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Speaker 1: What did you say through her?

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Speaker 2: I said, Hey, I know your friend Jen Davies, and

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to do this thing I'm starting. It's like,

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Speaker 1: I'm over and fold some towels.

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Speaker 2: Ye, that's kind of weird if you think it really is.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to an army of normal folks. I'm Bill Courtney.

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Speaker 1: I'm a normal guy. I'm a husband, a father, an entrepreneur,

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Speaker 1: and I've been an inner city football coach in Memphis.

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Speaker 1: And the last part unintentionally led to an oscar for

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Speaker 1: the film about our team. It's called Undefeated. Guys, I

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Speaker 1: believe our country's problems will never be solved by a

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Speaker 1: I can help. That's what Tiani Shoemaker Clyde the voice

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Speaker 1: Little Miracles, which, as you might guess, helps single moms

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Speaker 1: I can't wait for you to hear the story right

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Speaker 1: after these brief messages from our generous sponsors. Tiani actually

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Speaker 2: I had a college degree. I could deliver this somehow.

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Speaker 2: to her, and there were and I said, that's it.

435
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,640
Speaker 2: That's the name. That is what this is. It's not houses,

436
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 2: it's little miracles.

437
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:18,680
Speaker 1: So now that we know how we came up with

438
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: the name of little Miracles, to paraphrase little miracles, you know,

439
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 1: I don't want people to think that this is extreme

440
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,679
Speaker 1: home makeover with a bus and people rolling up and

441
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:37,240
Speaker 1: all this. It is a divorced bomb with three kids

442
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: who felt and understood the things we talked about, which

443
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 1: is anxiety, frustration, some shame. So you identified deeply with

444
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:55,120
Speaker 1: these moms, and you understand what it is to struggle

445
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,359
Speaker 1: financially with all of these other things going on and

446
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,959
Speaker 1: their psyche, trying to put a wand to put some

447
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 1: lipstick on and a smile on their face for their children,

448
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 1: and trying to be a brave mom, but probably melting

449
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 1: into a pillow at night, crying herself to sleep because

450
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 1: of all the things that they feel. And the little

451
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 1: miracle is you just want to give a random mom

452
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: that's in this situation a nice day out with their kids,

453
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 1: and then while they're gone, you want to clean their house,

454
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 1: You want to fold some clothes, maybe slap some pain

455
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 1: on a wall, and just give them something nice for

456
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: a change. That's it, right, you know, for a single

457
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:49,160
Speaker 1: mom's kid. That's a great day too. For the children,

458
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: it's a great day. And I have a soft spot

459
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 1: for the kids. And you know, I knew we were

460
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,160
Speaker 1: going to talk about the moms because you were one

461
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 1: in that position, which is what obviously gave you the

462
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:08,919
Speaker 1: drive to do this. But the kids, I mean the

463
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,639
Speaker 1: kids to be able to have a day where they

464
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,879
Speaker 1: get to see their mom happy and smile, where they

465
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 1: get to see their mom actually not look frazzled, distressed

466
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,160
Speaker 1: out and just enjoyable. And then you get to come

467
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 1: home to something nice in this home when, as your

468
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: words are, so many of these kids are homesick. That

469
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 1: makes the sickness not so bad.

470
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 2: Probably, Oh yeah, I mean it's impossible to describe. I

471
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 2: could have never imagined, you know, when we started this,

472
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 2: I just wanted, yeah, mom to have a good day

473
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 2: and come home to a clean house.

474
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 1: So tell me about don't worry about leading up to it.

475
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: We get it. You had three weeks. You're probably running

476
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 1: all over place begging, bard and stealing. Tell me about

477
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 1: the very first one. Tell me who it was and

478
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: how it went. And well, first of all, a mom

479
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: or dad?

480
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 2: A mom?

481
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 1: A mom? How many children?

482
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 2: Five kids?

483
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: And her husband divorced?

484
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, been divorced. He was not much in the picture.

485
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 1: Okay, So basically about room with five kids, and she

486
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 1: had three jobs?

487
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 2: Three jobs.

488
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: How do you work three jobs and make sure the

489
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 1: kids are like cared? Yeah? How do you do that?

490
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 2: Exactly? A lot of times what you can't do it all?

491
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 2: And the house is one of the first things to go.

