Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - October 09, 2026


Why Gen Z Is Returning to Faith and Traditional Values ft. Nevaeh Souza

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00:00:27.920 i probably lost 50 of my audience that initial hit that was really discouraging because i was like
00:00:35.420 i don't know if that was worth it and after i kept talking about it that's when a whole new
00:00:41.040 wave of support came in well nevea thank you for joining the riley gain show this is so exciting
00:00:50.360 um i think you may be one of the youngest yet one of the most influential people we've had on this
00:00:56.340 show. So for those who don't know you, can you just give a little background on you and your
00:01:01.320 family and I think how you were raised and how you grew up? Yeah. So I'm Nevaeh. I am 20 years
00:01:06.820 old. I grew up on, well, my family moved us out to the middle of nowhere on a homestead and they
00:01:12.520 were kind of logging that experience. And I was homeschooled my whole life. So I've been graduated
00:01:17.360 for about three years now. And I think the homeschooled middle of nowhere upbringing
00:01:22.460 really, it gave me a very niche, niche outlook on things. And so I started doing, you know,
00:01:29.300 lifestyle type content, kind of showing our unconventional ways of living. And now I do
00:01:33.560 political and Christian content on my YouTube channels. Okay. You, you say they moved you
00:01:39.240 onto this homestead. What all did that entail? Like, are we talking farm and chickens and cows
00:01:47.040 and garden? Like, what are we talking on this homestead? It's a farm now, but it wasn't much
00:01:51.260 of a farm when we moved there it was 20 acres of flat field and we had a pole barn that we put all
00:01:57.200 of our stuff in it was like two trailers worth of stuff sold most of what we owned and they were
00:02:02.320 like well we'll build a house eventually but for now we are in a trailer and it it's just all been
00:02:07.520 from the ground up do you feel like being the oldest gives you like a like a developed sense
00:02:13.040 of responsibility i definitely think so i think older siblings in general have a very you know
00:02:19.420 you have a different type of personality you tend to be very outspoken and want to you know make
00:02:26.900 sure everyone's doing what they're supposed to do and yeah okay and you also mentioned you were
00:02:32.140 homeschooled yes um homeschooling has been on the rise i would say especially post-covid um being in
00:02:38.960 tennessee i mean just where i am i live in a a little northeast of nashville which is a pretty
00:02:43.580 rural part it feels like every family wants to homeschool their kids now um what sort of stigma
00:02:49.540 do you feel like kind of followed maybe you when you know you say you're homeschooled do you feel
00:02:54.700 like there's that same stigma now as opposed to maybe 10 years ago if you told people you people
00:02:59.500 you were homeschooled so i feel like 10 years ago when i was a kid the main concern with
00:03:04.780 homeschooled kids is that they were going to be socially inept or socially awkward and now so when
00:03:11.500 I talk about being homeschooled now that people can see me as an adult and see that like okay
00:03:15.920 you know you're doing all right socially the main issue that always gets brought up is but what are
00:03:20.840 you going to do now because they assume that you can't go to college you can't get a job you're
00:03:26.900 not going to have a high school diploma and that you're somehow like your parents have done you a
00:03:30.820 disadvantage by homeschooling you and that you're not going to be able to flourish career-wise or
00:03:35.640 anything like that and so I mean the main part of the stigma that I get a lot on Instagram and
00:03:43.320 things like that is you don't have a job and you didn't go to college and that's because I work on
00:03:48.480 the internet and I didn't go to college I kind of I took inspiration from a lot of like what Charlie
00:03:53.260 Kirk said about how you don't need to do that you know if you're not passionate about something that
00:03:57.900 requires a degree don't go into debt don't go into student loan debt and so that's a criticism I get
00:04:04.020 a lot now, but I have noticed that a lot of the people that are working online and are making a
00:04:09.420 living for themselves using the internet to their advantage have been homeschooled. That's a big
00:04:13.700 pattern I've seen at a lot of the events and stuff like that. And so I think when you're
00:04:17.680 homeschooled, it kind of takes you out of the ordinary system of graduate, go to college,
00:04:24.380 pick one of these jobs that your personality would most fit, and you kind of have to get
