May 29, 2025 • 31 mins
In this transformative episode, Morgan begins with a gratitude meditation honoring the strength and faith of praying women. Vanessa then guides listeners through a self-care audit, helping trekkers assess their well-being with honesty and compassion. Finally, the conversation shifts to accessing vital benefits and resources that often go overlooked. From public assistance to family support programs, this episode breaks down the complexities of navigating these systems while challenging the shame that sometimes accompanies seeking help. It's an empowering discussion designed to uplift, inform, and resist shame.
Important Disclaimers: Morgan and Vanessa are not legal or financial experts or government workers. Consult your legal counsel, financial advisors, and/or government worker for guidance tailored to your needs.
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My brothers in jail, the fence are gone.
We are sick and tired. Of being sick and.
Tired. The disrespected person in
America is the black woman, but still like dust.
All right. Pretty girls in the VIP.
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They came with. Drain.
They'll need ideas. The revolution will not be
televised, Brother, you are by the.
New Joe John. Even if you are not ready for
the day. It cannot.
Always be night. Welcome to self-care school
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everybody. My name is Morgan.
I am joined with Vanessa. Are you there V?
Hey there fam. Listen, it is Talkback Thursday.
I bid you just greetings for coming to day four of yourself
Care school week. It is week 7.
We are in this, We are in the final stretches.
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We begin week 8 next week. Y'all, that's almost two months
of self caring and schooling y'all and being in community
with one another. And so just pat yourself on the
back. We are going to start as we
always do, by first welcoming you.
If you are new, if this is the first episode, if you stumbled
across this episode or someone sent it to you, you are welcome.
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Here we are 1,000,000 black women strong and we are walking
to your left and to your right and we count on you.
But we also love you and hold you up.
We are girl trek. We are all around the world.
We walk to heal our bodies, to inspire our daughters and to
reclaim the streets of our neighborhoods.
You are welcome. The only, the only call to
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action there are two. One is to walk five days a week,
30 minutes a day. It is life saving.
And the second one is to be yoursister's keeper, which means on
any given week, invite just one sister to go for a walk.
You don't need no format, you don't need no training, you
don't need no blue shirt. You just need the willpower and
the courage to invite someone tostep out on faith with you and
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go for a walk. So those are the 2 calls to
action and we start this episodeas we always do, with the Front
Porch meditation. Y'all dedicated to our
foremothers? This is an opportunity to call
the names of the women who came before us, and we ordinarily
call a specific name. Today I want to do something
different, like I did with the cafeteria workers.
I was thinking about power Vanessa and I was thinking about
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the most powerful women I know had an image of, I think it was
my great grandmother. And it's just like really blurry
black and white image. And she's at the altar on her
knees tearing, and they are having like some kind of 24 hour
prayer or some kind of revival or something.
But it is a blurry picture of her praying.
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And I was just like, those are the most powerful women I know.
So I want to dedicate this to all of the church kids, the
preachers kids, the backsliders and sinners, the people who know
the black church, the people whorespect and Revere the powerful
women in the black church. So stand out on your front
porch. Find your grounding, make sure
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that your feet are placed so that you feel strong, so that
you feel balanced, so that you feel relaxed.
And we are giving honor today. This is going to be a mindful
gratitude practice for our legacy.
So make sure that you start in stillness, taking some full
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breath, shoulders relaxed, your feet flat.
And now I just want you to tap your toes with me and just tap
your toes over and over just to ground.
Just tap your toes for 30 seconds or so.
Light taps, feel the earth underyour toes.
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Find the rhythm to my words. As I say to you, give an honor
to God, to pastor and the Saints.
I thank God for the ground beneath me.
I thank God for the land my people walked on, for the dirt
that raised me from the gravity that holds me.
I am grounded in grace now. I invite you to move from those
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toe taps to some heel lifts, andyou might even roll your
shoulders as you're lifting yourheel, lifting your heels gently,
rolling your shoulders back slowly, however that looks or
feels to you at the same time. Different one at a time, just
one of them. You have choice as you are
lifting your heels or rolling your shoulders, moving your
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body. Give an honor to life and to
health and to strength. I thank God that I got up this
morning. I thank God that my body still
moves. I thank God for breath in my
lungs, for rhythm in my spine, oh for strength in my knees.
Y'all move your body in gratitude.
Take up space and let your body testify.
Now we're going to put some bounce to it.
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Almost like you got a tambourineon your hip.
Just slap your hips or your thighs, just a little bit to
your own rhythm. And as you are slapping, we are
giving honor to our sisters, to friendship, to laughter, to
survival. I thank God for those who
carried me when I could not carry myself.
I thank God for the calls and the hugs, the prayers and the
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joy that found me anyway. Let the rhythm of the clap be
your own kind of Hallelujah. Let yourself bounce and move
away. Feel the joy in your body.
And finally, I want you to raiseyour arms however it feels
comfortable to you. Maybe it's low down by your
waist with your palms facing up.Maybe it's up and goal posts.
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Maybe it's high to the air. This is you, This is your
praise, this is your power. So lift your arms slowly,
lightly. Let them be light, giving honor
to the Most High. I thank God for keeping my mind.
I thank God for purpose, for peace, for possibility.
I lift my hands because I am still here and I am just getting
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started. Hold your heart or your arms up.
Take a deep breath in and out. Let silence wrap all around you.
We end with our hands in front of our hearts in prayer
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position. Bow your head or lift your eyes
to the sky. Take one last breath.
I give honor, I give thanks. I give myself permission to be
powerful. Thank you for that gratitude
practice today. Power lies and gratitude.
Vanessa, how you doing today? Oh, that felt very good.
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It is. I'm doing really good.
I'm deeply full of gratitude. It was such a perfect way to
start this episode, especially because it's Talkback Thursday.
Morgan. Yeah.
But since we're on the porch, let's go ahead and step into the
driveway because I only have oneself-care audit question for us
today, Morgan. And then I'm going to bring
Naira in because it's Talkback Thursday and I want to share a
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praise report around what's happening in women's lives.
But before I do that, I do want to ask everyone to step into the
driveway or wherever you are on your walk.
