# Uplift: Her nonprofit is dedicated to year‑round breast cancer awareness, and compassionate support for women undergoing treatment.

An episode of [Money Making Conversations Master Class](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1264705641), 7 Feb 2026, 28 min.

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Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Rhonda Spratt. Founder of Bella Luv, a Georgia‑based nonprofit (referred to in the transcript as Ghost Pink / Bella Luv) dedicated to year‑round breast cancer awareness, early detection advocacy, and compassionate support for women undergoing treatment. Inspired by her mother’s experience and eventual passing from metastatic breast cancer, Spratt explains her mission to move beyond October awareness campaigns and create continuous impact through education, community engagement, and personalized care boxes for women in active treatment. The conversation touches on her personal grief journey, her motivations, the work required to run a nonprofit, her practices for emotional balance, and her vision to normalize year‑round breast cancer education. 🎯 Purpose of the Interview 1. To Share Rhonda Spratt’s Motivation for Founding Bella Luv Her mother's breast cancer journey—early detection success followed by recurrence due to lack of ongoing screenings—motivated her to create a nonprofit that centers early detection and support. .txt) 2. To Educate Listeners About the Realities of Breast Cancer She discusses stages, recurrence, survival rates, and the importance of consistent mammograms beyond October. .txt) 3. To Promote Year‑Round Awareness and Action Spratt stresses that breast cancer does not “take a break” and that communities must stop limiting education and advocacy to Breast Cancer Awareness Month. .txt) 4. To Highlight the Work and Impact of Her Nonprofit Bella Luv has supported 76+ women nationwide with tailored care boxes that meet their personal treatment needs. .txt) 5. To Inspire Others to Balance Purpose, Grief, Community Work, and Personal Wellness She shares how golf, yoga, and intentional self‑care allow her to manage emotional weight while serving others. .txt) 📌 Key Takeaways 1. Early Detection Saves Lives • Breast cancer’s 5‑year survival rate is 99% with early detection. • Rhonda’s mother survived over 10 years after her first early diagnosis but passed when the cancer returned aggressively and was not caught in time. .txt) 2. Breast Cancer Awareness Should Be Year‑Round • October provides visibility, but many women are diagnosed in every month. • Limiting awareness to one month creates desensitization, not education. .txt) 3. Bella Luv Provides Tailored Support for Women in Treatment • Care boxes include mastectomy bras, aluminum‑free deodorant, skincare, ginger tea for chemo nausea, journals, and motivational items. • Boxes are customized based on the woman’s stage, treatment, and needs. .txt) 4. Running a Nonprofit Requires Community, Consistency & Help • Spratt initially did everything alone and highlights the importance of partnerships, sponsors, and consistent supporters. • Sustainably operating a nonprofit goes far beyond obtaining 501(c)(3) status. .txt) 5. Emotional Balance Is Essential • Supporting women “fighting for their lives” is heavy work. • Spratt uses yoga 3‑4 times per week and golf for mental balance and rejuvenation. .txt) 6. Nationwide Impact From a Georgia Base • Bella Luv has sent care boxes to women across the U.S., including Colorado and Houston. .txt) 7. Personal Loss Transformed Into Purpose • Spratt honors her mother without living in grief, finding healing in helping others. .txt) 💬 Notable Quotes (from the transcript) On early detection “If you detect…

## Transcript

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[0:38] Speaker 2: get this podcast started. I Guess is the founder of
[0:40] Speaker 2: Bello Louvey Goes Pink, a Chargia based nonprofit organization dedicated
[0:45] Speaker 2: to breast cancer works, education, and community engagement. Inspired by
[0:50] Speaker 2: her mother's battle with breast cancer, she launched an organization
[0:54] Speaker 2: to hon a legacy, promote early detection, and remind women
[0:57] Speaker 2: that breast cancer awareness.
[0:59] Speaker 1: Does not end in October.
[1:01] Speaker 2: Please welcome the Money Making Conversation master Class, the one
[1:04] Speaker 2: and only.
[1:05] Speaker 1: She's from Oklahoma. Brothers, how I'm doing well? Thank you, brother.
[1:10] Speaker 2: I could teach you because I'm from Houston, Texas, so
[1:13] Speaker 2: I've been up to the dust Bowl and all that
[1:15] Speaker 2: good stuff. One of my great friends, uh who's bodyguard
[1:18] Speaker 2: off of Steve Harvey Boom boom rang, he's he's from Oklahoma.
[1:21] Speaker 1: So I've been in Oklahoma a lot, some good food. Oklahoma.
[1:27] Speaker 2: Now you were born there, but you're not really an
[1:28] Speaker 2: Oklahoma girl, right, No, I'm really an Oklahoma girl.
[1:32] Speaker 3: I've been into Georgia longer than I was in Oklahoma.
[1:35] Speaker 3: Georgia girls, peach, I'm a peach.
[1:38] Speaker 1: Let's go and keep it real. Now, you know, I'm
[1:41] Speaker 1: a cancer survivor.
