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Ellen Kershaw Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next guest is a philanthropist and co founder of
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  Speaker 1: Kershaw's Challenge. It is co founded in twenty It was
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  Speaker 1: co founded in Ellen and her husband, the eight time
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball All Star Clayton Kershaw. Today, the Kershaw's
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  Speaker 1: Challenge seeks to serve vulnerable and at ricks at risk
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  Speaker 1: children living in Los Angeles, Dallas, Zambia, and the Dominican Republic.
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  Speaker 1: The goal is to partner with organizations that are committed
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  Speaker 1: to this as well as and work alongside them on
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  Speaker 1: Pacific projects to make life better for children. One of
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  Speaker 1: their signature events is the upcoming seventh annual Ping Pong
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  Speaker 1: for Purpose, the Number four Purpose, being held at darger
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  Speaker 1: Stabnum on August eight. Please welcome to money making conversations
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  Speaker 1: the very first time, and I'm proud to have them.
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  Speaker 1: Ellen Kershaw, Hi, thanks for having me. Excited to be
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  Speaker 1: here today to talk about Kershaw's Challenge and our events
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  Speaker 1: are benefitiaries and everything in between. Well, let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about it. The date says it was yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: obviously something was bothering you two in life just seeing
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  Speaker 1: things and you're going because a lot of times you
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  Speaker 1: get frustrated and I know that I participated in stuff
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  Speaker 1: because people have asked me to participate in it. I've lended,
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  Speaker 1: I've lent my name and my my dollars as well.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a program that you two decided to
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  Speaker 1: uh to engage as part of your brain. What drove
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  Speaker 1: that commitment in you know, that's a great question. I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that we ever expected Kirkshaw's Challenge to
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  Speaker 1: be where it is today. We didn't. We didn't begin
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  Speaker 1: it hoping that it would flourish into what it is become.
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  Speaker 1: It honestly started with just this finding, this need that
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  Speaker 1: needed to be met right away. And I've been going
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  Speaker 1: to Zambia, Africa my entire college um time, and and
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  Speaker 1: it was really important to be that Clayton would go
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  Speaker 1: with me right after we got married. That three weeks
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  Speaker 1: after we got married, we went to Africa and he
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  Speaker 1: got to meet this little orphan, the same hope who
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  Speaker 1: I had fallen in love with, and to be on
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  Speaker 1: us the most critical needush She just needed a home.
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  Speaker 1: She needed a safe place to call home, a stable environment,
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  Speaker 1: and a family. And and that's where it began. We
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  Speaker 1: realized that Clayton's platform the talent of baseball gives us
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  Speaker 1: an incredible voice, an opportunity to raise money and awareness
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  Speaker 1: for this. And so it was on our plane flight
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  Speaker 1: back from that first trip to Zambia that we just
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  Speaker 1: decided we were gonna um start this mission and Clayton
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  Speaker 1: would donate money for every strikeout he made and and
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  Speaker 1: really start to use his platform to give back. So,
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  Speaker 1: in essence, we didn't expect it to grow to where
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  Speaker 1: it is today. We honestly just went in thinking we've
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  Speaker 1: got to build this girl at home. We wanted to
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  Speaker 1: start with this children's home where orphans just like Hope
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  Speaker 1: would have a place to grow up in in a
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  Speaker 1: family environment. So that's where it began, with just a
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  Speaker 1: singular focus, meat and passion, and gosh, it is snowballed
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  Speaker 1: and escalated and grown into something beyond our wildest dreams.
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  Speaker 1: Were dreams are what made this happen. It was an
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  Speaker 1: emotional was what made this happen. I'm speaking to Ellen
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  Speaker 1: Kershaw Um we're discussing their foundation as she started with
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  Speaker 1: her husband, Clade Kershaw, And there's some other cities. We
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  Speaker 1: started with Zambia and then but you have Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: you have Dallas, and we're gonna talk about the Dominican Republic.
