September 16, 2025 • 33 mins
In our third and final episode of our OTF trilogy, Jake tells us the gritty backstory of this foundation and why it almost failed. Then, Ashley takes Nick along for a regularly scheduled staff meeting and we discover why there is no such thing as a “normal” day in the One Tribe offices.
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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):
Ashley also comes from a family rich in military history,
and we've dedicated our lives to One Tribe's mission, serving veterans,
first responders, and their families. We're coming to you from Dallas,
so welcome to.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
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 3 (00:30):
Today we bring you the third and final episode of
our three part series.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
About the One Tribe Foundation offices.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Last episode, we introduced you to a few of our
beloved Tribe members and took a peek inside their work.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
In this episode, Nick tags along for a staff meeting
and I tell the backstory of how we got to
where we are today as an organization.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Just a quick heads up, this show does explore some
heavy subject matter, including talks of suicide, so listener discretion
is advised.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
We couldn't be happier.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
You're here again. Welcome to the Good Stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I'm really excited that you're coming along with us today
to experience a day in the life of One Tribe Foundation.
Today we have our staff meeting, which is a lot
of fun actually because it's where all of us come together.
We go through each program, each person kind of gives
updates from their different program or what events they have
coming up. We have a ton of events. We have
over one hundred and fifty events that we either host
(01:28):
or beneficiaries of that we take part in every year
or so. Lists and lists and lists of logistics always.
But I mean that's truly one of the things I
love about my job is that no day is the same. Yes,
we have our weekly meetings, we have our monthly events,
weekly events are annual events, but they all look different
and it's a lot of fun, so it keeps it
(01:49):
interesting for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
The reason that is this way is then no one
days like the other is because every single person in
the tribe has to wear multiple hats. Yeah, your job title,
whatever that may be up to and including CEO, is
for societal purposes.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I mean, it's just a it's a meaningless label essentially, And.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, that is my thoughts exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah, so everyone does everything.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Cool, My name is Miles Lava Romero and I'm the
office manager at One Track Foundation.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
My name is Tiffany Fox and I am the program
manager for our Unmasked program here at one.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
My name is Warren Ponder and I pretty much crunched
the numbers. My name is Justin Jones. I am the
Community Outreach and Volunteer coordinator for One Try. Francisco Romero
the client services manager for One Trick Foundation.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
My name is Adrian joel On, Community Outreach Coordinator here
at One Tribe, also in charge of merchandise.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
My name is Dallas Weiblood and I am the Wind
Therapy program manager.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
My name is Buck Kern and I am the Chief
Operations Officer or COO for One Tribe Foundation.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Okay, so we're about to go into One Tribe staff meeting.
What do you what do you expect? Tell me a
little bit about what it's like to work here with
these with these.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
People knuckleheads, and what you're we have We have a
great time.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
The meeting is really just an opportunity to go over
you know what's coming up, what events, make sure that
we all know when where, what we need to do together,
how we make it successful. So we don't miss anything.
We had a lot of things coming up, so it'll be, uh,
it'll be an opportunity to share information and uh update
(03:36):
each other on all the activities we have.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
So that sounds pretty good.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Primarily what it is, it's not. It's nothing earth shattering
or all that exciting.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
It's a meeting. Okay, good.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I was going to share some sign.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Camera candle.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We did candle.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Uncle Buck. We love Uncle Buck. He's our grand old man.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
He is.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
He's actually a verb. We call it getting bucked. So
if you get bucked, it means that you were somewhere
in the office and he comes up to show you
a video and then you're standing there for the next
fifteen minutes watching the video.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Bos the grand old man and anything. Literally you could
ask him to do anything and he do it. Is
what happens in this meeting stage right here. How we're
going to have a meeting. Like the fact that we're
(04:40):
still in existence is proof there's a god, because I mean,
we were a ship show for a while. It was
the very beginning.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah, what was it like in the beginning, It was we.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Could have never had a reality show.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
And why paint the picture a little bit.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
No are you recording?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
No, liar, Well.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
We didn't know what the fuck we were doing, dude,
we didn't know what the fuck we were doing. And
there was you know, a handful of us that were
just fucking all of us. Uh uh almost went hard
in the paint all the time with partying and just
it was crazy because all we were trying to do,
like we were essentially the original, like bro bat, I
(05:27):
hate to say that, Oh, but it's it's true, unintentionally
unintentionally for different reasons, right, Like it was just.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Unpack that.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So Nick knows, what do you mean? What do you
mean by that?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
There's vets out there that use their likeness to gain followers,
make money, right and as opposed to like running a
foundation focused around being a little emotional wailess or you know,
something to help further the cause of betterment the veterans
and their families and those types of things. You know,
(06:07):
I was always helped, Ben. I'm never like, I'm never
gonna sell out. I'm never ever gonna be that person.
And even though in the beginning, like I was unintentionally that.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Person, but I was also not calic addict like hardcore
Tonight's Tribal Council at six o'clock. That's been going really great.
We're still getting new faces all the time. Just the
support in that group is just amazing. It's inspiring, awesome.
We've got White Star tomorrow night at six and we
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have QPR training coming up next Tuesday, the twenty fifth
with the Carry the Load people.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
So one Tribe was birthed in the depth of your
post war addiction.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Twenty two Kill was yeah, that evolved into one Track Foundation. Yeah,
twenty two Kill was.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
The irony of it, man, it's just insane because it
was started to raise awareness the veteran suicide epidemic and
then everybody of all was like either alcoholic addicts, bull
fucking miserable. Yeah, it's just the irony behind all of
(07:19):
it is really.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Weird because basically you are trying to stop suicide in
the veteran community while partaking in one of the main
avenues that can lead people down that path.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Yeah, they were extremely happy with a few pictures that
I was able to get at the five K and
send to them. It wasn't very many, but they're excited
that we have something to bring out to the ride
and hopefully we can push more for another palette donation
for carry the Load or another event in the future.
