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Bureaucracies treat them like numbers. But
they're human beings. They have families,

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they have parents, they have kids, they have siblings, and so yeah,

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we take a much more holistic approach. Everyone has their own set of

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circumstances, Everyone has their own set
of problems and issues. We can't fix

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everything, but we can give you
the tools to fix it. Welcome to

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another deep dive edition of The Chicks
on the Right Podcast. We are so

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excited because today we are going to
spotlight one of our new American business Spotlight

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partners, Dana Spain is the founder
of VBC Giving Foundation, and we are

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super stoked about this opportunity to partner
with this particular organization because of the good

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work that it does and we're gonna
Dana. We're so happy to have you

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with us, and we'd love an
overview of VBC Giving Foundation now. I'm

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so happy to be here. Thanks
for taking the time this morning. VBC

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Giving Foundation is really about providing affordable
housing, but not affordable the way that

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you think about it, not secondary
housing, not rehabs, but brand new

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construction to our most vulnerable populations.
And number one is our veterans who really

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don't have the housing options that they
should. We also are focusing on kids

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aging out of foster care and then
eventually seniors and abuse survivors, but for

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now our focus is veterans. We've
just opened our first veterans village, and

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the village concept is to bring people
together with like experiences. So when they're

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having a bad day and maybe are
inclined to make some bad decisions, they

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have a neighbor that they can knock
on the door, have a cup of

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coffee, and just say hey,
I'm having a difficult day. So it's

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really about bringing together people who have
made some bad choices, have had some

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raw deals, putting them in respectable
housing. Because without housing, of your

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life falls apart if you don't have
a safe place to call home and lay

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your head at night. So a
houst of it is not going to give

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our audience a little bit of background
how you got into this, because I

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mean, people don't just just do
this willy nilly, You don't just fall

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into this. Yeah, this was
not willy nilly at all. I have

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dedicated I did not have the honor
and privilege of wearing the uniform, So

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my service has always been to those
who served I've been in active military and

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family affairs for decades at this point, and so I opened. I took

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over a defunct shelter for veterans and
made it into a female perimeter, and

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we would have twelve ladies at a
time, sort of like a sorority,

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and put them through all kinds of
enrichment programs, mind, body, spirit,

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and they did so much hard work
to put their lives back together,

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to get their families back together.
And then at the end, housing agencies

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were putting them an absolute waller,
scattered sites, drug infested apartment buildings.

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It was just a disgrace. And
so I managed their leases and I had

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a lease come across my desk one
day and the apartment didn't even include a

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refrigerator. How's that a home?
And it was in a bad neighborhood,

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and I was just my head was
exploding. So my father, an army

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vet who was alive at the time, I joined him for cocktails, as

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is our way in our family,
and that I just don't know what to

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do, and he said, well, you build buildings for a living,

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because that's my big girl job.
Why don't we build a building and show

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the government how it's done, and
so I said, well, okay,

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we could do that. Why don't
we build a building. So we bought

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a plot of land in an area
that was that is right for this sort

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of thing. It has access to
public transportation so they can get to the

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via medical center. It has a
retail corridor, it has urgent care,

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it has food, It has everything
that people need right within walking distance.

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We bought a plot of land and
we built a building. So our family

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foundation put in the seed money,
and I this is the third charity that

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I founded, after Haven Women and
Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society, so I know

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how to shake people down for money
and started asking my friends and associal it's

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this is a really good idea,
but we need money to get it off

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the ground. And our first project
out of the gate was this, and

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you do that in a really remarkable
way. So and talk a little bit

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about the modularity of the homes and
how and how the building wasn't actually built

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like in its spot right, It's
like built far away and then packaged and

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then sent and reconstructed like legos.
That's exactly that. Actually, when I'm

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describing what modular is, I say
that they're legos, except in the lego,

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which is about forty five thousand pounds
and sixty four feet long and fifteen

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feet walk. The lego has everything
in it that an apartment would need.