[1:42] Speaker 2: So when I all, let me let everybody know I
[1:45] Speaker 2: when I people submit to be a guess, I look
[1:48] Speaker 2: through in person and you're a nonprofit. You're young in
[1:51] Speaker 2: the game, young prophet. And so when people start saying, well,
[1:55] Speaker 2: you know they do that thing in October, I don't
[1:57] Speaker 2: have to do anything else. But your whole pitch is
[2:00] Speaker 2: cancer can hit you a year round, yes, total us.
[2:03] Speaker 3: Yes, So October gives us visibility for breast cancer, which
[2:07] Speaker 3: is great, but consistency is what increases the survival rate
[2:11] Speaker 3: of breast cancer. Breast cancer doesn't wait until October to
[2:14] Speaker 3: be diagnosed. Women are diagnosed every day with breast cancer,
[2:18] Speaker 3: and statistics have shown that if you detect breast cancer early,
[2:22] Speaker 3: the five year survival rate is ninety nine percent. So
[2:26] Speaker 3: that's why we are advocates for encouraging women to perform
[2:29] Speaker 3: monthly bro breast self exams and scheduled their annual mammograms
[2:33] Speaker 3: so they can detect breast cancer early.
[2:36] Speaker 1: Now, there are different types of breast cancer, is it? Yeah?
[2:39] Speaker 1: There are?
[2:39] Speaker 2: Okay, can you runners through that because all we hear
[2:42] Speaker 2: is just breast cancer, and we hear team things like
[2:45] Speaker 2: stage one, stage two, stage three, stage four. But there's
[2:48] Speaker 2: a lot of education and that's what you want to
[2:50] Speaker 2: bring to the table.
[2:51] Speaker 3: Yes, So stage one is early considered the early breast cancer.
[2:54] Speaker 3: So if you find that your survivor RTOR is greater,
[2:57] Speaker 3: increased and metastatic, which is what my mother had, that's
[3:00] Speaker 3: the later stage of breast cancer where basically it's some
[3:03] Speaker 3: women do live a little longer once they've been diagnosed
[3:06] Speaker 3: in stage four metastatic age, but more than likely your
[3:11] Speaker 3: chances of surviving are decreased.
[3:13] Speaker 2: I know we're talking about Jamama, but she did. She
[3:15] Speaker 2: is a person who did not survive breast cancer the process.
[3:18] Speaker 2: What could she have done different?
[3:20] Speaker 3: She could have skeltered her mammogram. She was diagnosed twice.
[3:25] Speaker 3: The first time she caught it early and she survived
[3:27] Speaker 3: over ten years.
[3:28] Speaker 1: Okay.
[3:28] Speaker 3: The second time it came back, it was more aggressive,
[3:31] Speaker 3: and she didn't have her annual mammogram like she was
[3:33] Speaker 3: supposed to have it. And so I strongly believe has
[3:36] Speaker 3: she caught it early, that she would still be with Okay, So.
[3:39] Speaker 2: Like I said, like I said, I'm a cancer survivor
[3:41] Speaker 2: at twenty fifteen. I every six months, I'm getting checked
[3:45] Speaker 2: because there are no guarantees that my cancer will not return,
[3:49] Speaker 2: and because the cancer is really is different from a standpoint,
[3:55] Speaker 2: it could be it could be very aggressive in some people.
[3:58] Speaker 2: Some people get diagnosed and they may be them died
[4:02] Speaker 2: too much later. Yeah, it depends on what the type
[4:05] Speaker 2: of counsel you get. And so it's important that you
[4:09] Speaker 2: people hear. What you just said is that she was
[4:13] Speaker 2: a cancer survivor.
[4:14] Speaker 1: This is a second time.
[4:16] Speaker 2: Yeah, but when she found out the second time, he
[4:19] Speaker 2: really kind of waited too late.
[4:20] Speaker 3: She waited too late. She didn't go, she didn't schedule
[4:23] Speaker 3: Andrew emigrant. She wasn't on top of it like she
[4:25] Speaker 3: was before. She allowed life different things. Her and my
[4:28] Speaker 3: dad were having some issues in their marriagement, and I
[4:30] Speaker 3: think that played a part in it too. She was distracted,
[4:34] Speaker 3: caught up with life instead of making her health a priority.
[4:37] Speaker 2: You seem to be a person that understand balance. Do
[4:40] Speaker 2: you have a life balance and do you have a
[4:43] Speaker 2: commitment to the community balance?
[4:44] Speaker 1: Yes, how do you do that?
[4:46] Speaker 3: So one of the ways that I balanced my life
[4:48] Speaker 3: I'm a commercial real estate professional, from not doing nine
[4:51] Speaker 3: to five. I intentionally participate in activities that I enjoy,
[4:55] Speaker 3: such as gold and another thing that I do is
[4:57] Speaker 3: I practiced yow with three to four times a week.
