Ethne: Empowering Vulnerable Women and Children

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What's working on purpose anyway? Each
week we ponder the answer to this question.

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People ache for meaning and purpose at
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and know their lives really matter.
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inspires them and helps them grow into
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such a force for good in the
world, elevating humanity. In our program,

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we provide guidance and inspiration to help
usher in this world we all want

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working on purpose. Now Here is
your host, doctor Elise Cortes. Welcome

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back to the Working and Purpose Program. Thanks for tuning in this week.

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I'm your host, doctor Really Sportes. Joining you live from Dallas, which

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is home base for me. If
you don't know me yet, I'm a

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management consultant specializing in meaning and purpose, organization, logal therapist, inspirational speaker,

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of social scientist, and author.
I help companies discover and articulate their

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purpose to thread it through colt and
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develop inspirational leaders who create cultures where
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do their best. And I provide
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individual team members to discover and unleash
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at workprout dot com. With us
today are the founders of Ethne, a

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nonprofit organization that fights poverty while and
while empowering vulnerable women and children. We

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have Dalton Duvacheran, the founder and
president, and Stephie Sunny the Vakrean,

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a co founder and who also happened
to be married to each other. We'll

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be talking about the ethnic, how
Ethne was born, how it works,

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and here's some about the programs they've
run in service of their mission to empower

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women and children and save them from
trafficking and poverty. We're doing the show

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live together for the Los Collinas Country
Club, where we'll be immediately going afterward

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to an ABTP meeting where I am
presenting my research on modes of engagement and

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our unique connection to work. Full
and fun agenda waits us both on both

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fronts. Dalton and Stephie, welcome
to working on Purpose. Thank you for

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having us, Thanks Luise for having
us. It's so great. It's so

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great. We have to, of
course tell the story of how I find

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my guest. You know, I
like to do that whenever I can.

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So several weeks ago, I was
here in Los Colina's attending the same meeting

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for a different guest, and Dalton
is introduced and talks about what he's doing

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at this nonprofit, and so there's
about I don't know fifty people in the

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audience, and after the presentation has
done, I made a bee line for

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this poor young man and put my
hand out to go introduce to him.

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And he must have gone, like, you know what is coming at me?

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You know it's bowling my hair back
here. But I said, I

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have to hear more about this nonprofit
that you're money. 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 I would just want to say
that I leave it encouraged and inspired every

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time I have a conversation with you, and the first one was the same

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way to me as well. That's
sir, And thank you for inspiring this.

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Thank you for being an evangelistic purpose. We all need that very much.

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Thanks for all you doing and having
a position. Oh you're so welcome.

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It's so welcome. It should be
like that, and I doctor Sue

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

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into for the first segments, really
where Ethne came from. And one of

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the things that I'm already intrigued with
is you've got a tagline. It says,

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true passion finds Purpose. I love
that, of course, and so

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at Ethny, you and your team
stand to use a person's passion as a

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

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

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life to their fullest potential. Incredible, awesome mission and purpose. So first,

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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 that

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story my entire life the past thirty
five years. Now I've struggled with it

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and I can be rill about it
as well. Right, it didn't happen

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

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a life journey. And what really
triggered there was getting some second chances in

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life. And it started in twenty
ten. I swallowed a beetle, or

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maybe I should say a beetle just
somehow I asked rated one while I was

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on my motorbike. It tore my
airway, landed in my lungs, and

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I was struggling to take breath that
was spinning out of blood. I somehow

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managed to get to a hospital there
for three three days. Finally they took

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the beetle, which was partiousness,
out of my lungs, and that's the

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first time I ever thought about purpose. Well, why am I alive and

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why Why did I get a chance
to live whereas so many others still don't

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exist, And it really triggered that
good and from then the journey began.

