According to the Center for Disease Control*, over 7.4 million women have received treatments for infertility. However, many women suffer in silence. Gessie Thompson knows firsthand how painful it is to desire children but not be able to conceive. Gessie personally battled fibroids for 14 years, underwent five fibroid surgeries, five IVF cycles, and a devastating miscarriage. However, after ten years of struggles, she became pregnant with her miracle baby girl, Nia. Gessie is a best selling author, speaker and Fibroid & Fertility Coach. She is passionate about helping other women overcome infertility through a naturopathic program without surgery. *(2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth, CDC)
have you ever wanted to have a
conversation with someone but you don’t
have enough time maybe you’re just
rushed to get to the next thing and you
can’t continue the conversation you
can’t ask all the questions that you
want to ask that happens to me all the
time which is why this conversation that
we’re going to have today is so
important because it’s one that’s been
on my heart for a while I can’t wait for
you to hear from our guest today stay
tuned
[Applause]
[Music]
so it was probably about two and a half
three years ago that I laid eyes on this
woman we were together at an event the
two of us and I got to listen to her
share her story and share a presentation
with a group of women that were gathered
at this particular event but it wasn’t
just her presentation that really sort
of captured my attention it was my
conversation with her afterwards we were
backstage and we were just talking a
little bit and the light in her eyes the
smile that she had the burden on her
heart to really share her story with as
many people as possible to make them
aware of all that has happened in her
life but also to challenge them with
their own lives their own struggles and
give them solutions and answers to help
them particularly women to be them their
best selves I mean that conversation
completely riveted me and I couldn’t
wait to sit down and talk with her again
and in that moment we didn’t have enough
time for me to ask all the questions I
wanted to ask though I could not wait to
invite her here would you all please
help me to welcome miss Jessie Thompson
to the show today
thank you for coming thank you all this
way cuz I don’t want to talk to you
about a few things cuz you have a story
that needs to be heard smells you have
it well it’s more than a little
something it’s a story really that it’s
gonna it’s gonna not only encourage
people and challenge them with their own
health but it’s also going to inspire
somebody I think to tell their own story
because I think a lot of women are
suffering in silence with what you’re
about to share and I love that you’ve
taken this what was a very dark hard
time in your life you’ve taken it and
now you have dovetailed it into
something that is really transforming
and changing the lives of everybody that
you come in contact with so I love that
I love that it’s gonna encourage people
so let’s just dive right into the story
Steph write it tell us
um the journey that you’ve been on so
you know I told you I’m very excited I
was first of all I get to share this
from a faith perspective see I am one of
the 90% of black women who suffered from
fibroids by age 50 I battled it for 14
years and actually not only that my
million-dollar journey included 14 years
battling fibroids but also 10 years
battling infertility that came from
those fibroids so are you saying when
you say million dollar journey you mean
you have spent hundreds of thousands
upon thousands of dollars yes it’s it
included ten years battling infertility
five IVF cycles cha-ching yeah ten
surgeries five of them being for
fibroids which kept coming back and then
five from complications from those
surgeries as well as a devastating
miscarriage 120 plus days in the
hospital even you know my baby was
fighting for her life in my womb when I
was finally pregnant with you know a
second pregnancy which was my child and
my heart even stopped on the operating
table mmm but I praise God that that was
not the end of the story it’s not before
you tell us be it wait a minute
[Applause]
okay listen okay go back to the
beginning
slow me down slow down okay because your
life was going a completely different
trajectory the fact that you’re sitting
here today and that this is your whole
life your ministry your message is not
the plan that you have for a life so
tell us about Jesse Jesse before okay
before this was even an issue in your
life my vision board said Jesse Thompson
was gonna be the Russell Simmons of
Christian hip-hop okay okay how did that
get me here so you were working in the
music I was working in gospel music I
worked with artists from everybody from
Medina McClurkin to you know I worked at
gospel labels I worked with Christian
hip-hop artists I was a talent manager
for many many years and this was not
something that was you know how the
Bible says exceedingly abundantly above
all you could ask think or imagine he
wasn’t even on my imagined board
cuz I saw that that whole dentistry I
thought that was what ministry that’s
what ministry man and that’s what it was
gonna be and when did you get married in
the midst of all of this so I got
married and literally I was literally in
the middle of it yeah I was you know I’d