Just he did ask that we get some more pictures
(07:55):
for their marketing, which is their only ask as per
the donation, and that they made for the five K.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And it was birthed out of anger.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Anger at what, you know, I don't know exactly, maybe uh,
probably the government mostly. And then you know, for me
must speak for me God a little bit. You know,
there's just so many things that it was that happened,
(08:25):
and we knew what it was like to go through
the TAPS course class and getting out where it's not
that you don't do anything. You sit there and you
listen to a representative from probably the VA run they're
suck for however many hours, and then that's it. Like
that's like the high five slop on the ass, like
good luck in life, you know, and it's it's just bullshit.
(08:50):
Like if they would invest an eighth in US on
the way out of the military as they do on
the way in, I think the return on investment would
be astronomical. But I also think there's selfless reasons that
the government doesn't do that.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
So twenty two kill was birthed from a place of
like taking care of taking care of yourselves.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Well, we were trying to take care of our own right.
We were trying to give our fellow men and women
to a community sense of belonging, right, and it just
was not ever based on anything super healthy.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Why what were some of the first visions of community
that you were offering.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Well, you know, it was a pretty seamless transition to
go from you know, getting blackout drunk on the weekend
at a bar in California to getting blackout drunk nightly
at a bar in dw Right, like, and then you
throw the cloak of community around that. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
There's two young ladies that I've known for roughly ten
plus years. Their dad was in the Air Force. Their
parents split while back. Their mom moved out here three
years ago. She in February. They thought she was having
a stroke, took her to a hospital, found out that
it's brain cancer. The doctors have pretty much given her
(10:17):
anywhere between three and six months, but she is starting
chemo I believe next week. They did it.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
It's interesting because once you start trying to pull back
from that and then really do it effectively, you know,
a lot of those like ride or die or hell
bent or like if you broke like vanish and it's
really sad. It's super sad. Yeah, because you have all
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types of opinions that fragment people's perception of reality and
it just destroys relationships. And at the end of the day,
you know, it's like, for what is that worth it?
Just because you don't agree or I don't agree, Like
that is that worth the And I think, but I
(11:11):
think on top of that, the continuous life decisions play
a role and said destruction. But whatever relationship, And you know,
I went one way and being clean and sober and
(11:31):
trying to just unfuck my life and do the right
things for the right reasons, and other's some some others didn't.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
So it sounds like you were not only the president
of the club, you were also a client in the
beginning days of twenty two killed. Like eventually you started
listening to what you guys were actually trying to do.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, that's fair, that's funny, ironic, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
After this quick break, Nick learn's first hand how there's
no such thing as a normal day in the One
Tribe office. Welcome back. Allow us to introduce you to
our brother Adrian Joel.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
My name's Adrian Joel on community outreach coordinator here at
One Tribe, also in charge of merchandise.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Adrian is amazing. He is. He's a worker, it's hard.
He loves so hard, and he really takes the tribe
as our family seriously.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
He's one of those people that you could go to
and say, hey, we have to go do a thing
you may not love. People are gonna get hurt, and
he'd be like, we're taking your car mine.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I love your office. Tell me about this what am
I looking at? Let's tell me about some of this
stuff in your office.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
So over here is a football autographed by Charles Haley.
The really cool story behind that is when I first
came on staff, Jake Ashley and I got talking about
Dallas Cowboys and football, and I brought up that Charles
Haley was like my favorite football player when I was
a kid. And so for Christmas first year on staff,
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they gave me a box and I opened it up
and that's what was in there. So hell yeah, that
was pretty awesome, all the stuffed animals and little rubber
snakes and everything. My mom is a bit of a goofball.
So she sends me random toys all the time. So
that's my little collection of toys that my mom sends
(13:37):
me either for Christmas or my birthday or Easter or
whatever holiday she has an excuse for, you know, an
old helmet that Don engraved with one trib one fight
and twenty two kill on it and just kind of
pay homage to the old days.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Plus you got some snacks I see down there.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Definitely always got snacks in the office. Man, Definitely always
have snacks in the office.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
What was the first stage of evolution from essentially a
drinking club where you tell yourselves you're taking care of
each other to actually doing the hard work of maybe
battling some of those demons that are getting in the
way of true care.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
A good question. Probably the first probably the first suicide
that was like one of our community, like our people.
It was that was a that one hit different, right,
(14:45):
They all suck when we heard about them all the time.
These are the people call on us asking, you know,
for resources for funerals and things like that. But the
first one that like happened within the circle was it
was like, Okay, what the fuck are we doing? And
(15:11):
I didn't stop drinking and you know, doing the occasional
drug after that, because I didn't know how to, I
didn't have the tools. I wasn't equipped to properly deal
(15:33):
with that and handle it in a healthy manner. Like
I had no clue, And so what I did was
I just stayed on. As a matter of fact, yeah,
I pushed the gas harder on the path of these
resistance when it comes to filling emotion. The only way
(15:55):
I knew to avoid that was just to stay numb.
So that's what I did, matter of the most. And
because I suck at all things in moderation, I'm not
good at doing anything halfway. Right.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
If you're like, you know what, I think I need
to numb this, You're like, actually, I'm gonna feel literally nothing.
