you and welcome to the life two point zero a show where we talk about well we talk about life two point zero what we call the new and retirement and for those viewers that are first watching us or watching our show for the first time you know the life two point zero show like to put a community which we call a movement really was a result of my journey after being downsized for many years in a pharmaceutical industry i took a package but fully realizing i was not going to retire but i figured at this point in my life you know i had been in pharmaceuticals or so many years there had to be something else you know what could that next thing be for me so i started you know thinking about that researching and then as a result of people knowing the journey i was going through they started asking me well you know how are you doing i'm going to be downsized or i'm thinking about retirement so from that and those questions and just talking to people i actually developed a life two point zero seminar the programs in a word jobs which really kind of teach women to think about the talents and skills that they had maybe developed in corporate or whatever but their transferable skills but also to look at what you're passionate about what  things that when you were a little kid you said i want to do what are those things about the journey of life you said i love to do that but the time was never right you know the kids the career whatever so it's really taking this part of your life but we were at the new one retirement or like two point  and we're expanding this program to include even you know a little bit of the generation before after us because i at some point in our lives we start to question what is there to life right is this all there really is this is my life have meaning so the workshops and the seminars help people to find their passion and take those passions and move forward and do some amazing things in life from every point up and then just cover briefly on the topics that we usually cover in the show right because life two point zero is not about just one thing living fulfilling life it's about a full life so we actually break the segment down into a number of categories we talk about career which does part we love because we get to talk about your home and your home should make you feel and how it should be a reflection of your past as well as moving forward you know we're you know the whole sequence of some of the parts of the law our life is really equal to the sum of all introducing to the audience i think in passions we've done i remember the show we did on honoring yourself and we talked about friends yes and i talked about you know there's friends and then there's sister friends this is my sister for an office and the difference between a friend and a sister friend is that that that's a person that's not really your sister but they could be right because they know so much about you they care so much about you they're your support system and pharmaceuticals and a few years before i joined so when i came to merge she was committed to her to me and from there we developed a relationship or friendship our daughters we say were friends from the womb because we that now she's going to talk a little bit about hers yari so morrison just do a brief introduction so our viewers get to know a little bit about you and your background ok i was in the pharmaceutical industry i'm a pharmacist by trade and after pharmacy school i decided to go into the pharmaceutical industry was there for over thirty three years and decided to take a retirement package and just as jackie said i knew that i wasn't ready to retire when i heard that it was my time to leave the industry so at that point i had to decide what is the next step and what am i going to do right but you know what's interesting about the risks of stories because i remember so we did we did a load test workshop when i was trying to develop the program can often tell her story to others in my workshop so people will kind of understand that making that transition is sometimes very difficult but the reasons why because i remember in the just personally but professionally as she was one of consistently the top sales representatives in the congo country so for her to say a little scary because i know her skills i know her talents but she said to me it's because i'm now stepping out of my comfort zone and that is huge so let me pick up where jackie is coming from so what how did you overcome or maybe you haven't fully overcome those concerns as yet but how did you move from that to saying you know what it doesn't matter i'm still going to take that step but yes there was definitely stepping out of my comfort zone something i had never done but it's always a passion that i you know i said you know it's time it's time and actually i would say the one that really pushed me to move out of that comfort zone was jackie right because she said to me you're scared really and i'm like  am i said but you know what i'm going to do this i'm going to do this i'm going to take the plunge as they say and you know what let's see how it works and i knew that with through my skills and because of the passion that i had this was the right decision so using knowing that ok and now i've made that decision to get to where you want to serve i coude did you come up with how i'm going to myself transfer my scales all that kind of stuff how did well with the first thing i did was i figured let me reach out to be alliance of patient advocates because i'm doing patient advocacy ok and i said let me reach out to somebody who's been doing this already because they can kind of guide me on how to get started right because i really didn't even know how to begin i reached out to someone and she became a mentor to me and she said you should do this because you know you should start with exploring this and that and you know and things like that and  one of the things that i will tell you about stepping out is corporate america was easy because i think like you said bad dreams very good at all out for you all you had you would show up work and do your job absolutely i was saying that to couple of things that marissa set which is key mentor find yeah a mentor because the person that has that's there and that represents where you want to be they have a lot of information  right right because you're like oh this person can transform themselves and i have the skill set as well so it gives you a little bit of confidence i feel well the other thing is i'm a i'm a pretty and i thought that was to me that was like fine and yes i like yes this is the right thing i you know this is the right thing that i'm doing right the other thing too is that i've always said this during the seminars and we've said a river repeatedly on the show was that when once you take the first one and like you said you find somebody that you know was meant to be in that path will reside then you know this is the right thing to do let's move forward right so tell me a little bit about why you're passionate about  as a child i always like to hope people and then it came as an adult i had to be the caretaker for everybody in my family my mom my dad all those people so i said well if i can do it for them then the hardest critic there i can do it for somebody else so that's why i decided this anita let me step in because i know my friend very well if there was ever a little bit about what you do for a patient so for example of the patient you know the health care system is really complicate it is and it's getting even more complicated and a lot of patients don't know where to begin seeking a second opinion seeking the right physician what questions to ask if they have medical bills that are piling up and they're not concentrating on getting well because they're worried about oh my god i'm not going to be able to  i take the pressure off of them for that and also that they can concentrate on getting better yeah so i kind of just take it off of them and say give it over to me and you work on getting better right now we talk about using transferable skills  this is key morris's background is a pharmacist but also being in pharmaceuticals and understanding medications as well as many different disease and titties that is something that is huge for the patient that that yet has her because i know both she and i we've had situations where we've had parents