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All right, all right.

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Beanie talks with friends. Episode 140.

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We're in the 14th season.

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Are we excited?

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Yes, yes, I have some great friends here.

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How are you doing, Chloe? Good. Sandy,
how are we doing?

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I'm good.

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We have Sandy and Chloe here today.

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Chloe Roberts,
I known you for a long time.

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Yeah,

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Sandy Fenimore just getting to know you,
but I'm really looking forward

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to getting to know you.

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We're here to talk about the fa
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Fa fa fa favor.

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I practice to save Brett
FA kills me Brett FA

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the all right Favre with

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And you are the competitive employment
coordinator.

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Yeah that's another tough one. Yeah.

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Don't say that.

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Say that a couple times fast

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competitive employment coordinator.

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Do you know what that person does?

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What's a what's a competitive employment
coordinator do.

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So I oversee the project search program
at UConn health, and I also oversee

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all of the job coaching for
the independently employed individuals.

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And how long you've been with that job?

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I've been with Favre for 12 years.

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12 years. Very nice, very nice.

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So how long have you known Chloe?

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About a year.

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Nice. Chloe, how's it going? Good.

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How is your day today? Good, good.

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What about Tommy?

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You had a big thing recently.
The bridge ceremony.

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Can you tell me about that?

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What happened at the bridge ceremony?

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You graduated? Yeah, it's coming
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Not happened yet.

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It's going to happen. Yeah.

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What's that about?

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Is this Wednesday at 330
at my general store,

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and we do graduations, we do speeches and

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talk about, internships. Wow.

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That's exciting.

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I'm proud of you. Good job. Congrats.
Thank you.

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What,
are you going to practice? Your speech?

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What are you going to say?

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You're going to thank Feeney Talks
with friends podcast.

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Eric Feeney.

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Yeah.

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You'll probably think your mentors.

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Yeah, right.

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Oh, my.

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My mustache too. Soft? Yep.

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Nice.

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No, that's so cool.

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How long did you train for?

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How long was your program.

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Thomas?

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12 months.

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Nice. Now,
what are some things that you did?

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We did internships.

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We did different,

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training.

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Where was your internships.

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At UConn health.

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Yeah. Did you do stuff with psoriasis,
I heard.

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Yeah, yeah. Cool. Tell us about that.

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I took a check in, check out and patients.

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Okay. You're checking in and out patients.

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So you're really welcoming.

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You're like, hey, welcome to UConn health.

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How can I help you?

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And stuff like a wow, really cool.

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What else that was
that was a little internship.

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You had to get trained on something
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Right. Epic.

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Oh what's that?

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Epic's like the software on the computer
that you like silk?

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All the patient's data.

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So you're looking at patient data
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And you learned a new program. Very cool.

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That's awesome.
What was your favorite part?

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The eating right.

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Yeah. The making the food.
That's always my favorite.

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Yeah, yeah. And Catherine
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All right.

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So what we do a potluck at Thanksgiving.

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Practice adult living skills.

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We also, make cookies at the holiday time
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living and following recipes.

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Do you happen to have any cookies on you
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Haha.

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That's great.

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No. Chloe's so cool to see you. You've.

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I mean, and tell us about your job.

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You got a job?

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Yes, at Beans and Company and Avon.

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Beans and Company. Congratulations.

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Yeah. That's so cool.

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What are you going to do
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I'm the dishwasher, so I clean dishes.

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Nice hot water. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

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So I was in the Army National Guard,
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And I was always washing dishes.

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And then when you get in trouble,
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And then when our marching ceremonies.

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And I was not a good marcher,
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But washing dishes is, is relaxing.

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You get you get headphones,
you know, headphones.

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You could when, when on your phone
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But it's like, you know, just mindfulness.

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Yeah. One thing at a time.

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Right. That's my that was my goal.

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Do you wear gloves.

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No. Oh not currently.

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Yeah. We used hot like a rubber gloves.

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Could you water.

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I think the water in the army was 180
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So, my hands were like lobsters
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Dishwashing at beans and company.

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That's very exciting.

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Oh, let me see.
Do you recognize this shirt?

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Do you recognize this shirt? Yes.

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What's it say? Everyone. Everyone belongs.

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Where do you see these shirts and beans?

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Company.

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This is my wife's shirt.

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That's my wife's favorite place.

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She goes there all the time.
So shout out to Nicole.

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She let me borrow this because I said,
hey, Nicole, I need to borrow your shirt.

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My friends coming on the podcast
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She's like, oh, I love that place.

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Tell her I said, hi.

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I'm Beans.

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And do you know Kim and Noel? Yeah.

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Would
Kim and Noel be good podcast guests? Yes.

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So. Right.

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Yeah. Came in. Okay. Well,
if you're listening, we.

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This is an open invitation for you to come
join us at the Beanie

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Talks of Friends podcast, because you're
doing wonderful things over there.

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And Ava. Yeah. How long has beans
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I don't know, years.

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Yeah, a couple years.

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I can't remember when they opened, but,
before pandemic.

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Nice.

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Can you name
some things that are on the menu?

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What would I eat when if I would go there?

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I like to get the shrimp tacos. Wow.

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So they do shrimp
tacos at being the company.

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That's amazing. Sandwiches. Sandwiches.

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Different coffee orders.

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Yeah. Did it actually. Breakfast?

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Ooh. Oh, pastries and espresso.

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My two. My favorite things.

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Wow. Shrimp tacos. Interesting.

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Do they do chicken tacos? Fish tacos.

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How many shrimp? Just shrimp.

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Nice over there.

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And Avon beans and company.

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And then everyone belongs.

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What do you think that means? Is
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Yeah. I agree. Yeah.

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Everyone belongs.

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And Beans company

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is doing a great thing welcoming everyone
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So shout out to Carmen Noel.
You got a great thing going.

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I'm very happy to visit you. Yeah.

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I was going to visit you this Saturday,
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What do you got this Saturday?

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There's some games for Special Olympics.

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Summer games and you're swimming?

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What are you swimming?

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The 400 freestyle.

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400. How many laps is 16?

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Wow. 16 laps?

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I think 36 is a full, full mile.

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I did it, it's 25 yards.

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Yeah, but I be swimming.

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It's hard for 16 laps.

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It takes me 30 minutes.
How long does it take.

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You under eight minutes.

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Under eight minutes.

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Wow. Are you,

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Ledecky.

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It was.

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Susie Ledecky. Is it?

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I'm a. Swimmer.

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Ledecky.

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Anyway, famous swimmer for the Olympics.

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So you going to do this.

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Yes 16. Times.

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Yeah. And flip trends.

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Do you flip turns to

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now what's the trick to doing flip turns.

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Just tuck hard and hold on.

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Tuck hard in.

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do you flip when you see the black line
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I mean, at the end? Yeah.

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That's when you start your turn. Yeah.
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I got to start doing those.

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Yeah. When did you close. You had you had.

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Don't want to do that. I.

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Will Sandy
thank you so much for being here.

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I'm going to chat with Sandy a little bit.

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Sandy is at forever favor.

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Oh, favor. I'm going to get it.

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I'm going to get it.

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So not again,
my name is Eric Feeney, founder

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and president of Friends of Feeney.

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And this I use this podcast,

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Feeney talks with friends,
and I talk to wonderful

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people that are doing great things
in the community.

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And, Sandy, you've been doing wonderful
things for the past ten years at Bay bar.

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As the competitive employment coordinator.

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We have some sponsors here. We're at loon.

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No, we're not at Luna Pizza,
but sometimes we're at Luna Pizza.

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This is maximum beverage there.

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A sponsor Luna Pizza is a sponsor,
Direct Line

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Media, Stephania
and Dave, their sponsors, Brooke Golf,

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the fix, Ivy float

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41, Parkville management, Sally and Bob,
do you ever go to Sally and Bob's?

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Sally and Bob's People's Bank

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are our sponsors. And West Hartford Lock.

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So with West Hartford Lock,
what are three keys that make you great

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at being the competitive employment
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Three keys.

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being able to read
people is very important.

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You can, tell when someone is

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struggling or unsure of themselves,
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So being able to pick up on those small
changes to the body language is important.

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I would say the.

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Verbal social cues. Yeah.

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Being having

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high expectations is extremely important

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when we expect great things,
great things happen.

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So definitely having high expectations.

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I love it.

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And, being easy to talk to,
it was probably another one.

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Because they tarde. Right?

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Projects are just hard.

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They're going through a lot.

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And so being able to have

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that balance of being able to have
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as well as being their manager
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and something that's very important
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Nice.

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We got the three keys reading by the,

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nonsocial or non verbal cues,

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holding high expectations I love that.

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That's awesome.

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And being able

262
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to have conversations
and help them grow. Yep.

263
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That's awesome three keys.

264
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Thank you for your three keys.
I think you're doing a great job.

265
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I just saw oh I printed out your.

266
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So I went and Faber's Instagram page.

267
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You got this new position
August 3rd, 2024.

268
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So almost a year in August,
it'll be a full year. Yeah.

269
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You work with program search now?

270
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Search is caps or project.

271
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Is that a is that a, acronym
for something to target search.

272
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Cool. Yeah.

273
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25 competitive employed individuals
a favor and you're one of the 25.

274
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We're now up to, 30.

275
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Nice. Yep.

276
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How does someone get involved
and enroll to project search?

277
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We hold information sessions starting
in the fall for the following year.

278
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And so somebody, was interested.

279
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They can just reach out to me,
via email or my cell phone,

280
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and, Yeah,
they attend an information session.

281
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They can also go to favors website.

282
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And under a productive day,

283
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there is, project search
and they can inquire through there.

284
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And I got you done as s Fenimore at fe
bar.org.

285
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Correct.

286
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That's s f and I m r e

287
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at favor f avr h

288
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that work that exposure, right.

289
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And probably messed that up
and that sort of list of mistakes today.

290
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And you have a number here 860.

291
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It's not your personal cell
phone is a cell

292
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6798980.

293
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So call Sandy.

294
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She's a good friend.

295
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Sandy will get you a job. Right?

296
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Yes. Sandy will train you. Yes.

297
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So that number will get you to Keegan.

298
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That's my assistant manager.

299
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That's our project search office number.

300
00:12:05,725 --> 00:12:08,027
Cool. Project search number.

301
00:12:08,027 --> 00:12:09,228
What? What got you involved?

302
00:12:09,228 --> 00:12:12,498
What made you want to be
a competitive employment coordinator?

303
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I've just always been doing it
for the past ten years.

304
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And prior to, working for favor,
I was working at a grocery store,

305
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and obviously favor paid more
and I went in and I was really good at it.

306
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It was just my niche.

307
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And I've grown ever since with favor.

308
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Nice.

309
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Very cool.

310
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So, yeah, you're a coach,
you're a teacher, you're a mentor.

311
00:12:40,726 --> 00:12:44,663
Our last guest, Susan,
a Verna, wrote a book called fabric.

312
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Be the coach and build the culture
every athlete needs.

313
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But she said it can work for students.

314
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Parents. Right. So you want to.

315
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Fabric is an acronym
I. It was pretty cool.

316
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It stands for focus, awareness,
belonging, repair,

317
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intentionality and curiosity
and compassion.

318
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So fabric and then Witness in
Wonder is another great book.

319
00:13:03,916 --> 00:13:07,453
So I we have a recommendation portion
but a little early.

320
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But these are great books.

321
00:13:08,387 --> 00:13:09,088
You should check out.

322
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So Susan wrote those and I think that would really align with what you're doing. So

323
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and you have a 98% graduate rate.

324
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Placement rate.

325
00:13:18,297 --> 00:13:19,098
Oh placement rate.

326
00:13:19,098 --> 00:13:21,100
Wow. That's impressive. Yes.

327
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How does that happen?

328
00:13:22,935 --> 00:13:24,970
A lot of hard work that the interns do.

329
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And we will, work with them closely
throughout the year

330
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to figure out what their interests are and
what their skills are, and help develop

331
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those skills that they might not have
and want or need.

332
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And then we work,
go out into the community

333
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and through things like this,
we can find some placements,

334
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you know, and inclusive
employment is not a common thing.

335
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It's not as common as it should be.

336
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Everywhere should be inclusive.

