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ONELEGUPALEX MEDIA ALERT - IDEASPARK APPLICATIONS STILL OPEN FOR 2026 SPRING PROGRAM · OneLegUpAlex Media

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Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, as some of you may know, this
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Speaker 2: podcast won Idea Spark twenty twenty five, and I just
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Speaker 2: got word today that this very very special opportunity, special
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Speaker 2: opportunity on behalf of the Viscardi Center at Ionia University.
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Speaker 1: Has an application deadline extended.
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Speaker 2: That's right, Spring twenty twenty six is Idea Spark Program
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Speaker 2: is Friday March thirteenth, twenty twenty six. You've got two
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Speaker 2: days if you know someone or yourself that is an
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Speaker 2: entrepreneur with a disability or has an entrepreneur vision or
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Speaker 2: has an entrepreneur mindset, to bring it to the table
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Speaker 2: and try and win Idea Spark twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: Winners.
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Speaker 2: I'm very blessed to have been one of them to
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Speaker 2: get this podcast recognized, this brand recognized, and I want
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Speaker 2: to encourage others to apply today again, Idea Spark Program
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six Spring.
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Speaker 1: Is still taking applications. And if you didn't.
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Speaker 2: Hear enough about Idea Spark from twenty twenty six at
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, let me replay for you that episode
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Speaker 2: alone as to why you should apply for the twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty six Idea Spark Program on behalf of the Disability
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Speaker 2: Entrepreneurship Institute of Viscardi Center and Iona Hines University Heinz
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Speaker 2: Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. When you submit, it will
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Speaker 2: be reviewed by our selection committee. Please be sure to
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Speaker 2: provide complete and throw responses to all the application questions. Look,
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Speaker 2: I sat down last January and said I'm going to
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Speaker 2: do this after consulting Kim Brussel and Lord Marzo and
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Speaker 2: yes Eric Ryan who won in twenty twenty four for Tripper,
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Speaker 2: I said, how.
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Speaker 1: Can I try this out and see what I could do?
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Speaker 2: And that program changed my entire thinking that we're not
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Speaker 2: just cracking open a mic here, We're bringing value.
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Speaker 1: We're bringing value to the disabled community, the ableted community,
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Speaker 1: the space through everything we do here one look about
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Speaker 1: and so I implore you to apply now. If you
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Speaker 1: have friends or family, I'm going to drop the link below.
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Speaker 2: But yes, here's my episode highlighting Idea Sparked twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: five and my interviews with those at Iona about the
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Speaker 2: program and why you should apply for Spring twenty twenty six. Well,
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Speaker 2: if you follow the Viscardi Center and maybe my Instagram
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Speaker 2: named Alex jennermen I see one. Some news has officially
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Speaker 2: been announced today this podcast has found a group in
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Speaker 2: Ideas Park that is intrigued in watching one leg up
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Speaker 2: Alex grow and yesterday Steve Farella, who was one of
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Speaker 2: the judges of Ideas Park Pitch Beest twenty twenty five
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Speaker 2: We'll got into Idea Spark in a bit, said this,
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Speaker 2: First of.
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Speaker 3: All, all of the ideas were really good, some more
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Speaker 3: innovative than the others. But it's I've built a number
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Speaker 3: of businesses. It's really something to take what you have
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Speaker 3: in your head, put it on a piece of paper
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Speaker 3: and work on it.
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Speaker 4: Met what everybody here did.
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Speaker 2: I really, I really was very dry.
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Speaker 5: I just want to.
