Welcome back to another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Sam Mangledn,
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subscribe wherever you download your podcast as well. Today I'm joined by Anton Kreshik,
the founder and CEO of Seven Weeks Coffee. Seven Weeks Coffee is a
pro life coffee company that donates ten percent of every sale to pregnancy centers around
the country. These pregnancy centers provide vital resources to expect in mothers, vulnerable
women, and anyone else in their communities who's in need of support as they
start their families. There are, in many ways, the lifeblood of the
pro life movement. Leading up to the overturn over O v. Wade follow
in the leak of the Draft Bobs decision, several pregnancy centers were attacked and
vandalized. As of now, very little if anything, has come out of
the FBI's investigation into these attacks, but the work that Anton and the team
at Seven Weeks Coffee do is crucial in showing solidarity and supporting one of the
most important resources the pro life movement has. Anton. How's it going,
Thanks, Sam, doing well? Thanks for having me on, No problem,
Thanks for coming on. I appreciate making the time. So can you
tell us a bit about the origin of Seven Weeks Coffee? What gave you
the inspiration to start this company? What's it all about? Yeah, I'd
love to share. I've always been passionate about the pro life movement, but
I had a background in political fundraising and just working for and raising money for
some amazing nonprofits, candidates and packs. But I had the idea one day
for a pro life coffee company really to take and allow consumers who are pro
life and love coffee to you know, shop their values and make a difference
with every purchase. So I started Seven Weeks of Coffee in the fall of
twenty twenty one. I've been doing it for about two year years now,
but with the simple mission of donate ten percent of every sale to pregnancy Care
Center. So that was the idea of it, and over the two years
we've raised over two hundred thousand dollars, supporting over six hundred and fifty pregnancy
centers across the nation. So that's us in a nutshell. That's fantastic doing
great work. So, you know, there's a lot of subscription based coffee
companies that appear to be popping up everywhere. What really differentiates Seven Weeks Coffee
from you know, Black Rifle or one of the other ones. Yeah,
so we were pro life oriented first and foremost, but we have a huge
impact on how we give back. So what's so unique about us is that
we donate ten percent of every sale, so there are a large portion of
profits, but it allows every consumer to know that each purchase is directly supporting
a pro life organization, Unlike you know, some other maybe like kind of
D two C or coffee companies direct to consumer coffee companies out there. Ours
is really focused on that each consumer is making a difference because of how much
we're giving back. And yeah, so for us, it's you know,
we think we're funding the most important part of the pro life movement, which
is a pregnancy care center. So they are the hands and feet of the
movement, saving lives and community. So every order directly helps support those local
centers. So I think that's really what makes us stand out. Yeah,
definitely. It's it's like, you know, like I just said, fantastic
work, very important stuff. And you know, since you are you know,
in the really in the trenches of the pro life movement, what do
you think is the next frontier of the pro life fight? You know,
after the after the Dabbs decision, there was a lot of momentum, but
you know, there appears to be I don't want to say it's fading across
the country, but the fight seems to be a lot harder than people anticipated
it was to really deliver a pro life future for America. So what do
you foresee to be the next couple you know, battles in that regard.
Yeah, so I think you know, obviously it's moved to like the states,
you know, state by a state issue where you know, we want
to fight for pro life policies within each state. We've seen a lot of
come to fruition and a lot of states you know, helping protect the unborn
with heartbeat bills. But we're also see states that aren't that they have gone
the other way and you know, legalized abortion you know, through birth essentially.
So it's definitely a state by state battle that's why it's super important for
people to get involved in their state legislators policies and to advocate for you know,
protection upborn with within their state, you know, their state governments,
and that type of advocation is what we need. I also think, you
know, hopefully there's a way to get to a federal limit on abortion.
I think that'd be a good thing. People have said fifteen weeks would be
a great starting point. I agree. I think we want to take every
step we can to protect the unborn and keep moving towards the full protection.
But yeah, for us, we want to make as much noise we can
supporting premsy Care Center. So that's for us, we want to keep supporting
them in all the states that need the most. So and for those who
are unaware, could you explain a bit about the work that pregnancy care centers
do? Is it? Yeah? Medical supplies? Is it? You know,
what do they do for mothers, expected mothers and families? Yeah,
so if pregnancy care center, they are the local resource for any woman facing
an underplanned pregnancy. They provide free medical ultrasounds, They provide you know,
baby care, diapers, formulas, clothing, parental classes, they really provide
everything that a mother needs to help, you know, provide for their child
and help provide all those resources. So for me, I get to visit
a center years ago and just see what they do. They really just save
lives in their communities. Like I said, they're their hands and fear of
the pro life movement. They donate I think it's upwards of two hundred and
seventy million dollars a year of free resources. They never charge for a single
thing, so they just rely on volunteers and donations and it's amazing what they
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do you think you could give to young people or just really anybody who's interested
in getting more involved in the pro life movement. Yeah, I think it's
a few things. Start locally with getting involved in a local center, just
volunteering, just seeing what they do. I think it's really eye opening when
you see the hands on of what a local pregnancy center does in terms of
the seriousness and just them me support they provide women who are facing on planned
pregnancy. There's a lot of other great organizations to get involved with, like
Sidewalk Advocates for Life. There are friends of ours and they helped us with
sidewalk counseling outside of abortion clinics. Those are great ways to get involved.
