September 2, 2025 • 30 mins
To kick off Season Two of The Good Stuff we want to take you directly into the thick of what Jake and Ashley Schick have dedicated their lives to: serving military, veterans, first responders and their families. In this first installment of our three-part series, join The Good Stuff producer Nick Casalini as he goes behind the scenes with a few of the dedicated team members at One Tribe Foundation for an intimate look into their mission.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to season two of The Good Stuff. I'm Ashley Shick,
and I'm joined by my husband and co host, Jacob Schick,
a third generation combat marine and CEO of One Tribe Foundation.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Actually also comes from a family rich in military history,
and we've dedicated our lives to One Tribe's mission, serving veterans,
first responders.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
As well as our families.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
We're coming to you from Dallas, so welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
To Texas and joining us all season long from Los Angeles, California,
is our West Coast long haired friend and producer of
The Good Stuff, Nick Cassolini.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Today is the first of a three part series where
we get to step inside the brand new offices of
One Tribe Foundation and get an intimate look at the
work they do. And just so we're clear, this is
incredibly important work. One Tribe Foundation is a nonprofit on
the frontlines in the fight against the suicide epidemic in
our veteran and first responder communities.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
In this episode, we're going to introduce you to a
handful of the amazing people we get to work with
every day.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
We consider these people our family and we are so
very thankful for their contributions to this episode. Our work
in the world at large.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Just a quick heads up.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
This show can explore some heavy subject matter, including suicide,
so listener discretion is advised.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We couldn't be happier.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
You're here again, Welcome to the good stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
We are starting our day at the One Tribe Foundation office,
our headquarters here in u List, Texas, where the magic happens,
but also where the healing happens. And I typically try
to start my day by going through as the marketing
director the social media.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Accounts Instagram first, as always Instagram first.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
But we get you know, we get a ton of
emails that come in weekly and a lot of spam unfortunately,
so a lot of it is digging through all the
spam and making sure that we filter all of that out.
But yeah, so we get all kinds of emails that
come in, everything from reaching out to look for some help,
have been contacted by a neighbor about one of their
(02:04):
neighbors that's a veteran and having some issues.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Yea to.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
My honor ring broke and I need one immediately.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
We wear the twenty two kill honor ring on our
on our trigger finger as a reminder of not only
those who've we've lost, but also those who have served
and those who have sacrificed, and so it's a constant reminder.
So I haven't taken mine off in over ten years.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You know there's a lot of people that they have
to have that honor ring right broke, I need a
new one and then miss and pictures of it tracked
and up. It doesn't happen often, but if you wear
it for years and years. Two people giving us feedback
on different you know, events that we've done and stuff
like that.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Positive, Oh yeah, okay, you forget a negative feedback like, man,
I we do have to admit the dinner you serve
as gross?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Look b hayten No, honestly.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And we actually send out surveys after every event that
we do. We want to know, you know, hey, what
do we do right, what do we do wrong? How
we make it better for next time? And so I
was actually just looking through that as well from our
Texas Independence Stay five k that we had on March first.
Sometimes it's really good for the you know, for the
morale because you're reading through like, hey, y'all are awesome,
(03:13):
keep up the good work. I've supported one tribe twenty two,
Kiel for many years and glad to contribute to this
event and thank you so much, love you all to
Why did we get T shirts? I wanted to medal,
you know, so you never know what you're gonna do,
but we roll with it. So many people that want
to help, like truly, so many people that hey, what
(03:34):
can I do? Here's here's what I can offer. You know,
we have a White Star Families program, which is for
everyone that's been affected by the active suicide, and so
we'll have people just messaging and hey, I just really
need to I really need to get involved in this
group because it's a good peer to peer and sometimes
people just feel like nobody else understands what I'm going through.
But we've got a group there that does understand.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Get an email from a veteran. I'm looking to start
counseling service as a Marine Corps veteran and have been
through counseling years ago, but my therapist moved. Please feel
free to call me. I'm flexible to meet asap. I
really need help. A lot of those I'm just looking through.
There's so much, man, it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
What are people trying to sell you?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
It's all people try to get. They put our logo
on merchandise, and then they try to sell it. Oh
really to send the synthesis to every single one, Wow,
And then a lot of them will just send the
email respond immediately. Your Facebook is going to be shut down. No,
it's not block.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So this is the unglamorous, mundane part of your job.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
What do you mean. I love this. It's so much
fun to sit here and sort through and sift through.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
My name is mitros Lavro and I'm the office manager
at One Truck Foundation.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
And tell us where we are standing right this very moment,
if you wouldn't mind this moment.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
You're standing right on my deck, in my very pink deck.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Okay, great, and tell me tell me about tell me
about some of these things that I'm looking at.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
I have this little squishy. This one's the clean one,
so I don't touch that much. This one is the
dirty one.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Okay, that's one that you actually squished. Okay, very good.
And and and we're and and what is this? I'm
looking at the front entrance. We got a lobby here,
we got merged.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
This is the biggest office office.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Okay, my office, good, beautiful, the.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Most comfy office.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Good.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
These couches will cocoon you and just they will love
on you. Yeah, like we will all love on you here.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
The couches good. Okay, that's good. You're going to start
it all.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Yeah, we're recording.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah, you just want to hold it about here. Yeah,
that's good. And then I'm going to ask you what
your name is and what you do here at One
Tribe and if you wouldn't mind just answering it.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
All?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Right, what.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Because I'm gonna tell you what's on this card. I'm
not going to tell you what I do because otherwise
we'll be here for a week.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
That's fair.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, if you wanted to give me your name and
your job title, then that would be that'd be great.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
I have to look and see what my title is.
My name is Justin Jones. I am the community outreach
and volunteer coordinator for One Tribe. That's the easy part.
