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S3E3 - Jacie LeBoeuf

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Be The Match paid for flights, hotels, food, lost wages, and the difference in J.C. LaBeouf’s salary.

1. The DTB Podcast, presented by Bless Your Heart Nonprofit Corporation, focuses on J.C. LaBeouf and her Be The Match donor experience. 2. Jarae Jean-Bonjaro hosts as director of Bless Your Heart Nonprofit Corporation, and J.C. LaBeouf matters as a local donor from Cut-Off who signed up on a LSU campus table. 3. The episode asks how a Bayou Lafourche student became a Be The Match donor and what the process actually involved. 4. J.C. names Casey and Jason LaBeouf as her parents and David LaBeouf, Annette Fournier, Karen Guidry, and John L. Guidry as her grandparents. 5. She says she grew up in Cut-Off, went to Salafut, and loved growing up “down the Bayou.” 6. J.C. says she graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge with a degree in kinesiology. 7. She explains that she worked full time as a medical assistant before moving to Lafayette for the summer with her boyfriend. 8. J.C. says she plans to move to Alabama in a couple of months to begin PA school. 9. Her PA program will last 27 months, which she describes as graduate school. 10. She says she found Be The Match on campus when students were recruiting people at a table with a flag. 11. J.C. says a friend she met freshman year was the campus rep, and that connection led her to volunteer and sign up. 12. She explains that registration required a cheek swab on both sides and sending it back in an envelope or mail-in kit. 13. J.C. says she thought the chance of being called was about 7 percent, so the initial match email surprised her. 14. She describes a long follow-up process with blood draws, more testing, and comparisons against five to six other potential donors. 15. J.C. says she was first told she was the backup donor and then got a call about a week and a half before the procedure that she was the primary donor. 16. She says Be The Match paid for flights, hotels, food, work time, and the difference in her salary, which made the trip stress free. 17. J.C. says her donor center was in San Antonio, Texas, and that she went there for both donations. 18. She says she knows only that the recipient is a 55-year-old man with acute myeloid leukemia and that she must wait one year before direct contact. 19. The tone is conversational and instructional, with Jarae and J.C. trading Bayou Lafourche details, medical explanations, and rapid-fire questions. 20. People interested in local community service and medical school stories would like this episode, while listeners wanting a purely clinical discussion might skip it.

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