September 9, 2025 • 29 mins
Welcome back to the One Tribe offices for the middle installment of our three-part series going behind the scenes of a foundation dedicated to the mental and emotional wellness of the veteran community and beyond. In this episode, Nick gets to know a few more of the staff members at One Tribe and we get a clearer picture of what it means to live a life serving those in crisis.
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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):
As always, it is great to be with you, guys.
This episode is part two of our three part series
focusing on getting a glimpse into the inner workings of
One Tribe Foundation.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Last episode, we introduced you to a few of our
beloved Tribe members and took a peek inside their work.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
This week, we returned to One Tribe's brand new, shining,
beautiful office space and get to know three more people
who work there. Just a quick heads up, this show
does explore some heavy subject matter, including talks of suicide,
so listener just Press is apprised.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
We couldn't be happier you're here again.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Welcome to the good stuff. Actually, we talked me about
your office a little bit. Walk me through a wee
guy here see a lot of shapes that appeared to
be the state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
You would be correct in that assessment. I do laugh
whenever we give people tours of our office because my
office is very, very Texasy. So I've got the Travis
Letter in my office with the Republic of Texas seal
picture of the Alamo. I've got the Travis letter again.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
What is the Travis Letter.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
It's the letter that William Barrett Travis sent out to
try to get help when he was at the Alamo
and he was besieged by a thousand or more Mexicans.
He sent it from James Butler Bonham was the messenger
of the Alamo, and he sent that out trying to
get reinforcements, and I just calls neglected. I'm determined to
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sustain myself as long as possible and die like a
soldier who never forgets what is due to his own
honor and that of his country, victory or death. William
Barrett Travis. I've got a yellow rose poster on the
back of my door that was done by Olivia Bennett.
I just think it's a really cool rendition of the
yellow rows with the Texas flag colors and lone star
in it.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Texas is state flower.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yes, well actually blue bonnets, but yes, yellow rows and
blue bonnets.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It's kind of like a tie for.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
First look hopefully, but before you leave you'll see the
blue bonnets start to pop up. Because when they pop up,
it's it's on like they're everywhere, and it's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
It's so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
It's something to experience. I do have a flag, a
Texas flag that was flown over Iraq in twenty fifteen
because I did a big care package campaign and sent
care package to a lot of soldiers who were downrange
at the time. The really cool thing is the frame
that that's around my Tech Travis letter with the Republic
of Texas seal actually matched a Texas flag, original Texas
(03:00):
flag that our good friend Michael Cornell who we had
on Season one, who unfortunately we've lost, he actually had
this flag in his office and he saw mine and
he said, I have a flag Texas flag that matches that.
And so after he passed away, Gabby gave that to
me and said, I think Mike would want you to
have this, So it's a very very special flag to me.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
And then I've got a painting of my grandfather, which
is my why for why I do the things that
I've done with the military and veterans and first responders,
just because of him. He was twenty four years old
when he was killed in a plane crash and doing
what he loved and serving in our United States Air Force.