graduated from youth I went to school
for music business okay I knew that this
was my world okay and but in the middle
of that you know when my husband and I
finally decided it was you know we’re
planners so we’re like okay you know
we’re we’re 30 now I’m 30 now it’s a
good time start planning you know to
start expanding the family yeah how long
have y’all been married at that point at
that point four years okay you’ve been
married for four years you’re 30 years
old you’re ready to help
I mean we’ve enjoyed marriage marriage
is its own transition right well you
know that’s minor yeah you know and
people like to say where the kids come
we’re like listen we got plans how long
you were married for three and a half
years okay three and a half years and
then going into our fourth year like
it’s time you know let’s just turn the
switch yep well we turn a switch and
there’s nothing working meaning we’re
not getting pregnant how do you feel
month after month month after month when
your body tells you again you are not
pregnant you are by nature a barely
hayek highly driven goal-oriented here’s
the plan
laid out you’ve probably had a lot of
success like that in your life up until
that point check it it’s a checklist
it’s a checklist this is what I’m gonna
do next
Hey so how does that how does what’s the
emotional toll that takes on you well
see it
number one you feel like what am I doing
wrong right like where is there where
failure where so you blame yourself
first right okay and you know and the
thing that the enemy wants to do is to
get you to blame God like you know I
saved myself before I got married you
know we were virgins we got married and
we’re tired there you know like there’s
the whole thing you go through as
Christians and you like but Lord why me
why is how is this happening to me God
so then first you blame yourself then
you my god cuz I did it your way and I’m
not working out and you know that’s a
lesson honestly in any facet of our life
where we feel like we’ve done the thing
the way that God has asked us to do it
yeah and then he doesn’t come through in
the way that we have asked him to our
expecting him to we immediately turn our
fingers and go what is wrong with you
what’s closed you know so go on and you
know the GYN we just went to the G when
I went to do you I in and it was like
something’s wrong you know I think you
because it was at six months in we’re
not getting pregnant and you know at
that point it’s considered really
infertility after six months so six
months but they say a year but really
six month they’re like don’t wait six
months and not check yourself okay okay
so we went for a man I went for an exam
and found out I had fibroids I’m like
what is that
tumors what you know I this is what does
this mean so you know your tumors and
you’re freaking out now you know and you
know I went through the regular that
started researching right like okay what
does this mean whatever what my options
and so describe what they are so they
are benign tumors that form in the
uterus in and around the uterus and the
wall outside the wall the inside of the
lining and inside the uterine cavity and
depending on where they are they can
cause severe bleeding severe cramping I
mean literally life debilitating anemia
life-threatening anemia were you
experiencing any of that so no at this
time this time I actually was my main
symptom was infertility that’s how I
found
I had them okay because I wasn’t I was I
was asymptomatic outside of the fact
that I had turned 30 and I was
developing a little bit of a belly but
you know I was one of those skinny eat
like you eat and eat and eat and they
call me skinny fat they like all right
even the tablet isn’t gonna catch up
with your girl you keep eating like that
when you 30 let me see you
and guess what half a star I say um I
guess my metabolism is slowing down and
I started getting a little pouch girl
please
we’re so mad at you right now we don’t
know what to put your little belt but I
thought it was just my metabolism that
went down but it turns out it was
fibroids so I had a myomectomy which is
a surgery where they actually cut out
the actual fibroids they went in cut
them out and it was an open surgery
meaning they didn’t do it by laser this
is back in 2001 so they didn’t have all
the same options they have now and they
said surgery went well you know
everything was successful so was it your
understanding that yeah yeah you’re
gonna get pregnant the doctor said she’s
uh you get pregnant just quickly five
years later I’m not pregnant
and the fibroids came back and they came
back and they came back aggressively now
I had symptoms like excruciating pain
while walking I could not make love to
my husband without excruciating pain I
had the kind of I mean I actually had to
be out of work several days because of
pain okay and um when I went back to the
doctor they said oh my god they came
back really aggressively and this time
they would have to cut me like
vertically because they were just
everywhere oh goodness
now I cried in the doctor’s office when
they said they it was no longer bikini
I’m giving it real because there’s gonna
be a scar there’s gonna be I know it’s
out on me in a little scar I mean like
this to this I said they’re bullying
okay yeah but do you know I got over it
cuz it was like well do you want to be
you want it to be successful or do you
