The Scoop with Tanya Flanagan

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Tanya Flanagan
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Good morning, and thank you for joining me for The Scoop with Tanya Flanagan. I'm so happy you decided to wake up and start your day with me. Here on The Scoop, where we talk about life, joy, funny moments, trending topics, and so much more. We promise to keep you in the know and find out what you know.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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So let's get started. Good morning, Las Vegas. It's December in the beautiful city of Las Vegas, the city of lights. And last week we had an exciting conversation with a dynamic woman named Lynn Jussaines, and I invited her to come back and join me for a second week. So I want to say thank you.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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We have tons of energy today. You guys are in for a treat. We are so ready to get it going this Sunday morning here on 91.5. Lynn, say good morning. Good morning, good morning, good morning. Thank you, Tanya, for having me back.

Tanya Flanagan
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I really want to have you back because having a conversation with you, it's just you never know where it's going to go. We go down so many different pathways. We talk about a lot of different stuff. There were just things when we talked last week about what Lynn has a women's conference coming up called Women, Purpose and Processing.

Tanya Flanagan
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It's going to happen on December 27th. So she was here to unveil the second annual second coming of it for listeners and to talk about what it's going to entail why she put this women's conversation conference together and As we were talking about that we got into so many things we realized we were gonna run out of time

Tanya Flanagan
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And we weren't gonna get into everything we wanted to talk about so I said Lynn Come back next week, and I invited you to come back to so for those of you who were here last week And I here again today. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for waking up and spending Sunday morning with Lynn and I.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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We might become a dynamic duo or something. Oh, I love that. I would love that. Well, I know. Fun. 2035 is going to be so good.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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2025 is going to be stellar. 2024 has been pretty pretty good for me. I'm grateful and I am too.

Tanya Flanagan
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I am grateful.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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Last week. We were talking about why you did the women's conference. So first, let's fill in those who are first-time listeners. What's the women's conference all about? Who are you? So who are you and what is the women purpose power processing all of it?

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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Oh, she didn't add a power. I like that.

Tanya Flanagan
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I like that.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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It gives you power when you. So women purpose and processing is one something I said, like spiritually that I put down in my spirit to just really put out and I kind of listened like when you don't have you know you don't do events for years it kind of be a little hesitation and stuff but it's something that I just took full force and said you know what I really believe that this is something that God wants me to do and I did it. So was it a day conference?

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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Is it a half day? I don't even call it a conference I call it an experience. Okay.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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So is it a day long?

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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It's two and a half hours. Oh. It's from 530 to 8. It's intense. And doing that, them two and a half hours, you know, one, the vibe, the energy, the women that show up, everybody comes.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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I know for the first year, no one knew what they were coming to, you know, like even the name Women Purpose and Process. And I was like, really, what is that? But it just set and it stayed and I accepted. That was the title. And I've been rocking with it ever since.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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And I call it 2.0 this year because we take things to another level. Of course, last year we didn't have a panel. This year we do have a panel. But even with the panel, it involves everybody participates in the processing.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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It's not like you're going to come listen to somebody. Everybody, including the listening audience. Everybody. The audience is a participating audience. Absolutely. Absolutely.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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We can't have it no other way. One more question, so we can lay out like women, purpose, and processing. Who are you? Because people every day think about putting something together that empowers women or empowers a group that they are concerned with. And so there has to be some credentialing or some, you know,

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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resume that qualifies you to do what you're doing. Interesting. So who are you? Everyone I know you and some who tuned in last week know you and I've had people say to me Oh my gosh, Lynn was on your show. I had a lady say to me Leslie one of my actual sorority sister said to me on Saturday

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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Because we were previewed it I think on your Facebook page or something. So she said that you were gonna come on Oh, you guys see you're gonna have Lynn on the show. I'm excited to listen. So you have a fan club out there. Thank you. But for those who don't know you, who are you?

Tanya Flanagan
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What qualifies you to do this?

