The The Pulse: Sister's Network of Memphis and Mimi Faust Podcast

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hello everyone, and welcome to another edition of the Pulse.
It is Sister Strut Weekend, everybody, and you know what
I love about this weekend. You know, Sister Strut is
our way of bringing breast cancer awareness to our community,
you guys, and I just love that. I am Stormy,
your host of the Pulse every week, this time on

(00:21):
this station. Thank you for being here with me. I've
got a special guest on the show. Ladies and gentlemen, Well,
let me let her introduce herself. Hello, Hello, Tell everybody
who you are what it is that you do.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
I am doctor Barbara Davis, and I am the president
and founder or co founder of Stars, Breast Cancer Education
and Support Group.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Okay, and Stars, for those of you that don't know,
you guys are one of our charities for Sister Strut
and you guys have been there with us since the.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Beginning, Since the beginning, yes we have eleven years. Eleven years?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yes, how many How many women do you think learn
more about Stars and what you guys do, or have
learned more about what you guys do based off Sister
Strutt and you being a part of it.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Oh, since the struct since you have so many people
who attend and we give out handouts at at every event.
There are a lot of people who have found out
about the Stars Support Group and they call our website,
they check our website. They also call the information that's
provided and that they take the information not only for

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themselves but for people that they also know who has
been recently diagnosed with breast cancer, or they take their
information to their church or their specific organizations.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Wow, so what do you guys do at Stars? Specifically?
Tell me about you know, when you started this and
what was your idea for what you wanted to do
for the community.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, Stars this year is twenty seven years old. Wow
and I started Stars after two years after becoming a
breast cancer survivor. Wow and I started it. I co
founded it with another person, Tony Clark, and we started
it because there was no other breast cancer organization in
the Mid South area that was started by breast cancer survivors,

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and since we had gone through or were going through
breast cancer, we wanted to be a help and assistance
to newly diagnosed or breast cancer survivors who have had
reoccurrences or who were still having issues dealing with a
breast cancer. Diagnosis.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
How many women do you think you guys have I
guess have gone through your Stars organization over the twenty
seven years.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Oh, over the twenty seven years, on an average, we
have between Currently, after the COVID we have between thirty
five and forty women that attend every meeting, and we
meet the first Saturday of every month. Prior to COVID,
we usually had a close to fifty women that attended
each of our sessions.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Do you do them virtually as well?

Speaker 3 (03:06):
No, we do them in person. We do them. We
totally do them in person.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
During COVID we did some zooms, but I think the
women like being together in person. They can ask questions,
They feel free to ask questions, and most of the
time we have either doctors or researchers or people who
come and do presentations on how to handle side effects

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of breast cancer and just general information for the women.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
What can people learn I guess going through your organization
that they won't learn anywhere else.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, I'll tell you about our our model. Our motto
is to be visible and vocal, and that's what we've
done in the in the community. And our mission is education,
empowerment and encouragement.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
So we want to encourage the women.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
We want to make sure that, for one thing, we
want them to know what kind of breast cancer, what
type of breast cancer they have, because a lot of women,
when they're told that they have breast cancer, they almost
go into shock, and we want them to know that
they don't have to walk this journey along, that we've
been there, We've gone through it, most of the side

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effects or most of the treatment a lot of us
have had. When they join the group, there are other
people who've had the same kind of situations. And even
though there are women who've had the same kind of situation,
every situation may be different. People may react to certain
treatments certain they have different side effects, but we're there

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to walk along with them. We also have information that
we can provide them. If you don't have insurance, we
have resources where we can direct you to that you
can get insurance. If you financially have financial issues, we
have resources that we can direct you to for those

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kinds of things. So there's a lot of information that
our group provides for women who are newly diagnosed or
who have who have been on the journey and still
have some issues that they have to deal with.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Okay, I'm storming. It is the Pulse. I'm talking to
doctor Barbara Davis with Stars and for many of you,
maybe you don't know this, but Stars and Sisters Network
of Memphis. There are two of the organizations that are
part of Sisters struct. There are charities the Sisters struct
charities every year. They're with us when we do and

