Ethne: Empowering Vulnerable Women and Children

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What's working on purpose anyway? Each
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People ache for meaning and purpose at
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usher in this world we all want working

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on purpose. Now Here is your
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With us today are the founders of
Ethne, a nonprofit organization that fights poverty

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and while while empowering vulnerable women and
children. We have Dalton Duvacheran, the

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founder and president, and Stephie Sonny
Devokeran, a co founder who also happened

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to be married to each other.
Be talking about the ethnic how Ethnie was

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born, how it works, and
here's some about the programs they've run in

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service of their mission to empower women
and children and save them from from trafficking

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and poverty. We're doing the show
live together from the Last Callinas Country Club,

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where we'll be immediately going afterward to
an ABTP meeting where I am presenting

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my research on modes of engagement and
our unique connection to work. Full and

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fun agenda waits us both on both
fronts, Dalton and Stephie, Welcome to

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working on Purpose. Thank you for
having us, Thanks Alas for having us.

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It's so great, it's so great. We have to, of course

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tell the story of how I find
my guests, you know, I like

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to do that whenever I can.
So several weeks ago, I was here

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in Las Callinas attending the same meeting
for a different for a different guest,

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and Dalton is introduced and talks about
what he's doing at this nonprofit, and

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so there's about I don't know fifty
people in the audience, and after the

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presentation is done, I made a
b line for this poor young man and

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put my hand out to go introduce
to him, and I'm or he must

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have gone, like, you know
what is coming at me? You know,

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it's blowing my hair back here.
But I said, I have to

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hear more about this and no other
profit that your runey tell me about it,

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and that's how it began. So
thank you for being willing to put

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up with that first, you know, fresh Force introduction. Yeah, at

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least, Oh, it's fine to
say that. I leave it encouraged in

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spite of every time I have a
conversation with you and the first one way

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it was the same way to be
as well, sir, And thank you

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for inspirings. Thank you for being
an evangelistical purpose. We all need that

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very much. Thanks for all you
do. I have a decision. Oh

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you're so welcome. It's so look
and it should be like that. I

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doctor SEUs says that. So let's
get into it here first. I want

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to get into for the first segment
is really where Ethne came from. And

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one of the things that I'm already
intrigued with is you've got a tagline.

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It says true passion finds purpose.
I love that, of course, and

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so at Ethne. You and your
team stand to use a person's passion as

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a tool to bring awareness to social
injustices and to empower vulnerable and children.

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And you want to see women and
children of all people groups freed and living

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a life to their fulls potential,
incredible, awesome mission and purpose. So

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first, how did you arrive at
this notion of passion fueling purpose? Sure,

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true passion finds purpose, that's really
true in the same So I lived

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that story my entire life the past
thirty five years now, and I've struggled

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a bit, and I can be
rilled about it as well. Right,

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it didn't happen overnight, it didn't
happen in a month or two, but

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it was definitely a life's journey.
And what really triggered there was getting some

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second chances in life. And it
started in two ten. I swallowed a

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beetle, or maybe I should say
a beetle just somehow I asked braded one

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while I was on my motorbike.
It tore my airway line, it in

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my lungs and I was struggling to
take breath. I was spinning out of

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blood. I somehow managed to get
to a hospital there for three three days.

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Finally they took the beetle, which
was quatishness, out of my lungs.

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And that's the first time I ever
thought about purpose and why am I

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alive? And why? Why?
Why did I get a chance to live

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with whereas so many others still you
don't exist. And it really triggered that

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God, and from then the journey
began. Actually and everything says then that

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I put my hand on you,
I wanted to make sure that I was

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converting if it's something my passion,
it was my work, it's something I'm

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hanging out with my friends, or
whatever I did, and I felt that

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there was a purpose to it,
and that's where the journey started. And

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down the lane even to get had
to go through other chance, the second

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chances which I got to live,
and it was a cancer or other ailments

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or if it's accidents, and throughout
it it just ignited that passion more and

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more to convert whatever I put my
hands on do something more meaningful and purposeful.

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And eventually I met a group of
friends who were also you know,

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contemplating, Hey, we have great
jobs, we have great families, but

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our life's not really satisfied and where
we don't have that joy in living and

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what can we do beyond our day
to day eight to five jobs and how

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can we turn our eighty five jobs
and even out you know, our skill

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sets into something more meaningful. That's
when the conversation started with a group of

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our friends and we decided, Okay, this is what we want to do,

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and we're going to take our skill
sets, our passions be financed being

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marketing, the music, the arts. How can we take those passions and

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bringing those passions to collective purpose?
And I reached out a few of my

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friends and they were all on board, and we eventually ended up having an

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organization formed in Serving Multible. They're
going to children all over the world.

