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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Billed Courtney with an army of normal folks.

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Speaker 1: And we continue now a part two of our conversation

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Speaker 1: with Adrian Lewis. Right after these brief messages from our

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Speaker 2: And while we're going through that process, the leadership of

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Speaker 2: the Globe War From Project also really felt led for

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Speaker 2: us to stop flying over the kids in our own backyard.

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say at some point, I didn't

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Speaker 1: know that part, but I was going to say, at

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Speaker 1: some point, it is wonderful war helping kids. It's Haiti

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Speaker 1: and Mexico and Guatemala and Uganda and everywhere else. But

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Speaker 1: I do struggle with the notion of us flying to

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Speaker 1: all of these countries all of the place, employing tons

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Speaker 1: Right, So your organization said, we're friends at home, orphans

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Speaker 2: That's right, orphans at home. Who are the orphans at home?

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Speaker 2: Where are the orphans at home? Well, these these are

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Speaker 2: at home. And we set out as an organization to

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Speaker 2: try to encourage and support churches in Kansas City to

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Speaker 2: encourage their people, their congregants to become foster and adoptive parents.

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Speaker 2: At the time, there was seven hundred and seventy three

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Speaker 2: it was very disappointing at first, like what the heck,

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Speaker 2: come on, man, this is it's very clear love your neighbor.

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Speaker 2: Oh and by the way, caring for the orphan in

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Speaker 2: the widow is actually true religion. So what's the problem. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm in my pew and I'm hearing your plea and

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Speaker 1: I'm hearing the demographics that just came out of my

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you, Bill in a flash, the vision for

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Speaker 2: But the craziest thing is your life.

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Speaker 1: You graduate, first of all, you get these unique tenants

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Speaker 2: So tell us about it. Well, what you need to know, Bill,

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Speaker 2: is these markers I've been telling about. I didn't ask

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Speaker 2: a new idea. Right, using technology to connect kids and

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Speaker 2: that's right, before they can get reunited. And I sent

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Speaker 1: But what you're saying is caring about the foster system

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Speaker 2: In fact, do you hear that everybody? Yeah, no, we're

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Speaker 2: That's right. We call it care sharing. That's what we

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Speaker 1: There's no obligation. How are the how are the how

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Speaker 1: are the givers notified?

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Speaker 2: So the givers are notified by signing up to join Careportal.

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Speaker 2: So if you went to careportal dot org right now,

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Speaker 2: I log on or do I get an email? Both?

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Speaker 1: So I may get an email that says, hey, Sally

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Speaker 2: Who's going to do that? Well, you're going to do

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Speaker 1: It also first of all, wow. Second of all, one

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Speaker 2: That's right, That's exactly what we're talking about. And that

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Speaker 1: and doesn't get anything done to drop in the bucket.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the ROI if we want to talk business, I

434
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Speaker 2: was a business guy. The RO is multiple factors, Right.

435
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,920
Speaker 2: We have cost avoidance numbers, we have economic impact numbers.

436
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 2: We know based on the type of request that was met,

437
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Speaker 2: the value of that to the ecosystem that's around us,

438
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,959
Speaker 2: and in some markets it's a ten x of value.

439
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,439
Speaker 2: Some markets it's a three x of value. It depends

440
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 2: on what's going on there. But there's no question that

441
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 2: what we're doing is not only more effective in ways

442
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Speaker 2: we can measure, it's more effective in ways we can't

443
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Speaker 2: even measure.

444
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Speaker 1: It's also effective in reducing taxpayer expense on caring for

445
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Speaker 1: the needy, because when you take it out of the

446
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: system and put them with their parent, the taxpayer is

447
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,360
Speaker 1: no longer caring for the kid. It's there's a return

448
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: on that investment, a legitimate financial return on that investment.

449
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Speaker 1: It is almost can you qualify that or do you

450
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: guys qualify that, Yes, we do.

451
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So thirty eight thousand dollars is what the average

452
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Speaker 2: number is for one year of a child being in

453
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Speaker 2: foster care. Thirty eight grand a year is what it

454
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Speaker 2: costs the taxpayer.

455
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Speaker 1: Taxpayer, not the foster parent, no what the foster parents

456
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Speaker 1: getting in, just the tax tax payer, faseworkers. This legal

457
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: sits Sact times four hundred thousand. That's a big number.