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So that's your kitchen, you're flooring, all of your appliances, your bathrooms,

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everything is in the module when it
leaves the factory. Now the upside

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of module, there's a ton of
upside to modular. But it's built in

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a factory like a car, so
you order everything that you want in it

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in advance, and then it's made
in the factory. It's made in a

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climate controlled environment, so there's no
water infiltration, no mold, no expansion

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and contraction of the wood. And
then it comes on the back of a

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rig to the job site and we
piece it together like a big fat puzzle

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using cranes and they're all placed one
on top of each other in a very

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intricate sort of tetris pattern, and
then they're sealed on site. The facade

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and the permanent roof and utility tie
ins happen and say, okay, so

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the typical person who lives there,
tell us who actually reside in these places?

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Okay, so this is a mixed
perimeter, meaning that there's females,

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males, and families. This our
apartments. There's forty seven units and it

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ranges from studios all the way up
to three bedrooms for family units, and

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it could be people as young as
in their late twenties who have just separated

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from the military. But we have
three brothers actually, all who served in

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different branches, who are from the
Vietnam War era. So it really,

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I think the kind of cool thing. Not to say that it's cool that

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veterans can't find housing, but the
fact that they're coming home to us with

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their families and that the older vets
can provide the mentorship to the younger people

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is really very exciting. Hey,
mak, those dark spots are not going

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away on their own. Are you
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nice key Auntie? They're not.
So I understand the difference between those and

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sun spots and age spot. I
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the only thing that's going to make
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dark spot corrector and it works because
I had one right here and it was

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really annoying, and I'd put that
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went away. I mean, how
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don't time is so really bit attention
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on every day and then I just
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how how much I mean when you think

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about like your wildest dream expectation for
this entire foundation, for the for the

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entire project, how many sites do
you hope to have? How how big

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and how far reaching do you hope
that this gets? Well, you don't

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know me very well, but I
have a very Type A. Plus I

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could have never guessed that with your
reading, reading your bio and looking at

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stuff like like learning about you just
in the digital perspective, we could never

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tell that you're Type A at all. Now. No, as much as

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I'm trying to retire and kayak my
way into the sunset with my husband,

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that's not happening anytime soon. So
we're never going to be able to build

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our way. Just as the foundation
out of the crisis that we're in in

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terms of housing. Put it in
perspective, right now, there are millions,

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millions of units needed to house just
the vulnerable populations, not even Joe

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and Joe Q public right. If
we look at veterans, it's tens of

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thousands. So we look at seniors, it's hundreds of thousands. So our

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goal is really to reach like minded
organizations and people who have the zeal,

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the land, the passion, whatever
it is to join us. The one

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thing that I will say about the
VBC Giving Foundation, and the reason that

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I made it this way, is
that we're an open source. We don't

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have to build every building because we
can't build every building it's physically impossible.

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But if you, as a church
group or a veteran service organization, come

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to me and say I have money, or I have land, or I

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have the volition whatever, I don't
know how to build a building, you

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know how to build a building.
We will give you our template. We

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will hold your hand through the process
because we want as many people to be

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involved to help us dig us out
of this situation as possible. So does

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that mean ten villages? Originally we
just us Internally, we have one village

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per year that we're going to build, and we already have interest from several

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other cities across the country. But
we need hundreds of them is it self

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sustaining? Like is there like a
landlord there? Or is there is it?

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Are the people pretty self sustaining?
Like when I? When I?

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Because you know, usually when you
have like an apartment complex kind of a

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situation, there's some sort of managerial
staff. How does that work? Yeah,

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so we don't self perform management.
That's the only thing we don't do.

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We use an affordable somebody who's whose
niche in management is affordable housing complexes.

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They know all the rules and regulations
in terms of self sustaining. Yes,

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it is because people are paying rent. Now are they paying it themselves

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or are they paying it through hut
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that determine that's determined by their income
level and in the vets case and also

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the seniors case, their percentage of
disability. So if you're on one hundred

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percent disability from the vain of your
rent is going to be covered by hut

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vash, which is the voucher associated
with veterans. And so maybe the individuals

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paying sixty three dollars a month,
but we are getting maximum market rate rent

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that our local housing authority allows,
so that sustains the building, and we

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didn't do this complex, although there's
no reason that people can't do it.