[5:00] Speaker 3: So I'm intentional about deliberately doing some type of activity weekly.
[5:05] Speaker 2: Well, you know, I got a step back, you know,
[5:07] Speaker 2: because you playing golf, and that's you've got to go
[5:10] Speaker 2: to the stereotype.
[5:11] Speaker 1: First of all, black man playing golf.
[5:12] Speaker 3: You know.
[5:13] Speaker 2: Now I'm sitting in front of a woman she's black,
[5:15] Speaker 2: who says, and you got a couple of girlfriends playing golf,
[5:18] Speaker 2: how did you get started in golf? And were they
[5:21] Speaker 2: into golf or did you drag them into the golf game.
[5:23] Speaker 3: I encouraged them to join the game. My dad used
[5:26] Speaker 3: to play golf growing up, so I always had an
[5:28] Speaker 3: interest in learning how to play golf. And so I
[5:31] Speaker 3: lost my father unfortunately too al least several years ago,
[5:35] Speaker 3: and during COVID, golf courses were the only thing that
[5:38] Speaker 3: was still open. So I found a coach and we
[5:41] Speaker 3: started learning how to You started teaching a group of us.
[5:44] Speaker 3: There was four other ladies that were interested in playing
[5:46] Speaker 3: COVID during COVID.
[5:48] Speaker 1: That's what we did. We learned how to play golf. Well,
[5:50] Speaker 1: it's the beauty of golf.
[5:51] Speaker 2: You have to stand away from each other, especially on
[5:53] Speaker 2: that Yeah, on that team, you know, nobody's.
[5:55] Speaker 1: Staying in clothes anyway. Yeah, that's interesting.
[5:58] Speaker 2: Fresh air, fresh air, spacious environment. So that was just
[6:02] Speaker 2: a natural to go back out on that course and
[6:05] Speaker 2: not feel uncomfortable in the game that you can, you know,
[6:08] Speaker 2: feel comfortable, feel comfortable without playing from your childhood.
[6:11] Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
[6:12] Speaker 3: And we didn't have to wear our masks, so that
[6:14] Speaker 3: was even more comforty, you know, doing such an uncertain
[6:17] Speaker 3: time during COVID.
[6:18] Speaker 1: Wow.
[6:18] Speaker 2: Yeah, I always tell people that you know, when you're
[6:23] Speaker 2: uncomfortable and you get in a position to be comfortable,
[6:27] Speaker 2: then that's when you can seek your highest level of happening.
[6:29] Speaker 1: So it's a couple of questions.
[6:30] Speaker 2: Are you submitsis of course I want to stay in
[6:32] Speaker 2: line with that, And you're saying turning personal laws into
[6:36] Speaker 2: purposeful action?
[6:37] Speaker 1: What is that?
[6:38] Speaker 3: That was starting the nonprofit organization to honor my mom.
[6:42] Speaker 3: So during COVID, you know, like many others, I was
[6:45] Speaker 3: reassessing my life, like what do I want to do
[6:47] Speaker 3: with my life? That's really how I want to continue.
[6:49] Speaker 3: I switched jobs. I was unhappy in the job I
[6:52] Speaker 3: was in, so I switched jobs doing COVID. And another
[6:55] Speaker 3: thing that I wanted to do is I wanted us
[6:57] Speaker 3: to do more as far as breast cancer awareness than
[7:00] Speaker 3: just wear pink and donate money.
[7:02] Speaker 1: So I was part of another.
[7:03] Speaker 3: Nonprofit for several years, but I wanted to be more
[7:06] Speaker 3: hands on instead in the background. So that's why I
[7:09] Speaker 3: started Bella Leve Ghost Pink. I wanted to intentionally gift
[7:13] Speaker 3: women with items that they need as they were going
[7:15] Speaker 3: through breast cancer. And these are things that I wish
[7:17] Speaker 3: we had had when my mom was going through her
[7:19] Speaker 3: breast cancer such as the ma sexomy bra, moisturizing skincare, lotion,
[7:25] Speaker 3: aluminum free deodorant, and ginger tea to help with the
[7:28] Speaker 3: nazias they're going through chemotherapy. So I've put together a
[7:31] Speaker 3: nonprofit and so we're three years in, but we've been
[7:35] Speaker 3: we've been able to support at least seventy six women
[7:38] Speaker 3: since we started the organization.
[7:40] Speaker 1: Now, how does one find out about your organization or
[7:43] Speaker 1: your nonprofit?
[7:44] Speaker 3: Well, most of it has been through referrals, but if
[7:46] Speaker 3: anyone's interested, they can visit www dot Bela Louve dot org.
[7:52] Speaker 1: And we have a I Do Billy.
[8:04] Speaker 3: It's spelled b e l l A l u b
[8:07] Speaker 3: is in victor e dot org Bella Yeah, And they
[8:10] Speaker 3: can request the box if you have to currently be
[8:12] Speaker 3: undergoing chemo or radiation to request the box.
[8:15] Speaker 1: And what is that box? The pink box.
