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Speaker 1: Welcome to season two of The Good Stuff. I'm Ashley Shick,

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Speaker 1: and I'm joined by my husband and co host, Jacob Schick,

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Speaker 1: a third generation combat marine and CEO of One Tribe Foundation.

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Speaker 2: Actually also comes from a family rich in military history,

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Speaker 2: and we've dedicated our lives to One Tribe's mission, serving veterans,

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Speaker 2: first responders.

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Speaker 3: As well as our families.

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Speaker 2: We're coming to you from Dallas, so welcome.

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Speaker 1: To Texas and joining us all season long from Los Angeles, California,

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Speaker 1: is our West Coast long haired friend and producer of

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Speaker 1: The Good Stuff, Nick Cassolini.

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Speaker 4: Today is the first of a three part series where

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Speaker 4: we get to step inside the brand new offices of

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Speaker 4: One Tribe Foundation and get an intimate look at the

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Speaker 4: work they do. And just so we're clear, this is

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Speaker 4: incredibly important work. One Tribe Foundation is a nonprofit on

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Speaker 4: the frontlines in the fight against the suicide epidemic in

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Speaker 4: our veteran and first responder communities.

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Speaker 1: In this episode, we're going to introduce you to a

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Speaker 1: handful of the amazing people we get to work with

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Speaker 1: every day.

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Speaker 2: We consider these people our family and we are so

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Speaker 2: very thankful for their contributions to this episode. Our work

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Speaker 2: in the world at large.

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Speaker 3: Just a quick heads up.

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Speaker 4: This show can explore some heavy subject matter, including suicide,

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Speaker 4: so listener discretion is advised.

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Speaker 1: We couldn't be happier.

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Speaker 3: You're here again, Welcome to the good stuff.

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Speaker 1: We are starting our day at the One Tribe Foundation office,

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Speaker 1: our headquarters here in u List, Texas, where the magic happens,

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Speaker 1: but also where the healing happens. And I typically try

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Speaker 1: to start my day by going through as the marketing

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Speaker 1: director the social media.

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Speaker 4: Accounts Instagram first, as always Instagram first.

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Speaker 1: But we get you know, we get a ton of

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Speaker 1: emails that come in weekly and a lot of spam unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: so a lot of it is digging through all the

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Speaker 1: spam and making sure that we filter all of that out.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, so we get all kinds of emails that

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Speaker 1: come in, everything from reaching out to look for some help,

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Speaker 1: have been contacted by a neighbor about one of their

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Speaker 1: neighbors that's a veteran and having some issues.

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Speaker 5: Yea to.

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Speaker 1: My honor ring broke and I need one immediately.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: We wear the twenty two kill honor ring on our

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Speaker 1: on our trigger finger as a reminder of not only

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Speaker 1: those who've we've lost, but also those who have served

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Speaker 1: and those who have sacrificed, and so it's a constant reminder.

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Speaker 1: So I haven't taken mine off in over ten years.

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Speaker 5: Yea.

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Speaker 1: You know there's a lot of people that they have

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Speaker 1: to have that honor ring right broke, I need a

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Speaker 1: new one and then miss and pictures of it tracked

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Speaker 1: and up. It doesn't happen often, but if you wear

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Speaker 1: it for years and years. Two people giving us feedback

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Speaker 1: on different you know, events that we've done and stuff

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Speaker 4: Positive, Oh yeah, okay, you forget a negative feedback like, man,

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Speaker 4: I we do have to admit the dinner you serve

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Speaker 4: as gross?

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Speaker 1: Look b hayten No, honestly.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And we actually send out surveys after every event that

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Speaker 1: we do. We want to know, you know, hey, what

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Speaker 1: do we do right, what do we do wrong? How

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Speaker 1: we make it better for next time? And so I

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Speaker 1: was actually just looking through that as well from our

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Speaker 1: Texas Independence Stay five k that we had on March first.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's really good for the you know, for the

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Speaker 1: morale because you're reading through like, hey, y'all are awesome,

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Speaker 1: keep up the good work. I've supported one tribe twenty two,

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Speaker 1: Kiel for many years and glad to contribute to this

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Speaker 1: event and thank you so much, love you all to

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Speaker 1: Why did we get T shirts? I wanted to medal,

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Speaker 1: you know, so you never know what you're gonna do,

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Speaker 1: but we roll with it. So many people that want

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Speaker 1: can I do? Here's here's what I can offer. You know,

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Speaker 1: we have a White Star Families program, which is for

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Speaker 1: everyone that's been affected by the active suicide, and so

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Speaker 1: we'll have people just messaging and hey, I just really

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Speaker 1: group because it's a good peer to peer and sometimes

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Speaker 1: people just feel like nobody else understands what I'm going through.

