1 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Bill Courtney with an army of normal folks. 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 1: And we continue now with part two of our conversation 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 1: with Aaron Steel right after these brief messages from our 4 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 1: general sponsors. So you hawked everything, borrowed family money, and 5 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: did child labor and got this twenty six thousand square 6 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:41,519 Speaker 1: foot building in Almah. Yeah, right, and this is in 7 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. 8 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, so July of twenty three is when we purchased it, 9 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 2: and then we started renovating. Our plan was to open 10 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 2: the senior living first, just because that's kind of my forte. 11 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 2: But the community really needed childcare, so they kind of 12 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 2: came to us and said, will you do the childcare first, 13 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 2: like we really need it. So we opened everything kind 14 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 2: of in phases. So we opened our childcare facility in 15 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 2: October of twenty three, We opened our first senior living 16 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,680 Speaker 2: in January of twenty four, and our second in November 17 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 2: of twenty four. All the same building, but it's kind 18 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 2: of separated by wings. 19 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: So the kids have their wing, yes, and the senior 20 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: living facility is its own wing. 21 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 3: Yeah. 22 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 2: They have two wings in the senior and then kind 23 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,040 Speaker 2: of in between is the kitchen, the dining room, so 24 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:29,040 Speaker 2: the seniors can come down to the childcare center, they 25 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 2: can volunteer, or we have what we call a combined 26 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 2: area where the kids rotate out each day one of 27 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 2: the classes for a combined activity with the seniors. 28 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: How old are the kids, well, six. 29 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 2: Weeks clear to school age, so clear to fifth grade, 30 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 2: I think is our oldest. So we do before and 31 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 2: after school care, and then in the summer we do 32 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 2: all day and spring break, Christmas break, which that part's 33 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 2: really cool. I mean, all of them are super cool. 34 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 2: But the school age, the relationships is a little bit 35 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 2: different because they obviously have a the ability to remember people, 36 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 2: inform those bonds, and so that parts it's cool. 37 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 1: Okay, So this is young. I mean you're still just 38 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: in it, getting it going. 39 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 2: Absolutely we get we are full as of Wednesday of 40 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 2: this week. 41 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:22,119 Speaker 3: Congratulations, thank you full of residence. 42 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, and how many is that? 43 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 3: Twenty four? 44 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: Okay. So for me personally serving in a way God 45 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: has taught us kindness, compassion, treating others with respect. That's 46 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: our big mission. I say it's being God's hands and feet. 47 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: I'm going to read that again because those are your words. 48 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: For me personally serving in a way God taught us kindness, compassion, 49 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: and treating others with respect. That's our big mission. I 50 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,239 Speaker 1: found it so interesting that when you were talking about 51 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,359 Speaker 1: growing up in a home of eighteen that you use 52 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: the word selflessness in respect. It just feels like you 53 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: were ruined. 54 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 3: I mean, I definitely. 55 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:11,399 Speaker 2: I mean again, I'm kind of a believer, like this 56 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:13,359 Speaker 2: is what I was made to do. I do feel 57 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 2: that way, and I feel like from the beginning's but 58 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 2: I grew up with great examples. 59 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 3: I mean, my mom was the most selfless person you'll 60 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 3: ever I mean you'll never meet. 61 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 2: Nothing was ever about her, yeah, yeah, her body, her, 62 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 2: I mean, everything was for someone else. So you know, 63 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 2: it took me a long time to figure out what 64 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 2: that purpose was. You know, I kind of wanted it 65 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 2: to be to have eighteen kids. My husband did not, 66 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 2: you know, and as my kids got older, and you know, like, 67 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 2: what is it I'm supposed to do to serve other people? 68 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 2: And then it became very evident and yeah, this is 69 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 2: just what I'm and I think also like inspiring and 70 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 2: calling other people to do that. 71 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 3: So you know, like those words for me. 72 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 2: You know, the Bible tells us we're supposed to love 73 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 2: and serve others the way that God taught us. 74 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 3: Like, that's what it is to me. 75 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 2: But you know, whatever it is for you, it may 76 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 2: not be the Bible or God, but whatever it is 77 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 2: that inspires you to help other people. 78 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: So I want to say this. This is not a nonprofit. 79 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 1: This is your business. This is what you do to 80 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: make your living. And you know, our listeners are so 81 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: used to us talking to people who have a job 82 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:33,159 Speaker 1: and then do something else as a way to give 83 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: back to their community or frill areas of need. Only 84 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: about a month ago I sat across this table from 85 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: a guy named Alan Barnhart. Alan Barnhardt owns a business 86 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: that will do what was it to a billion in 87 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 1: sales this year? A billion, And at the very beginning, 88 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 1: he and his brother was his partner, decided that they 89 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: would live a middle income life, and they have not 90 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: given themselves a raise above middle income. And they also 91 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: determined that every year they would give away half of 92 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 1: every dime the company made, and they have. And that's 93 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 1: one thing when you're doing two hundred and fifty thousand 94 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 1: a year and self, it's a whole another when you're 95 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 1: doing a billion. And then recently he gave the whole 96 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 1: company away, gave. What that enlightened me to is that 97 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: being a part of the army of normal folks and 98 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: serving and filling areas and need and making profound differences 99 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: in the lives of people around us does not just 100 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 1: have to be philanthropic. It does not just have to 101 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 1: be helping people in the inner city. It can also 102 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 1: be what you do for a living. And Alan Barnhardt 103 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: really taught me that. Now I own a business and 104 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 1: there's no way I'm giving it away, and there's no 105 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 1: way I'm giving half about profits away. I'm just telling you, 106 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: I'm not that guy. I try to be generous, but 107 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: I ain't there. So there's extremes, for sure. And he's extreme. 