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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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