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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE with Jeanette Deatherage
Episode 7410th April 2024 • Shining Brightly • Howard Brown
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Episode Summary – WE SALUTE YOU! In Episode 74 of the Shining Brightly Podcast Show (links in the comments), titled THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, my guest Jeanette Deatherage joined the Airforce right out of high school in Wisconsin from living on a farm. She got the twinkle in her eye seeing her brother return from Vietnam in his dress uniform. She met her husband Master Seargeant Chief – Craig Deatherage who proposed one week after meeting her. They lived the military life that included two daughters and two grandsons. Then Jeanette became Craigs caregiver after he was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic prostate cancer. (PLEASE GET SCREENED). Thank God Craig is stable currently. Lastly, we chatted about Jeanettes close to 40 years with Mary Kay and how that business and entrepreneurship help support her family and be in service to others. COME LISTEN, DOWNLOAD, SHARE, AND REVIEW THIS GREAT SHOW!

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Mary Kay website - https://www.marykay.com/jeanetted

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanettedeatherage/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/JeanetteDMaryKay

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jeanettedmk/

About the guest – Jeanette Deatherage I’m a wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, USAF Veteran and friend. I love my God, husband, daughters, grandson, family, and pets, along with the dear friends, co-workers and clients who may as well be family! I simply adore my daughters and grandsons. I guess that’s part of the reason why I always treat people with such love, kindness, and compassion. I love, I care, I hope, I pray, and yes, sometimes I even cry! Yet, at the same time, I’m a strong, hard-working, and determined team leader, coach, and mentor. I get up each morning, ready to take on the world. I have a passion for being responsible, building enduring relationships, providing great customer service, and meeting deadlines. I treat my co-workers and clients with dignity and respect and help bring out the best in them at every opportunity. The people who rely on me expect it, and, frankly, I expect it from myself! Before I leave for work each morning, I want to put my best face forward, to face every day looking and feeling my best. It’s so nice that Mary Kay is always there to help me to do that. That one last look in the mirror, and the smile I see, tells me all I need to know! That’s why I’m a Mary Kay representative and have used their products long before I ever decided to work for this world-class organization. Yes, you can say that I’m a Mary Kay girl, and my customers are exactly like me! I invite you to join me; let’s face the day together!

About the Host:

Howard Brown is a best-selling author, award-winning international speaker, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, interfaith peacemaker, and a two-time stage IV cancer survivor. He is also a sought-after speaker and consultant for corporate businesses, nonprofits, congregations, and community groups. Howard has co-founded two social networks that were the first to connect religious communities around the world. He is a nationally known patient advocate and “cancer whisperer” to many families. Howard, his wife Lisa, and daughter Emily currently reside in Michigan, and his happy place is on the basketball court.

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Howard Brown:

Hello, it's Howard Brown. It's the Shining Brightly

Howard Brown:

Show. Oh my goodness. I have a story and a guess for you today.

Howard Brown:

I'm very excited to welcome Jeannette Deatherage Jeanette,

Howard Brown:

how are you? Welcome.

Jeanette Deatherage:

I'm doing great. Thanks for having me.

Howard Brown:

Oh my god, I love your background. For those that

Howard Brown:

are watching you'll, you'll see that she's got Mary Kay products

Howard Brown:

and pink background and looks awesome. Good, good contrast,

Howard Brown:

and my yellow background and the sun shining on us as well. So I

Howard Brown:

know you're in Florida. But tell tell us about yourself a little

Howard Brown:

bit, you know, short bio.

Jeanette Deatherage:

Here, I grew up on a dairy farm. And if

Jeanette Deatherage:

you know anything about cows, you cannot go on vacation. They

Jeanette Deatherage:

have to be milked more than a night. And I realised when I was

Jeanette Deatherage:

in school, that I had to go somewhere else. So I decided to

Jeanette Deatherage:

go to the recruiter Air Force. And I joined the Air Force right

Jeanette Deatherage:

out of high school. And then I met my husband, and it's just

Jeanette Deatherage:

been a really exciting roller coaster, to be honest.

Howard Brown:

That's, it's amazing. So we're gonna dig deep

Howard Brown:

into that a little bit. But first, how do you choose to

Howard Brown:

shine brightly every day?

Jeanette Deatherage:

You know, every day that we wake up, it's

Jeanette Deatherage:

a great day. And I start with some meditation, and I'm very

Jeanette Deatherage:

spiritual. So that kind of gets my day started. And I realised

Jeanette Deatherage:

that it's just wonderful to be around

Howard Brown:

it. And that's a beautiful way to start the day

Howard Brown:

with meditation and what you're grateful and thankful for I do

Howard Brown:

the same. So awesome. I love that. Well, let's get into your

Howard Brown:

story. Take me back to a four year old Jeanette. And what

Howard Brown:

happened?

Jeanette Deatherage:

Well, I can still see the airport, my

Jeanette Deatherage:

husband, my brother came home from Vietnam and his dress

Jeanette Deatherage:

uniform, and a little bit of aeroplane that he called a

Jeanette Deatherage:

puddle jumper. And his girlfriend and I ran down to the

Jeanette Deatherage:

ramp and we were so excited to see him. And it just like I

Jeanette Deatherage:

said, I fell in love with the uniform at that time. And it

Jeanette Deatherage:

stuck in my head ever since I was four years old.