He was a pilot and he died in a T
thirty three crash in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I love my office. I've got a long horn above
my desk too, because you know, Texas forever hookhem horns.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
All right, dear listeners, join me as I explore One
Tribe's brand new office building and get to know three
more people, Warren, Francisco, and Tiff.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
And my name is Warren Ponder, and I pretty much
crunched the numbers.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Warren is a special human being because not only is
he a veteran and a PhD and all these things,
but when it comes to helping the human race, Warren
in second to anybody.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So take me through like an average day in the
office for you. What was Warren's day like today.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
This morning, I got here and cleaned out some emails
and sent some with us. I sent some to people
that I write with. So the majority of what I
do is crunch the numbers, but then I also look
for things in there that can sort of be extracted
for like peer reviewed journal articles, you know, anything from
resilience to depression and suicide and anything in between.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
What was behind the thought of having a resident PhD
on staff.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Warren's job is vital to one tribe because we can
go and do and create all of these events throughout
the year, all of these gather that we do. But
until we track and make sure what we're doing is
actually working as a form of therapy, you know, we're
just wasting time and money. So what he does is
extremely important for us to be able to make sure
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that the work that we're doing is to the level
of effectiveness that we need it to be.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And Warren's got the ability to get these white papers
or create these studies and put them into a context
that knuckle draggers like me can understand.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah, if you wouldn't mind, just your name and your
title here.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Francisco Romero, the Client Services manager, for One Tripe Foundation.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Can you break down why Francisco is so important at
one tribe?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
His job is so vital because when we have someone
that comes in needing resources right now, he's the one
that jumps on it. He's in charge of it, and
he helps people find the resources that they need to
get the help that they need, and he does it
with grace and compassion in a timely manner.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Typically, what I do is in the morning, the first
thing I do is I want to make sure that
I'm checking my emails, regardless of what it might look like,
whether it's emails coming from our website, connecting with folks
who might be in crisis. But that's the first and
number one thing is checking in on all our people.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
The reason that individuals like Francisco have to be able
to do that in that scenario is because not everybody
can mentally and emotionally go to deaf Con five. Somebody
has to be able to stay calm, cool and collected
while being able to implement compassion and empathy, or nothing's
gonna get done, nobody's gonna get helped. And Francisco is
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the quintessential. I will stay calm, home and collected it
is very hard to ruffle my feathers. You're not gonna
find me shaken hardly.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Ever.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
My name is Tiffany Fox, and I am the program
manager for our Unmasked program here at one time.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Tiffany is amazing. She has been through so much and
yet continues to fight so hard, not only for herself
and her family, but for the tribe and for those
that she serves. She's very intelligent and she's very forward thinking.
She's always trying to think of more, what more can
we do and what are some new ways we can
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reach people and help people. She's very compassionate and she's
a fierce warrior princess.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
So the unmass program encompasses a lot of things. The
main focus on it is suicide prevention, bringing awareness and
training to the community to be able to help prevent
more suicides.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Tiffany is definitely a go to in a traumatic situation
or crisis situation. She's one hundred percent one of the
go tos. If for some reason Francisco is not available
or vice versa, you know that, Okay, we'll get to
either one of these people. They've got it like she
will love you all the way and rip her fucking
face off all at the same time.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
But we also focus on on resilience. We do some
education classes. We have resilience classes like yoga, irs meditation,
We do soundbaths. Our peer support groups out of there
for our White Star Families, which is for those who
have lost the loved one to suicide. And then we
have our Tribal Council, which is our veterans Fresh responders.
That's our peer support group for them. Yeah, we do
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a lot of things. Our QPR training, which is our
question persuade refer that is our suicide specific to our
suicide prevention training that we take to the community help
educate them better on that and how to ask the
question and how to get people to resources that they
may need in order to help them to be safe
and have some healing.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Again, with all these employees, like we're short changing every
single one of them.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Just for the record, glad you don't have a video
in the area because it's not the most organized.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
There's a lot of piles of paper, but they seem
to be mostly paper cliped together. I see things are stable.
This is okay.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
You should have seen it like before. I mean, this
is organized for me, but like the rest of the
world not so much.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, you got some cans of Monster energy drinks, some vapes.
I see. You know, you have all your things you need.