I want us to just pause before we get into into today's 2
lessons. And I want us to do a self-care
audit because this week is week 7.
We're talking about power this week and it may not be obvious
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to people, Morgan, but today's two life skills are how to
access the benefits and resources that you're already
paying for when you might need them and how to help your family
members navigate the system so that they can access those
resources. And they're embedded in this
week about power because the power to know how to ask for
help, the power to get the resources that you need when you
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need them. The power to put food on your
table every day or keep the lights on when you don't even
have anything. It's almost back to I loved how
you started with dedication of the praying women, Morgan,
because I know your Mama and my grandma and so many women we
know, they prayed those lights on.
They didn't have the money. They were just like, so like
there's like in the stand in thegap with me, God.
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And so today I really wanted to give people some just practical
resources that like when you're praying, just stand in the gap
with me. God like help me get this
childcare, help me get this food, help me get this whatever
that there are real resources out there that we have paid for,
that we have a right to and thatwe have so much shame and stigma
around accessing. I only have wherever you all
y'all, I have oneself care auditquestion for all of us.
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And you either are going to takeone big step forward or you're
going to take a humble step back.
But the question is this, when Isay Section 8, when I say snap,
when I say the projects, if you have any inkling of shame, I
want you to take step, take a step back.
And if you have any understanding or any person in
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your life who have needed those benefits, I want you to take a
step forward. It's the only audit question
that matters today. Because if we do anything on
this episode, I want to debunk the judgment and the stigma
around people living in Section 8.
Many of my family members livingin the projects, many of my
family members living on welfare.
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I can remember Morgan, that I had great and deep shame as a
child growing up because I was award of the state.
I was on welfare. I was getting like Medicaid
benefits, everything. I had what everybody called
welfare glasses, which I thoughtwere really fire, but everybody
was like you got those welfare glasses on and it.
I had such deep shame around it and I had such deep stigma and I
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can remember. That's the day was pink.
I had them too. I had them too.
And here's what's crazy, we bothgot them now, so.
That's right. And they look good.
We were just ahead of our time. That's exactly right.
That's exactly right. And this topic I know is going
to be relevant to so many of ourmembers because one in four
black women are living below thepoverty line.
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And I know many of them are girltrick members who are like,
never mind that though. I'm out here every day walking
for my life. And of those, one in four black
women, one in three who qualify for public assistance don't even
apply. And it's most often because they
either don't have the information or because of
exactly what we are talking about, the stigma.
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And so I've. Never heard that statistic ever,
ever, ever that one in three black women who qualify for
public assistance don't apply. That's right.
And that matters because of course the history and the
concept of welfare in this country and everything that
we've ever thought about it has implied that somehow black
people are burdening the system.But in fact, the statistics show
that I think it's for 38% of thepeople who are on government
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assistance across the country are white people, compared to
26% of the people across the country who are on government
assistance who are black people.So it actually it's just been
propaganda in many ways, of course, in all the ways that we
know why that has LED us here. And we're going to talk about a
little in a little bit later, Morgan, how that relates to the
current fight with Medicare and Medicaid, what's going on today,
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right now and the government, who's going to be impacted and
what we can do about it. And so I want to bring on Naira,
next Gen. Naira, who's out there keeping
her ear to the streets on this talk back Thursday.
Are you there Naira? Yes, I am.
It's just so amazing to know that the women, more women want
to do these things of substance,but we just have to equip them
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with what they need. And the knowledge and knowledge
is really power. And so I'm glad that the
knowledge that we're sharing on this platform is empowering the
women, but not only for these women that are in the process of
doing these things, but for the next generation that is to come
because it is a Evergreen podcast.
And so I'm excited that this will be a guide or a tool to
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life to some of the most substantial things that we can
experience in our lifetime. And so that, and so first, I
want to start with a praise report for one of our women
doing and experiencing some of the exact things we're talking
about. Today is so special to me
because as we finish our week oftracking for homes, housing
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acts, fair housing acts and justthe ability for our black
sisters to own a home, I am proud to say that I received my
pre approval for my home on today at exactly 230 PMI am
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approved. I am happy, I am grateful, I am
blessed to be a part of this organization, this movement,
this girl track. I love this, I love it, I love
it. It's all in my spirit, my soul.
I walk, I trek, I jog, I run. I do it for myself, my family,
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my legacy, my grandchildren. You have inspired me to be
great, to own a home, to have land, to leave a legacy, to pay,
to pay it forward and I'm just so grateful and I just want to
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say thank you. Morgan for me to hear that woman
say her pre approval came in today and to think that the
first thing she did was get on the line to let us know.
The I was just thinking that I was like, what an intimate.
I conversed into tears to girl. I was just like the the thought
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that you would, you know, like we used to say back and they
pick up the phone to call me in this moment, like the fact that
she would go to our website or to go to
myselfmyselfcareschool.com and push that button and leave.
What is a really intimate detailof her life that hurt that her
dream is coming true is really beautiful.
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It's just really beautiful. I'm really happy to be in that,
in this space, to be able to to hear that and witness that with
her. I am too.
I am too. I'm so grateful y'all myself.
careschool.com you can access the classroom, you can scroll to
the bottom, you can share questions, you can share ideas,
you can share praise reports. This is a global conversation of
black women around the world. Naira, thank you so much for
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sharing all of the women's voices from Talkback Thursday.
Ladies, I hope you continue to sound off out there.
I want to get into these two lessons so that we can get our
folks equipped and prepared. So all your Are you ready so
that we can talk about two really important things, which
is how women in this community can access the benefits and
resources. And I want to emphasize that you
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already pay for y'all through your taxes.
You are already, even if you haven't paid taxes, you are
entitled to so many things as a citizen in this country.
And we're going to talk about that.
And then we're going to talk about how you can help your
family members navigate the system.
All right, I want to get into itreally quickly for people who
are struggling with housing right now.
And I want to talk about Section8 because I swear to God,
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Section 8 is one of the most talked about, but also like I
think unclear programs that are out there and there are a lot of
people who could genuinely benefit from the program.
It's called the housing choice voucher program.
Now it's a federal program that helps low income families,
seniors, and people with disabilities afford safe housing
on the private market. You pay about 30% of your income
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and your voucher covers the rest, and you can apply through
your local public Housing Authority.
