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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to an iHeart special event look

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Speaker 1: for the Helpers by Rossident Scentives. And I feel so

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Speaker 1: blessed to be with you all today because as a

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Speaker 1: get people who have lost everything what they need. We

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Speaker 1: have talked a lot about the tragedy, but today I

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Speaker 1: want to share with you the people who are helping,

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Speaker 1: the organizations that are offering resource to Welifire victims, and

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Speaker 1: where to find them. If you're home and you're wondering

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Speaker 1: anywhere you are hearing this. We're going to help you

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Speaker 1: the answers. Today, we tell you where to look for

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Speaker 1: the helpers. My first guest today is First Partner of California,

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Speaker 1: Jennifer Siebel Newsom. Hi, Hi, thank you for doing this.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to because I know you've been touring all

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Speaker 1: really powerful. It touched my heart. Do you remember one

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Speaker 2: Well, yes, so many stories. A girlfriend of mine actually

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Speaker 2: lost everything in the Altadena fire, and instead of just

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Speaker 1: That's incredible as a mom. You know your mom, I'm

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been pretty brutal. I want you to talk

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Speaker 1: to us about California Love California is Strong.

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Speaker 2: So California Love, California Strong is a campaign that we've

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Speaker 2: you know, like say Phoenix rises from the ashes. In California,

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much, Jennifer for everything you guys

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, no, and I'm just so proud

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Speaker 2: Thank you, And hopefully California Love California Strong campaign will

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Speaker 1: Awesome and mentally that well. Thank you so much, Nandie

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's us. Betty Chokachi is known for his Rolem Daywatch,

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Speaker 1: Hi, Thank you so much David for doing this. Truly

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Speaker 7: You guys are doing something, you know, to highlight you

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Wow, I hate to say this, but I like

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Let me ask you, how can people help?

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Speaker 7: The best way people can help is to go foster pet,

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Speaker 8: that we need to help find the set animals, So

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Speaker 8: any pictures, any descriptions. Unfortunately, some families don't have pictures

441
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 8: of the stuff animals. Most still any links if they

442
00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:02,119
Speaker 8: got it from a website even five days ago or

443
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 8: five years ago, any helpful information. And then we posted

444
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 8: to our Instagram and the internet just goes crazy sloofing,

445
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,240
Speaker 8: and we have lots of people that just will find

446
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Speaker 8: these things in like under five minutes.

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Speaker 4: It's unbelievable.

448
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Speaker 7: Wow.

449
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 8: A father reached out to me and he said, my

450
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Speaker 8: twelve year old, he's older, but he really misses this

451
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 8: one stuffs animal.

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Speaker 4: He was born in Amsterdam, which from the zoo in Amsterdam.

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Speaker 8: I looked sort I'm sure you can't find it, and

454
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Speaker 8: I posted it and literally within ten minutes, somebody reached

455
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Speaker 8: out to me and said, I'm a former Angelino, I

456
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Speaker 8: live in Amsterdam.

457
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 4: I love fifteen minutes from the zoo. I'm taking my kids.

458
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Speaker 8: We're going right now to the zoo to get this

459
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 8: oh my to get this stuff's animal. And it's being

460
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Speaker 8: sent to this family. And when I told the dad,

461
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,120
Speaker 8: he was like, what, oh my god, oh my god,

462
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Speaker 8: You've found.

463
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Speaker 4: It, like he just couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 8: And the truth is that people are so eager to

465
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Speaker 8: help California, like people just want to feel like they're

466
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Speaker 8: making a difference because we feel so helpless.

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Speaker 1: It gives me goose bones. That's amazing what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you, how can people contact you, reached

469
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 1: you to be able to help you help them?

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Speaker 8: Honestly, we're doing so much through our Instagram, which has

471
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,880
Speaker 8: been really powerful and just posting the images and we're

472
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,399
Speaker 8: getting messages through there, so that's, you know, really a

473
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:15,959
Speaker 8: great way to get in touch is just through our

474
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 8: Instagram and we're reading all the messages. It's only me

475
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Speaker 8: and my my friend Amanda, so we are definitely we're

476
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Speaker 8: getting through it, but it's just us. So we're actually

477
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Speaker 8: headed to La tomorrow, which we are so excited about.

478
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Speaker 4: We're going to meet some of the families we're working with.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's correct, and we're excited. Awesome, And then tell

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00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 1: me the handle for you Instagram is La Underscore Lost

481
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 1: Underscore stuff, the Underscore project. Correct.

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Speaker 8: So it was, but we realized that this project had

483
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Speaker 8: legs and we want to help families just like yours.

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Speaker 4: How old your daughter, by the way, you said she

485
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:45,120
Speaker 4: was three and a half.

486
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Speaker 1: How old is she's now? She's thirteen, so she's a teenager.

487
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 8: And she's still missing that stuff down out because we

488
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:50,720
Speaker 8: can find it.

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Speaker 1: I swear on you know, I'm going to be saying

490
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Speaker 1: that you have a picture.

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Speaker 7: I am.

492
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 8: I am dead serious because our hope is to expand

493
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Speaker 8: this and to get reach every single family we've ever

494
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 8: been touched by a fire or a flutter or anything

495
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,160
Speaker 8: that's happened that you've lost that comfort item. Our goal

496
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,639
Speaker 8: is to really take this kind of international that is

497
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 8: so beautiful. So it's lost underscore, stuffy underscore project.

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Speaker 3: That's what it is now.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you so much. I appreciate you. You're amazing.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate you. Thank you so much for having me on.

501
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: Of course, bye bye, take care bye. So this next

502
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 1: story really got me. Darrek Coleman is the wife of

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Speaker 1: a firefighter at the fire Station sixty nine the Pacific

504
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Speaker 1: Poli Seats. I want you to hear this incredible story.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just going to welcome her and her friend

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Speaker 1: Michelle to the show. Hi, ladies, Welcome, Hi. Thank you

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00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 1: so much for doing this. So Darah, this is really

508
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Speaker 1: I have so many questions for you, ladies, because I

509
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: am fascinated about about the whole thing. But first I

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Speaker 1: want to start with you Zarah, you are married. Your

511
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,879
Speaker 1: husband is a firefighter. Right, we all know that these

512
00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 1: fires were so severe and just almost supernatural what happened

513
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:06,120
Speaker 1: to the city. As a wife and also a mom, right,

514
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Speaker 1: you have your husband going to work every twenty for

515
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,880
Speaker 1: seven because it became an old day. Yeah, but when

516
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Speaker 1: you go. I have a husband that is a police

517
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 1: officer but is an actress, so he goes to he plays.

518
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 1: He's acting, so he comes back home after he wraps

519
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: your case. You actually have somebody on duty for real,

520
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 1: And how do you handle like going to bed and

521
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 1: even navigating as a mom telling your kids, daddy is

522
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: going to save some lives and save the community and

523
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: it's very dangerous, but he'll be back. How do you

524
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 1: deal with that?

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Speaker 9: Oh? Yeah, that's it's definitely tough. But Chase and I've

526
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 9: been married for about fourteen years now, So I like

527
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 9: to tell other young firewives that you kind of get

528
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 9: used to it, You get used to them being gone.

529
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Speaker 9: And I know that his work is so important, meaningful

530
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,159
Speaker 9: to the city that he serves, So I mean, I

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00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 9: just feel so honored to be a part of that,

532
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Speaker 9: to be able to support him at home so he

533
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 9: doesn't have to worry about anything but what he's doing

534
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 9: out there. But as far as the kids, I mean,

535
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 9: my kids are older, they're nine to twelve, so they

536
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,400
Speaker 9: are they understand a little bit more. I can explain

537
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 9: a little bit more that you know that daddy's job

538
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 9: is dangerous. However, he is very talented and skilled, and

539
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 9: he works with other talented and skilled firefighters. So we

540
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 9: just pray and we have faith that he's going to

541
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,200
Speaker 9: be safe and that he will you know, come home

542
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 9: and be the amazing daddy he is. And he gets

543
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 9: to come home and gives them hugs and cuddles and stuff.

544
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 9: So yeah, it's it's it was tough early on, but

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Speaker 9: I feel as like a veteran firewife, like there's definitely

546
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Speaker 9: been some challenges that you just kind of lean into

547
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 9: it because you see the goal overall of how important

548
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 9: his job is and how is.

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Speaker 1: It feeling now that he his job is to have,

550
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Speaker 1: you know, and and protect a community and when you

551
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: think about the policys, most of it is is pretty gone,

552
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: you know, So mentally, how is he dealing with knowing

553
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: that he community that where he works at it's just

554
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: so bad right now?

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Speaker 9: You know, the first that first week obviously was was

556
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 9: so tough, and just hearing from him the first few

557
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 9: days how defeated heart he sounded on the phone. It

558
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 9: was heartbreaking because I knew that he felt shattered by

559
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 9: what he was seeing out there, because that was his

560
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 9: city that he is committed to serve. So yeah, overall,

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Speaker 9: just you know, it's it's really heartbreaking thinking about everyone

562
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 9: that's been displaced and been affected by the fires, because

563
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 9: as you know, like we probably all know someone that's

564
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 9: been affected. But yeah, it definitely was was tough those

565
00:29:55,640 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 9: first couple of weeks of having to understand the emotional

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Speaker 9: tour moil that he probably has was going through during

567
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Speaker 9: that time.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and I'm gonna now go to you, Michelle. What

569
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Speaker 1: was your first reaction to the whole idea?

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Speaker 5: Well, this is what's funny is that it was actually

571
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 5: I opened up my app and it was a Facebook

572
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 5: mommy's group in LA and she posted a punch list

573
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Speaker 5: of what she needed. And I've worked in in tior

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Speaker 5: design and like project management scarily for now like thirty years,

575
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 5: and I saw her list and I.

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Speaker 1: Was like, I can do that.

577
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 10: I can do that.