just you know as a vani I think like my
belly anyway so had the surgery and it
went well but this time ten days later
they had to cut me open again because I
developed something called a small bowel
obstruction goodness because when you
have major surgery one of the risks is
that scar tissue can form in heejun’s
and adhesions and literally knotted up
my small intestine i couldn’t keep
anything down
so they had to cut out 18 inches of my
small intestine ten like ten days later
you’re not even healed yeah from the one
surgery and you’re already fully another
so and i ended up in the hospital twenty
something it was grueling grueling
recall me about your husband during all
of this you know what was the emotional
toll on him so my husband is an amazing
man of god I mean he is the prophet
priest and king of our home you know but
I think the biggest challenge for him is
feeling like he couldn’t fix it you know
he feels like here’s my wife and she’s
going through this and I can’t just fix
it and that drives him crazy ya know he
was incredibly supportive obviously and
you know this repeated meaning this
happened four year we got pregnant in
between there we had our one pregnancy
before that and we had a devastating
miscarriage followed that and he was I
remember like we went it we we heard the
baby’s heartbeat one week and the next
week they says something’s up come back
next week and I remember we went to that
next appointment and we’re on the way we
were listening to Chris Tomlin how great
is our God
and it was in the car we were blasting
in we’re praising God we’re like God
believe in you we believe you God we
trust you God would trust you and I
remember um going into the doctor’s
office and the heartbeat was gone just
gone and I remember my husband I
literally felt my whole life collapse
yeah yeah and he said no baby you’re not
here
we don’t grieve as those who have no
hope let’s get to the car yeah and we
got to the car and on the way home
same song was praying playing and we’re
just crying out God we just love you
this is not the end god this is not the
end this is you aren’t good and your
mercy endures forever and we are
screaming at the top of our Palace
because we know no matter the pain that
we felt coz the pain was immeasurable of
course but we might but God you’re good
so it’s it’s literally a sacrifice of
praise it’s literally like serious
really God this does not make sense
literally a sacrifice we’re hurt but
we’re gonna worship but this is the crib
this is the craziness right so this is
2008 and many surgeries after this many
it or many things after this three years
later after many complications
another IVF cycles we’re driving home
and I’m telling you the same Road
it wasn’t planned but what is playing in
the car is how great is our God but this
time she was in the backseat with us and
we’re think you are great yeah you were
awesome you are amazing God how great
are you yeah how great are you how
faithful are you yeah it was amazing I
was um I don’t even know if I’ve ever
shared this before but I remember before
we had our three boys we had a
see how to miscarry mm-hmm and I was
about to speak somewhere we’ve I found
that I was pregnant several days before
we had been to the doctor’s office saw
the heartbeat and I was in Chicago to
speak and I went to the restroom right
before going up on the platform and
discovered there was a problem and I
will never forget that because I you
know called my husband in the restroom
and I was kind of like in bed Ron
something is very very clearly wrong and
immediately after that literally within
seconds I had to go up on the stage and
speak and I remember that the message
that I was speaking on was something in
and around the topic of the greatness of
God and you’re kind of in this a moment
where there’s this you have to reconcile
what you know to be true yeah with with
no you know it to be true but it is not
lining up with your circumstances it is
not lining up with the reality of your
life and the thing is we’re talking
about this one scenario of miscarriage
but it goes the same when you’re having
struggles in your marriage and you’ve
been betrayed yes I’m heartlessly by a
spouse or you know you’ve lost a job
that you felt the Lord gave you that job
to begin with and now it’s been snatched
away or when devastating things happen
like that even the loss of a child at a
later stage I’ve met some people that
are grieving the loss of a teenager oh
my god and you wonder Lord what in the
what kind of redemption could come out
of this yeah
so I’m always reminded of the fact that
our God lets us ask our questions he
doesn’t get mad because we say why yeah
oh I say to my sisters you know that I’m
great before they call them our hope
sisters in the program and I say to them
you know there’s this you’ve heard Derek
Prince yeah so I love Derek Prince and
he has a book called faith to live by
that literally I think like every single
Christian should read and he says every
struggle of faith comes down to really a
breakdown in our trust in one of three
things God’s goodness his wisdom
of course power and when you really
trace it you trace it really you say
wait a minute
what’s really it what’s really being
challenged here I’m not really believing
that what God has for me is better than
I want for myself right or I don’t trust
the way he’s trying to take me there