And then the thirdly, like I mentioned earlier, I really think it's important
like where your your state's policy is on life is important to know and please
you know, lobby call your state officials on your beliefs and support and we'll
advocate for the protection of onborn because that's really where the issue is now is
it's you know, each stake is passing their own laws in regards to abortion.
So we want everyone to be active within their communities but also in their
states as well. So those are a handful of things that would definitely suggest
to get going, you get doing right, and you know, just to
just cycle that point. I'm from Ohio and we have Issue one coming up
on the ballot, which is to basically enshrine abortion access in the state constitution,
and Ohio is you know, it's an R plus ten state, but
there's no guarantee and it's unfortunately looking like Issue one might pass and not get
struck down or not get voted down rather, So it really is imperative for
people to get involved in the grassroots and you know, to annoy their state
legislatures, to just express their concerns about this. It's there's no guarantee that
just because the state is a Republican state, that the pro life laws will
get advanced, unfortunately. Yeah, exactly, I'm from Ohio to you originally
I growth there, so yeah, I've been following Issue one closely, and
yeah, it's scary it to ballot initiative. So they just need fifty one
percent basically fifty fifty percent plus one vote and that would get passed and essentially
overturn the heartbeat bill that's already in place there. So yeah, that's why
it's so important to get involved in a local, local level, you know,
be a loud voice for the unborn. They you know, they don't
have a voice, so we really need to speak up for them in our
communities, right and you know, It's just it's boggles my mind how you
know all this out of state money is coming in just around the country to
just influence this national abortion agenda. It's I mean, it is disheartening,
but it's not surprising at this point with just how you know, aggressively pro
abortion movement is. So you aside from just getting involved in you know,
calling your legislatures and you know, being involved in the community. What uh
what I guess not advice, but what I guess advice is the right word.
How would you suggest that people get involved, Like what resources should they
contact to get involved in the grassroots levels? Yeah, the grassroots, there's
usually a state right to life coalitions like I men sued early Cybwalk Advocates for
Life. Just like on the grassroots advocacy side, and just getting involved in
you know, knowing like where your local abortion clinic is and what takes place
there. It's it's really important to just know that that that could be happening
in your backyard and your community. Knowing your local primecy center as a resource
to you know, let people know and send people there. But yeah,
and then also getting right to those right to life coalitions within each state,
A lot of states have March for Life as well, so I definitely recommend
attending those as a great resource. But yeah, and if you like coffee,
you can drink seven weeks of coffee you directly give back to local pregnancy
center. So that's another way you can get involved from you know, starting
your morning with seven weeks coffee too, and you know to bring up to
bring it back to seven weeks. How exactly do you guys go about sourcing
your beans for your coffee? Oh yeah, yeah, I'm happy to share
more. So we have some amazing coffee from all over the world. It's
what's been cool is we like to say successes to find an excellence and mission
and excellence and products. So we have a really great mission supporting life and
supporting pregnancy care centers and prolable organizations. But we have amazing quality coffee from
all over the world. Top one to two percent of the beans. We
source it all direct trade, which means we directly help give back to local
farmers. It's the most ethical way to source coffee through direct trade. And
so they have coffee from Ethiopia, Honduras, Brazil, Haiti, Dominican Republic,
just all over origins Columbia. So yeah, we got tons of different
coffees, which has been really cool to share into highlights. So if you're
a coffee snob, this is also for you. I will make that caveat.
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so I do drink all our coffee. That's definitely the truth. So
how did you get into coffee in particular as opposed to, you know,
some other way to help pregnancy centers. You went into coffee? How come?
Yeah? Yeah, it's funny because I didn't have a background in it
really, but like I said, I was, I was working. I
did political fundraising before this, and you know that was really had a heart
for the issue, the pro fishue, but not like necessarily a huge background
in coffee. I always love coffee, but I just saw like an opportunity.
There was no one doing a pro life coffee company. I was like,
Wow, there's a there's a really cool way here to you know,
share a mission, to have a story, to build a brand around you
know, these values that so many Americans care about. And I also think
that there was just a lot of people that have felt alienated from you know,
big box companies that often advocate for values they don't align with, and
so people really wanted alternatives, and I think we kind of just were there
in the right place at the right time with an alternative that directly supports the
values they want. So yeah, yeah, no, totally agree. I
think you guys hit the You found your You found the right lane at the
right time. So how can other pro life organizations find you? How can
they collaborate with you? And at the end of the day, where can
they find seven Weeks Coffee to support them? Yeah? So yeah, so
a lot of cool resources on our website seven weeks Coffee dot com is they
can shop and find any coffee you'd like to order. We also have a
partner with us page. So if you're a pro life organization, if you're
a pregnancy center, anything within the pro life umbrilla, we'd love to financially
support you. Like I was saying earlier, we donate ten percent of every
sale. We raised over two hundred thousand dollars in donations. We donate that
out to tons of nonprofits and pro life organizations. So anyone can sign up
to partner with us. It's on our website, says the bottom our websites
as partner with us. Please just failed the application there and if you love
coffee, consider giving us a try. You can shop all the different types
of coffee we have from all over the world. Seven weeks Coffee dot com
is our website. You can find us there. Awesome. Well and Tom,
thanks for coming on. Hope to have you back sometime soon and keep
on doing great work. Thanks Sam, I really appreciate it, and thanks
for having me on problem. Thanks for tuning in to another edition of the
Federalist Radio Hour, and as always be lovers of freedom and anxious for the
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