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OneLegUpAlex Recognized on July 16th At IdeaSpark 2025 Pitchfest (published 7/17/25) · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Well, if you follow the Viscardi Center and maybe my
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  Speaker 1: Instagram named Alex Jeneen, I see one. Some news has
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  Speaker 1: officially been announced today. This podcast has found a group
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  Speaker 1: in Ideas Park that is intrigued in watching one leg
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  Speaker 1: up Alex grow and yesterday Steve Ferrella, who was one
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  Speaker 1: of the judges of Ideas Park Pitch Best twenty five
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  Speaker 1: we got into the Idea Spark in a bit, said this,
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  Speaker 1: First of.
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  Speaker 2: All, all of the ideas were really good, some more
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  Speaker 2: innovative than the others. But it's I've built a number
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  Speaker 2: of businesses. It's really something to take what you have
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  Speaker 2: in your head, put it on a piece of paper
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  Speaker 2: and work on it. And that's what everybody here did.
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  Speaker 3: I really, I really was very dark.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to say that about everybody. What we
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  Speaker 2: looked for were ideas that were maybe more easily implemented
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  Speaker 2: than other ideas, so so because they were all terrific,
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  Speaker 2: But what can you get done right? I mean we
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  Speaker 2: can imagine you were two ideas getting done tomorrow. We
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  Speaker 2: want to make sure they're getting done tomorrow. There'll be
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  Speaker 2: a follow up. So uh, and ideas that we understood,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you only had a couple of minutes, so
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  Speaker 2: you needed to communicate it, like what's your elevator speech, right,
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  Speaker 2: So so we thought you did a great presentation. We
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  Speaker 2: thought you had an idea that we can easily easily
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  Speaker 2: get done. So so we're gonna say the number one
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  Speaker 2: because there needs to be.
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  Speaker 3: A number one.
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  Speaker 2: But they were all really really good.
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  Speaker 3: Is Alex just what I'm talking about? That's what we
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  Speaker 3: liked the idea. We like your enemy, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And we think that that that it's a great thing
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  Speaker 2: that you could do tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: You better do it tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: And I was going around the room after I was
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  Speaker 1: very fortunate and blessed, I guess, and and and really
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  Speaker 1: honored to have won Idea Spark Pitch Best twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five during the ranks of Kimberly Minto and of course
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  Speaker 1: Eric Ryan who's had on Sitting Beauty as well as
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  Speaker 1: Tripper represented in those two right there and now one
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  Speaker 1: leg up Alex uh. But I wanted to truly stick
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  Speaker 1: to the fact that it has to start tomorrow, which
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  Speaker 1: is today now, And that's why I didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: do any other podcasts except for featuring this Idea Spark
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  Speaker 1: and why it's so important to the disabled community. Why more,
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  Speaker 1: disabled entrepreneurs should not be afraid to share their business brand,
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  Speaker 1: share their model, share their idea and dream and as
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  Speaker 1: Steve Fella said, their vision. Bring it out of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let it stay contained in our brains. Let it
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  Speaker 1: be shown and out there and pitch your vision. That's
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  Speaker 1: what doctor Viscardi created the center for in.
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  Speaker 3: Nineteen fifty two. And so to stay.
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  Speaker 1: True to my promise of starting tomorrow, which is today. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I want to introduce doctor Christoph Winkler, the founder of
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  Speaker 1: the Heinz Institute, and why he and the Viscardi Centers
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  Speaker 1: doctor Chris Rosa partnered up to create eight Ideas Park.
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  Speaker 1: We're up here at Iona University. If my heart is racing,
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  Speaker 1: it's just because something very special happened at Ideas Park
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. And the man who founded the Hinstitude
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  Speaker 1: and the basically helped create Idea Spark, doctor Christoph Winkler,
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  Speaker 1: is here with me. Doctor Winkler, thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for opening this space for disabled entrepreneurs.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, Alex and first of all, congratulations on
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  Speaker 4: the big win today. Your pitch was really a testament
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  Speaker 4: to the entrepreneurial spirit and also what it means to
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  Speaker 4: you know, lift out that spirit through action, but also
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  Speaker 4: action to empowerment. And I think we've seen this not
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  Speaker 4: only with your pitch, but all the participants today and
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  Speaker 4: it was really wonderful to come together and celebrate all
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  Speaker 4: of these wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Now I have this podcast about the backstories.
