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She is sure, she is true, she is strong, she
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is she is true, is true, she is Braise Bray,
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she is she is you.
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Hello, everyone, Welcome to Word of Mom Radio. Here on
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the Word of Mom Media Network. I'm your host, Dori
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Di Carlo. And you know we are here week after week,
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show after show, breaking those myths that business women and morepreneurs,
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especially us building our businesses from home, that we're just
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dabbling in between bake sales and getting our nails done.
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We're not. We are smart, we are savvy, and we
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are sharing the wisdom of women in business and in life.
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And I am really delighted to be bringing today's guest
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in Bran Cisco is a remarkable creative professional whose life
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and work reflect an uncommon blend of business expertise, artistic expression,
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and compassion for others. With a distinguished career in fine
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nance and an extraordinary range of accomplishments in writing, performance, film,
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music and advocacy, brand offers a perspective shaped by both
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professional excellence and personal authenticity. With more than two hundred shows,
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award winning creative work, and years of conversation about identity,
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justice and humanity, I'm really thrilled to have Fran here
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so we can talk about her creativity, resilience, transition, purpose
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and the experiences that have shaped her incredibly unique journey.
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So I could keep going on and on and tell
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you more, but I can't wait to get Frean here
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so she can share her journey. So Fran, welcome to
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Word of Mom Radio.
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So happy to be here, Dorry, very very happy.
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Yeah, I'm thrilled to have you here, and I would
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love for you to take our listeners on your journey
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because it's remarkable.
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To hear it from you in that short space, and
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to hear it condensed like that is really amazing to
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me because it tells me not necessarily of what I've done,
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but what the world offers and what I took advantage of.
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I feel like I've been lucky and being in the
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right place at the right time so many different times,
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and also being guided by God by people that during
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the struggles in my life, I was able to get
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through them. So far, we all have amazing struggles. And
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to be part of what you have focused on about women,
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I'm extraordinarily gifted to consider myself a woman now. From
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when I was eight years old, I used to lie
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in bed. As an Italian American Catholic, I would say
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my Hail Mary's at night going to sleep, and I
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would pray that I would turn into a girl all
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by morning and I saw I would say twenty thirty
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forty until I did fall asleep, and then the morning
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would come and I wouldn't be a girl, obviously, but
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I did believe that somehow I would become one, and
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it was part of my identity, but it was secretive,
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it was hidden. I didn't share that with anyone except
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christ and Mary, and so as I grew up, though
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I got to be more expressed about it. I started
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cross dressing. Sometimes. It was to deal with pain, a
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way to sort of medicate myself through cross stressing or
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soothe myself, and it worked for a while. One of
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the big challenges I had was when my grandfather, who
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I lived in his house. My family, my brother, mother
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and father, and my father's brother and their kids and
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wife lived in my grandfather's house and he died suddenly
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when I was ten and he was about two or
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so fifty three, and that shock to the family was
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really rough to get through. And I think that during
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that period of time I then cross stressed, which I
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considered as sin, you know at the time, to really
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just release some tension and pressure and stuff like that. Ordinarily,
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I led a life as a male, played sports, did
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all the things that boys did, boxed, got into fights
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and things like that. When I was growing up, but
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really wanted to be female. I think I was influenced
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by my mother. I loved her so much. I loved
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my father, but it was my mother's sensitivity, her way
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of dealing with issues and problems in a very measured way,
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that made me really identify more with her way of
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being and possibly that influenced my gender identity. So it
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wasn't until I married. I have a daughter, wonderful daughter,
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who is forty two. Now. I am still married to
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my wife. Although we don't live together. She has never
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adjusted to me being female. Although we do spend time together,
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you know, once in a while, and we were on
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the phone often during the week. We share what each
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of us are going through in our life. So I
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kind of had the best of both worlds, I felt. Professionally,
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I was lucky to get into a great firm called
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Price Waterhouse, which was one of the top CPA firms.
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I had many of the biggest clients that the firm
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had were my clients too. I traveled, I went to Algeria,
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in Europe and the western part of the United States.
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I did a lot of work like that. Then I
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started focusing more on smaller situations. Small businesses and individuals
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serve a lot of retired people, many of them women.
