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All right, all right.

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Feeney talks with friends
episode 142 I'm very excited.

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We're some really good friends.

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How are you doing, Sam?

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Excellent.
How you doin, Sheila? Very well.

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What with the elbow bump, kid

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incorporated.

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Elbow bump.

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Kid e back where that start?

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So? So cool with the logo.

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I want to say thank you.

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Very interesting. Right away with the top.

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With the name.

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Yeah.

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So the logo was actually made
by an art teacher,

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who lives in the Farmington area.

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So she developed it for us years ago.

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But my kid, it just graduated,
last week from high school.

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And when he was little,
he has a lot of food allergies, so,

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you know, you go up to somebody,

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you meet them,
you shake their hand. Right?

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So when he was little, we were like,
no, no, no, don't shake anybody's hand.

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So he used to elbow bumps.

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So back in,

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you know, 2019 when we were looking
for the name of a nonprofit, you know,

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all of us women are sitting around,
we're like, oh, the elbow bump kid.

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And that's how our name came out.

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And it was just love it.
Recognition. Love it.

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I teach in a school,
so I do a lot of knuckle knocks.

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I used to do high fives, but again,
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germs and coughs and so elbows
I do something.

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If I'm holding something,
I do an elbow, elbow bump kid, I love it.

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And that's our logo and it's awesome.

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And that is a.

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That is like. Wearing the type one.

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Yeah that one that that's a that's called
the Dexcom Continuous glucose meter.

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And it helps measure the blood sugar for
the children that have type one diabetes.

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And type two,
some type two have it as well.

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Very cool.

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I love it,

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but I mean it's a logo that you know,
right away you see what's going on.

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I teach third grade.

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You brought it up.

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Can you explain what type one diabetes
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I can take that.

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My son was diagnosed at ten years old,
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fifth grade and entering six.

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So we had to kind of explain

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to him and elementary level
exactly what was happening to him.

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So, type one diabetes is the autoimmune,

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type of
diabetes that affects your immune system.

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So what that means is that the pancreas
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So you will require insulin therapy,

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whether that be multiple daily injections
or through an insulin pump.

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My child, requires a pump.

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So what we do is
he has a continuous glucose meter.

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As we mentioned before,
the Dexcom G6 or Dexcom G7.

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And what that does is monitor
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And my phone as well as my husband, are
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people follow
exactly where his blood sugar is at.

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So if he's in a high or low,
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We then also have that in conjunction
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which delivers insulin to him again
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So thankful for that technology.

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On a regular basis as needed.

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And, anytime he has a meal, he knows that
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into the, insulin

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pump for to administer
the proper amount of insulin to him.

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That's great.

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I'm glad that you mentioned that,
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well worked out of camp last summer,
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was always checking, you said up to ten.

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So I think they allowed the camp nurse
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And we're like the one time it was like,
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let's go check it out.

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And I think the nurse brought some

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something to eat to make sure
that the numbers were good to go.

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Yeah, she just had type one diabetes.

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My kid, the the official elbow mom kid.

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He'd be here tonight, but

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he just graduated,
so he's clearly got other things going on.

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But since he was a baby,

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he was literally 17 months old in my arms
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We went through all the elementary school
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We used to sit down with the classes,
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for pretty much stopped in fifth
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My kid didn't want me around anymore.
Right? Yeah.

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So we would sit down in front of the
class with a book and explain, you know,

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if you ever see sage, you know, in a
corner of sage ever, you know, looks off,

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you know, or looks sick, you know,
please go get an adult, get a teacher.

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See, he's going to need juice.

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there was juice boxes, juice box stations
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So make sure sage gets a juice.

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The sage look in trouble. Call
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That's pretty much what we would say it.

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You know that third grade age
and fourth grade, you know, we would,

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you know, maybe take it a step further.

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But it was always, you know, sage
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you know, make sure you don't touch it.

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Only sage can touch it, you know, that's
how pretty much we explained in that sage

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needs that,
you know, to help him be healthy and safe.

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Very good.

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So your son's name is sage.
And what's your son's?

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My son's name is Talon. Talon?

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Talon and sage.

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Very cool.

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And then so he was 17 months.

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So that was his dih versary.

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Did I say that right.

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Yes he did. Yeah.

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So typically because I.

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Learned something new, I didn't know
about a diversity till I saw your website.

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So I thought that was very interesting
when I explain what a day of nurseries.

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So some people celebrate us,
some people don't. We do.

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So when their diagnosis
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was July 11th, 2008,
a day that lives in infancy.

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So every year some families
celebrate the accomplishments, right?

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Because a type one diabetic makes
a lot of extra decisions every single day.

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You know, there's a study out there
that says it's 180 plus or minus.

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That's probably about right.

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So, you know, Talon or Sage
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You know, what's their level.
So they need to reduce their insulin.

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Do they need to bring snacks,
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Before they put food in their mouth.
How many carbs is it?

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Do I not know?
I have to go Google it, right?

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Or I have to go
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So we celebrate that every year.

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You know,
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So we have a program
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It was grant funded at the time, and we
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So any, any family around the country
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one diabetes, they can request a card

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and we just mail it out every year
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Some information to fill out.

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United States only right now.

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But, yeah, you fill in the info
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A card
because that. That's very cool. Yeah.

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If it was, if was other countries
we have that we started doing that.

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We're like no, no, no
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Yeah, yeah.
It's just too much of a mail delay for us.

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yeah, there's only so much time in the day
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around the world to everyone.

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Right. Exactly.

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So it's small, but it's small,
but it's mighty.

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We have a few hundred people
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So cool. Now, we have so much in common.

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Friends of Feeney.

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Elbow kid. Elbow bump.

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Kid incorporated.

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You know, full time teacher.

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But we're all.

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We work on a volunteer basis.

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We have all of our supporters
and donators are volunteers.

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So I just think it's great,
and I commend you.

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What? Where do you find the inspiration?

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Well, I'm sure your son being the
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but where do you find the time?

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How do you manage your time?

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Any suggestions or advice?

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It's a loaded.

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That's a lot of questions
and a loaded question.

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So yes.

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Yeah, sage was definitely the inspiration
for sure.

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For the nonprofit, it actually started
because there were a couple of families

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that needed some help.

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And there were a few parents

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that, you know,
originally started a nonprofit with me.

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They've since moved on from their board
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You know, we are volunteer.

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We are volunteer run, just like you.

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We all work full time,

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in and out of corporate America, community
funded, you know, by individual donors.

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So same thing as friends of Feeney.

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So we like being friends with you.

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Because we have so much in common.

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So there were a couple of families
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and we weren't a nonprofit
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So that kind of gave us a check to,
you know, to get it together

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and get it done
so we can help those families.

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That's how we started
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And then it just, you know, it grew.

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The original, nonprofit was,
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you know, helping families, you know,
with some, you know, diabetes education.

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And then we moved to monthly events
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you know, that
we'll talk about afterwards.

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You know, all the programs that we have,
we are completely volunteer on.

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So we are dependent on our volunteers
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you know, do and,
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say what they're going to say.

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So probably just like you, you know,
there's bumps in the road with that.

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But overall we've had some pretty,
you know, amazing volunteers time wise.

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You know, I would say that
all of us have our own ways of,

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you know, of doing things and, you know,
so I block off, you know,

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a couple of hours, you know, several days
a week to get things done.

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You know, other people like, you know,
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I don't know where she finds
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It feels like she's always on,
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And then, you know, she'll let you know.

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You can tell when she's doing things,
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We all as professional,
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because we have a nonprofit commitment
to get the stuff done.

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I feel like we all have
our ways of time management,

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but we all, you know,
adhere to the commitments that we made.

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Yes. As she stated,

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we started with families that we hope I'm
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I was looking for support.

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My son was diagnosed July 2nd, 2021,

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in a time that Covid was happening.

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So where do you find support?

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pathologist had a friend
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I got introduced through

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one of the designer pocketbook bingos,
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So it's women
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Just a good time.

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So that's how I was able to find them

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and get the support we needed,
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My son was the first in our family
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So it was wonderful to have this contact
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and know that you're not alone. As far as

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we work full

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time and to find downtime,
don't let her fool you.

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She likes to travel. That's her downtime.

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She's probably been all around
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I myself, my husband cooks, so I eat.

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That's my downtime.

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I enjoy eating his cooking, and, we do.

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We take trips and things.

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So when it's time for the nonprofit,
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And which seems to be taking more time
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But we love it

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because we're here to help those families
and let them know that you have support.

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You can thrive despite the diagnosis.

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And you know we're here. Yeah.

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That's amazing.

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Yeah. Your mission

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is to provide families
impacted with type one diabetes

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to the opportunity to thrive,
learn and grow despite the diagnosis.

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I love it.

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And then our mission is to help

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children and families that need assistance
after heartbreak or tragedy.

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So, you know, there's some overlap there,
and we're both volunteers.

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Oh, I even introduced this is Feeney Talks
With Friends.

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I mentioned that, I use this podcast

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to talk to wonderful people in community
that are doing great things.

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And here we are.

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I'm so happy to talk with Sam and Sheila
from the Elbow Bump Kid Incorporated.

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You guys are doing
wonderful things in the community.

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So honored to speak with you.

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We met at Bernie's for charity.

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Yes. Two years ago.
I missed it this year.

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I think there was, Oh, it was April
break of school,

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so I went to go see my,
an uncle in Cape Cod.

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That's my downtime.

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I go to Hyannis. Centerville area.

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I love it there.

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And, but you met with Matt and chatted.

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My guy.

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He's the chairman of the board,
so he's a wonderful volunteer.

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You have your wonderful volunteers
and just someone that buys

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in and believes in what
we're doing, our mission and our goals.

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So thank you, Matt, if you're listening, 
thank you for making this connection.

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And thank you
for everything that you're doing.

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So what was said at the birdies and

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I mean, we met two years ago,

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sat at the same table, randomly chatted,

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connected, again, had that common bond.

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So here we are. It's great.

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Yeah.

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We I followed you ever since
because I was like, oh, this is great.

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There's another nonprofit
that's, you know,

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community, you know, community run, 
you know, community funded, community run.

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So I like your mission.

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I've sent a family,
you know, here and there,

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you know, through you,
I sent a donor there.

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There was a donor on Reddit
a couple of months ago.

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That was that was,
you know, his company in Connecticut

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was, like, gathering donations,
and he knew a specific place.

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And so all the responders were going,
oh, Salvation Army are.

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Oh, good. Well, and I'm like, no,
you need to go to friends of Feeney.

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And then you messaged me back
and he's like, they're great.

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Of course I'm going to donate to them.

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So do you know who do you want
to talk about it and share after?

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Or I would have to go on my
I would have to go on my app and see

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because he messaged me. But you know.

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I mean, thank you for that connection.
Yeah.

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He wanted somebody

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who directly helps families,
but he didn't want it disease oriented.

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Clearly. Otherwise it would have been.

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Oh, and prior to us meeting you,

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birdies,

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I seen your sign at the West
Hartford Redemption Center.

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We had been collecting cans for like,
two years, just, you know,

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and during Covid and before you know it,
you have five humongous garbage bags.

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Okay. And so I'm like, well,
where do I bring these in such bulk?

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You know,
I can't just go to stop and shop.

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There's too many now.

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So, someone said, go to the West
Hartford, which I'm never been.

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So I go and there's this green sign
that says Friends of Feet.

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And I'm like, well, what's that?

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And the gentleman there explained to me,
you know, this is,

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nonprofit in the area
that helps families in need.

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He's like, you have all these cans.

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Are you a nonprofit?

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At that point, I wasn't associate it yet,
but he's like, we can,

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you know, collect, and maybe this is
something you're interested in.

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So that's what sprung me to you.

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And then I said, I'm
seeing this green circle sign everywhere.

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So who's friends are? Feeney?
So I began to look you up.

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And then we met at Birdie's,
and here we are.

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That's my guy. Chit chat is amazing.

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Yeah. People just donate and say,
hey, chat.

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These are for friends of Feeney. And he,
like, stashes them.

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He keeps a notebook app on his phone
and we see him like once a month.

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And then in addition to that,
Lyons Auto is, Mechanic Place.

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They collect our
cans and they store a big,

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trailer or

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container or whatever, those shipping
containers filled with cans.

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So once a month
we bring them from there and chat.

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Just chat.

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It's amazing how he counts them.
He's like.

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It's about $300.

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Just looking at the bag.

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He's like, estimate.

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Yes, it's in your favor, right?

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Yeah. We're just like, sure. Thanks.
Thanks, Chet.

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You have a lot of good friends in West
Hartford. Yeah, good.

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Good people.

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West Hartford. I'm very excited about.

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You know, it's a wonderful community.

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We just went all types of awards
for a great place to live.

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I don't know if it's number 9 or 19, but,
It's up there.

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The mayor is amazing,
and a lot of businesses and companies

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are bought into our mission
and help support us.

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You know, like it? Oh, sponsors.

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That's that's
thank our sponsors direct Line Media.

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I met through West Hartford
that he, Dave and Stephania

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do our, do our podcast.

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We're here at Maximum Beverage.

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They're wonderful people.

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I taught Matt Whitney. He's
one of the owners.

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I taught his daughter
Julia in my third grade class.

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We've been we did a can drive
and here we are now podcasting.

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And they're beautiful place in the back.

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Parkville management people's Bank

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last podcast episode 141
with people's Bank Ryan Young.

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Just one young professional of the year
by the West Hartford Chamber.

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So shout out to Ryan Young and Theresa.

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That was a wonderful
podcast. Their sponsors

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Keating Agency Insurance,

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Luna Pizza, Brook Golf Law Group,

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The Fix, Ivy float, 41,

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and West Hartford Lock.

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Those are all our sponsors, all wonderful
people that sponsor our podcast.

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But I could go.

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The list goes on of people

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that we've worked with, our sponsored,
our parade t shirts.

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Oh, and this with this being said,
watch with West Hartford Lock.

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What are three keys
that make you a great nonprofit?

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Three I'm going to start one.

