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Quantum Shift Show Presents Kathy D. Woods, Creator of KDW Fashion.  #KDWFASHION   March 22, 2017 on Quantum Shift Show we talk to Kathy D. Woods about her amazing idea for clothing for Little People. Dwarfism A-Con individuals have a body image that requires special cuts and fabric to look and feel empowered and amazing. Kathy had the idea to create a fashion line for little people when she was 8 years old and saw her mother struggle to get her clothing hemmed and sewed. Kathy has always enjoyed fashion and even went to a fashion agency at a young age to be told that models started at 4 ft. 3 in. Determined to challenge the fashion industry Kathy won several contests in school and today is the owner of KDW Designs.      You can find her on Facebook @kathydwoods or her website at http://www.kathydwoodsstore.com to see the amazing fashion designs she and her team have created. 

Today's Guest is Sister Zeph a True Woman Leader who has helped to educate and inspire 1000's of girls in Pakistan.  Sister Zeph teaching young girls in Pakistan that they can become anything they want to become and offers a free education to girls in her country. I was a very naught girl. I was a leader in the school, I wanted to be a lawyer, I wrote my first article on women’s rights at the age 13 in a very famous newspaper called daily Jung of Pakistan, I was a dreamer and wanted to fly real high. My life style was a different one; I always wanted to explore what was different. My mother, like every mother in my country, used to tell me that one day I would get married. I always kept thinking, that no - God has not sent me in this world only to get married. My heart always told me that it wasn’t so. I was very sensitive; one incident changed my life forever. I left my school in 7th grade, and decided never go back to that school again. My heart felt so humiliated, I cried for many days. I wanted to die and I did not see anyone for days. I felt like my heart was dying inside me. One day, I was delivering a speech to my class, acting like a teacher. I was standing on the teacher’s chair. When she came she started beating me for this in front of my classmates. She abused me and the all-girls made fun of me. I was just crying and crying, I was hurt mentally and psychologically. I decided to surprise them all. I decided to do something that nobody expected. At that moment I decided to leave school. All at once life changed, and all dreams were over. My parents tried to force me to join any other school but i did not. But I never stopped studying. I started reading in my home privately, I never took any tuition. And along with this I decided to teach girls with respect, and the love and care that I was not given in my school when I volunteered. I started making home visits in my village. I made pamphlets to distribute among people. I told everyone that it will be free education; I walked even further, and went to tell about my school in the nearby villages to convince the people to send their girls to my school. I told them that I would teach them English for free. I started visiting peo