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles where your base. So I think that's a
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  Speaker 1: natural relationship that you walk out your front door, you
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  Speaker 1: see trouble, you want to fix it. Close to home.
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  Speaker 1: But Dallas. So, Dallas is where Clayton and I are
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  Speaker 1: goes from. We actually spend our off season there. We
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  Speaker 1: still very much consider that our home base. So um,
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  Speaker 1: even though we're in l A during the season and
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  Speaker 1: that absolutely become a second home to us. We also
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  Speaker 1: spend a good amount of time in Dallas, and for
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  Speaker 1: a while we were only getting to go to Africa
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  Speaker 1: once a year during the nath season, and um, Clayton
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  Speaker 1: and I his heart just continued to crave service and
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  Speaker 1: finding those kids who are vulnerable and in need, and
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  Speaker 1: um that we could be touching throughout the baseball season
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  Speaker 1: and during the off season. So that's how we began
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  Speaker 1: to include Los Angeles and Dallas are are two home
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  Speaker 1: bases to curteous challenge a arm a Texas bar from Houston, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: So I didn't know. I didn't know y'all with Texas.
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  Speaker 1: So this is college you got in most special? Now
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  Speaker 1: now mean that your Dallas, you know, you know up
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  Speaker 1: in Dallas, you know you used to really where it's happening.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna just let you know that. Ellen, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: gonna let you know. There's my show. I could say that,
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  Speaker 1: but you do a great cause. Now not a Dominican Republic.
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  Speaker 1: How did we get over there? To the Dominican Republic?
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  Speaker 1: So that was really important to Clayton. That actually is
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  Speaker 1: where his passion really stemmed from. He has had so
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  Speaker 1: many teammates that have come from the d R and
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  Speaker 1: you know, over there, baseball is value. That kind of
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  Speaker 1: the most important. That for a lot of kids, the
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  Speaker 1: ticket off the island, and they just kind of hold
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  Speaker 1: it with such reference that sport that Clayton really knew
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  Speaker 1: how powerful his voice and his platform would be open there.
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  Speaker 1: And and he's met so many baseball players that were
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  Speaker 1: once those honorable kids that really needed an extra boost
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  Speaker 1: and a helping hand to get them to where they
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  Speaker 1: are today. So that's where that's where we added on
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  Speaker 1: the Dominican Republic. Okay, cool. So you have like four locations.
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  Speaker 1: You have Dallas, Zambia, Dominican Republic. In each location. Is
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  Speaker 1: the responsibility of the purpose the same in each location
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  Speaker 1: or do they shift based on needs? You know, it
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  Speaker 1: does shifts based on needs. But the essence of kirchhas
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  Speaker 1: challenge is vulnerable and at rich children. Especially when Clayton
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  Speaker 1: and I became parents ourselves, it is unimaginable for us
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  Speaker 1: to think about kids out there who don't have a
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  Speaker 1: stable environment, a safe place to call home as our
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  Speaker 1: kids do. And so really our heart reaches in a
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  Speaker 1: whole new capacity once he's become parents. I know that
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm a parent. I know exactly what I
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  Speaker 1: see um kids who being abused, the kids that don't
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  Speaker 1: have what I think it's should be normal. It really was.
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  Speaker 1: It's really uh, it's unexplainable. So I find what you're
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  Speaker 1: saying very relatable from an emotional standpoint, I find it
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  Speaker 1: amendable that you took your emotion and turning into a passion.
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  Speaker 1: That passion became an idea and using Now now you
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  Speaker 1: know you say your husband Clayton, Clayton, Clayton, and then
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  Speaker 1: you say, hey, Roshan, let me just get your straights.