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I seemed to identify more with what they maybe going
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through as a widow, perhaps as a callback to when
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I lived in the house with my grandmother when she
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was living like that as a widow. And then I
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got into performing as a way of self expression, especially
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when my parents became ill. My father had Alzheimer's and
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my mother had Parkinson's, and it was really difficult handling
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their care, hiring the caregivers, and visiting my parents each day,
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and they expressed the wish of remaining in their home
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and not going into an assisted living facility or nursing home,
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and I respected that so for a period of about
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ten years, which I at the time felt was a burden,
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and then later and now find it it was really
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a gift. I mean, it wasn't a gift that they
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were sick, but it was a gift that I had
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the pleasure the privilege of taking care of them. I
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could feel myself getting a little emotional about that, and
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it was really a phenomenal thing. And I got to
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see them and I think helped inspire them to be
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their best selves during that period where they could have
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gone into complete depression. And we did lots of things.
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I had about thirty caregivers over a period of time
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who served them and who were maybe the most numerous
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of the people who attended their weeks. So I'm jumping
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around a bit, but I think you're getting maybe the
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insight to what makes me tick, namely family. It's a
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very important part of.
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It being Italian, that closeness. I totally understand praying to Mary.
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I used to pray to marry and be like, can
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you tell Jesus I did this? And LI, God know
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I did that, and the comfort that it brings, even though,
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like you said, for all those years of living in secret,
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that you're not anymore. You're over sixty five and transitioned
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in living your female life, and so many people are
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out there trying to find the way to live that
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authentic life. What do you want to say?
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What I want to say to people who are in
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the beginning stages, especially those people. Those people in the
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beginning stages, say of a transition, let's take people transitioning
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from male to female as an example, but a transition
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could be I just helped a woman transition from a
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life with just making ends meet who lived in a
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house with lots of equity that was away from town.
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I helped their transition into a beautiful rented apartment in
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the middle of town where she could walk around town
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and get the train and get the bus, et cetera,
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and into an apartment that she could afford living off
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the money from the house that she sold. And I
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was instrumental in every part of that or transition like
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getting laid off because your job is no longer necessary
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or whatever the reason for transitions. But one very important
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transition that I've been through that I feel like I
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really can help families with, perhaps maybe more obvious, is
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a transition from male to female. And that's a really
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rough one, and especially in some cultures, especially like the
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Italian American culture, especially New York Italian American, which really
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prejudiced in their own way, right, God blesses them. And
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one of the things is to be fully expressed. And
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it's hard to be fully expressed when you're dealing with
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lots of prejudice against you. But what I found to
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go back to when my parents were ill, I was
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getting so overwhelmed with that struggle that I needed to
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be expressed about that. And at the same time, I
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was transitioning from male to female. And I went on
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January one, two thousand and eleven, so it's one one
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one one. I went full time female. I just told basically,
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I threw out all my male clothes, I brought him
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to Salvation Army, and I took the k off of
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Frank and I became fran on that one day. I
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then started telling everybody about it, my clients, my family,
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my friends. Really very luckily, maybe because I was expressed
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about it, maybe because I prayed about it, maybe I
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was very sincere in a way I approached it, but
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they all stuck by me, and it was really incredible.
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It was like Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life
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when he goes back and he sees what people really
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thought of him. I had the great opportunity of seeing
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what people really thought about me because they said no, no,
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I'll stay. I want you to still be my cpa
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or I will still be your friend, and I will
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go shoot pool with you when you want, and I
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will still be your cousin and all of that in
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my life. It was like such story. It felt like
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Jimmy Stewart and it's a wonderful life.
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And as a mom, I have to say, and I
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see so many moms out there who are dealing with
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this in their own families and feel so lost, And
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what did I do? And who you are is who
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you are? That's it. You were a little boy, you
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already knew you were, not who you were supposed to
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really be. Why people feel threatened by it or whatever
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is really what's making me tear up, because it is
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so ridiculous to have any negative feelings. To say that
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still my friends, still my cousin just hit my heart.
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That's still my cousin is what really hit my heart.
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Because family, you're never supposed to be able to hit
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a wall. That's your family. And that's what unconditional love
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is all about. And as a mom, I have that
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unconditional love in my life that who you are is
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who you are, and it's in anything like you said,
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transitioning from this to that, from working to retired, from
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married to divorced.
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Right, there are so.
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Many transitions our lives go through, and people can be cruel.
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So I'm thrilled that people love you and know you
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well enough that who you are is who you are.
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And I love the angel number that you went one
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one one one one. That is such a strong transition number.
