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We appreciate you joining us. On a Monday, I have Jamie Elwood
joining me and she is the district director for the South Dakota District Office of
the US Small Business Administration and we're excited to chat with her about a program
that's coming up real soon. And the deadline is coming up and even sooner.
We have till Wednesday to get signed up for SBA Thrive. Jamie,
tell me what is Thrive. Thride is a CEO executive level training for small
business owners and we're very excited to be bringing this in person cohort too,
Sue fall So Thrive as an acronym that stands for train, Hope, Rise,
Innovate, venture, and elevate, and this is designed to accelerate the
growth of high potential small businesses across the United States. It's free training,
It's a six month cohort. It's going to start later in June, around
the twentieth. I believe of June and I will go with the next six
months, so up until about Decembers when graduation is And I did a program
similar to this, but not quite like this, And I'll tell you the
program that I did was a fascinating program. You got to meet some other
really neat people, and everybody was working on their business instead of in their
business, so you're working on things to help grow. And I like what
they're doing with this the fact that it's in person. The one that we
did was all on Zoom because at the time that's where we were in the
world. But I love the fact that this one will be an in person
thing. Now, what does a business owner or a CEO need to do
to qualify to be a part of this free program. There are a few
qualifications. You have to have at least three years as a business owner.
You have to have at least two employees, can be one of the employees.
A lot of you know, business owners are their only employee, and
so in fact our own South Dakota, most businesses have less than ten employees.
So that is a requirement because we really want to help business owners to
visualize and strategize on where they want to take their business. And how to
grow it. And some of that may be including sales, which is going
to require more employees, so there'll be a growth trajectory piece of this as
well. And then we have we have lowered the thresholds for the annual revenue
that's required. We did have it set at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
We are opening that a little bit brought more broadly. Many business owners,
maybe they have one or two employees, don't make you know, that
much. They don't make two hundred and fifty every year, turn fifty thousand
dollars. So we will review each application and if it's a good fit.
And I'm really excited right now, we have about half of a class signed
f I have room for twenty to twenty five in the class, and so
we have about eleven right now and very excited to bring this back in person.
It's going to be held downtown Sioux Falls in the library and we'll meet
in person eight times throughout the six months. It's also going to be offered
virtually, so it is a hybrid class and there will be some on demand,
you know, learning some homework. So your experience a couple of years
ago when you took it when it was in the South Dakota Cohort and it
was online that was called Emerging Leaders. This one is SBA Thrive, SBA
Thrive, Emerging Leaders Reimagine. So we're pretty excited to get back into a
hybrid model and coming together with these CEOs in person. And the thing is
the class that I was a part of. There were twenty twenty ish people,
several of them in Sioux Falls, but some in Yankton, some in
the Black Hills, they were all over out Dakota. And the thing that's
really neat is we again, we were meeting primarily online, but we actually
did get together a few times. The group that was into Falls and some
of the people that were a part of it I knew ahead of time,
but many of the people that were part of that I had never met before.
And now we're friends. So that's the thing that I can't guarantee you're
going to come away with new friends, but you probably will because that's just
what happens. That's that's like a nice little side effect, isn't it.
It is? You know, and exactly what you said a few minutes ago
about working in your business instead of working on your business. This is all
about you know, that strategic leader, moving that elevation, moving to the
strategist, guiding the business along, working on that future plan of your business,
you know, and really leading the team and projects to where you want
it to grow to. So for some small businesses, they're looking at business
succession. We have a large number of large percentage of small businesses that are
here in South Dakota that are retirement AIGs or older and they're looking to build
the bench and so their strategy. We're going to help have our cohort participants
build out a strategy for about three to five years, and that might be
looking at trying to either bring one of their employees forward as the new owner,
or a child or another family member, or maybe somebody that they don't
even know yet, but they want to get their business model ready for transition.
We are opening this a bit too, John, that will be just
you know a little bit more outside of Swoo Falls and inclusive. So we
are opening this to Minnesota's Nebraskas and i Winds as well, who can get
to su Falls at least eight times in person in the six month period.
Well, I'm going to throw a link to make it easy for folks to
sign up if they're interested. Jamie, thank you for all that you do.
I appreciate it. We should chat again in the near future. You
guys have so many fun, amazing things going on and this is just one
of the many things. But thank you for your time today. Absolutely,
And just look at spa Thrive, just looking your favorite searchandin you'll be able
to find the information. Will have a professional mentor coach through this and myself
as well. So we're really excited and thank you so much. To have
a great day. Absolutely, and I'm gonna make it really simple to find
I've got a link at Facebook dot com slash Sunny Radio and Facebook dot com
slash Sue Falls News. Also coming up in a moment, We've got another
guest today. I'm so excited to visit with this young man, Aaron van
Beek. He's with Midwest Honor Flight and they have a bank with this afternoon
and another Honor flight tomorrow, and they've got other awesome events coming up real
soon. But we're gonna chat about all of that coming up in a bit.
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to the John and Heidi Show on a Monday. We've got a guest joining
us today, Aaron van Beek. He's the CEO with Midwest Honor Flight,
and we talked with them a while ago when they were planning and then they
be a big announcement that everything was ready, and now there's a big announcement
that tomorrow is the day. Aaron, are you excited for tomorrow? Oh?