108 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: And when he was sitting here, I also called him crazy, 109 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: which he is, but crazy in the most unbelievable way. 110 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 1: But now you're number two after a couple of years 111 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:24,279 Speaker 1: of interviewing people of folks who are doing something for 112 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 1: their living, for their income, but have bound a way 113 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: to use their profession to also serve. What was your purpose? 114 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: What was your goal in starting this thing? 115 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 2: So it's kind of a little bit of a joke 116 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 2: when we would go to the bank or whatever. And 117 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:46,919 Speaker 2: my husband would say, you should never say that to 118 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 2: a banker because I'd say, I'm not doing this to 119 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 2: get rich. 120 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 3: He's like, you quit. 121 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 2: Telling bankers that, or you know what I mean, like, 122 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:56,679 Speaker 2: and I mean really like I need to make a living, 123 00:06:57,279 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 2: but I need to make a purpose. 124 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: And you also have to pay your employees a fair way. 125 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 3: Absolutely, but that's also part of it. 126 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 2: I worked for places that they weren't getting paid fair 127 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 2: or treated fair, or the money was not going back 128 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 2: to the residents the people that are you know what 129 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 2: I mean, Like, it wasn't being invested back into those people, 130 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 2: which to me, paying your employees well and treating them well, 131 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 2: and you know, having reliable employees, consistent employees is giving 132 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 2: back to those seniors that live there. 133 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 1: I was going to say, I bet the standard of 134 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: care improves when you actually pay the employees. 135 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 2: Well, well, well, it's my frustration kind of you know, 136 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 2: being under that is you know, it should go back 137 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 2: to them and not be patting someone else's pocket. 138 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 3: And so that's kind of my goal. 139 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 2: Obviously, you know, we put everything we have into it, 140 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 2: so we have to you know, pay that off, but 141 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 2: you know, to give back to those people. I would 142 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 2: love to eventually be able to do charity care. My 143 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 2: husband has a line of when I can. 144 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 3: Do that, it's like no free beds till this day 145 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 3: or whatever. Like I mean, that's definitely a yeah, charity care. 146 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: I would love you could do that on both ends 147 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 1: of the generation too. I'm sure there's some needy single 148 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: mothers out there that would. 149 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 2: Love absolutely, And there's state programs for people, but certainly 150 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 2: to me, you know, and we do accept Medicaid, which 151 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 2: would be like the program available for seniors that don't 152 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 2: have any resources or income, but most of the time 153 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 2: those people get substandard care, and to me, that's everybody deserves. 154 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 3: You don't mean to have good care, especially at the 155 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 3: end of your life. 156 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:37,559 Speaker 2: So I would I would let them all come in 157 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 2: and never charge, But my husband says, I can't. 158 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:45,199 Speaker 1: We have to eat and pay our bills. Yeah. Profits 159 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: are necessary measure of any business of success. The level 160 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 1: of profits is what you can manipulate. Your motto is 161 00:08:52,840 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: loving every generation, which is insane. So the benefits of 162 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: innergenerational care, you say, are improved quality of life for 163 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: both generation, multiple opportunities for shared activities and celebrations that 164 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: bring joy, love, and laughter to each generation. Children provide 165 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: an endless source of joy for seniors. Children learn and 166 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:23,959 Speaker 1: demonstrate empathy, character, and acceptance on your website Psalm seventy 167 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 1: one to eighteen. Even when I'm old and gray, do 168 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: not forsake me. By God, toll, I declare your power 169 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: to the next generation. You're mighty acts to all who 170 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: are to come. That's beautiful. 171 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, And so you know, that's that's what the Bible 172 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 2: calls us to do. And I think if you can 173 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 2: teach children and start, you know, at a young age, 174 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 2: and maybe they'll grow up to do the same thing. 175 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 3: You know, and value these you know, value that generation. 176 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 3: You know, maybe my infants will be the ones taking 177 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 3: care of you when you're seventy six, you know. 178 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:00,560 Speaker 1: Home. 179 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 2: You know, I always tease the infants in our facility. 180 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:04,559 Speaker 2: They just think it's normal to grow up in a 181 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 2: nursing home. I mean, you know what, they started coming 182 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,080 Speaker 2: here when they're six weeks old, and they've just grown 183 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 2: up in this environment. I mean, I've only been going 184 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 2: two years, but I'm like, think of those kids when they're. 185 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 3: In high school or college or an adult. 186 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: We'll be right back. So tell me what a day 187 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: looks like I want to understand how it works for 188 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: these kids and these seniors hang out together, what they 189 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: do together, what they anticipation is what it's like when 190 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:52,200 Speaker 1: they separate. I mean, give me the how do I 191 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 1: get the idea that it's an inner generationial care and 192 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,319 Speaker 1: each are really sharing for one another. But how does 193 00:10:58,360 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 1: it work? What's a schedule? 194 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 3: Looking sure? 195 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 2: So how we do it is each day on our 196 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 2: activity calendar, at nine point thirty one class rotates out, 197 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 2: so Mondays it's toddlers, Tuesdays it's preschool. 198 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:12,319 Speaker 3: Wednesdays it's you. 199 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,560 Speaker 2: Know, a different class, and based on the age of 200 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 2: that class will be what the activity is. The seniors 201 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:21,319 Speaker 2: are invited to that, so it might be Plato, might 202 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,959 Speaker 2: be coloring, it might be music, it might be anything. 