professionals, side by side, hand to hand,
(06:33):
heart and heart. I like to say, during a time
where you were either comforting someone who was dying or
comforting the family, or providing what we knew then to
be the most up to date and best care, and
that changed. That changes they got the evidence and the
science to support what we were dealing with. This was
(06:55):
very early. I think that pandemic started in March and
I was in Central Park field tent hospital all of April.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Wow. Yeah, you know, it is important to remember, you know,
I mean we remember things like nine to eleven. COVID
was really traumatic and we didn't know what was going on.
It did take I know that well, and we'll get
to your international work later to explain to people what
(07:25):
you what you have been doing and continue to do.
But so so you you weren't scared in that sense,
but still it took a lot to really, you know,
because no one knew what was going on. People were,
you know, saying this, this is not really happening, and
and then you know, especially you know, I was not
in New York City, but I mean that was certainly
(07:46):
an epicenter where people were, you know, really struggling. People
were and you know, people's bodies were being taken out
and put in refrigeration units, and it was just really
tough time. So what were some if you could think
back a little bit, so, what were some of your
takeaway from this experience? What did you feel you learned?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Well, I wish some of what we learned we hadn't
forgotten so quickly. It was a time when the country
really came together, citizens really came together. At night when
our shift would end at seven o'clock. We worked to
old hot with shifts but seven days a week, and
when the shift ended and we'd walk out onto the street,
(08:30):
the people of the city were banging pots and pans
and clapping for us and screaming and shouting. They appreciate
us being there for them so much, and we just
felt their love and they felt our love. And I
think we've forgotten that sometimes. You know, we're still the
(08:51):
same people. You know, we're still here. We're the ones
who survived, and let's continue that kindness and that love
for each other and take care of each other, right right?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I agree? Yeah, I mean, I there's a lot of
folks know. I wrote this guide called the Caregiving Navigator
for family caregivers getting care of their older loved ones.
And certainly there is that kind of direct feminial care.
But there's a greater question that you just raised about
(09:24):
how do we care for each other in a greater sense?
You know, I think that's important. Hey, we're live, It's
okay with this life. Yeah, that's that's that's okay, not
a problem. A problem. So so, so let's transition a
(09:49):
little bit to how you decided to found celebrating women.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, that happened in twenty eighteen, and on social media
a lot, and uh twenty eighteen into twenty nineteen, really
on social media a lot back then, and even till today,
I would still be on social media. But I got
hacked recently. That's another story. But I didn't like the
(10:18):
it was. It was around the Me Too movement and
other things were going on in our country, and the
narrative surrounding women was quite frankly, unnerved me a great deal.
And I want to change this conversation. I want to
change the way we're talking about women right now, and
(10:40):
I want to have women be empowered to be seen
and to be heard, and to be celebrated for their
influence and their impact rather than degraded and demeaned.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So that was your inspiration to do that?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
That was the impetus.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I was just like, okay, that's it. Doing something about this,
Like whatever small thing I could do, I had to resist,
you know what I mean? You have to resist? Yeah,
So that was my form of protest, if you will.
I was started writing a blog and I interviewed women
and shared their stories and really just amplify our voices
(11:22):
and our visibility and celebrate them for the role models
that they are. And the tagline was every woman is
a role Model. So I did that for many years
and then as a blog and then it. Somebody approached
me to do a local cable TV show. So there
(11:43):
we were. Yeah, there we were on cables.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah, so you launched his blog and so you're a writer,
and then you started doing other things you started. But
let's talk about this more broadly. Emission. So it's basically
to a fossils connections sparks engagement, inspires change in richest
lives and creates meaningful impact, reshaping how women are presented
(12:11):
and recognized.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Absolutely so yeah, so let's talk about it, you know,
So how how can we do that better? I mean, let's,
you know, talk about some of the things you've written
about in your blog and ways that you think that.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I think that I think that we've gone a little backwards,
and I think that it's up to women to remember
what our sisters and our ancestors did for us not
that long ago, so that we could have the right
to vote, and the right to own a home, and
(12:48):
the right to write a check without our husband's name
on it, and all those things are relatively new rights
that we have and h to be and even the
right to work or be allowed to wear pants. I mean,
just they fought so hard to make those changes and
(13:12):
the women today we need to continue to resist, and
we need to continue to fight, not only to uphold
the rights that our sisters fought for, but to continue
them and then also preserve them and be able to
pass them down to our children when we're not here.