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00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 5: I can get the all tummer, I can get the mattresses.

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Speaker 5: I know I can hustle and get this done, and

580
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 5: I said, I wrote on there, I got you a

581
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 5: messaging you directly, and I'm telling you it went. I

582
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Speaker 5: worked for them for two weeks straight, basically full time,

583
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Speaker 5: like as a pro bono volunteer, and.

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Speaker 9: In that.

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00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: It's been the most rewarding thing. Her Chase.

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00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 5: Her husband is like one of the most honorable, amazing people.

587
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 5: All of these guys are the same. They're just incredible

588
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 5: human beings.

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00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: And I saw the need of.

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00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 5: I basically segued them into being my clients a bit

591
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 5: of like advocating for them and listening to what they

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00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 5: needed there. And I saw that they needed to get

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00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 5: all that smoke damage out and at the time, the

594
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 5: whole system was so overwhelmed that they needed our assistance

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00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 5: in that first week or so after. So it's like

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Speaker 5: the second phase of recovery for them, and it's basically

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00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 5: their lives are changed, like all of us are. Every

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00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 5: single one of our preschool friends is displaced right now,

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00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 5: I have a five year old son. Every single one

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Speaker 5: of them is displaced either, like I think ninety percent

601
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 5: of them. One in Rustic Canyon didn't lose their house,

602
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 5: but they're displaced still because of the evacuations. But every

603
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 5: single one of our friends lost their homes and I

604
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 5: just happened to move, so I'm housed. And I joked

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00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 5: as a single mom, it's like you can't stop a

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00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 5: single mom with a good night's sleep, no preschool germs

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00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 5: or a cup of coffee. And that's sort of like

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00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 5: they caught me on a good week and I was like,

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Speaker 5: I can do this for them, and here we are.

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00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 5: And then I brought in David Chokichi because he's married

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00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 5: to a very good friend of mine, and he tagged

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00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 5: team with me and we pulled up their carpet and

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00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 5: then we started getting phone calls from other captives.

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Speaker 3: Like how did you get this done?

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00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: And then I started like we started.

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00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 5: Hooking up or trying to figure out how to help them,

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00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 5: but find like now the foundation, LAFD Foundation is on board,

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00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 5: and I'm happy to help them and there's a huge need,

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Speaker 5: Like I went to the city hall last night in

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00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 5: the at Santa Monica City College to stay informed of

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Speaker 5: like the next steps, and David inspired me a lot

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00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 5: because he's been in the public sphere for a long time,

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Speaker 5: and he gave me really good advice about just like

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00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 5: this is the time I.

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Speaker 1: Just spoke to him and he was just amazing and

626
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: all the work is doing with animals is yes, really incredible.

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00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: How can people help you, ladies? You know, because for

628
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: all the listeners that they're like from Los Angeles or

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Speaker 1: even far away, and they are asking asking how can

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00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: I help? How can we what else is needed for

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Speaker 1: you guys to continue this mission?

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00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 9: Well, for me, I feel like just you know, there

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00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 9: has been an outpouring of physical donations to the fire station.

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Speaker 9: So I think at this time, if people want to

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00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 9: contribute just contributing to the fire Foundation, and if they

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00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 9: want to specifically help Station sixty nine, they can make

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00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 9: a notation to you know, to contribute allocate their funds

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00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 9: to Station sixty nine.

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00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 5: There's a drop down menu on the website where you

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00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 5: can choose your stations.

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00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: Just interjecting as.

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Speaker 9: Right right now, you're right, and then long term, I mean,

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00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 9: another organization that is so dear to our hearts as

644
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 9: a fire fan is the Widow's Orphans and Disabled Firefighters.

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00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 9: They're an organization that helps fire families long after the

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00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 9: crisis is over. So that's also really important. So just

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00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,240
Speaker 9: two organizations that would be helpful.

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00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: Beautiful, Well, thank you so much, ladies. I truly appreciate

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00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: all you're doing. And yeah, I think listeners are going

650
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 1: to really relate to what you guys are doing and

651
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: get inspired, you know, and encouraged to also help. Thank

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00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 1: you for having me, of course. Bye bye. Now we

653
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 1: have doctor Paan McGee, the executive director and principle of

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00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: Policics Charter High School that has suffered immense damage displays

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00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 1: in the student body.

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Speaker 7: Hi.

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00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, how are you?

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00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,399
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for doing this today? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: thanks for thank you for doing it, of course, no,

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Speaker 1: I love it. Let me ask you explain what happened

661
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Speaker 1: to the school exactly.

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Speaker 9: So.

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Speaker 11: Palastage Charter High School, along with so many arts and

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Speaker 11: homes and businesses in the Palisades, was severely damaged by

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Speaker 11: the Palisades fire. On our campus. We're fortunate that our

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Speaker 11: historic front of the campus buildings are still intact, but

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Speaker 11: more than twenty classrooms at the back of our campus,

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Speaker 11: along with our study center, our media lab which was

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Speaker 11: brand new, along with computer labs, completely wiped out by

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Speaker 11: the fire.

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Speaker 1: That's unbelievable how many students have been displaced.

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Speaker 11: So we have a student body of three thousand students

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Speaker 11: and they come from all over Los Angeles. Approximately six

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Speaker 11: hundred live in the immediate palisades. All of those students

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Speaker 11: are displaced, as well as others that live in surrounding areas.

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Speaker 11: So at this point, I would say all of our

677
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Speaker 11: students are kind of scattered while we work to make

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Speaker 11: sure that we can bring our school back together. Currently

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Speaker 11: we're using remote learning. That not ideal for students who

680
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Speaker 11: came through the pandemic, and you really do want to

681
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Speaker 11: be in person with their peers and with the teachers.

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Speaker 11: So much more effective for learning and just for social

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Speaker 11: emotional well being.

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Speaker 1: I know, I agree. It's it's it's absolutely devastating. And

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Speaker 1: let me ask you, how long do you think it's

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Speaker 1: going to take for you guys to be able to rebuild.

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Speaker 1: And there's going to be any health concerns with having

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Speaker 1: the kids back on campus.

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Speaker 11: God, well, we will not return until we are absolutely

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Speaker 11: sure that it's a safe environment. I think we're in

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Speaker 11: that process now, you know, going through that whole examination

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Speaker 11: and mitigation.

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Speaker 3: And campus is clean.

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Speaker 11: As I said, the front of the campus could absolutely

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Speaker 11: be used once it's cleaned, but it does have to

696
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Speaker 11: be thoroughly clean. We'd never want our students are staffed

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Speaker 11: to be in a safe space that's not safe. But

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Speaker 11: once we have that, I mean, I think we may

699
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Speaker 11: be able to return sooner, maybe rather than expected, so

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Speaker 11: we can use the front of our campus while construct

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Speaker 11: is happening at the back to restore the buildings that

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Speaker 11: were destroyed.

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Speaker 1: You know, in situations like this another the kids are homeschooled,

704
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Speaker 1: the life changes, it went from one day to the next,

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Speaker 1: you know, this situation was just absolutely horrific, you know,

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Speaker 1: and to be able to deal with these kids when

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Speaker 1: it comes to their mental health and how to navigate.

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Speaker 1: I know, parents, of course have their responsibility, and I'm

709
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: sure they do, you know, talk to them and you

710
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Speaker 1: go to the proper therapists, you know, a psychologists or

711
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Speaker 1: as a mom you know myself, you know, we talk

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Speaker 1: to them. But as a school that this came so

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Speaker 1: unexpected and the kids are not homeschool but I'm assuming

714
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Speaker 1: the parents and the teachers are all relying on the

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Speaker 1: community of the police school. How do you guys deal

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Speaker 1: with their mental health?

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, we've been really fortunate.

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Speaker 11: I mean, our school has always really put mental health

719
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Speaker 11: at the front of a lot of things that we do.

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Speaker 11: Students have shared with us how important that is, and

721
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Speaker 11: so we really tried, even before the pandemic to invest

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Speaker 11: heavily having a mental health support team, you know, making

723
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Speaker 11: sure that we're constantly sharing resources. This was, as you said,

724
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Speaker 11: so unexpected. We've had to, you know, pivot, make sure

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Speaker 11: that we're providing more resources that are out and available

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Speaker 11: in the community and unfortunately all around us. I mean,

727
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 11: there's so many entities that are providing those resources, but

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Speaker 11: you know, for us, for the parents and the students

729
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Speaker 11: who are staying connected with us, they're absolutely wonderful mental

730
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Speaker 11: health resources, counselors that students can speak with, parents can

731
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Speaker 11: speak with, and also to help make connections that may

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Speaker 11: be closer to their homes so that they have those

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Speaker 11: resources to follow up with while they're trying to get settled.

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Speaker 11: I mean, there's so many homes and families where you know,

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Speaker 11: they don't have their home, and then others where they've

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Speaker 11: been impacted in other ways. So just really trying to

737
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 11: pull together as a community to make sure that we're

738
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Speaker 11: all working together to support each other absolutely, to support

739
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Speaker 11: our kids.

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Speaker 1: Talk to me about raise Polly, you know, the fundraiser.

741
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 1: I want people to know how to about how to

742
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: help you guys.

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Speaker 11: So raise pally is easy to access if you you

744
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 11: can either go to the there's a special link, or

745
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 11: just go to our school website palihi dot org and

746
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,800
Speaker 11: there's a pop up that will come up immediately that

747
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Speaker 11: will show you, you know, take you directly to the

748
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Speaker 11: donation link. We are working to raise funds to make

749
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Speaker 11: sure that we're able to relocate. It will be a

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Speaker 11: temporary location, but you know, doing everything we can to

751
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 11: get our students back in person while we work through

752
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 11: these other pieces of cleaning our campus and restoring it.