203 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 3: But the teachers in. 204 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 2: The childcare plan that activity and then the class comes 205 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 2: out and the seniors join them or can choose to 206 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 2: join them, because not all seniors want to be around kids, 207 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:35,680 Speaker 2: or maybe you have a day you don't feel good, 208 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 2: so it's definitely a choice thing and so they you know, 209 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:44,079 Speaker 2: I kind of use the example like in a nursing home, 210 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,560 Speaker 2: you have activities and you try to get seniors come, 211 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 2: but they think it's childish to color or to you know, 212 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 2: if you put plato on an activity calendar and no 213 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 2: seniors going to show up. But if you do that 214 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:59,320 Speaker 2: next to a kid, it's all a sudden fun. And 215 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 2: we have seen years teach absolutely yeah, how to make 216 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 2: something out of place, and it with them no longer childish. 217 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:16,440 Speaker 2: You're at And some of our seniors have cognitive deficits 218 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:19,839 Speaker 2: and so the kids are actually mentors to them, are 219 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 2: you kidding? So like our preschool class just a few 220 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 2: weeks ago did an Easter egg where they had to 221 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 2: had to match the colors, and we have a lady 222 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 2: that isn't able to do that anymore, and these preschoolers 223 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 2: go and they're helping her. I mean, it's like completely flipped, 224 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:40,439 Speaker 2: but like that that empathy and compassion and that's they 225 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 2: don't question that because they know her and they know 226 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 2: that she can no longer do that. 227 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 3: They also know that she has a story where she 228 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 3: used to be able to do that. Do you know 229 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:49,200 Speaker 3: what I mean? She used to be a. 230 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 2: Teacher and I do, I do a lot. Actually, how 231 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 2: could you not watch it? It is and it's natural, 232 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 2: it's very natural. Like a lot of those things I 233 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 2: don't plan. They just happen. And even in my sketch books, 234 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 2: I didn't sketch those things. They just are when you 235 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:11,679 Speaker 2: put people together and they're actually building relationships. 236 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 3: Beautiful things happen. One of our best things, you know, 237 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 3: our school age kids serve or take orders and serve 238 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:21,839 Speaker 3: the seniors like during the summer for lunch once a week, 239 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 3: and you know they're learning so much from doing that. 240 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 2: You know, it's a basic thing, learning to take an 241 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 2: order and serve somebody, so it seems, but that's a 242 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 2: lesson that I can't teach out of a textbook. 243 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: Have you had a real especially with like a seven 244 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: eight nine year old kid, because you said that they 245 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: go up through like fifth grade, right, have you had 246 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: like real relationships develop where they're like a senior and 247 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:56,719 Speaker 1: one of those kids like those two really like. 248 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 2: That absolutely yeah, And some of them like I have 249 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 2: a lady that likes the one on one and so 250 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 2: that the kid goes down to her room to visit 251 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:05,479 Speaker 2: her because she doesn't. 252 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:08,559 Speaker 3: Like all the but the kid enjoys it absolutely. 253 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:11,680 Speaker 2: And even like the infants and the toddlers, you know, 254 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 2: they they call them their grandma's and grandpa's. I mean, 255 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,200 Speaker 2: you know that's kind of what we coin, you know, 256 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 2: our grandma's and grandpa's. So I don't know. And you 257 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 2: can never have too many people to love a kid, 258 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 2: you know, you never know, maybe they don't have a 259 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 2: grandma or grandpa, maybe they don't many people. 260 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: True, absolutely, yeah, how have you handled that relationship with 261 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 1: death comes? 262 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 2: You know, it happened sooner than what we anticipated, and 263 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 2: so we have a chaplain who taught them early on. 264 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 2: You know, this is what happens, and it's hard for 265 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 2: all us, you know, but certainly those are natural life lessons. 266 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 2: So our first senior that died, it was fairly early on, 267 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 2: and I hadn't quite I knew it was, you know, 268 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 2: I'd have to teach them. 269 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 3: But we just did it naturally. You know. 270 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 2: The Bible tells us that this person's going to have 271 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 2: But that person she was our second resident, and it 272 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 2: was maybe three days before she died, and they took 273 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 2: the infants. So they have this four person stroller and 274 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 2: they'll kind of wheel around the facility sometimes just to 275 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 2: go visit people. And they went in her room and 276 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 2: she said, I didn't know there were angels here, and. 277 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 3: It was the little babies and the joy that brought her. 278 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 3: That was three days before she died, you know, and 279 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 3: not just yeah I can't do that, but a cute 280 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 3: little baby can. 281 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: So Sandy bondsack h This is what she says. She 282 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: says she feels spoiled by her Senior Citizens home. We 283 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: just talked about people having a senior citizens home where 284 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 1: clinical depression and isolationism and loneliness is one of the 285 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: biggest scourges. This lady says she feels spoiled by her 286 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: Senior Citizens home, where she gets to spend time regularly 287 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 1: with children. She talked with a Capital Journal on Thursday 288 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: the inter Generational Senior Leaving Facility in Chartcare Center. Minutes earlier, 289 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: she'd watched thirteen of the senter's children sing songs and 290 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 1: draw with crayons. The Capital interview. The Capitol Journal newspaper 291 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: interviewed her in a room and four kids came with 292 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: an employee to visit, and her quote was these kids 293 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 1: keep life going. Wow. 294 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 2: Amen, yeah, yeah, and that's really he is Sandy still around? 295 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 3: No Sandy pass? Yeah? 296 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: Did she sad? 297 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 3: No longer with us. She was our first, our very 298 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:37,359 Speaker 3: first resident actually. 299 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 1: Did the kids know her old enough kids to know her? 300 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 2: No? 301 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 3: Absolutely? Yeah, yeah. 302 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: How did the kids handle that? 303 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 2: You know, kids are pretty resilient, I think us says 304 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 2: employees struggled with it more than them. They you know, 305 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 2: they have a better understanding too. 306 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 3: You know, you say they're going to heaven, so why 307 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 3: is this sad you know kind of thing? 308 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: So really that's awesome actually. 309 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 3: And also I mean it is it is a reality. 