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Speaker 1: Bobby Ball.

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Speaker 1: Before we get go with Mary Ella from Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: have Josh grob and checking in.

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Speaker 2: Hey there, Bobby and Hey, hey there, Mariella. We're so

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Speaker 2: proud to work with you and Bobby. Thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for having me on. It's a real pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Josh, tell me about your foundation, Find Your Light.

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Speaker 1: What do you guys do? How does your foundation work

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Speaker 1: and help organizations?

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Speaker 2: Like? Yeah, yeah, so, I mean, I'm a product of

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Speaker 2: a public arts education. I was so lucky that I

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Speaker 2: had access to incredible music and theater programs when I

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Speaker 2: was a young kid kind of searching for myself. And

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Speaker 2: as I began to have a platform with my own

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Speaker 2: amazing group of fans that weren't just satisfied with being

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Speaker 2: became apparent to me that having a foundation was something

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Speaker 2: became very apparent to me when my fans presented me

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Speaker 2: with a check at a concert at the Greek Theater

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Speaker 2: for twenty five thousand dollars and they said, if you

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Speaker 2: ever do a foundation, one day, here's your first donation,

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Speaker 2: and I was so blown away by that. But after

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Speaker 2: all these years, Find Your Light is thriving, and we're

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Speaker 2: all about making sure that in school and after school

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Speaker 2: continue to thrive. And now you know, all these years later,

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Speaker 2: we've raised millions and we have so so appreciated every

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Speaker 2: fan base to be able to give to organizations like

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Speaker 2: Yeah over the years. The nice thing about being well

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Speaker 2: known now as an organization is that people now know

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Speaker 2: they can reach out to us. Organizations like Yeah can

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Speaker 2: reach out. We will get requests for grants, and especially

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Speaker 2: right now, we're in a time period where those programs

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Speaker 2: educators and philanthropists like Marilla have the resources and the

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Speaker 2: can continue to find their Light and can continue to

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Speaker 2: through arts education.

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Speaker 1: Josh, thank you, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Bobby and iHeart and best wishes on your future endeavors

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Speaker 2: and all the brilliant work you do. Madiella. We're so

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Speaker 2: proud to be alongside you would find your light and Hyundai.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for the donation. Every little bit

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Speaker 2: counts and we're so proud to be alongside you on

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Speaker 2: this fight. So thank you also very much.

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Speaker 1: Mary Alla, really great spits some time with you.

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Speaker 3: Nice to be here. Thank you so much for welcoming us.

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Speaker 1: So like what is Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Is an incredible transformative program for youth ages six

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Speaker 3: through seventeen, and we go beyond just teaching an instrument.

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Speaker 3: We go into teaching about collaboration over competition, by teaching

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Speaker 3: different aspects of the music industry, by forming a band,

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Speaker 3: by creating your own lyrics, and helping kids discover and

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Speaker 4: You know, we're reading about Yeah a little bit and

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Speaker 4: you had some really interesting rules there that I thought

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Speaker 4: a donut, be a croissan What does that mean exactly?

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Speaker 3: Well? What shape is a donut? Circular? Okay? And what

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Speaker 4: Like a half Moon and which was open the croissant.

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Speaker 3: And we want kids to be open. We want them

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Speaker 1: When you say we remove barriers, what are you talking about?

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Speaker 3: There are barriers to access music education. And one of

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Speaker 4: When you see the kids gravitate to instruments, what's what

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Speaker 1: How do you think learning an instrument helps kids with

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Speaker 4: You think kids are listening to all kinds of music.

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Speaker 4: What have you seen firsthand where you've seen a child

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Speaker 1: Have you seen any of these kids play in a

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Speaker 3: Well, one of the great things about Yeah Rock's camp

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Speaker 1: Can kids walk into this program without any experience at all?

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Speaker 4: Obviously it's for all ages, right, but do you ever

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Speaker 1: What's the dream for Yeah, in the next two years.

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Speaker 3: We would love to have more consistent programming during the weekend.

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Speaker 3: Right, absolutely, absolutely, Again, we do want people to learn

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Speaker 4: How difficult is it for you guys to get specialized

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Speaker 1: You know, Honday's makes it a priority to be impactful

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much, and I thank all your

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