June 3, 2025

Live Life in Crescendo: Vitalizing Through Each Decade to Make it Your Best and Embrace the Spirit i

Live Life in Crescendo: Vitalizing Through Each Decade to Make it Your Best and Embrace the Spirit i
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Your ticket to vitality is to continue caring for yourself, seeking more ways you can help lift others, and to cultivate and express your own creativity and talents that connect you while inspiring others. The world needs you, will you give us what you’ve got? Join us as we talk with CC Young, whose mission is to curate whole-person wellness, empowering mature adults to live out their dreams and interests, changing the paradigm of senior living to one of thriving and discovering new passions.

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get in today's program and have something for you very

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very special. We have a dynamic trio from c C Young,

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a senior living and care community. Jennifer Griffin serves as

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the vice president of Community Outreach and Engagement and is

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dedicated to shaping engagement and hospitality across the campus, ensuring

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every resident, family member, and staff individual experience is the

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true spirit of CC Young. Brian Parman is the director

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and Angela Castillo the assistant director of the Point and Pavilion,

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where they direct the vibrant activities and events and direct

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and operate th writing hubs, curating a robust calendar of

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engaging opportunities for both residents and the wider community. Today,

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we'll be talking about the aging demographics in the US

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and how CC Young serves this community. The Spirit is

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Ageless contest for writers and artists. They host each year

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and celebrate some of the winners of past years. We

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four are here on site at CCONG in Dallas, so

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by contest participants, some of which is directly behind us. Jennifer,

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Bryan and Angela A hearty welcome to Working on Purpose

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by thank you so great to be here. And this

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all started, ladies and gentlemen, listeners and viewers as we

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were talking about this contest coming up and I'm getting

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to service as a keynote, so we wanted to further

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evangelize what they're doing and help you in on what

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is happening with the aging community. So we'll start there.

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So I was surprised to learn about some of the

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things that I learned from you about the aging population.

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So let's help our listeners and viewers understand the state

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of today's agent population.

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Absolutely well, I'm going to jump in on this one

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alas we are as a country facing a silver SIGNAMI

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many have heard of that. I've got some statistics for you,

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and it's all based on the year twenty thirty so

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by the year twenty thirty, which is right around the corner,

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we will have seventy I know, it's so crazy, it's

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so close. Seventy three point one million adults, or twenty

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one percent of our population will be sixty five or older.

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By twenty thirty, the same year we are going to have,

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the youngest baby boomer will turn sixty five. Like what,

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And in twenty thirty nine, the youngest baby boomer will

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be seventy five years old. So that sort of puts

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it in context a little bit. So of course that's interesting.

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You know, if we relate that to what the size

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of today's population is, what is at three hundred and

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fifty million or something? Is that right now? That's five

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years out for what you were just sharing. But then

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of course we have to ask then, what's contributing to

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this increasing size of the population.

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Well, better healthcare throughout the country. We've got better information

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now on nutrition and lifestyle and stress and all those

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things than we've ever had. So people as a general

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rule are living longer, living hopefully better lives. That's our

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goal is to make sure people live better, longer, and

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anything else you want to add. I mean, it's just

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the evolution of society as a world.

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We're living longer now.

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I mean people used to die at forty.

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Right, yeah, so actually your founder died at what was

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at forty three?

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Yeah, yeah, very young.

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So now let's talk about what kind of challenges does

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you know present themselves as we age.

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Sure, I think there's a lot of stigma or people

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around what senior living looks like. I mean, many of

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them have a perception of it being very lonely or

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maybe kind of a sad time in life, and I

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have found that to be completely the opposite. I'm about

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to celebrate my tenth year here at cc YOUNG and

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you know, truly this is a place where you come

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to live, and a lot of people when I've talked

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with them, especially when I first got here, shared that

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they were really sad that they hadn't done it sooner.

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You know that they really had very sooner to have

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like less stress, but to have all the different choices

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of the activities the community, the opportunity to find purpose

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and to be able to have the safe space to

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play again, that's something that you have to learn again,

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I mean, to be.

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Like a child.

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I mean, well, as a general statement, the industry itself

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has changed a ton since the beginning of time. I

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mean starting in the early twenty early two thousands, there

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was a big move from just standard old traditional nursing

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home care to person centered care. And everything we do

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here is directed around what people's interests and passions are.

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Sounds good, safe me and seat I'm right now one

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point two miles away, wouldn't be hard to move in. Well.

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The other thing that we talked about along those lines

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that I'm terribly interested in helping you do, is you

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are interested in changing the way people relate to aging.

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And I was perceived by people inside and outside of

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the community. So if you can juxtapose you how it's

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generally talked about and perceived today and where you're trying

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to get it to.

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Oh, this is a big one.

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Who wants to jump in, well, I mean Colin Milner,

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it's wellness.

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Yeah, yeah, Colin Milner is the founder and the president

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of the International Council and Active Aging and Jen if

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you want.

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To well, went to that conference a couple of years

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ago and I came back with my head exploding, actually

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because it was it's something you hear all the time,

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and I guess I will say that I was stuck

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in the paradigm of wellness is fitness, and it's really

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not just that that's a component of it. So I

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came back and looked at what we're already doing here

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on our campus and thought, my gosh, we're doing so

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much already, especially these two in this building. Is what

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it's dedicated to. We just need to change our life

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lguaging around it. We need to change the way we

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talk about wellness.

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Well, and one of the things is a lot of

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people still think about senior communities and seniors in general

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as oh, they just they play bingo, they sit around,

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they don't they don't get out. But with the population shifting,

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they're staying. They worked longer, they want to stay active longer,

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they want to learn new things. And that's what we

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try to do here is present them with opportunities to

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learn new things, new technology, take art classes, writing classes,

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we have an acting group that puts on place all

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kinds of things that that's not what people think about

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when they think about the senior community and what they

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can accomplish.

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Superjecative well, as you think about some of the celebrities

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that are out there share and you know, but like, uh,

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you know that there have been Martha Stuart living on

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this on the cover of Sports Cemetery magazine and other

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you know, other images haven't just been about the young

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the young person. And I think that people have woken

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up to the fact that, you know, this demographic has

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a lot of time and they have money to.

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Spend and people are marketing to them.

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I mean, the folks here are definitely prolific in Amazon

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as am I It wasn't until I started because of

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this one, but like the boxes are coming in every

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day and they are making it happen so funny.

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I think that's wonderful. I love that Barbanca. In fact,

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you know why did we call this episode. It's related

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to crescendo Live life and crescendo your best years are

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ahead of you, which is something I want to credit

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to Cynthia Holler Covey who was on my podcast a

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couple of years ago, and that's part of the title

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of her book.

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But I love it for what we're doing here at

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title right, I love that title. So let's just briefly

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introduce CCNG to our listeners and viewers so they have

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an idea of the kind of what you do here.