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Our connect ability.

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We make sure that we connect
with the, community that we serve.

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I would say,

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the most Kiki would be
our volunteers, right?

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Because we can't, you know, I'm
one person, and I

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have found over the years that, you know,
with having some amazing volunteers

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that help execute the mission
that I wanted to do so many years ago.

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We couldn't we couldn't
we cannot be a successful nonprofit

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without the volunteers
that we have that continue to grow,

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people like Sheila that we help that
in turn winds up coming onto our board

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or being permanent volunteers
and helping us execute a program

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we just absolutely could not do
without them.

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And I love hearing that.

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We we helped Rob,
and now he's on our board.

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Yeah. Exactly.

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And I would say the third is partnerships.

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You know, partnerships

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like this, you know, partnering
with other nonprofits, partnering

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with some small businesses
that have helped us along the way,

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you know, just, you know, emailing to
businesses and saying, hey, we're small.

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We don't have a lot of a budget for this,

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but could you give us a discount
to help us get this to a family?

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So there's been, you know,
quite a few like that.

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So we couldn't do it
without some of the partnerships.

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We just wouldn't be able to help,
you know, as many people as we do

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without, you know, successful
nonprofit and business partnerships.

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Nice. Absolutely.

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I forgot to shout out Sally and Bob's.

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They're also a
wonderful sponsor. Yes. They

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are phenomenal. Yes.

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Excellent. And then connections.

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Oh, you mentioned before the pod cricket
press, right.

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Talk about
wonderful people in the community.

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I know because I was saying I had not,
you know,

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listen to a full podcast
outside of Instagram.

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And I logged in to listen
to a couple of podcasts

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to see what kind of questions
you're going to ask me.

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Right? Dylan surprises.

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So I liked it.
And I see that cricket person.

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I'm like, oh,
he looks like a really nice guy.

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And I email him saying, hey, you know,

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we could use some stickers
and other stuff, you know,

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do you have a nonprofit discount
automatically?

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You know,
he writes back a nice professional email.

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He'll give us 20%.

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What else do we need?

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So we actually need a lot of things
for our celiac project coming up,

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you know, in August.

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So I said I'd, you know, get back to him
pretty soon.

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But yeah, automatically it was,
you know, a nice nonprofit discount.

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And yeah,
so nice. We're trying to help us already.

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And I haven't even met him.
I just heard, yeah.

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You know, but, for your Greg.

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Confessor, Greg, he he may be a new dad.

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I don't know, I don't know.
So he wrote you back?

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He's an on brand new dad.

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He was.

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We he was, like, three weeks away from.

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Well, his wife was three weeks away
from giving birth on the podcast.

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That was a month ago.

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So if my math, my third grade
math serves me correct.

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Congratulations.

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You're a real man now, Greg.

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But, Greg, just, like officially
announcing on your podcast, right?

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Exclusive.

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The exclusive. Yes. No.

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These Greg made these.

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Oh, some stickers for you. Thank you.

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Oh, I love it. Be a good friend.

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We're so as you be a good friend.

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You'll see those stickers around.
These are the Vincent Van Gogh style.

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And I say you change in the background.

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Is not the solid at Hunter green anymore,
I like it.

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We worked with Rise Up
murals and, collaborated.

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We have a mural at Parkville Market.

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If you go into the upstairs,
into the local, the bar,

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you'll see that mural there.

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For students, help paint it.

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Zoe, Jack, Hanna and Teagan.

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So, they helped
design it with Julia from Rise Up.

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So we're really cool.
So we made stickers to honor it.

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So I've never been to Parkville Market
except for your knapsack.

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Your.

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I visited your backpack thing last year
because I wanted to see what you know.

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I wanted to see one their events

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because backpacks have absolutely nothing
to do with helping a family from a loss.

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And I'm like, let me see
what these new people are doing.

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You know, outside of,
you know, outside of your mission.

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So it was great.

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There were, you know, tons of families
lined up to get to get backpacks

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full of supplies. Yeah.

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So sage and I went and we were just,
you know, looking around, and.

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I think being a teacher back to school
is always very important, right?

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I also collaborated
with Lost Arts Barbershop.

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So we had like six barbers
doing free haircuts.

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So you have to have a fresh cut
to go back to school.

462
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You have to have a backpack
and a fresh cut.

463
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What else do you need
to go back to school?

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Well, if you're a type one kid,
you need a low blood sugar supply kit.

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So that's what we do ever happen.
Can you maybe.

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Yeah, maybe add to our back to school.

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Yeah. That's what we do.

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We're going to do every year
before I back to school,

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00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,623
as we make low blood, we have
make your own low blood sugar supply kit.

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So if we have an event near there

471
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and a family can pick it up at that,
if not, they can do a drive by through,

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they can do a drive by,
you know, one, one specific day

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that I have, you can pick them up,
you know, for a couple hours.

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That's not a bad idea.

475
00:20:03,268 --> 00:20:05,637
If you have any of your kids
that have type one.

476
00:20:05,637 --> 00:20:07,906
Would you partner with us?
Because we're going to do that again?

477
00:20:07,906 --> 00:20:08,840
Yeah, sure.

478
00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,810
We would love to give you a
we'll give you a whole booth, a table.

479
00:20:11,810 --> 00:20:14,146
Well, we'll add you to the flier.

480
00:20:14,146 --> 00:20:14,947
That'd be exciting.

481
00:20:14,947 --> 00:20:17,149
Partnership
and we would love the children.

482
00:20:17,149 --> 00:20:18,283
Do they decorate the kit?

483
00:20:18,283 --> 00:20:22,054
And it has necessary supplies
so that the nurse or,

484
00:20:22,054 --> 00:20:23,822
some of the classroom teachers have it.

485
00:20:23,822 --> 00:20:27,593
In my son's case,
the nurse always has his backup

486
00:20:27,593 --> 00:20:31,563
insulin pump and, continuous
glucose monitor.

487
00:20:32,030 --> 00:20:36,034
The teachers also keep low blood
sugar supplies in the classroom

488
00:20:36,034 --> 00:20:38,937
so that in the case that he solo,
he can't walk to the nurse,

489
00:20:38,937 --> 00:20:41,173
they're able to treat him on site
and have her come to him.

490
00:20:41,173 --> 00:20:43,342
So it is very important that

491
00:20:43,342 --> 00:20:47,346
that should be in your back to school
toolbox or a book bag, if you will.

492
00:20:47,346 --> 00:20:49,448
If you are a type one diabetic.

493
00:20:49,448 --> 00:20:50,882
Now, how do they get there?

494
00:20:50,882 --> 00:20:54,119
If they don't have transportation
to people, do do they get busted.

495
00:20:54,152 --> 00:20:57,022
To the Parkville market thing? Yeah.
You had to get your own ride.

496
00:20:57,022 --> 00:20:58,223
Yeah. You don't come all right.

497
00:20:58,223 --> 00:20:59,992
But it's a community.

498
00:20:59,992 --> 00:21:02,661
There's a good walking community
if they can get there.

499
00:21:02,661 --> 00:21:05,197
But I mean, the numbers were pretty good.

500
00:21:05,197 --> 00:21:06,832
So yeah, I know.

501
00:21:06,832 --> 00:21:10,168
So that might help us reach some of
the people that aren't on social media.

502
00:21:10,168 --> 00:21:10,936
So no, we would like.

503
00:21:10,936 --> 00:21:14,406
Maybe if someone hears this podcast,
you can, donate transportation

504
00:21:14,673 --> 00:21:17,042
for the children
that don't have rides. Friends of Feeney?

505
00:21:17,042 --> 00:21:19,511
Elbow bump. Kidding. We recommend it.

506
00:21:19,511 --> 00:21:21,747
And I'm all about collaboration,
power and numbers,

507
00:21:21,747 --> 00:21:23,415
so I really look
forward to the partnership.

508
00:21:24,850 --> 00:21:25,117
Yeah.

509
00:21:25,117 --> 00:21:28,520
Parkville Market and Lost Arts Barbershop
and just,

510
00:21:28,587 --> 00:21:31,590
Ashley at Park is fantastic.

511
00:21:31,790 --> 00:21:33,659
They.

512
00:21:33,659 --> 00:21:34,293
What else did we do?

513
00:21:34,293 --> 00:21:36,028
I did a podcast with Carlos Mota.

514
00:21:36,028 --> 00:21:38,997
He's the owner of the building.

515
00:21:38,997 --> 00:21:41,266
So he's a really nice guy.

516
00:21:41,266 --> 00:21:44,269
It's great people,
you know, they're just trying to help out.

517
00:21:44,536 --> 00:21:47,306
So be a good friend is our motto.

518
00:21:47,306 --> 00:21:48,106
Hold the door.

519
00:21:48,106 --> 00:21:49,741
Pick up trash. It's not yours.

520
00:21:49,741 --> 00:21:51,643
Give compliments and be charitable.

521
00:21:51,643 --> 00:21:52,711
I'm going to go back and forth.

522
00:21:52,711 --> 00:21:56,581
So, Sam, you're going to tell me
what makes Shella a good friend?

523
00:21:56,581 --> 00:21:58,383
Shelly? Like you're going to tell me what?

524
00:21:58,383 --> 00:22:01,386
What makes Sam a good friend?

525
00:22:01,420 --> 00:22:02,321
Any order?

526
00:22:02,321 --> 00:22:03,155
Go ahead.

527
00:22:03,155 --> 00:22:03,588
Okay.

528
00:22:03,588 --> 00:22:06,825
What makes Sam
a good friend is she's always available.

529
00:22:07,693 --> 00:22:08,794
She tells me she works

530
00:22:08,794 --> 00:22:12,698
full time at a business,
but she's always available day or night.

531
00:22:13,098 --> 00:22:16,468
She does say I'm going to turn off,

532
00:22:16,468 --> 00:22:19,838
the phone for these hours,
but yet she replies to my text messages.

533
00:22:19,838 --> 00:22:24,209
So, I just thank her
for giving me the education

534
00:22:24,209 --> 00:22:28,046
that I needed, 
to make sure that my child is thriving

535
00:22:28,380 --> 00:22:32,184
despite the diagnosis
and to make sure that we have support.

536
00:22:32,250 --> 00:22:37,422
You know, it's
what's not talked about is sometimes

537
00:22:37,422 --> 00:22:41,393
how much goes in to having a child
with a diagnosis as this,

538
00:22:41,393 --> 00:22:45,197
as she stated,
they make about 180 decisions more a day.

539
00:22:45,197 --> 00:22:48,900
And the parents,
I feel like make about 280 more per day

540
00:22:48,900 --> 00:22:50,936
just to make sure that they have
everything they need.

541
00:22:50,936 --> 00:22:54,406
So her nonstop support and her,

542
00:22:54,406 --> 00:22:57,609
fearless leadership with our nonprofit,

543
00:22:57,843 --> 00:23:01,380
making sure we kind of just continuously
grow even though we're small.

544
00:23:02,881 --> 00:23:04,449
That's what makes her a good friend.

545
00:23:04,449 --> 00:23:06,752
Oh, that was nice.

546
00:23:06,752 --> 00:23:09,454
I always say what makes Shalala
a good friend is her ability

547
00:23:09,454 --> 00:23:10,822
to roll with my craziness.

548
00:23:10,822 --> 00:23:14,092
So we have a lot of, That's why
I have my notebook in front of me.

549
00:23:14,092 --> 00:23:16,528
Because we have so many programs
sometimes that I want to make sure

550
00:23:16,528 --> 00:23:18,597
that, you know,
we have the opportunity to mention them.

551
00:23:18,597 --> 00:23:21,700
So I will say, hey, you know, we could be
in the middle of something crazy

552
00:23:21,700 --> 00:23:23,335
like we are right now
with the celiac project.

553
00:23:23,335 --> 00:23:26,071
And I can say, hey, by the way,
what do you think about this?

554
00:23:26,071 --> 00:23:27,839
Somebody suggested us
and I think it's great.

555
00:23:27,839 --> 00:23:30,208
And she will be like, she'll look at me.

556
00:23:30,208 --> 00:23:32,411
She'll be like,
all right, what do we need to do?

557
00:23:32,411 --> 00:23:35,580
Like she'll step in her whole family,
by the way, not just Shalala.

558
00:23:35,580 --> 00:23:37,449
Shalala is a package deal.

559
00:23:37,449 --> 00:23:38,817
You know, we have chef

560
00:23:38,817 --> 00:23:42,387
and, and Taillon,
all three of them will come to everything.

561
00:23:42,387 --> 00:23:45,323
And Shalala I mean, of course,
she gives them the kick.

562
00:23:45,323 --> 00:23:48,160
You know, they have just dived right in
and just got involved with,

563
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:51,196
you know, as soon as they got themselves
helped to get to the place

564
00:23:51,196 --> 00:23:53,265
they needed to be,
they jumped right in and said, okay,

565
00:23:53,265 --> 00:23:56,134
how can I help
somebody else love that about them?

566
00:23:56,134 --> 00:23:58,703
And they're they're there for everything.

567
00:23:58,703 --> 00:23:59,237
I love it,

568
00:24:00,205 --> 00:24:01,540
It's exciting.

569
00:24:01,540 --> 00:24:03,909
You guys are good friends

570
00:24:03,909 --> 00:24:05,010
and thanks for being here.

571
00:24:05,010 --> 00:24:06,111
We try to be good friends.

572
00:24:06,111 --> 00:24:09,080
I saw something really cool
on the website. Friends for life.

573
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:09,748
Come on.

574
00:24:09,748 --> 00:24:11,249
How do I get involved? Response.

575
00:24:11,249 --> 00:24:13,351
Can I make a t shirt?
What do I have to do? Yeah.

576
00:24:13,351 --> 00:24:15,086
Can you tell us about friends for life?

577
00:24:15,086 --> 00:24:15,487
Sure.

578
00:24:15,487 --> 00:24:18,890
So friends for life is a diabetes
education event that,

579
00:24:19,925 --> 00:24:21,593
sage went to.

580
00:24:21,593 --> 00:24:24,362
Unrelated.