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  Speaker 3: How did all this come about? For Ideas Park?
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  Speaker 4: So Ideas Park, you know, it was really you know,
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  Speaker 4: came through a conversation with doctor Chris Rosa was the
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  Speaker 4: CEO of the Viscardi Center, who is a very good
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  Speaker 4: friend of mine.
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  Speaker 3: And while I was building Hines.
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  Speaker 4: And stood here and he assumed his role as Viscardi,
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  Speaker 4: we kind of came to get into like we can
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  Speaker 4: can we partner, can we create something?
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  Speaker 3: How can we support entrepreneurs with disabilities? And yeah, that
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  Speaker 3: was the genesis a conversation. And next thing is.
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  Speaker 4: We brought our teams together and it was just a
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  Speaker 4: match made in heaven because our missions aligned, Yes, and
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  Speaker 4: our desire to create positive impact in our communities is paramount.
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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 Vuscardi's idea was in nineteen fifty.
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  Speaker 3: Two, absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: I mean he was really somebody, a trailblazer who really
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  Speaker 4: envisioned access to economic opportunities for individuals with disabilities.
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  Speaker 3: And the Viscardi.
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  Speaker 4: Center is really I think living out admission in ways
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  Speaker 4: that you know are manifested throughout the community. And I
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  Speaker 4: think being able to partner with Viscariti from an Iona
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  Speaker 4: perspectives really shortage.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I know doctor Roh is very connected with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of colleges and universities. Do you find that it's become
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  Speaker 1: a pipeline to I owner kids from Viscardi that graduate
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  Speaker 1: come up here.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I do not know the data, but for us,
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  Speaker 4: I think as a as a primary objective, it's really
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  Speaker 4: can we create synergies and opportunities. Ultimately it's the students
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  Speaker 4: at the center here, so bringing entrepreneurs together by combining
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  Speaker 4: our efforts to meet these are students individuals that you know,
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  Speaker 4: are you know, coming through our doors and then exiting
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  Speaker 4: out into the community, but also not becoming part of
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  Speaker 4: a larger community that I think really blends Iona rescarding
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  Speaker 4: so manywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I told you and Marazel my first job was
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  Speaker 1: going to be promoting idea Spark even more than I
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  Speaker 1: was when I was during the training, So how do
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  Speaker 1: we grow this from you know, now it's three years?
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  Speaker 1: How do we make it ten years online, twenty years,
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  Speaker 1: thirty years?
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  Speaker 3: So we already got commitments to run this for another year.
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  Speaker 4: So the goal is really to reach out more into
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  Speaker 4: the community to get the financial support that we need
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  Speaker 4: in order to you know, help support our entrepreneurs because
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  Speaker 4: it's not just the competition. It is really an education
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  Speaker 4: experience building capacity through the programs we have here. So
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  Speaker 4: again the growth piece is essential, but in order to
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  Speaker 4: grow you need partners. But I think with a compelling
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  Speaker 4: story to tell. The proof is in our students and
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  Speaker 4: our graduates, in our successes like us today. And we've
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  Speaker 4: also seen by the judges, our previous winners who came
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  Speaker 4: back that this is really, you know, not just the
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  Speaker 4: one kind of off thing. This is really part of
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  Speaker 4: something that is much bigger than the core program.
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  Speaker 1: Now and I only a university student that knows about
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  Speaker 1: this or here's about this? How can they join the
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  Speaker 1: Entrepreneurship innistrate herehind and then become a mentor for someone
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  Speaker 1: like this.
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  Speaker 4: So something like the hinds in students really for all,
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  Speaker 4: I own a students so we really run program across
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  Speaker 4: the various schools and our students participate through different avenues.
