Dr. Nia Imani Bailey, DPA, M.A.Ed., RT(T) talks healthcare, her life, career, and faith

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She's a West Philadelphia native radiation therapist and advocates dedicated to advancing equitable, compassionate care for underserved communities. Appointed by Governor Josh Shapiro, she uses her voice and lived experience to drive change in healthcare policy and community empowerment. Y'all already know what to do. Let's give a warm we talk weekly. Welcome to doctor Nia and Minie Bailey. Charlie, smart folks, women and Stilman. I love it. I feel a little under educated right now. I like to welcome you to the show. I like the you need to the show. How you know, we always start with how was your day? How you feeling to day? I'm good, I'm here, open me up this morning. I'm good. And she just has an aura so I can feel the energy. Why don't you fix her micro real quick? There? So I want to just I want to jump right into it because you know, just like our last guest, we always start with kind of like the education piece and you know what what got you? And let's start there, like because that's we can build up your wealth and knowledge because you are like a walking brain right now, right and so come on, doctor, that's one of those things. So let's talk there. We start for your undergrad and let's work our way up there. For sure, my family always called me doc. I wanted to be an obstetrician because of the Cosby Show. I was like, I want to do that. Then I volunteered and labor and delivery, and I'm like, there's no way. The Cosby Show was motivation. Of course she's hitting me Claire and all it. And then so then my family is like, you're going to be a super right soul. You're always for people, and I volunteered. I said, no, no way, there's no way. But it wasn't til my father had prostate cancer. I got into the same field that help cured him. So when I volunteered in radiation on collogy, I was like, this is exactly what I want to do and I've been doing it right out of school for eleven years. Wow, And you're going to have to let the men know how prostate exams are needed. The whole thing is important, you know, and even knowing your breast. Like my mom's uncle, uncle Bobby, passed away a breast cancer, and a lot of men don't understand that they can get breast cancer. So you know, pour into yourself. As black people, we don't We always work, work, work, but if you're not healthy, you can't work. So you got to make sure you get the screenings, you take care of yourself, you get exercise, you eat nutritiously, all those things. So if you pour into yourself, you can do all the great things in your life. Absolutely, yeah, yeah, absolutely. And what you said about the about checking your body. A lot of times I saw a study that said that we're living longer, but we're not thriving, and that's the problem. We have. All this innovative therapy. We talked about AI laparoscopic, robotic type of stuff, but if we're living past the line of what, let's just say seventy, do we have quality of life? Now? What are we doing to help that? But we could talk about that later. Tell us about how you got into the field that you're in. My father, you know, he had prostate cancer. A lot of people in my family have cancer from pancreatic to liver, to multiple maloma to lung, you name it, we had it. So I needed to make sure I got into the same field that could potentially help my family. And I wanted to learn about risk reduction. I wanted to learn about the different treatment, survivorship, and everything in between. So I felt like, if I got into this field, I'll be able to help all people, but specifically my people. So you advocate for. Your family basically with the conversation with the health. What the health is going on now? When I worked in oncology for thirty years and radiation oncology, and I actually stop working in that field based on the death rate that I kept seeing, And I'm looking at it to say, is it just the US? Is it other places that you know? Are we say we're a value based care type of model, but is it really about the financial gain that they're getting. Tell us about how people can be able to advocate for themselves when they're dealing with the health system and order for. Them to have a better clinical outcome. Absolutely. You know, we were born with a voice, and you need to know you have power in your voice, so you know your body better than anybody. So if you feel like there's been a change in your normal and if your provider is not listening to you, you can buy your provider. I think I always tell people there would be no doctor if there was no patient. So you have that power. If you say, hey, there's something going on with me and the provider's not listening, go to another provider. Tell them, hey, you know, my breast is hurting, I'm been having headaches. My stool has changed, which can be indicative of calling cancer. You know, so first you have to know your normal and then you just use your voice and say, hey, there's something going on. You need to listen to me. And if you don't