00:04:29.480 creative and so a way of my mom did that was one of my homeschool projects when I was in the eighth
00:04:35.360 grade or seventh grade actually was to start a business and so from that in seventh grade you're
00:04:40.960 like 13 years old right like you're so young okay sorry keep going so we started lazy locks and I
00:04:47.540 was making headbands and selling those and then a portion of the proceeds would go to cancer
00:04:52.760 survivors wow and that ended up going on for about four years it went international and so that taught
00:04:58.920 me so much about business and how to be an entrepreneur and i mean that's been a lesson
00:05:04.340 i've carried with me my entire life thus far of course so like you can really tailor lessons in
00:05:09.540 homeschool to the individual child and i think it it really does you a service i imagine even still
00:05:15.180 that was kind of like a scary decision not going to college it was and i think a big part of that
00:05:19.720 too was also you know everyone tells you that that's how you meet new people and that's how you
00:05:25.120 you know you branch out and you figure out where you want to be in life and the types of people
00:05:31.320 you want to associate with and that's how you gain so much experience going into adulthood
00:05:34.740 and without that they're like well you've been isolated you know you didn't branch out enough
00:05:39.960 and so a way that I've done that I call it kind of my little college is I like to travel to events
00:05:46.120 and I like to try to find cool experiences and stuff like this where you can go and have real
00:05:50.960 world in-person experiences with other people and different, you know, explore different career
00:05:56.820 avenues and things like that. So there's so many different ways that you can get that experience
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00:06:08.360 going to be isolated from all of those college age experiences because you didn't enroll in school.
00:06:13.500 When you think about, I guess, switching from the, you know, lifestyle content that ultimately
00:06:19.960 your family kind of created. And maybe that was what your first exposure to content creation
00:06:25.360 really was. You said you switched to more of like cultural commentary and political content.
00:06:32.060 What was that shift like? And why did you feel like it was a necessary shift to make again,
00:06:35.800 especially being so young? I think it's, you know, when you automatically and publicly label
00:06:42.720 yourself as a conservative for the viewpoints that I know you have, it can be scary. We see
00:06:49.500 mean comments online of course false headlines pressure campaigns uh death threats and we've
00:06:55.640 seen with charlie kirk how these death threats have the ability ability to manifest into reality
00:07:00.040 what was you know some of the things that went into making that decision for you
00:07:03.680 i think a lot of those reasons you just listed the pushback was the reason that i was like okay if i
00:07:11.220 have a platform i want to speak out about my values because i mean gen z is in a very unique
00:07:16.620 polarized environment when it comes to sharing our beliefs and our values the other generations
00:07:21.540 before us they didn't grow up with constant feedback from the internet and we live in fear
00:07:27.140 of if i share my faith or my political stance or my convictions i'm going to be labeled i have to
00:07:33.500 deal with cancel culture i there's this internet history where people can use that against you and
00:07:39.920 jobs and things like that and so i looked at all of that and i was like i've had enough and i think
00:07:46.980 a lot of gen z has had enough which has kind of sparked this revival in gen z to be outspoken
00:07:51.620 and to want to conserve values because it kind of became the rebellious thing for our generation
00:07:57.300 because before the rebellion in the youth was always progressive you know change and improvement
00:08:03.360 But now it's gotten so far that to conserve good values has become the rebellion.
00:08:10.740 And so I was so disturbed by my own fear when it came to my platforms with speaking up on my faith and things like that.
00:08:20.000 I didn't like that I thought about how I was going to be labeled and the criticism I was going to get if I was open about my beliefs and values.
00:08:27.780 And so to me, that was my main reason to go, you know what, if I have a platform, I should be not only defending my values, but doing something that will honor God in the process.
00:08:39.880 Because if you're not doing that, what really is it all for?
00:08:45.020 And what's been the response since?
00:08:47.260 Has it been kind of what you initially thought or maybe some of those internal fears you had?