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And we don't have time to go into a lot

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of history and such, but just introduce institution.

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I'd be happy to We are a faith based organization

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and nonprofit faith based. We're one hundred and three years old,

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driven part of East Dallas since the early early sixties,

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so we're rooted here. We are what they call a CCRC,

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a continuing care retirement community, and we've been known all

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this time for our stellar care. Our campus is catching

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up to the level of the care we provide. And

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let me define a CCRC. I went a little too

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fast over that, as CCRC is a continuing care retirement community,

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and that means we have several different level of care,

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starting from independent living, assisted living, memory support, skilled nursing,

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short term rehab, all the weight of end of life care.

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And we do that not only for our residents here

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on campus, but also out in the community.

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Okay, that helps tremendously. And I know you have more

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than five hundred residents here, right, and so a lot

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of people is to take care and keep track.

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Of we do.

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In addition to those five hundred residents, we have more

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than one hundred and fifty non resident members, members from

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the local community to engage in the programming and the

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events and the contests and all the things that happen

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here every day.

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That's wonderful vibrancy. So as we as I've gotten to

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know you better and I've considered you know, I'm a

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single person and I can well imagine myself in your community,

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and yet we know that many people don't consider joining

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a community like this. So now it makes sense, I think,

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to contrast the experience of people who live in a

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community like yours versus those who choose to live separately

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or independently. What's the difference.

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the care that's provided in a place like this, and

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it is a huge part of what happens. And oftentimes

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it's either the person or the loved one with that

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person that needs care, and that might be why they

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make that entry. But as we move into this time period,

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a lot of the focuses shift from being a care

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community that provides some wellness to being a wellness community

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that provides care. And as Jen said earlier, wellness is

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everything from the aesthetic of the environment and that you're

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in to you know, the physical activities that you would think,

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but it's also you know, vocational.

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And other community and sense of belonging yes.

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think when people finally come see.

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So what's very interesting for our listeners and viewers who've

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been hearing this show for quite a while now, I'm

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going to tell you that several of them that you

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are listening right now, would be like, can I have

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that in my workplace? And I have all those futures

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in my workplace?

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And that'd be awesome.

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Right, that's when we're going on, ladies and gentlemen. We're

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trying to get more destination workplaces, and so now I

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would pull us a destination live place. But that brings

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me of course, since this show is so rooted in

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an experience of work and the experience of giving back

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and be being enlarged by work, you know, I couldn't

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let you come on without asking each of you to

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share just briefly, why this work, what does it mean

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the group. I haven't had a broad and triggered career

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and all along the way, I mean, I've loved, I've

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had success, I've loved what I've done. It's been it's

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been good. But I've always had a lacking sense of

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what I was doing was actually making a difference. I

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never anticipated joining a senior living community, and in fact,

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I've lived a mile away all these years since I

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owned the House of eighty eight. But I came here

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and immediately recognized and felt, I felt that what I

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do makes the difference. And that's the huge difference for me.

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And the long you know, it does take long to

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really realize you've got a passion for this and changing

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the paradigm and starting our own TV. I mean, there's

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so much we want to do, and it's the world

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is coming along the way with us.

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It's so wonderful, Jen, And you know, anybody who's been

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listening to the show for any period of time knows

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how much we talk about how we can help create

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workplaces where people know they matter, and that's what you're

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talking about.

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a lot of different experience, like She says, I didn't

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have a lot of different work experiences, and I started

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here at CCM twelve and a half years ago.

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When I came in not.

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Knowing what to expect, only knowing that I want some hospitality,

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you know, work. But within the first year of working here,

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I had a resident or appoint member come and tell me,

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you know, I appreciate that you always have a smile

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on your face because you don't realize that some days

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the only people that we talked to as seniors are y'all.

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We don't see our family, we don't see anybody else.

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To have someone smile at us every day makes a difference.

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like just my smile is making an impact on somebody that.

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I would never have thought. And over the years I've.

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Seen it over and over again, just the impact you

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have directly on people. They appreciated and it validates what

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we do, you know, im planning our events or and

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doing any service that we do for the residents. So

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it's I know that that really helped me decide that

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this is where I should be, where I want to be.

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I love the circularity of what you just described there.

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It's beautiful.

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Gosh, I don't know. For me, I think, let me

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put you back in on you guys.

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I think that I get a real joy when I

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see a light bulb go on for someone where they've

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discovered something that they didn't know that they had an

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interest for.

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Or a knack for.

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And whether that be like somebody in a writing class

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and see an article and being published in one of

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our lifestyle guides or the magazine or something, or just

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even watching a group of people who were in this

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very room with a horticulture therapist. They didn't know each other.

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They came out of that after about four weeks learning

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about the plants, talking about them, but actually doing some

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greet therapy and walked out of here but just different

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and their backs held upright. And it just made me smile,

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and it just makes me enjoy coming to work.

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Oh, that is so beautiful. A lot of the reason

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why I like doing the work that I do developing

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leaders and organizations. To Brian on that, Let's let you

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contemplate what's been discussed so far and how these people

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are connecting to their work, and we'll take our first break.

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I'm your host, doctor Elise Cortez. We've run there with

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Jennifer Griffin, Brian Harman, and Angela Castillo of c C Young.

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We've been first in this segment talking about the state

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of the aging demographics in the United States and how

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cc young is serving them. After the Raak, we're going

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to get into the Spirit is Ageless celebration of artists

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and writers.

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We'll be right back.

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and purpose. An inspirational speaker and author, she helps companies

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visioneer for a greater purpose among stakeholders and develop purpose

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inspired leadership and meaning infused cultures that all of fate, fulfillment, performance,

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Thanks for staying with us, and welcome back to working

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on Purpose. I'm your host, Doctor Release Cortes, as I

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am dedicated to helping create a world where organizations strive

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because there are people thrive like these people do here

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at CCONG and are led by inspirational leaders that help

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them find and contribute their greatness. And we do business

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at Betters the World. I continue to research and write

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my own books. So one of my latest came out

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can radically inliven your business. And I want to tep

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leaders understand the nature of today's very discerning workforce. What

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do they want and need to stay with you and

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give their best, and that I offer twenty two best

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practices to help equip your organization to provide that for

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them through your leadership and your culture. You can find

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my books on Amazon or my personal side at least

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quotest dot com if you're just now joining us. My

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guests are the Dynamic Trio from CCONG, a senior living

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in care community. So let's talk about this contest that

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I'm so excited to be part of. So let's start

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with the history and purpose of the Spirit is Ageless Contest,

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a celebration of artists and writers. What a great idea.

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I know it started in nineteen ninety nine, but tell us.

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A bit, you know what, I think the contest really

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started with a group of visionaries who envisioned the point

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well before it was here. It was like the early nineties,

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and part of their mission was really like ours to

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change the paradigm of senior living and what that looks like.