Howard Brown:

I think it's it's something that you see. And like

Howard Brown:

other people like they would look at like a Hollywood star or

Howard Brown:

a singer or a celebrity and athlete. But you saw your

Howard Brown:

brother and that just became the vision of who you want it to be

Howard Brown:

as such impressionable at that age. So thanks for sharing that

Howard Brown:

as well. So you joined really quickly right out of high

Howard Brown:

school. I mean, how many? How many girls were doing that at

Howard Brown:

that time where young women were doing that at that time? Not

Howard Brown:

many

Jeanette Deatherage:

now. And I didn't know that. My girlfriend

Jeanette Deatherage:

in science class, we were supposed to go together. And she

Jeanette Deatherage:

didn't show up. So I just kept going. I said, this is something

Jeanette Deatherage:

I can do.

Howard Brown:

And you decided on the Air Force? Yes. Yes. It's

Howard Brown:

incredible. Well, take us through, you know, how does

Howard Brown:

basic training work out for probably one of the few women

Howard Brown:

right? You're you had a class of women? No,

Jeanette Deatherage:

we definitely have. It's a bay full

Jeanette Deatherage:

of oh, that's what the dormitories I call your bay. And

Jeanette Deatherage:

they come and check your beds and make sure that they're sharp

Jeanette Deatherage:

and sharp corners and all that. You don't I met a lot of great

Jeanette Deatherage:

people. But it's totally separate between the men and the

Jeanette Deatherage:

women. But these are people from all over the country. And that's

Jeanette Deatherage:

my first time I've ever actually had an opportunity to meet

Jeanette Deatherage:

people that weren't from Wisconsin. So it really was

Jeanette Deatherage:

interesting. Right?

Howard Brown:

So bows and cheese and then trade that in for the

Howard Brown:

bay in the Air Force. Oh, that's so interesting. Now, you went

Howard Brown:

through training, right? And then you met a guy. Tell me

Howard Brown:

about that.

Jeanette Deatherage:

Well, I really want to see the world and

Jeanette Deatherage:

I end up seeing Mississippi. But I got off the bus. And

Jeanette Deatherage:

apparently my husband to be saw me and he realised he really

Jeanette Deatherage:

wanted to meet me, which I didn't. I didn't know that. So

Jeanette Deatherage:

we we had an opportunity to join the squadron and it was the

Jeanette Deatherage:

special squad that you would actually go out and be a singer,

Jeanette Deatherage:

you'd be a Drum and Bugle or something like that. And he

Jeanette Deatherage:

wasn't the one interviewing me and I was toned up. But he

Jeanette Deatherage:

worked really hard to make sure I could get into the choir and

Jeanette Deatherage:

then we were in the choir together. And after a week, he

Jeanette Deatherage:

he proposed to me, I couldn't say yes, for a whole week. I

Jeanette Deatherage:

told him I'll give him the answer. And we can use bury down

Jeanette Deatherage:

every time I saw him. And I realised that yes, that's what I

Jeanette Deatherage:

wanted to do. And we actually got married two months later.

Howard Brown:

He proposed to you a week after meeting you. He did

Howard Brown:

Yes, that's absolutely incredible. And did you get

Howard Brown:

married on base? Or did you go home? What happened? Oh, well,

Jeanette Deatherage:

first of all, I was only 19. So I had to

Jeanette Deatherage:

go home and tell my parents they had actually signed a letter

Jeanette Deatherage:

saying that I could get married because you were supposed to be

Jeanette Deatherage:

21 Mississippi and God forbid I don't know why they said yes.

Jeanette Deatherage:

They didn't know anything but it was it was definitely a God

Jeanette Deatherage:

thing that they it was the right thing. They signed it And then

Jeanette Deatherage:

yeah, I came back and you know, we got married and we couldn't

Jeanette Deatherage:

even live together because we had we were in squadrons all the

Jeanette Deatherage:

women had been one side of the men had to be together side and

Jeanette Deatherage:

we would get together on the weekends. And, you know, that

Jeanette Deatherage:

was our time together. And then he left Mississippi before I was

Jeanette Deatherage:

ready. I still had to keep going through my training. So it like

Jeanette Deatherage:

I said, the first year, we barely lived together.

Howard Brown:

Did your parents get to meet him before they kind

Howard Brown:

of approved it? No, you just told them about Craig.

Jeanette Deatherage:

I did. I did. Oh, my thing just see a

Jeanette Deatherage:

pitcher was not a good pitcher. He was he was just come up with

Jeanette Deatherage:

some shorts. So but I really, definitely got things I know, I

Jeanette Deatherage:

wouldn't let my daughter's do that. So

Howard Brown:

different time, different time for sure.

Howard Brown:

Alright, so he leaves and take me through because you he got

Howard Brown:

deployed. Right?