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And Ethne was born and there was
born. Yeah, okay, so that's

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an incredible story. So definitely one
thing you're right, perfect or passion is

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absolutely a path to purpose. It's
one of at least four known pathways.

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So completely agree with you and that
you took. That's the notion of you

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know, how come I'm still here
and what can I do about that?

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Not just hey, let's just party
for the rest of my mark. Let's

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go make a difference. That's amazing, and I, of course I applaud

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That's one of the reasons I wanted
to celebrate you both when the show.

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So now let's talk a bit about
what does ethnic do what do you actually

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do to help women and children?
So I'll can take that question at think

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primarily to focuses on vulnerable women and
children. We mainly want to see women

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and children live a life of freedom. Many of the groups that we work

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with are often in places or in
situations where they've been exploited, usually due

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to the fact that they come from
very who are backgrounds, and it puts

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them at a high risk of being
more vulnerable to either physical or sexual exploitation.

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And that's our primary focus is to
make sure that these women and children

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have a have a way to sort
of get out of something that might be

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generational poverty and really kind of live
a life of freedom. Oh my gosh,

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that is so amazing. I mean, I just I mean, I

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don't know. I'm sure you guys
have an idea of the numbers. I

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wouldn't ask you if you don't know
them the topic of your head, But

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I this problem has got to be
enormous. Yes, yes, I know

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that. One of the reasons statistics
that we just kind of know just by

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our working with groups is that more
than seven hundred million people in the world

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live daily on a wage of less
than two dollars. It's actually a dollar

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and ninety cents. So that just
kind of goes to show you that,

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you know, with that kind of
an income and the things that they have

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to compromise on a lot of times, you know, it's more than just

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the fact that they're poor. It's
that they don't have access to basic things

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that we have access to, like
healthcare or shelter or food, education,

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all those things factor into having you
know, a quality of life that is

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needed to be successful. And that's
kind of our focus is to make sure

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that every individual is in a position
where they can position themselves to be successful,

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position themselves in a place where they
are able to, you know,

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eventually use their own passions and find
their own purpose. And we believe that

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you can only do that once you
you know, have a basic level of

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security as well. Piarchm Needs would
say that about that later tonight when I

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give my presentation. But yeah,
and for how that's that lands for me

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is helping individuals to really realize their
best potential, their best lives. Yeah,

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And the thing that's in it,
most of us don't get there alone.

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We need help, and some of
us need more help than others.

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So A, what I find even
more amazing about this, ladies and gentlemen

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who are watching and listening, is
that you know, it's not like these

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people are just running this organization full
time. They actually have two very separate,

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big careers themselves. So can you
each share a little bit about what

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else you're reporting yourself into, what
else takes your time and passionate talents.

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Sure. I work for a company
called Salesforce. I'm the director for industry

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advisor for twelve well Healthcare and Life
Sciences. So I have been in healthcare

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for the last sixteen years and I'm
a nurse by trade. And I started

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my nursing journey in India and I
experienced fresh in the struggles not just a

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patients, but also for about healthcare
providers, in the struggles that they have

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to go through the nurses or other
staff doctors. And I decided that I

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need to get out of India and
learn from some of the very best around

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the world. That's why I make
it to go a huge decision to get

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out to India, my own country, and to go explore what's happened in

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other parts of the world. And
in fact, that opened up my eyes

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to a lot of different things,
but coming from India, seeing poverty all

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around, seeing abuse all around,
I always wanted to go back and help

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or give back when advocated a better
place. But that learning journey eventually led

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me to learn more about healthcare.
Today. I get to help companies and

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organizations non profits before profits around the
world, and it's such a privilege.

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And taking that passion of mine to
be in healthcare and carry that to the

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nonprofit work they do, it really
is is so rewarding to see that it

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took me a while to get there, right, whatever I do at work,

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and that converts automatically with the passion
they do outside the work, and

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the journey just culminating in one point
is being beautiful. There's a lot of

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synergy in that that's really it's fantastic. It's not like it's competing. It

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seems like they're they're each energizing the
other. Yeah, I'm so great STUFFE

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And I work as a clinical pharmacist
by trade, and I really enjoyed it

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as well. I think it kind
of gives when you're in healthcare, you

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kind of I think, have to
be a little bit the type of person

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that you know has good listening skills
and it's a little personable. So I

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really enjoy meeting patients from all age
rooms and just really being kind of like

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the mediator and there too to help
them consult with them in anything that they

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need, you know, professional advice
on m okay again, you know,

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another full full life here. And
then the fact that you're actually working with

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you know, friends. I think
it's so beautiful that you create something an

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entity where you can serve with friends
and growing with friends. Think that's significent.