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  Speaker 1: Zambia was was something I was involved in when I
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  Speaker 1: was in college. Now, how did y'all Brunette scope together
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  Speaker 1: and they formed this this is now we're twenty eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Now you know you you got this passion, you know
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  Speaker 1: you you're making decisions that you have four four cities
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  Speaker 1: already in place, or did you start with one city
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  Speaker 1: and just started expanding. That's a great question. M clayton
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  Speaker 1: and I actually started dating when we were in high school.
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  Speaker 1: We were just fourteen years old and best friends. And
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  Speaker 1: and then I actually went off to college at Texane
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  Speaker 1: him and I'm a University Houston Cougar. Now you need
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  Speaker 1: to stop talking. Now, you need to stop talking than him.
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  Speaker 1: So spending there, we have these four years where both
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  Speaker 1: of us really got to flourish on our own, and
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  Speaker 1: we were still dating, but he was pursuing his dream
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  Speaker 1: of baseball, and meanwhile I was going to spending my
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  Speaker 1: college summers going to Africa, and so we almost were
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  Speaker 1: going down the two completely opposite past, both both pursuing
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  Speaker 1: our passions and dreams, and and part of us were
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  Speaker 1: a little bit worried about, like, how can these actually
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  Speaker 1: ever intersect? How are we going to figure out how
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  Speaker 1: we suppose get to do what we are passionate about,
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  Speaker 1: and how there be any overlap. And that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the beauty of Kershaw's challenge. It it is the perfect
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  Speaker 1: culmination of my passion for Zambia and the orphans there
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  Speaker 1: and Clayton getting to use his platform to rescue him
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  Speaker 1: to bring awareness to them, to raise a lot of
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  Speaker 1: money for them. And even though it began as my
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  Speaker 1: passion and my calling, I mean once Clayton went over
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  Speaker 1: there and thought from himself, you you can't help, but
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  Speaker 1: it becomes your passion and your calling to it. Just
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  Speaker 1: it changes who you are, and um, you leave a
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  Speaker 1: part of your heart over there that you never get back. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's very much become a part of who he is
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  Speaker 1: as well. Never let's talk about this because I know
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  Speaker 1: when you do locations like this, you have to parder
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  Speaker 1: with organizations that are already committed in this direction. How
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  Speaker 1: do you select it? Because that's a trust factor, because
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  Speaker 1: now you're putting your brand and your association and you
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  Speaker 1: know sometimes when you do good, if you do good
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  Speaker 1: with the wrong people, you can come back with a
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  Speaker 1: negative back back lash. How do you see? You know,
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  Speaker 1: how do you how do you partner up with? How
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  Speaker 1: do you vet the organization that you're partnering up with?
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  Speaker 1: You know, we have a really extensive application and interview
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  Speaker 1: process and UM we ask for references. We do site
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  Speaker 1: visit um Arise Africa with who we partner with an
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  Speaker 1: Africa and we've actually Clayton and I got to be
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  Speaker 1: with them from the very beginning and so in essence
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  Speaker 1: we've a little bit gotten to help them grow and
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  Speaker 1: grows from the very beginning and that's made a huge
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  Speaker 1: difference to us. We fully invest not only monetarily, but
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  Speaker 1: UM in a in a tight relationship with all these beneficiaries.