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Actually and everything since then that I
put my hand on, and I wanted

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to make sure that I was converting
if it's something my passion, it was

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my work, it's something I'm hanging
out with my friends, or whatever I

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did, and I felt that there
was a purpose to it, and that's

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where the journey started. And down
the lane even again, I had to

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go through other second chances which I
got to live and was it cancer or

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other ailments or if it's accidents,
and through it it just ignited that passion

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

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and purposeful. And eventually I met
a group of friends who are also you

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

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but our life is not really satisfied
and where we don't have that joy

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in living and what can we do
beyond our data five eight to five jobs

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

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our skill sets into something more meaningful. That's when the conversation started with a

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group of our friends and we decided, Okay, this is what we want

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to do. We're going to take
our skill sets, our passions be financed

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

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and bringing those passions to collective purpose? And I reached out with a few

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of my friends. They were all
on board, and we eventually ended up

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having an organization formed in surveying vulnerable. We're going to turn all over the

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world. And Ethne was born and
then there was Borne. Okay, so

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that's an incredible story. So definitely
one thing you're right, purpose or passion

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

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So I completely agree with you and
that you took 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 life. Let's

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

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of the reasons I wanted to celebrate
you both from the show. So now

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let's talk a bit about what does
ethnic do? What do you actually do

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to help women and children? So
I can take that question. I think

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

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

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

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due to the fact that they come
from very poor backgrounds and it puts them

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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 have

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

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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 and I mean I don't

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I'm sure you guys have an idea
of the numbers. I wouldn't ask you

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if you don't know them on the
topic of your head. But this problem

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has got to be enormous. Yes, yes, I know that. One

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of the reasons statistic that we just
kind of know just by are working with

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groups is that more than seven hundred
million people in the world live daily on

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a wage of less than two dollars. It's actually a dollar and ninety cents,

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So that just kind of goes to
show you that, you know,

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with that kind of an income,
that things that they have to compromise on

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a lot of times. You know, it's more than just the fact that

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they're poor, is that they don't
have access to basic things that we have

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access to. Healthcare or shelter or
food, education, all those things factor

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into having you know, a quality
of life that is needed to be successful.

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And that's kind of our focus is
to make sure that every individual is

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in a position where they can position
themselves to be successful, position themselves in

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a place where they are able to, you know, eventually use their own

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passions and find their own purpose.
And we believe that you can only do

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that once you you know, have
a basic level of security as well.

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Ow hierarchy of needs would say that
you're about that later tonight when I give

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

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

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And the thing is, you know, most of us don't get there

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

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

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are watching and listening. Is that
you know, it's not like these people

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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 else

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

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I work for a company called Salesforce. I'm the director for Industry Advisor

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for Global Healthcare and Life Sciences.
So I have been in healthcare for the

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last sixteen years and I am a
nurse by trade. And I started my

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nursing journey in India and I experienced
freshtand the struggles not just a patients,

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but also for about healthcare providers and
the struggles that they have to go through

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the nurses or other staff doctors.
And I decided that I needed to get

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out of India and learn from some
of the very best around the world.

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That's why I make it to go
a huge decision to get out to India,

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my own country, and to go
explore what's happening in other parts of

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the world. And in fact that
opened up my eyes to a lot of

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different things. But coming from India, seeing poverty all around, seeing abuse

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all around, I always wanted to
go back and help or give back when

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advocated a better place, but that
learning journey eventually led me to learn more

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about healthcare. Today. I get
to help companies and organizations, nonprofits and

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for profits around the world, and
it's such a privilege. And taking that

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passion of mine to be in healthcare
and carry that to the nonprofit work they

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do. It really is so warning
to see that, and it took me

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

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and that converts automatically to the passion
you do outside the work, and the

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journey just culminating at one point is
being beautiful. There's a lot of synergy

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

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seems like they're each energizing the other. Yeah, that'slutly so great. And

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

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

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

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know has good listening skills and it's
a little personable. So I really enjoy

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meeting patients from all age grooms and
just really being kind of like the mediator

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and there to help them, consult
with them and anything that they needed,

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you know, professional advice on mm
hmm. Okay again, you know,

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

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

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where you can serve with friends and
growing with friends, and that's magnificent.

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Sure. Yeah. The idea behind
all that was actually, you know,

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I'm passionate about healthcare. Study has
been in healthcare, and she also writes

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and she does spoken word, and
she lives to poetry, added music and

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arts, and whenever I got a
stage, I started catering people's attention towards

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social injustices. I don't need the
money out of music or any thing,

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because I already had a good job. But now can I leverage that passion

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and why not get a chance to
tell the world something? Okay, how

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can I point their attention to something
else? And we met like minded professionals.

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We're equally passionate about finance, passionate
about marketing, cybersecurity and operations.

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So our team they're really doing really
well in their corporate jobs. Everybody at

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volunteers in the team. But when
we came together, something extraordinary happening.