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Speaker 3: Say that about everybody. What we looked for were ideas
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Speaker 3: that were maybe more easily implemented than other ideas. So
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Speaker 3: so because they were all terrific, But what can you
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Speaker 3: get done right? I mean, we can imagine your two
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Speaker 3: ideas getting done tomorrow. We want to make sure they're
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Speaker 3: getting done tomorrow. There'll be a follow up for thirte
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Speaker 3: so and ideas that we understood. I mean you only
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Speaker 3: had a couple of minutes, so you needed to communicate it, like,
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Speaker 3: what's your elevator speech, right, So, so we thought you
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Speaker 3: did a great presentation. We thought you had an idea
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Speaker 3: that we can easily easily get done. So so we're
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Speaker 3: gonna say the number one because there needs to be
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Speaker 3: a number one. But they were all really really good,
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Speaker 3: is Alex.
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Speaker 2: Just what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 3: We liked the idea, you know, and we think that
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Speaker 3: it that that it's a great thing that you could
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Speaker 3: do tomorrow, and you better do it tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: And I was going around the room after I was
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Speaker 2: very fortunate and blessed, I guess, and and and really
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Speaker 2: uh honored to have one Idea Spark Pitch Best twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty five during the ranks of Kimberly Minto and of
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Speaker 2: course Eric Ryan who had on Sitting Beauty as well
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Speaker 2: as Tripper represented in those two right there and now
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Speaker 2: one leg up Alex uh. But I wanted to truly
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Speaker 2: stick to the fact that it has to start tomorrow,
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Speaker 2: which is today now.
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Speaker 1: And that's why I didn't want to do.
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Speaker 2: Any other podcast except for featuring this Idea Spark and
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Speaker 2: why it's so important to the disabled community, Why more
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Speaker 2: disabled entrepreneur should not be afraid to share their business brand,
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Speaker 2: share their model, share their idea and dream and as
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Speaker 2: Steve Fella said, their vision, bring it out of the world.
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Speaker 2: Don't let it say contained in our brains. Let it
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Speaker 2: be showing it out there and pitch your vision. That's
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Speaker 2: what doctor Viscardi created the center.
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Speaker 1: For in nineteen fifty two. And so to stay.
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Speaker 2: True to my promise of starting tomorrow, which is today. Now,
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Speaker 2: I want to introduce doctor Christoph Winkler, the founder of
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Speaker 2: the Heinz Institute, and why he and the Viscardi Centers
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Speaker 2: Doctor Chris Rosa partnered up to create eight Ideas Park.
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Speaker 1: We're up here at Iona University.
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Speaker 2: If my heart is racing, it's just because something very
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Speaker 2: special happened and Ideas Spark twenty and twenty five.
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Speaker 1: And the man who founded.
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Speaker 2: The Hintitude and basically helped create Ideas.
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Speaker 1: Spark, doctor Christoph Winkler, is here on me.
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Speaker 2: Doctor Windler, thank you so much for opening this space
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Speaker 2: for disabled entrepreneurs.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you, Alex, and first of all, congratulations on
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Speaker 5: the big win today. Your pitch was really a testament
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Speaker 5: to the entrepreneurial spirit and also what it means to
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Speaker 5: you know, live out that spirit through action but also
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Speaker 5: action to empowerment. And I think we've seen this not
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Speaker 5: only with you a pitch, but all the participants today
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Speaker 5: and it was really wonderful to come together and celebrate
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Speaker 5: all of these wonderful Now.
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Speaker 2: I have this podcast about the backstory. So how did
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Speaker 2: all this come about for Idea Spark.
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Speaker 5: So Ideas Park, You know, it was really you know,
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Speaker 5: came through a conversation with doctor Chris Rosa, who was
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Speaker 5: the CEO of the Viscardi Center, who is a.
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Speaker 1: Very good friend of mine.
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Speaker 5: And while I was building Hines and stood here and
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Speaker 5: he assumed his role as Viscardi, we kind of came
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Speaker 5: to get into like we can can we partner, can
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Speaker 5: we create something? How can we support entrepreneurs with the stabilities?
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Speaker 5: And yeah, that was the genesis a conversation. And next
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Speaker 5: thing is we brought our teams together and it was
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Speaker 5: just a match made in heaven because our missions aligned, Yes,
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Speaker 5: and our desire to create positive impact in our communities
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Speaker 5: is paramoun.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's far aft to say this kind
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Speaker 1: of program is what doctor.