581
00:24:24,362 --> 00:24:25,530
Unrelated completely.

582
00:24:25,530 --> 00:24:25,831
Yeah.

583
00:24:25,831 --> 00:24:27,699
No, it's a totally different organization
that runs

584
00:24:27,699 --> 00:24:30,502
it is run by this organization, children
with diabetes, which is great. Gotcha.

585
00:24:30,502 --> 00:24:34,506
So sage went for many years, 2015 on.

586
00:24:34,539 --> 00:24:35,941
Like a summer camp.

587
00:24:35,941 --> 00:24:38,410
It's it's a summer diabetes
education event.

588
00:24:38,410 --> 00:24:42,481
So, so families
go and layers like kids track, so kids

589
00:24:42,481 --> 00:24:46,318
have their own separate education,
and then parents have their own separate

590
00:24:46,318 --> 00:24:49,421
education that a grandparents
track young adults whatever.

591
00:24:49,421 --> 00:24:52,357
There's, you know, meetups
and education sessions for anyone.

592
00:24:52,357 --> 00:24:55,193
So for many years up until this year,
we sponsored families.

593
00:24:55,193 --> 00:24:57,863
For five years.
We gave, family scholarships.

594
00:24:57,863 --> 00:25:01,600
This year, just with sage graduating
and everything else, I wasn't sure

595
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:02,801
if I was going to be able to go.

596
00:25:02,801 --> 00:25:06,872
So typically I go and make sure families
are, you know, going off to their sessions

597
00:25:06,872 --> 00:25:07,439
and they're okay.

598
00:25:07,439 --> 00:25:11,343
But we donated to their, to their own
scholarship program this year.

599
00:25:11,343 --> 00:25:14,346
The way, friends for life
has their own scholarship program as well

600
00:25:14,479 --> 00:25:18,083
to help send this many, families
as possible to get that education.

601
00:25:18,083 --> 00:25:21,887
So it's a it's a week,
in July in Orlando,

602
00:25:21,887 --> 00:25:23,288
which is not super appealing

603
00:25:23,288 --> 00:25:27,259
to everyone, but for some families,
it just means everything to be all right.

604
00:25:27,259 --> 00:25:29,494
Though it's not just Orlando, it's Disney.

605
00:25:29,494 --> 00:25:31,730
Oh yeah. Oh well, some years it is.

606
00:25:31,730 --> 00:25:35,133
But you know, basically,
you know, it's not just,

607
00:25:35,133 --> 00:25:38,436
it's not just that it's more
there's family in Connecticut.

608
00:25:38,436 --> 00:25:42,574
It's great because we have a community and
we have monthly events for for families.

609
00:25:42,574 --> 00:25:43,742
We have caregiver events.

610
00:25:43,742 --> 00:25:47,345
We have ways to connect the community
in some places.

611
00:25:47,345 --> 00:25:48,747
And like Iowa, Idaho,

612
00:25:48,747 --> 00:25:52,651
there's some places out there that just
don't have the same local community.

613
00:25:52,651 --> 00:25:54,452
And that friends for life
is everything for them

614
00:25:54,452 --> 00:25:58,690
because it's their only attachment
to, you know, to the type one community.

615
00:25:58,690 --> 00:26:00,158
You know, throughout the year.

616
00:26:00,158 --> 00:26:02,294
So there's places that have great,
you know,

617
00:26:02,294 --> 00:26:05,297
great engagement
and monthly things just like we do.

618
00:26:05,297 --> 00:26:09,901
But a lot of states don't have that
unless you have a nonprofit like ours.

619
00:26:10,135 --> 00:26:11,536
Right. Has Dylan attended?

620
00:26:11,536 --> 00:26:17,576
Talyn has attended
two friends for life, seminars.

621
00:26:17,576 --> 00:26:20,278
I don't know what you want to call them.
I call it fantastic.

622
00:26:20,278 --> 00:26:25,183
The first year that we went,
was within the first year of him

623
00:26:25,183 --> 00:26:29,487
being diagnosed, and it was through
a scholarship with Elbow Bump Kid Inc,

624
00:26:29,588 --> 00:26:31,022
which was amazing.

625
00:26:31,022 --> 00:26:34,392
You get education up on education,

626
00:26:34,793 --> 00:26:37,562
and just you learn
so many different things

627
00:26:37,562 --> 00:26:41,499
in that one set, five day event.

628
00:26:41,499 --> 00:26:45,870
It's you're tired, you know, you you
your emotions are all over the place

629
00:26:45,870 --> 00:26:50,308
because to walk into a room
and be in there, what 2500 families

630
00:26:50,308 --> 00:26:54,579
that know exactly what you're going
through is like you've come home.

631
00:26:54,913 --> 00:26:58,016
I don't know, it's like almost like you're
you're you're you're

632
00:26:58,149 --> 00:27:01,152
you found your your tribe, if you will.

633
00:27:01,186 --> 00:27:04,189
And so the first day for me, 
my husband will share.

634
00:27:04,189 --> 00:27:05,156
I cried all day.

635
00:27:05,156 --> 00:27:09,661
We walked into the first training and,
every session, all day.

636
00:27:09,661 --> 00:27:13,264
I was just a mess
because, you know, this was the first time

637
00:27:13,832 --> 00:27:18,269
anyone understood from all different
angles, the good, the bad and the ugly up.

638
00:27:18,536 --> 00:27:21,239
You know
what is what a family goes through

639
00:27:21,239 --> 00:27:24,476
that has just recently been diagnosed
with type one diabetes.

640
00:27:24,476 --> 00:27:26,344
So we were home.

641
00:27:26,344 --> 00:27:30,181
My son, if he had it
his way, would go every year,

642
00:27:30,181 --> 00:27:34,019
and he would like it to be
more than once a year because he just,

643
00:27:34,019 --> 00:27:37,288
you know, to have children,
that everybody's meter's going off.

644
00:27:37,288 --> 00:27:40,992
You're not the only one in a classroom
where you're not the only one on the

645
00:27:41,159 --> 00:27:42,060
basketball court.

646
00:27:42,060 --> 00:27:46,898
And your CGM is beeping to be able
to not be the only one

647
00:27:46,898 --> 00:27:51,369
and just be one of was very,
very good and uplifting for him. So,

648
00:27:52,971 --> 00:27:54,606
I always say, if you can

649
00:27:54,606 --> 00:27:58,343
attend friends for life once, please do,
because there's nothing like it.

650
00:27:58,443 --> 00:27:58,710
Yeah.

651
00:27:58,710 --> 00:27:59,811
If you have type one diabetes.

652
00:27:59,811 --> 00:28:01,880
If you have type one diabetes.

653
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:02,280
Event.

654
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,617
I mean, I went the past two years
without my kid for 48 hours.

655
00:28:05,617 --> 00:28:07,385
I flew in, he,

656
00:28:07,385 --> 00:28:11,122
you know, he's just got, you know, his
teenager has other things going on now.

657
00:28:11,122 --> 00:28:12,991
And I was like,
you sure you don't want to go?

658
00:28:12,991 --> 00:28:14,092
You sure? You sure it's.

659
00:28:14,092 --> 00:28:15,060
I got my friends off.

660
00:28:15,060 --> 00:28:19,130
I still flew in for 48 hours to just,
you know, go to some,

661
00:28:19,397 --> 00:28:20,265
you know, make some,

662
00:28:20,265 --> 00:28:22,801
you know, continue
the connections that I've had in the past,

663
00:28:22,801 --> 00:28:24,469
meet with the vendors
because some of the vendors

664
00:28:24,469 --> 00:28:27,572
donate things back to elbow bump kid
that we can give out here.

665
00:28:27,605 --> 00:28:28,473
They'll be like,

666
00:28:28,473 --> 00:28:32,410
you know, like coloring books that
we give out in our newly diagnosed, kit.

667
00:28:32,410 --> 00:28:35,580
I got the coloring books, crayons,
and a bunch of other stuff last year

668
00:28:35,580 --> 00:28:38,116
from the conference
that we give out to newly diagnosed kids.

669
00:28:39,751 --> 00:28:40,952
That's amazing.

670
00:28:40,952 --> 00:28:42,654
Doing great things.

671
00:28:42,654 --> 00:28:46,891
And we anymore about friends for life
before I move on.

672
00:28:47,592 --> 00:28:48,893
Now, I think that's right.

673
00:28:48,893 --> 00:28:53,064
And, it's it's
amazing to have type one diabetes.

674
00:28:53,064 --> 00:28:56,067
So we started giving out the scholar
was giving out the scholarship.

675
00:28:56,067 --> 00:28:57,969
I would give up the scholarship to attend.

676
00:28:57,969 --> 00:29:00,305
Right. Exactly. Very nice.

677
00:29:00,305 --> 00:29:01,339
That was wonderful.

678
00:29:01,339 --> 00:29:03,141
That's one of the first things we did.

679
00:29:03,141 --> 00:29:05,677
Like me,
you know, like everyone's like me.

680
00:29:05,677 --> 00:29:08,646
Exactly. Because I know I being a teacher.

681
00:29:08,646 --> 00:29:11,182
Nine years
and Kingsbury School in Waterbury,

682
00:29:11,182 --> 00:29:14,619
same school that I went to as a kid,
just finished my 12th year

683
00:29:14,619 --> 00:29:17,622
at Walker Elementary School,
the same school that my daughters went to.

684
00:29:17,722 --> 00:29:20,892
I've had many students with diabetes.

685
00:29:21,392 --> 00:29:24,395
He had one kid had like an emergency
can of, like,

686
00:29:25,263 --> 00:29:28,266
sausages or cocktail weenies,
I don't know, was that a thing?

687
00:29:28,366 --> 00:29:31,369
Protein after. So some some families.

688
00:29:31,369 --> 00:29:32,837
It depends on how you manage it.

689
00:29:32,837 --> 00:29:36,841
There's no, like, right way,
but some families after you,

690
00:29:36,841 --> 00:29:41,179
after you take the low treat,
you know, the low treat, which would be,

691
00:29:41,179 --> 00:29:45,617
you know, candy or juice or something
to bring your blood sugar up.

692
00:29:45,750 --> 00:29:46,050
Yeah.

693
00:29:46,050 --> 00:29:49,154
Again, some families, cheese
and immediately a protein to hold it.

694
00:29:49,154 --> 00:29:49,621
Right.

695
00:29:49,621 --> 00:29:52,624
So if you know, if it's an active day or,
you know,

696
00:29:52,624 --> 00:29:55,927
my kid used to get stressed at fourth
grade was ridiculous, right?

697
00:29:56,294 --> 00:29:58,029
I still remember it.

698
00:29:58,029 --> 00:30:01,633
You go into school every single day,
and, like, his blood sugar was fine.

699
00:30:01,833 --> 00:30:03,334
And immediately he would just tank.

700
00:30:03,334 --> 00:30:03,902
And I'm like,

701
00:30:03,902 --> 00:30:06,571
what is going on at the school
that you were immediately taking?

702
00:30:06,571 --> 00:30:07,806
No matter what we did nothing.

703
00:30:07,806 --> 00:30:08,540
Nothing helps.

704
00:30:08,540 --> 00:30:10,675
Or chasing it with protein,
our choice was chocolate milk,

705
00:30:10,675 --> 00:30:14,145
not cocktail weenies, but all for that kid
that was willing to go along with that.

706
00:30:14,145 --> 00:30:14,846
Parents idea.

707
00:30:14,846 --> 00:30:17,248
So, you know, different parents
do different things,

708
00:30:17,248 --> 00:30:20,819
but chasing it sometimes with protein
will help maintain it.

709
00:30:20,819 --> 00:30:22,520
Okay. Yeah. Maintain the blood sugar.

710
00:30:25,256 --> 00:30:27,358
Interesting.

711
00:30:27,358 --> 00:30:30,061
Well, let's talk about this
awesome initiative. Yay!

712
00:30:30,061 --> 00:30:31,863
This is fantastic. Yay.

713
00:30:31,863 --> 00:30:32,797
So yeah.

714
00:30:32,797 --> 00:30:36,634
So we are competing for a Red Socks
Impact award.

715
00:30:36,768 --> 00:30:39,671
Yeah. So, so we are finalists.

716
00:30:39,671 --> 00:30:45,310
So, nonprofits in New England,
were able to apply and they chose

717
00:30:45,310 --> 00:30:50,315
five finalists to compete for, 
to be the impact award for each state.

718
00:30:50,315 --> 00:30:54,152
So we are competing for Connecticut,
against, you know, against,

719
00:30:54,152 --> 00:30:56,988
for other nonprofits.
And it's up for community vote.

720
00:30:56,988 --> 00:31:00,391
So you can vote with every,
every unique email address

721
00:31:00,391 --> 00:31:04,262
you have once a day
until July 21st at 4:59 p.m..

722
00:31:04,262 --> 00:31:06,731
Then they tell you the votes
and they let you know on July 23rd.

723
00:31:06,731 --> 00:31:08,499
We are proud to be the Connecticut

724
00:31:08,499 --> 00:31:11,603
Impact winner from last year,
which we've done a lot of good with that.

725
00:31:12,303 --> 00:31:15,540
With that Red Sox Impact money,
we've been giving out, non

726
00:31:15,540 --> 00:31:18,610
pharmacy supplies to newly
diagnosed families in Connecticut.

727
00:31:18,610 --> 00:31:22,614
So things that they don't
get from insurance like spy belts, insulin

728
00:31:22,614 --> 00:31:25,650
coolers, insulin holders,
you know, there's a whole list

729
00:31:25,650 --> 00:31:29,520
of things that we contracted
with, type one companies for.

730
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:31,489
And we give it out to them meter cases,

731
00:31:31,489 --> 00:31:35,260
sling bags for school, you know,
you know, to carry your supplies.

732
00:31:35,260 --> 00:31:36,861
Right. You know, all kinds of stuff.

733
00:31:36,861 --> 00:31:39,063
So we used the Red Sox money
last year for that.