337
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And so we go out and we find companies
who are willing to hire individuals,

338
00:14:00,139 --> 00:14:03,742
and they also just apply and get the job,
that's all.

339
00:14:03,742 --> 00:14:05,611
So it's just a lot of work now.

340
00:14:05,611 --> 00:14:07,079
Do you have companies?

341
00:14:07,079 --> 00:14:10,182
Are you looking for companies
that would be more inclusive? Yes.

342
00:14:10,516 --> 00:14:14,753
So we're always looking for companies
who would like to hire individuals.

343
00:14:15,154 --> 00:14:18,157
And we can help with,

344
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diversity training as well as onboarding
and training of the individuals.

345
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We vet the individuals.

346
00:14:25,231 --> 00:14:28,667
So, typically
I would meet with the company and find out

347
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what their needs are
and find an individual who meets

348
00:14:32,771 --> 00:14:36,408
that needs and the needs of the company
meet their individual's needs,

349
00:14:37,142 --> 00:14:38,644
because it needs to be mutually exclusive.

350
00:14:38,644 --> 00:14:42,114
And we fully understand that concept
and that need.

351
00:14:42,114 --> 00:14:46,485
We never want somebody to just hire
because, you know, that never works.

352
00:14:46,485 --> 00:14:47,553
They're always the first fired.

353
00:14:47,553 --> 00:14:51,490
So we want it to be mutually beneficial
to both the company and the individual.

354
00:14:52,424 --> 00:14:53,292
Wow. Yeah.

355
00:14:53,292 --> 00:14:57,062
My, sponsors are very open

356
00:14:57,062 --> 00:15:00,032
minded, good friends,
and I feel like that'd be a good fit.

357
00:15:00,332 --> 00:15:04,536
I mean, you could work at Luna Pizza
or Sally and Bob's or Parkville

358
00:15:04,536 --> 00:15:08,407
market has a wonderful opportunities,
so maybe we can talk about that.

359
00:15:08,407 --> 00:15:09,008
Yeah.

360
00:15:09,008 --> 00:15:11,176
I put you in connection
with some really good people

361
00:15:11,176 --> 00:15:15,447
and some great businesses left that would
would be willing to collaborate.

362
00:15:15,447 --> 00:15:16,081
That's awesome.

363
00:15:16,081 --> 00:15:19,051
Great partnership now. So cool.

364
00:15:19,451 --> 00:15:20,719
Perfect.

365
00:15:20,719 --> 00:15:22,054
Right Chloe. Yeah.

366
00:15:22,054 --> 00:15:24,957
What do you like
better swimming or grooming horses.

367
00:15:26,325 --> 00:15:28,894
You know stuff.

368
00:15:28,894 --> 00:15:31,897
Or guinea pigs.

369
00:15:32,498 --> 00:15:33,565
To make it harder.

370
00:15:33,565 --> 00:15:34,233
Yeah.

371
00:15:34,233 --> 00:15:38,337
So no can't even pick one new. Wow.

372
00:15:39,204 --> 00:15:42,207
Which one
would you like to talk about first.

373
00:15:42,608 --> 00:15:43,742
Your choice.

374
00:15:43,742 --> 00:15:45,911
Who you know. Swimming.

375
00:15:45,911 --> 00:15:47,980
Well how about this picture.
Let's do one more swimming.

376
00:15:47,980 --> 00:15:51,450
Pick this from three metals.

377
00:15:52,584 --> 00:15:54,553
That's really good.

378
00:15:54,553 --> 00:15:56,188
Maybe we'll do a color photo. Right.

379
00:15:56,188 --> 00:15:56,588
The fun.

380
00:15:56,588 --> 00:15:57,423
You ready?

381
00:15:57,423 --> 00:16:00,426
Boom. Color photo stuff.

382
00:16:00,526 --> 00:16:01,560
What's the add in after.

383
00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:04,363
It's going to be great.

384
00:16:04,363 --> 00:16:05,698
So tell us about the.

385
00:16:05,698 --> 00:16:08,567
Tell us about your metals, Chloe.

386
00:16:08,567 --> 00:16:10,803
I don't remember.
I was like ten years ago.

387
00:16:10,803 --> 00:16:12,771
It really was.

388
00:16:12,771 --> 00:16:15,774
Actually, it was 12 years ago.

389
00:16:16,675 --> 00:16:17,743
And you don't look that different, though.

390
00:16:17,743 --> 00:16:20,379
That's amazing.

391
00:16:20,379 --> 00:16:21,747
Yeah.

392
00:16:21,747 --> 00:16:22,915
She looks a little more mature.

393
00:16:22,915 --> 00:16:24,116
And you are very mature now.

394
00:16:24,116 --> 00:16:26,218
So that's swimming.

395
00:16:26,218 --> 00:16:30,289
How about grooming horses for the Special
Olympics at the Farmington Polo Club?

396
00:16:30,556 --> 00:16:31,991
That starts in a couple of weeks.

397
00:16:31,991 --> 00:16:33,993
Oh, which favorite part about that.

398
00:16:35,194 --> 00:16:38,163
Being around the horses.

399
00:16:38,163 --> 00:16:41,100
Do you have a favorite horses name.

400
00:16:41,100 --> 00:16:43,836
No. Can you name some horses.

401
00:16:43,836 --> 00:16:45,838
That's like Secretariat.

402
00:16:45,838 --> 00:16:46,672
Yeah.

403
00:16:46,672 --> 00:16:47,639
Funny side.

404
00:16:47,639 --> 00:16:51,910
There's like 30 whiskey Starbucks. No.

405
00:16:53,512 --> 00:16:56,048
No. Those are a couple of horses
from my camp that I worked at. Hi.

406
00:16:56,048 --> 00:16:57,950
Meadow de Campo.

407
00:16:57,950 --> 00:16:59,284
Oh, that's so cool.

408
00:16:59,284 --> 00:17:01,653
So grooming horses?

409
00:17:01,653 --> 00:17:04,656
Yep. Is there a trick to brushing a horse?

410
00:17:04,690 --> 00:17:06,392
Can you go in both directions?

411
00:17:06,392 --> 00:17:09,395
Yes. You can, but you had to go with the.

412
00:17:09,461 --> 00:17:10,162
Where the hell?

413
00:17:10,162 --> 00:17:12,931
Yeah, with the hair. Gotcha.

414
00:17:12,931 --> 00:17:14,500
Should you walk around a horse?

415
00:17:14,500 --> 00:17:16,368
No, no.

416
00:17:16,368 --> 00:17:17,703
Always stay near the horse's.

417
00:17:17,703 --> 00:17:20,672
Where? But but right head.

418
00:17:21,273 --> 00:17:22,474
Stay away from there. But. Right.

419
00:17:22,474 --> 00:17:24,276
Yeah. No one get kicked. No.

420
00:17:24,276 --> 00:17:26,245
Stay away from the butt.

421
00:17:26,245 --> 00:17:28,847
All right, so then, now guinea pigs.

422
00:17:28,847 --> 00:17:30,849
Come on. Tell us about these guinea pigs.

423
00:17:30,849 --> 00:17:32,284
I have two at home.

424
00:17:32,284 --> 00:17:33,152
What's their name?

425
00:17:33,152 --> 00:17:35,954
Violet and Java.

426
00:17:35,954 --> 00:17:38,891
Violet and Java.
And what do they look like?

427
00:17:38,891 --> 00:17:40,692
What do they enjoy doing?

428
00:17:40,692 --> 00:17:42,995
Eating, sleeping, making noise,

429
00:17:44,863 --> 00:17:46,532
cuddle time.

430
00:17:46,532 --> 00:17:50,102
Do you know my daughter's had a guinea pig

431
00:17:50,436 --> 00:17:53,172
and they got this wonderful,
beautiful pig cage.

432
00:17:53,172 --> 00:17:55,274
Do you know who gave it to me?

433
00:17:55,274 --> 00:17:57,776
You know.

434
00:17:57,776 --> 00:17:59,645
That was awesome.
Yeah. Thank you for that.

435
00:17:59,645 --> 00:18:02,081
Yeah, it was really nice.
You were a good friend that day. Yeah.

436
00:18:02,081 --> 00:18:03,415
Our models be a good friend.

437
00:18:03,415 --> 00:18:06,418
Pick up trash, hold the door,
give them a compliment.

438
00:18:06,985 --> 00:18:07,853
And you were. And.

439
00:18:07,853 --> 00:18:10,222
Yeah,
you were being, generous and you sharing.

440
00:18:10,222 --> 00:18:12,257
So thank you for that. Like,

441
00:18:12,257 --> 00:18:13,225
My daughter still love it.

442
00:18:13,225 --> 00:18:16,862
We had Eleanor Roosevelt, the guinea pig.

443
00:18:17,262 --> 00:18:19,832
And I forgot the other one.

444
00:18:19,832 --> 00:18:20,432
Yeah, but.

445
00:18:20,432 --> 00:18:23,402
They're they're
with a really good friend now.

446
00:18:24,002 --> 00:18:25,204
But thank you for that.

447
00:18:25,204 --> 00:18:27,506
Really nice of you guinea pigs.

448
00:18:27,506 --> 00:18:28,740
You like guinea pig, Sandy?

449
00:18:28,740 --> 00:18:30,676
I had few growing up.

450
00:18:30,676 --> 00:18:32,344
Yeah. Oh, how about Sandy?

451
00:18:32,344 --> 00:18:36,648
Tell us about Shaunie and Stevie and Mila.

452
00:18:37,349 --> 00:18:40,352
Mike, those are my two pitbulls mixes.

453
00:18:40,352 --> 00:18:41,987
And my cat.

454
00:18:41,987 --> 00:18:45,657
Stevie is three, Sean is one.

455
00:18:45,657 --> 00:18:46,892
And my last three.

456
00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:48,861
Got it.

457
00:18:48,861 --> 00:18:49,995
Like a pet shop owner.

458
00:18:49,995 --> 00:18:51,363
Yeah, yeah.

459
00:18:51,363 --> 00:18:54,133
You got you have dogs? Two poodles. Yeah.

460
00:18:54,133 --> 00:18:54,867
And poodles.

461
00:18:54,867 --> 00:18:56,802
How many? Two. So.

462
00:18:56,802 --> 00:18:58,137
Jolene and Hazel.

463
00:18:58,137 --> 00:19:00,305
We have birds and iguanas now, you.

464
00:19:00,305 --> 00:19:02,407
Know, we give the bird away.

465
00:19:02,407 --> 00:19:02,741
Okay?

466
00:19:02,741 --> 00:19:04,943
To a good friend, but.

467
00:19:04,943 --> 00:19:06,512
So you have two dogs, two guineas.

468
00:19:06,512 --> 00:19:08,180
And a lot of fish. And fish.

469
00:19:08,180 --> 00:19:09,581
And a frog that one day.

470
00:19:09,581 --> 00:19:12,584
Oh, a he's like him.

471
00:19:12,751 --> 00:19:15,254
He's almost 20 years old. Oh.

472
00:19:15,254 --> 00:19:17,189
The fish. Yeah, the frog.

473
00:19:17,189 --> 00:19:17,923
Like frog.

474
00:19:17,923 --> 00:19:20,926
Frog with the good life. You know.

475
00:19:21,093 --> 00:19:24,596
Wow. Now you guys got some good things
going on with the pets,

476
00:19:24,830 --> 00:19:29,334
with the job
search beans and company favor. Yes.

477
00:19:30,035 --> 00:19:30,769
Horseback riding.

478
00:19:30,769 --> 00:19:33,772
Horseback riding was do ride.

479
00:19:34,273 --> 00:19:37,576
What style horseback riding do you do?

480
00:19:38,243 --> 00:19:41,146
I do Western English.

481
00:19:41,146 --> 00:19:42,247
Nice.

482
00:19:42,247 --> 00:19:44,683
And sometimes when the horse gets tired

483
00:19:44,683 --> 00:19:47,686
and we do bareback as is,
like his cool off.

484
00:19:47,953 --> 00:19:50,189
Cool off on the bareback.

485
00:19:50,189 --> 00:19:51,690
I give you a lot of credit.

486
00:19:51,690 --> 00:19:53,492
You wear a helmet, right?

487
00:19:53,492 --> 00:19:54,526
That'd be safe.