753
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Speaker 11: You know, we need we need help as far as

754
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Speaker 11: providing extra field trip buses. We want to make sure

755
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 11: that during this period when we're having to rely on

756
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Speaker 11: virtual instruction, we're still providing lots of opportunities for kids

757
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 11: to be engaged and connected out in the community, because

758
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 11: that's what's really so important to them and what keeps

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Speaker 11: them really motivated and coming and being engaged in school.

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Speaker 11: You know, obviously it's athletics or our athletics are ongoing,

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Speaker 11: our clubs are ongoing, our performance, all of those are

762
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Speaker 11: things that we're keeping happening even where they're in this

763
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Speaker 11: virtual moment and it kind of displays from our campus.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing and all of those resources.

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Speaker 11: So, however, the community a if you can let us know,

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Speaker 11: if you're a studio and you're open to having students

767
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Speaker 11: come in and look and see what's going on, our

768
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 11: media class would so appreciate that. And the same is

769
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Speaker 11: true with all types of hands on activities museums, but

770
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Speaker 11: also helping us fund ways to get the kids there,

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Speaker 11: whether it's providing buses or just donations that help us

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Speaker 11: get kids to athletic events or whatever may be open

773
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Speaker 11: and available out in the community.

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Speaker 1: That's great. Thank you so much for that. That's very

775
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: specific and that's what we needed. People want specificity so

776
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: we know exactly what to do. So thank you so much. Fun,

777
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Speaker 1: We really appreciate your time.

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Speaker 11: Thank you so much for having us on, and thank

779
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Speaker 11: you for supporting Pali Hi.

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Speaker 1: Of course, Neuro Weinstein and Kelly Sawyer Patrikov are the

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Speaker 1: founders of the organization Baby to Baby, which delivers basic

782
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 1: necessities for children in underserved communities. They were named one

783
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Speaker 1: of Time magazines twenty twenty four most influential people and

784
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Speaker 1: are here to share with us how Baby to Baby

785
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: has been helping in this crisis. Hi ladies, how are you?

786
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being here with us.

787
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Speaker 10: Of course, thank you for having us.

788
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Speaker 1: So I'm going to refer to my notes over here.

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Speaker 1: Baby Too Baby has distributed over six million emergency supplies

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Speaker 1: in response to the LA fire crisis. How have you

791
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 1: been able to coordinate? Because there's a lot, It's just

792
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 1: an incredible amount, all of this. How do you make

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Speaker 1: it happen?

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00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 12: Baby to Baby all year long, for over a decade,

795
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 12: supplies basic essentials to children around the country. We support

796
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 12: a million children per year, so when something like this happens,

797
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 12: we are prepared because it is our everyday work. While

798
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 12: we're a national organization, we are very much born in

799
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 12: Los Angeles and it's our hometown, so we have very

800
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 12: deep relationships and know how to reach vulnerable kids at

801
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Speaker 12: these moments. We have a network of four hundred and

802
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 12: seventy partners in Las Angels alone, and that spans evacuation centers,

803
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 12: resource centers, homeless shelters, hospitals, schools, and so we were

804
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 12: able to reach out to them immediately.

805
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Speaker 1: And listen and find out what their needs were.

806
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Speaker 12: In these fires, which are always very specific to children,

807
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 12: like diapers and wipes and formula and hygiene items and

808
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 12: cribs and car seats and strollers. And then we were

809
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 12: able to immediately dive into action, sending our trucks filled

810
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 12: with these supplies into in and around Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: That's incredible. As a mom, and you guys are moms

812
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: as well, how is it? How do you feel? Because

813
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:47,439
Speaker 1: the organization is doing incredible work. Incredible work, Like you said,

814
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Speaker 1: you have a lot of resources and you've been very blessed,

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Speaker 1: you know, to have the distributors and the people that

816
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: are supporting you on behind you. But right at a

817
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: human level, when you see these kids that they're in

818
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Speaker 1: need and you guys are able to provide them and

819
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 1: you hand that to that child, what does it mean

820
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Speaker 1: to you? Ladies? When you see that phase? You slide up.

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Speaker 10: We were in Pasadena this weekend at a distribution and

822
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Speaker 10: you know, we're distributing basic supplies, basic emergency essentials like

823
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 10: diapers and formula and gets, some warm coats and clothing.

824
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Speaker 10: But we also try and you know, add some joy

825
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 10: for the children. So we build a toy shop and

826
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 10: we do distribute toys, even though perhaps they're not an

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Speaker 10: emergency essential. But to us, we want to see kids,

828
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Speaker 10: you know, have smiles on their faces. We want to

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Speaker 10: bring back a little joy into their lives. And the

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Speaker 10: resiliency of the children is amazing. They are smiling, they

831
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Speaker 10: are hugging, and they're giving you high fives. They're really incredible.

832
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 10: And so as a mom just seeing that, you know,

833
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 10: we're both so it feels so proud that we can

834
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Speaker 10: help in any way right now.

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Speaker 1: That's incredible. People listening, you know, they're asking themselves how

836
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 1: can I help? What can I do? You know, and

837
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: we're facilitating all this help, like you, guys, how can

838
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 1: people help bigitter Baby.

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Speaker 12: It continues to be true that donating money is the

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Speaker 12: most helpful, whether to baby to baby or any other

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00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 12: amazing organization on the ground right now. And the reason

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00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 12: is is that it allows organizations like ours to do

843
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 12: our work the most efficiently, and efficiency and timeless timeliness

844
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 12: matters a lot in a disaster. But in other ways,

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00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:32,760
Speaker 12: we do accept big palatized corporate donations, and that means

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00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 12: in our high need items. So that means that a

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00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 12: corporation can donate to us thousands or hundreds of thousands

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Speaker 12: or millions of high needed items like bottles of shampoo

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Speaker 12: and soap and cans of formula.

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Speaker 6: And clean water.

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Speaker 12: We are not, unfortunately, taking individual donations like a gently

852
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:56,400
Speaker 12: used or even new item of clothing from an individual.

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00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 12: And again, while we know how incredibly well intentioned that is,

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00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:06,280
Speaker 12: it burdens our system. And I think that's for almost

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00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 12: every organization in this space, and it doesn't allow us

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00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:12,320
Speaker 12: to do our most efficient work when we're getting in

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00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:16,360
Speaker 12: these palatized donations in such a high pressure time. So

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00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 12: people can donate money if they are a corporation, they

859
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 12: can donate in these larger, more organized ways, and then

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00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 12: they can also volunteer at our headquarters if they.

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Speaker 13: Are in fact local.

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Speaker 1: Amazing, Well, thank you so much, ladies, what you do,

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Speaker 1: it is pretty incredible, and we so much appreciated. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I love love this girl. She has so

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00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,400
Speaker 1: much energy that it pops out of your television screens.

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00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 1: She's using every little bit of it and she's helping

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Speaker 1: communities in a lay. If you are part of her

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00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,399
Speaker 1: contact list, let me tell you she's gonna be calling

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00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: you very soon. Because there's nothing know, things slowing down

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Speaker 1: GMI on a mission. Hi guys, JINEMI, thank you so

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00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: much for doing this. Yes, of course, thank you for

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Speaker 1: having me is. I'm a big fan and I'm even

873
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: more now with all this work, incredible work that you're doing.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you do everything, but you do

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Speaker 1: it all and you do it well. And I cannot

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Speaker 1: wait for you to talk to me and to the

877
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: audience about what you're doing the Dream Center. How can

878
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:27,840
Speaker 1: people help your involvement all of that.

879
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 14: Yes, well, first off, thank you, sorry, thank you for

880
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 14: so much. I'm in the middle of mom mode and

881
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,320
Speaker 14: figuring out life like everybody else here in La So

882
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 14: I just appreciate you like being able to cover something

883
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 14: like this, and we need the encouragement and we also

884
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 14: need direction to guide people on what they can do.

885
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 4: So I'm super here.

886
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 6: Love it.

887
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: So talk to me. What have you been doing? How

888
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: can people help you continue to help? Talk to me?

889
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 4: Yeah.

890
00:46:56,160 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 14: So, at this very moment, the great news is that

891
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 14: it rained we've been wanting that. We needed that more

892
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 14: than anything, and it revived everybody. It reminded everybody to

893
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 14: keep strong and be resilient and to keep doing what

894
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 14: we've been doing. I think that The most amazing visual

895
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 14: I've ever seen in all of the twenty five years

896
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 14: that I've lived in LA is seeing the city come

897
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 14: together in every way possible. I never received one, No,

898
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,320
Speaker 14: it was more of how and how much LA poured

899
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 14: when it came to outreach servitude. This morning, I was

900
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 14: just talking to one of the leading celebrity facialists in

901
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 14: Los ang Angeles, Shawne. Darden, who graciously offered pampering for

902
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 14: the first responders, the females who have not had a

903
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 14: day off since the day of the fire.

904
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Speaker 4: I can't even book an appointment to get in with

905
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 4: Seohn opening up her services.

906
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 14: Because everybody, no matter what you have, you can give,

907
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 14: we all need to help in some way. And so

908
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:59,320
Speaker 14: the number one thing I would say I'm encouraging anybody

909
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:03,320
Speaker 14: to help is still donate essentials are needed on the daily.

910
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 4: I would speak for.

911
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,320
Speaker 14: The La Dream Center, one of the organizations, one of

912
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 14: the only organizations in LA that has not turned away

913
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 14: donations because they have a line full of hundreds of

914
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,879
Speaker 14: cars every single day from six am all the way

915
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 14: tom driving through getting donations of toilet paper, feminine hygiene products, diapers,

916
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:25,360
Speaker 14: baby formula, clothing. We're good at I think clothing across

917
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:27,879
Speaker 14: LA being one of the fashion capitals of the world.

918
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 14: We've covered that, but we still need essentials as far

919
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 14: as the daily living. The same things that you order

920
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 14: daily from Amazon or Target, when you stop by Target,

921
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 14: you stop by Trader Joe's, those are the same.

