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[Music] welcome to the cosmetic podcast this podcast amplifies the beginning determine your end and why zip code matters zip code matters zip code matters so this whole idea that depending on where you were born or where you were raised really weighs heavily and how successful you are as an adult yeah so there's one study out there that showed that a baby that was born in the zip code in the French quarters in New Orleans has a life expectancy of 55 years that's you right now almost okay then in 20 years a few miles away though a baby is born in a different zip code and their life expectancy is 80 years almost 30 years swing that's that's insane yeah so I grew up in in Portsmouth Virginia and my zip code that I grew up in 237 o4p town you know something about that no p-town only people from Portsmouth say that yes but so you take 10 years there of my life and then one man when I switched to 2 3 3 2 1 Chesapeake Virginia yeah life change and so I went from a community that was surrounded by it was was in the projects Dale's home one of the few projects that still left standing in important Virginia yeah and then we moved to Dunedin and Chesapeake Virginia and man we took my life changing I went from a predominantly african-american community to a predominately white community and I was the first time that I was introduced to the n-word Wow and I didn't know how to handle that I mean I can imagine that could be jolting so what happened what was different for you in your life in those when you made that zip code change yeah so I mean you go through this process again going through a predominately african-american school and seeing teachers who look like you right and encouraging you to go into a community where man in the whole school you only have but a few people that look like you yeah and you know that because you all hang around that but you know I went to when we moved out to to Chesapeake Virginia the quality I believe in the education I think change and and I will say the quality in the education I felt shifted in comparison to the care for me shifted Oh so for some of the things that you gained you felt like you lost some things when you changed as if to say exactly well you know a Harvard economist named Nathaniel Hendren in the New York Times kind of supports your experience and he talked about the potential for climbing the income ladder in the United States is really dependent upon your hometown upon the access that you have when you grow up where you grow up really does matter you know I spent my entire childhood in Brooklyn in in a low-income space and I will tell you that you know many of the people that I walk around they didn't finish high school they didn't really have aspirations to go to college you know what they considered successful and what I consider successful an hour are two different things and you really do kind of feel like is there something wrong with me when you have this different ideology and this different idea of what success looks like but there were definitely things that I didn't have access to in my childhood that my kids by far that's just the norm for them and what do you think was the biggest difference there money like the the biggest difference was money so you know in certain zip codes where you have choice in the grocery stores you go to you have choices in what kind of health professionals you see you have choices in whether or not you'll see a specialist for something that you may be experiencing you have choices in what kind of extracurricular activities you participate in right or do your parents send you not only to that extracurricular activity but on top of that get you private coaches and private tutors so that you really can excel you know when you live a certain zip codes and that's not your reality you don't you don't get access to that and it puts you behind the eight-ball it it really helps some children excel and be better at certain things than other kids not because one kid is better than the other it's just that one kid didn't have access right you know people think health is a is a personal choice also but you know not entirely been talking to dr. Murdoch with Texas A&M School of Public Health you know he says that health is a multi factor and so it depends on genetics it depends on behavior and that behavior is greatly affected by someone's environment and so growing up in certain communities the Health Access is not as easy so you don't have you know primary you know folks who are uninsured there you don't have direct access to primary care they have to go to you know general place to be able to get get care and so they're not spending that time that they need with their doctor to be able to ask those those different question and in a lot of cases is you know they kind of a shame in some ways to ask different questions or don't know what question they know they they heard it I heard hear but you know it's that second a third additional question that's really needed to find out what's going on yeah and it's not just accepting the first medicine that they may put out to him right or if the doctor you know suggests that you do certain things or eat certain foods and you don't have access to those foods or you can't afford to buy those foods I know my own mom and dad are both from North and South Carolina and so growing up you know healthcare was definitely a challenge for our family and so I remember many a times with remedies for stuff you know I don't know what the long-term outcome of Vicks on your chest is because I had a lot of that castor oil we drank mineral oil I drink stuff that didn't have a label on the bottle I don't know what I was so hot as cast all work for the ear and for a cold well it's a multi-dimensional approach sometimes you just had to trick them babies into thinking they get better right right out a minute drink of some plenty of time drink some castor but it took my