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  Speaker 4: The students who actually hear experimenters really grew out of
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  Speaker 4: a desire not only to take advantage of the resources
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  Speaker 4: to start their own businesses, but they've also learned to
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  Speaker 4: appreciate the process and also now giving back to helping
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  Speaker 4: other students when it's through this competition or other competition.
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  Speaker 4: So it's really, you know, we are really trying to
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  Speaker 4: provide a platform for students to create experiential opportunities, and
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  Speaker 4: when it's starting a business or helping support an entrepreneur,
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  Speaker 4: we dodn'testually want to make that distinction because ultimately it's
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  Speaker 4: about how can you create opportunities for yourself but in
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  Speaker 4: the process also impacting positively on you know, various communities.
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  Speaker 1: Have the idea's been getting more innovated and it's just
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  Speaker 1: gone on the last three years or what.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, that's hard to say, but I do have to
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  Speaker 4: say this year was was really really tough. Lots of
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  Speaker 4: amazing ideas, ideas that are already being implemented, being.
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  Speaker 3: Pushed out into community.
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  Speaker 4: So I think from that perspective, I think we've seen
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  Speaker 4: a gradual sort of growth alsore, like how we can
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  Speaker 4: become you know, inclusive in a way where we bring
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  Speaker 4: in different kinds of perspectives in terms of what it
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  Speaker 4: actually means to be an entrepreneur.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. And from that perspective today it was just a
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  Speaker 3: wonderful celebration.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, I follow sports on you know, I follow the
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  Speaker 1: Gaels Go gels right, yes, yes, And maybe we can
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  Speaker 1: use some of this to develop an adaptive sports program
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  Speaker 1: up here that would be awesome.
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  Speaker 3: 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 when it's you know, through our d
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  Speaker 4: 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: more and more that you know, there's potential for opportunity
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  Speaker 4: and you know, whether it's through you know, tennis, so
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  Speaker 4: basketball all or others like this, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: luck opportunities here and that I would love to further
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  Speaker 4: explore it as well.
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  Speaker 1: Now, when you take a financial you know, investment in
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  Speaker 1: as what's your next expectation as the founder of.
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  Speaker 4: All this, Well, the expectation for us is that ultimately
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  Speaker 4: it's about how we can create positive impact.
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  Speaker 3: Right for us, I think an important metric is how can.
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  Speaker 4: We do that while educating our students, sure, and our
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  Speaker 4: students anybody who walks through those stores, And I think
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  Speaker 4: that's really what what it means to be in the
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  Speaker 4: highjucaged environment. But also I think breaking down some of
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  Speaker 4: the traditional silos. So ultimately, when you come in here,
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  Speaker 4: and I would love to hear from you how you
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  Speaker 4: felt that way, But.
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  Speaker 3: We don't really make a clear distinction. He is a
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  Speaker 3: faculty member and he's administrated.
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  Speaker 4: Here's a student, and here's a he's a you know,
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  Speaker 4: an entrepreneurship student.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, we all come together.
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  Speaker 1: Because of it's a family almost, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And everybody can help. So everybody is a story to tell.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody has skills, and if we can understand that and
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  Speaker 4: leverage that, it doesn't matter what Tiler all is really
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  Speaker 4: about how we can support each other to in order
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  Speaker 4: to achieve the outcomes that they've redesigned.
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  Speaker 1: Now for those who you know, do not rank in
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  Speaker 1: the top three, there still have a place here in
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  Speaker 1: the sense that you guys keep an eye on them
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  Speaker 1: and keep in touch.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, the goal is really to build is up now.
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  Speaker 4: We also three years in so I envision as the
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  Speaker 4: next step we also you know, create ongoing Facebook groups
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  Speaker 4: and really build that commut almost an alumni.
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  Speaker 3: An alumni network.
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  Speaker 4: That's one thing, and what we also do is part
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  Speaker 4: of I think we also want to understand the experience
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  Speaker 4: that our students have.
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  Speaker 3: So we're going through kind of a program assessment. That's
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  Speaker 3: part of this.