492
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: It's destroyed.

493
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 2: It's destroyed, it's not clean, it's disorganized. No one's changed

494
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,679
Speaker 2: an air filter, and who knows how many years the

495
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 2: things that are broken. There's a cup in the window

496
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,679
Speaker 2: still catching the water leaking because they don't know how it's.

497
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 1: Actually this first the first Oh yeah, that's what you

498
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 1: walked into. Oh yeah, okay, yeah, how'd you found her?

499
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,120
Speaker 2: You know? I just to telling friends, Hey, I want

500
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 2: to do this.

501
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: And friend said, hey, I know.

502
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 2: I know someone who's such a great mom, my friend

503
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 2: Da da da, And yeah, so I said give your number.

504
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: How old were her kids? Out of curiosity?

505
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 2: Her oldest was about I mean they were all in

506
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 2: the home. The oldest was sixteen or seventeen, and the

507
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 2: youngest was maybe five or six.

508
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,880
Speaker 1: About five women get out of bed every day.

509
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 2: I have no idea. And what I found out she

510
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 2: she her kids were everything to her. You know, she

511
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 2: was the mom. That's how then, yeah, yeah, exactly exactly

512
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 2: do you call.

513
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: Her and just say, hey, listen here, you don't know us,

514
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: but we'd like to have your house for a day,

515
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,239
Speaker 1: and we're going to send you off somewhere. I mean,

516
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you how'd you respond to that?

517
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 1: You know, what'd be like? Get away from me?

518
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 2: Ironically as crazy as this first one was, and I

519
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 2: was like trying to just just trust me. I don't

520
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 2: know what you know? And I wasn't what did I said, Hey,

521
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 2: I know your friend Jen Davies, and I'm trying to

522
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 2: do this thing I'm starting. It's like, can I stop

523
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 2: buy and talk to you and I'll make more sense.

524
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: Come over and fold some towels. I mean, that's kind

525
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: of weird if you think.

526
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 2: It really is, it really is, and not just the

527
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 2: first time, it's the whole time. We kept that same

528
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 2: spirit about it with us.

529
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: We kind of the first one because we're gonna get

530
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: to the next one. Yeah, okay, first one? All right?

531
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: So what what was her response? Do you remember?

532
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 2: Okay? I just said I felt weird. Telling her on

533
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 2: the phone, I said, can I stop buying that thought?

534
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 2: If she met me, it wouldn't it wouldn't seem so weird.

535
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 2: She let me come over and I just told her, listen,

536
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 2: I've been a single mom. I'm just trying to do something.

537
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm just trying to start. All I

538
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 2: said was, can we like find out a little bit

539
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 2: about what you guys like to do together and just

540
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 2: let you guys have a fun day for I even said,

541
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 2: just maybe a few hours on a Saturday, and we're

542
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 2: just gonna kind of clean and do some stuff in

543
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 2: your house. If you're okay with that, you feel okay,

544
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 2: it's kind of weird. You don't know me. Do you

545
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 2: feel okay? Jen? Can come? My friend that knows us both.

546
00:29:55,880 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 2: And so she was reluctant, but I bet but grateful

547
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 2: right off that somebody was even willing to notice everything.

548
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, all right, So where'd you send she?

549
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 1: And what's her name?

550
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 2: Her name is Julie Warner.

551
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: Okay, Julie, where did you send Julie and the crew?

552
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 2: Well, what was so awesome about this was what started

553
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 2: out is just a few hours, what do you guys

554
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,479
Speaker 2: like to do? They like to go bowling, They love movies.

555
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 2: We were like, okay, cool, we'll send you let to

556
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 2: have a movie and get some pizza. That we can

557
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 2: manage that, right, we can do this. We can clean

558
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 2: tell me things aren't working in your house, little things. Well,

559
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 2: I started just putting the word out to people, and

560
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 2: what was amazing was within days of the word spreading,

561
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 2: this turned into oh, I want to help I want

562
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 2: to help you.

563
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: Let me have something to turn into just an army

564
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: of normal.

565
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 2: Folks, an army of normal folks. And you know what,

566
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 2: everybody has something? And I just got to what do

567
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 2: you what do you know how to do? Who do

568
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 2: you know that might know how to do something?

569
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 1: Well?