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you guys have been with us since the beginning. And
a lot of people maybe you're listening to the Pulse
and you're headed out to Sister Strut or maybe you
went to Sisters Strut. Because most of the stations that
are going to be airing this it'll be after the fact.
But the Store Stars organization and the Sister's Network of
Memphis organization, they're here. They're not going anywhere. They do

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this twenty four to seven, giving people information, being a
part of their journey, sharing resources and all the things
that you do. MS Barbara, can you tell me kind
of what you guys do when you you know, when
you bring the women together. Tell me a little bit
about that.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Well, besides providing information, we'd like to have fun. I mean,
it's not that if we need to cry with you
we're going to cry with you, but we're going to
have fun. We go out to various churches and do
health fairs. We also go to organizations and we do
presentations because people need to know the information.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
So are you kind of getting together and doing like
how we see on TV getting around this in a
circle and talking to each other and talking each other
through the diagnoses and different things like that.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yes, okay.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
We provide comfort bags for those newly diagnosed patients because
we have we've been through it, so we know what
kind of things you need when you go to take chemotherapy.
You know, blankets and masks and sanitizers and lotion, and
that's what's in the comfort bag. Those are the things
that are in the comfort bag.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
And and we also besides the resources that we direct
people to, we teach people to be proactive.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
You have to be.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Very active as far as your treatment is concerned.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Ask questions.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
We provide a list of questions that people can ask
their doctor. But we want we want people to get
involved with their own treatment. You know your body, and
that's one way that you can help the doctor determine
what's the best treatment for you. So proactive and empowerment,
which means you have to stand up, stand up for yourself.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
How many times have you been the person that's gone
with somebody to get their first mammogram.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Oh, I can't even remember how many people I've I've assisted,
just just being there, just being there, letting them know
that there's there's somebody there that has gone through that,
and and and they can make it through. They can
make it through. I know a lot of times when
people are first diagnosed, it's like a it's like a shock,

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and it's it's useful to have someone else there with
you because when you're first told that you have breast cancer,
everything else kind of goes blank. So it's good to
have someone else there with you so they can support you,
whether there's somebody in your family or somebody in the
support group.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, so how do you do you guys kind of
even help them with how to have that conversation with
their family members, because I know that's got to be
a converse, you know, it's they've got to tell their
family members. And you know, I know years ago I
didn't interview and I don't I don't know if it
was you that I was talking to where some of
the women didn't want to tell anybody that have gone

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through this then won't tell anybody what they were going
through because they felt ashamed or they felt like, you know,
somebody would look at them as less than a woman
and things like that. How many how much of that
do you hear? And how much tell me about that?

Speaker 2 (09:23):
We do hear some of that. But even in our
support group, a lot of people when they come to
our support group after they've heard about it, they will
they will. I've had several people that have brought their sisters,
several people that have brought their their their son has
even come to one of the support group because because

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they want the information.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Also, so a lot of them don't want anyone to know.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
And that's that's a good reason for Stars to exist,
because if someone has information about Stars, we know what
it's like to have been diagnosed with breast cancer, and
it's easier to talk to someone who has already been
diagnosed with breast cancer and is going through that situation
or has gone through it because they can see it.

(10:12):
For example, I'm a twenty nine year survivor. Yeah, and
for me to still be living, I know God has
blessed me, but God has blessed me to stay here
so that I can bless and encourage someone else.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Wow. Two years after you, you know, became a survivor,
you decided or was it two years after or while?

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Were you two years? Two years after?