458
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Speaker 2: That's a big number. Thirty billion is the foster is

459
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:46,920
Speaker 2: the child welfare number annually, it's thirty billion. So when

460
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 2: we have a request that's met and the caseworker says

461
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Speaker 2: the purpose of this is to help prevent a child

462
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Speaker 2: from going to foster care, then we apply an allocation

463
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Speaker 2: of one month of cost avoid that's it. That's it.

464
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,439
Speaker 2: That's not even one month. You're slow playing your own numbers.

465
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Speaker 2: And why am I doing that because the last thing

466
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Speaker 2: I want to do. You don't want to add. You

467
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 2: want to be above reproach, above approach. That's right. So

468
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 2: one month, one month, that's all you categorize. That's what

469
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 2: we count, one month.

470
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Speaker 1: And then that's where you get your three or five

471
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Speaker 1: or ten times return on the investment. Where if you

472
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 1: did it three months, which is probably more accurate, your

473
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,679
Speaker 1: numbers are even exponentially better than what you're selling.

474
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Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, and we're okay with that for

475
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Speaker 2: right now. There may be a day where we do

476
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Speaker 2: some more extensive research and we get to a place

477
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Speaker 2: where we can say, these folks over there did their thing,

478
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Speaker 2: and this is the conclusion they came up with, and

479
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 2: now we're going to use that number. Right, we have

480
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Speaker 2: our own ways of doing data, but we've not yet

481
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Speaker 2: had that thing done, and so we're not going to

482
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 2: stretch it because we don't need to stretch it. It's it's

483
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Speaker 2: still super it's actually it'd be wrong for us to

484
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Speaker 2: stretch it, and it isn't necessary. Right, Both of those

485
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Speaker 2: things are true. And we haven't even talked about what

486
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 2: we're doing for the child. Yeah, I mean when you

487
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 2: say what can we measure, there's a little bit we

488
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 2: can measure. But what happens when that child is now

489
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 2: home instead of somewhere else and being loved by their

490
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 2: parents as their parent, and what happens when that parent

491
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Speaker 2: is now in relationship with someone who cares for them

492
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Speaker 2: and they're not desperate, they don't feel hopeless. The transfer

493
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 2: of hope is actually the thing. And when your army

494
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 2: of normal folks can transfer hope, they change the world.

495
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Speaker 2: It's phenomenal to We will be right back.

496
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Speaker 1: Do you take stock of where you are versu where

497
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Speaker 1: you started and how this thing has happened? I mean,

498
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Speaker 1: do you allow yourself that I'm driving to work last

499
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Speaker 1: week and I am not confused at all, Bill that

500
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: this is my assignment. I know that I know that

501
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: I know this is what I'm supposed to be doing.

502
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: But what I couldn't quite figure out what overwhelmed me

503
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 1: was why?

504
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 2: Why is? Why did you choose me? Why is this

505
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 2: my assignment? And I don't know the answer. There's nothing

506
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 2: that I've done to deserve to be in the spot

507
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 2: that I'm in. I have said yes to opportunities that

508
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 2: have been put before me that I believe were divine,

509
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 2: and I keep slugging it out day after day after day.

510
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 2: But I'm grateful that I was asked, invited to change

511
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 2: the world in my unique way, and so if I

512
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 2: can inspire and empower thousands of other people to see

513
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 2: and serve their neighbor, well done, my goodn't sir? You know?

514
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,239
Speaker 2: I asked you do you take stock? You know?

515
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Speaker 1: And I ask a lot of people that because frankly,

516
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: it's a personal thing because I have I take stock

517
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Speaker 1: of me and know one, I mean, my background and

518
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: where I came from, and mine in my own business,

519
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: and then the movie and the Academy Award and the

520
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: book and the speeches and all. I really, honest goodness,

521
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: never look for it, but it gave me this platform,

522
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: and and I do. Sometimes I wake up and I

523
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: look at the mirror, and when I look in the mirror,

524
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: I know what I'm looking at. I'm looking at a

525
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: broken guy who had did daddy issues until he was

526
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: in his forties, who dealt with a lot of insecurity,

527
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: who was blessed with Lisa and then my children and

528
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: now all of this. And I do often ask myself,

529
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: you know, how come this?

