#1099 Healing Heart

Willie has type 1 diabetes and a healing heart.

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Scott Benner 0:00
Hello friends, and welcome to episode 1099 of the Juicebox Podcast.

On today's show I'm going to be speaking with Willie Willie as someone who I've been trying to get on the podcast for years. You can follow him on Instagram at T one D artists. And I think you're gonna love this episode. Willie is 40 years old he was diagnosed with type one diabetes in 2003. He also has hypothyroidism fibromyalgia, frozen shoulder, restless leg syndrome, and a little bit more. What he doesn't have is a bad attitude. Willie is who I think of when I think of hope. When you place your first order for ag one with my link, you'll get five free travel packs and a free year supply of vitamin D. Drink ag one.com/juice box. Nothing you hear on the Juicebox Podcast should be considered advice medical or otherwise, always consult a physician before making any changes to your health care plan. Don't forget to save 40% off of your entire order at cozy earth.com All you have to do is use the offer code juice box at checkout that's juice box at checkout to save 40% at cozy earth.com.

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Willie Streets 2:00
My name is Willie, aka Willie streets, aka the T one D artists and it's been a long time coming. In the words of my iconic hero Mr. Tupac Shakur. This won't be the real issue ever.

Scott Benner 2:16
I'm ready for that. Excellent. Willie, how long have we been interacting online? Do you think? For myself?

Willie Streets 2:22
It seems as though it's been a while. But when I go back and look at dates and whatnot, since 2020

Scott Benner 2:32
Oh, that's a reasonable amount of time. It's almost a three full years. Right. Right. Yeah. So

Willie Streets 2:38
like, right in the midst of the pain, the onset of the pandemic? Yeah,

Scott Benner 2:44
I love the podcast. You know, I hate to say and I you starting to hear people talk like this. Now the further out we get from it, you don't want to say good things that came from COVID. But it really helped the podcast. You know, people were at home and and I guess had time to consider their health then a lot of people found it. And it kind of blossomed from there was doing well. And it was growing kind of incrementally but man right around 2020 2021 It like like it took off. So yeah, so

Willie Streets 3:13
it really helped me during that time.

Scott Benner 3:17
I'm glad we'll talk about it for sure. How old are you? When were you diagnosed?

Willie Streets 3:21
I'm 40 years old. I was diagnosed March 10 2000 and 312 years? Yep, we've got 2120 years. Seven months. 22 days

Scott Benner 3:37
keeping track? Yes. That's a long time ago. 20 years a long time ago. Yeah. Were you expecting it? Was it in your family at all?

Willie Streets 3:46
When I got diagnosed? That March, I was not expecting it at all. My dad was diagnosed as a type two diabetic 1995. Okay, so I was not expecting that at all. I didn't know that I had any family history of diabetes, both type one. I had a large family history of type two. I had actual two uncles that are in both both worlds by my dad's sisters that were diagnosed as type ones. My mom's sister, my uncle, Jonas, he's passed. He was type one diabetic also. So I knew a bit about it, but didn't know of any family history. Yeah,

Scott Benner 4:36
so it was there, but not something people spoke about or didn't type to get more of the attention.

Willie Streets 4:41
It wasn't it was there. People spoke about it. But I did not know there was a difference. I just new diabetes.

Scott Benner 4:50
Oh, I got it. And you're young too. I mean, your father's diagnosed you're not maybe more than like eight or nine years old. So like you're a younger person that was a kid Yeah. I gotcha. From

Willie Streets 5:01
the beginning. Like when he there is diagnosis. Like he showed us everything, like his meter, how to use it, how to test. And it's crazy. I remember when he came home, it was like around Christmas. And he showed us actually how to use his meter and we all prick their fingers to see what our blood sugar's were. And I don't even remember chains and the lancet like we all just checked, pass it around.

Scott Benner 5:28
So he was pretty open about it than he was. Yeah. Is that a thing that you remember him working at? So

Willie Streets 5:35
my dad was always a bigger guy. So he was always working on his health. My mom was big into what was the QVC, home shopping club, all those things. So they will buy all types of gadgets, AV rollers, ad lounges, all of those things, and he will work on his his body, his weight and things of that nature. But on his diabetes, when he was actually diagnosed, he did not work on that. And he says it today, because he makes sure him and my mom make sure that my health is at the most optimal level, because he's had many complications over the years.

Scott Benner 6:17
Yeah. It's such a shame that even even 20 years ago, what what was really known about it, and even the medications that are available now that weren't available. I mean, you look at that story, and you bring it to present day and you think, Oh, he takes ozempic He probably drops all that weight and is a once he goes down and you know, he's he's doing better in a year. It's something How old is he now? How old are your parents?

Willie Streets 6:40
My dad just turned 66. And my mom will be 60 Fool in December.

Scott Benner 6:46
I mean, it sounds like at the very least he laid down a foundation for you and then took it more seriously. Isn't it interesting? It's easier to help somebody else than it is to help yourself. A lot of the times were

Willie Streets 6:57
very, my dad. Yeah, he really took it serious. Because I mean, it's because of him that I believe my life was saved upon my own diagnosis.

Scott Benner 7:08
Tell me a little bit about it. What do you recall from the time that you were diagnosed?

Willie Streets 7:11
Let me take you down this, this tunnel. So a lot of people when they speak about their diagnosis, it's usually some kind of like a physical ailment that occurs, whether it's sickness, virus, things of that nature. But all for me. It was more of a traumatic experience, more emotional. In 2003. My parents were going through a lot. My dad, my mom was on the brink of separation. Because my dad was out here in the streets doing and my parents actually lost their home. Like I remember that day. There was a sheriff's note on the door. My older brother, he's six years older than me, he went and got the U haul truck pack, the U haul truck, went and put everything in storage. We were staying at a motel was a travel Lodge, my parents were staying in one room, me and my brother, my younger brother, who's three years younger than me, we're standing in another room. I remember their neck rare for about three weeks. And me and my younger brother, we would like do whatever to uplift each other. Because I mean, that's my heart. That's my, that's my best friend always. And we would go to like this bowl of Rama and play bowl, play, shoot, shoot pool and bowling and things of that nature. And about two weeks later, my parents had got a house while it was an apartment. And that first week there that that first week there I don't know what occurred. But I remember not being able to sleep and continuously having to get up and go to the bathroom, repetitively, repetitively. And there was a McDonald's that was down the street, and I will walk to that McDonald's and fill up these big cups of lemonade. And I've spoken to other type ones recently, and they were like, you had that lemonade cream. And also, like, I did not know that was a thing. They said something with the citric acid and I've never heard that before either. That's interesting. Yeah, there's some with lemonade, vinegar. All of those things like people crave it. After a few days of not being able to sleep in going into the bathroom repetitively and drinking gallons of water on in. Like I remember sleeping in the bathroom on the floor, because I knew that I will have to get up and go back to like having to go back to the bathroom after going and laying in the bed. And my dad worked overnight. And I remember one morning it was like seven o'clock in the morning. And he was sitting on the couch. So my parents had me me men's women's Biden like they were We're all good. And I walked into the living room and I said, I don't feel good. He's like, what's wrong with you? And I said, I don't know. Like, I can't stop using the bathroom. I said, I can't stop using the bathroom. I'm so thirsty. I feel so dehydrated, like my buddy string. And he looked me straight in the eyes and said, you're a diabetic.

Scott Benner 10:23
He recognized that from his life. Yeah, yes.

Willie Streets 10:26
He recognized. US said to him, like, I just need to go to the hospital. So he told me grandma stuff. My parents don't drive. They've never driven. I mean, lived in a city always called public transportation. We're not. So we hopped on a bus went to the local hospital. Scott, I'm going to mention where I'm from. So I'm from Wilmington, Delaware. I know we got a connection with Delaware.

Scott Benner 10:55
I could tell by your area code when you signed up to be on that. I knew where you were from that?

Willie Streets 10:59
Yeah, right. So I know about your connection with University of Delaware

Scott Benner 11:03
and my wife. My wife got her undergrad there. I spent a lot of time in Delaware. Yes,

Willie Streets 11:08
yes. Yes. So we went to a local hospital, St. Francis, a small hospital, a small private hospital. And before diagnosis, I was big into my physical well being. I'll follow this routine by a former great Philadelphia, running back where he would do 1200 Sit ups and 2100 Push Ups per day. And that was me. I would do that. Hey, are

Scott Benner 11:41
you talking about Herschel? Yeah, no, no.

Willie Streets 11:46
Yeah, he used to be my guy. But, uh, yeah, follow that routine. And I was I was fit like, I mean, I'm a little under six feet tall, 180 pounds. And when I got into that hospital, first thing they asked me to do was step on the scale. When I stepped on that scale, weigh 244 pounds. And my heart just sunk

Scott Benner 12:11
in. Okay, that's a lot of weight.