I'm going full numb.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
No, straight up. Yeah, inwardly. Outwardly I guaranthe you're gonna
null the a knell through my hand and I wouldn't
even know length.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So is today like a pretty typical day at the
office for you?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (16:29):
The morning has started out that way, working with merch
and doing orders and getting ready for the Saturday and
the staff meeting. This afternoons a little bit different because
we're having a service day and sometimes they don't always
fit on our calendar. But we're going to go help
families whose mother just got diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.
We're going to go help clean the house and try
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to get some yard working, poolwork done.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
So how do you become aware of a family like
this that needs your help in this moment.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
So in this case, the two daughters that I know,
I've known for a little over ten years, and they
were reaching out on Facebook for help, and I reached
out and connected with them because they were asking for
a need into which we as a tribe could provide for,
which was a little bit of house cleaning. And so
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I contacted them and said, what exactly do you need?
And so we're in the process of seeing where we
outside of just helping clean their hous this time, how
many more times we can do it in the future,
and what other services we can help with.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
And I think it starts in the very beginning in
the military. Obviously, I can only speak for the Marine Corps,
but from all the buddies I've got from the different branches,
it's very similar, Like we don't talk about those things
about the hard things and the losses, especially if it's
by their own hand, like we you know, let's you know,
(17:54):
we'll huddle up and everybody good, Okay, just a bunch
of fake fuckery, surface level shit it you don't drill down,
you avoid the rule things. That's when we started thinking
about Okay, I was like, we're really going to get
in house programming, like we have to get I suppose
it's just basically having these get togethers, because that's pretty
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much what we did. Like we had get togethers when
we were around everywhere yelling at people to do push
ups and ship. More than anything, we we we utilized
in the intimidation factor to make people do it right.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Essentially, you were saying, do twenty two push ups to
recognize the amount of vets we lose.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah, or you know you hate freedom and you suck
at life like you know, it.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Was if you don't do what I say, you hate freedom.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah it was gross, man, but but it worked, like
it was it was pretty effective as it was pretty effective.
But it was after that first one we you know,
I knew we needed to make a change. And it
wasn't long after that that, after a lot of life
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suck ups, and things that I did that were not
indicative of right things, right reasons at all. Regularly, we
have three.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Other people from the office going today and then one
of our advocates is coming with us as well to
see through his connections to see how he can help
with those other services that they need.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Yeah, I heard you guys talking about it. Sounds like
you're going to help them figure out who can donate
some lawnmowing, who can donate some pool clean up, all
these things, how to get Walmart to give you some
gift cards for cleaning supplies. Like that's amazing. It's sort
of like you guys just snap into focus and I
was hearing you guys brainstorm different ideas. Oh, they can
donate this, they can donate that.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Well, that's the beautiful thing about establishing relationships with other people,
which is what we pride ourselves on it. We build relationships.
We just don't build a hey can you help me
when I need you kind of yeah, or we're here
if you need us. We really work on involving our
community in the other community things that we do. So
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building those relationships with Walmart, building our relationships with this
advocate that's coming out today, those things have benefited us greatly,
and in return, we try to give back where we
can with them, whether volunteer hours or you know, doing
small little things like appreciation awards or dinners or things
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like that where we can.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Yeah, amazing, man. Well I'll let you get to it.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Man.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
I know you've got a family to help. So thank
you so much, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
We're going to take a quick break, but stick around
and we'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
We're going to pick back up with Jake telling one
tribe's backstory.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I finally stopped drinking and feel the occasional drug And.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I believe you're using the word occasional ironically.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Well, I never passed one up. Yeah, there you go, right,
Like if it was put in front of my face,
what you're gonna be like, No, I'm good. I never
bought them. I didn't have to. Plenty prevalent. Sure, you
know they were like there was Uber for drugs long
before there was Uber for food, sure or Uber for
(21:26):
people need it? Right?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yeah, to all the kids out there, you should be
able to do this thing called call a drug dealer
and they would show up.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Just disclaimer, we do not condone that no, But I
mean the to date, I've buried a lot of people
I don't know very well, like over a couple dozen
that have died by suicide, and not one of them
was clean or sober when they did it. So there's
something to that. Yeah, And so it was like that
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had a massive impact on me. But and knowing that
if I'm going to do this thing and make a
true impact, I have to do it right first. I
have to do it the way that not only works
for me, but I know that we'll work for a
bunch of other people, right, Like I think drugs and
(22:17):
alcohol are bad for people like me, Like because I
suck at If one pill works, then I know five
are gonna be awesome. And like that's always been my
mentality with adrenaline, with any of it. And so I
knew that I needed to bear down and get my
(22:39):
shit together, and so that's what I focused on. And
then a lot of shit went down. A lot things happened. Man,
There was some internal shit and with people trying to
this is just bad people that I poured into, entrusted
and then backstabbing and h you know, the essentially trying
(23:00):
to establish a coup behind my back h self and
it was just uh. But thereby, but for the grace
of God, I was cleaning sober during all this, and
I really learned how to feel, truly feel what I
was feeling, and sift through it with logic and reason,
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devoid of emotion, and do all these things that I
knew how to do. I knew that it was the
right thing to do, especially by this point because we're
talking four or five years after inception of twenty two fool.
So I mean I knew these things from all the
conferences and the things I'd been to and working for
Center for Brain Health and Brain Performances too. Like I
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had all these tools, I just never put them into practice.