530
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 2: You know?

531
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Speaker 1: But anyway, that's why I ask people all the time

532
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: if they take stock, because I don't even know if

533
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: people really listening to us even understand it. It's probably

534
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: just my own personal interest in people's stories. But when

535
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: you take stock, you have to reminisce about near and

536
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: dear stories that really reinforced you how awesome the work

537
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: that you found yourself doing. Is do you have like

538
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 1: a do you have like a favorite story that the

539
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: portal has actually provided for someone that you want to

540
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: share with us? You know there are many stories. It's

541
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: probably not fair to say a, but share one one

542
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: of your favorite ones. So will let our listeners understand

543
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: just how profoundly important this work is.

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00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can give you one. So there's a young

545
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 2: girl named Mikeaisha and seventeen. She is pregnant, and she's

546
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Speaker 2: about to age out of foster care. Oh gosh, a

547
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 2: pregnant seventeen year old in foster care in foster care?

548
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 2: Does it get worse? About to age out? Right? She's

549
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 2: about to be on her own. And when age out happens,

550
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 2: there is no safety net, right, there is no family. Right.

551
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 2: There are some things that you could tap into resource,

552
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 2: but they're part of a system, and that's very more

553
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 2: systematic under your stuff. But family, right, the family that

554
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 2: she was with, they weren't going to be with her anymore.

555
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 2: She was terrified, right, She's seventeen, pregnant, about to be alone.

556
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 2: She does not want the same life for her baby

557
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 2: that she had. But she's got nothing. And when I

558
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 2: say nothing, I don't just mean financially, like she's got

559
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 2: where do I even go? What do I do? Who

560
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 2: are my people? No family? What she did have was

561
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 2: a caseworker and that caseworker had care portal, And so

562
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 2: the caseworker goes to care portal and says, I have

563
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 2: a seventeen year old, pregnant young lady who's aging on

564
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 2: of foster care and she needs a crib to keep

565
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Speaker 2: her baby safe. Any help you can provide to be

566
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Speaker 2: appreciated submit.

567
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Speaker 1: I cannot imagine that fifty cribs didn't show me or

568
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:03,479
Speaker 1: fifty responsors to that. Yeah, So how does this work? Well,

569
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 1: it goes to the closest churches in the.

570
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 2: Area, so it's even used this proximity proximity all the time.

571
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Speaker 2: That is amazing. So the Denbo family at People's Church

572
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 2: get this request and they're like, we can help out

573
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:23,359
Speaker 2: with the crib. So they respond. So the caseworker and

574
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 2: the Denbo family get connected. Makasha gives permission for the

575
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Speaker 2: Denbos to show up at our house. And the Denbos

576
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 2: show up and they're at Macasha's house and they start

577
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 2: a conversation and they see the beauty and the brokenness

578
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 2: and the fear and this little girl, and they think

579
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 2: we can do something else, and so they do. They

580
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 2: throw her a baby shower, they start taking her to

581
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,840
Speaker 2: driver's head, they invite her to church with them, and

582
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 2: the next thing you know, the Denbo family becomes like

583
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Speaker 2: family because they treated her that way. Nakasha has her

584
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 2: baby and she's not alone, and her baby is not

585
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 2: going into foster care. Why because she's not alone. She

586
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 2: ends up getting married, gets into full time ministry with

587
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Speaker 2: her husband, serving kids aging out of foster care just

588
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:28,240
Speaker 2: like her. This is the power of relationship which wouldn't

589
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 2: have happened without a crib care portal putting a need

590
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Speaker 2: for a crib and somebody who said I can see

591
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 2: and serve my neighbor change life changed, which.

592
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Speaker 1: Is exactly what you're talking about. It's not just about

593
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,240
Speaker 1: the stuff, it's about the community that gets.

594
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,720
Speaker 2: So it's a meaningful connection, it's a transfer of hope.

595
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 2: And she is now in the ministry. She's now in

596
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Speaker 2: full time ministry serving kids just like her. Wow, isn't

597
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 2: that what you want? Yeah?

598
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not only what you want, but that is

599
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: a beautiful illustration of exactly what all this does.