feel like you have that voice to get an advocate yourself, your family member, your neighbor, your church member, whomever, who Because I can understand where you don't feel well, you don't have the energy to advocate for yourself, you can call me, you can call whomever, and we will do that advocating for you. Because so that you can get to a life that you are thriving and not just surviving. I see our Esquire shaking her head saying yes to all of what you're saying, Tanisia. Let us know, from even a legal perspective, when you're in the health system and you feel like there's a neglect, does a does a patient or let's just say a person have anything to stand on legally, Tanisia. So I think when people are patients and like she was saying, you're not feeling your best, your mind isn't going there, like what are my rights? I need help? I need help now. I need to feel better, even if it's just momentarily and then long time, I want to diagnosis and how I can get through this. And you're trusting that the doctors are there and the nurses are there to do exactly what you're asking them to do, make you feel better, get you to the other side. You're trusting that they're listening to you. But unfortunately, oftentimes we see that people are not. Things are going in one ear and out the other. Even for me, I have to warn my doctors, even the ones I see regularly. I am not your text book patient. I fall in that one percent, the stuff that you never see, the stuff that you gloss past in school. I'm abnormal on every chart, every scale. So if I tell you something, I mean what I say, and you need to apply whatever the differences are to me. But I'm an attorney. I'm gonna fight. And if I like I said, if she doesn't, if I don't have this dress, I'm gonna call somebody like her, because I know sure that the job done. But you get into that legal fight kind of at the end sometimes when you've already lost so much of the battle, when you've already spent so much money, when you've already gone through so many doctors and then sometimes people are depleted and don't even want to do that. My family, when they go to the emergency room, they got me on speakerphone. When I go to the emergency room, my nurse friends will show up. Because even though I'm an attorney and I can advocate for myself, there are things that I just don't know. And so from like doctor Neia was saying, it takes the community, sometimes a community approach to get the job done. So, like she said, if you're feeling like you can't, you can call this one. I was not in my head extra fast because this one is going to get out there and get something done. I have seen her in action. She's definitely an advocate. She ain't got to know you, and she never gonna ask you for a don because that's what matters. People matter. So people are out here, y'all. She outside got her outshine out right. Listen, this is because this is new for me. Right, you got like ten letters behind. Let's talk about because I've never seen half of this stuff, all right, So d P AT A E D R T T. Let's talk a little bit about that's new for me. That's why I said she's a walking brown. Yeah, I got a doctorate in public administration, Masters in education with the concentration bilingual bicultural studies, and radiation therapist technologists. I love, but my best title is Child of God. Like, none of that really matters. None of that really Mattersastic, fantastic man, So where can I? So we talked a little bit about your education. We talked about your work. You know, when when you look at where you are today, right, and all the things that you have accomplished, is it something that you say to yourself, Dad, if I would have knew then what I know. If I would have known now what I knew then, right, what would you have changed? That's a great question. I don't actually feel like I've accomplished a lot because there's still people dying of cancer. So I don't feel like that. But I wish that I would have known that eating healthy and moving your body is good. I wish I would have known that. You know, nia don't smoke the hookah in college. You know, don't binge drink. Mocktails are just as cool as alcohol. Why do we feel like when we have to celebrate or when we're depressed to drink, there's other things to cope. Healthy things you know that you can cope with. I wish I would have known my family cancer history earlier. There's a lot of things that I wish, But I don't feel like I've sort of reached the pinnacle because there's still people who don't have the education. There's still people who are dying. My girlfriend was diagnosed with metastic breast cancer at the age of twenty six years old and passed when she was thirty. I haven't done anything if that's still happening. I don't know why. That just sat yeah sad, Oh good, shutting me up real quick. You also made me think about, now what's going on with our younger generation, the gen z and this vaping stuff. And I had the conversation with you know, some some I won't name any family members, names some people in my family, and we were just talking about like, how you