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Speaker 2: Eight oh five on a Friday, and a happy Friday
Speaker 2: to year on the heels of wonderful charity work being
Speaker 2: done by part for seniors. We pivot over to another
Speaker 2: unmitigated success story and what an inspiration this is to everyone.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the fifty five Krsey Morning Show. Jess Ober,
Speaker 2: mother of Peyton, who created and founded at the age
Speaker 2: of six, the Peyton's Lemonade Stand. We're coming up on
Speaker 2: the date. Welcome back, Jess. It's always a pleasure talking
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Brian, it's always great to chat
Speaker 3: with you.
Speaker 2: Well, the history of this thing is just amazing when
Speaker 2: I look year after year and this is the eighth
Speaker 2: annual Peyton's Lemonade Stand. The money, uh, you raise the money,
Speaker 2: the sale of the lemonade goes to help children in need.
Speaker 2: And it started out with your daughter, who was six,
Speaker 2: decided she wanted to set up a lemonade stand back
Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen the sole purpose of using all of
Speaker 2: the money to buy new toys for patients at Cincinnati
Speaker 2: Children's Hospital. Apparently she got a teddy bear when she
Speaker 2: was there, and she so thoroughly appreciated that gesture and
Speaker 2: loved it so much that she knew other children would
Speaker 2: benefit from the same kind of thing. So she wanted
Speaker 2: to take some steps and raise some money to that effort.
Speaker 2: And what a glorious thing. And it's blown up since then.
Speaker 2: Just oh, my word, that's a good word.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's just it's grown so much. It's been incredible
Speaker 3: to see the growth for these past eight years.
Speaker 2: And it's not too late. My listeners can help out
Speaker 2: on this. Get a load of these figures. The first
Speaker 2: one she did all by herself. She raised seven hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty eight bucks, which is really impressive considering it's
Speaker 2: one girl with a lemonade. Stand fast forward neighborhood. Well
Speaker 2: there you see doubling down, and it's like people want
Speaker 2: to give to I mean, I think people like to
Speaker 2: buy from children's lemonades things, period, end of story. These
Speaker 2: are young entrepreneurs. They're taking the effort, they're sitting out
Speaker 2: in the sun, they're doing something that's productive and making
Speaker 2: the money. So we're all gravitating toward that. But when
Speaker 2: you see a young person that is raising money for charity.
Speaker 2: You're like, oh my god, that's such a beautiful thing. Here,
Speaker 2: let me buy some.
Speaker 3: Here's the kicker, Brian. She's never charged a dime for
Speaker 3: her lemonade. It's always been free.
Speaker 2: All donations. Oh that's so beautiful. All right, let's walk
Speaker 2: through the years so again. Seven sixty eight, year one,
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, seven thousand dollars, twenty twenty. Now that was
Speaker 2: when she was still by herself. Then you started adding others.
Speaker 2: Others were like, Hey, can I get involved with this?
Speaker 2: Can I open my own Peyton's Lemonade stand? So you
Speaker 2: created Peyton's Pals. You got eight additional lemonade stands in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty and so for the third annual lemonade stand
Speaker 2: you raised thirty five thousand dollars. Sit tight, folks, because
Speaker 2: it only gets better from there. So you saw how
Speaker 2: great this thing's grow, and you formed a five O
Speaker 2: one C three nonprofit. In twenty twenty one, fourth annual event,
Speaker 2: you had over one hundred young people doing thirty lemon stands,
Speaker 2: sixty thousand dollars. Fast forward to twenty twenty two, you're
Speaker 2: up to fifty stands. You got two hundred children and
Speaker 2: a lot of community assistants, eighty five thousand dollars raised,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three one hundred thousand dollars and folks, this
Speaker 2: is contributions, donations in one single day. And then last
Speaker 2: year I had and last year I had you on
Speaker 2: the program, and I don't know what I predicted that
Speaker 2: you would raise, but you ultimately had ninety stands. Kentucky's involved,
Speaker 2: Indiana's involved, as well as Ohio where it started. You
Speaker 2: had much more people involved. One hundred and twenty five
Speaker 2: thousand dollars raised in only three hours. That is just fantastic.
Speaker 2: I made a trip down to Loveland. There was a
Speaker 2: store of Loveland. They had a elevenade stand and I
Speaker 2: made a contribution down there and got myself a glass
Speaker 2: of elemonade. So it's just great. So this year, what's
Speaker 2: the day? How can people get involved? And you also
Speaker 2: you're also teaching children a lot about philanthropy, so it's
Speaker 2: not just getting involved for one day. You're trying to
Speaker 2: use this as a learning experience.
Speaker 1: Jess Oh, for sure.
Speaker 3: That's been the beauty and it is just to see
Speaker 3: all of the kids who are now involved. Hundreds of
Speaker 3: kids will be out tomorrow hosting their lemonade stands. And
Speaker 3: I always tell people, you know, your visit might be
Speaker 3: the spark that ignites, you know, a lifelong passion of
Speaker 3: giving back for these kids. So I really encourage people
Speaker 3: to visit our website to see the map where all
Speaker 3: one hundred and four lemonade stands will be tomorrow, everywhere
Speaker 3: there in.
