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Dirt, Fire, and Determination with Angelique Bell
Passion burns brightest when tested by fire—both figurative and literal—as sprint car driver Angelique Bell reveals in this powerful conversation about perseverance in motorsports.
From the moment 12-year-old Angelique first sat in a quarter midget race car, she was hooked. Now at 31, this Sacramento-based IT professional has built a remarkable racing career piloting 410 sprint cars on dirt tracks throughout California, Oregon, and Washington in the NARC King of the West series. Her journey stands as testament to overcoming barriers that would have stopped many others.
As one of the few women—and even fewer people of color—in sprint car racing, Angelique faced discrimination from competitors, crews, and even other women in the racing community. "When I went from outlaw carts to sprint cars at 17, there were things about my race, things about my gender that were really difficult," she shares candidly. Yet these challenges only strengthened her resolve, ultimately leading to championship victories at Silver Dollar Speedway and Petaluma Speedway.
Perhaps most remarkably, Angelique returned to racing after surviving a terrifying fire at Southern Oregon Speedway that left her with internal burns affecting her voice. Her pink tail tank has become a beacon for young girls at the track, where she delights in discussing their dreams—much as fellow female racer Shauna Hogue once mentored her.
Racing with her father as crew chief and honoring her late cousin with car number 551, Angelique embodies the spirit of grassroots racing: competing with one car and one motor against better-funded teams, driven by pure love for the sport. "I can't explain the feeling of hitting the gas in a 410...it feels like an airplane taking off and everything's shaking. It's the best feeling in the world."
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Welcome to the Women's Motorsports Network podcast, the show that puts the spotlight on the incredible women who fuel the world of motorsports, from drivers to crew members, engineers to fans and everyone in between. We're here to celebrate the trailblazers, dreamers and doers shaping the sport we love. Each episode we share inspiring stories of females of all ages, from every corner of the motorsports universe, past, present and future. It's a journey through the seasons of life filled with heartfelt moments, laughter and a whole lot of horsepower. So, whether you're a lifelong fan, a racer yourself or simply curious about the extraordinary women behind the wheel, settle in, relax and enjoy a fun and uplifting ride with us.
Speaker 1:This is the Women's Motorsports Network podcast, connecting and celebrating women in motorsports. One story at a time. Let's hit the track. Hello everyone, this is Melinda Russell, with the Women's Motorsports Network podcast, and my guest today is Angelique Bell. And Angelique, I know it's warm where you are. It's also warm where I am here in Kalamazoo. We've been having some extreme heat for our part of the country and humidity, and so it's summertime, but we are in the race season, which you and I both love for sure. So I want to first welcome you to the show and would you share a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me on. So I live in Sacramento, california. It's pretty warm out here, for sure. I work in IT at a hospital and I really like doing that work. I have a dog who I just love. His name's Teddy. He's a little multi-boo, he's adorable. And then I have two sisters I'm the oldest, so two younger sisters. And yeah, just a little bit about me.
Speaker 1:So do. Are you originally from California? Yes, ok, so your sister still live close, close there and your family is close by? Yes, oh, that's nice. That's that's nice that you're all there, and don't we just love our little dogs? I have a little dog as well, and his name is Crew, like Pit Crew, and I don't know what we did before we got that little dog. We just love him to pieces.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So, angelique, tell me you know what's a pretty girl like you doing in motorsports? How did you get started?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got started because my cousin raced motocross and I wanted to race with him and my dad was like, absolutely not, you need at least a roll cage on there. So we ended up going out to a quarter midget track that my dad had been to when he was a kid and he's like I don't even know if it's still here Like we could just drive by and see. And when we went out there we happened to, um, that there was a family practicing. So when we went and talked to them they told us about like training days where you can, you know, try out, you know, in like the club car and you know there's like a trainer on the back with you and all that stuff. So we gave that a try and I fell in love and that was it.
Speaker 1:Didn't take long, did it.
Speaker 2:No, no. First time.
Speaker 1:How old did you say you were?
Speaker 2:I was 12 when I started.
Speaker 1:Well, okay, all right, and can I ask how old are you say you were I was 12 when I started. Well, okay, all right. And can I ask how old are you now?