734
00:31:39,063 --> 00:31:42,901
And we also have a program
for existing diagnosis

735
00:31:42,901 --> 00:31:45,303
where we're giving them,
you know, run across a hard time

736
00:31:45,303 --> 00:31:49,140
or your kid, you know, isn't waking up
for Lowe's and you want this,

737
00:31:49,140 --> 00:31:51,175
you know, this thing that helps wake
you up.

738
00:31:51,175 --> 00:31:53,578
You know, there's
there's a few things that we've been,

739
00:31:54,579 --> 00:31:58,049
funding, based because
of the Red Sox money from last year.

740
00:31:58,049 --> 00:32:02,020
So this money, you know, for our small
volunteer run community funded nonprofit

741
00:32:02,020 --> 00:32:05,623
like us would be, you know, it would mean
the world to us to be able to continue,

742
00:32:05,857 --> 00:32:08,960
to ensure
the sustainability of these programs.

743
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:13,231
So if people can vote every single day,
Red sox.com/impact choose above.

744
00:32:13,398 --> 00:32:15,266
Kid for Connecticut.

745
00:32:15,266 --> 00:32:16,134
A couple years ago.

746
00:32:16,134 --> 00:32:20,138
We want a community grant
from American Eagle Financial Credit Union

747
00:32:20,138 --> 00:32:23,474
totally catapulted our organization
so that like you said,

748
00:32:24,609 --> 00:32:26,244
I think we won 6000 bucks.

749
00:32:26,244 --> 00:32:32,450
So 6000 to a volunteer
based program is like a million set of,

750
00:32:32,450 --> 00:32:36,754
you know, not to name like Red cross
or something that we, pay

751
00:32:36,754 --> 00:32:40,625
their yeah,
play their CEOs and stuff like that.

752
00:32:40,625 --> 00:32:41,492
So exactly.

753
00:32:41,492 --> 00:32:43,928
We are the only volunteer run
nonprofit on the group.

754
00:32:43,928 --> 00:32:47,498
Everyone else has all the other profits
that were finalist.

755
00:32:47,498 --> 00:32:49,434
Cade. Yeah, yeah. Has page.

756
00:32:49,434 --> 00:32:52,437
So yeah, it pops right up on your website
as soon as you put an elbow.

757
00:32:52,937 --> 00:32:55,440
Elbow, kids. Thank you, Kathy Brown.

758
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:56,574
Kathy, we have a what?

759
00:32:56,574 --> 00:32:59,077
We have a webmaster volunteer
who has been volunteering

760
00:32:59,077 --> 00:33:02,280
since the very beginning, since day
one of Elbow Bumpkin 2019.

761
00:33:02,413 --> 00:33:04,749
She's also on the website
and the volunteer section

762
00:33:04,749 --> 00:33:06,751
looks like Kathleen Brown.
Yeah. She's fantastic.

763
00:33:06,751 --> 00:33:07,852
She's our webmaster.

764
00:33:07,852 --> 00:33:10,555
So yeah, you just scan the card.

765
00:33:10,555 --> 00:33:13,057
And I mean, I voted already today. Yeah.

766
00:33:13,057 --> 00:33:14,859
You can use your work email though
too. Yep.

767
00:33:14,859 --> 00:33:17,061
And they never send you any email,
which is great.

768
00:33:17,061 --> 00:33:18,129
I tested it.

769
00:33:20,231 --> 00:33:22,200
And you go to Connecticut.

770
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,069
And elbow bump kid Inc is there. Boom.

771
00:33:25,069 --> 00:33:26,404
Elbow bump kid. Yeah.

772
00:33:26,404 --> 00:33:30,041
And we have reminders on our Facebook page
facebook.com slash all of them, kid.

773
00:33:30,041 --> 00:33:32,243
We post reminders every single day along.

774
00:33:32,243 --> 00:33:35,480
And I think that next week starts the
we schedule these.

775
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,281
So next week starts diabetes facts.

776
00:33:37,281 --> 00:33:40,551
It'll be a fact today as well that,
you know, people can share with their,

777
00:33:40,752 --> 00:33:43,221
you know, with share with their,
social community

778
00:33:43,221 --> 00:33:46,224
to, you know, to increase knowledge,
speech type one.

779
00:33:46,224 --> 00:33:47,825
The speech bubble is hilarious.

780
00:33:47,825 --> 00:33:50,361
Pro tip use your work email to I.

781
00:33:50,361 --> 00:33:52,030
So funny I did that too.

782
00:33:52,030 --> 00:33:54,198
I'm sorry I
the when I went for that community.

783
00:33:54,198 --> 00:33:54,532
Grab my.

784
00:33:54,532 --> 00:33:57,301
Come on. You could use
all different types of email stuff.

785
00:33:57,301 --> 00:33:57,969
It's tough.

786
00:33:57,969 --> 00:33:59,837
A lot of times
people are protective of their email

787
00:33:59,837 --> 00:34:02,306
because they don't want junk and all that
much junk do you get every day anyway?

788
00:34:02,306 --> 00:34:05,109
But these these guys, I do not.
They didn't.

789
00:34:05,109 --> 00:34:07,211
You have till July 21st.

790
00:34:07,211 --> 00:34:09,414
Get out there and. Vote every day.

791
00:34:09,414 --> 00:34:10,948
Every day. Day.

792
00:34:10,948 --> 00:34:11,849
Okay.

793
00:34:11,849 --> 00:34:14,218
Help us, help us, help the community.

794
00:34:14,218 --> 00:34:16,754
So much to say
is very important to add your in

795
00:34:18,189 --> 00:34:19,157
numbers to a lot of things.

796
00:34:19,157 --> 00:34:22,160
Someone suggested
we we have that on our website

797
00:34:22,260 --> 00:34:24,228
and you have it on your card.
Because you never.

798
00:34:24,228 --> 00:34:24,595
Asked us.

799
00:34:24,595 --> 00:34:29,233
What anonymous donor would like to help
and what way shape that makes.

800
00:34:29,233 --> 00:34:30,234
You look official.

801
00:34:30,234 --> 00:34:34,272
And then they can look you up
two different ways your name and your i-n.

802
00:34:34,305 --> 00:34:35,706
Yeah, sometimes. Yeah.

803
00:34:35,706 --> 00:34:38,076
So we have had a couple of mystery.

804
00:34:38,076 --> 00:34:42,146
You know, not not so I know who they are,
but mystery donors through the time.

805
00:34:42,146 --> 00:34:45,216
And you know, you need to make sure
I mean it takes nothing to add the

806
00:34:45,683 --> 00:34:48,886
to your, you know, we have it
on every letter that we send out. Yep.

807
00:34:49,020 --> 00:34:52,023
Just so they know,
they can look us up on the IRS website

808
00:34:52,023 --> 00:34:55,593
any time and see
that we're an official 583 nonprofit.

809
00:34:56,227 --> 00:34:56,761
Exactly.

810
00:34:56,761 --> 00:34:58,162
For how long now?

811
00:34:58,162 --> 00:35:00,565
2019 it was March 2019.

812
00:35:00,565 --> 00:35:03,034
So a little bit more than six years.

813
00:35:03,034 --> 00:35:05,002
I think that's us to March 2019.

814
00:35:05,002 --> 00:35:07,705
We have a nonprofit, we have a ton.

815
00:35:07,705 --> 00:35:10,141
The Saint Patty's Day parade of 2019.

816
00:35:10,141 --> 00:35:11,142
We went official.

817
00:35:11,142 --> 00:35:12,477
We met for a reason.

818
00:35:12,477 --> 00:35:14,812
Yes, absolutely. Timing was great.

819
00:35:14,812 --> 00:35:15,947
Red Sox Nation,

820
00:35:17,248 --> 00:35:19,050
meaning

821
00:35:19,050 --> 00:35:21,319
Red Sox. I get it, I get it, I get it.

822
00:35:21,319 --> 00:35:23,654
Red Sox there. Okay, okay.

823
00:35:23,654 --> 00:35:24,655
All right, all right.

824
00:35:24,655 --> 00:35:26,991
Who's your who's your team?

825
00:35:26,991 --> 00:35:27,992
I'm a Yankee. Fan.

826
00:35:27,992 --> 00:35:28,593
How are you?

827
00:35:28,593 --> 00:35:30,328
I grew up in Brooklyn, so.

828
00:35:30,328 --> 00:35:33,331
Oh. So. But,
you know. I wore. Socks again.

829
00:35:33,631 --> 00:35:35,133
Yeah, my mom just went.

830
00:35:35,133 --> 00:35:38,002
My mom went on Father's Day
with her friend

831
00:35:38,002 --> 00:35:40,805
wearing her Yankees gear,
and the Red Sox won.

832
00:35:40,805 --> 00:35:42,440
They swept the Yankees this weekend.

833
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:43,941
That means they won three games in a row.

834
00:35:43,941 --> 00:35:45,743
Yep. Nice.

835
00:35:45,743 --> 00:35:46,444
Beautiful.

836
00:35:46,444 --> 00:35:48,646
Fenway is an amazing place.

837
00:35:48,646 --> 00:35:49,780
You're going back in time.

838
00:35:49,780 --> 00:35:51,582
You're in history? Absolutely.

839
00:35:51,582 --> 00:35:52,950
You know,
I give credit where credit's due.

840
00:35:52,950 --> 00:35:55,486
It's a beautiful park. I love Fenway Park.

841
00:35:55,486 --> 00:35:59,090
One of our monthly events recently,
just happened to coincide.

842
00:35:59,123 --> 00:36:04,262
It was May 17th, and it coincided with, 
the celiac awareness game, which is crazy.

843
00:36:04,262 --> 00:36:06,130
And I wrote to the Red Sox, I'm like,
you know, we're

844
00:36:06,130 --> 00:36:09,167
I have 62 people coming with me
to this game, and a lot of them

845
00:36:09,167 --> 00:36:13,271
are celiac families because type
one and celiac have a correlation, right?

846
00:36:13,271 --> 00:36:15,573
So 6 to 10% of type ones.

847
00:36:15,573 --> 00:36:18,142
Unfortunately we also have
celiac disease is one of them.

848
00:36:18,142 --> 00:36:21,245
And so so another commonality there.

849
00:36:21,245 --> 00:36:23,347
So I'm actually I was seeing right
when I came in.

850
00:36:23,347 --> 00:36:25,082
I'm out on a project right now

851
00:36:25,082 --> 00:36:29,320
for three months working on celiac
resources, for families with type one.

852
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:33,991
So when they're diagnosed, they're going
to have a consolidated resource guide.

853
00:36:34,458 --> 00:36:36,961
And some of it is tailored to the fact
that you're a type one.

854
00:36:36,961 --> 00:36:39,664
Things are a little bit different. Here's
what you have to look out for.

855
00:36:39,664 --> 00:36:42,033
And then consolidate some other
the information

856
00:36:42,033 --> 00:36:44,402
that's out there,
get some more updated information.

857
00:36:44,402 --> 00:36:45,002
It'll be,

858
00:36:45,002 --> 00:36:47,271
you know, for our community
and then anybody nationally

859
00:36:47,271 --> 00:36:49,006
that wants to access it,
it's going to be there.

860
00:36:49,006 --> 00:36:53,611
But so we were at Fenway and it was
it was Celiac Awareness Night.

861
00:36:53,611 --> 00:36:54,512
It was great.

862
00:36:54,512 --> 00:36:56,781
There was tons of like gluten free
snacks and stuff.

863
00:36:56,781 --> 00:36:58,382
But the lines were crazy.

864
00:36:58,382 --> 00:37:01,052
But it was nice that, you know,
I love that.

865
00:37:01,052 --> 00:37:02,253
Well, I know that you know,

866
00:37:02,253 --> 00:37:05,356
you might not be a Red Sox fan,
but the Red Sox really do a lot of good

867
00:37:05,356 --> 00:37:09,694
in the community and really pay attention
to their, you know, their fans.

868
00:37:09,694 --> 00:37:12,296
So fans are celiac, right?

869
00:37:12,296 --> 00:37:14,198
You know, brought it up to them
and they're like,

870
00:37:14,198 --> 00:37:15,433
hey, let's have a celiac game.

871
00:37:15,433 --> 00:37:17,935
You know they do things
like that. It's you know. They're having

872
00:37:19,670 --> 00:37:22,306
I saw
that one to highlight in promotional days.

873
00:37:22,306 --> 00:37:25,376
They're having a nigéria,
an Independence Day game.

874
00:37:26,177 --> 00:37:29,447
They're having a pride event,
they're having Celiac Day, they're having.

875
00:37:30,181 --> 00:37:33,951
Like,
they really focus on that community that.

876
00:37:34,418 --> 00:37:35,720
Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah.

877
00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:38,756
Shout out to the Red Sox Foundation
because they, you know, they're.

878
00:37:39,457 --> 00:37:40,424
Go Red Sox.

879
00:37:40,424 --> 00:37:42,627
You know

880
00:37:42,627 --> 00:37:45,463
and and then the Manning fam family.

881
00:37:45,463 --> 00:37:47,531
Manning family
I immediately thought Peyton

882
00:37:47,531 --> 00:37:51,335
Manning Eli Manning Archie Manning
but totally different right now.

883
00:37:51,335 --> 00:37:54,272
They I think they're the funds
that power the impact award.

884
00:37:54,272 --> 00:37:57,275
So they are very focused on type
one diabetes research.

885
00:37:57,608 --> 00:37:58,976
So they want to, you know,

886
00:37:58,976 --> 00:38:02,847
they want to be powering the nonprofits,
that help with the community,

887
00:38:02,913 --> 00:38:06,617
you know, with community engagement
and, you know, and research. So

888
00:38:07,652 --> 00:38:09,153
they are they are funding that.

889
00:38:09,153 --> 00:38:09,887
That's so cool.

890
00:38:09,887 --> 00:38:12,890
Sign up for the programs,
join your in-person events.

891
00:38:13,090 --> 00:38:15,092
We're going to talk about programs
and in-person events.

892
00:38:15,092 --> 00:38:18,062
Next you order a fruit diversity card.