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  Speaker 1: We are not an organization that just wants to write
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  Speaker 1: a check and turn the cheek. UM. We want to
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  Speaker 1: write a check and be extremely invested. We want to
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  Speaker 1: do service projects with them, We want to attend board
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  Speaker 1: and beteans with them. We have a follow up program
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  Speaker 1: where we years later, we're still following up with the
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  Speaker 1: organization to make sure that our money and donation is
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  Speaker 1: UM still being utilized to its full because to be
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  Speaker 1: that's very small, very small. We have two minutes left
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  Speaker 1: in this break. I want to talk about some of
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  Speaker 1: the money making conversation. The purposes give information to people
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  Speaker 1: and you're talking about charity, talking about give me back,
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about fundation. I get a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: uh that contact me or come on the show talking
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  Speaker 1: about this and it's not it's hard work. So can
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  Speaker 1: you tell I'll just expound on what is what's involved
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  Speaker 1: in running that charity day to day and key advice
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  Speaker 1: you you've gotten over the years. Yeah, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it feels like you're taking two steps forward and
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  Speaker 1: one step back. And that's just the nature of not
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  Speaker 1: only working with nonprofits but third world countries. And you
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  Speaker 1: can't feel defeated when you do take that one step
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  Speaker 1: back because sometimes those one step backs are critical learning
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  Speaker 1: moves and you have to learn from them. Um. The
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  Speaker 1: other thing that we had to learn early on is
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  Speaker 1: the blanket of poverty. The amount of kids who are
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  Speaker 1: in need and at risk who need our help is
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  Speaker 1: completely overwhelming. And if we started trying to change all
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  Speaker 1: of that at once, I think it'd be debilitating. And
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  Speaker 1: so what we've really had to learn is it isn't
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  Speaker 1: one child at the time, and if we can change
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  Speaker 1: the life of one child, then cursh Our Challenge has
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  Speaker 1: done its job well. And we've had to don't think
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  Speaker 1: so much about the quantity of kids, um, but the
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  Speaker 1: quality of our impact. And so that has made a
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  Speaker 1: huge difference in running a nonprofit is just measuring our success,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and trying to raise awareness, of course, trying
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  Speaker 1: to raise money, but really wanting to go deep with
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  Speaker 1: these organizations and really make sure that we are making
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  Speaker 1: a deep change and impact in the lives. We know.
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  Speaker 1: It is really powerful what you just stated, because sometimes
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  Speaker 1: when you are all successful, Uh, sometimes people can can
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  Speaker 1: be a curse because you don't know how to react,
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  Speaker 1: because people people that naturally think that money just flows
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  Speaker 1: from the river when you got it, especially your situation
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  Speaker 1: because you know your your your husband's financial success. It's
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  Speaker 1: in the journal public. You know, he signs of contract.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody knows, and then everybody starts knocking on the door.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody thinks, Hey, I on, then you gotta live your
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  Speaker 1: life too. When we come back. Uh, I'm talking to
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  Speaker 1: my favorite friend. She's she's a naggy she's from Dallas
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  Speaker 1: on the two strikes. But y'allh you'll love her. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk more about her. The Pink Phone for purpose
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  Speaker 1: that they're doing U in the l A coming up.
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  Speaker 1: And she's amazing. Her husband's amazing, but she's even more dynamic. Hi,
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  Speaker 1: just Ra Shan McDonald Sean McDonald's back. You're listening to
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  Speaker 1: money making Conversation. I'm on the phone with my dear friend,
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  Speaker 1: longtime Texan. She's from Dallas. She's a graduate of Texas
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  Speaker 1: A and M gig Him University. She's knowing her husband's
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  Speaker 1: just the age of fourteen. They was about to go
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  Speaker 1: separate ways, but passion and love and assist a focus
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  Speaker 1: brought them back together again. Now they're on money making
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  Speaker 1: conversasions and their passion. Their passion, it's changed your lives,
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  Speaker 1: not only lives in their homes, but in Los Angeles, Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: Zambia and the Dominican Republic. Please welcome back to my
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  Speaker 1: should to discuss the seventh annual Ping Pong for Purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Ellen kershaw Hi tended to be back and talk more
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  Speaker 1: about Ping Pong for Purpose. Where that all started. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, I could play ping pong. Let me just
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  Speaker 1: put that out there now, Okay, I could play pinpo
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  Speaker 1: I'm a very challenged people player. Why did you guys
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  Speaker 1: decide to peek at bowling out there? You got pooled
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  Speaker 1: out there, you got uh, you got picnic in the
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  Speaker 1: park out there, you got a party. Why did you
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  Speaker 1: guys choose ping pong. Well, ping pong is clayton probably
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  Speaker 1: second passion in life after baseball, and it kind of
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  Speaker 1: the ping pong table came with the marriage, and so
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  Speaker 1: it has always been our dining room table and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the centerfold of our household and so um. For Clayton,
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  Speaker 1: it is it's just one of his passions and he
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  Speaker 1: has done it since he was just a little kid.