I see a bunch of highlighters over here for me.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
I get well, I guess I should have started with
the Monster you know. Get a cup of coffee, you
know that works out good? Much on some granola bars?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Oh yeah, Oh wow, you have a whole you have
a whole snack system going up here. Yeah, this is
your zone. I love this well I do.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
I have it that way, so when I get here
it's sort of all business. I can sit here at
the damn computer and write up you know what, you
know what I want? Yeah, right, And I don't have
to go to the damp. I know, it'd be like
five ten minutes to go eat, you know, in the
little common area over there. But I'm I really like
my job and it's a lot of fun, so I
don't even want to do that. I sort of just
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want to stay camped here and doing that because it's
in my view it's really important to do this and
disseminate findings because other people might read it and be like, oh,
oh my gosh, I didn't think about what you know,
this knucklehead one Tribe wrote, Yeah, you know, and you
know sort of really our number one issue is to
(10:09):
our number one goal is to stop going to funerals. Yeah,
and so su is uh some articles it's other than suicide.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
But the overwhelming majority of what I do.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Is I try to figure out, you know, relationships between
like emotion, depression and suicide and things like that.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
We need to take a quick commercial break here, but
stick around because this episode is just getting started. Here
we go, let's jump right back in. Here's Ashley and
Nick in her office.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Unfortunately, sometimes we get the emails, like my son has
a classmate who walked in and found his twenty four
year old brother had committed suicide yesterday at the age
of twenty four. He was a Navy veteran struggling with
PTSD after serving tours in Gaza and unfortunately have been
let down by the system.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
So you receive these email and so you sort of
are aware of them, and then you make sure Francisco's
on top of it. You guys communicate back and forth
about dealing with like this specific email that you just got,
for instance.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Every day, Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and sometimes it's calls late
at night. Sometimes, you know, a lot of the panicles
set in late at night and that's when they call,
and that's when we, you know, try to do our
best to be on top of it. We don't have
a twenty four hour hotline. There are resources set up
for individuals that are needing help immediately we need. All
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of that information is on our website. But yeah, we
definitely are on top of it as often as we
can be to make sure that we're getting them help
and communicating back as quickly as possible.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
I'm twenty four to seven as far as my phone goes,
so I'm keeping tabs on that making sure that if
I get any crisis calls, we're taking care of those
people right then and there. Today and we had a
veteran who reached out or a friend of his and
he's just struggling. He's going through quite a bit. He's single,
he's older, and he's just having a hard time wondering
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if he should be around. So I connected with the gentleman.
I wanted to make sure I can reach out to
his friend because he's done everything he can to connect
his friend to One Track Foundation to connect him to
other things to just get him out of the house.
So that's one of the things I do is I
work a lot with people who are not sure where
could go to move forward, if they should help their friend,
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if they should lay off, if they should call someone
to get more help for the friend. And this is
one of those cases where he was genuinely concerned for
his friend's safety as far as is he going to
be here tomorrow? So I kind of walk them through
the process as far as you know you're and encourage
them because he went through his struggle with his friend
and how much he's had to really encourage him to
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stay alive, and he did great. It's tough when we
hear that situation because of course we want everyone to
be in a good place. That's just not the case
for a lot of people. So we want to make
sure the people that are keeping up with their friends
and keeping tabs and that they get the incurage they need,
because sometimes that's a daunting task to wonder, is my
friend going to beer tomorrow? Yeah, he's going to invite
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him out to the right that we're going that's going
on Saturday. So his friend also rides motorcycle. So he's
very interested in And that's one of the things is
if we could keep someone alive for one more day
and just say, hey, remember Saturday, something's coming up. That's
a few more days you just bought for that individual
to stay alive. So it's great on him for us
keeping tabs with this wren and making sure that he's good.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
I joined the Army in four and I signed up
as infantry. So everything in the Army has sort of
like a fanatic code with it.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
So you sign up and it's eleven x ray.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
But then they can sort of, you know, place you
as a regular infantry guy or indirect I can add numbers.
So they assigned me to be a mortar. So I
completed basic training at Fort Benning and after that I
went to Fort Lewis near Seattle, and I was there
probably a year and a half before we deployed to Iraq.
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We were there for fifteen months. Then we came back.
I got out and I sort of I could see
that some people who didn't have a plan they were struggling.
So I left the Army in December of seven and
I started grad school the next month. Because I didn't
want any you know, chunks of time, because you know
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that's when you know a lot of the problems arose
for people that sort of got out before I did.