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Speaker 1: But we've got a group there that does understand.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 1: Get an email from a veteran. I'm looking to start

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Speaker 1: counseling service as a Marine Corps veteran and have been

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Speaker 1: through counseling years ago, but my therapist moved. Please feel

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Speaker 1: free to call me. I'm flexible to meet asap. I

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Speaker 1: really need help. A lot of those I'm just looking through.

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Speaker 1: There's so much, man, it's crazy.

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Speaker 4: What are people trying to sell you?

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Speaker 1: It's all people try to get. They put our logo

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Speaker 1: on merchandise, and then they try to sell it. Oh

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Speaker 1: really to send the synthesis to every single one, Wow,

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Speaker 1: And then a lot of them will just send the

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Speaker 1: it's not block.

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Speaker 4: So this is the unglamorous, mundane part of your job.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean. I love this. It's so much

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Speaker 6: My name is mitros Lavro and I'm the office manager

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Speaker 6: at One Truck Foundation.

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Speaker 4: And tell us where we are standing right this very moment,

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Speaker 4: if you wouldn't mind this moment.

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Speaker 6: You're standing right on my deck, in my very pink deck.

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Speaker 4: Okay, great, and tell me tell me about tell me

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Speaker 4: about some of these things that I'm looking at.

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Speaker 6: I have this little squishy. This one's the clean one,

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Speaker 6: so I don't touch that much. This one is the

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's one that you actually squished. Okay, very good.

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Speaker 4: And and and we're and and what is this? I'm

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Speaker 4: looking at the front entrance. We got a lobby here,

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Speaker 4: we got merged.

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Speaker 6: This is the biggest office office.

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Speaker 4: Okay, my office, good, beautiful, the.

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Speaker 6: Most comfy office.

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Speaker 6: These couches will cocoon you and just they will love

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Speaker 6: on you. Yeah, like we will all love on you here.

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Speaker 4: The couches good. Okay, that's good. You're going to start

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Speaker 4: it all.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we're recording.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you just want to hold it about here. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's good. And then I'm going to ask you what

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Speaker 5: All?

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Speaker 3: Right, what.

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Speaker 7: Because I'm gonna tell you what's on this card. I'm

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Speaker 7: not going to tell you what I do because otherwise

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's fair.

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Speaker 3: That's fair.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, if you wanted to give me your name and

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Speaker 7: I have to look and see what my title is.

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Speaker 7: My name is Justin Jones. I am the community outreach

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Speaker 7: and volunteer coordinator for One Tribe. That's the easy part.

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Speaker 7: I guess if you will talking about what I do.

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Speaker 7: But I do pretty much anything that's asked, Like majority.

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Speaker 6: Of people here, I found out about One Tribe because

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Speaker 6: Yeah. So at first it started, I moved here because

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Speaker 6: and it was really dark for me being here in

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Speaker 6: So I started going to tribal cancel and being there

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Speaker 6: just talking about what's going on in our lives, and

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Speaker 6: they helped me. They helped me step away from darker

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Speaker 8: And my second time was eventually getting to the point

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Speaker 7: Because I started as a volunteer, it just kind of

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Speaker 7: And then a lot of the events when I started

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Speaker 7: to a lot of events, So it just made sense

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Speaker 4: What was some of the reasons that you initially volunteered.

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Speaker 7: I was new to Texas, wanted to meet people, and

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Speaker 7: when I was at my previous employer, Jacob and Don

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Speaker 7: I was like even better, jumped in and started volunteering

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Speaker 7: trying to do that and kind of fell in love

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Speaker 4: What were some early memories you have of those being

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Speaker 7: Man, we did so many things.

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Speaker 3: We did.

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Speaker 7: One of the first things that I did that it

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Speaker 5: My name is Buck Kerrent and I am the Chief

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Speaker 5: Operations Officer COO for One Tribe Foundation.