I was walking, eating, breathing contradiction. You know. I was
a straight up hypocrite for years. And that's when it
was like, all right, I gotta I gotta bear down, man,
it's just gotten and it's gone too far. Until I did,
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and then a lot of things started to change. And
there was no lack of pain or uncomfortability, for sure,
but it was for the better. For sure. It was
for the better.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
So flash forward, now you've got one tribe foundation. Guys
just moved into your big, beautiful new offices. Explain to
me what one tribe is doing today, how it functions,
and what's up with it.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
We're doing the work now right like we're doing we're
no shit helping people in order to help people. And
it's tough, like it's hard work. It's hard work spiritually
and emotionally, which I think in turn makes it exhausting,
especially when you don't implement and practice self care, healthy
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selfish like it will it will drive you into the
ground if you don't check that, which I'm very good
about letting the tribe not like, hey, you, you and
your family's well being comes first. Everything we do is
secondary to that, and that will always be the case
as long as my title is my title, because that's
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my choice and the buck stops with me. So it's like,
you know, it's important because it is very it's very
it's it's considerably soul grinding work because you get to
know these people and you, I think naturally start to
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love these people and really care for them and their
well being, and then you lose them. You know, we
go through that pretty much yearly. And there's a lot
of people that don't want anything to do with that.
That's why I always say, like if you, if anyone
wants to know what true courage is, like, go talk
to someone from the tribe, because they're gonna love you
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all the way, knowing that there's a chance they're gonna
lose you, but they're gonna love you all the way anyway.
That to me is true courage because most people avoid
that at all costs because they want to avoid pain.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
It's powerful to me because you guys use a quote
a lot, and I might not get it exact, but
it's something like serving those who run towards the fight,
but one tribe runs towards the fight.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Well, it's a collective statement. Yeah, it's an all encompassing statement.
Like you don't have to be in a uniform running
towards a fight, right, Like you could be a mom
running toward her kids to help in whatever it may be.
You could be a teacher running towards a student. That
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to me, it's an all encompassing statement, and it's not
just indicative of the categorical demographics that we serve right now.
That could be anybody they get. In order to really
make an impact, to stop a destructive path, you know,
you have to be able to meet that force with
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equal or greater force. It's the only way it works
in physics and in life. And if you're not willing
to do that, then just move out of the way,
because you're only in the way. And I've learned that
a lot of people aren't really, really truly willing to
meet that force with equal or greater force, and so
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then a lot of bad shit happens. So it is
very difficult to find those people that have the grit
and the grace, gratitude understanding to be able to do
that on a consistent basis. So it's the only way
that you're really going to make an impact. And it's again,
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it's exhausting work, it's tiring. So for me, it is
vitally important to make sure that I'm a raw first
and foremost within that office is second to none, because
without that you have you don't have shit. And so
I'm hyper focused on making sure that they all know
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their worth, that they all know that they are a
vital role in the overall task at hand, whatever it
may be. That there is no weak link, and there's
not a lot of entities that can say that. And
I take a lot of pride in that because these
people are you know, they're way more than just people
(28:35):
to me. You know, every one of them I view
is family.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
All right, Cool, so you're back. So how did it
go over at the house today helping the family?
Speaker 6 (28:47):
He went really good. We had a few of us
there and then, like I said, James came and he
really helped out in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Uh huh.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
So outside of just helping clean the house, especially they
really needed it. We were able to help clean the
pool and figure out a solution with their pool moving forward.
And also James really stepped up in a way of
offering advice on how they can get started to be
prepared to sell the house. Yeah, because unfortunately it looks
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like the inevitable is going to happen. The other's going
to pass away. It is stage four cancer, So just
getting ready in those lines, and he's offered to step
up because he has background and helping in that and
things like that. Also, there was a lot of optimism
with showing up that when I said I was coming
by with a couple of people, they didn't think I
(29:40):
was showing up with five of us to help clean
their house. So they were really impressed and happy with that,
and they really they were really grateful to have the help.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Yeah, how did that feel for you?
Speaker 6 (29:54):
For me, it just it warmed my heart for us
to be able to be there at my heart talking
with them, just because I've known two of the sisters
for so long.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Yeah, but to.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
See how they're kind of dealing with it, to see
how they're grateful for some the little things like what
we did and some of the other things that are
going on in their life, and being grateful for these
moments that they're still able to have with their mom.
Like more than anything, it warmed my heart and it
was really a blessing to be able to go out
and serve them in that manner.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Yeah. Man, So I guess just an average day in
the life of a One Track Foundation employee.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean that's that's what we're here to do.
Is we're here to help help people and serve in
any manner that we can, and to kind of step
out of our our normal zones of what we do
for work, you know, between events and peer groups and
other program style things that we do, to step out
(30:58):
of what we normally do to be I'll just go
take two hours out of our day and help. Yeah,
you know, it was really awesome and it was a
great tribe effort to be able to do that.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
And how are you feeling about getting out of here
for the rest of the day.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
It's gonna be nice to have another evening, but I'm
really ready for what we have in store this weekend
and I'm excited about that. And you know, we're getting
started into the busy season, and you know, enjoy every
free moment, but enjoy that those busy moments even more.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
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While he didn't make much of an appearance in these episodes,
Dallas and his brilliant work is featured heavily in our
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Speaker 2 (32:12):
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Speaker 1 (32:18):
Again, thank you for listening to the good Stuff.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
The Good Stuff is executive produced by Ashley Shick, Jacob Shick,
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Nick Cassolini.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Produced by Nick Cassolini.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Engineering, editing and post production supervision by Nick Cassolini.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Music by Will Tender,
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):
Ashley also comes from a family rich in military history,
and we've dedicated our lives to One Tribe's mission, serving veterans,
first responders, and their families. We're coming to you from Dallas,
so welcome to.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
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 3 (00:30):
Today we bring you the third and final episode of
our three part series.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
About the One Tribe Foundation offices.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Last episode, we introduced you to a few of our
beloved Tribe members and took a peek inside their work.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
In this episode, Nick tags along for a staff meeting
and I tell the backstory of how we got to
where we are today as an organization.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Just a quick heads up, this show does explore some
heavy subject matter, including talks of suicide, so listener discretion
is advised.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
We couldn't be happier.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
You're here again. Welcome to the Good Stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I'm really excited that you're coming along with us today
to experience a day in the life of One Tribe Foundation.