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And so through a community outreach program like this contest

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that was started by the Texas Homes and Services for

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the Aging Association, which is now called Leading Age, which

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is actually how we met officially first time.

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You know, that group had an art show like this.

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There was a statewide competition. It still exists today.

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That gave an opportunity for people fifty five and better

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to submit and to maybe be selected to be featured

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in an art show that might go to the Capitol

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or be featured in Austin. And so that group of

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people who envision this building thought, you know, let's let's

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do something like that here started it and it's been

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since nineteen's.

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Started small and has grown and grown and growth.

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The show actually traveled through churches before it actually came

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here to this building. But we're celebrating our twenty fifth

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year this year, so it's just been a real labor

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of love.

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And one of the things I appreciate about it, and

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if you want to just time in Angela, is that

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I love that you opened the contest not just to

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your own residents and those are condital, but the whole

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Dallas Fort Worth Metropolitan I think that's really generous and

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it's just a beautiful thing to host something that for

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the whole entire metroplex.

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residents and then our point members, but just the general

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community at age fifty five out and over have come out.

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We usually have about fourteen different categories, and there's a

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big group that have never entered a contest before, but

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they've seen the art and they say, oh, I think

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I can do something. And then there's people who have

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been doing art all their lives but didn't realize that

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it was art and said, oh, I can put in

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my tablecloth in this category. I can you know my

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shawl that I needed to be in a category, and

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it's amazing. Then you see them when in one of

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the entries and it's you know they're an artist. They

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see them there art on the walls, and it's.

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Probably one of our favorite days because we never know

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what's going to come the day that art is intaken,

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and we just know there's a list of names, and

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so when they come, you get to meet the people

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and the faces. But then you get to hear the

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stories behind the work that they're actually bringing and maybe

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that they made this for their granddaughter or their grandson

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or whatever the story might be, and the stories are

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just heart.

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Tugging, you know.

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Yeah, that's part of it in the One of the

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joys for us and doing it every year is that

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you never know what you're going to get. You never

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know who it's going to show up, or what they're

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going to do this year, and their people are different,

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it changes, and then they spend hours putting it up

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around the whole building so we can see it and

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it's just there's something everywhere to see and grows every year.

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It does grow every year.

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I think my first year twelve years ago, we had

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maybe eighty total entries from about fifty people, and then

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last year we had over two hundred entries from about

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a little over one hundred different people to enter it,

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and we were trying to scramble for our wall space

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for display, because every piece that's brought in is showcased.

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So it's truly a labor of love for us. I mean,

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it takes a group of probably about one hundred people

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to pull this contest together from soup to nuts, and

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it's through collaborative partnerships with organizations like the Dallas Area

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Fiber Artists, the hand Leavers and Spinners Guild, the Beat Society,

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and tons of residents and community members who come help us.

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Make this happen.

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Yeah, but also from we have art workshops throughout the

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year and people come and they take an art workshop

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for the first time and they realize, oh, I made

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something that I could put in this contest, and you

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have those pieces, and then you have pieces for people

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you know, have you been doing art longer. So it's

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just amazing to see the different varieties of things that

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come through.

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So a couple of things, Uh, I'm wondering, am I

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going to get carted when I come to this.

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Age?

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The second thing it course, you know, I have to

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ask about the why behind the celebration, and I know

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that part of it is to change the paradigm of

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aging as we've been talking about so far, and I

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love the playfulness of it, and I love what you

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were saying earlier, Brian, about you know, watching people like

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literally stand a little tolerance stuff on their son to

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realize I've created something beautiful and it's also appreciated by

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many other people in this contest.

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Absolutely. Yeah.

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We have so many visitors to this building throughout the

471
00:23:08.279 --> 00:23:12.440
month that the shows out for two months, and it

472
00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:15.559
gets a lot of activity and conversation, and it becomes

473
00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:19.000
a destination for families too to come pick out their

474
00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:21.680
favorite thing and make comments about what they're seeing this

475
00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:25.319
person did, and we post the rest the participant's name

476
00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:27.519
and their age at time of completing the.

477
00:23:27.400 --> 00:23:30.400
Piece and the really I mean we were joking about

478
00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:33.079
the age piece and charding people, but that's truly a

479
00:23:33.079 --> 00:23:36.720
hallmark of the contest, Yes, because and you know every

480
00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:39.160
life that every age is valued and enriched here. That's

481
00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:41.440
part of our mission. But it's part of the mission

482
00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:44.400
of the contest to let people know, you know, this

483
00:23:44.519 --> 00:23:47.119
might be something that you just started doing and we

484
00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:49.559
want to celebrate the fact that you're doing it today

485
00:23:49.599 --> 00:23:51.319
and be proud of your age.

486
00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:53.359
Absolutely, that's one of the reasons.

487
00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:56.920
We also also award and acknowledged the person who was

488
00:23:56.920 --> 00:23:58.960
the oldest to have entered the contest. We have a

489
00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:02.319
special category just for to say, you know, anybody at

490
00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:04.559
any age can do art, and even up until one

491
00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:05.680
hundred and two.

492
00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:07.240
I believe is what we've had before.

493
00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:09.720
Oldest was one hundred and two.

494
00:24:09.759 --> 00:24:13.039
So you know, it's just amazing to see, especially if

495
00:24:13.039 --> 00:24:16.079
it's writing, where they've written something that's about their life

496
00:24:16.079 --> 00:24:17.920
throughout the years and to learn about that.

497
00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:19.880
It's just really good to see us to read.

498
00:24:20.279 --> 00:24:24.519
You know, we are a juried show, and sometimes that's

499
00:24:24.519 --> 00:24:28.440
a bit contentious. We don't let anyone know who the judging.

500
00:24:28.279 --> 00:24:31.240
The way competition doesn't fade as you age.

501
00:24:32.920 --> 00:24:34.160
Person big it's stung right.

502
00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:37.359
In fact, they're pretty sneaky about it. But so we

503
00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:40.759
we have, you know, people who are academics, we have

504
00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:43.599
people who are professional writers and different folks from the

505
00:24:43.599 --> 00:24:46.079
community who help us with the judging, and we do

506
00:24:46.119 --> 00:24:49.920
give away awards in those different categories. But everyone is

507
00:24:49.960 --> 00:24:52.440
in the show. It doesn't matter. I mean, you enter,

508
00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:55.079
you're in, you're hung and you get to see your

509
00:24:55.160 --> 00:24:57.039
work in a professional show.

510
00:24:58.039 --> 00:25:01.319
That is so beautiful. Okay, now, of course, having heard this,

511
00:25:01.400 --> 00:25:04.079
listeners and viewers, don't you want to be involved? So

512
00:25:04.680 --> 00:25:07.359
how can they participate? I mean, is there they must

513
00:25:07.640 --> 00:25:11.000
do the apply? How what's the process of entering the content?