(13:35):
So I think it's up to the women of today
not to forget and to continue to fight.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Right, Yeah, we're going to take a break shortly, but
before we do, I just wanted to emphasize what you're saying.
And I realized too that, you know what, because of
my involvement in writing this Caregiving Navigator, and you know,
one of the things I really work on a lot
is is what I call successful aging and caregiving family caregiving,
(14:06):
and you know, that's that's a feel that is dominated
by women. And when I go to these events, I
kind of look around and go like, well, why is this?
You know, well, I mean, I I do understand, you know,
some of it. Just historically, you know, women aren't considered
caregivers and their mothers, and I get that that's important. Nevertheless,
(14:31):
I was, you know, one of four sons who took
care of my mother, and you know, and there were
no daughters, but we did it, and it was important.
It was important experience. So I want to talk a
little bit more about that, you know, about the involvement
of engagement of men as we come to after the break. So, folks,
we are going to take a quick break, but we'll
(14:51):
be back very shortly with much more from Diane Curley,
the founder of Celebrating Women, So don't go away.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Mike Zorich a three time California state champion in Greco
Roman wrestling at one hundred and fourteen pounds. Mike blind
six birth, was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a
six time national placer, including two seconds, two thirds, and
two fourths. He also won the Veteran's Folk Style Wrestling
(15:21):
twice at one hundred and fifty two pounds. In all
these tournaments, he was the only blind competitor. Nancy Zorich
a creative spirit whose talents have taken her to the
stage and into galleries and exhibitions in several states. Her father,
a commercial artist, who shared his instruments with his daughter
and helped her fine tune. Her natural abilities influenced her
(15:45):
decision to follow in his footsteps. Miss Zorich has enjoyed
a fruitful career doing what she loves. Listen Saturday mornings
at twelve Eastern for the Nancy and Mike Show for
heartwarming stories and interesting talk on the BBM Glow Network.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Are you struggling to care for elderly parents or a spouse?
Do you wonder if being a caregiver is making you sick?
Are you worried about taking time off work to care
for elderly parents and balance work life and caregiving? Has
caregiving become exhausting and emotionally draining? Are you an aging
adult who wants to remain independent but you're not sure how.
(16:22):
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seven Mountain, eighth Central and nine Eastern, where I answer
these questions and share tips for managing stress, family relationships, health, wellbeing,
and more. Podcasts and transcripts of The Carrying Generation are
(16:42):
on my website, Pamela Dwilson dot com, plus my Caregiving library.
Online caregiver support programs and programs for corporations interested in
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On the Carrying Generation and Pamela d Wilson dot com.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Welcome back, folks once again. I'm Ron Roell, the host
of forty five Forward on Bold Brave TV. Today, I'm
talking with Diane Curley, the founder of Celebrating Women LLC.
And we've been talking before the break about, you know,
the issue of men and women really in terms of
(17:24):
you know, uh upholding and uh the the representation of
women in terms of what the kind of the contributions
have been. Uh and I think in some ways changing
the narrative about women. And uh So I was talking
before the break about the need from my perspective of
(17:45):
engaging men more in this conversation because I think that
that's that's a that's a problem that we haven't really
we you know, we haven't really sort of pulled men
to the table and said, listen, we go need to
talk about this because I think that you need to
be you know, men need to be involved in the
(18:05):
conversation and understand and basically be there and hear the voices,
not just you know, women talking with other women. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yeah, Well, first, you know, we had to rally the troops,
you know, we needed women to recognize what was happening
and that they needed to be some conversation about it.
But yes, men can play a role in the conversation.