310 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 2: So you know, someday they're going to lose someone, So 311 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 2: teaching them about it early on is the thing. 312 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:12,679 Speaker 1: I couldn't help but think when I read that and 313 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 1: Alex's prep that it gives me to know what's going on. 314 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 1: So all of the stuff I'm quoting to you, Automa 315 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 1: Cup Alex did. But I did read it and study 316 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 1: it and watch videos. But what I felt when I 317 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 1: read that, I stopped when she said the kid's life 318 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:30,399 Speaker 1: keep going, and I just kind of thought about that 319 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: for a few seconds. Is this for whatever time she 320 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: was in your facility with those kids, it enriched the 321 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 1: end of her life rather than it being lonely, sad 322 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: and scary. 323 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:46,639 Speaker 2: And those are all things that that I've tried to 324 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:50,439 Speaker 2: do throughout my career, but I can't always do. But again, 325 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 2: the kids just have a way of bringing joy to 326 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 2: people that is different. 327 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 3: I mean, you can't, but you're doing. It's a baby, but. 328 00:17:57,760 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 1: You're doing it because you put it together. 329 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 2: Yes, but I'm only as good as the people I'm 330 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,719 Speaker 2: surrounded with, you know what I mean. Without all of 331 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 2: the people that make it happen day to day, it 332 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:10,680 Speaker 2: wouldn't be a reality. 333 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 1: I got to believe the parents of these children that 334 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 1: are enrolling them in the daycare and this multi generational 335 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:18,240 Speaker 1: weird thing that you've started that nobody's ever heard of, 336 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 1: they absolutely know what's going on where they're putting their children. 337 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 1: What has been the parents' reaction to the children's stories 338 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 1: when they come home. We've had there's nothing in here 339 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 1: that tells them about that. But I got to believe 340 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 1: these kids are coming home tell them about their day 341 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,199 Speaker 1: and the day that they spent with you know, Matilda 342 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:42,920 Speaker 1: drawing or whatever. What is the Are you getting any 343 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: feedback from the parents' reactions to their kids exposure? 344 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 2: We have so much positive feedback from the parents. You know, 345 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 2: in the beginning, people would say, I mean just skeptics. 346 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 3: I guess you know, well, there's going to be people 347 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:57,680 Speaker 3: that think that's weird. And I said, well, then they're not. 348 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 2: The right people to come to us, you know what 349 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 2: I mean, Like I they can think that, and that's 350 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 2: totally fine, but then this isn't a good fit form weird. 351 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 2: I think there's you know, there's really world of I mean, 352 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 2: they're seniors that we do a background check on everybody 353 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 2: and everything. But unfortunately there are people in the world 354 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 2: that maybe you know, you wouldn't want to trust with 355 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:18,640 Speaker 2: your kid. 356 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 3: They're never left alone or anything like that. 357 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 2: But I think there's people that are just paranoid about it. 358 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 2: But anyway, for the most part, I mean, the parents 359 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 2: are we get so much positive feedback and I think 360 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 2: they're learning things again that they're not going to learn 361 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 2: anywhere else. 362 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 3: You know, you can't teach to those. 363 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:42,919 Speaker 1: Things like empathy and understanding and respect. 364 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:46,200 Speaker 2: Kindness, And sometimes it's as simple as what's that tube 365 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:48,439 Speaker 2: in that person's nose and what does that do you know? 366 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:50,399 Speaker 3: Someone that's on oxygen? You know? 367 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 2: But those I think if you expose them to that 368 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:56,160 Speaker 2: early on, it's not different. 369 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:15,439 Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Jimmy Neil, the maintenance man, why 370 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: don't you tell us about Jimmy Neil. 371 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 3: So, Jimmy is actually my oldest brother. 372 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 2: Oh, and he was he was our maintenance supervisor. He 373 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 2: actually moved to Arkansas, but he and Neil is our 374 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 2: maintenance man. And he's the youngest brother, and he has 375 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 2: always wanted to be a maintenance man. 376 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 3: And so then I. 377 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 2: Have a facility and he does that. He does a 378 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 2: lot of schedules. He hands out schedules to everybody, like 379 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 2: stacks of schedules. 380 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,399 Speaker 1: Your whole place is the land, the beautiful land of 381 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 1: the Misfit Toys. You know that. It's gorgeous. 382 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 2: Though I'm the head of it now, I think that's yeah, 383 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 2: just open door. 384 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 1: We're going to do this a different way. 385 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 2: Absolutely, And I think, yeah, those are all kind of 386 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 2: things I'm passionate about, which is why I kind of 387 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:04,919 Speaker 2: wanted my own I wanted to be able to in 388 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 2: a corporate world, you can't just bring your brother in 389 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 2: to be the maintenance man, but I can. So he 390 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 2: does a lot of measuring. He has he has his 391 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 2: tape measure that he goes around and measures. 392 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,920 Speaker 3: Things and fixes things. He takes call twenty four to seven. 393 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 3: He gives everybody's business card and says he's on call. 394 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,199 Speaker 2: He's kind of a fan favorite. He unloads boxes. Some 395 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 2: our favorite thing he does is around lunch time. He 396 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:29,400 Speaker 2: usually has to measure the kitchen window. 397 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 3: To peek in to see what's for lunch. It's like 398 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,440 Speaker 3: an open window, so he takes to stay. 399 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 1: Measure, so he's measuring the window. He's quote measuring the 400 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 1: window to see what's going on. To much. 401 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 3: But he has his own phone line. He yeah, he's 402 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 3: a huge part of this. I have about forty five employees, 403 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 3: only some of those are part time or peer in. 404 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 1: It started in twenty three. You have twenty six is 405 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,879 Speaker 1: that right? Adult? Adult? Twenty four, twenty four adults? How 406 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: many kids? 407 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:09,960 Speaker 3: We're a licensed for sixty six kids? 408 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: And what do you have? 409 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:14,680 Speaker 3: We have sixty six? I mean we we're waiting list. 410 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:20,160 Speaker 1: You have sixty six kids, twenty four adults, forty five. 411 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:23,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's including in part time. 412 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: And your brother measuring the windows. Yeah, all in two years. 