Willie Streets 12:14
And I could picture my dad sitting in the chair, but his hands like on his

Scott Benner 12:18
face, like heartbroken. Yeah,

Willie Streets 12:23
like, I'm his junior. So, you know, even like, we've had a bunch of problems growing up, as you know, boys and our fathers do. I could, I knew that his heart was broken. His soul was very broken. But yeah, that was the day I was diagnosed on a couple years ago. So right before the pandemic started, so that first February 2020, I actually contacted St. Francis Hospital, because I didn't have my parents didn't have any paperwork. I didn't have any paperwork on the grounds of my diagnosis. So I contacted them. And they told me that they get rid of medical records after 10 years. They don't have to keep them. But they do keep the intake and discharge papers. So I emailed them and fax them. And they were like, yes, shortcoming. Come and get them. So I went and got them. And on there, it says, like it tell us about my diagnosis like, Oh, he's been diagnosed as type one diabetic. My blood sugar. It said it read the max reading, which was 499, I guess the meters they had didn't pass that my agency was at a 14.7. And really,

Scott Benner 13:35
you think that the stress of you're getting out of your home and your parents fighting and all that stuff? You feel like that was part of what brought it on?

Willie Streets 13:43
I do. Get that stress in being a type one diabetic for the amount of time that I have been? I do know that certain things such as stress, so hormonal imbalances and changes do alter your blood sugar. So I do believe that it pushed forward. My diagnosis. I believe

Scott Benner 14:09
that as well. Do you think did you have to say two brothers right? older and younger? Yes.

Willie Streets 14:15
Yes. Two brothers and a sister were three years apart. 7780 83. That's

Scott Benner 14:21
a spread. Do they have any issues, any autoimmune stuff at all? They

Willie Streets 14:25
do not. My younger brother, I keep telling him he, he should go get checked. He always had stomach issues, gut issues. And a few years ago, he was like, I know what it is. I just think that I'm sensitive to dairy and so he's been popping these little dairy tablets or non stop and I'm like, You should go get checked because like I know now that like I have an aunt was diagnosed with irritable bowel disease, colitis when she was a child and In just recently, she got her thyroid removed. She has hypothyroidism. I have this is all on my mom's side. I have two aunts with rheumatoid arthritis.

Scott Benner 15:12
Yeah, there's a fair amount of autoimmune, the IBS and the RA. Maybe your brother's got celiac or digestive issue or something to that effect, right? Yeah. Yeah. I

Willie Streets 15:26
told him he should go get checked out. But he's like, people don't listen.

Scott Benner 15:33
That's why I get a tricky with this podcast and make it silly and stupid. So you're listening about your diabetes? Because it is. It's just tough man. Nobody. You know, sometimes people think they have it figured out and sometimes they don't want to hear the news. So, you know, I

Willie Streets 15:47
thought I had it figured out until the pandemic, really? Everything was cool to me. I mean, I suffered from hypoglycemia on awareness. I mean, I've had many episodes of EMTs EMS at my doorstep. waking me up. I remember a paramedic telling me that it was normal.

Scott Benner 16:12
That's because he sees it so much to probably, yeah, right.

Willie Streets 16:16
He said, he said, I see it all the time. He said, at least it's not happening every day. He said, I got a guy down the street. I'm at his door, like every day or every other day,

Scott Benner 16:24
really, as well. That's a long time between your diagnosis and Pandemic time. So how were you living through that? And you said, you felt like you had it figured out? What did that look like to you? And when did you realize it wasn't? Today's episode of The Juicebox Podcast is sponsored by Omni pod. And before I tell you about Omni pod, the device, I'd like to tell you about Omni pod, the company. I approached on the pod in 2015 and asked them to buy an ad on a podcast that I hadn't even begun to make yet. Because the podcast didn't have any listeners, all I could promise them was that I was going to try to help people living with type one diabetes. And that was enough for Omni pod. They bought their first ad. And I use that money to support myself while I was growing the Juicebox Podcast. You might even say that Omni pod is the firm foundation of the Juicebox Podcast. And it's actually the firm foundation of how my daughter manages her type one diabetes every day. Omni pod.com/juicebox whether you want the Omni pod five, or the Omni pod dash, using my link, lets Omni pod know what a good decision they made in 2015 and continue to make to this day. Omni pod is easy to use, easy to fill, easy to wear. And I know that because my daughter has been wearing one every day since she was four years old. And she will be 20 this year. There is not enough time in an ad for me to tell you everything that I know about Omni pod. But please take a look. Omni pod.com/juice box, I think Omni pod could be a good friend to you. Just like it has been to my daughter and my family.

Willie Streets 18:14
Having to figure it out for me was more so take your insulin. As long as you feel okay, you're good. That's how it was for me for too many years. Many years. I just did not know. I wasn't given the education, the resources, the guidance, the support, that I know is needed to live your best life. Oh, it was like it was skipped. Like even going back to 2003 of my diagnosis. Like looking at the discharge papers. It actually says on there that they're not sending me home with a meter. Because my dad has accucheck meter at home. Good enough.

Scott Benner 18:58
You got one. That's perfect. Yeah. Yeah. As long

Willie Streets 19:01
as he had his accucheck meter. I was okay. That's

Scott Benner 19:05
interesting. Right now, companies are giving away like candy, you know, in here, take a meter. And it's so interesting. Yeah, right. Right. Right. Right. So yeah, Willie, basically, if you're alive, and the guy in the rescue squad tells you, it's all right. You don't pass that as much as the guy up the street. You figure, this is what this is. And I'm looking forward and I'm standing up so I'm doing okay. Yeah, right.

Willie Streets 19:30
I was not doing okay. And I hope that today, the things that I wasn't given or gifted, don't come back to haunt me now. Because those, I mean, Scott, like literally, there was 15 years in between that time where for the first six or six years before I got my current general practitioner, I was on a routine of just giving thing 7030 Mix insulin 30 units before, before breakfast 15 units before dinner. And then probably a year or so later, I realized like I needed more insulin because my blood sugar was rising. So I would just manually inject that, like insulin whenever I felt high. And that created me having so many overnight loans, like our I think it was 2005 2000 fours, a girl who I used to date I was at her house, and I woke up in the bathroom, like half naked with blood all over the place. empties. I had been off half my tongue.

Scott Benner 20:47
Oh my gosh. From a low. Yeah. You mean you were using a regular an MPH for 15 years? Not

Willie Streets 20:54
for 15 years now. So I was using that from 2003 until 2009. Okay, right around that time. Yes. And when I met my general practitioner, he looked at me and said, What are you doing? And I said, What do you mean? He said, We have to get you a Basal and a Bolus insulin immediately. And he did bring eight one C checks because Scott, during this time, I didn't have I didn't get my eight one c check. I'm just wondering that, okay, I didn't at all because I was seeing my dad's doctor and my dad had an issue with him. So I had an issue with him. And I remember going in with my dad and him saying things like, telling my dad how bad he was doing and my dad cussing him out. Because my dad is no holds barred. Like, really, like my dad telling him like, Eff you. You're not gonna be saying this to me and whatnot. So I didn't want to see him. Only use them for my script. Yeah. Yeah, that I was using that for all that time. So like, I truly hope and I tell my wife this, that the things like the education I was in giving doesn't come back to haunt me. Like, really?

Scott Benner 22:09
But you got six. You mean, you have six tough years in there. But you were you were using the insulin though, right? I was using it. Yeah. And you added more when you knew your your blood sugar was high. And it led to lows overnight, but at least it was in there and it was doing something. Right. Yeah. When they finally check your agency, which I'm guessing is right, in your like, you're around 26 or 27. In that age group right there. Right. What was it? You remember?

Willie Streets 22:34
The first one was, I think it was 10 point something like, I think it was like a 10.3. Somewhere around that. So that showed that I was running in that range for all those years,

Scott Benner 22:46
likely? Yeah. Did the fast acting insulin bring that down? Yes.

Willie Streets 22:51
So I remember getting it down to the eight. And then I remember being like around 7.5 for a few years. Then in 2017 2018, I was down to about 6.7. And from that moment on, like, I looked at it, and I started learning more about insulin. And I've been able to keep it between 5.1 to 5.64. Since that time, so since about 2018 2019, my blood sugar has been my glucose levels have my agency has been between 5.1 and 5.6. That has not been above 5.6.

Scott Benner 23:32
And as well done. Good for you. It Were there a lot of lows in there while you were figuring it out.

Willie Streets 23:38
Yes, there were. I had an incident where I was at work in 2015. So I did like I worked at for a big retail company in the shipping receiving merchandising support system. And one day I was out moving something some kind of fixture and my body just started jittering. Like, out of like, I didn't feel it coming on. I've always been hypoglycemic going to where and I don't know if that's because of how was using that. That insulin before that mph and regular regular. Yeah. And all of us next thing I know, I'm on the floor like no down, and I'm shaking. And one of the managers who's working with me, he looks at me, he's like, Well, are you are you alright? And I'm like, I'm not able to talk. And next thing I know the paramedics are there. This was throughout 2015 Because my wife and I worked at the same place. That's where we met. And I remember her meeting me there at the job because she was home on maternity leave at the time. And then don't take me to that same hospital St. Francis Hospital. It was it was it was hard.

Scott Benner 24:58
And when you Have a Dexcom now I hear it so yep, yep, you heard it because my adrenaline. Yeah. Are you nervous?

Willie Streets 25:05
I'm not nervous. No, Scott is crazy. My daughter, she's in seventh grade and she plays basketball. So at a basketball game, I couldn't enter at seven. And I didn't realize this until last year, that I could sit there calm employees, but within half an hour, my blood sugar can go up 50 to 60 points. So I was set in temp basals for her basketball games. It's crazy.

Scott Benner 25:34
Listen, I sit Nicole's baseball game one day, and he hit a ball in a gap and I was screaming and when it was over, I thought I'm gonna have a heart attack watching these baseball.