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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I realize that this is why time is so important. So I'm ready, right? And I'm ready because not only my personal and my professional and my educational experience one qualifies for me. I am definitely I'm definitely the expert in what I do. And the reason why I said it is because I've been doing what I've been doing for so he is for so long So I will not train in trauma. So I have a background of being a teen mom and a foster child

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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That's my background. I come from a family of addicts. I have domestic violence in my history I do have some mental stuff in my history that I just recently started talking about like severe depression I've had suicidal ideation in my past. There's a lot of things that I hadn't really talked about a lot, just navigating through life. I have been able to mentor a lot of men and women, mostly women, throughout my time and really have seen them. I could give them the blueprint.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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We could sit down and talk and go over some things and talk about some things, and they can call me, and we engage a few times, and I really watch them go do exactly some of the things that we talked about. And it's so funny, because sometimes I say, you don't really do that for yourself, but you could do it for other people. So I have a history, I have a master's degree in business,

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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I have a bachelor's degree in sociology. So my experience has been working with people, training in traumas was my current thing. I train in trauma a lot, different topics, like I do leadership training, I talk about coping skills a lot.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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Because of my education, my personal experience and my work experience, it's just a combination of it all that definitely makes me an expert at what I do. And so far, I've been successful. And I think that one guy naturally, I haven't really talked about a book I have coming out. And as I navigate... You should have written a book before. Yes, I navigated. As I was navigating through this book, some key things came up, even as a child,

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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always being able to talk to people. One, bring people peace. Two, help people process through the things that's going on with them to get them to a place where they're okay. Because sometimes life can be overwhelming. Life can put us in positions where we feel scared of what's happening next. Or if we don't take accountability, our choices could have us feeling like we don't want to

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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move forward and we get stuck. Now you are, for the listening audience who can't see you, but you're a black African-American woman, whichever. We have these, you know, different labels, but you are a woman of color.

Tanya Flanagan
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Do you focus as a woman of color on women of color or do you focus on women in general?

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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No women in general like last year. That's one thing I love about the testimonies like my social media. If you go to Facebook, it's I am Lynn to sayings. I have a lot of testimonies because it was such a diverse group and last year was invitation only. And last year, most of the women, if not all of the women, most of the women are very considered very strong, influential women.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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I'll use the terminology that showed up and came out last year. And so most of their testimonies, they'll say they didn't know what to expect. They talked about the diversity in the room, which we love diversity. We are women. We didn't come in here talking about our titles, because in that moment, we were just women. We were all women recognized

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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and we all have common experience. We share similar stories. We may not look alike but as a woman in general we've had similar experiences. And that's when you know you're doing something for the good of everyone because and I 100% applaud targeted work and I've worked on things that were targeted. But I think as women and people in general, there are common bonds. Yeah, there's always more that ties us together than it is that pulls us apart.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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Although a lot of times we find ourselves focused on the things that tear us apart. This is so important. It's so important to allow. I think people to come together, you know, women from different walks of life to share what they have had and what they've experienced, what they've gone through. In that same vein, I wanted to ask you also,

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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because you're focused on women right now, if men are, you know, men in general, and of course I'm partial to having grown up as a black woman, I understand the struggles that black men have gone through or talk about black men have gone through,

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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but I think men in general, the need for that conversation is so far reaching because you can bridge these gaps and barriers, right, maybe get people more connected with conversations that are honest and truthful. So have you ever thought about doing something for men? When I was doing the panels at Nevada Partners with Women, I also did a panel with men.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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And I do have what's called my Fabulous Five that always show up for me. Marcus Allen always show up. CJ Watson always show up. Harvey Perry always show up. Twix always show up Kurt always shirt up So I have my fabulous five, but and I also did a men's event with Amber Jones over at Twix shop