Jeanette Deatherage:

Not right away, not right away. He was an

Jeanette Deatherage:

enlisted flier. So when he left Mississippi, he went to his

Jeanette Deatherage:

first assignment. And finally that that's why a lot of people

Jeanette Deatherage:

do get married because they have what's called Joint spouse. So

Jeanette Deatherage:

if you're, there's no reason I was supposed to go to

Jeanette Deatherage:

Philippines by myself. And, you know, he was being sent to

Jeanette Deatherage:

Oklahoma, because that was the next part of his training as

Jeanette Deatherage:

enlisted flyer on on the AWACS. So it just turned out that

Jeanette Deatherage:

that's, you know, knew we wanted to be together. And then I

Jeanette Deatherage:

joined him a little bit later. But you know, I was in combat

Jeanette Deatherage:

boots in fatigues. And he was in blue. So that's what I wanted

Jeanette Deatherage:

that blue uniform, and it just didn't work out. I was assigned

Jeanette Deatherage:

to a mobile unit that kind of like MASH, and live in tents.

Jeanette Deatherage:

And that kind of thing is like, what am I doing? But, you know,

Jeanette Deatherage:

it's definitely an adventure for sure. Right?

Howard Brown:

Right. Right. So now after his training, then

Howard Brown:

take me through your apart quite a bit of your of your marriage

Howard Brown:

as well. So he take me through some of his deployment, well,

Howard Brown:

when

Jeanette Deatherage:

he could go on deployment for 30 days at a

Jeanette Deatherage:

time. And that was like maybe every three months. But I was

Jeanette Deatherage:

doing my thing. I was working full time. And so that kept me

Jeanette Deatherage:

very occupied and everything. So it but then finally, I just I

Jeanette Deatherage:

couldn't stay in the military no longer it was just really time

Jeanette Deatherage:

for me to get out. And I had already kind of started with

Jeanette Deatherage:

Mary Kay just to be with the girlfriends because there was 21

Jeanette Deatherage:

men to every woman in my career field. And I thought that's not

Jeanette Deatherage:

a good fit for me. So with Mary Kay was like women that were

Jeanette Deatherage:

very emotionally and spiritually aligned with way I want it to

Jeanette Deatherage:

be.

Howard Brown:

Okay, well, we'll get to get to the career and

Howard Brown:

then the long, you know, for decades at Mary Kay, but take me

Howard Brown:

through now. So you when did you exit the Air Force? How many

Howard Brown:

years were you in

Jeanette Deatherage:

three active and seven reserve, which

Jeanette Deatherage:

means you're going in one or two days a month, and then two

Jeanette Deatherage:

weeks, and I end up all the way in Alaska for my two weeks I

Jeanette Deatherage:

have it. It was kind of nice to be in the reserves. It was

Jeanette Deatherage:

definitely a lot different than, you know, full time. But we had

Jeanette Deatherage:

some good times.

Howard Brown:

I probably should have said this earlier. But

Howard Brown:

thank you, and and Craig for your service. So our pleasure.

Howard Brown:

That's gonna be the title of the show. Little little a little

Howard Brown:

teaser there. Right. So all right. So now you've now are in

Howard Brown:

the reserves. And he's he's still active duty. And so he

Howard Brown:

definitely got deployed. So tell me take taking me there. So

Jeanette Deatherage:

this was right towards the beginning of

Jeanette Deatherage:

the Gulf War. And yes, he was deployed, and by this time, we

Jeanette Deatherage:

were somewhere else. We were either. We weren't in Oklahoma

Jeanette Deatherage:

anymore. I believe we were in Virginia. So he gets called up.

Jeanette Deatherage:

And then shortly after that, I got called, and I thought no one

Jeanette Deatherage:

ever if you're a reservists, but that was the whole point of

Jeanette Deatherage:

being a reservist, you had to be ready to go active duty at any

Jeanette Deatherage:

time. And I just had a baby. I'm very, very young. And they're

Jeanette Deatherage:

like, Okay, it's Friday, how soon can you find a babysitter?

Jeanette Deatherage:

When? Monday they said, Okay, we're gonna see you at work on

Jeanette Deatherage:

Monday, and I worked 12 hour days, seven days a week, and he

Jeanette Deatherage:

even came home for his rotation. And I was still working in the

Jeanette Deatherage:

military. This is not what I wanted to do. But I mean, still

Jeanette Deatherage:

you feel like it's worthwhile, but in the same aspect, it's

Jeanette Deatherage:

like, I want to be where I can shine. And it wasn't I didn't

Jeanette Deatherage:

feel like I was showing it all where I was. So it was

Howard Brown:

you had you actually had to get a babysitter

Howard Brown:

for how old was was it? Was it her son?

Jeanette Deatherage:

I don't know, don't we have a daughter

Jeanette Deatherage:

and it was just I had to find a babysitter and thankfully

Jeanette Deatherage:

because of his exposure to lots of people, spouses would come

Jeanette Deatherage:

together that they didn't have jobs a lot of times so yes,

Jeanette Deatherage:

that's how I had to find a babysitter so quickly was one of

Jeanette Deatherage:

his supervisors. Wife, and that's who you know, I hired as

Jeanette Deatherage:

a babysitter.