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Speaker 2: Vuscardi's idea was in nineteen fifty two.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, I mean he was really somebody, a trailblazer who
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Speaker 5: really envisioned access to economic opportunities for individuals with disabilities,
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Speaker 5: and the Viscardi Center is really I think living out
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Speaker 5: that mission in ways that you know are manifested throughout
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Speaker 5: the community.
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Speaker 6: And I think being able to partner.
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Speaker 5: With viscarity from an IONA perspective is really shortage.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: I know doctor Roh is very connected with a lot
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Speaker 2: of colleges and universities. Do you find that it's become
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Speaker 2: a pipeline to I owner kids from Viscardi that graduate
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Speaker 2: come up here.
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Speaker 5: Well, we I do not know the data, but for us,
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Speaker 5: I think as a as a primary objective, it's really
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Speaker 5: can we create synergies and opportunities. Ultimately it's the students
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Speaker 5: at the center here, so bringing entrepreneurs together by combining
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Speaker 5: our efforts. To me, these are students individuals that you know,
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Speaker 5: are are you know coming through our doors and then
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Speaker 5: exiting out into the community, but also not becoming part
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Speaker 5: of a larger community that I think really blends Iona
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Speaker 5: discarding so manywhere.
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Speaker 2: Now I told you and Maratha my first job was
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Speaker 2: going to be promoting idea spark even more than I
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Speaker 2: was when I was during the training. So how do
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Speaker 2: we grow this from you know, now it's three years,
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Speaker 2: how do we make it ten years online, twenty years,
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Speaker 2: thirty years.
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Speaker 5: So we already got commitments to run this for another year.
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Speaker 5: So the goal is really to reach out more into
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Speaker 5: the community to get different ancial support that we need
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Speaker 5: in order to you know, help support our entrepreneurs because
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Speaker 5: it's not just the competition. It is really an education
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Speaker 5: experience building capacity through the programs we have here. So
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Speaker 5: again the growth piece is essential, but in order to grow,
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Speaker 5: you need partners. But I think with a compelling story
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Speaker 5: to tell. The proof is in our students, in our graduates,
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Speaker 5: in our successes like us today, and we've also seen
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Speaker 5: by the judges, our previous winners who came back that
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Speaker 5: this is really, you know, not just one kind of
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Speaker 5: off thing. This is really part of something that is
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Speaker 5: much bigger than the core program.
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Speaker 2: Now and I only a university student that knows about
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Speaker 2: this or here's about this. How can they join the
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Speaker 2: Entrepreneurship innisterrate herehind and then become a mentor for someone
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Speaker 2: like this.
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Speaker 5: So something like the Hinds and students really for all
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Speaker 5: I own as students. So we really run program across
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Speaker 5: the various schools and our students participate through different avenues.
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Speaker 5: The students who actually hear experimenters really grew out of
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Speaker 5: a desire not only to take advantage of the resources
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Speaker 5: to start their own businesses, but they've also learned to
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Speaker 5: appreciate the process and also now giving back to helping
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Speaker 5: other students when it's through this competition or out of competition.
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Speaker 5: So it's really, you know, we are really trying to
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Speaker 5: provide a platform for students to create experiential opportunities, and
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Speaker 5: when it's starting a business or helping support an entrepreneur,
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Speaker 5: we didn'tually want to make that distinction because ultimately it's
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Speaker 5: about how can you create opportunities for yourself but in
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Speaker 5: the process also impacting positively on on.
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Speaker 6: You know, various communities.
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Speaker 1: Have the ideas been getting more innovative. It's just gone
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Speaker 1: on the last three years or.
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Speaker 5: That's hard to say, but I do have to say
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Speaker 5: this year was was really really tough. Lots of amazing ideas,
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Speaker 5: ideas that are already being implemented being pushed out into community.