570
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 2: Do you want to come and see if we need

571
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 2: your help? You know, everybody has something. Just figure out

572
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 2: what you see? What that is? They go well, we

573
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 2: ended up having people wanting to redo flooring and all that.

574
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 1: I mean, she had holes.

575
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 2: So we needed more time. So we said, hey, are

576
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 2: you up for an overnight or it was Halloween of

577
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 2: all nights, and she's got young kids. But they said okay.

578
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 2: We sent them to park City, Oh cool, up up

579
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 2: the mountain. It wasn't very far, but the kids an hour.

580
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 2: The kids had never been there about an hour for

581
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 2: five minutes. Yeah.

582
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: Yeah.

583
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 2: Town had a friend that knew somebody who had a hotel.

584
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 2: They'll let them stay there for free, you know, let

585
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 2: them Hey, okay, cool, maybe someone else chip in on

586
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 2: their dinner. And they, little by little, we just had this.

587
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: So they got to go to nice dinner and Port

588
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: City in a cool hotel, stay in.

589
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 2: A nice hotel on Main Street.

590
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: In October thirty first it.

591
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 2: Was snowing, yes, up there, so they got to walk

592
00:31:58,320 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 2: Main Street. You gotta do all that.

593
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 1: They got to get ice cream at that place on

594
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: Main Street. There's a good ice cream there is.

595
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 2: I'm impressed, you know. Yeah, they gotta do all that,

596
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 2: you know, and hear these kids just live down the hill.

597
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 2: They've never been up there. It was a It was

598
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 2: a major getaway for them, all right.

599
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: So they roll, they roll, hold it. Do they have

600
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: a car?

601
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 2: Yes? On this one. The first one we sent them

602
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 2: up in their car, but we kind of decided like

603
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 2: we didn't want them stressed. We had a few activities planned,

604
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 2: so the first night they kept their car. Then the

605
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 2: second night we had someone who was a driver that

606
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 2: was willing to go up and drive them to the

607
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 2: places so she didn't have to. I go, I don't

608
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 2: want to worry about time, where to go.

609
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: It'll worry about it.

610
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 2: We're going to take care of the driver's picking you

611
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 2: guys up. We're gonna have a fun day driver for

612
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 2: the divorce mama. Yeah, love it. Bus that had music.

613
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 2: It was Yeah.

614
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: When they're there and the kids probably feel like rock stars.

615
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 2: Oh, totally all right.

616
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: How many people descended on this woman's home.

617
00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 2: I would say the first project, we at least had

618
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 2: seventy seventies, seventy five.

619
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: I really thought you were going to say twenty or

620
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: twenty five. That's not for purposes show. I really am surprised. Seventy. Yeah,

621
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: we'll be right back. Let's return to Tiani and what

622
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: Little Miracles did at their very first home.

623
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 2: She had new floors, new cabinets in the kitchen. They

624
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 2: were falling apart. Somebody put new cabinets in own this home.

625
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: She owned the home, so she got the home in

626
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 1: the divorce. But of course it didn't have the money

627
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: to keep it up exactly, which is and it was

628
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 1: very common these situation. Yeah, so so.

629
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 2: Cabinet, cabinets, the floor, which was huge.

630
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: Did she such a.

631
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 2: Good donated completely. It was a small house. It wasn't

632
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 2: a ton. People were so great, they were so willing.

633
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 2: In fact, we this project was interesting. We had someone

634
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 2: willing to donate granite, and I turned it down on

635
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 2: that way. I said, I didn't feel right about it.

636
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 2: We didn't really need granite. I appreciated it, but the countertops,

637
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 2: they were good. I really didn't want this to be

638
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 2: extreme homemade over like the nicest stuff, because I felt like,

639
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 2: I want to do this all the time. I don't

640
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 2: want people burning out.

641
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: We don't really need you're thinking why not, But what

642
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: you're saying is you knew you were going back to

643
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: the till for another one, and you didn't want to

644
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 1: blow it all.

645
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 2: I didn't want to, Yeah, and I wanted to rooms.

646
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 2: So what we did that was just worked beautifully. Is

647
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 2: I mean, so overwhelming. I don't know what I'm doing.

648
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 2: I'm faking it.

649
00:34:58,920 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: You know.

