mom because my mom owns a business i have a business and they go we need someone to volunteer to do hair for all the shows and my longest how can you get also my daughter of her that she knows how to braid hair yeah they were definitely the day i got my license and they were having to drive me all around mom i got to be here this time and then you got to pick me up because i have to go to a meeting she's like ok i'm off right there at the active you are doing today is called when we lead the world and basically what you're going to break up who already has that spark and that interest the opportunity that star gives them is to practice their method to kind of like tweak it like ok well this is my style yeah i don't i don't know how many of you are actually  telling the truth but this is how i do these are my strengths these are my weakness as because really in order to catapult the catapult their opportunity for leadership they have to know who they are and really for me personally and working with alex the the most amazing part was her interest in coming back and working with the students that are up and coming in the training the positive way that we can do good it's all negatives star was like my eye opener so i if i gave other kids the chance that i had they would put their feet in the community as much as i have and i think it takes a very special student to say well i've already done that been there done that but how do i get other people on the same level and that's really the empowering piece and she really understands about giving of her time and her talent to pull somebody up to you know it's not about her it's not about the spotlight it's about x flooring ways to get other people motivated and psyched about the things she's psyched about and i enjoy it i love myself and i see by the family while she's very involved in her cystic fibrosis campaigns and i think that that's definitely a really cool thing because it's not just her her whole family is involved in it so i think that that definitely fuels her interest she's also very involved with team court  they under florida statute can refer child directly into a diversion program and in the judicial circuit we are the program the defense and prosecution both present their cases and then the jury are people's peers like we're all the same age are all in high school so no one feels intimidated no one feels like oh my gosh these people are like out to get me and so i go back after they've heard it and decide whether they can have anywhere between eight to fifty hours times in eighth grade i had gone and i done jury duty and then an freshman years like when i started serving as a teen attorney and that's when i really got involved right away right away i mean when they come in they all have to be jury members and right away when she started volunteering so yeah i mean she's just got that personality and her spunk i mean there's just a sponsor and you know i think that's what she's  developed that probably gets her through but i do think it's probably her a personality there's only a couple of us who have stuck with it since we started in eighth grade so it's just something i enjoy doing and i i love my team core family i'm not real sure if she chooses to prosecute or defend that would be interesting did you all address that at all i prefer prosecuting because i feel that it's an easier job to do well and that's exactly right because they've done it so but again the young people that have have got a particular set of challenges that they have accepted and are using as a positive force in their life are generally more interested in prosecuting because they don't tolerate young people coming through who in their world they feel like don't have an excuse to be acting out you know that we're seriously it's like you know listening and she conveys that she conveys that message and that's where being a positive role model comes into play and again i don't know how often she shares her challenges with any of the young people she works well we found out when she apply she divulged that when she applied because of the h piece right so we wanted to make sure that we were conscious of her needs and of the environment that we were in and we weren't quite sure like ok well are there things that she would have to be excluded from participating  i know where i was and where i was standing when i got the phone call it was i felt i knew what was going to happen i knew that the result the doctors would tell me but you just feel like your world is going to stop for a moment and then in a second you realize you can pull yourself together and get through this the biggest thing came is also knowing i have to have a two year old who is going to need to be tested that day so we were basically told she had cystic fibrosis please go get your other child out of daycare bring her to the hospital and meet us we're going to have a family meeting today i really don't remember how they told me i just i just know like i don't even remember yeah i mean i guess i'm never really like gone back in my gas them in like thought about it because i just remember like all i remember was my mom being like oh back on the stuff you have to go in the hospital for two weeks and i was like make sure you bring my beanbag cha was like my most important thing oh my stuffed animal and then i just like i don't i don't even remember like i just remember going into hospital and once i was in the hospital it was like ok this is my life now the change came not only that where we told that she had cystic fibrosis that her daughter her sister had it that the girls would be hospitalized for two weeks immediately so it was like taking us out of the real world putting us into a hospital room and we lived there for fourteen days you became very aware of everything and learned she never started doing speaking of dance at nine in front of people large crowds of people she would get up and talk in front of and she felt that was her thing and she's always been the person who wants to help everybody and be there take i was amazed i think i was more nervous than she was so i would sit in the audience breaking out into a sweat and she'd be as calm as anything to stand and talk and speak from her heart i and basically i take two puffs twice a day before argument treatments and all it does really is i'm open up my airways making it easier for the medication i'm about to inhale to go into all of my l i get up in the morning and i do a machine it's called my vest and it's like i put in actual like you know what i'm going to skewer that i'm doing and i like blows over there and just shakes me because it's a type of airway clearance for me so i'm able to like cough up new guessing get all the bacteria out of my lungs and then i do in the morning i did two nebulizers i do one that's like a prescription medication and then another one that's called hypertonic sailing which is just like a salt water solution that loosens everything up and then at night i do all by again and then another one on top of it another nebulizer so i do three nebulizers a night because that's just another type of prescription medication i have to take and then i take a lot of antibiotics throughout the day but she'll have a moment of crying when she finds out she's going to have to go back in the hospital again or she's going to need to live on i v s you know for weeks at a time and she knows that the medicine can make her very sick but to ever be angry or to be upset no she doesn't she goes with the flow she does her treatment she does her medicine and she doesn't miss school i mean she'll take her i be going to school with her and still go about her day and still attend all her meetings and do everything she's said she's going to surprise because she's just so bubbly and vibrant and non complaining you would never have known when she came you know and if she wasn't well and she never there's never a low with me about her personality i mean it's just not in her and she's living her life on like a hundred speed you know full speed ahead and i think that's inspiring to us and to us as a organization but also to us professionally like i have no business whining if alex says come on we're doing this we're excited about this project i have no business whining about it i'm like right there absolutely let's do it let's get it done i learned a lot i turned it on that's a fairly say one thing i just learned so much like take every day as it is and i don't look back and i have regrets about things that you did or you haven't done because you have to live life to the fullest technically is like a cliche what i choose motivating to us because those days where you feel like oh my gosh it's great out i don't want to go to work or i'd rather stay in but you think you know no she it's a motivator  amazing so having her part of our little family here reminds us that this is why we keep trucking along she doesn't fire me in many ways because i see the drive and the determination she has and knowing what she has to go through every day of her life and she's so determined to get through it and an inspiration to me is if i even think about being in a bad mood at times and i look at her she's always smiling she still tells me mom we can get through anything no she she pulls me for many many times and