Absolutely. And I know that our Vestans that are going on the flight,
we've got eighty four of them going with us tomorrow, they're just as
excited to go. Some of them been waiting over three years for this opportunity
to go on their honor flight. So very very excited. And this is
an amazing thing and this is not your first honor flight. How many have
you done now, Aaron as Midwest Honor Plate, We've done thirteen so far,
one one hundred and fifty three destrims being honored of myself. I've been
on a few others throughout the country, assisting other groups when they get started,
but also shadowing to make our group even better too. So it's been
a good right over the last six years. And we're very excited for not
only the flight tomorrow with eighty four veterans, but again at the end of
the month May thirty. First, we'll be taking an additional eighty four veterans.
I love that. And you've got chemists and special things happening this evening,
and then everybody takes off in the morning, and you've got kind of
a full day tomorrow, don't you. We really do. Tonight is a
nice little meal and banquet that we put on for all the veterans and their
guardians and then the crew that goes on and a few of their spouses are
able to make it as well to that, so really nice meal just to
acknowledge their service and sacrifice. But then yeah, tomorrow we'll spend by the
time we land in DC, will spend ten hours in DC to see World
War Two, Korea, Vietnam, Lincoln, the Navy Memorial, the Air
Force Memorial, Evagima Memorial, and of course spend some time with Arlington just
witnessed the changing of the guards and then bring them home. It's a long
day. Has anybody ever figured out how many miles you walk when you're doing
this? You know, I think one time I watched said ten miles.
But you know that's all the way. Start in the morning at the airport
at Odark thirty and so we get home that evening. So it's a it's
a lot of walking. But of course that's why we have trained guardians and
our volunteer crew and medics that join us to make sure that our veterans they
need a pusher or assistance that's available for them too. I love that.
Now you've got some other things that are coming up as well. Let's let's
talk a little bit about the other things that you have in the near future.
Absolutely, so we're very excited for On Wednesday, Kudoba Over and two
Falls will actually be doing a fundraiser for us as well in the evening from
four to seven that's a big one coming up. But then we also will
be at Chick fil A on June fourteenth, which is Flag Day appropriate for
that, and we will be getting the proceeds of cookies and brownies that are
sold that day. And then we have our third annual on a Ride taking
place on Sunday, June twenty fifth, and that will leave from the South
Falls Alliance or sorry, excuse me to stop the Code of Military Heritage Alliance
at two o'clock as one. We'll have that ride meeting. There'll be a
nice little ride pass to the A Hospital to do a thunder salutes to those
veterans that are staying at the hospital there, followed by then a ceremony out
of the South Dakota Veteran Cemetery. I love it. You guys have a
lot of wonderful things happening, and many of these things are fundraisers, and
the fundraisers this is raising money for one of the coolest things ever. So
if folks get a chance to come out and give, it's giving to a
really great cause, isn't it. Absolutely All of the funds that we generate
through fundraisers, donations, and grants that we receive stay local if nothing goes
anywhere outside of our area for another chapter or even to our national headquarters.
So all the pro seeds are benefiting the veterans directly in our area here.
And yeah, we are just so excited for the opportunity to fly twice this
spring and hopefully two more times this fall. With over seven hundred and sixty
veterans on a waiting list to go, and in the need to raise eight
hundred and fifty dollars per person. All donations, all events, all fundraisers
that we do are viol to keep this mission going. If somebody would like
to sponsor a veteran Midwest Honor Flight dot org, they can go right there,
and I see on the bottom of the page sponsor a veteran really simple
to click that and make a donation. How much would the donation be to
sponsor one veteran? One veteran is eight hundred and fifty three dollars is what
it costs us to send a veteran to DC. Of course, they don't
pay for any part of their trip, and so it's a great way for
us to show our appreciation as a grateful nation to those that serve and sacrifice
by seeing their memorials through this and the gas the least we can do for
their service and the thing that's wonderful. This is something there's many people listening
that probably work at a company that gives money to different charities and organizations throughout
the year. If you are maybe the person in charge of that, or
if you know the person in charge of that, let them know Midwest honorflight
dot org. It's a great organization. And again, if they make that,
that's a donation that they can make that's going to feel really good because
it's a great organization that does good things for some very deserving people. Absolutely,
if people would like to join you in the future for some of these
fun events that you're doing where you're doing the fundraisers we mentioned one that's this
Wednesday, we mentioned one on Flag Day. Is there a place they can
go to find all of those? They are like a calendar of events of
all of the fundraisers you do. Absolutely on our website Midwest on our flight
dot org slash events, they'll have our whole listing of all the ones we
talked about today, but also all the ones going on into the later summer
and THENTO the fall and we'll continue to update those as more more fundraisers are
planned for us, but also continue to update everybody on our Facebook page as
well so they can follow us there as if they would like to. And
I'm looking at it right now, I'll share a link to make it easy
to find again. Midwest onorflight dot org is the website, and I'll throw
a link directly to the page with all of the different fundraising events. And
it looks like there's a lot, which is amazing. You guys have a
lot of great things going on, and again every one of these is helping
raise money for a really good cause. So that's very very cool. Aaron,
thank you for all that you do and thank you for your time today.
Absolutely at least we can do for our veterans and appreciate your time today
as well. Again, if you would like to contribute, if you'd like
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