413 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,199 Speaker 1: How far away are people coming from to come to 414 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 1: your place? 415 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 3: We have some from well, we have one from Nebraska, 416 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 3: but they had family. 417 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,199 Speaker 2: They're in Topeka and Manhattan, but most of them, a 418 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:43,119 Speaker 2: lot of them are local. 419 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 3: How far they're around the area, Wamego, Topeka area and Alma. 420 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 3: How far is that thirty minutes? Thirty miles thirty minutes. 421 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:53,680 Speaker 1: So I mean this is a regional thing now, it's 422 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:57,439 Speaker 1: not just Almus, it's all in the whole surrounding. 423 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, which, really, we've haven't done a lot of advertising, 424 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:01,880 Speaker 3: so I mean, you know, I. 425 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,200 Speaker 1: Really, well you better not. You don't have any room 426 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: for anybody else? 427 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,879 Speaker 2: Well, true, true, but I think you know, having the 428 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 2: sixty six kids in a waiting list probably speaks for 429 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 2: itself on the parent side, you know. But also we 430 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 2: do provide quality childcare, like that's kind of my thing too. 431 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:21,919 Speaker 2: We're not just an intergenerational facility. We also provide quality 432 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 2: childcare and quality care to the seiors, you know, in 433 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 2: addition to that, which I'm very passionate about. 434 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 1: Does it have your playground? 435 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 3: It does have a playground. Yes, it does have a 436 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 3: play You're right about the playoff? 437 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and and you let who doesn't want to 438 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 2: see a kid play? 439 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 1: You haven't done much marketing. I assume locally people know 440 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,359 Speaker 1: what's going Yeah, but I don't think you've done a 441 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: whole lot of national press or anything around this, right, 442 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 1: I'm probably the closest thing to that. 443 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 3: Yes you are. 444 00:23:53,880 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: I cannot fathom somebody with some sense and business savvy 445 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,440 Speaker 1: hearing this story and saying that is a better way 446 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 1: to slay the cap. What are your goals? Because if 447 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 1: your goal only two years ago was to use your 448 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:18,959 Speaker 1: children as child labor, drive your husband crazy, and end 449 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: this parents' money and hawk your house. If that was 450 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 1: your goal to build this thing and then fill it up, 451 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 1: you've done that, and you're too young and the business 452 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,920 Speaker 1: is only two years old to have reached its pinnacle. 453 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 1: What next? 454 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 3: You know? I have other you know, local people kind 455 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 3: of cheering. I don't. 456 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 2: My goal is not to be big. I mean I 457 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 2: want to be able to do the work every day. 458 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 2: You know. 459 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:50,879 Speaker 3: That's why I only have twenty four residents. I have 460 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 3: a whole other wing. I could add, I don't. That's 461 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 3: not my goal. It never husband. 462 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,399 Speaker 2: So if I can, if I can show someone else 463 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 2: to how to do it, or you know what I mean, 464 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,159 Speaker 2: or uh, well, the businessman. 465 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: Is coming out well. Two things. One, by not opening 466 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,479 Speaker 1: that second wing with a waiting list, think of the car, 467 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 1: you're denying somebody who really needs it. I mean, that 468 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,160 Speaker 1: is something you got to consider here's the second thing. 469 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: You don't have to run forty facilities to franchise them, 470 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 1: generating income that you can turn around them and not 471 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 1: just stick in your pocket, but also use to enhance 472 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 1: your deal. I challenge you to think about that maybe 473 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:46,320 Speaker 1: in another because what you're doing is revolutionary. It truly 474 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,439 Speaker 1: is in my mind. Is there anything else like this 475 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 1: in the country that you're aware of? 476 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,119 Speaker 2: There is, and actually kind of when I started delving 477 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,640 Speaker 2: into it. You know, in other countries like Japan, for example, 478 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 2: they all live of inner generationally, you know what I mean, Like, yes, 479 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 2: they're families, so then they're nursing homes. They actually I 480 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 2: watched a documentary where they children are paid to come 481 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 2: to the nursing home. 482 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 3: Like their employees. 483 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,360 Speaker 2: They're paid to come visit this n No, I don't either, 484 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 2: but I'm just saying like that was something that. 485 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,480 Speaker 1: They at least recognized the importance youth. 486 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 2: Yes, that documentary was about the kids getting paid, but 487 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,200 Speaker 2: but yeah, I think I think there are some I 488 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 2: don't know you know much about them or why. 489 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,360 Speaker 1: Heritage by the name heritage. 490 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,360 Speaker 2: So in the Bible it says we're all the heritage 491 00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 2: of the Lord, and so that's kind of where. 492 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 3: I Yeah, that was one of my little sketches. It 493 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 3: should I be a hare. 494 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was it. Uh huh Yeah, I just absolutely 495 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 1: you know, look, I like all of my guests. I 496 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:56,879 Speaker 1: love all of their stories. You know. The entrepreneur in 497 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,439 Speaker 1: me is just always there. I started a business, you know, 498 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: and that's the way it is. Your concept, I think 499 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 1: in only two years, has been proven and gosh, I 500 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 1: think there's opportunity here. Not to make money, certainly to 501 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,440 Speaker 1: make some money. Offens are going to measure very business access, 502 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,639 Speaker 1: like I said, but I think there's opportunity here to 503 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 1: change an industry that, to use your words, nobody wants 504 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:35,440 Speaker 1: to go to, doesn't pay well. It's smelly and rot 505 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 1: with depression. An entire industry that is really genuinely like that. 506 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: And I know there's some yearly good facilities, and there's 507 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: somebody here in us right now that works in assisted 508 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,920 Speaker 1: living utilities, like, come on, Bill, we do better than that. 509 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: I know I'm painting with a broad brush, but this 510 00:27:54,600 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 1: concept can add value to two generations of life, and 511 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 1: you're bearing it out and and I just got to 512 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: believe there's opportunity gonna come knock it, we'll be prepared. 