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Uh huh, and you decided, Hey, I'm gonna help some
more people.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Exactly.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Now, don't give this to myself.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
If God had blessed me to and I really went
through everything, I mean I had the chemo, I had surgery,
I had more chemo, I had radiation, So just about
anything anyone can have as far as treatment is concerned,
I've gone through it. Yeah, so I can kind of
talk them through it. I provide encouragement. I keep checking

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with people who join our group who are newly diagnosed.
We have little buddy systems that we partner with people
who have similar diagnoses. And before I go into farther,
I need to tell you what STAR stands for. It
stands for surviving, thriving African Americans rallying support.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
So while it.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Stands for African Americans rallying support, we have had men
to join our organization as well as other ethnicities, and
anybody is welcome you know, and I.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Think two men think that and some women think that
men can't be affected by breast cancer.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
But they can, Yes, they can.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
We have men who have been diagnosed with breast cancer,
and especially if breast cancer runs in that family, then
it could be that men are at risk. It's not
just women women. One out of eight women as to
get older will end up with cancer.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
But men can get breast cancer too. They're not They're
not exempt.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
And I've heard too that if men have fatty tissue
in their in their breast, if they have fatty tissue,
that that could make them more susceptible that they need
to be checked out like and do mammograms just like
women do.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
They would have to have a mammogram just like a woman. Yes,
wow Wow, and the treatment is still basically the same.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah wow. And I guess yeah. That's something that I
think a lot of men don't understand. Some that it
doesn't affect them. They don't you know what I'm saying.
But there have been people that we've known, popular men
that have been affected by breast cancer.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
I don't know if I mean, I don't know how
many of your listeners remember schaff but Richard Browntree, Yeah, he.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
Was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Wow, a lot of people, a lot of people, a
lot of men and that we don't and probably men
that don't talk about it. And younger people also, especially
African Americans. Younger people also get diagnosed with breast cancer
African Americans quicker than other ethnicities.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Wow. How many younger people have you had come through Stars?

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Oh, we've had people in our in their thirties and
early forties, because I was diagnosed at when I was
forty four, So we've had people. And the co founder
of Stars was only thirty two when she was diagnosed.
So people really need to There are three things that
people need to do, and that's to be breast aware,

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which means know your own body and have clinical breast
exams when you're around twenty and you can have those
every year with your family physician. And at age forty,
start getting a mammogram and you get it every year.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Used to be age fifty, not anymore.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Well, even when they moved it to fifty.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
As an organization, we did we did not condone moving
mammograms to age fifty because we knew that that you
could get it earlier and all the time.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
A mammogram may not catch it.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
A lot of people catch the feel a lump or
get some indication discharge dimpling of the.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Of the of the breast.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Or discharge from the from the nipple or inverted nipple.
Just just be aware of your body. Just be and
if there's anything that is unusual, then you need to
go have it checked out.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah. Yeah, and I've actually we've been talking about Sister
Struck for a minute now and a man messaged me
and he said that his friend found out that she
had breast cancer because he actually discovered it.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yes, a lot of times men will discover that their
mate or their spouse, girlfriend, whatever, that there's something unusual. Yeah,
and they will ask them to They will tell them
it feels like something's different and they need to have
it checked out. Yes, sometimes men will find it out

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quicker than the woman.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah. Thank you guys again for joining me for the pulse.
I am Stormy and doctor Barbara Davis is here with
me from Stars. Thank you again for saying yes to
being on the show. As you guys know, Sister strat
is this weekend and if you need more information, if
you're listening to the show on Saturday. You need more information,
go to our website and find out everything that you

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need to know about today. You can do that, But
thank you again, miss Barbara for sharing your story. And
before you go, though, can you share with us some
of the symptoms that women may experience with breast cancer.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Well, as I said before, it could be a lot,
It could be a lump in your breast, and if
the lump is not palatable, that's a good indication that
you need to have it checked out. But eighty to
ninety of lumps that you find may not be cancerous.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
So don't want.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
People to get scared because they see a lump or
feel a lump, because most of them may not be
breast cancer. But you need to get it checked out.
There could be dimpling in the breast. There could be
discharge in the breast. It could be one breast is
hangs lower than the other one, or one is so