893
00:38:18,095 --> 00:38:20,731
We talked about that
in your resource page.

894
00:38:20,731 --> 00:38:23,734
An email Samantha, an elbow bump kid.

895
00:38:23,734 --> 00:38:25,202
Oh, you're Samantha.

896
00:38:25,202 --> 00:38:27,505
I am that, you know, no question.

897
00:38:27,505 --> 00:38:28,973
Because I saw a lot. Of.

898
00:38:28,973 --> 00:38:30,841
Know Samantha like on multiple things.

899
00:38:30,841 --> 00:38:31,342
Right.

900
00:38:31,342 --> 00:38:31,542
Yeah.

901
00:38:31,542 --> 00:38:34,445
You know and it's funny
because I see the info offensive.

902
00:38:34,445 --> 00:38:36,280
Like, should we have an info, an elbow
bump, kid?

903
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,983
You know, we're gonna have to think about
that, you know, not not just me.

904
00:38:38,983 --> 00:38:41,686
Like,
just an info box like you have. Yeah.

905
00:38:41,686 --> 00:38:42,820
We have to think about that.

906
00:38:42,820 --> 00:38:44,855
We can get the info box if we directed to.

907
00:38:44,855 --> 00:38:47,425
Can we have a Friends of Feeney
at gmail.com. You could.

908
00:38:47,425 --> 00:38:50,161
Do you have, elbow bump, kid?

909
00:38:50,161 --> 00:38:51,662
Gmail.com. Yeah.

910
00:38:51,662 --> 00:38:54,198
And then and you can both share it.

911
00:38:54,198 --> 00:38:59,003
Full disclosure, Matt and I share
the friends of feeney@gmail.com.

912
00:38:59,003 --> 00:38:59,870
Yeah.

913
00:38:59,870 --> 00:39:03,007
No, it's it's a good call out for like,
when I'm traveling and stuff.

914
00:39:03,007 --> 00:39:04,742
So I definitely need to,

915
00:39:05,876 --> 00:39:08,479
you know, I need to think about that.

916
00:39:08,479 --> 00:39:11,282
But I saw that and I was like,
You know, maybe we should have

917
00:39:11,282 --> 00:39:15,386
a generic info instead of just
email Samantha for everything. So

918
00:39:16,420 --> 00:39:19,590
not that I'm not going to answer it
anyway, but you know, we should.

919
00:39:19,824 --> 00:39:23,060
So this raised $15,000.

920
00:39:23,060 --> 00:39:24,261
Was that first place?

921
00:39:24,261 --> 00:39:27,031
Yes. Like last year
we're in Connecticut. Yes.

922
00:39:27,031 --> 00:39:29,800
That's 15. Right.
And then is there a second place.

923
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:30,234
Third place.

924
00:39:30,234 --> 00:39:35,339
There's a second place which is 5000
and a third place which is 3000.

925
00:39:35,373 --> 00:39:39,810
I want to say so, yeah, but 15,000
is just the world to power these programs.

926
00:39:39,810 --> 00:39:43,681
So we have monthly events, for kids
with type one every month.

927
00:39:43,681 --> 00:39:44,882
There's something. Right?

928
00:39:44,882 --> 00:39:49,653
Sometimes last year, more than 50% of
it was free or heavily subsidized.

929
00:39:50,521 --> 00:39:53,190
And if a family can't afford it,
you know, they just email

930
00:39:53,190 --> 00:39:56,160
me and I say, hey,
you know, and I just power it.

931
00:39:56,527 --> 00:40:00,564
So and it's grant money
that helps to power those.

932
00:40:00,564 --> 00:40:02,533
So it could be something like the
IT course.

933
00:40:02,533 --> 00:40:04,168
It could be something
like the low blood sugar.

934
00:40:04,168 --> 00:40:07,071
But there's something every single,
every single month.

935
00:40:07,071 --> 00:40:10,141
For kids, so this month it's beach day,

936
00:40:10,574 --> 00:40:14,578
which is something we do every year at
a, at a volunteers, at a volunteers home.

937
00:40:14,578 --> 00:40:15,813
And then we walk to the beach.

938
00:40:15,813 --> 00:40:18,182
But July is one of our famous events
that we've been doing.

939
00:40:18,182 --> 00:40:20,384
This is our third year in a row,
and it's one of those partnerships

940
00:40:20,384 --> 00:40:23,387
I was talking about with Merlin's
magic wands.

941
00:40:23,554 --> 00:40:27,491
So they, they help us
by giving us some tickets for Legoland.

942
00:40:27,491 --> 00:40:31,462
So I bring families
down, 100 people come down to Legoland,

943
00:40:31,462 --> 00:40:32,663
and we have a wish day out.

944
00:40:32,663 --> 00:40:35,299
So families
gather in front of the Legoland sign.

945
00:40:35,299 --> 00:40:37,735
We check up, we take a group picture,
they all go in.

946
00:40:37,735 --> 00:40:40,738
I sit somewhere, usually with my laptop,
until a certain time.

947
00:40:40,971 --> 00:40:44,375
I check all the families and I'm like,
all right, families, you know?

948
00:40:44,375 --> 00:40:46,744
Magical moment. Let's all meet here.

949
00:40:46,744 --> 00:40:48,646
You know, you have to be there by 1030.

950
00:40:48,646 --> 00:40:50,981
And then I by the type one kids ice cream.

951
00:40:50,981 --> 00:40:52,950
And then the afternoon,
there's another magic moment.

952
00:40:52,950 --> 00:40:55,653
Then I leave, and then all the families
stay till 8:00 when it closes.

953
00:40:55,653 --> 00:40:57,955
So, it's Legoland wish day.

954
00:40:57,955 --> 00:41:00,024
We've done it
three years in a row. It's great. Yeah.

955
00:41:00,024 --> 00:41:01,292
So that's July.

956
00:41:01,292 --> 00:41:04,128
Now, August is something else, you know,
and it just

957
00:41:04,128 --> 00:41:05,529
it just keeps going every month.

958
00:41:05,529 --> 00:41:07,798
And then we have quarterly for caregivers.

959
00:41:07,798 --> 00:41:10,634
So it'll be their moms or
or caregiver event.

960
00:41:10,634 --> 00:41:12,636
We do something quarterly.

961
00:41:12,636 --> 00:41:14,004
It could be meeting.

962
00:41:14,004 --> 00:41:15,906
This is our moms pajama party.

963
00:41:15,906 --> 00:41:17,575
Yeah. I have a mom's pajama party.

964
00:41:17,575 --> 00:41:19,844
You know, I guess we'll see how that goes.
That's the first time trying that one.

965
00:41:19,844 --> 00:41:23,414
But typically we meet at, like,
a wooden top or something in pajamas.

966
00:41:23,814 --> 00:41:25,883
No, no, no, no, this one first.

967
00:41:25,883 --> 00:41:28,385
I'm Jewish, I'm a party. But days at

968
00:41:29,553 --> 00:41:31,322
we just typically we just meet.

969
00:41:31,322 --> 00:41:33,991
At a little tap and we're not in pajamas.

970
00:41:33,991 --> 00:41:35,159
But.

971
00:41:35,159 --> 00:41:37,495
Yeah, but this time
we're just trying out something different.

972
00:41:37,495 --> 00:41:38,762
Just being at somebody's house.

973
00:41:38,762 --> 00:41:41,131
So that way, people. Right,
you know, really feel like it's.

974
00:41:41,131 --> 00:41:42,666
A little more.
You know, those little. Yeah.

975
00:41:42,666 --> 00:41:43,467
Those events look good.

976
00:41:43,467 --> 00:41:47,171
Legoland Goshen, New York,
July 26th, 10 to 7.

977
00:41:47,638 --> 00:41:47,938
Yeah.

978
00:41:47,938 --> 00:41:52,343
And then Merlin's magic wands
has donated three years in a row, right?

979
00:41:52,376 --> 00:41:54,478
Correct. So who's Merlin?

980
00:41:54,478 --> 00:41:56,480
Yeah, they did 23, 24, 25.

981
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,549
Who had who's.

982
00:41:58,549 --> 00:42:00,017
Yeah. So they. Talk about. Merlin.

983
00:42:00,017 --> 00:42:00,251
Yeah.

984
00:42:00,251 --> 00:42:04,889
So they're a nonprofit that what they do
is they power.

985
00:42:04,889 --> 00:42:07,892
Adventure days for sick kids.

986
00:42:08,125 --> 00:42:08,492
Right.

987
00:42:08,492 --> 00:42:12,663
So, that they surely exist for, like,
the Legoland

988
00:42:12,663 --> 00:42:16,166
type attractions or Legoland, you know,
their sea life aquarium, stuff like that.

989
00:42:16,166 --> 00:42:17,768
So they power days out.

990
00:42:17,768 --> 00:42:22,006
So last year
they, they moved to instead of powering

991
00:42:22,206 --> 00:42:26,110
individual families, they power nonprofit
to bring individual families.

992
00:42:26,110 --> 00:42:29,179
So something that I had already
been working with them on for two years,

993
00:42:29,179 --> 00:42:31,882
they just moved to.
That's entirely what they do now.

994
00:42:31,882 --> 00:42:33,484
It's just worked through nonprofits
like ours.

995
00:42:33,484 --> 00:42:36,954
So I would help the,
you know, type one kids and kinetic.

996
00:42:36,954 --> 00:42:39,290
We have some New York kids
that come to that one, too,

997
00:42:39,290 --> 00:42:41,792
just because I'm connected
with some New York families.

998
00:42:41,792 --> 00:42:44,762
But, you know, last year we had a couple
families come down from Massachusetts.

999
00:42:45,095 --> 00:42:48,799
You know, Vermont, you know, where,
you know, where new England

1000
00:42:48,799 --> 00:42:52,703
nonprofit and powered by a Facebook group
that has over 800 parents in it.

1001
00:42:52,703 --> 00:42:54,805
So, you know, I just share it in there.

1002
00:42:54,805 --> 00:42:57,575
And Merlin has been great
because you we just apply for Merlin.

1003
00:42:57,575 --> 00:43:00,244
A person or Merlin is the magician.

1004
00:43:00,244 --> 00:43:01,445
Yeah. No.

1005
00:43:01,445 --> 00:43:04,381
Merlin's magic wand
is a foundation of profit, just like us.

1006
00:43:04,381 --> 00:43:05,516
Interesting, I love it. Yeah.

1007
00:43:07,384 --> 00:43:08,152
No, I saw it.

1008
00:43:08,152 --> 00:43:09,653
A couple events stood out.

1009
00:43:09,653 --> 00:43:12,456
The, Legoland on July 26th.

1010
00:43:12,456 --> 00:43:16,060
The ice cream social in Glastonbury
at River Riverfront Park.

1011
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:17,962
Email Emily.

1012
00:43:17,962 --> 00:43:19,396
That's July 24th.

1013
00:43:19,396 --> 00:43:20,631
So you got back to back.

1014
00:43:20,631 --> 00:43:22,633
You got the 24th and the 26th. Yeah.

1015
00:43:22,633 --> 00:43:23,701
So that's an example

1016
00:43:23,701 --> 00:43:27,972
of one of our nonprofit partnerships
because we partner with breakthrough 20

1017
00:43:28,072 --> 00:43:32,643
to, to either power some of their events
like they're taking clinic in November.

1018
00:43:32,643 --> 00:43:35,913
So we'll provide volunteers for that
and we'll help coordinate that.

1019
00:43:35,913 --> 00:43:39,183
And then they have an ice cream social in
July that I just put it out

1020
00:43:39,183 --> 00:43:42,686
on our website
so people know, like, hey, go to that.

1021
00:43:42,686 --> 00:43:44,688
It's a diabetes event,
but it's not necessarily

1022
00:43:44,688 --> 00:43:47,791
are events or some of their events
that aren't fundraisers.

1023
00:43:47,791 --> 00:43:49,193
We will just put out there.

1024
00:43:49,193 --> 00:43:51,395
So people, you know,
because it's a good way for the community

1025
00:43:51,395 --> 00:43:54,398
to gather that's a free event,
you know, go spread the word.

1026
00:43:54,565 --> 00:43:56,166
I love it with the type one community.

1027
00:43:56,166 --> 00:43:59,703
So we just, you know, I would say break
31 days is a good friend.

1028
00:43:59,703 --> 00:44:02,873
So we, you know,
we help power their events and they help

1029
00:44:02,873 --> 00:44:05,175
share our events as well
because we're partners

1030
00:44:05,175 --> 00:44:08,278
and we're all working together,
you know, to help the diabetes community.

1031
00:44:08,278 --> 00:44:09,847
Spiderweb of spreading awareness.

1032
00:44:09,847 --> 00:44:10,514
Yeah, exactly.

1033
00:44:10,514 --> 00:44:11,448
Partnering.

1034
00:44:11,448 --> 00:44:13,684
And then the sixth annual beach day.

1035
00:44:13,684 --> 00:44:15,619
Yes. Waterford, Connecticut.

1036
00:44:15,619 --> 00:44:18,222
Yeah. June 28th. It's potluck.

1037
00:44:18,222 --> 00:44:20,190
What do we bring it? What do we bring in?

1038
00:44:20,190 --> 00:44:21,892
Like some something gluten free.

1039
00:44:21,892 --> 00:44:22,626
Right? Yeah.

1040
00:44:22,626 --> 00:44:25,129
It's only for the celiac.
Something gluten free.

1041
00:44:25,129 --> 00:44:28,532
Typically it's very last minute,
and I figure it out the hour before.

1042
00:44:28,532 --> 00:44:29,566
Maybe a veggie platter.

1043
00:44:30,768 --> 00:44:33,303
You know, a lot of it from
our friends of Stu Leonard's or something.

1044
00:44:33,303 --> 00:44:34,571
Typically nice.

1045
00:44:34,571 --> 00:44:37,708
Yeah,
I always, I always seem to run down there.

1046
00:44:38,242 --> 00:44:39,209
So we're going to play a game.

