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We honor creators, and we're happy today to have Valerie Hamaker with us.

Hi.

Hi, Valerie.

And Randy Watts is my co-hosthost and Randy and I are going to be

collaborating a lot more and doing more content and so look forward to that. Valerie, we know that

you're in the news, but we're not going to get to that until a little bit later. But first,

tell us a little bit about your life where you grew up and what your experience was like as a

young person and a teenager yeah so i am from the salt lake city utah area uh born and raised in

actually those of you who are local to that area i'm from centerville utah i'm one of six children

and i come from good Mormon stock

on both sides of the family.

My parents moved to Centerville,

and my mother still lives there, actually,

all these years later.

And so I'm one-

And what number of child are you?

I am one of six children, second to the oldest, of a family of three daughters and three sons.

And, yeah, I kind of consider myself having a pretty typical Latter-day Saint life.

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