And this is shocking to me in terms of statistics, Morgan,
because over 2.2 million households right now are
receiving vouchers yet, and thisis goes back to those
statistics, only one in four eligible families are even
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applying to get it. And so I know there's a lot of
challenges out there around the list being long.
There's a lot of challenges there out there around once you
get the voucher, there's actually discrimination around
if you get it. But this is where I want people
to feel empowered that your local Housing Authority is
really a resource if you are struggling with insecurity and
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housing. And starting there with what
vouchers that you can actually access is important.
A single mother of two, which bythe way, there's like 30% of
black women who qualify under this Morgan making less than
$28,000 a year qualify in most cities for Section 8.
So I just want people to start there right away as a resource
for themselves in terms of housing.
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And then the next resource that I actually have for Morgan, I
think is going to Morgan for people is going to help so many
people. It's utility relief.
If you make $43,000 year, $43,000 a year or less, and a
lot of seniors are in this specific situation or a lot of
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people who are on disability arein this particular situation.
You can qualify for utility assistance.
You just have to, first of all, everybody's phone has 211, which
I had no idea about. But if you hit 211 on your
phone, it will actually connect you to all of the local social
services in your neighborhood oryour community.
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Just hit 211. What?
Yes, Morgan, I know. I swear to God, I was just like,
we're saving lives. We're the episode.
Can stop right there 21121 Excellent.
Yes, and they have something called LIH.
Tell my Mama. Yes, thank you.
And she can find out about utility relief on there.
So there's a lot of people who just are just struggling and
they don't even understand what they're struggling with.
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And then the last thing I want to talk about is two things.
One, caregiver support. There are 211 actually has a lot
of resources out there for people who are looking for
caregiver support. So I'm talking about cash,
stipends, respite care, legal help.
You can really talk about go to 211 and look for services and
get connected to people who could help you there and then.
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We can't not. Can I just pause right there and
just say the that often times we're caretakers and don't know
we're caretakers. And so I just want you to be
encouraged that if you are taking care of your mother, even
if you're not living there, calland see what benefits you can
get for, you know, for helping to because we think it's second,
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it is second nature in our community.
It is natural in our community. And what we are experiencing in
America is not natural. And so in order to remediate, in
order to restore, we sometimes need to get the support we need
to get out of the mind that we've been put in so.
And I want to give people some really practical resources for
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how you can help a family membernavigate the actual systems.
That's our number 2 skill today.But I'm going to actually pop to
it right now because this is such a smart and practical list.
And then I'm going to come back and we're going to close out
talking about Medicare and Medicaid.
But if you are one of those people, Morgan, who maybe don't
even know you are a caregiver, but you're in you're a circle of
support for somebody, right? 1 And I have navigated this so
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many times because my family hasexperienced a lot of like health
issues. And then we've had a lot of
people who needed a lot of care.And I have been a caregiver for
a lot of people in my life. And one of the biggest
challenges, Morgan, when people are trying to help their family
members, whether it's help them access food or housing or
childcare or medicines or any ofthe things, is that they do not
have all of the actual documentsor information that they would
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actually need in one place to actually help a person.
So I have a 5 point checklist for people.
Every single person who is a caregiver needs to create what
is called a Thrive folder. You can create it as a paper
folder or you can create it as adigital folder.
But I want you to have a folder that has all of the documents
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that you would need so that you could help a person to ask
whoever you're caretaking for toadvocate.
So in that file, Morgan, people should have a copy of the
person's photo ID, their state ID, or their driver's size.
And you need a copy of the person's actual ID, who you're
taking care of, their Social Security card or number.
You need to have a copy of that and have the number accessible
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to you, their pay stubs or recent income letter.
And if they're on disability or any sort of assistance, you need
to have documentation of what that actually is a utility bill
or lease or proof of address to show where they're actually
living this in their actual name.
This is one of the things that really trips people up because
if you have somebody living in your household, but then they
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don't have any utility bills or things under their name, then
sometimes, Morgan, they could actually get cut off from
services. And I was actually going to play
this old clip from Claudine. Hello.
Mrs. Price. Hi, how you been?
Oh, Bran living like a queen. Have you been working?
Because if you have I really have to know.
Otherwise you get into. Trouble, I ain't been working.
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Surprise, you know I'm your friend, but you have to be
honest with me. I.
Ain't been working. I understand the man's been
visiting you regularly this past.
You are not supposed to spy on us.
Spy on you, Missus Price. The thing is, missus price, if
something comes out later and I don't know about it, you'll be
in all kinds of troubles. So if you've been seeing this
man. What is this?
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Am I not supposed to see a man? What am IA?
Damn nun. No, but if you've been sleeping
with a man and he's been giving you things, I'm sorry, but I
have to know. Do you sleep with a man?
Now that's none of your business.
None of your business either you're.
Wrong missus Price. It is our business.
This man may be bringing things into your home which you may not
be deducting. Now you know I have to deduct
you on those things. What things?
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What things means damn it. You have a man come over for
dinner, he brings you a bottle of wine.
I have a man come over for dinner, he brings me a damn 6
pack. Oh, there are two left.
Miss Kabak, would you like a beer?
I'm sorry, missus Price. I'm sorry too.
I figured it out. It comes to about $1.35.
If he brings my kids some soda that's about $0.80.
Now with quick figuring that comes to about $2.15.
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Miss Kabak. That's plus tax.
Tell me that's only gives you $2.15.
How much do you get? One of the things I remember
about that movie is that the girl, the Section 8 people came
to inspect their house and the girl had to hide her boyfriend
who was really living there, right?
So we are navigating all sorts of complicated issues, but you
want to make sure that the person in your household has
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what they need and then their insurance or their Medicaid
card. So a simple Thrive folder with
all of those basic details and documents will be the thing that
is most helpful to you as you are trying to then go back to
skill number one and access those services not just for
yourself, but for other folks. So I hope it's helpful for
people. And then we have to talk quickly
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about Medicare and Medicaid, Morgan, because it is one of the
biggest kind of things, entities, programs that is
impacting black folks. And it is under attack right now
in a specific way. And I just want to play two
really short clips because I myself literally did not
understand even the difference between Medicare and Medicaid.