514
00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:15.000
We have information up on our website currently, but registration

515
00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:19.039
opens August first, and so you can pre register, send

516
00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:22.759
all of your information through a digital format, and then

517
00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:26.200
in mid August August nineteenth and twentieth, you actually bring

518
00:25:26.279 --> 00:25:28.640
in your art and we just kind of review and

519
00:25:28.640 --> 00:25:30.599
make sure that you have all your contact information on

520
00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:34.960
and make sure it's listed in the correct category, and

521
00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:37.119
then we hang it later that week, it gets judged

522
00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:40.599
and the show is up for two months, and then

523
00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:43.000
we also have the big celebration to go along with it,

524
00:25:43.039 --> 00:25:45.319
where we honor anybody who has won those awards.

525
00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:49.279
So that's true, you'll be speaking, okay, that's speaking definitely.

526
00:25:49.319 --> 00:25:49.480
Yeah.

527
00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:51.559
Yeah, And if you're curious about that, it's ww dot

528
00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:55.440
cc on dot org slash events and you'll see all

529
00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:57.359
the information about the contest there for you.

530
00:25:57.960 --> 00:26:00.880
Yes, so great, and talk a little bit about that

531
00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:04.519
celebration here. What is that about? Who shows up?

532
00:26:05.799 --> 00:26:08.759
Well, it's a huge it's one of our anchor events

533
00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:11.880
annually and it's a huge celebration. The families come, the

534
00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:15.319
residents come, the wider community of artists and whatnot. We

535
00:26:15.359 --> 00:26:19.039
have quite a few staff that attend this thing this

536
00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:21.920
year because it's our twenty fifth anniversary. Well we usually have.

537
00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:26.640
We like to throw a good party here, so we

538
00:26:27.160 --> 00:26:29.119
like themes and we like parties, but this is all

539
00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:32.519
about the art, and so we'll have encourage people to

540
00:26:32.519 --> 00:26:35.400
come early and stroll through the gallery. We'll probably have

541
00:26:35.599 --> 00:26:38.799
a reception for sure. For the twenty fifth we'll have

542
00:26:38.839 --> 00:26:42.720
a champagne reception and then have our speaker and everybody

543
00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:47.359
gets their picture and their trophy if they've won. So's

544
00:26:47.559 --> 00:26:50.119
it's just a love fest the lazy it really is.

545
00:26:50.200 --> 00:26:52.559
The event is really the gift to all of the

546
00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:56.200
participants and the speaker each year is our gift to them,

547
00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:58.559
I mean really to motivate them and inspire them.

548
00:26:58.400 --> 00:27:00.279
To and validate what they done.

549
00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:02.759
It seth right, Yeah, absolutely.

550
00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:05.079
Well, And I can see just looking at your history

551
00:27:05.079 --> 00:27:10.240
here you've had some incredible prestigious people Dallas icons and

552
00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:13.400
thought leaders, including of course the legendary Ebbie hot Holliday.

553
00:27:14.119 --> 00:27:19.960
Esteemed members of the art community like Lily Vice from

554
00:27:20.039 --> 00:27:24.240
the Dallas Arts District, Amy hoff Hoffland from the Crow

555
00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:27.680
Museum of Asian Art and Dallas artist J. D. Miller.

556
00:27:27.720 --> 00:27:30.519
And these are amazing humans that are that have been

557
00:27:30.519 --> 00:27:32.759
a part of us here. So I think it's really

558
00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:35.759
impressive what you attracted to you through this effort.

559
00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:42.160
Yeah, thank you are. And you're joining that club.

560
00:27:42.279 --> 00:27:43.319
You are joining that club.

561
00:27:43.359 --> 00:27:46.000
And it's all of these connections that we make with

562
00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:48.400
just these speakers that and the artists.

563
00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:50.559
But they keep coming back.

564
00:27:50.599 --> 00:27:52.279
Oh, I spoke there, and I want to now take

565
00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:52.880
a class there.

566
00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:53.440
I spoke there.

567
00:27:53.480 --> 00:27:56.359
I want to teach a class. Their families come out there,

568
00:27:56.400 --> 00:27:59.160
you know, their friends, it's you know, the community just

569
00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:00.799
continues to grow and grow.

570
00:28:01.039 --> 00:28:03.440
We just looked Amy to come back in July to

571
00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:08.319
talk about the new Crow Museum at the University of Texas, Dallas, Texas.

572
00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:10.200
Yeah, you know.

573
00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:12.119
It just as a real quick side note, since this

574
00:28:12.200 --> 00:28:13.440
is going to be a lot of people, I have

575
00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:16.680
got to assume that you have an orchestrated effort to

576
00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:19.680
bust people in or park people or what. I've got

577
00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:21.880
to believe that happens. Because they have this beautiful campus.

578
00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:24.200
We're on it here and by the way, there's there's

579
00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:27.359
bunny rabbits out there hop and around and they have

580
00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:30.839
deaflings that were crossing the street and shepherded by some

581
00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:32.319
of the residents. It's just beautiful.

582
00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:34.880
It's a beautiful campus Ford.

583
00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:38.039
We've definitely learned how to have a party here, how

584
00:28:38.039 --> 00:28:40.920
to throw an e vent here, so from the smallest

585
00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:44.000
details up into the parking exactly.

586
00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:47.160
And I appreciate that you say it takes a village

587
00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:49.640
literally to put the contest on. Over one hundred people

588
00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:51.640
you said are part of putting it on, Brian, Is

589
00:28:51.680 --> 00:28:52.200
that what you said?

590
00:28:52.279 --> 00:28:52.680
Correct?

591
00:28:54.119 --> 00:28:57.880
Well? And I want to make sure everybody listening understands

592
00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:00.480
what rock stars are here that I have the pledge

593
00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:03.599
of working with these two do the heavy lifting and

594
00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:06.759
doing all the art cards and making sure it's hung beautifully,

595
00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:10.319
and the planning and even the marketing, and even though

596
00:29:10.359 --> 00:29:14.160
that's several other people involved, their vision is really what

597
00:29:14.319 --> 00:29:15.519
makes it happen here.

598
00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:19.240
So you know, including a production much like today's experience.

599
00:29:19.279 --> 00:29:21.400
For us, this is different being on the other side

600
00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:24.160
of the camera. We have a TV studio run by

601
00:29:24.319 --> 00:29:28.039
seniors for seniors. We're able to broadcast the program, the

602
00:29:28.079 --> 00:29:30.960
awards program for all of those on our campus some

603
00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:33.519
of those who can't be here for any number of reasons.

604
00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:36.640
So we're broadcast in an internal channel. We can actually

605
00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:39.960
live stream as well, which is really cool, and so

606
00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:44.079
it is a sophisticated and more than rebroadcast for later,

607
00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:47.440
right and you know, for perpetuity, because those things are

608
00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:49.599
so important. I think, I mean, we're going to talk

609
00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:50.880
them a little bit. I think about some of the

610
00:29:50.920 --> 00:29:53.599
people in the show, but listening to some of the

611
00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:57.480
residents and the reactions about seeing their work on the wall,

612
00:29:57.519 --> 00:29:59.160
it just is the thing that I go back to.