Willie Streets 25:44
So look, I will go so I started going into her bad basketball games and like doing like a peaceful meditation first.

Scott Benner 25:54
You got this didn't work. When a Temp Basal work that

Willie Streets 25:57
Temp Basal work. That was just a mental thing. Yeah. So yeah. I had another incident at work where I felt my blood sugar dropping like I started getting like real, like, jittery, that's what I always call it. And I'm walking to the break room to try to get a drink. I'm dropping everything. So I ended up getting like iced tea and some peanut butter crackers. And I go and sit down. And next thing I know, I see someone running over to me. They're like, Well, are you okay? Are you okay? And I'm like, I'm just trying to eat these crackers. I'm just trying to eat these crackers. And they're like, you're it looks like you're about to have a seizure. So they're taking the crackers from you. They're like, You can't eat if you're having a seizure. I'm like, I need these crackers. I need these crackers. And they're trying to take them from me like it was crazy. So next thing you know, there there comes the ELT again.

Scott Benner 26:46
I was gonna say so you call it jittery? If you heard Arden. Describe how it felt like she was phasing in and out. Right? I have yet is that similar for you? Yes, yes. Yes.

Willie Streets 27:00
I was thinking about this last night. I recently heard a episode where a young lady was talking about a out of body experience. And I have felt those out of body experiences. Not in the sense of like, I know, she was talking about like, seeing where things think of her parents were doing crazy things to her or whatnot. But um, more so. Like with the jittery feelings, like it's like, I can't control myself, but my brain is trying to control what I'm doing. But my hands are moving a different way. My legs are shaking. My eyes are twitching. But my mind is saying you got this will you got this? Because every time the My wife has found me in the kitchen spilling glasses of juice or whatnot over the years, she's like, You always tell me you're okay. You always say I got this. And she says, I know when you say I got this. That means Oh, hell no. Like, and I say I said thank you. I said just know I never got this.

Scott Benner 28:05
100% Sure. I don't know what's going on at that point. Yeah,

Willie Streets 28:09
I you

Scott Benner 28:10
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Willie Streets 29:19
yes, I do. Carry glucagon. I do not leave the house without something on me on a fast fast acting core. Even something with protein to stabilize it as as is once it does rise

Scott Benner 29:35
for you. Yeah. Hey, the lows are they as frequent now as they used to be? Or is that a thing from the past? That's

Willie Streets 29:41
a thing of the past like truly a thing of the past. So I'm currently like, my timer rings is always between like 91 94% God use Omnipod five, but I recently because of insurance is You all went back to using the original Omni pod barrel system. And it's the same like I thought I was going to have this huge like brain for going back to using that but it's the same everything's good but yeah, I don't have those loads as frequently at all. Okay, I still don't feel them much winner coming on.

Scott Benner 30:22
I mean you're using better insulin you know how to use it better now so you've got to CGM has a lot of advancements here for you really? Yeah. So

Willie Streets 30:29
yeah, I was because I was using Lance's from that initial visit with my doctor 2009 until 2021. Okay. glances and humor over and over log. And what do you use now? So, because of the honorable Scott Benner, the man behind the scene, the myth, the legend, I use Omni pod index calm. I did not know of this technology before the podcast before the podcast like I did not. I mean, I've heard of people wearing insulin pumps. My doctor offered me a FreeStyle Libre in 2017. But he never he just told me like this is this seven to 14 day thing you can wear to manage your or you can check your blood sugar. Yeah, I was like, Okay, I checked both 20 times a day with finger sticks.

Unknown Speaker 31:34
So that'd be better.

Willie Streets 31:37
Right? So yeah, the podcast told me that I

Scott Benner 31:41
have to ask you a question. I hope it's not uncomfortable.

Willie Streets 31:43
I'm comfortable in my skin. Well,

Scott Benner 31:45
I appreciate that. And I don't know, you're such a lovely person. And you're so connected to how other people feel, and giving of your time online and your desire to help other people. I'm just wondering where that comes from?

Willie Streets 31:59
Where does it come from? Scott, I've always had a heart. And I've always had a heart to heal, where that comes from. My parents don't even know where it comes from. But they said since I was a kid, I've always been like that, like with my friends. I remember sticking up for them. Like when they were bullies me always hopping in and be like, if you want to mess with them, you gotta mess with me. I've always been that person. Whether it was his school and work have always stuck up for the whether it was the less fortunate, the smaller person or wherever. Because I've never, I've never had a fear of man. I remember I used to tell people that my dad is six foot 300 pounds. If I'm not afraid of him, why would I be afraid of you? So like,

Scott Benner 32:52
I've had that thought a couple times in my life. Yeah, yeah. Just stand there. And you're like, I can take it.

Willie Streets 33:00
Yeah, right. Like, it's nothing. It's just, you're just to me, mere mere mere mortals. But

Scott Benner 33:06
that idea, though, that like being a guy in this space, there are not a lot of them to begin with. Yeah, they're not a lot of man. Oh, and let's be honest, like, there's, there's not a lot of black people in general talking about their diabetes online. And as a matter of fact, I was in Austin last weekend giving a talk. And this young lady in the back, she posed that question to me, she said, The podcast is great. Look at all these people here. And you can see how they're helping. What do you do to reach the people who aren't in this room, and I knew what she meant. I answered her for a while because it's something I've thought about for years, and I've tried, but I don't know. Like, I can't seem to break whatever that wall is. And that's why you're kind of a unicorn to me. So

Willie Streets 33:45
sky. Me being a black man who's always been about his business, always about his family all about God and protecting. I take that with everything I do. It's not just like I said in school, but every aspect of my life is using my heart first. It's crazy, because in the DLC diabetic online community, when I first got on like Instagram, I searched for type one diabetics, and I found many of them. And now everyone comes to me for like, they say, I'm like their online therapist. And I tell everyone, seriously, I'm like, if I can't help you guide you give you to get the educational resources you need, then I don't know who can because I take it upon myself to try to embody who you are. It's a great form of empathy, so that I can navigate the things that you need. Like I have a cousin, who's also a type one diabetic. I didn't realize this until more recent believe that she was a type one diabetic because we haven't spoken much over the years, like me and her brothers grew up like brothers. Like we did everything together. But she's their baby sister who's she's maybe 1014 years younger. I think she's 2627. Somewhere around there, then the youngest brother, so we didn't grow up that close. And she was diagnosed at 12 years old. She came to me in 2019. They live in North Carolina. Now, they moved there a few years ago. And she was asking me if I had any 7030 insulin because she had broke her pin or something. And I'm like, she doesn't want me use it her name. I'm like Khadija. You're still using that. 7030. And she's like, Yeah, I'm like, You need a regular. I said, you need a basil and a Bolus. She didn't know what that was. Right. So since then, like I've been helping her because she's, she may be a little older than that. 2728 And she's had the most complications. I've come across the someone so young. And she started off she told me that she had neuropathy and her foot. And like I said, it's got like, this is gonna be the realest. You ever heard one eight. So she got into Robert D and her foot because she actually got shot and her foot. And when she got shot her foot, they didn't get out the they weren't able to take out all the fragments of the Bolia her bones was crushed. And her foots never healed. Like her foots been broken for about six or seven years. Now. She's, and she has minimal movement in it like it's swollen. She has that she has written off at the she did not know she had written up the two years ago. She about her dad had told me she was like, You need to talk to Khadija. Because they said she's going blind. So I called her and she was like, yeah, they said, my left eye is completely blind. It's blocked. I can't see out of it. So I told her, I said, I reached out to people that I know online. When it comes to diabetes. There's like I can reach everyone. Like, I am a very communicative guy. Like it's easy to approach me. Yeah. And I will take my time to write down the things that you're going through and reach out to whoever or whomever you need to help better your your existence. You're

Scott Benner 37:36
acting as a bridge for people who don't know how to get to the doctors and the information and the technology.

Willie Streets 37:42
You're actually you know, why? Because I didn't have that. Yeah, no, I know, I didn't have that we

Scott Benner 37:48
kind of glossed over it before. Before you go on. You talked about having to embody the person that you're dealing with and really feel what what's happening to them so that you can actually help them. That's, yeah, that's it's very important, like a and it's hard to is Do you find it hard on you because I do it. And there are times it's hard on me. I mean, you and I have been talking for 40 minutes. I've almost cried twice while you were talking just when you were celebrating like successes in your in your life. It's

Willie Streets 38:15
not for it for me. It's not. I actually love it. Like you hear about people who hate diabetes all the time. I absolutely love it. And you're not going to hear that often. Because the reason I love it is because it gives me the opportunity to help other people heal other people like it gives me I don't it just feels so good to me. And I tell people that every day. If I checked my inbox or like Instagram, I'm pretty sure I got 20 messages right now. Yeah. Like I've created communities. I have one community. It's just Philly region Daya crew. That's what I call my communities, the dye crew. And we're about 65 deep. I have one that's all people of color, different origins. That's 80 Plus, I created one in Atlanta area because I had a young lady who reached out me reach out to me in the summertime she didn't have insulin. So I went and searched for people in Atlanta area and created a group for them. I I do that because there was a point in time when I didn't have that where I had to find out how I was going to get insulin. Join different programs such as three four UB prescription program, join different medical clinics, things of that nature. And like when I hear people talk about how they they're scared that they're going to lose their insurance and I'm never afraid of losing my insurance because I know the different resources and how to how to navigate them. I'm always okay, right

Scott Benner 40:01
340 B, solutions, pharmacy benefits, I'm looking into what it is right now. Can you explain it to me.