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Now we can leverage each other's skills
to find meaning and also leave a bigger

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impact than each US industrate whatever do. That's the sum is greater, the

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whole is good than the some of
its parts. Absolutely well. Finally,

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

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name of Nay say more about what
that means. It's pretty fantastic. As

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I mentioned, I migrated here in
twenty eleven. Steppy came here much before

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that, and coming from India is
a very diverse place and moving to America

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again, Wow, it's not just
Americans or Indians, but people from all

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over the world right here, and
this country has paved such an opportunity for

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all people groups and I and the
most beautiful thing that I've enjoyed here in

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this country is to meeting people of
all ethnicities and regardless of their color,

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or their education or their status.
It's like, it's so diverse. And

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the word ethne means people groups or
nations, and that was just so close

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to my heart that, hey,
I want to cater to all people groups,

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you know, and we at the
end of the day, it's the

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same blood that runs our bodies.
We just human beings, right and we

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cater to people even though we want
of business. At the end of the

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day, the key stakeholder are the
people and that's the driving force behind the

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If you're just starting the program now. My guests are Adulton Debakern and

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Stephanie Stunning Debaker and the founders of
ETHNE, a non profit organization that fights

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poverty while empowering vulnerable women and children. I'm your host, Doctor Lee's Cortez.

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Welcome back. So for this part
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into just really how ETHNE works.
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that we understood is we came in
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understand that the focus is on addressing
the problem of poverty. That's your big

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focus. Why poverty? Yeah,
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say is that poverty is a double
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a group encouraged disadvantages for poverty in
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only are they financially at a bad
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to just like I said, basic
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you know, things that people need
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when an individual, it's actually a
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limits them to not just that person, but you know, for their children

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and their children's children. So that's
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find ways to break this generational poverty. And even if one person out of

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that family is able to find a
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more sustainable occupation, then they can
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make sure that they're not in a
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group that would be you know,
more exposed to other kinds of exploitation.

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Who would add that freedom is really
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make sure that people are living in
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primary reasons that people can't live free, and it leads them to one thing

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or the other. And one of
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trafficking and the other is labor trafficking. And it's because people are not having

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enough opportunities either to educate themselves about
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their fullest potential and what limits them
to generational curses and what ality is doing

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them and it leads to generation up
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to break, that bondage of people
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they empower women and children and men
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children, but even meant to live
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free. Amazing and the way you
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It was so interesting reading the website, ladies and gentlemen, is that

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I understand you know that the team
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campaigns, rescue teams. You liberate
victims from dangerous or empower's conditions where their

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unfairuable circumstances may be exploited by predatory
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the actual things that you do,
it's really interesting to me. So tell

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us more about how you use these
programs sure these measures. So the first

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and forem is we work together with
our partners, I like mind your organizations

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to identify populations or at risk and
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or maintain implementing what we think is
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analysis of the situation. We do
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we kind of find out obviously we
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fighting the consequences of property in those
places. That could be lack of education,

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that could be lack of any freak
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the examples is that it's in these
communities that we serve. There might be

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a person coming into these families and
telling them, Okay, your child is

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nothing if you don't even know that
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because you don't have access to food
or healthcare. And we would give your

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children a better place or a better
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outside of your village or community.
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into labor trafficking or human And that's
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what's going on in those communities.
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they have a means of earning an
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for these kids and opportunities for education
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really do is do the needs assessment, We identify target groups where we can

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really have an impact, and then
we put our programs in place with the

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help of Thought Partners. We don't
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we seek the help of Thought Partner
organizations who to rescue and then we come

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on fullhand when it's time. We
have additional vocational training and some of the

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key areas that we focus as one
is healthcare, shelter and education and vocational

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training. We want to make sure
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that we don't have to go and
help them all the time, and that

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we are not pouring our money over
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But they are empowered and we have
we implement sustainable programs so that the generational

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purchases are broken. There's so much
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so I know you work with partners, but the other thing I wanted

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to talk to so you just said, now that you know you work with

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partners with the rescue piece of things, so I think it's interesting that you

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talk about how you rehabilitate survivors by
providing shelter, business cities as well as

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medical nutritional needs, which you kind
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as well, while they also get
counseling, health services, legal aid adult

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literacy, a generaty documents. I
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sheer volume of things that you guys
do. Yeah, So with our work,

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we've we've kind of realized that not
everybody needs the same things, and

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we we really want to make sure
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That's why we like to work with
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that we know that if you know, some religious like Ultimore Sharing really just

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need a good thorough you know,
exposure to human trafficking because they get people

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telling them, you know, one
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happening. And then once you get
you know, really the village chief and

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

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lying to you, then you really
see kind of a difference in the community.