[8:18] Speaker 3: It has the items and it has the pink brad,
[8:20] Speaker 3: the non toxic deodorant, moisturizing skincare, and motivational items and
[8:26] Speaker 3: a journal.
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[9:07] Speaker 1: Wow.
[9:08] Speaker 2: So I got to ask a question, the idea of
[9:11] Speaker 2: putting that together?
[9:12] Speaker 1: Talk to us about that?
[9:13] Speaker 3: So the idea of putting it together? I talked to
[9:15] Speaker 3: different women that I know that had been through breast
[9:18] Speaker 3: cancer and asked them what were some of the items
[9:20] Speaker 3: they would have liked to have as they were going
[9:24] Speaker 3: through breast cancer. So they shared some items with me.
[9:27] Speaker 3: And then I knew going through with my mom personally
[9:30] Speaker 3: that the bra was a big deal for her because
[9:33] Speaker 3: you know, women's breast, that's a very significant part of
[9:36] Speaker 3: our body. So I knew the having that special bra
[9:40] Speaker 3: that they needed if they had to have a lump
[9:42] Speaker 3: victomy or misseext to me is a very instrumental essential
[9:45] Speaker 3: part of the process, the healing journey.
[9:48] Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, because your mom passed yes
[9:50] Speaker 1: from breast cancer and doing what you're doing, is that
[9:53] Speaker 1: healing for you?
[9:54] Speaker 3: It is very heal. I enjoy it. I'll not explain it,
[9:57] Speaker 3: but I get joy from helping us, the women as
[10:01] Speaker 3: they're going through the healing journey. I do it is
[10:04] Speaker 3: it's therapeutic.
[10:05] Speaker 1: But it's worked.
[10:06] Speaker 3: Though it's worked.
[10:09] Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to bounce it out because I got
[10:11] Speaker 2: to ask this question because what people don't realize about
[10:14] Speaker 2: running nonprofit.
[10:15] Speaker 1: Give us some advice, because I've been.
[10:18] Speaker 2: On the dessert for a long time and I'm run
[10:20] Speaker 2: into a lot of people with this non profit idea,
[10:23] Speaker 2: and that is their loss to running a nonprofit. You
[10:27] Speaker 2: might get that five or one seat real quick.
[10:30] Speaker 1: Yeah, but after that, the work starts work.
[10:34] Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, you have to ask for help. In the beginning,
[10:38] Speaker 3: I was doing it. I was the one woman's show.
[10:39] Speaker 3: I was doing everything. So you have to ask for help,
[10:42] Speaker 3: and so that comes in the form of partnership sponsorship.
[10:45] Speaker 3: So I started reaching out to people telling them what
[10:47] Speaker 3: I did. And once I did that, people work very
[10:50] Speaker 3: supportive of me.
[10:52] Speaker 1: But what they're consistent though so far some of.
[10:54] Speaker 3: The organizations they have they have been consistent.
[10:57] Speaker 2: Because that's the key and you're in moving forward, is
[11:00] Speaker 2: inconsistency can lead to frustration.
[11:03] Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
[11:04] Speaker 3: So what I did is I found who was more
[11:07] Speaker 3: consistent and who believed in the mission, and I stuck
[11:09] Speaker 3: with them as far as partnering with them. So they've
[11:11] Speaker 3: been consistent for the last three years and it hasn't
[11:14] Speaker 3: been one person that's been an organization that the supports
[11:17] Speaker 3: us each year.
[11:18] Speaker 2: Okay, how do you like you said you kind of
[11:20] Speaker 2: said earlier? How you know women have to go through
[11:24] Speaker 2: a certain levels before they get a pink box from you?
[11:31] Speaker 2: What is the process? Do they go to your website?
[11:34] Speaker 2: Do they register?
[11:35] Speaker 3: Yes, So once you go to the website, there's a
[11:37] Speaker 3: button on there that says request the pink box. You
[11:39] Speaker 3: request the pink box, and it takes four to six
[11:42] Speaker 3: weeks for delivery. So there's a set of questions. There's
[11:45] Speaker 3: seven questions on there. Seven okay seven questions, give only
[11:53] Speaker 3: seven questions?
[11:54] Speaker 1: And can you can you say can you tell us.
[11:57] Speaker 3: What stage of breast cancer do you have? What's tis
[12:00] Speaker 3: broader you wear? Are you currently going through chemo? Or radiation.
[12:04] Speaker 3: It kind of gives us an idea of how to
[12:05] Speaker 3: build your box, okay, because some women don't have them
[12:08] Speaker 3: a sectomy, so they don't they don't need them, Brad,
[12:11] Speaker 3: So we're just going to give them items like the
[12:13] Speaker 3: lumina free, the odorant, the moisturizing lotion, and the motivational
[12:17] Speaker 3: magnet or something like that. So each box is different.
[12:20] Speaker 3: It's not a standard box.
[12:22] Speaker 1: You know.