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Speaker 2: An army of normal folks. Okay, is this thing in Memphis.

601
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 2: We had this talk this morning with the folks. But

602
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 2: it's not barely in Memphis. Oh, it needs to get

603
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,959
Speaker 2: barely out of the way, Memphis. Give me.

604
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 1: Your sales guy, your development guy. All right, you tell

605
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 1: your great storyteller, you know how develop relationships. You are

606
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 1: so warm, But your sales guy, so I know you

607
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:46,240
Speaker 1: know there's markets that are targeted.

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00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 2: Right now, what are your target markets? We're getting the

609
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 2: strategy now, right. So we learned a few years ago

610
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Speaker 2: we did some research. Fifty percent of the kids in

611
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 2: foster care are concentrated five percent of the counties. Whoa

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00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 2: say that.

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00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 1: Again, yes, sir, fifty percent of all So two hundred

614
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Speaker 1: thousand of these kids in fall square annually aren't only

615
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: five percent of the counties in the country.

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Speaker 2: That's correct. So you know where you gotta go. We

617
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Speaker 2: know where you gotta go. Well, where aren't you that

618
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 2: you got to be? All right? So there's ninety six

619
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Speaker 2: unique markets that make up that the first five percent

620
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Speaker 2: is ninety six markets. Right. There are places you'd think Chicago, Detroit,

621
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Speaker 2: Los Angeles. I would also think Louisville, Memphis, Little Rock,

622
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Speaker 2: thinking about my footprints and Albuquerque, Denver, Albuquerque, Denver, absolutely

623
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Speaker 2: all those places are on the list. It's just amazing

624
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 2: that it's actually fifty percent. It's not amazing that there's

625
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 2: higher number, but half half in five percent of the counties.

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Speaker 2: So we are in sixty four of those markets, sixty

627
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Speaker 2: four of those how many those ninety six markets? We're

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Speaker 2: in sixty four of those ninety six markets. Memphis is

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Speaker 2: one of them. And in some markets things are going amazing.

630
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 2: Los Angeles amazing, killing it, Dallas amazing, then Colorado Springs amazing,

631
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,359
Speaker 2: Kansas City amazing, many markets like that.

632
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: Memphis not so much. What are the thirty two that

633
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: you're not in? Give me a few of those, do

634
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:20,800
Speaker 1: you know, I'm off the top of your head. Oh

635
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 1: that's a good question.

636
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:25,280
Speaker 2: May I may be putting you in a bond there. Yeah.

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00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: But so you call yourself in Memphis because it's there,

638
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 1: but it's not being utilized.

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00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 2: It is anemic in Memphis, and let me give you

640
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:34,720
Speaker 2: some reasons why.

641
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,399
Speaker 1: Right, And I'm only saying Memphis because we're sitting over here,

642
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,359
Speaker 1: but we're also talking about there's got to be other

643
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 1: places like Memphis where it's there.

644
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Speaker 2: But not being used.

645
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,280
Speaker 1: And then there's thirty two not there of those ninety

646
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 1: six counties that is not even in Boston.

647
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Speaker 2: So we got a lot. Boston's not in it, Portland

648
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 2: not in it. For sure. I'll come up with some

649
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:57,399
Speaker 2: more as time grows.

650
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, but okay, so the point is right, there's massive opportunity,

651
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:03,319
Speaker 1: scale and opportunity here.

652
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 2: Still we're nine years in. We're not like the new

653
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 2: kids at the block, but we have so much room

654
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 2: to grow.

655
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:13,479
Speaker 1: Okay, tell me what gets quote a namic? Okay, what's

656
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: the barriers that got to be overcome in these growth markets?

657
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 2: So one of the barriers is how do we get requests?

658
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 1: Right?

659
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 2: Where do they come from? Child welfare is the number one,

660
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 2: Like ninety percent of requests that come in come from

661
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 2: child welfare. In Tennessee, we have yet to land the

662
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 2: plane with the state on the state really using care

663
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 2: portal in their child welfare department. So it's not just Memphis,

664
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Speaker 2: it's really a state thing. In Tennessee is a state thing,

665
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 2: and some other places it goes. The doors can open

666
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 2: in a particular market and not be statewide, but in

667
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 2: this state it hasn't opened yet at the state level.