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And so some some places just need
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preventative methods, while others. We
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girls, and there are kids in
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still have parents who come visit them, you know, once a while,

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but they're not in a position to
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they've left them at these homes and
it kind of ensures that these children are

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brought up in a circumstance different than
what their parents had to go through,

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you know, and they leave them
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and they know that my child is
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path here than they would be if
they were with me. So we have

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safe places like that. We also
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that actually happen for women outside of
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So we do groups where they can
come and they can sort of just be

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themselves and have a safe place for
them to really talk about all the trauma

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that they've gone through without anybody being
there to just judge them, but just

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to walk them through sessions where they
start the process of healing. And it

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doesn't happen overnight, you know,
it takes a lot of work to kind

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of start that process. But so
we just kind of focus on needs and

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

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we can help as much as we
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it's a big, big evil,
you know that we alone can't really tackle

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that problem. So that's what we
really partner with like minded or organizations to

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do that, not just in counstries
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and it's it's so prevalent here as
we speak and in our backyards right recently

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we've did a project where we help
we are still supporting what we have a

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a few men who are being trafficked
from a third world country. What happened

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is they're brought in here for cheap
labor. They were paid less than two

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or three dollars a day and has
to sleep in construction sites. And they

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were brought to our attention and we
are partnering with the local nonprofit here and

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with that name. We're actually teaching
them now in English, you know,

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teaching them financial literacy and stephie leads. There's programs for teaching them English as

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well, and we were bringing all
these resources together for them. So now

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they are empowered and that their next
generation would not have to go through this

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and there they have a sustainable job, they have something that they can the

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skill set that they can apply and
aren't an incomer. But at the same

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time they're also about of what's happening
in the world around them. You know,

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that's I appreciate that you brought up
as an example because I was interested

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in hearing about you know how it
is that you work with a vocational training.

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So it's definitely the language thing is
huge, right, That is a

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game changer when people learn the language
of wherever they're living. So that's beautiful.

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Hats off for that. I have
Todd. English is a second language

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and it's hard work, it really
is. Well. The other thing that

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

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

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

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like sometimes we are spread so thin
across all these areas because these are like

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massive 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 at May and we still

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

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right, and it really triggered the
project for Aly took off during COVID,

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and especially one of the second made
of COVID, the Nations Round, and

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we realized that so many people in
these developing nations are under they don't they

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don't even have proper resources to get
proper health care, and they are just

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dying on the streets and they're they're
lying on the floors outside hospitals because they

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can either afford them or there's no
no facilities available around. And that's what

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when we had to step up and
say, okay, we're going to help

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in this area as well. And
it was really overwhelming in the beginning.

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It was like where do we go
for the funds? Well, how do

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we implement these programs? But again, you know, it's just that a

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passion stirring inside us. We need
to help, and it's just taking the

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first step and helping one person at
the time, and then it becomes two,

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then it becomes twenty, then it
becomes too or great, and then

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we come out we put a program
around it, and when we ask people,

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they come from along sand and help
and it's just taking one step at

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it, one day at a time, and just meeting the needs of people.

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Sometimes we feel that all these activities
may not help us focus on what

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our missions. But again, at
the end of the day, whatever the

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mission is is to serve emplots to
make lives better for everybody. It's brilliant,

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you know. I often when I'm
out speaking to people, I often

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use a question to get people to
pay attention to what I say, and

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I open with what will you do
with your one precious life? It seems

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to me that you're doing something please
at techul through one precious life. It's

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really wonderful. It's greber our next
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We've been on the air with Dalton, Debacra and Sonny or Stephie Sunny.

