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I will know he's giving me 27 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:49,639 Speaker 1: advice on many occasions in ocasion didn't notice, I'm not broke. 28 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: You know. He'll be interview with celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and 29 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: industry decision makers. It's what he likes to do. It's 30 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: what he likes to share. Now it's time to hear 31 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: from my man, Rashan Donald. Money Making Conversations here we come. 32 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation. I am your host, Sean McDonald. 33 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:09,079 Speaker 1: I always tell people every week, you know it's time 34 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 1: to stop reading other people's sexcess stories to start writing 35 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: your own. And people always talking about gifts and passions. 36 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: If you have a gift, lead with your gift and 37 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: don't let your age, friends, family, or coworkers stop you 38 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: from planning or living your dreams. The people I bring 39 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: on money making conversation or celebrity ceo, entrepreneurs, and people 40 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: I like to call industry decision makers. My next guest 41 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: is what I like to believe is truly an industry 42 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: decision maker. His name is Kurt Mays. He is the 43 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: CEO of Forgotten Horrors, one of Michigan's top nonprofit organizations 44 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 1: and one of the nation's premier food rescue organizations. Forgotten 45 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: Harvest was formed in eighteen ninety to fight two problems, 46 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: hunger and waste. Forgotten Harvest rescued four to one point 47 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: five million pounds of food last year by collecting surplus 48 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 1: prepared and perishable food from eight hundred sources that include 49 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: grocery stores, fruit and vegetable markets, restaurants, caterers, dairies, farmers, 50 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: wholesale food distributors, hodel holdfil wholesale food distributors, and other 51 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 1: Department approved sources. This donated food which would otherwise go 52 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: to waste, its just dettle, free of charge to more 53 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 1: than two hundred and eighty emergency food providers in the 54 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: metro Detroit area. He's on the show to talk about 55 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: the purpose, but also his purpose. Please work with the 56 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: money making conversations. My man, Kurt May's thank you so now, 57 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: thank you for having me on the sholve this design 58 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: and Kurt, I had I had to put you out there. Man, 59 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 1: you don't you change your lives? Brother Man, just trying 60 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: every day to just do what we can to help man. 61 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: We lo Curt. When I interview individuals like you, because 62 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: you're such forward thinkers and you're all about what you 63 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: what you can do more, what you can do better? 64 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: How does that start? I'm gonna delve into you a 65 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: little bit. What does that start for you? Who initiated 66 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: this type of behavior or thought process in your life? 67 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: It comes from my home, It comes from my mom. 68 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: It comes from the way I grew up, you know, 69 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 1: my mother, my family or from Jamaica, and uh really 70 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: started with like you know, third world country poverty, just 71 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,039 Speaker 1: different lovel You know, my mom didn't have her first 72 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 1: pair of shoes until she actually um had to go 73 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:25,359 Speaker 1: to school, right, So you know, it's just kind of 74 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: like having that family background of people that started so 75 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: far away from their dreams and ambitions and just taking 76 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 1: those one day at a time steps towards like progress. 77 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: It's something that I lived in, lived around my whole 78 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 1: life and realizing the gift and the in the blessing 79 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,599 Speaker 1: that I had to be, you know, in America for 80 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 1: them to make the sacrifice to day that did to 81 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: actually I was born here to be able to actually 82 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: realize that every opportunity that I had was an extension 83 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,039 Speaker 1: of the dreams that they happened and self. So it 84 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: was always instilled in the me to actually stay on 85 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:07,279 Speaker 1: the right path and be patient about um achieving and 86 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: goals because nothing comes, you know, overnight, So it really 87 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: just came from home and how I was raised. Well, 88 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 1: you know that's important because it shapes your vision. Like 89 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:21,919 Speaker 1: I said, my service was really introduced when I was 90 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: in college at the University of Houston and I played 91 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 1: to make a side fire fraternity and all fraternities and 92 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,359 Speaker 1: sards or service based organizations. If everybody doesn't know anything 93 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 1: about that, that's what they really are. And that's what 94 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:36,040 Speaker 1: I really got into community service, giving, you know, raising 95 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 1: funds for local community activist organizations, donating food, I mean 96 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: we should give away government cheese, was giving away water, 97 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 1: all those things and seeing how the people react. I 98 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,359 Speaker 1: remember when we had when we loaded up that truck. 99 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: It was getting with that government chiefs man, it was 100 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: a line around the block, and so the need is real, 101 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 1: and so let's talk about that need, Kurt. Well, you know, 102 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: it starts with a UM, a moment where people have 103 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 1: to realize that they can't do it on their own, 104 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: and they got to actually figure out who they can 105 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: trust in that moment of vulnerability to get what they need, 106 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 1: but also try to walk to walk away with enough 107 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: energy and time so they can actually work on the 108 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 1: root cause, which is how do I make sure I 109 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: don't I don't have to deal with this again. And 110 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: you know, in our lives, we'd be surprised how many 111 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: times people fall into that one scenario where it's like 112 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,919 Speaker 1: I can't do it by myself, whether it's a a 113 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: corporation that's doing major layoffs, whether it's the government shutdown 114 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 1: that we've seen, the pandemic, or just the regular cycles 115 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 1: of our economy that are changing every day from local 116 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:47,719 Speaker 1: to global. Right. So UM, I see, we see UM 117 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 1: in our work. Unfortunately, the lines wrapped around the corner 118 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: every day in multiple places. So the issue of human 119 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:02,280 Speaker 1: needs is persistent, it's kind extent, and unfortunately it's more 120 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: dynamic than just being able to put food in a 121 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 1: place for people to get it. We really got to think, um, 122 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: we got to really come together and think about the 123 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: ways that we can help each other even before people ask, UM, 124 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: so that we can help, you know, stamp some of 125 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: these gaps that people have that sometimes they they don't 126 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: say anything until it's too bad. It's what, it's worse 127 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 1: than it should have been. UM and UM. If we 128 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 1: can work together and be that safety net for each other, 129 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: we really can do a lot to reduce the pain 130 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: that a lot of people are actually suffering through. Quietly. Well, 131 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: let's let's talk about that, because when you say that 132 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: people are wrapped around the building, you know, let's go 133 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: back to when this country was shut down, restaurants could 134 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: even do any business. And so you get a lot 135 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: of your food from these types of what they say, 136 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: prepared or preparishable food. And one of the things is 137 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: restaurant caterers, you know, farmers wholesale and food distributors walkers 138 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 1: through that moment right there in time where you have 139 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: a system in place where you did business with and 140 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: retrieving this type of food. Then when the country got 141 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: set down, shut down in do the COVID, how did 142 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: that dynamic change and how did you walk through the 143 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: process in dealing with companies now who are not even 144 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: making money, but now you need the food that they're offering. Yeah, 145 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: so that's a good that's a good point. So let 146 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 1: me just kind of level set a little bit on 147 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: how the whole system is set up for us and 148 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: how we kind of approached it first. Um, over the 149 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 1: years that we've become more dynamic and have more capacity 150 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:35,319 Speaker 1: to serve our community, we actually forgotten ourvious of this. 151 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: For instance, at the time that that pandemic winning to play, 152 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:41,960 Speaker 1: our largest sources of food were coming from places like 153 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: grocery stores, farmers, food manufacturers like KNAGRAA and the and 154 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: the and the places where the food getting warehouse um. 155 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: And we have a farmer of our own. So when 156 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 1: you think about the actual prepared foods and stuff that's 157 00:08:55,960 --> 00:09:01,559 Speaker 1: already cooked, we actually specialized um and that other stuff 158 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: I just talked about. And then we have some select 159 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: partners like certain restaurant groups when it like the casinos 160 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: as well, uh, you know, Tiger Stadium when they when 161 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: they didn't finish with all the hot dogs, we go 162 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: get those. But because of the food safety uh parameters 163 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: that we want to put in place, we didn't really 164 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: deal with allion share of pair food. Now when when 165 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 1: the restaurant shut down because of the pandemic, we do 166 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: have the capacity to deal with that, and we had 167 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: to make that adjustment so that we could actually go 168 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,839 Speaker 1: get the stuff that was actually gonna go to waste 169 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 1: because the restaurants couldn't get it out to the community. 170 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: So there was a small flipping time where we got 171 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: a bunch of restaurants rations and got that back out 172 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: to the community. Right now, our typical way of doing things, 173 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 1: as I mentioned, is our trucks leave our daily uh 174 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: the daily picture of forgotten Harvest is our trucks leave 175 00:09:55,679 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 1: our warehouse and Metro Detroit every day and go out 176 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: on routes to go pick up food from dedicated grocery 177 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: store partners. And then after they go here about twelve 178 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:10,559 Speaker 1: or fifteen grocery store partners. They didn't turn that food 179 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: back around and drop it off at some of the 180 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: community organizations, the churches, the senior centers throughout the community 181 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: um in order for those organizations and turn back around 182 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 1: and then redistributed for folks and need in the community 183 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 1: at our home warehouse. While things are coming in from 184 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 1: farmers and manufacturers and things like that. We have about 185 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:33,319 Speaker 1: sixteen thousand volunteers a year that helped us with actually 186 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 1: sorting through things, making sure we separate the good for 187 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 1: the bad, but also break down things like the onions 188 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,719 Speaker 1: and tomatoes and corn into smaller bundles so that we're 189 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 1: not just taking big galors or big boxes to the 190 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 1: community and dropping them off. We're actually dropping them off, 191 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 1: but they're also already kind of unitized, so people who 192 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,719 Speaker 1: walk through the line can actually get their portion for themselves. 