I guess if you will talking about what I do.
But I do pretty much anything that's asked, Like majority.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Of people here, I found out about One Tribe because
of my brother in law and my husband that we're
both working here, and I had been going through a
lot of dark things because of my health issues, and
one tribe saved my life twice.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Would you be comfortable talking a little bit more specifically
about that.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Yeah. So at first it started, I moved here because
of my breast cancer, and once I was here, I
found out I was not going to be able to
have children ever, and that was really hard thing to accept,
and it was really dark for me being here in
Texas a by myself with all my family in California.
(07:28):
So I started going to tribal cancel and being there
with everybody. It was just a peer to peer group
just talking about what's going on in our lives, and
they helped me. They helped me step away from darker
thoughts that were coming to me. That was how they
saved me the first time.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
And my second time was eventually getting to the point
where I was going to get my hysterectomy. It was
appointment scheduling time and it was real and I lost
it and that's unfortunately when things got really dark. But
thanks to one tribe, they helped me out and I
(08:13):
went to what I like to call the loone ebn
for a little bit. Okay, but like I said, they helped.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Because I started as a volunteer, it just kind of
fell in line for me to be a volunteer coordinator.
And then a lot of the events when I started
volunteering back in twenty fifteen for this organization, I went
to a lot of events, So it just made sense
that some of the events that got handed to me
when I come on staff.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
What was some of the reasons that you initially volunteered.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
I was new to Texas, wanted to meet people, and
when I was at my previous employer, Jacob and Don
came in and we're talking about starting this new organization
twenty two killed and what they were doing. I thought
that was a great way to get involved. And then
when Jacob ment and you know, they support veterans first responders,
I was like even better, jumped in and started volunteering
(09:05):
trying to do that and kind of fell in love
with them. Hounded them a lot of times because not
knowing anybody, always wanted something to do, and they seemed
like they were doing events every weekend, and so I
would always hound them about what was available and what
was out there and track them down and go volunteer somewhere.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
What were some early memories you have of those being
rewarding experiences.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Man, we did so many things.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
We did.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
One of the first things that I did that it
probably hit the hardest. It's actually how I met Buck.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
My name is Buck Kerrent and I am the Chief
Operations Officer COO for One Tribe Foundation.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
I was told to meet at the Hilton Enatol in Dallas.
They just told me that we were going to be
running luggage for families, and that's about all they really
told me. And when I showed up, I later found
out that these are the families of the fallen, you know,
the their hero had passed.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
You work a lot with families here at One Tribe, right.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Yeah, we have a program called Watch, which is an
acronym for we are the Children of Heroes. We serve
children and the surviving parents of those who have served
in the military and as first responders and have died
serving our country and communities.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
So Bucket brought them all together and so we were
for about four or five hours running luggage. We would
go if they did a role call and a certain
family wasn't there, they would run us up to humpteenth
floor and knock on the door. And most of the
time the family was like scurrying around trying to get
all the kids, you know together, whatever, and we're grabbing
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luggage and running it down and then loading the buses
for him to get out to the airport and that
kind of thing. And that impacted me a lot, just
growing up, you know, my mom raising me and my
brother on her own, and so it just kind of
hit right out of the gate and there from there.
I mean, we'd go out early morning to a dealership
and they'd be doing a cars and coffee and these
people are walking around with these giant tubs with our
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organization name on the tub, just asking people for donations
and just things like that. Just started hitting that there
was so many people here that wanted to support, you know, something,
something better and driven. And that's the way Texas is,
is what I found out.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
In the DFW area, we have ongoing events. We have
a monthly game night, so we we invite families to
come in and hang out for about three or four
hours or until they want to leave, which sometimes goes.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
On for a while.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
But we have dinner and then we have a variety
of games.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yeah, like what kids you.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Guys have Mario cars, We have we have video games,
table type games. We have electronic cars that they can
drive around the halls here cool and they it's it's
like three hours of them running wild and having fun together.
For the kids, it's an opportunity to just hang out
(12:07):
and be with other kids or in some cases last Saturday,
we had a sixteen year old girl and her mom
who decided they wanted to play cards for hours together.
So it's an opportunity for really the kids to meet
other kids, have fun together, meet kids who are going
through the same thing that they are, the loss of
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a parent. We also invite families to join us who
were military families or supporters of ours to come in
and bring their kids, get to meet our watch families
and really see in some cases where their money, what
their money is supporting those that have been donors, and
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get to know the families that we serve and support.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
We need to take a quick commercial break, but stick
around because we are just starting to scratch the surface.
Thanks so much for hanging out. We're gonna jump back
into the One Tribe offices here. I am with Buck.
(13:19):
Can you think of an early experience in your work
of working with these children and families that made you
feel how important this work was.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yeah, there's a lot so I've been doing. I've been
working with families have fallen for probably close to fifteen
years now. And I remember years back, we had a
we had a mom and her son that came to
one of our events for several days and they got
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back home and she called me when she got home
and said, thank you, thank you for allowing us to
be part of this organization. And of course she goes, no, no, no,
you don't understand. My husband wasn't KIA killed in action.
She said he was a medic and when he came home,
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all he could think about were the men he wasn't
able to save on the battlefield, and she said it
just it ate him up and he ended up taking
his own life. And other organizations shunned us because of
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the nature of my husband's death. And we've been looking
for a place that I could bring my son that
was comfortable for him, where he would understand that his
dad's service was special and that his dad was a hero.
(15:00):
And that's what we found here together with these all
these other families, was that he wasn't judged and he
was just a normal kid with these other kids that
all understood, and she said, you know, we'd been we
lost friends because they didn't know how to approach us
because it was suicide. They felt uncomfortable and stopped kind
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of communicating with us or showing up and just being around.
