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Badass Basic Bitch

Turning Trauma into Purpose with Jas Boothe

Badass Basic Bitch

Brianna Dunbar-DeMike

Self-improvement, Entrepreneur, Life Coach, Career, Mom Boss, Mom, Working Mom, Parenting, Education

4.2529 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jas Boothe is a Chicago Native, Disabled Army Veteran, Cancer Survivor, and Speaker who gave over 17 years of service to this great nation. She deployed during the Operation Iraq Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom campaigns. Her entire military career was dedicated to working with and advocating for Soldiers and their family members. In 2005, she was a single parent in the Army Reserves living in New Orleans. That spring, she learned she would soon be deploying to Iraq. During h...

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0:00.0

What's up, Batty Bees?

0:11.4

I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.

0:18.5

Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary

0:23.5

things and I get to share her story with you. So let's go. Buckle up as we're going to get real

0:30.3

and dive into the shit nobody talks about. Welcome to the Batty B Club.

0:41.9

Beautiful. Welcome to the Batty B Club. Because of Hurricane Katrina, things got way worse, and there were people who couldn't

0:47.1

keep in contact with their families and they were worried.

0:50.4

They paused our training for two weeks and gave people time to try to get in contact

0:54.0

with their families, salvage anything they could salvage.

0:56.9

I had nothing to salvage.

0:58.1

And so I said, you know what, I'm going to go and take this time to go get a checkup.

1:01.9

And I got called two weeks later and was given a headache and throw cancer diagnosis.

1:09.9

Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch. Today I have with us

1:15.4

Major Jazz Booth, who is an author, entrepreneur, disabled army veteran, cancer survivor,

1:22.9

innovator and speaker who gave 16 years of service to this nation. Jazz, thank you so much for being with us.

1:30.7

Brianna, thank you for having me. So can you give our listeners a short summary of who you are and your

1:37.2

background? Oh, short summary. Yeah, I know. That's hard because you have such amazing accomplishments

1:43.7

and, like, context to your

1:45.7

background, but, you know, do the best you can.

1:49.4

Yeah, I am a, I would say first and foremost, I am a survivor, you know, that has chosen

1:57.5

to take the lessons instead of the stigma from my traumas and turn them into,

2:05.1

I guess, turned them into opportunities to help other people. You know, I think sometimes we

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