July 30, 2025 • 34 mins
Today, we sit down with Gregory S. Works 💪🏾✨—author of Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition, and Transformation. A two-time kidney transplant recipient, Gregory doesn’t just speak about survival—he lives and breathes victory 🧠❤️. Through powerful storytelling, bold faith, and honest humor, he invites readers to rise above chronic illness and setbacks with resilience and belief. This isn’t just a health conversation—it’s a masterclass in mastering your mindset. Get ready for an unforgettable testimony of strength, love, and legacy 🕊️📘🔥.
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sometimes life hits so hard it feels like you'll never
get up again. But what if the victory isn't in
avoiding the pain, but in rising through it with grit, grace,
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and with God. Today's guest is living proof that getting
knocked down doesn't define you.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
The get up does through organ.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Transplants, transitions, and personal transformation. He's showsen faith over fear
and purpose over pity. You're not just here for a
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for your mind, body, and spirit. My name is Coach Deani,
and change is possible.
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Our interviews are designed to go behind the scenes into
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ones that are out there giving it.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
They're all, for me, for you, and for the world.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Well, ladies and gentlemen, today's guest is the definition of resilience.
A two time kidney transplant recipient, motivational.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Speaker, and now author, Gregory s.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Works penned triumphed not just to tell his story, but
to help others rewrite theirs. His journey through trials, transitions,
and transformation is proof that with faith, fight, and a
little humor, you can outcome or come out on the
other side stronger. His voice renews hope and his words
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at night purpose. So please join me and saying welcome
friend to Gregory s.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Works. Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Hey Danny, how you doing today?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I'm pretty good, Gregory, how are you?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I'm doing just by doing, just by, all.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Right, all right. That is lovely to hear man.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
So we are excited that you were here with us
tonight and just want to kick things off before we
just really dive into everything.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
We want to know what's been.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
On your heart and mind lately as you continue living
out this mission to help others triumph over their trials.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
You know, my goal has been to try to share
with others what I went through most importantly, as people
are going through health journeys, a lot of people do
not have people to walk with them, people to talk
with them. They don't have anything to read to share
with them what they're about to go through or how
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to actually approach. And when I wrote this book, that
was the reason why, because I saw needs that were unmet.
I also wanted to be all their help others. And
I just felt that based on my experience, and I
made you challenge that I experienced when I was in
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the hospital. The guy was sharing with me that you
need to get out here and tell your story. Your
story is not for you, but this story is bigger
than you, and you need to share that with the people.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
And that's what's been on my heart.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah, I was just going to ask you, did you
have that same experience where you you were walking this
journey alone or experience and everything that you went through
by yourself without any companionship, anybody to coach you through
it or walk you through it, or what's what's it like,
anything to read, anything to listen to. Were you one
of those ones that were isolated in your journey.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I wasn't isolated.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
I didn't have anything to read as in here's the
experience what it is but to see.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
But what I did have is my mother had walked
through this journey.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
I also had a real good friend of mine had
also walked through that journey, so I had people that
I could bounce things off of. Though they actually both
got their transplants in different ways and forums and fashions
and they were in different ages. Just developed and sit
down and talk to them and see the resilience in
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terms of how they approached it.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
In my family.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
In my family, I'm the third generation to be diagnosed
with the kidney disease called polycis, the kidney disease that
originated initially with my maternal grandmother's side. My maternal grandmother
had kidney disease, My mother had it, and then she
passed it on to myself as well as my siblings.
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So I had some history, but no one had gotten
a transplant at the same age that I had gotten.
And then I had a good friend had got his
his first one when he was twenty five years old.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
So just sitting back and having to chance to sit.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Down, talk to him, talk to them about how to
process was very beneficial for me.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
But everybody doesn't have it like that.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Yeah, absolutely, When someone told you that your story is
not just for you, that it's bigger than you, and
that you should share it, what were your initial thoughts
about that.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Well, that's someone that I saw really got more so
than anyone, any one person. And this is when I
was when I had my second kidney transplant. When I
was going through that process, when I had my first one,
you wouldn't have really really been able to tell that
anything was different. You know, it was preemptive. We were
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able to get and I didn't have to go on dialysis,
and we moved forward relatively quickly. And that was the
plan that my doctor had as soon as I received
the donor.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
She wanted to move forward me.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
The second go round, I lost about forty pounds. Every
single symptom that you could think of, I actually had
an experience, and I knew it from you know, low
urine output, to frequency of pretty frequently having to go
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urine A, to being fatigued all the time I had
I used to deal with gout, which was which I
really struggled with, And there were just so many different
things and that it was very apparent by other people
that they saw me, they and I was sick and
something was wrong. So as I was going through this,
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I always believed that God would heal me. I didn't
know how quickly, how he would go about doing it,
but I believe after going through that, and when you
have friends that are looking at you like, we.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Don't know if you're going to be here in the
next six months, I.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Thought it was pretty critical or important did I write this?