know, back in the day when cigarettes were popular, and how you only saw I was explaining how like the ads and the marketing and how they kind of marketed towards kids and preteens and all that, and then I was just like, well, yeah, I guess it would be cool to see like an older person smoking a cigarette for like a teen to look at that, so they're doing the same thing. Like you know, when my dad was younger, and like he saw cigarette commercials, which they don't even have that now, but you know when he saw that and he saw that when he was younger. Now they see the vaping and they don't have the commercials, but they see the friends doing and all that, and they think it's cool and it's so harmful to their bodies. And it's just like you're starting to see these cases pop up. Whereas it's like, you know, somebody is it's talking about like the vaping and how addictive it is, and then how like it starts off with you vaping just a little bit and then you need more and more to achieve the same I guess high effects or whatever it is. Like, how do we reach this generation, especially when it's just like it's just so popular to do, right? Will we teach them habits now? Because I think when people children vape, if they think it's cool, they may be stressed. But okay, let me show you when I'm in a good mood, this is what I'm doing. I'm not doing something that's destructive to my body. I'm dancing, I'm moving I'm doing whatever, you know, something that's healthy. Okay, when I'm stressed, I'm not going to the bottle, I'm not vaping, I'm praying, I'm meditating, I'm walking in nature. I'm doing those things. And I think once that scene and mimicked, then children, you know, they're followers. They want to do things that look cool and popular. So when they see that, then they do that, and then that trajectory then changes. I also think a lot of things are purposeful that come to target our community. You know, in the inner city, how many fried chicken places are there, how many tobacco places, and you know, especially now. Like a lot of vaping shops and shops and all of that. That's purposeful. But let's put some eco therapy in our community. Let's put some more churches in mass in our community. Let's you know, do all of the things so that they understand that these are the things that you don't want to go to. You want to go to here. You've got to change that narrative you mentioned. You talked a little bit about cancer and some of the elements and viruses that's out there. What should take on And I'm sure Lauren can probably find the exact name, but it was like the National or the International Health Foundation or something like that. Has since the US has disconnected from there, we have different countries finding cures to stuff. You know, what's your take on that? You know, do you feel like you know, there's this this kind of gatekeeper idea to stop you know, cures because we want to look at Big Farmer or something like that. What's your thoughts? Yeah, you try and get me cancel. That's what I'm min as the Bosphilli. I don't care, of course. I mean, I definitely think I don't know for sure if there's ever a cure for something. I'm not trying to get pessimistic, but I do think it's a very lucrative business to keep people sick, for sure. So that's why we're not teaching, you know, have more vegetables, don't eat a lot of pork, don't do all of this. I think that's definitely purposeful for sure. I can't say that there's a cure for anything, although that's always the goal. You know, hospitals Big Farmer and they make great money, and so you know, as long as you're sick, we're always going to keep getting paid and. You're so right, because if people understand I'm teen years ago, Like let's just say the early nineteen forties. It was pushed to eat healthy. It was push to not have every FDNC yellow number, forty, this and that in our foods, right, and then it got to a point where the meat market was going down and they pushed breakfast. And they don't realize that breakfast was only pushed because. Of the money. They wanted us to spend more money exactly. So with free radicals, all of these different things that are going on, big farmer makes more money. So with that being said, in regards to having different type of autoimmunes, like and I don't know if you want to. Disclose that, but what's your what's what's your outlook now? Seeing it from the patient side, being on the doctor, on the medical side, as well as on the patient side. For you, I mean, I was diagnosed with lupus maybe twenty twenty two, but I probably had it since I was seventeen. Years old, you know. And my take on it is that we are. Eradicated with so much stress, with so much disease, with so much illness in ourselves, and it is from the patient perspective. I was very frustrated because I'm like you guys knew I had this. You know, all you had to do was run a a anda. All you had to do was check my C three C four. That's all you had to do, and we could have did some investigating instead of just giving me a blanket. You have angilo edema, meaning that my joints just flared