1047
00:44:39,209 --> 00:44:41,979
So many events, so many things going on.

1048
00:44:41,979 --> 00:44:45,249
But the game is first, last, best, worst.

1049
00:44:45,616 --> 00:44:49,253
Your first event, your last event,
your best event, your worst event.

1050
00:44:49,253 --> 00:44:51,021
Maybe something went wrong or missing.

1051
00:44:51,021 --> 00:44:52,756
Oh yeah, I get boom. Boom, boom.

1052
00:44:52,756 --> 00:44:53,190
You got it.

1053
00:44:53,190 --> 00:44:56,126
First, your order for best worst event.

1054
00:44:56,126 --> 00:44:58,228
The first event ever that we have. Yeah.

1055
00:44:58,228 --> 00:45:00,831
Oh my gosh.

1056
00:45:00,831 --> 00:45:05,202
See first is hard
because we are Covid nonprofit right.

1057
00:45:05,202 --> 00:45:07,104
So we started in 2019.

1058
00:45:07,104 --> 00:45:09,573
We were all excited
let's do this. Let's do that.

1059
00:45:09,573 --> 00:45:11,041
And then there was 2020. Right.

1060
00:45:11,041 --> 00:45:13,210
So okay. You know
so that was kind of our problem.

1061
00:45:13,210 --> 00:45:16,146
Our first event would be,
you know our friends for life.

1062
00:45:16,146 --> 00:45:16,814
Right.

1063
00:45:16,814 --> 00:45:21,151
Because that was the first thing we did
was power a couple of families to go.

1064
00:45:21,218 --> 00:45:23,220
We fundraised we power.

1065
00:45:23,220 --> 00:45:25,789
So technically,
our first event was a designer bag

1066
00:45:25,789 --> 00:45:28,959
bingo to raise money for families
to go to friends for life.

1067
00:45:28,959 --> 00:45:32,162
And then we powered
a couple of scholarships to go.

1068
00:45:32,162 --> 00:45:35,265
Our last event for a month in June.

1069
00:45:35,265 --> 00:45:39,002
First last event was the Red Sox,
was the Red Sox game that we just had.

1070
00:45:39,069 --> 00:45:39,870
For June 1st.

1071
00:45:39,870 --> 00:45:42,439
We took the kids to spare time and Vernon.

1072
00:45:42,439 --> 00:45:44,742
Oh yes, we did have a bowling.
We had a bowling event.

1073
00:45:44,742 --> 00:45:46,009
For the teams. Yeah, yeah.

1074
00:45:46,009 --> 00:45:50,447
So that was that was an example
of the type ones, being like almost free.

1075
00:45:50,848 --> 00:45:54,551
Pretty much thanks to spare time in
Vernon for, you know, donating, donating.

1076
00:45:54,752 --> 00:45:56,320
They do. Glow
in the dark bowling. Is that.

1077
00:45:57,421 --> 00:45:58,555
It was kind of late.

1078
00:45:58,555 --> 00:45:59,857
That was laser tag.

1079
00:45:59,857 --> 00:46:00,390
Oh, yeah.

1080
00:46:00,390 --> 00:46:02,860
I mean, it was super, super economical.

1081
00:46:02,860 --> 00:46:03,360
It was.

1082
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,997
Yeah, it was it was incredibly
they they do a lot of good for nonprofits.

1083
00:46:06,997 --> 00:46:10,300
If you ask them. Our best event,
I love it.

1084
00:46:10,300 --> 00:46:11,468
I love the Lego in.

1085
00:46:11,468 --> 00:46:13,370
We had a lot of really good events

1086
00:46:13,370 --> 00:46:16,473
where where afterwards, you know, kids
will run up to me and be like, thank you.

1087
00:46:16,607 --> 00:46:19,143
We had a pottery event
once I glazed in Glastonbury,

1088
00:46:19,143 --> 00:46:21,111
where we sold out the house
like standing room.

1089
00:46:21,111 --> 00:46:24,081
Only 55 people making pottery
we don't like.

1090
00:46:24,081 --> 00:46:25,015
It wasn't a fundraiser.

1091
00:46:25,015 --> 00:46:28,819
It was just to make pottery your type
ones, and I didn't have them sign up.

1092
00:46:28,819 --> 00:46:31,822
I just had them drop and it was like
55 people there was insane.

1093
00:46:32,189 --> 00:46:34,024
And it was great because
kids were running up to me afterwards.

1094
00:46:34,024 --> 00:46:36,727
Thank you,
thank you. And it was just fun.

1095
00:46:36,727 --> 00:46:37,394
Our worst.

1096
00:46:37,394 --> 00:46:40,831
I have to say, no offense to the place,
was rock climbing, and rock climbing

1097
00:46:40,831 --> 00:46:45,302
as a community event just doesn't work
because they're all, like.

1098
00:46:45,369 --> 00:46:45,936
Good to know.

1099
00:46:45,936 --> 00:46:48,739
They're all like,
climbing at different times.

1100
00:46:48,739 --> 00:46:50,040
And the lines for rock

1101
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:53,377
climbing the lions, there was like
20 kids in line to go up the same thing,

1102
00:46:53,377 --> 00:46:56,380
and everybody was impatient
and everybody was yelling at each other.

1103
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,882
We were not,
we will not. And we tried it again.

1104
00:46:58,882 --> 00:47:01,084
A different rock climbing place
and it was the same outcome.

1105
00:47:01,084 --> 00:47:03,420
So rock climbing is a group event without.

1106
00:47:03,420 --> 00:47:05,622
Anything, with kids waiting in line.

1107
00:47:05,622 --> 00:47:09,026
Yes. As a third grade teacher
or a coach, like a little kid,

1108
00:47:09,026 --> 00:47:10,894
when I coached little kids soccer.

1109
00:47:10,894 --> 00:47:13,030
Versus.
Never have them wait in. Line at Legoland.

1110
00:47:13,030 --> 00:47:15,132
We split them by age,
so that way with them off

1111
00:47:15,132 --> 00:47:17,100
and then they meet up afterwards, right.

1112
00:47:17,100 --> 00:47:20,137
You know, 7 to 9, you know, go here
and you guys group together.

1113
00:47:20,137 --> 00:47:22,206
I always make sure something.
Was something in this group.

1114
00:47:22,206 --> 00:47:24,908
You do the same ride. It's
going to be a nightmare.

1115
00:47:24,908 --> 00:47:25,909
Yeah, yeah.

1116
00:47:25,909 --> 00:47:26,109
Yeah.

1117
00:47:26,109 --> 00:47:29,179
So I would say definitely the worst was
the worst was rock climbing.

1118
00:47:29,246 --> 00:47:30,547
The best is the best is,

1119
00:47:30,547 --> 00:47:34,051
you know, Legoland or anything
where anything I would say we have

1120
00:47:34,051 --> 00:47:37,487
we tried a lot of best,
but anything where it's,

1121
00:47:38,021 --> 00:47:41,158
you know, the super subsidized ones
that have, you know, more

1122
00:47:41,158 --> 00:47:44,461
than, like, you know, 20 to 30 show up
and you're like, wow.

1123
00:47:44,461 --> 00:47:46,129
You know,
we just like, a really good thing

1124
00:47:46,129 --> 00:47:49,199
here, you know, because of a grant
or because of, you know, a donor

1125
00:47:49,333 --> 00:47:52,102
that we were able to do this
for a community,

1126
00:47:52,102 --> 00:47:54,872
you know, that we were able to do this
amazing thing, our, our,

1127
00:47:54,872 --> 00:47:58,809
you know, our problem with a lot of
the free stuff is staff is, is place,

1128
00:47:59,509 --> 00:48:01,812
you know, like, yeah,
you have this great spot here, right?

1129
00:48:01,812 --> 00:48:05,315
Like, but trying to get a space
to have a kid event craft,

1130
00:48:05,782 --> 00:48:08,418
you know, shout out to,
you know, to the company

1131
00:48:08,418 --> 00:48:11,421
in Middletown
that powers, our game nights.

1132
00:48:11,622 --> 00:48:15,492
They donate, their conference room
to our game nights every winter.

1133
00:48:15,492 --> 00:48:18,562
But spaces space is tough to have.

1134
00:48:18,595 --> 00:48:19,429
Where's the Middletown.

1135
00:48:19,429 --> 00:48:21,798
Spot free subsidized events. It is.

1136
00:48:23,867 --> 00:48:24,568
But it's at a

1137
00:48:24,568 --> 00:48:27,571
conference room in Middletown.

1138
00:48:27,971 --> 00:48:28,939
But it's. Yeah, I know.

1139
00:48:28,939 --> 00:48:31,608
It's it's
in, it's in a kind of an industrial area,

1140
00:48:31,608 --> 00:48:34,578
but it's very nice that they lend us
the space is really.

1141
00:48:34,578 --> 00:48:35,646
They're fantastic.

1142
00:48:35,646 --> 00:48:36,980
Yeah.

1143
00:48:36,980 --> 00:48:38,181
Yeah. So what about you?

1144
00:48:38,181 --> 00:48:39,783
Best and worst.

1145
00:48:39,783 --> 00:48:40,517
Well, you know what?

1146
00:48:40,517 --> 00:48:43,520
My my best is going to be,
friends for life.

1147
00:48:43,587 --> 00:48:46,156
Of course,
because of all the education there.

1148
00:48:46,156 --> 00:48:47,891
My worst event.

1149
00:48:47,891 --> 00:48:50,160
I did not do rock climbing,
my worst state.

1150
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:54,498
But even though Legoland is very nice,
my son was at the height

1151
00:48:54,498 --> 00:48:57,601
for some of the rides,
so we didn't get to it.

1152
00:48:57,601 --> 00:48:58,802
Was we?

1153
00:48:58,802 --> 00:49:01,038
You know, had never been
this is beautiful. And we're like, wow.

1154
00:49:01,038 --> 00:49:02,539
But we couldn't partake in everything

1155
00:49:02,539 --> 00:49:05,542
because I feel like Legoland
is for 3 to 12 year olds,

1156
00:49:05,742 --> 00:49:09,012
you know, and depending on if you're tall,
you might you might have an issue.

1157
00:49:09,012 --> 00:49:11,615
So it was too tall for us. Yes.

1158
00:49:11,615 --> 00:49:13,216
Some. Some who. Yeah.

1159
00:49:13,216 --> 00:49:16,987
Because it is it is geared towards
children ages 3 to 12.

1160
00:49:17,321 --> 00:49:22,526
It's nice for the family you know,
and older that like to park take in Legos.

1161
00:49:22,693 --> 00:49:25,696
But when you want to get on a ride
there is some height restrictions.

1162
00:49:25,729 --> 00:49:28,065
So that was kind of all the worse.

1163
00:49:28,065 --> 00:49:31,501
Good for parents because you're like, oh,
I can't go on this ride.

1164
00:49:31,735 --> 00:49:33,403
I'm too. Tall. Yes.

1165
00:49:34,805 --> 00:49:37,441
But no, it was still a nice time
and a nice experience.

1166
00:49:37,441 --> 00:49:38,909
See, Floyd.

1167
00:49:38,909 --> 00:49:39,776
C, Floyd.

1168
00:49:39,776 --> 00:49:42,512
Middletown, Middletown, they,
they donate their.

1169
00:49:42,512 --> 00:49:45,983
Yeah, they donate their conference room
to us every so often for

1170
00:49:46,049 --> 00:49:48,285
they would do it
more if I, if I asked them more.

1171
00:49:48,285 --> 00:49:51,688
But you know, I try to rotate the events
around this around the state.

1172
00:49:51,688 --> 00:49:55,759
So so it's funny, when we first meet
the newly diagnosed program,

1173
00:49:55,759 --> 00:49:58,762
I had this vision of personally meeting
with every single person newly

1174
00:49:58,762 --> 00:50:00,163
diagnosed in Connecticut, you know?

1175
00:50:00,163 --> 00:50:03,800
So I put out the link and the first person
that comes in to Stamford

1176
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,236
and the next person that comes in
is stores.

1177
00:50:06,236 --> 00:50:08,338
And I'm like, yeah, I don't know.

1178
00:50:08,338 --> 00:50:10,474
How to drive an all around the state.
This is going to work.

1179
00:50:10,474 --> 00:50:13,710
You know, today's came
in, it was like Redding area, you know,

1180
00:50:13,710 --> 00:50:16,580
and then there's another person that's
in waiting right now for our meet up time.

1181
00:50:16,580 --> 00:50:18,482
I'll get back to you soon in North Haven.

1182
00:50:18,482 --> 00:50:21,218
So, that's. Why there's zoom.

1183
00:50:21,218 --> 00:50:23,353
Now I am. I understand the.

1184
00:50:23,353 --> 00:50:24,354
Drive for the first.

1185
00:50:24,354 --> 00:50:29,026
So for the first, like, 50 families, I'm
trying to personally meet with them.

1186
00:50:29,026 --> 00:50:32,829
Since we rolled out the program
this year, I want to I want to tell them,

1187
00:50:32,829 --> 00:50:34,531
you know what it is.
I want to find out afterwards.

1188
00:50:34,531 --> 00:50:35,966
I want to have that personal connection.

1189
00:50:35,966 --> 00:50:37,667
So in three months,
when I emailed them and say,

1190
00:50:37,667 --> 00:50:40,704
what do you wish
you would have had in their you know what?

1191
00:50:40,704 --> 00:50:42,305
Like,
what do you wish would have been there?

1192
00:50:42,305 --> 00:50:44,741
What didn't you use?
What do you wish you knew?

1193
00:50:44,741 --> 00:50:45,375
You know,

1194
00:50:45,375 --> 00:50:48,245
what have you learned afterwards
that could have been, you know, that could

1195
00:50:48,245 --> 00:50:51,248
have been in there, you know, or like,
what do you feel is like the most helpful?

1196
00:50:51,348 --> 00:50:52,516
So I want their feedback.

1197
00:50:52,516 --> 00:50:53,250
And typically

1198
00:50:53,250 --> 00:50:56,820
I find that they'll respond to me
better after I've personally my thumb.