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Sure, yeah, the idea behind
all that is actually, you know,

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I'm passionate about healthcare. Stibs being
in healthcare, but she also writes

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and she does spoken where she does
poetrade did music and ours, and whenever

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I got a stage, I started
catering people's attention towards social injustices. I

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don't need the money out of music
or any think because I already had a

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good job. But now can I
leverage that passion and why not get a

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chance to tell the world something?
Okay, how can I point their attention

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to something else? And we met
like minded professionals, were equally passionate about

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finance, passionate about marketing, cybersecurity
and operations. So our team, they're

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really doing really well in their corporate
jobs. Everybody a volunteers in the team.

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But when we came together, something
extraordinary happened. Hey, now we

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can leverage each other's skills to find
meaning and also leave a bigger impact than

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each of us. Industry whatever do
that. That's the sum is great.

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The whole is here than the sum
of its parts. Absolutely well. Finally,

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in this last segment, I wanted
you to talk about the significance of

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the name of name, say more
about what that means. It's pretty fantastic.

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As I mentioned, I migrated here
in twenty eleven. Stephie came here

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much before that, and coming from
India is a very diverse place and moving

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to America again, Wow, it's
not just Americans or Indians, but people

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from all over the world right here. And this country has paved such an

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opportunity for all people groups and I
and the most beautiful thing that I've enjoyed

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here in this country is to meeting
people of all ethnicities and are regardless of

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their color, or their education or
their status. Is just like, it's

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so diverse, and the word ethna
means people groups or nations, and that

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was just so close to my heart
that, hey, I want to cater

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to all people groups, you know, and we at the end of the

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day, it's the same blood that
runs our bodies. We just set the

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to reflect whole ore and it's just
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are. Beautiful, so happy to
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let's grab our first break. I'm
your host, doctor Elise Cortez. We're

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an near with Dalton Debacker and Stephanie
Sunny Devaker and the founders of Ethnic,

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a nonprofit organization that fights poverty well
empowering vulnerable women and children. We've been

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talking a bit about how it was
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talk about how it actually works.
Stay with us, will be right back.

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speaker and author. She helps companies
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program now, my guests are Adalton
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founders of Ethne, a nonprofit ortization
that fights poverty while empowering vulnerable women and

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children. I'm your host, Doctor
Elie's Cortez. Welcome back. So for

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this part of things, I want
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in and we began talking about this. I understand that the focus is on

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addressing the problem of poverty. That's
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So at ETHNE, what we like
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double jeopardy cause, which pretty much
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in more than just one way.
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bad place, but it also limits
their act as to just like I said,

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basic necessities like education, nutrition,
shelter, you know, things that

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people need just to you know,
advance in life. And oftentimes the groups

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that we work with, it's not
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actually a generational sort of thing,
and it really limits them to not just

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that person, but you know,
for their children and their children's children.

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So that's kind of the main focus
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generational poverty. And even if one
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find a more sustainable career or a
you know, a more sustainable occupation,

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then they can be that rescue for
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not in a position where they would
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you know, more exposed to other
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freedom is really important to our organization. We want to make sure that people

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are living in freedom, and already
is one of the primary reasons that people

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can't live free, and it leads
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One of the evils that we fight
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labor trafficking, and it's because people
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to educate themselves about what freedom is
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potential and what limits them to generational
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it leads to generation up to generation. And that's what we want to right

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that bondage people are not living in
freedom and how how can they empower women

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and children and men as well.
Primary focuses women and children, but even

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men to live in life to their
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and the way you do it.
This is what I thought was interesting reading

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the website, ladies and gentlemen,
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team ethname is Sensitations, Sensitization Sessions, Research Awareness campaigns, rescue teams.

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You liberate victims from dangerous or empowers
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by credits to our measures. So
just listening to some of the actual things

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that you do is really interesting to
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you use these programs. Sure these
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we work together with our partners and
I like MINDAR organizations to identify populations or

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at risk and before even jumping into
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we think is the right progract we
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we do a needs assessment, and
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of find out obviously we want to
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of property in those places. That
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be lack of lack of indio free
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examples of it's in these communities that
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coming into these families and telling them, Okay, your child is nothing.