And here we're comfortable and my son got to see
his dad honored as a hero, which was huge for him. Yeah,
So those sort of things kind of happened frequently, but
(15:46):
it's a matter of just you know, I've always said
heroes aren't defined by how they died, rather by how
they lived. And in that case, you've got a man
who's volunteered to serve, served as a medic, saved a
lot of lives on the battlefield, and cared so deeply
(16:07):
that all he could think about were the man he
wasn't able to save, and uh, you know, it took
his life because of it, and that man is no
less of a hero than anybody else who was killed
on the battlefield.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
And then one of the first things that I did
in house, they did what was called hot yoga, which
I later found out was because they turned the temperature
up in the room, not because of anything else. But
it was kind of interesting.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
But so you came in and actually did hot yoga. Yeah, Bro,
was that was that? Was that a stretch for you?
Was that outside your covers?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
It was?
Speaker 7 (16:45):
It was a little warm, I will tell you that,
but it was it was neat to learn, just because
that's kind of where I've learned even now and doing
some of the events that we do is nothing is
outside the box for us. I mean we're willing to
try anything if if it'll help one person, that's worth doing.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
And that's the way that you know, I've kind of
pressed on, you know, taking the reins the way I have,
And that's that's the way I try to lead.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Now, you were telling me a little bit about the
sound bath experience that you enjoy. Talk to me a
little bit about the about the sound baths.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
You like, it's a thing that actually helps me relax.
We've done it a few times here and I've even
snuck in when the ladies do the One Tribe Women.
They've had some openings and I just sneak.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
In and do that too.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
But the opportunity just to be able to relax, and
the different things that are used, I mean, you have
your eyes closed and you know you got the rattle
of the AC unit rumbling, you know, in the background.
But then the different sounds that are used to help
you relax. Just put you in one of them weird moods,
and next thing you know, the man usually for the
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next two to three days, I'm I'm a solid seven
to eight hours of sleep, which is very rare for
me because my mind doesn't shut off. So it's it's
pretty good to get one of was in at least
once a month.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
So before your life here at one tribe, if someone
had tapped you on the shoulder, it's like, AJJ, you're
gonna love hot yoga and sound baths. What would you
have said to that?
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Definitely definitely not me. You got the wrong guy. Definitely
got the wrong guy. We got crossed wires somewhere. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Yeah, So you give big hugs and I've heard you
say I love you one hundred and fifty times in
the last day and a half. Was the guy out
there moving around you were selling cars?
Speaker 7 (18:29):
No, I worked in the body shop business.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Body shop business. So was the guy out there moving
around chasing a dollar working in the body shop business,
giving big hugs and saying I love you?
Speaker 7 (18:38):
He definitely was not. He might be an appreciation or
you know, a deb or fist bump or whatever, but no,
it wasn't. It wasn't until I started volunteering here and
then even more so coming on staff in twenty twenty
did it hit really hard that life is precious and
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you know, losing losing people that we're friends of ours,
from the tribe that came through and things like that,
realizing that tomorrow is not guaranteed, and so yeah, not
holding anything back and let people know. And that's why
I said, it's it's easier too to be an open
book that way, because you know, you know, they talk
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about telling the truth and that kind of thing, and
it's like, you don't, you don't have to worry about
remembering anything. We mean, tell the truth because the truth
is you know what it is. And so the same
thing with you know, telling somebody care about them, love
them and being that being that person is yeah, startsy,
there's a lot of love that flows through this place
and it's sincere and that's the that's the greatest thing
(19:43):
of finding a place like this to where it's one
hundred percent. So when you say it, it's not just
like saying, hey, how you doing or whatever. It's it's
sincere and from the heart, and uh, ninety nine percent
of the time, I would like to believe the person
I'm telling that too, or the person I'm hearing it
from means means it just like I do.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
We have to pause here for our last commercial break
of the episode. When we come back, we'll check back
in with Ashley. Welcome back to the good Stuff to
begin our third act of this episode.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Here's Ashley.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Here's an email from a veteran I used to get
help from twenty two kil in Fort Worth. I'm in
need of some help immediately. Does one tribe still exist
or is there somewhere I can get assistance with substance
abuse and mental health. I don't want to go back
to the VA. Please message me back asap.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Of course we wrote them right back within an hour.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
But.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yeah, I mean I My hope is that everybody knows
to go to the website and email that email because
it's it's you know, we're always immediately on it. But yeah,
I always check all of our avenues just to make
sure nothing slips through the cracks.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
That's a pretty heavy way to start your day.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, Well, I mean, coffee is how I started my day,
and coffee is amazing. So I started with the glorious coffee, bean.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
And coffee Instagram. Filter through the spam, get to the
get to the meat and potatoes, a pretty much, pretty
much amazing.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
But just knowing I mean it, it is a heavyweight
to start your day. But also knowing like, hey, there's
someone out there that's herding and I might have the
resource and the tool to help them. Now it's uplifting. Yeah, yeah, perspective, right,
like this person my day is not as bad as
this person's night last night or what they're going through.
So let's get them to help they need and let
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them know that they have a community here that's ready
and willing to help. Yeah, wrap our arms around them.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Just having kids together and being able to understand that their.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Dad was a hero no matter how he died.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
We have kids that you know, their dads died in
combat or suicide or cancer. You know, we have a
huge problem now with men and women returning who were
exposed to the burn pits and because of that, they're
battling cancer. We lost somebody last year and I'm working
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with the family right now here in DFW man served
in the Marine Corps and has seven kids, and he's
got stage four cancer from the burn pits, so we're
working with them. As a matter of fact, he and
his family came to game night last weekend.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Oh yeah, did they have a good time?