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  Speaker 1: He's extremely competitive, which is no shock to anybody. But
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  Speaker 1: he just wanted to do a ping pong tournament. That
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  Speaker 1: was his idea. And you know, he's done golf tournaments
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  Speaker 1: and bowling and all that kind of stuff, but he
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  Speaker 1: really felt like ting pong was something that people don't
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  Speaker 1: get to do often. But everyone can have a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of skill at to some level, and it is
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  Speaker 1: just one of the most fun nights because people secretly
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  Speaker 1: come out of you know, into this competition and the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you can play, yeah exactly, and there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of smack talk going around. It's so fun. See
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  Speaker 1: see I'm I'm taking a back, you know, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: you say he's good. So I think that's like kind
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  Speaker 1: of intimidating. Roushan mcdong, you know, a time Major League
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  Speaker 1: as though, but that's his second most talented scale. That
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  Speaker 1: was just so he's all the guy has a fast ball,
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  Speaker 1: he's striking out the right. She's in timidating, But I
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  Speaker 1: guess what Roshan is fearless. We'll come on out for
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  Speaker 1: me to come out there. We gotta stream it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in me streaming on Facebook Live. You know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: going down, put a little put a little dollar value.
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  Speaker 1: They get clicking and just make donations. See how long
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  Speaker 1: we're shot five against exactly. So I'm I'm a promoter.
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  Speaker 1: You know we're gonna go out there. We gotta make
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  Speaker 1: money for you for this carve it. So tell me
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  Speaker 1: how this whole lays out, you know, because you got
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  Speaker 1: a MC. You gotta Brad and Kimberly Paisley. You're honoring
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  Speaker 1: them who I love Brad's music. Tell me about about
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  Speaker 1: the whole set up here, because you're talking about Pink Cold.
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  Speaker 1: But it feels like it's an event too. It is.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a fun event. So we hosted it on
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  Speaker 1: the field of Dodger Stadium, which is such a cool
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  Speaker 1: experience for all of our attendees. Um just to be
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  Speaker 1: like playing on the infield on the dirt. We have
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  Speaker 1: about twenty ping pong tables set up and this year,
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  Speaker 1: for the second time in a row, Brian Cranston is
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  Speaker 1: our m C and he and his wife are just phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: There's just um. They are such role models for Clayton
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  Speaker 1: and I and how to be amazing poy anthropists. So
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  Speaker 1: we really look up to them, and we're getting to
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  Speaker 1: honor Brad and Kim Paisley for the work that they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: They just opened up something called The Store in Nashville,
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  Speaker 1: which is a grocery store that is free for people
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  Speaker 1: that are in need of good nutritious food but still
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  Speaker 1: want a grocery store experience. And um, so all of
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  Speaker 1: Clayton's teammates come out. We have a lot of celebrities
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  Speaker 1: from Hollywood, some really important sponsors to us, and we
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  Speaker 1: double everybody us and we do this great team pong
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  Speaker 1: tournament and it is It's lit up for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of hours. It's really fun. We've got great music going,
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  Speaker 1: everybody surrounding then huddling around to pong tables to watch
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  Speaker 1: the competition go down. Now here's it's cool thing. Let's
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  Speaker 1: just talk about something the past on a reeves here.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you have a magic Johnson, Jack Black and Ferrell,
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  Speaker 1: my Boy, Matthew Perry, uh, Jordan Fisher, Doc Rivers, cream Off,
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  Speaker 1: dul Jabba, Gabby Douglas, Jimmy Kimmel, Cody Bellinger who's ripping
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  Speaker 1: the ball left and right this year on the baseball field.