922
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 4: Things that we need in Altadena.

923
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:43,400
Speaker 14: At this point, I'm not only continuing to donate and

924
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 14: telling everybody to donate to Dream Center, but I'm also

925
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 14: receiving donations for hot meals to be delivered in Altadena

926
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Speaker 14: because at this very moment, the families still don't have

927
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 14: power or running water, and they have strict rules to

928
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 14: not cook and they have to be in.

929
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 4: Perfume is six pm.

930
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Speaker 14: So if you can imagine, first of all, Altadena's freezing

931
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Speaker 14: at three point thirty pm. I was there the other

932
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Speaker 14: day and it was fifty degrees. Well, imagine these families.

933
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Speaker 14: If they've lost their house, they're they're bunking with some

934
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Speaker 14: of the families that haven't lost their houses, their neighbors

935
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:20,439
Speaker 14: in that area, or if they haven't lost their house,

936
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 14: they're securing their house because there is a string of

937
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:29,280
Speaker 14: professional looters that have camped out around Altadena to infiltrate

938
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Speaker 14: the homes. I think to date, I think about fifty

939
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 14: two different looters have been arrested by Now wow.

940
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 1: And let me ask you something. Should we be encouraging

941
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:42,320
Speaker 1: like I'm assuming the restaurants are showing not correct, a

942
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 1: lot of restaurants are actually donating meals and chips are cooking.

943
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 1: Like is there more food needs? Should we knock on

944
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 1: doors more restaurants and people to discos.

945
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 14: Yes, that would be amazing if I sent out an

946
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 14: Instagram post saying, any local restaurants in Altadena.

947
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 4: If you're working, you're in business.

948
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Speaker 14: We want to donate to you so that you can

949
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Speaker 14: make meals or if you would like to donate meals,

950
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 14: we'd love to take it. So Vedos Restaurant, a long

951
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:12,360
Speaker 14: running family owned Mexican restaurant, has been incredible feeding Altadena.

952
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 4: Another restaurant was called Womb's Kitchen.

953
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Speaker 14: They've been a Chinese restaurant that's been feeding Altadena as well. So, yes,

954
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:21,880
Speaker 14: any local restaurants in Altadena, in Pasadena, anywhere in the

955
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:23,800
Speaker 14: surrounding area, let's keep the business alive.

956
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 4: And if you also want to help support all of the.

957
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Speaker 14: People that have been affected, not just people who aren't

958
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,840
Speaker 14: who have lost their homes, but the service people that

959
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:39,400
Speaker 14: used to help service fee homes or the businesses around

960
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Speaker 14: Altadena or Pasadena.

961
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Speaker 4: I have a Google doc that I can forward to you.

962
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 14: Babysitters, gardeners, dog walkers, every deep type of person that

963
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 14: has been helping all of these displaced families.

964
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Speaker 4: Our job right now. If you are supporting LA, if

965
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Speaker 4: you're from.

966
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Speaker 14: LA, or if you're just a friend to LA, we

967
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 14: need people to help keep the eco system alive.

968
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 4: You know, not only can you donate, but you can

969
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 4: hire these people that have lost their jobs.

970
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 14: You can help to contact the LA Dream Center who

971
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 14: are organizing clean up crews and they're going out in

972
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 14: the next couple of weeks to help clean up all

973
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 14: the ash and the debris because as you can see this,

974
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 14: there's no way this is going to be cleaned up

975
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:21,800
Speaker 14: because we're already short on firefighters and service workers.

976
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 4: To be able to mean this, we need actual people

977
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:23,879
Speaker 4: to help.

978
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 14: So the great thing about LA is whatever you can do,

979
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 14: it is it is absolutely necessary and it can be welcomed.

980
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 1: That's incredible, Gennima, You're amazing. It's so much stuff that

981
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: is needed, guys, and you know what you know what happens,

982
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:44,280
Speaker 1: I think with people because oh, the fires are under control, Okay,

983
00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 1: so the news they're not playing it as much. Therefore,

984
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 1: oh it's okay, it's gone, and people forget. And the

985
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: reality is this is something that is going to continue

986
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:57,840
Speaker 1: the struggle all these families. It's going to contribute for

987
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,120
Speaker 1: a while, So it's not a one time thing and

988
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:01,800
Speaker 1: then I did my part and I'm out. You know,

989
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: it has to be an ongoing effort because it's going

990
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 1: to take them a while to be able to get

991
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 1: back to what they consider normal.

992
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 14: Yeah, and I want to emphasize when you say a while,

993
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 14: we're talking about something close to maybe ten years to rebuild.

994
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:21,800
Speaker 14: I mean we're talking about complete communities and lives that

995
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 14: are going to be transformed as of now. You know,

996
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:28,839
Speaker 14: to rebuild the structures is one thing, But to bring

997
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 14: the community back together so that it feels safe and

998
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 14: it's thriving, that all depends on us.

999
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 4: So we don't want people to lose jobs that they

1000
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:37,479
Speaker 4: have to move away.

1001
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 14: We don't want to make housing so unaffordable that people

1002
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 14: can't afford housing. These are all things that we have

1003
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 14: to mindfully all do our parts so that we don't

1004
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 14: change what the ecosystem was in LA, but we instead

1005
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 14: make it stronger because we band together, but all together,

1006
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:56,000
Speaker 14: we need to all recognize that there needs to be

1007
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 14: grace across the board, whether you work for an insurance

1008
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 14: company or you can hire an employee that has been displaced,

1009
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 14: or you can be mindful about just the community being

1010
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:07,839
Speaker 14: shaken up and just be more gentler as we move

1011
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 14: around each other in this uncertain time.

1012
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:11,799
Speaker 4: Yes, let's get do our part.

1013
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:14,799
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Well, thank you, Jini Mine, thank you so much.

1014
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 1: Please follow her on Instagram your next level, your next level,

1015
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 1: and we hear you and thank you for all you do.

1016
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 4: Is of course, and donate to Dream Center.

1017
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 14: Please donate to Dream Center, call them, make financial donations.

1018
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 14: They are not only accepting donations to hand out to

1019
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 14: displace families, but they shelter actual families who have lost

1020
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:35,440
Speaker 14: their homes as well. At this very moment, I think

1021
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 14: they've got about thirty families that they're housing. So just

1022
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 14: please please do support Dream Center. If you want to

1023
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 14: pick one place that is working three hundred and sixty

1024
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 14: five days a year and plug in and help out

1025
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:46,719
Speaker 14: whatever you can give, Like Shanny Darted maybe it's a

1026
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:48,240
Speaker 14: facial to one of our first responders.

1027
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:52,319
Speaker 1: There you have it, well, Thank you so much, mama,

1028
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 1: have a great day. Avasasomation is providing marginalized populations with

1029
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 1: footword to encourage healthier lifestyles. Its founder, Drinking Mendiaz, is

1030
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:04,839
Speaker 1: out in the street handing out sneakers to those who

1031
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 1: have none. Let's find out more about this story. Hi Eranging,

1032
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:12,440
Speaker 1: Hello there, How are you good and yourself?

1033
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:13,319
Speaker 13: I am good.

1034
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining this amazing special that

1035
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: we have going here to help people. I want you

1036
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: to talk to me about your story because I believe

1037
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:27,320
Speaker 1: that this is very close to you in terms of

1038
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:30,240
Speaker 1: like you remember the time that when you had somebody

1039
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 1: give you two pairs of shoes and that moment, I'm

1040
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 1: assuming we're in marching for life.

1041
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 15: Yeah, it changed everything, you know, in different phases of

1042
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 15: my life. It changed you know, being a kid that

1043
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 15: couldn't afford shoes. It changed my confidence, and then you know,

1044
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 15: into my teens in early twenties, you know, it changed

1045
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 15: my the way I dressed and how I put outfits together,

1046
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 15: and you know, confidence even through through my twenties. But

1047
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:02,319
Speaker 15: then you know, in my thirties sneakers. They didn't mean

1048
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 15: the same thing as they once did, so I, uh, yeah,

1049
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 15: I started questioning everything, you know, sadness and just my career,

1050
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 15: like everything wasn't where I wanted to be, you know.

1051
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 15: And I had all these shoes in my in my collection,

1052
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:22,799
Speaker 15: and I just wasn't happy. And you know, one one

1053
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 15: day I decided, uh to give them away and use

1054
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 15: my you know, my passion for photography to tell the

1055
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,400
Speaker 15: journey of the sneaker. So they started in my collection

1056
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:36,239
Speaker 15: and then they went to somebody else that could use

1057
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:40,000
Speaker 15: them more than me, and I changed directions and with

1058
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 15: the idea and just you know, deciding to give away

1059
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 15: my collection. Uh that that was the birth of have

1060
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 15: a Soul.

1061
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:54,399
Speaker 1: Do you remember a specific moment of you giving away

1062
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 1: a pair to some kid and the reaction that the

1063
00:55:58,800 --> 00:55:59,239
Speaker 1: kid had.

1064
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:02,800
Speaker 15: I do, I do remember. There's there's many moments that

1065
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:05,480
Speaker 15: you know, we've been doing this since twenty fourteen, so

1066
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 15: there's just you know, thousands of kids and young adults

1067
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:13,120
Speaker 15: and you know, even the elderly that we've we've been

1068
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 15: able to put some fresh pairs of sneakers on. But

1069
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 15: you know, the first thing that comes to mind is

1070
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:23,240
Speaker 15: I think maybe twenty sixteen. We were at a shelter

1071
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:26,800
Speaker 15: downtown of LA and this we were doing something for

1072
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 15: the holidays, and this family came in late and we

1073
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:32,839
Speaker 15: were already packed up. We packed up everything that we'd

1074
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 15: collected for the Christmas event, toys, books, clothes, shoes, everything,

1075
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 15: and I just remember the two teen boys being very

1076
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 15: grateful that we were there, even though they didn't get anything.