up. So that's where my perspective is even more so the advacy advocacy component, like I know my body. I'm telling you there's something wrong. We need to do some research and if you don't know, let me ask chat, GPT or something. I can figure it out and then we can have that conversation. And it gave me even that voice, like you know, doctors, they practice medicine, so they don't know it all. They're practicing, So let me help you in this pursuit of trying to figure out what's going on with my body. And let's even say this, we don't even enroll in clinical trials and all of that, so there's a lot that they don't know about about black bodies. Wow, So they are actually practicing, and I don't mean practicing like guinea pigs, but they don't know did that, Yes, they did a long time ago. But some part, some of our DNA, they just don't understand because we don't We don't give our DNA our tissue to be researched. So the things that happen in our bodies, they're very perplexed. They don't know either. Right, do you think it's a US thing? Because so many places I actually went across country. I went to Turkey for medical care. Medical tourism is highly and to highly approached in other countries versus the US, and they are giving a different type of here you are, here's what you have, and it's seventy five percent from the from the percentage of what the US is charging. So why is that? Why is it that the US, you know, the place where everybody wants to come, so just. Be you know, you have people be like, I don't want to go over there now. But you know what I'm saying. Why is it that the US versus other countries are putting poison in our foods other places, other countries are not allowed to have certain things and ingredients in their food. Why is it? So? Why is it happening here? Greed? You don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but spears and principalities. That's all I can say. You know, when you talk about the gene thing and our genes, you know the one thing. And I believe you did the story of Henrietta Lex I think of, you know, the superpower that she had. Right when we think of like research, right, should people who look like us have a legitimate fear because we have always been experimenting on right? And I use that as context. Right when you had people pushing for like, you know, when COVID the vaccines, and everyone's like, yo, I don't want to get vaccinated because literally I don't know what you're putting in this. Do you believe that we have legitimate concerns? And we should, you know, worry about what's being put in our bodies? So sure, I understand why we are fearful because there's always going to be a medical apartheide. That makes sense to me. But I do think that we should do do do it scared because I think if we don't enroll in clinical trials, then we're always going to be dying. They don't know what's working on our bodies, like for example, you've ever been in a public bathroom and you wave your hand to get the water to come out the faucet. That wasn't tested on darker skin. That's why it don't work for me. So sometimes you're trying to figure it out. So something that simplistic I did to know that you have to keep on our skin. So I say that to say things in life aren't tested for us, aren't known for us, So we're always going to be left behind. And let me say this, They're always going to create medicine. They'll just do it without us if we don't enroll in clinical trials. So I'll always raise my hand to be a clinical trial because they might not find it and my generation, but I'm gonna be darned or. My nieces don't have to face what I face. You think about the HIV and. Epidemic. You know, my uncle Kyle passed in nineteen eighty five of it, but then they got so much DNA. Whether you're Asian, whether you're Puerto Rican, African American, or whatever. So now if you get diagnosed with it, although you may not want the disease, you can live and thrive. That's not the case with cancer. So that's not the case with diabetes. You know all those things, So we have to do. It's scared. I'm not saying don't be scared, but you have to do. It's scared. As a person who's in radiation ecology and just someone who may be watching this. Can you let women and men know specifically as to what they can ask for when they're talking to their doctor. Let's just say they've been diagnosed, and you can highlight this. More brack brack one to see if it's in your family, your PSA, your cleasing score, tell us more of something more towards the breast and process. Since it's up in the top five as far as with cancer. Absolutely, So first I'll take it. Do you know your family cancer history? Do that, then go to your provider, establish a patient provider relationship and say, hey, I know my father has prostate cancer. I know all my uncles have prostly cancer, and I know by that that increases my risk of breast cancer. So I took that to my doctor and he said, okay, you need to go see a breast surgeon. The breast surgeon said, okay, tell me your family cancer history again, I said it. She put my information to what's