That I think a lot of it is the culture
has to change. Yeah, I think that's the culture of
(18:41):
how you know, men are maybe think that they have
to be or should be, but it disempowers women If
men have to constantly be so what they consider as
masculinity by degrading in or taking rights away from us,
(19:03):
that's that's a cultural shift that that needs to happen. Yeah,
it would be good if if they heard our stories
and listened to our stories and championed us. But until
they do, it's up to us. It's up to the women. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, well I think I think we're getting there. I'm
certainly you know an ally, so I think that that's
starting to happen. And I think that, but that's what
you know, you know, in order for women to be elevated,
men need to They do need to change also, And
one of the ways I think is just by you know,
hearing your stories. So I know that a lot of
(19:42):
your your mission involves storytelling, and I think that's a
very powerful tool. So talk about the role of stories
because I think sometimes just instead of you know, electioning people,
just hearing people's stories I think is really effective.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, and that's that's what I do in the blog
and on the TV show. Is I I talk very
little the women that are on the show, you know,
I interview them and share their story and there. And
I got to tell you, I am usually so so
so inspired by the women that I've written the blog
(20:20):
about or that have come on the show. It's been,
as I thought, I was doing it for other women,
and it turns out it was also benefiting me. I
was feeling stronger and happier and more fulfilled knowing that
there are women out there doing great things, and there
(20:42):
are male allies out there. Absolutely, my husband.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Is one good good So could you give you some
examples of some of the stories of women you've had,
you know, on your show, and what's some of the
things they've done. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
I had a a woman who was blind and was
a teacher in a school for for children, even despite
or maybe it even made her better. Who knows her
her what was perceived as a disability and her ability
(21:19):
to impact others, right, And yeah, so I and I
included like the women did not have to apply. Every
woman that wanted to be uh interviewed was interviewed. Just
no celebrities, because it had to be just everyday women.
Because that's what I wanted to share with the younger
(21:40):
generation too, is look look to us, we are your
role models. Maybe not so much look to what's all
over social media or what's you know in Hollywood. Maybe
to look to the woman next door or the woman
at the you know that mean on the grocery line,
(22:01):
you know, and start those conversations and share those stories
and be there for each other. That's that example for
the younger generation as well.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Right now, I just reading a little bit about you.
I know, I know that part of your storytelling started
with your own storytelling to your children. So talk about
the role of storytelling with your kids. What sort of
stories have you created for them?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Well, I always read to my children since birth, as
soon as they were born. I just was always and
it fosters connection. Reading together, foster's connection. And I want
that familial sense for my own children. And I wanted
them to have a loving connection and a routine around
(22:52):
bedtime and to just make home a safe place. So
I always read to them since birth and them and
they would maybe a little bit older like toddlers, and
wouldn't fall asleep despite the fact that you just read
ten books. I started telling them stories. I couldn't read anymore,
but I could close my eyes and tell you a story,
(23:16):
and that really worked out well. And then they loved
the stories and they would usually fall asleep after one
or two stories. So I think it's important for families
to read to children, one for the sake of literacy
to me, you know, up level literacy in the country,
(23:38):
but also foster those familial those family connections that maybe
you know, it's so hard now everybody's working or looking
for work, everybody's so busy, but it's really important to
take that time out as a family to have a meal,
to read a story, to tell a story. It could
(23:59):
even be a story of about your life when you
were younger. My kids loved those stories about because they
just can't they can't fathom it. They can't picture you
as younger and you're just their mom. So then when
you tell a story or two about your early childhood
or your teens or twenties, they just love that and
it builds connection in the family, and I think that
(24:21):
generations ago, they used to do this all the time,
and maybe we fall away from the storytelling. So one
of the stories I wrote I made into a children's book.
I published it in twenty twenty two. Yeah, yeah, very beautiful.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah, tell us a little bit about the story. What
it's about.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Well, it's an adventure through the alphabet, and it tells
the stories of how different animals and creatures and bugs
play during the day and then how they sleep at night.
So like the first one is, you know, the ants
were playing on the picnic blanket and now the ants
are sleeping, sort of to demonstrate to the children that
everybody plays and I know you want to play, but
(25:03):
everybody also sleeps. Look the answer now sleeping even you know.