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much larger than the other one. It still goes back
to know your body, know what your breasts look like,
what they feel like, and if anything is different, then
you need to have it checked out. Don't just wait
and think oh and just dismiss it. And two when
you go to a doctor and have it had to

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do a clinical breast exam, if they and even if
you have a mammogram and they say, uh, well let's
wait six months or whatever. I'm still going to say
you know your body and if something doesn't feel right,
get a second opinion, say something.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Say you be your own advocate for your own health. Yes, yeah, yes,
thank you so much, miss Barbara. I appreciate you for
coming and tell people how they can get in touch
with stars if they'd like to do that.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Oh good, you can get a touch in touch with Stars.
Our phone number is nine zero one three one nine
nine zero nine nine. We also have a website. It's
www dot starsgroup dot org. That's www dot s T
A A R S G R o U P dot org.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Thank you again. All right, you guys, I hold on
because I got something else right now. Hey, everybody, this
is Stormy in Memphis, Tennessee. And well most of you
already know that, but I am talking to somebody that
made that. You need to get to know Mimi Brown. Hey,
Memi Brown, how are you.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
I'm doing good, Stormy? How are you?

Speaker 1 (18:13):
I'm wonderful. I'm wonderful. About as wonderful as I hear
this podcast of yours is going to be.

Speaker 5 (18:21):
Thank you so much for that. Yeah, So I created
a podcast. It's called to Altta Dina with Love and Yeah.
It's a five part series docuseries that documents the impact
of the Eaton fire here in Los Angeles. Altadena is
a suburb of Los Angeles, and it documents, you know,

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those those first hectic days after the fire and what
happened to the residents there in Altadena.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, we saw a lot of that all over the
place on the news, on social media, and we talked
about it a lot in Memphis. A lot of folks
were concerned. A lot of folks have relatives out there.
I have an uncle who is in California who does
not live in Alta Dina, but he talked about his
conspiracy theories as it relates to what was going on

(19:10):
in Alta Dina and areas surrounding that were affected by
the fires. So your documentary or your podcast is somewhat
of a documentary. So you're going to look at this,
I guess, let me see as it affects us black people.

Speaker 4 (19:29):
Yes, so Alta Dina.

Speaker 5 (19:31):
I think what many people didn't know before the fire
had a large African American, a large black population. And yeah,
so you know we always we hear about fires in Malibu.
There was a fire in the Pacific Palisades, and then
you had Alta Dina And so for me, I knew
in that area that there were a lot of black people,

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but I didn't even understand the rich history of Alta Dina.
We're talking Jackie Robinson was, you know, lived there. Sidney Potier,
you know, he lived there. So there was just so
much history and culture in this one city that needed
to be explored and it needed to be told, and
you mentioned, you know, it was all over the news.

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And so my what I wanted to do was I
wanted to document something so when the cameras are gone
and their houses are gone and these people are facing
their new reality, I wanted their stories, in their own
verse and their own words to still live on and
be able to tell because I wanted people to really
understand the devastation of what was or you know, hopefully

(20:38):
will rebuild to be a historically black area that was
that now looked like a war zone. You know, I
wanted to capture those moments and those stories.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Wow, I'm Stormy iHeartMedia Memphis talking to Mimi Brown with
the Black Information Network and Mimi's got a new podcast.
Tell me what the name of the podcast is, Mimi.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
The name of the podcast is to do Altta Dina
with Love.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
Okay, I want to wanted you guys to hear that
again because I want you to be able to find
it and if you have relatives out there or if you
know somebody that's out there that's been affected, I want
you to be able to find it and subscribe to
it all that good stuff on our iHeartRadio apps and
find Mimi on the Black Information Network as well, because
we have Black Information Network Memphis. But Mimi, you don't

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just look at this story as it relates to African
Americans that are from Alta Dina or the folks that
live there. But you look at the you look at it,
you go into it deeper. Redlining and a lot of
other topics tell us about that.