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  Speaker 4: All these students have to submit kind of an entrepreneur
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  Speaker 4: mindset profile, and part of this assessment, I will be
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  Speaker 4: having one on one conversations with all the students to
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  Speaker 4: also understand what are their unique needs as they translate
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  Speaker 4: the ideas into the next step. And some of this
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  Speaker 4: also means referring to them to other resources like our
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  Speaker 4: small business development centers and other kinds of entrepreneurship resources
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  Speaker 4: that are available, you know, throughout throughout.
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  Speaker 3: One thing of the US.
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  Speaker 1: One thing I will say is I feel like today
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  Speaker 1: proved what I've been saying for a while is we're
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  Speaker 1: not defined by our disability. We have it, but then
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  Speaker 1: the finance and look how many people are willing to
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  Speaker 1: utilize that disability for better and to move it forward.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, I think it's I think language is often used
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  Speaker 4: to marginalize and I think we really try to work
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  Speaker 4: against that and really you know, bring people together in
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  Speaker 4: order to make them realize what their dreams are. And
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  Speaker 4: sometimes if society puts constraints on you, it is our
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  Speaker 4: responsibility to be become activist educators to really challenge those
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  Speaker 4: boundaries and really allow our communities to grow u And
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think that's really also at the core
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  Speaker 4: of our mission, because ultimately, I think entrepreneurship is help
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  Speaker 4: building agency, and agency starts from within. Sure, once you
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  Speaker 4: determine that you have the power to create something and
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  Speaker 4: you have a support community.
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  Speaker 3: Around you, I think you know you can just you can,
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  Speaker 3: just you can.
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  Speaker 1: Well you and I should team up and make Mariano Rivera,
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  Speaker 1: who's a big staple in New Roshelle, aware of this program.
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  Speaker 1: That would because I know him personally, So.
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  Speaker 4: We should, we should reach out, we should, we should
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  Speaker 4: have him. He spoke a couple of years back on campus.
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  Speaker 4: I believe you in uh, I believe there's a there's
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  Speaker 4: a close connection. Yeah, family of Rivera family and Iona.
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  Speaker 4: So we could certainly bring him back and maybe he
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  Speaker 4: would even would like to, you know, share some of
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  Speaker 4: his success with with our students.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely well, Doctor Windclair, thank you so much for this
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  Speaker 1: time today. Idea Spark twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you Alex in congratulations again.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. So while one Leg Up Alex
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  Speaker 1: wins IDEA Spark, it couldn't have been done with that,
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  Speaker 1: of course the mentor Jared and Marisoa Chappelle and uh
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  Speaker 1: even the encouragement from Eric back in March, and of
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  Speaker 1: course the encouragement from Lauren Marzo and Kim Brussel who
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  Speaker 1: apply to this program to yeah, let's launch one leg
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  Speaker 1: Up Alex. And of course I wouldn't have done any
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  Speaker 1: of this if I didn't recognize the investment that my
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  Speaker 1: mom and dad put into Viscardi twenty nine years ago
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  Speaker 1: when they started me in kindergarten. It wasn't just the
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  Speaker 1: start of a schooling, It was started a building of
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  Speaker 1: a life at Viscarti. And so to be supporting them
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  Speaker 1: once by them, once again feels like a continuation of
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  Speaker 1: the investment my mom and my dad made as long
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  Speaker 1: as my stepdad, who were there day after day at times,
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  Speaker 1: year after year. All three of them were at graduation
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine, and of course the time
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  Speaker 1: an energy spent outside of Viscarti as well is not
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  Speaker 1: lost on me in this whole process. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: remember in twenty twenty I sat down when my mom
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  Speaker 1: and my stepdad and my dad Vic said well, look,
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  Speaker 1: you got to make something more than just sports and politics.
