May 11, 2023

What Lead Dr. Anne Katona Linn to Advocate For Special Education and Wellness In Schools

What Lead Dr. Anne Katona Linn to Advocate For Special Education and Wellness In Schools

She has a book that just launched, Shedding Lies: Living Beyond Childhood Trauma. It is her story of trauma and healing, how it led her to her work in special education and school mental health/wellness, and is now an advocate for individuals with special needs and their families.

About the Guest:

Dr. Anne Katona Linn is a passionate Educational Coach and Leader who has dedicated her career to helping schools and communities develop safe, supportive and positive school climates for children and teachers. She’s received multiple awards for her expertise in classroom management, mental health & special education.

Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BXLVBDJP

Website: www.katonalinnconsulting.com

Email: anne@katonalinnconsulting.com

 About the Host:

Saylor Cooper is an inspirational figure who has begun his journey in Entrepreneurship to overcome the challenges of making a living with a disability and to demonstrate that it indeed it is possible by putting in hard work despite living with challenges! He is the creator / Host of Real Variety Radio, an internet radio station that offers a great variety of programming from all Genres of music and shows, along with the Hope Without Sight Podcast that features guests who have overcome diverse challenges and are an inspiration to the world. Of course, Saylor is not sure what is in store, but he is extremely excited for what is to come. His future goals include getting booked to speak on different types of stages and write a collaborative book with his podcast guests. Below is his contact card, which includes his website and socials:

https://ovou.me/livefasetiyacehe

About the Co-host:

My name is Matthew Tyler Evans and I am from the Northeast Texas area. I am blind like Saylor is and we have the same retinal condition. I decided to join Saylor‘s podcast because I have a strong interest in teaming up with him and I think together, we can inspire the world with others with disabilities.

 

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Transcript
Saylor Cooper:

Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of

Saylor Cooper:

Hope Without Sight with your host Saylor Cooper.

Tyler Evans:

And your co host, Tyler Evans

Saylor Cooper:

I see that you're a passionate educational coach

Saylor Cooper:

and leader in you have dedicated your career to helping schools

Saylor Cooper:

and communities that safe and supportive and positive school

Saylor Cooper:

climates for children and teachers, and you've received

Saylor Cooper:

multiple awards for your expertise in the classroom

Saylor Cooper:

management, management and mental health and special

Saylor Cooper:

education. And so, let's get started. Tell me about yourself.

Saylor Cooper:

What got you doing this?

Dr Anne Katona:

Yeah, well, thanks for having me, Saylor.

Dr Anne Katona:

I'm excited to be here. So I have my own story of childhood

Dr Anne Katona:

trauma. And my book actually was launched officially on Tuesday.

Dr Anne Katona:

And it's been in the number one categories across several

Dr Anne Katona:

categories. So it's exciting and on Amazon. And so I have, you

Dr Anne Katona:

know, the childhood trauma that I suffered, I didn't really

Dr Anne Katona:

understand it until much later in my life. And, you know, it

Dr Anne Katona:

was about my 30s. And I, I used my degree was in physical

Dr Anne Katona:

therapy, athletic training. And I love doing that I love working

Dr Anne Katona:

with kids, especially with kids with special needs. And I did a

Dr Anne Katona:

lot of internships in schools, and just loved it. And then even

Dr Anne Katona:

as doing some athletic training, I was working a lot in schools.

Dr Anne Katona:

And I just based on, you know, kind of my own experiences that

Dr Anne Katona:

again, I didn't really explore yet. I just loved working in

Dr Anne Katona:

schools. And what happened was, I went to a retreat and really

Dr Anne Katona:

kind of had this awakening of, Oh, I really struggled a lot

Dr Anne Katona:

more than I thought I knew I had post traumatic stress disorder

Dr Anne Katona:

as a kid, but didn't really understand how that really

Dr Anne Katona:

impacted me. And I just really started looking at my trauma

Dr Anne Katona:

that I had been through. And because I had physical health

Dr Anne Katona:

issues, so that was another piece that really kind of had an

Dr Anne Katona:

impact. And all of those things together, I looked at the

Dr Anne Katona:

trauma. And so I started working with kids with developmental

Dr Anne Katona:

disabilities, and especially with kids with behaviour

Dr Anne Katona:

problems, and just really felt like I connected to them, like,

Dr Anne Katona:

I got them. And I felt like I understood what they were going

Dr Anne Katona:

through. And what I realised I was naturally good at it. I

Dr Anne Katona:

think because of the empathy I had, because of my own

Dr Anne Katona:

experiences, and, and I was, you know, bullied for reasons as a

Dr Anne Katona:

kid and, you know, again, struggled really with anxiety

Dr Anne Katona:

and post traumatic stress disorder, and always felt like

Dr Anne Katona:

something was wrong with me. And so I tried to really cover it up

Dr Anne Katona:

on the outside. Yeah, I'm in my early 30s, I just decided that I

Dr Anne Katona:

you know, once I started working with kids and working, I was

Dr Anne Katona:

working with a behaviour analyst, I decided I wanted to

Dr Anne Katona:

pursue this more and ended up getting my master's in special

Dr Anne Katona:

education. And a big piece of that was because I wanted to

Dr Anne Katona:

figure myself out in addition to, you know, because I felt

Dr Anne Katona:

like I was naturally good at it. So I, you know, started working

Dr Anne Katona:

with kids and just really loved it. And like I said, was

Dr Anne Katona:

naturally good at it. I worked a lot in the community with

Dr Anne Katona:

families and children, kids with autism and more severe

Dr Anne Katona:

disabilities. And, you know, really focusing on helping them

Dr Anne Katona:

to be more included in regular environments. And yes, you know,

Dr Anne Katona:

just living a more successful life. And I know that it can be

Dr Anne Katona:

just one little thing that can have such a huge impact on the

Dr Anne Katona:

kids. Like there were things for me that now in hindsight, I

Dr Anne Katona:

could see were really helpful. And so I wanted to kind of make

Dr Anne Katona:

it safe for kids, and help the kids and their families be more

Dr Anne Katona:

successful across all environments. And so, you know,

Dr Anne Katona:

in teaching, and I really gravitated towards those kids

Dr Anne Katona:

with emotional behaviour disorders, as well as kids with

Dr Anne Katona:

autism. And like I said, more severe disabilities, and helping

Dr Anne Katona:

them just to be included and to live life the way everyone does,

Dr Anne Katona:

you know, and so I that really was the beginning and the last

Dr Anne Katona:

25 ish 30 years. I guess it's been now that I've been working

Dr Anne Katona:

with kids and their families and schools and In the last actually

Dr Anne Katona:

20 years, especially I've been working in schools, because as

Dr Anne Katona:

you know, as I was teaching and, and working in schools, I

Dr Anne Katona:

realised that a lot of teachers don't get a whole lot of

Dr Anne Katona:

training on some of these things without

Saylor Cooper:

Because We do need inclusivity. Because Tyler,

Saylor Cooper:

she can relate to you tell her your story of how they wanted to

Saylor Cooper:

resource classes and all that technical way. So,

Tyler Evans:

yeah. So basically, when I was young, they wanted me

Tyler Evans:

and resource classes, because they did not teach me. And so my

Tyler Evans:

mom what she did, she went to workshops with this advocacy

Tyler Evans:

group, I'm not exactly sure the name of it, but basically, they

Tyler Evans:

educated her on the fact that I can be in regular classes,

Tyler Evans:

because the only disability I had was blindness.

Dr Anne Katona:

wow

Saylor Cooper:

yeah. Wow. Exactly.

Dr Anne Katona:

Yeah, I mean, I worked a lot with even people

Dr Anne Katona:

with cerebral palsy. And that's another kind of thing, it just

Dr Anne Katona:

because they may have severe disabilities, that doesn't mean

Dr Anne Katona:

that they aren't smart, and they're their brain is, you

Dr Anne Katona:

know, they're made, it's just that they can't communicate, it

Dr Anne Katona:

can't get out of their body. And so, you know, some of those

Dr Anne Katona:

things are,

Saylor Cooper:

it's fine.

Dr Anne Katona:

That breaks my heart,

Saylor Cooper:

I find that the school systems underestimate for

Saylor Cooper:

no reason. A lot of times, it's not Not good, not good.

Dr Anne Katona:

Yeah. Yeah. Well, part of it is, you know,

Dr Anne Katona:

and I found that out, as a lot of teachers have, they want to

Dr Anne Katona:

help, but they don't necessarily have the tools. So that's kind

Dr Anne Katona:

of why I ended up, I train teachers, and I help the school

Dr Anne Katona:

leaders. Because, you know, when I continue to advocate for youth

Dr Anne Katona:

and families, because not only do I have my own experiences,

Dr Anne Katona:

I'm also a family member, we have lots of different things

Dr Anne Katona:

that our family members have, and I want to be an advocate.