668
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 2: And so therefore we're hindered in these major markets, Memphis

669
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 2: being one of them. But we're close. So how could

670
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 2: somebody Tennesseeans call your representative today? I could tell you

671
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 2: my friend's name, but I'm not going to say it

672
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 2: on the radio. Wow, all right, So that's very number one,

673
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 2: and we're close. I am confident you call me back

674
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 2: here in six months and we'll be there. Good. Right,

675
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 2: So that's number one. So we have a few vetting

676
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 2: organizations in Memphis who are submitting requests, but it's really

677
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 2: a small number of requests. And we've got fifteen or

678
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:33,280
Speaker 2: so churches who have signed up to join the network,

679
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 2: and we have a couple of businesses who've signed up

680
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 2: to join the network. But it's just a mnemic. We

681
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 2: have not had the boost in this city that we

682
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 2: really need. Some of its awareness, some of it's awareness,

683
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 2: some of it's the gatekeeping of not having the volume

684
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 2: of requests, because if you don't have a high volume,

685
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 2: you can't go build a huge network because if you

686
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 2: have a bunch of people sitting and saying I thought

687
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 2: there was a problem, well that's about so supply and

688
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 2: demand is actually a very strategic thing that we have

689
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 2: to balance. But when this door gets opened at the

690
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 2: state level and now we have more demand, like we

691
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,479
Speaker 2: got more requests coming in, then we need to figure

692
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 2: out how to service them. And that's what you do.

693
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 1: You build out the requests, then you build out this, right,

694
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: And that's what you do in all of these everything

695
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 1: market and these thirty two that you aren't in and

696
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: the anemic of the sixty four that you are you

697
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 1: and so that's what you're just doing it.

698
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 2: That's what we're doing.

699
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,399
Speaker 1: So you're building that on the development side while your

700
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: staff is doing the I don't know, programming work to

701
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: support all of that's right. And in the middle of

702
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 1: all of this, you're reuniting children with families who otherwise

703
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 1: would end up in foster care, who would lead to

704
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: the demographics of seventy five percent of our prison population

705
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: and all of the other things we've talked about. That's right,

706
00:42:56,360 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: that's right. There's freaking incredible, dude thing. Bro, it is

707
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: an amazing god thing. We'll be right back. So someone

708
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: is are you in Topeka? Yes, turn I always use

709
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,879
Speaker 1: the word Topeka because I think it's fun. Oh you're

710
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: not in Portland. Now, Someone sitting in Portland right now

711
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: saying this is stupid. How do they reach out and

712
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,359
Speaker 1: say I want to be I want this in my town?

713
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 1: Who do they how do they call? Who do they

714
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 1: reach what? What do they go to?

715
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the best channel is careportal dot org, careportal

716
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 2: dot or or g Right, you go to the careport

717
00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 2: dot org and you will find yourself either of someone

718
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 2: who wants to meet needs, someone who might want to

719
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 2: have their organizations submit needs. And there's pathways for you

720
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 2: to plug in exactly who you are, a business owner,

721
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 2: a church, an agency, an individual, it doesn't matter. You

722
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 2: plug in and then our team will be able to

723
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 2: be in contact with you to say we're going to

724
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,360
Speaker 2: help you move forward. And if you're in a market

725
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 2: that we're not in yet, then there's a different path. Right.

726
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 2: We need influencers to bring about favor in a market

727
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 2: before we can actually really get off the ground. And

728
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,800
Speaker 2: we need influencers to bring resources in a market. Okay,

729
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 2: use words that people like me understand. What do you

730
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 2: mean by influencers to bring resources? Yes, so plane talk

731
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 2: this morning, We're at a table with some folks you

732
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 2: put together, right. Some of them are business owners, some

733
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:54,240
Speaker 2: of them have relationships with government leaders and with state

734
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 2: people and city people and so on and so on.

735
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,320
Speaker 2: And if those people said, hey, I'm I'm going to

736
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 2: invest in getting this off the ground financially because it

737
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 2: cost seventy five percent of our expenses are market specific,

738
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 2: that's a lot of money. You bring in two, three

739
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 2: four people into a market, you got to pay those people.