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Speaker 7: I was told to meet at the Hilton Enatol in Dallas.

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Speaker 7: They just told me that we were going to be

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Speaker 7: running luggage for families, and that's about all they really

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Speaker 7: out that these are the families of the fallen, you know,

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Speaker 7: the their hero had passed.

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Speaker 4: You work a lot with families here at One Tribe, right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we have a program called Watch, which is an

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Speaker 5: acronym for we are the Children of Heroes. We serve

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Speaker 7: So Bucket brought them all together and so we were

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Speaker 7: family wasn't there, they would run us up to humpteenth

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Speaker 4: Can you think of an early experience in your work

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Speaker 7: And that's the way that you know, I've kind of

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Speaker 7: You like, it's a thing that actually helps me relax.

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Speaker 4: in with Ashley. Welcome back to the good Stuff to

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Speaker 3: Here's Ashley.

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Speaker 1: Here's an email from a veteran I used to get

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Speaker 1: help from twenty two kil in Fort Worth. I'm in

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Of course we wrote them right back within an hour.

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Speaker 5: But.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I My hope is that everybody knows

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Speaker 1: it's it's you know, we're always immediately on it. But yeah,

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Speaker 4: That's a pretty heavy way to start your day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I mean, coffee is how I started my day,

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Speaker 1: But just knowing I mean it, it is a heavyweight

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Speaker 1: So let's get them to help they need and let

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Speaker 5: Just having kids together and being able to understand that their.

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Speaker 5: We have kids that you know, their dads died in

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, did they have a good time?

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they had a blast.

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Speaker 5: So just being able to give these kids a little fun.

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Speaker 5: to support their mom in that grief. They're grieving as well,

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Speaker 5: so they stop being kids and stop having fun, and

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Speaker 5: all for the right reason. They want to support their mom,

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Speaker 5: and they know they're sad too, but you know, the

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Speaker 5: mom just wants them to have fun and be kids, really,

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Speaker 5: and that's what you see. That was another after one

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Speaker 5: of our events, say, we usually ask the kids what

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Speaker 5: was the most fun for you? What did you enjoy

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Speaker 5: the most? And sometimes you think it would be like

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Speaker 5: going to an amusement park or meeting these cool people,

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Speaker 5: that sort of thing. I had a teenager once say,

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Speaker 5: I just enjoyed seeing my mom laugh and be with

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Speaker 5: other moms and have a good time again. And then

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Speaker 5: you ask the moms what the best thing was, and

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Speaker 5: I'll say, best thing was just seeing my son or

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Speaker 5: my daughter smile and be a kid again, having fun.

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Speaker 5: So those sort of things. Being able to able to

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Speaker 5: provide the mechanism for that with all these other families,

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Speaker 5: it's special and it means a lot to them, means

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Speaker 5: a lot to us. So it's an honor, it really

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Speaker 5: is being able to, you know, get to know so

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Speaker 5: many families who have sacrificed so much for the rest

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Speaker 5: of us. There's these families who live in your communities.

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Speaker 5: They're there, they're your neighbors. You know, get to know them,

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Speaker 5: support them, help them if they need help. A lot

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Speaker 5: of them are going through a lot, and we just

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Speaker 5: want to make sure the kids grow up as great

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Speaker 5: members of society and do great things in life. And

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Speaker 5: you know a lot of them want to give back.

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Speaker 5: It's amazing you meet families who have sacrificed so much

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Speaker 5: and the first thing they think of is what do

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Speaker 5: I do? What can I do for these other families? Yeah,

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Speaker 5: so it's pretty inspirational.

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Speaker 4: It's beautiful.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: What advice would you have for people that maybe want

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Speaker 4: to start volunteering in this world?

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Speaker 7: Man, that's a good question. I don't know that I

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Speaker 7: have advice except for well, I guess I do have

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Speaker 7: advice because I'm about to answer your question. Do it

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Speaker 7: with your whole heart. That's what I tell people. I mean,

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Speaker 7: I learned a long time ago in the business world

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Speaker 7: that I was in that my CEO at the time

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Speaker 7: that used to tell us, He's like, if you're going

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Speaker 7: to do anything, do it wholeheartedly. And so that's kind

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Speaker 7: of the way I like to think that I've done

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Speaker 7: a lot of things throughout my life, and as far

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Speaker 7: as volunteering the same way, because you know, you always

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Speaker 7: hear that cliche saying you get out of it what

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Speaker 7: you put into it, And for me, that was, you know,

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Speaker 7: when I'd start volunteering and then hearing the stories about

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Speaker 7: you know this one or that one or you know,

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Speaker 7: this guy's is was being it was able to be helped.

