Lissette Lahoz: The Journey from Patient to Protector with the Promise Fund

Today, we're shining a spotlight on the formidable Lissette Lahoz, a breast cancer survivor whose strength and determination are a testament to human resilience. Strap in as Lissette takes us on an emotional roller coaster, from the first moment of her diagnosis, through the trials of her treatments, to her ultimate triumph over this formidable adversary. 

As we navigate Lissette's journey, we also uncover the invaluable work of the Promise Fund, an organization dedicated to serving low-income and minority women who are at high risk for breast and cervical cancer. Lissette, now the Director of  Patient Navigation & Community Engagement for The Promise Fund, gives us an intimate look into the essential support they provide. The episode is brimming with insights on the importance of early screening, self-advocacy, and community support. So, buckle up for a ride filled with tears, laughter, inspiration, and most importantly, hope.

Lissette and The Promise Fund of Florida are helping me Change The World, One S.M.I.L.E. At A Time by advocating for early detection in all walks of life.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Hey there and welcome to Bustin Out of Breast Cancer, the podcast that educates, empowers and inspires those impacted by breast cancer. I'm your host, shannon Burroughs, a realtor who found her purpose at the intersection of passion and pain while navigating her own breast cancer journey, and loves giving back to the community. Having worked with many breast cancer survivors and their families, I understand the challenges they face and the importance of raising awareness about this disease and bridging the gap between the medical and fitness industries. Join us as we share stories of survivors, caregivers and healthcare professionals who are making a difference in the fight against breast cancer. Our goal is to raise awareness, provide resources and create a community of support for those affected by this disease.

Speaker 1: 0:34

I have a mission of changing the world one smile at a time. So, whether you're a breast cancer survivor, a loved one, a friend or just interested in learning more, this podcast is for you. Let's bust out of breast cancer together and make a difference in the lives of those affected by this disease. All right well, welcome to this episode of Bustin Out of Breast Cancer. I'm super excited for you to listen to Lissette LaHaus' story and how she navigated her own breast cancer journey, but what she's doing now to be able to give back to those affected by this disease in a community that is not really talked about. So I think it's really super important.

Speaker 2: 1:10

So welcome, lissette, thank you. Thank you, shannon. Did I pronounce your last name, right? I hope yes. Okay, I was like I probably should have asked that before.

Speaker 1: 1:19

Hello, here we are. This is real raw conversations. Here we are.

Speaker 2: 1:25

Thank you. It's like since I met you. You are full of energy and passionate. I remember my first conversation with you. We really love a lot, which is important in this journey, and we connect immediately. So I was like talking to you to see how we can actually connect in different ways within the foundation and I realized I already knew like from the very beginning that I met you, what you need, where you needed to be for the Promise Fund. So thank you for having me.

Speaker 1: 1:55

Oh, that's so nice. I remember our first time meeting too, so fun fact for those listening. So I met Lissette because I am a stalker and I'm just super passionate about those things that I want to be involved in. And after I left making strides, I wanted to find an organization that I could give back to in the local community. I didn't want it to be global, I wanted it to be local, to help those that are local, and I found the Promise Fund.

Speaker 1: 2:22

Actually, a mom at Bradley's school had told me about the Promise Fund and I hadn't heard of it. So I looked at it in research, at whatever, and then I was like, oh, I want to learn more about this. So then I like, I called, I emailed, I did the chat, I did this. I'm like, oh my God, these people don't want me. What is happening? Like blah, blah, blah. So, yes, I stalked you. And then we met a Panera bread, which we did. We totally connected right off the get go and what we thought was going to be a quick like hour meeting I think we must have been there for like two, three hours and we laughed.

Speaker 1: 2:49

And if I remember correctly, it was FunPan Friday. Yeah, yes.

Speaker 2: 2:55

And yes, you look amazing. I was like I like her a lot. She's real.

Speaker 1: 3:01

I am I'm real wrong Kind of crazy. That's all good, whatever you only live once.

Speaker 1: 3:05

Right, I feel like that's cliche, that's saying it's so cliche, but it's so true. Anyway, so that's how we met, and so you never know, whenever I meet you or whenever you meet me, whenever we connect, like you never know where our journey is going to take us together. And I think our journey has been fantastic and I think your journey is amazing and I think it needs to be shared. So let's talk about when you first got diagnosed, because when we met, you were a new survivor, correct.