488
00:19:54,526 --> 00:19:57,462
Do you ever practice emergency dismount?

489
00:19:57,462 --> 00:19:59,331
Oh, do. Ever.

490
00:19:59,331 --> 00:20:00,732
So you definitely do the brushing, dude.

491
00:20:00,732 --> 00:20:03,235
Clean the. Hose. Yeah. Brush the tail.

492
00:20:05,470 --> 00:20:05,971
Yeah.

493
00:20:05,971 --> 00:20:08,574
But isn't like his belly.
Don't brush the belly.

494
00:20:08,574 --> 00:20:10,509
No because that's how I got kick one time.

495
00:20:10,509 --> 00:20:12,211
Oh no.

496
00:20:12,211 --> 00:20:15,180
Can have that.

497
00:20:15,647 --> 00:20:16,748
So right.

498
00:20:16,748 --> 00:20:17,849
So we're going to play another game.

499
00:20:17,849 --> 00:20:20,852
So you're at Project Search.

500
00:20:20,886 --> 00:20:24,356
With Sandy during the year
you had your activities

501
00:20:24,690 --> 00:20:27,259
maybe Sandy
and you guys could collaborate on this.

502
00:20:27,259 --> 00:20:30,262
It's called first last best worst.

503
00:20:30,796 --> 00:20:33,265
What was the first thing you did
in Project Search.

504
00:20:33,265 --> 00:20:35,100
The last thing you did.

505
00:20:35,100 --> 00:20:38,937
The best thing that you did
and the worst thing that you did?

506
00:20:39,538 --> 00:20:41,440
Project search
I don't know. That there's a worse.

507
00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,942
And no, that's a good answer.
Good answer, good answer.

508
00:20:43,942 --> 00:20:45,611
First, last, best, worst go.

509
00:20:45,611 --> 00:20:47,212
Do you remember the first thing you did?

510
00:20:47,212 --> 00:20:50,182
We walk in. Yep. And you met everyone.

511
00:20:50,182 --> 00:20:50,716
No matter what.

512
00:20:50,716 --> 00:20:52,718
And we don't know where we were going.

513
00:20:52,718 --> 00:20:54,553
So we went to the project search office.

514
00:20:54,553 --> 00:20:57,122
That was the first thing we did was learn
how to get.

515
00:20:57,122 --> 00:20:58,590
To the office. Yeah.

516
00:20:58,590 --> 00:21:01,460
What was the last thing
you did a project search.

517
00:21:03,929 --> 00:21:05,330
Graduate. Now.

518
00:21:05,330 --> 00:21:07,566
Well that's coming up that,
that will be the last thing.

519
00:21:07,566 --> 00:21:07,833
Yeah.

520
00:21:07,833 --> 00:21:10,302
But the last thing you did
because Chloe's been employed

521
00:21:10,302 --> 00:21:14,406
for the last couple weeks, so,
she graduated.

522
00:21:14,773 --> 00:21:16,875
Yeah. You know, before then.

523
00:21:16,875 --> 00:21:19,911
And so the last thing you did was probably
hand out your thank you cards.

524
00:21:19,911 --> 00:21:23,282
Yeah, we do handwritten
thank you cards for all of our mentors.

525
00:21:24,049 --> 00:21:26,952
Because they give so much and teach
so much to you guys.

526
00:21:26,952 --> 00:21:28,220
Right.

527
00:21:28,220 --> 00:21:30,555
And what else do we give them a jar of.

528
00:21:30,555 --> 00:21:32,424
Alums. Jar of candy.

529
00:21:32,424 --> 00:21:34,126
What's better. Yeah.

530
00:21:34,126 --> 00:21:36,161
And then what's the best thing you think.

531
00:21:36,161 --> 00:21:39,131
Now was your favorite part.

532
00:21:41,199 --> 00:21:42,301
I can't help you with this one.

533
00:21:42,301 --> 00:21:44,970
No, no.

534
00:21:44,970 --> 00:21:47,973
Making friends,
eating food, having a party.

535
00:21:47,973 --> 00:21:49,675
Somebody maybe that you learned.

536
00:21:50,642 --> 00:21:51,243
Which one?

537
00:21:51,243 --> 00:21:52,711
Party? Party?

538
00:21:52,711 --> 00:21:53,679
Party is always the best.

539
00:21:53,679 --> 00:21:55,981
Yeah,
but I love that I make that recommendation

540
00:21:55,981 --> 00:21:58,550
to all my listeners
the handwritten note. So that.

541
00:21:58,550 --> 00:22:00,118
Thank you note, it goes a long way.

542
00:22:00,118 --> 00:22:03,088
Yeah. It's not typed. It's not text.

543
00:22:03,088 --> 00:22:04,489
It's a did you write it by hand?

544
00:22:04,489 --> 00:22:07,492
Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty funny that you.

545
00:22:07,559 --> 00:22:09,961
Yeah. Listen, takes me a bunch too.

546
00:22:09,961 --> 00:22:12,931
Yeah. You should invest in erasable pens.

547
00:22:13,165 --> 00:22:13,999
Go to cricket.

548
00:22:13,999 --> 00:22:15,801
Cricket makes a shout out to cricket.

549
00:22:15,801 --> 00:22:17,636
Press in erasable pens.

550
00:22:17,636 --> 00:22:21,340
It really saves me with my thank you notes
because I buy these nice cards.

551
00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,910
You mess up one time,
you got to waste the whole carton. You.

552
00:22:24,976 --> 00:22:26,178
But now the erasable pen.

553
00:22:26,178 --> 00:22:27,412
2 to 2.

554
00:22:27,412 --> 00:22:29,881
But, definitely,

555
00:22:29,881 --> 00:22:33,385
a lot of my listeners have been doing
handwritten notes to mailing letters now.

556
00:22:33,385 --> 00:22:34,353
Handwritten notes.

557
00:22:34,353 --> 00:22:36,621
So good job on that. Hey,
I like that forever.

558
00:22:36,621 --> 00:22:37,556
Good job. Sandy.

559
00:22:38,490 --> 00:22:41,560
So first last, you're about to graduate.

560
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,995
First walking into a room,
meeting everyone.

561
00:22:43,995 --> 00:22:44,896
Do you like a best friend?

562
00:22:44,896 --> 00:22:47,299
Did you meet a friend there?

563
00:22:47,299 --> 00:22:48,233
A couple.

564
00:22:48,233 --> 00:22:50,135
You know, some people come in.

565
00:22:50,135 --> 00:22:53,138
I knew some. They call.

566
00:22:53,205 --> 00:22:56,208
Ryan Logan.

567
00:22:56,241 --> 00:22:58,310
Shout out to Ryan and Lo, right?

568
00:22:58,310 --> 00:23:00,779
Yeah, yeah. Scott.

569
00:23:00,779 --> 00:23:02,314
Nice,

570
00:23:02,314 --> 00:23:03,248
I love it.

571
00:23:03,248 --> 00:23:06,385
So we're bouncing around.

572
00:23:06,485 --> 00:23:09,421
Ready for some more questions now.

573
00:23:09,421 --> 00:23:11,890
So you're at Project Search.

574
00:23:11,890 --> 00:23:14,893
Which is on can

575
00:23:14,993 --> 00:23:16,228
can Connecticut.

576
00:23:16,228 --> 00:23:18,096
It's at UConn Health in Farmington.

577
00:23:18,096 --> 00:23:21,333
Oh. What's this 225 Commerce
drive can address.

578
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:23,568
Oh that's favorable. Yes.

579
00:23:23,568 --> 00:23:26,405
But you you report where.

580
00:23:26,405 --> 00:23:32,210
So I was reporting to UConn every day
until my recent promotion in August.

581
00:23:32,210 --> 00:23:33,812
And now I report to can.

582
00:23:33,812 --> 00:23:37,082
And Keegan is the day to day
site instructor at Project Search.

583
00:23:37,082 --> 00:23:39,451
So I just oversee the program.
I'm there for support.

584
00:23:40,719 --> 00:23:41,186
Gotcha.

585
00:23:41,186 --> 00:23:43,922
I come in and have lunch.

586
00:23:43,922 --> 00:23:44,589
This is great.

587
00:23:44,589 --> 00:23:47,125
It's one of my favorite, my best parts.

588
00:23:47,125 --> 00:23:49,027
I have a lunch with them.

589
00:23:49,027 --> 00:23:51,296
Lunch is my favorite two at school. Yeah.

590
00:23:51,296 --> 00:23:53,632
Well, not lunch duty, but.

591
00:23:53,632 --> 00:23:56,601
Oh, that's cool. So it's in favor? Yep.

592
00:23:56,601 --> 00:23:58,503
Oh, yeah.

593
00:23:58,503 --> 00:24:02,174
Three graduated from UConn on June
4th, 2024.

594
00:24:02,174 --> 00:24:03,308
It was in the news.

595
00:24:03,308 --> 00:24:06,011
That was cool, I saw that.

596
00:24:06,011 --> 00:24:08,547
Do you have a favorite moment
with a teacher?

597
00:24:08,547 --> 00:24:10,682
Favorite moment with Sandy.

598
00:24:10,682 --> 00:24:11,516
Or Keegan.

599
00:24:11,516 --> 00:24:14,519
Or Keegan? No.

600
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:15,787
Probably lunch.

601
00:24:15,787 --> 00:24:16,922
Having lunch with them.

602
00:24:16,922 --> 00:24:19,157
What are some foods that you eat at lunch?

603
00:24:19,157 --> 00:24:20,559
She usually.

604
00:24:20,559 --> 00:24:22,227
Oh man.

605
00:24:22,227 --> 00:24:26,198
With Wednesday's lunch, I want to
come over sushi for lunch and burgers.

606
00:24:26,998 --> 00:24:30,569
Burgers and sushi fries. One.

607
00:24:31,803 --> 00:24:33,305
Sign me up for this program.

608
00:24:36,074 --> 00:24:36,341
All right.

609
00:24:36,341 --> 00:24:37,576
So next question.

610
00:24:37,576 --> 00:24:40,145
Do you have a favorite restaurant.

611
00:24:40,145 --> 00:24:42,614
No. No.

612
00:24:42,614 --> 00:24:45,617
What's your favorite food?

613
00:24:46,284 --> 00:24:49,621
Sushi and chicken sandwiches.

614
00:24:50,188 --> 00:24:51,690
Sushi and chicken sandwiches.

615
00:24:51,690 --> 00:24:53,992
Do you have a favorite restaurant?

616
00:24:53,992 --> 00:24:56,695
I don't know that
I have a favorite restaurant.

617
00:24:56,695 --> 00:24:59,397
That favorite food I like pizza.

618
00:24:59,397 --> 00:25:02,400
I so you guys are eating pizza you have
you could eat with four guests

619
00:25:02,701 --> 00:25:05,670
anywhere in the world, any time in history

620
00:25:06,338 --> 00:25:09,341
for people who are
are you going to eat with at your dinner?

621
00:25:09,407 --> 00:25:12,410
Sushi? Pizza?

622
00:25:12,477 --> 00:25:14,579
I know it could be famous.

623
00:25:14,579 --> 00:25:18,250
Singers, athletes, presidents, moms.

624
00:25:18,250 --> 00:25:20,185
Dads. Sisters. Brothers.

625
00:25:20,185 --> 00:25:21,786
Yes. Hug.

626
00:25:21,786 --> 00:25:23,755
Well,
we are on the spot. You have to answer.

627
00:25:23,755 --> 00:25:24,523
So we're.

628
00:25:24,523 --> 00:25:25,957
I'm from around the Phoenix.

629
00:25:25,957 --> 00:25:28,627
So this is episode 140.

630
00:25:28,627 --> 00:25:30,362
And the people need to know.

631
00:25:30,362 --> 00:25:32,130
Who are you in? We're Khloe.

632
00:25:32,130 --> 00:25:33,598
Paul, my family. Okay. Yeah.

633
00:25:34,666 --> 00:25:35,333
Tracy.

634
00:25:35,333 --> 00:25:39,337
Olivia, George and George is dad's name
George?

635
00:25:39,571 --> 00:25:41,473
Those are your three people. You're and.

636
00:25:41,473 --> 00:25:42,941
And maybe Sandy.