193 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 1: So it's kind of a dynamic operation going on a 194 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: daily basis. As we walked into COVID, we had to 195 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 1: realize the two things. Number One, our distribution network was 196 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 1: gonna potentially be greatly affective because if you know how 197 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: the actual emergency food distribution system is set up throughout 198 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 1: our communities is largely done by volunteers. You know that 199 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: church group that's actually given out the food, that's probably 200 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 1: you know Grandma and the church Ms. Johnson and the 201 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 1: church that says, you know, this is something that's passionate 202 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 1: for her, and she wants to do that, so just 203 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 1: take two hours on her Wednesday to give away that 204 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:29,680 Speaker 1: free food. That gets sourced for however that particular location 205 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: does it. Um there's a lot of situations like that. 206 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: That's actually the safety net for our communities. And when 207 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 1: COVID came in that those were vulnerable populations with very 208 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 1: little infrastructure for sustainability, and a lot of those folks 209 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: weren't getting paid so they were volunteer roles. So we 210 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 1: knew that there was gonna be some real instability in 211 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: our distribution network. A lot of our volunteers is the 212 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,680 Speaker 1: same sixteen thousand volunteers a year. We got some great 213 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: corporate relationships, sour and tears coming bundles of thirty and 214 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: fifty at a time because we got corporate corporations that 215 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:06,319 Speaker 1: are sending people to us on a daily basis. For 216 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 1: corporations shut down and start actually sending people to work 217 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 1: from home, changing the parameters around how volunteerism and just 218 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 1: how people were going to be deployed into the community. 219 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: We had to figure out what we're gonna do about volunteers, 220 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 1: but that's a core way of what we do. Forgotten 221 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: Harvards distributes about fifty million pounds of food last year 222 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: to our community and helped about a million people. We 223 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 1: can't do that with the eighty staff the ninety five 224 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: staff that we had. We need our volunteers, so we 225 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 1: also had to come up with a way to address that. 226 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: In addition to all of that, in the working spaces 227 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: that we have, we have some things that we had 228 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 1: to consider, like ppe like the distance between um how 229 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 1: how far people could be when we actually give away 230 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 1: the food, what's the best ways to give away the 231 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: food so that everybody is actually kept protected? And then 232 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: when we're actually doing our side of the processing, how 233 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 1: was our space gonna be transformed? So in order to 234 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 1: address these things things, we did a couple of things. 235 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:02,960 Speaker 1: The first thing we did is we came up away 236 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: to actually quickly distribute the food to the community with 237 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 1: the system that we actually ran and control on our own, 238 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 1: instead of actually depending on our typical system of all 239 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,839 Speaker 1: to our community distribution partner. And that was going about 240 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: because of COVID. Right that that was because of COVID. 241 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:23,719 Speaker 1: Now we have already been kind of working on a 242 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 1: model that we were actually as a team kind of 243 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: testing on our own. We were kind of doing our 244 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 1: own little R and D. And it turns out that 245 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 1: that little thing that we were working on was the 246 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 1: xact thing that we need to do in order to 247 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 1: address that particular hole, which was how do we actually 248 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 1: put distribution mechanisms out there to get to the community, 249 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: knowing that the whole distribution network that we had in place, 250 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: we're probably shut down. And what we did for that 251 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 1: was we we set up what we call our mobile pantry, 252 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 1: but we basically going uh the deploy one of those 253 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 1: fifty three ft refrigerated trucks into our community with volunteers 254 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 1: and and it serves is at that staging unit. We 255 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 1: put all the stuff on the on the parking lot 256 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: on a pallette and we have roll the distributions with 257 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: the community coming through UM in their cars and we 258 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: were able to put stuff from the trunks. We had 259 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 1: to go from fishing with a net, so to speak, 260 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: to fishing with the hook again with volunteers and calling 261 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: one at the time. So we put UM partnerships in 262 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: place with some of our community partners so we can 263 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 1: get the volunteers and be specific about how we did that. 264 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 1: But we're really in the middle of all of that, 265 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 1: really had to pause, and I had to we the 266 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 1: team had to really get serious about trying to get 267 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: to every partner we could get ppe the whole process 268 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: of what you're talking about. You know, it's fear, you know, 269 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: COVID because like I said, plus Michigan and the state 270 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 1: of Michigan. I'm talking to Kurt maybe us to see 271 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: all over the forgotten. The Harvest UH runs one of 272 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: the Michigan's top nonprofit organizations where Premier Rescue Food organization. 273 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: This is a key in this conversation. Food that would 274 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: be perishable food that we throwing away, he repurposes it 275 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: and it gives it to people in need. And it's 276 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: safe food that's being repurposes and delivered free of charge. 