Speaker 2: All parts p A Y t o NS Peyton's Lemonade
Speaker 2: stand dot org.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you go to get involved, visit a stand,
Speaker 3: you'll see a map a lemons. If you can click
Speaker 3: on a lemon or you can just scroll right below
Speaker 3: that map you'll see all of the locations listed. And
Speaker 3: while this is a lot of kids in their driveways hosting,
Speaker 3: it's also a lot of businesses this year, more this
Speaker 3: year than any other year. So we have like Buskin Bakery,
Speaker 3: Big B Coffee, Fisher Homes is hosting at five of
Speaker 3: their model homes, tons of local boutiques like Shop Sharbond
Speaker 3: and Metallic Draft and LULUs, There's it's just the community
Speaker 3: buy in this year is absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: I'm so pleased to see that.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Buskin, they are also doing it gives back
Speaker 3: with their famous smiley iced cookie a portion of all
Speaker 3: proceeds from those cookies. This week and through tomorrow, we'll
Speaker 3: go back to Peyton's Lemonade stand.
Speaker 2: Wow, and I'm looking at the map. Oh my word.
Speaker 2: Turn around and you'll be staring at yet another Peyton's
Speaker 2: Lemonade stands. So feel free to donate at all the locations.
Speaker 2: It's going to take you all day to do it.
Speaker 2: That's a beautiful site for behold.
Speaker 3: That's what we laugh about is somebody will say, well,
Speaker 3: I'm going to go to this stand, and then when
Speaker 3: they get to that stand, they're like, well, heck, I
Speaker 3: pay three on my way here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well look at you. You've gone nationwide too.
Speaker 2: It's not just the Greater Cincinni area, which does include
Speaker 2: northern Kentucky and Indiana stands. You got one in Lakeside, Ohio.
Speaker 2: You got one in Cambridge, Ohio, and oh look, there's
Speaker 2: one in Atlanta, Georgia, and one in Carl's Bad, New Mexico.
Speaker 1: Words gotten out?
Speaker 3: Is that cool?
Speaker 2: You're gonna be nationwide? I mean completely nationwide. I figured
Speaker 2: Jess over next year I talk to you, there's gonna
Speaker 2: be lemonade stands from New York to California.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be cool?
Speaker 1: Oh what's Peyton say about this?
Speaker 2: She does she have a full appreciation of what she
Speaker 2: was able to accomplish by starting this out eight years ago.
Speaker 3: You know, I think it's the older she gets and
Speaker 3: the more we we do a lot of like presentations
Speaker 3: in that throughout the years, the more she tells her
Speaker 3: story and the more you know, feedback she gets. I
Speaker 3: think it's really starting to click for her. You know,
Speaker 3: she's starting to understand the impact that just one person
Speaker 3: can make. Yeah, and so that motivates her to keep
Speaker 3: doing it well.
Speaker 2: And you know what, I am glad you phrased it
Speaker 2: that way, because you know, I tend to I'll tend
Speaker 2: to be a check writer. I'm happy to charities, but
Speaker 2: I'm not the guy that's going to stand up and say, hey,
Speaker 2: I got an idea, and you know, let's do this.
Speaker 2: And then because I don't know anything about accomplishing whatever
Speaker 2: idea I could possibly come up with. I remember a
Speaker 2: gentleman that you used to have on the program that
Speaker 2: started a marathon to help with Honor Flight tri State.
Speaker 2: One guy, no connection with the military, but he loved
Speaker 2: the organization. But if you started and you and you
Speaker 2: hold your hand up and say I'm going to be
Speaker 2: the person that's going to coordinate this or start it off.
Speaker 2: You'd be amazed how many people will rise up and
Speaker 2: embrace the concept and want to help you out. Clearly,
Speaker 2: a six year old Peyton did not have any concept
Speaker 2: that she would end up with one hundred plus different
Speaker 2: stands and probably thousand people plus out there helping her
Speaker 2: out to accomplish this goal.
Speaker 3: Well, and that's just been what's so cool about this
Speaker 3: is just how organically it has grown. And we say that,
Speaker 3: you know, she knew something that we didn't. You know,
Speaker 3: she had the vision and to be honest, when she
Speaker 3: was six and hosting a lemonade stand in her driveway,
Speaker 3: like I really thought like this was just going to
Speaker 3: be in one time, right right, But she was adamant,
Speaker 3: I mean adamant that it become an annual summer tradition.
Speaker 3: And you know, had she not been that way, we
Speaker 3: wouldn't be where we are now, because, like I said,
Speaker 3: we were fine what she is doing it once?
Speaker 1: All right, Mom, Mom, Jess.
Speaker 2: It didn't take you prompting her or inspiring her to
Speaker 2: continue to do this and hey, you need to do
Speaker 2: this next year.