613
00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:00.200
It gives me a gooseb up.

614
00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:04.640
Yeah, there's nothing quite like watching the molecules of a

615
00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:07.599
human being get it changed and elevated right before your eyes.

616
00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:11.200
Witnessing that transformation, nothing like it. The best drug there

617
00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:14.079
is in the world for me. Okay, let's let's did

618
00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:16.279
you want to say something else now? Okay, Well, we'rebb

619
00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:17.839
our last break here because we've got some really good

620
00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:19.720
stuff for you. After the break, we've been on air

621
00:30:19.799 --> 00:30:23.599
with Jennifer Griffin, Brian Parman, and Angela Castillo of c C. Young.

622
00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:27.319
We've been talking about this Spirit is Ageless contest coming

623
00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:30.400
up here soon in the Dallas Fort Worth area. After

624
00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:33.000
the break, we want to showcase and celebrate some previous

625
00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:36.119
winners and some of what's what's come out of the

626
00:30:36.119 --> 00:30:37.839
contest before we'll be right back.

627
00:30:53.119 --> 00:30:56.640
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628
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640
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641
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642
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643
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644
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645
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646
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647
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648
00:32:08.319 --> 00:32:10.440
join us if you are just not joining us. On

649
00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:13.880
today's program, my guests are the Dynamic Trio from CCO,

650
00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:18.079
a senior living in care community. Okay, so let's dive

651
00:32:18.119 --> 00:32:20.960
into celebrating some of the people. I mean, it would

652
00:32:20.960 --> 00:32:23.799
be impossible. We could do like fourteen shows just celebrating people,

653
00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:27.519
but a last focus on this last segment and celebrate

654
00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:28.720
a few Where do you want to start?

655
00:32:29.160 --> 00:32:32.920
I wouldn't start because I have my favorite and this

656
00:32:33.039 --> 00:32:35.759
was such a darling story. We haven't had a new

657
00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:38.880
resident named Ruby who had moved in a couple of months.

658
00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:43.279
It was in the COVID years and she as a result,

659
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:46.559
we did a whole month of State Fair of Texas

660
00:32:46.599 --> 00:32:49.319
events around here and part of that was butter sculpting

661
00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:51.880
and she was new and she saw it in the

662
00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:53.680
Lifestyle Guide and was like, well, I don't know what

663
00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:55.839
this is. This woman comes over that we really didn't

664
00:32:55.880 --> 00:32:59.000
know at the time, and she had done a bust

665
00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:02.160
ahead of money and it was frozen and she was

666
00:33:02.200 --> 00:33:04.759
trying to figure out how to bring it over It's

667
00:33:04.839 --> 00:33:08.039
literally on a tread and it has a cleaver in

668
00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:10.400
the head or a nine broad cleaver, and I'm thinking,

669
00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:12.759
this is deep stumble of them. I don't know what

670
00:33:12.759 --> 00:33:15.400
she's talking about. And the honest truth was she couldn't

671
00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:21.119
figure out how to get it over here without it

672
00:33:23.559 --> 00:33:26.400
would happened. So Ruby came and we were just all

673
00:33:26.880 --> 00:33:29.279
amazed by the way the piece was amazing. It was

674
00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:32.079
so realistic, and it was butter. We give everybody five

675
00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:34.720
pounds of butter. You wouldn't believe the things that came back.

676
00:33:35.279 --> 00:33:37.640
But we learned through that that she actually is an

677
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:40.240
artist and has been for years and years. And she

678
00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:45.240
did ultimately did a residence show that was remarkable and

679
00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:47.880
she had never tell let's say, the cloth this gives

680
00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:48.799
me chills each sure.

681
00:33:48.839 --> 00:33:49.039
Sure.

682
00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:50.759
She was in the hallway and she looked at me

683
00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:54.799
and she's like, Brian, you know, I I've never seen

684
00:33:54.880 --> 00:33:58.160
all of this work in one place in my entire life,

685
00:33:58.519 --> 00:34:02.759
and you know, this is my life. I love it.

686
00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:04.799
It was it was very special. Her family came in

687
00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:06.359
and I mean, but it was it was a labor

688
00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:06.720
of love.

689
00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:08.599
It was a lot. I mean, she worked on this

690
00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:09.559
thing and.

691
00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:13.960
But by far she's well, I can't have favorites, like

692
00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:16.079
my mother says, she has no favorites.

693
00:34:16.280 --> 00:34:17.480
But I forget.

694
00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:20.159
Wow, she was darlings. She still hears her favorite story. Yeah,

695
00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:21.880
that's my favorite story of how that came to be.

696
00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:26.079
Well, you know, we not only do we have the

697
00:34:26.119 --> 00:34:28.960
residents who participate. I mentioned, we also have point members,

698
00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:32.360
so we have staff, we have families, and we had

699
00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:34.800
actually have a father and daughter who have both entered

700
00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:37.880
the contest before. But like Dick is a writer, he

701
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:40.599
is an artist. He paints, he works with the Woodies

702
00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:46.039
the wood shop. He plays the harmonica in the talent show.

703
00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:48.320
And he didn't he wrote a song.

704
00:34:48.360 --> 00:34:49.199
I did poetry.

705
00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:51.199
He's so a super talent.

706
00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:54.039
He paid the trumpet for taps one year, and then

707
00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:56.440
he got his daughter to enter the contest alone. As

708
00:34:56.480 --> 00:34:58.440
soon as she turned fifty five, he made her enter

709
00:34:59.079 --> 00:35:01.239
and it's led to her having her own one woman

710
00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:04.679
show coming up in August. She's going to have her

711
00:35:04.679 --> 00:35:07.039
own show here because her art is amazing as well,

712
00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:09.880
and so you know, you just have those little stories

713
00:35:09.880 --> 00:35:12.000
that lead to one from one thing to the other, and.

714
00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:14.480
It's a like the one the trio.

715
00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:17.880
Yeah, sure, well, you know, and this is tough, you know,

716
00:35:17.960 --> 00:35:20.000
but this one jumps out at me. We had someone

717
00:35:20.039 --> 00:35:22.159
here recently in rehab. She was here to have some

718
00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:26.239
thes replaced and during her time like oh, surgery, like

719
00:35:26.280 --> 00:35:30.039
her recuperation. So one of our sales associates had said, Brah,

720
00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:32.920
you've got to go buy and visit Phoebe. She's got

721
00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:35.960
these sketches. They're unbelievable, you should know. And that's how

722
00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:38.119
we find artists, you know. I mean, I'm shameless. I

723
00:35:38.159 --> 00:35:41.559
will go ask anyone. Got to her apartment and she's

724
00:35:41.599 --> 00:35:44.239
in there and she just starts whipping out these sketch

725
00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:47.159
pads and then they're intricate, crazy designs of Alice in

726
00:35:47.199 --> 00:35:49.920
Wonderland and all this color and detail. And then so

727
00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:52.280
I'm like, Phoebe, would you ever consider doing a show?