740
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 2: So can people invest financially to help get this off

741
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:20,359
Speaker 2: the ground in their market? That's one clear need? And

742
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 2: can people use their influence to either bring about other

743
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 2: investors or to bring about people who can remove barriers,

744
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 2: to create awareness, to get people excited about this is

745
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 2: coming to our city? Do you want to be part

746
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 2: of it? And when you can set a table like that,

747
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:38,959
Speaker 2: now we have the ingredients that we need in order

748
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,280
Speaker 2: to build a team and go hard.

749
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: And you can get help to start down that path

750
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: at your website.

751
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 2: So if you are a church, a business leader, an individual,

752
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 2: an agency, website does all those things. But if you're like,

753
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:01,720
Speaker 2: I want to invest in bringing this to my city,

754
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 2: then you should email me. How do you do that?

755
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 2: It's Adrian dot Lewis at Careportal dot org A d

756
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 2: R I E N dot L e W I s

757
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 2: and you will respond, and I will respond. Are you

758
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 2: in Atlanta? Yes? Is it active there? Yeah, it's active. Yeah,

759
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 2: it's active. I would say it's medium. And Atlanta we've

760
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 2: got some markets crushing it. It's not at full bore.

761
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:34,840
Speaker 2: There's work to do still, but it's it's medium in Atlanta.

762
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: I just you know, the guy who grew up not

763
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: fitting and with all of the different stuff you had

764
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 1: going on to end up where you are now with

765
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 1: a sassy Cuban mother, treesa right and doing what you're doing.

766
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 1: It just is them and dream really. It's also it's

767
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 1: also a real testament to the power of faith in

768
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: a person's life. But if that wasn't enough, there's a movie.

769
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:25,919
Speaker 1: There's a movie about care portal. How does that work? Yeah,

770
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: so in production or in development. I don't even know

771
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: where it is.

772
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:33,319
Speaker 2: It's not out. Yeah, it's coming to a theater soon. Oh,

773
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 2: tell me about it, all right. So, back in the

774
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:42,800
Speaker 2: late nineties, there was this family pastor and his wife

775
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 2: who really felt like they were supposed to adopt kids

776
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:50,400
Speaker 2: out of foster care. Didn't know much about the system,

777
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 2: but they just knew that it was clear in God's

778
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 2: word that we are to care for the most vulnerable,

779
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 2: and this was a way they could do it. They

780
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:02,800
Speaker 2: inspired their little congregation in a place called Possum Trot Texas.

781
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 2: Awesome Possum Trot Texas, East Texas, all the way out

782
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 2: there in the woods, real small poor community, Possum Trot Texas.

783
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 1: And they, of course it's a small congregation in a

784
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: place called It's like he all salute right.

785
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 2: Wow, awesome Trot tests Texas. Yeah. So, twenty two families

786
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 2: adopted seventy seven of the hardest to place kids in

787
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 2: the foster care system.

788
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,360
Speaker 1: How many people in the congregation that had to have

789
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:38,280
Speaker 1: a massive percentage of the congregations most of them. Twenty

790
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 1: two families.

791
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 2: Families adopted seventy seven kids. Holy Crawley, that's right. And

792
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 2: it was beautiful and a blood bath. Really, it's so hard.

793
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 2: I mean, three of my six kids are adopted through

794
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 2: foster care. I can tell you some stories. Bro. It

795
00:48:56,560 --> 00:49:00,479
Speaker 2: is really really hard, and it's really really good. It's

796
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 2: both beautiful and blood bath at the same time. And

797
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 2: I personally think that's where the best things are born.

798
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 2: So this just community does this thing. This movie is

799
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:17,800
Speaker 2: about that community. Josh and Rebecca Wigel are the writers

800
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 2: and producers of this film. We've been really connected to

801
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 2: them for five or six years now. We've been connected

802
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 2: to the Martin family. This is the pastor and his

803
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:30,479
Speaker 2: wife in Possum Trot, Texas. Are they still there, kid, Yeah,

804
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 2: We've been with them, connected to them for at least

805
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 2: a decade. And so when Josh and Rebecca brought this

806
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 2: script to Joe, he read it and felt like, this

807
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:44,720
Speaker 2: is not just a movie. This is about a movement.