[12:22] Speaker 2: I've had a several friends over my life that had
[12:25] Speaker 2: the breast cancer and the surgery, and I would you know,
[12:30] Speaker 2: and I would tell you our personality change, our relationship changed,
[12:34] Speaker 2: and I and I'm not saying that because we didn't
[12:37] Speaker 2: know how to communicate with each other anymore, you know,
[12:40] Speaker 2: because she felt she had lost something and it was
[12:44] Speaker 2: a little ashamed of how and we didn't have a relationship,
[12:48] Speaker 2: which it was frind.
[12:49] Speaker 1: Yeah, and so can you can you explain.
[12:51] Speaker 2: To my listeners exactly because I know you have not
[12:55] Speaker 2: had the surgery, but you are around enough women who've had that.
[13:00] Speaker 2: Like you said, it's very personal. Yeah, talk to us
[13:03] Speaker 2: why the impact of having that type of surgery. Can
[13:10] Speaker 2: I'm not using the word a woman feels less of
[13:12] Speaker 2: being a woman but it does impact them mentally as
[13:15] Speaker 2: well as physically.
[13:16] Speaker 1: I agree.
[13:17] Speaker 3: Yeah, So like I've been told that, it's like losing
[13:20] Speaker 3: a part of yourself, you know, losing your breast.
[13:23] Speaker 1: It's part of your womanhood.
[13:25] Speaker 3: And so that's again that's why I felt that one
[13:29] Speaker 3: of the most important items to have in the box
[13:32] Speaker 3: was that bra, because it's liberating to have that, you know,
[13:35] Speaker 3: that special bra that you need because you can no
[13:37] Speaker 3: longer wear just.
[13:38] Speaker 1: The basic bra. So that's what I've heard.
[13:40] Speaker 3: It's it's you feel like a part of your womanhood
[13:44] Speaker 3: has been taken away.
[13:45] Speaker 2: Yeah, because we make such a big deal about body parts,
[13:48] Speaker 2: you know, not just that but all body parts, you know,
[13:50] Speaker 2: our looks, and we live we're in such a physical
[13:53] Speaker 2: society where well, you know, if you don't have this,
[13:57] Speaker 2: then you don't you're not that and we all ready
[14:00] Speaker 2: balanced age and something like that comes along in top
[14:04] Speaker 2: of age. It just really just compounds you mo mentally
[14:07] Speaker 2: and physically and also can force you to lose confidence.
[14:11] Speaker 2: You say stated earlier in the interview run about seventy
[14:14] Speaker 2: six ladies you've impacted in your programs going on through
[14:17] Speaker 2: years and congratulations, by the way, do you keep up
[14:24] Speaker 2: with them.
[14:24] Speaker 3: Some of the women I do. We actually received thank
[14:27] Speaker 3: you notes from some of the women. So we don't
[14:29] Speaker 3: just support women here in Georgia. We're nationwide. So we've
[14:32] Speaker 3: sent this care box to women in Colorado, actually one
[14:37] Speaker 3: in Houston, so all over. So some of them I
[14:40] Speaker 3: do keep in touch with, and some of them I
[14:42] Speaker 3: never I never even meet.
[14:44] Speaker 2: Okay, it's just about giving them a personal gift. Let
[14:49] Speaker 2: people know that you don't know that there's hope, there's
[14:53] Speaker 2: hope that.
[14:54] Speaker 3: We're here to support them. They're seeing their loved you know.
[14:58] Speaker 2: Awesome, Awesome. I have a couple more coutions here balancing
[15:01] Speaker 2: her full time career. We kind of talked about that
[15:03] Speaker 2: a little bit. Real estate uh real estate agent correct
[15:08] Speaker 2: commercial commercial professional correct. I wish I saw face, she
[15:14] Speaker 2: like she looked down on me a little bit. I
[15:17] Speaker 2: told you I'm a professional. I don't know if a
[15:21] Speaker 2: little Oklahoma came out of here, Ronda with a whole
[15:24] Speaker 2: lot of Georgia, snap right me or snap and played
[15:27] Speaker 2: you call me a real estate agent one more time,
[15:30] Speaker 2: you're gonna we're gonna.
[15:30] Speaker 1: Cut the lights out.
[15:32] Speaker 2: And and I'm glad you have to bring us a
[15:34] Speaker 2: humor because you. You need that in the world you
[15:37] Speaker 2: live in. But there's a balance we all have to
[15:39] Speaker 2: live with. And the reason I bring that up because
[15:42] Speaker 2: you know, yeah, I can never be a preacher, you know,
[15:48] Speaker 2: and the Lord knows what a none does is incredible.
[15:53] Speaker 2: And but you are in the process of dealing with
[15:55] Speaker 2: people may not be happy and may have a ticking
[16:01] Speaker 2: clock that you may not may or may not be aware.
[16:05] Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out how do you go home
[16:08] Speaker 2: and balance that emotionally.