728
00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:54.440
And how did you get involved in this? And she

729
00:35:54.679 --> 00:35:57.480
had with a group of friends. Her husband was an architect,

730
00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:00.199
and they all had this get together that cocktails and

731
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:01.599
they had an art off.

732
00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:04.559
It was an annual and Opra cocktails.

733
00:36:04.599 --> 00:36:07.199
They decided maybe one year that they had to do hedgehogs,

734
00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:09.920
and like everybody had to come with some hedgehog art,

735
00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:13.079
you know, and each year it got you a different theme. Well,

736
00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:15.400
you know, they have a whole group of people who

737
00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:17.039
still do art, and I was like, well, hey, could

738
00:36:17.079 --> 00:36:20.000
you help me book some other artists, thinking I'm scoring here.

739
00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:24.000
You know, it turns out that Bbe not only just

740
00:36:24.079 --> 00:36:27.320
picked up her phone and started dialing, but the show

741
00:36:27.400 --> 00:36:29.079
is on the walls right now here at the point,

742
00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:32.000
and they're absolutely amazing women, each in their own right.

743
00:36:32.519 --> 00:36:34.440
I truly thought I would be able to book three

744
00:36:34.440 --> 00:36:36.800
individual shows, but no, they wanted to do it together

745
00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:41.320
because that bond that they established through doing their art

746
00:36:41.360 --> 00:36:44.599
off and through the years of working together, you know,

747
00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:47.239
was why they do art and why they.

748
00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:49.880
Have joy about it. So I'd say the trio stand

749
00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:50.440
out in my mind.

750
00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:53.599
Well, and that's a great symbolism of what the art

751
00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:56.280
in general can do. And we we love the arts

752
00:36:56.280 --> 00:37:01.320
here in every shape way, shapement and form, performing arts, dance, music,

753
00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:07.320
creative arts because you just connect. You get that sense

754
00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:11.599
of joy from just experiencing whatever it is you're doing

755
00:37:11.679 --> 00:37:12.880
in idiotose formats.

756
00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:14.760
And you know that's true because really, Angela, at one

757
00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:17.079
point we were talking about dance and she got in

758
00:37:17.079 --> 00:37:20.840
touch with bruce Wood Dance and they teach here our residents.

759
00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:23.000
Not only do they perform and collaborate with us, but

760
00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:27.039
because of Angela's connection with them came and you know,

761
00:37:27.079 --> 00:37:30.000
started teaching our residents to dance in us as well well.

762
00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:32.639
And that's a key point with not only this show,

763
00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:35.639
but everything we do here is that it's collaboration with

764
00:37:36.199 --> 00:37:39.199
people we meet, no matter where we meet them. If

765
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:41.719
we have people that use our space for meeting space,

766
00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:44.280
and one of the trade offs is would you do

767
00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:47.239
a presentation of some sort, would you help educate our residents?

768
00:37:47.239 --> 00:37:49.679
Would you be willing to have a show, would you

769
00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:53.079
be willing to dance for us? And that's where a

770
00:37:53.119 --> 00:37:57.800
lot of this comes from. We've got local celebrities. I mean,

771
00:37:57.840 --> 00:38:00.639
I could go on and on. Amy Martin, somebody that's

772
00:38:00.639 --> 00:38:05.320
lived in Dallas forever, and she became a point member

773
00:38:05.599 --> 00:38:10.440
and you know she now is also presenting some of

774
00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:15.079
our educational classes. She's a naturalist and nature trailblazer in Dallas,

775
00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:17.639
and gosh, there's so many we can't even keep it

776
00:38:17.639 --> 00:38:18.679
down to the same. You know.

777
00:38:19.079 --> 00:38:21.920
One of our residents, Judith Baines, wrote a story for

778
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:25.440
her grandson about the ducks that you mentioned earlier and

779
00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:29.360
feathers the duck the residents named them, and her ducklings,

780
00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:32.119
and how the residents you know, watched over the ducks

781
00:38:32.159 --> 00:38:33.960
and the eggs and then they hatched, and how they

782
00:38:33.960 --> 00:38:36.039
got them down to the lake here at White Rock

783
00:38:36.639 --> 00:38:39.559
and illustrated the book with the help of Aaron Schmidt,

784
00:38:39.559 --> 00:38:42.239
who's on our team. He's a crazy, great artist, and

785
00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:45.079
Angela used her mad skilled with Canva to put that

786
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:47.280
book together and find it and we used it for

787
00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:50.480
a fundraiser, i think for our Benevolence Fund, which helps seniors.

788
00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:51.199
Outlived their income.

789
00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:54.480
And this turned into a bigger thing, and I'm thinking

790
00:38:54.519 --> 00:38:56.960
we're going to have volume two since these get.

791
00:38:56.840 --> 00:38:59.880
That the shot, and she did, and she entered that

792
00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:03.639
book into the contest last year and then she won

793
00:39:03.760 --> 00:39:07.039
the People's Choice award did so there was one award

794
00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:08.760
where everyone just got to vote on what they liked

795
00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:11.519
the best in her book on Feathers the Duck won

796
00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:15.360
because weve nature around here and everybody loved that.

797
00:39:15.559 --> 00:39:18.440
But it's one simple example, but it's it's a perfect

798
00:39:18.440 --> 00:39:22.039
example of how someone over fifty five has always had

799
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:23.960
a story burning inside of them and that book that

800
00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:25.840
they wanted to write, and then they write five of

801
00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:27.360
them in the last five years.

802
00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:32.400
Alice, you know, great example, and there are others who

803
00:39:32.599 --> 00:39:35.440
you know, they get inspired by this opportunity and they're like,

804
00:39:35.639 --> 00:39:36.320
let's do it.

805
00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:39.199
And you know, well, even after that she wrote that book,

806
00:39:39.239 --> 00:39:41.280
she entered in the contest and then she decided she

807
00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:44.119
was going to spearhead the rebranding of our own writing

808
00:39:44.159 --> 00:39:46.719
group here, and so our our writing group was kind

809
00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:48.480
of dwindling, and she said, oh no, we're not going

810
00:39:48.519 --> 00:39:50.159
to do that, and now they have a good ten

811
00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:53.480
to twelve people that come every week for the It's

812
00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:56.960
true scribblers, scribes and speakers.

813
00:39:57.000 --> 00:39:59.559
Screw Oh, I love that name that they named themselves.