808
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 2: This is something that we can do to end the

809
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 2: foster care crisis in our country. If we can show

810
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 2: the power of one little community, normal folks. What's possible

811
00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:00,880
Speaker 2: that they did? How crazy would that if the world

812
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 2: got to see and got inspired to do what they

813
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 2: can do where they are. And so we came alongside

814
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 2: of them, and it's taken a while. It's a one

815
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 2: hundred percent donor funded film. It's a pretty significant budget.

816
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 2: And when we say pretty significant, we're the millions. We're

817
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:18,359
Speaker 2: not a one hundred stars. We're talking about a real

818
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 2: movie over ten million. Yeah, So produce the film and

819
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 2: then have to figure out what's the real purpose here?

820
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 2: Is it just make a movie? Nope? It's about a movement,

821
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 2: which means action, and so care Portal is not in

822
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:38,879
Speaker 2: the movie, but care Portal is part of the back

823
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 2: end campaign for when somebody wants to take action, what

824
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,359
Speaker 2: do they do. Care Portal is stewarding the back end

825
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 2: campaign to plug people into opportunities to be foster adoptive parents,

826
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,239
Speaker 2: or to see and meet needs in their community through

827
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:54,759
Speaker 2: their church or their business, or as an individual. We

828
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 2: want to say you're not just going to a movie

829
00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,799
Speaker 2: and you're done. You go to a movie and then

830
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 2: you take action, and we're helping him make that happen.

831
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 2: So Angel Studios picked this up as a distributor, which

832
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 2: is a big deal. They're not some fly by night group.

833
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,319
Speaker 2: They are not. Sound of Freedom is a movie they

834
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 2: put out last July fourth. It's had over twenty million

835
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 2: people see the film. There was no real clear impact

836
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 2: campaign on the back end of that. They are super

837
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:30,359
Speaker 2: excited that now we have another round of inspirational move

838
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 2: the needle kind of film coming out July fourth over

839
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:37,600
Speaker 2: twelve hundred theaters, and on the back end of that,

840
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 2: there'll be a clear call to action for you to

841
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:42,440
Speaker 2: take action, and care Portal is going to help make

842
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 2: that happen. It's pretty special. Did you ever have imagined?

843
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 2: I mean, really, yeah, Bro, There's so many things in

844
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 2: my life that if you listen, the guy was fifteen

845
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:00,760
Speaker 2: years ago couldn't even be in this room. I couldn't

846
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:04,840
Speaker 2: even be in this room. I the person I am

847
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 2: today is not who I used to be. And all

848
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:12,760
Speaker 2: of that came from saying yes to opportunities to serve.

849
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:19,759
Speaker 2: You want to go ahead and give everybody the recognition

850
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 2: of the payoff is you get a thousand more times

851
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:25,240
Speaker 2: out of it than you ever put into it. People

852
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 2: know that you know that, you know that when you

853
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 2: serve and love somebody that it changes you. You actually become

854
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,800
Speaker 2: a better version of you. Doesn't everybody want to be

855
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:43,240
Speaker 2: a better version themselves? Seems pretty obvious, don't it, My brother?

856
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 2: I am you know when you start down this path

857
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 2: of this conversation, you're talking with a guy named Adrian

858
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:55,319
Speaker 2: who started care Portal, which is an online thing to

859
00:52:55,320 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 2: help kids. But the depth of it is absolutely phenomenal.

860
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:06,919
Speaker 2: And I am a big guy about being proactive rather

861
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 2: than reactive, because reactive is usually looks like a band aid,

862
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 2: and band aids eventually come off and scabs fester. That's

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Speaker 2: what reactionary stuff typically looks like. Proactive stuff, though, keeps

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Speaker 2: you from ever getting the cut on your arm in

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Speaker 2: the first place. And to me, that is so much

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Speaker 2: of what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: And you know the movie just just recently, we did

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Speaker 1: a podcast on farm Link and you need to go

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Speaker 1: listen to it. From this perspective, it has nothing to

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Speaker 1: do with fosh care. It's about linking food that gets

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Speaker 1: thrown away every day with food banks who don't have

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Speaker 1: enough food, and why we thrown away food when people

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Speaker 1: need food, Let's link them. And these college kids got

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Speaker 1: together and figured it out and they've moved over one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million pounds of food in three years.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing, connecting farmers who were throwing food away with

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Speaker 1: food banks and people who don't have food. Phenomenal story.