Willie Streets 40:10
So with the 340 B program, if you have a community health clinic, there are more so for people who meet under certain FPL federal poverty levels, you go to that clinic, and that clinic is linked with a pharmacy such as Walgreens, CVS, and it gives discounted prescriptions, okay? to persons who are in need.

Scott Benner 40:41
And you know how to get that's what you're saying is you know how to get to that. So you're comfortable, and you're teaching other people how to get to it as well and creating communities. By the way, next year, I might do a little tour sponsored by a company of like in person talks. So if I can actually make that happen. I'll contact you about doing one in Philly.

Willie Streets 41:01
Yes, sir. Let's, let's make it happen. I have events coming up this week. Next week in Philly, do you write for the paradise film, I have a event coming up on November the 14th. At the in theater, where like, I reached out to someone who was like, I want to do this, because I wanted to host an event T one d plus love, which means is type one diabetics plus people who they love people who mean everything to the people who shouldn't know. So we're hosting that event. And you bring people bringing their significant others, partners, family members, so that they can sit down and learn more,

Scott Benner 41:45
Willie, you're the you're the answer to a question that I've watched people ask over and over again. So I'll share some behind the scenes stuff here with what's that question, I'll share some behind the scenes stuff here. And like the diabetes space, when you talk about companies and stuff like that, I've watched and you've probably seen this too, about once a year, they get it into their head that they are going to you've seen it, they're going to help black people, right. And they started push, and it never goes anywhere. And then they let it go. And I've watched it happen time and time again over the years. And just not six weeks ago, I was on a call with somebody. And she says to me, Oh, we have a big initiative coming up, we're gonna really reach out to the black, the black and brown community and I laughed at her, I was like you doing this again? Like, I might because you keep doing it the same way. And it keeps not reaching people. And I mean, not for nothing between you and me, what it feels like is a bunch of like, I don't know, another way to say it is it feels like a bunch of white ladies trying to help and they don't know what to do. They want to help. And they have great intentions and they have resources, but they don't know how to reach people. And I think once they reach them, the people that are reaching might look up and think, you know, I'd be more comfortable. If this was Willie reaching out to me. That's the thing I don't understand. I don't understand why they never find a person like you to spearhead this kind of stuff. Because that makes sense to me. Because I feel like with some resources, I mean, look what you're doing by yourself. You know, like, I feel like with some resources you could really, like get that movement moving like that girl talking to me last weekend. I'm not gonna be the one to do it. Like you're a unicorn Willie, that you listen to my podcast seriously. And

Willie Streets 43:24
now and when you were saying that about the girl, all I'm doing is I got this Rolodex in my head. And I'm trying to I'm thinking like, do I know who that is? Because I know people in the Austin area. That whole Dallas Fort Worth area. Like I know people will over write all over the world,

Scott Benner 43:40
Scott. Yeah, no, I mean, man, listen, I've cracked a couple of social circles. I didn't expect to the podcast is big in India. I didn't expect that one. And it actually does pretty well in sort of the United Arab Emirates, like that part of the country as well. Like, there's places where I've found different cultures and they've they've jived with the podcast, but I don't make inroads in the black community. I just don't. And I can't, I mean, I'm just me, you don't I mean, like, I'm doing the thing I do, and it hits the people that hit but I've tried having guys on, I've tried to have a women on, you know, I'm not usually a person who points out the color of your skin while you're talking. So there's been a number of people on here I've been I've never mentioned it, like as we're going but I bring it up with you specifically, because you are so adept at gathering people together and getting them good information. You know,

Willie Streets 44:32
think who was there during the beginning of the pandemic. I'm very grateful to date. I was diagnosed with something called hassle when I'm going to younger, highly superior autobiographical memory, really believe it was August 2020. And you had a guess it was like August September, Cameron. Oh, Cameron. Yeah. He was terrific. So Cameron's a great friend. Yeah, yeah, we formed We begin to die crew together. You had you were talking to him about those types of things.

Scott Benner 45:05
I recall going on a hell of a rant when I was talking to Cameron. And

Willie Streets 45:09
yes, you did. I remember like it was yesterday. I

Scott Benner 45:13
remember feeling bad when it was over. I was like, oh, man,

Willie Streets 45:15
I talked about it. But um, it was needed. That's what I always tell people. Yeah, voices are needed.

Scott Benner 45:21
Yeah. They're not just saying they want to be helpful. I talked to them. I know them personally. Some of them, they really do it. They're not just trying to look like they're doing something they really when it doesn't work, they're defeated. Like, they really want it to work. But I just don't see how a 45 year old white lady who lives on the main line is going to reach you know, somebody in somewhere else who they don't have anything culturally, you know, in common. Nothing. I don't know, I just I wish one of them would just see somebody like you and say, This is the person, like we need to hire this person and let them do the thing that they're already doing and just support it instead of trying to do it themselves. But when they know damn, well, it's not gonna work, you know?

Willie Streets 46:05
Right? Because when they do reach me, I try to help them as much as I can. Yeah. So like, even a few weeks ago, I had a young lady from University of Chicago reached me about a research study they're going on, they're doing with T one DS, a black tea, Wendy's, and they couldn't really find anyone. Yeah, it's hard. Someone had someone had sent her my when I told her, I said, I'm willing to help. And I said, I have a community that I'm willing to share the information with. So we did like a 45 minute conversation, and they just wanted to know how to reach people, but not and I told them, I'm the guy. I'm the link.

Scott Benner 46:41
Yeah, no, I have 1,000,000%. I believe it completely. Is it cultural? Why can't they find people?

Willie Streets 46:46
I wouldn't say cultural. But I know for a fact that when we say the word diabetes, it gets ignored. It's not like many people say, it's the sugar everyone like people, you get the sugars. It's more so any disease, any chronic illness is hidden from like, my dad has stage five, kidney disease. And I've been advocating for him, my younger brother has signed up to actually give him his kidney. But my dad is he has to go through all these like, what I consider like pre prerequisites to make sure that everything is good, because he's getting older, right? And I remember telling him to reach out to his nieces and nephews, everyone, because like, they're very close. But he's like, Nah, I'm not going to do that. Because they're not going to help me. I know, they're not going to help me. And we hear that often. I don't know if it's because of the things that we've been through as a community as people that because of these things that when it comes to things such as health, we don't speak about them. Are

Scott Benner 48:07
you saying that a quiet struggle is a is a learned? Response?

Willie Streets 48:12
Yes. So if someone asks for money for a bill, like someone say, I can't pay my electric bill, someone will be like, okay, here are the resources for it, or I can help you or whatnot. But that same person, if they're in need of, like I said, like a kidney or whatever, they won't reach out to those resource those people, those family members, those friends. And it's, it's crazy. Like, I don't understand why.

Scott Benner 48:41
Well, that's even a severe example, like, I'm just talking about knowing that your health isn't optimal. And how can i Is there a way for me to fix this, but you know, that also, this is, it's also a little silly to talk about it in this light, because there are plenty of white people who don't know that their, their health could be better either. It starts with your doctor, having the knowledge and passing it to you and giving you the idea that there's better out there, I can go find it. And the truth is, I don't think many physicians are in that position. And do that. It's, you know, it's sad, but how is that not the case? Like how was everyone walking in? I mean, look at you had a 10.3 and a 275. Is that, you know, no one ever says to you, hey, you know, geez, if you're a one sees 10, maybe do this. You got one doctor who said use us better insulin. That's all you need it all you need it to get you on the path of doing better with somebody to say, hey, there are better tools than the ones you have right now. And

Willie Streets 49:41
at the moment, I stepped into an endocrinologist office, my endocrinologist who's like, do you want to join our team? We need you. Yeah. Because my doctor and my nurse practitioner are both women of color. And they're both like we need you because there are so many People that don't know that they can better manage to live their most optimal lives. So they're like we need you in this space. So that's a few years ago, I have made a post on the Juicebox Podcast Facebook group about taking the steps to becoming certified diabetes educator. And I started that process during the pandemic. I paused that and started doing a MPH program, because I saw that it wasn't diabetes that I needed to help navigate through, it was more of a public help. Yeah, it's

Scott Benner 50:43
right. Yeah. If you know how to get people to services, then you can do that in every space, not just in a diabetes, because I didn't know you were trying to get an MPH. Yes. Oh, that's good for you, man. That's terrific. How many kids do you have?

Willie Streets 50:58
I have three kids. So they are? Well, my oldest is about the 15th, November 23. My daughter will be 13 November 10. And my nine year old His birthday is in February, February sixth

Scott Benner 51:10
beautiful, congratulations. That's lovely. They're

Willie Streets 51:13
the best. And, you know, you raise to two wonderful children. And I tell my children every day that we prepare to take over and just to take on the world, like my kids are absolutely amazing. My oldest, he has highly functional autism, Asperger's. Okay, you're 50. And yes, something we've recognized is he was younger. So he was diagnosed with like, ADHD and stuff, but so with him, mom and I, or practicing to be able to somehow support him into adulthood, because we know that he's going to need more resources or whatnot. Yeah. My daughter. She's just like this life, wildfire. Who's ready to take over the world. She's like, she already she's in seventh grade. But she already knows where she's going to college. She already knows where she's gonna live. She already like she knows everything. She doesn't know the steps in between. So figure that part out. My nine year old, he's considered a child prodigy. He is the absolute smartest, most brilliant person that I know, like, serious Scott,

Scott Benner 52:34
like real academic, or is it very, like just aware of the world? academic

Willie Streets 52:38
world? Everything? If I asked him, or if you set to mention to him any animal, he could tell you where like, is that that tension is nation of origin, all of those things? Chemicals, biology, plants, world history, anything cultural world history, like he could tell you about every dynasty. Anything very

Scott Benner 53:07
curious, knows about the things that he reads about afterwards. That's very cool.

