Speaker 1: Five care CD talk station, Happy Monday, Extra Special Monday.
Speaker 1: We're going to introduce you to a terrific charity, one
Speaker 1: that I certainly can relate to. Christ to Power, executive
Speaker 1: director of Giving Voice Foundation, Welcome to the fifty five
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: Let's start with your organization before we get to the
Speaker 1: fun and games of the bourbon raffle, drinking for charity,
Speaker 1: which makes it justified in all cases, especially given the
Speaker 1: types of bourbons that are involved in this. In this
Speaker 1: bourbon raffle you're doing. But the Giving Voice Foundation, my
Speaker 1: listeners know, and folks who listened to my father before
Speaker 1: I came, I know he passed away from complications of
Speaker 1: Alzheimer's and it was just such an awful thing to
Speaker 1: behold a man he was so sharp and so brilliant.
Speaker 1: To see his mind deteriorate to the point where he
Speaker 1: couldn't communicate, It's just so awful. And that's what your organization,
Speaker 1: Giving Voice Foundation deals with, is seniors with Alzheimer's. Am
Speaker 1: I right?
Speaker 2: That's exactly right? And I you know, I'm always my
Speaker 2: heart reaches out out to those who are impacted, and
Speaker 2: it's hard to find anyone who is not impacted by
Speaker 2: Alzheimer's disease anymore. It's such a far reaching experience.
Speaker 1: The statistics, the statistics bear out out that it's becoming
Speaker 1: a more is it more problematic? And if so, I mean,
Speaker 1: do we have any connection as to why or is
Speaker 1: just that people are living a lot longer these days
Speaker 1: than they used to.
Speaker 2: Well, there's definitely a blend, Like you said, people living longer,
Speaker 2: there also is more awareness and identifying the disease process.
Speaker 2: And so I think what we're seeing also on the
Speaker 2: other end of longevity is there's early diagnosis for people
Speaker 2: as young as in their forties or fifties. And as
Speaker 2: you know, this disease can be very long term in
Speaker 2: its expanse as well, so you know, sometimes ten twenty years.
Speaker 2: So I think both ways. You know, science has improved
Speaker 2: as well as our longevity of our bodies.
Speaker 1: All right, real briefly here, And I don't want to
Speaker 1: put you in the spot if you don't know, you
Speaker 1: don't know, but I don't either. I have heard early
Speaker 1: diagnosis and I've heard they can diagnose it. Do you
Speaker 1: know what's involved in a diagnosis? Like if I went
Speaker 1: to the doctor, and I said, I want to be
Speaker 1: diagnosed to see if I have Alzheimer's, the onset of Alzheimer's,
Speaker 1: what they do and how they go about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's you know, there are some there's some cognitive
Speaker 2: assessments that are done, there's some blood work that is done,
Speaker 2: and ultimately they do without having the gene one of
Speaker 2: the genes. That's one small portion of the diagnosis. There's
Speaker 2: then people who do not have a gene who still
Speaker 2: have a very various forms of dementia, like vascular dementia
Speaker 2: that goes along with heart issues, or Louis body or
Speaker 2: frontal temporal lobe. There's so many more than just Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 2: But there's the assessments that are that have enough red
Speaker 2: flags for a physician to be able to say, you know, yes,
Speaker 2: you are diagnosed, and here's here are some resources that
Speaker 2: are available, because unfortunately, there is no way to ultimately
Speaker 2: diagnose until once a person has has passed away, and
Speaker 2: there's there's not a lot of medication. There's there's one
Speaker 2: that is FDA approved, but there's not much that can
Speaker 2: be done to slow or reverse the effects of the disease.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm praying for that day much in the
Speaker 1: same way I am praying that some day they have
Speaker 1: cared for cancer. I am praying so hard that someday
Speaker 1: that they can come up with something to you even
Speaker 1: do with Alzheimer's. Again, that my personal experience, and of
Speaker 1: course I just weep for my mom and what she
Speaker 1: had to go through. It's just terrible. Which leads us
Speaker 1: over to the Giving Voice Foundation. What is it that
Speaker 1: your organization does for folks who obviously have been diagnosed
Speaker 1: with Alzheimer's or dementia.