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I promise you. And especially if you're trying
to navigate being a caregiver, you need to understand this
information and it's so practical.
So let's play this clip. This is Medicare versus Medicaid
explained in 60 seconds with a bit of history.
Both programs were created on July 30th, 1965 when President
Lyndon B Johnson and signed the Social Security Amendments into
law as part of his Great Societyinitiative.
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Medicare primarily covers those 65 and older and is divided into
3 parts. Part A covers hospital stays,
Hospice, and nursing carefree ifyou paid Medicare taxes while
working for at least 10 years. Part B covers outpatient care
and doctor visits but requires amonthly premium.
Part D helps cover prescription drug costs with varying
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premiums. Medicaid, on the other hand,
provides health coverage for individuals with limited income
and is funded by both federal and state governments.
Unlike Medicare, Medicaid eligibility varies by state, but
generally, individuals earning under $2901.00 per month may
qualify. Even those on Medicare can also
qualify for Medicaid, providing additional financial relief.
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And I want to immediately go into so we can have a
conversation about solutions to this next clip.
This is a black woman on Instagram.
Her name is Renee Boston, and she's talking about what's
happening currently today with Medicare and Medicaid.
You may not do Medicaid, but Medicaid's undoing would do you
us the United States. Let me explain.
Medicaid covers 41% of births inthe United States.
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It covers one in three childhoodscreenings.
Medicaid also covers long term care and care for those with
disabilities. And so Congress wants to slash
$700 billion from Medicaid. Those cuts would terminate.
Healthcare insurance for. 13.7 million people, as I mentioned
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before, it's a lot of women, it's a lot of children, it's a
lot of elderly people, and it's also would affect disabled
people. So you say, Rayna, I'm not one
of those people. What do you think would happen
if $700 billion just evaporated from all of healthcare operating
expenses that would impact care for every single last one of us?
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Wait times, less hospital staff also does nothing to address the
cost of healthcare. This has nothing to do with
fiscal responsibility. This is so that we can pay for
tax cuts for wealthy people and corporations.
This is reckless. This is going way too far.
It's happening too fast, and thecollateral damage in this case
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will be mothers, children and caregivers.
Medicaid is not waste. It's one of the small ways that
we care for one another in this country.
Cutting it means that women and families will be left to carry
more when we are already at the breaking point.
Morgan Now we're going to track back to yesterday's episode
workshop Wednesday. What did we learn from Yolanda
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yesterday? How to do?
I was just about to say, how does your congressman stand on
this, Vanessa, how does your congressman stand on this?
Because I'm pretty sure we got to make some calls.
I'm. Pretty sure we have to make some
calls. I promise.
I was thinking about this because tomorrow my mom turned
65 and she told me over a coupleof months ago how it was going
to really dramatically impact her own benefits.
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And she's somebody who's on Medicaid care and Medicaid.
And I was thinking, Oh my God, Iwonder what these cuts or things
would even do to her. And then how would that impact
me, right? Because when we talk about
caregiver responsibilities, and I promise you, y'all find out
now today, how does your congressperson stand on the
current fight for Medicare and Medicaid?
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I want to close out in two ways.First, I want to share a
solidarity spotlight because oneof the ways that we navigate
these systems is to move our ownselves out of poverty.
And one of the ways that we are doing that as Black women to be
entrepreneurs and y'all are entrepreneurs out there, you're
sharing your businesses and whatyou do with us.
So I have a clip from one of ourmembers and I want to
createspace for her to do a solidarity spotlight.
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So I'm going to put that in right here.
Hi Girl Trek, this is Kendrea McKnight.
I am the founder and CEO of MakeFair Homeless Christian
Publishing company. We traditionally publish books
for our writers. We also provide self-publishing
assistance as well as offer additional stand alone services
such as editing, cover design and much more.
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Have you ever thought about writing your book, leaving your
legacy, writing a memoir, cookbook or prayer journal but
you just don't know how to start?
Go to make fairhomeless.com and schedule your a free one O 1
consultation with me when you use the code.
Girl Trek, I look forward to meeting you.
That was a good solidarity spotlight.
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Make fear Homeless is such a good name, y'all.
And this is just a shout out to every other woman out there who
has a business. This is a platform and we want
to be in solidarity with as manyof our sisters and our members
as we can. So you can go to
myselfcareschool.com, access theclassroom, and you can give a
shout out to your business. And then Naira, who's combing
through and listening to all of your beautiful feedback and
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beautiful inputs, will select asmany as she can so that they can
be featured on here. So that's what Talk Back
Thursday is all about. That's what sisterhood and
solidarity is all about. And I'm so grateful for this
movement. Morgan Naira, thank you so much
for joining on this walk today. Thank you just to our community
of women out there, wherever youare walking with us, I want to
close the spirit be speaking to me, y'all.
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I hope it be speaking to you as well.
And as I was preparing for today's episode, I was startled
to Morgan by that statistics around how many black kids were
born into poverty. And I was thinking about this
episode and what that really meant.
And for some reason, I promise you, this song came into my
head. We don't have to worry about no
money to have us a real good time.
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And we don't have to leave in the morning the whole day, just
you and I and it don't have to get any better.
It's perfect. You're in my life.
If you're cool, then I'm cool, then we're cool.
Yes. We don't have to worry about no
groceries. Yes, that's what he says.
Y'all we can fill up on love alone.
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So I just want to close out withjust a snippet of Anthony
Hamilton just to just to remind us that we are rich.
And you and Naira were just harmonized, and that's number
one. You cold with that Anthony
Hamilton bass. You cold, right?
I am. I recently saw him in concert in
the DC Emancipation Parade, and he is cold.
He is such a genius and such a talent.
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So thank you, Anthony Hamilton, for just this loving song about
love and our lives. And let's just play a little bit
of snippet before we close out and we'll see you tomorrow.
Y'all for for Mother Friday? We don't have to worry about no
money to have a good time and wedon't have to leave in the
morning the whole day, just you and I.
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That's right. And if don't have to get any
better, it's perfect. You in my life.
If you're cool, then I'm cool, then we're cool.