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If anybody doesn't know about numerology, look up one one
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one one. See what that angel meaning is.
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You'll get a kick out of this. Eleven eleven also
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has been very significant to me, and on the phone
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when it goes, when your phone goes to eleven eleven,
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or on the stove, or on the clock, especially digital clocks,
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you know you get that eleven eleven. I've been taking photos.
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Even last night in the car, I pulled the phone
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out and took a photo. It's a reminder that these
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are other influences around us, and life maybe has meaning
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an influence that we don't often see, but we get
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glimpses of it. And during that whole period of transition
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from that one one one one, actually what happened is
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I wanted my mother to be on board with my transition.
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She was resisting it. No, don't, don't, We'll see no. No.
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She loved me and she wanted the best for me,
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but she knew that one might have been a tough
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thing because I had come out to a client of mine,
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and my client, Doren suggested because her son, who was gay,
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came out to her and she saw the difference in
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their relationship, the honesty and the trust and stuff that
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developed because of that authenticity and that coming out. I
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tried to get over to see my mother to show her, well,
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I don't look that offensive when I'm dressed as a female.
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Maybe this could work. And she says, no, no, no,
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Jennifer is going to be here until six o'clock. I said,
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I'll come after six o'clock, so I made sure it
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was after. But when I got there, Jennifer was still there.
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So I was already there and Jennifer sees me pull
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up in my car. She comes down the steps and
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she says to me, Fran, what are you doing. I said, oh,
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it's Halloween. She says, no, no, this is too real
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to be just Halloween. What's still? And I explained it
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to her in the car. She had to go to
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the bus, so I said, I'll drive you to the bus.
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She waved the bus past, and she says, I want
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to talk to you, and she had very serious. She's
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only a thirty eight year old mother of three. She
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was talking to me, telling me things that I've been
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trying to solve for sixty years, you know. And she did.
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And she says, to me and my husband, when we
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want to handle a difficult thing, what we look for
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is the simplest way to approach it, not the most complicated.
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We don't look at every alternative, every opportunity. We go
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by what we feel is right. And what do you
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feel is right? Do you want to be a male
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or a female? And I said female? Right then like
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that and she said that's it. I said, well, I
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can't just be a female. I have one hundred clients
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and I have my family members. What's my father going
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to say? My father is he was born here, but
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he's galibraids. What are they going to what about my wife?
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What's my daughter going to say? I'm coming up with
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all these reasons. She's so oh easy. They'll all accept you.
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They love you, don't They said, yes, then they will
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accept you. So for the young people out there. For
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the mothers and fathers who have children, some of their
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children maybe forty or fifty, who are transitioning or feel
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that they need to use a lot of love and kindness.
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you as the friend, the cousin express what's wrong with
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the situation, and sometimes you'll find that their reasoning has
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merit another path. But the more that you express oneself,
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the more information comes into it, and the greater chance
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there is for kindness and fairness and love to enter
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into the equation.
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You know what, It's so hard because again in everything,
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in every one of those transitions, it is still the
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fear of what are people going to think? What are
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they going to say? And ultimately who you are is
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who you are, and happy comes from yourself, right it does?
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It does.
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There are some practical things too, for example, but another
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part it should be in transgender. Another way to look
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at it is more like the Native Americans see it
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as a two spirited person, that you're both male and female,
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that you don't have to make these major changes. When
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I was starting to transition, I would listen to tapes
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in the morning that helped.
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and I would practice it and I would listen to
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the speaker, but it wasn't right.
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For me, was fake.
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So I went back because I would go into the
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world and I would start talking like that, start imagining
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these different gestures and stuff, and people would say, what's
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going on?
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What are you doing? You know, like it wasn't me,
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you know, So I went basically back to speaking in
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my regular voice. And I know that didn't sit well
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with some people, but for most people was okay because
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it was more me. It was more authentic being that
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to me.
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Nothing Fran, do you remember being Arthur? Yes, right, I
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have news for you. I have a deep voice on
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the phone.
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Yes.
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I've had people ask that don't know me. Are you
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a man or a woman?
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Yes?
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Right?
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The last time I checked, girl, Sorry that I have
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a deep voice. Here's the thing. Everybody's got the right
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to be who they are and loved for themselves, not
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for who people think you should be or anything else.
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But it loved for you.
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And I know that that's part of what you do
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with you. Talk to me about some.
