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Speaker 9: Welcome to money Making Conversation. I am your host, Rashaan McDonald.

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Speaker 9: I always tell people every week, you know it's time

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Speaker 9: to stop reading other people's success stories to start writing

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Speaker 9: your own. People always talk about gifts and passions. If

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Speaker 1: My next guest is what I like to believe is

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Speaker 9: He is the CEO of Forgotten Harvest, one of Michigan's

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Speaker 9: rescue organizations. Forgotten Harvest was formed in nineteen ninety to

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Speaker 9: fight two problems, hunger and waste. Forgotten Harvest rescue forty

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Speaker 9: one point five million pounds of food last year by

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Speaker 9: collecting surplus prepared and perishable food from eight hundred sources

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Speaker 9: that include grocery stores, fruit and vegetable markets, restaurants, caterers, dairies, farmers,

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Speaker 9: wholesale food distributors, wholesale food distributors, and other department approved sources.

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Speaker 9: This donated food which would otherwise go to waste, and

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Speaker 9: Kurt Maids.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir Donald, thank you for having me on

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Speaker 9: Hey Curt, I've had to put you out there. Man,

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Speaker 9: don't you're changing lives?

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Speaker 2: Brother, A man just trying every day to just do

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Speaker 9: We know current when I interview individuals like you, because

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Speaker 9: you're such forward thinkers and you're all about what you

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Speaker 1: What does that start? I'm gonna delve into you a

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Speaker 9: Who initiated this type of behavior or thought process in

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Speaker 2: It comes from my home, It comes from my mom.

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Speaker 9: The whole process of what you're talking about, you know,

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Speaker 9: He's the CEO of Forgotten the Harvest. UH runs one

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Speaker 9: This is a key in this conversation. Food that will

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Speaker 9: But we're talking to curt Maids right here and Kurt

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Speaker 9: When you didn't have the ready made food anymore to

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Speaker 10: Know, we relied on some of our resistant relationships. We

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Speaker 10: So we started to actually approach some of our partners

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Speaker 10: To actually go into our cash reserves up to a

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Speaker 10: We started putting our hands together and we went to

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Speaker 10: A lot of that conversation actually started the Michigan and

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Speaker 9: When I listen to you talk, you the CEO. Okay,

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Speaker 9: So that means there's a journey to become the CEO

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Speaker 9: You know, when you know your surface oriented young man,

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Speaker 1: You already you gotta you show me your visionary.

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Speaker 9: You showed me that you you rather to pivot when

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Speaker 9: That means that you're a guy who foresees the problem

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Speaker 10: And I could go sell myself, my talent.

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Speaker 2: And my ability, my time to somebody and probably gonna

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Speaker 2: make a lot of money. But I want to leave

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Speaker 2: a legacy, you know.

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Speaker 10: This life that my child, my family could be proud of.

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Speaker 10: And it got to be something more than just cash.

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Speaker 10: So I dedicated my life to serving our community. And

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Speaker 10: I got to say it didn't start being a CEO

451
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Speaker 10: forgotten Harvest. It didn't start being the CEO of nothing

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Speaker 10: except this dream I had, and I was always the

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Speaker 10: CEO of that dream. And I never stopped being a CEO.

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Speaker 10: And I've always been putting my fire into the place

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Speaker 10: where I felt like I could.

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Speaker 2: Add the most value to the moment in the conversation.

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Speaker 10: And it's turned out that that service has put has

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Speaker 10: positioned me in a place where I've been able to

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Speaker 10: actually be in front of a conversation or in front

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Speaker 10: of a group and be considered as somebody to be

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Speaker 10: able to be, you know, to follow into the fire.

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Speaker 10: You know, before I was at Forgotten Harvest, my job

463
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Speaker 10: was as the grasstop leader for a hard hit community

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Speaker 10: in Detroit called Brightmore, And you know, I applied the

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Speaker 10: same kind of fire towards community development and made some

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Speaker 10: change and made some problems, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 10: And that got me a role that was pulled into

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Speaker 10: the Mayor's office as the deputy for Economic Development.

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Speaker 2: And I think what happened was.