We don't have to worry about no groceries.
We can fill up a love alone. If we ain't got enough or
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moving, we can just sit at home and chill.
Have a little rope, babe, baby, whatever turns you off.
If you're cool then I'm cool then we're cool.
If you're cool, then I'm cool, then we're cool.
My brothers in jail, the fence are gone.
We are sick and tired. Of being sick and.
Tired. The disrespected person in
America is the black woman, but still like dust.
All right. Pretty girls in the VIP.
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They came with. Drain.
They'll need ideas. The revolution will not be
televised, Brother, you are by the.
New Joe John. Even if you are not ready for
the day. It cannot.
Always be night. Welcome to self-care school
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everybody. My name is Morgan.
I am joined with Vanessa. Are you there V?
Hey there fam. Listen, it is Talkback Thursday.
I bid you just greetings for coming to day four of yourself
Care school week. It is week 7.
We are in this, We are in the final stretches.
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We begin week 8 next week. Y'all, that's almost two months
of self caring and schooling y'all and being in community
with one another. And so just pat yourself on the
back. We are going to start as we
always do, by first welcoming you.
If you are new, if this is the first episode, if you stumbled
across this episode or someone sent it to you, you are welcome.
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Here we are 1,000,000 black women strong and we are walking
to your left and to your right and we count on you.
But we also love you and hold you up.
We are girl trek. We are all around the world.
We walk to heal our bodies, to inspire our daughters and to
reclaim the streets of our neighborhoods.
You are welcome. The only, the only call to
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action there are two. One is to walk five days a week,
30 minutes a day. It is life saving.
And the second one is to be yoursister's keeper, which means on
any given week, invite just one sister to go for a walk.
You don't need no format, you don't need no training, you
don't need no blue shirt. You just need the willpower and
the courage to invite someone tostep out on faith with you and
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go for a walk. So those are the 2 calls to
action and we start this episodeas we always do, with the Front
Porch meditation. Y'all dedicated to our
foremothers? This is an opportunity to call
the names of the women who came before us, and we ordinarily
call a specific name. Today I want to do something
different, like I did with the cafeteria workers.
I was thinking about power Vanessa and I was thinking about
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the most powerful women I know had an image of, I think it was
my great grandmother. And it's just like really blurry
black and white image. And she's at the altar on her
knees tearing, and they are having like some kind of 24 hour
prayer or some kind of revival or something.
But it is a blurry picture of her praying.
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And I was just like, those are the most powerful women I know.
So I want to dedicate this to all of the church kids, the
preachers kids, the backsliders and sinners, the people who know
the black church, the people whorespect and Revere the powerful
women in the black church. So stand out on your front
porch. Find your grounding, make sure
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that your feet are placed so that you feel strong, so that
you feel balanced, so that you feel relaxed.
And we are giving honor today. This is going to be a mindful
gratitude practice for our legacy.
So make sure that you start in stillness, taking some full
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breath, shoulders relaxed, your feet flat.
And now I just want you to tap your toes with me and just tap
your toes over and over just to ground.
Just tap your toes for 30 seconds or so.
Light taps, feel the earth underyour toes.
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Find the rhythm to my words. As I say to you, give an honor
to God, to pastor and the Saints.
I thank God for the ground beneath me.
I thank God for the land my people walked on, for the dirt
that raised me from the gravity that holds me.
I am grounded in grace now. I invite you to move from those
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toe taps to some heel lifts, andyou might even roll your
shoulders as you're lifting yourheel, lifting your heels gently,
rolling your shoulders back slowly, however that looks or
feels to you at the same time. Different one at a time, just
one of them. You have choice as you are
lifting your heels or rolling your shoulders, moving your
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body. Give an honor to life and to
health and to strength. I thank God that I got up this
morning. I thank God that my body still
moves. I thank God for breath in my
lungs, for rhythm in my spine, oh for strength in my knees.
Y'all move your body in gratitude.
Take up space and let your body testify.
Now we're going to put some bounce to it.
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Almost like you got a tambourineon your hip.
Just slap your hips or your thighs, just a little bit to
your own rhythm. And as you are slapping, we are
giving honor to our sisters, to friendship, to laughter, to
survival. I thank God for those who
carried me when I could not carry myself.
I thank God for the calls and the hugs, the prayers and the
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joy that found me anyway. Let the rhythm of the clap be
your own kind of Hallelujah. Let yourself bounce and move
away. Feel the joy in your body.
And finally, I want you to raiseyour arms however it feels
comfortable to you. Maybe it's low down by your
waist with your palms facing up.Maybe it's up and goal posts.
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Maybe it's high to the air. This is you, This is your
praise, this is your power. So lift your arms slowly,
lightly. Let them be light, giving honor
to the Most High. I thank God for keeping my mind.
I thank God for purpose, for peace, for possibility.
I lift my hands because I am still here and I am just getting
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started. Hold your heart or your arms up.
Take a deep breath in and out. Let silence wrap all around you.
We end with our hands in front of our hearts in prayer
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position. Bow your head or lift your eyes
to the sky. Take one last breath.
I give honor, I give thanks. I give myself permission to be
powerful. Thank you for that gratitude
practice today. Power lies and gratitude.
Vanessa, how you doing today? Oh, that felt very good.
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It is. I'm doing really good.
I'm deeply full of gratitude. It was such a perfect way to
start this episode, especially because it's Talkback Thursday.
Morgan. Yeah.
But since we're on the porch, let's go ahead and step into the
driveway because I only have oneself-care audit question for us
today, Morgan. And then I'm going to bring
Naira in because it's Talkback Thursday and I want to share a
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praise report around what's happening in women's lives.
But before I do that, I do want to ask everyone to step into the
driveway or wherever you are on your walk.
I want us to just pause before we get into into today's 2
lessons. And I want us to do a self-care
audit because this week is week 7.
We're talking about power this week and it may not be obvious
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to people, Morgan, but today's two life skills are how to
access the benefits and resources that you're already
paying for when you might need them and how to help your family
members navigate the system so that they can access those
resources. And they're embedded in this
week about power because the power to know how to ask for
help, the power to get the resources that you need when you
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need them. The power to put food on your
table every day or keep the lights on when you don't even
have anything. It's almost back to I loved how
you started with dedication of the praying women, Morgan,
because I know your Mama and my grandma and so many women we
know, they prayed those lights on.