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Of the movies you know you have in June, which
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is nationally that's recognized as Pride Month, and I have
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shown several of my films during Pride Month. I've performed
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as a comedian, as a singer, I write songs. I
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have about three hundred and fifty poems and songs that
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I've written, and many of which I've performed with other
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people and myself. I'm asked during Pride Month to do that,
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but not just Pride Month. So in the beginning stages
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of my transition, Pride was very, very important to me
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because now I was accepted, I was proud. That was
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fourteen years ago. Fifteen years ago, right, So I'm more
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involved in the everyday part of life than separating life
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between LGBT and non LGBT. That said, I just won
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a festival for Best LGBT Film a few months ago
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to Goldendoor Film Festival, which is coming up again now.
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And then now I'm nominated for seven films, six live
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during the festival and one online. And one of the
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films has nothing to do with being trans It's Joe Franklin.
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Was on our show. Oh, he was one of my dearest,
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dearest friends. He used to tell me that I was
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a young Dorothy Lamore and anytime I went into the
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city Joe, we went out to dinner, We went to
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shows to see Barbara Cook perform with him in a
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little wonderful, amazing room with maybe seventy five invited people.
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I love that you're doing Joe's film. I have to
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can't wait to see it.
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Oh, it was no, it was such a joy to
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be with him. I didn't know him as well as
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you do, but I would talk to Joe often. He
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would call into the radio show that myself and Tom
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Sullivan were co hosts of at wvox In show for
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many years, so Joe would call in and we would talk.
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bring in eighty year olds and ninety year olds to
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perform in the studio, ten of them to sing or
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do a skit or tell a joke or whatever and
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really give props to those older people. And Joe was
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doing a similar thing all those years, so we identified
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a lot with him, and then one day we went
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down Tom Sullivan, myself and Steve siwaka Third Friend. We
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went down and we interviewed Joe, and from that we
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pulled one hour and ten minute film called Joe Franklin
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our hour with him and it was priceless. This is
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basically an unedited version of this interview. The cinema verite
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aspects of it that was so real with less editing
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made it even more Joe. So I have that film
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is going to be in this festival, and it's going
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to be in June, and I'll get over to you
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this schedule and everything, and it's on Facebook under the
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North Film Festival t n FF in June.
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Brand's links are going to be lived Bord of Mom
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and we will be sending out this to our listeners,
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those of you who are in New York. Come out
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to these wonderful film festivals, especially during Pride month. So
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much going on.
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That's June tenth, and I'll put the link up. I
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wanted to mention a couple of these other films that
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maybe give us a feeling about why I believe so
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strongly in full disclosure and freedom of expression being fully expressed.
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And that's the lesson I learned when my parents were sick,
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was getting depressed, like what do I do about this?
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I saw an ad for stand up comedy and I
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went for it, and I started taking classes in stand
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up comedy. I had always been funny. I was entertained
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my friends and some once in a while the show
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here and there, but I went I put some seriousness
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with it, and I ended up lucking out into a
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great group of people quite a bit. And that was
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the thing that really helped me. That's and saying some
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novenas and things like that helped me really be fully
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expressed about being trans. And I found through that I
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was getting so much support it became addictive. It really
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became addictive then the more. And I saw that in
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other comedians that they often were in comedy because they
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were having struggles going on in their life. So there's
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always say something in My father's mother used to say
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a lot, and many people of their generation, there's always
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a silver lining. You just have to look for it.
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There's an opening that you have that allows other people
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to come in and then together you end up finding
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the answers to many issues in your channel. Which I'm
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so glad to have met you.
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You know, we met at Anthony's Christmas party and Anthony's
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Christmas and Anthony Valbier. I met Anthony was our director
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for Death of a Salesman that I was playing the
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woman in and you had come to the show. We
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had met at the party and I started talking with you,
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and then somebody mentioned your films, and I said, come
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on the show, Come let everybody know what you're doing.
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Why have a platform if you can't promote people that
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you like and respect.
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I was so happy that we and I'm so happy
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for your diligence and following up with me too. So
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I want to mention that these other films, one film
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my daughter is in. And my daughter is my biggest supporter. Actually,
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she's forty two now, and so when I transitioned, she
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was twenty seven, I guess or so at that time,
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and she had boyfriends and stuff, some of whom didn't
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understand about being trans. Plus that was fifteen years ago too.