Howard Brown:

I've heard of that that the military kind of they

Howard Brown:

have your back that they you know that their communities,

Howard Brown:

they live together, they're apart a lot but you know, they

Howard Brown:

do come together and help you out when necessary. That's nice.

Howard Brown:

That's a nice feeling.

Jeanette Deatherage:

It's Yes, it was just so beautiful that,

Jeanette Deatherage:

you know, I had connections, and because otherwise I would have

Jeanette Deatherage:

been very lonely, and everything else but you know, the spouses

Jeanette Deatherage:

were all in the same place. So we took care of each other.

Jeanette Deatherage:

Absolutely. Right.

Howard Brown:

And so tell me just a little bit about Craig's

Howard Brown:

career. He enlisted, as you said, enlisted flier. And so he

Howard Brown:

rose up to what rank Chief

Jeanette Deatherage:

Master Sergeant. And actually, there

Jeanette Deatherage:

was one, he has a star on his because he was a Command Chief.

Jeanette Deatherage:

So that was like almost the highest. But when we started out

Jeanette Deatherage:

together, he had two stripes, I only had one, because he had

Jeanette Deatherage:

college for four years. And I had a little bit of college I

Jeanette Deatherage:

had one semester, so I had one stripe, he had two stripes. And

Jeanette Deatherage:

I told him, I said, you know, you're gonna make Master and 20.

Jeanette Deatherage:

Otherwise, you're out because I need you to be at this point. So

Jeanette Deatherage:

he, of course, made master sergeant that 20 years, which is

Jeanette Deatherage:

really, really good. And he stayed in for another eight

Jeanette Deatherage:

years after that,

Howard Brown:

right. And so tell me some of his deployments

Howard Brown:

because he was the Command Chief in a kind of special place. So

Howard Brown:

tell me about that. Well,

Jeanette Deatherage:

he got to go all over the place, you know,

Jeanette Deatherage:

but in the Gulf that, you know, that's kind of we're still in

Jeanette Deatherage:

the Gulf War, which people don't really realise that we're still

Jeanette Deatherage:

in that situation. But he did get to a lot of places. But the

Jeanette Deatherage:

as a spouse, I got to go with him. Like, for instance, we had

Jeanette Deatherage:

a conference in Hawaii, and spouses were expected to be

Jeanette Deatherage:

there. So that was kind of a fun thing. You know, again, we had

Jeanette Deatherage:

it, we had some really good people in our lives, to help

Jeanette Deatherage:

with the children. And we were very blessed with that. But

Jeanette Deatherage:

yeah, he I was a little jealous that he gets to go all over the

Jeanette Deatherage:

world. And, but it was, he deserved it. He really, really

Jeanette Deatherage:

worked hard, and everyone loved him. And they still do we have

Jeanette Deatherage:

friends all over the world frame. And it's just the

Jeanette Deatherage:

greatest thing. Now

Howard Brown:

it did. But he had where was he, where he was the

Howard Brown:

master chief where he was in charge. That

Jeanette Deatherage:

would well our last assignment was in

Jeanette Deatherage:

Tokyo. So two and a half years. And that was our it's so funny,

Jeanette Deatherage:

because the his first assignment was, was Japan and we commute it

Jeanette Deatherage:

literally, it took us 30 hours to get to see each other. But it

Jeanette Deatherage:

was worth it. That's how we decided to work our life. And

Jeanette Deatherage:

then we end the career back in Japan, you know, we went to

Jeanette Deatherage:

Okinawa was the first one. But Tokyo was the second one. And

Jeanette Deatherage:

that's where I mean, he was he was treated very well, because

Jeanette Deatherage:

of the whole country. He was the highest and listen person in the

Jeanette Deatherage:

whole country.

Howard Brown:

What an interesting life and interesting

Howard Brown:

experience that, that the military kind of you carved out

Howard Brown:

and looking back, you know, as a as a, as someone in high school

Howard Brown:

and listening, is that kind of how you saw it playing out? Or

Jeanette Deatherage:

in some of the ways Yes, because, you know,

Jeanette Deatherage:

you see those movies and their romantic comedies, you know, so,

Jeanette Deatherage:

I mean, I didn't realise what was going to happen, but it

Jeanette Deatherage:

just, and everybody always thought, Oh, you're such a great

Jeanette Deatherage:

couple, we would go everywhere, and all kinds of such a good

Jeanette Deatherage:

couple. And some people would say I do brother and sister,

Jeanette Deatherage:

because we did kind of have that hometown. He's from Iowa. So

Jeanette Deatherage:

he's very fair, from Wisconsin. And so a lot of times people

Jeanette Deatherage:

say, you guys, brother and sister, you know, but most of

Jeanette Deatherage:

the time, they said, Look at you guys are great couple. And we've

Jeanette Deatherage:

the newspaper even, we had two different stories in the

Jeanette Deatherage:

newspaper with the pictures with him, you know, grabbing the baby

Jeanette Deatherage:

from me, and, and that sort of thing. So it was just really

Jeanette Deatherage:

cool that we had that opportunity. But yeah, both

Jeanette Deatherage:

times when they talked about deployments, it was our family

Jeanette Deatherage:

that was putting the pictures,

Howard Brown:

right. And so I mean, I can't even imagine how

Howard Brown:

it feels when he's, you know, an active duty in combat, right. I

Howard Brown:

mean, you just don't know your job to hear from him. It's

Howard Brown:

probably sporadic and all that. So I just can't even imagine it.