Dr Anne Katona:

And so, you know, that it's teachers have a lot of and

Dr Anne Katona:

school leaders want, they didn't get into this job because of the

Dr Anne Katona:

money, obviously. And so, you know, they lack often the tool.

Dr Anne Katona:

So I really, that's kind of why I committed so much of my career

Dr Anne Katona:

to really focusing on training them and helping them to feel

Dr Anne Katona:

safe. Because a lot of times people get into the field,

Dr Anne Katona:

because they may have struggles of their own and they want to

Dr Anne Katona:

help. You know, they didn't, they didn't necessarily have the

Dr Anne Katona:

tools so and

Saylor Cooper:

as part of making school safe, you also help to

Saylor Cooper:

prevent bullying and all that. Yep,

Dr Anne Katona:

absolutely. That is 100. And as I mentioned

Dr Anne Katona:

earlier, I was bullied in a variety of different ways. And I

Dr Anne Katona:

talked about some of those different books. I when I was in

Dr Anne Katona:

fourth grade, I was I was taller. And I was very athletic.

Dr Anne Katona:

And I was pretty and there were eighth grade boys who they

Dr Anne Katona:

called, they gave me a nickname skin didn't know what it meant.

Dr Anne Katona:

And I didn't understand it really. I just knew the way they

Dr Anne Katona:

looked at me. And the way they were, they just talked to me and

Dr Anne Katona:

just said the word I just felt like dirty. And so you know, to

Dr Anne Katona:

me, I mean, that was really sexual harassment. But you know,

Dr Anne Katona:

other ways I was bullied, you know, I was bullied. When I

Dr Anne Katona:

first went to high school, there were senior girls who just, you

Dr Anne Katona:

know, would follow me and they, you know, again, I was tall for

Dr Anne Katona:

my age, and they gave me just nasty looks, and they threatened

Dr Anne Katona:

me and you know, they told me to stay away from this one guy who

Dr Anne Katona:

is interested in me who happened to be a boyfriend of one of the

Dr Anne Katona:

seniors. And you know, I had no control over but I was kind of I

Dr Anne Katona:

was the target of that. So, you know, those were just some

Dr Anne Katona:

examples. You know, even as an adult, I've been bullied, you

Dr Anne Katona:

know, we can be excluded from things you know, when we we feel

Dr Anne Katona:

like someone is pushing us out or or other people are talking

Dr Anne Katona:

about us and kind of getting others to join in on talking

Dr Anne Katona:

about someone that you know, is bullying, you know, it's so it's

Dr Anne Katona:

it's exclusion and a lot of they call it like the Mean Girls,

Dr Anne Katona:

that's definitely been something you know, someone is intimidated

Dr Anne Katona:

by you and they talk about you behind your back and try to get

Dr Anne Katona:

others to be against you. That's bullying.

Saylor Cooper:

Yeah, for sure. That's not good. At God's

Saylor Cooper:

gossiping and it's not good.

Dr Anne Katona:

Yeah, yeah. And it happens a lot more than we

Dr Anne Katona:

realise I think that, you know, again, a lot of people, one of

Dr Anne Katona:

the things that I always say is hurt people hurt people. So when

Dr Anne Katona:

you've been through your own pain and you don't really deal

Dr Anne Katona:

with that you're more likely to injure others, even if you don't

Dr Anne Katona:

realise that that's what's happening.

Saylor Cooper:

And then also, like, if you don't mind me

Saylor Cooper:

asking you like, what? blinging or what?

Dr Anne Katona:

I lost your mic for just a quick second

Dr Anne Katona:

question. Yeah, yeah, I can hear you now. But we're just repeat

Dr Anne Katona:

your question again,

Saylor Cooper:

if you don't mind me asking you what cause your

Saylor Cooper:

truck childhood trauma, like was it just a dysfunctional

Saylor Cooper:

upbringing, like what? What was

Dr Anne Katona:

yeah, um, I do go into detail in the book. But

Dr Anne Katona:

I actually, the one specific thing was a car accident. So I

Dr Anne Katona:

was in a car accident, and I went through the windshield with

Dr Anne Katona:

my face, and had lots of damage to my face. I was four years

Dr Anne Katona:

old. At the time, they wouldn't allow families to stay with,

Dr Anne Katona:

with kids in the hospital. This was the policy of the hospital.