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Speaker 5: So I think from that perspective, I think we see
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Speaker 5: a gradual sort of growth also, like how we can
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Speaker 5: become you know, inclusive in a way where we bring
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Speaker 5: in different kinds of perspectives in terms of what it
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Speaker 5: actually means to be an entrepreneur. Uh And from that
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Speaker 5: perspective today it was just a wonderful celebration.
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Speaker 2: Obviously I follow sports on you know, I follow the Gaels.
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Speaker 1: Go gals, right, Yes, And maybe we can use.
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Speaker 2: Some of this to develop an adaptive sports program up
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Speaker 2: here that would be awesome.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: I think we see more and more that you know,
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Speaker 4: sports is a is a is a convenient in many
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Speaker 4: many different ways. Is when it's you know, through our
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Speaker 4: d one program here, but also as we see you know,
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Speaker 4: making also sports more accessible, and I think we see
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Speaker 4: it more and more that you know, there's potential for
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Speaker 4: opportunity and you know, whether it's through you know, tennis,
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Speaker 4: so basketball, all others like this, there's a lot of
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Speaker 4: luck opportunities here that I would love to firt exploit
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Speaker 4: it as well.
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Speaker 2: Now, when you take a financial you know, investment in
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Speaker 2: as what's your next expectation is as the founder a
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Speaker 2: lot of all this.
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Speaker 5: Well, the expectation for us is that ultimately it's about
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Speaker 5: how we can create positive impact. Right for us, I
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Speaker 5: think an important metric is how can we do that
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Speaker 5: while educating our students, sure, and our students anybody who
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Speaker 5: walks through those stores. And I think that's really what
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Speaker 5: what it.
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Speaker 1: Means to be the highjucationed environment.
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Speaker 5: But also I think breaking down some of the traditional silos.
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Speaker 5: So ultimately, when you come in here, and I would
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Speaker 5: love to hear how you felt that way, but we
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Speaker 5: don't really make a clear distinction. He has a faculty
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Speaker 5: member and he's administrator, he's a student, and here's a
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Speaker 5: he's a you know, an entrepreneurship student.
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Speaker 2: He's like, we all come together because it's a family almost,
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Speaker 2: you know, and.
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Speaker 6: Everybody can help. So everybody is a story to tell.
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Speaker 5: Everybody has skills, and if we can understand that and
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Speaker 5: leverage that, it doesn't matter what tiderly hole is really
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Speaker 5: about how we can support each other to in order
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Speaker 5: to achieve the outcomes that they we desire.
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Speaker 2: Now, for those who you know, do not rank in
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Speaker 2: the top three, there still have a place here in
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Speaker 2: the sense that you guys keep an.
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Speaker 1: Eye on them and keep in touch.
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Speaker 6: Absolutely, the goal is really to build this up.
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Speaker 5: Now we also three years in so I envision as
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Speaker 5: the next step we also you know, create ongoing Facebook
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Speaker 5: groups and really build that commut almost an alumni an
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Speaker 5: alumni network. That's one thing, and what we also do
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Speaker 5: as part of I think we also want to understand
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Speaker 5: the experience that our students have. So we're going through
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Speaker 5: kind of a program assessment that's part of this UH.
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Speaker 5: All these students have to submit kind of an entrepreneur
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Speaker 5: mindset profile, and part of this assessment, I will be
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Speaker 5: having one on one conversations with all the students to
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Speaker 5: also understand what are their unique needs as they translate
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Speaker 5: the ideas into the next step. And some of this
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Speaker 5: also means referring to them to other resources like our
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Speaker 5: small business development centers UH and other kinds of entrepreneurship
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Speaker 5: resources that are available, you know, throughout.
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Speaker 1: Throughout onely of the US.