1077
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 15: So long story short with that, my friend ended up

1078
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 15: giving the shoes off his feet pair of Jordan Eleven's concords,

1079
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 15: probably one of the you know, most favorite shoes that

1080
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:03,600
Speaker 15: people in the sneaker game love, right, So they he

1081
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 15: got those shoes and we collected the sizes for the

1082
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 15: rest of the family and came back another day. But

1083
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 15: he was I think seventeen. Yeah, he was about seventeen

1084
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 15: years old when my friend gave him the shoes off

1085
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:19,000
Speaker 15: his feet. And when he was twenty one years old,

1086
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 15: five years later, he DMed me and was like, hey, man,

1087
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 15: I this is Elijah. Do you remember me? This is

1088
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:27,600
Speaker 15: I was like, of course, So now he's all grown

1089
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 15: up and he's like, I want to come back out

1090
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Speaker 15: and volunteer.

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Speaker 6: You know that.

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Speaker 15: That week came out and gave shoes with us. So

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Speaker 15: that's one moment that was kind of full circle for me.

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Speaker 1: That's pain and forward. You know that, that's incredible one

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Speaker 1: of those moments.

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: How can people help your mission if they want to

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00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: volunteer and join your you know, your your program, how

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Speaker 1: can they do that?

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Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean it's it's a difficult question to answer

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00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 15: right now because we're in the middle of just all

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Speaker 15: this chaos that la with the wildfire, and you know,

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00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 15: some of our needs have shifted. So we're currently fundraising

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Speaker 15: for sneaker gift cards for kids because we're limited on

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00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 15: sneakers sizes for children, So you know, we're purchasing gift

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00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 15: cards from different shoe stores fifty dollars apiece so that

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00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 15: when we give shoes to the parents, we can also

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00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 15: hand them a gift card and it doesn't feel like

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00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 15: the kids are left out. So we're also running low

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00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 15: on women's inventory. So if our women's sneaker heads out

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00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 15: there want to give up some shoes, like, we'd be happy.

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00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:42,280
Speaker 15: Mostly looking for sizes eight, nine, ten, and then also

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00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:47,800
Speaker 15: like six and seven would help a lot. So yeah,

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00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 15: I mean, we're just trying to make sure that we

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00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 15: are lacing up the families that have lost everything right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's incredible. And people, how can they find you?

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00:58:56,680 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 1: The website is have asoul dot com. Yeah, and on

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00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:04,520
Speaker 1: Instagram the same thing at have a Soul, I have

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00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 1: a Soul? Correct, Yeah, h A V A S O

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Speaker 1: L E.

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Speaker 15: There's no E in the half.

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00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:12,520
Speaker 1: So but you'll find us.

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00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 15: We're we're out there. We've been doing this for over

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00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 15: ten years.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. Well, we appreciate you, Thank you so much

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00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 1: for doing this.

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00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 15: Thank you for the invitation.

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Speaker 1: Of course. Joining me now is Richard au CEO of

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00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:38,959
Speaker 1: a very well known Los Angeles charity called Project Angel Food.

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00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 1: Governor Knewsom and his family recently visited and volunteered their

1131
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:45,800
Speaker 1: time at Project Angel Food to help get meals to

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00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 1: the people who needed them.

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00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 13: Hello, Hi, Hi, how are you?

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00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:54,000
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for doing this. We appreciate you.

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00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:56,760
Speaker 13: Oh my god, I appreciate you.

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00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 1: We're going to do have I have questions here that

1137
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:02,840
Speaker 1: I want to ask you, right so we can cover

1138
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:05,520
Speaker 1: everything on the amazing what you're doing. So talk to me.

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01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:07,680
Speaker 1: I want to know how does a person react when

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01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:10,520
Speaker 1: you provide them a meal? That otherwise they wouldn't have.

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01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 13: You know, Project Angel Food has been around for thirty

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01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:17,640
Speaker 13: five years, and we feed people who are sick, hungry,

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01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:22,600
Speaker 13: and alone, and we provide them with medically tailored meals.

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01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:27,240
Speaker 13: So it's not just food, it's food that helps them

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01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 13: get better. And so we are providing meals for people

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01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:36,840
Speaker 13: not just impacted by the fires, but impacted by illness

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01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 13: and poverty. So there are layers of things going on.

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01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:45,480
Speaker 13: And so our founder Mary Anne Williamson says, when you're

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01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 13: delivering food to someone, you're delivering love. And so what

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01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:53,960
Speaker 13: happens when you knock at the door and you wait

1151
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 13: for that client to answer the door, it is a

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01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:04,320
Speaker 13: huge warm of gratitude coming at you.

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01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 6: That's what you feel.

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01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:09,960
Speaker 1: That's incredible and what has been the biggest impact made

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01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:12,920
Speaker 1: on you personally through your work at the organization. You've

1156
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 1: been with organization for how many years now?

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Speaker 13: I've been here for nine years. And I will tell

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01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 13: you if rosalind, if you ask yourself what's my legacy,

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01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:31,840
Speaker 13: I have asked myself that in my entire life, my

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01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:36,959
Speaker 13: legacy is Project Angel Food. My legacy is taking care

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01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:41,800
Speaker 13: of the most vulnerable among us. This is what my

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01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:45,400
Speaker 13: mark is going to be and so I feel every

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01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:49,960
Speaker 13: day that I come to work, I'm helping people. I

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01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 13: feel it. It's tangible. We could prepare and deliver one

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01:01:55,280 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 13: point five million meals a year. He's one done individually,

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01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:08,040
Speaker 13: each one powered by people, volunteers or staff, and delivered

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01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 13: by volunteers and staff.

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Speaker 1: How many How many people do you have? How many

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01:02:14,840 --> 01:02:17,000
Speaker 1: are part of this big machine to be able to

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01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:19,960
Speaker 1: accomplish something so huge and incredible.

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Speaker 13: We have ninety eight people on staff and thousands of

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Speaker 13: volunteers right now, I just walked from our kitchen. Here,

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01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:36,880
Speaker 13: young and the restless is volunteering, every hunk, every beautiful star,

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01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 13: They're all there, and I gotta go. I got to

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01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:47,720
Speaker 13: talk to Roslin Sanchez play with I love it, and I.

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Speaker 1: Way to volunteer. So let me ask you. If they

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Speaker 1: help prepare the meals or they deliver the meals, if

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Speaker 1: I want to help Tomorrow, I call you, I said,

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Speaker 1: you know, Richard, I want to go on volunteer. What

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01:02:58,240 --> 01:02:59,080
Speaker 1: exactly do I do?

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Speaker 13: Either volunteer in the kitchen, so you help prepare meals,

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01:03:04,560 --> 01:03:09,160
Speaker 13: you chop vegetables. The governor and the first family they

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01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:14,280
Speaker 13: chopped vegetables and they also packed meals for us. So

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01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:19,560
Speaker 13: we have these lean cuisine type trays. It's an assembly line.

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01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 13: One person does the potatoes, another person does the protein,

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01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:28,480
Speaker 13: someone else does the veggies, and so it goes through

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01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:36,120
Speaker 13: a conveyor belt kind of like I love Lucy Chocolate episode,

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01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:39,720
Speaker 13: and then it gets heat sealed, and then someone else

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01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:42,320
Speaker 13: puts a label on it that tells you what the

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01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:46,080
Speaker 13: ingredients are. So that's one thing, and then you can

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01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:50,120
Speaker 13: also volunteer to deliver and see the clients who get

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01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:55,200
Speaker 13: the meals, and you know what that's really both are beautiful.

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Speaker 13: But I just delivered to one of the clients yesterday

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01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:04,800
Speaker 13: who lost his home in Altadena. All he said is

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01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:09,240
Speaker 13: standing is the chimney. And his name is Richard, just

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01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:13,520
Speaker 13: like me, and he's Armenian. His whole family came from Armenia.

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Speaker 13: And he said, you know, thank you so much for

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Speaker 13: the meals, Thank you so much. We gave grocery kits

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Speaker 13: to him, so non perishable items so that if he

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01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:29,400
Speaker 13: has another emergency he can take it. And we gave

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01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:34,520
Speaker 13: him hygiene items, you know, shampoo, conditioner all gone, and

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01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:37,760
Speaker 13: so we also gave him a thousand dollars gift card

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01:04:37,800 --> 01:04:40,640
Speaker 13: from Walmart, and he said, the first thing I'm going

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01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:43,080
Speaker 13: to buy is an electric razor.

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Speaker 1: Wow, isn't that unbelievable? Oh my god, it's incredible what

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01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 1: you guys do. Okay, how has Project Intel Food had

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01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:56,680
Speaker 1: to change their normal operation in order to attack the

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01:04:56,840 --> 01:04:58,439
Speaker 1: need in the Los Angeles area.

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Speaker 13: So the thing about the Project Angel Food is we're

1210
01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:08,360
Speaker 13: here before and during and after a crisis. So when

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01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:12,120
Speaker 13: the food trucks are gone, the evacuation centers are closed down,

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01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:15,600
Speaker 13: we're still here and we're still taking care of people.

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01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:18,720
Speaker 13: So what we have found is there's a lot of

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01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:24,960
Speaker 13: people who have respiratory problems or mobility issues and need food.

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01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:28,400
Speaker 13: In fact, I just got an email before I got here,

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01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:31,360
Speaker 13: and I'll read it to you because it kind of

1217
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:36,840
Speaker 13: exemplifies what happens here. My name is Anna, and my

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01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:40,720
Speaker 13: husband and I lost our home due to the eating fire.

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01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:44,320
Speaker 13: I heard of Project Angel Food through a friend. We're

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01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:48,560
Speaker 13: currently living at the Romata Hotel in Pasadena. My husband

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01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:52,200
Speaker 13: has mobility problems. We have two dogs. It's difficult for

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01:05:52,320 --> 01:05:56,480
Speaker 13: me to get around. Can I qualify? The answer is yes,

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Speaker 13: We're getting animals today.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Richard, I'm going to cry. That's amazing.