814
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.239
I have interject real quick, because I know you have

815
00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:04.559
other examples to share, but I want to just I

816
00:40:04.599 --> 00:40:07.480
want to contrast as I'm listening to you share these

817
00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:12.440
beautiful examples, and how with the passion with which excitement

818
00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:16.239
that you're doing So I can tell you both of

819
00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:18.639
my sets of grandparents didn't have any kind of that

820
00:40:18.719 --> 00:40:21.039
kind of finished to their lives, nothing not even close.

821
00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:24.239
And my own parents were My mother was seventy three,

822
00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:26.480
my father my dad was seventy nine when they passed,

823
00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:30.559
and they spent a lot of time sitting by themselves

824
00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:32.840
in front of the television. That was the quality of

825
00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:36.559
their lives. And I can pretty well say, definitively, I

826
00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:38.280
know my mother might still be here if she had

827
00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:40.679
been a part of it's something remotely close to this.

828
00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:43.360
So I just want to interject that it's such a

829
00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:46.639
difference in what you're describing the quality of their lives

830
00:40:47.559 --> 00:40:48.840
versus what you have here.

831
00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:50.840
And there's so many things you make me think of.

832
00:40:51.320 --> 00:40:54.159
My mom lived with Alzheimer's for twenty years, and her

833
00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:57.079
last ten years were spent here in Dallas, and during

834
00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:00.719
COVID specifically, we have still had art shows happening because

835
00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:03.119
we were own little bubble. But the one way I

836
00:41:03.119 --> 00:41:06.320
could communicate with my mom was through FaceTime, and I

837
00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:09.320
would walk her through the gallery and show her people's artwork.

838
00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:12.199
And I can remember her reaction when she saw this

839
00:41:12.239 --> 00:41:13.920
one artist and I can't think of his name, helped me.

840
00:41:14.239 --> 00:41:17.119
The Ostrich. It was this cute ostriche with the really

841
00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:19.760
crazy big bug eyes and everything, and she just giggled,

842
00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:21.480
Pat more, thank you.

843
00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:23.760
She does it all the time. You're awesome.

844
00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:27.880
But Pat, you don't even know how much you made

845
00:41:27.960 --> 00:41:30.719
my mom's day. But that's something I'll never forget. And

846
00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:33.480
the fact that we have two art galleries on campus

847
00:41:33.519 --> 00:41:37.159
and other destinations where people either from inside or outside

848
00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:40.840
the community can come have a free date. Seven days

849
00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:44.480
a week these galleries are open. It's just a wonderful gift.

850
00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:47.760
Well, you mentioned and we haven't mentioned yet the gallery

851
00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:50.519
over in our new building, the Vista. It's in such

852
00:41:50.519 --> 00:41:53.599
a traffic area that it gives people who are coming

853
00:41:53.599 --> 00:41:56.639
here to visit either their family that's in long term

854
00:41:56.679 --> 00:42:00.440
care or memory support or wherever, the assistant, wherever they are,

855
00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:03.239
but also the people that are here for short term

856
00:42:03.360 --> 00:42:06.800
rehab and you know you're healing, you're in a place,

857
00:42:06.840 --> 00:42:09.199
you're not feeling so good. It's a destination where that

858
00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:11.719
they can get away from the bedroom or the bed,

859
00:42:12.039 --> 00:42:14.480
the hospital bed, and go down and see some beautiful art.

860
00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:17.119
Maybe stop at our little Beestro and get a snack

861
00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:21.400
and sit out and get away from the seriousness of

862
00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:22.880
the healing that they're all doing.

863
00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:23.920
Sure, you know what I mean birth.

864
00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:26.679
That little hallway is a super highway because people have

865
00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:29.239
to go to rehab. But I remember the day that

866
00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:30.840
I walked down the hallway and there was a woman

867
00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:32.880
looking at a picture of a woman at the beach,

868
00:42:33.239 --> 00:42:35.239
a pan on her hip, and she's looking at the wall.

869
00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:36.719
And I had to stop and ask because I was

870
00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:39.119
just and I was like, what's up?

871
00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:41.800
And is that? And she's like, that's me, that's me.

872
00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:45.039
I'm the woman in the picture. And I was just like, wow,

873
00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:46.360
it is you. So I took your picture.

874
00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:49.800
And just the opportunity for people to reminisce or to

875
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:53.239
engage with art, You just can't discount the value of that.

876
00:42:54.320 --> 00:42:56.880
Putting your work out there for someone to enjoy. You

877
00:42:56.920 --> 00:43:00.000
have no idea, Just like saying hello to someone, You

878
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:02.280
might be the only one that touches them. You might

879
00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:04.679
remember help them remember something that they forgot.

880
00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:07.639
Yeah, and I mean the contest itself, but everything else

881
00:43:07.639 --> 00:43:09.920
we do here has made so many connections to people.

882
00:43:10.159 --> 00:43:12.960
We've had so many people who have entered the contests

883
00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:14.639
who have then decided, you know what, I love it,

884
00:43:14.719 --> 00:43:16.719
I love this place. I'm going to move there. And

885
00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:20.280
so we've had people, you know, had a show here,

886
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:22.159
Like while Davis he had his show here and then

887
00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:24.559
him and his wife moved in the next year. And

888
00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:27.800
this Carver who taught classes here for many mere years

889
00:43:28.239 --> 00:43:30.559
then she would enter the contest, probably longer than I've

890
00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:32.719
been here, and she just moved in this year.

891
00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:33.840
So it's you.

892
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:36.480
We make these connections to these people and they find

893
00:43:36.599 --> 00:43:39.159
joy here and like Brian likes to say, and they decide, well,

894
00:43:39.159 --> 00:43:42.119
I'm going to be there, live there, and yeah.

895
00:43:42.199 --> 00:43:44.199
And it's not just people from the art show. It's

896
00:43:44.199 --> 00:43:46.800
from people that are appoint members or whatever. We've had

897
00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:49.639
what was the last count of like thirty thirty something

898
00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:52.039
and the last people that have had a soft landing

899
00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:56.320
here to get to understand what the community's like, and

900
00:43:56.360 --> 00:43:59.679
the next thing, you know, they become residents. They I

901
00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:02.159
like it here. I love the community is what it

902
00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:02.760
comes down to.

903
00:44:03.039 --> 00:44:05.400
Well, and I was thinking to myself as a business person,

904
00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:09.280
what a smart way to socialize yourself to the overall

905
00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:11.440
community at large. I think that's brilliant. I don't know

906
00:44:11.480 --> 00:44:12.880
if that was part of the I.

907
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:17.519
Think the Visionary Committee's idea for sure, to to serve

908
00:44:17.559 --> 00:44:22.440
the community at large, But I don't think they anticipated

909
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:25.840
that it would necessarily convert into people living here back then,

910
00:44:26.079 --> 00:44:26.480
I don't know.