Speaker 1: That was her idea.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I'll admit to you and everybody listening. But
Speaker 4: I told my husband after that first stand and she talked,
Speaker 4: she was already talking about the following summer.
Speaker 3: I said, just don't mention it and maybe she'll forget.
Speaker 5: So, I mean, super selfish on my part. But are
Speaker 5: you really We're not We're not expecting this, No you are.
Speaker 2: It has turned out you do? You mentioned you do
Speaker 2: seminars and presentations, so you're you're really working on this
Speaker 2: Peyton's Lemonade stand thing throughout the year.
Speaker 3: Then, oh, well, it is my full time job. I
Speaker 3: mean it is an actual five oh one c three.
Speaker 3: We have given out Brian over five million dollars in
Speaker 3: both in kind donations and monetary donations oh much to
Speaker 3: local organizations who whose mission aligns with ours, you know,
Speaker 3: who are serving kids facing hardships. So it's it's really
Speaker 3: wild to see what one little lemonade stand hosted by
Speaker 3: a six year old girl has turned into.
Speaker 2: It is absolutely stunning, and listeners, I just do yourself
Speaker 2: a favor and get inspired and enlightened and maybe help
Speaker 2: participate and help out even if you can't visit a
Speaker 2: Lemonade stand tomorrow, even though there's one literally right next
Speaker 2: to you. There's a donate button on the website. You
Speaker 2: can help them out achieve their goal from the comfort
Speaker 2: of your own home. But Peyton's lemonadestand dot org. But
Speaker 2: when you're there, click on the map and just look
Speaker 2: at that and just remember this all started with a
Speaker 2: six year old girl. Just I love the story. I
Speaker 2: really do. Jesse I started off mentioning, you know, to
Speaker 2: get toys for children that are in the hospital. You
Speaker 2: obviously have branched out. You mentioned providing. You distributed five
Speaker 2: million dollars in donations to various organizations. What are the
Speaker 2: some of the other organizations or types of organizations that
Speaker 2: some of these.
Speaker 1: Funds go to.
Speaker 3: Well, well, you work with a lot of local organizations.
Speaker 3: I like to help, like the smaller ones. I feel
Speaker 3: like our impact is a lot bigger. There so places
Speaker 3: like upspring that serves kids experiencing homelessness, or a Hope's
Speaker 3: Closet who helps kids. You know in the foster care system.
Speaker 3: We work a lot with CPS, and a lot of
Speaker 3: those schools within CPS are very underfunded, and so we've
Speaker 3: been you know, we send kids on memorable field trips.
Speaker 3: We work with Cincinnati Recreation Commission and we provide brand
Speaker 3: new swimsuits and towels and goggles for kids who show
Speaker 3: up through their pools who don't have you know, we
Speaker 3: don't have a suit to go swim with their friends.
Speaker 3: And when we do help children, and we do a
Speaker 3: lot for Ronald McDonald House. Last year we helped over
Speaker 3: forty different organizations, and so you're right, it has branched
Speaker 3: out beyond the walls of children simply because the need
Speaker 3: is just so great everywhere, and so we've been really
Speaker 3: honored to be able to help so many local kids
Speaker 3: and families and organizations here.
Speaker 1: Here, locally beautiful.
Speaker 2: Everything about this is just wonderful. Peyton's Lemonade stand dot
Speaker 2: or get involved, help out anyway. You can't enjoy a
Speaker 2: glass of lemonade and make a nice contribution be doing
Speaker 2: Society of Favor. Well, I have nothing but great words
Speaker 2: for you, the organization for what Peyton started so many
Speaker 2: years ago, and the fact that you've turned this into
Speaker 2: this amazing successful charity. And let's see, should we predict
Speaker 2: how much money you're gonna take in this year, Jess.
Speaker 3: This year is bananas it's big. The weather like closs
Speaker 3: my fingers. I think it's gonna it's gonna be hot,
Speaker 3: but I think it's gonna be dry, and I don't know.
Speaker 2: Brian Loots goes for business all right three hours last
Speaker 2: year with ninety lemonade stands one hundred and twenty five grand,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go two hundred. I'm going two hundred thousand
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: I said it. I hope I'm right.
Speaker 4: Your listeners better show up.
Speaker 1: I hope I'm right.
Speaker 2: Or if I'm wrong, I hope it's because I undercount
Speaker 2: it and you get more than two hundred.
Speaker 1: It's easy to do. Folks.
Speaker 2: Buy some lemonade, drop a twenty dollars bill or something
Speaker 2: in the donation jar, and let's help them achieve the goal. Regardless.
Speaker 2: It will go to worthy causes. Just over, God, bless you,
Speaker 2: God bless Peyton, and keep up the great work. You
Speaker 2: and I will talk again next year or maybe after
Speaker 2: the lemonade stand tomorrow is all done and over with,
Speaker 2: and you can report on how much money you pulled in.
Speaker 5: We'd love that.
Speaker 2: Please do it. Just over, good luck, have a great weekend.
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