Speaker 2: Well, like you said, it's such a toll on the
Speaker 2: care partners, whether it's your spouse, or it's your parent,
Speaker 2: or it's a peer who is diagnosed and lives through
Speaker 2: the disease. So Giving Voice Foundation exists to provide direct
Speaker 2: services and support and social engagement for the person diagnosed
Speaker 2: and their care partner. We really find that these boots
Speaker 2: on the ground services for people make such a difference.
Speaker 2: So I really like to highlight two parts of our programming.
Speaker 2: The first is we do offer an opportunity for care
Speaker 2: partners to come and meet with a licensed social worker
Speaker 2: to discuss their specific loved one and their scenario and
Speaker 2: situation so they can become equipped and get resources and
Speaker 2: support an education for their journey. And then the bulk
Speaker 2: of our other programming is social engagement. What we found
Speaker 2: is Alzheimer's disease and dementias are such an isolating type
Speaker 2: of disease that it's really important to create a safe
Speaker 2: environment where people are accepted just as they are. You know, you,
Speaker 2: whether your memory is starting to go or words are
Speaker 2: escaping you and you just feel uncomfortable in regular society.
Speaker 2: That's why we create space and we weave in things
Speaker 2: like music and movement. Oh yeah, and yeah, like just
Speaker 2: lots of opportunities that create joy and purpose and they're
Speaker 2: dual tasking and so there's real science also behind our
Speaker 2: programs that just appear from the outside very joyful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that's I'm glad you mentioned because I'm
Speaker 1: looking at your site. Music in Motion one of the
Speaker 1: things my dad, when is in the assisted living facility,
Speaker 1: just absolutely loved and a shout out to Tim Goldry
Speaker 1: and the lead singer for the Menus. He goes to
Speaker 1: these different facilities and performs. My dad loved and he
Speaker 1: came there and sang. He just thought he was the
Speaker 1: greatest entertainer just really got a kick out of it.
Speaker 1: So it was a really bright spot in in otherwise
Speaker 1: sometimes not too bright day, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, music is such a healing force. And you know
Speaker 2: when you then pull up music from a person's life
Speaker 2: when they were eighteen or twenty or twenty two years old,
Speaker 2: it really has the capacity to call a person into
Speaker 2: the moment. It's amazing how people join in and sing all.
Speaker 1: Right, well it's Christ the power I'm holding you over
Speaker 1: because we're gonna get now we've mentioned the Giving Voice Foundation.
Speaker 1: It's Giving Voice FD and dot org. Oh look, you
Speaker 1: can donate and help them out, or you can buy
Speaker 1: Bourbon Raffle tickets. We're gonna have Chris to talk about
Speaker 1: the Bourbon Raffle, what's involved with that and where you
Speaker 1: get the tickets. When we come back, it's just a
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Speaker 1: A forty nine if you do have Kers City talk
Speaker 1: station Brian Thomas talking to Christa Power Cheesy, Executive effer
Speaker 1: director for Giving Voice Foundation helping folks with Alzheimer's that
Speaker 1: will be caregivers as well as the struggling with Alzheimer's
Speaker 1: all kinds of programs and resources. So I recommend if
Speaker 1: you are impacted by Alzheimer's to check out their website
Speaker 1: Giving Voice FDN Foundation, Giving Voice fdn dot org and
Speaker 1: learn about all the programs that would you just Chris
Speaker 1: and I just scratched the surface in the last segment
Speaker 1: of everything that they do. So also maybe consider a donation.
Speaker 1: Maybe the donation in the form of buying a rare
Speaker 1: bourbon raffle ticket. Christa, you got some great bourbons you're
Speaker 1: giving away in this raffle.
Speaker 2: Yes, they're wonderful bourbons and they're very hard to find
Speaker 2: as a full collection. So this is a buffalo trace
Speaker 2: antique collection with there's a total five bottles. There's three
Speaker 2: whiskeys and two rise So it's a really exciting raffle
Speaker 2: we have going on and certainly an easy way for
Speaker 2: people to support the work that we do. And I
Speaker 2: will mention all of the programs and services of Giving
Speaker 2: Voice Foundation are free. So this is how we go
Speaker 2: about providing free services is by garnering community support.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and let us not overlook the for the low
Speaker 1: price of a raffle ticket, you have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: win probably more than ten thousand dollars worth of this
Speaker 1: these five bottles. The street value of these is outrageous.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty three Buffalo Trace Anti collection includes George George T.