637
00:25:42,941 --> 00:25:46,211
Who? Ian was,
Probably my grandma, my mom, my sister.

638
00:25:46,811 --> 00:25:47,479
Family.

639
00:25:47,479 --> 00:25:50,348
We'll probably go to Italy for pizza.

640
00:25:50,348 --> 00:25:52,217
Get that real pizza. Yeah.

641
00:25:52,217 --> 00:25:54,119
The real sauce.

642
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,121
You like the sauce?

643
00:25:56,121 --> 00:25:57,656
What's Tracy's all right.

644
00:25:57,656 --> 00:26:00,358
So we have a common friend Tracy Roberts.

645
00:26:00,358 --> 00:26:03,361
My mom. My favorite people in the world.

646
00:26:03,795 --> 00:26:05,330
Give me something. How's Tracy at home.

647
00:26:05,330 --> 00:26:07,499
Good, nice.

648
00:26:07,499 --> 00:26:10,201
What's her favorite things to do

649
00:26:10,201 --> 00:26:11,770
besides drive you around? Yeah.

650
00:26:11,770 --> 00:26:14,773
Cook for you, clean for you,
take care of you.

651
00:26:15,607 --> 00:26:18,243
Anything else?

652
00:26:18,243 --> 00:26:19,244
Tracy's amazing.

653
00:26:19,244 --> 00:26:20,545
She's a good friend.

654
00:26:20,545 --> 00:26:22,981
We help, we deliver food together.

655
00:26:22,981 --> 00:26:24,249
We take.

656
00:26:24,249 --> 00:26:26,618
We work at school together.

657
00:26:26,618 --> 00:26:27,319
Great pairs.

658
00:26:27,319 --> 00:26:29,788
Great person.
Yeah. You know Tracy pretty well.

659
00:26:29,788 --> 00:26:30,722
Oh, yeah.

660
00:26:30,722 --> 00:26:33,758
Best nurse. Best nurse. Yeah, absolutely.

661
00:26:35,293 --> 00:26:38,296
Tracy Roberts, she's a good friend.

662
00:26:38,430 --> 00:26:39,631
Any funny Tracy stories?

663
00:26:39,631 --> 00:26:41,499
Come on, give me something.

664
00:26:41,499 --> 00:26:43,702
Oh, no. Never.

665
00:26:43,702 --> 00:26:46,004
No, I wish I had one.

666
00:26:46,004 --> 00:26:47,973
Let's see.

667
00:26:47,973 --> 00:26:49,207
Tracy.

668
00:26:49,207 --> 00:26:51,543
Nope, nope. No, no.

669
00:26:51,543 --> 00:26:54,546
Oh this is Stephania.

670
00:26:55,180 --> 00:26:56,715
Episode 123.

671
00:26:56,715 --> 00:26:58,383
Stephania.

672
00:26:58,383 --> 00:26:59,551
Do you like superheroes?

673
00:26:59,551 --> 00:27:02,387
Yeah. Do you have a favorite superhero?

674
00:27:02,387 --> 00:27:03,555
No, a lot of favorites.

675
00:27:03,555 --> 00:27:06,558
A lot of favorite questions here.

676
00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:09,561
Batman and

677
00:27:09,561 --> 00:27:10,362
the flash.

678
00:27:10,362 --> 00:27:12,764
Oh, Sandy.

679
00:27:12,764 --> 00:27:15,367
I'd say the Flash or era. Yeah.

680
00:27:15,367 --> 00:27:16,134
I was the good ones.

681
00:27:16,134 --> 00:27:17,569
I was episode 123.

682
00:27:17,569 --> 00:27:19,971
Go back and check it out

683
00:27:19,971 --> 00:27:22,974
now. This is great. So,

684
00:27:24,509 --> 00:27:26,811
beans and company.

685
00:27:26,811 --> 00:27:29,814
So you work from 8 to 12?

686
00:27:29,814 --> 00:27:31,116
That's four. Hours. Yeah.

687
00:27:31,116 --> 00:27:32,350
And a ten minute break.

688
00:27:32,350 --> 00:27:34,953
And a ten minute break.
Are you standing the whole time.

689
00:27:34,953 --> 00:27:37,389
Oh she's constantly moving the whole time.

690
00:27:37,389 --> 00:27:39,624
Yeah I've been around a lot.

691
00:27:39,624 --> 00:27:40,525
There's a lot of Disney.

692
00:27:40,525 --> 00:27:43,528
Do you also have to go
get the dishes. No.

693
00:27:43,962 --> 00:27:45,196
Are they brought to you. Yeah.

694
00:27:46,464 --> 00:27:48,967
Do you have the rubber
pad or are you standing on the rubber pad.

695
00:27:48,967 --> 00:27:51,970
Yeah. That helps your back. No, no. Yeah.

696
00:27:52,370 --> 00:27:55,040
Well your back still hurt.

697
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,042
Well there's also leaning into the sink.

698
00:27:57,042 --> 00:27:59,277
Yes. Our we'll have to work on posture.

699
00:27:59,277 --> 00:28:00,378
Got to keep your core tight.

700
00:28:00,378 --> 00:28:01,546
Yeah.

701
00:28:01,546 --> 00:28:04,182
Keep your core tight. Yeah.

702
00:28:04,182 --> 00:28:07,118
Try to bend at the waist.

703
00:28:07,118 --> 00:28:07,786
For me.

704
00:28:07,786 --> 00:28:08,053
Chloe.

705
00:28:08,053 --> 00:28:10,889
Korea's grown
so much that she started working at beans.

706
00:28:10,889 --> 00:28:11,356
Yeah.

707
00:28:11,356 --> 00:28:12,657
It's truly amazing. Yeah.

708
00:28:12,657 --> 00:28:14,826
The first day was awkward.

709
00:28:14,826 --> 00:28:15,393
Yeah.

710
00:28:15,393 --> 00:28:18,096
Clay's never done dishwashing like this
before.

711
00:28:18,096 --> 00:28:21,099
You know, the dishwashing that we do
at home is very different, right?

712
00:28:22,167 --> 00:28:25,170
What were some of the struggles
you had on your first day?

713
00:28:25,170 --> 00:28:27,539
Making a lot of noise,
banging on the desk.

714
00:28:27,539 --> 00:28:28,473
Like the dishes.

715
00:28:28,473 --> 00:28:33,912
The pans on there were big and awkward
and knowing how to hold them.

716
00:28:33,912 --> 00:28:36,414
And so they didn't drop and make noise.

717
00:28:36,414 --> 00:28:39,784
And you know when to use the sprayer,
when not to use the sprayer.

718
00:28:40,151 --> 00:28:41,920
They like big cookie trays too.

719
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:43,655
Yeah. Yeah, a lot of that.

720
00:28:43,655 --> 00:28:46,324
The cookie tray
and it spills all over you.

721
00:28:46,324 --> 00:28:48,493
I've had that happen to me. No

722
00:28:49,527 --> 00:28:50,762
no no oh no no.

723
00:28:50,762 --> 00:28:53,164
You have the sprayer.
Yeah yeah. The suds off. Yeah.

724
00:28:53,164 --> 00:28:56,267
Spray my I. In the dry drying place. Nice.

725
00:28:56,634 --> 00:28:59,070
Like I dip it in this in the sink.

726
00:28:59,070 --> 00:29:01,005
Three different sinks. Right.

727
00:29:01,005 --> 00:29:01,673
Yeah.

728
00:29:01,673 --> 00:29:04,642
Oh yeah. The three sinks. Yeah.

729
00:29:04,642 --> 00:29:06,511
And then you put them in the dry.
Yeah. Yeah.

730
00:29:06,511 --> 00:29:10,081
And you know from that awkwardness
to today where she killed it,

731
00:29:10,081 --> 00:29:11,950
she was carrying on.

732
00:29:11,950 --> 00:29:13,351
She was kicking. But today.

733
00:29:13,351 --> 00:29:15,086
It's so. Absolutely.

734
00:29:15,086 --> 00:29:15,520
That's great.

735
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,223
She needed no help from the coach today.

736
00:29:18,223 --> 00:29:20,792
She did it completely independently.

737
00:29:20,792 --> 00:29:22,026
Yes. Yeah.

738
00:29:22,026 --> 00:29:24,195
You can do it I knew it, yeah.

739
00:29:24,195 --> 00:29:25,797
Great job. Chloe.

740
00:29:25,797 --> 00:29:28,266
Now, are you the only one

741
00:29:28,266 --> 00:29:30,635
washing the dishes back there,
or do you have a partner team?

742
00:29:30,635 --> 00:29:31,803
No. Me?

743
00:29:31,803 --> 00:29:33,338
It's one at a time. Yeah.

744
00:29:33,338 --> 00:29:35,406
We have three individuals
that work there. Yeah.

745
00:29:40,245 --> 00:29:40,645
What were

746
00:29:40,645 --> 00:29:43,748
some of them do me remember
any of the dishes

747
00:29:43,748 --> 00:29:46,751
that you had like
that came through like one to wash today.

748
00:29:46,751 --> 00:29:50,155
Bowls mixing bowls.

749
00:29:53,057 --> 00:29:54,425
There's often a lot of mixing bowls.

750
00:29:54,425 --> 00:29:54,759
Yeah.

751
00:29:54,759 --> 00:29:57,762
The Sizzler plates. Yes the plates.

752
00:29:58,263 --> 00:29:59,030
Lhotse.

753
00:29:59,030 --> 00:30:00,398
I know a lot of pots, a. Lot of pots.

754
00:30:00,398 --> 00:30:03,668
So you're washing stuff
that is made the cooking supplies too.

755
00:30:03,668 --> 00:30:06,671
Yeah. Right. So. And baking. Yeah.

756
00:30:07,172 --> 00:30:09,808
Muffin pans. Yeah.

757
00:30:09,808 --> 00:30:10,542
A muffin pans.

758
00:30:10,542 --> 00:30:13,545
The worst you have. Get in there

759
00:30:13,611 --> 00:30:15,547
then you can't rinse them, right?

760
00:30:15,547 --> 00:30:16,214
Yeah.

761
00:30:16,214 --> 00:30:18,817
I feel your pain.

762
00:30:18,817 --> 00:30:19,851
Actually, I wash dishes.

763
00:30:19,851 --> 00:30:22,854
This morning I woke up and wash dishes

764
00:30:23,288 --> 00:30:26,291
in honor of Chloe, and I was like,
Chloe's coming on the podcast.

765
00:30:26,658 --> 00:30:28,760
I'm doing these for Chloe. Yeah.

766
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,696
Yeti glass is also very challenging.

767
00:30:31,696 --> 00:30:33,364
You got to. Can't get your hand in there.

768
00:30:33,364 --> 00:30:34,899
Yeah. Did a couple of those today.

769
00:30:34,899 --> 00:30:36,201
Blender today?

770
00:30:36,201 --> 00:30:38,503
Oh, you did a blender. Be very careful.

771
00:30:38,503 --> 00:30:39,771
What are we being careful of?

772
00:30:39,771 --> 00:30:41,739
The sharp edges. Smart.

773
00:30:41,739 --> 00:30:43,741
Say you know you got it.

774
00:30:43,741 --> 00:30:46,144
Have you cleaned
the food processor yet too?

775
00:30:46,144 --> 00:30:46,978
Yeah. Yeah.

776
00:30:46,978 --> 00:30:48,780
That's good to watch the blades. Yeah.

777
00:30:50,415 --> 00:30:52,383
And the graters.

778
00:30:52,383 --> 00:30:54,619
High and cheesy. Yeah.

779
00:30:54,619 --> 00:30:55,587
We don't go down.

780
00:30:55,587 --> 00:30:56,955
We go up.

781
00:30:56,955 --> 00:30:59,958
Oh, yeah.

782
00:31:00,091 --> 00:31:02,994
Smart. Yep.

783
00:31:02,994 --> 00:31:03,862
Beans and company.

784
00:31:03,862 --> 00:31:05,530
Do you know where they got their name?
Beans and company.

785
00:31:05,530 --> 00:31:08,533
Know who? Do you know more.

786
00:31:08,666 --> 00:31:11,669
Do you know, Kim or Noel?

787
00:31:12,070 --> 00:31:13,705
Both.

788
00:31:13,705 --> 00:31:14,472
I got kimono.