Because this was less about me and more about the
process and more about sharing with others what God had
in store.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
For me and what he could do for somebody else.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Man, a man, you said that it's not about the
knockdown but.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
The get up. Do you remember your lowest point in
this journey?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
I would say, I asked you the first one.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Both both of these points came between my first second
kidney transplants.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I was pretty much healed.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
You know when I say healed, I was doing well
that I had my first transplant, and I was a
couple number of years into this.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
I received the phone call.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
I can tell you that that exact daytime and all
was in jail Worry of twenty thirteen, and my father
called me to tell me that my mother, who was
also on dialas had just gone to dialysis, and that
her heart had stopped beating.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
What do you do? How do you respond?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
And I'm sitting there at my office in my home office,
doing work, and then I hesitated. About five minutes later,
I called him back and said, I'm on my way.
I didn't barely get onto the highway, and I got
the phone call from my father saying that my.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Mom passed, and it just sunk.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
And for me, the thing that was so difficult about
that is the fact that I know what happened when
she went into dialysis.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
They took too much fluid off of her body.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
As a result, it'll it'll drop your your blood pressure,
and she's do it up, and she collapsed and she
was no.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Longer with us.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
But that piece right there hit me hard. And the
second one was my my wife and my kids and
I were on vacation. My actual wife was doing the
working vacation. She was actually working, and she was she
was with some customers and my daughters and I had
gone to breakfast, and my daughters were six and seven
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years old, and I was walking back after having placed
back to the table, after to having make sure that
they were okay. And I fainted and I was just
out probably for a couple of minutes. But they expressed
them on their faces, the thought that their father was gone,
they'd never see him again. That right there was probably
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my lowest point because it was just so frightening because
they didn't know what was going to happen to me
and what was going to happen.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
But I was the high.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
But I would say those two are my well, probably
my two lowest points, uh, because I thought I was
scaring death, you know, right in the face.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I had a similar experience with dialysis with my my grandmother.
Uh he survived the stroke and a treatney kidney transplant,
and that she was on dialysis and the person who
was changing you know the uh the needles, I guess
used the dirty needle or didn't sanitize it enough and
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that's how she passed. And it was it was it
was so instant that you know, none of us got
a chance to say goodbye.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
No, And that's that's the hard thing about this, when
it happened so quickly.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
I just spoken to my mother on a Saturday night.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
I knew I wouldn't talk to her on Sunday, just
based on what transpiring, right and on Monday morning, you know,
to get a phone call before noon since your father's
saying that your mother, mother was gone, and just like
you said, never had the opportunity to say goodbye, never
even thought that she would never even crossed my mind
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that she wouldn't be here any longer, you know. But
it's just you got to continue moving forward. And that's
what I've tried to do.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
So I know there's a lot of listeners that we
have that probably experience this, or you.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Know, aren't.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I don't want to say about the experience, but you
know they're they're walking their journeys. And you and I
both know in those moments when someone passed, so suddenly
all the wood ifs come up, like.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I should have did this, I should have did that.
How do you deal with that?
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Good question, just just the way I've dealt with in
the past. It's just I can't really look back. It's
hard to look back and see what you couldn't have done,
because that's that's just like being the Monday morning, you know,
Monday morning quarterback. I just try to go het him,
move forward and do the best I possibly can, recognizing
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if you lose a loved one that you the belief
is that you were there for them as much as
you possibly could have been. But not trying to sit
back and kick yourself in the behind with the thought
process if you weren't there, what if I did? Is
what if I did that? And trying to play it
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all back. But I try not to do that. And
I know as I sit back and I look at
what transpired with my father when my mother passed, you know,
his thought process was he wasn't there when she collapsed.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
You know, he was there to.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Pick her up, and he came and he saw her
surround it, so the pain that he felt. But for me,
it was sitting out talking to him, sharing with him.
