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Empowering Survivors Through Music: Emily Winters on Strings for Hope's Journey in Nashville's Music Scene · Takin’ A Walk Nashville

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  Speaker 1: M Taking a Walk Nashville.
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  Speaker 2: Hi everyone, this is Sarah Harrelson, your host of Taking
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  Speaker 2: a Walk Nashville, and today I am at Capitol View
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  Speaker 2: and Downtown Nashville, which is near the Tennessee State Capitol
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  Speaker 2: Building and.
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  Speaker 3: Bi Centennial Capital Mall State Park.
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  Speaker 4: Joining me here is Emily Winters, the CEO of Strings
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  Speaker 4: for Hope, and organization in Nashville that employee survivors of
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  Speaker 4: interpersonal violence to create guitar string jewelry out of recycled
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  Speaker 4: musical instrument strings. Emily, thank you so much for being
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  Speaker 4: here today. So we're not in the usual workspace of
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  Speaker 4: Strings for Hope, are we We are not.
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  Speaker 3: We are at a temporary office as ours is closed.
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, leaver kicked out of our building what about
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  Speaker 3: a month ago? So yeah, yeah, we'reated in Germantown, GEA,
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  Speaker 3: in the heart of Germantown. We love, we love Germantown,
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  Speaker 3: one hundred Taylor Street. Yeah. So, due to some fire
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  Speaker 3: code issues, we have been temporarily displaced with eighty two
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  Speaker 3: other small businesses. So we are so grateful to Capital
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  Speaker 3: View They've allowed us to be in one of their
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  Speaker 3: spaces and still looking. So yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I definitely hope people can support your cause while
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  Speaker 4: you guys are transitioning into a new workspace. So let's
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  Speaker 4: talk about the start of Strings for Hope. It was
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  Speaker 4: established in twenty ten, but you actually took the role
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  Speaker 4: of CEO in twenty seventeen at a very young age.
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  Speaker 3: So how did you get involved with this organization? I
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  Speaker 3: love that you have all of that information readily available.
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  Speaker 3: Bossis Sarah getting it right and correct. It's a very
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  Speaker 3: interesting story, and I know I told you a few
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  Speaker 3: times on different places, but yeah, I got involved as
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  Speaker 3: the first little cart Girl is what we called ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: It was me and another guy named Devin, and she
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  Speaker 3: was my best friend and she got me involved in
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  Speaker 3: Strings for Hope. She was going to Belmont University and
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  Speaker 3: Strings for Hope was working with Belmont at that time
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  Speaker 3: with a program with students and she was a part
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  Speaker 3: of that, and she got me involved and we started
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  Speaker 3: selling guitar string jewelry, which was at the time a
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  Speaker 3: craft and an interesting like project to give back to
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  Speaker 3: the community through food banks and medical clinics and schools
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  Speaker 3: and so not what Strings for Hope is today at all.
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  Speaker 3: But it's been so incredible to be a part of
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  Speaker 3: the transition to what it is now.
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  Speaker 4: M h. Yeah, and you were very young when you
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  Speaker 4: got involved, So did you have another career path in
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  Speaker 4: mind or did you just right away have a passion
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  Speaker 4: for this organization.
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  Speaker 3: Girl, Now, I had no idea what hap to doing.
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  Speaker 3: I oh, let's see, gosh, it's not like I had
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  Speaker 3: my jobs I had. I had like two before this,
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  Speaker 3: So I was a walking cliche of Nashville. I was
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  Speaker 3: teaching line dancing at the World Times Wildhorse Saloon Rip,
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  Speaker 3: and I was selling cowboy boots at the buy one,
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  Speaker 3: get two pair free place Love It. And that's honestly
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  Speaker 3: where I connected with Devin. We worked together. She's still
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  Speaker 3: my best friend today. And that was that was what
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  Speaker 3: I was doing. I didn't have I didn't go to college.