00:08:52.240 um does that feel representative of of what has been like I guess reality in your lived experience
00:08:58.840 now so I actually got a lot of pushback at first when I first started talking about my beliefs
00:09:05.300 which like what year was this this is probably just last year I really started getting into it
00:09:10.120 and I probably lost 50 of my audience wow which is what they say is going to happen they're like
00:09:15.080 you're gonna you know only appeal to half the population therefore you're going to struggle
00:09:19.820 online and after that initial hit that was really discouraging because i was like i don't know if
00:09:27.740 that was worth it and after i kept talking about it and i kind of preyed on it and i was gaining
00:09:34.560 some confidence in speaking about my convictions that's when a whole new wave of support came in
00:09:40.660 especially from a lot of young girls which was really cool to see because like i like to talk
00:09:45.800 a lot about the pro-life issue that's one that's really personal to me and that I'm very passionate
00:09:49.960 about and seeing so many young girls write and say I never actually considered the moral weight
00:09:56.400 of abortion before or I never really had the courage to speak about something like that before
00:10:02.360 because no one I know at school no one in my friend group is pro-life and they would say I
00:10:07.460 was a woman hater and they would shame me if I said anything like this gives me courage knowing
00:10:12.540 that there's other young girls that actually think what i think and want to value the life of the
00:10:17.440 unborn and so that further gave me motivation to keep talking about this because gen z we're very
00:10:25.020 fed up and the cancel culture got so bad and the labeling and shaming got so bad that we need
00:10:31.560 good representation on the internet because the internet is just so it's so full of bad
00:10:37.340 you talk about the issue of life being personal to you um i want you to be able to expand on that
00:10:42.220 and talk about this book that we have here.
00:10:45.300 Margo and I have one at our house
00:10:46.580 and we read it all of the time.
00:10:48.600 So talk about this and talk about why the issue
00:10:50.680 of life is personal.
00:10:53.260 Yeah, so this is Tiny Human.
00:10:55.680 We wanted to make, my mom and I,
00:10:57.280 wanted to make a very age-appropriate,
00:10:59.940 really soft fantasy-like book
00:11:01.720 to kind of, to instill in children
00:11:04.080 the value of the unborn
00:11:05.280 because people ask about, you know,
00:11:08.400 how do I bring the topic of abortion up to my kids
00:11:11.360 because it's a very sensitive topic obviously and yeah and it's something that kids don't really
00:11:16.320 understand and you don't it's hard to understand the need to really talk to kids about that but
00:11:20.940 the left has done such a good job pushing lies and the progressive narrative on young children
00:11:29.100 through children's books and media and tv and that not only they not only try to create this
00:11:37.540 disconnect in young kids between the value of human life but just a general disconnect with
00:11:42.360 objective truth and objective morality this book was very controversial when we asked a couple
00:11:48.080 pastors to carry it in church and stuff like that but if you go to a barnes and noble you're going
00:11:52.100 to see 50 books about how little kids can be a girl one day and a boy the next and so there's
00:11:57.540 such an attack on the minds of the youth and so we wanted a very like age-appropriate soft book
00:12:03.760 that could counter those lies and a kid's never too young to understand that they were them from
00:12:10.800 the moment they were created and that they were created with a purpose and meaning and their life
00:12:16.180 has a measurable value and every human life has a measurable value no matter how small
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00:12:26.440 because abortion has been a very uh it's been a very personal issue for my mom and i so she was
00:12:34.260 really young fresh out of college unmarried and she found out she was pregnant with me
00:12:39.820 and my mother was never abortion minded but she came from a very christian conservative family and
00:12:47.740 she talks about the fear she felt when she found out naturally she was pregnant and she was like
00:12:53.340 I have to tell my grandparents and my parents and everyone's going to be so disappointed in me.
00:12:58.280 And she understood in that moment, the fear and the mindset you're in that makes girls go,
00:13:04.700 I need this to go away and I'm not going to have support. And so luckily one third of Gen Z has
00:13:12.000 been aborted, but my mother chose life. It's just horrifying. I actually just saw a Jubilee style
00:13:20.120 debate that you were involved in. It was 20 pro-lifers and one, what word would you use to
00:13:27.040 describe it? Pro-choicer. Pro-choicer. For abortion. Remind me her name again. Naima. Okay. I saw this
00:13:34.320 amazing video that surfaced online following this debate where Naima said, you know, I guess she was
00:13:40.000 going through a hard time where she was moving and you all as the 20 pro-lifers got together and
00:13:45.640 got some funds uh to ultimately present to her and she talks about how moved she was by this
00:13:51.820 and how you know maybe they you guys disagree on on policy issues and and moral issues um but
00:13:58.720 nonetheless i think she saw a different side to to you guys as human beings um how was this debate
00:14:06.640 how do you prepare for something like that it's got to be pretty nerve-wracking going into
00:14:10.680 what you have to imagine is going to be kind of a hostile environment how do you prepare for
00:14:16.100 something like that so i was mainly focused on trying to create because obviously i'm a christian
00:14:21.840 and so my morals stem from my biblical backing and my christian upbringing but naima isn't and
00:14:29.440 a lot of young girls who are getting abortions who could be watching are not christians and i wanted
00:14:35.100 to make sure that i made my point when it came to abortion very secularly to them so that it made
00:14:40.360 sense also from a scientific standpoint and so i was like this is my first debate i was nose down
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00:16:21.360 We saw Naima post a video actually on the anniversary of Charlie's assassination.