Howard Brown:

But it's, you lead a very interesting life. And how long

Howard Brown:

have you been married? 41 years. Congratulations. That's

Howard Brown:

absolutely what a blessing that is. Right? That's absolutely

Howard Brown:

amazing. And you are a part for a bunch of it early on. And so

Howard Brown:

any other like cool memories, you know, stories and things

Howard Brown:

like that, that you had with with Craig or the military gave

Howard Brown:

to you?

Jeanette Deatherage:

Basically, you know, like I said, I got

Jeanette Deatherage:

very active with the spouses group, and mostly where they

Jeanette Deatherage:

were women, but not necessarily can be a spouse and you know,

Jeanette Deatherage:

the other way, but just that opportunity that we had to be

Jeanette Deatherage:

together. And it was when those marriages made, you know, just,

Jeanette Deatherage:

it was just very special. And then we have we have two girls

Jeanette Deatherage:

and they're special. So I don't know I don't, it was just kind

Jeanette Deatherage:

of magical. If you can, that's a good word. That's okay.

Howard Brown:

You can call it whatever you want. It's your

Howard Brown:

experience. You did share a picture with me? I don't know.

Howard Brown:

But I mean, this is you with a rifle in your hands and or is it

Howard Brown:

a machine gun? I mean, I'm 16 here. and everything. Okay, so

Howard Brown:

how I know you now as you know, a very professional mom, and,

Howard Brown:

you know, and Mary Kay and all that. It was, to me, it was

Howard Brown:

like, Oh my God, this this very, very passive, really gentle

Howard Brown:

woman, you know, when she got in her head, I mean, incredible,

Howard Brown:

but you chose that, and that training and that career, and

Howard Brown:

it's, it's a very interesting, you know, perspective because,

Howard Brown:

you know, not only were you in the military, you married the

Howard Brown:

military, so it became your whole life. So now, now, things

Howard Brown:

that I want to get into this next area, because being a two

Howard Brown:

time stage four cancer patient. I know that certain things at

Howard Brown:

the military as far as your health, and I've actually met

Howard Brown:

and mentored some some veterans, and they suffer like I do from

Howard Brown:

PTSD, we call that chemo brain or brain fog. They suffer very

Howard Brown:

severe illness from burn pits. The casualties of this war,

Howard Brown:

right. And your husband also has had a cancer bout as well. So

Howard Brown:

share, you now turned into being a caregiver. After after that,

Howard Brown:

after he retired, so told told me about that.

Jeanette Deatherage:

Well, as you said, he was retired, but I

Jeanette Deatherage:

did find him a couple other jobs. I was like, Well, what is

Jeanette Deatherage:

he going to do? He's retired but and the lucky thing is that he

Jeanette Deatherage:

got some jobs that he really, really liked. And that worked

Jeanette Deatherage:

out very well. And I just lost my train of thought, Well, no,

Jeanette Deatherage:

what

Howard Brown:

are the jobs? What were the jobs? That I did know

Howard Brown:

that he did that? You got it?

Jeanette Deatherage:

Oh, well, he actually worked for a

Jeanette Deatherage:

congressman, the House of Representatives two different

Jeanette Deatherage:

times. I was very active in Panama City. I was an ambassador

Jeanette Deatherage:

with the Chamber of Commerce, a lot of people knew who we are,

Jeanette Deatherage:

because the Deatherage is kind of an unusual name. So people

Jeanette Deatherage:

know him in the community, and they knew me in the community

Jeanette Deatherage:

also. That's

Howard Brown:

cool. So the question actually was when he

Howard Brown:

got sick, okay, so became a caregiver to him. He got

Howard Brown:

diagnosed, but I'll let you tell that story. Yes,

Jeanette Deatherage:

well, he hadn't, for some reason, they

Jeanette Deatherage:

weren't checking PSA for a while. And then he realised that

Jeanette Deatherage:

something was wrong. He wasn't feeling well, it was just he's

Jeanette Deatherage:

something was wrong. So his boss happened to be your ologists.

Jeanette Deatherage:

And they immediately, you know, they, he went to the doctor with

Jeanette Deatherage:

stage four cancer, he had already metastasized his

Jeanette Deatherage:

prostate cancer had metastasized through his skull and

Jeanette Deatherage:

everywhere. So it was very frightening time for us. And our

Jeanette Deatherage:

daughter was engaged. And she actually got married in six

Jeanette Deatherage:

weeks, because we didn't know you know, where we were. But

Jeanette Deatherage:

they started do some really, really good advanced treatments.

Jeanette Deatherage:

And it's made such a difference to stop the growth. So that's

Jeanette Deatherage:

where we are right now that there's no more no new growth.