650
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 2: My business partner had a nonprofity, wasn't using that we

651
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 2: were able to umbrella under. So I didn't even have

652
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 2: a nonprofit five oh one c three so I could

653
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 2: get donations, you know, and write offs for people. But

654
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 2: I just had so many people with I want to help.

655
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 2: I want to help. So I was like, okay, I

656
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 2: just start dividing people up in rooms and I would say,

657
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 2: you've got Bailey. She's seven, she loves pink, she loves dragons,

658
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 2: she loves this, she loves that.

659
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: So here's the thirty thousand foot view. Do something yes,

660
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 1: And you know I exactly laid out and managed. You

661
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 1: just said, no, this is sushi is especially like you

662
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 1: guys have this room, you run with it.

663
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 2: And I said, try, this is what's worked for me.

664
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 2: Go to target, go to home depot. If you talk

665
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 2: to a manager, they're usually pretty cool. They can give

666
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 2: you a couple hundred bucks to get started, but just

667
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,399
Speaker 2: see if you can help. There's no one. A lot

668
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 2: of the people, people from all walks of life. You know,

669
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 2: people that owned a lumber company that were great to

670
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 2: donate here and there people over the floor. They really are.

671
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 2: But we also had a lot of single parents that

672
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 2: got it, that wanted to be a part of this,

673
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 2: that didn't have the money to say it's okay, go

674
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 2: see if you can talk, you know, a little bit here,

675
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 2: a little bit there, Well we'll help you. So this

676
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 2: was like there was five kids, a couple of them

677
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 2: were sharing, but I mean most of the rooms are bedrooms,

678
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 2: so we just literally everybody was over one room and

679
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 2: we had a painter that did all the paint you know,

680
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 2: the same color. And then I said, you know, we

681
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 2: don't really have money, but if you want to raise

682
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 2: some money and try to get new furniture or try

683
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 2: to get new bedding or whatever. I mean, it was amazing. Yes,

684
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 2: in fact, she's a good sport about this story. But

685
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 2: she was embarrassed at first. There was a little nest

686
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 2: of mice living in her couch. When we went to

687
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 2: move it that we found were like throw it out.

688
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 2: And then we're like, we don't have a couch. We

689
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 2: don't have a couch for her. And somebody went to

690
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 2: RC Willie. The furnitures are like this is like an

691
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,479
Speaker 2: couple hours before they're coming home. We're like, we gotta

692
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 2: we need to we need a couch for this family.

693
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 2: Someone go top to you know if this is that

694
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 2: type of cast, or just see if they'll donate something.

695
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 2: Tell them what we're doing, Invite them to come over.

696
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 2: We're gonna welcome them home here. Maybe they'll give us

697
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 2: a deal. We'll scrape up the money. Just we gotta

698
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 2: have a couch for this family. This couch shows up

699
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 2: people through the grape vine. A girl runs into someone

700
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 2: she knew at the store. Oh, she knew the manager,

701
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 2: and they end up this beautiful sectional. We're we're moving

702
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 2: it in like minutes before they came home. It was Oh,

703
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 2: it was a nice sectional for her whole fan they

704
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 2: were movie people. They you know, they just had one

705
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 2: little family room, but that couch was like heaven for them.

706
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 2: They loved it was brand new and had the reclining

707
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 2: you know, everybody had a spot and they just love

708
00:37:57,760 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 2: this couch. And it came in. It was one of

709
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 2: those level houses back in the eighties. Everybody had that.

710
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 2: And we're moving this couch in over the you know,

711
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 2: banister minutes before they're coming home. And it fit perfectly,

712
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 2: and it was just one of those moments of like,

713
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 2: this is just a little miracle. This is I mean

714
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 2: talk about that happened every time, over and over. Just

715
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 2: everything just came together at the last minute and was

716
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 2: so perfect. I could be here for hours telling you

717
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 2: guys stories about that. So amazing.

718
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: They come down from the mountain, come down. We've had mountain,

719
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 1: and truthfully, just the day in Park City probably would

720
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 1: have been a mountain.

721
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 2: Well, Bill, you get this because you grew up as

722
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 2: a single you know, with a single mom. Even I

723
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 2: didn't understand that because my kids screw up. This what

724
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 2: I realized later, what brought tears to her eyes the

725
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,240
Speaker 2: most was that day with her kids.