Speaker 2: 3:29

Correct. So we, that was back a year. Well, I get, I get, I get diagnosed, like in March, and then at the end of March and then in May I got my surgery, I got lumpectomy of my left breast. But before that the journey was, I needed to know more, needed to make sure that while I was going into this journey, that that I had the best right, because I knew, working for a foundation, what are the ads Right? I work for a foundation cancer foundation and I am encouraging and I'm passionate encouraging women.

Speaker 2: 4:12

Just go and get your screenings. It's so important for you to get your screening. So I go and get my regular screening mammogram. And guess what, when the radiologist gone and say to me I need to do a biopsy, I'm like I exactly knew what he meant when he say a biopsy. I'm like why? Why do you need to do a biopsy? You know, you know it was like after COVID, I just wanted to make sure that this is not something you know. And I'm like, okay, and then he explained to me and of course I was knowledgeable and sometimes you know, the more information you have, the more right. It's scary. It's like what is this guy? What does? He wants to do biopsy. But anyway, moving forward, the outcomes were great.

Speaker 2: 5:00

I got, you know, really really good surgeon. I got a great oncologist, old woman, and I love them. They are so amazing. They are as passionate as I am and I think one of the questions that my surgeon asked me she goes because she's very involved with the foundation. She goes, so least set. I'm sure that this experience is going to change how you do things now and I say, oh my gosh, yes, absolutely. So I was like, like you say, like a stalker, like right, like after people, but now I feel like I'm like, everywhere I go, I can stop, I cannot stop talking about why screening is important. Sure, yeah. So I think that everywhere I go and I work with many women, you know I am a woman of faith and I encounter, I lead a group of women, and so everywhere I go, I talk a lot about why it's so important. You know, shannon, I'm sure you know, breast cancer is 99% survival rate. So if you do your screening early, you're going to be fine. You're going to be fine.

Speaker 2: 6:20

So of course it's scary because when you hear that word, right, cancer is like when they call me and gave me the results and say the same guy who told me that he needed to do the biopsy. He said radiologist and he's. I say you can call me, I don't need to come back here. So he called me and he said you know, I have, I have bad news. And as soon as he said okay, and I was with my husband at that time, and when he said you have cancer, and I said okay, I need more information, and he started saying you stay zero. So the good news within the bad news is that it's very, it's caught very, very on time. So as soon as he say that, I'm like I'm going to be fine. And then, in fact, when I hung up the phone, my husband and I look at each other and we say we're going to be fine, we're going to be fine.

Speaker 2: 7:17

You know, my husband, four years before, you know, before I was diagnosed, survived two cancers, right. So he survived colon cancer and he survived lung cancer. So for us this is not new. Our faith kept us, you know, going. But also, like I always tell people you know, particularly my woman, I say you need to do your due diligence. You cannot say, oh, you know God is going to say no, you know. That's why you have professionals, you have doctors, you have people like us, the Promise Fund Foundation, to tell you and to guide you, to navigate you, because it's scary, yes, but we have great patient navigators who guide you from A all the way to Z.

Speaker 1: 8:06

Okay. So before we go into, I know people are like what's the promise on? What's the Promise Fund? We're going to get into that. I want to hear more about your journey, your diagnosis and things like that and then we'll get into how that was really incorporated into the Promise Fund, this organization that you're working with, because this is who I'm on the advisory board as well, the advisory council and it is. It's really kind of crazy how you're like okay. So again, I kind of tie in. Like my purpose is I was that. You know, I found my purpose in intersection of passion and pain and I know that sounds kind of like how are you passionate about them? No, I'm just super passionate about like what been being in control of their own lives, their own health, their own destiny, their own journey, their own life. Right, you're the CEO of your life and pretty much as your mom you're pretty much you're a CEO of, you know your family, what not, or business, or whatever that is.

Speaker 1: 8:53

So you were. That was March of 2022, right?

Speaker 2: 8:56

Or 21, 2022.

Speaker 1: 8:59

So you were DCIS? Yes, okay, that's DCIS, stage zero. Excuse me, I just choked on my own spit For those, for those that you know may be diagnosed with, you know, a stage one, two, three, four, and you're thinking, you know, dcis, stage zero is that nothing is in anything, because there's a lot of controversy in the sense of, like you know, do you do anything, do you not do anything. Unfortunately, I've literally just had two girlfriends who were just, you know, early stages diagnosed, one actually they both went through one back to me. One was last Friday on my six year cancer free and the other one was like a month before that and she was, I think, stage one when they went in there.