[16:10] Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, like I said, I practiced. I deliberately practice
[16:14] Speaker 3: yoga because it balances me and helps me. Came because
[16:18] Speaker 3: assisting women who are fighting for their lives, it does
[16:20] Speaker 3: become heavy, it does.
[16:23] Speaker 1: It becomes very heavy.
[16:24] Speaker 3: So I have to intentionally go walk make sure I,
[16:28] Speaker 3: you know, go to a yoga class at least three
[16:30] Speaker 3: or four times a week. So I'm delibered with that
[16:32] Speaker 3: because it can become consuming to me supporting those women, I.
[16:37] Speaker 1: Know, because of the fact that you're not God. No,
[16:42] Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
[16:42] Speaker 2: Yeah, and no matter how much prayer you give them,
[16:46] Speaker 2: they know the truth.
[16:47] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[16:48] Speaker 2: And so I'm just I reason not bringing it up
[16:52] Speaker 2: because letting everybody know that when you get into these.
[16:56] Speaker 1: Nonprofits and you step out there in the world.
[17:00] Speaker 2: Understand the variables that can come with success and failure.
[17:07] Speaker 1: Do you?
[17:08] Speaker 2: And I used to wear success and failure and you're
[17:11] Speaker 2: dealing with some people who are going to die.
[17:13] Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not failure. How do you quantify success?
[17:21] Speaker 3: I think I'm successful because I am in the position
[17:24] Speaker 3: to support these women. I'm using the gifts the God's
[17:27] Speaker 3: given me to support these women. That's success to me.
[17:30] Speaker 3: And like I said, I deliberately I get joy from
[17:33] Speaker 3: helping these women.
[17:34] Speaker 1: I really do.
[17:35] Speaker 3: Every time I'm preparing the boxes, the pink boxes, I
[17:38] Speaker 3: get joy from.
[17:39] Speaker 1: It's a sense of joy.
[17:40] Speaker 2: I can agree with you ever since a humor. Yeah,
[17:42] Speaker 2: you know you have not lost that and that that's important.
[17:45] Speaker 2: And because when you're round people, you don't bring sad
[17:49] Speaker 2: to sad people, you know.
[17:51] Speaker 1: I know when you come in and and your energy.
[17:53] Speaker 2: Is up here, and that's a beautiful thing because they
[17:55] Speaker 2: needed to be up here. I remember when I was
[17:58] Speaker 2: in hospital thirty days of my lung collapse, and I
[18:02] Speaker 2: would tell people, you in the hospital, a lot of sadness,
[18:04] Speaker 2: A lot of people come here, knock on your door,
[18:06] Speaker 2: they down here. I don't need you to come in
[18:08] Speaker 2: my look. First of all, I'm not trying to die, okay,
[18:11] Speaker 2: So I don't need you to come into my room
[18:14] Speaker 2: with a death tone. I need you to come in
[18:16] Speaker 2: there with hope, uplift. If you got that, get on
[18:20] Speaker 2: bout your business, because that's what you don't need. All
[18:22] Speaker 2: you need is just hope and to belief that when
[18:25] Speaker 2: you wake up the next day, you're going to wake up.
[18:28] Speaker 1: Every day mean something to you. Every day needs something
[18:30] Speaker 1: to me. I lived my.
[18:32] Speaker 2: Life not because I out of fear. I live my
[18:37] Speaker 2: life because I want to do something, do something. And
[18:40] Speaker 2: when when I look at you and I know faith
[18:43] Speaker 2: is driving your foundation.
[18:45] Speaker 3: Of course, definitely, Faith is definitely driving this mountain. And
[18:51] Speaker 3: it's all God. God placed it on my heart to
[18:54] Speaker 3: do this because I was a part of another nonprofit,
[18:56] Speaker 3: like I said, but I was in the background of
[18:59] Speaker 3: supporting and I was comfortable in the background. We're during COVID.
[19:02] Speaker 3: That was a strong call that I needed to step
[19:05] Speaker 3: up and do more. And so now I'm doing it,
[19:07] Speaker 3: and I feel so much better now that I'm doing
[19:10] Speaker 3: what I was instructed to do or led to do.
[19:12] Speaker 1: So how do you build community awareness? How did you
[19:15] Speaker 1: build it? How do I build it?
[19:17] Speaker 3: You mean as far as the breast cancer.
[19:19] Speaker 1: Yes, because right now, okay, October. You know the.
[19:23] Speaker 2: Football players got on pink shoes, the baseball players they
[19:27] Speaker 2: think of money out of the pink bats.
[19:29] Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
[19:30] Speaker 2: You know, So there is a process of making breast
[19:35] Speaker 2: cancer aware awareness to everybody. But I always, I always
[19:40] Speaker 2: believe that if you commercialize something, people sometimes don't even
[19:45] Speaker 2: know why you're doing.
[19:47] Speaker 1: You feel me.
[19:48] Speaker 2: And that's why I'm really a fan of what you're doing,
[19:52] Speaker 2: because I always feel you learn more when when you
[19:56] Speaker 2: when it's unexpectedly is introduced to.