726
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 1: She got to have a stress free day and she

727
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: got to show her kids herself, yes, something that was

728
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:07,240
Speaker 1: more than it is. When you're in that stressful position,

729
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: your children don't even get to see who you really are.

730
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 1: I don't even could see why you were once a

731
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: desirable human being to be around, because you.

732
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 2: Were such a Yes, you nailed it.

733
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 1: It's true. And so on that day, though, with all

734
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 1: the stress gone and not having to worry about any

735
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: of it, her kids got to experience her Yes, which

736
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: is amazing.

737
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 2: And what you just said kind of came to my mind,

738
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 2: you know, as they're coming home, what are we doing

739
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 2: here when they come home? You know, how what do

740
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 2: we want to have happened here? And I had that thought.

741
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,359
Speaker 2: I wanted her kids, not that they didn't know, because

742
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 2: I knew they knew. She had a reputation of having

743
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 2: the best birthday parties in the neighborhood. She always had

744
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 2: the kids over. She was as mess best as she could.

745
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:56,720
Speaker 2: She was the fun mom, you know, working three jobs

746
00:39:56,719 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 2: and crazy as could be. But you know, we I

747
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 2: wanted her kids to know just how amazing she was,

748
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:08,280
Speaker 2: you know, sort of from someone else, sort of a moment,

749
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 2: because that's another part that I feel like kids lose,

750
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 2: is they're not having a mom and dad sort of

751
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 2: edify each other and brag on the other one a

752
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 2: little and show, you know, it gives these kids. My

753
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 2: dad did that for my mom and vice versa. And

754
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:27,399
Speaker 2: I remember what it did to me as a kid,

755
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 2: thinking I have a really great dad, because my mom

756
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 2: told me that all the time. Do you know what

757
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 2: a great dad? You know, how lucky you kids are

758
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 2: to have such a great dad. He puts you first,

759
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 2: and I thought, wow, I do and I adored my

760
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 2: dad because of that.

761
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 1: But but the problem is that divorced parents kids don't

762
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 1: hear that.

763
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 2: You don't never hear it. And here is a mother

764
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,880
Speaker 2: who is doing more than most, but her kids see.

765
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 1: The chaos and they don't see her essence and her.

766
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:57,359
Speaker 2: House is a mess, and they don't why is our

767
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 2: house messy? And there's just why why is our house

768
00:40:59,520 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 2: falling apart?

769
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: So forget, forget, beyond this. I'm dying to understand. When

770
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,240
Speaker 1: they roll up from the mountain and they hit the door,

771
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: does she must just smelt.

772
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful moment. So another another little thing that

773
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 2: happened during this time when I was before, I had

774
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 2: talked out loud and said I want to do this,

775
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 2: and I was thinking about it. I laid down with

776
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 2: my daughter to get it to fall asleep one night

777
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 2: and I was flipping through my phone and this video

778
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 2: came on and just so happened. It's a video from

779
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 2: someone called David Archiletta. The song is called Glorious and

780
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 2: it's such a powerful video you have to listen to it.

781
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 2: It's our themes. I knew in that moment before I

782
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 2: got off her bed that that was calling to me

783
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 2: because the whole song is everyone plays a piece, everyone

784
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 2: has a gift. Just follow your heart. You'll figure out

785
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 2: what it is. Just do it. And I had been

786
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:05,320
Speaker 2: feeling I need to do something, and that song spoke

787
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 2: to me. I got up, I got went downstairs. I

788
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 2: had my boys pull it up on the TV. Watch

789
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 2: this with me. We're doing this, We're gonna do this.

790
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 2: This is such a you know, this is song is

791
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 2: talking to me right now. So that has been our

792
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 2: theme song. So when the family comes home, David Archiletta glorious, Well,

793
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 2: we have a little dance party before actually, because we

794
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 2: are working hard. It is not glamorous. We're exhausted and

795
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 2: telling everybody the family's about to come. And so we

796
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,720
Speaker 2: wanted to be out on the street. We wear red

797
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 2: red balloons. We wanted him to feel like start the

798
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 2: first one, yeah, the first the first time we were

799
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 2: blue because I had grown up with me and I

800
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 2: said no. After that, I changed it to red. Red's

801
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:55,800
Speaker 2: a powerful I said no, exactly because it's a powerful color.