Dr Anne Katona:

So I was in the hospital for a week, without my family, they

Dr Anne Katona:

were only allowed to visit for two hours a day for visiting

Dr Anne Katona:

hours. And then they would drive us around in this little red

Dr Anne Katona:

waggon to distract us so that our families could sneak out.

Dr Anne Katona:

And so that further, you know, the hospital system further

Dr Anne Katona:

traumatised me. Then when I got home, it was 1970. We didn't

Dr Anne Katona:

talk about stuff it was, let's, let's not talk about it. If it

Dr Anne Katona:

doesn't come up, it'll you know, we'll just it'll go away. And

Dr Anne Katona:

that doesn't happen.

Saylor Cooper:

We have to talk we have to talk about it.

Saylor Cooper:

Because there's a saying now talk saves lives.

Dr Anne Katona:

Oh, absolutely. You know, and that's kind of my

Dr Anne Katona:

mission is that I'm always about I want to make it safe for

Dr Anne Katona:

people to be able to talk and share who they are. And not

Dr Anne Katona:

just, you know, as as, as a way to kind of be Oh, woe is me.

Dr Anne Katona:

It's okay, let's talk about it. So we can then figure out what

Dr Anne Katona:

are your gifts? What are your specialties? What are your

Dr Anne Katona:

strengths? How can we you know, take what you've been through,

Dr Anne Katona:

and make it your message and make it a positive. So it's, you

Dr Anne Katona:

know, for me, my message is my message.

Saylor Cooper:

So yeah, your message your message? Yeah. And

Saylor Cooper:

so, wow. And I imagine you also where I don't like what's going

Saylor Cooper:

on with schools is all the school shootings that are

Saylor Cooper:

happening. Are you helping to prevent further those?

Dr Anne Katona:

Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So I, I was a state

Dr Anne Katona:

Project Director for Safe Schools, healthy students. And

Dr Anne Katona:

that came out of the Sandy Hook in the Columbine shooting. So it

Dr Anne Katona:

was a big federal grant that came out of the Sandy Hook and

Dr Anne Katona:

Columbine shootings, Pennsylvania received that, and

Dr Anne Katona:

I was the state Project Director for that, and what we, you know,

Dr Anne Katona:

one of the big things, we had permission to really go across

Dr Anne Katona:

systems and all work together. But the big focus of that was to

Dr Anne Katona:

do prevention, rather than waiting until things happen.

Dr Anne Katona:

Let's look at, okay, what are all the signs and signals? And

Dr Anne Katona:

how can we promote a more positive environment so that

Dr Anne Katona:

we're preventing some of these, you know, we want to prevent

Dr Anne Katona:

bullying and school violence and suicide and other mental health

Dr Anne Katona:

crises. So we have to, it's easier to prevent things rather

Dr Anne Katona:

than waiting until they're happening. You know, they're

Dr Anne Katona:

harder to they're harder to deal with. And then COVID kind of

Dr Anne Katona:

added to that, you know, yeah. You know, so yeah, that's a big.

Dr Anne Katona:

So when the state grant ended, I basically wanted to continue

Dr Anne Katona:

doing that work. I focus more on schools and districts, rather

Dr Anne Katona:

than kind of working at the larger state level, I really

Dr Anne Katona:

mean to the buildings, and really working with the

Dr Anne Katona:

stakeholders, wherever they are, and helping it to fit. You know,

Dr Anne Katona:

it's not a cookie cutter approach. It's about how can we

Dr Anne Katona:

make sure it fits what the strengths and needs are? And the

Dr Anne Katona:

opportunities of that environment? You know, that

Dr Anne Katona:

community? So?

Saylor Cooper:

For sure, yes. And See also so you're you're

Saylor Cooper:

you're preventing you're helping prevent school shootings,

Saylor Cooper:

suicide, which is great. Because the stuff has happened too many

Saylor Cooper:

times. You see, you know, you heard about the shooting we had

Saylor Cooper:

in you Valley last year.

Dr Anne Katona:

Yes, yeah. It just is. It's heartbreaking. And

Dr Anne Katona:

one of the key things is that everybody has to work together.