Heat done all he could possibly do. And and that's
the way I try to look at this. And you've
done all that you possibly can do, and there's there's
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there's nothing you can do to bring it back on
the situation back or play it back. So let's let's
try to try to go ahead and celebrate what we
can and then move forward.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yeah, when you're facing set back moments and the lowest points,
how do you start to gain yourself or how do
you start fighting back so that you don't lose yourself.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
The first thing I looked at is just trying to.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Sit back and talk to guy and.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
And and the focus is never on why me, but
trying to understand and learn what's transpiring.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Second of all, given all that he's done for me,
I know that he can do it again, and we'll
do it again, and that begins to help me get
at ease. This is the way I battled and you
know my health challenges, but this is the way I
try to live my life.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
You know, it.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Happens the same way when you're in business, when when
things are tight.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Are rough, and you don't know how you're going to
get how you're going to be able to get through this.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
I try to lean on my foundation, which is Christ
to help me get through these things. And I recognize
that if it doesn't happen the way I anticipated, then
you guys got something better for me. So I try
to look at it from from that Spanish point. It's
but it's difficult. It's very difficult when you're in.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
The moment, so.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Mentioning God.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I'm a firm believer of God and also a firm
believer of the trials that we go through as a
person that's supposed to change us or that we're supposed
to learn from the experience. That being said, there are
there are a lot of people who say, how can
there be a good God who allows bad things to
happen to good people?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And I believe that you are a good person. How
did you what helped you stay spiritually anchored through all
this hurt and pain?
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Well, as I was going through the transplant and.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Losing, you know, losing different people.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
First, I mean, I had a prayer party guy that
I actually pray with a couple of times a week,
and we share so much in terms of the things
that are actually going on with I like, but I
had somebody that could lean on uh to help me
through this process, and that probably is the biggest thing
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that's really helped me along the way, because, like you said,
I mean, people sit back and say, well, why would
gods allow these things to happen to you? While looking
at it from a different vantas point, it's like, well
why not me? You know, it could have been somebody else,
but for some reason, he chose me to go through
this journey, and.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Somebody else may not have been able to go through
that journey.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
They may not have been patient enough or just from
the standpoint of what you know, you need to change
your diet or you need to do these things. And
if you're drink you had to stop drinking. If you smoke,
you have to stop smoking. You know, you had to
do different things. And I've seen people that have decided
that they weren't going to do that, and they're no
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longer with us. But I just recognized it's important that
I focus what I.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Can control.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
In believing that I got enough history with God that
He will take care of me one way or the other.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Absolutely. Absolutely, You wrote the Triumph for your daughters.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
What do you hope they always remember from your journey?
Speaker 6 (19:22):
I hope the girls recognize that no matter what obstacles
or hurdle they can face they face, they have the
ability to call on God to help them through this.
I hope that upon them reading this, because they've heard
the story, they've listened to me sit down and speak
and talk to others, is they will recognize and see
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that when things get tough, it's not.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Time for us to run or hide, but it's time
for us.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
To get on our hands and knees. I look at
it from the standpoint of my daughters are in theater,
they dance, and I have one runs track.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
As you know, you're not gonna win every meet.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
You're not you're not gonna win every race, and you're
not going to get every lead.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
That you know that you try out for.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
But it's important that they go in there and they
do their best and approach it from that perspective. I
like to look at this from the standpoint when I'm
looking at them is they've seen some of the trials
and tribulations that their father has gone through and recognize
that life isn't always easy, but that you too can
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get through and they've seen it firsthand, you know. I
know when I had my second kidney transplant, my children
did not see me in the morning before they would
go to school because I was on dialysis and I
was doing peritoneal which would be at night, and then
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I would still be on it by the time they
would go to school. And my daughter was eight years old,
the oldest was eight, and she played back when I
was going.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
To get that second transplant because she saw me up.
I had my bag bag.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
I had, believe it or not, I had the Dillasis
stuff with me and she said, Daddy, did they get
you a kidney? And I said yes, and she just
smiled with her recognizing and understandingstanding what we had been
going through the past six months trying to make this happen.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
So these are the type of things that I want
to leave with them so that they know too.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
That when they're in the midst of a challenge, they
can overcome.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Absolutely. That's fatherhood change.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
How you see for scrubble, it happens, it happens. I
think that they've they've.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Actually seen things much earlier than I saw things. And
by that I never saw my father in the midst
of any major health challenge until I was in college.
