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Well, hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 214.

If you haven't listened to episode 213 yet, that was me talking about my birthday, what it means to me and all that fun stuff.

And don't forget to check out.

I'm going to have some extra stuff on the premium podcast. Only three bucks a month. Really good. Go listen to it.

But episode 214 will be with a group that Lisa Knowles, who I will describe who she is very shortly.

But Lisa Knowles started a few, like about a year ago,

of culturally competent therapists in Massachusetts.

And I'm very honored to say that they invited me

for the third meeting maybe.

So I've been part of the coalition for a short while right now,

but we're really, we're now having name.

It's called Behind the Badge and Beyond.

And for me, like, I want to

give all their biographies, but I can't because it's going to be too long and they're going to

talk about it anyway. But Richard Winning is someone who got his master's in social work at Westfield

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