513 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: That may be my. 514 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:14,119 Speaker 3: Well, I'm just this normal person just kind of wanting 515 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:15,439 Speaker 3: to serve other people. 516 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:19,199 Speaker 2: So I mean, like, to me, that's I don't know, 517 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,919 Speaker 2: that's like out here. But also at one point this 518 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 2: idea was out here, You're this dream, you know, and 519 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 2: I just kind of but yes, I'm a very normal 520 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:29,160 Speaker 2: person from Kansas. 521 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 4: So Personville who's wrestling similar to what you're saying. Erin 522 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 4: this Marva Collins started one of the best schools in 523 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 4: inner city Chicago, and she got approached by this donor saying, 524 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 4: I want you to start one hundred Marva Collins schools 525 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 4: across the country. I'll pay for it, And she said 526 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 4: no because she said, I can't guarantee that those kids 527 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 4: are going to be successful in those other schools because 528 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 4: I'm not there. So I do understand you know where 529 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 4: you're coming from with that. But at the same time, 530 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 4: hopefully somebody picks up this ball and runs with it. 531 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 1: If it's not Aaron, there's got it. 532 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 4: It's just too I have people listening to us right now. 533 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: Well, I'm just gonna be real candid. I think the 534 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 1: quality of care in a place like wherever Kansas. It's 535 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 1: probably way different than the standard of care and inner 536 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 1: city or Louiville or Memphis or wherever, just because of 537 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: the challenges that exist in a living facility in that environment. 538 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 1: And BOI, I just think about how this could enrich 539 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:43,360 Speaker 1: the lives of two generations also anyway. 540 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,480 Speaker 2: No, I agree, and I think too, like when you 541 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 2: talk about kids, just relationships in general, you know, taking 542 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 2: the phones and all the other stuff, just really building 543 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,880 Speaker 2: that and if you can do that in your every day, 544 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 2: you know, eight hours a day at school, you know, 545 00:29:58,040 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 2: because some. 546 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 3: Of those kids don't have that out. I don't have 547 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 3: a person that doesn't know what they're talking about. 548 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 1: That's an interesting thing. 549 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 3: But this generation doesn't do that. 550 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 2: You know, the generation of seniors that I serve, they 551 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 2: don't sit on their phone when you're talking to them. 552 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: Love that. We'll be right back, Aaron, I what are 553 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:35,440 Speaker 1: your kids and your husband thing? Now? I gotta be proud, 554 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: I think so. 555 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 3: Yeah. I think I think there when we're done with renovations, 556 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 3: I think they'll be prouder. 557 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,160 Speaker 1: Oh are you still renovating the. 558 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 3: Whole another wing? 559 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 2: That our plan for that wing is to kind of 560 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 2: have a chapel in a salon kind of some extra 561 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 2: amenities for our seniors. 562 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 3: So there's still, you know, some work to be done. 563 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 2: And my youngest said, his son said, he's only inheriting 564 00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 2: it if he doesn't. 565 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 3: Ever have to do it. But in all actuality, I've 566 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:03,480 Speaker 3: worked in this field. 567 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 2: For a long time and my kids have always you know, hey, 568 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 2: we have something for you. We'll be standing outside. They 569 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 2: don't want to go in. They don't want to, you know, 570 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 2: because it's a nursing home and it's smelly here. I 571 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 2: have to like kick them off the couch, you know, 572 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,400 Speaker 2: like this is not your home. Go like you know, 573 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 2: they're very comfortable. They love our people. My son that's 574 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 2: graduating said, can I fight so and so and so 575 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 2: and so our residents at. 576 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 3: So they're learning that too, just because they're a part 577 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 3: of it. It is a you know, they love the 578 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 3: people there. 579 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 1: And I was pausing, but I got to ask you 580 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:40,600 Speaker 1: are you profitable? Is this thing not yet? Wow? 581 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 2: We just we just got our twenty fourth residence, so 582 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,960 Speaker 2: or we will wednesday and then you know, will. 583 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 3: Be childcare is not profitable? 584 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 1: Can it be? 585 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 3: I don't know in this model. So when you talk 586 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,200 Speaker 3: about a business like Kansas. 587 00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,960 Speaker 2: I don't know, you know other states, but childcare is 588 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 2: a very dying field because you don't make money and 589 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:03,640 Speaker 2: nobody wants to do it. 590 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 3: It's hard work. 591 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 2: So this is kind of a way to elevate childcare. 592 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,720 Speaker 2: Also because the seniors pay the mortgage on the building. 593 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 2: We have a full time cook, We have a business officer. 594 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 1: That's interesting. 595 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 2: We have a nurse on side, you know, all those 596 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 2: kind of extra things that most childcares can't afford. 597 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,600 Speaker 3: We have all that for ours. 598 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 2: So they get good food because we have a cook 599 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,840 Speaker 2: and seniors want good food. Again, my business office she 600 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,479 Speaker 2: does all the billing, all that. Normally the childcare director 601 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 2: has to do that, so that frees her up. 602 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 1: So there's some economies of scale that elevate the childcare 603 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 1: business as a result of it being attached to a senior. 604 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:41,800 Speaker 2: Living Yes, yes, so, and they're obviously benefiting in other ways. 605 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:45,200 Speaker 2: But that's kind of the part that I've kind of 606 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 2: with legislation and stuff like this might be your ticket 607 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,880 Speaker 2: to getting childcare, you know, working in Kansas. 608 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,840 Speaker 3: Well, no, that's a whole it is a whole other aspect. No, 609 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,960 Speaker 3: it really is very it's very true. Because it is. 610 00:32:58,280 --> 00:32:59,720 Speaker 3: It's a very big struggle. 611 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,080 Speaker 1: There's a whole other reason somebody should want to be 612 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: interested in scaling this idea. Yeah, yeah, that makes so 613 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:10,200 Speaker 1: much sense because when you're just doing childcare and you 614 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,600 Speaker 1: have to pay your people and facility and light bill 615 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,320 Speaker 1: and heat and air, how do you also have a 616 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 1: kitchen and how do you also have some of these amenities? 