Speaker 1: 9:38

But they also did lumpback to me as well and there was concern about, you know, the one is very, very, very much wanting to do like a holistic approach and she hasn't had kids yet, and I get that. So it's kind of scary because you want to navigate your own health. So did you have to do radiation or any other treatment or just a lumpback to me? Sure.

Speaker 2: 10:00

So here the options that they gave me at that time were like, because I was stage zero and some terms that they use that they threw out there. It's like it's pre-censuous cells, right, right, but in reality if it's diagnosed, if it's within cancer, it is cancer, you know. So the options were I went, of course, for my genetic test and I wasn't at risk, right, because I didn't have any family members, I didn't have a history, what they call a history, and so the options were lumpback to me. We never talked about mastectomy, just because it was stage zero and I wasn't you know triple negative or BRCA, all those terms that they throw out there. So I didn't have that concern. And then they didn't want. They explained. I love it the way my oncologist, when I visit her, she goes Lisette, pretend that you know nothing about cancer.

Speaker 1: 11:07

Yeah, that's her.

Speaker 2: 11:09

It's very hard because you are, you know, I'm educating, I'm an educator, like I constantly educate people about this. So I'm like I have to kind of open my mind and say, okay, I know nothing, she's gonna teach me. And she explained the whole, she did diagrams and the whole and she said this is my recommendation lumpback to me You're not gonna need chemotherapy, but we're recommending radiation. And then she explained to me because of course I said, wait a minute, why do I need radiation? If you're gonna do lumpectomy, you're gonna make sure that no cells cancer cells stays in my breast, right, and she's like absolutely. And then she went on and she explained I'm gonna go with that margin that they referred to. I'm gonna go even beyond that to make sure you know. And she was really really good. And then I say and do I have an option for radiology? Because I, you know radiation. I'm sorry, I don't want anything that I don't. You know that I don't have to do so then I say I consulted, I have all my doctors, I'm consulting with all of them, which is why it's so important that you have a patient navigator who help you. I was my own, even though they assigned one because I was knowledgeable about cancer.

Speaker 2: 12:29

So I went on and said I want to talk to my primary care. Why, Shannon? Because primary care they're like our family, right? I say I need I'm a woman too. I say I need to talk to my doctor. I wanted to ask her. So I went to her and I said, okay, no, you're gonna tell me. I need you to tell me what will you do if it was you, because it's easy, you know, for you to say don't do this or but what will you do? And I will never forget the words of coming out of her mouth. She said I will do anything to take any cancer cells from away from my body. Anything is set, and that I say okay. So I found exactly the same thing. I don't want anything on my body that it doesn't belong there. So I went back, you know, and I talked to my surgeon. I said okay, I want them back to me and now I need you to, I want to see what options are there. So I went and I did my own research. I went to different facilities and I talked.

Speaker 2: 13:30

Remember my cancer was on my left breast, which I had to be very careful because of my heart, and radiation can damage your heart. I was like I want to know, you know what are my options. And I found a great place. I mean, during the radiation channel. They put I love music, so they put music and I had, you know, worship music. It was like so peaceful and that's what I needed and like.

Speaker 2: 13:57

And even when I I never forget, when I went through my first radiation, the words of the sons that I was listening to. It was like you're going to be fine, you know it's like, and I remember like I was like laying down in the bed and I was just crying and my tears were coming through the, you know, radiation. I'm like, oh my God, I'm going to cause an explosion or something, but it was like it was. For me, that was a sign that I was at the right place and something that I I don't know if I shared this with you before Shama, but something for me it was very peculiar. It was during my process, even before I was diagnosed. I was sitting on my you know, by my, by my pool, in my house, and butterflies. I had a pool for my, for my pool and butterflies kept coming and I was asking my husband how are they getting in. You know, why are they getting into, like you know, beyond the screen? And he was like, oh, I don't know. So you know.

Speaker 2: 15:08

And then when I got diagnosed, you know I remember the butterfly. And then I asked, I talked to God and I said I need a confirmation, I need a sign that the place that I'm going to choose for my treatment is the right. I walk in into the place and there's a wall full of butterflies. Oh my gosh, for me that was the sign. That was the goosebumps. Yes, that was the sign. This is the right place, you are at the right place.