So I got a master's in a PhD and social
work from the University of Texas at Arlington, and what
I did for the thesis was look at how PTSD
effects relationship satisfaction. I looked at how couples communicate, you know,
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whether it be like emails, phone or text or whatever,
how they communicate during a combat deployment, and then how
that affects them when they returned stateside.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Wow, can you give us the nutshell of your findings?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
The veterans they like to sort of deactivate and be
left alone, so it's sort of like emotional distancing, whereas
the state side significant other they preferred. It's called attachment anxiety,
and it's basically sort of things get amplified. So that's
how they processed emotions during the deployment.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
But what was.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Interesting was when they got back stateside, it wasn't the
most healthy. It worked and it was adaptive for the deployment,
but when they came back, it's sort of created interpersonal
emotional patterns that could be sometimes hard to overcome.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
And how long have you worked at one tribe?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I have been here for four years.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
And what does it mean to you to work here?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
For me personally, it's it's very it's very personal.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
For me.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
When I came to work here four years ago, I
was married to my husband who is a combat Army veteran,
and three years ago in May, he actually took his
own life to suiticide. So for me it was very
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life changing for my family, being that when I first
came here, it was very difficult in our marriage and
in our family with him being very closed off and
not wanting to talk and not communicate about the things
that he had been through and gone through and was
currently going through. And just through some training from onboarding
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to coming to work here. It taught me as a
spouse how to be able to talk to him, what
to say, what not to say, how to listen, and
things like that, And so our communication as a married
couple became better than it had ever been in our
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entire marriage, especially since he had gone to combat. He
started opening up talking about things, hearing stories that I
had never heard before, some of the things he went
through and experienced and had to do and see and
all those things. So in that aspect it helped us
tremendously now that he's not here anymore. They've been a
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very big support for our family. We really are a
family here. The amount of support that they've been there
for me and my own kids has been just I
can't say enough about it. It's just been out of
this world and outstanding. So for me, it's just been
it's a very big place. They hold a very big
place in my heart, as organization does everybody on staff,
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Jake and Ashley and now it's a personal mission more
than anything. Just not want to just don't want to
see anybody else die, you know. I don't want to
see my else die by suicide. I don't want to
have to go to any more funerals, you know. And
you're a bottom all the time, and it just gets
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more and more and more and more prevalent. And just
bringing that awareness to people and letting them know that
it's okay to not be okay, that there are people
that understand and that are willing to listen and that
are willing to be there for them. So it means
a lot to me. It's part of my life, my
everyday life.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Now, we're going to take a quick breather. We'll be
back in a few moments. Welcome back to the good
stuff here. I am with Francisco. I feel like it
would probably be pretty easy for people to think that
an office space like this would be really heavy and
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sort of I don't know, sad even you know, that's
not my sense of the vibes here. How would you
just tribe showing up to work, like, what is the
energy here in this building?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
They so.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
A lot of people say if you love what you do,
you'll never work a day in your life. Yeah, And
that's how I feel coming to One Tribe Foundation every
single day. I don't see it as a job. I
see it as this is what I'm called to do.
It's what I'm supposed to be doing. Can it be heavy? Absolutely?
There are days that I had to leave work because
it was I talked to perhaps a child or a
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mom and their child regarding finding their dad had died
by suicide in their house. It's tough to talk about
those situations at the time when when you're actually interacting
with the client. But then once that passes, you've done
your self care and you've come back to a solid place.
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The rewards of seeing that family, the daughter and the
mom come back to one tribe and get their therapy
or their counseling, to participate in our programs. That's where
the rewards sit in as we made a difference in
their life. It was tragic, but again we're able to
give back and give them some solace, give them some
hope for the future, and let them know that things
are going to look better.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
We're in a new office space with one tribe. How's
this new office treating you?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
It's fantastic. Yeah, I love the office space. The commutes
a little long for me, but that's okay. I'm the
I'm the one person who lives out in the sticks.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, the big track to the big city every day.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah. Do you have a favorite space in the office
that you like to go to?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Oh gosh, I would have to say probably the reception
area where that giant couches. That's like it's like a
bed like itself. You just lay down and it's like
it's so comfortable. Yeah, you know, really, I think any
place in the office is a good space where there's
more than one of us that we can sit and
just talk and we just we do that a lot here. Yeah,
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just checking in with one another and being each other
therap so to speak. The space has been really good,
a lot more homey and just we have a lot
of opportunity to bring more and more people in the doors.