They didn't have the money. They were just like, so like
there's like in the stand in thegap with me, God.
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And so today I really wanted to give people some just practical
resources that like when you're praying, just stand in the gap
with me. God like help me get this
childcare, help me get this food, help me get this whatever
that there are real resources out there that we have paid for,
that we have a right to and thatwe have so much shame and stigma
around accessing. I only have wherever you all
y'all, I have oneself care auditquestion for all of us.
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And you either are going to takeone big step forward or you're
going to take a humble step back.
But the question is this, when Isay Section 8, when I say snap,
when I say the projects, if you have any inkling of shame, I
want you to take step, take a step back.
And if you have any understanding or any person in
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your life who have needed those benefits, I want you to take a
step forward. It's the only audit question
that matters today. Because if we do anything on
this episode, I want to debunk the judgment and the stigma
around people living in Section 8.
Many of my family members livingin the projects, many of my
family members living on welfare.
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I can remember Morgan, that I had great and deep shame as a
child growing up because I was award of the state.
I was on welfare. I was getting like Medicaid
benefits, everything. I had what everybody called
welfare glasses, which I thoughtwere really fire, but everybody
was like you got those welfare glasses on and it.
I had such deep shame around it and I had such deep stigma and I
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can remember. That's the day was pink.
I had them too. I had them too.
And here's what's crazy, we bothgot them now, so.
That's right. And they look good.
We were just ahead of our time. That's exactly right.
That's exactly right. And this topic I know is going
to be relevant to so many of ourmembers because one in four
black women are living below thepoverty line.
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And I know many of them are girltrick members who are like,
never mind that though. I'm out here every day walking
for my life. And of those, one in four black
women, one in three who qualify for public assistance don't even
apply. And it's most often because they
either don't have the information or because of
exactly what we are talking about, the stigma.
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And so I've. Never heard that statistic ever,
ever, ever that one in three black women who qualify for
public assistance don't apply. That's right.
And that matters because of course the history and the
concept of welfare in this country and everything that
we've ever thought about it has implied that somehow black
people are burdening the system.But in fact, the statistics show
that I think it's for 38% of thepeople who are on government
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assistance across the country are white people, compared to
26% of the people across the country who are on government
assistance who are black people.So it actually it's just been
propaganda in many ways, of course, in all the ways that we
know why that has LED us here. And we're going to talk about a
little in a little bit later, Morgan, how that relates to the
current fight with Medicare and Medicaid, what's going on today,
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right now and the government, who's going to be impacted and
what we can do about it. And so I want to bring on Naira,
next Gen. Naira, who's out there keeping
her ear to the streets on this talk back Thursday.
Are you there Naira? Yes, I am.
It's just so amazing to know that the women, more women want
to do these things of substance,but we just have to equip them
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with what they need. And the knowledge and knowledge
is really power. And so I'm glad that the
knowledge that we're sharing on this platform is empowering the
women, but not only for these women that are in the process of
doing these things, but for the next generation that is to come
because it is a Evergreen podcast.
And so I'm excited that this will be a guide or a tool to
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life to some of the most substantial things that we can
experience in our lifetime. And so that, and so first, I
want to start with a praise report for one of our women
doing and experiencing some of the exact things we're talking
about. Today is so special to me
because as we finish our week oftracking for homes, housing
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acts, fair housing acts and justthe ability for our black
sisters to own a home, I am proud to say that I received my
pre approval for my home on today at exactly 230 PMI am
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approved. I am happy, I am grateful, I am
blessed to be a part of this organization, this movement,
this girl track. I love this, I love it, I love
it. It's all in my spirit, my soul.
I walk, I trek, I jog, I run. I do it for myself, my family,
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my legacy, my grandchildren. You have inspired me to be
great, to own a home, to have land, to leave a legacy, to pay,
to pay it forward and I'm just so grateful and I just want to
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say thank you. Morgan for me to hear that woman
say her pre approval came in today and to think that the
first thing she did was get on the line to let us know.
The I was just thinking that I was like, what an intimate.
I conversed into tears to girl. I was just like the the thought
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that you would, you know, like we used to say back and they
pick up the phone to call me in this moment, like the fact that
she would go to our website or to go to
myselfmyselfcareschool.com and push that button and leave.
What is a really intimate detailof her life that hurt that her
dream is coming true is really beautiful.
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It's just really beautiful. I'm really happy to be in that,
in this space, to be able to to hear that and witness that with
her. I am too.
I am too. I'm so grateful y'all myself.
careschool.com you can access the classroom, you can scroll to
the bottom, you can share questions, you can share ideas,
you can share praise reports. This is a global conversation of
black women around the world. Naira, thank you so much for
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sharing all of the women's voices from Talkback Thursday.
Ladies, I hope you continue to sound off out there.
I want to get into these two lessons so that we can get our
folks equipped and prepared. So all your Are you ready so
that we can talk about two really important things, which
is how women in this community can access the benefits and
resources. And I want to emphasize that you
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already pay for y'all through your taxes.
You are already, even if you haven't paid taxes, you are
entitled to so many things as a citizen in this country.
And we're going to talk about that.
And then we're going to talk about how you can help your
family members navigate the system.
All right, I want to get into itreally quickly for people who
are struggling with housing right now.
And I want to talk about Section8 because I swear to God,
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Section 8 is one of the most talked about, but also like I
think unclear programs that are out there and there are a lot of
people who could genuinely benefit from the program.
It's called the housing choice voucher program.
Now it's a federal program that helps low income families,
seniors, and people with disabilities afford safe housing
on the private market. You pay about 30% of your income
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and your voucher covers the rest, and you can apply through
your local public Housing Authority.
And this is shocking to me in terms of statistics, Morgan,
because over 2.2 million households right now are
receiving vouchers yet, and thisis goes back to those
statistics, only one in four eligible families are even
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applying to get it. And so I know there's a lot of
challenges out there around the list being long.