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  Speaker 1: And here we are talking about adaptability now for five
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  Speaker 1: years or so and really tapping the sable community to
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  Speaker 1: bridge the gap between those brands that served the community
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  Speaker 1: and the disabled community itself that may not have access
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  Speaker 1: to it. So we're gonna work on that and with
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  Speaker 1: this funding, with this grant, I'm very thankful. I also
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  Speaker 1: couldn't have done this without my fiance Gabby. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: she's been there every step of the way. She helped
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  Speaker 1: me in the rush of this, making the PowerPoint ten slide,
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  Speaker 1: pitch teck and a four minute video or so got
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  Speaker 1: through all of that last week. And one other thing
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  Speaker 1: is if you are a full time employee, do not
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  Speaker 1: be afraid to share, to bolster your own passions, to
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  Speaker 1: not be afraid to bolster your own projects. I'm very
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  Speaker 1: proud at the end of the day to have not
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  Speaker 1: only been.
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  Speaker 3: Able to.
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  Speaker 1: Do full time employee work, and I'm gonna keep going
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  Speaker 1: right after I do this podcast at Salem Media, but
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  Speaker 1: also to figure out away to launch this brand even more.
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  Speaker 1: It takes a lot to do all of this and
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  Speaker 1: to be recognized for that means a lot. And for
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  Speaker 1: the other participants that did this and took the time
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  Speaker 1: and took the energy and have the idea to help
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  Speaker 1: the disabled community, I want to talk to you as well,
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  Speaker 1: the Abbey's, the Waldns, the Kathy's, the Jaquin says of
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  Speaker 1: the group that we had an idea Spark. Your ideas
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  Speaker 1: are fantastic. Let's talk more about it here on one
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  Speaker 1: leg u there's a connection here that has been formed
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  Speaker 1: through Idea Spark and through the Viscardi Center and High Institute,
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  Speaker 1: and I look to grow that connection with everyone I
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  Speaker 1: had class with, and of course g C. Duran who
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  Speaker 1: won the second place, and Edith third place. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: those are top three products right there. What they're doing
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  Speaker 1: to help better the disabl mut unity, it should be
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  Speaker 1: highlighted here and we're going to and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: I want to think again, Lauren kim Alan from Viscardi
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  Speaker 1: for taking pictures of this Brenna Judge, our professor Holly
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  Speaker 1: Blundine all the way from Spain. She's been coaching us
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  Speaker 1: the last few months. Yes, this has not been just
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  Speaker 1: one day. This has been a project undergone since January.
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  Speaker 1: And now there's a bit of nerves, but I think
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  Speaker 1: we'll be fined.
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  Speaker 3: But when he said.
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  Speaker 1: Start tomorrow, this is tomorrow, This is now and right now,
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  Speaker 1: And of course my sister Abbey, I have to give
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  Speaker 1: her a shout out to you. I love you Abbey
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  Speaker 1: as well. And right now, right now, it starts by
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  Speaker 1: featuring this amazing program to help disabled entrepreneurs. This is
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  Speaker 1: continuing the legacy of doctor Vescardi. Whether I want or not,
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  Speaker 1: I'd always believe ideas park is can continuing the legacy
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  Speaker 1: of doctor Viscardi, who gave jobs to veterans returning for
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  Speaker 1: more that were disabled that at amputations, he gave them
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  Speaker 1: a place to start up again after returning from the war.
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  Speaker 1: And in that same spirit of not letting disabilities stop you.
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  Speaker 1: I believe in idea Spark embodies that as well. After
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  Speaker 1: I went back to Viscari, by the way, I caught
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  Speaker 1: up with my coach Joe Joe Salonica, who is also
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  Speaker 1: very much part of the strategy of how we move
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  Speaker 1: forward from here. For one leg of Alex So I
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  Speaker 1: want to shout out Coach Joe as well. So this
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  Speaker 1: is only part one. We'll be talking to a few
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  Speaker 1: people part of this program as an Idea Spark conversation
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: and maybe our judges as well, Steven Ferrella, Kimberly and
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Eric who were just great and they listened to everybody
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: and they had great questions for everybody. And I really
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: do you hope those that were in the program do
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: not stop working on their vision, on their brand, because
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: the whole idea is for all of us, all of
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: us to be productive in society and maybe, just maybe
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: we all can realize idea sparked and promote that idea
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Spark is helping us all help others have one leg
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: up on life.