Speaker 1: Stag Bourbon, Thomas H. Handy, sazaac Rye whiskey, sazaak Rye
Speaker 1: eighteen year old whiskey, William LaRue Weller bourbon, and finally
Speaker 1: the celebrated eighteen or Eagle Rare seventeen year old bourbon.
Speaker 1: And did Buffalo Trace got flooded out? Didn't they? Did
Speaker 1: they lose any of their inventory that flood?
Speaker 2: They did? Yeah, back in the spring they had a
Speaker 2: horrible flood, so I know that they had to do
Speaker 2: quite a bit of recovery and did lose some. So
Speaker 2: we were fortunate to have these bottles donated to us
Speaker 2: by anonymous donor. And oh and Happy he's available. So
Speaker 2: I think even more rare than you know, the normal.
Speaker 1: You can't just go to the you can't go to
Speaker 1: the party source and buy one of these off the
Speaker 1: shelf because once they show up, they're gone, so.
Speaker 2: Right, exactly exactly. So we're making these available for as
Speaker 2: low as a twenty five dollars raffle ticket. You can
Speaker 2: buy one ticket for twenty five dollars or five tickets
Speaker 2: for one hundred dollars. And June fourteenth is National Bourbon Day.
Speaker 2: So at two pm we'll be calling the winner, drawing
Speaker 2: the winner and calling them. They don't have to be
Speaker 2: present to win, but we will be gathering at Revival
Speaker 2: Vintage Bottle Shopping comington if people want to come and
Speaker 2: see the drawing happen live.
Speaker 1: Oh cool. Well, I assure you that you just sold
Speaker 1: five tickets because I'm going to get online at Sincey
Speaker 1: with a y Sinceybourbonraffle dot com and that'll walk you
Speaker 1: through the steps to get yourself some tickets. But I mean, folks,
Speaker 1: at least I mean I nobody out there. I'm listening
Speaker 1: on it. It's at least this twenty five bucks. And
Speaker 1: this is an amazing charitable organization. Again, the services they
Speaker 1: offer are free and relying on things like this to
Speaker 1: to provide these wonderful services. So I think it's a
Speaker 1: low price and you can end up with these rare
Speaker 1: bourbons on top of it, even if you're not a
Speaker 1: bourbon drinker. Trust me, someone out there in the world
Speaker 1: will want to buy them from you, right, Christa.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right. You'll have many, many friends coming out
Speaker 2: of the woodwork. Yes, thank you for choosing to buy
Speaker 2: and support it. Really doesn't mean a lot and just
Speaker 2: having the opportunity to share this with your circle, your listeners.
Speaker 2: We are grateful for people on how they show up
Speaker 2: for us and it's fun. I hope, I'm excited, you know,
Speaker 2: for drawing the winner. It's a moment of you know,
Speaker 2: kind of pause in the drum roll where we have
Speaker 2: a lot of people in the drawing. And that said, overall,
Speaker 2: it's not that many people, so you really do stand
Speaker 2: a decent chance.
Speaker 1: Revival Vintage Bottle Shop, two pm, drawing time, June fourteenth.
Speaker 1: You want to be there, be there, but they will
Speaker 1: definitely call you by telephone if you are not there
Speaker 1: in person. Krista, power on behalf of all those who
Speaker 1: you have served and continue to serve at giving voice
Speaker 1: in the foundation. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Speaker 1: I'll encourage my listeners to get some bourbon tickets and
Speaker 1: support the organization and also, you know, rely on the
Speaker 1: services your organization provides if you're impacted by Alzheimer's. It's
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing you're doing. Krista, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for spending time with my listeners of me today, well, thank.
Speaker 2: You and like you said, just as people are so
Speaker 2: generous to support us. We want to be available for everyone,
Speaker 2: So tap into us and thank you, thank you for
Speaker 2: spraying the word, and we'll look forward to June fourteenth,
Speaker 2: the drawing time.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll talk again down the road at some point.
Speaker 1: Christ that it's been a pleasure having you on this
Speaker 1: show and thanks again for what you're doing every day.
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Speaker 1: comments on that Money Money with Brian James podcast, fifty
Speaker 1: five Cars dot com and Joe have the link for
Speaker 1: the Bourbon Raffle on my page, as well as the
Speaker 1: information about Giving Voice Foundation Joe Strekker, thank you for
Speaker 1: everything you do. I appreciate it. I hope everyone has
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