And they've seen this from day one and before. When
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I wrote, you know, when I wrote the when I
had my first kidney transplant, my oldest daughter was my
first daughter was two months old. Mind you, she didn't
not that she understood what was going on, because she
didn't understand anything.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
But for her for.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Them to be able to see this, I think firsthand
is is important. And it's important for me because at
that time someone asked me questions a couple of days
before it's gonna have a transplant. Was I scared? And
I said no, why would I be scared? I said,
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if God waited to this point in time for me
to have a child, I think I'm gonna be here
long enough to build a raisin and I'm gonna make
sure that I raised him.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
The way He's called me to raise him.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
So that's what I'm trying to do with my wife.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Absolutely, I love it.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
What conversations do you want your book to spark in
other people's lives?
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I think first is that I want them to be
able to recognize and understand.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
That they can do anything.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
They just need to put together a game plan in
terms of how they approach it. You know, I look
at takeaways from the book. I started to say, hey, look,
don't let though, don't let the moment overwhelm you, which
I think is very key. Every day we come against
trials and tribulations. But it's not.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
It's not not. The question doesn't come down to why me?
Speaker 6 (24:13):
But how how am I going to make this thing happen?
How am I going to move forward? How am I
going to make a difference and make things happen? Don't
let a permanent uh, you know, don't let a temporary
situation end up turning into a permanent problem. The second
thing I'd like to say is I want them to
look at any life challenge and be it health, be
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a job, be a marriage. You need to develop a
plan and they need to address the plan. I approached
this just like it was a job, just like I
was sitting down trying to chase after a multimillion dollar
deal at work. But the difference in this time is
I was trying to chase after getting a kidney with
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from me with life, I said. The third thing that
I would say is, hey, look, this thing is time sensitive.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
You've got to move In business, it's.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
About money, but it's about really life or death. You know,
if you don't move quick, you may place yourself in
the situation that you don't want to because what happens
is other organs begin to start failing. The last two
things I would say is I look at God as
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being the foundation. I think that there's no way that
I would have been able to go through what I
went through as I went through it with being able
to lean on Christ. The fact of the matter is
I don't necessarily know if everybody needs to have a
prayer partner. But I think that that's something that's good,
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and that's something that we do with my church. But
for me, it's about having Christ is the foundation. And
the last thing that I would like to this thing
to leave is as someone is reading the book, for
them to take a look at those testimonials that the
donors wrote. Getting a donor was not necessarily bosh and
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I experienced challenges in the midst of all of this.
The first one, a good friend, was the one that donated,
and he did not hesitate, but I had to get
through it, go through a few people to get to him.
And the second one, believing it not was a stranger
to me but not to one of my sisters, and
that came from right out of the blue. And the
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person that actually ended up donating was a young man
that actually was not going to make it, but he
happened to be uh, he happened to be one.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
He was on the donor list.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
He would he would give his organs in the event
that he passed away, and I so happened to be
four enough to get his organs.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
But that one person supplied organs.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
For about four or five different people to multiple kidney transplants, lever.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
And a number of other things.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
But I just think it's important that these are takeaways
that I would get as a relationships.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Indeed, indeed, indeed, all right, were there any chapters that
were difficult to write emotionally?
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Whom you're really getting into this, I'm gonna have to
take a quick look.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
I think.
Speaker 8 (27:51):
If I sit back and look, what was the chapter
that may have been more difficult to write.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Would be Life Forever, Change, Secret eleven.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
And this right here, I'm really sitting back and talking
about how to how this has impacted me, you know,
how I've accepted the things that have happened, looking at
the different things that took place, adjusting the dialysis, What
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does life look like after this dialysis?
Speaker 5 (28:31):
I think that that was that.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
Was pretty difficult, because as actual the fact, I never
imagine going through what I went through, and then the
thing it's the things that I would write a book on.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
In and trying to and trying to make that happen.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
But I would say that probably was was a bit
challenging set to say the least.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
There's another chapter in the book where.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Where I really sit down and talk about uh, I
talk about transformation and I started out by putting this
is chapter nine, and I talked. I started to start
that out by looking at the different things that were
important in my life that took place between me getting
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my first transplant and getting my second one.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
And it all started.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Out with my daughter being born, you know, two months
prior to my first transplant, and ending with me getting
my second transplant. So, you know, when I sit back
and I look at all of these different things, like, wow,
you know, you.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Really went through a journey.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
And when you you know, you you put it in
chronological order, uh, you begin to see the realization that, Tay, look,
this thing was.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Uh, it surely was in the sprint.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
I won't say a marathon, but it was definitely a journey.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Where can our listeners connect with you on the internet
and pick up a copy of Triumph?
Speaker 6 (30:13):
A couple of places they can connect with me on
the internet. I've got I've got a I've got a site.
