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Intention Welcome to Intentional. I am your host, Mick me Ol.
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it's time for us to stand up, speak out, get involved,
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and let's be intentional. Today we are going to lean
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in with one of our phenomenal guests, Leslie Nessmith, She
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is a business owner, former chief of staff for the
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Oklahoma State GOP under the John Bennett administration. She is
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a political advisor and campaign manager for multiple campaigns and
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a very good friend of mine. Welcome, Leslie, how are
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you today?
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Thank you, Mick. I'm great, and thank you for that
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very gracious introduction. I'm excited to.
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Be here me too. You know, you are so welcome.
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I am so glad that you are my first guest
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on our debut show. I'm excited we're here with Talk
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four media platform, and you know, you and I have
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had some really great commversations. We focus on those issues
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that are on the minds of Americans, and you know, Leslie,
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those are conversations that need to be have. So I'm
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super glad that you're with us.
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Yes, I'm excited to be here.
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And I was thinking, since this is your debut show,
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maybe we should flip the script here and uh, you know,
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maybe let me ask you a few questions and let
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your audience get to know you maybe.
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As well as I do.
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You interview me.
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Yeah, I think that'd be great, don't you What do
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you think?
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Okay, Yeah, I think that sounds like fun. Yeah, Okay,
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let's talk about it. Okay, don't worry, I won't get you.
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This is excitement trouble. Okay, good because they'll be like
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deep breathing panting.
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You know, one of the one of the things that
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I think people find interesting about you is that you
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are a nurse by trade, and you worked in the industry,
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in the healthcare industry for twenty eight years, and about
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a year ago you ventured out and started this you know,
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your own podcast, And that's a huge change to go
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from a nurse in a very well respected industry and.
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Now you're doing a podcast. So I think people are.
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Going to want to know what in the world convinced
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you to do that.
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Something had to happen.
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Oh lord, well it's I'll try and condense it down.
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But like you said, I'm a nurse twenty eight years.
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I specialized in cancer, critical care, clinical trials, you know, Leslie.
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That was my greatest desire and my heart will always
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go to minister for those who are in need physically, mentally, spiritually.
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I loved being a nurse. It is a tremendous part
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of who I am, and many of the relationships that
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I built over the years, they really still stand However,
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over the decades, there was a transition that occurred before
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my very eyes. The healthcare industry went from a patient
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centric care with a duty to do no harm to
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its current status, which heartbreaking lead to me is a
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Marxist infiltrated entity that's guided by money, diversity, inclusion, and equity.
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And that's not an easy statement for me to say,
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but I can track back, turning the tides back to
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two thousand and nine when Obamacare laid out a plan
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for interoperability programs better known as electronic medical records, and
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they incentivized it in twenty eleven through Medicare and Medicaid
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Electronic Health Record Initiative program. And as we all know,
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the new gold of today is data. So that action
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really ensured that our private medical records were maintained in
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these health information exchanges and they're uploaded into this cloud
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data system and it's mandated by the federal government. And
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then as an added bonus, these systems are easily set
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up so that they track like social determinants of health,
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the food you eat, the activities you do, the vaccines
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you take, and then all of those can be integrated
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into a digital health ID. So once that started rolling out,
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so did all this mandatory cultural and diversity training. It
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was soft pedaled to us and introduced very insidiously. They
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focused on the need to understand culture and religious backgrounds
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of your patients. And really, Leslie, who would disagree with that?
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Nobody did. I didn't because nursing is holistic. We don't
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look at just a disease or a single body part.
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We look at that whole person. That's our training. But
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by the time twenty twenty rolled around, the DIE training
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was required every six months. We had to be proficient
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in everything from pronouns to gender affirmation to queer theory
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one oh one and so I started asking about this
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mandatory training and what I found out was that it
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wasn't geared toward improving my competency and nursing. No, on
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the contrary, it was an indoctrination, a brainwashing to ensure
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that I complied with and followed their agenda. It was
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really implemented because God forbid, somebody acts identally was offended
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in a way that impacted their quality measures and prevented
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them from obtaining any Medicare Medicaid monies that the hospitals
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were entitled to. And I was appalled by that. But
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we were encouraged, Leslie to participate and take a knee
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in the George Floyd campus marches during work hours, and
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then on our lunch breaks, we were encouraged to join
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the book club where white fragility and other diversity inclusion
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in equity topics were discussed. And so by the time
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COVID ran around and came through the push, like, you know,
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so much of that during COVID was really nonsense, and
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a lot of people like me started kind of stepping
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away from the healthcare industry. It's what I call the
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Stepford Wives error, because they were like, will mask up,
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stay away, You're a super spreader unless you are protesting,
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you know, safe and effective, safe and effective, safe and effective,
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roll up your sleeve please. I mean, it was really
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kind of scary because science is supposed to be you know, questioning,
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critical thinking, independent research, but none of that, none of
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that was occurring and being allowed to occur. And that
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was extremely frightening and dangerous to me. So you know,
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nobody questioned or even blinked and eye Leslie when these
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practices that made no sense were put in place. Plexiglass
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everywhere plexiglass went up everywhere, didn't matter social distancing, masking
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up all day long was mandatory, and it didn't matter
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the location you were in. It was mandated. And here's
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the most atrocious action of all was the removal of
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the family members, the loved ones, the advocates from that
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patient care area. All of it was strictly enforced, and
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they even used force whenever they needed to keep those
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loved ones out. And so these practices were never implemented. Before.