Jeanette Deatherage:

And we were back in the other. Let's see, we moved to Panama

Jeanette Deatherage:

City. They said, Well, you know what I can give you 10 good

Jeanette Deatherage:

years, and I started subtracting, and we were at six.

Jeanette Deatherage:

And I was like, Oh my gosh, I want to have for yourself, how

Jeanette Deatherage:

is this gonna work. And thankfully, he's got really,

Jeanette Deatherage:

really good doctors here, also in South Florida. And they

Jeanette Deatherage:

actually said, you know, you met all the markers. I don't know

Jeanette Deatherage:

why you couldn't live another 20 years. So that just really

Jeanette Deatherage:

settled me down and realise that, you know, in 20 years, and

Jeanette Deatherage:

all they're going to have other advanced things that that help.

Jeanette Deatherage:

So we just have to have faith that it's going to work and the

Jeanette Deatherage:

fact that we're military, there's like people praying all

Jeanette Deatherage:

over the country and all over the world. So it's almost like

Jeanette Deatherage:

they're praying, you know, around the whole day, because

Jeanette Deatherage:

everybody lives in different places. And but they everyone

Jeanette Deatherage:

knows his story. And I want to make sure people did because we

Jeanette Deatherage:

need to save more people. And they need to get checked more

Jeanette Deatherage:

often. Yeah,

Howard Brown:

so this is where you and I are total alignment,

Howard Brown:

right? So I because of cancer, one was in 1989, and 90 for me,

Howard Brown:

and then colon cancer now in 2016. To present, I had a huge

Howard Brown:

network, the digital world, Facebook actually worked out

Howard Brown:

good because I was able to share my story. And I received a lot

Howard Brown:

of prayers, a lot of giving back to me, it actually helped me be

Howard Brown:

able to all that energy to get through a really hard time. So I

Howard Brown:

called the worldwide community is a beautiful thing. I'm so

Howard Brown:

glad that he's achieved stability at this point in time

Howard Brown:

and they are making advances, but that this will give me a

Howard Brown:

quick timeout in the show and tell everyone to go get

Howard Brown:

screened. Right? Meaning saves lives. So right now it's it's

Howard Brown:

colorectal cancer awareness month. And so I wear blue, and

Howard Brown:

basically I go get screened, right? So for women, right, you

Howard Brown:

got to go get your mammography, your lady doctor, for men, it's

Howard Brown:

your prostate, everyone for colorectal cancer. I actually

Howard Brown:

say go to the dentist because we didn't do that through the

Howard Brown:

pandemic but if you go get screened, you know and keep on

Howard Brown:

top of your health, because you're not your best you you're

Howard Brown:

not your optimal self if you're not healthy and and you're not

Howard Brown:

feeling well. So please go do that. So that's a, just a

Howard Brown:

general message for everybody and all that. Take me through a

Howard Brown:

little more modern date. So now you're back together. And you

Howard Brown:

have two beautiful daughters one got married a little earlier.

Howard Brown:

And you have some grandsons.

Jeanette Deatherage:

So we do the amazing thing. You know, we

Jeanette Deatherage:

moved to Tallahassee after we got the first diagnosis, because

Jeanette Deatherage:

our daughter was going to law school there. And then when she

Jeanette Deatherage:

graduated, I had a few church friends. But other than that, we

Jeanette Deatherage:

didn't really know people and her other daughter was like, you

Jeanette Deatherage:

know, your grandson is here, you need to move down here. And we

Jeanette Deatherage:

literally live a mile from them, which are not, I mean, they just

Jeanette Deatherage:

love it. And we love it. Because we can be around the kids, we

Jeanette Deatherage:

have one, that's five, he's in kindergarten, and the other one

Jeanette Deatherage:

is one and a half. And boy, he's into a lot of things. But we get

Jeanette Deatherage:

to be there and watch these boys grow up. And it's just such a

Jeanette Deatherage:

joy. You really

Howard Brown:

just see how you lit up. Yeah, I mentioned the

Howard Brown:

grids. You just totally lit up and you're beaming. It's really

Howard Brown:

wonderful. So all right now, you know, it's really interesting.

Howard Brown:

You spent almost four decades with Mary Kay. So you started

Howard Brown:

out as a little bit of a sideline in the military, and

Howard Brown:

you're still with them. So for those that don't have as much

Howard Brown:

detail, and I don't, and maybe a lot of my audience seems to be

Howard Brown:

there to talk about, you know, Mary Kay, then when you join and

Howard Brown:

talk about Mary Kay now and what it's meant to your life?

Jeanette Deatherage:

Well, as I said, I joined while I was still

Jeanette Deatherage:

in the military, and it was just such a great opportunity to be

Jeanette Deatherage:

around women that I didn't have that. And I just played with it.