Willie Streets 53:11
It's excellent. Yes. And his math skills every like, he's been like, we've been talking to him and other people have also about skipping ahead and whatnot. He's like, I will never ever skip a grade because I need every every grade. He's like, he loves education. He loves his schooling.

Scott Benner 53:27
That's beautiful. That's wonderful. Yeah. Wow. How long have you and your wife been together?

Willie Streets 53:32
We've been together since 2010. So, yeah, that math doesn't add up with your oldest. Yes, because, um, I actually took March 24 2010, his biological father was was murdered. Oh, my gosh, like in front of his home. And my wife. And I, like I said previously, we've worked together since 2006. And, I mean, we've always been cool, and like close or whatnot. So I remember telling her during that time that she was going through the storm, that I will be there to help her and her baby. Make it through Willie, and

Scott Benner 54:24
your wife's son, her oldest, your oldest son is hers from another relationship. And that gentleman was murdered, and you stepped in and helped her? Yes. And that's how you guys got together after being friends? Yes.

Willie Streets 54:40
I've never any and just the other day, I got a call from his school. Because, like, I told you that as far as like, keep going, take off his hood or whatever. And I showed up at the school. And a guy who knows his uncle, his biological uncle, like as we're leaving, he goes, Man, he's like, you're gonna Great, awesome job. And I said, What do you mean? He said, Because you stepped up. I said, I did not step up. And he's like, but you did. I said, That's my child. Yeah. Yeah, I'm the only father. He knows him. But like, I make sure that he knows about his biological father. He has a relationship with his grandmother and his uncle and stuff. But um, I told him like, I'm like, Yeah, I'm going with a father does were his children, my

Scott Benner 55:29
brother's stepfather to two kids, and there's no way to discern that he's not there. Their father? Think, you know, he doesn't think about that way. He doesn't talk about that way. None of his actions would tell you that. It's really it is it is, it is a wonderful thing. You know, but I take it from your point, you don't see it as a stepping up, you just see it as this is how it is because that's my son.

Willie Streets 55:53
That's my oldest. That's what I told him. I said, That's my oldest. Yeah, he's he shook my hand was like, I appreciate you.

Scott Benner 56:00
But really, you're just, you're just a different person than like, it's like,

Willie Streets 56:03
that's what I was telling you. Like, I've always been this person. Yeah. You know, something that oh, it's not fabricated. It's like, like, my iconic hero was to Baltimore, Chicago. And he was the realist. He never held his tongue. He always he was, he was trained in political warfare, political climate. But at the same time, he was innate to his community, his upbringing, those types of things. And I'm deeply rooted there, whether

Scott Benner 56:36
you're not giving yourself enough credit, though, like Willie, the other night, you sent me an image, my mom passed away this year. And when I realized that that was going to get around the internet, I kind of got ahead of it by putting her eulogy, you know, up on the Facebook group, because I realized that my people are going to know and then it's going to be 1000 questions, I thought, maybe I'll just keep them all in this one post so that it doesn't get overwhelming. But I used an old photo of my mom that I actually have hanging up behind me when I when I make the podcast, and the other day you sent me out of nowhere, you're recreating the picture in a painting. And I don't like that's beautiful. I just I mean, I can't tell you so many people have done nice things for me over the years. But it was stunning, and absolutely lovely and unexpected. But when I saw it, if anyone else would have sent it to me, really, I would have been like what's happening. But when it was you, I thought, this completely checks out. You just have such a big heart. And I've never met you in person. I know that to be true.

Willie Streets 57:34
Scott, that's my gift to you. Because I don't think you know, the things that you do. Well, I know, you know, but the impact and influence. I just wanted to give you your flowers. That's really never in a person's lifetime, do they ever think that the influence from experience they share will become impactful. Your life truly is meaningful. And the things you do are important and impactful. Thank

Scott Benner 58:04
you. I don't know what else to say. But thank you, but I really do appreciate it. It is hard to know, when you're doing something, it's hard to know who it's reaching. Or you know, like even doing that, that in person thing. I've done a couple of them recently. And it's you look out on the crowd and you realize like all of these people listen to that podcast. It's crazy to me still, you know what I mean? Because I'm isolated when I mean I'm in a room, like I'm just in a small room with some equipment and doing this thing. And if I don't get that feedback, I'm left to just imagine that it's going well like you wouldn't know this but last night I port Isabel Isabel helps me with the Facebook group at Port Isabel endured about 45 minutes of like self loathing texts from me about how I'm not doing well enough. And I'm not growing the podcast fast enough. And I'm letting people down. Like, you know, like, like, I just had a moment where I was like, I could be doing more with all this. And

Willie Streets 59:06
you know what I'm gonna say about that. Look back at 2015

Scott Benner 59:10
No, I know. I know. But it's hard to when you're when you're in it. Like when you're in it. And it's it's like well, we I think we're going to do maybe five 6 million downloads this year. And we did like four and a half last year and I think it's not a very big leap four and a half to six it which is ridiculous. I know. It's ridiculous. Well, I don't worry. But every once in a while. I don't want to call it pressure because I don't feel like pressure. But that feeling that I know I have something and I've seen it help this many people. Why am I not reaching more people? How come I can't find a way into a black and brown community? Like why am I like why am i It feels like you know what I mean? It feels like you have the answer and you can't get it to the people with a question.

Willie Streets 59:54
But I think everyone that does this type of impactful work. Think that That way, like, every, every day, I'm helping someone navigate. So like, even like I've created a hub where I get supplies. And I reach in, like, if I see someone there need, like, I'll share the supplies with them. I had a mom, two weeks ago drive up from Cherry Hill area to meet me in a parking lot in New Castle Delaware, so that I can give her daughter some some insulin.

Scott Benner 1:00:31
So lovely like, and you're kind of creating that network where you can actually help people.

Willie Streets 1:00:36
Right? Yeah, that's we have to do because, look, I have, like I told you about my cousin, who's a type one diabetic. But everything that I do is to make my grandma's proud. Like, I look at them all the time with the visions that are secure in my head. Because in 2003, during that traumatic experience, my grandma was diagnosed with cancer. Going through her treatment, she was diagnosed with diabetes. I remember her at the time, even being more advanced than me, she was using Lantis because I remember going over to her house and she had a box of them. She used to use Atlantis and when say humor log at that time, and they said that her diabetes was offset from her treatment. And then this past year, I had me and my brother, I think like Thanksgiving last year, we started looking into our family ancestry. And the one person we wanted to look into was our great grandmother because even my parents, my grandma, my mom and her sisters and brothers never met her she passed in 1954. My great grandma Viola, okay. And we were always told that she had an indigenous upbringing that she was a native woman I want to say of the Susquehanna hawks, and that she was abandoned as an infant. And she was taken in by a family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. So I look at her death certificate because my grandma was only 19 when she passed, and they always said that Viola passed from they said that she had became varietals that was frail, thin, and like she was dehydrated and whatnot before passing. So I look up her death certificate, Scott, you know what it reads, as diabetes, every Viola was tended to from January 19. Until February 3 by a nurse, it says it says she became frail, thin, she's always small out. So she became frail, thin, and on the death certificate every eat death due to acidosis. What year is this? 1954? Before they should have known what to do, and they lived in a rural area?

Scott Benner 1:03:04
Yeah. You know, the Egyptians, they think called diabetes, the great drain, because they believed you urinated yourself to death. Right? Yeah. That's a similar description, honestly.

Willie Streets 1:03:16
So a lot of the things I do always look and say, I just want to make my grandma's supper. Yeah. Me, Viola didn't have the best upbringing. She, I mean, she was abandoned as an infant. But she was raised by a great woman, just like just like yourself. Yeah. She raised my grandma, who was a great woman.

Scott Benner 1:03:36
I think about that all the time, that I'm just, you know, when when somebody gives you up for adoption, or abandons or whatever you're just left up to its randomness at that point, like, who lands on you and helps if anybody, and hard not to see my mom at the end of her life and realize that, you know, just this thing of her wanting to have a baby, this lady in Pennsylvania, you know, is the reason where I, you know, why I grew up where I did and how I did and all the little things that go into who you are. And it just, it's random, like the next person could have got me like they, it was actually really, the adoption agency called my mom and dad, and told them if you want the baby have to come today, or he'll go to somebody else, but there was she raised the issue. Yeah, but there was incredibly bad weather. Not normal for the area was there was a hurricane. And, and my mom and dad, like, thought through that got to me anyway and grabbed me because they said, If you don't come today, he'll go to somebody else. And that's just, you know, even that little decision, because, you know, you never know somebody could say, well, it's a hurricane. That's scary. We'll wait for the next baby. It could be that easy. So yeah, I've always thought about that. It's nice that you're thinking back on those people and still trying to be representative of

Willie Streets 1:04:56
them. It's really nice. They needed you and you needed them.