So the reason I went through the alphabet, and I
changed it up every night. I would change to different things.
Sometimes it was an airplane, you know, the airplane was
flying through the sky. Now the airplane is sleeping. But
for the sake of the book, I concentrated on live characters,
(25:24):
and then I also put them in silly situations in
the book, like you know, a tiger sleeping in a
sleeping bag in the forest, you know, and the kids
love that because they're like tigers don't sleep in sleeping bags.
They're just so small, you know. And the connection, I
just love it. I love connecting with the kids. So
(25:45):
that's what I do now. Is you know, my youngest
is twenty two, so I'm not reading to him anymore,
but he all my kids, all three kids, are avid readers,
so I think that had to play a part of it.
Of course, they're adults now and they choose, you know,
they choose to read. But I must be proponent of
but you know reading. You know, when we were kids,
(26:08):
I read the back of the cereal box, you know,
or a comic book. It's okay, but just foster that
love of reading so they can carry that into adulthood
and pass it.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
On, right. Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of like.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
A little adventure through the alphabet.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yeah. Nice. A couple of things strike me. One is that,
you know, the power of stories. You know, it's there's
something deep in our you know, historical DNA, you know,
or just our psyche about storytelling, as you mentioned, so
I mean, you know, you know and old and really
(26:46):
uh primeval times, you know, people would sit around a
campfire and tell us stories. Yeah, but I think it's so.
I think it's a really powerful tool that we don't
think about. But and I you know, even you know
when you're listening to somebody, you know, give a speech
or something. You know, you're sort of listening and then
they say, well, let me tell you a story about this,
and all of a sudden, you're you perk up, You're
(27:10):
ready for it. There's something about it that it brings
out the real humanity in you, and there's a lesson
behind it. It's not didactic in the sense of being
a lectured too, you know, so it really is. And
so doing that, what you're doing with women and just
sharing their stories, I think is more effective than saying, well,
(27:30):
you know, you should treat women better. You know, it's.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Unsetting the example, and I'm letting women use their voices
and their visibility of how women should be valued and treated.
Setting and using that platform as a way to say,
you know, we're not here for your entertainment. You know,
we're we have impact. We have an impact to make,
(27:57):
and we're making it and you know, we can't be ignored.
Whether it's working you know, as a nurse or writing
a children's book or speaking. I speak all over the
country on women's empowerment issues as well. You know, Yeah,
you have to make an impact and storytelling is a
big part of that. And you mentioned generations ago right
(28:19):
sitting around the campfire. Well to this day, I'm still
learning new things about my own mother. She will come
up with the story sometime and I'll be like, I
never heard that. It's so important, Like, Mom, I did
not know that about you, you know. So I think
it's important, yes, to have people tell stories, but maybe
(28:40):
we should start asking some questions too, and have you know,
tell me about the time when you were when you
were a teenager, mom, what was that like? You know?
Or you know? So I have found out really really
interesting stuff about my mom, who's eighty five now, that
I had never known. So I think it's important And
it goes along with your caregiving that you write about
(29:04):
aging and caregiving. Storytelling is so important for people who
are caregiving. It helps their memory and helps them connect
because sometimes caregiving, as you know because you wrote the book,
is very very difficult. So if you have us story
to telling as a tool to have a connection with
(29:28):
your loved one that you're caring for, maybe take some
of the tension out of the moment and connect.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, that's absolutely that connection is so important. And I
think that, you know, in the latter part of my book,
I talk about you know, sense of legacy, right, and
that that sense of connection in two ways. I think
that one, you know, people you know as you get
(29:56):
on in life and you start thinking, well, what is
my legacy? What do I want to remember about me?
