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Educating your children on the proper use of prescribed medicines, Dr. Yolanda McElroy, delivers the message to young people and families everywhere. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: It's that time of year of everybody. It's the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: this time of year. Foods everywhere, kids are everywhere, Snacks everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: candies everywhere, medicine, You get sick all the time. I
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  Speaker 1: remember I got my COVID shot. The other day. They
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  Speaker 1: asked me, did I want a flu shot. I've never
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  Speaker 1: gotten a flu shot. I said no, And the very
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  Speaker 1: next day I got sick. So you know I should
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  Speaker 1: have got that flu shot it was available to me.
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  Speaker 1: I said no. I got my COVID child. It's the
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  Speaker 1: fourth COVID child I've gotten, and I feel good about that.
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  Speaker 1: But more importantly, it's about medicine and medicine is part
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  Speaker 1: of our everyday lifestyle. Some people say they don't want
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  Speaker 1: to take medicine, don't like needles. It's not about needles.
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  Speaker 1: It's about health care. Daily health care, especially health care
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  Speaker 1: was involved small children. My next guest is doctor Orlanda
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  Speaker 1: d macelroy. She's a registered pharmacist in the state of Louisiana.
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  Speaker 1: Been there many times. She's been there nearly three decades
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  Speaker 1: of retail and hospital experience. She currently works as a
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  Speaker 1: consultant pharmacist and serves as director of pharmacy, especially hospital
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  Speaker 1: that focuses on patients with medically complex conditions. And her
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  Speaker 1: children's books is not candy. Excuse me, it's not candy.
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  Speaker 1: She incorporates a beautiful tapestry of music and medicine that
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  Speaker 1: is fun yet conveys the important message of medication safety.
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  Speaker 1: Please welcome to the Money Making Conversation Masterclass, Doctor Ulanda
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  Speaker 1: d maclroy.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, great to have you on the show. I called
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  Speaker 1: you earlier. You know, I always when I get to
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  Speaker 1: these interesting guests like this, especially on subject matter, I
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  Speaker 1: want to I call my guests because I want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure we're on the same page and the questions.
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  Speaker 1: I asked that we're all comfortable, and she said, Raean
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  Speaker 1: fire Away, you know, because this is about you know,
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  Speaker 1: information that not only children need to hear, but adults
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  Speaker 1: need to hear it.
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  Speaker 3: That correct, That is absolutely correct.
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  Speaker 1: Now Louisiana, What part Louisiana? God tell me where you
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  Speaker 1: at now? You just can't lose that a big old state.
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  Speaker 1: Now what part of Louisiana You hanging out at? New Orleans?
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  Speaker 1: Ben Rouge yet, Streeport will yet?
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  Speaker 3: I'm called to sreport Northeast Louisiana. So I'm about an
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  Speaker 3: hour and a half from Shreveport in West Monroe, Monroe, Louisiana.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely welcome there. Great food, I'm sure up in that
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  Speaker 1: Monroe area. Now, how did you get in the pharmaceutical field?
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  Speaker 1: What what attracted you there? In you know, pharmacy?
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  Speaker 3: Right, Like a lot of kids and high school, you
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  Speaker 3: really don't know what direction you want to go in.
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  Speaker 3: So I started off in in chemistry. I went to
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  Speaker 3: Gramarin State University at HBCU, and so I spent three
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  Speaker 3: years there in chemistry. I did some internships and I
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  Speaker 3: discovered I don't want to be in chemistry. And right
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  Speaker 3: here in our hometown, Monroe, there's a pharmacy school. So
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  Speaker 3: someone suggested that I thought about it. I prayed about it,
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  Speaker 3: and I transferred to pharmacy school. And it was one
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  Speaker 3: of the best decisions that I made.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that, so educate me a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: So so because I was told to you had to
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  Speaker 1: go to like a four year school to be a pharmacist.
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  Speaker 1: So you're telling me that it's a school specifically that
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  Speaker 1: you could just go to to be a pharmacist. How
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  Speaker 1: many years is that educational lane?
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  Speaker 3: Well, now, it's probably about six to seven years, because
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  Speaker 3: you could go straight into a doctoral program. Back then,
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  Speaker 3: we would get a bachelor degree. Okay, so it's about
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  Speaker 3: a five year to six year program then, and so
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  Speaker 3: I had to go back for another three years, so
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  Speaker 3: I spent eight years total.
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  Speaker 1: I'm do you know you made it sound like that
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  Speaker 1: was like a couple of years. Okay. I about there.
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  Speaker 1: I about to say, why I didn't hear about this
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  Speaker 1: pharmacy opportunity to hear somebody told me about the pharmacy school,
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  Speaker 1: and I went, you come back years.