called a risk assessment or risk calculator, and that determined I have a twenty percent risk or greater of breast cancer. So from there I at the age of twenty eight, I get two screen as I'm now thirty three, I get a three D mammogram and a breast MRI. From there, I did genetic testing, and we know about Bracco one and brack of two for breast cancer. But I have a gene BCL six which increases my risk for lymphoma. And those are the things that we don't hear about. So now I get regular blood tests and all of those things. So you want to first go back to your family. Do you know your family cancer history. If you do not, that's fine, if you're adopted or your family is just so secret. If they won't tell, you, still tell your doctor because they'll treat you as if you're high risk because you do not know. And then it's important to know your breast men too, So usually women do it at the top of the month April first. You know, at the top of the month, and you want to feel your breast in the shower, you want to look at it in the mirror. You want to do it while you're laying down, and you want to do it soft. You want to press hard, you want to go up and down, you want to go all around and to feel something. You want to do that every month because if you then feel that something has changed, you can then have that conversation with your doctor and to the women who are on their mentrol cycle. Know what your breasts feel like before. Your mentro cycle, during and after, because there are some changes that happen and the look yes, and you want to make sure there's know your lemons has as an organization where there's like twelve signs of breast cancer, whether your nipple is inverted, whether there's a discharge coming out to your nipple, whether your areola looks like an orange peel, whether there's a growing vein, whether there's a lump. I've even had a friend of mine where she didn't have pain in her brush, she had it in her arm because the tumor was on her lift note in her arm. So anything that's outside of your normal, know that for men for prostate cancer, if you are experiencing like a a your stream is it correct? You know you gotta pee stop, pee stop, pee stop, you. Know things like that, for colon, your your stool is different, whether it's really watery it's red. For pancreatic, you know your. Stomach is hurting, You've lost a lot of unintentional weight, and I just blacantly say anything out of your normal, asks the doctor say, hey, this is something's going on. Can you run blood tests breast I need a breast MRI or a three DM mammogram. And if they tell the women or men you have dense breasts, that just means you need another screening because they can't determine if you have cancer or not. They're the yes, the image looks very white. So whatever they tell that to me, it's like, okay, I need either an ultrastown or breast them or eye so you can definitively tell me whether I have something or not. So you just have to have I think it's easier to have an advocate with you so they can know all the things to ask. But the point is, whenever you know something out of your normal and that has changed, had that conversation with your doctor and established that patient provider relationship. Because I have a young black doctor and she probably knows my body better than I do. So if I tell her there's something wrong, she's not going to hesitate, and she's going to send me to the appropriate screening or test to make sure that everything's okay with my body. I just hope. Second, because mom, right, that warmed me out one second. One second the stretching guy on here, Oh my goodness, that was a lot, you know, a good thing. That was phenomenal. That was so it was it was because and I'm sure that's going to help a lot of people who's actually watching. And you talked to a couple of things. You talked about an advocate, right, and so for those who watch, And how do you know a young lady get an advocate? Because I also heard that you know, well, there's still this idea, especially when it comes to we generally have a fair doctors, right, anybody within a health feel right because one you feel like a statistic right, and or we feel like you don't take it seriously right. And so there is this you know, elephant in the room that's cloud over specifically women who feel like when we're in pain or when they're in pain, doctors don't take them seriously right. And so how could one you know, someone have an advocate or advocate. If they don't have an advocate advocate to truly be taken seriously. If they going you just say, if. You feel like you're not being hurt, you need to listen to me. Sit down there, you got fifteen minutes, but sit down. I have twelve questions to ask you, and I need you. I'm still not feeling better, so I need you to figure out. I need you to research, be a detective and figure out what's going on with me. And I know a lot of our people say, well, I felt okay, but then I went to the doctor and then I came out with this disease. That doesn't mean that the hospital gave you disease. It means that it was massed in your