It's ww dot Triumph Withgreg dot com. I'm also on
Facebook as well as they can purchase online via Amazon
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or barzano.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
A.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Listeners.
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Just in case you need those links, I will have
them in the description of this episode and in the
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You guys have to do is just click those links.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Gregory as Works just gave us a masterclass and rising
and rising through pain, through.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Procedure, and through purpose.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
His story is one of the divine determination, powerful decisions,
and a heart that beats for more than survival.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
It beats for significance.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, today's guest is the definition of resilience.
A two time kidney transplant recipient, motivational.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Speaker, and now author, Gregory s.
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friend to Gregory s.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Works. Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Hey Danny, how you doing today?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I'm pretty good, Gregory, how are you?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I'm doing just by doing, just by, all.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Right, all right. That is lovely to hear man.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
So we are excited that you were here with us
tonight and just want to kick things off before we
just really dive into everything.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
We want to know what's been.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
On your heart and mind lately as you continue living
out this mission to help others triumph over their trials.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
You know, my goal has been to try to share
with others what I went through most importantly, as people
are going through health journeys, a lot of people do
not have people to walk with them, people to talk
with them. They don't have anything to read to share
with them what they're about to go through or how
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to actually approach. And when I wrote this book, that
was the reason why, because I saw needs that were unmet.
I also wanted to be all their help others. And
I just felt that based on my experience, and I
made you challenge that I experienced when I was in
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the hospital. The guy was sharing with me that you
need to get out here and tell your story. Your
story is not for you, but this story is bigger
than you, and you need to share that with the people.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
And that's what's been on my heart.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah, I was just going to ask you, did you
have that same experience where you you were walking this
journey alone or experience and everything that you went through
by yourself without any companionship, anybody to coach you through
it or walk you through it, or what's what's it like,
anything to read, anything to listen to. Were you one
of those ones that were isolated in your journey.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I wasn't isolated.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
I didn't have anything to read as in here's the
experience what it is but to see.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
But what I did have is my mother had walked
through this journey.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
I also had a real good friend of mine had
also walked through that journey, so I had people that
I could bounce things off of. Though they actually both
got their transplants in different ways and forums and fashions
and they were in different ages. Just developed and sit
down and talk to them and see the resilience in
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terms of how they approached it.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
In my family.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
In my family, I'm the third generation to be diagnosed
with the kidney disease called polycis, the kidney disease that
originated initially with my maternal grandmother's side. My maternal grandmother
had kidney disease, My mother had it, and then she
passed it on to myself as well as my siblings.
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So I had some history, but no one had gotten
a transplant at the same age that I had gotten.
And then I had a good friend had got his
his first one when he was twenty five years old.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
So just sitting back and having to chance to sit.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Down, talk to him, talk to them about how to
process was very beneficial for me.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
But everybody doesn't have it like that.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Yeah, absolutely, When someone told you that your story is
not just for you, that it's bigger than you, and
that you should share it, what were your initial thoughts
about that.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Well, that's someone that I saw really got more so
than anyone, any one person. And this is when I
was when I had my second kidney transplant. When I
was going through that process, when I had my first one,
you wouldn't have really really been able to tell that
anything was different. You know, it was preemptive. We were
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able to get and I didn't have to go on dialysis,
and we moved forward relatively quickly. And that was the
plan that my doctor had as soon as I received
the donor.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
She wanted to move forward me.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
The second go round, I lost about forty pounds. Every
single symptom that you could think of, I actually had
an experience, and I knew it from you know, low
urine output, to frequency of pretty frequently having to go
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urine A, to being fatigued all the time I had
I used to deal with gout, which was which I
really struggled with, And there were just so many different
things and that it was very apparent by other people
that they saw me, they and I was sick and
something was wrong. So as I was going through this,
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I always believed that God would heal me. I didn't
know how quickly, how he would go about doing it,
but I believe after going through that, and when you
have friends that are looking at you like, we.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Don't know if you're going to be here in the
next six months, I.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Thought it was pretty critical or important did I write this?
Because this was less about me and more about the
process and more about sharing with others what God had
in store.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
For me and what he could do for somebody else.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Man, a man, you said that it's not about the
knockdown but.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
The get up. Do you remember your lowest point in
this journey?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
I would say, I asked you the first one.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Both both of these points came between my first second
kidney transplants.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I was pretty much healed.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
You know when I say healed, I was doing well
that I had my first transplant, and I was a
couple number of years into this.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
I received the phone call.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
I can tell you that that exact daytime and all
was in jail Worry of twenty thirteen, and my father
called me to tell me that my mother, who was
also on dialas had just gone to dialysis, and that
her heart had stopped beating.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
What do you do? How do you respond?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
And I'm sitting there at my office in my home office,
doing work, and then I hesitated. About five minutes later,
I called him back and said, I'm on my way.