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  Speaker 3: I was nineteen, so at this point it's twenty fifteen
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  Speaker 3: when I got involved with Strings, and it just yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was just an opportunity. I was doing all of
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  Speaker 3: the different things. But I will say I've always known
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  Speaker 3: that I'm not meant for a conventional, normal job. I've
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  Speaker 3: always enjoyed doing things that can just take me different places,
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  Speaker 3: and opportunities to help others has been at my core.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't think I realized that until much later
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  Speaker 3: into running the organization. And so you did grow up
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  Speaker 3: in Nashville, you're a unicorner. Yeah, I am. I grew
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  Speaker 3: out a little outside of Nashville of like twenty thirty minutes.
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  Speaker 3: But but you know, like everyone else, we claim it
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  Speaker 3: when we're for that close. But yeah, I mean I
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  Speaker 3: always say that I'm the only one they'll ever meet,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that's from here when you're downtown. When I
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  Speaker 3: was working downtown all the time, I'm like, it's just me,
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  Speaker 3: I'm the only one from here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And so when you were just with Devin with the
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  Speaker 4: Strings and the cart, did you have to figure out
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  Speaker 4: over time like Okay, we need more people on the team,
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  Speaker 4: we need marketing And was.
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  Speaker 3: That difficult to grow the company?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I mean it was honestly a little background to that story.
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  Speaker 3: So Strings for Helpe was started by Laura Wilson and
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  Speaker 3: her husband, Brook Wilson, and they her husband built guitars
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  Speaker 3: and Laura had a full time job at HTA still does,
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  Speaker 3: and and that was so this was definitely something that
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  Speaker 3: they were wanting to be a a really cool organization,
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  Speaker 3: but not as big as what it has become. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think that that was necessarily the goal or in
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  Speaker 3: the cards of what they thought would happen. And so
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  Speaker 3: when I and Devin got involved, we we were selling
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  Speaker 3: this jewelry downtown. We were making the jewelry, and we
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  Speaker 3: were selling too much, so we were we were just
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  Speaker 3: moving the product really well. And people loved a piece
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  Speaker 3: of Nashville, right. It really started with the strings. They
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  Speaker 3: were like so interested in taking home a piece of
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  Speaker 3: music city and that was just such a fun thing
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  Speaker 3: for me. I really saw that excited me that people
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  Speaker 3: were able to like connect with the town that I,
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  Speaker 3: you know, am from, like where being from here. Just
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, no, you get it. You get to take
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  Speaker 3: home a piece of Nashville. So it's really cool. But
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  Speaker 3: then fast forward, Yeah, we sold too much. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: great at making jewelry. And so the idea was that
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  Speaker 3: we should start working with one of our local halfway
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  Speaker 3: houses in town, a treat and center as well, called
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  Speaker 3: the next Door. So that was the first one that
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  Speaker 3: we started working with, and a few other agency partners
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  Speaker 3: we started working with, and it was really to have
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  Speaker 3: hands to make the product and for others to have
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  Speaker 3: job opportunity but it was not the core focus, so
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  Speaker 3: that it just evolved over time. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and not only does it support a good cause,
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  Speaker 4: but it definitely cleans up the planet by recycling guitar strings.
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  Speaker 4: So over the years, how many guitar strings, if you know,
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  Speaker 4: have you recycled, and how many survivors have you employed?
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  Speaker 4: So this is always fun because it's like it's a
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  Speaker 4: kind of rough guest in it. Obviously with the strings,
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  Speaker 4: like there's so many you've been to our office before
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  Speaker 4: her old huffs do there's so many strings, guys, So
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  Speaker 4: we've had I mean, we I like to work in
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  Speaker 4: pounds because it's a lot easier to like digest and understand.