It's my favorite time is when we do have people
come by and stop, buy and visit and we get
to talk to those that come in the office.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah, have you had an experience recently with someone coming
in that you really connected with?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
For me, that's weekly. It's because I lead the peer
support groups on Tuesday Wednesday nights, and so every time
we get together, it's always just a special time. It's
always different. But the amount of support and the closeness
in those groups is just it's off the charts. It's
like nothing I've ever experienced before. Because even though I'm
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moderate the group or whatever, I get as much out
of it as they do every single time.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Why is it such a powerful meeting? Why are these
ones so good?
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Just the amount of vulnerability that goes into it. You've
got grown men in there that are first responders currently,
that are also veterans that they just come in there
and they just are vulnerable. Everything is laid out on
the table. There is nothing that has off limits to
talk about. There's no set agenda, so to speak. So
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it's not like going to a typical like therapy session
where your counselors asking you, you know, so how would
your week and you know, well, how does that make
you feel? You know, stuff like that, which is a
very necessary thing. I think therapy is very beneficial, But
this in particular is just so open form that it
doesn't it doesn't matter. Sometimes we talk about funny things
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that happens to us during the week. A lots to
talk about, you know, family, kids, grandkids, stuff like that,
and sometimes it's you know, somebody is having a really
hard week and you know, the floor is open. There
could be thirty people in the group and the floor
is open for that one person for that hour and
a half. So it's just very just just the vulnerability,
it's just it's off the charts.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
What advice would you give anyone who might want to
follow in your line of work and also feel a
calling to this level of service.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
So it is tough, it's not for the week.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Get heart.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
It is a.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Service and it is as I mentioned, it can be heavy,
but in the end, the rewards far outweigh the heaviness
that come along with it. My advice is, if you
are right, if you're jumping into a line of work
where you're going to be dealing with people who are
in crisis or dealing with suicidal ideation, is to have
a solid plan for yourself as far as mental health goes,
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making sure that you're doing self care, so regardless of
what that looks like yoga, whether it's hiking, working out, swimming,
whatever the case is, have a solid plan because the
days that are heavy are very heavy, and if you
don't have that place that you can go to where
you feel that calm, where you feel that piece where
you can take care of yourself, it can cause some
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future heaviness with yourself, whether it's depression or whatever the
case is. Having a plan for yourself is always good
and then relying on your support system. All the people
here at One Tripe Foundation we call ourself family because
we use each other. And days that are heavy for me,
I could I know, I could go right next door
to my office mat and talk to them and they'll
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pull me out of a slumper though. They'll help me
make my day better. So it's having a plan for
yourself and making sure that you're practicing self care.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I know you got to get out of here and
go pick up your kids, you said, And as what
does the rest of the day look like for you?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Hang out with them, enjoy it and then head home
and always drawn some more numbers.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Thanks so much, Marin.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
So I never got to ask you because of you know,
all the things, doing all the things. But what was
your take on the office because you got to see
it the first time yesterday?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Man, well, A, it's beautiful. You guys obviously put a
ton of care into it. B it's functional. I was like, oh,
this room is clearly a perfect playroom for the kids.
This is like the arts and craft space. This is
like a like every space feels very purposeful, and an
additional level of functionality to that is like if I
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were gonna feel like I was in a moment of
crisis and I needed to talk to someone, those were
offices that I felt like I could walk into and
close the door and also have privacy. So there's this
big community aspect to it, for sure. But you guys
have built in spaces specifically like the Carneal's cove, which
is like this is, you know, to use an over
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used phrase, a safe space, like you're going to be
good here. This is going to be between you and
whoever you feel like you need to be heard by
in the moment. So that was really really powerful and
also just it's really fun to see the level in
which different people customize their offices. You know, everyone's there
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was a lot of like peaceful chanting music or like
essential oils, Like everyone's like this is a calm space.