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We had immune compromise patients, including those who went through
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bone marrow transplant. They had none zero, not an immune system,
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and we told them good hand washing. They masked up
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if they went outside standard, good hygiene, standard health practices,
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and of course the family was to follow that as well.
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So I do want to be fair though, because at first,
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you know, April May twenty twenty, we were like, okay,
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figuring it out. But by then we started realizing that hey,
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children weren't at risk and these practices were really overkill.
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Natural immunity was being ignored, there was no early treatment.
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Doctors and nurses were being censored. Licenses were being threatened
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to be taken away if you mentioned the drug ivermectin
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and then the purge on social media began. But here's
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the final straw for me, and I'll end with this.
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In January of twenty twenty two, I was having conversations
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regarding the need to set up a communication system between
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family members and the staff because after two years we
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had become extremely disconnected and we were using mRNA technology
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which had horrendous adverse effects. And I was told that
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the healthcare industry, particularly the facility I worked in, was
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the most diverse, inclusive and equitable that there was and
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that white sorority girls were no longer needed in healthcare
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and Leslie, it broke my heart. I was in management
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for most of my career. Race did not factor into
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my hiring or my thinking. It didn't check a personal
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checkbox for me. I hired every color, I hired every background.
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I hired anybody who was competent, experienced, and had critical
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thinking because that's what mattered it. And it really crushed
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me for quite a while. But then I spent time
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in prayer and b a boom but a bin. That's
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where I came from and that's how I got started.
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Wow, And it's interesting because our paths could have crossed
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in your old days because I had somebody that was
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being treated there and it was crazy to see it
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from the other side, the all of the DEI nonsense
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and all of that. Yeah, you're a free thinker, so
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there's no way you are going to be able to
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stay in that environment for sure.
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Yeah, So you have mentioned in the past that one
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of the main driving forces when preparing interviews is looking
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at the wholeism of the situation.
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So what do you mean by that and how are
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you going to integrate that into the show?
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You know, Leslie, that is really a great question because
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in nursing, and even before nursing, the wholeism of the
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person is really what I cared about. I always called
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myself a humanitarian because I cared about more than just people.
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I cared about their mental status. I cared about their
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spiritual status and who we are. Our lives are relationships.
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The environment. The world that we live in right now,
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in case nobody's noticed, is really chaotic, right, I Mean,
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there are report or it's that anxiety and depression have
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risen up to thirty percent just in the last four years.
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Suicides are up thirty six percent in the last decade.
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And these are just reports that I see coming across.
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There are studies that are showing that we are declining
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in our Christian faith. And a common statement that I
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hear every time I talk to somebody is that America
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doesn't look the same. It is upside down and it
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has gone local. And that's worrisome to me. Everything from COVID,
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like the unconstitutional mandates, the crushing economic inflation. There's wars
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in Ukraine, there's wars in Israel. There's an alliance of
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Iran and China and Russia. There's out of control crime.
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There's a rise of cartels and gangs across our nation,
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and there's an opening of our sovereign border and a
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national security fear that is sweeping across the country. This
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is an election season, so that ramps everything up. And
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all of these are huge issues in a very very
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short period of time. But there's something else that is
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significantly impacting us, and I know you know about it too,
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And that's the battlefield that is not the traditional one,
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but it's the one for your mind. It's that manipulation
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and propaganda that's going on. And some call it a
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war of narratives. Some call it five G warfare. It's
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really hard to combat, but it is in full swing.
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I notice it every day. We really need to begin
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to understand it, and we need to know that it
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is happening to us without our knowledge. Look at the
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safe and effective slogan that I just mentioned. How many
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times you go into the grocery store and you are confronted,
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unbeknownst to you by subliminal advertising. How many times during
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the election season that we're seeing this kind of spin.
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The White House is getting caught because they're using AI
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generated headlines to make Kamala Harris look more favorable. They're
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scrapping her record as the most progressive senator. The media
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was demoralizing the Catholic hospitals when the Supreme Court sent
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rode that way back to the States where the true
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democratic process occurs. It's just it's happening all over. But Leslie,
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here's my true belief. We are living souls created in
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the image of God. That is really my heartfelt, true belief.
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And what is going on in our country and in
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our world around us creates a major impression on our
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whole physical, spiritual, and mental being, whether we recognize it
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or not. But right now, there is a huge push
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to put everything on this emotional level. Everything is an
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emotional action and reaction. However, that also is impacting us mentally, spiritually, physically.
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So when I prepare my interviews, and I really started
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to kind of hone down where I like write out
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a script and outline things because I endeavor to really
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parse out what are the repercussions, what is the significance
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of that topic to we the people, because that's what matters,
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and then delve into how it impacts us, why it
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impacts us. And of course I always want to provide
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that answer to what can I do, because I hear
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that even every podcast I listen to. And then I
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try and end with hope, inspiration, some resources, because in
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the end, God is in control, he is on his throne,