277 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about. It's not only happens there, 278 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 1: but there are the organizations in the state of in 279 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: the State of America, this world that does that as well. 280 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 1: But we're talking to Curt made right here and Kurt 281 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,040 Speaker 1: one I wanted to talk to slow down just a 282 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: little bit because they really made food that you was 283 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: getting from this restaurant played a role because that food 284 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: went to certain individuals or certain groups. What happened there 285 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: when you didn't have the ready made food anymore to 286 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: be given out to these certain groups or individuals that 287 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 1: needed or was expecting that five days a week. You know, 288 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 1: we we relied on some of our resistant relationships. We 289 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 1: were at that point we realized that we had to 290 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: change the way we looked at bringing in our BLOSIFI, 291 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 1: so our supply chain partnerships had to actually pivot on 292 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: the dime. So instead of you know, a lot of 293 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 1: the food came from the grocery store and grocery store 294 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: shalls was clear, So what we're gonna do. Um, So 295 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: we have these relationships with a lot of food producers 296 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 1: and food manufacturers, So we started to actually approach some 297 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: of our partners to buy the food because we knew 298 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 1: we needed to actually start getting out here and actually 299 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 1: making sure that we were there. We were on the 300 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: ground with food. So there was a portion of time 301 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 1: where I had to get approval from our board to 302 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 1: be able to actually go into our cash reserves up 303 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 1: to a million dollars so that I could actually be 304 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: able to purchase food, so that we could actually feel 305 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 1: the gaps we need to feel in case we couldn't 306 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 1: get the food from the food manufacturers and at the 307 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: same from the from the community the way we were 308 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: getting in and at the same time we started actually 309 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 1: putting the word out to people. You know what, man, 310 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: I gotta say, it's such a blessing. We never had 311 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: to dip into that million dollars to buy the food. 312 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 1: We did have to buy food, but we got food 313 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 1: that was coming in from places that we didn't even expect. 314 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 1: We had partners that actually stepped up to make sure 315 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: that we were UM in place where we need to be. 316 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: We have a coalition of partners UM in the state 317 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: of Michigan called the Food Bank Council of Michigan, which 318 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,439 Speaker 1: is seven organizations and we covered the entire state. We 319 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 1: started putting our hands together and we went to the 320 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 1: governor and we started speaking as one voice about the 321 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,119 Speaker 1: shortfalls that were coming to us based on what was 322 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:16,199 Speaker 1: going on, the moves that FEMA did, the moves to 323 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: be able to get the boxes on the ground. A 324 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 1: lot of that conversation actually started in Michigan and the 325 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 1: proliferated throughout the rest of the country as as the 326 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 1: way that everybody would actually get that solution in place, 327 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: So the Kazak program, some of the things that happened 328 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 1: through FEMA ultimately was what actually uh stem the tide 329 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:37,399 Speaker 1: to be able to give all of us the food 330 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 1: we needed. So the food boxes then Forgotten Harvest because 331 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 1: we have all the relationships with other fresh group providers. 332 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: Also many also supplemented the food boxes with vegetables, fruits, 333 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:52,640 Speaker 1: m lunches for the kids and all we've been giving 334 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:55,920 Speaker 1: away and average seventy pounds of food for every family 335 00:17:56,280 --> 00:18:00,640 Speaker 1: that comes through our line. You know, when I listen 336 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: to you talk you the CEO. Okay, So that means 337 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 1: that's a journey to become the CEO of Forgotten to Harvest. 338 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: How is that possible? How does that work? You know, 339 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,199 Speaker 1: when you know your service oriented young man, you've been 340 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:17,199 Speaker 1: honored by your alumni, your school Michigan State University, been 341 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:20,720 Speaker 1: honored for other efforts within the community, how does Kurt 342 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 1: May's become the CEO of Forgotten Harvest? And that's the 343 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 1: main Kyle of question. It's finally here the season of celebration. 344 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 1: And no matter how you celebrate with family and friends, 345 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: whether you're preparing for reys magos or karamu lighting the Manura, 346 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: are going to midnight mass coals has just what you 347 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 1: need to make those traditions special. 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You already you gotta you show me 376 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: your visionary. You showed me that you you rather the pivot. 377 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,399 Speaker 1: When when when confusion steps in place, you already had places. 378 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 1: You already had an idea that, hey, this is something 379 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:40,399 Speaker 1: we need to look at. COVID hits it. You already 380 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 1: got the model. You put the model in place, and 381 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,199 Speaker 1: then it moves you forward, and then you're able to 382 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,520 Speaker 1: create a one voice. You tell the council look notifying 383 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 1: them that hate there is a problem out there. I'm 384 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:53,119 Speaker 1: not saying we're going to get the money, but that 385 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:57,840 Speaker 1: means that you're a guy who foresees the problem with resolution. Yeah, 386 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 1: that has been your personality, correct, Yeah, that's that's all. 387 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:03,640 Speaker 1: That's all I could you know. Humbly, I can say 388 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,359 Speaker 1: that's all fair, right, so, um, but to answer you 389 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:09,679 Speaker 1: a question, I gotta actually go probably a little bit 390 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: off the script and just go say that I've just 391 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 1: been trying to make sure my fire don't burn me up, 392 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 1: and I gotta I gotta fire for our people. I 393 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 1: gotta fire for our community. I understand, uh, I think 394 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 1: I understand well enough to the politics and change. Um My, 395 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 1: my greatest focus is studying people and trying to understand 396 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: people so I can do as much as I can 397 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: as a servant to people to help I started as 398 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:41,200 Speaker 1: a grass roots or community organizer with the hope that 399 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 1: I could actually be a part of an effort to 400 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 1: you know, twenty years ago, I started with a dream 401 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:51,920 Speaker 1: that we could recreate Black Law Street and Detroit, and 402 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:55,119 