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You don't even know that if this
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kids you don't have access to food
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children a better plays or a better
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outside of your village or community.
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into labor traffickings or human trapping.
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aware of what's going on in those
communities. They're not educated enough right or

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neither they have a means of earning
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table for these kids and opportunities for
education and a better life. So what

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we really do is do the needs
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can really have it at and then
we put our programs in place with the

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helpful thought partners. We don't do
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seek the help of partner organizations would
rescue and then we come on full hand

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on it's time. We have adational
vocational training and some of the areas that

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we focus is one it's healthcare and
shelter and education and vocational training. We

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want to make sure that the vocational
training part is sustainable, that we don't

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have to go and help them all
the time, and that we are not

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pouring our money over and over again
for the same place. But they aren't

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power and we have we implement sustainable
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It's so much to take on.
It's amazing. Okay, so I

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know you work for partners. But
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so you just said now that you
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piece of things, So I think
it's interesting that you talk about how you

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rehabilitate survivors by providing shelter, basic
miss cities as well as medical nutritional needs,

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which you kind of said, and
then the safe place as well,

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while they also get counseling, health
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agenity of documents. I mean,
this is amazing, just the sheer volume

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of things that you guys do.
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we've kind of realized that not everybody
needs the same things, and we really

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want to make sure that instead of
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we like to work with partners who
are like minded, so that we know

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that if you know, some religious
like ultiple share and really just need a

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good thorough you know, exposure to
human trafficking because they get people telling them,

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you know, one thing, but
it's really something else is happening.

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And then once you get you know, really the village chief and people that

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are higher up understanding that this is
not what's you know, they're lying to

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you, then you really see kind
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so some some places just need sort
of a prevention and you know, prevent

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preventative methods, while others. We
have a home that we support for girls

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and there are kids in there whose
moms, I mean, who still have

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parents who come visit them, you
know, once a while, but they're

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not in a position to kind of
take care of them, so they've left

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them at these homes and it kind
of ensures that these children are brought up

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in a circumstance different than what their
parents had to go through, you know,

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and they leave them there because they're
aware of that themselves, and they

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know that my child is better taken
care of and following a different path here

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than they would be if they were
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like that. We also do locally. We do some mending groups that actually

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happened for women outside of shelters that
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do groups where they can come and
they can sort of just be themselves and

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have a safe place for them to
really talk about all the trauma that they've

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gone through without anybody being there to
just judge them, but just to walk

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them through sessions where they start the
process of healing. And it doesn't happen

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overnight, you know, it takes
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that process. But so we were
just kind of focused on needs and just

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make sure that our resources are being
used widely so that you know, we

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can help as much as we can. Yeah, it's it's a it's a

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big, big able. You know
that we alone can't really tackle that problem.

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So that's what we're really partnered with
like minded organizations to do that,

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not just unconscious Lik India, but
even here locally, and it's it's so

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prevalent here as we speak and in
our backyards. Right recently we've did a

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project where we we are still supporting
what we have a a few men who

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were trafficked from the third world country. What happened is they're brought in here

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for cheap labor. They were made
less than two or three dollars a day

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and it has to sleep in construction
sites. And they were brought to our

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attention and we are partnering with the
local nonprofit here and with that name,

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we're actually teaching them now English,
you know, teaching them financial literacy and

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Stephie leaks. There's programs for teaching
them English as well, and we were

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bringing all these resources together for them. So then now they are empowered and

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that their next generation would not have
to go through this. In there,

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they have a sustainable job, they
have something that they can the skill set

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that they can apply and aren't an
income But at the same time they're also

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about what's happening in the world around
them. You know. That's I appreciate

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that you brought up as an example
because I was interested in hearing about,

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you know, how it is that
you work with vocational training. So it's

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you know, definitely the language thing
is huge, right, That isn't game

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change and when people learn the language
of wherever they're living, So that's people

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had solved for that. I have
taught English as a second language and it's

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hard work, it really is.
Well, the other thing that I that

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I saw that you do is you
ensure that that protection is protected and well

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being by promoting good health and nutrition
as well as facilitating education and life skills.

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Tell us more about that, sure, Yeah. So I feel like

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sometimes we are spread to a dame
across all these areas because these are like

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lossive projects, and sometimes we are
ourselves are overwhelmed. So we're only three

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years into the nonprofit space, and
we're so proud of the work that we

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have done so far. And when
we say healthcare and all that side,

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we really didn't have that in mind
when we started, and we still realized

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that something very crucial for the well
being overall well being of anybody, right,

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and it really triggered the projects really
took off during COVID and especially when

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the second made of COVID the nations
around, and we realized that so many

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people in these developing nations are under
they don't they don't even have proper resources

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to get proper health care, and
they are just dying on the streets and

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they're they're lying on the floors outside
hospitals because they can either afford them or

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there's no no facilities available around.
And that's where when we had to step

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up and say, okay, we're
going to help in this area as well.

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And it was really overwhelming in the
beginning. It was like where do

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we go for the fights? Well, how do we implement these programs?

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But again, you know, it's
just that a passion stirring inside us.

