The Everyone, obviously, I'm Monica Perez. This is Courtney Turner, whom you know from

this show before and from all of her fantastic podcast and all of the work she does.

I mean she is, she's just with on the ground outreach.

She's such a great researcher and intense thinker.

She gets along with everybody.

She just really took the podcasting world by storm.

So what do I think when I run into someone like that? Is this chick legit? Where does she come from?

So I'm I thought let's vet Courtney Turner. Let's see what where how you got from there to here and if it holds water as they said in my

cousin Vinny I'll tell you about some of the things I kind of uncovered but I

want to hear your whole story if you don't mind telling a lot of people know your

backstory of your birth story and your disabilities but let's start with that for

people who don't know let's make this the definitive

Courtney Turner about Courtney Turner and then I want to hear everything

want to hear your education your job history everything do you know any CIA

agents because they're everywhere?

No, but no, I really I want to know about your birth, your education and your

academic and your professional career.

Okay, so well my birth story is you, I came into this world with kind of unusual kind of

of circumstances. My mom was sick during first time after pregnancy. So the story

goes that she was diagnosed, or actually she wasn't diagnosed, but my father was very sick.

He, they thought that he had contracted German measles.

So this is how the story goes.

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