Scott Benner 1:05:00
I hope so. I hope I helped them somehow, you know? Yeah, but I have the same dude, I have the same feeling you do. Like I very much want to help people. I know about that joy that you're talking about, about how it fills you up. When you when you do that for somebody, it's undescribable. Everyone should try it if they haven't worked

Willie Streets 1:05:21
really, really good. And when I hear about people sitting there, like they're going through diabetes, burnout or whatnot, like, I did go through a burnout when I transitioned from, from MDI, to a pump, but that was about it. Because the community that I've built and how I help people that alleviates any stress for me, like it feels good. I actually, like it feels so good. Yeah,

Scott Benner 1:05:48
I don't know how to, I mean, I guess people learn it in their own time. And hopefully, they come across it in their life by really, you know, like, I tell, I'm pretty honest here, like, I'm not a religious person. But being in service to other people is incredibly filling, it very much helps you, I usually the way I usually say it on the podcast is you guys might not believe this, but this podcast helps me way more than it helps you. So and I think, and

Willie Streets 1:06:14
I've listened to every single episode many, five, five times over. And I know you've seen like, like I've shared many episodes, but I've never spoke about how how fast you got, I know we're winding down to time, you're fine. The way I found you, Scott was, again, during the pandemic, was listening to a few podcasts. And I'm trying to during the pandemic, you keep seeing all these things pop up about diabetes, and the virus, and whatnot. And I said, I need to buckle down, I got to do everything I can to make sure that I'm going to be here for my children, for my family, for my wife for life. I did a Google search of podcasts, and diabetes. And you know, what came up first hope it

Scott Benner 1:07:04
was me, or my SEO sucks.

Willie Streets 1:07:07
You know, you know, some say your top 10 medically but I say number one in my heart, like for real. So the it came up and I started listening. I took a break for about two months. And then like I began, I started, I started going on these walks with my pup. And on his walks, I would just plug you in, tune you in and started from episode one. And I went through every single episode because I just wanted to, I liked seeing the evolvement of people. And I just I can't Can't hear you reaching more, getting more articulate in your speech and how you were able to break down things. But it felt good knowing how it started naturally. And I know today because of the algorithm pumping and whatnot. Like it's less technical when it comes to like management. And I've heard this like throughout the podcast. But knowing the incremental steps you took the measurable steps you took to help people like I knew that this guy was real. Like, you're you and Orton did something for this world that one day she will recognize right now she's living her best life as she deserves. But she will recognize that one day, and I am sure you recognize it. With the 20 million plus downloads to impact.

Scott Benner 1:08:40
I feel it now. I didn't like before I was hard to accept but I'm okay with it now. And that's the wrong phrasing I maybe it's not, maybe I do maybe I accept it now. And it's just, I don't know, like, like I said it just now it just feels like an imperative to reach more people and, and to move on I and I take your point, by the way about watching me evolve in it can kind of give you the feeling like Oh, I could evolve through this too. And yes, sir. Yeah, it's a leading by example thing not you know, it's funny, Billy person probably doesn't know that. I'm not gonna mention them by name. But I, Somebody, please no one else do this. But somebody reached out to me recently. And I was doing like an Ask Me Anything on the Facebook page. And this one person was like, Would you listen to my podcast? And I did. And then I, you know, we spent maybe an hour on the phone afterwards. And I gave gave her my feedback about it. And the one thing I kept telling her was, is you have to stop explaining your story. And just tell it, you just tell it Yeah. And like I said, like you're telling me why this is an important story. I said if it's if it's a well told story. I'll know it's important when it's over. Like you don't either.

Willie Streets 1:09:56
There will be a continuation of it. Yeah,

Scott Benner 1:09:59
you don't have to tell For me, it doesn't have to be repetitive. Yeah, it's beautiful. And I got a nice note back from her. And she's like, that was really great advice. And she's like, I think it might be good advice for my life as well and start talking about how she finds herself justifying herself sometimes. And I said, Oh, that's exactly it. I'm like, you're explaining to me why it's okay that you tell your story. Just tell it. You know, and that's something that I've learned, like, making the podcast that, you know, you put yourself out there and, and it's, it's picked up by the people who, who needed or wanted. And for those who don't need it, or don't want it or don't like you, for whatever reason, that's fine. Like, just, it's not meant for everybody. It's meant for the people that will intersect well with it. Yeah, it's just

Willie Streets 1:10:44
like, I'm not into, like, always mentioned reinventing the wheel. So even before us, search for your podcast, like I had some people lined up that I was going to record with that I was going to create a pocket. And then once I found yours, I said, I'm not reinventing the wheel, because this is amazing. Like, this is the need. And I'm going to continue to share this with everyone. Thank you. Right? It

Scott Benner 1:11:15
is true. I heard somebody say it, who was I listening to the other day? I forget, they were talking about businesses, and how hard it is, once someone has the momentum, it's almost impossible to take it from them. And, and I do think that sometimes I see people going out there and doing something and they have all this desire to help. And I'm like, don't beat your head against this wall. I got this like, like, I don't I hope that doesn't sound terrible. But like, I'm dominating this space, you can't get into it now. Like I have the momentum. And it's not that you shouldn't try if you want to. I'm not saying that like absolutely do. I'm not trying to dissuade anybody from doing anything. But if you really have this heart to, you know, help, there are probably avenues that are better suited for you that you'll have a better opportunity of getting into. And I know that probably sounds pompous, but trust me, it's not like you're not going to, like if you woke up this morning and decided you wanted to make an electric car. You too late. Tesla did it. Like they did that already. So put that effort in. It's something where you can really like shine is kind of what I mean, it's a weird thought. And maybe only a few people get to have that perspective. But it is very also just in credibly intelligent of you to like, have that thought. Like, seriously, your your your I love you, man, like you're fantastic.

Willie Streets 1:12:38
So fully understood. And

Scott Benner 1:12:41
that's, that's just the exact right thought to have in that situation. I'm going to do this. Well, somebody's doing it already. How am I going to? How am I going to break through? I don't know, some people might hear that and think, no, try anyway. And I'll get old one day and one of you will do it. But like, you know, in the moment, makes a lot of sense. That probably sounded terrible. But I really do believe that. So I

Willie Streets 1:13:03
know where I come from. I'm not from a place or a town where everything is available for me. So I'll come from a disenfranchised community of black and brown people. So I know that it's harder for someone on the outside to reach in. But like when I first heard your voice and realize, like I said, I got a connection with this guy. I said because he's from the Philly area. And I spent most of my life in the Philadelphia area. So and I know that when it comes to like cultural barriers, if you can make it in Philly, you can make it anywhere. Yeah, that's true. You know, that, like, just walking the streets, like whether you're in fish town, Center City, like anywhere.

Scott Benner 1:13:53
I remember seeing on this podcast once. If you want to know what it's like to be from Philadelphia. Imagine you're walking down the sidewalk and you fall over. First, everyone's gonna laugh at you. And then they're gonna check to make sure you're okay. And then if you're okay, they're gonna break your balls while you're walking away. It's like, it's crazy. Yeah, if you can live through that, you'd be fine. You know? Yeah, it's it's a wonderful area. I just I know somebody who's getting ready to move here now, who you know is from the south and said, You know, I really am attracted to Philadelphia. I'm gonna move up here. I was like, You should like it's, I think that for five seconds back when media was very focused on just a certain few things. We got hit pretty hard because somebody did throw D size batteries and Santa Claus and an Eagles game one time and I think that were snowballs or something like that. I think that you know, gave everybody a bad taste, but maybe even with sports, that's going to change now because all of a sudden, you know, if you're a professional baseball player, build off is one of the places you want to play now. And through the Yeah, and the Eagles are fantastic. And you can see those guys bring in another guy You know, we just the Eagles just picked up a safety from what Tennessee the other day and came up here. And what did what did AJ brown tell him like when he got there? He told him like, Hey, you're a winner now? Like, right like, and that's the vibe that's around Philadelphia sports, not the flyers there. It's that rocky mentality. Yeah. But it finally exists in a way that people see it and see that oh, yeah, exactly. Right.

Willie Streets 1:15:25
We got rid of James Harden other day. We're all winning.

Scott Benner 1:15:29
Really, I can't tell you, I woke up and James Harden was gone. And I was like, Oh, my God.

Willie Streets 1:15:35
It was too much going on about that conversation. Like, let's just move past it. Seriously, just

Scott Benner 1:15:41
that guy. The minute we got him. I was like, this is going to end poorly. Like, it's like, it's like when you see your buddy dating the girl and you're like, Man, that's gonna end with your shirt on fire in the street. Like,

Willie Streets 1:15:52
I told my brother that he's like, he's gonna be this. He's got them. Like, no,

Scott Benner 1:15:56
my son did the same thing. He's like, No, he's great. Two years later by kids like, Oh, thank God. Like, yeah, no, James Harden is a hot girl burns your clothes at the end. That's exactly what

Willie Streets 1:16:10
he sees. He sees something different.

Scott Benner 1:16:12
No kidding. That's hilarious. Something different.

Willie Streets 1:16:14
He's become a persona that can nobody meet.