1199
00:50:57,187 --> 00:50:59,823
Whereas, you know, if it's just an
email, they probably won't.

1200
00:51:00,991 --> 00:51:03,894
So that's our newly diagnosed project.

1201
00:51:03,894 --> 00:51:05,195
Yeah. You have a lot of programs.

1202
00:51:05,195 --> 00:51:06,596
I don't know which one
you want to talk about.

1203
00:51:06,596 --> 00:51:08,098
The college support program.

1204
00:51:08,098 --> 00:51:09,766
Your scholarship program. Yeah.

1205
00:51:09,766 --> 00:51:10,700
So I feel like

1206
00:51:10,700 --> 00:51:15,639
I feel like the college came out of,
you know, I was just doing some research

1207
00:51:15,639 --> 00:51:18,642
so randomly, I know in my spare time,
which I have none of,

1208
00:51:18,909 --> 00:51:20,110
I'll just do some research.

1209
00:51:20,110 --> 00:51:24,114
And a lot of times
it feels like from the data that,

1210
00:51:24,114 --> 00:51:25,982
you know, when you drop off, you know, so

1211
00:51:25,982 --> 00:51:28,652
a lot of the programs are for kids
0 to 18, right?

1212
00:51:28,652 --> 00:51:31,621
You know, or scholarships,
whatever. They go off.

1213
00:51:31,621 --> 00:51:33,990
Guess what? They still have type
one diabetes in college, right?

1214
00:51:33,990 --> 00:51:36,393
So there's this great nonprofit
called the Diabetes Link,

1215
00:51:36,393 --> 00:51:38,829
which does a lot of good, nationally.

1216
00:51:38,829 --> 00:51:41,998
But again, you know,
we are very local focus nonprofit

1217
00:51:41,998 --> 00:51:45,335
Connecticut, western mass creeping
up, as,

1218
00:51:45,469 --> 00:51:49,172
you know, as we can Rhode Island
a little bit into Westchester, New York.

1219
00:51:49,172 --> 00:51:51,508
So I wanted to focus on the families
that we help.

1220
00:51:51,508 --> 00:51:54,945
So, 
we started a college scholarship program,

1221
00:51:54,945 --> 00:51:57,147
so we give out a couple of scholarships
every year.

1222
00:51:57,147 --> 00:51:59,015
It's a competitive process.
We have committee.

1223
00:51:59,015 --> 00:52:01,618
I don't read them
because I love all the kids.

1224
00:52:01,618 --> 00:52:03,320
And I'd be like, oh,
I want to give them all,

1225
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:07,724
so we have a bunch of volunteers again
that really they just run the program.

1226
00:52:07,724 --> 00:52:08,892
They tell me who won.

1227
00:52:08,892 --> 00:52:10,360
They outreach the people who did it.

1228
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:13,263
When I outreach the winners,
I meet up with them, I give them a check.

1229
00:52:13,263 --> 00:52:14,030
It's great.

1230
00:52:14,030 --> 00:52:16,233
I get to find out what I.

1231
00:52:16,233 --> 00:52:17,734
And it's also continuous improvement.

1232
00:52:17,734 --> 00:52:19,136
I say what you like about our process.

1233
00:52:19,136 --> 00:52:21,304
What? Didn't you, you know,
how do you find it?

1234
00:52:21,304 --> 00:52:24,474
You know, versus your other,
you know, scholarship.

1235
00:52:24,474 --> 00:52:26,042
So I love talking to the winners.

1236
00:52:26,042 --> 00:52:28,845
But then we also have a college box
in the fall where.

1237
00:52:28,845 --> 00:52:32,482
Well, one year is a box,
and I mailed out a pile of candy to, like,

1238
00:52:32,482 --> 00:52:33,950
21 college kids. Right?

1239
00:52:33,950 --> 00:52:35,785
And it's like, hey,
treat your low blood sugars.

1240
00:52:35,785 --> 00:52:38,088
You know,
there was a gift card in there for Dunkin

1241
00:52:38,088 --> 00:52:41,091
or Starbucks or whatever
their parents checked off.

1242
00:52:41,191 --> 00:52:43,960
Last year I moved to just
communicating with the kids.

1243
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,863
So it was, you know, we sent out
because we had the mailing list

1244
00:52:46,863 --> 00:52:49,266
from the year before,
and then we pushed it out on our social

1245
00:52:49,266 --> 00:52:52,269
and our parent group and said,
hey, sign up.

1246
00:52:52,302 --> 00:52:53,670
You tell your kids to sign up.

1247
00:52:53,670 --> 00:52:54,971
So I had their texts.

1248
00:52:54,971 --> 00:52:57,240
So I texted them, Starbucks gift cards.

1249
00:52:57,240 --> 00:53:01,144
And no matter what we do,
we send the links to some of the resources

1250
00:53:01,144 --> 00:53:04,181
that are out there, like,
you know, with drinking and type one, and,

1251
00:53:04,214 --> 00:53:07,217
you know, some of those sensitive topics
to make sure that they have,

1252
00:53:07,317 --> 00:53:08,852
you know, access to that through,

1253
00:53:08,852 --> 00:53:12,522
you know, through,
some of the other nonprofits

1254
00:53:12,522 --> 00:53:14,124
that are out there
have some really, really good.

1255
00:53:14,124 --> 00:53:16,393
So we just link to that on our website,
because why

1256
00:53:16,393 --> 00:53:19,129
a lot of times we are like that,
we're like, why recreate the wheel?

1257
00:53:19,129 --> 00:53:21,531
So I'll just ask the nonprofit,
do you mind if I just link

1258
00:53:21,531 --> 00:53:22,299
to your information?

1259
00:53:22,299 --> 00:53:25,335
Because we have separate people
that might be coming to us and not you.

1260
00:53:25,335 --> 00:53:27,771
So, so this year,
who knows what it's going to be?

1261
00:53:27,771 --> 00:53:29,472
But I already have kids signing up, like,

1262
00:53:29,472 --> 00:53:33,276
you know, all the time for it, because, 
the deadline is September 30th.

1263
00:53:33,276 --> 00:53:37,447
So I say, once they know their college
address, you know, let me know.

1264
00:53:37,447 --> 00:53:39,482
But I think it's a really good way
to just not, you know, so

1265
00:53:39,482 --> 00:53:41,551
they they drop off,
you know, they go to college,

1266
00:53:41,551 --> 00:53:43,353
they don't have the monthly events
anymore.

1267
00:53:43,353 --> 00:53:46,957
You know, they don't have that
that same connection anymore.

1268
00:53:46,957 --> 00:53:47,190
Right?

1269
00:53:47,190 --> 00:53:51,661
If they were a youth ambassador with,
you know, with, through or with us,

1270
00:53:52,429 --> 00:53:55,031
they're not anymore because youth
ambassadors stops at that age.

1271
00:53:55,031 --> 00:53:58,401
So, you know, it's a it's a way of keeping
them, you know, somewhat connected.

1272
00:53:58,401 --> 00:54:00,370
And then, you know,
we have a couple of great,

1273
00:54:00,370 --> 00:54:04,007
college students that, you know,
like Ella, actually, Ella lives in West

1274
00:54:04,007 --> 00:54:04,541
Hartford.

1275
00:54:04,541 --> 00:54:05,542
You know, if she comes back

1276
00:54:05,542 --> 00:54:08,612
and she's around and available, she'll,
you know, she'll text me and be like, hey,

1277
00:54:08,612 --> 00:54:09,813
do you need me for an event or something?

1278
00:54:09,813 --> 00:54:12,682
And she'll come back and volunteer.
So. Good.

1279
00:54:12,682 --> 00:54:14,451
No, I love people coming back.

1280
00:54:16,286 --> 00:54:19,356
And getting
helped and then joining the team.

1281
00:54:19,356 --> 00:54:22,292
That was very powerful moment
in the podcast.

1282
00:54:22,292 --> 00:54:25,095
Anything else with the programs,

1283
00:54:25,095 --> 00:54:26,263
any other programs?

1284
00:54:26,263 --> 00:54:30,033
New families, family
hardship program, scholarship?

1285
00:54:30,033 --> 00:54:32,068
We talked about that college support.

1286
00:54:32,068 --> 00:54:34,170
We're oh, is sage going to college?

1287
00:54:34,170 --> 00:54:36,873
It's just going to, you know, since

1288
00:54:36,873 --> 00:54:39,576
he's, made a financial decision
that he didn't want loans.

1289
00:54:39,576 --> 00:54:43,013
And CSU's the way and they have
they have a new climate science program

1290
00:54:43,380 --> 00:54:44,648
that they introduced last year.

1291
00:54:44,648 --> 00:54:48,451
So just really excited to, 
you know, to be one of the first to

1292
00:54:48,451 --> 00:54:49,586
enjoy that curriculum.

1293
00:54:49,586 --> 00:54:55,058
So Tom Pence's the athletic director
of CSU's My Neighbor and podcast guest.

1294
00:54:55,258 --> 00:54:57,360
You should check it out
so sage can go up to him.

1295
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:00,030
But hey, I know you.
You were on the podcast.

1296
00:55:00,030 --> 00:55:01,164
Tom's a good friend.

1297
00:55:01,164 --> 00:55:03,199
Was a tennis player
in high school up till this year.

1298
00:55:03,199 --> 00:55:04,534
Does he want to play for central?

1299
00:55:04,534 --> 00:55:07,470
I know the guy, I don't know, I could get
him, I could get him on the team.

1300
00:55:07,470 --> 00:55:10,373
I don't. Know. Tom.
I could find you a new tennis player.

1301
00:55:11,441 --> 00:55:13,810
I don't know if they have tennis and ccaea
I don't know.

1302
00:55:13,810 --> 00:55:14,878
I don't know that they do.

1303
00:55:14,878 --> 00:55:15,578
Well, yeah.

1304
00:55:15,578 --> 00:55:18,581
So our show, our new patient programs,
people find out about that

1305
00:55:18,581 --> 00:55:23,253
through some great friends we have at, 
Connecticut Children's and Medical Center.

1306
00:55:23,253 --> 00:55:23,553
Yeah.

1307
00:55:23,553 --> 00:55:27,424
So both, children's diabetes programs,
they have, index card

1308
00:55:27,424 --> 00:55:32,195
that looks like this, except, 
the other side, like basically, right now

1309
00:55:32,195 --> 00:55:35,365
it's red socks contest, but the other side
basically tells families

1310
00:55:35,365 --> 00:55:38,368
how to connect with us,
so they'll give them in their,

1311
00:55:38,768 --> 00:55:41,705
in their patient, like, discharge packets
or something like that,

1312
00:55:41,705 --> 00:55:43,740
or they'll just tell them about it
in a future appointment

1313
00:55:43,740 --> 00:55:45,775
if somebody needs connection or guidance.

1314
00:55:45,775 --> 00:55:49,412
So they connect,
they help us connect patients.

1315
00:55:49,412 --> 00:55:52,048
But sometimes patients connect us
to a Google search.

1316
00:55:52,048 --> 00:55:52,749
Right.

1317
00:55:52,749 --> 00:55:54,150
And they'll connect with us either

1318
00:55:54,150 --> 00:55:56,453
through the new patient program
or through our Facebook group.

1319
00:55:56,453 --> 00:55:59,522
So they'll sign up if they were diagnosed
within 3 or 4 months.

1320
00:55:59,522 --> 00:56:02,759
And then, you know, as I said, I meet up
with them and give them some resources.

1321
00:56:02,992 --> 00:56:06,262
If there's a family, you know,
that's been type one for many years

1322
00:56:06,262 --> 00:56:09,265
and they need a little helping hand
with a non pharmacy supply

1323
00:56:09,366 --> 00:56:12,936
and we have it or able to access it
like a spy belt or something.

1324
00:56:12,936 --> 00:56:15,138
There's broke.
They can't afford a new one.

1325
00:56:15,138 --> 00:56:16,272
Spy belt actually.

1326
00:56:16,272 --> 00:56:20,110
They are belts that holds a younger kids

1327
00:56:20,343 --> 00:56:23,747
insulin pump for a phone
and especially good even for older kids.

1328
00:56:23,747 --> 00:56:24,848
For sports. Yes.

1329
00:56:24,848 --> 00:56:27,317
So football, soccer,
whatever you can just clip.

1330
00:56:27,317 --> 00:56:31,888
And that way your family in, you know, in
the bleachers can still read your,

1331
00:56:31,888 --> 00:56:35,759
you know, read your blood sugar, but, you
know, it's not like, really interfering,

1332
00:56:36,126 --> 00:56:38,461
you know, because you can put it,
like under your jersey or what?

1333
00:56:38,461 --> 00:56:40,263
I'm like, yeah, like under my shirt.

1334
00:56:40,263 --> 00:56:42,932
Like it's under like it's under my jersey.

1335
00:56:42,932 --> 00:56:44,701
Under there. Just like that. Right?

1336
00:56:44,701 --> 00:56:46,302
Yes. Actually, yeah.

1337
00:56:46,302 --> 00:56:49,239
From an event perspective, the events are
typically just for type ones.

1338
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:51,908
We do have a few events
every year, you know, a handful

1339
00:56:51,908 --> 00:56:55,812
that are more community like,
we might say, hey, basketball.

1340
00:56:55,812 --> 00:56:58,047
You know this prices for our type
one family.

1341
00:56:58,047 --> 00:57:00,483
But community
you can come to you if you want to.

1342
00:57:00,483 --> 00:57:03,353
And here's the regular price for you
because we won't subsidize

1343
00:57:03,353 --> 00:57:04,921
a non type one family.

1344
00:57:04,921 --> 00:57:06,890
But we do have a designer bike fundraiser.

1345
00:57:06,890 --> 00:57:08,391
Every year I try to get rid of it.

1346
00:57:08,391 --> 00:57:10,860
That just happened. Decided
we missed that.

1347
00:57:10,860 --> 00:57:11,728
That was in May.

1348
00:57:11,728 --> 00:57:14,030
That was this Saturday. On Mother's Day.