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Debacara and the founders of Ethnic,
the nonprofit organization that fights poverty while empowering

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one of our women and children.
We've been talking a bit about what the

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organization does. After the break,
we're going to hear more about these campaigns

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and their results. Stay with us, We'll be right back. Doctor Release

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Cortes is a management consultant specializing in
meaning and purpose. An inspirational speaker and

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author, she helps companies visioneer for
greater purpose among stakeholders and develop purpose inspired

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leadership and meaning infused cultures that elevate
fulfillment, performance, and commitment within the

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workforce. To learn more or to
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employees working on purpose. This is
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Thanks for staying with us, and
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out in August. It's a collection
of twenty five stories from women across the

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who's are the intimate details of finding
their purpose and what they're now doing to

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serve from it. It's called Passionately
Striving and Why, an anthology of women

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in person, your mindy to live
their purpose and you can find it also

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on Amazon. I'm so excited about
it and I'm proud of it. I

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could bust if you're just tuning in
my guests are Adulton Devaceran and Stephanie Sunny

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devacer and the founders of Ethnic,
a non propatorization that fights poverty while empowering

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multiple women and children. I'm your
host, Doctor Lee's Cortes. So for

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this last segment here, what I
really want to get into is hearing about

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

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And so if we can go in
a certain area here, the Afghan

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Aid campaign sounded amazing. You were
trying to raise five thousand assistant refugees,

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

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one, so talk to us about
that campaign. Sure. So, I

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think it's been so proment in the
knees until you encounter this family space 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 out of the gym, I

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happened to drive by Provert to pick
up something and I see the young family,

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husband, wife, and they're probably
the kid was seven years old,

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and they are standing in the parking
lot asking for help. And I just

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stopped my car apart my car and
I walked and walked to them 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 felt like I felt like biggers. They're smart, they're good looking,

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they're healthy, but I just wanted
But they had the board which said

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need help, and I walked up
to them, and I soon realized that

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

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

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that they showed me, 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,

436
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they were hungry. They needed food. And I didn't know their story.

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And I usually don't give money to
people who I know. It's just

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being given diligence to whatever that I'm
blessed with, right, but I realized

439
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that they needed food and it's like, why don't you come with me to

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Kroger inside? And now I said, let's go. Let's go with Kroger.

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Then they walk with me h and
the lady and the son came.

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The husband still was outside asking for
help because you didn't want to was kind

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

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survive that night in a hotel or
something. So as soon as I walked

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in the first thing, when she
was looking at passing the aisle of it,

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she was looking at the shampoops and
the sets and maybe and she was

447
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like, can I get one of
those? And she picked up the smallest

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little the tiny little bottle. It's
like, how long did you take a

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big one to last? Two?
For a long right? And I was

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like showing all these actions. And
every time they walked by something, they

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would look at it, and then
they walked by is looking at the price

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of it, and I feel,
Emma heartman's it's not just for her,

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it's for her son, it's for
her family and anyhow, you know,

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I walk with them through whatever they
needed got out. And then I really

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was intrigued by the story. And
the language barrier was huge. I couldn't

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really understand whether we're trying to say
by one thing, I'm he pointed at

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the end of it, pointed my
attention to his feet, at one of

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his foot that he was actually being
trapped by the American government because he was

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a refugee and he had this smart
alarm or tracking device attached to his feet,

460
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and that's one of the things they
have first of all their years seeking

461
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help. But they're being trapped for
everything, and they don't have the money,

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they don't have the resources, and
they have come through a lot of

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what do we say, tragic situations. There's so much of BTSD involved in

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their lives and they needed counseling and
much more. They needed all these resources.

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And as I said, like we
sometimes spread outsenals thing, but at

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the end of the day, we
want to help people. So this was

467
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a small campaign to you know,
but people who we come across, and

468
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we feel that we could make it
direct impact and help with immediate resources or

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point them to the right resources for
a long term rehabitation and make sure they're

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all successful in this country. So
the idea was to raise five thousand and

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do well with it, to help
them connect with the right resources and to

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do case management and also give them
grocery kits for new families who are coming

473
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:34.960
settling down to the Dallas Muscial Works
area. Okay, and how the campaning

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go, It went really well.
You know, it was during the North

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Texas Giving Day and we haven't still
received the money from them. Because it

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was just a couple of weeks ago. So once we get them money will

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either distribute it to the supporting local
nonprofits who are will directly work with families

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when we haven't encountered there. Wow, that's so gorgeous. So you see

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the pointies and gentlemen when you're out
and about your day life. There's lots

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of ways to be able to live
your gaze. See where you can help

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and what I know as a local
therapist, when we help and serve other

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people, it actually makes it's better, It heals us. It's that self

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transcendence. It actually makes us.
It taps into our well being or activates

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our well being. So it's really
good to do. You guys, just

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do it over the heilt. Okay, what about this five K for India?

