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It's time to ignite the spark of inclusion with Inclusion Bites. And today is episode 149 with the title Beating the Odds. And I have the absolute honour and privilege to welcome Georges Córdoba. Georges is a stage 4 cancer survivor, holistic health coach and best selling author who empowers individuals to transform their health vitality through holistic even practises. When I asked Georges is describe his superpower, he said it is turning adversity into a mission of hope, healing and purpose. Hello Georges, welcome to the show.

How you doing Joanne? Thank you for inviting me and I'm honoured to share some minutes with you.

Absolute pleasure. So we were chatting in the green room just now and you're New Mexico in the, in the, in the U.S. yes. And you were telling me a bit about how you have family and relatives in the California area with the wildfires. Do you want to tell me about how worrying that is?

Yes, very worrying. Because on top of everything the fires are very tough to contain because they have 85, 90 mile an hour winds on top of everything. So like a perfect storm. Now they have like, and that's unusual, a tropical storm turning hurricane over there. So they, they're getting better but it's been, it's been crazy. When you see pictures it seems like it also looks like, like in the, an atomic bomb the way they burned all those homes. And there are some unexplicable situations where you see an entire streets of mansions burned out and then on the side you still see some trees that were not here. So it was like it's nature, it's, it's tough to, to understand sometimes when you see the, the end result but it's, it's worrying, not so much also, I mean the burning is amazing but the smoke they're evacuating folks in terms of, you know, for, for smoke inhalation.

So my, my son lives in Venice beach which is well basically right at the coast. He's not being evacuated yet and I have some Greek family in San Fernando Valley and it hasn't been affected but again a valley getting all this smoke. They were talking about yesterday that also having these folks evacuate because of the smoking in late in fishing. Yeah. So it's, it's quite for us, you know, anywhere. I have my, my oldest son there and some of my mother's cousins like I said in Sherman Oaks. But hopefully by, by the end of the week, hopefully with right now is Monday, but we're hoping that very soon, sooner than later they can contain this stuff. Destruction is amazing.

LA is not the same my son is saying and affects obviously the, the work, the folks are professionals. You have the elite there, the Hollywood stars losing their homes and you know, it's a little bit crazy right now.

Yeah, yeah. People are given minutes to evacuate. They're leaving everything behind. Literally what they're wearing.