Not just you know, what my assets are, what do
I know give in terms of my estate, but what
is my mental and emotional estate. I'm leaving behind what
I want my kids to know. And so you know,
when you talk about sharing stories, that's what they'll remember
(30:17):
about you, That's what they want to remember it. So
I think that's really important.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
And I think the stories make you feel. Stories make
you feel something. And like when Maya Angelo said, people
will not always remember I'm paraphrasing what you did or
what you said, but they'll remember how you made them.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Feel, right, right.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
So if stories do that, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
There's an emotional residence, and there's you know, it makes
sense of life. You know, it's you're you're not just talking,
You're making sense of it through a story. And there's
a lesson and there's an outcome, and I think it's
a it's a really important tool. So I'm really glad
you're using this, and I know that you you use
them frequently in your various events. So let's start talking about,
(31:08):
you know, more specifically, what kinds of events do you have.
Let's talk about some of your you know, I know
you have a digital magazine, a podcast, a TV show,
and then you have a planner journal, right and as well. Yeah,
so this was.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
A wonderful thing that came out of the blog was
I captured the women's quotes because one of the questions
on the when I was writing the blog was what
do you want to share to inspire another woman or
young girl? So these were then their words of inspiration
for the next generation or a woman you know of today.
(31:48):
So I took the answer to that question and I
made a planner journal with fifty two weeks of quotes
from those women's stories.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I see, okay, And then of.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Course, you know, I added in the days of the
week and the month and the you know, so you
could do that kind of planning in it, and it
included their quotes attributed to them. Again, further amplifying their
voice and visibility. And then I had, uh, you know,
the a page for journaling, a page for reflection, a
(32:23):
page for planning, you know. So it was quite quite
the labor of love that was, and I'm very proud
of that.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Right nice, So again, the time's going quickly, but we
need to take another quick break. We're going to sneak
one in right now. But don't go anywhere, folks. We
have won a couple more very dynamic sections coming up
with Diane Curley, the founder of Celebrating Women.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Mike Zurich are three time California state champion in Greco
Roman wrestling at one hundred and fourteen pounds. Mike blind
sis birth, was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a
six time national placer, including two seconds, two thirds, and
two fourths. He also won the Veteran's Folk Style Wrestling
(33:14):
twice at one hundred and fifty two pounds. In all
these tournaments, he was the only blind competitor. Nancy Zurich
a creative spirit whose talents have taken her to the
stage and into galleries and exhibitions in several states. Her father,
a commercial artist who shared his instruments with his daughter
and helped her fine tune her natural abilities influenced her
(33:37):
decision to follow in his footsteps. Miss Zurich has enjoyed
a fruitful career doing what she loves. Listen Saturday mornings
at twelve Eastern for the Nancy and Mike Show for
heartwarming stories and interesting talk on the BBM Global Network.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Are you struggling to care for elderly parents or a spouse?
Do you wonder if being a caregiver is making you
I'm sick? Are you worried about taking time off work
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Has caregiving become exhausting and emotionally draining? Are you an
aging adult who wants to remain independent but you're not
sure how? I'm Pamela d Wilson. Join me for the
(34:16):
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I answer these questions and share tips for managing stress,
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The Carrying Generation are on my website Pamela Dwilson dot
(34:36):
com Plus My caregiving library. Online caregiver support programs and
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Speaker 2 (34:55):
Welcome back, folks. I'm Ron Rowell with forty five Forward.
I'm Bold Brave TV. We're talking today with Diane Curley,
the founder and CEO of Celebrating Women LLC, a dynamic organization.
We were talking a lot about what she does. We're
going to continue talking about that, but before we continue,
I want to just let you know, tell your friends
(35:17):
that if they missed our live show, they can listen
to it as a podcast if they go to the
Bold Brave TV on YouTube and find my show, and
then I have an archive of all my shows. You
can listen to this one as well as my other
shows on my playlist. So just click on the forty
five Forward playlist and they can find replays on other
(35:39):
platforms as well, like Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon and so forth.
So we were talking with Diane about her various events
and ways in which she basically celebrates her mission. We
were talking about some of her planner journal, and so
(36:03):
tell us a little bit more about other kinds of
events and that you're involved with. I know you do
a lot of keynote speaking. Anything coming up I should about.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Oh gosh, there's there's always stuff going on, but like
I wasn't prepared to answer. I'm sorry, that's okay, but yeah,
well I do post stuff on the website and on LinkedIn,
and I have a lot of friends who hold events too,
(36:33):
and we kind of work together to put stuff together.
