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Guaranteed Human. Hold on. Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. You're all finished or y'all's done? Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Salomey and the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lorna Roses here as well. Yes, indeed. We got the special guests in the building. Now, January is National Mentorship Month. They got a month for everything.

Everything. on the roses here as well yes indeed we got special guests in the building now january is national mentorship month they got a month for everything everything that is right we have natasha brown and sean c lundee did i say your name

right it's chansay chansay chan se yes they were telling me it's chance at first because

it's spelled chance ee but it's chonsea yeah had an accent mark on and then I had to make sure that you wasn't Latosha well you know black people are

creative now come on I just want to make sure how you ladies feeling good good real good

what's the importance of national mentorship love you want to start start it off okay so

mentorship just is important in general because we all need

guidance and somebody to look up to um like you said we have a month for everything but mentorship

is important to me because sitting here is letasha who i've known since i was 14 years old

so before there was an organization, there was anything.

And before I even had the term mentor, she is someone that I found as a safe space.

Like when I was in high school and I grew up in the 90s and, you know, that's when a lot of people were getting in trouble.

Drugs were out, like a lot of things were happening within my household.

She was running a girls group and we met with her every week and she talked about leadership, about empowerment.

And it became my place to go so that I didn't get in trouble.

Like, you know, it just, it's always, I've always seen there's something important to pay it for.

So when there's no terminology, I never called her my mentor until maybe 10 years ago. I was like, oh, I guess that's what it was. But it was like somebody who was looking out for me, looking out for other girls, using her own resources to take care of us. And us being a part of organizations, just making sure that we had something to do. Like, it's that guidance that you're not getting necessarily at home and having somebody else to talk to somebody to help guide you along the way

and to bounce ideas off of because you know we can get inside our head

especially when you're a teenager about what you think is right and you have somebody

like no that's not right and you know you don't listen to your mama them all time

so that somebody's like that kind of reinforces those things that

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