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Speaker 2: One thing I will say is I feel like today
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Speaker 2: proved what I've been saying for a while is we're
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Speaker 2: not defined by our disability. We have it, but then
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Speaker 2: the finders and look how many people are willing to
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Speaker 2: utilize that disability for better and.
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Speaker 1: To move it forward.
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Speaker 6: Absolutely, I think it's I think language is often used
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Speaker 6: to marginalize, and I think we really try to work
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Speaker 6: against that and really, you know, bring people together in
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Speaker 6: order to make them realize what their dreams are. And
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Speaker 6: sometimes if society puts constraints on you, it is our
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Speaker 6: responsibility to be become activists educators to really challenge those
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Speaker 6: boundaries and really allow our communities to grow. And you know,
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Speaker 6: I think that's really also at the core of our
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Speaker 6: mission because ultimately, I think entrepreneurship is up building agency,
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Speaker 6: and agency starts from within. Sure, once you determined that
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Speaker 6: you have the power to create something and you have
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Speaker 6: a support community around you, I think you know you
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Speaker 6: can just you can, just you can.
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Speaker 1: Well you and I should.
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Speaker 2: Team up and make Mariono Rrea, who's a big staple
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Speaker 2: in New Roshelle, aware of this program.
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Speaker 1: That would because I know him personally.
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Speaker 5: So we should, we will reach out, We should, we
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Speaker 5: should have him. He spoke a couple of years back
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Speaker 5: on campus. I believe you in uh, I believe there's
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Speaker 5: a there's a close connection. Yeah, out of a family,
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Speaker 5: were very family and Iona, so we could certainly bring
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Speaker 5: him back and maybe he would even would like to,
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Speaker 5: you know, share some of his success with our students.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely well, Doctor Winclare, thank you so much for this
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Speaker 2: time today.
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Speaker 1: Our idea spark twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 6: Thank you, Alex.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations again, thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: So while one look up Alex wins idea spark, it
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Speaker 2: couldn't have been done with that, of course, the mentor
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Speaker 2: Jared and Marisoa Chappelle, and even the encouragement from Eric
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Speaker 2: back in March, and of course the encouragement from Lauren
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Speaker 2: Marzo and Kim Brussel to apply to this program, to yeah,
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Speaker 2: let's launch one leg up, Alex. And of course I
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Speaker 2: wouldn't have done any of this if I didn't recognize
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Speaker 2: the investment that my mom and dad put into Viscardi
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Speaker 2: twenty nine years ago when they.
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Speaker 1: Started me in kindergarten.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't just the start of a schooling, It was
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Speaker 2: started a building of a life at Viscarti, and so
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Speaker 2: to support them once by them, once again feels like
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Speaker 2: a continuation of the investment my mom and my dad made,
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Speaker 2: as long as my stepdad, who were there day after
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Speaker 2: day at times, year after year.
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Speaker 1: All three of them were at graduation in two thousand
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Speaker 1: and nine.
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Speaker 2: And of course the time I energy spent outside of
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Speaker 2: Viscarti as well is not lost on me in this
16:50
Speaker 2: whole process. I mean, I remember in twenty twenty, I
16:52
Speaker 2: sat down when my mom and my stepdad and my
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Speaker 2: dad Vic said well, look, you got to make something
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Speaker 2: more than just sports and politics. And here we are
17:02
Speaker 2: talking about adaptability now for five years or so and
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Speaker 2: really tapping the disabled community to bridge the gap between
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Speaker 2: those brands that serve the community and the disabled community
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Speaker 2: itself that may not have access to it. So we're
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Speaker 2: going to work on that and with this funding, with
17:20
Speaker 2: this grant, I'm very thankful. I also couldn't have done
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Speaker 2: this without my fiance Gabby. I mean, she's been there
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Speaker 2: every step of the way.
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Speaker 1: She helped me in.
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Speaker 2: The rush of this, making the PowerPoint ten slide, pitchteck
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Speaker 2: and a four minute video or.
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Speaker 1: So got through all of that last week.