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We need to help, and it's
just taking their first step and helping one

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person at the time, and then
it becomes two, then it becomes twenty,

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then it becomes two aren't great?
And then we come out we put

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a program around it, and when
we ask people come, come alongside and

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help, and it's just taking one
step at it, one day at a

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time, and just meeting the needs
of people. Sometimes we feel that all

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these activities may not help us focus
on what our mission vision is. But

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again, at the end of the
day, whatever the mission is is to

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serve, employs to make lives better
for everybody. It's brilliant. You know.

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I often went i'm out speaking to
people. I often use a question

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to get people to pay attention to
what I say, and I opened with

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what will you do with your one
precious life? It seems to me that

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you're doing something please protecting through one
precious life. It's really wonderful. Let's

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grab our our next break here,
I'm at least Cortez. We've been on

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the air with Dalton Debaker and Sonny
or Stephie. Sonny Debaker and the Bounders

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of Ethnic the nonprofit organization that fights
poverty while empowering one of the women and

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children. We've been talking a bit
about what the origanization does. After the

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break, we're going to hear more
about these campaigns and their results. Stay

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with us. We'll be right back. Doctor Release Cortez is a management consultant

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specializing in meaning and purpose. An
inspirational speaker and author, she helps companies

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visioneer for greater purpose among stakeholders and
develop purpose inspired leadership and meaning infused cultures

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that elevate fulfillment, performance, and
commitment within the workforce. To learn more

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or to invite a lease to speak
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Elise Cortez dot com. Let's talk
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working on Purpose. One of the bit

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of news I want to share with
you is that the anthology I've been curating

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working over the last two years is
now out. It was out in August.

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It's a collection of twenty five stories
where women across the who share the

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intimate details of finding their purpose and
what they're now doing to serve from it.

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It's called Patially Striving and Why,
an anthology of women and persevere are

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Mildly to live their purpose and you
can find it also on Amazon. I'm

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so excited about it and I'm proud
of it. I could bust if you're

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just tuning in. My guests are
Adalta Debaker and and Stephanie Sonny Debaker and

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the founders of Ethnic, a non
privatorization that fights poverty while empowering multiple women

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and children, and your host,
doctor Lee Scrtez. So for this last

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segment here, what I really want
to get into is hearing about some of

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these campaigns that you have put out
into the world and their results. And

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so if we can go in a
certain are here, the Afghan Aid campaign

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sounded amazing. You were trying to
raise five thousand to assist refugees, keeping

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in mind what's been happening in afghan
and this is October of twenty twenty one,

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So talk to us about that campaign. Sure. So, I think

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it's been so proment in the news. Until you encounter these families face to

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face, you really don't know the
depth of what they go through and what

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they're facing. So one day after
working at the gym, happened to drive

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by crog to pick up something and
I see the young family, husband,

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wife and they're probably the kid was
seven years old. And they are standing

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in the partner a lot asking for
help, and I just topped my car

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apart my car and I walked and
walked to them, just just just to

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hear their story and what they were
going through it. They were healthy people.

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They they felt like I felt the
biggest They're smart, they're good looking,

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they're healthy, but I just weren't. But they had the board which

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said me in help. And I
walked up to them, and I soon

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realized that they didn't speak English,
and I started talking to them in actions,

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name where, and I was so
limited to have that conversation. But

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one thing that they showed I understood
what they were trying to tell me because

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they were tapping in their stomach and
said, you know, the basic message

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they were hungry. They needed food
and I didn't know their story. And

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I usually don't give money to people
whom I have known. It's just being

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me give diligence to whatever that I'm
blessed with, right, But I realized

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that they needed food, and it's
like, why don't you come with me

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to Kroger inside? And now I
said, start, what's going proger?

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Then they walk with me and the
lady, and the sun came. The

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husband still was outside asking for help
because you didn't wanted to lose. Was

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kind of getting dark, and I
probably they wanted to make a few bucks

446
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to survive that night in a hotel
or something. So as soon as they

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walked in the first thing, when
she was looking at passing the isisle of

448
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it and she was looking at the
shampoofs and there the cells and the like

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maybe, and she was like,
can I get one of those? And

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she picked up the smallest little the
tiny little bottle, theer. It's like,

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how long did you take the big
ones? And will last year?

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For long? Right? And I
was like showing all these actions, and

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every time they walked by something,
they would look at it. And then

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they walked by is looking at the
price, and I feel in my heartmand

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it's not just for her, it's
for her son, it's for her family

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and anyhow, you know, I
walk with them through whatever they needed got

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out, and then I really was
intrigued by the story. And the language

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barrier was huge. I credit real
understand what they were trying to say.