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  Speaker 4: But it's over ten thousand pounds load strings. And we
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  Speaker 4: do this because we will wait, we know the approximate
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  Speaker 4: weight of string, and when we get a bin in,
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  Speaker 4: we'll weigh those. And so it's we weren't even recording
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  Speaker 4: that in the beginning of string Wow. And so now
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  Speaker 4: it's been incredible to see and we still are a
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  Speaker 4: recycling program. That's how we like to be viewed as
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  Speaker 4: a recycling program for the musicians, a work development program
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  Speaker 4: for survivors, and obviously a beautiful product and experience for
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  Speaker 4: the public and consumers and customers. So yeah, and then
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  Speaker 4: as far as women, we've had over gosh, at this point,
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  Speaker 4: over one hundred and fifty women go through the program.
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  Speaker 4: But the program evolved so before when.
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  Speaker 3: We first started working with survivors, again, the mission wasn't
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  Speaker 3: to necessarily focus on them and their work development. It
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  Speaker 3: was to give a job, and that's for to donate
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  Speaker 3: money to random, awesome organizations. But when streamlining that focus
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  Speaker 3: and realizing the demographic we were working with, that was
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  Speaker 3: my job, right. I was going in and teaching a
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  Speaker 3: lot of these women, and I just realized that there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot more opportunity to keep people out of those
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  Speaker 3: food banks and create keep people out of those safe
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  Speaker 3: houses even by creating financial and emotional autonomy. And so
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  Speaker 3: that evolved over time, and that means we slowed down
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  Speaker 3: the program, making it intentional for people to find not
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  Speaker 3: just you know, cash for the moment making jewelry, but
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  Speaker 3: now a certified jeweler apprenticeship program where they are here
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  Speaker 3: for you know, it could be max. A year to
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  Speaker 3: two years, or it could be their whole career. Like
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  Speaker 3: it just depends on what people want and we're there
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  Speaker 3: to help them through that journey. Yeah, that's great. They
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  Speaker 3: can take that certification and you know, use it anywhere. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and it's it's We're really grateful to the Apprenticeship State
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  Speaker 3: Office of Tennessee because for them to come through and
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  Speaker 3: be like, the work you're doing with guitar strings actually
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  Speaker 3: is great work. And look is it's jewelry. Like they
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  Speaker 3: valued it that much. And notice that we're doing the
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  Speaker 3: same skills with soldering and micro wilding and doing all
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  Speaker 3: the things that we do. It was just validation of
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  Speaker 3: years of hard work of wanting to create something more quality.
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  Speaker 3: M hmm. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And the cause definitely pulls on your heart strings as well.
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  Speaker 4: Can you share a story with us that just resonates
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  Speaker 4: you of a time that strings for hope, save someone,
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  Speaker 4: maybe someone's specific story.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean I feel like I always get weary
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  Speaker 3: about like using the word like saved or like helped people.
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  Speaker 3: But because I really do believe that as survivors and
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  Speaker 3: women in this space like we do, that we make
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  Speaker 3: the choice right this that was the whole that was
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  Speaker 3: a shift for me is realizing that this is a
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  Speaker 3: choice for myself and for them, and so that's us
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  Speaker 3: taking that step in that leap to save ourselves and
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  Speaker 3: create a path forward. So I feel like it's evolved
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  Speaker 3: so much. But in the there's so many, too many
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  Speaker 3: good stories to bring up. But I guess I can.
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  Speaker 3: I can kind of talk about one individual for the
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  Speaker 3: sake of her privacy, I won't like use her name,
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  Speaker 3: but there's been individuals that have all struggled with, you know,
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  Speaker 3: substance use. We work with survivors of substance use, trafficking
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  Speaker 3: and domestic interpersonal violence, and so this specific story kind
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  Speaker 3: of touches on more of that, that trafficking side of things,
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  Speaker 3: and it's not Recovery is not linear, and I think
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  Speaker 3: we all kind of know that, but I feel like
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  Speaker 3: as someone in this space, a leader in the space,
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  Speaker 3: we need to talk about that a lot more. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we need to say like, it's not linear, and we
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  Speaker 3: want to support our team as they're they're evolving and
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  Speaker 3: growing through through Strings. But this one particular person, she
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  Speaker 3: had gotten out of treatment and started working with Strings
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  Speaker 3: for Hope, so she was still in a residential partnered facility.