00:16:28.500 um i would describe this video as is very grim very insensitive to the the deprived depravity of
00:16:37.700 of what we saw witness when charlie was assassinated um it was kind of like a transition
00:16:42.340 video where she's standing there and it's to the audio of of charlie speaking there's a gunshot and
00:16:47.460 then she transitions into a different pair of clothes and she's done up her hair and makeup
00:16:52.580 um how did you interpret that because on one hand we just saw her make a video talking about how you
00:16:59.080 know um it was very light and saying you know we can disagree but at the end of the day they're
00:17:03.960 a human i'm a human maybe we agree on more than we initially realized but then she does something
00:17:09.420 like that how did you interpret it i mean initially i was really really disappointed
00:17:15.260 because there was such a huge wave of positivity a positivity that came from that debate i saw the
00:17:20.920 comment sections on her reel from people on the right and people on the left talking about how
00:17:25.060 they just loved seeing women talking to women and it was so wholesome and she had a lot of people
00:17:31.540 jump on her page that were from the pro-life side and I know Lila Rose kind of made a reaction to
00:17:37.640 what she did and a lot of people came over from live action and were supporting her and I almost
00:17:43.000 think because of some of the depravity that comes out of people who watch you know very leftist
00:17:50.260 content on the internet and people who do mock the assassination of charlie kirk she was getting
00:17:55.060 some really harsh comments from people on the left people in her own audience saying that
00:18:00.300 you know all someone has to do is give you money and you're gonna do a whole right-wing shift even
00:18:05.500 though that wasn't what was happening and i kind of interpreted it as her trying to kind of win
00:18:11.920 over her audience a little bit but i mean either way it was a really really disappointing reel
00:18:17.760 and coming off of the reel she made after our debate talking about it had such a great positive
00:18:22.760 message she was talking about how you know not everyone who disagrees with you is out to get you
00:18:26.600 and we don't have to dehumanize people or hate people just because we have different beliefs
00:18:32.100 and ideologies and so to celebrate the assassination of someone who quite literally
00:18:37.800 only had different beliefs than you to me was just really really dark and and they had personal
00:18:45.940 interactions before charlie and her which makes it really it makes it worse yeah it does going
00:18:52.520 back to the issue of of being pro-life we saw recently where massachusetts just became the
00:18:58.960 10th state to remove gestational age limits on abortion for those who who maybe don't follow
00:19:06.460 follow abortion policy closely can you explain what this means and i guess what your reaction
00:19:12.080 was when you learned about this yeah so massachusetts is basically allowing loopholes
00:19:18.460 to terminate at nine months even at any point in the pregnancy a lot of the vague language and
00:19:25.500 actually i'm from idaho and we are actively fighting prop one in idaho right now which
00:19:30.360 would allow pretty much the same thing it says that you can make exceptions very late term for
00:19:36.100 anything health related or if the baby is past viability but would need extensive medical
00:19:44.740 intervention which i mean even most preemies yeah i was gonna say they probably don't define
00:19:50.360 extensive well yes i mean if a baby is born premature and their lungs are weak and they
00:19:56.420 need help breathing that would be extensive medical intervention and so they basically
00:20:01.360 open the door in these states to be able to abort at any time within the pregnancy for any reason
00:20:08.600 really i mean you can say i'm depressed all of a sudden and i'm having really severe pregnancy
00:20:15.400 symptoms i need to abort at nine months and a provider could do that legally and they use very
00:20:21.700 vague verbiage on purpose because if you say abortion up to nine months people freak out
00:20:27.160 But if you say abortion up to nine months for this, this, and this, that opens the door for anyone to be able to do that, but it doesn't sound as bad, then all of these things get passed.
00:20:37.980 And, I mean, Idaho has been a very consistent pro-life state, which is one of the things I love most about where I live.
00:20:45.900 And to see the local support for Prop 1 has been really, really disappointing.
00:20:52.560 And so I see I see a lot of people going out of the crisis pregnancy centers in our town and in our area trying to prevent that from happening.