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Oh yeah, they had a blast.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Then't want to go home.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
So just being able to give these kids a little fun.
You know, over the years, you see families, you get
to know them. You know, you've got a family with
several kids, and the mom's left alone, and when her
husband dies or the kid's dad dies, the usually the
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oldest of the kids takes on a different role in
the family because he's the oldest, and a lot of
times they sort of become, you know, the adult and
the family and the kids. They know their mom's grieving,
and the kids feel guilty having fun because they want
to support their mom in that grief. They're grieving as well,
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so they stop being kids and stop having fun, and
all for the right reason. They want to support their mom,
and they know they're sad too, but you know, the
mom just wants them to have fun and be kids, really,
and that's what you see. That was another after one
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of our events, say, we usually ask the kids what
was the most fun for you? What did you enjoy
the most? And sometimes you think it would be like
going to an amusement park or meeting these cool people,
that sort of thing. I had a teenager once say,
I just enjoyed seeing my mom laugh and be with
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other moms and have a good time again. And then
you ask the moms what the best thing was, and
I'll say, best thing was just seeing my son or
my daughter smile and be a kid again, having fun.
So those sort of things. Being able to able to
provide the mechanism for that with all these other families,
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it's special and it means a lot to them, means
a lot to us. So it's an honor, it really
is being able to, you know, get to know so
many families who have sacrificed so much for the rest
of us. There's these families who live in your communities.
They're there, they're your neighbors. You know, get to know them,
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support them, help them if they need help. A lot
of them are going through a lot, and we just
want to make sure the kids grow up as great
members of society and do great things in life. And
you know a lot of them want to give back.
It's amazing you meet families who have sacrificed so much
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and the first thing they think of is what do
I do? What can I do for these other families? Yeah,
so it's pretty inspirational.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
What advice would you have for people that maybe want
to start volunteering in this world?
Speaker 7 (25:33):
Man, that's a good question. I don't know that I
have advice except for well, I guess I do have
advice because I'm about to answer your question. Do it
with your whole heart. That's what I tell people. I mean,
I learned a long time ago in the business world
that I was in that my CEO at the time
that used to tell us, He's like, if you're going
to do anything, do it wholeheartedly. And so that's kind
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of the way I like to think that I've done
a lot of things throughout my life, and as far
as volunteering the same way, because you know, you always
hear that cliche saying you get out of it what
you put into it, And for me, that was, you know,
when I'd start volunteering and then hearing the stories about
you know this one or that one or you know,
this guy's is was being it was able to be helped.
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You know, you come out volunteered and so that that
helped us be able to put money toward a program
that can help this family or whatever. And I don't know,
I just I think for me, I'm a little different
in the fact that you know, I kind of I
grew up, you know, just always wanted to try to
help people. And it's kind of way you know, my
(26:42):
mom raised me and I've seen you know, it's when
my grandparents were so as far as volunteer aspect, I
tell people go in wholeheartedly, and you know, like you
hear say a lot of times trying here write things
right reasons, and you will be so surprised at the
reward that you know most of the time, you know,
a lot of volunteers that help us now go in
(27:02):
with no expectations. But the reward they get out of it,
that they talk about after the fact is you know,
that's my bonus or that's you know, that's a reward
for me to hear them, Hey I want to come back,
or hey I want to do this again next year.
Hey can I help you? You know, some new ideas
about next year and that kind of thing. So it's
it's how we grow the tribe realistically, and that's uh,
(27:25):
we're very blessed in that aspect, not just here in
Texas but all across the country.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Okay, so these are your smelly pens.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Yes, these are smelly pens. And the first one that
you're about to smell should be Strawberry Delicious. The next
one is banana Foster.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Okay, Oh, I love bananas Foster's.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I don't smell.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
It well and marks you smell the paper, Mmmm, bananas
Foster's most underrated, Underrated dessert, most underrated smelly pen. Okay,
So here we are, we're at we're towards the end
of your work day.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
What what what?
Speaker 4 (28:05):
What else you got to do today? What does your
job look like?
Speaker 7 (28:08):
I really don't, man, I learned a long time ago
this this is not a nine to five business. But
just so people know, when when it comes to the
work that's done here and everything, it's it's a lifestyle, bro,
It's not a job. It's I don't know, it's uh,
it's it's not really the end of the day. It's
just you know, it's later in the day and I
(28:30):
have things to do. But you know, if my phone
rings tonight at seven o'clock because somebody's struggling or it's
usually actually you know when office kind of empties out,
and actually that's when I get majority of my work done.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
He's just been hanging out all day giving people hugs,
you don't even love them. Then they leave like okay, thanks.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
By make sure their day is good.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
So thanks so much, JJ LO love you. And so
what does it feel like to work here now and
be it and be a part of it.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
It's amazing because what they did to me, what they
helped me with, I get to help other people too.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Now I can be the helping side.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
And because of my dark stuff that had happened, some
of these calls that we get are like that.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
And now I know how to talk to the people.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Yeah, and you're like this smiling face they see when
they walk in the door, you know I think that.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Absolutely, Well, thank you so much for hanging out with us.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I really appreciate it. Thank you so much for listening
to the good stuff.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Next week, we'll be back with part two of this
three part series on the inner workings of One Tribe Foundation.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
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Speaker 2 (29:44):
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Speaker 4 (29:51):
In the meantime, we invite you to go check out
our episode from season one with Michael Karnat put on.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Your bad ass caapes.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
It go be great today and remember you can't do
epic things without epic people.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Again, thank you for listening to the good Stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
The Good Stuff is executive produced by Ashley Shick, Jacob
Shick and Leah Pictures. Hosted by Ashley Shick, Jacob Shick,
and Nick Cassolini. Produced by Nick Cassolini, Engineering, editing and
post production supervision by Nick Cassolini.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Music by Will Tenny
Welcome to season two of The Good Stuff. I'm Ashley Shick,
and I'm joined by my husband and co host, Jacob Schick,
a third generation combat marine and CEO of One Tribe Foundation.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Actually also comes from a family rich in military history,
and we've dedicated our lives to One Tribe's mission, serving veterans,
first responders.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
As well as our families.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
We're coming to you from Dallas, so welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
To Texas and joining us all season long from Los Angeles, California,
is our West Coast long haired friend and producer of
The Good Stuff, Nick Cassolini.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Today is the first of a three part series where
we get to step inside the brand new offices of
One Tribe Foundation and get an intimate look at the
work they do. And just so we're clear, this is
incredibly important work. One Tribe Foundation is a nonprofit on
the frontlines in the fight against the suicide epidemic in
our veteran and first responder communities.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
In this episode, we're going to introduce you to a
handful of the amazing people we get to work with
every day.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
We consider these people our family and we are so
very thankful for their contributions to this episode. Our work
in the world at large.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Just a quick heads up.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
This show can explore some heavy subject matter, including suicide,
so listener discretion is advised.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We couldn't be happier.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
You're here again, Welcome to the good stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
We are starting our day at the One Tribe Foundation office,
our headquarters here in u List, Texas, where the magic happens,
but also where the healing happens. And I typically try
to start my day by going through as the marketing
director the social media.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Accounts Instagram first, as always Instagram first.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
But we get you know, we get a ton of
emails that come in weekly and a lot of spam unfortunately,
so a lot of it is digging through all the
spam and making sure that we filter all of that out.