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Speaker 7: You know, you come out volunteered and so that that

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Speaker 7: helped us be able to put money toward a program

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Speaker 7: that can help this family or whatever. And I don't know,

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Speaker 7: I just I think for me, I'm a little different

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Speaker 7: in the fact that you know, I kind of I

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Speaker 7: grew up, you know, just always wanted to try to

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Speaker 7: help people. And it's kind of way you know, my

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Speaker 7: mom raised me and I've seen you know, it's when

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Speaker 7: my grandparents were so as far as volunteer aspect, I

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Speaker 7: tell people go in wholeheartedly, and you know, like you

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Speaker 7: hear say a lot of times trying here write things

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Speaker 7: right reasons, and you will be so surprised at the

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Speaker 7: reward that you know most of the time, you know,

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Speaker 7: a lot of volunteers that help us now go in

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Speaker 7: with no expectations. But the reward they get out of it,

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Speaker 7: that they talk about after the fact is you know,

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Speaker 7: that's my bonus or that's you know, that's a reward

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Speaker 7: for me to hear them, Hey I want to come back,

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Speaker 7: or hey I want to do this again next year.

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Speaker 7: Hey can I help you? You know, some new ideas

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Speaker 7: about next year and that kind of thing. So it's

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Speaker 7: it's how we grow the tribe realistically, and that's uh,

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Speaker 7: we're very blessed in that aspect, not just here in

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Speaker 7: Texas but all across the country.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so these are your smelly pens.

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Speaker 6: Yes, these are smelly pens. And the first one that

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Speaker 6: you're about to smell should be Strawberry Delicious. The next

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Speaker 6: one is banana Foster.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Oh, I love bananas Foster's.

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Speaker 3: I don't smell.

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Speaker 4: It well and marks you smell the paper, Mmmm, bananas

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Speaker 4: Foster's most underrated, Underrated dessert, most underrated smelly pen. Okay,

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Speaker 4: So here we are, we're at we're towards the end

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Speaker 4: of your work day.

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Speaker 3: What what what?

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Speaker 4: What else you got to do today? What does your

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Speaker 4: job look like?

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Speaker 7: I really don't, man, I learned a long time ago

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Speaker 7: this this is not a nine to five business. But

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Speaker 7: just so people know, when when it comes to the

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Speaker 7: work that's done here and everything, it's it's a lifestyle, bro,

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Speaker 7: It's not a job. It's I don't know, it's uh,

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Speaker 7: it's it's not really the end of the day. It's

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Speaker 7: just you know, it's later in the day and I

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Speaker 7: have things to do. But you know, if my phone

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Speaker 7: rings tonight at seven o'clock because somebody's struggling or it's

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Speaker 7: usually actually you know when office kind of empties out,

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Speaker 7: and actually that's when I get majority of my work done.

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Speaker 4: He's just been hanging out all day giving people hugs,

547
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Speaker 4: you don't even love them. Then they leave like okay, thanks.

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Speaker 7: By make sure their day is good.

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Speaker 4: So thanks so much, JJ LO love you. And so

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Speaker 4: what does it feel like to work here now and

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Speaker 4: be it and be a part of it.

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Speaker 6: It's amazing because what they did to me, what they

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Speaker 6: helped me with, I get to help other people too.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Now I can be the helping side.

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Speaker 8: And because of my dark stuff that had happened, some

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Speaker 8: of these calls that we get are like that.

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Speaker 6: And now I know how to talk to the people.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're like this smiling face they see when

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Speaker 4: they walk in the door, you know I think that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, Well, thank you so much for hanging out with us.

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Speaker 3: I really appreciate it. Thank you so much for listening

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Speaker 3: to the good stuff.

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Speaker 4: Next week, we'll be back with part two of this

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Speaker 4: three part series on the inner workings of One Tribe Foundation.

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Speaker 2: epic things without epic people.

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