802
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 2: So the first time, but I knew the feeling. I

803
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 2: wanted him to feel like Rockster come pulling down the

804
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 2: street and they see everybody and we're having fun. So

805
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 2: we had a guy that was a friend. He's a painter.

806
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 2: He had a DJ equipment, right okay, so he would

807
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 2: get everybody doing theyj He was awesome painter slash slash.

808
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 1: Of course he is amazing. Yeah, all right, so they

809
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: get there. I really want to when the door opened,

810
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:32,280
Speaker 1: what does she say?

811
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 2: Well, we if you hear the song. So I'm always like,

812
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 2: we stop the dance party music as they're pulling up

813
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 2: the street and we hit that song and it is

814
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 2: powerful right off the bat. You just have to hear it.

815
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 2: And they pull up and it's just a moment. No

816
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 2: one's saying anything.

817
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: Our producers worth the salt during when this is actually

818
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 1: being listened to, We'll have that song in the background.

819
00:43:57,560 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 2: You gotta play the song.

820
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: You can see Alex there. I'm not sure if you'll

821
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: pull it off or not.

822
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, if you can, it'd be worth it. You

823
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 2: got it. I know.

824
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,879
Speaker 1: I actually will reach out to him and don't cut

825
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: this out. That is you being weak. Okay, go ahead,

826
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 1: the songs playing, the painters playing, yes, and.

827
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 2: It's it's just love. It's just love, that's all it is.

828
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 2: It's random strangers hugging these people. Some people you know,

829
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 2: some people you feel like you know the family, even

830
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 2: if you don't, because you've been there working you all day,

831
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:36,839
Speaker 2: all night.

832
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 1: You've gotta tell me. The kids are sprinting to the

833
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 1: rooms to see what's well.

834
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 2: We don't let them go in just yet. We have

835
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:45,880
Speaker 2: this moment. We're listening to the whole song, hugging everybody.

836
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:49,760
Speaker 2: It's just to feel, take it in, feel the moment here,

837
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 2: feel these people love you.

838
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:55,879
Speaker 1: Human beings doing something it is another human just good

839
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 1: old fashioned, just because it's.

840
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 2: Your turn, not because you're the pity story. It's just

841
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:06,479
Speaker 2: your turn. It's your neighbors here helping you. It's your day.

842
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 2: And I wanted them to feel that and just take

843
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 2: it in. So that's what that song is. During the

844
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,320
Speaker 2: whole song, it's just everybody hugging each other. The kids

845
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 2: have painted welcome home, you know, and there's balloons and

846
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,839
Speaker 2: everybody's just in the red. And then when the song's over,

847
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 2: whoever nominated the family takes the mic for a second,

848
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 2: just a second and tell us why why did you?

849
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 2: Because that's our only rule, with our little miracles. You

850
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 2: can't nominate yourself. That's that's really the rule. Yeah, but otherwise,

851
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 2: you know, it doesn't have to look a certain way.

852
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 2: You don't have to need all these not every story

853
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 2: is a dramatic story. Some are some are just tell

854
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 2: us why you nominated the family, tell us a little.

855
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:51,840
Speaker 2: And I also wanted that to be a moment for

856
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:56,760
Speaker 2: these kids to hear why their mom is so great.

857
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 2: You know why why all these people are here, not

858
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:03,360
Speaker 2: just we're here for you. You kids are amazing because

859
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 2: like you said, you didn't choose this. Your life's a

860
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 2: little tougher, but you're amazing and your mom, you know

861
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 2: what she does for you. So it was like a

862
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:18,240
Speaker 2: moment for someone they knew to tell the amazing things

863
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 2: that their mom does for them that maybe they don't see,

864
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 2: and why everybody wanted to be here. And you know

865
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 2: what when they heard it was your family. Look at

866
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 2: all these people. Everybody heard about you and wanted to

867
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:34,280
Speaker 2: be here because you guys are awesome and you're special

868
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 2: and you deserve it and we just want you to

869
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 2: nothing else. You feel that every day of you ever

870
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 2: wonder if you're loved? You remember today, I.