Speaker 1: now I see people talking about it everywhere. So I 403 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 1: honestly is just a young man who just want to 404 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 1: see change with the people around me. I gotta burn 405 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 1: and the fire. Had a great education, and at one 406 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: point I realized that I can probably do anything and 407 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: be successful, and I could go sell myself, my talent, 408 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:13,199 Speaker 1: my ability, my time and somebody and probably go make 409 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,640 Speaker 1: a lot of money. But I want to I want 410 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 1: to leave a legacy in this life that my my child, 411 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:20,879 Speaker 1: my family could be proud of. And it's got to 412 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 1: be something more than just cash. So I dedicated my 413 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: life to serving our community. And I gotta say it 414 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: didn't start being a CEO of Forgotten Harvard. It didn't 415 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: start being the CEO of nothing. And so this dream 416 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 1: I had, and I was always the CEO of that dream, 417 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 1: and I never stopped being a CEO. And I've always 418 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 1: been putting my fire into the place where I felt 419 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: like I could add the most value to the moment 420 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 1: in the conversation. And it's turned out that that service 421 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: has put as positioned me in a place where I've 422 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:55,960 Speaker 1: been able to actually be in front of a conversation 423 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 1: or in front of a group and be considered as 424 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: somebody to be able to be, you know, to follow 425 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,879 Speaker 1: into into the fire. You know, before I was at 426 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 1: Forgotten Harvest, my job was as the grass top leader 427 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:12,679 Speaker 1: for a hard hit community in Detroit called Brightmore. And 428 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 1: you know, I applied the same kind of fire towards 429 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:20,160 Speaker 1: community development and made some change and made some problems, 430 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:23,959 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And that got me a 431 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: role that was pulled into the Mayor's office as the 432 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 1: deputy for Economic Development, and I think what happened was 433 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: the powers that be whatever you want to call it, 434 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,119 Speaker 1: the cross section of our community in the business world. 435 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: I got a chance to see my my life shining 436 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,440 Speaker 1: in a lot of different ways as they were looking 437 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 1: for the person to fulfill the role of forgotten the 438 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,879 Speaker 1: harvest Um. It wasn't something I saw in my future, 439 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 1: but when I really understood what it could be, I 440 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 1: sat down in the interview, when I gave them everything 441 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: I had, and I've been doing that for the last 442 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 1: seven years. Uh Um to try to do that through 443 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 1: you know, this road to do the most I can 444 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: to continue to change our community. Man, I wish I 445 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: could tell you a game plan to get here, but 446 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: I was just I've just been trying to do as 447 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: much as i can to get back to my people. Well, 448 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,159 Speaker 1: you tell your game. You know, it's like a lot 449 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 1: of people because you're grinder. I call you grinders, people 450 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: that just put their head down and they like I 451 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 1: always always tell people when I look back on my life, 452 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: I've been doing what I'm doing today since I was 453 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 1: eighteen years old. Uplifting you know, stepping beyond the word asked, 454 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 1: I just did it uh seeing a problem and creating 455 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 1: a resolution. And yes I did rub people the wrong way, 456 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 1: but it was always but I walked away with respect. 457 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: The thing about it, when you hear the word rubbing 458 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 1: people the wrong way, these are people don't want to change, 459 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 1: and change is usually tied to putting forth effort. And 460 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,679 Speaker 1: when you ask people put forth effort, that means they 461 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 1: have to think about the resolution or the new concept, 462 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 1: and that creates resistance and that's where you get bumped. 463 00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,199 Speaker 1: And so when you create a resistance, that means you 464 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:00,639 Speaker 1: have to have a plan in lation. And that's what 465 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 1: he does. She he doesn't create resistance without a plan. 466 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: And so while people are there with their lips stuck out, 467 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:08,400 Speaker 1: he said, he's so we're telling people this is how 468 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 1: it could be operated or executed. And then they then 469 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:13,480 Speaker 1: they calmed down and they have to come to the 470 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,400 Speaker 1: table at least listen to you. And while they're listening, 471 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: did you have their attention in their ear? And we 472 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 1: can move forward. That is who Kirt made it is. 473 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 1: He may not want to say that one of the piece. 474 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 1: That's one of the piece. If you don't agree, and 475 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,040 Speaker 1: I really believe that this is the thing. I build 476 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:35,639 Speaker 1: it myself. Do you people like jumping on bad wagon? 477 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: You might have been the one of the tables said no, no, 478 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 1: but if and I'm like, look, let's see, and if 479 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:42,640 Speaker 1: you don't want to, if you don't want to jump 480 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 1: down this roller, staying with me, I don't want to 481 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 1: do as much as I can. I got enough capacity 482 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 1: to build it so that this wagon is wobbling and 483 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get somebody else to fix that way by action. 484 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 1: If you don't believe by word, and that's what really 485 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,439 Speaker 1: is my hidden I think Juel I can do it. 486 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: To go see I I finally got the real Kirk, 487 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 1: the pop out in this interview you just just saying. 