But yeah, so we get all kinds of emails that
come in, everything from reaching out to look for some help,
have been contacted by a neighbor about one of their
(02:04):
neighbors that's a veteran and having some issues.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Yea to.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
My honor ring broke and I need one immediately.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
We wear the twenty two kill honor ring on our
on our trigger finger as a reminder of not only
those who've we've lost, but also those who have served
and those who have sacrificed, and so it's a constant reminder.
So I haven't taken mine off in over ten years.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You know there's a lot of people that they have
to have that honor ring right broke, I need a
new one and then miss and pictures of it tracked
and up. It doesn't happen often, but if you wear
it for years and years. Two people giving us feedback
on different you know, events that we've done and stuff
like that.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Positive, Oh yeah, okay, you forget a negative feedback like, man,
I we do have to admit the dinner you serve
as gross?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Look b hayten No, honestly.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And we actually send out surveys after every event that
we do. We want to know, you know, hey, what
do we do right, what do we do wrong? How
we make it better for next time? And so I
was actually just looking through that as well from our
Texas Independence Stay five k that we had on March first.
Sometimes it's really good for the you know, for the
morale because you're reading through like, hey, y'all are awesome,
(03:13):
keep up the good work. I've supported one tribe twenty two,
Kiel for many years and glad to contribute to this
event and thank you so much, love you all to
Why did we get T shirts? I wanted to medal,
you know, so you never know what you're gonna do,
but we roll with it. So many people that want
to help, like truly, so many people that hey, what
(03:34):
can I do? Here's here's what I can offer. You know,
we have a White Star Families program, which is for
everyone that's been affected by the active suicide, and so
we'll have people just messaging and hey, I just really
need to I really need to get involved in this
group because it's a good peer to peer and sometimes
people just feel like nobody else understands what I'm going through.
But we've got a group there that does understand.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Get an email from a veteran. I'm looking to start
counseling service as a Marine Corps veteran and have been
through counseling years ago, but my therapist moved. Please feel
free to call me. I'm flexible to meet asap. I
really need help. A lot of those I'm just looking through.
There's so much, man, it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
What are people trying to sell you?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
It's all people try to get. They put our logo
on merchandise, and then they try to sell it. Oh
really to send the synthesis to every single one, Wow,
And then a lot of them will just send the
email respond immediately. Your Facebook is going to be shut down. No,
it's not block.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So this is the unglamorous, mundane part of your job.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
What do you mean. I love this. It's so much
fun to sit here and sort through and sift through.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
My name is mitros Lavro and I'm the office manager
at One Truck Foundation.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
And tell us where we are standing right this very moment,
if you wouldn't mind this moment.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
You're standing right on my deck, in my very pink deck.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Okay, great, and tell me tell me about tell me
about some of these things that I'm looking at.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
I have this little squishy. This one's the clean one,
so I don't touch that much. This one is the
dirty one.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Okay, that's one that you actually squished. Okay, very good.
And and and we're and and what is this? I'm
looking at the front entrance. We got a lobby here,
we got merged.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
This is the biggest office office.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Okay, my office, good, beautiful, the.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Most comfy office.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Good.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
These couches will cocoon you and just they will love
on you. Yeah, like we will all love on you here.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
The couches good. Okay, that's good. You're going to start
it all.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Yeah, we're recording.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah, you just want to hold it about here. Yeah,
that's good. And then I'm going to ask you what
your name is and what you do here at One
Tribe and if you wouldn't mind just answering it.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
All?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Right, what.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Because I'm gonna tell you what's on this card. I'm
not going to tell you what I do because otherwise
we'll be here for a week.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
That's fair.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, if you wanted to give me your name and
your job title, then that would be that'd be great.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
I have to look and see what my title is.
My name is Justin Jones. I am the community outreach
and volunteer coordinator for One Tribe. That's the easy part.
I guess if you will talking about what I do.
But I do pretty much anything that's asked, Like majority.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Of people here, I found out about One Tribe because
of my brother in law and my husband that we're
both working here, and I had been going through a
lot of dark things because of my health issues, and
one tribe saved my life twice.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Would you be comfortable talking a little bit more specifically
about that.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Yeah. So at first it started, I moved here because
of my breast cancer, and once I was here, I
found out I was not going to be able to
have children ever, and that was really hard thing to accept,
and it was really dark for me being here in
Texas a by myself with all my family in California.
