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Award Winning Indigenous Film Maker - Cherylee Francis

Season 3, Ep. 6

Hello everyone!

Thank you for an amazing year.

We end 2021 with an amazing interview with my friend Cherylee Francis who is an award winning film maker from Flagstaff, Arizona.

Cherylee has done some incredible work and can be seen here via Vimeo www.CFproductions.us (vimeo.com)


Cherylee is a storyteller and tells us her story that she has never shared with anyone before.

Stories of racism, life lessons, valedictorian to academic failures, grief, imposter syndrome, crawling through the desert in the dark night, and being instumental in bringing the first cancer center to Indian Country.


Thank you Cherylee for all you do for indigenous people, women, and entreprenuers world wide.


Pete.


Happy New Year!

Let's Make 2022 the best year ever!

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