1349
00:57:14,030 --> 00:57:16,299
And she's like, I'm doing this next year.
Yeah, yeah.

1350
00:57:16,299 --> 00:57:18,268
So typically we did it in May this year.

1351
00:57:18,268 --> 00:57:21,337
Like the Mother's Day collaboration
didn't really work out.

1352
00:57:21,337 --> 00:57:24,274
So I think we're going to back it
up to April. Yeah. Yeah.

1353
00:57:24,274 --> 00:57:26,543
It was just
it was just tough with Mother's Day

1354
00:57:26,543 --> 00:57:29,712
and then end of school year stuff
I feel like yeah, yeah.

1355
00:57:29,712 --> 00:57:32,115
So I think we're going to back it
up to April next year.

1356
00:57:32,115 --> 00:57:34,117
But it's great. You know, at one point
I tried to get rid of it.

1357
00:57:34,117 --> 00:57:36,486
But like our community members love it.

1358
00:57:36,486 --> 00:57:39,756
It has become our annual fundraiser,
the designer Bag bingo.

1359
00:57:39,756 --> 00:57:42,225
And each year
it's grown larger and larger.

1360
00:57:42,225 --> 00:57:46,029
This year
we had close to about 200 participants.

1361
00:57:46,029 --> 00:57:49,199
We play bingo, ten games, it's ten

1362
00:57:49,199 --> 00:57:52,502
different designer bags,
and we always have a larger bag as.

1363
00:57:52,502 --> 00:57:54,237
The the prize is the bag.

1364
00:57:54,237 --> 00:57:56,606
Yeah. This year we had a Gucci bag.

1365
00:57:56,606 --> 00:58:00,109
Last year I don't remember what the main,
you know, but.

1366
00:58:00,210 --> 00:58:02,178
There's always a mean like. Louis.

1367
00:58:02,178 --> 00:58:03,646
Yeah. Well, what.

1368
00:58:03,646 --> 00:58:07,517
We're we're not we're not at Louis stage
yet, but that's what we're working up to.

1369
00:58:07,584 --> 00:58:08,351
Remember?

1370
00:58:08,351 --> 00:58:10,520
I don't even. Know
where the volunteer will be.

1371
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:11,621
You're on track, though.

1372
00:58:11,621 --> 00:58:13,957
That's that's where my mind is for next
year.

1373
00:58:13,957 --> 00:58:15,124
Typically, you know.

1374
00:58:15,124 --> 00:58:17,660
So again, volunteer volunteering.

1375
00:58:17,660 --> 00:58:20,430
I don't have a ton of time
to go on and get bag sponsors.

1376
00:58:20,430 --> 00:58:23,800
So it's typically
once we see 40 or 50 people sign

1377
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,469
up, we go out and start,
you know, buying the bags for like,

1378
00:58:26,469 --> 00:58:28,371
you know, four bags
in case we get some sponsors.

1379
00:58:28,371 --> 00:58:29,672
But we haven't had a ton of time.

1380
00:58:29,672 --> 00:58:30,373
Nice. Yeah.

1381
00:58:30,373 --> 00:58:32,308
But that bag is sponsored by.

1382
00:58:32,308 --> 00:58:33,977
Yeah, that's
what we're going to do next year.

1383
00:58:33,977 --> 00:58:35,245
We're going to go out to some businesses

1384
00:58:35,245 --> 00:58:36,813
and say,
hey, we'll give you a table for four.

1385
00:58:36,813 --> 00:58:39,048
Do you want to sponsor a bag?
So we're going to do more.

1386
00:58:39,048 --> 00:58:40,116
We're going to do more of that. Now.

1387
00:58:40,116 --> 00:58:42,485
Where was that hosted this year?

1388
00:58:42,485 --> 00:58:45,255
Yes, it was hosted at the VFW
in New Brighton this year.

1389
00:58:45,255 --> 00:58:49,025
Typically we do host them at the Senior
Center in West Hartford, though, as well.

1390
00:58:49,592 --> 00:58:50,293
I can walk.

1391
00:58:50,293 --> 00:58:54,097
Maybe there a few of them there, but we
just, we outgrew the space very quickly.

1392
00:58:54,097 --> 00:58:54,964
Yeah, yeah.

1393
00:58:54,964 --> 00:58:55,965
So then yeah.

1394
00:58:55,965 --> 00:58:59,702
So for the rest of the year,
you know, from a fundraiser,

1395
00:59:00,036 --> 00:59:03,106
we did birdies, of course, just like
anybody switching wants to donate.

1396
00:59:03,106 --> 00:59:08,444
They can, we have a fundraising team
at the Hartford.

1397
00:59:08,912 --> 00:59:11,748
No, sorry. The West Hartford mitten run.

1398
00:59:11,748 --> 00:59:12,549
Oh, yeah. Nice. Yeah.

1399
00:59:12,549 --> 00:59:13,983
We're doing a fundraising team for that.

1400
00:59:13,983 --> 00:59:17,687
If people in the sense of not, they could
sign up through us for a $5 discount.

1401
00:59:17,687 --> 00:59:21,224
So we have that and we're going to do
a 30 days of diabetes thing in November

1402
00:59:21,724 --> 00:59:25,328
where like those calendar fundraisers,
you see, one of our volunteers is super

1403
00:59:25,328 --> 00:59:27,196
into doing something
like that. So I'm like,

1404
00:59:28,298 --> 00:59:29,365
you know, how about it?

1405
00:59:29,365 --> 00:59:32,101
You know, may, you know, may as well.
So we're going to try that.

1406
00:59:32,101 --> 00:59:34,771
So we try things. Sometimes they work,
sometimes they don't.

1407
00:59:34,771 --> 00:59:36,005
Then they're.

1408
00:59:36,005 --> 00:59:36,940
Exactly right.

1409
00:59:36,940 --> 00:59:38,875
And there you. Can't win them all.

1410
00:59:38,875 --> 00:59:42,946
Yeah I know so you try things but you know
anything that we do powers our growth.

1411
00:59:42,979 --> 00:59:44,414
You know we have a girl power program

1412
00:59:44,414 --> 00:59:48,451
where we run specific events
just for girls aged 6 to 16.

1413
00:59:48,451 --> 00:59:51,321
So everything that we do powers.

1414
00:59:51,321 --> 00:59:53,823
There's a picture on our Facebook page

1415
00:59:53,823 --> 00:59:56,593
of me coming out of Jo-Ann fabrics
that was closing, you know, recently

1416
00:59:56,593 --> 01:00:00,496
because I picked up every piece of fleece
that I could find, and now it's literally

1417
01:00:00,496 --> 01:00:03,299
falling on me in the car,
falling on my head because we have a girl

1418
01:00:03,299 --> 01:00:05,735
power program that makes blankets
every year in December.

1419
01:00:05,735 --> 01:00:08,438
So they make like they do a blanket
and hot chocolate event, right?

1420
01:00:08,438 --> 01:00:10,139
That's powered by a volunteer. Becca.

1421
01:00:10,139 --> 01:00:13,142
Shout out to Becca! So Becca.

1422
01:00:13,509 --> 01:00:13,876
Yeah.

1423
01:00:13,876 --> 01:00:15,511
So Becca approached us last year

1424
01:00:15,511 --> 01:00:19,782
and wanted to work on a project,
you know, specifically for our nonprofit.

1425
01:00:19,782 --> 01:00:20,883
And we decided on Girl power,

1426
01:00:20,883 --> 01:00:22,785
and she's really helped it
grow to the point

1427
01:00:22,785 --> 01:00:25,254
that the girls are always asking
what's next? Right.

1428
01:00:25,254 --> 01:00:27,223
So they have a pool party in August
and then,

1429
01:00:27,223 --> 01:00:30,226
you know, blanket making in December
and then maybe sometimes jewelry.

1430
01:00:30,326 --> 01:00:30,493
Yeah.

1431
01:00:30,493 --> 01:00:34,297
So we do something with them
every, every, every couple months.

1432
01:00:34,297 --> 01:00:35,965
But yeah.

1433
01:00:35,965 --> 01:00:37,233
I love it, I love it.

1434
01:00:37,233 --> 01:00:38,901
Well, 50 minutes with Fini.

1435
01:00:38,901 --> 01:00:41,037
We're at like 60 plus now. Wow.

1436
01:00:41,037 --> 01:00:43,106
And you were nervous about the. Time
I was.

1437
01:00:43,106 --> 01:00:45,108
I can't believe I'm friends with Feeney.

1438
01:00:45,108 --> 01:00:46,576
You podcast is an hour.

1439
01:00:46,576 --> 01:00:48,144
We can go. We can talk all day.

1440
01:00:48,144 --> 01:00:50,747
But again, you brought up the birdies.
I'm going to the travelers.

1441
01:00:50,747 --> 01:00:55,785
Yeah, it ends June 22nd,
so please sponsor the travelers.

1442
01:00:56,152 --> 01:00:57,053
I just got one today.

1443
01:00:57,053 --> 01:00:59,589
I want to thank Uncle Neil.

1444
01:00:59,589 --> 01:01:02,959
Donated 100 bucks and Bob
donate 100 bucks.

1445
01:01:02,959 --> 01:01:04,060
So thank you.

1446
01:01:04,060 --> 01:01:05,762
And a golf event.

1447
01:01:05,762 --> 01:01:07,096
We would love to give you a table.

1448
01:01:07,096 --> 01:01:09,766
Or if you want
to volunteer, September 13th.

1449
01:01:10,733 --> 01:01:11,334
It's at Tongue

1450
01:01:11,334 --> 01:01:14,370
Sisters, our fourth annual, Uncle Neil.

1451
01:01:14,370 --> 01:01:15,438
Just sign up for that, too.

1452
01:01:15,438 --> 01:01:16,673
So thanks again, Uncle Neil.

1453
01:01:16,673 --> 01:01:19,175
He's a golfer and he's very generous.

1454
01:01:19,175 --> 01:01:20,910
But we got game day.

1455
01:01:20,910 --> 01:01:24,547
Connor, heckle Hall, this is
the first place team scan right here.

1456
01:01:24,681 --> 01:01:26,949
Most tournaments aren't breakfast,
lunch and dinner.

1457
01:01:26,949 --> 01:01:28,518
So you get breakfast, lunch and dinner.

1458
01:01:28,518 --> 01:01:29,819
We'll have a whiskey hall

1459
01:01:29,819 --> 01:01:33,690
sponsored by maximum beverage,
long drink hole, a school of rock hall.

1460
01:01:33,690 --> 01:01:36,192
They play rock music
in the middle of your swing.

1461
01:01:36,192 --> 01:01:38,695
So please check it out and please
join us.

1462
01:01:38,695 --> 01:01:40,630
That's for you. Actually,
thank you for saying that.

1463
01:01:40,630 --> 01:01:42,231
Did you see my post on LinkedIn yesterday?

1464
01:01:42,231 --> 01:01:45,468
I'm like, I'm not a golfer, but if I was,
I would golf at the Friends of Fini golf.

1465
01:01:45,468 --> 01:01:46,969
You did say that I did.

1466
01:01:46,969 --> 01:01:48,705
I love it and Matt liked it.

1467
01:01:48,705 --> 01:01:49,906
So you guys definitely saw it.

1468
01:01:49,906 --> 01:01:52,275
So remember you share that.
But I love the swag.

1469
01:01:52,275 --> 01:01:54,877
I love the hat, the shirts. Great.

1470
01:01:54,877 --> 01:01:57,380
Great little logo.

1471
01:01:57,380 --> 01:01:59,716
Elbow bump kit incorporated.

1472
01:01:59,716 --> 01:02:01,217
I had so much fun talking with you.

1473
01:02:01,217 --> 01:02:02,485
I learned so much.

1474
01:02:02,485 --> 01:02:04,187
Please.

1475
01:02:04,187 --> 01:02:07,023
And get out and vote for the Red Sox.

1476
01:02:07,990 --> 01:02:08,491
Impact.

1477
01:02:08,491 --> 01:02:11,461
Award, impact. Award. Red sox.com/impact.

1478
01:02:12,095 --> 01:02:12,829
You got it.

1479
01:02:12,829 --> 01:02:16,399
Anything that I missed,
any quick little shout outs?

1480
01:02:16,399 --> 01:02:17,633
Closing remarks.

1481
01:02:17,633 --> 01:02:20,570
Yeah, I would say if there's a type
one family that's listening to this or if,

1482
01:02:20,570 --> 01:02:21,738
you know a type one family

1483
01:02:21,738 --> 01:02:24,741
that is not connected with the community,
please have them contact us.

1484
01:02:24,741 --> 01:02:27,076
So that way we can make sure
that they're taking care of.

1485
01:02:27,076 --> 01:02:28,478
What's our Facebook.

1486
01:02:28,478 --> 01:02:31,180
Facebook.com slash elbow bump
kid or elbow bump

1487
01:02:31,180 --> 01:02:34,517
kid inc.org or Samantha
at elbow bump Kid Inc talk.

1488
01:02:34,884 --> 01:02:38,755
Yeah, and this was the Feeney Talks
With Friends podcast episode 142

1489
01:02:38,955 --> 01:02:41,824
here with my friends Sam and Sheila.

1490
01:02:41,824 --> 01:02:44,327
I had such a wonderful time
talking with you.

1491
01:02:44,327 --> 01:02:46,462
Please like and subscribe our podcast.

1492
01:02:46,462 --> 01:02:48,264
Please
check out the Feeney Talks with Friends

1493
01:02:48,264 --> 01:02:50,800
podcast and Friends of Feeney Aecom.

1494
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:54,504
And don't forget, our motto is to help
children and families that need assistance

1495
01:02:54,504 --> 01:02:57,039
after heartbreak or tragedy.
And I use this podcast

1496
01:02:57,039 --> 01:02:59,642
and I talk to wonderful people
that are doing great things.

1497
01:02:59,642 --> 01:03:02,111
So on three, we're just going to say
be a good friend.

1498
01:03:02,111 --> 01:03:04,580
One, two, three be good friends.