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  Speaker 3: No matter what age people are, I just tell them
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  Speaker 3: go because that time just goes by so quickly. You know,
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  Speaker 3: time is moving.
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  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, But you know I'm telling you right now.
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  Speaker 1: You made it sound like it was a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years and you was out. Yeah, you're very casual with
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  Speaker 1: that educational window there to be a pharmacist. Somebody had
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  Speaker 1: told me about a pharmacy school and I just went
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  Speaker 1: no time in. When you said the word doctoral program,
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  Speaker 1: I went, okay, Now she's been there for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: That's what stopped me from being a lawyer, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So I can I can go to and then then
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  Speaker 1: then go to another school and then so then have
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  Speaker 1: to take a test and then they can tell me,
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  Speaker 1: hey you dumb. Okay, you're gonna send you back right.
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  Speaker 3: That final test does matter.
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  Speaker 1: It does matter. So congratulations on that.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Now, one of the passions has led to you to
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  Speaker 1: development of your Many Managed consulting company. Please tell us
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Well, the mission of medi Managed is to just
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  Speaker 3: help build a healthy community just by providing education on
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  Speaker 3: the safe use of medications. So we want to prevent
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  Speaker 3: medication related problems. We want to help increase medication adherents
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  Speaker 3: and just improve overall health outcomes in our community.
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  Speaker 1: Now, when you say overall health outcomes, Now, what did
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  Speaker 1: you see now? Because you know medicine. I brought you
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  Speaker 1: on the show because we talked about, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: the children's book. It's not and we're going to get
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  Speaker 1: to that. But it all starts with the adults. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I have a daughter, she's an adult now, but I
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  Speaker 1: remember you know, see you know you put the little
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  Speaker 1: locks on the on the on the on the child
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  Speaker 1: locks on the doors, and then a week later they
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  Speaker 1: opened in the child lock.
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  Speaker 3: Going there, see where you did good. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: people don't do that. They just leave it lying around.
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  Speaker 3: And that's part of the problem, right.
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  Speaker 1: It really seriously, it's people are that casual. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: just talking very honestly because my wife and I you know,
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  Speaker 1: we have bleaches underneath bleach underneath the cabin. You have
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  Speaker 1: most of the more corrosive or dangerous items are at
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  Speaker 1: the lowest level, uh put underneath the cabin, underneath the
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  Speaker 1: sink that is reachable for kids and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: We don't keep them on the shelves, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: want to hide those things. And so so that's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, is that when you're telling me that Rashan,
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  Speaker 1: What you're doing is kind of like I would think
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  Speaker 1: would be normal if you're a parent and you're telling me.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of parents disregard that.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of parents disregarded. So there was a study
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  Speaker 3: that came out that says medications are a leading cause
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  Speaker 3: of accidental poisoning deaths in children. And so we have
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  Speaker 3: to really get to a point where we're training adults
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  Speaker 3: as well as children just safe medication practices, simple things
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  Speaker 3: just like putting it up and a way and out
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  Speaker 3: of the reach, out of the sight of the children.
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  Speaker 3: Lock it up if you can that we know.
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  Speaker 1: Then the simple things like that, do you do like
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  Speaker 1: sessions or when when you you know, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: here's a thing when.
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  Speaker 3: You when you.
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  Speaker 1: Always your parent and just like I am, and your
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  Speaker 1: goal is you want your you want your children tout
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  Speaker 1: live you. And so as an adult, the number one
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  Speaker 1: problem as we as adults is that we don't follow
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  Speaker 1: the rules for ourselves. And man, know what I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: is that you know, it's just an example. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna name a medicine, but some medicine might call for,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the little measuring cup every six hours and
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  Speaker 1: we'll mess around and say I'm gonna take two measuring
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  Speaker 1: cups or a cup and a half of the measuring cup,
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  Speaker 1: trying to act like that will expedite the healing process.
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  Speaker 1: You were from USA. Tell my audience to stop doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Please stop doing that, because some medications have a delay reaction.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we want everything right now, right now, and
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  Speaker 3: so sometimes it has a delayed reaction. And so if
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  Speaker 3: you're compounding it, that is actually overdosing. You're getting too
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  Speaker 3: much of something. And then we have to get better
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  Speaker 3: with measurements, and we're actually on the medical side working
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  Speaker 3: on that. Keeping things like if I say one teaspoonful,
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  Speaker 3: but you might have a cup that has milli leaders
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  Speaker 3: on it. We got to standardize things more. So I
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  Speaker 3: say I'm gonna take one teaspoonful and you have a
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  Speaker 3: cup that has like ten and mils, but you take
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  Speaker 3: the full ten of MILS, that's double the dose. And
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  Speaker 3: so we just have to really be knowledgeable arm ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: If you're not sure, I tell people, ask a professional,
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  Speaker 3: axtra pharmacist. Don't just go ahead and go with it.