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Speaker 10: The powers that be, whatever you want to call it,

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Speaker 10: the cross section of our community in the business world

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Speaker 10: got a chance to see my light shining in a

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Speaker 10: lot of different ways as they were looking for the

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Speaker 10: person to fulfill the role of forgotten Harvest.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't something I saw in my future.

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Speaker 10: But when I really understood what it could be, I

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Speaker 10: sat down in an interview and I gave them everything

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Speaker 10: I had.

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Speaker 2: And I've been doing that for the last seven years

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Speaker 2: to try to do that through you know, this role,

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Speaker 2: to do the most I can to continue to change

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Speaker 2: our community. Man, I wish I could tell you a game.

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Speaker 10: Plan to get here, but I was just I just

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Speaker 10: been trying to do as much as I can to

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Speaker 10: get back to my people.

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Speaker 1: Well, let me tell your game plan.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: It's like a lot of people because you're a grinder.

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Speaker 1: I call you grinders, people that just put their head

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Speaker 1: down and they.

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Speaker 9: Like I was, always tell people when I look back

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Speaker 9: on my life, I've been doing what I'm doing today

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Speaker 9: since I was eighteen years old, uplifting, you know, stepping

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Speaker 9: beyond the word ask. I just did it uh seeing

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Speaker 9: a problem and creating a resolution. And yes I did

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Speaker 9: rub people the wrong way, but it was always but

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Speaker 9: I walked away with respect. The thing about it, when

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Speaker 9: you hear the word rubbing people the wrong way, these

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Speaker 9: are people who don't want to change and change is

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Speaker 9: usually tied to putting forth effort. And when you ask

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Speaker 9: people to put forth effort, that means they have to

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Speaker 9: think about the resolution of the new concept, and that

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Speaker 9: creates resistance and that's where you get bumped. And so

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Speaker 9: when you create resistance, that means you have to have

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Speaker 9: a plan place.

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Speaker 1: And that's what he does. See, he doesn't create resistance

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Speaker 1: without a plan.

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Speaker 9: And so while people over there with their lips stuck out,

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Speaker 9: he's he's over here telling people this is how it

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Speaker 9: can be operate or executed. And then they then they

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Speaker 9: calm down and they have to come to the table

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Speaker 9: at least listen to you. And while they're listening, did

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Speaker 9: you have their attention in their ear?

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Speaker 1: And we can move forward? That is who Kurt made

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Speaker 1: it basis.

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Speaker 2: He may want to say one of the piece the piece.

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Speaker 10: If you don't agree, and I'm really believed that this

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Speaker 10: is the thing, yes, I build it myself.

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Speaker 2: There you go, people like jumping on bandwagon.

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Speaker 10: You might've been the one at the tables said nah no,

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Speaker 10: but if and I'm like, look, let's see and if

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Speaker 10: you don't want to if you don't want to jump

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Speaker 10: down this road and stay with me, I'm gonna gonna

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Speaker 10: do as much as I can.

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Speaker 2: I got enough capacity to build it so that this.

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Speaker 10: Wagon is wabbling and I'm gonna get somebody else to

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Speaker 10: fix that wheel. But you see by action if you

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Speaker 10: don't believe by word, And that's what really is my

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Speaker 10: hidden I think Jewel I can do it.

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Speaker 2: Let we go.

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Speaker 1: See.

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Speaker 9: I finally got the real Kirk the pop out in

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Speaker 9: this interview.

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Speaker 2: You did the same. You move forward. He started pointing

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Speaker 2: at me.

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Speaker 9: He's telling me, if you don't do it, I'll get

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Speaker 9: the nail and the hammer and the saw.

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Speaker 1: I'll build it myself. And that's really what Why are

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Speaker 1: you the CEO?

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Speaker 2: That's all I That's all I was asking because.

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Speaker 9: Sometimes along the way, it's your passion, your desire, you'll

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Speaker 9: get out of the way and function as a as

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Speaker 9: a leader. Is why we're here today. We're talking about

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Speaker 9: Kirk Maids. In eighteen ninety Forgotten Harvest was founded. Is

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Speaker 9: dedicated to be leaving hunger and preventing food waste, and

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Speaker 9: they deliver one hundred and thirty eight thousand pounds per day,

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Speaker 9: five days a week to families in need and recently,

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Speaker 9: I shouldn't say recently, within this past year, you guys

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Speaker 9: received a twenty five million dollar grant from Filati Brisk.