There's a lot of challenges there out there around once you
get the voucher, there's actually discrimination around
if you get it. But this is where I want people
to feel empowered that your local Housing Authority is
really a resource if you are struggling with insecurity and
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housing. And starting there with what
vouchers that you can actually access is important.
A single mother of two, which bythe way, there's like 30% of
black women who qualify under this Morgan making less than
$28,000 a year qualify in most cities for Section 8.
So I just want people to start there right away as a resource
for themselves in terms of housing.
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And then the next resource that I actually have for Morgan, I
think is going to Morgan for people is going to help so many
people. It's utility relief.
If you make $43,000 year, $43,000 a year or less, and a
lot of seniors are in this specific situation or a lot of
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people who are on disability arein this particular situation.
You can qualify for utility assistance.
You just have to, first of all, everybody's phone has 211, which
I had no idea about. But if you hit 211 on your
phone, it will actually connect you to all of the local social
services in your neighborhood oryour community.
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Just hit 211. What?
Yes, Morgan, I know. I swear to God, I was just like,
we're saving lives. We're the episode.
Can stop right there 21121 Excellent.
Yes, and they have something called LIH.
Tell my Mama. Yes, thank you.
And she can find out about utility relief on there.
So there's a lot of people who just are just struggling and
they don't even understand what they're struggling with.
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And then the last thing I want to talk about is two things.
One, caregiver support. There are 211 actually has a lot
of resources out there for people who are looking for
caregiver support. So I'm talking about cash,
stipends, respite care, legal help.
You can really talk about go to 211 and look for services and
get connected to people who could help you there and then.
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We can't not. Can I just pause right there and
just say the that often times we're caretakers and don't know
we're caretakers. And so I just want you to be
encouraged that if you are taking care of your mother, even
if you're not living there, calland see what benefits you can
get for, you know, for helping to because we think it's second,
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it is second nature in our community.
It is natural in our community. And what we are experiencing in
America is not natural. And so in order to remediate, in
order to restore, we sometimes need to get the support we need
to get out of the mind that we've been put in so.
And I want to give people some really practical resources for
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how you can help a family membernavigate the actual systems.
That's our number 2 skill today.But I'm going to actually pop to
it right now because this is such a smart and practical list.
And then I'm going to come back and we're going to close out
talking about Medicare and Medicaid.
But if you are one of those people, Morgan, who maybe don't
even know you are a caregiver, but you're in you're a circle of
support for somebody, right? 1 And I have navigated this so
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many times because my family hasexperienced a lot of like health
issues. And then we've had a lot of
people who needed a lot of care.And I have been a caregiver for
a lot of people in my life. And one of the biggest
challenges, Morgan, when people are trying to help their family
members, whether it's help them access food or housing or
childcare or medicines or any ofthe things, is that they do not
have all of the actual documentsor information that they would
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actually need in one place to actually help a person.
So I have a 5 point checklist for people.
Every single person who is a caregiver needs to create what
is called a Thrive folder. You can create it as a paper
folder or you can create it as adigital folder.
But I want you to have a folder that has all of the documents
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that you would need so that you could help a person to ask
whoever you're caretaking for toadvocate.
So in that file, Morgan, people should have a copy of the
person's photo ID, their state ID, or their driver's size.
And you need a copy of the person's actual ID, who you're
taking care of, their Social Security card or number.
You need to have a copy of that and have the number accessible
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to you, their pay stubs or recent income letter.
And if they're on disability or any sort of assistance, you need
to have documentation of what that actually is a utility bill
or lease or proof of address to show where they're actually
living this in their actual name.
This is one of the things that really trips people up because
if you have somebody living in your household, but then they
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don't have any utility bills or things under their name, then
sometimes, Morgan, they could actually get cut off from
services. And I was actually going to play
this old clip from Claudine. Hello.
Mrs. Price. Hi, how you been?
Oh, Bran living like a queen. Have you been working?
Because if you have I really have to know.
Otherwise you get into. Trouble, I ain't been working.
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Surprise, you know I'm your friend, but you have to be
honest with me. I.
Ain't been working. I understand the man's been
visiting you regularly this past.
You are not supposed to spy on us.
Spy on you, Missus Price. The thing is, missus price, if
something comes out later and I don't know about it, you'll be
in all kinds of troubles. So if you've been seeing this
man. What is this?
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Am I not supposed to see a man? What am IA?
Damn nun. No, but if you've been sleeping
with a man and he's been giving you things, I'm sorry, but I
have to know. Do you sleep with a man?
Now that's none of your business.
None of your business either you're.
Wrong missus Price. It is our business.
This man may be bringing things into your home which you may not
be deducting. Now you know I have to deduct
you on those things. What things?
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What things means damn it. You have a man come over for
dinner, he brings you a bottle of wine.
I have a man come over for dinner, he brings me a damn 6
pack. Oh, there are two left.
Miss Kabak, would you like a beer?
I'm sorry, missus Price. I'm sorry too.
I figured it out. It comes to about $1.35.
If he brings my kids some soda that's about $0.80.
Now with quick figuring that comes to about $2.15.
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Miss Kabak. That's plus tax.
Tell me that's only gives you $2.15.
How much do you get? One of the things I remember
about that movie is that the girl, the Section 8 people came
to inspect their house and the girl had to hide her boyfriend
who was really living there, right?
So we are navigating all sorts of complicated issues, but you
want to make sure that the person in your household has
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what they need and then their insurance or their Medicaid
card. So a simple Thrive folder with
all of those basic details and documents will be the thing that
is most helpful to you as you are trying to then go back to
skill number one and access those services not just for
yourself, but for other folks. So I hope it's helpful for
people. And then we have to talk quickly
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about Medicare and Medicaid, Morgan, because it is one of the
biggest kind of things, entities, programs that is
impacting black folks. And it is under attack right now
in a specific way. And I just want to play two
really short clips because I myself literally did not
understand even the difference between Medicare and Medicaid.
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I promise you. And especially if you're trying
to navigate being a caregiver, you need to understand this
information and it's so practical.
So let's play this clip. This is Medicare versus Medicaid
explained in 60 seconds with a bit of history.
Both programs were created on July 30th, 1965 when President
Lyndon B Johnson and signed the Social Security Amendments into
law as part of his Great Societyinitiative.