Dr Anne Katona:

You know, one of my biggest frustrations is that everybody

Dr Anne Katona:

works in silos. And so we're not able to really do the best we

Dr Anne Katona:

can we wasted a lot of time and energy and money. And, you know,

Dr Anne Katona:

it's become political but really, if We all work together

Dr Anne Katona:

and really get on the ground and kind of look at what can we do

Dr Anne Katona:

rather than just admiring the problem or leaving it to

Dr Anne Katona:

politicians to kind of put things in place. It's what's

Dr Anne Katona:

going to happen that we can, you know, it needs to be grassroots.

Dr Anne Katona:

And so that's really what I love to do is help kind of those

Dr Anne Katona:

grassroots changes happen. Who show

Saylor Cooper:

yes, definitely for sure. And you're doing great

Saylor Cooper:

work. And so I don't believe I have any more questions for you,

Saylor Cooper:

except one. Have you worked with blind students at all? No, not

Saylor Cooper:

really.

Dr Anne Katona:

I haven't Not. Not. I've had, I've worked more

Dr Anne Katona:

in multiple disability classrooms. Yeah, so with more

Dr Anne Katona:

of a variety of things. And so, you know, when I work in those

Dr Anne Katona:

environments, again, I really, because I'm a behaviour analyst,

Dr Anne Katona:

and because of my trauma, actually, my trauma made me a

Dr Anne Katona:

good observer. And not just observer with my eyes. I'm an

Dr Anne Katona:

I'm really in tune to picking up on subtle things that maybe

Dr Anne Katona:

other people may not. And so me, that helps me to, to look at no

Dr Anne Katona:

matter what the disability is, and no matter what the

Dr Anne Katona:

exceptionality is, I like calling them exceptionalities.

Dr Anne Katona:

Because it's, they're not, you know, it's not a disability, per

Dr Anne Katona:

se, and that you have so many other strengths, that, that

Dr Anne Katona:

really can can counteract anything that we're struggling

Dr Anne Katona:

with, you know, how can we look at those things that we're

Dr Anne Katona:

really good at? So for me, that I love, being able to look at

Dr Anne Katona:

and problem solve. So no matter what the situation is, I I've

Dr Anne Katona:

and the kids that I've worked with in the past are the adults,

Dr Anne Katona:

let's look at whatever it is. And if there's not a solution,

Dr Anne Katona:

let's think outside of the box, like, let's not get stuck on,

Dr Anne Katona:

these are the things that are available, let's create stuff.

Dr Anne Katona:

Let's make it more, you know, let's find a problem, not just

Dr Anne Katona:

engaged, not just like, oh, well, here's the solution. No,

Dr Anne Katona:

let's create, let's create the solution to the problem. We have

Dr Anne Katona:

to think outside of the box. And I think that's one of my

Dr Anne Katona:

specialties is that I am an out of the box thinker, and help

Dr Anne Katona:

schools to really look at things in ways that they may have not,

Dr Anne Katona:

and not just schools, communities, because I really

Dr Anne Katona:

focus on working with schools, communities, and all of the

Dr Anne Katona:

older isn't especially youth, like we need to get kids and

Dr Anne Katona:

adults, you know, whoever they are, we need to hear their

Dr Anne Katona:

voices more. And they need to guide what we do rather than

Dr Anne Katona:

just telling them what we're going to do for them.

Saylor Cooper:

For sure. For sure. Self Determination. Huge.

Saylor Cooper:

Yes. Huge. And I've always had self determination. Yeah, yeah.

Saylor Cooper:

And so last but not least, what is your book called? And where

Saylor Cooper:

can people find it?

Dr Anne Katona:

It is shedding lies living beyond childhood

Dr Anne Katona:

trauma, and it is on Amazon. And I can share the link with you on

Dr Anne Katona:

on your Facebook post if you want. But yeah, and also, you

Dr Anne Katona:

could go to my website, www Katona, law, Lynn

Dr Anne Katona:

consulting.com. And I have a few other podcasts that I've done.