789
00:31:14,472 --> 00:31:17,308
Well, right here.

790
00:31:17,308 --> 00:31:18,443
Kim. Morrison.

791
00:31:18,443 --> 00:31:21,412
Noel. Alex.

792
00:31:21,412 --> 00:31:23,448
Who do you know better?

793
00:31:23,448 --> 00:31:25,283
Who do you interact with more?

794
00:31:25,283 --> 00:31:28,519
Do you see Kim
a lot more or Noel can. Kim.

795
00:31:28,820 --> 00:31:29,520
How is she?

796
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:31,589
Good. Good, boss.

797
00:31:31,589 --> 00:31:33,358
Nice. Yeah.

798
00:31:33,358 --> 00:31:35,493
Kim and Noel,
they're coming on the podcast.

799
00:31:35,493 --> 00:31:37,028
Right.

800
00:31:37,028 --> 00:31:38,796
I'm going to have to go talk to them.

801
00:31:38,796 --> 00:31:39,330
You tell them.

802
00:31:39,330 --> 00:31:43,468
Hey, say, I met Eric Feeney and Eric
Feeney said he wants you to be a guest.

803
00:31:44,235 --> 00:31:45,436
Yeah.

804
00:31:45,436 --> 00:31:46,371
This is my. Oh, this.

805
00:31:46,371 --> 00:31:48,106
Who's this person right here?

806
00:31:48,106 --> 00:31:48,907
He. Sandy.

807
00:31:48,907 --> 00:31:52,577
Sandy,
then my guy right here, David Dukas.

808
00:31:53,077 --> 00:31:54,245
I play basketball with him.

809
00:31:54,245 --> 00:31:55,713
So I was really excited to see him.

810
00:31:56,981 --> 00:31:58,650
Sandy, you got anything on David?

811
00:31:58,650 --> 00:31:59,550
Yeah, he's a great guy.

812
00:31:59,550 --> 00:32:02,153
We worked together on all worked.

813
00:32:02,153 --> 00:32:04,756
It's an initiative to help businesses

814
00:32:04,756 --> 00:32:07,759
find, become an inclusive workplace.

815
00:32:07,892 --> 00:32:10,895
So. Okay, they go to all worked.

816
00:32:11,596 --> 00:32:12,997
So all worked.

817
00:32:12,997 --> 00:32:16,801
These guys are a mixed bunch from
all different things come together. Yes.

818
00:32:16,834 --> 00:32:19,837
Oh. Very cool.

819
00:32:21,606 --> 00:32:21,973
And he's.

820
00:32:21,973 --> 00:32:24,842
Is he the director of KT works or is he.

821
00:32:24,842 --> 00:32:25,076
Oh, no.

822
00:32:25,076 --> 00:32:28,279
He's the director of Connecticut
Department of Aging, Disability Services.

823
00:32:29,314 --> 00:32:31,883
Cool.

824
00:32:31,883 --> 00:32:33,785
No, this is great, I love that.

825
00:32:33,785 --> 00:32:36,087
How often does this KT works meet.

826
00:32:36,087 --> 00:32:37,188
We meet weekly.

827
00:32:37,188 --> 00:32:39,891
And then the team gets together
every month.

828
00:32:39,891 --> 00:32:41,059
So promise you'll tell him.

829
00:32:41,059 --> 00:32:44,062
You know, you met Eric. Feeney I will.

830
00:32:44,662 --> 00:32:47,832
And then tell him he once elbowed me
and my chest and my head wants to.

831
00:32:47,832 --> 00:32:48,766
He gets a little.

832
00:32:48,766 --> 00:32:50,034
But you probably don't see that.

833
00:32:50,034 --> 00:32:53,271
Don't pretend
I didn't say that part but good baller.

834
00:32:53,438 --> 00:32:55,873
Yeah. Was really talented.

835
00:32:55,873 --> 00:32:59,010
You know still really really good.

836
00:32:59,944 --> 00:33:02,947
Obviously Father Time gets us all, but

837
00:33:04,048 --> 00:33:06,751
you know, what can you do?

838
00:33:06,751 --> 00:33:08,553
How was your day today? Come on.

839
00:33:08,553 --> 00:33:10,621
How was your memorial day? That was. Good.

840
00:33:10,621 --> 00:33:13,591
What'd you do on Memorial Day?

841
00:33:13,725 --> 00:33:19,297
We had hot dogs and hamburgers,
and then me, my mom.

842
00:33:19,297 --> 00:33:22,333
My mom took four hours
to change the guinea pig room around.

843
00:33:22,834 --> 00:33:25,536
Nice to do.

844
00:33:25,536 --> 00:33:27,805
Different spot because I was getting dirty
in that little spot.

845
00:33:27,805 --> 00:33:30,808
So she changed it to the other spot,
and now we're not happy.

846
00:33:30,808 --> 00:33:34,812
Oh, you know, screaming at me like,
mom, help me.

847
00:33:34,812 --> 00:33:37,815
I'm like, mellow.

848
00:33:38,016 --> 00:33:38,783
Yeah.

849
00:33:38,783 --> 00:33:41,652
I now not a happy

850
00:33:41,652 --> 00:33:42,186
life.

851
00:33:42,186 --> 00:33:45,189
And then today
they got stuck today in the house.

852
00:33:46,457 --> 00:33:47,925
What are you going to do?

853
00:33:47,925 --> 00:33:49,861
I was not there
because I was not the living room.

854
00:33:52,897 --> 00:33:54,065
How was your memorial day?

855
00:33:54,065 --> 00:33:57,068
It was. Good. Spent time with family.

856
00:33:57,268 --> 00:33:57,969
Nice.

857
00:33:57,969 --> 00:34:01,305
I just want to shout out we marched
in the West Hartford Memorial Day parade.

858
00:34:01,672 --> 00:34:02,440
These are our shirts.

859
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,610
We honored Lieutenant Rick Wells
from the United States Marines.

860
00:34:05,610 --> 00:34:08,379
Doctor
Wells is also a West Hartford teacher.

861
00:34:08,379 --> 00:34:11,983
The marine motto was honor,
courage and commitment.

862
00:34:12,683 --> 00:34:15,253
We had some wonderful
sponsors on the back.

863
00:34:15,253 --> 00:34:18,423
We had a post parade pizza party at Luna.

864
00:34:19,157 --> 00:34:19,891
Luna Pizza.

865
00:34:19,891 --> 00:34:21,726
You ever have a Luna pizza is good.

866
00:34:21,726 --> 00:34:24,362
Oh, yeah. Luna pizza's good, right.

867
00:34:24,362 --> 00:34:25,730
So Luna pizza.

868
00:34:25,730 --> 00:34:27,231
Great place.

869
00:34:27,231 --> 00:34:30,301
Their sponsor Alex's at the so 70.

870
00:34:30,701 --> 00:34:31,602
Great person.

871
00:34:31,602 --> 00:34:36,240
He'll he's very open and would be willing
to talk with you about some employment.

872
00:34:37,041 --> 00:34:41,612
They've our projects search.

873
00:34:42,814 --> 00:34:44,816
Well, now

874
00:34:44,816 --> 00:34:46,451
I teach third grade.

875
00:34:46,451 --> 00:34:48,953
How would you explain what you do

876
00:34:48,953 --> 00:34:51,956
to a third grader?

877
00:34:55,193 --> 00:35:00,798
I would tell them that
I teach young adults

878
00:35:01,532 --> 00:35:05,970
who need some additional training
and support

879
00:35:06,671 --> 00:35:09,674
to, I teach them the skills

880
00:35:10,241 --> 00:35:14,412
and, techniques or tasks

881
00:35:14,946 --> 00:35:18,483
that they need to be able
to get a job and work the job.

882
00:35:19,417 --> 00:35:22,353
And keep the job.

883
00:35:22,353 --> 00:35:24,055
So whether that's interviewing

884
00:35:24,055 --> 00:35:27,692
or talking to their boss,

885
00:35:28,526 --> 00:35:31,529
requesting days off, things like that.

886
00:35:31,829 --> 00:35:32,763
How do I do.

887
00:35:32,763 --> 00:35:34,832
Good.

888
00:35:34,832 --> 00:35:37,602
Oh did you put in
for a day off for Saturday.

889
00:35:37,602 --> 00:35:40,605
So did you write a note
or did you talk to your boss boss.

890
00:35:41,205 --> 00:35:44,275
And did you approach him and say
excuse me boss, can I talk to you?

891
00:35:45,076 --> 00:35:49,547
Is it okay if I take the day
off for my swimming 16 laps

892
00:35:50,581 --> 00:35:52,049
in eight minutes?

893
00:35:52,049 --> 00:35:53,317
And what did she say?

894
00:35:53,317 --> 00:35:55,920
She said okay, nice.

895
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,188
That's great.

896
00:35:57,188 --> 00:35:58,089
Beans and company.

897
00:35:58,089 --> 00:35:59,257
Shout out to Beans and company.

898
00:35:59,257 --> 00:36:02,260
Yeah, I got to get one of these shirts.

899
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,362
Did do
they have these on sale in the place?

900
00:36:04,362 --> 00:36:05,263
Yeah.

901
00:36:05,263 --> 00:36:07,465
Because they were no longer
on the website.

902
00:36:07,465 --> 00:36:10,067
So I'm going to come see you. I'm.

903
00:36:10,067 --> 00:36:11,435
What colors do they have?

904
00:36:11,435 --> 00:36:14,438
Green, black, blue.

905
00:36:15,540 --> 00:36:18,543
I'll be there.

906
00:36:18,809 --> 00:36:20,845
Cool.

907
00:36:20,845 --> 00:36:23,848
We did our three keys. Oh.

908
00:36:24,182 --> 00:36:25,750
Do you have a on?

909
00:36:25,750 --> 00:36:28,653
I ask you a lot of favorites.

910
00:36:28,653 --> 00:36:31,656
Oh. What's what what makes Sandy

911
00:36:32,056 --> 00:36:34,258
good at her job?

912
00:36:34,258 --> 00:36:35,426
Now you're putting her on the spot.

913
00:36:35,426 --> 00:36:37,795
Yeah.

914
00:36:37,795 --> 00:36:40,798
You know, no.

915
00:36:41,165 --> 00:36:42,700
She nice? Yes.

916
00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:45,703
And she funny? Yes. She friendly.

917
00:36:45,836 --> 00:36:47,371
Nice. Funny. Friendly. Yeah.

918
00:36:47,371 --> 00:36:48,806
You hear that, Sandy? Look at that. I was

919
00:36:49,807 --> 00:36:51,309
that was nice that you said that.

920
00:36:51,309 --> 00:36:52,443
Very nice.

921
00:36:52,443 --> 00:36:53,144
Thanks, Chloe.

922
00:36:53,144 --> 00:36:53,678
Yeah, I come.

923
00:36:53,678 --> 00:36:54,979
And how is Chloe now?

924
00:36:54,979 --> 00:36:57,648
What's Chloe's
what's the name of their position

925
00:36:57,648 --> 00:36:58,549
when they're in the program?

926
00:36:58,549 --> 00:36:59,383
Are they a student?

927
00:36:59,383 --> 00:37:02,186
Are they. Intern? Intern. All right, that.

928
00:37:02,186 --> 00:37:06,591
Was the, Like,
we don't talk about it as a school.

929
00:37:06,591 --> 00:37:07,825
It's work.

930
00:37:07,825 --> 00:37:10,561
We don't go to a classroom.
It's an office.

931
00:37:10,561 --> 00:37:12,463
They're not students. They're interns.

932
00:37:12,463 --> 00:37:13,164
Interns?

933
00:37:13,164 --> 00:37:16,601
Good. At.

934
00:37:17,401 --> 00:37:20,404
And she'd be an intern at Project
Search. Yes.

935
00:37:21,272 --> 00:37:22,573
But graduating.

936
00:37:22,573 --> 00:37:23,708
Yeah. Next week.

937
00:37:23,708 --> 00:37:25,243
This Wednesday. Wednesday.

938
00:37:25,243 --> 00:37:27,445
Oh, and two days later.

939
00:37:27,445 --> 00:37:29,480
We're celebrating our 10th year.

940
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:30,381
It's a big milestone.

