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Jeannette Matta

Oct 14, 2026

3:54
Can you take us back to that little girl selling cookies door to door so her classmates could eat or anything that you've seen in that journey from where you came from in the Bronx and how you it shaped you and how you really started to understand the world and what was needed?
4:16
I believe that things that happen in our lives, and I came to realize that later in life, that everything that we experience is what shapes us to be who we become.
4:33
Trauma and very, very negative circumstances in my upbringing are And for whatever reason, I internalized that in serving others.
4:46
So I came from a very rough neighborhood.
4:49
And in school, there was a particular time in my life.
4:55
And I was in third grade.
4:58
And there was a girl that she was disabled.

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47:26
What are you noticing as those conversations have continued over the past several months?

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