Today we have our staff meeting, which is a lot
of fun actually because it's where all of us come together.
We go through each program, each person kind of gives
updates from their different program or what events they have
coming up. We have a ton of events. We have
over one hundred and fifty events that we either host
(01:28):
or beneficiaries of that we take part in every year
or so. Lists and lists and lists of logistics always.
But I mean that's truly one of the things I
love about my job is that no day is the same. Yes,
we have our weekly meetings, we have our monthly events,
weekly events are annual events, but they all look different
and it's a lot of fun, so it keeps it
(01:49):
interesting for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
The reason that is this way is then no one
days like the other is because every single person in
the tribe has to wear multiple hats. Yeah, your job title,
whatever that may be up to and including CEO, is
for societal purposes.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I mean, it's just a it's a meaningless label essentially, And.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, that is my thoughts exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah, so everyone does everything.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Cool, My name is Miles Lava Romero and I'm the
office manager at One Track Foundation.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
My name is Tiffany Fox and I am the program
manager for our Unmasked program here at one.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
My name is Warren Ponder and I pretty much crunched
the numbers. My name is Justin Jones. I am the
Community Outreach and Volunteer coordinator for One Try. Francisco Romero
the client services manager for One Trick Foundation.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
My name is Adrian joel On, Community Outreach Coordinator here
at One Tribe, also in charge of merchandise.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
My name is Dallas Weiblood and I am the Wind
Therapy program manager.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
My name is Buck Kern and I am the Chief
Operations Officer or COO for One Tribe Foundation.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Okay, so we're about to go into One Tribe staff meeting.
What do you what do you expect? Tell me a
little bit about what it's like to work here with
these with these.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
People knuckleheads, and what you're we have We have a
great time.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
The meeting is really just an opportunity to go over
you know what's coming up, what events, make sure that
we all know when where, what we need to do together,
how we make it successful. So we don't miss anything.
We had a lot of things coming up, so it'll be, uh,
it'll be an opportunity to share information and uh update
(03:36):
each other on all the activities we have.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
So that sounds pretty good.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Primarily what it is, it's not. It's nothing earth shattering
or all that exciting.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
It's a meeting. Okay, good.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I was going to share some sign.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Camera candle.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We did candle.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Uncle Buck. We love Uncle Buck. He's our grand old man.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
He is.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
He's actually a verb. We call it getting bucked. So
if you get bucked, it means that you were somewhere
in the office and he comes up to show you
a video and then you're standing there for the next
fifteen minutes watching the video.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Bos the grand old man and anything. Literally you could
ask him to do anything and he do it. Is
what happens in this meeting stage right here. How we're
going to have a meeting. Like the fact that we're
(04:40):
still in existence is proof there's a god, because I mean,
we were a ship show for a while. It was
the very beginning.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah, what was it like in the beginning, It was we.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Could have never had a reality show.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
And why paint the picture a little bit.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
No are you recording?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
No, liar, Well.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
We didn't know what the fuck we were doing, dude,
we didn't know what the fuck we were doing. And
there was you know, a handful of us that were
just fucking all of us. Uh uh almost went hard
in the paint all the time with partying and just
it was crazy because all we were trying to do,
like we were essentially the original, like bro bat, I
(05:27):
hate to say that, Oh, but it's it's true, unintentionally
unintentionally for different reasons, right, Like it was just.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Unpack that.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So Nick knows, what do you mean? What do you
mean by that?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
There's vets out there that use their likeness to gain followers,
make money, right and as opposed to like running a
foundation focused around being a little emotional wailess or you know,
something to help further the cause of betterment the veterans
and their families and those types of things. You know,
(06:07):
I was always helped, Ben. I'm never like, I'm never
gonna sell out. I'm never ever gonna be that person.
And even though in the beginning, like I was unintentionally that.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Person, but I was also not calic addict like hardcore
Tonight's Tribal Council at six o'clock. That's been going really great.
We're still getting new faces all the time. Just the
support in that group is just amazing. It's inspiring, awesome.
We've got White Star tomorrow night at six and we
(06:36):
have QPR training coming up next Tuesday, the twenty fifth
with the Carry the Load people.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
So one Tribe was birthed in the depth of your
post war addiction.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Twenty two Kill was yeah, that evolved into one Track Foundation. Yeah,
twenty two Kill was.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
The irony of it, man, it's just insane because it
was started to raise awareness the veteran suicide epidemic and
then everybody of all was like either alcoholic addicts, bull
fucking miserable. Yeah, it's just the irony behind all of
(07:19):
it is really.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Weird because basically you are trying to stop suicide in
the veteran community while partaking in one of the main
avenues that can lead people down that path.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Yeah, they were extremely happy with a few pictures that
I was able to get at the five K and
send to them. It wasn't very many, but they're excited
that we have something to bring out to the ride
and hopefully we can push more for another palette donation
for carry the Load or another event in the future.