941
00:37:30,381 --> 00:37:33,384
We were the first in the state
to have project search.

942
00:37:33,551 --> 00:37:36,120
And so we're really excited.

943
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,389
We invited back a lot of graduates.

944
00:37:38,389 --> 00:37:39,490
Some of the. Previous year.

945
00:37:41,592 --> 00:37:44,161
Wow. How many people are graduating
on Wednesday?

946
00:37:44,161 --> 00:37:45,997
Five. Five.

947
00:37:45,997 --> 00:37:48,165
And Chloe's one of them.

948
00:37:48,165 --> 00:37:49,400
Nice.

949
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,836
Are you excited?

950
00:37:51,836 --> 00:37:53,704
Come on. Give us your speech.

951
00:37:53,704 --> 00:37:55,439
I don't know when I'm going to be a group.

952
00:37:55,439 --> 00:37:56,807
Oh we. Roberts. Oh.

953
00:37:56,807 --> 00:37:57,942
Oh it's a group speech.

954
00:37:57,942 --> 00:38:00,878
Yeah. Yeah.

955
00:38:00,878 --> 00:38:02,313
Can you end it and say

956
00:38:02,313 --> 00:38:05,283
I want everyone to be a good friend.

957
00:38:05,816 --> 00:38:08,819
Everyone belongs be a good friend.

958
00:38:09,186 --> 00:38:09,987
We can work that in.

959
00:38:09,987 --> 00:38:10,788
Yeah. Yes.

960
00:38:10,788 --> 00:38:13,724
Maybe I'd ask your mom
if you said it on Wednesday.

961
00:38:13,724 --> 00:38:16,060
What time on Wednesday? 330.

962
00:38:16,060 --> 00:38:17,695
Nice. Where?

963
00:38:17,695 --> 00:38:19,530
Munchkin road.

964
00:38:19,530 --> 00:38:20,498
At UConn.

965
00:38:20,498 --> 00:38:22,400
What's at UConn

966
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:26,070
now? The UConn near, 
like the health center

967
00:38:27,138 --> 00:38:30,241
across the street from butchers
and bakers, like in that street or.

968
00:38:30,541 --> 00:38:32,076
The other side.

969
00:38:32,076 --> 00:38:33,744
So it's on Munson Road.

970
00:38:33,744 --> 00:38:35,079
On Munson Road. Gotcha.

971
00:38:37,648 --> 00:38:40,985
Nice. Now.

972
00:38:43,254 --> 00:38:46,023
Oh, we could do would you rather
you haven't you ever do.

973
00:38:46,023 --> 00:38:48,326
Would you rather

974
00:38:48,326 --> 00:38:50,928
like, would you rather drink

975
00:38:50,928 --> 00:38:53,931
orange juice or apple juice.

976
00:38:55,633 --> 00:38:56,300
Orange.

977
00:38:56,300 --> 00:38:58,636
Orange orange. Orange.

978
00:38:58,636 --> 00:38:59,370
What about.

979
00:38:59,370 --> 00:39:02,373
Would you rather.

980
00:39:03,607 --> 00:39:06,610
What is it?

981
00:39:06,944 --> 00:39:09,080
Have your hair.

982
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:10,448
Your hair never stop growing.

983
00:39:10,448 --> 00:39:12,383
Or your fingernails never stop growing.

984
00:39:12,383 --> 00:39:14,985
Hair. Hair?

985
00:39:14,985 --> 00:39:15,252
Yeah.

986
00:39:15,252 --> 00:39:18,255
Would you rather play every instrument
or speak every language?

987
00:39:18,856 --> 00:39:20,725
Ooh, speak every language.

988
00:39:20,725 --> 00:39:22,593
We have a language. Yeah.

989
00:39:22,593 --> 00:39:25,596
Would you rather be able to,

990
00:39:27,898 --> 00:39:30,901
Talk to animals or turn into an animal?

991
00:39:33,204 --> 00:39:34,472
I talk to animals already.

992
00:39:34,472 --> 00:39:36,907
Yeah. But, at least
then I'd know what they're saying.

993
00:39:36,907 --> 00:39:39,710
Back to all day animals. Yeah, yeah.

994
00:39:39,710 --> 00:39:41,078
Good one, good one.

995
00:39:41,078 --> 00:39:43,280
Do you like sparkling water or flat water?

996
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,283
Sparkling flat. Flat.

997
00:39:46,851 --> 00:39:49,320
Pepsi or Coke? Coke. Coke.

998
00:39:50,621 --> 00:39:53,624
LeBron James or Kobe Bryant?

999
00:39:55,292 --> 00:39:58,129
I think you got us there.

1000
00:39:58,129 --> 00:40:00,331
Yeah. I love it.

1001
00:40:00,331 --> 00:40:05,403
Would you rather would you rather be
at favor or Special Olympics?

1002
00:40:05,770 --> 00:40:06,704
Special Olympics?

1003
00:40:06,704 --> 00:40:12,009
Oh, would you rather ride a horse or swim?

1004
00:40:14,011 --> 00:40:14,812
Both.

1005
00:40:14,812 --> 00:40:16,580
So you're tough, cookie, I try.

1006
00:40:16,580 --> 00:40:19,283
That's the second time
I try that. Get you that

1007
00:40:19,283 --> 00:40:20,251
you didn't fall for it.

1008
00:40:20,251 --> 00:40:23,254
You didn't fall for it.

1009
00:40:23,354 --> 00:40:24,188
Anything I missed

1010
00:40:24,188 --> 00:40:27,191
about project search
that you'd like to share?

1011
00:40:27,258 --> 00:40:30,127
How can we get more people involved?

1012
00:40:30,127 --> 00:40:33,964
So we are looking for businesses
to start a project search.

1013
00:40:34,031 --> 00:40:36,500
We've been looking for a second site.

1014
00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:39,103
We're hoping in the Bristol area.

1015
00:40:39,103 --> 00:40:41,939
It needs to be a large company.

1016
00:40:41,939 --> 00:40:44,942
You know, to be able
to accommodate internships.

1017
00:40:45,409 --> 00:40:49,914
So if any business is interested,
that would be fabulous.

1018
00:40:49,914 --> 00:40:52,950
We have eight

1019
00:40:52,950 --> 00:40:56,854
incoming interns for the fall, 
so we're full at UConn.

1020
00:40:57,121 --> 00:40:58,222
Wow, wow,

1021
00:40:59,623 --> 00:41:01,058
wow. Do you have

1022
00:41:01,058 --> 00:41:04,328
interns come back
and talk to the former interns?

1023
00:41:04,328 --> 00:41:06,096
I give a speech.

1024
00:41:06,096 --> 00:41:08,232
Yeah, we did that this year, right? Yeah.

1025
00:41:08,232 --> 00:41:08,799
Who came back?

1026
00:41:08,799 --> 00:41:11,802
Do you remember, Nick?

1027
00:41:12,403 --> 00:41:13,737
Nick has been in the office.

1028
00:41:13,737 --> 00:41:14,472
Yeah.

1029
00:41:14,472 --> 00:41:17,441
Marcus came back and talked to them.

1030
00:41:17,641 --> 00:41:22,112
Marcus, talked to you guys about, 
apartment and independent living.

1031
00:41:22,112 --> 00:41:23,981
He recently got his apartment.

1032
00:41:23,981 --> 00:41:26,450
He's also one of the only individuals
I know that can turn

1033
00:41:26,450 --> 00:41:29,453
a 15 hour workweek
into a 40 hour workweek.

1034
00:41:29,553 --> 00:41:32,223
He loves working.

1035
00:41:32,223 --> 00:41:34,091
And, Yeah.

1036
00:41:34,091 --> 00:41:35,659
And then Shante came back.

1037
00:41:35,659 --> 00:41:37,161
Shante voice for deeds.

1038
00:41:37,161 --> 00:41:39,029
She's a self-advocacy coordinator.

1039
00:41:39,029 --> 00:41:41,465
So she talked about ad advocacy
with the group.

1040
00:41:41,465 --> 00:41:44,468
Oh, nice.

1041
00:41:45,469 --> 00:41:48,305
Project search, I love it.

1042
00:41:48,305 --> 00:41:50,007
What was your role prior to that? You.

1043
00:41:50,007 --> 00:41:54,345
So you had a, I was a direct support
professional in the beginning,

1044
00:41:54,345 --> 00:41:57,348
and then I became the project search site
instructor manager.

1045
00:41:57,581 --> 00:42:00,351
That's
what DSP stands for right here. Yeah.

1046
00:42:00,351 --> 00:42:02,386
Direct supports. Okay.

1047
00:42:06,223 --> 00:42:08,125
Yeah.

1048
00:42:08,125 --> 00:42:09,693
You express with enthusiasm.

1049
00:42:09,693 --> 00:42:13,764
I'm passionate about what I do, and I see
this as an exciting new chapter. Yes.

1050
00:42:13,764 --> 00:42:15,566
Sandy said that.

1051
00:42:15,566 --> 00:42:18,168
Does that sound like something
Sandy would say?

1052
00:42:18,168 --> 00:42:20,671
And then you graduated from Wksu? Yes.

1053
00:42:20,671 --> 00:42:23,207
And you got your masters at North Central
University?

1054
00:42:23,207 --> 00:42:26,210
Yes. Yeah. Where's that? Online. Oh, cool.

1055
00:42:26,310 --> 00:42:28,345
Very cool. And would you get marketing?

1056
00:42:28,345 --> 00:42:29,146
Yes. Nice.

1057
00:42:29,146 --> 00:42:31,982
Would you get your bachelor's
in marketing? Marketing.

1058
00:42:31,982 --> 00:42:34,285
Would you get your master's in marketing?

1059
00:42:34,285 --> 00:42:36,787
Marketing. So you like marketing? Yes.

1060
00:42:36,787 --> 00:42:37,421
Big marketing.

1061
00:42:37,421 --> 00:42:40,057
Fair.

1062
00:42:40,057 --> 00:42:41,425
What's the best thing about marketing?

1063
00:42:41,425 --> 00:42:44,428
How do you use marketing in the position
that you're in?

1064
00:42:45,296 --> 00:42:46,063
Things like this.

1065
00:42:46,063 --> 00:42:48,432
I market
the program I market to individuals.

1066
00:42:48,432 --> 00:42:51,802
I help them put their best foot forward,

1067
00:42:51,802 --> 00:42:54,805
advertise themselves in a positive way.

1068
00:42:55,105 --> 00:42:57,775
Help grow the program I'm in.

1069
00:42:57,775 --> 00:43:04,982
The program started with three interns
and a pilot program when I came on.

1070
00:43:04,982 --> 00:43:08,586
And, we then had seven and grew

1071
00:43:08,586 --> 00:43:12,323
to 20 internships from maybe five.

1072
00:43:12,823 --> 00:43:14,191
So it's all about marketing it.

1073
00:43:14,191 --> 00:43:18,429
And, our success rate
has a huge part of that, too, because,

1074
00:43:18,729 --> 00:43:21,765
you know,
we've placed close to 60 individuals

1075
00:43:22,232 --> 00:43:25,235
in employment,
and that is all about marketing.

1076
00:43:25,536 --> 00:43:27,371
The resume is a marketing. Yep.

1077
00:43:29,039 --> 00:43:30,207
No. It's great.

1078
00:43:30,207 --> 00:43:34,044
We I mentioned to to your mom, right.

1079
00:43:34,278 --> 00:43:36,847
And then I mentioned it to you
and then that's how it got to you.

1080
00:43:36,847 --> 00:43:37,281
Yeah.

1081
00:43:37,281 --> 00:43:39,583
Yeah. Perfect.
I'm so happy that you're here.

1082
00:43:39,583 --> 00:43:41,118
Word of mouth marketing.

1083
00:43:41,118 --> 00:43:44,121
Marketing word of mouth. He. It's good.

1084
00:43:44,555 --> 00:43:47,257
Now that word, the word spreading.

1085
00:43:47,257 --> 00:43:48,425
Know you're doing great things.

1086
00:43:48,425 --> 00:43:51,428
I'm so happy to talk with you.
You are the.

1087
00:43:51,895 --> 00:43:55,299
They got to change this
competitive employment coordinator.