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  Speaker 1: Just a few to let you know that there's a
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  Speaker 1: wide spectrum of the people and if you if you
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  Speaker 1: go to the website, they follow these different people on Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: They all have a purpose, they all have a passion
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  Speaker 1: to give back and make a difference in people's lives. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how does the selection process go for the individuals that
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  Speaker 1: you're honoring. UM, you know, we just wanted to really
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  Speaker 1: highlight people that are doing extraordinary, slantaty work within the community.
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  Speaker 1: So it has been a no brainer for us to
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  Speaker 1: highlight Matthew McConaughey with our honoring honoring last year. UM.
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  Speaker 1: He has incredible work with after school programs called Just
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  Speaker 1: Keep Living. Obviously the paid leads this year, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: all of these people we really look up to because
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  Speaker 1: again they're putting um, they're putting their hands and feet
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  Speaker 1: where their money is and so they really are trying
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  Speaker 1: to make a difference in serving that capacity, which is
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  Speaker 1: incredible that these you know, people that are using their
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  Speaker 1: platform and their talents is acting, are also giving back.
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  Speaker 1: It's really amazing when you know, just I'm just blowing
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  Speaker 1: away where you said they this the store or you
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  Speaker 1: know people you know, it's really interesting because use when
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  Speaker 1: you get in the inner city, getting with people that
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  Speaker 1: don't have what you have, you can assume that they
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  Speaker 1: have you experienced. There's some people live in the neighborhood,
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  Speaker 1: never get out the neighborhood. All they know is what's
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  Speaker 1: in that neighborhood. It's something a lot of people have
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  Speaker 1: never flown the plane, you know. And so so when
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  Speaker 1: you talk when in store, a lot of people they
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  Speaker 1: go to a grocery store, they never go in because
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: they have these little glass the stores. When you you
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  Speaker 1: point out the food that you want, then they pass
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  Speaker 1: it through the glass so you can get it exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So so you assume that what's the big deal given
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  Speaker 1: to the experience of shopping in the store, Well, guess what,
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people don't have that experience. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people it's something we definitely take for granted. And
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: then they want to teach kids that, you know, their
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  Speaker 1: parents are able to go to a grocery store to
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: get that entire experience that even have a checkout, even
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  Speaker 1: though they're not paying for the food, they're still going
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  Speaker 1: to go through the checkoutline and check out the food.
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  Speaker 1: And and we just think that that's so important for
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: kids to realize that in an early age with their family.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it feels mainstream, it feels normal. It kind
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  Speaker 1: of gives the kids a sense of you know, my
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  Speaker 1: mom and dad are providing for me in an incredible way.
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  Speaker 1: So we just love what they're doing. And this idea
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  Speaker 1: that they had, it's amazing. This clean. But let's let's
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  Speaker 1: back that up. It's clean, and that's a lot of
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: things that people take for granted to walking into an
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  Speaker 1: environment that you know, you walk our start the store
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: is not trash left and right when you're walking into
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: the store, and the tras trash will follow inside the
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: store sometimes. But let's let's I want to talk about
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: a couple of more questions for loose time with you,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: because I've thoroughly been enjoying that probably went offline a
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: couple of times because I've been having so much fun
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  Speaker 1: with you. But I was a question here, what is
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: the giving board? What exactly is that? So this is
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite parts of Ping Pong. We have
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: this giving board where everybody can sponsor um A Rescue
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  Speaker 1: through International Justice Mission, and what they do is they
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: help rescue victims of human trafficking globally. But Clayton and
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: I are especially invested in I j M at in
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: the Dominican Republic and we've gotten to witness firsthand the
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  Speaker 1: impact that I j M has in this country and
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  Speaker 1: what a rescue you mean. And so for sixty three
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars, someone can UM put their name on a
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  Speaker 1: square fund and fund to rescue, which ultimately is literally
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  Speaker 1: saving one life or multiple lives through um INTEL and
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  Speaker 1: getting the justice system behind and truly just taking these
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  Speaker 1: systems out of trafficking. And I mean, you can't even
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: put a price on that. It's it's incredible. And last
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: year that ball was filled up before even half the
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  Speaker 1: event was over. So we're excited and we've created more
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: squares this year and UM that just to me, it's
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  Speaker 1: such a tangible way that you can give back, and
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: it's pretty incredible to see how fast those boxes fly
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: during the evening wow as very powerful Georgia is as
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  Speaker 1: a state. That is really how the list of sex
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  Speaker 1: trafficking you know, so you know lots. So they always
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: tell you if you see any young lady with somebody
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: that doesn't look right, doesn't look normal, see that next
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: to an adult, whether it's male of female, don't be
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  Speaker 1: thrown off. You know, it's not just men transport not
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: young ladies, women too, So always be able to situations
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  Speaker 1: that don't look right. Just hey, bring it to people's attention.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be afraid, don't. I don't want to. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to say on the point out the wrong thing.
