 The desire to help people has always been with me since I was a young child. My parents were like that, and it just, you know, is something that was always with us and something I'll do forever. My family lived through the horrific journey of childhood cancer. My daughter, Ashley Lauren, she was diagnosed with wombs tumor, which is kidney cancer when she was three years old. Because of that, I saw the vital need for support. When I decided to start the Ashley Lauren Foundation, there were several people whom I knew that were very generous, compassionate, and those people came on board with me and just provided everything that was needed to support me in this endeavor. I've been with Monica and the Foundation since its inception. Monica will stop at nothing to help a child that is suffering the ravages of cancer. She will do whatever will make them happy. The mission of the Ashley Lauren Foundation is to provide hope and help to children with cancer in New Jersey. There's nothing we wouldn't do to try to help, even just a little bit, to remove that burden. Monica has taught me to just do whatever you can to help them to make their life easier. Ashley's doing great. She's healthy and is an inspiration to other families who see how she's doing and provide that hope. When I can be with a child or a group of the children and I see their beautiful smiles and doing everything they can just to try to be a kid again, and that's what they deserve. That means everything to me and that's why we do it.