And and that's an important piece of of you know,
connection to is networking with other women. So then you can,
you know, come together and have events because you it's
not the kind of thing you should do alone. It's
it's defensive and time consuming, and you know you want
(36:57):
you want every detail to be just so wonderful for
the attendees, so you know, do it together with someone.
I have my best friend, her name is May, and
we collaborate a lot on a lot of our work.
And the events are I keynote speak at events for
(37:18):
mainly what I talk about is women's empowerment. And then
you know, having an event where women can come together
and celebrate one another and learn from other speakers, and
you know, enjoy the day together, pouring into themselves and
pouring into each other. And I think that those events
(37:39):
are important and not not not frivolous at all. It
might be like, oh, you're going, you know, you're going
to have dinner and listen to some speakers and you'll
be gone for a couple of hours. It's important. It's
together like that.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
So people can find out. So your website is Diane
Curly dot com. Right, yes, yes, so it's Diane no
no no period, right, Diane Curly c U R L
e Y dot com. Okay, So people can go there
and find find out, see your blog, the blog, see.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
The TV shows. Everything's on there, connect with me on
their contact form on there to connect and continue the
conversation and go boldly forward together.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Right right, bold Brave TV together right okay, yeah, yeah,
and so and then you now you have a TV show,
so right, that's.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Yeah on Public Access TV, which is a beautiful thing.
Public ss TV is available for all of us and
you can not only watch the shows, but you can
have a show on Public Access TV. And it was
a differentiator for me because a lot of a lot
(39:01):
of friends, you know, maybe doing a podcast, right, which
became very very popular, especially with the advent of COVID
and the pandemic. But the TV show was a little
bit of a differentiator, and people would the people I
interviewed obviously were local from Long Island or the city,
(39:22):
whereas my blog I could do from all over the world,
so this was a little more intimate, and you know,
they were just thrilled to me on the show. Was
a differentiator for our company for celebrating women, the way
that we were operating and giving these opportunities for women
to just like you've given me the opportunity to be
(39:43):
on your show, I was given women the opportunity to
be on my TV show and they would have a
viewing party and it was just beautiful celebration of them.
So it was very nice. Right now, the show is
on hiatus. Oh we're looking to start it up against
pretty soon.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Good Okay, good, good, good. So let's talk a little
bit more about your international volunteer work, because this is
really quite something a lot of work. So tell me
how you got involved with it. I guess part of it,
you know that is you know, basically, you know, driven
by your your work in the healthcare field as a
nurse and so tell us some about your experiences and and.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
By my it's it's driven by my nursing career, but
it's also driven by my faith. And I think, yeah,
all all of the major faiths teach to love and serve.
So that's what I was doing. I was living out
the mission of my faith and by loving and serving,
and I used my skills as a nurse to do so.
(40:48):
It was like the perfect perfect marriage. So how I
got involved was there was an organization that was children
over that We're going to have some surgeries and they
needed places for them to stay. So my husband and
I thought, well we could do that. We could have
(41:09):
the child stay with us. I'm a nurse. It would
be perfect that, you know, could provide care if needed
after the child surgery. And so we sponsored a child
to come over from Ethiopia. His name is Seyfu, and
after he was with us for a month and recuperated
(41:31):
from his surgery, he went back to Ethiopia. He's an orphan,
a true orphan, no parents and lives in an orphanage
with hundreds of other boys. So after he went home,
I thought to myself, I'd like to continue to work
with this organization because they were doing work at the orphanage.
So I did a fundraising event to raise money, and
(41:52):
I went with them on their next trip to Ethiopia,
where we did a lot of work on the orphanage
and bought with our donation money that people had donated.