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  Speaker 3: We work with many partners still and having that those
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  Speaker 3: case managers to work with and so she started working
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  Speaker 3: with Strings for Hope and she was doing okay. She
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  Speaker 3: wasn't like picking it up really quickly. She kind of
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  Speaker 3: didn't seem ready to come out of the life. And
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  Speaker 3: we say that we use that term a lot in
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  Speaker 3: our space, but like, she didn't, she doesn't seem ready
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  Speaker 3: to come out of the life. And unfortunately she ended
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  Speaker 3: up running, leaving the facility and going back out, and honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think we would see her again. It's it's scary,
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  Speaker 3: you know, going back to your views her and I
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  Speaker 3: was like, okay, she's gone. Hopefully we can help the
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  Speaker 3: next person that comes through. Fast forward. It was probably
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  Speaker 3: like a year later this individual comes back through our
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  Speaker 3: program and has was just a different person completely and
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  Speaker 3: is still to this day thriving. It was like the
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  Speaker 3: most beautiful thing to see is someone just wasn't ready
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  Speaker 3: had to go back out, and obviously we all don't
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  Speaker 3: want that, but for her to come back and feel
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  Speaker 3: safe to even do this program again was just like
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  Speaker 3: a testament to like our work and what we do.
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  Speaker 3: And so's she's killing it. She's a leader at Strings.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that I bring her up so much
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  Speaker 3: because I think she's just like.
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  Speaker 4: Such a great example. And for many people in our organization,
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  Speaker 4: this might be the only job they've ever had.
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  Speaker 3: So this is just definitely something that in someone that
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  Speaker 3: I'm so incredibly proud of, and I definitely feel like
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  Speaker 3: us being a safe place for her helped contribute to
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  Speaker 3: her saving her own life. It's beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: And he recently partnered with the nonprofit organization Infinite Possibilities
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  Speaker 4: and actually announced this partnership when we collaborated on a
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  Speaker 4: benefit show with Women behind the Lyrics. How has this
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  Speaker 4: partnership with Infinite Possibilities helped your employees?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I'm so happy you're bringing that up.
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  Speaker 3: It's been the biggest thing that ever happened, I think
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  Speaker 3: with Strings for Hope, I'm so grateful for Rhonda who
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  Speaker 3: runs Infinite Possibilities and yeah, now Strings for Hope nonprofit arm.
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  Speaker 3: She's licensing the name and we're combining and joining forces
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  Speaker 3: even in a bigger and better way. What Infinite Possibilities
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  Speaker 3: aka Strings for Hope does is supports the survivors in
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  Speaker 3: so many different ways and so not just it shrinks
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  Speaker 3: for Hope. So she will help with emergency financial relief
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  Speaker 3: for survivors partnering with so many different agencies, including our
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  Speaker 3: local government agency, Office of Family Safety, and will provide
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  Speaker 3: transportation for survivors that are trying to get to court,
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  Speaker 3: filling intentional gaps that you don't think about. But I'll
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  Speaker 3: tell you who does. Those women that are terrified to
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  Speaker 3: show up to court and see their abuser or you know,
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  Speaker 3: trying to figure out how to even get to a job,
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  Speaker 3: and they have to have kids, and they have to
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  Speaker 3: leave early, and they have so many things, and as
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  Speaker 3: a company, I can't always provide PTO that extends outside
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  Speaker 3: of our realm of work development boundaries, if you will.
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  Speaker 3: And so that's where Rhonda comes through and she sees
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  Speaker 3: the situation as a whole and how she can not
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  Speaker 3: just give you know, a financial relief or something to
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  Speaker 3: help them, but something that will help continue to move
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  Speaker 3: the needle for survivors. And so she's been such a
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  Speaker 3: great asset to this state, to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 3: She also helps fund our phase one of our work
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  Speaker 3: development program. So that's where we go into those facilities.