body, right, and then they found the test to figure out what was wrong with you, and then now you have it. So I want to and I say this to. The black men too, because you know you got to take care of the family, you got to do all of this. Y'all better pour into yourselves too. And you know that's why with prostate cancer being on the rise and all these things, if y'all don't pour into yourself, you aren't going to be here. That's right, you know, So it's really important to just have a heart attacks too. You kid, you better pay attention to your body and stop playing so. In relationships if we feel that stressed in what we do. Okay, I pay attention to our bodies. Because I'm from West Phillis, try me, doctor. I have a question for you, and this is going to be one of the good news bad news stories. It's about and you were appointed by Governor Josh Shapiro, so I want that to be known. We Philadelphia. A federal judge just stopped for the vaccinations. I think it was seventeen that they were trying to push, but it's now I think going to be eleven. Tell us more about what your insider input is on vaccinations. A lot of and this isn't statistics be improven, but a lot of parents feel like the vaccinations are causing the high percentage of autism in children. So what's your thoughts on that. I think I think vaccinations are a good thing. I think they created vaccinations because back in the day there was bubonic plague and all this other stuff. So vaccinations are here to help the help humanity. I think even with cervical cancer and that HPVA absolutely, so I think that's that reduces the risk of getting cervical cancer. And I understand as a parent there you may be fearful of giving your child something. But I think I'm not get somebody vaccinated. So at that young age, do you think that it should be a time frame that they wait, because I mean, I'm a person who believes in epigenetics. Epigenetics meaning that we are not the same people that we were fifty years ago. And because of that, they're saying, oh, well, stabilized vaccines have worked all this time, Well, these are not the same people, correct, These you know, young men are not having their Adams Apple like they did back and they don't they don't have the chisel jaw. It's things that have changed over time. And it's like, do we need to look at the vaccinations. Does a newborn baby need four or five shots at the same time right after birth? You know what I'm saying, No, I do. I think that should be a pilotic study. I don't know. I agree with you. I think, like you said, things change, people change, and I think that should be a piloted study. You know, let's give that baby the four shots and see how the baby goes on in life and progresses. But let's not give that baby four shots and see how that baby prograse that baby turns five, then we'll go ahead exactly. And I think that needs to be pilot. And I think it's a fair pilot too. I don't think there's I'm not saying, you know, give everybody thirteen shots every five days, you know, but I think it's as fair to your point that I'm an addicate for a vaccination. No, but I think to your point, it's very fair. There should be an age, but I think it also should be that conversation between the patient. The provider, and their parent. Absolutely. And speaking of the HPV, I remember that my I have four children, three girls, and for all four I was going to give HPV and they were like nine or ten, but then I waited, and when they got fifteen, there was more strings that it covered. Then when they got eighteen, it was like thirty more stringths. So I was like, if I would have got it back then, then it probably wouldn't even have worked. And I'm putting this in them, so I just I didn't do it and let them be the ones for themselves to see if they wanted to get it. Yeah, so they had more time to do research. Like I was the guinea pig, because what I'm thirty three, so I was thinking nine when I got it. And my mom was like my child not doing my father's like she's getting And somehow he wanted to argue maybe maybe that's why they got a divorced by I don't know, but but but to your point, I had to get other shots because I needed to get more things to cover the other strands that are out there. Yeah, uh huh so this is a lot uh so and a good way and a good I said, so brother raw, She was like, great information, And I want to get this young lady opportunity because you spell you spoke about your doctor, and I believe this is what that is for those who's looking for a great doctor. This young lady said, this is coastal TIFFs said, can she share her doctor's name if you're comfortable with that? And if not, how can you know people find good doctors because that has always been a problem. Also, thankfully I found the good one just kind of like bye bye. Look right, uh, young doctor looks like me, you know, and understands me. But how can someone find a great doctor. Absolutely so, doctor Kimberly Rogers. I think she's on Instagram as restore md med just don't take my appointment. But doctor Kimberly Rogers, she's amazing. And you can go on black