Mathew Knowles

And that's the defining for me is am I passionate about doing it?

Well, it's interesting that you bring up this because I was literally on Wednesday.

I had breakfast in Houston.

I had lunch in Nashville.

And I had dinner in Laguna Niguel, California all in one day.

And so I was actually in Nashville and was going over the Vanderbilt and had some time and actually went to Fisk and actually went on the campus and actually went to the gym.

Uh, and, and I wanted to just, and I took a photo and I wanted to just, uh, relive in my mind, you know, we won two championships, SIAC championships, uh, play basketball there.

Uh, and, uh, I, and I got to meet the new basketball coach, new female basketball coach.

So it was, uh, it was a wonderful feeling just to go back.

It's been 50, 50 years since I graduated.

I think, and that's an extremely good question, Mick.

It baffles me often with men and women, especially those of color.

I come most people don't realize I did 20 years of diagnostic imaging in my corporate life.

I saw zero radiography in 1980 through 1988, which was the leading modality at that time for breast cancer detection.

And every mountaintop, I could yell early detection.

Then I went to Phillips Medical System and became the first black to sell MRI CT scanners in America.

And then I ended my career with Johnson & Johnson as a neurosurgical specialist.

so that's my background and i've always talked about early detection and the thing that really baffles me when you look at the stages of cancer stage you know one two three four um fortunately i was diagnosed at stage 1a but unfortunately those who wait those who don't just do a simple blood test for a psa for men

or a simple mammogram that might give you 30 seconds of distress that can determine if you're going to be in one of those stages or if you're at risk.

And I've seen both stages, stage one and four.