488 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 1: He moved forward, he started pointing at me, telling me, 489 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: if you don't do it, I get the nail and 490 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,199 Speaker 1: the hammer and the sawt I build it myself. And 491 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: that's really what Why are you the CEO? That's all 492 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 1: I That's all I was asking because sometimes along the way, 493 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 1: it's your passion, your desire to get out of the 494 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 1: way and function as a as a leader. It's why 495 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,920 Speaker 1: we're here today. We're talking about Kirk Mayz and Ntenninaty 496 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,160 Speaker 1: for Goden Harvest was was founded is dedicated to leaving 497 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,680 Speaker 1: hunger and preventing food waste and for they deliver a 498 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,640 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty eight thousand pounds per day, five days 499 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,960 Speaker 1: a week to families in need. And recently, I shouldn't 500 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,480 Speaker 1: say recently, within this past year, you guys received the 501 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,439 Speaker 1: twenty five million dollar grant from Philanthropist. But kids, they 502 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,400 Speaker 1: Scott walk us through that process and what how would 503 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 1: the money will be used and forgotten Harvest? Well, first 504 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 1: it was an absolute blessing, right, so, um, well, many 505 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,680 Speaker 1: people may not realize is there was no process for us. 506 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:08,919 Speaker 1: This was literally an angel that dropped million dollars on 507 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:12,680 Speaker 1: that lab. And when I found out it was a 508 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 1: call like literally the decision was already made and it 509 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 1: was like one of it was an email that I 510 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 1: could have missed and it was just like, Hey, you 511 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,639 Speaker 1: got a woman that wants to talk to you tomorrow 512 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:27,119 Speaker 1: about a gift and I've gotten anonymous gifts before. So 513 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 1: I get on the phone and she's like is this 514 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 1: Kirk Mayl And like yeah, it's like it's Mr Mazed. 515 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 1: This conversation has to be competential. I'm like, okay, no problem, 516 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,879 Speaker 1: and she says, do you know who Mackenzie Scott is. 517 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I don't. And she's like, well, she's 518 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,200 Speaker 1: an author and missed that another and she didn't tell 519 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 1: me about her affiliation with Mr Bezos or nothing like that. 520 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 1: And then she's like, well, Mr Mays, we've done our 521 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 1: research and we've heard about you, so we want to 522 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:57,880 Speaker 1: give you a gift. We're gonna give you twenty five 523 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:02,919 Speaker 1: million dollars. I was like, what, okay, let's back that up, 524 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:08,400 Speaker 1: because ce ce ce Hi, I'm fall from Progressive. Being 525 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 1: a baseball fanatic like me can be stressful. It's not 526 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: all sports points and touchdowns. So Progressive is going to 527 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: help you take your mind off your team for a moment. 528 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,679 Speaker 1: Instead of thinking about how they missed that gold points score, 529 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 1: think about the name your Price tool from Progressive, letting 530 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,640 Speaker 1: you choose coverage options based on your budget, unlike your 531 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,920 Speaker 1: team that missed the end zone net area. Well, anyway, 532 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 1: hope this distraction about Progressives Name your Price toool was helpful. 533 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 1: It sure kept me from thinking about all those penalty 534 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: balls sports. Progressive cancialty in terms company atily. It's prison 535 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 1: covered match on the divice Ney law. 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I Discover the forest dot org brought to 542 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: you by the United States Forest Service and the AD Council. 543 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 1: If I could be you and you could be me 544 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 1: for just one hour, if you could find a way 545 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 1: to get inside each other's mind, walk a mile in 546 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: my shoes, wacome mile in my shoes shoes. We've all 547 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 1: felt left out, and for some that feeling lasts more 548 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 1: than a moment. We can change that. Learn how it 549 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,239 Speaker 1: belonging begins with us. Dot org brought to you by 550 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 1: the AD Council. Welcome out in the sines. You you 551 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: you know mad, You've heard numbers, you know we've we've 552 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 1: heard twenty dollars, a hundred dollars. What somebody says twenty 553 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,880 Speaker 1: five billion dollars to you over the phone with the 554 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 1: word give where were you? Admittally? I was. I was. 555 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: I was kind of dumb fire because it stopped me 556 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,840 Speaker 1: because one, I don't think it's ridiculous to say that's 557 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,080 Speaker 1: the biggest gift I've ever gotten. It's the biggest if 558 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 1: the organization has ever gotten. Um. You know what, you 559 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 1: don't understand getting something when you didn't go through the 560 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 1: process and ask for anything like that. You know what 561 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: I'm saying. If somebody came up to you and knocked 562 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: on your door and say, hey, you just want the lottery, 563 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: here's a hundred million dollars, you kind of be suspicious 564 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 1: and you didn't buy that ticket. At that point, I 565 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 1: was like, are you for real? What million dollars? And 566 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 1: I immediately I had to understand I have to admit. 567 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: I immediately picked up my phone, was like, Mackenzie Scott, 568 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 1: who is this? And the first thing that came up 569 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:39,440 Speaker 1: was Mackenzie Scott value that sixty billion dollars. I put 570 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 1: the phone down. I was like, well, tell me more. 571 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 1: And what she told us was they have been she 572 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:52,040 Speaker 1: has been going through a process to give away all 573 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 1: her her cash. And what she's doing is she's going 574 00:30:55,960 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 1: through and doing her own assessment of organisay shoes and 575 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 1: based off a leadership, based off a track record, based 576 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 1: off an impact. There are certain areas that she actually 577 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 1: um It's focused on. And we were one of six 578 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 1: thousand plus organizations that got scrutinized, that got boiled down. 579 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 1: The three hundred and eighty four that gotta get it 580 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 1: was an absolute honor, one of seven in the state 581 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 1: of Michigan. UM and I gotta say, one of few brothers. 