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It is timmy time. You know what time it is.

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It's timey time. We're talking to ordinary people

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doing extraordinary things. Our special

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guest is Colonel retired from the Army

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thirty years sir. All right, y'all know I

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love my veterans. You do know that she served

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in all three components of the Army, Active Duty,

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Army, National Guard, and Army Reserve,

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where she still has made a life

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mission of breaking down on barriers. Put your hands

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together, please welcome Colonel retired,

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the one and only Ms. Carolyn Klaus. Thank

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you, good morning to tell you how you doing.

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I'm doing well. Thanks. I appreciate

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this, I appreciate you. We all

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appreciate your service. Thirty

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years in the Army.

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Yeah, thirty years, ten months,

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and eleven days counted, all

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of them.

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You know. My first question to you is what

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drove you to the military. Tell me

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the backstory of it. Well, I'm an r

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OPC graduate from Weston

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Salem State University down in Weston

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Salem, North Carolina, and

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it was really there that I

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made the determination to go

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into the Army to fulfill

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a life stream of learning

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more about the world.

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And I just thought that would be an outstanding

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opportunity in a great place to do

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it. I'm also the daughter of an old World

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War two back. Oh there is

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the Purple Heart survibe

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the Battle of the Boat, which

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says a lot. You don't just walk away from

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from a fight like that. So I

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have those kind of genes in my body. Thank

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God. Let me ask Carolyn,

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you know, when you're going into something like

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the military, the playing field is not

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always leveled, especially coming in, and

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it's unfortunate, but when when, when as

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a female entering into a male dominant

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world, how were you able to succeed

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past all of that? As I was saying

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before, my strength come

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from my family, It really does. I'm

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the youngest that of what was ten kids.

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So if it was nothing but having

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afford to to grab the last dis get

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off the table, you know, I learned it right

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there. But definitely

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what women have had to endure and

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what we're still enduring in the military,

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in the world, and light of some of the things

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that we're seeing in the news today from

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sexual harassment, sexual fault to

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uh, you know, less pay for jobs

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done. It was a task, but

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I worked harder, I

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was smarter, and I

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made that known UM, this

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was about doing the best

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job for the American

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people, and that was the

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fortitude that I stepped out on. Also,

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mentors. It's important to have mentors,

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especially for a smaller population

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within a bigger world, if you will,

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male dominant white male, and then

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women and then lack Americans. So

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you it's important to find mentors

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along the way that will give you that

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nugget that will tell you the additional

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things that you need to do to make the next

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steps, that will inform you of certain

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things that may be jobs that

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may be coming open that you should try

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to consider. So it's an ongoing

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task, it really is, and it's a lot of moving

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parts. You have a company called

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Class Global. Tell me about so

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I started a company Class Global

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Solutions. UM when I retired and

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I looked at all of the things

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that had happened to me over

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the past I say, twelve years in the

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military, very non traditional

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careers. I worked at the Legislative

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Liaison in Congress and travel

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with members of Congress all over the world

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and just got to see things from a global

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perspective. And that, you know, because it's one

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thing to read a book, but if you're not visiting

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and going to places you really

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don't get the seal of what the real

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world is out there, you know, you think it's

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just your corner of the pie. But

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I looked at that, and I looked at the

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unique skill sets that I have, and

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we started class global some very

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wonderful people on my team, former

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Congressman Congress meek Bert

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Blasto from a loosing the Colonel. We

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looked at this and we decided that the

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things that had taken place in my life

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the last twelve years was something

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that was need at outside of the army,

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still fulfilling those things, looking at women and

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gender issues, looking at education,

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just looking at ways to promote and build

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and pull up those that really want

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to know and to get certain places. But lots

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of barriers that have been there. So yeah, but

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you know what, I'm so with you on If

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you haven't been there to see it for yourself,

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you really don't know the magnitude

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of it, you know. I I did to USO Tours.

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I went to Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan,

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Germany, the whole nine yards and went

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and performed for the troops. And that's

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when I was actually able to see the front

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line and really really respect

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what soldiers go through. Male, female

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don't matter. I have seen it, and I understand

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it, and I bowed out, which is the reason why I

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started my entire foundation in the miles of

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giving and giving back the wounded veterans. So I

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know what you mean when you're saying if you haven't

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seen it, you really don't understand it. Right

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now, we're and I appreciate you, we really do

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for being a voice outside

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of uniform, a civilian and

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who has a special interest

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in in what we do and the lives that soldiers

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live. Carolln do this for me. Tell me how can

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we follow what's going on with

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Class Global Solutions so we can see

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what you're doing and support what you're doing well.

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I do have a website, class global

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dot com. I am working diligently

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and wanting to help nations,

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African nations if you will, that

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are somewhat on the come up or or

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come back. Liberia just elected

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a new president in January, George

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we who's a footballer but not a politician,

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so Class Global wouldn't like

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very much to go in and to help

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him realize some of the visions

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that he's set to help set up

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a format where there's good government, where

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he can have access to the United

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States Members of Congress based

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on places that I've worked sold.

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That's a big thing right now. We're pushing to do

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that and hoping that we can help children

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of that nation because education

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is key. It is truly the civil rights

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issue of our day. And without

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good education, it's just impossible

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to have a good future. Often often

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so. Yeah, but Class Global dot Com, Claus

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Global dot com. That's c l O. S

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S Global dot Com, Class Global

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dot Com. We want to say, colonel

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retired Carol and Claus, we want to thank you for

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calling and we really appreciate you. Thank you so much.

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I really appreciate it and appreciate your

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service. Thirty years in the military,

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thirty years. Absolutely, you gotta

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give me one loud army

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yell, though, give it to me. It's

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time to time. We're talking to ordinary people that are

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doing extraordinary things. We'll be back with more to Steve

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