It's like, yeah, you guys like whatever industry like sells
how to be common your office goods. You guys are
keeping in business. Like there's so much like smells and
(26:12):
like twirly things that are mesmerizing and peaceful.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
It's things I remember talking to you on the phone
one time and I was like, are you at the
beach and you like had your like wave machine going
or something in the background, or chanting or chimes or
something like.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
It's just this amazing effort and care about offering some
tranquility in what is very very obviously a world in
which the opposite of tranquility drives people to some really
scary despair. And you guys are just like well, this
is the opposite of that world and we meet it
head on. But like also, like here's some essential oils
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to come down a little bit.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
You know, well there's all types of science that goes
into that too. Like, we didn't do it just because
we read a good review on the No.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I absolutely see you guys as the kind of people
that would throw away a piece of garbage that you
didn't like.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, Warren's office is one of the offices. It gives
me anxiety.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
We got to order some more essential oils. I just
went Warren's office.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
It was.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
That's the thing is that because of the work we do,
we don't want it feeling like a clinic.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I don't want it filling, having a hospital error about it. Yeah,
you know, we just want it to be this warm, inviting, calming.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I feel good here. Yeah, it absolutely is that as
a whole, and individually the offices feel that way as well.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Good, then we knowled it except my office.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
He's like, tell me about your office.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
I was like, Texas, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Ashley is the one, Like, yeah, what calms my soul
is a Texas war memorabilia.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Thank you so much for listening to the good stuff.
Next week we'll be back as Nick tags along for
a one Tribe staff meeting and I get into the
nitty gritty of what it was like in the beginning
days of starting this foundation.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
If you appreciate this show, please subscribe, like, and review
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Speaker 2 (28:15):
We love hearing from you, so please reach out through
our website. Our links and contact information is in the
show notes of this episode.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
In the meantime, we invite you to check out our
episode from season one with Joaquin Romero, Francisco's brother. Scroll
back through our catalog to the episode from November seventh,
twenty twenty three, Service Above Self with Joaquin Romero.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Put on your bad ass capes and go be great
today and remember you can't do epic things without epic people.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Again, thank you for listening to the Good Stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
The Good Stuff is executive produced by Ashley Schick, Jacob Shick,
and Leah Pictures posted by Ashley Shick, Jacob Shick, and
Nick Castelini. Produced by Nick Casselini, Engineering, editing and post
production supervision by Nick Castelanian, Music by Will Tegan,
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):
As always, it is great to be with you, guys.
This episode is part two of our three part series
focusing on getting a glimpse into the inner workings of
One Tribe Foundation.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Last episode, we introduced you to a few of our
beloved Tribe members and took a peek inside their work.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
This week, we returned to One Tribe's brand new, shining,
beautiful office space and get to know three more people
who work there. Just a quick heads up, this show
does explore some heavy subject matter, including talks of suicide,
so listener just Press is apprised.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
We couldn't be happier you're here again.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Welcome to the good stuff. Actually, we talked me about
your office a little bit. Walk me through a wee
guy here see a lot of shapes that appeared to
be the state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
You would be correct in that assessment. I do laugh
whenever we give people tours of our office because my
office is very, very Texasy. So I've got the Travis
Letter in my office with the Republic of Texas seal
picture of the Alamo. I've got the Travis letter again.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
What is the Travis Letter.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
It's the letter that William Barrett Travis sent out to
try to get help when he was at the Alamo
and he was besieged by a thousand or more Mexicans.
He sent it from James Butler Bonham was the messenger
of the Alamo, and he sent that out trying to
get reinforcements, and I just calls neglected. I'm determined to
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sustain myself as long as possible and die like a
soldier who never forgets what is due to his own
honor and that of his country, victory or death. William
Barrett Travis. I've got a yellow rose poster on the
back of my door that was done by Olivia Bennett.
