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Something You Should Know - August 06 Lonnette from Joy In The Heartland · Something You Should Know!

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  Speaker 1: Excited to visit right now with a South Dakota filmmaker
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  Speaker 1: and we are going to talk about a really cool
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  Speaker 1: documentary that's a faith based documentary that she's put together.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Joy in the Heartland, Life Changing road Trips
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  Speaker 1: through God's Healing Fields of South Dakota. I've got Lynette Kelly.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, Lynnette, thank you for your time and
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  Speaker 1: thank you for reaching out to tell me about this. Now.
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  Speaker 1: How many films have you done? Is this something that
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  Speaker 1: you've done in the past as well?
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  Speaker 2: No, this is my very first attempt at doing a film,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm really excited and very proud of it.
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  Speaker 1: And what I've seen online it looks really really cool
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  Speaker 1: and I'm excited to see the entire thing. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: a chance to see that here in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: There's like the world premiere is the thirteenth of August
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  Speaker 1: is that right.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it'll be open to the world on the thirteenth
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  Speaker 2: of August, and it'll be through my website.
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  Speaker 1: And how exciting is that for you to just kind
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  Speaker 1: of go, okay, hey, pretty soon anybody anywhere in the
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  Speaker 1: world can click on and watch this documentary. That's got
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  Speaker 1: to be pretty exciting stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It is exciting and a little overwhelming at this point,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm so excited for everyone to see it. And
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  Speaker 2: that's the purpose that I'm doing this is because my
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  Speaker 2: drive to the country was a six month drive and
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  Speaker 2: four thousand miles, sixteen hundred photographs, and when I finished
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  Speaker 2: the drive, it was just gratitude everywhere. I mean, my
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  Speaker 2: friend who is my driver, and myself just fulfilled with gratitude,
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  Speaker 2: and we wanted to discover a way to share it
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  Speaker 2: with the world. So this is my opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: I love that now you're a retired nurse, you're an author,
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  Speaker 1: and you're a photographer, and now you're a filmmaker. How
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  Speaker 1: cool is it to wear that hat.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's really exciting. I can't tell you yet.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just still walking through the stages of it, but
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  Speaker 2: I think today I see the public watching it and
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  Speaker 2: enjoying it. It'll bring tears, I know it will.
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  Speaker 1: And this film takes viewers on an uplifting tour across
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  Speaker 1: fifty one unique communities in southeastern South Dakota, capturing local
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  Speaker 1: history and landmarks and resilience through the lens of quiet faith,
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  Speaker 1: which again i'm reading right from your press release. You
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  Speaker 1: made these words sound so beautiful, so I'm like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to use them just the way you have them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see this because I can tell just
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  Speaker 1: from the press release that you know what you're doing.
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  Speaker 2: Here, well hopefully. So. I had some helpers with me.
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  Speaker 2: This wasn't alone project. I had someone who helped me.
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  Speaker 2: We went This is actually from my book. My book
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  Speaker 2: was launched in twenty twenty two, and first of all,
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  Speaker 2: I went out and I was doing some public speaking
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  Speaker 2: and going to various places. Is then the feedback I
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  Speaker 2: was getting was so many people were unable to take
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  Speaker 2: my trails and get out, and so I thought, well,
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  Speaker 2: how am I going to reach those individuals? And that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of where the book came the movie came from.
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  Speaker 2: Then at that point, well, if they can't get out
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  Speaker 2: and experience the joy that I discovered, then I'll bring
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  Speaker 2: them to Joy.
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  Speaker 1: I love that, and again, Joy in the Heartland. That's
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  Speaker 1: the name of the book. That's also the name of
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  Speaker 1: the new documentary, and that's the name of the website,
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  Speaker 1: Joyintheheartland dot com. So if people want to find you,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good way to find you. And are you
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  Speaker 1: from South Dakota? Is that why this is from South Dakota.
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  Speaker 2: I grew up in Pipestone, Minnesota, and I came down
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  Speaker 2: to Sioux Falls to take my nurses training. So I
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  Speaker 2: started out actually as a nurse right here in Zeus Falls.
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  Speaker 1: I love that, and again, I think this is really neat.
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  Speaker 1: The fifty one communities are all not too far from
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  Speaker 1: Sioux Falls. So if somebody is listening in Sioux Falls
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  Speaker 1: and they have a chance to read the book and
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  Speaker 1: they say, hey, I want to get out and it out,
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  Speaker 1: they can do that. Or if they're maybe watching this
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  Speaker 1: film and they fall in love with some of the places,
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  Speaker 1: they can get out and see them. It wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: hard for them to get out and check all of
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  Speaker 1: this out.
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  Speaker 2: What it no And what I did was I took
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  Speaker 2: this entire radius around Too Falls, which takes in all
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  Speaker 2: fifty one communities, and I mapped it out, so each
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  Speaker 2: trail is a trail that has, you know, makes it
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  Speaker 2: a little easier and accessible for people to take the
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  Speaker 2: day trip, and then the next trail another day trip
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  Speaker 2: and interesting things along the way. And then when I
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  Speaker 2: was finished, like I mentioned, I was so filled with
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  Speaker 2: gratitude and joy and it was really an exciting journey.
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  Speaker 2: So I felt compelled and I went out and I
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  Speaker 2: found the keeper of the heart for each one of
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  Speaker 2: these fifty one towns.
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  Speaker 1: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: So I painted up straight, painted fifty one hearts bright red,
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  Speaker 2: and I did cold calls over the telephone, just strangers.
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  Speaker 2: I asked if they would be the keeper of my heart,
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  Speaker 2: and I try, no one hung up on me.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I ended up with fifty one people that were willing
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  Speaker 2: to put the heart somewhere in their community. So when
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  Speaker 2: you go on these trips or you go on the film,
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  Speaker 2: you can watch from the comfort of your front room
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  Speaker 2: and you can still search for the hunt the hearts
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  Speaker 2: as you go on this journey.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the fifty one Hearts Initiative. Is that what
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  Speaker 1: that's called the fifty one Hearts Initiative?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, uh huh.
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  Speaker 1: I love that that's really neat. Well. I think this
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  Speaker 1: whole thing is just so much fun. I appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: taking some time to chat with us about it, and
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  Speaker 1: thank you for doing this. If people want to learn more,
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  Speaker 1: I encourage them to go to the website joyintheheartland dot com.
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  Speaker 1: And again, this will begin on the thirteenth of August.
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  Speaker 1: That's won't be able to actually see the full thing right.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, And you can just go to my website and
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  Speaker 2: you can download or stream it or whatever they call it,
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  Speaker 2: I guess nice from the comfort of your home or
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  Speaker 2: whatever device you have.
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  Speaker 1: Again, it's going to be here before you know. At
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  Speaker 1: August thirteenth is the big day between now, and I
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  Speaker 1: encourage you to go check out the book that's available
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  Speaker 1: right now. And again, all of this can be found
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  Speaker 1: at joyintheheartland dot com. Lynette, thank you for your time.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: I have one note to add, oh yeah, what's up?
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  Speaker 2: Because this is not an in depth, deep, deep study
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  Speaker 2: of each community because I had to keep it within
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  Speaker 2: a realm of time, so the movie became two hours,
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  Speaker 2: even though I kept it very minimal and made sure
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  Speaker 2: every community in this radius was included. So it's still
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  Speaker 2: a two hour long documentary.
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  Speaker 1: I love that well. I am excited to see it
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  Speaker 1: on the thirteenth of August, which will be here before
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  Speaker 1: you know it. You'll be able to watch it as well.
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  Speaker 1: The website again, Joyintheheartland dot com
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  Speaker 2: Now