Just he did ask that we get some more pictures
(07:55):
for their marketing, which is their only ask as per
the donation, and that they made for the five K.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And it was birthed out of anger.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Anger at what, you know, I don't know exactly, maybe uh,
probably the government mostly. And then you know, for me
must speak for me God a little bit. You know,
there's just so many things that it was that happened,
(08:25):
and we knew what it was like to go through
the TAPS course class and getting out where it's not
that you don't do anything. You sit there and you
listen to a representative from probably the VA run they're
suck for however many hours, and then that's it. Like
that's like the high five slop on the ass, like
good luck in life, you know, and it's it's just bullshit.
(08:50):
Like if they would invest an eighth in US on
the way out of the military as they do on
the way in, I think the return on investment would
be astronomical. But I also think there's selfless reasons that
the government doesn't do that.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
So twenty two kill was birthed from a place of
like taking care of taking care of yourselves.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Well, we were trying to take care of our own right.
We were trying to give our fellow men and women
to a community sense of belonging, right, and it just
was not ever based on anything super healthy.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Why what were some of the first visions of community
that you were offering.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Well, you know, it was a pretty seamless transition to
go from you know, getting blackout drunk on the weekend
at a bar in California to getting blackout drunk nightly
at a bar in dw Right, like, and then you
throw the cloak of community around that. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
There's two young ladies that I've known for roughly ten
plus years. Their dad was in the Air Force. Their
parents split while back. Their mom moved out here three
years ago. She in February. They thought she was having
a stroke, took her to a hospital, found out that
it's brain cancer. The doctors have pretty much given her
(10:17):
anywhere between three and six months, but she is starting
chemo I believe next week. They did it.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
It's interesting because once you start trying to pull back
from that and then really do it effectively, you know,
a lot of those like ride or die or hell
bent or like if you broke like vanish and it's
really sad. It's super sad. Yeah, because you have all
(10:48):
types of opinions that fragment people's perception of reality and
it just destroys relationships. And at the end of the day,
you know, it's like, for what is that worth it?
Just because you don't agree or I don't agree, Like
that is that worth the And I think, but I
(11:11):
think on top of that, the continuous life decisions play
a role and said destruction. But whatever relationship, And you know,
I went one way and being clean and sober and
(11:31):
trying to just unfuck my life and do the right
things for the right reasons, and other's some some others didn't.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
So it sounds like you were not only the president
of the club, you were also a client in the
beginning days of twenty two killed. Like eventually you started
listening to what you guys were actually trying to do.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, that's fair, that's funny, ironic, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
After this quick break, Nick learn's first hand how there's
no such thing as a normal day in the One
Tribe office. Welcome back. Allow us to introduce you to
our brother Adrian Joel.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
My name's Adrian Joel on community outreach coordinator here at
One Tribe, also in charge of merchandise.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Adrian is amazing. He is. He's a worker, it's hard.
He loves so hard, and he really takes the tribe
as our family seriously.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
He's one of those people that you could go to
and say, hey, we have to go do a thing
you may not love. People are gonna get hurt, and
he'd be like, we're taking your car mine.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I love your office. Tell me about this what am
I looking at? Let's tell me about some of this
stuff in your office.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
So over here is a football autographed by Charles Haley.
The really cool story behind that is when I first
came on staff, Jake Ashley and I got talking about
Dallas Cowboys and football, and I brought up that Charles
Haley was like my favorite football player when I was
a kid. And so for Christmas first year on staff,
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they gave me a box and I opened it up
and that's what was in there. So hell yeah, that
was pretty awesome, all the stuffed animals and little rubber
snakes and everything. My mom is a bit of a goofball.
So she sends me random toys all the time. So
that's my little collection of toys that my mom sends
(13:37):
me either for Christmas or my birthday or Easter or
whatever holiday she has an excuse for, you know, an
old helmet that Don engraved with one trib one fight
and twenty two kill on it and just kind of
pay homage to the old days.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Plus you got some snacks I see down there.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Definitely always got snacks in the office. Man, Definitely always
have snacks in the office.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
What was the first stage of evolution from essentially a
drinking club where you tell yourselves you're taking care of
each other to actually doing the hard work of maybe
battling some of those demons that are getting in the
way of true care.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
A good question. Probably the first probably the first suicide
that was like one of our community, like our people.
It was that was a that one hit different, right,
(14:45):
They all suck when we heard about them all the time.
These are the people call on us asking, you know,
for resources for funerals and things like that. But the
first one that like happened within the circle was it
was like, Okay, what the fuck are we doing? And
(15:11):
I didn't stop drinking and you know, doing the occasional
drug after that, because I didn't know how to, I
didn't have the tools. I wasn't equipped to properly deal
(15:33):
with that and handle it in a healthy manner. Like
I had no clue, And so what I did was
I just stayed on. As a matter of fact, yeah,
I pushed the gas harder on the path of these
resistance when it comes to filling emotion. The only way
(15:55):
I knew to avoid that was just to stay numb.
So that's what I did, matter of the most. And
because I suck at all things in moderation, I'm not
good at doing anything halfway. Right.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
If you're like, you know what, I think I need
to numb this, You're like, actually, I'm gonna feel literally nothing.
I'm going full numb.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
No, straight up. Yeah, inwardly. Outwardly I guaranthe you're gonna
null the a knell through my hand and I wouldn't
even know length.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So is today like a pretty typical day at the
office for you?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (16:29):
The morning has started out that way, working with merch
and doing orders and getting ready for the Saturday and
the staff meeting. This afternoons a little bit different because
we're having a service day and sometimes they don't always
fit on our calendar. But we're going to go help
families whose mother just got diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.