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Speaker 1: The reason they went from zero to one hundred so

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Speaker 1: quickly is because one of the one of the four

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Speaker 1: kids that started in this thing, was a documentary filmmaker

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Speaker 1: and he filmed it, and through that filmmaking he was

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Speaker 1: able to do storytellings. And through the storytelling, the New

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Speaker 1: York Times printed an article on the paper and then

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Speaker 1: ABC World News Tonight picked up that story and they

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00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:42,479
Speaker 1: called them three hours before going on air and saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: we'd love to cover this, but we need pictures. The

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Speaker 1: dude pulls over to Dairy Queen uploads pictures from all

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Speaker 1: the storytelling me doing was able to help them tell

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Speaker 1: a story, and by the next morning, boom, they had

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in account, a PayPal

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Speaker 1: a out that was linked to some softmores checkbook that

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Speaker 1: an hundred five thousand dollars and from that thirty days

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Speaker 1: it went nuts to now they are like the biggest

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Speaker 1: organization linking wasting food with people who need it. But

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Speaker 1: it all happened because they were doing the work. But

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Speaker 1: the work doesn't get scale without people knowing about it,

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Speaker 1: and people don't know about it without really professional good storytelling.

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Speaker 1: That's right, And to me, this movie is not about

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Speaker 1: making money off ticket sales. It's about spreading your brand

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Speaker 1: and letting others these thirty two counties that represent the

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Speaker 1: half of people that need to be served the most

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Speaker 1: found out about you, and so pairing the unbelievable you

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Speaker 1: work you do with fantastic storytelling in a metaphorical sense

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Speaker 1: is exactly what an army of normal folks tries to

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Speaker 1: do every Tuesday. And I just congratulate you on all

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Speaker 1: of it because it all makes sense. It's so much sense,

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Speaker 1: and it seems so comprehensive in terms of an.

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Speaker 2: Effort I am. I'm grateful for the invitation to be here. No,

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Speaker 2: I have had a trying to fund talking with you

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Speaker 2: me too. You make it easy. I don't know about

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Speaker 2: all that. It's like, this is just natural for you. No,

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Speaker 2: just having a chat, bro, that's what we're doing. How

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Speaker 2: hard is it? Talks about it that J actually respect

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Speaker 2: and you grow toike thank you for coming to Memphis,

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Speaker 2: appreciate it. More importantly, thank you for the amazing work

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Speaker 2: you have done and continue to do and your whole

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Speaker 2: group does to serve the neediest among us.

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Speaker 1: And I just I know, without a shadow of a doubt,

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Speaker 1: this thing is going to continue to grow. And those

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Speaker 1: of you listening out there, you have a chance to

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Speaker 1: change the world every day. And I'd get not having

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Speaker 1: the temerity to actually bring a foster kid into your house,

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Speaker 1: but how about doing something with a portal that allows

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Speaker 1: you to keep that foster kid from ever existing in

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Speaker 1: the first place.

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Speaker 2: Can't we just do that.

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Speaker 1: Adrian Lewis Care Portal Brother, thanks for the story, can't

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Speaker 1: wait to share it. Thank you, brother, and thank you

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Speaker 1: for joining us this week. If Adrian Lewis or other

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Speaker 1: guests have inspired you in general, or better yet, inspired

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Speaker 1: you to take action by signing up to join the

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Speaker 1: care Portal, by introducing care Portal to your church, bringing

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Speaker 1: the platform to your local community, donating to care Portal,

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Speaker 1: or something else entirely, please let me know I really

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Speaker 1: do want to hear about it. You can write me

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Speaker 1: anytime at Bill at normalfolks dot us and I will respond.

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Speaker 1: And if you enjoyed this episode, please share it with

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Speaker 1: friends on social, subscribe to the podcast and review it.

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Speaker 1: Become a premium member at normalfolks dot us. Do all

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Speaker 1: of these things that will help us grow an army

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Speaker 1: of normal folks. Remember everyone, The more people, the more impact.

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Speaker 1: I'm Bill Courtney. I'll see you next week.