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We just wanted to get it up
and open, So we did not take

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any city, state, or federal
funding nor tax credits. We did it

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all with individual and corporate donations,
foundation donations, and then the rest of

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it was traditionally financed through it.
So what is it that you want our

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audience to know about what draws you
specifically to want to help veteran and particularly

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women veterans, because that's a group
that's often overlooked and it's a group that

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you've paid particular interest to. Can
you shed light about what drew you to

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that specifically and maybe give like a
good story because I'm sure you've seen well,

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I am not above it. So
when I took over let me step

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back for a second. When I
took over a haven, which at the

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time was Philadelphia Veterans Comfort House.
It was originally built in nineteen seventy two

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to house veterans while they were receiving
treatment at the VA Medical Center in Philadelphia,

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and then the VA built its own
wing to house those people and it

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became a shelter instead for homeless veterans
fast forward. I was recruited to get

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involved because they were running out of
money and the house was falling apart,

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and so I did some fundraising and
some pro bono advising on how they could

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get back on their feet. It
didn't work. The board of directors was

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a disaster. There were some financial
shenanigans with the manager. It just was

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a mess. And so they made
the decision, unfortunately, to kick everybody

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out who was living there and shut
it down because there were code violate It

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was I mean, it was disgusting
and it was a code violations, all

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kinds of things. After a couple
months, the president of the board,

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who was the last person left,
came to me and literally handed me the

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keys and said, we don't know
how to do it, and here you

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go. So again I went to
my dad, who was my guru,

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and said, I'm just stepping off
the board of pause at this point,

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you know, Joe, I don't
really need this. And he said,

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how much is it going to take
to fix up the house and get it

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back on its feet? And I
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It's like you could do that in
your sleep. Take it on.

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Why not. You need to challenge
what sure? Why not? So I

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did. We renovated the entire building
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down to I mean the basement was
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So we started reaching out to VSOS
veteran service organizations really to understand the

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need in Philadelphia, and we work
with an amazing organization called Veterans Multi Service

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Center and they said, if at
all possible, could you make it a

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female safe sober perimeter because there's lots
of options for our men and there's no

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options for our women. And I
said, absolutely, Why is there?

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What's happening? Why are there no
options? Well, it's a fairly new

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phenomenon in the last twenty years or
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feminism, let's put women in combat
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I don't know what a goal wrong
there. So women are coming out of

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the military one and four currently a
report that they are victims of military sexual

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trauma MST, which is a part
is is one of the many, many

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levels of PTSD, and they can't
go into a mixed perimeter. They're just

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frightened, they're just they have PTSD
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okay, well we're going to make
a safe, sober environment for women.

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And it was run really kind of
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very structured, very scheduled, and
a mind, body spirit approach where we

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did everything from teaching them how to
balance a checkbook and protect your identity to

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self defense courses and yoga and fellowship
and book club and everything that we could

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think of, how to cook and
eat on a budget. And it was

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really very successful. So it was
a replicable model, and we became the

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only female perimeter in our area and
graduating some terrific ladies who realized that they

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had made some bad choices and put
themselves in bad positions, and some were

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their own faults, some not so
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And as I said, then they
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okay, here we go. We're
going to give you all the tools that

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you need and the resources and the
programs, and we're gonna help you furnish

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your new apartment. In some cases
we bought baby furniture, like everything that

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we could possibly do. But if
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Then the cycle repeats itself and it's
just they, you know, start making

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poor decisions, self harm, addiction, all of it. And so we

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really started to focus on the ladies. One in ten currently one in ten

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homeless veteran patrons is female. You
don't see that woman, you know,

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when you think of a homeless veteran, I think that people see the guy

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on the side of the road with
a cart with cardboard, right. I

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think, out of real practicality,
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But they're human beings. They have
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like kids like yeah, yeah.
We take a much more holistic approach.