Doctor. I think it's dot org. You can just even google whatever type of physician that you want. Google that and that will come up. But you can also I'm not saying do this all the time, but you can. You can fire your doctor. You can have a doctor. You have an appointment and you're like this doctor just we're not really mentioned. Well, let me find another one. But my doctor who I absolutely love, Doctor Kimberly Rogers. She's amazing. She takes time. We have an each appointment is forty five minutes to an hour if I need it. Wow. Yeah, primary care and she's a PCP. Wow. What's your thoughts on herbal medicine. I think it's important. I think, and this is my thing. I think Western medicine and herbal medicine and integrated therapies can. Be a marriage. That's what I say. You know, that's just marry it. You know, if if you first have a headache. Do I think you should take the talne off first? No, Maybe drink some more water, maybe do all the things. Maybe drink some ginger. Rell Yeah, they don't make ginger like, they don't. But then if you need it, take the tolen off. You know, I think it should be an absolute marriage. And I'm gonna throw something in there because I love holistic medicine, but I am about Western medicine. You can do the tuning forks. Tuning forks back in the forties was before the pills for migraine headaches. So you take the mallet, you hit it, and then you put it on your pituitary glen. You could put on your collar bone, and it's supposed to help with migraine haskins. So that's good. Or what would I do? I just go to sleep. I get a migraine, I just go to sleep. With it. I can't go to sleep, I can't look. I turn off all the lights, put the pull over. I'm a headaches, right, I got it. It sounds like you need to see a neurology. How about that part? Maybe, so listen, listen. That was amazing. Uh so it is there? Uh let me see, is there anything that we didn't cover that you're doing because you you went past everything that we could even ask for, like, amazing interview, amazing interview. What what is it that? Is it anything that you're working on or is it anything that we didn't touch that you believe that you know our people should know. I'll say this, Delaware, right next door. Delaware has the highest incidents of black women being diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. And they have narrowed it down to certain zip codes, So if you live in certain zip codes, you have a higher chance of getting triple negative breast cancer as a woman. So they're trying to look at healthy women or women who have not yet have the diagnosis of breast cancer, and they want to study them to figure out why. And they also think it's because of epigenetics. You know, you're living in an environment that's toxic. You are stressed, you're not getting enough sleep, you're not eating right, you're not doing all the things, and that equation equals triple negative breat cancer. And I say that to say, as we are right next to Delaware, I'm sure there's zip codes in Philadelphia that. Is the same thing to do that. Yeah, because even when you're stressing. Like you said, if your cortizole levels go up, you have a higher rate of getting something high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes. So that's interesting. Yeah. And also I'll say April eighteenth, we have the president of Bird Cancer Foundation and we have our expo all Things Cancer and Wellness expels free to the community. We have free breast exams. It's not a mammogram, it's something called bexa equity Alignance. They have a. High powered ultrasound tool where breast entity is not a factor and it just rubs over your breast and you get the result right then, so it's diagnostic. We have Jefferson coming out to do in prostate checks, not the digital rectos in but blood. We have pen doing the cervical HVV checks. We have Advanced Dermatology doing full body skin checks because black people always say they can't get skin cancer. That's a fallacy. We have mocktails, we have health wellness vendors. What else do we have. We have oncology, dental screenings because that's very important. You know, when you go to the dentist, they're supposed to feel on your lypnos and have your tongue go back and forth, so all this is free. We also have workshops and panels. We have. Talk about cardio oncology. We have something talking about hair, skin and nails, like my braids is bi dosal beauty and the hair is organic and toxic free, so what you put on your body and in your body is very important. We have a panel about cancer survivors and thrivers and caregivers and co survivors, which a lot of people don't talk about. And where is this. Time? It's April eighteenth, Saturday at the Double Tree Hilton Center City, Philadelphia, across from the Camel Center on Broad Street, ten am to five pm. Free. All the services are free, the entry is free, free, free, free. And the ideas that you come in with an interest about some type of cancer, but you leave with so much knowledge about what you may have or may not have. And yeah, geez, hold on, I just had to do. This is a public