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  Speaker 3: We literally meet women where they're at physically, mentally, and emotionally,
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  Speaker 3: and so we are focusing on so much more than jewelry.
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  Speaker 3: We're focusing on showing up for yourself, resume building, financial literacy,
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  Speaker 3: things that as a job you don't think that would
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  Speaker 3: That'd be amazing if you were at a job and
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  Speaker 3: they invested in you that much. And investing in people
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  Speaker 3: is expensive, but it's worth it. And so that's our
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  Speaker 3: goal is with the nonprofit arm to assist in that
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  Speaker 3: investment and those skills. We're able to pay survivors what
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  Speaker 3: they deserve and keep moving the needle for the jewelry process.
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  Speaker 3: And also just our journey with working with so many
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  Speaker 3: different industries here in Nashville. Yeah, yeah, Ron, it's amazing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was amazing to see how Strings for Hope has
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  Speaker 3: evolved over the years and has helped the Nashville community.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we talked about how you started in this
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  Speaker 3: organization at a young age. So what advice would you
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  Speaker 3: give to.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe young professionals wanting to start their own company or
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  Speaker 4: go out on their own with an organization.
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  Speaker 3: My gosh, I love that question. I've recently become really
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  Speaker 3: passionate about this generation like that's coming up, which makes
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  Speaker 3: me feel definitely old, and I know I'm not, but
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  Speaker 3: I feel very I feel jaded, but I feel so
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  Speaker 3: like passionately about young people doing. Knowing what they want
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  Speaker 3: to do is not the goal, but knowing how to
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  Speaker 3: ask questions is my goal for young people. Because when
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  Speaker 3: I first took over Strings for Hope, I was scared
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  Speaker 3: of many things and I didn't ask for help. Within
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  Speaker 3: my first year of taking over the company, the team
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  Speaker 3: member passed away of an overdose and another one ended
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  Speaker 3: up leaving and kind of taking all of our jewelry
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  Speaker 3: designs and running with it on our own. And so
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  Speaker 3: there was a lot of pain and fear that developed
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  Speaker 3: from that, and I was so young that I was
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  Speaker 3: really affected by it. And I will say that if
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  Speaker 3: I had any advice, it would be to endure those
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  Speaker 3: kind of things and pig up yourself and go down
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  Speaker 3: the road and ask another business leader for help, because
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  Speaker 3: I think we would have been much further along if
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  Speaker 3: I did that. And I will say I definitely do
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  Speaker 3: that now. Yeah, I ask so many people for help.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, do you have advice on this? Or I've
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  Speaker 3: done taxes wrong so many times, so if anyone has advice.
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  Speaker 3: But I also think being open to the mentorship, yes,
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  Speaker 3: is really important. I think lean into the things that
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  Speaker 3: you're scared of. I was really fearful that someone else
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  Speaker 3: would learn about our designs and then go and do
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  Speaker 3: it again and kind of steal the concept. And so
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  Speaker 3: what do I do now? I created an apprenticeship jewelry
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  Speaker 3: program so they could become jewelers themselves. It's just leaning
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  Speaker 3: in to the things that scare you. So that's that's
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  Speaker 3: probably yeah, big advice. Yeah, that's that's great advice.
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  Speaker 4: And I always ask this question on taking a walk
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  Speaker 4: in Nashville, and this is a good one to ask
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  Speaker 4: since you're a Nashville.
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  Speaker 3: Native, But do you have a favorite place to take
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  Speaker 3: a walk in Nashville? Oh my gosh, I have so
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  Speaker 3: many places. I mean, I love does Percy Warner count
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Edmund Warner, park, Edwin Warner, Percy Warner. I
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  Speaker 3: love it out there. If I'm actually going on like
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  Speaker 3: a real hike, I would advise everyone to go out there.