Speaker 2:I'm old for a race car driver? No, you're not.
Speaker 1:You're 21? 31. 31. You're 31. No, that is not. Oh honey, that's not old. I interview women that are way older than you and some of them don't even start racing until they're maybe their kids are grown it. It's funny how women kind of put themselves on the back burner sometimes because they raise their children in that and they, they watch their friends or their husbands or different people race and they always have that little itch to do it, but they don't. And then you know, when they're 50 or older, they're like I'm going to try it and and I just love that. So you are not old to be racing, that's for sure. So tell me now, where do you race and what do you race?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so. I race sprint cars on dirt. I race their 410s. It was always my dream to run with the World of Outlaws like frustrating, difficult, you know, painful thing. But I'm really happy I'm doing it and it's still like me and my dad. You know we've done, we've raced together. You know my whole career. So I love working on the car with him, spending time with him, that as well.
Speaker 1:So so your dad's a racer as well he never raced um.
Speaker 2:Oh, he never raced okay but he um, he's my crew chief so okay, all right. So are you the first one in your family to actually race yeah, so my cousin uh raced motoc, so we kind of like ended up racing at the same time. But like as far as like my family of five, yes, Okay, so what do your sisters think about you racing?
Speaker 1:They love it.
Speaker 2:So they're, they do really cool things as well. So I have one sister who's a semi-pro wrestler and my other sister's a singer in a band. So we all kind of have really cool things that we love and we're very supportive of each other that's a very wide range of occupations for three sisters.
Speaker 1:Yeah, isn't it? Yeah, and so your sister's a semi-pro wrestler. Is she ever on television, or is it just in california or?
Speaker 1:um, they televise their things on youtube, I think really yeah well, that's very around to wrestle and stuff as well okay, yeah, and that's um, I mean it's kind of is that kind of like being a race car driver? That's not really like what you make your money at, because I know you said you work in IT, or is that what she does more of a career, as far as that's what she does for a living.
Speaker 2:No it's kind of the same, where she has another job as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I figured, well, that's so fun and so, um, you can go to the bar on the weekend, or you can go to the wrestling, or they can come and watch you race. You've got lots of options, yeah, yeah. So what are your parents? How did how you know your dad's involved? How's your mom? How's your mom, um, handle having her daughter be a race car driver?
Speaker 2:She really likes it. She said her favorite part of the night is on the starts, so she's into it yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good. And where do you normally go to race? Do you travel?
Speaker 2:around, or do you have a home track With this division that we're running now? We travel around a lot.
Speaker 1:Okay, and is that a?
Speaker 2:series that you're traveling with. Yeah, so we're running the the narc king of the west series. Okay, california, and then it travels from california or it goes up to oregon and washington as well so, okay, those are probably beautiful and a little bit cooler areas to be able to race in yeah.
Speaker 1:That sounds like a beautiful you know series places to go to race for sure. Instead of you know, I talked to people in Texas and Florida and even here in Michigan it's pretty hot at times, and so, yeah, that sounds like a lot of fun. So are there other women that race with you? Is there a number of women or not very many Not very many.
Speaker 2:We have one other woman. She's a rookie this year, who's racing, who I've gotten to know a little bit and so you know it's really cool to see people you know at the beginning of their careers and just careers and just all the places that they can go and everything.
Speaker 1:Has she looked to you as a mentor and asked for advice and things from you?
Speaker 2:No, not really. We're still kind of building that friendship.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right, because it is different for women. You know when they, especially when they get started, you know sometimes the guys think they can push them around and and they push them around to see how much they're going to take, and so sometimes they lean on those women who've been in it before to kind of pave the way. I guess you could say. So what kind of challenges did you face when you went from? You know you raced quarter midgets, I assume, for a while, and then when you got in the sprint car, what would you say was your biggest learning curve or challenge?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we went from quarter midgets, we did outlaw carts for a year and then we went to a wingless sprint car and I ran that for 10 years before we got into the NART 410 series. And so when I went from the outlaw carts to the sprint cards, I was 17 and there was just I was one of the only women out there and I'm also mixed, so I'm half black things about my race, things about my gender that were really difficult to deal with because I was also just really young, you know, and learning about that for myself, just, you know, outside of racing, right.