I just think it's a really cool rendition of the
yellow rows with the Texas flag colors and lone star
in it.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Texas is state flower.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yes, well actually blue bonnets, but yes, yellow rows and
blue bonnets.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It's kind of like a tie for.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
First look hopefully, but before you leave you'll see the
blue bonnets start to pop up. Because when they pop up,
it's it's on like they're everywhere, and it's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
It's so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
It's something to experience. I do have a flag, a
Texas flag that was flown over Iraq in twenty fifteen
because I did a big care package campaign and sent
care package to a lot of soldiers who were downrange
at the time. The really cool thing is the frame
that that's around my Tech Travis letter with the Republic
of Texas seal actually matched a Texas flag, original Texas
(03:00):
flag that our good friend Michael Cornell who we had
on Season one, who unfortunately we've lost, he actually had
this flag in his office and he saw mine and
he said, I have a flag Texas flag that matches that.
And so after he passed away, Gabby gave that to
me and said, I think Mike would want you to
have this, So it's a very very special flag to me.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
And then I've got a painting of my grandfather, which
is my why for why I do the things that
I've done with the military and veterans and first responders,
just because of him. He was twenty four years old
when he was killed in a plane crash and doing
what he loved and serving in our United States Air Force.
He was a pilot and he died in a T
thirty three crash in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I love my office. I've got a long horn above
my desk too, because you know, Texas forever hookhem horns.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
All right, dear listeners, join me as I explore One
Tribe's brand new office building and get to know three
more people, Warren, Francisco, and Tiff.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
And my name is Warren Ponder, and I pretty much
crunched the numbers.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Warren is a special human being because not only is
he a veteran and a PhD and all these things,
but when it comes to helping the human race, Warren
in second to anybody.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So take me through like an average day in the
office for you. What was Warren's day like today.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
This morning, I got here and cleaned out some emails
and sent some with us. I sent some to people
that I write with. So the majority of what I
do is crunch the numbers, but then I also look
for things in there that can sort of be extracted
for like peer reviewed journal articles, you know, anything from
resilience to depression and suicide and anything in between.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
What was behind the thought of having a resident PhD
on staff.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Warren's job is vital to one tribe because we can
go and do and create all of these events throughout
the year, all of these gather that we do. But
until we track and make sure what we're doing is
actually working as a form of therapy, you know, we're
just wasting time and money. So what he does is
extremely important for us to be able to make sure
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that the work that we're doing is to the level
of effectiveness that we need it to be.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And Warren's got the ability to get these white papers
or create these studies and put them into a context
that knuckle draggers like me can understand.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah, if you wouldn't mind, just your name and your
title here.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Francisco Romero, the Client Services manager, for One Tripe Foundation.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Can you break down why Francisco is so important at
one tribe?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
His job is so vital because when we have someone
that comes in needing resources right now, he's the one
that jumps on it. He's in charge of it, and
he helps people find the resources that they need to
get the help that they need, and he does it
with grace and compassion in a timely manner.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Typically, what I do is in the morning, the first
thing I do is I want to make sure that
I'm checking my emails, regardless of what it might look like,
whether it's emails coming from our website, connecting with folks
who might be in crisis. But that's the first and
number one thing is checking in on all our people.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
The reason that individuals like Francisco have to be able
to do that in that scenario is because not everybody
can mentally and emotionally go to deaf Con five. Somebody
has to be able to stay calm, cool and collected
while being able to implement compassion and empathy, or nothing's
gonna get done, nobody's gonna get helped. And Francisco is
(06:37):
the quintessential. I will stay calm, home and collected it
is very hard to ruffle my feathers. You're not gonna
find me shaken hardly.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Ever.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
My name is Tiffany Fox, and I am the program
manager for our Unmasked program here at one time.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Tiffany is amazing. She has been through so much and
yet continues to fight so hard, not only for herself
and her family, but for the tribe and for those
that she serves. She's very intelligent and she's very forward thinking.