Speaker 5 (21:37):
Yeah, so in Altadena, and you know, really, I feel
like every black community has faced this at some point
in time. You know, I decided to try and take
a look at because when we just when we looked
at how black homes were disproportionately destroyed in the Eaten fire.
I wanted to know why, and so with the little research,

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I found out it was redlining. So back in the sixties,
you know, the Great Migration and all of those things,
black people could not get a home in certain areas,
and so there was one real estate agent I believe
that put most black families in Altadena in on the
west side of Alstina. And so when the fire broke out,

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we're seeing all these black people on the news and
we're you know, they've lost everything, and they were all
there because of redlining. So, you know, there's such a
deep history, and I think to understand today, we've got
to go back and look at why. And so my
purpose and my research took me to uncover just certain
things about like why these families were affected so much.

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And I'm not talking just we moved into this house
ten years ago. I'm talking these are multi generational homes.
People have lived in these homes since the nineteen fifties,
the nineteen sixties. We introduce you to mister Childs, Mister
Robert Childs, who bought his home in nineteen sixties seven
and was planning to pass that home down to his

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family that home. I think he bought it for thirty
thousand dollars. It's now worth two point one million dollars,
or was worth two point one million dollars, And so
we're talking about generational wealth.

Speaker 4 (23:14):
Yes, and it's gone.

Speaker 5 (23:15):
You know, so all those things have been wiped out,
and you know, I think it's just very important for
their stories to be told and for people to really
understand the rich history that is out toa Dina.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, do you get into the insurance prospect of all
of this as well.

Speaker 5 (23:32):
Yeah, So when we did this podcast, or when I
did this podcast, it was still very very early stages.
But I did speak with Edgar Johnson, who is introduced
in episode one, and he said that, you know, he
was going through the process at the time, and you know,
during that time, I think a lot of people in
California because the fires were in multiple places in multiple cities,

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but so far, he said that he was, you know,
going through that process and he was having you know,
it was relatively easy at the moment when he was
doing it. Yeah, but you know, we we plan to
do a season two where we go back and we
follow up with you know what that looks like what
rebuilding looks like, because we know in this area and

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Alta Dina right now is fighting to make sure that
investment real estate investors don't come in and buy up
these properties and change the looks of their neighborhoods. So
we're going to go back in and just kind of
follow these same people and see if they were able
to rebuild, because everybody basically said they're not leaving Alta
Dina and like, this is their home, this is where
their grandparents, where they were raised, where you know, they

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plan to raise their family, and so they want to
be there, and we want to continue to follow their journey.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
So it are you from that area? Did you have
family members in that area?

Speaker 5 (24:48):
You know, It's funny, I am not from Alta Dina.
I'm actually from Anchor to Alaska, Okay. But I have
a friend, a really good friend, who is from that area.
And I tell this story in episode one.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
She and I.

Speaker 5 (25:04):
She was telling me about her area, her neighborhood, and
we were driving through I would say probably a couple
of months before the fire happened. We were driving through
Altadena and she was showing me all the landmarks and
she was you know, it's such a anybody who's from
there is super proud of the area because it is
eighty one percent black home ownership, and you just don't

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see that, right. And so she was, you know, showing
me all the landmarks and pointing things out, and I
was super happy to hear it and learn about it.
And then fast forward a couple months later, it's all
gone and so not that that was my first introduction
to Altadena. My sorority used to hold their meetings at
the Altadena Library that also was burned down in the fire.

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But seeing it through her eyes also made me realize
that the people who live here are they're such a pride,
they're proud right of their community and the things that
they've accomplished.

Speaker 4 (25:59):
And so I met so many more like her in
telling these stories.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Wow, that is pretty fabulous to hear the connection. And
I think most of us, even if we didn't have
a story like the one you just mentioned and the
one you told in the first episode, even if we didn't,
we still feel a connection to Altadena. I know I do.