Speaker 1:So it was really tough when I started, like really tough, and was it from the other drivers or, like the crew, the people that came to watch, or just kind of a little bit of everything? It was all of it.
Speaker 2:It was a driver's crew. It was like people's moms and sisters and girlfriends and you know all kinds of stuff. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:That is just so heartbreaking Because, first of all, I would have never known that from you, know, looking at you, talking to you, so that wouldn't have been something that I would have even thought of at first, and then you would have thought that the women would have been more supportive instead of not as supportive.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. And and so you've really, you've really had to, you know open the trail for the women behind you, no matter what color they are or how old they are or how experienced they are, because you had all of that against you at the time and you just kept pursuing what you loved, and I admire you for that. I think that's something you should be very proud of yourself for thanks, yeah, yeah, I really am and it you know it really just, you know, taught me to persevere.
Speaker 2:And then, when we did have some success, it just felt so much, you know, like even better than just the success, right, it's like right, we made it through all these hurdles and we're still here and we're successful and you know, it's definitely a really good feeling.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely so. Oh gosh, I'm just thinking about that and some of the things you must have gone through, and it's just so sad that people have to be that way. What happened to the phrase be kind? You know, be kind to everybody. So would you have any advice for younger girls getting started? So, would you have any advice for younger girls getting started? Um, because you've really had to overcome some big challenges. What are some things you would tell a younger girl who was getting started? And maybe quarter midgets or any any series of racing?
Speaker 2:yeah, I mean, I think I would tell him that you, you really have to be mentally tough and and try not to let um things get to you. Um, I would also say don't read into social media. I got off social media for a long time and you know. Another thing is just stay true to who you are and and yeah, you know, work hard and you got this, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't let people try to change, change you into somebody that you're not, because that'll never work in the long run, for sure. So what? What has been your proudest moment so far? Was it a win that you had? Or you know, you had a really tough race and you came out on top any anything like that? Yeah, I've got um.
Speaker 2:Three moments that I'm um, three moments that I'm super proud of um. I won the championship um in 2016 at silver dollar speedway in the non-wing car and I was the first women to um win a championship in that division. So that was really exciting and that night it was like I ended up winning by one point.
Speaker 2:So every like, every moment, every race mattered and it was like a lot of pressure, but it just was really really special yeah, I guess so yeah and then, um, I got my first win at Petaluma Speedway and that was just really exciting and I ended up beating one of my really good friends and so we you know we talk about that and it was just a really special moment. And then I also won a track championship at Petaluma Speedway.
Speaker 1:And that was really special. So, yeah, that is amazing. So that shuts people up, doesn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. Luckily I'm at a place now where you know I have enough friends and enough people that that I care about and I care about me. I don't really have to deal with any of the nonsense anymore. You know, it happens occasionally, but not not as much. Much as when I first started and I didn't really know anybody, right.
Speaker 1:And I was also, because now they know you for who you are, not for what they thought you were. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's, that's great. So what? What are your goals for your racing? I know you know you said World of Outlaws. That's so hard, it's you know. You just look at even Tony Stewart and Donnie Schatz just parted ways after 18 years. There's just no, there's no guarantees, and it's just so hard. But what are your goals? What do you hope to do in five or 10 years? Do you still want to be racing? Are you having fun?
Speaker 2:yeah, so my goals, um. So moving up to the, the narc series, um has been quite a learning curve, and we are, you know, we're running in the back, we're getting better, but we still have quite a ways to go to, you know be, successful.
Speaker 2:So, for me, I'm looking at success as like a top 10. I'm just like that's my next goal, right, I just need to get a top 10. Um, as far as um, as, as far as, like worlds of outlaws I'm not, I'm not going to be on the outlaws or anything, but like just the fact that I'm running those type of cars and, you know, maybe we'll run with them once they come to town. Like for me, that's like me living my dream. You know, I'm, I'm good, I'm happy, that was, you know, that, was it? So, um, that's kind of where we're at right now. We're really, really underfunded. Um, you know, we have one car, one motor and we're running against guys that have, you know, three motors and four cars in their trailer. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2:We're kind of a tiny budget and tiny team, but we're trying to make it work and go up against, you know, go up against those guys.