and so forth in the hospital when you speak the language and you know yeah it was you get totally different the respect that it was and they're not asking the right questions right so that's where i come in yeah and i know for the baby boomer generation the a doctor was sort of said you know that they took their word and never should not be offended by it because you're doing what work for the patient work for the nation and you want what's best and you know what at the end of the day the two of us want the best for that patient doctor as well as myself right so so so  talk a little bit about do you do you feel now that you've started this new this new venture do you feel that it was the right decision absolutely ok absolutely one hundred percent i haven't been sure about anything else and obviously i've had a bunch of challenges that you know family members have been and i have put it on hold for a while i finally said it's time to do this but i have no regrets around whatsoever at is what i'm what i was meant and i think that's something that we're going to find as we kind of move into our what's next is you're going to find every single stumbling block every single situation will come and come into play the say oh i can't do this now or whatever but you have to stay focused and stay on track and i think when you are doing and what your passion about and when you're living your purpose you're always always going to come back to getting back on track because it doesn't go away that desire and i'm going to challenge yeah really good luck a long the way right but you have to persevere right and keep w the thing that i that i try to keep in mind because we have the same challenges as well is that you're your ego and you're my little devils and i just want to keep you where your ad yes because it's safe it's comfortable and that's what you now so we all have to remember that when we're pursuing something else we have to persevere we have to do something different in order to learn you know to be something and it's all in it's a learning process right because again it's it's something you've never done good learning every day as you go along and you will continue to learn and i would say also a lot of times because it is a learning process  and especially when you said you know you have those skill sets that you know you are really good at past life you know i was really you know i could nail this i know exactly what to do so now you're kind of taking those skill sets from the known into the unknown and a my phone and you know where my clients or whatever the small you know you did make a cut yesterday you made a contact that contact could potentially so take the small wins and six and i and use those to you know keep you focused in on so so talk a little bit about how soon i know you mallory is part of the trio but how has there how has that relationship help encourage you to actually keep keep moving well because when i see that when they see both mal and jackie see that i was starting to get a little unsure of myself they would say to me you're meant to do this as they call me barking yes vargus you're meant to do this this is what you meant to be and you you can't have second thoughts you've got to do this so they kept me encouraged they encouraged me they they guided me because they've been through the process and they've told me this is what you need to do you got this so so so i would assume that you are you say that having that really  that really support system that you know sometimes we find that our our family members our support system but they don't understand what we're doing now you're right old the support system in this case has to be a little bit different  someone all gone somebody you trust right somebody you trust somebody who's gone through the process right and your family is great but they don't understand you know so you have to you have to depend on like my sister friends and i want to tell you mal and as we traditionally would our thing is that at least every three months or so we have our ladies night out which which we talk about in la la i know about that that has a going and so the thing about ladies night is i don't think everyone could be part of a ladies night you know we're a little weird but we're also i think very strong independent people so we'll sit there and whoever's having their little you know you know hallway friends anymore right and you know and in a corporate you have a lot of it's not friends night so why is it yeah yeah friends friends you know people use that term loosely but didn't cooperate it's acquaintances but if you think about in corporate if you are in a certain position you have other people to bounce these ideas off right right so if you look at it from that perspective these are like the people that you're bouncing i'd from a brightest person and they would be right there would be the substitute for the corporate right now that are not right but i correct i was there also more than that right that's why you know we talk about life two point zero relationships and have them having those or very employing support supports that's not something you should be doing and i know that when i said that to them or they say that to me i'm going to stop i'm going to stop and think about it because i know hey this is a person that that loves cares yet has my back has my best yes you to death they're going to give you the right advice yes i think that's very very poor but you don't find many if you don't have that many and that's why they that's why i think i only have cherish very few friends you have friends question and say do this do this so you know my sister's friend well thank and just so i know i met sabrina through jackie and in taking this venture i also had concerns and sabrina said to me very concerned and i'm like oh she goes no you're doing the right thing and let me tell you why you did it and i think sabrina came into my life to keep me positive when i was doubting myself she was like why you part she's also bilingual all right yes that's right and it just amazing and that's one of the things you know i know that this patient advocates out there so i said i need to distinguish myself yes from them yes so what can i do to make myself different right decided to create a bilingual website yes and i have to say one of the persons that was very instrumental in that was my husband yet said to me would say i used to tell my dad if we're in america and he says because when you go to school you're going to learn english and i want you to when you're an adult be tip number one would be suitable one i would say reach out to somebody who already did it and i find i'm right number two do some research yes research it's very important to do research and you know research what you're planning the venture you but before i don't mean to interrupt here but this you know it's one of these life two point zero moments if i don't tell you now i'll forget so the thing with with keeping your expectations because coming from a corporate environment especially if you held a very high position you have that sort yeah confidence and you're like wait a minute and i started from the bottom i can you know sort of how it is when you but no you just ok so at point you know you have yes day always you know positive the other thing is speak to people speak will reach out don't be afraid to reach out and say hey you know what i think i need you know i need your opinion on that i need help people are willing to help us yeah i mean in the alliance of professional advocates patient advocates they are very i mean they're there every couple of days or every week or so they go hey how's it going do you need us for anything so once you create that another bond that you create ride they willing to help you they say we're here to help you you know so you have to reach out to people and i know if you're a self sufficient individual as we all think we are right right right people and just get up and say ok tomorrow's another day i'm going to approach it from a different path so it's a let me ask you about stumbling blocks we just have like another minute but it just came to me that in corporate if you had a stumbling block how would you approach it differently depending on the situation but what you always try to i mean we think about corporate and how we function as completely different than this