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Medicare primarily covers those 65 and older and is divided into
3 parts. Part A covers hospital stays,
Hospice, and nursing carefree ifyou paid Medicare taxes while
working for at least 10 years. Part B covers outpatient care
and doctor visits but requires amonthly premium.
Part D helps cover prescription drug costs with varying
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premiums. Medicaid, on the other hand,
provides health coverage for individuals with limited income
and is funded by both federal and state governments.
Unlike Medicare, Medicaid eligibility varies by state, but
generally, individuals earning under $2901.00 per month may
qualify. Even those on Medicare can also
qualify for Medicaid, providing additional financial relief.
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And I want to immediately go into so we can have a
conversation about solutions to this next clip.
This is a black woman on Instagram.
Her name is Renee Boston, and she's talking about what's
happening currently today with Medicare and Medicaid.
You may not do Medicaid, but Medicaid's undoing would do you
us the United States. Let me explain.
Medicaid covers 41% of births inthe United States.
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It covers one in three childhoodscreenings.
Medicaid also covers long term care and care for those with
disabilities. And so Congress wants to slash
$700 billion from Medicaid. Those cuts would terminate.
Healthcare insurance for. 13.7 million people, as I mentioned
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before, it's a lot of women, it's a lot of children, it's a
lot of elderly people, and it's also would affect disabled
people. So you say, Rayna, I'm not one
of those people. What do you think would happen
if $700 billion just evaporated from all of healthcare operating
expenses that would impact care for every single last one of us?
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Wait times, less hospital staff also does nothing to address the
cost of healthcare. This has nothing to do with
fiscal responsibility. This is so that we can pay for
tax cuts for wealthy people and corporations.
This is reckless. This is going way too far.
It's happening too fast, and thecollateral damage in this case
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will be mothers, children and caregivers.
Medicaid is not waste. It's one of the small ways that
we care for one another in this country.
Cutting it means that women and families will be left to carry
more when we are already at the breaking point.
Morgan Now we're going to track back to yesterday's episode
workshop Wednesday. What did we learn from Yolanda
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yesterday? How to do?
I was just about to say, how does your congressman stand on
this, Vanessa, how does your congressman stand on this?
Because I'm pretty sure we got to make some calls.
I'm. Pretty sure we have to make some
calls. I promise.
I was thinking about this because tomorrow my mom turned
65 and she told me over a coupleof months ago how it was going
to really dramatically impact her own benefits.
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And she's somebody who's on Medicaid care and Medicaid.
And I was thinking, Oh my God, Iwonder what these cuts or things
would even do to her. And then how would that impact
me, right? Because when we talk about
caregiver responsibilities, and I promise you, y'all find out
now today, how does your congressperson stand on the
current fight for Medicare and Medicaid?
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I want to close out in two ways.First, I want to share a
solidarity spotlight because oneof the ways that we navigate
these systems is to move our ownselves out of poverty.
And one of the ways that we are doing that as Black women to be
entrepreneurs and y'all are entrepreneurs out there, you're
sharing your businesses and whatyou do with us.
So I have a clip from one of ourmembers and I want to
createspace for her to do a solidarity spotlight.
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So I'm going to put that in right here.
Hi Girl Trek, this is Kendrea McKnight.
I am the founder and CEO of MakeFair Homeless Christian
Publishing company. We traditionally publish books
for our writers. We also provide self-publishing
assistance as well as offer additional stand alone services
such as editing, cover design and much more.
(28:07):
Have you ever thought about writing your book, leaving your
legacy, writing a memoir, cookbook or prayer journal but
you just don't know how to start?
Go to make fairhomeless.com and schedule your a free one O 1
consultation with me when you use the code.
Girl Trek, I look forward to meeting you.
That was a good solidarity spotlight.
(28:29):
Make fear Homeless is such a good name, y'all.
And this is just a shout out to every other woman out there who
has a business. This is a platform and we want
to be in solidarity with as manyof our sisters and our members
as we can. So you can go to
myselfcareschool.com, access theclassroom, and you can give a
shout out to your business. And then Naira, who's combing
through and listening to all of your beautiful feedback and
(28:51):
beautiful inputs, will select asmany as she can so that they can
be featured on here. So that's what Talk Back
Thursday is all about. That's what sisterhood and
solidarity is all about. And I'm so grateful for this
movement. Morgan Naira, thank you so much
for joining on this walk today. Thank you just to our community
of women out there, wherever youare walking with us, I want to
close the spirit be speaking to me, y'all.
(29:13):
I hope it be speaking to you as well.
And as I was preparing for today's episode, I was startled
to Morgan by that statistics around how many black kids were
born into poverty. And I was thinking about this
episode and what that really meant.
And for some reason, I promise you, this song came into my
head. We don't have to worry about no
money to have us a real good time.
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And we don't have to leave in the morning the whole day, just
you and I and it don't have to get any better.
It's perfect. You're in my life.
If you're cool, then I'm cool, then we're cool.
Yes. We don't have to worry about no
groceries. Yes, that's what he says.
Y'all we can fill up on love alone.
(29:57):
So I just want to close out withjust a snippet of Anthony
Hamilton just to just to remind us that we are rich.
And you and Naira were just harmonized, and that's number
one. You cold with that Anthony
Hamilton bass. You cold, right?
I am. I recently saw him in concert in
the DC Emancipation Parade, and he is cold.
He is such a genius and such a talent.
(30:18):
So thank you, Anthony Hamilton, for just this loving song about
love and our lives. And let's just play a little bit
of snippet before we close out and we'll see you tomorrow.
Y'all for for Mother Friday? We don't have to worry about no
money to have a good time and wedon't have to leave in the
morning the whole day, just you and I.
(30:40):
That's right. And if don't have to get any
better, it's perfect. You in my life.
If you're cool, then I'm cool, then we're cool.
We don't have to worry about no groceries.
We can fill up a love alone. If we ain't got enough or
(31:01):
moving, we can just sit at home and chill.
Have a little rope, babe, baby, whatever turns you off.
If you're cool then I'm cool then we're cool.
If you're cool, then I'm cool, then we're cool.
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