871
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: Mean for the mom I'm hearing this and you know,

872
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: for some it could be life changing, but for all

873
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 1: it would have to be life affirming. Yeah, it would

874
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 1: have to be life affirming for a single mom fighting

875
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,360
Speaker 1: and struggling all the things we talked about, the anxiety,

876
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,319
Speaker 1: the bills, the fear, the shame and everything else to

877
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: be affirmed as I'm a human being with value and

878
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 1: although I'm struggling, these children are proof of my value

879
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 1: and affirmation, and it's an opportunity just for them to

880
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 1: feel that. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty special. Would you please

881
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:23,439
Speaker 1: tell me what happens when they go in the house.

882
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's awesome. So we learned you can't let everybody,

883
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 2: you know, we get typically lots of hundred people. We've

884
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 2: had so many people. You can't let everyone run in.

885
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 2: So our rule is if you worked on the room

886
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 2: specific to go to the room, you get a head start.

887
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:40,879
Speaker 2: You get to go in the room, so you get

888
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 2: to see that.

889
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:44,239
Speaker 1: So you get to show them around what you've done.

890
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 2: We've got to where if the mom wants to say something,

891
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 2: but we never you know, half the time they'll want

892
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 2: to say something. Half the time it's overwhelming, So we

893
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 2: just let them go through, you know, and I'm not

894
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 2: usually the one going through. It's it's kind of the

895
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 2: one that nominated them, who you know, has a little

896
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 2: been a comfort. You don't want a bunch of strangers,

897
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:06,360
Speaker 2: you know. I usually always meet the families prior, but

898
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 2: I like to let that be their moment to walk through. Plus,

899
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 2: whoever nominates them, we're like, hey, you're not just nominating

900
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 2: them when we're doing everything. You're in this with us,

901
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 2: right If you really want this for your friend, your sister,

902
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 2: your brother, you know, you're in it with us. Yeah.

903
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 2: So they're a big part of the project, and so

904
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 2: they're they're front and center and leading them through and

905
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 2: it's just amazing.

906
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 1: And so so let me ask something. Do you and

907
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:33,319
Speaker 1: during this process you kind of step back?

908
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know why I've found myself. I kind

909
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 2: of just you know, sometimes I say stuff when they

910
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,240
Speaker 2: first come or whatever, but I'm I kind of watch

911
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 2: and I hang back a little bit and just kind

912
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 2: of take it all in. I Mean, it's overwhelming. I'm

913
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,800
Speaker 2: not a real emotional person, but that's my moment to

914
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 2: kind of just be like, because I'm exhausted. It's a lot,

915
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 2: you know, this month is nine years we've been doing it,

916
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,920
Speaker 2: and there's a lot of times going in I'm like

917
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 2: this the last time I'm doing this, so and I'm

918
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:04,720
Speaker 2: just taking it in at that point, and I'm always

919
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 2: so grateful that we didn't decide to quit, because that

920
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:10,240
Speaker 2: thought comes in my mind.

921
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:15,719
Speaker 1: Every year was this. Do you remember thirty.

922
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 2: It's nine years ago now, so what are we in?

923
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 2: Is it twenty thirteen?

924
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:19,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty thirteen.

925
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:20,360
Speaker 2: I was Halloween.

926
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: And so after this little experiment of yours, you said,

927
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: we're going to do this again.

928
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 2: Yeah. I really wanted to do it again.

929
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: It's a lot of work.

930
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 2: What was interesting now we had them filming it for

931
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 2: the local TV thing, right, Oh, yeah, that's right, And

932
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 2: I wondered, will we really have this much help if

933
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 2: we don't.

934
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:42,359
Speaker 1: Have the TV.

935
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:46,279
Speaker 2: So I didn't know if is that why everyone was

936
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:49,399
Speaker 2: so good about helping out, you know, because they want

937
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 2: to see themselves on a People knew it was on TV.

938
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 2: We're going to say your business if you helped out.

939
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:57,439
Speaker 2: Obviously that's going on the little clip, but I knew

940
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:02,439
Speaker 2: we definitely wanted to do it again. When it came

941
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 2: together and the show actually aired, it was a little disappointing.

942
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:13,239
Speaker 2: Because the guy who put together the show, he had

943
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 2: highlighted his contractors that were part of his show, but

944
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 2: they weren't the ones that did the work, and he

945
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 2: did a little editing to where they went back after

946
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 2: and added some things that weren't really Do you hear.