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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We called it making chess moves and it was a very successful event So I'm definitely thinking about doing this for me and I have to almost and I hosted one I and in that space when I would do the breast cancer conversations for the community for Komen. I did one for the family and I did one for like, you know, husbands or whatever, coping with either their wives, a sister or mother, whatever the case might be, because that different woman that you love so much in your life who has breast cancer.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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And the man came up and said, I'm really glad you had this conversation, because it allowed them a space to have an honest conversation about what it feels like. Because women do really, if you have a good marriage and a good household, women hold a lot of things together for their husbands, right? For their children, for their brothers, whatever the case may be, we're very maternal and by nature women are caregivers.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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So when that happens to a woman, the men in their lives are really lost. So I think that I see that, you know, I see a lot in your future. So I'm always breaking out my crystal ball when we get together and we're talking and I forecast, you know, what you're going to do and you usually do something in that vein.

Tanya Flanagan
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Oh, thank you.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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So, yeah, definitely, I think I just said that either yesterday or this morning, that I'm definitely going to do one with the men. I think it's much needed. You know, you hear all the time that these type of events are different, but the women that showed up last year could attest to this is different. It's not like no other woman's conference, woman event, woman summit, woman seminar.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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It's nothing like that. Are you touching on, because we had a little bit of a hint at business and trauma. So when you're in this space, is it most things emotional, spiritual? Is it work life balance, family life balance, personal self care? Is it business entrepreneurial? So is it first step said whatever lofty goal you think you want to do like how what should people

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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Expect because anyone who's interested can attend right? Yes, no, and how do you sign up to or register right now? It's on in event bright and it's actually all over my social media pages. I am land just things right now It's not it's all over my social media pages right now how to register on Eventbrite. It's open to everybody. So like again, last year it was invitation only.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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This year I definitely wanted to open up because I want as many women as possible to be able to share in this type of experience because it is very unique, it is very different. And what I love is that it's not a place where you come and tell your business.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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It's not that type of place. It is an opportunity where wherever you wanna take the information and how much you want to share, you'll be given the opportunity. What was the blessing about it is it's really a safe space. Like most of the women did not know each other, but you couldn't tell they didn't know each other. And but within two hours the bond that was with between everybody in that room,

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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it was amazing. Do they stay connected after? Some of them did, but some of them kind of knew each other already just so you see in the future growing out of having these conferences Sort of yes sometimes you'll see these things take place and then people form a a chat room or a group or they get together annually or they they find a way to Stay connected and yet expand so that they're reaching more people I'm bringing them into the space even if it is for a day lunch, some type of transformative experience.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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That's very much possible. That's very much possible only because the nature of the information that we talk about is so across the board for everybody, right? And bringing, last year a lot of us was a lot older. It was rarely anyone. I don't even know if anybody in there was under 30.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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But remember it was information only, invitation only. So that was intentional right now definitely wanted to create a platform of powerful women that come together and we said in a room together like sister ship I do do some key things when you come in there's some key things that I do initially when you walk through the door that sets the pace for how you're teaching us when you just won't give up anything well it's not a matter of giving

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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up anything but I want people to come get the experience. So if I were you don't come here. I were dangling the you know, the the dessert or the appetizer in front of someone. You know how the dessert cart comes around at the restaurant. Dangle. So we're going to I want to dangle. I wasn't trying to be like the puppy that's sitting there and waiting with bated breath.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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I hope it's not when you come in. I got a design where once you sit down, we say seated because the stuff that's going to be on your chair, everything is going to be set up for you to just get comfortable and enjoy the rest of the ride. The way it's designed, once the panel come up in the tent, because we got a couple of things we do before we even get to the panel. Okay, so we got the program, the loop. So the reason why I need everybody there at 530, between 530 and six o'clock, because that's going to be our meet, greet and eat. like we were right at your program. Don't panic folks, it's p.m. it's not a.m. I see to not clarify that. It is p.m. because you know it is p.m. the city that never sleeps. But we come in, we eat and then even that part is

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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spiritual. So when you come in I'm at the door to greet you, my team is there. When you come, by the time you come to the door and the little things that we do before you even get to your seat. Can you say where it's going to be? It's going to be at Nehemiah Ministries. Okay, so it's on the north, kind of northwest, but not far north.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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We're past the west of First Lady West.