(07:28):
So I started going to tribal cancel and being there
with everybody. It was just a peer to peer group
just talking about what's going on in our lives, and
they helped me. They helped me step away from darker
thoughts that were coming to me. That was how they
saved me the first time.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
And my second time was eventually getting to the point
where I was going to get my hysterectomy. It was
appointment scheduling time and it was real and I lost
it and that's unfortunately when things got really dark. But
thanks to one tribe, they helped me out and I
(08:13):
went to what I like to call the loone ebn
for a little bit. Okay, but like I said, they helped.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Because I started as a volunteer, it just kind of
fell in line for me to be a volunteer coordinator.
And then a lot of the events when I started
volunteering back in twenty fifteen for this organization, I went
to a lot of events, So it just made sense
that some of the events that got handed to me
when I come on staff.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
What was some of the reasons that you initially volunteered.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
I was new to Texas, wanted to meet people, and
when I was at my previous employer, Jacob and Don
came in and we're talking about starting this new organization
twenty two killed and what they were doing. I thought
that was a great way to get involved. And then
when Jacob ment and you know, they support veterans first responders,
I was like even better, jumped in and started volunteering
(09:05):
trying to do that and kind of fell in love
with them. Hounded them a lot of times because not
knowing anybody, always wanted something to do, and they seemed
like they were doing events every weekend, and so I
would always hound them about what was available and what
was out there and track them down and go volunteer somewhere.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
What were some early memories you have of those being
rewarding experiences.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Man, we did so many things.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
We did.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
One of the first things that I did that it
probably hit the hardest. It's actually how I met Buck.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
My name is Buck Kerrent and I am the Chief
Operations Officer COO for One Tribe Foundation.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
I was told to meet at the Hilton Enatol in Dallas.
They just told me that we were going to be
running luggage for families, and that's about all they really
told me. And when I showed up, I later found
out that these are the families of the fallen, you know,
the their hero had passed.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
You work a lot with families here at One Tribe, right.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Yeah, we have a program called Watch, which is an
acronym for we are the Children of Heroes. We serve
children and the surviving parents of those who have served
in the military and as first responders and have died
serving our country and communities.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
So Bucket brought them all together and so we were
for about four or five hours running luggage. We would
go if they did a role call and a certain
family wasn't there, they would run us up to humpteenth
floor and knock on the door. And most of the
time the family was like scurrying around trying to get
all the kids, you know together, whatever, and we're grabbing
(10:46):
luggage and running it down and then loading the buses
for him to get out to the airport and that
kind of thing. And that impacted me a lot, just
growing up, you know, my mom raising me and my
brother on her own, and so it just kind of
hit right out of the gate and there from there.
I mean, we'd go out early morning to a dealership
and they'd be doing a cars and coffee and these
people are walking around with these giant tubs with our
(11:09):
organization name on the tub, just asking people for donations
and just things like that. Just started hitting that there
was so many people here that wanted to support, you know, something,
something better and driven. And that's the way Texas is,
is what I found out.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
In the DFW area, we have ongoing events. We have
a monthly game night, so we we invite families to
come in and hang out for about three or four
hours or until they want to leave, which sometimes goes.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
On for a while.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
But we have dinner and then we have a variety
of games.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yeah, like what kids you.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Guys have Mario cars, We have we have video games,
table type games. We have electronic cars that they can
drive around the halls here cool and they it's it's
like three hours of them running wild and having fun together.
For the kids, it's an opportunity to just hang out
(12:07):
and be with other kids or in some cases last Saturday,
we had a sixteen year old girl and her mom
who decided they wanted to play cards for hours together.
So it's an opportunity for really the kids to meet
other kids, have fun together, meet kids who are going
through the same thing that they are, the loss of
(12:30):
a parent. We also invite families to join us who
were military families or supporters of ours to come in
and bring their kids, get to meet our watch families
and really see in some cases where their money, what
their money is supporting those that have been donors, and
(12:54):
get to know the families that we serve and support.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
We need to take a quick commercial break, but stick
around because we are just starting to scratch the surface.
Thanks so much for hanging out. We're gonna jump back
into the One Tribe offices here. I am with Buck.
(13:19):
Can you think of an early experience in your work
of working with these children and families that made you
feel how important this work was.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yeah, there's a lot so I've been doing. I've been
working with families have fallen for probably close to fifteen
years now. And I remember years back, we had a
we had a mom and her son that came to
one of our events for several days and they got
(13:53):
back home and she called me when she got home
and said, thank you, thank you for allowing us to
be part of this organization. And of course she goes, no, no, no,
you don't understand. My husband wasn't KIA killed in action.
She said he was a medic and when he came home,
(14:19):
all he could think about were the men he wasn't
able to save on the battlefield, and she said it
just it ate him up and he ended up taking
his own life. And other organizations shunned us because of
(14:40):
the nature of my husband's death. And we've been looking
for a place that I could bring my son that
was comfortable for him, where he would understand that his
dad's service was special and that his dad was a hero.
(15:00):
And that's what we found here together with these all
these other families, was that he wasn't judged and he
was just a normal kid with these other kids that
all understood, and she said, you know, we'd been we
lost friends because they didn't know how to approach us
because it was suicide. They felt uncomfortable and stopped kind
(15:25):
of communicating with us or showing up and just being around.
