Hello and I'm

Jamele a podcast against shame.

I hope you're well and I'm going to give you a heads up.

This is one of the more intense episodes I've had of this

podcast in a while and that's because there's so much going on in the world right now and I get messages from all of you all of the time asking me what you can do, how you can be helpful, how you can feel empowered in all of this, how you can donate, who you can raise money for.

It's so hard to know because you never know which organizations are dodgy, if the money's ever

actually going to get to the people you're trying to help, You don't know where to start because there are so many organizations.

And so I wanted to bring you one that I really trust, one that I'm an ambassador of,

one where I know the founder personally and have done from long before she started

Choose Love, which is the name of the organization we're discussing, and they are able to fund

hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of on the ground, grassroots

organizations doing the most extraordinary work.

And in this episode, we talk about all the crises that are happening,

the ones that are in the news,

either anymore or they haven't made the news because people don't seem to care about certain

countries that are suffering.

And we just have a very candid chat about it all and it's not

about politics this is about human beings this shouldn't be political people are not

their governments people are not their leaders it is insane that it is something we even have to take

pause over as to whether we agree with every single thing that the leaders of

certain countries do when we're seeing people when we're seeing children, innocent babies suffering and starving on our watch all over the world.

And so this episode, while full of some harrowing statistics, is actually incredibly uplifting because it's about the

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