I didn't barely get onto the highway, and I got
the phone call from my father saying that my.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Mom passed, and it just sunk.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
And for me, the thing that was so difficult about
that is the fact that I know what happened when
she went into dialysis.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
They took too much fluid off of her body.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
As a result, it'll it'll drop your your blood pressure,
and she's do it up, and she collapsed and she
was no.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Longer with us.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
But that piece right there hit me hard. And the
second one was my my wife and my kids and
I were on vacation. My actual wife was doing the
working vacation. She was actually working, and she was she
was with some customers and my daughters and I had
gone to breakfast, and my daughters were six and seven
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years old, and I was walking back after having placed
back to the table, after to having make sure that
they were okay. And I fainted and I was just
out probably for a couple of minutes. But they expressed
them on their faces, the thought that their father was gone,
they'd never see him again. That right there was probably
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my lowest point because it was just so frightening because
they didn't know what was going to happen to me
and what was going to happen.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
But I was the high.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
But I would say those two are my well, probably
my two lowest points, uh, because I thought I was
scaring death, you know, right in the face.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I had a similar experience with dialysis with my my grandmother.
Uh he survived the stroke and a treatney kidney transplant,
and that she was on dialysis and the person who
was changing you know the uh the needles, I guess
used the dirty needle or didn't sanitize it enough and
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that's how she passed. And it was it was it
was so instant that you know, none of us got
a chance to say goodbye.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
No, And that's that's the hard thing about this, when
it happened so quickly.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
I just spoken to my mother on a Saturday night.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
I knew I wouldn't talk to her on Sunday, just
based on what transpiring, right and on Monday morning, you know,
to get a phone call before noon since your father's
saying that your mother, mother was gone, and just like
you said, never had the opportunity to say goodbye, never
even thought that she would never even crossed my mind
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that she wouldn't be here any longer, you know. But
it's just you got to continue moving forward. And that's
what I've tried to do.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
So I know there's a lot of listeners that we
have that probably experience this, or you.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Know, aren't.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I don't want to say about the experience, but you
know they're they're walking their journeys. And you and I
both know in those moments when someone passed, so suddenly
all the wood ifs come up, like.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I should have did this, I should have did that.
How do you deal with that?
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Good question, just just the way I've dealt with in
the past. It's just I can't really look back. It's
hard to look back and see what you couldn't have done,
because that's that's just like being the Monday morning, you know,
Monday morning quarterback. I just try to go het him,
move forward and do the best I possibly can, recognizing
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if you lose a loved one that you the belief
is that you were there for them as much as
you possibly could have been. But not trying to sit
back and kick yourself in the behind with the thought
process if you weren't there, what if I did? Is
what if I did that? And trying to play it
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all back. But I try not to do that. And
I know as I sit back and I look at
what transpired with my father when my mother passed, you know,
his thought process was he wasn't there when she collapsed.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
You know, he was there to.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Pick her up, and he came and he saw her
surround it, so the pain that he felt. But for me,
it was sitting out talking to him, sharing with him.
Heat done all he could possibly do. And and that's
the way I try to look at this. And you've
done all that you possibly can do, and there's there's
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there's nothing you can do to bring it back on
the situation back or play it back. So let's let's
try to try to go ahead and celebrate what we
can and then move forward.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yeah, when you're facing set back moments and the lowest points,
how do you start to gain yourself or how do
you start fighting back so that you don't lose yourself.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
The first thing I looked at is just trying to.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Sit back and talk to guy and.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
And and the focus is never on why me, but
trying to understand and learn what's transpiring.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Second of all, given all that he's done for me,
I know that he can do it again, and we'll
do it again, and that begins to help me get
at ease. This is the way I battled and you
know my health challenges, but this is the way I
try to live my life.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
You know, it.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Happens the same way when you're in business, when when
things are tight.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Are rough, and you don't know how you're going to
get how you're going to be able to get through this.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
I try to lean on my foundation, which is Christ
to help me get through these things. And I recognize
that if it doesn't happen the way I anticipated, then
you guys got something better for me. So I try
to look at it from from that Spanish point. It's
but it's difficult. It's very difficult when you're in.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
The moment, so.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Mentioning God.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I'm a firm believer of God and also a firm
believer of the trials that we go through as a
person that's supposed to change us or that we're supposed
to learn from the experience. That being said, there are
there are a lot of people who say, how can
there be a good God who allows bad things to
happen to good people?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And I believe that you are a good person. How
did you what helped you stay spiritually anchored through all
this hurt and pain?
