And then it took this journey and me having this bond of this water to be able to have to sit down and have the real conversation with my mom about what that made me feel and how she then opened up and told me you thought, but that was me trying to protect you the way that she grew up.

She wanted people to take me seriously in settings and she thought that I was going to go far. So, she thought that being Geechee people wouldn't take me seriously - if I sounded like my cousin, I didn't sound like where I'm from.

And it made me have this complete disconnect with my culture.

Until the first time that I went crabbing.

And then when I went crabbing and I got in that water for one, yes, it was foreign for me to be catching crabs, but all of these things started connecting.

I had this connection to the water already. I was just blocking it out and stamping it out and closing my back on it and me going crabbing changed all of that. So, in the past eight years is where I've gotten all the knowledge that I really have. I feel like there's so much for me to learn still.