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By one thing, I'm sting,
he pointed at the end of the pointed

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my attention to his feed at one
of his foot there he was actually being

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trapped by the American government because he
was a refugee and he had this smart

462
00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:36.519
alarm or at tracking device attached to
his feed, and that's one of the

463
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things they have first of all their
years seeking help, but they're being trapped

464
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for everything, and they don't have
the money, the resources, and they

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have come through a lot of where
do we say, tragic situations. There's

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so much of PTSD involved in their
lives and they needed to be counseling and

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much why they needed all these resources. And as I said, we sometimes

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spread ours also thing but at the
end of the day, we want to

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help people. So this was a
small campaign to deal but people who we

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come across and we feel that we
could make it direct him back and help

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with the immediate resources or you know, point them to the right resources for

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a long term rehabilitation and make sure
they are also successful in this country.

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So the idea was to raise five
thousand and do well with it, to

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help them connect with the right resources
and to do case management and also give

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them grocery kids for new families who
are coming settling down to the Dallas Special

476
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Books Area, okay, and helped
the campaign go. It went really well.

477
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I know it was doing the North
Texas Giving Day and we haven't still

478
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received the money from them because it
was just a couple of weeks ago.

479
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So once we get them money,
will either distribute it to the supporting local

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nonprofits or will directly work with families
or we have any counted the Wow,

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that's so gorgeous. So you see
the emplintees of gentlemen when we're out in

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about your day life. There's lots
of ways to be able to lift your

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gaze. They weren't going to help. And what I know as a local

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00:36:01.159 --> 00:36:05.880
therapist, when we help and serve
other people, it actually makes it's better.

485
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It heals us. It's as self
transcendence and actually makes us. It

486
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taps into our well being or activates
our well being. So it's really good

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to do. You guys, just
do it over the held. Okay,

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what about this fine K for India? Yeah, So the five K for

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India was actually a campaign that we
usually like to do one big events and

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in last year we didn't get to
really do one because of COVID. So

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this year when we were thinking of
everything that was going on in India or

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Quartifick, you know stories we were
hearing about that's caused by the pandemic due

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to a lack of really a health
care infrastructure. We really wanted to help

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in some way and we wanted to
make it as safe as possible if we

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were going to have an event.
So Dalton and we were back in the

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day we had thought about doing a
five K, just a general one for

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our organization, where we thought,
hey, let's just do a five K

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for India. I mean we literally
named it five K for India, and

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we picked I mean we picked India
mainly because we we had trustworthy partners there

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that we knew that whatever funds we
did provide woodreach to the right resources and

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terms. When you work with their
wel countries, things like, you know,

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getting the money at the right place, having to navigate politicians and all

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00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:25.719
those people involved, it can be
a little tricky. So that's why we

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primarily focused on India. But it
was actually a really, really great event.

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We had ended up with I think
about five hundred and fifty people for

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paying and it was at the White
Rock Lake in Dallas, and it was

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a beautiful day. We had perfect
weather and we had such a great turnout

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and people just really showed up and
it was a great experience just to come

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together for a lot of people.
Also, they haven't you really come together

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for event in a while, so
just to bring that sense of community and

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to show that, you know,
if you really come together, we can

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you know, raise funds and kind
of collectively work towards helping people that are

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really suffering. You know, one
thing that me and Dalton both having that

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healthcare background, it really kind of
opens your eyes to you know me know,

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some people say, like, all
it takes a small virus to really

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show you all the flaws in your
own healthcare. I mean even in America

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in some ways, you know,
flaws in the healthcare infrastructure. So think

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00:38:30.320 --> 00:38:35.800
of how much worse it would be
for their world country. So we were

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00:38:35.960 --> 00:38:38.199
that was something that we were really
proud of how well it went and we

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were able to really make a great
impact. We were able to ship out

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ventilators, you know, oxygen tanks
and you know a lot of constant yeah,

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and a lot of grocery kids to
people that really needed help. And

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it was really a great experience for
our team. We literally put together Usually

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00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:07.880
and professionals told her statified K takes
about six months of planning. I think

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00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:13.519
we had twenty We did it in
twenty eight minutes cases and it was it

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was a lot of work, but
we had some really good people to help

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00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:19.679
us. We did it in twenty
days because of the need. Yeah,

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the situation was so dire. Yeah, so dire. And the personal story

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that connects doctor Nemes and my sister
who lives in India, she was diagnosed

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with COVID. She has two kids. She had to lock her kids out

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in the house and go to find
a hospital which where she could get oxidant,

532
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and she waited eight hours to get
a bed and she was terrified,

533
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Her husband was terrified. We all
were scared of what's going on. We

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00:39:44.760 --> 00:39:47.320
had the money to provide something to
pay for the hospital for their physicians.