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Speaker 9: But kids, they's got walk us through that process and

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Speaker 9: how would the money be used at forgotten harvests.

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Speaker 10: Well, first, it was an absolute blessing, right so, well,

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Speaker 10: people may not realize is there was no process for us.

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Speaker 10: This was literally an angel that dropped twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Million dollars on that lap.

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Speaker 10: And when I found out it was a call, like

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Speaker 10: literally the decision was already made and it was like

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Speaker 10: and it was just like, hey, you got a woman

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Speaker 10: And I've gotten anonymous gifts before. So I get on

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Speaker 10: the phone and she's like, is this Kirk Mail. I'm

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Speaker 10: like yeah, it's like this, mister Maze. This conversation has

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Speaker 10: do you know who Mackenzie Scott is. I'm like nah,

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Speaker 10: I don't. And she's like, well, she's an author and this,

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Speaker 10: that and the other. And she didn't tell me about

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Speaker 2: Nothing like that.

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Speaker 10: And then she's like, well, mister Mays, We've done our

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Speaker 1: Mentally?

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Speaker 10: Because one, I don't think it's ridiculous to say that's

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Speaker 10: the biggest gift I've ever gotten.

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Speaker 2: This is the biggest gi if the organization's ever gotten.

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Speaker 10: You know, you don't understand getting something when you didn't

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Speaker 10: Here's one hundred million dollars, you kind of be suspicious

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Speaker 2: At that point, I was like, man, are you for real?

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Speaker 10: What twenty five million dollars? And I immediately I have

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Speaker 10: to understand, I had to admit. I immediately picked up

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Speaker 10: my phone. I was like, Mackenzie Scott, who is this right?

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Speaker 10: And the first thing that came up was McKenzie.

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Speaker 2: Scott value that sixty billion dollars. I put the phone down.

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Speaker 10: I was like, well, tell me more right, And what

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Speaker 10: she told us was they have been she has been

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Speaker 10: going through a process to give away all her cash.

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Speaker 2: And what she's doing is she's going through.

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Speaker 10: And doing her own assessment of organization and based off

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Speaker 2: There's certain areas that she actually is focused on.

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Speaker 10: And we were one of six thousand plus organizations that

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Speaker 10: One of seven in the state of Michigan, and I

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Speaker 10: got to say one of a few brothers. And the

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Speaker 10: work out of all food organizations in feed in America,

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Speaker 10: there's two hundred plus food organizations that feed in America,

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Speaker 10: only forty.

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Speaker 2: Five got to get right. So it was it was

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Speaker 2: quite a It was quite a head.

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Speaker 10: Jerking moment because you got to understand, I'm in the

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Speaker 10: middle of the We're in the middle of this pandemic. Yes, sir,

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Speaker 10: we have a vision for the future that got interrupted

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Speaker 10: because we had to turn to the community to help

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Speaker 10: doing everything we're doing. We have a vision that involves

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Speaker 10: us building a brand new facility to really change the

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Speaker 10: way that we systemically actually.

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Speaker 2: Serve the community. And with everything going on, it's like,

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Speaker 2: how are we going to do all of this? How

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Speaker 2: And that gift was like the It was more than

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Speaker 2: just help right now, it.

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Speaker 10: Was verification and validation that every decision I made up

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Speaker 10: to now was right.

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Speaker 1: That fire, that fire was burning for the right reasons.

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Speaker 2: It's the best of world I've ever gotten, and not

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Speaker 2: just because of the money it's the gesture. Yes, the gesture.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 10: It was backed up by a magnificent dollar amount that

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Speaker 10: right now, what we're doing is, you know you asked,

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Speaker 10: how are we going to spend the money? You know

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Speaker 10: that starts with conceptually understanding how we look at it,

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Speaker 10: and if I can break that down, try to do

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Speaker 10: it in a short way. First and foremost, the effort

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Speaker 10: we're in right now to transform how we deliver food

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Speaker 10: to the community is inherent that we have to have

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Speaker 10: a new facility forgotten harvest going out and getting food

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Speaker 10: every day from food providers, but also food coming in

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Speaker 10: from the grosser like from the bolt and commodity providers.