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A lot it's changed since then. She'll perform with me,
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will be on a stage together doing comedy, she'll sing.
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We've co written some songs, and one song we have
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is called happy trans Girl like Me. That's saying I'm
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happy and this is why. And the song says that,
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and it's a feel good song that we have won
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Best Music Video for and Best Short Films. Yeah, and
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then there's a friend of mine, who is seeking asylum
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from Ghana as a trans woman, black woman, and she
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sang a song that I wrote for her, actually a
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parody of Le'Veon Rose. I wrote a different set of
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lyrics for it, and she performed it at this very
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sophisticated ballroom at a women's club. That became another short film,
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one couple of awards in the past. And then I
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have a longer film. It's going to be on Zoom.
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It's an hour and ten minutes long. Also like Joe
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Franklin's film, it's called It's an Italian Thing. No, it's
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a Black Thing, and it's about how this Italian aging
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trans woman falls in love with a young black girl
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and how the two families deal with that. There's a
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lot of comedy in it. And then I have a
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book about that. I put it in book form, So
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the book is on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Now
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if anyone wants to read it.
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I'm looking we'll have the link up to that. Yes, yes,
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So that bull of Frans links up to anything and
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everything that she's doing.
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Reach Out and I love I love what you're doing
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because you're really helping. You know, you're helping people who participate,
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and then you're helping the people that listen to it.
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This is a podcast, so you'll hear it audio. We
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have a podcast channel on YouTube and Spotify and Amazon
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and everywhere that you're listening to podcasts, you can find
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Word of Mom radio. But then we'll do some reels.
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We'll take some little video snips of stuff that you're
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talking about and that I'm talking about. We'll throw it
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up on our TikTok channel and YouTube, and we do
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what we can to share everybody because there's so much
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out there, and this is the time of the year
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art festivals and theater festivals, movie festivals. You know, it's funny,
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Shit's Creek and Covid. I think that Covid and that
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show did more to open people's eyes to just letting
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people be people. Right, that's right, And for me, I
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have been blessed with people in all walks of life
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and their journeys are remarkable, as is yours. Because we're
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gonna have to wrap this up and I can just
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be talking to you forever. So you've been talking about
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your comedy. You know, I know you have a tight ten.
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You have a tight two is.
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A little joke you know when I was friends and
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it's true, a true story. When I was first transitioning,
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I thought, how can I tell my father before I
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physically started dressing that way in his presence? I said,
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what am I going to say to him? You know,
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he showed me how to play baseball and box and
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doing it, and he considers me a real guy and
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all that, and what is he going to think of me?
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What is he going to say? So I said, I know,
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I'll find out what he knows first and then I'll
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tailor it to that. So I said, Dad, you know
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about this LGBT stuff. He says, oh, yeah, yeah, I
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know about LGBT. Yeah, I know about LGBT. I tried that.
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I said, Dad, you tried LGBT. He says, yeah, I
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tried it. I didn't like it. I mean, I like
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the bacon, lettuce, and tomato, but I didn't like the
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gorgan zola cheese. True story. And my mom, I don't know,
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deserve time for one more or.
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Because I'm laughing too hard.
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And my mom went to her and I said, Mom,
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starting one one, one one, I'm gonna be dressed only
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as a female. I wanted to let you know that
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so next week there's one one one one. She says,
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what are you crazy, Frankie? What are you doing? What
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she used to call me, Frankie, Frankie, what are you doing?
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You're a good looking guy. What are you gonna dress
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as a woman for? Come on, what are you doing?
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What's your wife gonna say? What's your daughter gonna say?
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I said, Mom, you have been known, but it's been
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with me all my life. This is what I'm gonna do.
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I said, I'm gonna come here for now, one starting
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one to one as a female. So I go in
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the first day, you know, to her house. I opened
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the door. She's sitting on the couch watching television, and
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she says, Franky, come on, I didn't look that good.
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I don't think, you know. I mean, I had been
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cross dressing, but I don't think I really did that
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good of a job, you know. And my mom was
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a very good looking woman, even when she got sick
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and stuff. She says, nah, No. So second day went by, third,
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I got better and better each day because now I
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needed to my mom. I wanted her love right. I
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wanted her at least love me as somebody that she
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could look. So the seventh day, I go in and
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I had this black and white polka dot dress, really
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sharp looking dress. I had a new wig at that time.