Scott Benner 1:16:19
Yeah, and interesting enough when he decides to when he turns it on. Do you think that's one of the best basketball players on the planet? It's crazy. Yeah.

Willie Streets 1:16:26
He's very, very gifted. Yeah, no kidding.

Scott Benner 1:16:29
Anyway, all right. are we covering everything that we wanted to? I want to make sure we're not missing anything. Look,

Willie Streets 1:16:33
I had a bunch of things. Yeah, I have. I have some notes. Some bullets. But um, for the most part, yeah. We didn't delve into I do have some some complications. Well, I'm gonna consider him really complications, like I don't have any diabetes related complications. But talking about the pandemic 2020. I caught COVID Like that early, solid, two years without catching COVID until 2022. July 30. I mean, these dates are remember more. And after that, I started getting this crazy brain fog. Yeah. Where I couldn't remember. Like, from point A to point B, what was I doing? And coming from knowing that guy had the superior memory, like I had to like really, like look into like, what's going on scary. Like I was diagnosed Previously, I had high blood. I have hypothyroidism also, you know, I've got my levels below. too. Nice. On top of that, like I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, because I've always like I've had I have this chronic pain, especially at these different points, like my knees, my back, my shoulders. Like I went 12 years with being told that I had a torn rotator cuff, getting injections or whatnot, come to find out. There shoulder to shoulder many times older calcific tendinitis. So I had start seeing a physical therapist for that I have more or less, which is restless leg syndrome, Polly Orthology, which is a chronic arthritis. I've been tested for you, but it's, it always comes up negative. Well,

Scott Benner 1:18:22
you gotta be careful that ra thing you can come up negative and still have it. It's right, you are describing it, maybe they're calling the RA Fibro, is that possible? Possible.

Willie Streets 1:18:32
But like when they connect, they connected with the neural, neurological in differences there like it seems more like Fibro if not Fibro. So I have a appointment with a neurologist in March to get screened for Ms.

Scott Benner 1:18:53
Really?

Willie Streets 1:18:54
Yes.

Scott Benner 1:18:55
Do you think that's possible? I do. How come? What are you saying?

Willie Streets 1:19:00
It's more like the brain. The main reason why I continue to do as much as I can in the community is because I have to put it out there before it goes away. That's why I finally decided I needed to be on a Juicebox Podcast is because I did not want to lose the gift that I have of giving your flowers sharing insight and education. I did not want to lose that in my brain where I was able to put it out there. Even though they say things such as Fibro and a mess that they say it doesn't get worse. It just it just there. Yeah.

Scott Benner 1:19:43
See, I've always wondered because you're one of the people I've been trying to like I've been saying forever, like she'll come on the podcast and you're always like, no, no, there'll be a time there'll be a time I never knew what that meant. I don't pry like you know what I mean? Like I figured you had your reasons, but I'm thrilled that you that you want to I just remember you like coming at me one then you're like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna get on the podcast now. I'm like, I'm gonna use that link and get on. I was like, Oh, great. That's fantastic. I didn't know this is why though. That's kind of a little sad, but you're telling me yes. But

Willie Streets 1:20:10
I have a friend, a close friend in the diabetic online community. And she's always like, that's your car, you gotta get on there. You gotta get on there. So I sent her a message the other day. And I said, I'm getting on. And she was like, for real? She's like, okay, like,

Scott Benner 1:20:28
I'm so happy. No, I'm thrilled you're here, I really am. So when you go to this appointment, they're gonna give you testing. And they're going to tell you more about, about what maybe can be done or

Willie Streets 1:20:37
very, right. So I have no fears, none at all. And I'm okay with that, it's better to be diagnosed, than to just sit there in a waiting, like, trying to manage Interborough life.

Scott Benner 1:20:54
Yeah, Willie, thank you for saying that. Like, that's the thing that I, it breaks your heart over and over again. And you've told you're telling the story for the last hour and a half of people who need help. And just for whatever reason, decide, I'm just going to silently go down with the ship instead of like, stepping forward and trying to, like, make things better for themselves. I just wish more people would, would do that. And you know, have that opinion of like, I, there's got to be something out there I could do and try and go after it. Like, don't just give up the first time somebody says Now there's nothing you can do. You know, like, just really work towards it. I do that with my kids. And my, you know, myself and my wife, like I don't give up like, I started using that we go V for weight loss. And I look at oh my god, like

Willie Streets 1:21:44
look at your brain and get out there with coal and catch that ball.

Scott Benner 1:21:48
I could do it now.

Willie Streets 1:21:51
It's not gonna knock you over this. Well, now

Scott Benner 1:21:53
I don't want anything. No, my Oh, my. But no, like, that's the like when I had that thought. I'm like, What's, like, why are people afraid? Like, I'm going to try this thing. Maybe it'll make my life better. And look, now, it's 10 months later, not even. And it is better. I weighed 40 pounds less. I'm like, in a significantly better healthy situation. And, you know, people are like, what are you going to do? Like, you know, do you keep taking the injection? I'm like, I don't know, I'm going to do whatever I need to do. But I'm not. I'm not sitting back. Like, I really thought about your dad when you started talking hour and a half ago. And I thought that poor bastard. Like if he just had this pen I have sitting here. He probably because really I haven't. I don't know what I talked about on here sometimes. But my brother has type two diabetes. And he and I were just texting the other day, seven, eight to a five six on weego V and hasn't really gotten his diet together yet. He lost. He's lost like 35 pounds. And his a once he dropped to full points. That's just awful. We go we just while he's ozempic? Because it's type two. Same, same drug. Yeah. And so that's significant. And you say that out into the world. And somebody goes, Oh, I tried it. It made me nauseous. I don't like okay, if it's not for you, it's not for you. But don't get swayed everybody else from thinking about it. Like know

Willie Streets 1:23:18
what I say about that? Like, I'm like how you say what you're like you try to your brother tried into things that it doesn't benefit you. Yeah, I've looked at the advent of insulin. I mean, we're in year 101. Just think of how it's going from, or is no pork, to beef. to regular. We got fast acting ultra fast acting like, yeah, exactly. Things that things change. Things evolve to, like medicine, science, like they do things like that. We didn't think that were once capable, right? Like, these things are here. And they're making lives better.

Scott Benner 1:24:01
Yeah, you need attitudes that say, Oh, what's that about? Let's see what that does. Let's see where that goes. Not, not the like, Oh, you want to lose weight? You should exercise. You think I didn't exercise. It didn't work for me. Sometimes you get influencers online and they're, you know, rock solid and they're like, all you got to do is sit up and I'm like yeah, I did a sit up I'd never ended up looking like you. So I you know, I don't know what to tell you. But I need this thing. And your point of what's going to happen next is huge. I'm texting last night with a woman who I don't think would want to be identified but it might come on the show. Eventually he talks about her like 13 year old daughter who doesn't have a lot of weight to lose or anything like that. But he's the type one and was able to get we go V because she had a couple of pounds over whatever you know, the the chart said so it got through insurance. But how about the kids barely using any insulin now and not seeing crazy spikes from food? Like I think there's a world where you're gonna see GLP medications on people with type two and type one type one. Yeah, and I think you're good Gonna see it significantly shift, not just the community of health, but maybe the world's health. You know, I say that now I'll sound crazy to people. But you might look back 20 years and go, Wow, we don't have the same problem with food that we did 20 years ago, because this medication came along help people's brains not be so like, you know, ravenous for carbohydrates and stuff like that. So

Willie Streets 1:25:24
we made life less complicated. And speaking order. I did want to, as I give you your flowers, I wanted to give flowers to someone else, please. My number one episode that I've listened to where there's two 371 explaining type one, I've shared that with the feels like 1000s of people on your journey, but there's another one. Number 531 Mike Green. Yeah, wasn't my wonderful after dark complications. Yeah, Mike pulled me in. I said tears will Mike. But Mike kept saying, like he, as I rephrase, he kept saying, like, like, he kept putting in a but like, I've been through this, but it's not the end of me. I can do this still never give up. He kept on saying there are better things out better insulins. I wasn't given this information previously. But now that I have it, I know what I can do. And he was like, now parents of young children, they have these things at their fingertips. And they can use them now. He kept embodying that and it like it spoke to me like, like, like, he's like, like, I've never been big into religion, church or whatever. But impactful speeches where you can feel like someone is pouring their heart into it. Like I felt that from Mike. And I still feel that. So even in preparation of today. You know what I did this morning?

Scott Benner 1:27:11
Did you listen to him again, Scott,

Willie Streets 1:27:13
me and my pup, after I dropped my daughter off to school, got back to the house, put on his leash harness. tuned into Mike.

Scott Benner 1:27:21
It's one of the best episodes of the podcast. It really is he he did a favor for people with diabetes that they'll never appreciate fully. Maybe it sounds like you do. But he got on here and laid out his life. And what happened to him? And

Willie Streets 1:27:39
I believe he was the first after dark episode.

Scott Benner 1:27:42
He's one of them. He's up there. I think the first one was drinking. And then we did and I don't know where it went after that. I forget. It was somewhere around yeah. But he was in the he was towards the beginning of it. And he just he's got a similar heart as yours. Like he really does want. What happened to him to help other people?