that’s his wisdom because God’s GPS goes
all kind of ways its own offices huh
yeah I mean come on now I know the
direction from here to here is straight
line the crazy but you can see a bee is
right there and what is it that they say
that the this quickest distance between
two points is a straight line right now
but guys GPS is taking you all over but
and I say to my sister that’s because
God is he’s like over here I want you to
learn that you are never alone
you I never leave you nor forsake you
yeah and over here see you’re gonna
learn my voice in the whisper yeah and
over here you’re gonna learn did I have
anybody to verify that yeah and so your
your your life through this sort of
turned this devastation because we’re
talking about I mean you’ve just told us
the you know the little tip of the
iceberg of it cuz we’ve got ten years
yeah
ten years of back-and-forth emotional
ups and downs yeah what I’m trying to
figure out how do you stay sane when you
have ten years of loss of sleep at loss
of finances emotional turmoil how was
your marriage still intact and how are
you still sane as a woman after ten
years of struggle like that that’s a
great question and would it boil down to
for me when I say that that you know
trust in God’s goodness wisdom and power
is it’s literally something I can’t I I
stick I keep before me all the time and
I say okay wait a minute God see because
whatever your struggle is that’s what
God will use to bring you closer to him
cuz really what’s at stake is our
intimacy with
what that’s what the enemy wants he
doesn’t if yeah you know there’s the
miracle baby yeah there’s the job here
there’s the mission and the work but all
of it is for what purpose
it’s for our intimacy with God it to be
what we live out of mm-hmm
that’s what’s at stake that’s what the
enemy wants because the greatest success
strategy we can ever have is our
intimacy with God yeah so when we
realize that wait a minute
you know the says we wrestle not against
flesh and blood so you asked me how do I
stay saying I remember what’s at stake I
remember what’s really the real battle
mm-hmm the real battle is not the
circumstance right right the
circumstance is just happens to be where
it’s playing out so the sisters in our
program they come into dealing with
fibroids and fertility whatever and I
say to them this is much bigger than
that
you’re gonna learn that this is what
we’re gonna deal with is so much bigger
than a fight that happens that gets
healed and all of that and but what
we’re really dealing with is your
intimacy with God okay
I’m gonna I’m gonna stop you and say yes
yes but and I’m just be the devil’s
advocate because that’s fun you know
yeah absolutely but practically mm-hmm
because yes the God’s Word is true yes
intimacy with God is critical it’s the
most important there’s a
behind-the-scenes battle that yeah
waging that has nothing to do with our
set of circumstances or everything to do
with our set of circumstances but what
did you do practically hmm as a woman or
a man every day you’re waking up you’re
staring that problem in the face the
tears are rolling down your eyes your
relationships are art tense and
frustrated because of all the struggle
yeah what practically did you do over
those 10 years to keep yourself steady
and wanting to get out of the bed in the
morning well key thing is of course you
know we talked about NEC with God thing
but it’s relationships the okay around
you around you absolutely okay okay okay
so the people around you will either
keep you sane or drive you insane right
hey they really yeah
and when I say having the support system
like my sister who’s here with me when I
was in the hospital she literally my
sister and my mother-in-law when I was
pregnant with my daughter they were in
the hospital with me every day because
my husband had it at his first executive
job with a major fortune ten company and
he lived out of state oh wow and
literally she was with me at night and
my mother-in-law was with me in the
morning so every rush to the delivery
room every emergency I had support I had
love I had people who were not giving up
on me right and that you know
relationships literally are the
lifeblood of our life I mean if we don’t
have the people who are going to tell us
the truth yeah tell us you’re acting
crazy right in a minute like you listen
you acting crazy
yeah and unity deff and you need to get
it together yeah
or stop the whining stop the complainin
let’s focus on the right thing you know
we all need a good friend that says be
quiet girl
shut up whining my sister says you just
met you never miss another good
opportunity to shut up we should all
shut up more yes yeah so practically
that’s you know when the Bible talked
about how you know we have to have
people holding your you know yeah it was
it was it Moses right and holding his
arms up and I literally had people
holding me up yeah because I went
immediately yeah there was no way yeah
you know that journey was so long I’m in
there and I remember yes there were
supernatural interventions I mean there
were ways that God showed up that I know
him like never before right no question
but he showed up also on people yeah and
people are the hands and feet of Jesus
expressing that I really think that’s
what the body of Christ is supposed to
be that’s us that is one of the main
purposes of the church is to be the body
of Christ to express the love of Christ