582 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,520 Speaker 1: And the work out of all food organizations and Feeding America, 583 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:34,960 Speaker 1: there's two hundred plus food organizations that feed in America, 584 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 1: only forty five gotta get right. So it was it 585 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 1: was quite a it was quite a head jerking moment 586 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 1: because you gotta understand, I'm in the middle of the 587 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 1: mere in the middle of this pandemic. We we have 588 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,720 Speaker 1: a vision for the future that got interrupted because we 589 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 1: had to turn to the community to help doing everything 590 00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 1: we're doing. We have a vision that involves us building 591 00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:03,800 Speaker 1: a brand new facility to really change the way that 592 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 1: we systemically actually serve the community. And with everything going on, 593 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 1: it's like, how are we gonna do all of this? 594 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 1: How are we gonna do all of this in this moment? 595 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:19,240 Speaker 1: And that gift was like the it was more than 596 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 1: just help right now. It was verification and validation that 597 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 1: every decision I made up to now I was right 598 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 1: that fire, That fire was burning for the right reasons. 599 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,240 Speaker 1: It's the best award I've ever gotten, and not and 600 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 1: not just because of the money. It's the gesture, the gesture, 601 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, It was backed up by 602 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 1: a magnificent dosar amount that right now, what we're doing is, 603 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,000 Speaker 1: you know, you ask how are we going to spend 604 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,440 Speaker 1: the money? You know that starts with conceptually understanding how 605 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,360 Speaker 1: we look at it, and if I can break that down, 606 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 1: it's try to do it in a short way. First 607 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 1: and foremost um the effort we're here right now to 608 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 1: transform how we deliver food to the community's inherent that 609 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,320 Speaker 1: we have to have a new facility forgotten harvest, going 610 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,920 Speaker 1: out and getting food every day from food providers, but 611 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:22,200 Speaker 1: also food coming in from the grocer, like from the 612 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 1: boat and commodity providers. We don't really have a capability 613 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,920 Speaker 1: inside of our existant warehouse to mix all of that 614 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,880 Speaker 1: so that everybody can get what I would call an 615 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 1: equitable mix of everything we get on a daily basis. 616 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 1: Those those route drivers go out and actually pick up 617 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,000 Speaker 1: from each of those grocery stores and they just give 618 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,200 Speaker 1: to like a three or four community partners on their route. 619 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 1: What what what we're gonna do in the future is 620 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,680 Speaker 1: we're gonna bring everything from every grocery store that we touched, 621 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,040 Speaker 1: all the farms, all the manufacturers. We're gonna use the 622 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:56,000 Speaker 1: processes we have with our volunteers to actually mix all 623 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,120 Speaker 1: of that stuff so that there's not aligned somewhere on 624 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 1: the east side of the time out that only got 625 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,040 Speaker 1: from those couple of Croker's, a couple of Maya, or 626 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,120 Speaker 1: a couple of grocery stores, and there's another line over 627 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,239 Speaker 1: here that just getting them from the farms. We want 628 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,960 Speaker 1: everybody get as much as possible because the nature of 629 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,600 Speaker 1: food rescue is we don't really know what we're gonna 630 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,640 Speaker 1: get on a daily basis, but we get so much 631 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,120 Speaker 1: that if we mix it all, people will be able 632 00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,000 Speaker 1: to make the right decisions to be able to get 633 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,960 Speaker 1: the meals they need so they can go home and 634 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,759 Speaker 1: make and solve the problem of food and security. And 635 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,239 Speaker 1: I got to talk about that. Food and security for 636 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,759 Speaker 1: us is a person or a family not knowing where 637 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:33,920 Speaker 1: our next meal, the future meal is coming from and 638 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,600 Speaker 1: anxiety that comes from that is that simple. So I 639 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 1: used that to hold us, myself and our organization accountable. 640 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,880 Speaker 1: How do we address that definition and broken into that 641 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:47,959 Speaker 1: is knowledge, access, proximity, and then supply. So the way 642 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,759 Speaker 1: that translates into the way that that forgotten harvest is 643 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,600 Speaker 1: going to actually transform and address that from a systemic 644 00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,799 Speaker 1: level is we got to change our communication. So also 645 00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:01,080 Speaker 1: been looking at and analyzing the distribution and territory that 646 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,360 Speaker 1: we're working in, and we've actually created data systems to 647 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:08,000 Speaker 1: help us understand and qualify, but also quantify what food 648 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,520 Speaker 1: and security actually looks like in our community. We're collecting 649 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:15,000 Speaker 1: data from our community UM members that are getting the 650 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,719 Speaker 1: food so that we can actually now have first hand 651 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,400 Speaker 1: information about where people are coming from, where some of 652 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:24,000 Speaker 1: their health mechanisms are, where some of their particular cultural 653 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,759 Speaker 1: UM preferences may be, and how we could potentially bring 654 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 1: food closer to the actual places where people are actually 655 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,600 Speaker 1: in need instead of just focusing on the place where 656 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,520 Speaker 1: people are picking up for food. So when we look 657 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:41,239 Speaker 1: look at this combination of being able to change the 658 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,040 Speaker 1: way we move plus being able to change the way 659 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:47,120 Speaker 1: we think as an organization, for gotten harvest is actually 660 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:50,400 Speaker 1: transforming into a thinking and data driven organization, and the 661 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,759 Speaker 1: new facility is actually gonna actually help enable us to 662 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 1: make that turn that's already to plan in place. That's 663 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,440 Speaker 1: already what I was