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We had people who were an administrative
leading organizations and health healthcare organizations. We

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00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:59.159
knew them personally. Still none of
them could get them to bed and she

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00:39:59.199 --> 00:40:02.280
struggled to get blocks from for eight
hours. And for me, I always

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like, if someone who has all
that resources, the money, the influence

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to get to a place to get
basic necessity blocks and we couldn't get that.

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What are the millions of people who
don't have that there? What are

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they doing? And they were like
without a second thought, we were like,

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we're going to help. And I
told my team we have to do

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something. We didn't know what to
do. Well, what I did is

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I just went randomly walked into event
the Lads shop here locally in ballast who

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makes ventth leaders for army and for
battle fields, and I wonderment asked how

546
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much does it cost? It was
like, can I take a video with

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these thousands of event ladors sitting here? Can I take a video that these

548
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:47.480
are available? But it's not because
we don't have event ladors. Are they

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all that other people are dying?
It because none of them are stepping up

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00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:55.760
and coming collectively to get a purchase
these or provide these to the people that

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they're dying. So that's where our
campaign already toy. We just walk in

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00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:07.000
random way into event later shop and
it kicked off and we raced within a

553
00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:09.840
matter of less than a month.
We raced close to two hundred thousand dollars

554
00:41:10.599 --> 00:41:14.679
and not just the money that we
raised, but there was a lot of

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00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:20.480
donations that being given in terms of
oxygen concentrators, mental lators, grocery kids,

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and we made a big impact.
We saved lives, We brought joy

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00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:30.679
to families. We we helped people
when they thought they were there. That

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00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:34.760
was the last weeks we are there. There are nothing else in front of

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00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:37.840
them. We provide our hole and
we're so proud of the work. And

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I'm so proud of the team,
and you know, I could only live

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a little bit, but you know, it's a team that makes it happen.

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And so proud of team at May
and how we came together to really

563
00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:53.920
help him in such a dire situation. So two questions. One is when

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was this race? Because I didn't
I didn't know about it and I would

565
00:41:57.400 --> 00:42:00.880
have loved to amend. Yeah when
was it? Twenties? Sis? Okay,

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got it. And then the second
question is are you going to do

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00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:07.960
it again next year? Yes?
We want to. Yeah, yeah,

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I'd love to have a you know, five k for just a general ethnic

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fundraising purposes. I think it's a
great, great way to bring the community

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out. Absolutely, and I look
by Webb and people love them. It's

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a beautiful place and people just like
I think I think that's one of the

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things that the pandemic has done.
It's just like whenever I think people get

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an opportunity to come together. And
people were just really like and I didn't

574
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know how much I missed this until
now. You know, it feels so

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good to be out here just together. So yeah, we would love to

576
00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:45.159
do it again, hopefully, because
I've done racist. I've put on racist

577
00:42:45.199 --> 00:42:46.559
before and when you have that repeat
the fact, it really makes a big

578
00:42:46.599 --> 00:42:51.440
difference. We've got to run that
race because it's for this coast, and

579
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even if the cost was catering to
people here, I enjoy it. Really.

580
00:42:55.440 --> 00:43:00.559
People came out and told us and
we haven't been out in long time,

581
00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:05.480
this is awesome, and we really
loved meeting people, and we really

582
00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:08.679
loved connecting back into the community and
that that itself, as you know,

583
00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:14.199
it's very refreshing and it's very retriminating
from people. We loved hearing them from

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00:43:14.280 --> 00:43:17.760
people. And also the fact that
we asked volunteers to come and join the

585
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cross. And there's this one lady
named Shiba who led who was the race

586
00:43:22.679 --> 00:43:27.480
director, and she told us to
thank you for the opportunity to make any

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00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:31.440
impact, and she literally within a
span of twenty twenty one days. She

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when and got the approval from the
city. She ran the whole project,

589
00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:42.079
She got the race, you know, all the chips ready and the t

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00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:45.639
shaves of the marketing and getting the
sponsors, and it was just beautiful to

591
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:50.679
see someone blossom and come out of
nowhere and say no, I'm ready to

592
00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:57.679
volunteer and for her herself to make
that big impact in the community and think

593
00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:02.039
for herself, it's life life changing
that for the people. Yeah, you're

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00:44:02.039 --> 00:44:06.760
not volunteering, you're in church,
and as you are in church, you

595
00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:10.320
literally probably watched her molecules change and
grew up before your very eyes. How

596
00:44:10.400 --> 00:44:14.639
amazing that's the work did I get
to do? It's amazing. All right,

