domestic violence has become so prevalent in this country women are
dying at the hands of men daily you know women are imprisoned in their own home
there were times that I felt like that but didn't there were times that I
didn't because I'm a strong woman I'm the kind of woman that's gonna fight
back
let's do another one
guys today we're here in North Carolina and I want to show you a little bit
about this smile make over we're gonna do
I got a story that meant the world to me and it was pretty compelling and I
didn't want to leave it it was hard for us to get it fit in but it almost got
skipped a couple of times but I wanted to make this happen and what it comes
down to doing one you want to do one that matters to you and there's a reason
why we do what we do and that's why we're in North Carolina today so I
wanted to say thank you for meeting with me where did you go out looking for a
way to improve your smile or just by googling I've been trying to pick out
something for a long time but it's just so expensive you know so expensive it is
expensive there ought to be some choices you said
you're from Boston I am what brought you to North Carolina? Change. and I
would always say if I ever moved any way I wanted to move to Charlotte and I came
here and I've been here ever since I heard you had a pretty rough marriage
yeah so you're in a bad marriage in one morning you
wake up you don't have any teeth well it wasn't that one morning I woke up with
just one moment oh one second Correct yeah it's just one at the just a bad situation
Correct what do you do after what happens the next day what do you do just
like it's gonna be okay of course not
you know look at me I'm gonna tell you something right you know the law got
involved I understand on many occasions the law got involved you know it ain't
my fault I don't care what I say to you it doesn't give you the right to put
your hands on somebody you know easily you know he took away quite a bit of my
years he did something it did something to me for a while but I said I wasn't
gonna let that continue to dig away at me you know what I mean because I got
goals and aspirations but sometimes when you you look like this you know what I'm
saying oh I know I'm listening to you that's
why we're here there's gonna be a hundred thousand women at what's this
thing and a lot of those are gonna be in your same situation what are you telling
them they're in a situation psychic what I had to do is I pray that's the only
thing I can share ok that's what I had to do I had to pray and ask God
because that's my belief if everybody's beliefs may not be the same but whatever
higher power that you believe in other than this earth
you got to pray and ask for strength to go on because there's so many times that
I just I wanted to retaliate but I knew if I
retaliated I would end up either dead or in prison somewhere just bad people
correctamundo no good around you it would get real ugly sometimes it would get real
ugly but this was the last straw like these young girls that are listening and
they get into they got boyfriends that are pushing and shoving well they got to
get out see you can't see what happens is you start thinking to yourself okay
we won't work this out because I know him
one kind of a way now all of a sudden I'm seeing a different person so maybe
we're gonna try to work this I'm gonna do what I can do on my end to try to
work this out so that this can stop gotta.. I can't do that when it happens the
first time you gotta roll out just get up that's right because whatever it is
in a in a person man or woman whatever it is in a person that drives them to be
physical with somebody unless they get help for themselves it's gonna be a
continuous thing there are many support groups out here for young ladies for men
because they're men that are being abused as well there are plenty support
groups out here the bottom line is you gotta find something within yourself to
say I don't deserve this when I read your story I I felt like you were my
people like you were where I come from I come from pretty tough neighborhood too
I was in a situation where I heard a lady one time say
I won't make him do that to me again
and that never left me I hate today bothers me so bad but I hate thinking
that this lady's in North Carolina trying to do better and I thought this
is my lady this is these are my people this is the lady that I want to be on it
this is the one that I want to work for umm hmm
the case that we had is really challenging to build you a smile but I
when I stayed up I stayed up late to get it we had her live on the same street
and we're neighbors as far as I was concerned have you ever thought about
what would be different if you didn't lose your smile
what wouldn't be different
there's so many things that I could have done there's a lot of opportunities that
I think that I missed out on not feeling like I look good enough you know what I
mean I don't think that I'm a bad-looking person you know but look at
my teeth yeah you learn not to smile and what would you learn not to smile you
teach people not to smile right it makes people take different
directions in life but didn't know you know not only that you know is I've gotten
used to this but you know for a long time you know I would sit and not talk
to people and you can see people look at you it's almost like they're saying
if only she would fix her teeth you know you know people just look at you
different they look at you different you know what I mean what I love about your
story is is that yeah and then I'm getting up oh I'm getting up I'm not
staying down and I like that it means the world to me that I help people who try
to help themselves and we hope that we can help people and seeing yourself is
that person you would have been all these years who would she have been
and I's like to know you would say Ms. McGee in the Church is very awesome has to beautiful
smile cause I think they would have said that minus one guy getting mad at you
you've overcome all these obstacles and the one thing that's out of reach uh is
cosmetic dentist is just not affordable just couldn't do it might as well buy another house
exactly I didn't want you I got the feeling that if we didn't do it it
probably wasn't gonna happen and so I don't think any dentist was
gonna do it for you and I think the cost is going to be too big and I thought let
me design this for this lady I'm with you that's why we're here that's why I
wanted to come to North Carolina and I thank you so much but let's see what we
can do I don't have my gloves today so I'm going to let you grab this thing then let me
get my glasses okay excuse me so if you can let's start with that one
we just go upper upper yeah let's see what we've got Lord Feels weird to have teeth doesn't it supposed to be real tight
oh look at me for a minute. Is that right? Oh my God it's right Feels weird to have teeth doesn't it. Oh (Laughs)
It looks amazing oh my God
it looks so.... Hold on.... they can call back
Ot looks Good! it looks amazing looks like right here oh my goodness
We're doing it It looks so good! I have to say something. What?
they look amazing Let me see Chin up a little bit Oh my God!