Jeanette Deatherage:

I didn't really take it. I was very well trained. And then one

Jeanette Deatherage:

of my mentors said, you know, don't you have any bills like

Jeanette Deatherage:

no, because we got a house that was, you know, at our level

Jeanette Deatherage:

instead of getting a fancy house and that kind of thing. So she

Jeanette Deatherage:

says you need a debt. So I'm on a Thunderbird, I don't think

Jeanette Deatherage:

that's a to mend. But I had to make the payments. And within

Jeanette Deatherage:

six months, I actually earned the use of a Mary Kay career

Jeanette Deatherage:

car, it's totally incorrect.

Jeanette Deatherage:

Got the Thunderbird. And, you know, we're just I grew up, we

Jeanette Deatherage:

never had new cars, we always had a used car that was in the

Jeanette Deatherage:

shop all the time. So if you have a car that's new, usually

Jeanette Deatherage:

are not getting repairs. So we did that for like 22 years, 11

Jeanette Deatherage:

cars, 22 years and diamond rings and the whole magical Cinderella

Jeanette Deatherage:

prizes. So but we move so many times. And sometimes people say

Jeanette Deatherage:

oh, I'll stay with you. Or I don't want you to ship it.

Jeanette Deatherage:

That's some pay off. Find somebody here. It's like, no. So

Jeanette Deatherage:

this last time, our last final move here. COVID had just

Jeanette Deatherage:

started our movers actually had to wear gloves and masks. So it

Jeanette Deatherage:

was that March where everything's kind of shut down.

Jeanette Deatherage:

And then with this cancer, we stayed isolated for three years,

Jeanette Deatherage:

which is very, very challenging, because I'm kind of an

Jeanette Deatherage:

introvert, but I'm also a social introvert. So I've got to have

Jeanette Deatherage:

that support from people. And because I'm finally getting out,

Jeanette Deatherage:

I do have a lot of good supportive friends. So it's

Jeanette Deatherage:

making a big difference.

Howard Brown:

So I want to tell you that, again, I stayed

Howard Brown:

isolated and wrote a book from cancer to COVID. So I get it.

Howard Brown:

But I want to tell you the thing that is intriguing to me, you

Howard Brown:

know, you're You're like an original entrepreneur. I mean,

Howard Brown:

when you're running your own business with Mary Kay, you're

Howard Brown:

cultivating the client, you're serving the client, you know,

Howard Brown:

you're prospecting for new clients. And you have to really

Howard Brown:

believe in the company and believe in the products and what

Howard Brown:

are the things that you're proudest about about Mary Kay?

Jeanette Deatherage:

Well, I actually, you know, met her,

Jeanette Deatherage:

which is really kind of fun, because her picture, actually,

Jeanette Deatherage:

my LinkedIn account has the picture of she and I together.

Jeanette Deatherage:

But her story, you know, she retired and then she went to

Jeanette Deatherage:

write a book. And instead of just having a book, she decided,

Jeanette Deatherage:

oh, my gosh, this is a plan for selling. So that's how she ended

Jeanette Deatherage:

up. You know, she wants to open her own company after being

Jeanette Deatherage:

retired. And it was for women to really bond and take care of

Jeanette Deatherage:

each other because back then, in the 1960s, women were not even

Jeanette Deatherage:

close to the man's dollar. And even now, we're still it could

Jeanette Deatherage:

be equal jobs, but men tend to make more than the women do. And

Jeanette Deatherage:

so with Mary Kay, you can decide how many how much you want to

Jeanette Deatherage:

work how many people you want to see in a week, you set your own

Jeanette Deatherage:

goals, and you can be wherever you want to be. Which is that's

Jeanette Deatherage:

really more to my heart. And remember, my parents were

Jeanette Deatherage:

entrepreneurs, they owned a farm they had 30 milking cows. So

Jeanette Deatherage:

that's what they did twice a day twice a day. So that kind of

Jeanette Deatherage:

gave me that um, that okay, I don't I need to work in when I

Jeanette Deatherage:

work I'm working when I'm not everything gets shut down and we

Jeanette Deatherage:

spend time together as a family.

Howard Brown:

And then I think what the famous things are

Howard Brown:

you've been to convention right? I mean, those are like amazing

Howard Brown:

get togethers or they annual or

Jeanette Deatherage:

they are annual now they shut they

Jeanette Deatherage:

cancelled it for like three years during Covid they wanted

Jeanette Deatherage:

so anyways, so I was able to go back and it was just so there's

Jeanette Deatherage:

like 7000 Women They're and there are male consultants. So

Jeanette Deatherage:

there's a smattering of you know, males there too. But

Jeanette Deatherage:

mostly it's a women's company. And it just so great because I'm

Jeanette Deatherage:

away. So I get to see, I don't get to see them every week, like

Jeanette Deatherage:

if I was still in Oklahoma, but that's really it's like a

Jeanette Deatherage:

reunion, you know, it's just like, it's like, and you can be

Jeanette Deatherage:

friends. If there's a Mary Kay badge and somebody, you're gonna

Jeanette Deatherage:

walk up to them and say, Hey, I'm with Mary Kay too, and

Jeanette Deatherage:

you're instantly friends, because we all have that same

Jeanette Deatherage:

background. And that makes it real. And it was the same way to

Jeanette Deatherage:

Air Force. You know, when you're wearing your blue, you know, oh,

Jeanette Deatherage:

he's military, you're going to go there. But that's why I

Jeanette Deatherage:

worked so well with Mary Kay, because we support each other.