617 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,560 Speaker 1: But when it's attached to the senior living facility that 618 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,480 Speaker 1: has to have these amenities, you get them by default, 619 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,400 Speaker 1: which elevates. 620 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 3: The level of childcare absolutely. 621 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,080 Speaker 2: So, I mean that's a big that's kind of a 622 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,960 Speaker 2: big thing I've been kind of chatting about because people say, 623 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 2: how can you make childcare sustainable? And on the business 624 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,920 Speaker 2: side of it, it's not, I mean without the other Well, what. 625 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,680 Speaker 1: Is a So there has to be levels of childcare. 626 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 1: There has to be the kind that stay there all day, 627 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:51,000 Speaker 1: and then there's before and after school care. What does 628 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 1: that cost? What is a parent have to pay? 629 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 2: So in Kansas where I mean we're our facility and 630 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,640 Speaker 2: infants one hundred and ninety dollars a week and then 631 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 2: the pre one hundred and a day. 632 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 3: Yep, that's that's full time a week. Six forty five 633 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,160 Speaker 3: am to five thirty pm. 634 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:09,800 Speaker 1: Holy smokes. 635 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's I mean, that's cheap compared to No, 636 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:15,200 Speaker 3: get that's almost. 637 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,320 Speaker 1: Eye hundred a month. But I get that one hundred 638 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:20,880 Speaker 1: and ninety. Frankly, I get both sides. One hundred and 639 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,800 Speaker 1: ninety does not sound like a lot of money. I 640 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,640 Speaker 1: mean it's you said five win forty. 641 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,839 Speaker 3: Five dollars six forty five am to five thirty pm. 642 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:34,719 Speaker 1: Okay, so that's that's eleven hours. Right, So at one 643 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:43,000 Speaker 1: hundred and ninety dollars one ninety divided by eleven, you're 644 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,080 Speaker 1: only getting seventeen dollars and twenty seven cents an hour 645 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:47,680 Speaker 1: for the carreer. How much you have to pay the 646 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,000 Speaker 1: person watching the baby? 647 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:53,200 Speaker 3: Well so there might well I pay our starting wages 648 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:54,840 Speaker 3: sixteen dollars an hour, which. 649 00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,160 Speaker 1: But there's probably one higher than most three kids. 650 00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,279 Speaker 3: Yeah, so the ratio is one to four. 651 00:34:59,560 --> 00:34:59,920 Speaker 1: Wonderful. 652 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:01,920 Speaker 3: It used to be one to three. They just change 653 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,040 Speaker 3: that because. 654 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,879 Speaker 1: Okay, so one to four at sixteen an hour, that's 655 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,680 Speaker 1: that's what taxes and all. That's five bucks. So now 656 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:14,600 Speaker 1: you're down to twelve twenty seven per hour after the 657 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:23,120 Speaker 1: labor of profit to cover facility, maintenance, insurance, everything. I 658 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,719 Speaker 1: can absolutely see how it does not work from a 659 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,479 Speaker 1: business perspective that I can also see at one hundred 660 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,680 Speaker 1: ninety dollars a week, at eight hundred dollars a month, 661 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:37,480 Speaker 1: which is ten thousand dollars a year now, charging anymore 662 00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:42,080 Speaker 1: only makes it almost impossible for someone to actually send 663 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,080 Speaker 1: their kid to child career. I mean, if you make 664 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 1: forty dollars forty thousand dollars a year, you're paying twenty 665 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,800 Speaker 1: five percent of your total income for your kids. So 666 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,560 Speaker 1: it's also really difficult to pay that. It is. 667 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:56,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, and when you're like when I was a parent 668 00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:58,359 Speaker 2: paying child care, I find I'm like, God, these people 669 00:35:58,360 --> 00:35:59,880 Speaker 2: are getting rich off me, but they're not. 670 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,520 Speaker 3: I mean, when you really put all the numbers into it, it's. 671 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,360 Speaker 1: What about before care and aftercare school? 672 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,759 Speaker 3: So we charge like fifty dollars a week for them 673 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:11,120 Speaker 3: to come. 674 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,600 Speaker 2: I mean they're only there a couple hours, four hours, 675 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:18,279 Speaker 2: but still, but yeah, I mean, and that's and it's. 676 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,680 Speaker 1: Your twelve dollars an hour you're getting for that. If 677 00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,319 Speaker 1: they're two hours before, two hours after fifty bucks a week, 678 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,080 Speaker 1: that's forty eight twelve. It's twelve dollars and twenty five 679 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,240 Speaker 1: cents an hour you're making on that before labor. 680 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:33,239 Speaker 2: Yeah, but also you're asking a twenty year old kid 681 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,200 Speaker 2: to get paid sixteen dollars an hour to come take 682 00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:36,080 Speaker 2: care of three in things. 683 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,000 Speaker 3: That's a big responsibility. 684 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:44,040 Speaker 1: Nikes. Yeah, yeah, I guess childcare doesn't work, does it. 685 00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:48,480 Speaker 3: It's hard, it's yeah, So you know, again it's a 686 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,880 Speaker 3: that field. I don't I don't know how anyone just 687 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,959 Speaker 3: does that. And it's hard work. It's not easy work. 688 00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,640 Speaker 3: The kids yeahs all day. 689 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:00,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, and they don't get a break. A lot of 690 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,360 Speaker 2: those people you can't leave the room to go to 691 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:02,920 Speaker 2: the bathroom. 692 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:03,600 Speaker 3: You can't leave. 693 00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 2: I mean, you don't get any break in ours. I 694 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,480 Speaker 2: mean are people we do because that is kind of 695 00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:13,000 Speaker 2: my business for a lot. You wrote right, I want 696 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:14,440 Speaker 2: them to have a lunch break. I want them to 697 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,480 Speaker 2: be paid. Well, I want them to be you know. 698 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:21,880 Speaker 1: So what you're saying is the income from the senior facility, 699 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,359 Speaker 1: the supplements, the child care to make it all work. 700 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:26,040 Speaker 3: Sure? 701 00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:30,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, because again the seniors, you know the business model. 702 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,719 Speaker 2: You know, they're paying the mortgage on the facility and 703 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:34,439 Speaker 2: all of those things. And if you have a cook 704 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:38,239 Speaker 2: cooking for twenty four seniors. Then they just also make 705 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,759 Speaker 2: food for the children, and and you know, there's a 706 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,880 Speaker 2: nurse on site. There's kind of extra bodies in the building. 