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Everyone has their own set of circumstances. Everyone has their own set of

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problems and issues. We can't fix
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not really done anything for twenty years. So I'm really happy for Mike Lindell

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how good is Mike Lindell to decide
on a day that he should be celebrating

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twentieth anniversary. He's like, what
should I do for our anniversary? I

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know I'll give humongous discounts for all
of our people. You would never do

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that on your anniversary. I would
never do that. I'd bela what are

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yourself all the things, all the
thing, and the VA really, even

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though women have been in combat now
for decades, the VA is still very

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male focused. And we all know, ladies, we've got our own set

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of problems when you are a woman, right, whether that's mental, physical,

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you know, changing life, whatever
that may be. The VAS just

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not really set up for that.
So we really need a baseline. We're

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not going to change the VA,
I say, and especially when I'm talking

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to veterans and military organizations, think
of the VA as an aircraft carrier,

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right, how long does it take
to turn around an aircraft carrier and correct

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course days? Right, I'm a
cigarette boat. I can turn on a

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dime, and so can my volunteers
and my board of directors. We can

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course correct in an instant. And
that's what makes having non government agencies involved

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in this issue so important. Back
to your audience, it's really we're a

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grassroots startup. As much as we
just build a six million dollar building,

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we have to refy it, we
still have bills to pay, we still

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have to maintain it and repair it, and we still have to build our

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next one. Our goal is,
especially for people coming out of transitional housing

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and addiction recovery programs, is to
not put people in a blank box.

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Right in a lot of cases,
our Haven ladies, for example, they

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were leaving with the clothes on their
back and a toothbrush. We want them

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to have all of the feminine products
that they need, hygiene products that they

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need, a fuzzy bathrobe, fuzzy
slippers, a coffee machine. I have

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an apartment and not have coffee,
That's that's right. So our goal really

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and what we raise money for.
And we have some church groups that we

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work with and some women's organizations that
we work with that they provide welcome baskets

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for our tenants that have a little
bit of everything in it to make we

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feel like real human beings. Again, you know a lot of a lot

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of our veterans have been in and
out of the system for years. They've

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never quite figured it out because no
one they're getting a hand out, but

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not a hand up as cliches that
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really the sort of wrap around programming
and love and understanding and a coffee,

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yes, and a fuzzy grow because
you need to feel human and you need

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to feel appreciated and not second class
citizen. Well, the reason like in

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Haven House, when we redid the
house and I went out to vendors of

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mine and then went out on LinkedIn
actually and just said, hey, we

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need things to put the kitchen together. We had a state of the art

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kitchen in that sorority, brand new
stainless steel appliances, solid surface countertop,

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tile floors. We had a full
Carrera marble how because somebody donated it and

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said, you know, our ladies
deserve to live in luxury. And it's

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the reverse broken window theory. If
you put somebody in a respectable situation,

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they're going to respect themselves and their
sisters and take care of the perimeter.

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take um. I want to take
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bacon, okay, and then I
want to put them on my grill.

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I want to have at least two
of them, not one, but two.

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I want two of those to get
into my belly, just for you,

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just from me, Screw my family. Those are from me that I

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want that They're gonna be from Omaha
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the bacon wrapped filet except for from Omaha

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And then they're sides. Oh, I'm

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the sides girl. Like their sides. Jam, it is your jam,

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the potato cartato things. And then
then that they've got the apple tartlets.

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potatoes. And now they've got baguettes with

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like Arlotte butter on the Oh my
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packets. They're Grilling Essentials pack and
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the search bar and get yourself some
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people do? Yeah, so tell
our audience what they can do to find

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out more information, what they can
do to help the cause, How can

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we bring more awareness and what's like
a good success story that will motivate people

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to understand why this is important.
Okay, So the easiest thing to do

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to find out more about us is
VBC, Victor Bravo, Charlie Giving Foundation

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dot org. You'll read about us, our mission, our plan, the

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new village, which, by the
way, is named after my dad.

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Yeah, it's the Bernard Spain Campus
because he was the impetus for all of

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this, And a picture of him
hangs from the lobby and my mom dug

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up a picture of him in uniform
from his army days and that's also hanging

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in the community room at the center. So what can your people do?