Speaker 2: 15:44

And then my oncologist was from there, my surgeon was from there. And then, you know, I wanted the best for my radiation, so I needed to go to Miami. But this facility actually had a place that it has been open for one year and it had the best equipment. You know what do they call that? The? Oh my God, something with top of the art, something to that effect. But it was great. So Ani was in plantation close to my. You know, it's about 35 minutes away from me. So I was like so I decided to go there. So everything has been really, really good my treatment, everything. So I decided to do radiation and it was supposed to be originally 20 sections of radiation but the last four, as they explained to me, were more gear toward exactly where they took the cells out, where they did the lumpectomy, like right in there. But they couldn't. The surgeon did such an amazing job that they couldn't find where it was. They couldn't find. They say you don't need those last four sections. I'm like okay.

Speaker 1: 17:02

So yeah.

Speaker 2: 17:03

Yeah, so you did 16 rounds. 16, yes, and they had to be, you know, back to back. Like every day, I had to go to this place to do my radiation 16.

Speaker 1: 17:16

You know what made me think when you're talking about butterflies? Oh well, first of all, I think that's really cool, because I do. I every time I see a butterfly, it puts a smile on my face, because I know it's a sign, it's a symbol, and it just reminded me of the song Butterfly Kisses. Do you remember that song? Uh-huh, uh-huh. Yeah, I don't know why. I just made me think about it like this is. But whatever, I feel like that's a wedding song, but anyway, that's amazing. You're very lucky and I'm sure it had to be really challenging being in the space of you know, really preaching. You know get your screen and so on and so forth. You know what's going to happen after you get that diagnosis. So like to just kind of like turn everything off and just listen is really really, really hard.

Speaker 2: 17:55

Yes, absolutely. But I never forget, while I was going through treatment, I was doing something for the foundation and we were doing this project. I was working very, very hard on this project and we needed to do some interviews with cancer patients that were going through treatment. So I met this amazing woman and she shared with me some of her journey and while she was there, she says something to me. She goes after chemotherapy, a treatment of chemotherapy. My husband is taking me back home and our car broke down and she lived. She was coming from someplace and she lived in West Palm Beach and she said it took her After think about this, shana, after a chemotherapy session, how you get very tired is very hard. It took her like nine hours to get home, oh my gosh, because she couldn't find anybody to help her.

Speaker 1: 19:03

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2: 19:04

The courses were limited and when I heard that I started crying. I couldn't, I couldn't. I remember that we were wearing masks, so I was like, oh my God, thank God that I have a mask. So she's not because I'm there to support her, to listen, like you said, to listen to her. And here I am going through my process. She doesn't know what is going on, you know what, and I say she needs to hear what. But the process, what I'm going through right now, because that's going to make her stronger Right, rather than be like, no, I'm the director of the mammography screen center, I need to be strong.

Speaker 2: 19:48

No, I say this woman I need. She needs to know that what she shared with me make me feel that I need to fight harder for resources out there for the work that we serve, because I was privileged. So I felt like I felt kind of guilty, I was like you know, so I did, I said, and then she hugged me and she shared everything is going to be okay. So like I was receiving support for a woman that my organization was helping. So we were able to. You know what, after that day, everywhere, you know, when I talk to her, when I say, or when she hears about what we're doing. I never forget that beautiful face and she was with her daughter. So our experience were what we share in front of her daughter is going to impact that daughter and every woman after that, because this little girl here, two women in that space talking about how cancer you know breast cancer impact your life, but we were there to support each other. So always there's hope and that's what we need to tell people.

Speaker 1: 21:05

And that's exactly why I have this platform is to be able to, you know, have people share their experiences, share their journeys, what they're going through. Yes, you might have the same diagnosis, but your experience is not going to be the same. Like, for example, I had DCIS as well, but guess what? I went through an archetype test and that result came back super high, which resulted in me having a double mastectomy. The first oncologist was like Nope, you should just go ahead and do radiation and a lumpectomy. And I was like Dude, like I have a super high rate of this returning and I'm 45 at this point and I'm totally not interested in this coming back. Thank you very much.