And here we're comfortable and my son got to see
his dad honored as a hero, which was huge for him. Yeah,
So those sort of things kind of happened frequently, but
(15:46):
it's a matter of just you know, I've always said
heroes aren't defined by how they died, rather by how
they lived. And in that case, you've got a man
who's volunteered to serve, served as a medic, saved a
lot of lives on the battlefield, and cared so deeply
(16:07):
that all he could think about were the man he
wasn't able to save, and uh, you know, it took
his life because of it, and that man is no
less of a hero than anybody else who was killed
on the battlefield.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
And then one of the first things that I did
in house, they did what was called hot yoga, which
I later found out was because they turned the temperature
up in the room, not because of anything else. But
it was kind of interesting.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
But so you came in and actually did hot yoga. Yeah, Bro,
was that was that? Was that a stretch for you?
Was that outside your covers?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
It was?
Speaker 7 (16:45):
It was a little warm, I will tell you that,
but it was it was neat to learn, just because
that's kind of where I've learned even now and doing
some of the events that we do is nothing is
outside the box for us. I mean we're willing to
try anything if if it'll help one person, that's worth doing.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
And that's the way that you know, I've kind of
pressed on, you know, taking the reins the way I have,
And that's that's the way I try to lead.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Now, you were telling me a little bit about the
sound bath experience that you enjoy. Talk to me a
little bit about the about the sound baths.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
You like, it's a thing that actually helps me relax.
We've done it a few times here and I've even
snuck in when the ladies do the One Tribe Women.
They've had some openings and I just sneak.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
In and do that too.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
But the opportunity just to be able to relax, and
the different things that are used, I mean, you have
your eyes closed and you know you got the rattle
of the AC unit rumbling, you know, in the background.
But then the different sounds that are used to help
you relax. Just put you in one of them weird moods,
and next thing you know, the man usually for the
(17:50):
next two to three days, I'm I'm a solid seven
to eight hours of sleep, which is very rare for
me because my mind doesn't shut off. So it's it's
pretty good to get one of was in at least
once a month.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
So before your life here at one tribe, if someone
had tapped you on the shoulder, it's like, AJJ, you're
gonna love hot yoga and sound baths. What would you
have said to that?
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Definitely definitely not me. You got the wrong guy. Definitely
got the wrong guy. We got crossed wires somewhere. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Yeah, So you give big hugs and I've heard you
say I love you one hundred and fifty times in
the last day and a half. Was the guy out
there moving around you were selling cars?
Speaker 7 (18:29):
No, I worked in the body shop business.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Body shop business. So was the guy out there moving
around chasing a dollar working in the body shop business,
giving big hugs and saying I love you?
Speaker 7 (18:38):
He definitely was not. He might be an appreciation or
you know, a deb or fist bump or whatever, but no,
it wasn't. It wasn't until I started volunteering here and
then even more so coming on staff in twenty twenty
did it hit really hard that life is precious and
(18:59):
you know, losing losing people that we're friends of ours,
from the tribe that came through and things like that,
realizing that tomorrow is not guaranteed, and so yeah, not
holding anything back and let people know. And that's why
I said, it's it's easier too to be an open
book that way, because you know, you know, they talk
(19:21):
about telling the truth and that kind of thing, and
it's like, you don't, you don't have to worry about
remembering anything. We mean, tell the truth because the truth
is you know what it is. And so the same
thing with you know, telling somebody care about them, love
them and being that being that person is yeah, startsy,
there's a lot of love that flows through this place
and it's sincere and that's the that's the greatest thing
(19:43):
of finding a place like this to where it's one
hundred percent. So when you say it, it's not just
like saying, hey, how you doing or whatever. It's it's
sincere and from the heart, and uh, ninety nine percent
of the time, I would like to believe the person
I'm telling that too, or the person I'm hearing it
from means means it just like I do.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
We have to pause here for our last commercial break
of the episode. When we come back, we'll check back
in with Ashley. Welcome back to the good Stuff to
begin our third act of this episode.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Here's Ashley.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Here's an email from a veteran I used to get
help from twenty two kil in Fort Worth. I'm in
need of some help immediately. Does one tribe still exist
or is there somewhere I can get assistance with substance
abuse and mental health. I don't want to go back
to the VA. Please message me back asap.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Of course we wrote them right back within an hour.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
But.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yeah, I mean I My hope is that everybody knows
to go to the website and email that email because
it's it's you know, we're always immediately on it. But yeah,
I always check all of our avenues just to make
sure nothing slips through the cracks.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
That's a pretty heavy way to start your day.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, Well, I mean, coffee is how I started my day,
and coffee is amazing. So I started with the glorious coffee, bean.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
And coffee Instagram. Filter through the spam, get to the
get to the meat and potatoes, a pretty much, pretty
much amazing.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
But just knowing I mean it, it is a heavyweight
to start your day. But also knowing like, hey, there's
someone out there that's herding and I might have the
resource and the tool to help them. Now it's uplifting. Yeah, yeah, perspective, right,
like this person my day is not as bad as
this person's night last night or what they're going through.
So let's get them to help they need and let
(21:40):
them know that they have a community here that's ready
and willing to help. Yeah, wrap our arms around them.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Just having kids together and being able to understand that their.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Dad was a hero no matter how he died.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
We have kids that you know, their dads died in
combat or suicide or cancer. You know, we have a
huge problem now with men and women returning who were
exposed to the burn pits and because of that, they're
battling cancer. We lost somebody last year and I'm working
(22:16):
with the family right now here in DFW man served
in the Marine Corps and has seven kids, and he's
got stage four cancer from the burn pits, so we're
working with them. As a matter of fact, he and
his family came to game night last weekend.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Oh yeah, did they have a good time?
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Oh yeah, they had a blast.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Then't want to go home.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
So just being able to give these kids a little fun.