Tanya Flanagan
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Gowan and Rancho.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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Yes.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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They are just some amazing people. The west, I love the west. They're some amazing people. So yeah, I'll be hosting it at their ministry this year. And it's funny because this is planned out to 2027. So the vision for this year is laid out, the vision and the theme for next year is like it's planned out. And I think that's what made me ask you the

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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question about the incorporation of ways to keep the people who participate, is there a vision for their connectivity? Most of them are coming back. The only ones that's not coming back like Claytee, she's only not coming back because she's going to be out of town. And then their connectivity throughout the year. So do they, you know, it feels to me like you're creating a community and a culture

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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within the community. So within our community, there's a community of hope, of support, of help. And so just kind of looking at once you have this event every year and it continues to grow, the people who come and who are touched, staying connected, and then the exponential reach that comes from that, and then the growth as it reaches other populations that you may decide to

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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target and have healthy conversations with. And I'm glad you said that because a lot of the women that was there, now if they see one on social media or if I'm talking to one, they'll be like, oh, my God, I saw so-and-so from the event and I need to reach out to her. Like they feed me that information. Some of them have communicated, stayed connected, done things together since the event.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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Absolutely. But I do hear the, oh my God, I was on social media. I didn't even realize she was on social media. Oh my God, like I hear that all the time since the first event. And that's another reason why I wanted to open it up. The intimacy is very important. So when you look at the numbers, the intimacy is what makes it effective

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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as well. Is there any screening process when a person comes and says, hey, I want to do, or can anyone literally sign up and within your process of receiving the RSVP? Anybody at this point can sign up. I don't even think that if you're not even in a certain place within yourself, and I'm just gonna keep it real. Energy recognizes certain energy for some to just you know to lay that

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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out there but I don't even think if you know within yourself this may not be some place that you should step foot in. They're not stepping their foot in there. They're either gonna come open-hearted and in anybody who do come with bad intentions they just gonna... That brings me to... I'm telling you they're going to be reverted. Like you can't stay in that space once you get to the space. I promise you, like even if you came, like, you know, I know people come,

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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like what they doing, what's going on. The energy is not even going to allow you to be that way. And even with recognizing last year, I do want to say, depending on where you are, what's going on with you, where you at in your life, what's going on with you, your life, this is really going to be an opportunity for you to really like share some new skin, open up new realms for yourself, raise your frequency in life.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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Like it's automatic because the nature of the information that we process together, even when you recognize like, dang, like when all the women were sharing, I put on my page when we did the, we processed, what do processing mean to you? So we did that last year. We talked about what do processing mean to you? All the women was like, Oh, my, my God, when you hear other people's perspective and how they see processing and what processing means to them.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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And it also opens you up and remind you, one, we all have common stuff to, oh, my God, I didn't look at it from that perspective. So we got into these and delve into these topics. And like the first the first piece that we do I don't like to give it away because I want you to come and be Like oh like this is the first piece because the first thing we do is even powerful Hmm, that's why I didn't share a lot of pieces of the intimate part of it Because I want people to really come and be like, oh this is what's happening because you're gonna be like so engulfs you immediately So your intention is to engulf people.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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You mean it's just to, you know, bring them in. People to come out and be like, I really left with an experience. An experience. Not a, an event. Not a, oh, I was at a summit. Not a, oh my God, did you go to that networking event?

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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It's nothing like that. And it gives you a time to reflect for yourself. I want us to go into 2025 with some new juice, some new fires, new ways of looking at things, a better understanding about ourselves because we're going to share with some women. Women, when women process together, that's the quote, successful things happen. I watched it, I witnessed it, I was there, I was in the room. Did I know what to expect myself? Uh-uh. But I

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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felt led in everything. I followed directions, I paid attention, I listened, I did it the way it was given to me and I watched the spirit of it move.