Speaker 4 (26:25):
Absolutely.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
When you look at the people of Altadena, you can't
help but see yourself, see your reflection of yourself. Or
see someone that you know, whether it's a grandparent or
an aunt or an uncle or mom or dad. Right,
so you are drawn into these people and their stories
and you understand the devastation that they're feeling, right Like

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I think so for me, I live maybe like twenty
minutes from Altadena, and there was a fire in my
neighborhood and I live in the city, and so when
it was time to go and we had to grab
a few things, that decision of what do you take
in that moment is like one of the hardest decisions
you'll ever have to make. And I think everyone that
I spoke to during this me interviewing them for the podcast,

(27:11):
most people thought, you know, this fire, it's not going
to destroy everything, So I'm just gonna grab a few
things and we'll be back. Because your mind just doesn't
process that quickly. And I'm speaking from firsthand. Your mind
doesn't process that you're not coming back, so you just,
you know, you just grab a few things, and to
lose absolutely everything is devastating. So I think that.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
People will be able to relate to.

Speaker 5 (27:35):
Anyone and everyone in each of these episodes, and I
hope that they enjoy.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
And also learn something.

Speaker 5 (27:43):
It's storytelling, in my opinion, at its finest, These aren't
my stories. These are the people who went through it.
These are their first hand account stories. These are it's
exactly what happened to them just a few days after
the fire. And so it's just very, very powerful and
I'm glad to have been able to document just this portion.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
I wish I could do more. It was just me.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
I went to the field, I went to Alta Dina
with my camera, my microphone, and just you know, one
woman banned the whole thing. And I wish, you know,
I had the opportunity to talk to everyone, because there
were so many more people that I wanted to speak with. Yeah,
but I had to cap it somewhere. And so this
is where we are, and so we plan to keep

(28:32):
this going and just follow, like I said, follow the
people and see where they are now.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah, okay, well I am excited to listen through it myself.
As a matter of fact, soon as we stopped talking,
I'm digging in to Alta Dina with love the new
podcast Where Can We Find This? Because I see that
the Black Information Network has launched the podcast Where Can

(28:57):
We Find It? On the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 5 (29:00):
Yes, so the Black Information Network and partnership with iHeart Podcasts,
they have launched the podcast.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
It is wherever you get your.

Speaker 5 (29:09):
Podcasts, whether that's Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, you can get it
anywhere Apple Store. So just search to Alta Dina with Love.
We also have a website to Alta Dina with Love
dot com and you can find me at Mimi Brown
TV on all platforms and I have all kinds of

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links and buttons you can just push that will take
you to the podcast.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Well, it's been a pleasure talking to you. I look
forward to hearing those stories again. That has touched so
many of us, not just folks that know people in Altadena,
but people all around the country that felt somewhat heartbroken
by seeing the stories of the folks in Altadena and

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learning about Alta Dina. So it's an eye opening It's
going to be an eye opening podcast for us as
the story was eye opening for us to see as well.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
Absolutely, and thank you for having me.

Speaker 5 (30:09):
And I just want to say, as you mentioned, like
the new cycle changes every single day, and I know
that because I work in news and the goal is
is just to this is their reality for now, for
a couple of years, right, and just keep their stories alive.

Speaker 4 (30:22):
And that's what the goal of this podcast is.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
So when the news cycle moves on, let's just continue
to have the people of Alta Dina in our thoughts.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah. Absolutely, I'm Stormy. iHeartMedia Memphis. Thank you for joining us.
We appreciate you so very much, and we appreciate the
Black Information Network Memphis. You can check out the app
iHeartRadio app and find the Black Information Network and you
can also find Mimi's podcast to Alta Dina with Love.
Thank you, Mimi, thank you. It's the pulse. I'm Stormy,

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keeping our fingertips on the pulse of our community. We'll
see you next week, same time, same station. God us
you have a great week.