doing, right, And we are already 664 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,759 Speaker 1: raising the money for that. We already got cash coming 665 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,839 Speaker 1: in for that. And then we get this magnificent get 666 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,480 Speaker 1: from Ms Scott in the middle of all this, and 667 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,800 Speaker 1: my board is like not what I'm like, Well, yo, 668 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: were already going deep. So now the question is how 669 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,320 Speaker 1: do we go why? So there are now there's some 670 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,360 Speaker 1: additional questions that we have about whether the throughput of 671 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:22,040 Speaker 1: the distribution um outlets that we get the food to 672 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:26,759 Speaker 1: actually adequate in their capacity in order to actually start 673 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,279 Speaker 1: the community. One of the largest challenges in the and 674 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,120 Speaker 1: and people being able to get the food that they 675 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:32,920 Speaker 1: need is to being able to get to the place 676 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,520 Speaker 1: where it is in time. So it's like I said, 677 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,200 Speaker 1: back to the example I had earlier, if Grandma can 678 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,279 Speaker 1: only come to the church on Wednesday from two to 679 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,280 Speaker 1: four to be able to get food out, what about 680 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,719 Speaker 1: the working family that can't actually get there. So what 681 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,680 Speaker 1: we would like to see is a distribution network that 682 00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:54,719 Speaker 1: has something closer than to retail hours. I'd like to 683 00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,080 Speaker 1: eliminate the line in a way that I think that 684 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,760 Speaker 1: we can eliminate that line that that wraps around the corner, 685 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 1: and we need to have places that look a lot 686 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,239 Speaker 1: more like grocery stores that have hours that are a 687 00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:08,759 Speaker 1: lot more like a retail establishment, but still give food 688 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,000 Speaker 1: away for free, but still has an actual high quality 689 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,759 Speaker 1: stag working, and they're treating people with dignity and like 690 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,440 Speaker 1: their customers that people come in there and they go 691 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,239 Speaker 1: get their food and they go home, and they go 692 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:23,160 Speaker 1: home with enough variety and enough volume so they can 693 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,720 Speaker 1: fix that problem and thereby not have to worry about 694 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,040 Speaker 1: where the next meal, future meal is coming from. So 695 00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,400 Speaker 1: everything that we do going forward with Forgotten Harvest is 696 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:37,320 Speaker 1: gonna actually help us actually widen our ability to affect 697 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,480 Speaker 1: the need that we're addressing. And the next step, I 698 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,040 Speaker 1: believe is when we move out of the building we're in, 699 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,120 Speaker 1: which is about thirty thousand square feet, and move into 700 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:50,359 Speaker 1: our seventy seven thousand square foot facility. I want to 701 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,000 Speaker 1: turn this old facility into into a community care center 702 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,960 Speaker 1: and not only allows people to come in and shop 703 00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,080 Speaker 1: at their at their regular pace like they will if 704 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:02,680 Speaker 1: they went to any grocery store, but check out for free. 705 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,319 Speaker 1: And before you leave, there's gonna be officers in here 706 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,160 Speaker 1: where some of our community partners. We don't do this, 707 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,120 Speaker 1: but we can invite partners in to work on mental 708 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:16,160 Speaker 1: health services, housing, get to get get the lights cut on. 709 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,239 Speaker 1: I want to bring our partners in to do that. 710 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,960 Speaker 1: So that would be one facility to come, um, you 711 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,560 Speaker 1: know immediately, I mean, and then we can talk about 712 00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:28,920 Speaker 1: other ways to expand. But brother, as you may already know, um, 713 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:32,959 Speaker 1: everybody can can't really absorb the whole vision all that once, 714 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,360 Speaker 1: so I just give it out there. We move to 715 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,600 Speaker 1: the next stage, and then we can see the other horizon. 716 00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:40,759 Speaker 1: We can see the horizon differently once we get down 717 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,120 Speaker 1: the road. So that's what it looks like in the 718 00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,480 Speaker 1: short term. In the midst of all of that, we've 719 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,440 Speaker 1: got some cash managing to do to make sure we 720 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,000 Speaker 1: stay in our position and strength. And I'm gonna continue 721 00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,080 Speaker 1: to just beat the streets. And I love to talk 722 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,160 Speaker 1: to our communities, so I'm just continue to beat the streets, 723 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,120 Speaker 1: make sure I got to approval and the sanction from 724 00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:00,200 Speaker 1: our community as we make this turn. But Kurk, just 725 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,200 Speaker 1: tell you this, man, thank you for coming on the show. 726 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,640 Speaker 1: That fire I got to, I got to. It warmed me, okay, 727 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,800 Speaker 1: it warmed me, okay. So I know it's it's it's 728 00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:10,760 Speaker 1: it's out there warming a lot of people and changing 729 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,120 Speaker 1: lives man. And definitely I want to come up there 730 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:15,759 Speaker 1: and visit you and de druge to charge one of 731 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,160 Speaker 1: my favorite cities, and and and see that thirty or 732 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,800 Speaker 1: three thousand squarefoot facility, and you're gonna move to the 733 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,440 Speaker 1: eventual the seven or seven thousand squarefoot facility. And I 734 00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:27,000 Speaker 1: think you're absolutely right repurposing that old facility into a 735 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,440 Speaker 1: care center, a life center. I think that's basically what 736 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,480 Speaker 1: you're saying. Well, you can you can be educated and nourish, 737 00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,000 Speaker 1: not from from your body, in your head, and that's 738 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,600 Speaker 1: what we need in these diverse communities that are being 739 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,400 Speaker 1: underserved again forgotten Harvest. He is the CEO. I know 740 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:44,440 Speaker 1: how you got there. I just had to let you 741 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,799 Speaker 1: guys hear how he got there and let him drop 742 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,319 Speaker 1: that humble veil and tell us this story on money 743 00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,680 Speaker 1: making conversations. 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