[19:59] Speaker 1: You, you feel me. You know, you remember.
[20:02] Speaker 2: Oh okay, So if I see and I'm not saying
[20:05] Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong the way the sports is handling, but
[20:08] Speaker 2: they handling it in.
[20:10] Speaker 1: An even bigger event.
[20:12] Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so October. Everyone wants to focus on breast
[20:17] Speaker 3: cancer in October. Again, it's great for the visibility, but
[20:20] Speaker 3: we need consistency year round, and I think sometimes I
[20:25] Speaker 3: think breast cancer the other months has become desensitized.
[20:30] Speaker 1: Yes, that's what I'm talking about.
[20:31] Speaker 3: Yeah, people just move on to the next holiday or
[20:34] Speaker 3: the next event. So I deliberately reach out to different companies,
[20:38] Speaker 3: different organizations. I was a part of a wellness expo recently,
[20:42] Speaker 3: I think it was in December. I deliberately put myself
[20:46] Speaker 3: out there and ask could I come and be a
[20:47] Speaker 3: part of that. And then again in April, I'm trying
[20:50] Speaker 3: to host another golf clinic and it's called Putt for Pink,
[20:54] Speaker 3: and I'll use that opportunity to share breast cancer awareness
[20:57] Speaker 3: with the women who are interested in coming to the
[20:58] Speaker 3: golf clinic.
[21:00] Speaker 1: Intention you get the word out? How do you get
[21:02] Speaker 1: the word out of social media and word aunt?
[21:05] Speaker 2: Is it through your personal social media or through your
[21:07] Speaker 2: organization social media?
[21:08] Speaker 3: It's through my personal social media and the organizations social media.
[21:13] Speaker 3: We have Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook. Awesome.
[21:18] Speaker 2: You know when we look at the you know, honoring
[21:21] Speaker 2: legacy without living in grief, because we've that's been our
[21:24] Speaker 2: theme through this whole process, and your mom is the legacy. Correct, yes, okay,
[21:30] Speaker 2: and the grief part is what we're dealing with every day.
[21:33] Speaker 1: But I think that that.
[21:37] Speaker 2: When I look at my life and I don't, First
[21:41] Speaker 2: of all, I enjoy my life. When I when I
[21:45] Speaker 2: was announced, when the doctor told me I cancer, You
[21:49] Speaker 2: know I'm deezer. That's the word you don't ever want
[21:53] Speaker 2: anybody to tell you. I don't care who you are
[21:57] Speaker 2: because it comes with so many questions that you cannot answer.
[22:02] Speaker 1: And I don't care if the doctor says we should
[22:08] Speaker 1: be all right, because what.
[22:11] Speaker 2: If I'm gonna want then it ain't all right that
[22:14] Speaker 2: the rare form of cancer hits you and all these things.
[22:18] Speaker 2: So so I know, so when I look at you,
[22:21] Speaker 2: I commend you emotionally because of the fact that the
[22:27] Speaker 2: mom had breast cancer.
[22:28] Speaker 1: So that has to be a little fear in the
[22:31] Speaker 1: back of your mind.
[22:31] Speaker 3: Yes, okay, and it runs in the family.
[22:35] Speaker 1: Two of her sisters have breast cancer also, And.
[22:37] Speaker 2: So I know I know that you know right, you
[22:39] Speaker 2: know because anytime you go to the doctor, that's what
[22:41] Speaker 2: they do.
[22:42] Speaker 1: They go who had this? Who had this?
[22:43] Speaker 2: Because they're trying to say if it's a pattern, and
[22:46] Speaker 2: you might be part of that pattern that growth rate.
[22:49] Speaker 1: And so when you're talking about being.
[22:51] Speaker 2: An advocate, are you're an advocate for change or you're
[22:56] Speaker 2: an advocate for education or it's both.
[23:01] Speaker 1: When I say change, I mean October is not the
[23:04] Speaker 1: only month for both, Okay, for both?
[23:07] Speaker 3: Yeah, breast cancer is year round, not just in October.
[23:12] Speaker 1: And when we say that to certain people are today
[23:16] Speaker 1: they say okay.
[23:16] Speaker 3: And then I say, well, can we do this event
[23:18] Speaker 3: and this this month? They say okay, and I don't
[23:20] Speaker 3: hear from again into October. Everyone wants me to come
[23:23] Speaker 3: and speak in October, but I'm like, I'm available January, February,
[23:27] Speaker 3: all the other Yeah. So that's that's what I'm facing.
[23:31] Speaker 2: So we as a community, they've done such a great
[23:33] Speaker 2: job of marketing. Yeah, they see you in October, but
[23:37] Speaker 2: I'm amazed in February.
[23:40] Speaker 3: Yeah, and everybody thinks of only one organization in October.
[23:43] Speaker 3: There's myself and there's several other organizations that cater to
[23:48] Speaker 3: breast cancer awareness. We just don't have the big marketing dollars.