Speaker 1: 21:38

So, like it's, but it's like you say, like you talk about it, you share the experiences and it makes the other person feel like, oh, my god, I'm not alone. Okay, yes, your experience might be different. Thank you much. Thank you so much for sharing, but, like you said, like even her daughter being there to experience the two of you sharing a story. And that's why I love to have this platform for other women to come on, share their experience, because somebody who's listening you know whether they're just newly diagnosed, they're going through their own experience, whether it's a loved one, caregiver, whatever you know it's, you need to know that there's other people out there that have gone. You're not alone.

Speaker 1: 22:12

We've all gone through this diagnosis, this journey, this experience. That may be different. Maybe you can resonate with some person, maybe not an other, and that's okay. It's okay, but I want this to be a safe place for hope, for love, for laughter, to be able to share that and share with others so we can continue to give back. I do want to go ahead and take a quick break, real quick, just for our sponsor, and then I want to dive a little bit deeper into this promise fund organization that we keep talking about, because I know you're super excited and passionate about wanting to to share about it, and I think it's an amazing organization and I think it's really important that our listeners hear it as well. So we will be back in just a moment.

Speaker 3: 22:49

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Speaker 3: 23:29

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Speaker 1: 24:08

All right well, welcome back. I'm so excited. I hope you guys enjoy Barley's voice. I feel like I need to do a redo on that. She doesn't sound as excited as I always sound in my pockets. Anyway, let's jump into talking about and learning more about the Promise Fund. So the Promise Fund is a local organization right here in Florida and it's pretty amazing and I think that listeners are going to be like, oh my gosh, like this is not just about your standard, like hey, let's do some raise some money for research and whatnot. Like everybody's raising money for research and I think I've shared with you my feelings on that and many others. But, um, anyway, let's let's dive into the Promise Fund. So tell us about the Promise Fund, how long you've been with them, what they do, how people can learn more and all that good stuff.

Speaker 2: 24:54

Sure, so Promise Fund is what I call Boots on the Ground. Why do I call this organization? First of all, the founder. She is amazing and you know how people talk oh I will do this and. And they just talk. She is a woman that really walked the talk and she all the people that work for the foundation are women who are very passionate.

Speaker 2: 25:19

We only have one guy, so I have to say that he is a CFO, but other than that, all women who somehow we all have been impacted by cancer, whether it is through family or ourselves, and it has been um, it's an organization that cares about women, about low income women, women who have don't have the resources that they should write like they are uninsured, some of them are undocumented and we we don't care. We want to help women, period, and we actually help men too, but our focus is women and minority women are really at higher risk because of different things, right, but the important thing is that we have what I call is the niche of the organization, which is the patient navigation. I am, I have the honor to be, to supervise the entire program. Patient navigation is like we assign somebody, a woman, who is going to help that woman from A to C, how well they. You know many, many times women in our community who don't even know that they're. They are primary care clinics. They are there to help them, right. So even less for them to when you tell them that you're going to have somebody who's going to take care of them their life.

Speaker 2: 26:45

There's something wrong here. What's the catch? Right, it's trust. So these patients have to start from scratch. They have to build that trust, even though we want, of course, because the foundation focus is screening for mammograms and also breast and cervical health. But we need to start very, you know, baby steps. We connect with the person in the community, we talk to them, we ask questions Do you have primary care? And if they don't, we connect them to primary care. And then after that, when was your last mammogram? We start asking those questions, but we don't refer them. We don't say, here, take this number and go ahead and call no. We walk with them through the process. We make the appointment for them. You know it's patient center, we. It's based on what they want when they need it. Right, we're not taking care of them. We don't take care of them, right, right, because what happens you and I, we're, you know, we take care of everybody else, sometimes right, except ourselves.

Speaker 1: 27:50

Right, because we're others, we're, why we're girlfriends we're, you know, we're girl, bosses, boss babes, that's what we are.

Speaker 2: 27:56

We're busy, we're busy. But now, when somebody is going to take care of us, we're like, you're the girl.