to others and truth and authenticity of
our God
that’s does it okay so here’s what I
want to know your life was in music
gospel music you’ve got a plan for your
life yes and you’re on this career path
that is headed toward success and then
you’ve got
years of disappointment how did God work
through the disappoint see this is the
part that I think it’s so cool so it’s
happening at the same time right so as
Jeremiah 29 he says I have a plan for
you and that plan is like sometimes like
I don’t see it where is it how we get in
there well maybe you do see it but it
looks like loss and my appointment right
stration right but I’m saying like I see
the success but I’m not seeing how I’m
getting there yeah it’s just it Rose
exactly and I remember actually the last
time I was here in Tennessee I was I had
to be rushed to the hospital because I
was having it was the third time the
Firebirds came back and I was
hemorrhaging I was here for the devil
warrants mmm okay I was here with
artists for the devil wards and I had to
be I couldn’t even be there for my
clients event because I was hemorrhaging
to the point where I couldn’t even I
could barely stand Wow
alright and so I was rushed to another
Medical Center and I was like wow all of
that was happening at the same time you
know I was feeling like okay this is my
career but at the same time I was going
through this crisis in my faith in my
walk in my my personal relationships and
to be honest all I can say okay god I
know you’ll turn my test in a test into
a testimony that’s what they say right
the preacher says it all the time you’ll
turn your test that’s all it’s all your
math into a message right God will give
you stop and but you don’t know what
that means
like that can mean you know that that’s
good for my sister and they’re like my
test is gonna help my sister or it’s
gonna help you know a few sisters in my
community you don’t know that means a
large scale you know global scale you
don’t know what that means that could
mean for me in my local community yeah
and to be honest I was just doing my
thing and I was working with you know
actually a speaker at the time and
I was at a lunch at Essence magazine and
it’s funny because I was there for my
client and we just ended up talking
about you know I just had a miracle baby
hey I just had a miracle baby can
we meet the miracle baby can we meet the
miracle baby that would be so great
where’s Mia where is she she’s somewhere
oh wait wait oh wait no no trying to
help me home she’s not shot hey
hi pretty girl how old are you
thanks you’re six years old and I heard
that your name has a very special
meaning what does it mean purpose
it means purpose oh you know I like
warrior type things awesome
purpose and warrior that’s right we say
you were purposeful warrior you’re born
for purpose on purpose and with a
purpose yeah do you have big plans for
your life I went to Disney
my first time oh yes what what what is
it that you want to say to mommies who
maybe believe in God for their miracle
remember
never give up your miracles on the way
[Laughter]
you know what I think is interesting
though is that you know you sit before
us with this sweet little girl beside
you which is such a miracle after all
that you went through but the reality is
for a lot of women doesn’t end
necessarily with the baby that they
longed for but it’s so interesting to me
that the trajectory your life has taken
that’s what I was trying to get to was
you were in this goal and no ambition
and then you’ve got ten years of being
derailed so but let me talk to you about
the journey I’m gonna let her go though
ya know just like she can say there’s
like you know yeah do you want to stay
right on this okay okay doing Donna I
gave you the disclaimer me is the name
that’s right you look really good under
the lights – you’re gonna listen to your
mom okay okay here we go
so here’s the deal with God what I’ve
learned is that you just keep following
the path yeah right cuz I didn’t have
this plan I’m telling you I’m telling
you okay you’re not about to sit down
[Laughter]
you’re gonna start right here do it
you’re positive so you keep you keep
running you keep walking on the path
yeah okay so here I was and I don’t
think you know you can’t know what do
you want to come sit by me would that be
better okay
sit by me all right no all right let’s
let’s try ok what’s right see okay magic
of editing it will be fine I know yeah
don’t worry you guys get the real deal
so so ok so I was in the middle of this
you know parallel universe yeah I’m
working in the industry and my life is
you know going through all these trials
and I really just kept following the
path meaning I just kept doing what I
was doing I and here I was at a meeting
with essence and I just had a miracle
baby I mean I just I thought it was for
me like this I know guy was doing
something special but I thought he did
it just
he brought me through yeah he brought me
through I mean he brought me through
y’all yeah and just the healing and I
never believed or knew what he had
played right ok so now I am just talking
just talking to you know the editor is
about you know my clown work and they’re
like you just had a what tell us about
your miracle baby and you’re there on
reason and now you’re having a
conversation about the other so next
thing like you know what I think gosh I
think our readers would like to hear