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Speaker 10: We don't really have a capability inside of our existing

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Speaker 10: warehouse to mix all of that so that everybody can

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Speaker 10: get what I would call an equitable mix of everything

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Speaker 10: we get on a daily basis. Those route drivers go

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Speaker 10: out and actually pick up from each of those grocery

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Speaker 10: stores and they just give to like the three or

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Speaker 10: four community partners on their route.

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Speaker 2: What we're going to do in the future is we're

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Speaker 2: going to.

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Speaker 10: Bring everything from every grocery store that we touch, all

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Speaker 10: the farms, all the manufacturers. We're going to use the

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Speaker 10: processes we have with our volunteers to actually mix all

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Speaker 10: of that stuff so that there's not a line somewhere

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Speaker 10: on the east side of the time that only got

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Speaker 10: from those couple crokers, a couple Mayer, or a couple

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Speaker 10: grocery stores, and there's another line over here that.

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Speaker 2: Just get them from the farms. We want everybody to

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Speaker 2: get as much as possible, because.

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Speaker 10: The nature of food rescue is we don't really know

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Speaker 10: what we're gonna get on a daily basis, but we

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Speaker 10: get so much that if we mix it all, people

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Speaker 10: will be able to make the right decisions to be

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Speaker 10: able to get the meals they need so they can

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Speaker 10: go home and make it and solve the problem of

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Speaker 10: food and security.

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Speaker 2: And I got to talk about that.

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Speaker 10: Food and security for us is a person or a

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Speaker 10: family not knowing where our next meal, the future meal

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Speaker 10: is coming from, and anxiety that comes from that is

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Speaker 10: that simple. So I use that to hold us, myself

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Speaker 10: and our organization accountable. How do we address that definition

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Speaker 10: and broken into that as knowledge, access, proximity, and then supply,

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Speaker 10: so the way that translates into the way that forgotten

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Speaker 10: harvest is going to actually transform and address that from

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Speaker 10: a systemic level is we got to change our communication.

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Speaker 10: So we also have been looking at and analyzing the

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Speaker 10: distribution and territory that we're working in, and we've actually

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Speaker 10: created data systems to help us understand and qualify, but

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Speaker 10: also quantify what food and security actually looks.

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Speaker 2: Like in our community.

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Speaker 10: We're collecting data from our community members that are getting

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Speaker 10: the food so that we can actually now have first

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Speaker 10: hand information about where people are coming from, where some

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Speaker 10: of their health mechanisms are, where some of their particular

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Speaker 10: cultural preferences may be, and how.

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Speaker 2: We can potentially bring food closer to the.

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Speaker 10: Actual places where people are actually in need instead of

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Speaker 10: just focusing on the place where people are picking up

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Speaker 10: the food.

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Speaker 2: So, when we look at.

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Speaker 10: This combination of being able to change the way we

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Speaker 10: move plus being able to change the way we think

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Speaker 10: as an organization, for Gotten Harvest is actually transforming into

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Speaker 10: a thinking and data driven organization, and the new facility

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Speaker 10: is actually going to actually help enable us to make

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Speaker 10: that turn. That's already a plan in place, that's already

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Speaker 10: what I was doing right already raising the money for that.

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Speaker 2: We already got cash coming in for that, and then.

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Speaker 10: We get this magnificent getting from Miss Scott in the

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Speaker 10: middle of all this, and my board is like now what,

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Speaker 10: I'm like, well, yo, we already going deep.

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Speaker 2: So now the question is how do we go wide?

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Speaker 10: So there are now there's some additional questions that we

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Speaker 10: have about whether the throughput of the distribution outlets that

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Speaker 10: we give the food to are actually adequate in their

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Speaker 10: capacity in order to actually start the community.

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Speaker 2: One of the largest challenges and people being able to

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Speaker 2: get the food that they need is being able to

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Speaker 2: get to the place where it is in time.