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Speaker 13: So what your point is, we're pivoting anyone with a

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Speaker 13: mobility issue, anyone with respiratory problems in the impacted area.

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01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:16,320
Speaker 13: We're fast tracking you where you call us work in

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01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:19,720
Speaker 13: the dispense with the usual forms and going to get

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01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:24,360
Speaker 13: your service. So we were processing about one hundred people

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01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:29,200
Speaker 13: as we speak to join our service, beyond the twenty

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01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 13: seven hundred we serve every day.

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Speaker 1: Unbelievable, incredible, God bless you guys. This is an incredible

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01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 1: thing that you guys do, feeding people, helping people mentally, physically, emotionally,

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01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:50,040
Speaker 1: making them smile again. It's truly incredible. Talk about legacy, man,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go to bed tonight thinking, Ross, what's

1236
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:53,840
Speaker 1: your legacy?

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01:06:56,240 --> 01:06:57,000
Speaker 4: Really talked?

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01:06:57,240 --> 01:07:00,000
Speaker 1: That really talked to me. So thank you so much

1239
01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:02,520
Speaker 1: for that, because it's important. It's important to go through

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01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:05,920
Speaker 1: life with a purpose and intention and moments like this

1241
01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:08,880
Speaker 1: when communities have to get together to help. You know

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01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:11,640
Speaker 1: how incredible you sleep at night when you close your

1243
01:07:11,680 --> 01:07:14,040
Speaker 1: eyes and you say, you know, I just changed someone's

1244
01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:16,000
Speaker 1: life today. It's a beautiful thing.

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Speaker 13: It is a beautiful thing. And I have someone who

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01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:23,200
Speaker 13: works here who packs our meals for us. Her name

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01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:27,760
Speaker 13: is Laura, and Laura said, what I know is the

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Speaker 13: meal I'm packing here is going to end up in

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01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:35,320
Speaker 13: a smile at someone's own and so I love that

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01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:40,240
Speaker 13: she sees that vision. She's never met the client, but

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01:07:40,400 --> 01:07:46,320
Speaker 13: she knows she's on them. People come here for the mission,

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01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:49,000
Speaker 13: and there are people who come here for a job,

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01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:51,400
Speaker 13: but they stay here for the mission.

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Speaker 1: Wow Wow, beautifully said, thank you, Richard, thank you so much.

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Speaker 13: Thank you for shining the spotlight on us. Of course

1256
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:04,720
Speaker 13: for making us one of those helpers that you're showcasing.

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01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:06,040
Speaker 1: Of course well deserved.

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01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:10,040
Speaker 13: Godless and Roslyn, I want you to come to the

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01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:12,280
Speaker 13: kitchen asat I will.

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Speaker 1: I don't cook that well, but I'm going to do

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01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:16,360
Speaker 1: it with so much love and so much passion that

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01:08:16,400 --> 01:08:18,479
Speaker 1: it will be amazing. I promise.

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Speaker 13: Thank you, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I Heeart, Bye bye Baby. List of Beverly Hills is

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01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:29,080
Speaker 1: operating families in NITA space to pick up not only

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01:08:29,160 --> 01:08:32,120
Speaker 1: strollers and cribs and essential gadgets for your children, but

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01:08:32,240 --> 01:08:35,320
Speaker 1: also realizing there is a string of months and providing

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01:08:35,400 --> 01:08:39,120
Speaker 1: them with personal healthcare products as well. Brand and media

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Speaker 1: VP Molly Goudson is here to tell us how they

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01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:46,439
Speaker 1: have been connecting with the community. Hi, welcome, thanks and

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01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 1: thank you so much for doing this. Yeah, talk to

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01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:53,400
Speaker 1: me about Baby List and what you guys are doing

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01:08:53,479 --> 01:08:54,959
Speaker 1: to help the community.

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Speaker 13: Yeah.

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Speaker 16: So we opened our showroom in Beverly Hill in twenty

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01:09:00,680 --> 01:09:03,400
Speaker 16: twenty three, so we've really felt like a part of

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01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:07,479
Speaker 16: the LA community since then. And when these fires started

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01:09:07,520 --> 01:09:09,640
Speaker 16: a couple of weeks ago, we knew we wanted to

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Speaker 16: do something, and we just saw this opportunity to take

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Speaker 16: this giant space that we have in Beverly Hills and

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Speaker 16: transform it into a donation center so that families that

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01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:21,280
Speaker 16: we know are impacted that have lost everything can come

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01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:23,599
Speaker 16: and get some of those essentials.

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Speaker 1: That they lost.

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Speaker 16: So we worked with over one hundred brand partners to

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01:09:29,560 --> 01:09:33,439
Speaker 16: donate items. We had two days of donations, one on

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01:09:33,479 --> 01:09:35,920
Speaker 16: the twenty first one on the twenty eighth, in which

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01:09:35,960 --> 01:09:38,400
Speaker 16: families could come and pick up things that they need

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01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:42,720
Speaker 16: like strollers and high chairs and car seats, as well

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01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:45,639
Speaker 16: as you know, things like breast pumps and baby clothes

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Speaker 16: and breastfeeding pillows and all of this stuff that you know,

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Speaker 16: it is not just a nice to have, it really

1293
01:09:51,160 --> 01:09:52,479
Speaker 16: is a must have, especially when.

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Speaker 1: You're expecting or have a new baby. How does it work? People?

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01:09:58,040 --> 01:10:00,320
Speaker 1: Do you need an appointment? Do you just you need

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01:10:00,360 --> 01:10:02,280
Speaker 1: an appointment to be able to know we.

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Speaker 16: Have RSVPs, But but people can also, you know, come

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01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 16: in if they have an RSVP'd. We understand that there's

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Speaker 16: a lot going on these days on social media and

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01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:14,479
Speaker 16: messages everywhere, so we just want to support folks who

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01:10:14,800 --> 01:10:17,240
Speaker 16: need it who could come in, but most people have

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Speaker 16: r s VP and just let us know which day

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Speaker 16: they're coming. Just helps us know be ready for the

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Speaker 16: flow of folks. And then when you come, you know,

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01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:27,000
Speaker 16: we'll chat with you and hear a little bit about

1306
01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:29,519
Speaker 16: what your need are, what age of the baby is

1307
01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:32,280
Speaker 16: a or babies, and we'll sort of direct you through

1308
01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:34,719
Speaker 16: the experience so that you know, we make it easy.

1309
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:36,120
Speaker 1: We don't want to be overwhelming.

1310
01:10:36,160 --> 01:10:38,640
Speaker 16: We know this whole thing is incredibly overwhelming, and our

1311
01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:41,599
Speaker 16: goal is really just to make it as easy as possible,

1312
01:10:41,680 --> 01:10:43,800
Speaker 16: and like work with brands that people already know and

1313
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:46,559
Speaker 16: love so they can actually replace some of the things

1314
01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:49,080
Speaker 16: that they, you know, have had in their life in

1315
01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:49,519
Speaker 16: the past.

1316
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:52,879
Speaker 1: How is it dealing with the distributors, You know, you're

1317
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 1: making those uncomfortable with wonderful phone calls, you know, to

1318
01:10:56,400 --> 01:10:57,639
Speaker 1: this company saying.

1319
01:10:59,080 --> 01:10:59,680
Speaker 6: People need this.

1320
01:11:00,160 --> 01:11:02,240
Speaker 1: Know, you know, these items a lot of them. They're

1321
01:11:02,320 --> 01:11:05,240
Speaker 1: not cheap, you know, but they're much needed. But how

1322
01:11:05,320 --> 01:11:08,280
Speaker 1: do you navigate that phone call with a distribute distributor

1323
01:11:08,400 --> 01:11:11,120
Speaker 1: and say, listen, it's your time to step up.

1324
01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:12,599
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1325
01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:16,519
Speaker 16: Well, luckily baby List has amazing partner relationships with all

1326
01:11:16,600 --> 01:11:19,280
Speaker 16: of these brands. I mean, as a universal registry, we

1327
01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:22,240
Speaker 16: work with every baby brand under the sun, so we

1328
01:11:22,360 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 16: have existing relationships and so really it was just about

1329
01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:27,360
Speaker 16: calling them up and saying, hey, is this something you

1330
01:11:27,439 --> 01:11:30,880
Speaker 16: want to participate in? And you know that's everyone from

1331
01:11:31,280 --> 01:11:37,680
Speaker 16: Bugaboo and Cybex and Stoka and Bobby and Buyhart. Just

1332
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:40,280
Speaker 16: like every the brands came out and they really wanted

1333
01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:43,160
Speaker 16: to show up. And it's been just incredible to see.

1334
01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:45,000
Speaker 16: I mean, it was way more than we ever thought.

1335
01:11:45,080 --> 01:11:48,000
Speaker 16: I mean, right now our showroom is just like floor

1336
01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:51,000
Speaker 16: to ceiling packed with these items and we just love

1337
01:11:51,479 --> 01:11:53,479
Speaker 16: being able to get them back into people's lives.

1338
01:11:53,800 --> 01:11:56,360
Speaker 1: That's fantastic and people want to help you and help

1339
01:11:56,400 --> 01:11:58,840
Speaker 1: you guys like what are the steps? You know, we

1340
01:11:58,920 --> 01:12:01,479
Speaker 1: have all these listeners that they're listening to this whole

1341
01:12:01,560 --> 01:12:04,280
Speaker 1: special because they want to be able to help, you know,

1342
01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:07,519
Speaker 1: not only from Los Angeles, from everywhere, Like, what is

1343
01:12:07,600 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 1: a good way to support what you guys are.