Tanya Flanagan
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Is there anything that you would do differently?

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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No, and I only wanted it to be 15 women. It was like 18 of us there and even that was enough. We didn't even get through all the topics because it got so good and got so real and that's what I want. And you specialize a lot in helping people with trauma. Yes. And so a lot of times we're in a space where mental health is a very, very real conversation in our community in this day and age more so than

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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it has ever been. And like we are in this very woke, aware space about mental health. And we didn't talk about therapy, like people seek out and you know, therapy is a very now option that people look to to develop coping skills.

Tanya Flanagan
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You know, it's funny. How is this different? And we're not saying don't go to therapy if you say you need it.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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No, no, no. I think therapy is great for all of us. No, no, I would never take away from therapy. We're not saying that. So one, let me say this, without the other one knowing, I had three therapists in the room. And even when some of the ladies got emotional, it wasn't no second-guessing. It wasn't no hesitating. It wasn't no looking at. Immediately the natural response was to take care of her, hands down.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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No one second-guessed it. And even in one of my testimonies they shared, you felt safe. You got a nod like it was okay. You got a look like we understand. That was the vibe, like we get it, like we're here for you, we with you, or when we process this certain piece, it was a moment for everybody to be like, dang, like that's how you feel, and if it wasn't, I feel that way

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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too. It was, I like how you looked at that, that was good, that was good, it was that type of vibe, it was that type of vibe. So just, you can expect a really encouraging environment. Absolutely. And just enough for you to grow, and I think that at the era of life that I'm in now, as you walk into your 50s, I'm gonna say it, I might not look 50, but as you walk into spaces of maturity in life,

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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you process differently. That's why I love the women purpose and processing because they really are words as you continue through life that define who you are and what you're trying to do. And so our topics this this is around our topics are so key to some primary things that women everybody face them but I want us to give us an opportunity to sit in the room the women on the panel are real true and I know that there are women that stand on what they believe in they firm

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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you know in really firm in their position in life they understand what got them there. They understand why they're there. They all love and have a passion for what they do, like genuinely. Like they're in positions and roles that you've got to love it, have a passion for it, and really have a desire to help people or you're not going to make it. See, like even as I sit here today, I advocate for foster care the way I do.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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I work in the system the way I do, but only because, one, I have a background, and two, I've been with the county since 96 when people ask me how long can you do it? Do you know how they say go do something that we don't feel like you working? Mm-hmm. I don't feel like I'm working now. Do I have moments that work? I'd be like god darn it. Yes, but I mean I'm working for a system that Feeds my soul, right? I take pleasure

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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I'm gonna get the joy Really do love what you and you've always and you have been in the field of foster care, and the county, we have, the county has about, the statistic that is out there is roughly 3,000 to 3,500 children in foster care every day. So we're talking about 3,000 to 3,500 children who do not have a home. They do not have a family.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
0:24:21
There is not an adult that is concerned with did they eat, did they get a good night's sleep? Do they have something as simple as toothpaste to brush their teeth? Can they wash their face? Do they have soap to take a bath? There are 3,500 children in the system just on their own, too young to even understand the world of their time. I mean there are foster homes in the world as well. There are, but you're still talking about 3,500 children who biologically are not, who are not with their biological parents.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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Because their biological parents are not able for whatever reason. Clear to when children end up in foster care, it's because we as an agency, we've exhausted all the resources to put them somewhere else. I think we miss that sometime too. Like, Oh, they just go to child haven. We don't just haul them to child haven because it's there. No,

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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we've depleted and exhausted any resource that we could have so they won't ever have to go to Child Haven. If they're at Child Haven, we done exhausted our resources to get them there. And what led me back to my point is, so I work on the foster care recruitment and training side. I have a passion for that.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
0:25:29
But I go spend two days a week at Child Haven. So I'm in it. I'm not on the outside looking in. No, I'm in it. I go work with kids every day to not every day twice a week Been doing this for a long time. I would accredit Alex on my hard days He will remind me about my passion here remind me