Willie Streets 1:28:00
And it does. Yeah, no,

Scott Benner 1:28:02
it very much does. It's one of the hardest things about social media making the podcast is there is part of me, who just everyday wants to say, hey, you should check out this one and this one. But I know if you don't feed people new content, then your thing kind of withers away. So like there, it's just it's overwhelming. So you pump out new content so that people have a choice during the week. And hopefully they stay with the podcast, and then you hope they find their way back to stuff like that. Because even the Pro Tip series feels like that, to me, there's part of me that thinks I should just put the Pro Tip series out every day. And that that might be the best way to handle except that's not how this medium works. So it's it's you know, content content content, and then mix in hey, don't forget about this, or you should go check out that it's a it's hard to get people back to those episodes. But there's so many of them that are valuable, you know, for more than just sometimes it's just entertaining or, I mean, how about that lady? You talked about her kid being diagnosed on an airplane while they were like going from country to country? Like that's horrifying, you know? But yeah, Mike, Mike does a real solid for people with type one. And that was even harder for me because my friend's name was Mike. He passed away from type one a number of years ago now. And to hear him to hear another man named Mike and have to interact with him with his name. It was almost like he was speaking to you. It was terrible for me, like it really was hard. And, you know, I don't bring my friend Mike up a whole lot because his story is not mine to tell. And you know, he's not here to tell it anymore. You know, he's just one of those people who didn't come along. He was he had everybody else's story. They put him on regular and mph and they left them there forever. And he had a doctor who didn't help him and he was standing up and moving forward. So he thought he was okay, except that entire time his body was deteriorating, you know, and then by the time he bumps into it Doctor Who says, Hey, this is no vlog and this is Lantus. He doesn't know what he's doing. He's making himself low all the time. And he's got a story he told me once about crashing his car from a low blood sugar, because they moved him from regular and mph to fast acting, but didn't really tell them how to use it. So he shot is fast acting the way he would have shot his regular and then got caught up in a conversation then realized he had to go eat gotten his car. And the police reports of the crash or he wasn't hurt somehow. But the police reports of the crash are horrifying. And he doesn't remember any of it. He fell out of bed from a low blood sugar, broke his arm, and then eventually ended up on dialysis and, and then eventually had a heart attack. And that's all from not having the right tools.

Willie Streets 1:30:46
And you know, it's crazy. But again, I have I have a story. Similar to that crash, Nicole are not knowing what happened. Crashing into a telephone pole.

Scott Benner 1:30:57
I bet they you sound like you got low quite a bit. Yeah. You're lucky to be alright, after something like that happens to you.

Willie Streets 1:31:04
You know what change that it made me get on the route on more? My daughter as seven years old? 2018? Yeah, we purchase our house 2090. So yeah, my wife was at work. And I'm at home with the kids instead of summertime. She finds me in the bed, I mean, a bathroom, laid out. And my wife is trying to call she's not getting getting me. So she brushed his home. And my daughter at seven years old tells him my wife, Mommy, I don't know what I would do. If I lost him. He's like, I don't know what I would do. And she's like, I was so scared. And like, when I came to him, my wife told me that my heart just dropped. And I said, That was 2013 2018. So from that moment on, I opened up the books, and figured out how am I going to live my best life. For myself first and for my family.

Scott Benner 1:32:11
Yeah, it's what it takes man. I mean, it's one of the things I've learned talking to people over and over again, is that just, it's just a very human thing. People take care of themselves for other people. It's very infrequently for themselves. So, you know, when my friend didn't have kids, and maybe if he did, I don't know, maybe he would have had that thought, you know, like, I gotta be here. But instead, you know, instead, I'm left behind to tell you all that, you know, to take care of yourself, and you have to keep up with the times and you have to understand the tools that are available to you. And you need to know what diabetes can and, and is doing to you if you're not on top of it, because, you know, keep

Willie Streets 1:32:55
on telling us? Yes,

Scott Benner 1:32:57
I'm trying,

Willie Streets 1:32:58
I hear I hear and I share that. I

Scott Benner 1:33:01
appreciate it very much, man. I you stayed very long with me. I appreciate that. So, thank you. I mean, I'm gonna take back what I said earlier, you ought to go record yourself. Just do it. You know, I could easily see you sitting down and doing 15 minute episodes, where you just chat through your day about diabetes and, and get it out into, you know, into a community that I maybe I can't find as easily. And maybe you could maybe you could be that bridge there and and get this information to people I can't find it. Oh,

Willie Streets 1:33:33
Scott, look out for me on World diabetes there in November 14. Oh, yeah, I have something that I'm releasing that. I tell everyone. That's a part of it. We're going to take on and over the world.

Scott Benner 1:33:47
Nice. That's excellent. Where will people find that? You

Willie Streets 1:33:51
can find it on my Instagram, at my Instagram to indie artists. And everyone's going to share. So I have a huge community that came together as I just reached out to people one time, and they're like, I got you Well, great.

Scott Benner 1:34:09
Well, I can't wait to find out what it is actually, when I stopped recording. I'm gonna ask you so you can tell me privately, although, well, this will come out after that. So I know you were just telling me.

Willie Streets 1:34:20
So you asked how do we reach the community people of color? Oh, well Black, Brown community so I guess I am that link to previous years 2001 2014 and 2022. On World diabetes, they released a video or like 15 people stating their diagnosis and things about diabetes was like 20 seconds. So this year, I said we got to change this up a bit. Because in this space, everything is looking the same. So I asked myself, I said, How many type ones do I know of color? And when I went into looking at like my followers and stuff, and people I follow, I said, Wow, I did not realize I had this, this amount. Okay, so I created this, this chat with people with persons and I reached out to each of them individually. I said, Can you shoot me a 45 second clip of telling you who you are, where you're from, how long you've had diabetes, something you want to share with the world. And I got, like, 80 responses back. It's excellent. And I created a video that has 50 plus people on it. And they're all sharing a bit of their story. And how they're basically telling people like you can live with this. Some people were stating the obvious facts of the complications, the risks, but it's more so about the reward of community. And we're going to release that on World diabetes de 2023. To take the take on and take over the world. If

Scott Benner 1:36:21
I were you, I would love to share that as well. And I would ask you to put it in the in the group too.

Willie Streets 1:36:26
And it's not just people here in the US. These people are from all over people from the UK, people from India. I even got some people from the Middle East. I've got persons from that are actually going through war right now along the Gaza Strip. I told them, I'm not going to hold off on their videos. Because right now, during this time, many of them are basically fighting for survival. Yeah. And don't. Don't don't want to. Yeah, no, I

Scott Benner 1:37:01
understand that I actually, behind the scenes, I've been trying to get supplies sent to that area. And I'm not having a lot of luck with it. I reached out to some people who I thought could come through and so gets up into those companies and the, you know, pretty big machine. It's hard to I think they say it's hard to turn the Titanic, it kind of feels like that sometimes we

Willie Streets 1:37:23
get so many different communities organizations that say they're doing that, but yeah, until you actually see it there. You'll notice actually bring Yeah,

Scott Benner 1:37:33
it didn't happen until it happened. So people like Oh, I think we could do that. And I'm like, great, and then you kind of don't hear back from them. And you know, anyway, I'm still trying on that one. It's, it's not easy to get anything to move. So when you get something accomplished like that, it's a big deal to get all those people to send their videos that put them together and everything. People don't know man until you try to do something like this. Getting content to people or creating something every day or every week it's it's an insane amount of time and effort and even dude, if you're watching some guy on Twitch like play a game they're putting 50 hours a week into bringing that video to you like you don't you don't realize that but it's it's tough. Hey um can I call this episode heart to heal

Willie Streets 1:38:15
and call it whatever you want Scott because I feel like if I'm gonna hit the hill to your to your

Scott Benner 1:38:21
very nice man, you're one of the kindest people I've ever virtually met. Willie I sincerely mean that. I appreciate you coming on the show and, and, and sharing all this with everybody. Thank you.

Willie Streets 1:38:31
I appreciate you brother.

Scott Benner 1:38:33
I know you do. Thank you

think it was well worth the wait to have Willie on the show. Thank you so much Willie for coming on the podcast and adding your story to all the others. Today's episode of The Juicebox Podcast is sponsored by the Dexcom G seven which now integrates with a tandem T slim x two system. Learn more and get started today at dexcom.com/juice box. If you'd like to wear the same insulin pump that Arden does, all you have to do is go to Omni pod.com/juice box that's it. Head over now and get started today and you'll be wearing the same tubeless insulin pump that Arden has been wearing since she was four years old

don't forget to check out Willie on Instagram at T one D artist Willie sent me this just after we recorded I hope you enjoy it.

Speaker 2 1:39:36
I'm trying to think out of the box but willingness stop. I was a kid for 20 years and that the blink of an eye all that just stop. And as I went from boy to a man, I sweat out when it was cold. I remember looking in the mirror like damn Lou. Is this the end of the row Because I haven't been through a lot, but I'm noticing the plot of how my story got told. So I switched up the game. Got my mind a little clearer. Got a little bow instantly. It's crazy how that one phrase help erase the fear, had the grasp and think fast, leave my pen passed in the rear. Whether we're starting over or getting bolder, knocking this chip off my shoulder, I buckled down and got my mind clear. jotted down some key points and added some more detail scarf real and that you truly know what you got here. And if anybody ever asked, I don't gotta boast nor brag considering my pass. But let me magnify and clarify Benner, you're the real deal. And not only as a stamp have been signed, tagged, and Sue, Sincerely yours, Willy Street.

Scott Benner 1:41:04
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