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Yeah, so the five K for
India was actually a campaign that we

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usually like to do one big event
and in last year we didn't get to

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really do one because of COVID.
So this year, when we were thinking

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of everything that was going on in
India or oar Afic, you know stories

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we were hearing about that's caused by
the pandemic due to a lack of really

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a healthcare infrastructure. We really wanted
to help in some way, and we

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wanted to make it as safe as
possible if we were going to have an

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event. So Delton and we were
back in the day we had thought about

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doing a five K, just a
general one for our organization, where we

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thought, hey, let's just do
a five K for India, and we

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

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picked India mainly because we had trustworthy
partners there that we knew that in whatever

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funds we did provide would reach to
the right resources. Sometimes when we work

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with their work countries, things like, you know, getting the money at

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the right place, having to navigate
politicians and all those people involved can be

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a little tricky. So that's why
we primarily focused on India. But it

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was actually a really really great event. We ended up with I think about

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00:37:34.519 --> 00:37:39.599
five hundred and fifty people were staying
and it was at the White Rock Lake

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00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:45.440
in Dallas, and it was a
beautiful day. We had perfect weather and

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00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:50.320
we had such a great turnout and
people just really showed up and it was

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a great experience just to come together
for a lot of people. Also,

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they haven't you know, really come
together for an event in a while,

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so just to bring that sense of
community and to show that, you know,

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if you really come together, we
can you know, raise funds and

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kind of collectively work towards helping people
that are really suffering. You know,

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one thing that we adult in both
having that healthcare background, it really kind

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of opens your eyes to you know, you know, some people say,

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like all it takes is a small
virus to really show you all the flaws

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in your own health care. I
mean even in America in some ways,

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you know, flaws and the healthcare
infrastructure. So think of how much worse

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it would be for their world country. So we were that was something that

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we were really proud of how well
it went and we were able to really

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make a great impact. We were
able to ship out ventilators, you know,

519
00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:52.079
oxygen tanks and you know a lot
of constant yeah, and a lot

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00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:57.039
of grocery kids to people that really
needed help. And it was really a

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00:38:57.199 --> 00:39:02.360
great experience for our team. We
literally we put together usually and professionals told

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00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:07.400
us that ifi K takes about six
months of planning. I think we had

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twenty. We did it in twenty
eight days, and it was a lot

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00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:16.320
of work. We had some really
good people to help us, and we

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00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:20.760
did it in twenty days because of
the need. Yeah, and the situation

526
00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:24.840
was so dire, Yeah, so
dire. And the personal story that connects

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00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:29.039
it back to the needs. And
my sister lives in India. She was

528
00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:31.039
diagnosed with COVID. She has two
kids. She had to lock her kids

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00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:35.880
up in the house and go to
find a hospital which where she could get

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00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:40.000
oxygen. And she waited eight hours
to get a bed and she was terrified,

531
00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:44.280
Her husband was terrified. We all
were scared of what's going on.

532
00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:47.559
We had the money to provide to
pay for the hospital, for the physicians,

533
00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:53.880
We had people who were an administrative
of leading organizations and healthcare organizations,

534
00:39:54.159 --> 00:39:58.559
We knew them personally. Still none
of them could get them to bed.

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And she struggled to get boxing for
eight hours. And for me, I

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00:40:02.239 --> 00:40:07.880
was like, if someone who has
all that resources, the money, the

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00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:13.239
influence to get to a place to
get basic nasty box and we couldn't get

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00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:15.599
that, what are the millions of
people who don't have that there? What

539
00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:20.400
are they doing? And they were
like, without a second thought, we

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00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:23.000
were like, we're going to help. And I told my team, we

541
00:40:23.119 --> 00:40:27.719
have to do something. We didn't
know what to do. What I did

542
00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:30.920
is I just went randomly walked into
a ventilator's shop here locally in Dallas,

543
00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:37.239
who makes menfilators for army and for
battle fields, and I want to man

544
00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:39.880
ask how much does it cost?
I was like, can I take a

545
00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:45.079
video with these thousands event lads sitting
here? Can I take a video that

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00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:47.920
these are available? But it's not
because we don't have ventilators available that the

547
00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:53.239
people are dying, because none of
them are stepping up and mean collectively to

548
00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:58.119
get to purchase these or provide these
to the people that they're dying. So

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that's where our campaign really we just
walking random way into event later shop and

