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Alea O'Shea

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
356 total appearances

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Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

But now I'm like, I don't want to just do bonded wigs.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

I want to provide funding for young women who have cancer to get a hair solution in any capacity because it's like,

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

such a thing like you lose so much of yourself when you're going through a treatment like my face was so swollen I couldn't fit into any of my clothes I just didn't recognize myself and I didn't even lose like my eyebrows or my lashes or anything like that and when I got the wig on I looked in the mirror I was like this is the first time in months I haven't just felt like a cancer patient like I felt like a person again and I was like oh and people don't

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

realize I think like it seems fickle or superficial to be like that's what I want to raise money for but I'm like it's from my experience and like I am a young woman like this didn't come out of like oh like a business idea or like whatever I was like I just looked in the mirror and I felt that and I was like I want every young woman to be able to feel like this like going through it so

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

Yeah, that's a bit about it.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

And like, I think we have like six girls now who I've, two of them have received their wigs and the others are like in the consultation.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

So I'm like really excited.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

But one day I want to meet them all.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

Like they're all across Australia, which is really cool.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

so it's called because i care right well it's called care but i made the at because i care because people kept saying seer yeah and i was like yeah so i was like but then now everyone's saying because i care and i'm like yeah let's go with that i like that like so whatever whatever tickles your fancy but i'm here

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

What can people do to support?

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

Well, currently I've just got the GoFundMe set up, but I'm working on our first event to try and fundraise because like I said, I'm like, I've never done this before.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

Like I'm really just like, again, take a messy first step rather than perfect it and like wait on it because it's just like, I need to do this now because I was so in the emotion.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

So yeah, hopefully within the next like month or two, we have our first kind of fundraising events around Australia.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

But for now, if you go to

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

Me acting like I haven't already thought about it.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

No, I need to get the wording back.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

Well, my God, I feel like I've lived like seven lives at this point.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

So I'm like, which life do I want to pull this from?

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

But a big thing for me, and I feel like...