Speaker 1:Well, and you know what, Angelique, you are not in the minority, you are probably in the majority. I mean, when you go to the track, yeah, you see all those guys with three or four cars and all the extras and whatever and um, but there's a lot of people all around the country who are low budget teams and are racing because they love it and they're not going to let that stop them. They do what they can do, the best that they can do, and as long as it's still fun and you're still enjoying it, then that's really what matters. You know, I I like to say winning that trophy, those championships, that's a big deal, but if you never win another one and you're still enjoying what you're doing and you're having fun on the weekend with people that have become family, that's a win right there and that's maybe a bigger win than the trophy. And so as long as you can keep doing that, then nobody can take that away from you ever. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean it is, my problem is I'm too competitive. You know, I still want to win.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I get it. Well, everybody wants to win, don't get me wrong. But in the reality of things, more people lose than win, and so you know you can't be really heartbroken over that necessarily, or you wouldn't be racing, because that's just the way the sport is. You, you lose more than you win. But there's so many other things that we can take away from racing that we are winners at that maybe aren't on the track. That that's what we have to remember is, you know there's there's a lot of good about being involved in the motor sports um industry, for sure, for sure. So do you race pretty much every weekend Like what's your race season look like?
Speaker 2:I wish we don't. Um, we don't have the money for that. We race, we try to race about 20 times a year. Yeah, this year we've raced, I think, eight races. Um, we've had the motor, we've had motor issues twice where we had to take it out and send it to ohio, so we kind of had to wait, you know, to get our motor back and everything kind of slowed down our season. But yeah, we're going to get the motor back pretty soon, right now. So hopefully we can, you know, hopefully we worked out all the bugs, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Well and hopefully finish out the season. When does your season end in California?
Speaker 2:Our season usually ends like November 2nd.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:But we're going to. I think our season's going to end a little earlier.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right, that's quite a long, that's, you know, about a month or a little more longer than here in Michigan, because it'll start to get cold, or sometimes it does, you never know for sure. So what is a weekend, a race weekend, look like for you? Do you have, you know, any superstitions or anything that you always do before you, you know, race or go out on the track? You know, how do you, how do you kind of prepare for your, for mentally, physically, all those things, to go out on the race trackack on a weekend? What's it look like for you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I'm very superstitious and my dad likes to mess with me, so he'll say something, you know, oh yeah, we're gonna do well this weekend or something. And so then I've got to like go find wood to knock on. Also, as far as, like you know, know, prepping mentally, I usually will meditate before, like the, the morning before, just to kind of like clear my head and, you know, get ready. Um, I also work out with a personal trainer twice a week, um to get like my physical you know physical part ready.
Speaker 1:And yeah, and how far do you like if you go to Oregon? You said you went to Washington and Oregon or right there in California. Sometimes you have to travel a little ways.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, luckily, most of our races are in California, so it's, you know, traveling here we do like a week long, like travel throughout Oregon and Washington. So we did that this year where it was. You know, we race every night and go to different tracks every night and, yeah, it was, it was really cool, it was really fun for sure. And yeah, it was really cool, it was really fun, for sure.
Speaker 1:That sounds like a lot of fun, and are most of the same people at all those races? I mean, every race probably has a few different ones, but is it mostly the same people?
Speaker 2:that you race against every night. Yeah, it's mostly the same group yeah. That makes you get closer as far as friendships and that, for sure when you're doing that, yeah, yeah, that makes you get closer as far as friendships, and that, for sure when you're doing that, yeah, yeah, this season. So I got hurt last season, I was in a fire and I got to go back this season.
Speaker 1:I got to go back to the track where I was hurt at and you know I finished the race and I it was really like it was a really special moment for me to, you know, kind of go back and conquer that. So, oh, absolutely. Do you want to share what happened, or would you rather not?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I could talk about it. Okay, yeah, I was racing. It was at Southern Oregon Speedway. I was racing and I kind of clipped the wall a little bit and I was like it's fine, no worries, I'm like I just kissed it just a little bit right, like it's okay. Kissed it just a little bit right, like it's it's okay. So I went into, um, I went into three full speed and, um, something must have broke when I hit the wall, because it just went straight, it didn't turn at all, and so went straight into the wall, kind of rode the wall around in the rear end. When it came down like the rear end kind of um bars and things broke, and so the, the rear end went up into the fuel tank, oh, and was just dumping fuel on our, on our brake rotor, start the fire.