Jeanette Deatherage:

And it's just so beautiful. Yeah.

Howard Brown:

So you've had a very interesting and fulfilling

Howard Brown:

life. It's thrown you a lot, some curveballs, you're

Howard Brown:

separated, you're together. And it's really thank you for

Howard Brown:

sharing this. It's really amazing. And I, you know, I've

Howard Brown:

just, I have a dear friend of mine, John, Robert white, we

Howard Brown:

call him Bobby. He was a Navy SEAL. And that's really the

Howard Brown:

closest exposure, John Kenneth draw was a sergeant in the Army,

Howard Brown:

and he deployed, Bobby's deployed a lot more as a seal as

Howard Brown:

a commander. He's retired, both are retired now. And both alive

Howard Brown:

and hopefully, you know, we're still doing well, these are my

Howard Brown:

high school friends. So that's about the closest taste of

Howard Brown:

military that I got. Except for I love watching a lot of movies,

Howard Brown:

war movies, and all that stuff, too. But thank you for sharing

Howard Brown:

that. It's really a very different perspective, coming

Howard Brown:

from the spouse who's also you know, within, in service as

Howard Brown:

well. So I don't know if I'm allowed to say this or not. But

Howard Brown:

I want to salute you, both you and Greg, for that, and it's

Howard Brown:

truly amazing. So we're at the time of the show, I'm going to

Howard Brown:

ask you to put on your sunglasses. We're going to join

Howard Brown:

that together. And this is the shining, brightly spotlight. So

Howard Brown:

all those are cool shades. So we're going to show everyone in

Howard Brown:

in studio picture, you look great with a pink background,

Howard Brown:

and share some inspiration, a story a quote, something that

Howard Brown:

you want to share about being shining brightly, and then hand

Howard Brown:

the show back to me for calls, but also tell people how to get

Howard Brown:

in touch with you.

Jeanette Deatherage:

Okay, well, my best place to reach me is

Jeanette Deatherage:

through my website, and it's Mary kay.com/jeanette. D. That's

Jeanette Deatherage:

why it's up there Jeanette de. It's best place to reach me it

Jeanette Deatherage:

has my phone number and everything else is there. And I

Jeanette Deatherage:

lost them wherever. So

Howard Brown:

the lot, it's okay. The last is is that I

Howard Brown:

always end the show with a little inspirational quote or

Howard Brown:

story or something you want to share. No

Jeanette Deatherage:

matter what, never give up.

Howard Brown:

Just never give up. Never

Jeanette Deatherage:

give up. Because you can let things in.

Jeanette Deatherage:

And you just have to realise, okay, that's, that's today,

Jeanette Deatherage:

tomorrow's a new day. Never give up.

Howard Brown:

A simple short, hard hitting, never give up. And

Howard Brown:

I actually say that as well. Because when you come from the

Howard Brown:

cancer world, you got to keep going. And we actually have a

Howard Brown:

little expression there. I'll keep it clean. It's called k f,

Howard Brown:

g, okay? And keep frigging going. You can replace the F

Howard Brown:

with anything you want. But keep that thing going. Because we

Howard Brown:

don't really have a choice. You have to and just like the

Howard Brown:

military, sometimes, you take your orders, and you gotta you

Howard Brown:

gotta execute. And I understand that as well. This, this has

Howard Brown:

been a fascinating show. I'm going to take my glasses off now

Howard Brown:

and close the show. And thank you. So this, this has been

Howard Brown:

amazing. And thank you. This has been great. Again, the shining,

Howard Brown:

brightly show is, is doing great. I want to thank you to

Howard Brown:

some of my sponsors, front edge publishing, my book publisher

Howard Brown:

read the spirit magazine, which I blog and almost every week it

Howard Brown:

goes out to over 50,000 people and amplify you my my podcast

Howard Brown:

production team. I just I need your help you and thank you I'm

Howard Brown:

grateful for you for that helped as far as getting in touch. The

Howard Brown:

show is always posted on Wednesday mornings on my

Howard Brown:

website, and on shining hydrogen, bright

Howard Brown:

brightly.captivate.fm which is the syndication of 24 channels,

Howard Brown:

as well. And on my website, you can learn about the shining

Howard Brown:

bright in the book, you can learn about my paid speaking and

Howard Brown:

my motivational speaking, as well as the podcast and my

Howard Brown:

advocacy and my advocacy. I focus on the folks in screening

Howard Brown:

and cancer treatment and survivorship. And I also do

Howard Brown:

entrepreneurship through Babson College and interfaith relations

Howard Brown:

through the American Jewish Committee and those are my

Howard Brown:

passions and if you follow your passions, so remember, if we

Howard Brown:

choose to shine brightly, choose to shine brightly for ourselves,

Howard Brown:

and then lift up others in our communities and in our

Howard Brown:

neighbourhoods. The world won't be a better place. Thanks,

Howard Brown:

Jeanette. What a great show. Thank you.

Jeanette Deatherage:

Thank you

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