1088
00:43:55,566 --> 00:43:59,036
I joke with the interns
because I always talk about my first job,

1089
00:43:59,570 --> 00:44:01,572
and my first job was chuck-e-cheese.

1090
00:44:01,572 --> 00:44:04,608
It was CSI, and now I am CSI again.

1091
00:44:04,608 --> 00:44:07,611
So I started my career as a CSI.

1092
00:44:07,745 --> 00:44:10,914
And we talk about first jobs because it's
not what you know, it's who you know.

1093
00:44:11,281 --> 00:44:15,853
And, a lot of the times
and we talk about where we start

1094
00:44:15,853 --> 00:44:18,255
and where we end up,
and that first job we get

1095
00:44:18,255 --> 00:44:21,825
may not be the career,
but it is a good job.

1096
00:44:21,825 --> 00:44:25,729
And we grow and then we help them
find the next job or their career.

1097
00:44:26,430 --> 00:44:27,431
Yeah I was a paper boy.

1098
00:44:27,431 --> 00:44:32,102
I delivered papers, and then I worked
at 7-Eleven like Slurpees

1099
00:44:32,236 --> 00:44:37,741
and made hot dogs, and took out the trash
and wiped and mopped the floor.

1100
00:44:37,741 --> 00:44:39,810
So, got to start somewhere.

1101
00:44:40,944 --> 00:44:43,947
And now I clean up messes,

1102
00:44:44,148 --> 00:44:47,151
mop the floor in my classroom

1103
00:44:47,651 --> 00:44:49,887
surrounded by 21 year olds.

1104
00:44:49,887 --> 00:44:51,121
And it's amazing.

1105
00:44:51,121 --> 00:44:52,423
And I hear Mr. Feeney, Mr.

1106
00:44:52,423 --> 00:44:52,956
Feeney, Mr.

1107
00:44:52,956 --> 00:44:55,959
Feeney, 200 times a day.

1108
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:58,429
No, for for for Feeney. So.

1109
00:44:58,429 --> 00:45:01,432
Oh. For for for Feeney.

1110
00:45:02,466 --> 00:45:03,667
So how old are you?

1111
00:45:03,667 --> 00:45:05,736
I would do that. Yeah. 37.

1112
00:45:05,736 --> 00:45:07,938
Okay, that's.
I think that's the wheelhouse.

1113
00:45:07,938 --> 00:45:09,606
So. Yeah.

1114
00:45:09,606 --> 00:45:11,341
Eric, my first name's Eric.

1115
00:45:11,341 --> 00:45:12,443
Yeah.

1116
00:45:12,443 --> 00:45:14,511
And the neighbor was Eric, Mr. Feeney.

1117
00:45:14,511 --> 00:45:15,913
Oh, yeah.

1118
00:45:15,913 --> 00:45:18,482
I have a shirt that says it's a offense

1119
00:45:18,482 --> 00:45:21,452
and it says a speech bubble
for for for Feeney over it.

1120
00:45:21,652 --> 00:45:24,655
And back in the day, that was my ringtone.

1121
00:45:24,855 --> 00:45:27,524
For from the only time someone noticed I,

1122
00:45:27,524 --> 00:45:30,961
UberEats guy brought something to school,
he's like, oh, here's your food.

1123
00:45:30,961 --> 00:45:31,729
I met him at the front door.

1124
00:45:31,729 --> 00:45:32,896
He's like, You're Mr.

1125
00:45:32,896 --> 00:45:35,899
Feeney, and you work at a school.

1126
00:45:36,133 --> 00:45:37,167
I'm like, yeah, he's my uncle.

1127
00:45:37,167 --> 00:45:38,502
He goes, for real.

1128
00:45:38,502 --> 00:45:41,205
I was like, yeah, buddy, it's my uncle.

1129
00:45:41,205 --> 00:45:43,741
It's a character on TV. Oh yeah.

1130
00:45:43,741 --> 00:45:45,476
It's like, Will William

1131
00:45:46,677 --> 00:45:48,512
forgot his real name.

1132
00:45:48,512 --> 00:45:49,747
But Mr. Feeney.

1133
00:45:49,747 --> 00:45:52,750
Yes. For for for Feeney,

1134
00:45:53,550 --> 00:45:55,119
you're like boy meets World. Yeah.

1135
00:45:55,119 --> 00:45:58,122
How about girl Meets World? Yes. Topanga.

1136
00:45:58,422 --> 00:45:59,990
You name some other characters.

1137
00:45:59,990 --> 00:46:01,925
You know any other Cory characters? Riley.

1138
00:46:01,925 --> 00:46:03,660
Yeah.

1139
00:46:03,660 --> 00:46:06,630
Riley.

1140
00:46:07,598 --> 00:46:08,265
Maya.

1141
00:46:08,265 --> 00:46:11,268
Maya.

1142
00:46:12,369 --> 00:46:13,370
Oh, this is cool.

1143
00:46:13,370 --> 00:46:14,605
Oh, sure. Oh, yeah.

1144
00:46:14,605 --> 00:46:17,608
The neighbor Shawn. He's another guy.

1145
00:46:17,608 --> 00:46:18,442
What's Mr.

1146
00:46:18,442 --> 00:46:21,211
Feeney's motto for life?

1147
00:46:21,211 --> 00:46:23,947
They tells the students,

1148
00:46:23,947 --> 00:46:25,816
hey, do good.

1149
00:46:25,816 --> 00:46:27,151
Go be great or something.

1150
00:46:27,151 --> 00:46:29,720
Yeah, yeah.

1151
00:46:29,720 --> 00:46:32,723
Remember that one? All right, too good.

1152
00:46:33,090 --> 00:46:35,325
Be great.

1153
00:46:35,325 --> 00:46:36,560
Oh, how do we get involved?

1154
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:38,929
Become a UConn health host department.

1155
00:46:38,929 --> 00:46:42,132
Email a mentor, conduct
the life, employment, skills course.

1156
00:46:44,501 --> 00:46:45,536
What do you think?

1157
00:46:45,536 --> 00:46:47,271
Agency partners.

1158
00:46:47,271 --> 00:46:51,074
Are you working with Arc?

1159
00:46:53,277 --> 00:46:55,479
Oh, ten public schools.

1160
00:46:55,479 --> 00:46:57,447
So region ten is one of the schools that.

1161
00:46:57,447 --> 00:46:58,382
A region ten.

1162
00:46:58,382 --> 00:46:59,950
That we work with?

1163
00:46:59,950 --> 00:47:02,219
We work with a
number of different schools.

1164
00:47:03,287 --> 00:47:04,388
And region ten.

1165
00:47:04,388 --> 00:47:06,690
It's in Harrington. Okay.

1166
00:47:06,690 --> 00:47:11,128
They were one of our founding partners,
with for Project Search

1167
00:47:11,128 --> 00:47:16,567
and then the Department of Rehab services,
or BRS and DDS and,

1168
00:47:16,900 --> 00:47:19,903
UConn and save.

1169
00:47:21,205 --> 00:47:24,208
I really hope I'm not forgetting somebody.

1170
00:47:24,274 --> 00:47:27,244
Babar.

1171
00:47:27,244 --> 00:47:31,148
To 1958.

1172
00:47:31,148 --> 00:47:34,518
Farrar has been around since 1958.

1173
00:47:36,153 --> 00:47:36,920
That's older than me.

1174
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,723
Callie, I know you're looking at me.
You like you? Probably older than that.

1175
00:47:39,723 --> 00:47:42,693
No, I'm not older than that. You,

1176
00:47:43,493 --> 00:47:46,063
I was born in 78.

1177
00:47:46,063 --> 00:47:48,365
How old? How old am I? Do the math.

1178
00:47:48,365 --> 00:47:49,766
Okay. 46.

1179
00:47:49,766 --> 00:47:52,769
Good job. Got there. 46.

1180
00:47:52,769 --> 00:47:54,705
How old are you, Chloe?

1181
00:47:54,705 --> 00:47:56,440
25. 25.

1182
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,042
Wow. I've known you for a long time.

1183
00:47:59,042 --> 00:48:01,511
Do you know Olivia used to be my girl's
babysitter?

1184
00:48:01,511 --> 00:48:02,913
Yeah.

1185
00:48:02,913 --> 00:48:03,747
Well. Grades. Olivia.

1186
00:48:03,747 --> 00:48:06,450
Now can you College sophomore.

1187
00:48:06,450 --> 00:48:09,086
Junior. Senior. Almost senior.

1188
00:48:09,086 --> 00:48:10,053
She's a senior.

1189
00:48:10,053 --> 00:48:12,856
Almost almost a senior
in Colorado, right? Yeah.

1190
00:48:14,625 --> 00:48:17,895
Writing grants grant writer, right?

1191
00:48:18,595 --> 00:48:21,331
No, maybe.
I don't know. You like whatever.

1192
00:48:21,331 --> 00:48:24,201
It's my big little sis who knows? Yes.

1193
00:48:24,201 --> 00:48:27,170
No, but, Olivia was a great babysitter.

1194
00:48:27,170 --> 00:48:27,371
Yeah.

1195
00:48:27,371 --> 00:48:28,839
You would drop off and pick up sometime.

1196
00:48:28,839 --> 00:48:31,341
Yeah. So nice.

1197
00:48:31,341 --> 00:48:32,843
I've known you for a long time.

1198
00:48:32,843 --> 00:48:35,846
At least 12 years,
maybe ten, 10 or 12 years.

1199
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:38,282
You're a good kid.

1200
00:48:38,282 --> 00:48:41,285
You're 25 now. Wow.

1201
00:48:41,685 --> 00:48:44,388
What's the average age of your interns?

1202
00:48:44,388 --> 00:48:47,224
About 20 to 25.

1203
00:48:47,224 --> 00:48:48,025
Nice.

1204
00:48:48,025 --> 00:48:50,727
We don't have a cap either,
so the youngest can be 18.

1205
00:48:50,727 --> 00:48:52,796
We've had a few 18 year
olds come to the program.

1206
00:48:52,796 --> 00:48:55,799
The oldest was 40.

1207
00:48:55,966 --> 00:48:58,769
Nice.

1208
00:48:58,769 --> 00:49:00,971
Hey, gotta get a job.

1209
00:49:00,971 --> 00:49:02,239
That's the word of the day.

1210
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:05,242
Job. Job?

1211
00:49:07,311 --> 00:49:09,012
Beans and company.

1212
00:49:09,012 --> 00:49:10,614
I'll be there.

1213
00:49:10,614 --> 00:49:12,249
I can't eat shrimp.

1214
00:49:12,249 --> 00:49:13,583
They. I'll get something else.

1215
00:49:14,651 --> 00:49:16,053
What if I can't get shrimp.

1216
00:49:16,053 --> 00:49:19,056
What else should I get.

1217
00:49:19,423 --> 00:49:21,325
Sandwiches.

1218
00:49:21,325 --> 00:49:23,427
Yeah.

1219
00:49:23,427 --> 00:49:27,431
Brooke Daley my former
well Fin Daley was my student

1220
00:49:27,864 --> 00:49:29,499
Brooke Daley gave me a gift card.

1221
00:49:29,499 --> 00:49:30,600
Did I mention this on the pad.

1222
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,503
Yeah I'm getting I'm going to go.

1223
00:49:33,503 --> 00:49:35,105
I've never been
but I'm going to use my gift card.

1224
00:49:35,105 --> 00:49:36,740
Thanks to Brooke.

1225
00:49:36,740 --> 00:49:39,676
She was podcast guest like 17.

1226
00:49:39,676 --> 00:49:41,078
But she's great.

1227
00:49:41,078 --> 00:49:43,347
So thank you for the beans and company.

1228
00:49:43,347 --> 00:49:46,516
Where else are your other interns
being employed?

1229
00:49:46,516 --> 00:49:48,819
So she's at Beans and Company.
Where are your other ones?

1230
00:49:48,819 --> 00:49:50,821
So I have another one
at Beans and Company. Okay.

1231
00:49:50,821 --> 00:49:53,557
And then there's Naples Pizza.

1232
00:49:53,557 --> 00:49:55,325
Oh, and fork and Fire restaurant.

1233
00:49:55,325 --> 00:49:56,526
Oh, Farmington.

1234
00:49:56,526 --> 00:49:58,595
There's one that works at both of them.

