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Welcome back to The Dr. Maria Show. Coming up, I have Steven Abramowicz, which I hope I'm pronouncing correctly, CEO and Editor of Heartland Journal and Heartland Media Group. He took a small town newspaper and made it a national paper amplifying all of our voices, and especially those voices that have been censored.
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A 33-year-old, or 33-year Wall Street veteran, he made the unlikely pivot from managing millions to giving a microphone to those who have been silenced. Welcome to the show, Steven.
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Thank you, doctor. Nice to see you. Nice to see you too, Steven. Tell me, did I brutalize your last name? No, you did it perfectly. Abramowicz, that's it. Son of Abraham. Y- Exactly. Exactly. I knew I liked you. Tell us about your brack- background. Well, uh, born and raised in, uh, southern California in the '70s and '80s, the best decades, uh, in my opinion for, uh, not only movies and music, but politics.
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And, uh, ended up on this strange path that was supposed to take me to Wall Street, Manhattan, but took me to, uh, Wall Street in Seattle, Washington, where we got, uh, bu- uh, family, raised kids, the dog, the house, the whole thing. And then, um, along the way, um, as individual passed away who had moved out to Seattle area in 1992 to start a hometown newspaper, the old-fashioned kind, delivered door to door by paper, uh, by paper boys and girls- Uh, i- in, in the paper form, and, uh, he passed away in the hospital during COVID, and it landed in my lap, and, uh, I turned it into this media company that has been my obsession ever since.
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Everybody talks about it, and we're so appreciative. I think, and I'd love your opinion on this, Stephen, we-- especially the generation, I think I'm a little older than you, the way we grew up, we had a lot of trust. We trusted-- me in medicine trusted the CDC. We trusted our government. We trusted the courts.