911
00:44:26.599 --> 00:44:29.320
I had an opportunity not long ago to bring someone

912
00:44:29.400 --> 00:44:32.559
named Grace Delatour. She was one of those people in

913
00:44:32.599 --> 00:44:37.599
that visionary group. She neighbors with her son, and they

914
00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:39.239
came to an event we had out in the park.

915
00:44:39.239 --> 00:44:42.239
We had big band launch everything, and Grace has never

916
00:44:42.320 --> 00:44:45.519
actually been in the building since it opened, and so

917
00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:47.400
I had the chance to walk around and show her

918
00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:50.480
all the things that have happened since they raised the

919
00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:51.400
money that they did.

920
00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:53.960
To make this building happen. And it was really really

921
00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:56.440
a special day to experience that with.

922
00:44:56.360 --> 00:45:00.679
Her so beautiful. We've got a a little bit more

923
00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:02.320
time to hear a couple more stories. And I know

924
00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:05.639
you had said something about the Age's Creaturvity Award. I

925
00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:08.880
think Anita Hallam I love.

926
00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:11.480
Can I tell you the first time I met Anita,

927
00:45:11.880 --> 00:45:14.639
I thought she was a spitting image of my maternal grandmother.

928
00:45:14.719 --> 00:45:17.239
And I told her so, I'm like, oh my gosh,

929
00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:22.039
you remind me of my grandmother. She is a former

930
00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:27.559
rancher from aud East Texas. She is she's a powerhouse.

931
00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:30.599
She has turned one hundred years.

932
00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:34.800
I've turned a hundreds, part of again the journey of

933
00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:36.920
life here and how people come here and don't know

934
00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:40.840
are surprised by things that happened. She we haven't had

935
00:45:40.880 --> 00:45:47.719
a wonderful man named Ralph Eylers who they befriended one

936
00:45:47.760 --> 00:45:53.679
another and had had developed just a dear, precious relationship.

937
00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:56.400
Now at that time, she's probably eight ninety eight and

938
00:45:56.440 --> 00:45:57.280
he's like ninety.

939
00:45:57.440 --> 00:45:59.719
I mean, the sin this whole story was it was

940
00:45:59.719 --> 00:46:01.239
a good romance.

941
00:46:02.679 --> 00:46:04.199
Out in the park and we would walk to our

942
00:46:04.239 --> 00:46:07.039
cars and were like look and going, what's going on?

943
00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:11.559
And like you know that they like connected and really

944
00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:13.360
so as.

945
00:46:13.199 --> 00:46:19.840
A as a centenarian, she and a writer and a

946
00:46:19.880 --> 00:46:23.800
lovely spirit. She wrote a story rap ended up passing

947
00:46:23.880 --> 00:46:26.920
a year and a half ago, two years ago, and

948
00:46:27.079 --> 00:46:29.760
of course we were all sad, and she wrote the

949
00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:35.400
most beautiful, heartfelt, lovely story about him and their relationship

950
00:46:35.559 --> 00:46:38.440
and and she said, I'm just gonna made me choke up.

951
00:46:39.679 --> 00:46:42.440
She said he was the love of her life and

952
00:46:42.480 --> 00:46:44.480
she did not meet him until she was one hundred

953
00:46:44.519 --> 00:46:51.199
years old. Oh, she that story she wrote was just remarkable.

954
00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:56.199
So you know exactly, yeah, she's still she's still here

955
00:46:56.239 --> 00:46:57.440
with us and still doing great.

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I am so glad you shared that story for a

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number of levels. It's so beautiful, it's so inspiring. I

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hope that gives our listeners and viewers hope to about

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the quality of their overall lives and what's available for

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them when they lean in.

961
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Definitely, there's so much. I mean, we could stay here

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all day talking about experiences.

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Well, this has just been beautiful. I want to give

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you each an opportunity just to say a couple of

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words in closing. You know, this shows listen to why

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people around the world, many of them will come into

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the topic that's being featured, but they all want to

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elevate their lives. They want to elevate what wo they're

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being in the world through their lives. What would you

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like to leave them with?

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Boy, I you know, every cliche comes to mind that

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I could possibly say, live better, longer, never stop learning,

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live with joy. The list goes on and on and on.

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But for me, the most impactful thing to do is

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really realize that aging is not necessarily the end. It

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can be the beginning. Can be so much more than

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we fear it might be. A resident are doing things

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now that they never had the chance to do when

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they were working and raising a family and doing all

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the things. And I mean we can all relate to

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the busyness of life. And now if you can take

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a moment to just find those little moments of joy

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here or throughout your life or wherever you are, that's

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the important part of life right there that we sometimes

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just zoom by too fast. But anyway, throwing a little

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confetti here and there too, that always for sure.

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Jen's all about the comfetti copettiti.

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But going off kind of what she said. But you know,

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just because you're over fifty five or over sixty five,

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that does not mean that you know, life stops. It's

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life begins. You can still learn new things. We have

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people here every day learning whether it's learning how to

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text on their phone or you know, we learning how

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to do a zoom.

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Call and things.

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Our residents are leading their own TV station and they're

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teaching me things still about technology that I'm almost like, oh,

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I didn't know that, but it's just amazing that there's

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still so many more things that you can learn.

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Got for me, really it's about working here in senior living.

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I don't know that it would have ever considered it

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but this environment and the opportunity to be in a

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faith based residence first approach that CCONG takes really has

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afforded me the opportunity to be creative, to have blue

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sky thinking and think big and the results of the

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work that we do and having the direct impact front

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and the contact of the residents just changes everything.

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It is such a delight to know all three of

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you and now feel like I'm part of this too.

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I get too part of this too. I want to

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thank you so much for coming on working on purpose, Jen,

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Brian Angela, thank you. Thank you Nay Listeners and viewers,

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you are going to want to learn more about these

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three guests, the work they do at cc young and

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the upcoming this year as Ageless Art and Writers Contests.

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So visit cc youong dot org for the event itself.

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It's Forward Slash Events last week. If you missed the

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live show, you can always catch it be recorded podcast

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where You Get Yours. We were on air with Fattius Metz,

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a research professor at the University of Pretoria in South

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Africa who has helped to develop life's meaning as a

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distinct field in philosophy. We talked about his robust research

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and writing on meaning in life and work, which is

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incredibly inspiring at the sheer depth of meaning available to

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us all. See you then, and remember work is one

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of the best adventures and means of realizing our potential

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and making the impact we crave and can give us

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the opportunity to business at betters the World. So let's

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work on Purpose.

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We hope you've enjoyed this week's program. Be sure to

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tune into Working on Purpose featuring your host, doctor Elise Cortes,

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each week on W four C. Why Together, We'll create

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a world where business operates conscientiously. Leadership inspires and passion

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performance and employees are fulfilled in work that provides the

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meaning and purpose they crave. We'll see you there. Let's

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work on Purpose.