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  Speaker 3: Ask questions. Try to learn your medications, learn the routine,
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  Speaker 3: learn the measurements, other little tips like don't hold on
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  Speaker 3: to old medicine. Put those things away. Make sure your
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  Speaker 3: doctor knows all of your medications, especially if you use
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  Speaker 3: more than one doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Old medicineine, say.
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  Speaker 3: You go to one doctor or I'll say, medicine that
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  Speaker 3: you should no longer be taken. Right, and now your
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  Speaker 3: health is improving, but you want to hold onto this
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  Speaker 3: just in case or something like that. But what happens
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  Speaker 3: is some people get confused on drug names, drug dosages.
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  Speaker 3: Things change, so it's best to get rid of medicine
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  Speaker 3: that you should no longer be taken.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Now, I went to the pharmacists the other day,
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  Speaker 1: you know, huh, you know, and I've never you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna just tell you some doctor, Okay. You seem upbeat.
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  Speaker 1: You seem like if I go to the pharmacists, I'll
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  Speaker 1: go back there. You're smiling, you're happy. I've never seen
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  Speaker 1: a happy farmacist in my life. Are they working in
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  Speaker 1: the death? What's going on back there behind that count?
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  Speaker 1: All I want is my medicine. But it looked like
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  Speaker 1: they want to throw the medicine peels at me, like.
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  Speaker 3: They yes, that's going on.
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  Speaker 1: Why is it there are no happy pharmacists.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know what, we used to be the happiest people,
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  Speaker 3: and it used to be the desired profession. But now
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  Speaker 3: there's so many responsibilities placed on the pharmacists that they
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  Speaker 3: don't have time to do their job. And just imagine,
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  Speaker 3: you know, people, you have this mental health crisis, people
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  Speaker 3: coming there with the attitude one. You know, they go
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  Speaker 3: from one to ten. And you know, so you're dealing
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  Speaker 3: with a lot of people. You're dealing with doctors, you're
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  Speaker 3: dealing with customers. So it's just it's a lot on
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  Speaker 3: the pharmacist. So everybody has to be patient with one another.
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  Speaker 1: Oh really, okay, all I wanted to buy medicine. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I send in my little chair, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you go roughly through the little packages I called it in.
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  Speaker 1: You know, please just don't be But I've read this
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  Speaker 1: summer that there was some issues about the working hours
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  Speaker 1: and the workload that's being put on pharmacies that they
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  Speaker 1: were considering striking.
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  Speaker 3: Correct, That is correct. You know, the pharmacists they have
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  Speaker 3: to give vaccinations, right, they have to talk to the
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  Speaker 3: insurance companies, they have to cancel the patient they have
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  Speaker 3: to deal with, they have to feel the prescriptions. You
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  Speaker 3: may come in with one prescription, but somebody else may
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  Speaker 3: come in with ten to twenty prescriptions. I think you
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  Speaker 3: have hundreds of people like that. So that's why it
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  Speaker 3: takes so long to get your medicine.
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  Speaker 1: You mean somebody comes in there with seriously, you a pharmacists,
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  Speaker 1: I mean one person. Yes, we'll come in there, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: ten prescriptions.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, they call it polymedicine. Some people are just you're
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  Speaker 3: treating one thing. You know, medications have side effects, so
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  Speaker 3: then you got to treat that side effect. So it's
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  Speaker 3: just one thing after another. Then people have multiple diseases,
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  Speaker 3: so they may have heart disease, they may have asthma,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they have all these other things. They may
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  Speaker 3: have some kind of mental health issue going on. So
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  Speaker 3: everything is just compounded and it's not uncommon for someone
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  Speaker 3: to have that many medications. Now see it every day.
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  Speaker 1: Well that was said our real professional. And so as
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  Speaker 1: an age you know? You have teams, you have your
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  Speaker 1: first of all, we only show talk about three and
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  Speaker 1: four year old kids, which we're going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the next break, and then you have you know, middle school,
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  Speaker 3: I really think we need to focus on the teams.
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  Speaker 3: The teams are becoming There is more and more drug use.
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  Speaker 3: There's more because of the medications in the home than
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  Speaker 3: maybe getting it from the parents, but they're sharing it
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  Speaker 3: at school. So I really think we need to focus
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  Speaker 1: and safety, addressing we are addressing an important issue that
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  Speaker 1: affects family, preventing accidental overdoses and powering children with knowledge
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  Speaker 1: on medication and improving communications between the parents and the children.