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Speaker 2: And one other thing is if you are a full
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Speaker 2: time employee, do not.
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Speaker 1: Be afraid to share, to.
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Speaker 2: Bolster your own passions, do not be afraid to bolster
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Speaker 2: your own projects. I'm very proud at the end of
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Speaker 2: the day to have not only been able to do
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Speaker 2: full time employee work and I'm gonna keep going right
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Speaker 2: after I do this podcast at Salem Media, but also
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Speaker 2: to figure.
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Speaker 1: Out a way to launch this brand even more. It
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Speaker 1: takes a.
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Speaker 2: Lot to do all of this and to be recognized
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Speaker 2: for that means a lot. And for the other participants
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Speaker 2: that did this and took the time and took the
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Speaker 2: energy and have the idea to help the disabled community,
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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you as well, the Abbey's,
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Speaker 2: the Walden's, the Kathys, the Joaquin says of the group
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Speaker 2: that we had an Idea Spark. Your ideas are fantastic.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk more about it here on one leg up.
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Speaker 2: There's a connection here that has been formed through Idea
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Speaker 2: Spark and through the Viscardi Center and High Institute, and
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Speaker 2: I look to grow that connection with everyone I had
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Speaker 2: class with, and of course g C. Duran who won
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Speaker 2: the second place, and Edith third place. I mean, those
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Speaker 2: are top three products right there. What they're doing to
19:10
Speaker 2: help better the disabl community, it should be highlighted here.
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Speaker 1: And we're going to and we're going to I want
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Speaker 1: to think.
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Speaker 2: Again, Lauren kim Alan from Viscardi for taking pictures of this,
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Speaker 2: Brenna Judge, our professor Holly Blundine all the way from Spain.
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Speaker 1: She's been coaching us the last few months.
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Speaker 2: Yes, this has not been just one day. This has
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Speaker 2: been a project undergone since January and now there's a
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Speaker 2: bit of nerves, but I think we'll be fined. But
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Speaker 2: when he said start tomorrow, this is tomorrow, this is
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Speaker 2: now and right now, And of course my sister Abby, I.
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Speaker 1: Have to give her a shout out to you. I
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Speaker 1: love you Abbey as well.
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Speaker 2: And right now, right now, it starts by feet faturing
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Speaker 2: this amazing program to help disabled entrepreneurs.
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Speaker 1: This is continuing the legacy of doctor Viscardi.
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Speaker 2: Whether I want or not, I'd always believe Ideas Park
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Speaker 2: is continuing the legacy of doctor Viscarti, who gave jobs
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Speaker 2: to veterans returning from more that were disabled that at amputations,
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Speaker 2: he gave them a place to start up again.
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Speaker 1: After returning from the war.
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Speaker 2: And in that same spirit of not letting disabilities stop you,
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Speaker 2: I believe in Idea Spark embodies that as well. After
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Speaker 2: I went back to Viscardi, by the way, I caught
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Speaker 2: up with my coach Joe, Joe Salonica, who is also
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Speaker 2: very much part of the strategy of how we move
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Speaker 2: forward from here for one leg up Alex, so I
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Speaker 2: want to shout out coach Joe as well. So this
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Speaker 2: is only part one we'll be talking to a few
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Speaker 2: people part of this program as an Idea Spark conversation,
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Speaker 2: and maybe our judges as well, Stephen Farrella, Kim and Eric,
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Speaker 2: who are just great and they listen to everybody and
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Speaker 2: they had great questions for everybody. And I really do
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Speaker 2: hope those that were in the program do not stop
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Speaker 2: working on their vision, on their brand, because the whole
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Speaker 2: idea is for all of us, all of us to
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Speaker 2: be productive in society and maybe, just maybe we all
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Speaker 2: can realize idea Spark and promote that idea Spark is
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Speaker 2: helping us all help others have one leg up on life.
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Speaker 1: That's my message today on One Leg Up Alex Media