We bought the boys fruit because they very often don't
get fruit. They just eat, you know, a special bread
and water, and the water's not even clean. So we
(42:12):
would go to the market and buy them mangoes and
bananas and they were just oranges. Oh my god. They
just loved it when we came with that. And then
I also bought with me reading glasses because the workers
at the orphanage didn't have health care, and the women
(42:33):
that were working as the caregivers there cooking and cleaning
couldn't see much like here in America. As you get
a little older, you might need a pair of readers, right,
I do. So I brought readers over and with a
little a chart for testing there which calibration was the
(42:56):
right one for them. And when they would put on
these glasses and be able to read, and then they
would cry that they could see again a little. Yeah,
it was just so beautiful. Like you gets such a
small thing. I got the glasses with my own money
from the dollar store. I just went and bought a
hundred pair of glasses, you know, of different calibrations, and
(43:19):
you know what they said to me through the translator
because they speak Amharic and I speak a little now.
But back then, none was that. They could read their
Bibles again or the Torah again. They could see their
spices as they were cooking. They could see how much
they were putting in, which they weren't able to do before. Yeah,
(43:40):
so small everyday things can make a really beautiful life,
and that made a difference for them, and that was it.
I've been going every year. I used to go two
to three times a year, but then I started doing
mission work in other parts of the world as well,
and as well as in the United States, and it's
(44:00):
been the highlight of my career to do that work, honestly. Yeah,
so I met before. I was in Liberia during the
Ebola epidemic. I've been to Greece during the Syrian refugee
crisis when they were not allowed to cross over into
Turkey and they were being held in Greece providing medical care.
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Zimbabwe let's see El Salvador at our own southern border.
When we had a surgeon migration, one of the surges,
a group of us went down to help. I don't
work alone, I work with an organizations.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
That organization, yeah, well, when I.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
Went to Liberia with ebola, it was Partners in Health.
They're based here in the States in Boston, and their
leader was Paul Farmer. He's since passed recently but the
last couple of years, but the work still carry on.
Great organization, and you know, they gave us some training.
(45:06):
You know, they want to experienced nurses, but they also
gave us some training specifically to what we're going to
be facing over there with ebola. And the healthcare workers
over there were dying there. The caregivers were dying from
caring for the patients with ebola. So they were it
was really difficult time for them, and you know, you
(45:28):
just have to you have to come alongside people. That's
what Partners and Health does. They don't come in and
push you aside and save the day. They come in
alongside you, They accompany you and together we're going to
get through this. And that's just what we did. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Yeah, how long are your stays in these places.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
It depends. Oh no, usually usually a month, sometimes longer. Yeah,
you can. You could stay six or eight weeks, even longer.
I would Usually I was using my vacation time as
a nurse, and my sick time all saved up, so
I'd go in the spring, and I would go in
the fall. And and I worked for an organization that
(46:17):
was very proud and happy to know that that's that's
how I was spending my time, so uh, I didn't
get a hard time trying to get time off to
do that work.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
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Speaker 3 (46:32):
And then one of the other things I did recently was, uh,
I wanted I wanted to start writing about those stories. Ron.
I want to start writing about the over a decade
of mission work all over the world, the different places,
the different people, the different poverty, famine, disease, it's it's everywhere,
(46:59):
and we really can't close our eyes to it. When
we had the hurricane in the Bahamas, I was down
in the Bahamas. The hospital was wiped out. I went
with Samaritans Purse and another well known organization and we
set up a field tent hospital. And because my background
was in I was an operating room nurse. For a while.
(47:21):
That's what I did. I worked in this makeshift operating
room in it in the Bahamas. It was just and
the people were were happy to be cared for and
they gave us so much love in return, so much love.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
Yeah, yeah, great. So we're going to take our final
break and then we'll come back and do a wrap
up various things. Get some of your final closing thoughts.
So folks, don't go away. We have a really nice
end piece. So we're going to take a quick break.
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Welcome back, folks. This is Ron Roell, the host of
forty five Forward Unfold Grave TV. We've been talking today
with Diane Curley, the founder of Celebrating Women. Also before
the break, we were talking a lot about her not
only work with women, but her international volunteer work, which
is quite impressive, starting in Ethiopia, but that's spending to
(50:23):
lots of parts of the world and for which I
understand You've got an honorary doctrine in humanitarianism, right.