Dr Anne Katona:

And I have another book that I did, I did a book depression

Dr Anne Katona:

like to meet what I do have a chapter in a book. And then I

Dr Anne Katona:

have another book that will be coming out a podcast I just did

Dr Anne Katona:

in December, just came out yesterday. And it talks more

Dr Anne Katona:

about kind of the abuse that I experienced the one I mentioned

Dr Anne Katona:

earlier, you know, like that sexual abuse kind of thing and

Dr Anne Katona:

how that impacts not just that sexual, but you know, different

Dr Anne Katona:

ways that you're bullied in environments, and abuse that you

Dr Anne Katona:

just that are kind of part of our culture. And so anyway,

Dr Anne Katona:

those are all on my website, and you know, more things to come.

Dr Anne Katona:

So you can sign up for my email list and I have some freebies on

Dr Anne Katona:

my website as well. And yeah, but Amazon, my book, shedding

Dr Anne Katona:

lies living beyond childhood trauma is

Saylor Cooper:

if you could put all this in the chat Shakur put

Saylor Cooper:

in the show notes that be great.

Dr Anne Katona:

Yep, absolutely.

Saylor Cooper:

Right. So, Tyler, do you have any other questions

Saylor Cooper:

for guests? Because if not, we can wrap up with our customary

Saylor Cooper:

ending, so it's all yours?

Tyler Evans:

Um, I don't think I do. I feel that your story is

Tyler Evans:

pretty inspiring, pretty inspirational. I feel that all

Tyler Evans:

of us have an inspirational story to tell the fact that we

Tyler Evans:

are even alive. As inspirational.

Dr Anne Katona:

Yeah. Yeah, thanks. And we need to, you

Dr Anne Katona:

know, again, we have to make sure to remember that, you know,

Dr Anne Katona:

I always thought my story didn't matter. Like it wasn't big

Dr Anne Katona:

enough. And no matter what if one person is influenced by our

Dr Anne Katona:

story, we need to share it. So that's right to me. We all

Dr Anne Katona:

you're right, you know, we all need to share our stories, and

Dr Anne Katona:

we all need to get them out there. So Saylor, thank you so

Dr Anne Katona:

much for what you guys are doing. You know, I love it. And

Dr Anne Katona:

I'm just really honoured and happy to be on your web page.

Dr Anne Katona:

So, thank you so much. I've just shared all the info in the chats.

Saylor Cooper:

I'm just not doing podcasts. I'm gonna be

Saylor Cooper:

speaking as well. I'm sure you heard a flight King. I'm working

Saylor Cooper:

with her. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so yeah, title. Please, do a

Saylor Cooper:

customary ending

Tyler Evans:

voice. Okay. So what do you say to those who

Tyler Evans:

feel they have no hope right now. But like, they don't know

Tyler Evans:

where to go?

Dr Anne Katona:

Yeah. Like I said, you know, my book,

Dr Anne Katona:

definitely, I really tried to get across that there is hope,

Dr Anne Katona:

no matter what, and, and that one of the things we have to

Dr Anne Katona:

shift is, you know, what are the lies that we tell ourselves, we

Dr Anne Katona:

tell ourselves a story. And we say, you know, mine was,

Dr Anne Katona:

something's wrong with me. I'm not worthy. I tried to hide it.

Dr Anne Katona:

But that was really what was the core of what was going on. And I

Dr Anne Katona:

had to look at what was the truth. And the truth were that I

Dr Anne Katona:

had people that loved me, I can't look at every little

Dr Anne Katona:

negative thing that you know, people were saying about me, I

Dr Anne Katona:

had to kind of really hang on to those people. And keep safe

Dr Anne Katona:

people around me who are those people that support you? Who are

Dr Anne Katona:

those people that love you and care about you? And keep those

Dr Anne Katona:

people around you? And don't let the lies from others and and

Dr Anne Katona:

that we tell ourselves don't let them overtake those things that

Dr Anne Katona:

you know the people that love us. So there's there's always

Dr Anne Katona:

hope in that if there's not a solution, we've got to look for

Dr Anne Katona:

it. We've got to keep looking. Don't give up. And there are a

Dr Anne Katona:

lot of us out there. It's just connect with people who are who

Dr Anne Katona:

have like mine, you know, like minded inspiration for you.

Saylor Cooper:

So because we are mad, are you mad? Absolutely.

Dr Anne Katona:

100% That's right.

Saylor Cooper:

Wow. Dr. Anne Katona thank you for being on

Saylor Cooper:

the show today.

Dr Anne Katona:

Thanks so much for having me. It's been great.

Saylor Cooper:

Yeah, stay blessed everybody.