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Well, as I was going through the transplant and.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Losing, you know, losing different people.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
First, I mean, I had a prayer party guy that
I actually pray with a couple of times a week,
and we share so much in terms of the things
that are actually going on with I like, but I
had somebody that could lean on uh to help me
through this process, and that probably is the biggest thing
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that's really helped me along the way, because, like you said,
I mean, people sit back and say, well, why would
gods allow these things to happen to you? While looking
at it from a different vantas point, it's like, well
why not me? You know, it could have been somebody else,
but for some reason, he chose me to go through
this journey, and.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Somebody else may not have been able to go through
that journey.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
They may not have been patient enough or just from
the standpoint of what you know, you need to change
your diet or you need to do these things. And
if you're drink you had to stop drinking. If you smoke,
you have to stop smoking. You know, you had to
do different things. And I've seen people that have decided
that they weren't going to do that, and they're no
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longer with us. But I just recognized it's important that
I focus what I.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Can control.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
In believing that I got enough history with God that
He will take care of me one way or the other.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Absolutely. Absolutely, You wrote the Triumph for your daughters.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
What do you hope they always remember from your journey?
Speaker 6 (19:22):
I hope the girls recognize that no matter what obstacles
or hurdle they can face they face, they have the
ability to call on God to help them through this.
I hope that upon them reading this, because they've heard
the story, they've listened to me sit down and speak
and talk to others, is they will recognize and see
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that when things get tough, it's not.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Time for us to run or hide, but it's time
for us.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
To get on our hands and knees. I look at
it from the standpoint of my daughters are in theater,
they dance, and I have one runs track.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
As you know, you're not gonna win every meet.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
You're not you're not gonna win every race, and you're
not going to get every lead.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
That you know that you try out for.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
But it's important that they go in there and they
do their best and approach it from that perspective. I
like to look at this from the standpoint when I'm
looking at them is they've seen some of the trials
and tribulations that their father has gone through and recognize
that life isn't always easy, but that you too can
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get through and they've seen it firsthand, you know. I
know when I had my second kidney transplant, my children
did not see me in the morning before they would
go to school because I was on dialysis and I
was doing peritoneal which would be at night, and then
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I would still be on it by the time they
would go to school. And my daughter was eight years old,
the oldest was eight, and she played back when I
was going.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
To get that second transplant because she saw me up.
I had my bag bag.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
I had, believe it or not, I had the Dillasis
stuff with me and she said, Daddy, did they get
you a kidney? And I said yes, and she just
smiled with her recognizing and understandingstanding what we had been
going through the past six months trying to make this happen.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
So these are the type of things that I want
to leave with them so that they know too.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
That when they're in the midst of a challenge, they
can overcome.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Absolutely. That's fatherhood change.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
How you see for scrubble, it happens, it happens. I
think that they've they've.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Actually seen things much earlier than I saw things. And
by that I never saw my father in the midst
of any major health challenge until I was in college.
And they've seen this from day one and before. When
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I wrote, you know, when I wrote the when I
had my first kidney transplant, my oldest daughter was my
first daughter was two months old. Mind you, she didn't
not that she understood what was going on, because she
didn't understand anything.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
But for her for.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Them to be able to see this, I think firsthand
is is important. And it's important for me because at
that time someone asked me questions a couple of days
before it's gonna have a transplant. Was I scared? And
I said no, why would I be scared? I said,
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if God waited to this point in time for me
to have a child, I think I'm gonna be here
long enough to build a raisin and I'm gonna make
sure that I raised him.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
The way He's called me to raise him.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
So that's what I'm trying to do with my wife.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Absolutely, I love it.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
What conversations do you want your book to spark in
other people's lives?
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I think first is that I want them to be
able to recognize and understand.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
That they can do anything.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
They just need to put together a game plan in
terms of how they approach it. You know, I look
at takeaways from the book. I started to say, hey, look,
don't let though, don't let the moment overwhelm you, which
I think is very key. Every day we come against
trials and tribulations. But it's not.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
It's not not. The question doesn't come down to why me?
Speaker 6 (24:13):
But how how am I going to make this thing happen?