We're going to go help clean the house and try
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to get some yard working, poolwork done.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
So how do you become aware of a family like
this that needs your help in this moment.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
So in this case, the two daughters that I know,
I've known for a little over ten years, and they
were reaching out on Facebook for help, and I reached
out and connected with them because they were asking for
a need into which we as a tribe could provide for,
which was a little bit of house cleaning. And so
(17:20):
I contacted them and said, what exactly do you need?
And so we're in the process of seeing where we
outside of just helping clean their hous this time, how
many more times we can do it in the future,
and what other services we can help with.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
And I think it starts in the very beginning in
the military. Obviously, I can only speak for the Marine Corps,
but from all the buddies I've got from the different branches,
it's very similar, Like we don't talk about those things
about the hard things and the losses, especially if it's
by their own hand, like we you know, let's you know,
(17:54):
we'll huddle up and everybody good, Okay, just a bunch
of fake fuckery, surface level shit it you don't drill down,
you avoid the rule things. That's when we started thinking
about Okay, I was like, we're really going to get
in house programming, like we have to get I suppose
it's just basically having these get togethers, because that's pretty
(18:16):
much what we did. Like we had get togethers when
we were around everywhere yelling at people to do push
ups and ship. More than anything, we we we utilized
in the intimidation factor to make people do it right.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Essentially, you were saying, do twenty two push ups to
recognize the amount of vets we lose.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah, or you know you hate freedom and you suck
at life like you know, it.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Was if you don't do what I say, you hate freedom.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah it was gross, man, but but it worked, like
it was it was pretty effective as it was pretty effective.
But it was after that first one we you know,
I knew we needed to make a change. And it
wasn't long after that that, after a lot of life
(19:05):
suck ups, and things that I did that were not
indicative of right things, right reasons at all. Regularly, we
have three.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Other people from the office going today and then one
of our advocates is coming with us as well to
see through his connections to see how he can help
with those other services that they need.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Yeah, I heard you guys talking about it. Sounds like
you're going to help them figure out who can donate
some lawnmowing, who can donate some pool clean up, all
these things, how to get Walmart to give you some
gift cards for cleaning supplies. Like that's amazing. It's sort
of like you guys just snap into focus and I
was hearing you guys brainstorm different ideas. Oh, they can
donate this, they can donate that.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Well, that's the beautiful thing about establishing relationships with other people,
which is what we pride ourselves on it. We build relationships.
We just don't build a hey can you help me
when I need you kind of yeah, or we're here
if you need us. We really work on involving our
community in the other community things that we do. So
(20:10):
building those relationships with Walmart, building our relationships with this
advocate that's coming out today, those things have benefited us greatly,
and in return, we try to give back where we
can with them, whether volunteer hours or you know, doing
small little things like appreciation awards or dinners or things
(20:32):
like that where we can.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Yeah, amazing, man. Well I'll let you get to it.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Man.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
I know you've got a family to help. So thank
you so much, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
We're going to take a quick break, but stick around
and we'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
We're going to pick back up with Jake telling one
tribe's backstory.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I finally stopped drinking and feel the occasional drug And.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I believe you're using the word occasional ironically.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Well, I never passed one up. Yeah, there you go, right,
Like if it was put in front of my face,
what you're gonna be like, No, I'm good. I never
bought them. I didn't have to. Plenty prevalent. Sure, you
know they were like there was Uber for drugs long
before there was Uber for food, sure or Uber for
(21:26):
people need it? Right?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yeah, to all the kids out there, you should be
able to do this thing called call a drug dealer
and they would show up.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Just disclaimer, we do not condone that no, But I
mean the to date, I've buried a lot of people
I don't know very well, like over a couple dozen
that have died by suicide, and not one of them
was clean or sober when they did it. So there's
something to that. Yeah, And so it was like that
(21:57):
had a massive impact on me. But and knowing that
if I'm going to do this thing and make a
true impact, I have to do it right first. I
have to do it the way that not only works
for me, but I know that we'll work for a
bunch of other people, right, Like I think drugs and
(22:17):
alcohol are bad for people like me, Like because I
suck at If one pill works, then I know five
are gonna be awesome. And like that's always been my
mentality with adrenaline, with any of it. And so I
knew that I needed to bear down and get my
(22:39):
shit together, and so that's what I focused on. And
then a lot of shit went down. A lot things happened. Man,
There was some internal shit and with people trying to
this is just bad people that I poured into, entrusted
and then backstabbing and h you know, the essentially trying
(23:00):
to establish a coup behind my back h self and
it was just uh. But thereby, but for the grace
of God, I was cleaning sober during all this, and
I really learned how to feel, truly feel what I
was feeling, and sift through it with logic and reason,
(23:21):
devoid of emotion, and do all these things that I
knew how to do. I knew that it was the
right thing to do, especially by this point because we're
talking four or five years after inception of twenty two fool.
So I mean I knew these things from all the
conferences and the things I'd been to and working for
Center for Brain Health and Brain Performances too. Like I
(23:42):
had all these tools, I just never put them into practice.