You know, over the years, you see families, you get
to know them. You know, you've got a family with
several kids, and the mom's left alone, and when her
husband dies or the kid's dad dies, the usually the
(23:00):
oldest of the kids takes on a different role in
the family because he's the oldest, and a lot of
times they sort of become, you know, the adult and
the family and the kids. They know their mom's grieving,
and the kids feel guilty having fun because they want
to support their mom in that grief. They're grieving as well,
(23:22):
so they stop being kids and stop having fun, and
all for the right reason. They want to support their mom,
and they know they're sad too, but you know, the
mom just wants them to have fun and be kids, really,
and that's what you see. That was another after one
(23:43):
of our events, say, we usually ask the kids what
was the most fun for you? What did you enjoy
the most? And sometimes you think it would be like
going to an amusement park or meeting these cool people,
that sort of thing. I had a teenager once say,
I just enjoyed seeing my mom laugh and be with
(24:05):
other moms and have a good time again. And then
you ask the moms what the best thing was, and
I'll say, best thing was just seeing my son or
my daughter smile and be a kid again, having fun.
So those sort of things. Being able to able to
provide the mechanism for that with all these other families,
(24:28):
it's special and it means a lot to them, means
a lot to us. So it's an honor, it really
is being able to, you know, get to know so
many families who have sacrificed so much for the rest
of us. There's these families who live in your communities.
They're there, they're your neighbors. You know, get to know them,
(24:50):
support them, help them if they need help. A lot
of them are going through a lot, and we just
want to make sure the kids grow up as great
members of society and do great things in life. And
you know a lot of them want to give back.
It's amazing you meet families who have sacrificed so much
(25:13):
and the first thing they think of is what do
I do? What can I do for these other families? Yeah,
so it's pretty inspirational.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
What advice would you have for people that maybe want
to start volunteering in this world?
Speaker 7 (25:33):
Man, that's a good question. I don't know that I
have advice except for well, I guess I do have
advice because I'm about to answer your question. Do it
with your whole heart. That's what I tell people. I mean,
I learned a long time ago in the business world
that I was in that my CEO at the time
that used to tell us, He's like, if you're going
to do anything, do it wholeheartedly. And so that's kind
(25:56):
of the way I like to think that I've done
a lot of things throughout my life, and as far
as volunteering the same way, because you know, you always
hear that cliche saying you get out of it what
you put into it, And for me, that was, you know,
when I'd start volunteering and then hearing the stories about
you know this one or that one or you know,
this guy's is was being it was able to be helped.
(26:20):
You know, you come out volunteered and so that that
helped us be able to put money toward a program
that can help this family or whatever. And I don't know,
I just I think for me, I'm a little different
in the fact that you know, I kind of I
grew up, you know, just always wanted to try to
help people. And it's kind of way you know, my
(26:42):
mom raised me and I've seen you know, it's when
my grandparents were so as far as volunteer aspect, I
tell people go in wholeheartedly, and you know, like you
hear say a lot of times trying here write things
right reasons, and you will be so surprised at the
reward that you know most of the time, you know,
a lot of volunteers that help us now go in
(27:02):
with no expectations. But the reward they get out of it,
that they talk about after the fact is you know,
that's my bonus or that's you know, that's a reward
for me to hear them, Hey I want to come back,
or hey I want to do this again next year.
Hey can I help you? You know, some new ideas
about next year and that kind of thing. So it's
it's how we grow the tribe realistically, and that's uh,
(27:25):
we're very blessed in that aspect, not just here in
Texas but all across the country.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Okay, so these are your smelly pens.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Yes, these are smelly pens. And the first one that
you're about to smell should be Strawberry Delicious. The next
one is banana Foster.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Okay, Oh, I love bananas Foster's.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I don't smell.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
It well and marks you smell the paper, Mmmm, bananas
Foster's most underrated, Underrated dessert, most underrated smelly pen. Okay,
So here we are, we're at we're towards the end
of your work day.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
What what what?
Speaker 4 (28:05):
What else you got to do today? What does your
job look like?
Speaker 7 (28:08):
I really don't, man, I learned a long time ago
this this is not a nine to five business. But
just so people know, when when it comes to the
work that's done here and everything, it's it's a lifestyle, bro,
It's not a job. It's I don't know, it's uh,
it's it's not really the end of the day. It's
just you know, it's later in the day and I
(28:30):
have things to do. But you know, if my phone
rings tonight at seven o'clock because somebody's struggling or it's
usually actually you know when office kind of empties out,
and actually that's when I get majority of my work done.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
He's just been hanging out all day giving people hugs,
you don't even love them. Then they leave like okay, thanks.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
By make sure their day is good.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
So thanks so much, JJ LO love you. And so
what does it feel like to work here now and
be it and be a part of it.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
It's amazing because what they did to me, what they
helped me with, I get to help other people too.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Now I can be the helping side.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
And because of my dark stuff that had happened, some
of these calls that we get are like that.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
And now I know how to talk to the people.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Yeah, and you're like this smiling face they see when
they walk in the door, you know I think that.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Absolutely, Well, thank you so much for hanging out with us.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I really appreciate it. Thank you so much for listening
to the good stuff.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Next week, we'll be back with part two of this
three part series on the inner workings of One Tribe Foundation.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
If you appreciate this show, please subscribe, like, and review
The Good Stuff podcast, and connect with us on social media.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
We love hearing from you, so please reach out for
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Speaker 4 (29:51):
In the meantime, we invite you to go check out
our episode from season one with Michael Karnat put on.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Your bad ass caapes.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
It go be great today and remember you can't do
epic things without epic people.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Again, thank you for listening to the good Stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
The Good Stuff is executive produced by Ashley Shick, Jacob
Shick and Leah Pictures. Hosted by Ashley Shick, Jacob Shick,
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Speaker 3 (30:22):
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