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Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters.

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We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode here at all home care matters, something that

will hopefully matter to you. Today, we are honored to welcome Stephanie Ford. Stephanie is the founder

of Life Stories with Steph. Welcome, Stephanie. How are you? Thank you. Thank you for having me. I'm doing

well. Wonderful. You know, I want to kind of start, though, you know, I introduced you as the founder of

Life Stories with Stuff.

Why don't you just kind of take us back to the back then, you know, back to the beginning.

And first, let's start with what is Life Stories with Stuff?

And then what inspired you to start Life Stories with Stuff?

And how did your background, because you were a caregiver,

really helped shape the work that you're doing today? Oh, such a big question, but so much.

Yeah. So forgiving has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. So I had a mother

who had polio as a child. And so I think early on, I just saw this need for recognizing people who were struggling or had disabilities.

And so I think that was always at the forefront of my mind.

But about 12 years ago, I really got into caregiving full time.

And it was just through my time with that,

that I met the most amazing people.

And I think that's what I love so much about caregiving,

is just that you get the one-on-one time for long periods of time.

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