1235
00:49:58,595 --> 00:50:01,498
There's Walgreens, and one

1236
00:50:01,498 --> 00:50:05,302
just got employed
at, UConn as a telecom operator.

1237
00:50:06,536 --> 00:50:07,204
That's great.

1238
00:50:07,204 --> 00:50:09,272
I'm so happy to hear Naples. Great pizza.

1239
00:50:09,272 --> 00:50:10,440
Yes, ma'am.

1240
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,042
Fort Kent fire. Great food too.

1241
00:50:12,042 --> 00:50:13,377
Yeah,
that's the one right around the corner.

1242
00:50:13,377 --> 00:50:15,245
Right there in the same little cup. Yeah.

1243
00:50:15,245 --> 00:50:16,513
Very nice.

1244
00:50:16,513 --> 00:50:16,680
Yeah.

1245
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:19,683
One of my former students from the school.

1246
00:50:20,684 --> 00:50:22,853
Rogers. What's her name?

1247
00:50:22,853 --> 00:50:25,756
She's works there
too, but, yeah. No. Great.

1248
00:50:25,756 --> 00:50:27,290
Naples pizza.

1249
00:50:27,290 --> 00:50:29,393
When I first moved to West Hartford,
I was.

1250
00:50:29,393 --> 00:50:33,196
I would drive to Naples Pizza for
the pizza because we moved from New Haven.

1251
00:50:33,830 --> 00:50:34,464
So we.

1252
00:50:34,464 --> 00:50:37,200
That's my neck of the woods to West Haven.
Oh nice.

1253
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,203
Where do you go for pizza in New Haven.

1254
00:50:40,203 --> 00:50:41,204
Peppers.

1255
00:50:41,204 --> 00:50:42,973
Or what about as a party. Yeah.

1256
00:50:42,973 --> 00:50:44,941
Because that's. No, that's our Sally's.

1257
00:50:44,941 --> 00:50:47,911
It's our East Haven now.
There's West Haven.

1258
00:50:48,111 --> 00:50:50,280
Oh. Which pizza.

1259
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:51,214
Buffalo chicken.

1260
00:50:51,214 --> 00:50:54,217
Oh go ahead, let's go.

1261
00:50:54,751 --> 00:50:57,454
That was you know, game day
Connor from the yard goats.

1262
00:50:57,454 --> 00:50:59,556
No that's his favorite pizza.

1263
00:51:00,891 --> 00:51:01,925
Buffalo chicken.

1264
00:51:01,925 --> 00:51:02,692
Good one.

1265
00:51:02,692 --> 00:51:05,362
Now he likes buffalo
Buffalo chicken ranch.

1266
00:51:05,362 --> 00:51:08,365
Yeah that's a good one too.

1267
00:51:08,765 --> 00:51:11,301
Wow. Anything you like to share Chloe.

1268
00:51:11,301 --> 00:51:12,536
How's it going again.

1269
00:51:12,536 --> 00:51:15,238
Any closing remarks recommendations.

1270
00:51:15,238 --> 00:51:16,440
Any books that you're reading?

1271
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:19,443
No TV shows, podcasts are.

1272
00:51:21,378 --> 00:51:22,279
Not okay.

1273
00:51:22,279 --> 00:51:25,415
Swim 16, 16 laps to Saturday.

1274
00:51:25,415 --> 00:51:26,049
Yeah.

1275
00:51:26,049 --> 00:51:26,750
Graduation.

1276
00:51:26,750 --> 00:51:29,786
New Haven in New Haven
at Southern Connecticut University.

1277
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:33,156
That's where I went. I'm a fighting owl.

1278
00:51:33,156 --> 00:51:36,159
Hoot, hoot.

1279
00:51:40,664 --> 00:51:41,631
And you're central.

1280
00:51:41,631 --> 00:51:43,500
Central? That's the Blue Devils.

1281
00:51:43,500 --> 00:51:46,503
Yes. Way cooler than any owl

1282
00:51:46,970 --> 00:51:51,408
marketing major Sandy
Fenimore, from favor.

1283
00:51:51,842 --> 00:51:53,410
Hey, we're going to fix that up
in the beginning.

1284
00:51:53,410 --> 00:51:55,846
When I chop that up. Favor?

1285
00:51:55,846 --> 00:51:59,316
Any closing remarks
or recommendations or.

1286
00:51:59,749 --> 00:52:02,752
Just if you're looking for a job, favors
hiring.

1287
00:52:02,786 --> 00:52:05,222
I'm hiring for job coaches.

1288
00:52:05,222 --> 00:52:09,459
So if you care about population
and want to make a difference

1289
00:52:09,459 --> 00:52:13,163
in somebody's
life, fill out an application or hiring.

1290
00:52:14,297 --> 00:52:14,931
For a job.

1291
00:52:14,931 --> 00:52:16,466
Coaches like similar. What?

1292
00:52:16,466 --> 00:52:18,101
Your DSP position?

1293
00:52:18,101 --> 00:52:20,137
Yep. So we're hiring in residential.

1294
00:52:20,137 --> 00:52:24,074
So it could be the independent apartments
or going into somebody's house

1295
00:52:24,074 --> 00:52:28,478
doing in-home supports or group homes
or hiring for day

1296
00:52:28,478 --> 00:52:31,748
programs, group supported employment,
which is similar to a job coach.

1297
00:52:32,182 --> 00:52:35,919
And then I'm hiring as well
for a couple of job coaches.

1298
00:52:37,754 --> 00:52:38,688
Great.

1299
00:52:38,688 --> 00:52:40,490
And our board of Ed department is hiring.

1300
00:52:40,490 --> 00:52:43,727
So we have a transition program,
Riverbend Transition Academy at Kansas.

1301
00:52:44,227 --> 00:52:47,130
So we're also hiring for somebody there.

1302
00:52:47,130 --> 00:52:48,565
Next lot busy.

1303
00:52:48,565 --> 00:52:51,001
Yes, a lot of openings.

1304
00:52:51,001 --> 00:52:52,169
Doing great things.

1305
00:52:52,169 --> 00:52:53,837
We're growing like crazy.

1306
00:52:53,837 --> 00:52:55,772
That's so happy to hear Chloe.

1307
00:52:55,772 --> 00:52:58,008
The the growing. Yeah.

1308
00:52:58,008 --> 00:52:59,910
Thanks to wonderful people like you.

1309
00:52:59,910 --> 00:53:02,946
He he. Your hard work makes it all happen.

1310
00:53:03,046 --> 00:53:04,414
Right? Yep.

1311
00:53:07,817 --> 00:53:08,985
Beans and company.

1312
00:53:08,985 --> 00:53:09,419
Thank you.

1313
00:53:09,419 --> 00:53:10,153
Beans and company.

1314
00:53:10,153 --> 00:53:12,756
Thank you. Naples pizza fork and fire.

1315
00:53:12,756 --> 00:53:14,457
Walgreens.

1316
00:53:14,457 --> 00:53:15,825
Those are wonderful businesses.

1317
00:53:15,825 --> 00:53:18,328
I love to hear being people,
being supportive

1318
00:53:18,328 --> 00:53:22,032
and collaborating, collaborating
with people of all abilities.

1319
00:53:22,032 --> 00:53:24,601
That makes me excited to hear.

1320
00:53:24,601 --> 00:53:26,636
But Beans and Company is a special place.

1321
00:53:26,636 --> 00:53:28,538
You're doing special. Thanks so.

1322
00:53:28,538 --> 00:53:31,308
And Chloe, I can't congratulate

1323
00:53:31,308 --> 00:53:35,345
you enough on your bridge
ceremony on Wednesday years.

1324
00:53:35,378 --> 00:53:37,180
I'm very excited for you.

1325
00:53:37,180 --> 00:53:40,617
You're a wonderful person,
a good friend.

1326
00:53:40,884 --> 00:53:42,619
So I have. To send you pictures. Yes.

1327
00:53:42,619 --> 00:53:43,253
Please do. Yeah.

1328
00:53:43,253 --> 00:53:44,788
My mom do wear Crocs.

1329
00:53:44,788 --> 00:53:47,424
No. Well, you were crocs.

1330
00:53:47,424 --> 00:53:49,859
No. My giblets. And those are. Yes.

1331
00:53:49,859 --> 00:53:52,095
Be a good friend.

1332
00:53:52,095 --> 00:53:55,799
There's a sticker, the Van Gogh sticker,
and some Crocs, but you can gift it.

1333
00:53:56,433 --> 00:53:57,767
Or maybe put it in your.

1334
00:53:57,767 --> 00:53:59,102
It also works on your lanyard.

1335
00:54:00,270 --> 00:54:02,973
So you can put it in your lanyard
or your crock.

1336
00:54:02,973 --> 00:54:04,074
But I can't thank you enough.

1337
00:54:04,074 --> 00:54:06,876
I had a wonderful time
learning more about the program.

1338
00:54:06,876 --> 00:54:07,711
They are.

1339
00:54:07,711 --> 00:54:11,448
The Arc of Farmington Valley
Incorporated started in 1958.

1340
00:54:11,848 --> 00:54:16,019
We're here with the intern extraordinaire
Chloe Roberts.

1341
00:54:16,386 --> 00:54:17,721
She's a swimmer.

1342
00:54:17,721 --> 00:54:19,322
She's,

1343
00:54:19,322 --> 00:54:22,325
works wonderful things
with the horses and guinea pigs.

1344
00:54:23,293 --> 00:54:25,895
We're here with Sandy Fenimore.

1345
00:54:25,895 --> 00:54:30,300
She is the competitive employment
coordinator.

1346
00:54:31,668 --> 00:54:32,435
Competitive?

1347
00:54:32,435 --> 00:54:35,438
It's like I'm going to get a job

1348
00:54:36,039 --> 00:54:36,773
I think of.

1349
00:54:36,773 --> 00:54:38,975
Well, some days I'm like that.

1350
00:54:38,975 --> 00:54:40,844
Yeah.

1351
00:54:40,844 --> 00:54:41,311
And thank you.

1352
00:54:41,311 --> 00:54:43,713
Favor for everything that you're doing.

1353
00:54:43,713 --> 00:54:46,716
Yeah.

1354
00:54:47,884 --> 00:54:50,754
We're going to say
be a good friend on three.

1355
00:54:50,754 --> 00:54:52,522
Ready. Are you ready?

1356
00:54:52,522 --> 00:54:54,658
Oh wait wait wait wait wait wait.

1357
00:54:54,658 --> 00:54:56,993
Upcoming events. Upcoming events.

1358
00:54:56,993 --> 00:55:00,330
We have our cornhole event Saturday.

1359
00:55:00,330 --> 00:55:03,333
This won't come out by then
but we have a yard

1360
00:55:03,333 --> 00:55:06,303
a Bristol Blues game July 12th.

1361
00:55:06,303 --> 00:55:10,974
All you can eat, all you can drink
25 bucks Bristol Blues on July 12th.

1362
00:55:10,974 --> 00:55:12,475
Please join us.

1363
00:55:12,475 --> 00:55:17,180
Then we have a Yard
Goats game August 16th.

1364
00:55:17,647 --> 00:55:18,915
It's a Friday.

1365
00:55:18,915 --> 00:55:20,083
Maybe that's August 15th.

1366
00:55:20,083 --> 00:55:22,319
I'm terrible, but please join us for that.

1367
00:55:22,319 --> 00:55:25,322
And then our fourth annual golf tournament
at Tonks.

1368
00:55:25,622 --> 00:55:28,091
That's September 13th. That's a Saturday.

1369
00:55:28,091 --> 00:55:30,727
Do golf know? Do you golf.

1370
00:55:30,727 --> 00:55:32,162
Do you like the yard goats?

1371
00:55:32,162 --> 00:55:33,063
Do you like the yard goats?

1372
00:55:34,097 --> 00:55:35,598
I'm a.

1373
00:55:35,598 --> 00:55:37,067
Big sport person.

1374
00:55:37,067 --> 00:55:38,101
This is great.

1375
00:55:38,101 --> 00:55:40,537
I just want to throw on the upcoming
events.

1376
00:55:40,537 --> 00:55:43,306
Now on three
we're going to say be a good friend.

1377
00:55:43,306 --> 00:55:46,309
Ready? One, two three. Be a good. Friend.