707 00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,880 Speaker 1: I am such a dope. I'm sitting here twenty minutes 708 00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:52,360 Speaker 1: ago talking to you about what's next, and this whole 709 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:58,600 Speaker 1: concept and ideas just great for senior living business to 710 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,319 Speaker 1: look at things a different way, way, a different way 711 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,600 Speaker 1: to kill the cat. But what I completely missed is 712 00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,719 Speaker 1: what you've just taught me is that what really is 713 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,839 Speaker 1: is a great way to look at it, a way 714 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,239 Speaker 1: to actually fund childcare in a way that it could 715 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,840 Speaker 1: be impactful and lasting and have a really high quality 716 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:22,320 Speaker 1: of air. It's actually really is a twofold answer absolutely, 717 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:27,160 Speaker 1: the two different problems combining them to make a solution. Yeah, 718 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,520 Speaker 1: for sure, man, somebody's gonna call you. I know they are. 719 00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:32,960 Speaker 1: Hell I might call you. I don't know. I think 720 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:40,880 Speaker 1: it's I think it's really really a creative, cool, inspirational idea. 721 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:42,560 Speaker 3: Thank you. I appreciate that. 722 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:47,040 Speaker 2: Like I said, I ah, it's it's all God driven, 723 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:48,719 Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of prayer, a lot of 724 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,400 Speaker 2: you know things that came to me and I have 725 00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,719 Speaker 2: a really really good team, and I have really good 726 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,360 Speaker 2: leadership team. I've kind of through my career, you know, 727 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:02,400 Speaker 2: handpicked people that have that art, you know, kind of 728 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,600 Speaker 2: are doing it for the right reasons and love their 729 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:05,759 Speaker 2: people and have. 730 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,960 Speaker 3: A few sisters that we're creating. My dad picks up groceries. 731 00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:13,879 Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, my mother, mother in law works there. 732 00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,040 Speaker 3: My father in law helped with all the renovations. I 733 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:21,840 Speaker 3: mean it's definitely a family business. You know. 734 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,200 Speaker 1: I don't know how your relationship with your husband is, 735 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,040 Speaker 1: but I'm just going to speak up and say, Joe's 736 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:27,760 Speaker 1: gotta be insight. 737 00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:33,000 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, yeah, it is a lot. It is a lot. 738 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:36,520 Speaker 3: He probably just gets sick of hearing me talk for soon, 739 00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,480 Speaker 3: but he is. I think he just he he's just always. 740 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,879 Speaker 2: Been supportive of my dreams and my passion and kind 741 00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,759 Speaker 2: of got drug along the way. And he is very 742 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,840 Speaker 2: talented when it comes to like the renovation side, Like 743 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,360 Speaker 2: he's very good at stuff like that, and so he 744 00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,839 Speaker 2: was able to so he works his full time job too. Yeah, 745 00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,440 Speaker 2: and then he goes and does this, So all of 746 00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,480 Speaker 2: his vacation the first year is doing renovations. 747 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:08,480 Speaker 1: What right, Aaron, I am. I'm so pleased to come 748 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,600 Speaker 1: to a story story and it really is an honor 749 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:14,520 Speaker 1: to meet you. And I really hope somebody out there 750 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:18,959 Speaker 1: either calls you or somebody who knows somebody will say 751 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:22,160 Speaker 1: you got to hear this story. If anybody wants to 752 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,040 Speaker 1: get in touch with you, how do they reach you? 753 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:25,360 Speaker 1: Email or whatever? 754 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, my email is E steal s T E E 755 00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:31,719 Speaker 2: L E at Heritage Homefamily dot com or my cell 756 00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,040 Speaker 2: phone this seven eight five four five eight. 757 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:35,120 Speaker 3: Eight four seven three. 758 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:36,400 Speaker 1: Well you just screwed up. 759 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:36,640 Speaker 3: But I. 760 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,000 Speaker 2: You know, I give my cell phone to all the 761 00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,680 Speaker 2: families all that. I just feel like, I don't know, 762 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,360 Speaker 2: I want to be accessible to people and if I 763 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:46,400 Speaker 2: can help one person. 764 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:48,080 Speaker 1: Is there a website? 765 00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:49,520 Speaker 3: We do have a website. 766 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:54,080 Speaker 2: It's www dot Heritage Homefamily dot com. And my sister 767 00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,200 Speaker 2: in law built my website. I mean it's all very 768 00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,799 Speaker 2: like I said, we we kind of Yeah. 769 00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:01,440 Speaker 1: Well, when you have a when there's eighteen of you 770 00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:02,960 Speaker 1: got your own small army. 771 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:03,320 Speaker 3: You know. 772 00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:06,560 Speaker 2: My dad's plan was to have a doctor, a lawyer, 773 00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:09,160 Speaker 2: a mechanic. You know, he's like and they'll never pay 774 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:09,600 Speaker 2: for anything. 775 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:11,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, it did not work work out. 776 00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,000 Speaker 3: He has a hairstylist. Hemissage there. 777 00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:17,840 Speaker 1: Well, he's got somewhere to go when he gets to 778 00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:18,359 Speaker 1: OLDA Walt. 779 00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,480 Speaker 3: That is true. I have his room for it. 780 00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:26,280 Speaker 1: Thank you. It's a great story, and I really honestly 781 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:31,200 Speaker 1: don't be surprised if you don't get some people emailing 782 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,239 Speaker 1: you and calling you after this, because this is really 783 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:34,160 Speaker 1: a phenomenal thing. 784 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:34,560 Speaker 3: And I. 785 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,000 Speaker 1: You know, I love it that you found a way 786 00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:42,080 Speaker 1: to make your living and serve people in need and 787 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,040 Speaker 1: come up with a creative idea that could really change 788 00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:46,960 Speaker 1: two industries. I think it's phenomenal. 789 00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:47,279 Speaker 3: And I. 790 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,800 Speaker 1: Promise me if someone does reach out and things to 791 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,480 Speaker 1: start developing a different way, you'll just email me and 792 00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:54,759 Speaker 1: let me. 793 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:56,640 Speaker 3: I absolutely will. Yeah, and thank you. 794 00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:58,719 Speaker 2: It is a pleasure to meet you. And I loved 795 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:02,399 Speaker 2: your story too, and yeah, you're an inspiration as. 796 00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:06,440 Speaker 1: Well, So thank you, thank you, and thank you for 797 00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:10,400 Speaker 1: joining us this week. If Aaron Steel has inspired you 798 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:14,560 Speaker 1: in general, or better yet, to take action by starting 799 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:19,040 Speaker 1: an intergenerational senior living and childcare center in your community 800 00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:23,759 Speaker 1: or something else entirely, please let me know. I'd love 801 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,400 Speaker 1: to hear about it, y'all. You can write me anytime 802 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:31,360 Speaker 1: at Bill at Normalfolks dot us, and I guarantee you 803 00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:35,120 Speaker 1: I will respond. If you enjoyed this episode, share it 804 00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:39,320 Speaker 1: with friends and on social subscribe to the podcast, rate it, 805 00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:43,480 Speaker 1: review it. Join the army at normalfolks dot us. 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