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  Speaker 3: I also think that's also advised and for like any human,
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  Speaker 3: but just going on a walk. While this podcast great name,
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  Speaker 3: but taking a walk is just it just clears your head.
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  Speaker 3: It is literally the one thing I think that can
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  Speaker 3: like fully ground to me. There's so many great places
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  Speaker 3: so definitely Edwin Warner, Percy Warner. But when I lived
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  Speaker 3: in East Nashville, this is a funny one. I would
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  Speaker 3: walk in that cemetery like next She's like kind of creepy,
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  Speaker 3: but y'all it's pretty. So just go there and you'll
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  Speaker 3: see what I mean. My friend Devin, we keep bringing
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  Speaker 3: her up, but she showed me the cemetery, and because
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  Speaker 3: she used to do the same thing and we would,
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  Speaker 3: I walked over there and I just loved it. I
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  Speaker 3: thought it was beautiful. It's over there by sip cafe okay,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: like going in the into Madison, So it's a pretty
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: big cemetery. It's huge. I think it's like, think, I
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: know which one you're on the right. Everyone is like
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: shaking their head while listening to this podcast. I know
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  Speaker 3: which one. It's right there on the right Sip cafes
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: like across the street or something by Bridley Parkway, okay,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: in East Nashville off of Gallatin, And I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 3: it is so pretty like the sunset and like you're
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: just like, this is beautiful. There's so many good places,
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  Speaker 3: and Nashville's great. I love the unconventional. I know, the
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: weirdest thing ever, also, I love coffee, so anywhere in
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: your coffee shops, probably outside a walk. You know, we
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: have a ton of good coffee shops in Nashville for sure.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: So lastly, what's.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Next for Strings for Hope? Where can people send in
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: their used instruments strings right now and get involved with
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Strings for Hope. I know you're in a temporary space,
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: so I don't know if there's a better place for
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: people to.
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  Speaker 3: Send in strings right now. Yeah, yeah, So if you
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: go to our website, we're actually updating it right now,
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: but seeing where our drop off locations are, so we
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: have different local music shops you could support them too,
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: but you can also go bring your strengths there. So
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: one place that is going to be doing that as
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Carter Vintage Guitars, and there's so many different places. But
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: also you can still drop them off with us and
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: ship them to our old office. We are still picking
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: up packages from there and that's hundred Taylor. You can
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: see all of that information on our website Strengthsfohope dot com.
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  Speaker 3: There's also a link that's as like Recycling Programs for
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: learning how to be a part of our recycling program.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: We would love to like highlight those musicians. What's next,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think right now it's holiday season, so
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  Speaker 3: we are definitely because we're in such an interesting spot
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  Speaker 3: and we've definitely I know I've expressed you had some
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: loss of income on loss of wages because of the situation.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: We are really trying to level up for holidays. So
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: we are trying to give as much as opportunity for
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: the survivors to work right now, and that means selling
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: a lot of product. Yeah, so we are going to
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: be launching some deals online and we're going to be
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: everywhere that we can. So really just being involved in
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: that way is always. Purchasing is always good. Or of
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: course you could donate to our nonprofit if you don't
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: want to purchase any jury or you're like I own
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: your entire collection. There's a lot of people like that.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: We are working on new designs, but you can donate
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: to our nonprofit arm which where we're doing so many
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: different campaigns. And one thing that we are working on
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: right now is benefits. The loss of STAP benefits is
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: affecting so many people in Nashville, including some of our
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: family members and team members. So we are going to
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: hopefully be able to do some things through a nonprofit
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: there too. Yeah, yeah, that's great.
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  Speaker 4: I hope listeners can support your cause by just donating
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: to infinite possibilities, buying product on strings for hope, I
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: have some cute pieces on today, and even just shipping
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: in use guitar strings no matter where you live. So
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: thank you so much Emily for being on Taking a
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Walk Nashville today.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Sarah, You're the best.
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• 22:48
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