Speaker 2:Um, at first I didn't even know it was on fire. Like I, you know, I shut off the motor, right and I'm waiting for the tow truck. And then I hear people screaming and I'm like, why are people screaming? And then, just as I heard that it got hot, you know, and I was like, oh, I gotta get out, like um, and luckily I had a, one of the safety crew came in and tried to get me out, but while I was trying to get out, my foot got stuck, oh, and so, yeah, I ended up being in there for um a little while and finally was able to get out and um got the. You know, they got the fire out and everything, but that's kind of why my voice sounds all weird is, um, I was burned, um basically inside, although like in my lungs and all that stuff, and okay, um, yeah, so now I now I sound a little funny, um, but uh, yeah, so I'm doing better as far, I mean, the voice is the only thing that's kind of still was that last year?
Speaker 2:yeah, last year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you haven't come. It hasn't been that long since it happened. Yeah, no, and you went back there this year and you finished the race and you know I've seen other stories and talked to other women that have had, you know, severe accidents or even not severe at a track, and then they talk about when they go back. It's really on your mind a lot, and so you have to go past that, get through that mentally to get back on that track because that was probably a freak accident that's not ever going to happen. You know would never happen again in the same situation. But you still have that on your mind, don't you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, I definitely did for that day. You know, I just was like I just want to get through it. I just want to get through it, you know, yeah, but yeah, we took a lot more. We have more fire precautions now, yeah, in the car and stuff. So it makes me feel a little bit better, that's good.
Speaker 1:So you know I usually ask my guests what keeps you going back? So you know there's a. I'm sure you've had other bad days at the track. That's just normal. Things break, somebody runs into you, whatever it might be. What keeps you going back and not just saying oh to hell with it, I can't do this anymore? Why do you keep going back and not just saying oh to hell with it, I can't do this anymore? Why do you keep going back?
Speaker 2:I just love it. I just love it. There's no, I can't explain to you like the feeling of hitting the gas in a 410 and that thing wanted to take off. It feels like a. You know, when an airplane takes off and everything's shaking, it feels like that, like it just is the best feeling in the world. And, um, you know, when there's hard days and there's, you know, there's definitely days where me and my dad we joke about he wants to just get a hot tub, he wants to quit and get a hot tub and so he's like anytime something bad happens, he's like hot tub. You know we joke about it. But yeah, you know, what really keeps me coming back is just that feeling. The love for the sport, you know, I love the time that I spend with my dad, so those things keep me coming back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure. So do you help work on the car, or is that pretty much your dad's job?
Speaker 2:No, me and him. We work on it together.
Speaker 1:So okay, yeah, and so if something doesn't feel right or whatever you get on the track, you pretty much can tell him hey, I think this is wrong. That's wrong because you know, since you're working on the car, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's, that's good. I think the more you can know your car inside and out, the better for you for sure. So when you're on the race track you said, you're very competitive. When you get out, when you're like on the starting line, you're going around, you know you're going to start. Are you calm and focused or are you kind of hyped up and aggressive?
Speaker 2:um, I like to get myself kind of hyped up, you know.
Speaker 1:So yeah, yeah, I kind of thought, so I kind of figured that just from talking to you, that maybe you did when you said you're very competitive for sure. Yeah, yeah, um, what's your car number and what's it look like?
Speaker 2:yeah so. I. My car number is 551 and that's my um cousin's motocross number. He passed away from a motocross accident a few years ago, so yeah, you're honoring him with that number yeah, and like there's a little um motocross rider, you know, with wings in the in the number.
Speaker 2:So it's pretty cool, that is cool. And then as far as the car design, so if you like, well, it's been many years now at this point I did a pink tail tank once and I had a lot of like little girls and stuff come up to me after the races and so like now I that's kind of my thing is I do have like a pink tail tank and, okay, usually some pink on the car, just to I like talking to, um, you know, women and girls and stuff about like what their dreams are and right, you know all of those things. It really um, it's usually one of the best parts of the night, honestly. So I kind of, you know, do that stuff for the kids.