I was walking, eating, breathing contradiction. You know. I was
a straight up hypocrite for years. And that's when it
was like, all right, I gotta I gotta bear down, man,
it's just gotten and it's gone too far. Until I did,
(24:02):
and then a lot of things started to change. And
there was no lack of pain or uncomfortability, for sure,
but it was for the better. For sure. It was
for the better.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
So flash forward, now you've got one tribe foundation. Guys
just moved into your big, beautiful new offices. Explain to
me what one tribe is doing today, how it functions,
and what's up with it.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
We're doing the work now right like we're doing we're
no shit helping people in order to help people. And
it's tough, like it's hard work. It's hard work spiritually
and emotionally, which I think in turn makes it exhausting,
especially when you don't implement and practice self care, healthy
(24:48):
selfish like it will it will drive you into the
ground if you don't check that, which I'm very good
about letting the tribe not like, hey, you, you and
your family's well being comes first. Everything we do is
secondary to that, and that will always be the case
as long as my title is my title, because that's
(25:11):
my choice and the buck stops with me. So it's like,
you know, it's important because it is very it's very
it's it's considerably soul grinding work because you get to
know these people and you, I think naturally start to
(25:31):
love these people and really care for them and their
well being, and then you lose them. You know, we
go through that pretty much yearly. And there's a lot
of people that don't want anything to do with that.
That's why I always say, like if you, if anyone
wants to know what true courage is, like, go talk
to someone from the tribe, because they're gonna love you
(25:55):
all the way, knowing that there's a chance they're gonna
lose you, but they're gonna love you all the way anyway.
That to me is true courage because most people avoid
that at all costs because they want to avoid pain.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
It's powerful to me because you guys use a quote
a lot, and I might not get it exact, but
it's something like serving those who run towards the fight,
but one tribe runs towards the fight.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Well, it's a collective statement. Yeah, it's an all encompassing statement.
Like you don't have to be in a uniform running
towards a fight, right, Like you could be a mom
running toward her kids to help in whatever it may be.
You could be a teacher running towards a student. That
(26:47):
to me, it's an all encompassing statement, and it's not
just indicative of the categorical demographics that we serve right now.
That could be anybody they get. In order to really
make an impact, to stop a destructive path, you know,
you have to be able to meet that force with
(27:09):
equal or greater force. It's the only way it works
in physics and in life. And if you're not willing
to do that, then just move out of the way,
because you're only in the way. And I've learned that
a lot of people aren't really, really truly willing to
meet that force with equal or greater force, and so
(27:31):
then a lot of bad shit happens. So it is
very difficult to find those people that have the grit
and the grace, gratitude understanding to be able to do
that on a consistent basis. So it's the only way
that you're really going to make an impact. And it's again,
(27:52):
it's exhausting work, it's tiring. So for me, it is
vitally important to make sure that I'm a raw first
and foremost within that office is second to none, because
without that you have you don't have shit. And so
I'm hyper focused on making sure that they all know
(28:13):
their worth, that they all know that they are a
vital role in the overall task at hand, whatever it
may be. That there is no weak link, and there's
not a lot of entities that can say that. And
I take a lot of pride in that because these
people are you know, they're way more than just people
(28:35):
to me. You know, every one of them I view
is family.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
All right, Cool, so you're back. So how did it
go over at the house today helping the family?
Speaker 6 (28:47):
He went really good. We had a few of us
there and then, like I said, James came and he
really helped out in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Uh huh.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
So outside of just helping clean the house, especially they
really needed it. We were able to help clean the
pool and figure out a solution with their pool moving forward.
And also James really stepped up in a way of
offering advice on how they can get started to be
prepared to sell the house. Yeah, because unfortunately it looks
(29:18):
like the inevitable is going to happen. The other's going
to pass away. It is stage four cancer, So just
getting ready in those lines, and he's offered to step
up because he has background and helping in that and
things like that. Also, there was a lot of optimism
with showing up that when I said I was coming
by with a couple of people, they didn't think I
(29:40):
was showing up with five of us to help clean
their house. So they were really impressed and happy with that,
and they really they were really grateful to have the help.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Yeah, how did that feel for you?
Speaker 6 (29:54):
For me, it just it warmed my heart for us
to be able to be there at my heart talking
with them, just because I've known two of the sisters
for so long.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Yeah, but to.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
See how they're kind of dealing with it, to see
how they're grateful for some the little things like what
we did and some of the other things that are
going on in their life, and being grateful for these
moments that they're still able to have with their mom.
Like more than anything, it warmed my heart and it
was really a blessing to be able to go out
and serve them in that manner.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Yeah. Man, So I guess just an average day in
the life of a One Track Foundation employee.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean that's that's what we're here to do.
Is we're here to help help people and serve in
any manner that we can, and to kind of step
out of our our normal zones of what we do
for work, you know, between events and peer groups and
other program style things that we do, to step out
(30:58):
of what we normally do to be I'll just go
take two hours out of our day and help. Yeah,
you know, it was really awesome and it was a
great tribe effort to be able to do that.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
And how are you feeling about getting out of here
for the rest of the day.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
It's gonna be nice to have another evening, but I'm
really ready for what we have in store this weekend
and I'm excited about that. And you know, we're getting
started into the busy season, and you know, enjoy every
free moment, but enjoy that those busy moments even more.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Thank you so much for listening to Good Stuff. We
want to give a big shout out to Dallas white Blood.
While he didn't make much of an appearance in these episodes,
Dallas and his brilliant work is featured heavily in our
episode dedicated to win Therapy.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
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Speaker 2 (31:49):
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Speaker 3 (31:57):
And it would mean the world to us if you
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the meantime, if you're looking for a companion piece to
this episode, please check out our episode Service and Sacrifice
with Sharonda calleron from season one.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Put on your bad ass capes and go be great
today and remember you can't do epic things without epic people.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Again, thank you for listening to the good Stuff.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
The Good Stuff is executive produced by Ashley Shick, Jacob Shick,
and Leah Pictures. Hosted by Ashley Shick, Jacob Shick, and
Nick Cassolini.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Produced by Nick Cassolini.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Engineering, editing and post production supervision by Nick Cassolini.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Music by Will Tender,
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