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00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:07.639
it kicked off and we raced.
Within a matter of less than a month,

551
00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:13.320
we raised close to two hundred thousand
dollars and not just the money that

552
00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:15.400
we raised, but there was a
lot of donations that being given in terms

553
00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:21.719
of ox and concentrators, ment lakers, grocery kids, and we made a

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00:41:21.719 --> 00:41:28.360
big impact. We saved lives,
We brought joy to families, We we

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00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:31.840
helped people when they thought they were
Then that was the last week sort of

556
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:37.280
there there are nothing else in front
of them. We provide a hole and

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00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:38.960
we're so proud of the work.
And I'm so proud of the team,

558
00:41:39.559 --> 00:41:42.800
and you know, I could only
live a little bit, but you know,

559
00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:45.199
it's a team that makes it happen. I'm so proud of team at

560
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:52.119
May and how we came together to
really help them in such a dire situation.

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00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:55.480
So two questions. One is when
was this race? Because I didn't

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know about it and I would have
left to it. Yeah, when was

563
00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:02.400
it? Twenty six? Okay,
got it? And then the second question

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is are you going to do it
again next year? Yes, we want

565
00:42:06.800 --> 00:42:09.199
to. Yeah, I'd love to
have a you know, five k for

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00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:15.360
just general ethnic fundraising purposes. I
think it's a great, great way to

567
00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:19.039
bring the community out. Absolutely,
and I live by Webbrock. Yeah,

568
00:42:19.079 --> 00:42:22.719
and people love them. It's a
beautiful place and people just like I think.

569
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I think that's one of the things
that the pandemic has done. It's

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00:42:25.719 --> 00:42:30.000
just like whenever people get an opportunity
to come together, and people were just

571
00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:35.199
really like and I didn't know how
much I missed this until now. You

572
00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:39.599
know, it feels so good to
be out here just together. So yeah,

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00:42:39.639 --> 00:42:44.360
we would love to do it again
hopefully, because I've done raceis,

574
00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:46.000
I've put on races before and when
you have that repeat e fact, it

575
00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:50.000
really makes a big difference people.
So we got to run that race because

576
00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:54.480
it's for this cost, and even
if the cost was catering to people here

577
00:42:54.599 --> 00:43:00.320
enjoyed it. People came out of
toll essay, we haven't been out long

578
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:04.960
time. This is awesome. And
we really loved meeting people, and we

579
00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:08.719
really loved connecting back into the community. And that itself is you know,

580
00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:14.280
it's very refreshing and it's very rigridnating
from people. We loved hearing them from

581
00:43:14.320 --> 00:43:17.800
people. And also the fact that
we asked volunteers to come and join the

582
00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:22.679
cross. And there's this one lady
named Siba who led who was the race

583
00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:27.480
director, and she told us to
thank you for the opportunity to make an

584
00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:32.519
impact. And she literally within a
span of twenty one days, she went

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00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:37.559
in, got's approval from the city. She ran the whole project, She

586
00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:42.719
got the race, you know,
all the chips writing and the t ships

587
00:43:42.719 --> 00:43:45.960
and the marketing and getting the sponsors, and it was just beautiful to see

588
00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:51.280
someone blossom and come out of nowhere
and say no, I'm ready to volunteer

589
00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:57.639
and for her herself to make that
big impact in the community, and and

590
00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:00.280
for herself it's life changing that for
the people receive it, but for the

591
00:44:00.280 --> 00:44:04.800
people who run as well, yeah, you're not volunteering, you're in charge.

592
00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:08.039
And as you are in charge,
you literally probably watched her molecules change

593
00:44:08.039 --> 00:44:12.360
and grew up before your very eyes. How amazing that's the work that I

594
00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:15.519
get to do. It's amazing.
All Right, you see a little something

595
00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:19.719
about the COVID reallyf but say a
bit more about the campaign COVID really.