Speaker 2: 28:03

Yeah, I got this and I think that's what we need. And then you know we make that, those connections and if there is, you know, for their testing needed we pay for we're going to get you need a biopsy, we're going to pay for the biopsy unit and MRI, we're going to pay for that. And then if, unfortunately, but news comes, you know, with a diagnosed, you know who's going to get infected with that. You know. You know with the biopsy unit and oncologist and all that who worked with promise from Florida, and we make sure we provide that treatment. And when, when we tell that to people and we have people had that, patient navigators who have gone through the process and it's amazing, those patient navigators really play a big role in their life. When I train them, when they first just come part of you know being become patient navigators, I always tell them I'm not here to scare you, but I'm here to tell you that your role is the most important but it's also the most difficult one. I want you to give you the heads up. So if you, if you think you cannot do this, you can. You can leave. But you know, honestly, because you, they are the educator. I don't want them to only be the one making appointment, because you know anybody can do that.

Speaker 2: 29:31

But they need to advocate If there's no treatment. How long, let me tell you. They advocate, they drive me crazy. They call me and say they said I am not getting this. You know this test on time. They said I'm not getting this. So it's a lot of advocating they have to do. They translate, they interpret because they most of our patient navigators speak more than two languages. That's great, that's important. And they also, like if that wasn't enough, they're also kind of looking in the community. Our motto is very different than others, as you know, and we are in the community, active in the community, where we want the woman low income. You know, social, economic, they are not. They don't hear about promise from I. We have been existing only for five years. I have been with the organization for three years and a half and it was also in May. So May has a special right my heart like.

Speaker 2: 30:31

September does for me, yep, so May. And then we have been like really boots on the ground. We're everywhere. We have now 18 patient navigators. We have 11 partner organizations who have patient navigators. That that really do our model. We have patient navigators located in clinics, but we also have patient navigators in the community. So they are constantly looking for places, you know, whether it's restaurants or supermarkets or just events, health fair or any place. They are knocking at doors. They are connecting you know to, and I think what is so important is that we are reaching to different generations. So within our conversation, we have grandma, we have mom, we have the daughter, you know. So it's just. And they are now. They're talking about Promise fun, promise fun, and when? So sometimes when I interview them and I say, forget about about promise fun, tell me about you, I want to hear more about you they all come back promise fun because they see promise fun like an organization who is real, that is-.

Speaker 1: 31:44

And cares yeah. Yeah well, I have my pink boots and I wear them on the ground and I love my little pink rain boots. I got them as soon as I joined the organization. I was like that's so cute boots on the ground. I'm like I need pink boots, and who doesn't want another pair of pink? My pink rain boots.

Speaker 2: 32:00

And it matches all my Lily Justice.

Speaker 1: 32:01

So that's fun. I love it. Sorry, excuse me. So to learn more about the promise fun and how amazing they are, we are just currently here in Florida right now, but we are going to be expanding. That's the, that's the plan is to have create that playbook to be able to do plug and play, you know, in different areas. So to learn more about the promise fun, you can find them on social media. You can find them at promisefundofflordaorg, and then there's also a toll free number.

Speaker 2: 32:27

Yes, and that is 877-427-7664. Again, 877-427-7664.

Speaker 1: 32:40

And I'll put all that contact information in the show notes so you guys can reach out, but I highly recommend following them on social media Facebook, instagram. Go to the website, check it out. Maybe there's somebody that you feel like is in need and doesn't know anything about having any resources or treatment. If they're uninsured, if they're not documented, you can make a donation to them as well. It's really just about getting out there in this community, so we need you to get your boots on the ground, too, and help us change the world, because that's my mission of changing the world, one smile at a time, and right now, we both, we all need your help to do that. So this has been an amazing, amazing interview. Thank you so much, lissette. You're so nice. Thank you.

Speaker 1: 33:17

And I'm so glad that you were able to. We were finally able to get the time to do it because we're both super busy, but it's been amazing. So thank you so much. Again, thank you to the Promise Fund for everything that they do. I am gonna get Nancy on here for an interview someday eventually to talk more about it. In the meantime, you can follow Lissette. I will put her social media links on there. She's not really into the social media so much, but would you prefer that they email you?

Speaker 2: 33:44

No, actually we now have a team that is following social media, so they will get back to me. So that's oh perfect, yes, yes, absolutely.

Speaker 1: 33:52

Yes, so I will put her name in there. Lissette, you go follow her if you have any questions or anything further, or maybe you have somewhere that you feel like we need to reach out to.

Speaker 2: 34:00

Absolutely. Thank you so much for this opportunity, anything that to reach out to the community I'm here for. So thank you so much You're awesome.

Speaker 1: 34:11

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