00:21:00.380 So we don't end up like Massachusetts. But I genuinely think it's going to pass, which is really sad.
00:21:07.420 And it just shows the level to which women have been really misled and lied to, because what I'm hearing from local women is, well,
00:21:15.220 I might even be pro-life myself, but I'm going to vote yes for this because it's going to also
00:21:21.320 protect miscarriage management and it's going to protect DNCs and it's going to make it to where
00:21:27.680 if my baby dies, I don't have to carry around a dead baby for nine months like the pro-lifers
00:21:31.860 want me to do. None of this is the case. They're saying that if this doesn't pass and a woman has
00:21:37.840 a miscarriage, they can claim she had an abortion, put her in prison. They leave out the fact that
00:21:42.660 there isn't a single pro-life piece of legislation in the country that doesn't have it explicitly
00:21:47.760 written into law, that none of that would ever happen. Those are all protected. Miscarriage
00:21:52.680 management is protected. DNC is protected. And so they make women so fearful of pro-life
00:21:58.940 legislation that even if they disagree with abortion, they're going to vote these things
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00:24:12.260 So what do you think conservatives could do a better job of messaging on?
00:24:17.040 I think especially leading into the midterms.
00:24:20.020 Abortion has historically been one of those issues that women in particular,
00:24:24.360 it's like a you know we have a lot of women who that's the the one issue where they will vote
00:24:30.120 on so how can conservatives do a better job in messaging these things well i think the strategy
00:24:37.400 right now is to usually be more lax like if we want the the female vote we need to be more lax
00:24:44.280 on our pro-life viewpoints i as a pro-lifer who thinks that's you know abortion is the greatest
00:24:49.600 human rights issue of our time very much disagree with that i think the main issue is more so we
00:24:55.620 need to debunk the lies and the propaganda that are being spread by the left and by the abortion
00:25:01.440 industry again so many women will vote in favor of abortion just because they're so fearful of
00:25:08.280 what pro-life legislation will do that doesn't involve abortion and all of that's non-factual
00:25:13.380 And that was something we went over in our debate, too.
00:25:16.280 Naima was listing quite a few cases where a woman was put in prison or charged because she had a miscarriage.
00:25:24.500 And so when we were just listening to that, that obviously sounds really, really terrifying.
00:25:29.060 That sounds like pro-life legislation is going to hurt women.
00:25:32.900 So what choice do you have as a woman but to vote in favor of abortion or to vote left-leaning?
00:25:39.120 and every single one of those cases was a completely different crime unrelated to abortion
00:25:44.600 but they will never tell you that and there's just so much misinformation being put out
00:25:51.000 by the left specifically concerning that topic because again it is the one issue
00:25:55.760 that pretty much determines the female vote and i think we need to do a better job at debunking
00:26:02.120 those claims and explaining the pro-life legislation versus the pro-abortion legislation
00:26:07.480 better to women and making sure women are better informed on what the realities of abortion are
00:26:12.340 and what the realities of a pregnancy are and kind of holding the abortion industry more accountable
00:26:18.960 than we do for what they've done to the minds of women because I mean as a gen z woman I have a
00:26:24.220 very large issue with the way the abortion industry has lied to us because for them to campaign on we
00:26:32.760 want female empowerment and we care about women being informed no they don't they completely keep
00:26:39.080 us in the dark about the realities of a pregnancy they show us a picture of an amniotic sack that's
00:26:43.520 empty and tell us that's the contents of a pregnancy and it doesn't resemble a baby
00:26:46.640 most women have never had an ultrasound or heard an heartbeat before they have an abortion which
00:26:53.160 is a life-changing moment when you hear your baby's heartbeat for the first time even as someone
00:26:57.300 who's always been pro-life i'll never forget hearing that heartbeat for the first time and
00:27:01.880 you realize like i don't know that baby's heart beats just like mine does and just like yours
00:27:07.580 does and i think it made it really real for my husband too because at this point i was going
00:27:11.680 through the hormonal shifts and and i could feel the changes happening to me physically but my
00:27:16.080 husband couldn't really yet of course or nor would he ever um but when he heard the heartbeat for the
00:27:21.820 first time it's like holy moly this is really really real so you're right that first ultrasound
00:27:26.720 And the first time you hear your baby's heartbeat, it makes it really, really real.