this story correct and so about it a
couple months later I get an email
asking hey would you share your story
for our Mother’s Day tissue in essence
magazines magazine yeah correct okay now
do you want to sit with your art over
there yes your aunties gonna come in
kitchen you have to be super still cuz
you’re coming to get you right your mom
oh this woman right here is a lifesaver
Oh
I love you goodbye I love you I tried I
tried okay
warrior that’s what you’re named it let
me tell you something very important by
her name you got what you brave black
she got here because she didn’t listen
to what anybody said they said she
wasn’t supposed to be here
Yeah right so she’s still not so okay so
XS magazine says write about your story
mother’s day issues okay okay so we did
that how many years ago that was 2014
okay Mother’s Day issue any went viral
like it was insane and I was know what
cuz so many women are struggling with
yeah it is like literally I gave him
permission to share what they were going
through because they’re suffering in
silence yeah it’s this feeling like
nobody like this is my problem nobody
wants to hear about it I’m suffering
through fibroids through infertility I
mean and when I say the kind of
testimonies and the things that people
are saying thank you so much for sharing
your story you don’t understand your
story has given me hope you know I’m
five five miscarriages in I’m ten you
know to mayim Ekta means that whatever
and it was I mean details yeah and I
knew when I kept hearing I said God you
know you said that we overcome by the
blood of the Lamb and the word of our
testimony and so we all know I have pull
these you know I got a document this day
I say I’m not an author Here I am
writing a book right hope beyond five
words stories of miracle babies and the
journey so motherhood
why because I said well my one story can
inspire all these women how about if I
pull together other women’s stories but
it didn’t stop there so this goes viral
and it’s it’s it’s amazing and I’m like
God it was funny
I’m said you’re saying what God what
does this mean you gonna get me talking
about five words I don’t know about
carboys I’m telling you this is I said
and I remember I was at um Dinah
McClurkin was the special guest you know
that a friend of ours a mutual friends
of ours her mother’s passing her
homegoing
and he says Jesse you
his country voice he said Jessie I saw
your story I heard all this stuff going
on he said I want you to know he says
you think what you’ve been doing all
these years has been your ministry he
says all this work you’ve been doing in
gospel music you think this has been
your ministry but girl you don’t know
what God is about to start doing with
you the lives that are gonna be healed
through this ministry that he’s pretty
now that’s just stepping into this is
your real ministry Jesse and I was like
huh what I didn’t have a book written I
didn’t know what he was talking about I
was like oh okay and so that’s four
years that was four years ago and when I
met you what you were at this conference
to do was to speak on this topic yes so
he again
he orders our steps yeah right so yeah
okay I receive it all I kept saying a
little Lord if you say it I’ll do it
yeah Lord yes yes and amen and so your
full-time ministry life now surrounds
helping women and it wasn’t regards I
planned I say Jeremiah God’s Jeremiah
29:11 takes you to his Ephesians 3:20
alright like I say to these women I said
you are why I went through what I went
through I didn’t know what I was going
through I didn’t know why I was going
through yeah
but as now we were able to help women
one of our hope sisters she had a baby
after not being able to conceive for 12
years after being on our program twelve
years we need to talk about your program
we’re gonna do that in the next how did
that yeah I’m like God this was not even
on my 20 year like I didn’t even see
this happening it wasn’t even in your
you know some fresh fact I believe that
we we can’t even pray the right requests
because we’re not even the right
category of request God’s in a whole
nother category of thoughts amen and our
brain are as much as we can
conceptualize is not even in the right
category of prayer request that’s that
beyond your imagination beyond your
imagination and sometimes this is what I
want want you to hear sometimes the way
he leads you to his plan for you that’s
right is with ten years of struggle yeah
because worry of creating in you in that
process
creating something I want you to be
encouraging that we’re gonna talk to
miss Jesse a little bit more because we
want to hear about her program and want
to hear about some really practical
steps for women who are struggling with
this they actually need to know okay
what can I do to be more healthy um even
women that aren’t struggling with this
in particular women and men yeah cuz we
were back in the back I was sitting over
some barbecue yeah currently eating the
barbecue as I was talking about just
eating how eating has changed your life
your husband’s life so many people just
but the things we’re putting in our body
and how we can be more healthy we’ll be
more mindful of those things so we’re
going to talk about that in part two of
our conversation with Miss Jesse but for
now would you all thank her for sharing
her story with us
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