How am I going to move forward? How am I
going to make a difference and make things happen? Don't
let a permanent uh, you know, don't let a temporary
situation end up turning into a permanent problem. The second
thing I'd like to say is I want them to
look at any life challenge and be it health, be
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a job, be a marriage. You need to develop a
plan and they need to address the plan. I approached
this just like it was a job, just like I
was sitting down trying to chase after a multimillion dollar
deal at work. But the difference in this time is
I was trying to chase after getting a kidney with
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from me with life, I said. The third thing that
I would say is, hey, look, this thing is time sensitive.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
You've got to move In business, it's.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
About money, but it's about really life or death. You know,
if you don't move quick, you may place yourself in
the situation that you don't want to because what happens
is other organs begin to start failing. The last two
things I would say is I look at God as
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being the foundation. I think that there's no way that
I would have been able to go through what I
went through as I went through it with being able
to lean on Christ. The fact of the matter is
I don't necessarily know if everybody needs to have a
prayer partner. But I think that that's something that's good,
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and that's something that we do with my church. But
for me, it's about having Christ is the foundation. And
the last thing that I would like to this thing
to leave is as someone is reading the book, for
them to take a look at those testimonials that the
donors wrote. Getting a donor was not necessarily bosh and
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I experienced challenges in the midst of all of this.
The first one, a good friend, was the one that donated,
and he did not hesitate, but I had to get
through it, go through a few people to get to him.
And the second one, believing it not was a stranger
to me but not to one of my sisters, and
that came from right out of the blue. And the
(26:37):
person that actually ended up donating was a young man
that actually was not going to make it, but he
happened to be uh, he happened to be one.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
He was on the donor list.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
He would he would give his organs in the event
that he passed away, and I so happened to be
four enough to get his organs.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
But that one person supplied organs.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
For about four or five different people to multiple kidney transplants, lever.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
And a number of other things.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
But I just think it's important that these are takeaways
that I would get as a relationships.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Indeed, indeed, indeed, all right, were there any chapters that
were difficult to write emotionally?
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Whom you're really getting into this, I'm gonna have to
take a quick look.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
I think.
Speaker 8 (27:51):
If I sit back and look, what was the chapter
that may have been more difficult to write.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Would be Life Forever, Change, Secret eleven.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
And this right here, I'm really sitting back and talking
about how to how this has impacted me, you know,
how I've accepted the things that have happened, looking at
the different things that took place, adjusting the dialysis, What
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does life look like after this dialysis?
Speaker 5 (28:31):
I think that that was that.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
Was pretty difficult, because as actual the fact, I never
imagine going through what I went through, and then the
thing it's the things that I would write a book on.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
In and trying to and trying to make that happen.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
But I would say that probably was was a bit
challenging set to say the least.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
There's another chapter in the book where.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Where I really sit down and talk about uh, I
talk about transformation and I started out by putting this
is chapter nine, and I talked. I started to start
that out by looking at the different things that were
important in my life that took place between me getting
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my first transplant and getting my second one.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
And it all started.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Out with my daughter being born, you know, two months
prior to my first transplant, and ending with me getting
my second transplant. So, you know, when I sit back
and I look at all of these different things, like, wow,
you know, you.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Really went through a journey.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
And when you you know, you you put it in
chronological order, uh, you begin to see the realization that, Tay, look,
this thing was.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Uh, it surely was in the sprint.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
I won't say a marathon, but it was definitely a journey.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Where can our listeners connect with you on the internet
and pick up a copy of Triumph?
Speaker 6 (30:13):
A couple of places they can connect with me on
the internet. I've got I've got a I've got a site.
It's ww dot Triumph Withgreg dot com. I'm also on
Facebook as well as they can purchase online via Amazon
(30:36):
or barzano.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
A.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Listeners.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Just in case you need those links, I will have
them in the description of this episode and in the
show notes, So all.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
You guys have to do is just click those links.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Gregory as Works just gave us a masterclass and rising
and rising through pain, through.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Procedure, and through purpose.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
His story is one of the divine determination, powerful decisions,
and a heart that beats for more than survival.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
It beats for significance.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
So be sure to grab your copy of Triumph Life
on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, transitions, and Transformation
today and share it with someone facing the mountain and
remind them that faith.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Still moves them.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
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Speaker 2 (31:51):
Are you ready? Thank you so much, Gregory Works. We
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Speaker 5 (31:59):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yes sir, yes sir? Take care like wise, all right,
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Speaker 5 (32:08):
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Speaker 4 (32:10):
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