service announcement. Ladies and gentlemen, if you're watching right now, I just want you to do one favor like this and share it because I know someone wants to know this information. Because half the stuff I never even heard of before, right, And I know that you could be doing something that's special for someone special in your life that probably don't know, or just someone that just needs to know and just don't have access to the information. Right. So, if you're watching this and you can hear the sound of my voice, like and share this video for someone to actually know. I am asking you to do this to protect our community because we love our people and we're talking about people who look like us. So make sure, make sure, make sure, make sure you share this video. This was x This is probably one of my favorite interviews. I didn't really have to say anything. Yeah, you said it upright, you know, So why don't you let them know how they can get in contact with you and all that good information. Sure, reach out to me. I'm going two six seven eight eight six five four seven one is my mobile. You can reach out to me. Bird Cancer Foundation b y r D. That's my family's name. Text me if you have any questions, want me to advocate for you. I'm very quick to email somebody and call the channel six. Oh yes, And I just want to in a way make sure you pour into yourself like all of you. You're so very busy. Please make sure you get some risk. Please make sure you get some time. If you get some time to yourself, even in between breaks, five minutes of just quiet or whatever pours into you. Because we need our people and we are dying between the violence, between the health, between all the things, the prison pipeline, all the things, and we need to make sure that we're pour into ourselves and create this community where we're checking on each other. So yeah, wow, wow, ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen. One, I want to thank you for coming to the show. You know, one things we say is once you come to the show, you're a friend to the show, so you're always welcome to come back. I think you gave us some excellent information, some amazing information that people just need to know and hear about. And so I think we'll definitely be inviting you back just to talk about you know, some of the ladies, even trends medicine or some other details with some pressing news or some flash this is what you need to know something, right, We definitely will bring in her books. Oh yeah, yeah, but let's talk a little bit about that, because that's what we didn't do right before we let you leave because you got some said the children, books, right, holler, just tell us a little bit about that before we let you go. I made it because of my Grandma Smiley. She's mout all the time. Even when she was going through cancer treatment. She said, if God trusted her with multiple maloma, she was going to carry it with the dignity, excellence and Greece. And so my children's book sort of mimic her life. She told my brother and I never looked down on anyone unless you're extending a hand down to help them up. So that helped with feeding those who are on how that helped with so many things that we do. So the children's book is about Smiley, and the other one is a letters to myself to my younger self. And it's a little dark skinned black girl looking in the mirror. It's someone who has an amputated leg but playing basketball. It's just it's talking about kindness, is talking about acceptance. It's talking about all the things that I think is lost in this world. But secretly and not so secretly, it brings people back to a goda love and my love for Jesus Christ. So I always have to make sure that and I remember that I'm a servant of Him. And anything that I do, I represent him. Sometimes it's probably the West Philly version. So that's what the books are about. That's anything that I do my nonprofits, the Mighty Bailey. You know, I don't need to do that whole doctor thing because it's like when I entered the gates, he's not going to say, well done, doctor, you know what I mean. But it's not. You know, my great grandmam had a fifth grade education, but she was the smartest person ever. So that's a doctor, right right, you know what I mean. But everything that I do is the basis of a gode love, and it's the basis on Jesus Christ. Awesome, fantastic, fantastic. Well all right, well one more time. How can I get in contact with you real quick? B Y R. D. Bird Cancer Foundation two six seven eight eight six five four seven one. And I'm a best texterer, then call me but whatever you can call me to and yeah. There you go, there you go. So if you need an advocate, make sure you slide in her inbox, texting her out, let her know that you need her to advocate for you. All right, y'all, don't go anywhere. When we come back. We got some we got the sizzle, we got good news and bad news. We still got a jam packed show. We'll be right back at this show. Hey, this is saying chante. If we cannot be complete unless you listen to well watch we talk weekly. Complete. Believe in the