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My hair wasn't long, you know, I had a new wig. Gone.
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I took time with my makeup. I had the right
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colored lipstick and stuff. And I walk in and opened
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the door and I'm standing there and she says, fran
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She didn't say Frankie.
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She said, Fran, you look good today. She said, you
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even have a glow about you. I said, Mom, you.
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Think I'm pregnant. Because she said you had a glow
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about you. So so I don't hear you laughing, because
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you haven't muted. I understand her. You think I'm pregnant.51200:29:52.000 --> 00:29:55.799
So she said she had dementia to go with the Parkinson's,51300:29:55.839 --> 00:29:57.240
you know, And she says.51400:29:57.319 --> 00:29:57.839
You are.51500:29:59.599 --> 00:30:03.759
I said, Mom, I can't be pregnant. She says, oh,51600:30:03.839 --> 00:30:09.559
that's right, you're too old. The things, there was so51700:30:09.720 --> 00:30:13.559
many funny, wonderful things happening in my life. So all51800:30:13.599 --> 00:30:16.079
I did was I got on stage and I shared them.51900:30:16.119 --> 00:30:18.319
And I think I really helped a lot of people52000:30:18.359 --> 00:30:22.680
in the audience deal with their own transitions of gender,52100:30:23.000 --> 00:30:27.960
of everything, of sexuality, of money, of divorce, like you mentioned,52200:30:28.079 --> 00:30:30.960
of everything. We're all going through a lot of transitions52300:30:31.000 --> 00:30:33.400
and we all need each other and we all want52400:30:33.440 --> 00:30:36.440
to share the love. And your show is a really52500:30:36.519 --> 00:30:39.680
wonderful addition to my life. And I'm going to go52600:30:39.759 --> 00:30:42.319
on and find out what many of these other women52700:30:42.440 --> 00:30:42.920
have said.52800:30:43.480 --> 00:30:46.440
I'm glad it has been an honor for me all52900:30:46.480 --> 00:30:49.359
these years. The amazing people that I have had the53000:30:49.400 --> 00:30:54.880
opportunity to share their journeys, to introduce people to new things,53100:30:55.680 --> 00:30:58.960
and that's what it's all about. So as we're wrapping up, Fran,53200:30:59.440 --> 00:31:02.200
how can people reach out to you? What would you53300:31:02.240 --> 00:31:02.839
like to say?53400:31:03.200 --> 00:31:07.880
They can go to my website which is www dot53500:31:08.599 --> 00:31:13.640
trans t r A n s Fran f r A53600:31:13.960 --> 00:31:19.920
n Cisco s I s c O dot com. That53700:31:20.079 --> 00:31:26.279
references it over to the site trans Francisco dot WordPress53800:31:26.559 --> 00:31:29.799
dot com, so either of those will get you there,53900:31:29.880 --> 00:31:35.200
and on that page we'll have my email address and54000:31:35.759 --> 00:31:39.759
a lot of information about myself, and they also can54100:31:39.839 --> 00:31:43.039
email me they want to take that down when they54200:31:43.039 --> 00:31:46.799
hear this at Francis f r A N c I54300:31:47.039 --> 00:31:50.039
s like the Pope Cisco s I s c O54400:31:50.279 --> 00:31:53.599
at aol dot com. And when they contact me, I'll54500:31:53.759 --> 00:31:56.319
be free to give them my phone number and stuff54600:31:56.359 --> 00:31:59.480
like that. More from performing in New York City, and54700:31:59.519 --> 00:32:04.160
there are plays around in Westchester County, in Greenwich, Connecticut, Stanford,54800:32:04.319 --> 00:32:07.559
et cetera, where there are performances, and I can tell54900:32:07.559 --> 00:32:10.920
you about these different film festivals. I hope you come55000:32:10.960 --> 00:32:14.000
and enjoy some of the films and some of the55100:32:14.039 --> 00:32:17.279
plays and some of the shows and stuff that are55200:32:17.319 --> 00:32:21.400