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Speaker 10: So it's like I said, back to the example I

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Speaker 10: had earlier, If Grandma I can only come to the

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Speaker 10: church on Wednesday from two to four.

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Speaker 2: To be able to get food out, what about the

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Speaker 2: working family that can't actually get there.

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Speaker 10: So what we would like to see is a distribution

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Speaker 10: network that has something closer than the retail hours. I'd

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Speaker 10: like to eliminate the line and the way that I

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Speaker 10: think that we can eliminate that line that wraps around

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Speaker 10: the corner. We need to have places that look a

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Speaker 10: lot more like grocery stores, that have hours that are

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Speaker 10: a lot more like a retail establishment, but still get

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Speaker 10: food away for free, but still has an actual high

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Speaker 10: quality staff working and they're treating people with dignity and

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Speaker 10: like their customers that people come in.

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Speaker 2: There and they go get that food and they go home,

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Speaker 2: and they go home with.

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Speaker 10: Enough variety and enough volume so they can fix that

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Speaker 10: problem and thereby not have to worry about where their

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Speaker 10: next meal, future meal is coming from.

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Speaker 2: So everything that we do going forward with.

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Speaker 10: Forgotten Harvest is going to actually help us actually widen

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Speaker 10: our ability to affect the need that we're addressing.

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Speaker 2: And the next step, I believe.

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Speaker 10: Is when we move out of the building we're in

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Speaker 10: this is about thirty thousand square feet and move into

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Speaker 10: our seventy seven thousand square foot facility. I want to

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Speaker 10: turn this old facility into community care centers and not

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Speaker 10: only allows people to come in and shop at their

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Speaker 10: regular pace, they will that they went to any grocery store,

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Speaker 10: but check out for free.

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Speaker 2: And before you leave, there's gonna be offices in here

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Speaker 2: where some of our community partners.

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Speaker 10: We don't do this, but we can invite partners in

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Speaker 10: to work on mental health services, housing, get your water

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Speaker 10: put on, get to get get the lights cut on.

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Speaker 10: I want to bring our partners in to do that,

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Speaker 10: so that'll be one facility to come, you know, immediately,

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Speaker 10: and then we can talk about other ways to expand.

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Speaker 2: But brother, as you may already know, everybody.

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Speaker 10: Can can't really absorb the whole vision all that once,

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Speaker 10: so I just give it out there. I want we

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Speaker 10: move to the next stage and then we can see

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Speaker 10: the other horizon. We can see the horizon differently once

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Speaker 10: we get down the road. So that's what it looks

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Speaker 10: like in the short term. In the midst of all

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Speaker 10: of that, we got some cash manage you to do

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Speaker 10: to make sure we stay in our position of strength.

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Speaker 10: And I'm gonna continue to just beat the streets and

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Speaker 10: I love to talk to our community, so I'm just

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Speaker 10: continue to beat the street, make sure I got the

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Speaker 10: approval and the sanction from our community as we make

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Speaker 10: this turn.

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Speaker 1: But Kirk, let just tell you this, man, thank you

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Speaker 1: for coming on the show. That fire I got to

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Speaker 1: I got to. It warmed me, okay, it warmed me okay.

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Speaker 9: So I know it's out there warming a lot of

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Speaker 9: people and changing lives man. And definitely I want to

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Speaker 9: come up there and visit you and Truge one of

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Speaker 9: my favorite cities, and and and see that thirty three

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Speaker 9: thousand square foot facility, and you're going to move to

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Speaker 9: the eventual, the seventy seven thousand square foot facility. And

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Speaker 9: I think you're absolutely right repurposing that old facility into

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Speaker 9: a care center, a life center.

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Speaker 1: I think just basically what you're saying, well, you can.

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Speaker 1: You can be educated and nourish.

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Speaker 9: Not from your body and your head, and that's what

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Speaker 9: we need in these diverse communities that are being underserved

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Speaker 9: again Forgotten Harvest.

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Speaker 1: He is the CEO. I know how he got there.

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Speaker 1: I just had to let you guys hear how he

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Speaker 1: got there and let.

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Speaker 9: Him drop that humble veil and tell us this story

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Speaker 9: on Money Making Conversations, Thank you Kurt Mays.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir, I appreciate you.

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