I love it and they're white! They look good I like it! they look amazing thank you
Let me see again I love it I can smile now!
Look at that! I know I have to get used to it and that I understand
you haven't had anything there in 6 years
that's better than that any day Oh yeah
I got some teeth now! I love it!
let me ask you a question. Suppose I lose weight will that make a
difference you're going to lose weight everybody I deal with in six months or a
different person are you serious because what's happening
is I start walking they start learning they get on the internet they go out
they see people you're going to be
a different person!
I'm going to have a new attitude I love them!
Wait untill I take a picture and show my mother you look beautiful
okay you gotta get used to first I know like what I thought you know how you can
see like the gumline like what oh my goodness it's like it's fits right with my gum child it's on
You look beautiful. You look like a college professor Oh you're too much!
I love them! We're going to make it
Lord you have me crying out here No crying we're going to be happy today
let me tell you something this is awesome I know nobody has to pay that kind of
money for these Child these right here you know my mother 80 years I'm gonna get a picture we're going to take
a picture in a few minutes yeah
the people you know in the future are never gonna know the lady that got her
teeth knocked out yeah when I feel comfortable with it in my mouth already
now here's what I got to ask you some things we know we never met each other
did we never we don't know each other know we do it you never tried these on
before today this is the first time and the first and that's the truth do you
feel like they're gonna fall out no do you feel like they're loose it's like
they're too loose no they're secure they're up in there honey yeah yeah up in there yes I got one more
thing I got to ask what's that there's dentist out there all over the country
telling people they can't take their own impression they can't that's not true
you did it yourself I'm gonna tell you why because I thought
like that too I felt because I've been to the dentist before and I've been in a
situation where you got trained dentists that had to do it one or two times I'm
telling you Child I've got that look that little blue ball and that white ball
rubbed it together and and then I was kind of before I even did it I sat at the
table I was like oh my god I only got two shots let me get this thing right okay
and then the mixing part you know I was like it wasn't hard to mix it at all
then when I put it in that tray it was it was easy considering it saves people
tens of thousands of dollars you know like you could go and pay thousands of
dollars and let it Dentist do it or you can do it yourself at home and honey this
is what you get it's amazing in no time at all if you're going to learn how to
adjust yourself it'll just your wardrobe you know just your style you'll just all
these things and you're going to be able to smile to people and I guess you make
a lot of money working with the public yes you're going to be so much more confident yes talking to
people and saying hello let me tell you something we just had a big event that
came here in Charlotte and you had all kind of men that came to Charlotte you had
tall ones short ones fat ones skinny ones ugly one they was just all over the place honey
yeah I wish I had these teeth last weekend
oh yeah and then you go every tell you you look so beautiful with your smile just I'm gonna ask
you spend some time practicing smiling I promise you if you'll just get some
pictures of yourself you're gonna fall in love with them I've seen two
different people and I'm seeing a lady that deserves to smile one you have an
amazing smile thank you wait until the church sees it
lord have mercy when I roll up with these pearly whites right here let me
tell you something you have to love what you do to come this far to do this for me
little old me I think people have a purpose and if you following your
purpose things would work out you're a blessing to me I hope so the video at
first I was like nah you know I don't want to tell because everybody is going to know my
business but I don't care about that anymore I'm past all of that because if I
can do something or say something to help somebody else just like you're
helping somebody I'm gonna do it I'm thinking today the biggest thing you're
going to do is there's somebody in the situation or somebody's hitting on them
and you're they're gonna take your message and go I'm not going to get hit on anymore
I'm not going to let someone take my smile yes yes six years six years until today
but you're set I think you see you're like you're I'm just so proud of it like I
know you're going to you haven't seen yourself yet other than just a mirror
but when you get home and you're able to have conversation
you're gonna go WOW and it's gonna make you want to do all the things that you
normally pass on like it's not worth it oh that's a good enough I'll find my
people oh he's a good guy I'm telling you I see it too many times they always
come out of there they bloom and I can't wait to see you oh my god You're smile is
amazing it means the world we're gonna wrap it
up today guys there's two messages here is one just don't let anybody take your
smile I think things have a purpose and I came here for a reason and I hope that
you get that the second thing we tell them is is we're gonna put all that
behind us we're going forward oh yeah we got you've got a lot of plans you're
gonna yeah send pictures to your mom yes you're gonna be probably making Facebook post and
Instagram posts and Choir posts you know last just send me one I will I can't wait we're
gonna get some more pictures and we're gonna break it up okay the fact is it's
not so much about how great it is it's that you no longer have to worry about
it standing out I know but look at this though even if I don't do a half-smile it
is so lined up with my gum it's perfect that is perfect
yeah let's get one for mom. Hey mom! Hey! (laughs)
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