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ROBIN DORSEY: To be the change
that you're looking for starts
with you.
I wanted to share with the world
how to manage your diabetes,
how to live with it,
because it's hard.
I love to help people live
and manage their type 2
diabetes.
I was pregnant with my son
for the very first time,
my first kid, when they did
the glucose test.
It showed that I had
gestational diabetes.
The doctor said, generally, when
you have gestational diabetes,
that once the child is born,
that it goes away.
Fast forward to two years later,
it didn't go away.
Now, I realized that I have
this young handsome kid that
needs his mother.
So I knew that I needed to do
something.
I needed to educate myself
about diabetes.
So I went online, did
some research.
Who knew that all
of these resources
and information was out there?
It was so amazing.
It was almost like finding candy
in the cookie shop.
So then I just started
to participate in some
of those support groups.
And I did so, so many support
groups, and I started going
to their walks.
They had 5K walks.
So when they said,
you know what?
You're everywhere.
You're really embracing this.
We love to hear
about your story.
We would like you to be
a diabetes ambassador.
We'll teach you how to be
a diabetes coach.
And so I got the training.
SUBJECT 1: I went to see
my doctor,
and I've lost over 100 pounds.
ROBIN DORSEY: Yes, I've seen
that.
And you're doing
a wonderful job.
Congratulation.
Does anyone in your family
have diabetes?
SUBJECT 1: Both sides.
ROBIN DORSEY: Both sides.
You don't know where people are
in their lives.
People are going to manage it
on their own pace.
Some people do it quicker,
and some people, it takes a lot
longer.
SUBJECT 1: You can believe--
ROBIN DORSEY: Wow.
Once I learned how to manage
my diabetes, I wanted to help
other people.
I wanted to be able to provide
that resource to people, whoever
needed it.
I'm here for it.
If you need training, if you
need workshops,
if you just need somebody
to talk to and just
to listen to some
of the symptoms and the issues
that you're going through,
that's why I became an advocate.
I watch the news every morning
when I get ready for work.
They have a lot of, sometimes,
despairing things that they
share on the news.
But, there's some great things
that's going on in the diabetes
community.
I'm like, why don't they ever
highlight some of these really,
really great stories every day?
Diabetes help to really segue
my TV talk show, The Impact
with Robin Dorsey.
The name, The Impact,
was because I wanted to make
a difference with people's
lives.
I am passionate about helping
people live and manage
their diabetes.
You are not alone,
and we are in this fight
together.
Hello, ladies.
Thank you so much for joining
us.
SUBJECT 2: Thanks, Robin.
ROBIN DORSEY: You don't have
to just settle for just having
diabetes,
and just think that you're gonna
die tomorrow.
No, there's resources for you.
There's people like me that's
going to help you talk to, get
through it.
So it's really, really amazing
that now, I have this platform
that I get to talk to people
all day.
I love to talk to people.
So the first stage is denial.
SUBJECT 2: That was me.
ROBIN DORSEY: Because--
SUBJECT 2: I was in denial.
ROBIN DORSEY: --you tell me mine
was gestational,
and it was going to go away.
Hello.
Talking about diabetes
on the show,
and having that platform
so people can share
that information, has really
helped thousands of people.
I have over 30,000 or 40,000
followers across all
of my social media platform.
And so I get emails and phone
calls.
And people say, you know,
I saw your diabetes show,
and my mom went through this,
or my cousin went through this,
or I'm going through this,
and it really, really did help
me.
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Through this journey
of diabetes, it really opened up
my mind and my life.
Helping people manage their type
2 diabetes is very rewarding.
I'm helping somebody
save their life,
because somebody helped me save
my life.
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