597
00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:16.519
you see a little something about the
COVID relief, but say a bit

598
00:44:16.559 --> 00:44:20.400
more about the campaign when he did
run COVID relief. Yeah. So I

599
00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:23.559
think COVID relief and VIK for India
sort of all kind of day together makes

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together. Because initially, when we
were doing the COVID relief, we didn't

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really have an event per se because
we were still trying to be as socially

602
00:44:31.880 --> 00:44:37.840
distancing as possible, So we were
just kind of doing a virtual campaign with

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COVID, really trying to reach out
to our donor base, and Dalton was

604
00:44:43.639 --> 00:44:46.880
on the news a couple of times, so he got to kunder share his

605
00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:52.639
story about his sister and why you
know it really there was such a something

606
00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:57.840
that really struck a chord with us
and then from that kind of was born

607
00:44:57.960 --> 00:45:00.920
the VIK for India, the event
Help and so it all kind of wasn't

608
00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:06.840
a very short time span, but
I think it was one of the most

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00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:13.320
fruitful campaigns that we've had. Just
I think sometimes Alton says, like you

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just have to go for it,
you know, you just think sometimes we're

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planning a lot. We have.
We have planned a lot for certain campaigns

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and even though they have been successful, but I think this one was just

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we were all kind of like felt
like we were on steroids and so we

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were just kind of like, you
know, going for it and it really

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worked out and it was it was
really successful and it didn't stop there.

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Right. What happened is we understood
all the plastics and healthcare infrastructure and developing

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nations. What we did is,
you know, I took my experience at

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we're taking technology. Now we're implementing
technology and rural villages where people can come

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and access a doctor. Doctors can
listen to Hart songs, long sounds,

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do your exams pelt exams literally not
being present physically but virtually from anywhere.

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So we lived in their project in
a couple of villages where people have not

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seen a doctrine their lives before,
and the pilot is going really well.

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In the future, we hope to
expand it, not just developing nations,

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but even in the rural areas in
the US, where we're wanting to take

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the technology and the platform the work
that we did in India and to other

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parts of the world to make sure
that everybody has access to healthcare. Slightly

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ambitious, I would say, just
slightly ambitious. Yeah, It's like I

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could say, it's just two bed
You guys are more ambitious. Yeah.

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So we're coming to a close here, and I want to hear from each

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of you, you know, first, just quickly, what are you each

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proud of? What are you really
proud of in this work that you get

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to do. I think I'm just
really proud of how far we've come along.

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I think literally sometimes when I tell
the story, I remember, I

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remember I was in the shower shampooing
my hair, and Dalton was like,

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uh, you know, he was
from outside the batrom. He was just

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like, I think I want to
start a non profit, really want to

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help people, And of course,
you know you are right. In my

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mind, I was like, yeah, okay, we can help people.

639
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Sure, we want to help people. So I was like yeah. And

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I think also literally went and said
Google, how do I start a nonprofit?

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And that's kind of how I think
we have, you know, in

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some ways it's kind of funny,
but in the last two years since we've

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been I think we've done some tremendous
work and we've come so far, and

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I'm just really proud of our team
and how they've all kind of, you

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know, supported us in this journey
to really make a difference. Awesome.

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We're so close to being out of
time, but just say ten seconds when

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you true passion finds purpose, way
to finish, way to finish, guys,

648
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Dalton and stuff, it has been
miraculous. Is something more just very

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quick, Hank. It's about passion
and finding your purpose. I highly recommend

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that the second one that came out
with all the amazing stories of them have

651
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taken their passion. There's Skillston and
found Park based through their struggles, they've

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given back to the communities and it's
just a phenomenal read. It would be

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life changing for you, so please
make sure you grab copies of those books.

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So lovely. Thank you guys,
that's beautiful. You're so welcome and

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listeners viewers, if you want to
learn more about this amazing couple and the

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work that they're doing with their team, go to their website. It's Ethna

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dot life. Let me spell it
for you. It's e Thhne dot life

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l ife. And thanks again to
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helps companies to build a platform where
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their work from people across your company. Last week, if you mits the

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live show you know recorded podcast We're
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Turnaround, How to Change Course when
Things are going South. We talked about

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how hurt for Simple Steps, Process
for Process Steps help leaders navigate their businesses

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with fluid in the constantly changing marketplace
we find ourselves today. Next week will

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be on the air with you need
to Rentine from Norway talking about the work

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she is doing to address the loneliness
problem in the world by increasing our relational

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energy. See you there. Remember
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our lives, So let's work on
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program. Be sure to tune into
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doctor Elise Cortez, each week on
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we'll create a world where business operates
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employees are fulfilled in work that provides
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you there, Let's work on Purpose.