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
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You can keep going because of your passion. I'd be tired. You know, my days are long I'm looking at children eyes and just my heart gets heavy, you know, playing with, talking to, listening to, running around behind kids that they are there for grief loss and trauma. That's energy that I take on, staff take on, and we're trying to take care of some babies

Tanya Flanagan
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that it's the holiday season and some of them may not be home before the holidays. And that's really sad. It's really, it's a sad space and a sad reality. And what it made me sit here and think about was, we're talking about children in traumatic space. But when you have this conversation on December 27,

Tanya Flanagan
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you're talking about, because a lot of times what people don't realize is the trauma that we're dealing with as adults is trauma that we never processed from childhood. So we carry things forward. And sometimes you don't even realize

Tanya Flanagan
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what's hampering you and what's hindering you. But if you stop and you sit down and we talked about last week, and we're not going to have the same amount of time. So I would encourage you all of the podcast or on Spotify or any platform that you enjoy listening to podcast on the conversation we had last week about processing and unpacking the things that hurt you.

Tanya Flanagan
0:27:07
Yeah. And doing the work to get to the better place. Because when I think of children, because I know even personally, I've gone through spaces where as an adult I've had a self-discovery when I stop and pause and do the work I realize that it may hinge a little bit on something that Happened to me in my childhood where I was mistreated and I didn't process it and I'm responding to you think you're responding to the moment, but you're really responding to the trauma that you've never dealt with and

Tanya Flanagan
0:27:31
When these women come into the room on December 27 for women purpose and processing. Some of what will be processed will actually be trauma

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
0:27:41
that may have even generated.

Tanya Flanagan
0:27:42
It can bring it up. When they were younger, whether it's child self, teen self, young adult self, we are dealing with things that we have never unpacked. It could be marriage and you just didn't speak up for yourself when you were in that space

Tanya Flanagan
0:27:56
and you dealt with whatever or on a job or whatever. There's so many spaces and so many things where trauma is generated when we're getting into our last minute I want to make sure I want to say people know where to find stuff

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
0:28:04
What I also was going to be great too is when you make it to the event and you leave if you didn't understand how? To process things in your life. You're going to leave with a better understanding on how to process But I also want people to know that whatever they're feeling during this time. I want to say this right quick. It's normal Don't try to fight it. Don't try to reject it Embrace how you feel it and get yourself to a safe space with some safe people so you could be okay with how you feeling You don't got to act like you don't care. You don't got to act like you're not bothering

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
0:28:37
You don't have to act like that how they see them. It's no It's okay. How you feeling right now? Whoever feeling some type of way. It's okay. How you feeling? You just need to surround yourself with people that's gonna help you navigate through those feelings the right way.

Tanya Flanagan
0:28:52
Lynn, you've said it all, and I'm not even going to add to it because you said it better than I could have ever said it. Folks, thank you for tuning in to The Scoop with me. Listening to Lynn and I have another great conversation here on 91.5 KUMV Jazz and More. It's emotional, it's real, it's life, it's who we are. Together we thrive.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
0:29:12
Let's build each other up, have a good holiday season, love on someone, and

Tanya Flanagan
0:29:17
thanks for tuning in.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
0:29:18
Keep your heart open. Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, all of it.

Tanya Flanagan/Lynne Jasames
0:29:26
Absolutely.

Tanya Flanagan
0:29:27
I want to thank you for tuning in to The Scoop with me, Tanya Flanagan, and I want to invite you to get social with me. I'm on Facebook and Twitter. My name is my handle, T-A-N-Y-A-F-L-A-N-A-G-A-N. You can also find me on Instagram at Tanya Almodize Flanagan. And if you have a thought, an opinion, or a suggestion, don't hesitate to shoot me an email to tanya.flanagan at unlv.edu. Thanks again

Tanya Flanagan
0:29:45
hesitate to shoot me an email to tanya.flanagan at unlv.edu. Thanks again for joining in, stay safe, and have a great week.

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