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  Speaker 1: The wrong thing is that you don't do the right thing.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a couple of more courses I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about here. Did you want to say something
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: because you you know you have just agreeing with you
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: on all that? Cool? What are some of the other
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: upcoming projects that the Kershaw's Challenges doing this year and
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: in the future, so locally in l A. Actually next
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: week we have this um event. It's really special. It's
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: called Back to School Bash and we partner with the
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Dream Center here in Los Angeles. We get to pack up,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: pass out thousands and thousands of backpacks, two kids who
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: are about to start school and maybe you're going into
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the school you're feeling very unprepared. Um. And so these
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: families they line up around the blocks starting at a
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: m in the morning, just to make sure that their
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: kid get a backpack filled with all of the school
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: spots they'll needs that these parents can't provide themselves. And
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: so once, um, once the kids and the families enter
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: the line starting at ten am, I mean they've now
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: waited out there for seven hours hoping to be one
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: of the first team lines. And Clayton and I get
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: to stand at the front of the lines and and
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: see the smiles on these kids faces, just feeling like
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: they are now fully prepared and equipped to start school.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: But once they enter the back to School Bash, it's
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: pretty magical. Um. We get to do I exam, physicals, UM,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: back to school shopping, these racks of clothes, we do
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: bike giveaways, haircut to start school off. Really just all
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the things that I grew up very much taking for granted.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: And these kids don't they realize what an opportunity this is,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: and um, they're just very thankful and it's incredible to
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: get to witness first hand passing a backpack out to
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: a kid that otherwise would not get that before school start. Awesome,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: before I go, uh, we've got a one men Enough
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: In this interview, I want to talk about how people
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: can give back and find out more about challenge. So
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: you can go to Kershaw's Challenge dot com that has
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: all of the information that anybody would need. Ways to
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: get involved. We have UM sometimes throughout the year we'll
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: be selling T shirts. You can represent here different stories
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: of people that are also giving back in their own
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: unique ways. Here about all the beneficiaries that we're getting
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: to raise money for this year. UM. That's where you
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: can find all of the information, but also follow us
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: on social media. We've got an Instagram account, of Facebook page,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Twitter accounts, and daily we are posting updates on those
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: so UM we love our followers to follow along here
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the daily changes and impact. Well, I would tell you
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: something not on the before a route on the back
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  Speaker 1: of school batches that open to everybody or these family
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: screened or can I post it on social media? It
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: is open to It is open to everybody. They just
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: need to look up the Dream Center in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: meet us there. Okay, cool, thank you for coming on
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: my show. You're amazing. Uh hope, what's continued success. I'm
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: an Astro fan, but I wish, continued, says with the Dodges,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: do they meet the Astros in the World series. Keep
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I'm a post as much as I can to promote
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  Speaker 1: everything that you do in the future. Okay, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for Thank you so