[23:51] Speaker 3: We're smaller nonprofit.
[23:53] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[23:54] Speaker 2: And now the key part of this conversation is you're
[23:57] Speaker 2: based in Georgia, but you impacting women nationwide.
[24:00] Speaker 1: All that tell us that website one more time.
[24:02] Speaker 3: It's www dot b E, l l A l u
[24:06] Speaker 3: b E dot org, Bella Louve dot org.
[24:09] Speaker 1: And reaching out people. Gore.
[24:11] Speaker 2: Sure you're making a laughs, because I know the life
[24:16] Speaker 2: I know. I'm a castle survivor. What I'm not gonna
[24:18] Speaker 2: do is drag right there in here and have her
[24:21] Speaker 2: feel like she's at a funeral.
[24:26] Speaker 1: We're not in an open casket funeral. This is a celebration.
[24:30] Speaker 2: And the celebration And I say that very honestly because
[24:33] Speaker 2: I know what you're dealing with.
[24:34] Speaker 1: You've been in the hospital thirty days.
[24:36] Speaker 2: I would tell people it was nineteen ninety and I
[24:39] Speaker 2: was just watching basketball and my lung collapsed.
[24:42] Speaker 1: I didn't know that, and it's called neumal thorax.
[24:46] Speaker 2: And I drove myself to the hospital not knowing I
[24:49] Speaker 2: had a collapse lung. When I got to the hospital, uh,
[24:53] Speaker 2: the doctor pushed laid me. The nurses laid me down,
[24:56] Speaker 2: which is the worst thing you can do with somebody
[24:58] Speaker 2: who can't breathe, you know, because.
[25:01] Speaker 1: All your body weights on you.
[25:02] Speaker 2: And so and so the doctor came in and said
[25:06] Speaker 2: he and the announce to everybody, if you don't set
[25:09] Speaker 2: this guy up, he's going to die. And my surgery
[25:14] Speaker 2: it had to happen so quick that they couldn't deaden
[25:17] Speaker 2: my surgery point. They had to cut me and I
[25:21] Speaker 2: had to feel it, and so I checked out of
[25:26] Speaker 2: the hospital round the three times every time I checked
[25:29] Speaker 2: out my lung collapse. Everything I checked out, So I
[25:32] Speaker 2: know disappointment my lung collapse because I could just feel
[25:37] Speaker 2: my I was breathing differently, you know, was something that
[25:40] Speaker 2: go to check out, I said something not right.
[25:43] Speaker 1: They checked for your lung collapse and so but I
[25:47] Speaker 1: saw death.
[25:48] Speaker 2: You know, because you you on the floor where you go,
[25:52] Speaker 2: you kind of make friends with people. Then you go
[25:54] Speaker 2: by there the hospital bed is empty. And so I
[25:58] Speaker 2: understand that in the business, my life, my former life,
[26:02] Speaker 2: I was a stand up comedian. So I understand uplift.
[26:06] Speaker 2: I understand being happy. I understand motivation to feel good.
[26:10] Speaker 2: And when I look at you and what you're trying
[26:12] Speaker 2: to do, I am volunteering to help you. You know
[26:15] Speaker 2: what I'm saying because I know that is That's what
[26:19] Speaker 2: we're here to say on money Make comes in masterclass
[26:21] Speaker 2: to run the Spratt is on this show to.
[26:23] Speaker 1: Let you know she's available other than October. Other than October.
[26:28] Speaker 1: It chose that website and how we can talk to you.
[26:31] Speaker 3: It's w w W dot b E l l A
[26:34] Speaker 3: l U b e dot org, Bellave dot org.
[26:38] Speaker 1: Do you ever do you have an email address?
[26:40] Speaker 3: I do have an email address. It's info at Bella
[26:43] Speaker 3: dot org.
[26:44] Speaker 1: She chose name dat name for something else boy, just
[26:59] Speaker 1: like you.
[26:59] Speaker 2: You so else to from Oklahoma City, moved away, moved
[27:03] Speaker 2: down here and yeah, real state. But what I portant
[27:10] Speaker 2: you changing people's lines. I want to thank you for
[27:12] Speaker 2: coming on Money Making Conversation, for having me. You're you
[27:15] Speaker 2: and I say that because of the fact that you're
[27:19] Speaker 2: having me, and because it allowed me to volunteer my services,
[27:25] Speaker 2: my gifts that God has given me. You know, and
[27:29] Speaker 2: Lord knows. My schedule is busy, but I swear to
[27:32] Speaker 2: you run you called me. I'm gonna make time for you.
[27:36] Speaker 1: Play golf nowf Steve Harvey is trying to get me
[27:43] Speaker 1: out to play golf. That works. I know you ain't
[27:46] Speaker 1: gonna get me out there and play no golf. Girl.
[27:48] Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on the show.
[27:50] Speaker 3: Thank you, Thanks for having me, Thank you for listening
[27:53] Speaker 3: to this episode.
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