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They can get involved. They can
get involved in their own communities, if

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they're involved in bsos or churches or
women's organizations. They want more information on

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how they can build a village or
how they can help with programming. We

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are open to that. My contact
information is on the website. All of

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our board of directors are on the
website. So that's your that's the first

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thing. And consider donating, whether
it's five dollars a month, twenty five

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dollars a month, a big fat
check from your bank or insurance company or

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your company that matches donations, whatever, that is. Ninety plus cents of

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every single dollar goes directly to our
villages and programs. We have one employee

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and the rest of us are volunteers, so our overhead is mil You can

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know that when you're giving us money, it is going directly. The other

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thing is speaking of the funds.
For example, well, if you're a

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coffee fan and you say, you
know what, I want every single one

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of those apartments to have a coffee
maker. Well we're going to set up

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an Amazon wish list. You can
buy a coffee maker and know that your

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money is not being used for anything
else because you're buying a coffee maker,

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and some ladies gonna have a coffee
maker and think about you. That is

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fantastic. All right, give us
a story. Yeah, okay, I

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was going to give you the story
from our one of our ladies of Haven,

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UM, but she's not living with
us. She thankfully was reunited with

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her children and um and moved back
in with her family. That is a

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great story, and it is a
great story. Yeah, one of our

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Haven ladies. She was I'm gonna
say late twenties, early thirties. She

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had not separated from the military for
very many years, about four but had

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some trauma in the military and made
some very poor decisions and ended up at

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Haven with us. And one day
I went to check on the house and

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get the mail and just check on
the ladies and see what they needed.

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And she was out. I'd waiting
for a ride. I think it was

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Easter Sunday or right before Easter,
and I introduced myself and just asked how

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she was, and she said her
name is Tracy. And she was really

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very excited and a little jittery.
And I was a little concerned knowing her

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background, and started a talk to
her, and she said, no,

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I'm jittery because I'm seeing my children
for the first time in three years.

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I was given the okay because I'm
in a safe place and I'm making my

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recovery. And I and I'm getting
myself a job and I'm allowed to see

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my kids. We had a hug
and a cry and thought, well,

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this is all worth it. Our
village success story, and I'm sure there's

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going to be plenty. Is a
gentleman named Wally, and Wally actually worked

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on the building with his own two
hands. Wally is an Army veteran,

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and he has been in and out
of jail and in and out of recovery

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and worked for construction company and then
was doing some not so good things and

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really found himself that it was you
know, he had issues. When he

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heard that we were building this building. He came back to be a part

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of the building with the understanding that
he would live with us and sort of

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keep an eye on the place.
And he is clean and sober and employed

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and is living at the village with
his brothers. Oh shoot, I know

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I'm losing her two yeah, just
lost you. In the best part of

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that story, I know she was
telling the stress that I was just me.

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I was like, cannot just be
me? No, oh no,

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we can hear just people must be
everything was story. Oh okay, back,

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okay, better, I don't see
you, but that's okay. Because

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we'll still get you your video back. Yep, she'll be able to work

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with that. So go ahead,
let's see if we can hear you.

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Than I think we lost it right
when he said he agreed to come back

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to be part of the building,
and then you cut out. So he

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agreed to come back and be part
of literally putting the building together with his

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own two hands. And I'm happy
to report that he is clean and sober,

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fully employed, and just moved in
with his brothers in uniform into the

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village. This is going to be
the first time he is living independently.

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See that. I mean, those
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really impact people and drive them to
want to help and to want to do

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something. So that that's fantastic.
And so again, folks, if you

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are listening, you need to check
out VBC Giving Foundation dot org where you

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can learn all about Dana Spain and
her amazing organization and find out ways that

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you can help and contribute. Um, Dana, thank you so much for

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for giving us all the background and
all the information on this amazing foundation.

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We so appreciate it and hope that
our listeners are inspired to help. Yeah,

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we appreciate you, Dana, appreciate
all that I know. Thank you

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so much. Appreciate you and and
I will say watching we know that you

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do because you know all of the
jokes you do. It's crazy. Yes,

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I am now watch on Locals because
I was kicked off by Fleeboard nine,

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so I watched on the watch on
locals, um, and I think

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it was telling your producer like I
have Cozy Earth and Jenny so User and

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I can't make bombrugs, but they
don't make an espresso capsules yet I have

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every single thing for my pillow,
our sheets, our towels are fuzzy slippers

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like the whole nine and uh,
and I appreciate you ladies who bring joy

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and light to a really thank you
so much. Appreciate that. We appreciate

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all that all that you're doing.
So this is just fantastic. And we

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hope that we can rally the troops
and and um and help the cause.

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We really do. Thank you.
I'm sure you have a great rest of

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your day. Thank you, you
too,