mind off my sickness cuz it was so amazing deal with that yeah I mean when you talk about the natural environment think about you know one who is you know raised up in Texas versus Minnesota yeah you know so in Texas right now you know we're crying about you know the low 50 55 degrees you know we got on our winter jackets but in Minnesota that you know they you know matter of fact got a report negative five the other day when there was 70 degrees here when you think about from an exercise stamp yeah yeah you know you had a minimum in Texas you just get outside and just walk regardless what environment you may be in but when you grow up in an environment like Minnesota and then you also may be in a low-income area you don't have access to a place to be able to go exercise or just be active and move around yeah that makes a big difference it does make a difference I mean also think about you know the the quality of life in certain areas so my children haven't been born and raised in Texas it's nothing for them to just run outside their front door and just run around no shoes on playing the grass just running up and down the block well you know I wasn't really afforded that opportunity like there was sometimes I didn't go outside or couldn't go outside cuz things will be going on or you have to go out the door and down the stairs and through the building like just going outside and running and being a kid wasn't always that easy depending on where you Robin didn't think about kids who are in really rural areas who made living on farms or something they really get to just go out and run around and explore and and be different based on the zip code that they're they were born into right so in two 3704 and portsmouth gunfire was number two thing I heard that at night Papapa Papapa that was a norm yeah and then when I moved to two three three two one in Chesapeake it was dead silence so for fun at 2:30 704 mm-hmm we were outside playing hide-and-go-seek running around playing flag football and I fly them so because we didn't have anything to pull you just play hot potato you throw the ball up in the air and you catch it and you got a run through everybody yeah oh but then when I moved to two three three two one guess what no we didn't have what it was me and my brother played one-on-one touch football oh now can you imagine that I'm saying I'm the center and the quarterback and running back and so I said down I had to throw it in such a way and run and catch the ball by myself you threw the ball to yourself threw the ball to myself so I went from this environment of what was quote-unquote supposed to be tough rough and bad yeah okay yeah to this environment that is nobody's outside playing they were in the house doing what I told you when I got theirs there's differences when you talk about going from where some people take some things of the Nate when I grew up in what my first 10 years in the projects are some of the most memorable fun times because the thing is you don't know as a kid that you're in the project right like I didn't know we were low-income I just knew that's where we live that's where all my friends were you knew what to do when they got to shooting or someone was fighting like you didn't know right and so you know when you think about the YMCA and where our YMCA is a location yeah when we're located truly in oh yeah and so you know from a programming standpoint you know we get to be able to put in a program like the wired Cheevers program the Ouachita's program is a career development and college readiness program what would be it we're able to give these tools to the young people they give these skills to young people in such a way to get them prepared get them focus on going to college those conversations aren't organic in the household because of the zip code you know at some of the YMCA's here in Dallas a little bit more about them so these early learning academies are focused in neighborhoods where the children are performing below grade level or worse than their counterparts at certain grade levels just because they don't have access to early childhood education you know in some instances these children's first experience with school is kindergarten whereas their counterparts in other parts of the city and other zip codes that are more affluent you know they've been in Montessori they've been in early learning centers since they were one or two years old they've mastered certain things that these kids are just trying to pick up and so the YMCA going in and being nimble enough to kind of even the playing field so to speak and offer these kinds of opportunities is really a great thing yeah and so one of the things that we got to do is as as individuals is that we got to be able to help change the narrative some of this is that we may have to get involved with policy you know so what is happening in your local community what is happening in your state how do you give a voice to this and so when you think about I think about South Oak Cliff high school and the young people there they were tired of their school looking the way that it was and so these these students gathered together and they did a walk out and put these demands in such a places that hey we need to be educated and a different environment and that new school the new iteration of South Auckland is amazing it is a very yes yeah yeah I mean the other role that we can play it's kind of being the gatekeeper right like being the place where people can convene you know being an organization that that you know advocates for unheard populations and saying hold up you know this may not fare well in this community or have you thought about our did you talk to our here let's just offer this neutral space so that you know folks can listen to one another well it's been great talking about this we got to go out and make a change so thank you for listening to cosmetic conversations our globally minded and locally focused and as always stay engaged