00:27:32.460 And to your point, I saw an article this morning that says leading physician confirms unborn children feel excruciating pain during abortions.
00:27:40.220 Women aren't told that by Planned Parenthood when they go in for for this procedure, which, by the way, in California, it's like illegal to to declaw a cat because it's considered inhumane and causes chronic pain.
00:27:53.480 And yet in that same state, I guess they will still let doctors dismember a baby.
00:27:58.180 And I saw one more article this past week that said, baby born alive at 23 weeks was gasping for air.
00:28:05.400 Abortion clinic put baby in a bag and threw her in the trash.
00:28:09.220 I think these are the things that Republicans could message on because, again, it's happening.
00:28:14.600 It's real.
00:28:15.740 And ultimately, to your point, that women need to be informed on.
00:28:19.240 Do you feel hopeful about the future of Gen Z? I think there's a lot of cynicism when it comes to Gen Z. And we're often told like, oh, it's Gen Z that's going to ruin this country. We're told this by the worst generation.
00:28:31.520 Yeah, right. We've told this even, I think, largely by conservatives online, like disgruntled
00:28:36.960 Republican, lifelong Republicans who think that all of Gen Z is ultimately going to destroy this
00:28:44.300 nation. Do you feel hopeful about our generation and what we can provide? And if we have the
00:28:50.780 ability to save America? I do. And that's because, again, we've grown up in such a polarized
00:28:58.100 environment. We've dealt with all of this pushback. We've dealt with all of the progressive culture
00:29:03.240 and the internet. And what would be more appealing to Gen Z than to conserve? We want the American
00:29:09.960 dream. And we feel like, especially with things like AI that we're now dealing with, it's being
00:29:14.060 threatened. We don't know if we're going to be able to afford a home. We don't know if we're
00:29:18.960 going to be able to find a biblical spouse and have kids. We don't know if we're going to be able
00:29:23.140 to homeschool if we want to homeschool we don't know if we're going to be able to be openly
00:29:28.240 conservative without being you know becoming the uk where you can be punished for your viewpoints
00:29:33.760 and i think gen z now has such a desire to conserve those really important values that
00:29:42.200 those of us who are christian and those of us who are conservative are some of the most passionate
00:29:47.280 people in the entire movement. I think Gen Z Christian conservatives have so much conviction
00:29:53.980 and passion, even compared to some of the millennials. I was just having this debate
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00:31:00.780 one conversation um where can people find this book uh and where can people follow you and
00:31:08.140 right side up and everything you have going on yeah so you can follow me on my vlog channel at
00:31:12.120 Nevaeh Sousa on YouTube. And then Right Side Up with Nevaeh Sousa on YouTube. And then Tiny Human,
00:31:18.040 it's officially releasing October 10th, but it's available for pre-order on tinyhumanbook.com.
00:31:23.520 I love that. And you guys partnered with Brave Books, which-
00:31:26.040 We did.
00:31:26.700 They're the best. I always describe Brave Books as like an alternative to Scholastic.
00:31:32.480 Scholastic, which is, you know, I think of the book fairs that I went to in elementary school
00:31:37.320 and middle school. And you went and you played with like all the toys and the fun things, but
00:31:41.200 it has become so incredibly woke and this is what's in public schools brave books is a fantastic
00:31:47.800 alternative to that that teaches the kids things like uh i mean the fruit of the spirits i mean
00:31:53.260 like patience kindness joy obviously the the value of life um so i would highly recommend everyone
00:32:00.520 check out brave books um and check out tiny human margo loves this book and look at how cute the
00:32:05.560 little stuffy is down here he's got a heartbeat so when these women we have the option on the
00:32:11.180 site where you can donate a book and a plush to a woman choosing life and these are going in to
00:32:16.760 save the storks mobile ultrasound units and they're save the storks it's like boots on the
00:32:20.860 ground helping women choose life because that's ultimately the mission and they will be given
00:32:25.340 these lambs it will be the first gift for these babies and it's a tangible reminder of the humanity
00:32:30.840 of these babies and so it's got a little heartbeat that's so good that's so sweet well thank you
00:32:36.620 Nevea for coming on. I just appreciate you and I'm inspired by you. I'm inspired by you. You're
00:32:41.680 like my internet big sister. I was telling brave books. I'm like so honored by that. There's less
00:32:47.400 of an age gap between me and you than you and your youngest sibling. So we are, we're sisters.
00:32:52.120 Thank you.
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