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  Speaker 1: Please talk to me about that last statement. I just
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  Speaker 1: improving communications between the parent and the children. And we
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  Speaker 1: were talking about that. What age group are we talking about?
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  Speaker 1: The communication lane that you're.
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  Speaker 3: Discussing, it's really from four years old, you may even
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  Speaker 3: want to start at three years old up until nine
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  Speaker 3: to ten years old is a very important age range.
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  Speaker 3: We want to get them before they reach middle school
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  Speaker 3: and before they go to high school to really instill
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  Speaker 3: the importance of medication safety, how to keep themselves safe.
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  Speaker 3: Those are important age That's an important age range right now.
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  Speaker 1: When you talk about age range, how do you you
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  Speaker 1: an adult? How are you reaching this age range? Being
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  Speaker 1: that you're an adult, you're not their parents, and you're
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  Speaker 1: walking into an environment they're not even kindergarten yet. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: how are you reaching them?
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  Speaker 3: So when I do these medication safety sessions, I tailor
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  Speaker 3: it towards the age group, so you know you're talking
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  Speaker 3: to a little four year old, you can't it'll be
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  Speaker 3: different from the nine year old. So I try to
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  Speaker 3: tailor it. Just keep it as simple as possible, no
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  Speaker 3: big words, Just like you see this bottle, don't touch it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, things like that. Because all the children, they're
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  Speaker 3: so important, they're so valuable, and I want to say
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  Speaker 3: our elderly are too. I thought about that before we
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  Speaker 3: went to break. We're all important, we're all valuable, but
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  Speaker 3: we want to get them early and steal that training
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  Speaker 3: so they can learn how to make good decisions that
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  Speaker 3: would carry on through their adulthood.
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  Speaker 1: Now, with that being said, please elaborate your vision for
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  Speaker 1: your book, you know, because it's important. I know it's important.
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  Speaker 1: But what what what motivated you? You know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: was it a personal crisis in your life or a
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  Speaker 1: relative or something you read in the newspaper that said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I gotta do this.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't a personal crisis. But in our ministry, we
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  Speaker 3: would take our youth to a hospital for children with
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  Speaker 3: mental health issues. They were either homicidal or suicidal, and
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  Speaker 3: we were just ministers to them and just spread the
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  Speaker 3: love of God and give them hope and joy and
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  Speaker 3: so just working with children in that aspect just became
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  Speaker 3: a passion of mine. And so the book is based
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  Speaker 3: on actual events I had. When I was in school
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  Speaker 3: working on my clinical I had to create a community
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  Speaker 3: service project and I chose medication safety for children, and
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  Speaker 3: so in that I created a song just to make
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  Speaker 3: it fun, make it memorable, and I have actual demonstrations
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  Speaker 3: when I do the sessions where medicines actually look like
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  Speaker 3: candy and we try to see can they tell the difference,
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  Speaker 3: And most of the time the children and the adults
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  Speaker 3: cannot tell the difference. And so that is my main
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  Speaker 3: motivation because many medication related injuries, they are preventable, right,
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  Speaker 3: and so the book is just designed to help arm
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  Speaker 3: and just equip the parent and the child with knowledge
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  Speaker 3: that would help prevent those medication related injuries or bring harm.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, cool, let's bring it home back home to the parent,
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  Speaker 1: because this is the only issue.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: You you know, you can go to these schools, you
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  Speaker 1: can talk to these children that you don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: somehow you care about them. And like you said, there's
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  Speaker 1: some parents out there. Don't latch cabinets, don't put safety
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  Speaker 1: locks on doors. You know, keep dangerous chemicals and medicines
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  Speaker 1: and reachable levels for these kids. And I see that
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  Speaker 1: at this time of year because of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I know this for a fact, when
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Halloween hits, candy is everywhere, and candy gets smaller too,
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  Speaker 1: and candy can look like medicine sometimes can look like
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  Speaker 1: cick lits, can look like chick lits, and all these
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  Speaker 1: little gum drops and all these things. And so that
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  Speaker 1: means that we have to be even more important because
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that Halloween, you're getting it, and so
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  Speaker 1: you can see your child eating something, you can think
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  Speaker 1: they're eating candy. You're not thinking anything about it. Am
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  Speaker 1: I correct?
