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It- it's funny, when I, you know, I guess when you look at my resume, you would see that, um, I started as a navigator in 2007, but I, um, that was when I was hired to be the first nurse navigator at a small community hospital here in Atlanta.

And it was kind of back in the day when navigation was kind of a newer concept.

We were still kind of proving to hospital administrators the value of it.

Um, but my sort of identity as a navigator I feel like really started when my mom was diagnosed, which was in 2005, so a couple years before that.

Um, we were really close, and I had moved in with her to save her rent money while I was in nursing school.

Um, she was diagnosed in her 50s.

Hmm