put on. And also, if you look to find out55300:32:21.440 --> 00:32:25.079
more about me on the website, there's information about my55400:32:25.680 --> 00:32:29.680
being a CPA and a financial advisor and that information55500:32:29.799 --> 00:32:30.200
as well.55600:32:30.359 --> 00:32:33.720
Oh, Fran's links are going to be live, and trust me,55700:32:33.839 --> 00:32:36.920
with our show, you're going to be hearing a lot55800:32:37.079 --> 00:32:39.519
about Frand because I'm going to be taking our show55900:32:39.680 --> 00:32:42.160
to a bunch of these different festivals. We're going to56000:32:42.240 --> 00:32:44.599
have to take the show to what comedy clubs some night?56100:32:45.400 --> 00:32:48.759
And oh yeah, if I need to be able to56200:32:48.839 --> 00:32:52.680
throw in because I'm really hoping that this is the56300:32:52.720 --> 00:32:56.960
first of many times that friend will be sharing her56400:32:57.039 --> 00:32:59.880
journey with us, because I wish you could meet her56500:33:00.039 --> 00:33:03.839
in person. There's this great electricity about her, and I'm56600:33:03.920 --> 00:33:06.960
just excited to be able to share everything. So I56700:33:07.039 --> 00:33:09.599
thank you so much. Thank you for taking the time56800:33:09.640 --> 00:33:13.079
today to come and share with us. This show is56900:33:13.119 --> 00:33:16.240
going to be up all through Pride Month and everything else,57000:33:16.400 --> 00:33:19.799
and just on a continuum, we're going to be featuring57100:33:19.839 --> 00:33:22.400
the show and you're just constantly going to be hearing57200:33:22.440 --> 00:33:23.200
about more stuff.57300:33:23.359 --> 00:33:26.559
Thank you so much, Dory. You are a wonderful person.57400:33:26.759 --> 00:33:30.759
And I really enjoyed all this time and enjoy our57500:33:30.759 --> 00:33:33.799
relationship going forward too, and thank you looking forward to57600:33:33.960 --> 00:33:35.039
including me in the show.57700:33:35.160 --> 00:33:38.480
Thank you my pleasure, and for all of you tuning in,57800:33:38.680 --> 00:33:40.480
thank you so much for being here. We're going to57900:33:40.559 --> 00:33:44.559
close out with our fabulous theme song from Smith's Sisters58000:33:44.720 --> 00:33:47.480
and the Sunday Drivers. So till next time, this is58100:33:47.519 --> 00:33:51.119
Dori di Carlo saying, go out and create a marvelous you.58200:33:51.440 --> 00:33:52.240
Bye for now.58300:33:55.200 --> 00:54:03.760
She is Dorsy strong, stroh, true, is true, she is braise,58400:54:04.480 --> 00:54:06.679
she is bold, she is you.58500:54:06.880 --> 00:54:08.519
She is she is she.58600:54:09.480 --> 00:54:12.559
Is sure, she is she is strong, is strong, she58700:54:12.639 --> 00:54:17.960
is true, is true, she is braized, she is bold,58800:54:18.000 --> 00:54:21.440
she she is you, she is she is she is58900:54:22.280 --> 00:54:25.679
sure of herself. Yes, she takes care of his powerful59000:54:25.760 --> 00:54:26.400
and strong.59100:54:26.679 --> 00:54:27.519
Yes, she knows who.59200:54:27.480 --> 00:54:31.840
She is has integrity, woman strong and true. You know59300:54:31.920 --> 00:54:35.960
her by name. See this woman is you. She is sure,59400:54:35.199 --> 00:54:39.159
she is strong, is strong, she is true, is true,59500:54:40.760 --> 00:54:44.519
she is brave, she is she is, she is you.59600:54:44.800 --> 00:54:49.519
She is she is, she is sure, she is strong,59700:54:49.800 --> 00:54:54.320
is strong, she is true, is true, she is brave,59800:54:55.159 --> 00:54:59.239
she is she is, she is you. She is she59900:54:58.639 --> 00:55:02.840
is as value and hope has proved to be brave.60000:55:03.079 --> 00:55:07.000
See it's never too late, never time to behave Reaching60100:55:07.079 --> 00:55:11.599
for dreams doesn't matter. The age believes in herself. Unleash60200:55:11.639 --> 00:55:14.280
from her cage. She is sure, she is sure, she60300:55:14.360 --> 00:55:19.880
is strong, is strong, she is true, she is brave,60400:55:20.599 --> 00:55:24.199
she is bold, she is you, she is, she is,60500:55:24.679 --> 00:55:28.800
she is sure, she is strong, she is strong, she60600:55:28.880 --> 00:55:35.800
is true, true, she is brave, she is she is you.