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  Speaker 3: That is so true. And now an even bigger problem
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  Speaker 3: are these edibles that are in the homes. The children
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: are getting getting sick from edibles. They're taking it to
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  Speaker 3: school and they're sharing it with each other, and they're
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  Speaker 3: getting sick. They're being rushed to the hospital. And I
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  Speaker 3: like to tell people that it was a Virginia mother
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  Speaker 3: that was charged with murder after her first four year
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  Speaker 3: old son dies from eating THHC gummies. So even when
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  Speaker 3: we talk about medications, I have to include edibles because
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  Speaker 3: it's so much marijuana in the homes now that they
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  Speaker 3: have to know that you need to put even those
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  Speaker 3: things up in a way because kids think it's just
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  Speaker 3: a tasty snack, you know, a good looking snack. It
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: may be a cookie, it may be a gummy, it
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: may be a brownie or anything like that. So we
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  Speaker 3: have to be vigilant in educating our parents on how
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  Speaker 3: to keep their children safe.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Now let's talk about the putting together the book. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: because everybody has a bright idea, like you told me,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: because I have to, I have to slow you down.
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  Speaker 1: You the one told me you knew you heard about
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: this pharmacy school over there. You just went over there
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: next thing, you know. It sounded like it was two years.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: It was eight years. Okay, So I got to slow
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  Speaker 1: you down. When you start talking about putting together this book.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Your inspirational window is a lot bigger than you lead
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  Speaker 1: us to believe. So you what is idea for a book?
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  Speaker 1: How did you start putting it together? And how did
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: you start motivating yourself that this was something that was
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: necessary to be achieved?
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  Speaker 3: Right? Okay, So when I got the idea, actually it
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: was my pastor that sold the seed. She was like,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: you need to put that in a book after the presentation.
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  Speaker 3: But it was until a couple of years later that
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: God reminded me to write the book. It's like I
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: heard it, write the book, and so I just started researching.
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  Speaker 3: I researched for like a year because I had no
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: idea where to start. So I would talk to people
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  Speaker 3: that had a book. I would research Do I self published?
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  Speaker 3: Do I go through a publishing company? So I researched
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: for like a year and finally I settled on someone
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  Speaker 3: pastor that has a publishing company, and he just helped me.
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  Speaker 3: We put together a team and editor, I found an
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: illustrator and it just went from there.
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  Speaker 1: Now when people listen online here, I also want to
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: use your approach to a and then if they have
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: a dream, if you want to write a book, what
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: were some of the hiccups that you encountered and putting
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: together your dream.
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  Speaker 3: I tell people, if you have set yourself a budget,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: you may want to double it or triple it because
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: every step it seems like I needed more money for it.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't work out, so I had to pay to
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: get something else done. So and I always tell people
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: to be patient and don't give up. Just keep edit,
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  Speaker 3: keep researching, surround yourself. I surrounded myself with other authors.
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  Speaker 3: I try to learn from them. I even went to
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: an author's class. So if it's something they want to do, research,
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  Speaker 3: take a class. If you have to just arm yourself
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  Speaker 3: with knowledge, It's what I would do.
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  Speaker 1: Now, doctor Yoyo, are you wrapping in? Are you wrapping
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: on this book? Are you wrapping on your music music tapestry?
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: You know, because doctor yo Yo sounds like a rapper
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: to me.
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  Speaker 3: Now, okay, you sound I sound like a rapper. I
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: ask the kids all the time, do I look like
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: a rapper? Give them some corny little rap and they'd
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: be like, oh, that's terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, you know you go for your London
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: to doctor Yoyo, that sounds like you're about to rap here.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to congratulate you because, like I said that,
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  Speaker 1: you know your company MetalMan, many managed consultants. It's needed,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: and I want I'm happy I brought you on the show.
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  Speaker 1: As we close, can you tow us again how we
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  Speaker 1: can find out more information and learn more about your
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  Speaker 1: incredible book is not candy and it's about saving young
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  Speaker 1: kids prepared who need help.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you can go to doctor yo yo dot org
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  Speaker 3: or madimanage dot org get information. We look to partner
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  Speaker 3: with organizations. We have school districts about the books and
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  Speaker 3: they put it in the classroom so the teachers can
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  Speaker 3: read it to the students. Just looking for partners, just
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  Speaker 3: to get the book out there. Get the message out
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  Speaker 3: there is the most important thing, because our children are
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  Speaker 3: important and their lives are valuable, and so together we
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  Speaker 3: all can help build a healthy community just by arming
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  Speaker 3: ourselves with that knowledge of medication safety.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Doc Jojo for coming on Money Making Conversation Mastericles.
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  Speaker 1: You are fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having.
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  Speaker 1: Me appreciate it and again next week. And then thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys for listening to my three episodes of the
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  Speaker 1: Value Proposition. I'll be back next week again. Just a
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  Speaker 1: holiday season, take time to rest and take care of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Bye bye.
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