Speaker 1:So yeah, that, that's awesome. So you know you've been in a lot of races in you know quite a number of years since you were 12 years old. If you could relive one race that you won or lost, just to relive it, do you have one in mind, a race that really stands out to you that was just maybe more special than any others, or maybe not.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that win at Petaluma I would relive that one. It was good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it gave you a championship and it kind of proved those naysayers wrong, didn't it? Yeah, yeah, is there anybody else that helps you at the on race day at the track besides your dad?
Speaker 2:yeah, so this is the first year we've ever had a crew um Kornburst. They're helping us out and yeah, it's been really, it's been really good. It's been a good year.
Speaker 1:I feel like we're a good group, we really get along well and and yeah, it's, it's been really nice so if you had your choice, would you rather and maybe this sounds like a dumb question, but it's actually I don't think it. I don't think it is because of the different kind of answers I get, but would you rather start on the pole or work your way up from the back not the very back, maybe, but just on the pole or not on the pole? Which do you prefer?
Speaker 1:oh, on the pole on the pole, you want to be out front from the beginning, and yeah, that way get in that clean air yep okay, all right. So how about social media? You said you were off of it for a long time. Do you use social media at all for yourself and your racing?
Speaker 2:yeah. So after I got hurt I kind of revamped my social media, you know. So I have Angelique Bell Racing on both Facebook and Instagram.
Speaker 1:Okay, so we can find out where you're going to race, how your race came out and all the things about your team. Yes, okay, all right, awesome. And all the things about your team yes, okay, all right, awesome. So anything else that we haven't talked about, angelique, that you would. You know, when you hang up you're going to be like, oh, we should have talked about this. Let's think about it for a minute. Is there anything that you want to share that we haven't talked about yet?
Speaker 2:Yeah. So we talked about kind of me helping other women in the sport. But I, the woman that helped me, um, is her name's Shauna Hogue. She's amazing, um, she has raced for a really long time and and we were able to connect, um, I think when I was maybe like 21 or something, we, you know, I started talking to her at the races and she's really helped me, just mentally, like, and also not feel so alone, you know what I mean like where I'm just like, oh, I'm going through this thing. She's like, oh, yeah, me too, girl, like you know, yeah, so, um, yeah, she's really helped me and you know, I hope to do that for, you know, other women in the future, for sure, and I really just want more women in the sport, like we just need more women, you know.
Speaker 2:So yeah it's been really cool to see, I feel like there's a lot of younger women at the you know, go-kart and quarter midget level and I hope that they keep coming throughout the ranks, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I do too, and it seems like once they get to kind of that sprint car level, it really drops off. And I don't sure if it's the financial part or it's the age where they're busy in school. I'm not sure what the reason is. But I'm with you because I was so disappointed when I went to Eldora, probably four or five years ago for the first time to the king of the oh, I can't think what it's called. Anyway, the big race, the big, big race, and there were no women racing. In fact, there were hardly any women even in the pit area with, like the drivers, like wives or girlfriend. I mean, there was a lot of women at the track, in the grandstands, but I was so disappointed I'm like I don't understand why there's not more in the 410s. And you look at the world of outlaws and you look at high limit racing and you don't see any women and it's like, okay, we for sure. Yeah, well, angelique.
Speaker 1:I'm so proud of you for the things you've gone through and you're still racing. You stuck it out through some adversity with who you are and what you stand for, and then you know after your accident, and and you're still going strong, and so you should be proud of yourself for that, and and that's why I love doing this show because I meet some amazing women that we would never have known your story had you not had a chance to tell it to me and so I want to share your story with people and encourage others that maybe are going through some things that you know. You just have to persevere and you'll get through it. Yeah, thank you, and I appreciate you giving us, you know, a platform.
Speaker 2:It's really great to see other women and be able to connect, you know, on social media or what have you. It's, it's really cool. So thank you.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you so much for being on. So any last words at all before we hang up.
Speaker 2:No, I'm good, Thank you. I just want to thank you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right. Well, I appreciate you taking time to be on and we're going to stay in touch. I'm going to keep my eye on you a little bit closer now, now that I know your story Sounds good. All right, thank you, angelique.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
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