596
00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:22.000
Yeah. So I think COVID relief
and five K for Indian sort of all

597
00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:28.000
kind of cakes together, because initially
when we were doing the COVID really we

598
00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:31.199
didn't really have an event per se
because we were still trying to be as

599
00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:37.719
socially distancing as possible. So we
were just kind of doing a virtual campaign

600
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:43.480
with COVID, really trying to reach
out to our donor base. And Daltin

601
00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:46.480
was on the news a couple of
times, so he got to kind of

602
00:44:46.519 --> 00:44:52.719
share his story about his sister and
why you know it, really it was

603
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:55.920
such a something that really struck a
chord with us and and then from that

604
00:44:57.039 --> 00:45:00.679
kind of was born the five P
for India, the event Help and so

605
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:04.679
it all kind of was in this
very short time span. But I think

606
00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:10.760
it was one of the most fruitful
campaigns that we've had. Just I think

607
00:45:12.039 --> 00:45:14.679
sometimes Dalcan says like, you just
have to go for it, you know,

608
00:45:14.719 --> 00:45:17.159
you just sometimes when you're planning a
lot. We have, We have

609
00:45:17.360 --> 00:45:22.199
planned a lot for certain campaigns and
even though they have been successful, but

610
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:24.000
I think this one was just we
were all kind of like felt like we

611
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were on steroids, and so we
were just kind of like, you know,

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going for it, and it really
worked out and it was it was

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really successful, came and they didn't
stop there. Right. What happened was

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we understood all the flawstics and help
and infrastructure and developing nations. What we

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did is, you know, I
took my experience at work taking technology.

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Now we're implementing technology and rural villages
where people can come and access a doctor.

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Doctors can listen to hard sounds,
long sounds, do your exams,

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pult exams literally not being present physically
but virtually from it anywhere. So we

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piloted them from a project and PubL
of villages where people have not seen a

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doctor in their lives before. And
the pilot is going really well, and

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

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even in the rural areas in the
US. We're wanting to take the technology

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and the platform and the work that
we did in India to other parts of

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the world to make sure that everybody
has access to help. Here slightly ambitious,

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I would say, just slightly ambitious. Yeah, I could say it's

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just too bad. You guys are
more ambitious. Yeah. So we're coming

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to a close here, and I
want to hear from each of you,

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

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What are you're really proud of in
this work that you get too. I

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

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sometimes when I tell the story,
I remember, I remember I was in

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the shower shampooing my hair and Dalton
was like, you know, he was

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from outside the bathroom. He was
just like, I think, I want

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to start it on profit, really
want to help people, And of course

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you know, I can't hear it
in my mind. I was like yeah,

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Okay, we can help people.
Sure, we want to help people.

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So I was like, yeah,
and I think also literally went and

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said, Google, how do I
start a nonprofit? And that's kind of

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how I think we have, you
know, in some ways, it's kind

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of funny. But in the last
two years since we've been I think we've

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done some tremendous work and we've come
so far, and I'm just really proud

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of our team and how they've all
kind of, you know, supported us

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in this journey to really make a
difference. Awesome. We're so close to

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being out of time, but just
say ten seconds when you've got of true

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fashion, finds purpose, way to
finish and I get to look at way

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to finish guys, dolt and stuff. It has been miraculous. This is

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something more just very clicky. We
haven't read Elsa's book. It's about passion

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and finding your purpose. I highly
recommend that the second one that came out

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with all the amazing stories of them
have taken their passion, their skills in

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and found purpose through their struggles.
They've given back to the communities and it's

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just a phenomenal read. Would be
life changing for you. So please make

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sure you grab copies of those books. So lovely. Thank you guys,

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that's beautiful. You're so welcome And
listeners viewers, if you want to learn

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more about this amazing couple and the
work that they're doing with their team,

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go to their website. It's Ethna
dot life. Let me spell it for

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you. It's e th h n
E dot life l I f E.

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And thanks again to our partner in
sponsor work Proud, which helps companies to

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build a platform where your workforce receives
meaningful feedback and thanks for their work from

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people across your company. Last week, if you minted the live show you

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Know your record your podcast, We're
on with Lisa Gabele, the author of

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Turnaround, How to Change Course when
Things are Going South. We talked about

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how four simple steps process for process
steps help leaders navigate their businesses with fluid

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in the constantly changing marketplace we find
ourselves today. Next week will be on

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the air with you need to rentee
me from nor talking about the work she

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

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So you're there. Remember that work
is at least a third of our

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life, So let's work on Purpose. We hope you've enjoyed this week's program.

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Be sure to tune in too,
Working on Purpose featuring your host,

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doctor Elise Cortes, each week on
the Voice America Empowerment Channel. Together,

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we'll create a world where business operates
conscientiously, leadership inspires impassioned performance, and

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employees are fulfilled in work that provides
the meaning and purpose they crave. See

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you there, Let's work on Purpose.