1344
01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:12,880
Speaker 16: Doing well, First and foremost, if you have a family

1345
01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:14,640
Speaker 16: in your life that has been affected, make sure they

1346
01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:16,679
Speaker 16: know about it. I think you know, it's been really

1347
01:12:16,720 --> 01:12:18,880
Speaker 16: important for us to make sure that folks hear about

1348
01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:21,240
Speaker 16: it and know what we're doing, so that everyone who

1349
01:12:21,320 --> 01:12:23,240
Speaker 16: needs it can get something that they need from us.

1350
01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:27,479
Speaker 16: And then we've had an amazing outpouring of volunteers which

1351
01:12:27,479 --> 01:12:30,879
Speaker 16: has been incredible, and so we've had everything from influencing

1352
01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:33,599
Speaker 16: celebrities just to brand partners and of course our own

1353
01:12:33,680 --> 01:12:35,640
Speaker 16: team working to do this.

1354
01:12:35,960 --> 01:12:38,120
Speaker 3: And then after after we're.

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01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:40,120
Speaker 16: Done with these two big donation days, you know, we

1356
01:12:40,240 --> 01:12:42,760
Speaker 16: know we will have some access product and that we're

1357
01:12:42,760 --> 01:12:45,479
Speaker 16: going to work and get distributed to other organizations that

1358
01:12:45,520 --> 01:12:47,720
Speaker 16: are on the ground and passing it altered it in

1359
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:50,360
Speaker 16: the Palisades to make sure that everything gets in the

1360
01:12:50,439 --> 01:12:52,599
Speaker 16: hands of folks who've been affected.

1361
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Speaker 1: That's incredible. Well, we appreciate it immensely. Thank you so much, Baby, Listen,

1362
01:12:57,560 --> 01:13:00,439
Speaker 1: you and everybody that is helping this is incredible. Thank

1363
01:13:00,479 --> 01:13:13,280
Speaker 1: you so much. The company Free People has opened up

1364
01:13:13,439 --> 01:13:16,200
Speaker 1: free Shop in Santa Monica, California, where people can come

1365
01:13:16,240 --> 01:13:19,320
Speaker 1: and get everything from close to utter products to food

1366
01:13:19,680 --> 01:13:22,479
Speaker 1: to replace our lost items. This company has stepped up

1367
01:13:22,479 --> 01:13:24,519
Speaker 1: in a huge way and I am so excited to

1368
01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:27,839
Speaker 1: find out more. Corney Wise, Managing director of Brand Marketing

1369
01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:30,400
Speaker 1: for FP Movement, Hi, how are you?

1370
01:13:30,640 --> 01:13:32,639
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me now, thank.

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01:13:32,520 --> 01:13:35,400
Speaker 1: You for being here. We have appreciate it, So talk

1372
01:13:35,439 --> 01:13:38,599
Speaker 1: to me for people. It's what are you guys doing

1373
01:13:38,680 --> 01:13:41,800
Speaker 1: to help with the victims of the alifiers. You know,

1374
01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:45,080
Speaker 1: I've been following on Instagram and it's pretty remarkable what

1375
01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:46,599
Speaker 1: you guys are doing. But I want you to talk

1376
01:13:46,640 --> 01:13:47,360
Speaker 1: to our listeners.

1377
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:48,479
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

1378
01:13:49,479 --> 01:13:52,640
Speaker 17: So first off, our office is where I am in

1379
01:13:52,760 --> 01:13:57,360
Speaker 17: currently are on Olympic and EUCLID. So immediately on Tuesday,

1380
01:13:58,280 --> 01:13:59,960
Speaker 17: it was at the office actually when the Palsy It's

1381
01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:03,479
Speaker 17: fire broke out, so I could see the smoke kind

1382
01:14:03,479 --> 01:14:06,280
Speaker 17: of you know, this is crazy, what's going on, And

1383
01:14:06,360 --> 01:14:08,720
Speaker 17: then of course the devastation throughout the day, and then

1384
01:14:08,760 --> 01:14:12,280
Speaker 17: that same day the Eaton fire broke out and Altadena

1385
01:14:12,320 --> 01:14:16,920
Speaker 17: and Pasadena, so just kind of so apparent we're in

1386
01:14:16,960 --> 01:14:19,640
Speaker 17: the headquarters here in Los Angeles, and then our headquarters

1387
01:14:19,680 --> 01:14:21,880
Speaker 17: are also our main headquarters are in Philadelphia.

1388
01:14:22,520 --> 01:14:24,240
Speaker 3: So talking to the executive.

1389
01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:27,759
Speaker 17: Team there, originally my team on the ground, we started

1390
01:14:27,800 --> 01:14:31,519
Speaker 17: putting together a list of people affected in our personal circle.

1391
01:14:31,560 --> 01:14:34,200
Speaker 17: And as the list grew, you know, up to eighty

1392
01:14:34,840 --> 01:14:40,800
Speaker 17: between makeup artists, photographers, fitness instructors, influencers. Were like, wow,

1393
01:14:40,880 --> 01:14:43,640
Speaker 17: this is crazy, just eighty that my team just has

1394
01:14:43,680 --> 01:14:46,760
Speaker 17: personal relationships with. I shared that with the executive team

1395
01:14:46,800 --> 01:14:49,439
Speaker 17: in Philadelphia and they said, you know what, Because of

1396
01:14:49,520 --> 01:14:51,280
Speaker 17: course we were a little rattled on the ground, They're like,

1397
01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:54,880
Speaker 17: you know what, We're going to step in support you

1398
01:14:54,960 --> 01:14:59,000
Speaker 17: guys on the ground. That's actually send units from our

1399
01:14:59,040 --> 01:14:59,920
Speaker 17: distribution center.

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Speaker 3: We have up to ten.

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01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:05,960
Speaker 17: Thousand units of clothing, ten thousand units of beauty and

1402
01:15:06,040 --> 01:15:06,759
Speaker 17: wellness supplies.

1403
01:15:07,280 --> 01:15:08,040
Speaker 3: Let's send those.

1404
01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:10,920
Speaker 17: So this was maybe kind of the Friday, I think

1405
01:15:11,000 --> 01:15:13,720
Speaker 17: January ninth or so, let's send those units next week

1406
01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:16,200
Speaker 17: and see what we can do. So over Martin Luther

1407
01:15:16,320 --> 01:15:19,880
Speaker 17: King weekend, we decided to put on the free shop.

1408
01:15:20,360 --> 01:15:22,719
Speaker 17: So our name is free People. So we're like, okay,

1409
01:15:23,080 --> 01:15:25,439
Speaker 17: let's actually be so clear about what this is this

1410
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:28,760
Speaker 17: is a free shop. We also wanted a shopping experience,

1411
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:32,120
Speaker 17: so of course these are people that lost their homes,

1412
01:15:32,200 --> 01:15:36,559
Speaker 17: lost all their possessions. We didn't want it to seem

1413
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:38,960
Speaker 17: just like a clothing drive. We really wanted it to

1414
01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:42,600
Speaker 17: be true to free people and FP movement, the shopping experience,

1415
01:15:42,720 --> 01:15:45,680
Speaker 17: that these are our customers, so many of them has

1416
01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:48,440
Speaker 17: had it in the store. So we turned our offices

1417
01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:52,240
Speaker 17: our photo studio into just that, so into a store

1418
01:15:53,160 --> 01:15:58,680
Speaker 17: about thirty racks, organized by style, organized by size, and

1419
01:15:59,160 --> 01:16:01,679
Speaker 17: on the first day, the Saturday of the holiday weekend,

1420
01:16:02,479 --> 01:16:05,920
Speaker 17: we were out of product, ten thousand clothing units, ten

1421
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:09,439
Speaker 17: thousand beauty and wellness units in the first four hours,

1422
01:16:10,360 --> 01:16:13,960
Speaker 17: and we just thought this is crazy. In fairness, we

1423
01:16:14,479 --> 01:16:17,960
Speaker 17: strategically decided to just have ID but not to have

1424
01:16:18,040 --> 01:16:21,880
Speaker 17: appointment slots just because we didn't. We're learning just like

1425
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:24,560
Speaker 17: everyone else, right, It was knew it was so so

1426
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:28,120
Speaker 17: raw toed people. We activated immediately the first week that

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01:16:28,200 --> 01:16:31,519
Speaker 17: this was happening, So in that point in time, just

1428
01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:33,000
Speaker 17: doing the best we could. I was like, oh, it

1429
01:16:33,080 --> 01:16:35,160
Speaker 17: might feel like a lot for people to go on

1430
01:16:35,200 --> 01:16:37,599
Speaker 17: their phones, fill out a slot, put in their address,

1431
01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 17: and all of that so week in one that we

1432
01:16:40,120 --> 01:16:42,519
Speaker 17: did this, we thought, no, let's just have them come

1433
01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:46,760
Speaker 17: and see and the response was just so overwhelming. There

1434
01:16:46,800 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 17: were clearly so many people in need. We said, okay,

1435
01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:52,800
Speaker 17: let's do this weekend two. But to have this best

1436
01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:55,560
Speaker 17: service was just this past weekend, but to have this

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01:16:56,000 --> 01:17:00,320
Speaker 17: best serve the community, we actually had an intake form

1438
01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:04,360
Speaker 17: and we decided to have thirty people per half hour,

1439
01:17:05,560 --> 01:17:09,360
Speaker 17: so more individual kind of shopping appointments. We did then

1440
01:17:09,400 --> 01:17:13,280
Speaker 17: bring in stylists from our store teams that we're able

1441
01:17:13,360 --> 01:17:16,759
Speaker 17: to really help people put together their outfit?

1442
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:18,920
Speaker 3: What are the foundations? Where do you start?

1443
01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:22,200
Speaker 17: And the response was just so overwhelming because we had

1444
01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:27,120
Speaker 17: people this past weekend, but like they're getting back into life.

