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My name is Bri and I'm the founder of Brown Girl Self Care and I'm also a self-care advocate. Here I share tips, thoughts, and conversations cultivated to pour into your self-care cup. I'm so glad you're here. Let's get into today's episode.

All right ladies, welcome back for another episode. So I'm so glad that you're in this space because I've got a good conversation for you that I really want you to listen to.

So this is a bit of a serious conversation. I mean, not anything crazy, but I just want us to be ready.

I just want us to be ready as black women in case, you know, something goes down and we don't have access to water. We don't have access to food.

We don't have access to resources for a certain period of time anywhere from, you know, 48 to 72 hours or even longer than that.

So I am in conversation today with Tiffany Gilliam. She is a prepper and she has a Facebook group that she'll tell you more about in the conversation.

And in that space, it is for black women to learn any and everything pertaining to taking care of ourselves because like the saying goes, if you stay ready, you ain't got to get ready.

But what we don't want is a situation where we weren't on our toes. We weren't on top of our game and a national disaster hits or we're on lockdown or there's something going on where we cannot leave our homes because we need to stay safe.

But it's fine because you have what you need to hold you for a day, two days, a week, two weeks, et cetera.

I'm talking water, food, clothing, you know what? Let's just go ahead and get into the conversation and I will allow her to kind of like break everything down.

Make sure that you have your notepad in a panhandi. And also I do want to say that this conversation does not cover all that needs to be covered when it comes to prepping and being ready.

I want you after this episode to commit to taking more time, like join the Facebook group number one, but also take time to really read up on what you might personally need.

Is it your passports? Is it having all your legal documents in one place? Do you have a certain medicine that you take, like take time to figure out what you need because again, we need to be ready now.

Especially if you are single, especially if you are a caregiver, especially if you have children in the home, you know what I'm saying, like we all need to as black women, make sure that we are in a place of preparedness.

So with that said, let me go ahead and get into this conversation and I will see you on the other side.

So again, my name is Tiffany Gilliam and the company is women surviving SHTF full length is black women black preppers women surviving SHTF and SHTF stands for stuff hit in the fan.

Oh, I was I thought well, I thought it meant something else.

Yeah, so it can mean stuff or the other S word.

Well, I am so glad to have you here. I think that having this conversation, especially for black women, and where we can have a dialogue surrounding or centering, just being able to take care of ourselves.

If stuff will go with stuff happens to hit the fan, this could be a like an emergency emergency, like a natural disaster type of emergency, but also it can be just something along the lines of things kind of happening in our communities in our cities where we need to we might need to hunker down because we're in a state of emergency for whatever reason.

We need to hunker down and be safe and be prepared. And so with the climate of everything that's going on these days, when I found your group, so she has a group on Facebook.

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