947
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 1: That, Alex, Please don't screw the show up all your stuff.

948
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it did it. It does hurt the whole deal.

949
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:36,160
Speaker 1: Don't do that.

950
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:37,359
Speaker 2: Let it be his thing.

951
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 1: That's right, that's how we're going to do this.

952
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 2: We had a big party, and I remember we all

953
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 2: just like a little bit like, oh, that's not really

954
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 2: how it went down, you know, And I felt bad

955
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:50,839
Speaker 2: and I had to have a conversation with him.

956
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 1: You're saying that sometimes TV portrays things as they're not.

957
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've found that out. Yeah, and sometimes they want

958
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 2: to build up the peace people. I said, well, wait, what.

959
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 1: What about the people that actually did the work.

960
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 2: They didn't, They didn't actually care that their name, But

961
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 2: you can't not put their name on and put you

962
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 2: he said, yeah, unfortunately I know. He said, yeah, I

963
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:15,879
Speaker 2: have to because they're part of my group.

964
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 1: Happens all too much. Yeah, twenty thirteen, you do this thing?

965
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:21,760
Speaker 1: How long till the next one.

966
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 2: So let's see that was October. Gosh, what's crazy is

967
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:29,240
Speaker 2: right after you do want it happens every time somebody

968
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 2: tells about another family.

969
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, for sure.

970
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 2: So I want to say it was like February.

971
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 1: So how many months?

972
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 2: A couple months, few months?

973
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're from twenty thirteen. When you get an

974
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: epiphany that you're going to call a thing little miracles,

975
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: and you have three weeks to kind of pull us off,

976
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 1: and you don't even know what this is, and it

977
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 1: ends up being the experience that we just described. Now

978
00:51:56,520 --> 00:51:59,719
Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty two, and you do four of these?

979
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: Are you?

980
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:04,320
Speaker 2: We do one every quarter typically for yeah, four generally,

981
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 2: sometimes we've done more.

982
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: Which since October of twenty fourteen, the numbers I have

983
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: here are one thousand, eight hundred and twenty seven volunteers,

984
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:24,320
Speaker 1: eighty six families served, twenty seven community serves, and ninety

985
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: eight hundred and forty four volunteer hours, all of which

986
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: have basically enriched the lives of a whole bunch of

987
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 1: kids who desperately need to have something enriching happening in

988
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:45,080
Speaker 1: their lives, and a whole bunch of divorced spouses who

989
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:51,280
Speaker 1: are struggling with anxiety and shame and concern and fear

990
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 1: and worry, and all of a sudden, they get a

991
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 1: day that their children get to see them for the

992
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 1: people they are, and they get to come home to

993
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:08,800
Speaker 1: a better place to live. Amen, all because some normal

994
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:13,760
Speaker 1: kid that grew up in Colorado who experienced a little

995
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:16,359
Speaker 1: tough life decided, you know, we don't have to go

996
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,279
Speaker 1: do missions in Brazil. There's there's an opportunity to do

997
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:23,879
Speaker 1: a mission right here in my hometown. And you put

998
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 1: together an army of just normal folks who wanted to

999
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:31,720
Speaker 1: give and serve just for the simple edification of another

1000
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: human being that needed it. Is that what I'm hearing.

1001
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 2: That's what you're hearing.

1002
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:45,280
Speaker 1: And that concludes part one of our conversation with Tiani,

1003
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 1: notably with our normal music, because our weak producer clearly

1004
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 1: didn't get permission to use the music that Tianni was

1005
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:57,879
Speaker 1: talking about, so you got the basic I don't know

1006
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 1: what this kind of music is when we leave, whatever

1007
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 1: that stuff is. Anyway, I hope you'll listen to part

1008
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 1: two that's now available. Her story really does just keep

1009
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 1: getting better. But if you don't make sure you join

1010
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 1: an army of normal folks at normalfolks dot us and

1011
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 1: sign up to become a member of the movement. By

1012
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:18,320
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1013
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1014
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Speaker 1: you may just prefer reading about our incredible guest guys. Together,

1015
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 1: we can change this country, but it starts with you.

1016
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 1: I'll see in Part two.