1445
01:17:27,640 --> 01:17:28,879
Speaker 3: I have a birthday.

1446
01:17:29,520 --> 01:17:33,280
Speaker 17: So if you think about it, kind of compartmentalizing, that's

1447
01:17:33,320 --> 01:17:34,800
Speaker 17: what we do as humans to help us get over

1448
01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:38,000
Speaker 17: at trauma. So it's this awful thing's happening in my life.

1449
01:17:38,240 --> 01:17:41,479
Speaker 17: I'm dealing with insurance, where to live, where to send

1450
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:45,439
Speaker 17: my children to school, but I also want to experience joy.

1451
01:17:46,120 --> 01:17:48,040
Speaker 17: I don't want to turn down that invitation. Now, going

1452
01:17:48,080 --> 01:17:50,760
Speaker 17: on week three of a friend's birthday, I want to

1453
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:53,439
Speaker 17: go to that dinner. So what's something that's not just

1454
01:17:53,600 --> 01:17:55,240
Speaker 17: my sweats or the one thing that I ran out

1455
01:17:55,280 --> 01:17:58,639
Speaker 17: of the house, And what can I pull together as

1456
01:17:58,640 --> 01:17:59,479
Speaker 17: an actual outfit?

1457
01:17:59,680 --> 01:18:03,080
Speaker 3: So we ended up having nine hundred appointments.

1458
01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:06,719
Speaker 1: That's incredible. I'm going to tell you something. This is interesting.

1459
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:09,519
Speaker 1: So we had another special with Governor Knewsom and there

1460
01:18:09,560 --> 01:18:11,600
Speaker 1: was a woman who came on to talk about her

1461
01:18:11,640 --> 01:18:14,600
Speaker 1: concerns you know, that she had, and that interview she

1462
01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:18,879
Speaker 1: mentioned how the Free Shop helped her feel more confident

1463
01:18:18,920 --> 01:18:22,040
Speaker 1: by giving her the outfit she used on zoom to

1464
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:27,080
Speaker 1: talk to the governor that day. Wow, and I believe

1465
01:18:27,120 --> 01:18:32,679
Speaker 1: that's how iHeart and our producers they here besides Instagram,

1466
01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:34,840
Speaker 1: you know, and the big movement that you guys are doing.

1467
01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:38,800
Speaker 1: They clocked her when she said it, you know, because

1468
01:18:38,840 --> 01:18:43,479
Speaker 1: they did that special with the governor and she mentioned

1469
01:18:43,520 --> 01:18:47,000
Speaker 1: you guys and that's when they went, oh, that's interesting,

1470
01:18:47,160 --> 01:18:49,960
Speaker 1: free people, free shop, what are they doing? And here

1471
01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:53,120
Speaker 1: we are. So it was pretty powerful, you know, for

1472
01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:56,439
Speaker 1: that woman talking to somebody in a position of what

1473
01:18:56,840 --> 01:18:59,560
Speaker 1: a political figure to it was.

1474
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:00,479
Speaker 3: This is how.

1475
01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:03,719
Speaker 1: Important there was for her at that moment in time

1476
01:19:04,360 --> 01:19:07,519
Speaker 1: that she felt compelled to tell this human being. I

1477
01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:10,560
Speaker 1: feel confident because I had this company do this for me.

1478
01:19:10,880 --> 01:19:12,040
Speaker 3: I'm so happy that.

1479
01:19:13,560 --> 01:19:16,560
Speaker 17: The ultimate and that's really confidence what we what we

1480
01:19:16,760 --> 01:19:19,599
Speaker 17: serve as a as a clothing and active wear brand,

1481
01:19:19,680 --> 01:19:22,080
Speaker 17: that's really what we to deliver. So that's the ultimate

1482
01:19:23,920 --> 01:19:27,560
Speaker 17: and that's the ultimate empowerment that I feel about in

1483
01:19:27,680 --> 01:19:29,679
Speaker 17: my position in my job. I'm like, Wow, we really

1484
01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:34,799
Speaker 17: actually are achieving the mission that you too very.

1485
01:19:34,760 --> 01:19:37,960
Speaker 1: Much, very very much, and how can people help you?

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01:19:38,040 --> 01:19:38,080
Speaker 6: Know?

1487
01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:41,360
Speaker 1: How can people help you guys? Amplify?

1488
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 7: Is there?

1489
01:19:42,080 --> 01:19:45,280
Speaker 1: So you're going to do another one of these? Like

1490
01:19:45,520 --> 01:19:46,559
Speaker 1: what's coming for you guys?

1491
01:19:47,080 --> 01:19:47,280
Speaker 9: Yeah?

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01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:50,560
Speaker 17: So I think after two weekends in a row, you know,

1493
01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:53,280
Speaker 17: we feel like we've made the current impact when people

1494
01:19:53,320 --> 01:19:56,640
Speaker 17: are still in temporary housing, still figuring that out in

1495
01:19:56,760 --> 01:19:59,120
Speaker 17: the future when the communities are when people are back

1496
01:19:59,160 --> 01:20:00,920
Speaker 17: in their homes and kind of rebuild and people can

1497
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:04,040
Speaker 17: acquire more belongings. It's something that we would definitely love

1498
01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:09,560
Speaker 17: to do again. So definitely to be determined date that

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Speaker 17: could be in a year from.

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Speaker 3: Now, whenever that might be.

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01:20:13,640 --> 01:20:16,960
Speaker 17: For the media, I think just everyone behind be kind

1502
01:20:17,040 --> 01:20:21,720
Speaker 17: to strangers, themselves, neighbors, and to our first responders and firefighters.

1503
01:20:22,400 --> 01:20:25,559
Speaker 17: We also donated to the California Fire Foundation, so if

1504
01:20:25,560 --> 01:20:28,960
Speaker 17: anyone's looking to make a monetary donation, there's so many

1505
01:20:29,000 --> 01:20:33,680
Speaker 17: wonderful organizations. I think any of our local firehouses, LA

1506
01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:36,720
Speaker 17: Fire Foundation. I know Baby to Baby does a lot

1507
01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:42,479
Speaker 17: in helping young mothers, young families. We support Girls Inc

1508
01:20:42,560 --> 01:20:46,679
Speaker 17: As an ongoing foundation with FP Movements, I think.

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01:20:46,640 --> 01:20:48,440
Speaker 3: Any of those organizations.

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01:20:48,479 --> 01:20:50,920
Speaker 17: And then as soon as we have another Jove, everyone

1511
01:20:50,960 --> 01:20:53,120
Speaker 17: can look out on our Instagram and just to share

1512
01:20:53,200 --> 01:20:58,240
Speaker 17: that with family, with friends, all of that so will

1513
01:20:58,280 --> 01:21:02,200
Speaker 17: definitely keep you everyone breast of the future. We do

1514
01:21:02,360 --> 01:21:04,760
Speaker 17: have some units left. I believe your team is going

1515
01:21:04,800 --> 01:21:09,320
Speaker 17: to help me connect with the Palisads High School. Perfect Yes,

1516
01:21:09,760 --> 01:21:11,439
Speaker 17: so we love that, and then we're going to connect

1517
01:21:11,439 --> 01:21:15,160
Speaker 17: to it with Altadina Girls too, because everybody loves free people,

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01:21:15,240 --> 01:21:17,880
Speaker 17: everyone from teenagers two grandmothers.

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Speaker 1: I am such a huge friend. You have no idea.

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01:21:22,760 --> 01:21:26,080
Speaker 1: I love the brand and it makes me so happy

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Speaker 1: to know that I actually show up at a place

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Speaker 1: that makes a difference. And do you guys take the

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Speaker 1: time to actually give back to the community. So I'm

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Speaker 1: going to keep I'm going to show you even more

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Speaker 1: because I know you guys are doing things for the

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Speaker 1: purpose and that means a lot.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 17: And every day at FP Movement, one percent of your

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Speaker 17: purchases every day go to Girls Inc. So that's a

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Speaker 17: national foundation. And at Free People we also have a

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Speaker 17: partnership with the National Park Service, So if you don't

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Speaker 17: take a bag in the store, we have recycle bags.

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Speaker 17: But if you don't take a bag, ten cents does

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Speaker 17: go to the National Park Foundations, so.

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Speaker 1: To give them, Phomena, Well, thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Of course, So there you have, guys. I hope that

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Speaker 1: this was much help. You know, those of you that

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Speaker 1: know me, they we have talked about this on our podcast,

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Speaker 1: he said.

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Speaker 6: Ayadiho.

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Speaker 1: With my husband Eric Winter, we have a final thought

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Speaker 1: every single night before we go to bed, and we

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Speaker 1: talk to each other about things that are important. My

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01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:31,760
Speaker 1: final thought after listening to all these organizations and all

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Speaker 1: these wonderful people helping building community and just doing incredible work,

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Speaker 1: I'm inspired. I'm inspired. There's so much that we can

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Speaker 1: do from your house, you know, just go to our website, donate,

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01:22:47,400 --> 01:22:51,960
Speaker 1: just go to one of these organizations and prepare some meals.

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Speaker 1: Just there's so much that you can do. You don't

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01:22:54,800 --> 01:22:56,000
Speaker 1: have to be in a late to be able to

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Speaker 1: do it. And if you physically hear, there's nothing more

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01:22:59,040 --> 01:23:02,080
Speaker 1: beautiful than helping somebody, especially in a time of need.

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Speaker 1: And I'm going to be doing that. I'm gonna encourage

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Speaker 1: and teach my kids of the importance of doing this.

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01:23:07,680 --> 01:23:11,479
Speaker 1: What happened to Los Angeles, to our beautiful community has

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Speaker 1: been devastating and this is gonna it's gonna take years

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Speaker 1: to rebuild, So any any help is so welcome and

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01:23:19,760 --> 01:23:23,720
Speaker 1: so needed. So yeah, thank you for listening. We appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: God blessing me.