Speaker 3 (50:31):
Yes, that was quite the honor, and I was very grateful.
You know, we were talking a little bit before about
my faith and one of the things is I thought
to myself, when I'm not on this earth anymore, I
hope to hear, you know, well done, good and faithful servant.
And with getting this doctorate, this honorary doctor because I
have my master's degree, it was really a beautiful expression
(50:55):
of like, right here on earth for somebody to say
well done, good and faithful servant, right here on earth.
So I'm really honored and humbled by it and grateful
for that honor.
Speaker 2 (51:09):
Yeah, and you know, during the break, I just want
to tell her, and we were chatting a bit and
you mentioned like, well, you know, but most days I'm
just an ordinary person. And that's what I think is
really impressive about it. And it goes to your part
of your slogan before about with women, like every woman
is a role model, but every person like you, we don't,
(51:31):
you know, you can be quote unquote an extraordinary, ordinary person.
That's right.
Speaker 3 (51:39):
Well, thank you for letting me tell my story. So
you were back to stories, see how important they are?
Speaker 2 (51:44):
Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. So we just have a few
minutes left. I just thought maybe we can reflect a
little bit back on you know, your your thoughts about
going what you've done and what you perhaps what you
might want to do going forward, and any thoughts or
anything that we haven't talked about that do you want
(52:06):
to uh leave as a closing thought, Well, I would.
Speaker 3 (52:11):
Really like to continue speaking, you know, within the United
States and around the world about different empowerment topics as
I enjoy that greatly. I'd like to do more of that,
and I hope to finally write that book about the
medical missions and saying that.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Yeah, that would be great. I mean those stories would
be terrific. Yeah, yeah, so do you have a timeline
for that, You're thinking maybe by next year, you think.
Speaker 3 (52:37):
I have made that timeline and passed it at least
three times now. Well, see that just shows you I'm
just normal, right, It's just life. You know, we work,
the kids, you know, are volunteer work, whatever we're doing,
and and then sometimes life gets in the way of
some of the things you.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Want to do, you know, but you're still there. You'll
get it done, just you know, at some point you'll
figure it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So let's see. So
once again we're close to the end of our show.
Is there's much more to talk about, but I just
want to thank you for a terrific show. There's always
I'm sure we'll have much more to talk about. Maybe
(53:18):
we can come back another time and talk, you know,
take a deeper dive in your international work, Souse. I
think it's something that I think is really important, especially
now because you know, I think we are kind of
in a period now of isolationism. You know, we're going
to cut off and we are connected. So going to
your theme of connection, we're connected to the world and
(53:40):
what we do matters, and I think people really appreciate it.
So I think it's important work. We shouldn't just say, well,
you know, it's time to just focus on us. Part
of us is, you know, is the world. I mean
that's what for me, the United States is. You know
that we are the world. So thank you for work.
Speaker 3 (54:01):
And you know it might be a cliche to say,
but people all over the world are our brothers and sisters.
We need we need to we need to love and
serve them as they and love and serve each other.
Speaker 2 (54:17):
Right, great, I agree. Right. So if people want to
contact you, Diane, what's the best way to do that
is through email?
Speaker 3 (54:24):
Yeah, the best way is through my website because I
have a contact form on the website that they can
write to me, ask any questions, reach out. I'd love
to connect absolutely.
Speaker 2 (54:34):
Okay, great, So before I go, I just want to
thank my terrific engineer, Alex, who will guides me through
every show. I really appreciate his help, and I want
to thank you for the audience for spending this hour
with me, helping us learn and grow together and hear
inspiring stories about all of how all of us can
make our journey in the second half of life even
(54:55):
better than the first. So join me Next Wednesday, seven
pm Eastern time. I'll be talking with Kevin Wade, who
is the executive producer and showrunner for the TV series
Blue Bloods, who recently ended the series but is on
to another adventure as a debut novelist and with a
(55:15):
crime thriller, Johnny Careless, which is a terrific book. So, folks,
until then next week, keeping forward, forty five forward.
Speaker 1 (55:30):
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