She's always trying to think of more, what more can
we do and what are some new ways we can
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reach people and help people. She's very compassionate and she's
a fierce warrior princess.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
So the unmass program encompasses a lot of things. The
main focus on it is suicide prevention, bringing awareness and
training to the community to be able to help prevent
more suicides.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Tiffany is definitely a go to in a traumatic situation
or crisis situation. She's one hundred percent one of the
go tos. If for some reason Francisco is not available
or vice versa, you know that, Okay, we'll get to
either one of these people. They've got it like she
will love you all the way and rip her fucking
face off all at the same time.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
But we also focus on on resilience. We do some
education classes. We have resilience classes like yoga, irs meditation,
We do soundbaths. Our peer support groups out of there
for our White Star Families, which is for those who
have lost the loved one to suicide. And then we
have our Tribal Council, which is our veterans Fresh responders.
That's our peer support group for them. Yeah, we do
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a lot of things. Our QPR training, which is our
question persuade refer that is our suicide specific to our
suicide prevention training that we take to the community help
educate them better on that and how to ask the
question and how to get people to resources that they
may need in order to help them to be safe
and have some healing.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Again, with all these employees, like we're short changing every
single one of them.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Just for the record, glad you don't have a video
in the area because it's not the most organized.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
There's a lot of piles of paper, but they seem
to be mostly paper cliped together. I see things are stable.
This is okay.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
You should have seen it like before. I mean, this
is organized for me, but like the rest of the
world not so much.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, you got some cans of Monster energy drinks, some vapes.
I see. You know, you have all your things you need.
I see a bunch of highlighters over here for me.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
I get well, I guess I should have started with
the Monster you know. Get a cup of coffee, you
know that works out good? Much on some granola bars?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Oh yeah, Oh wow, you have a whole you have
a whole snack system going up here. Yeah, this is
your zone. I love this well I do.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
I have it that way, so when I get here
it's sort of all business. I can sit here at
the damn computer and write up you know what, you
know what I want? Yeah, right, And I don't have
to go to the damp. I know, it'd be like
five ten minutes to go eat, you know, in the
little common area over there. But I'm I really like
my job and it's a lot of fun, so I
don't even want to do that. I sort of just
(09:47):
want to stay camped here and doing that because it's
in my view it's really important to do this and
disseminate findings because other people might read it and be like, oh,
oh my gosh, I didn't think about what you know,
this knucklehead one Tribe wrote, Yeah, you know, and you
know sort of really our number one issue is to
(10:09):
our number one goal is to stop going to funerals. Yeah,
and so su is uh some articles it's other than suicide.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
But the overwhelming majority of what I do.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Is I try to figure out, you know, relationships between
like emotion, depression and suicide and things like that.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
We need to take a quick commercial break here, but
stick around because this episode is just getting started. Here
we go, let's jump right back in. Here's Ashley and
Nick in her office.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Unfortunately, sometimes we get the emails, like my son has
a classmate who walked in and found his twenty four
year old brother had committed suicide yesterday at the age
of twenty four. He was a Navy veteran struggling with
PTSD after serving tours in Gaza and unfortunately have been
let down by the system.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
So you receive these email and so you sort of
are aware of them, and then you make sure Francisco's
on top of it. You guys communicate back and forth
about dealing with like this specific email that you just got,
for instance.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Every day, Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and sometimes it's calls late
at night. Sometimes, you know, a lot of the panicles
set in late at night and that's when they call,
and that's when we, you know, try to do our
best to be on top of it. We don't have
a twenty four hour hotline. There are resources set up
for individuals that are needing help immediately we need. All
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of that information is on our website. But yeah, we
definitely are on top of it as often as we
can be to make sure that we're getting them help
and communicating back as quickly as possible.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
I'm twenty four to seven as far as my phone goes,
so I'm keeping tabs on that making sure that if
I get any crisis calls, we're taking care of those
people right then and there. Today and we had a
veteran who reached out or a friend of his and
he's just struggling. He's going through quite a bit. He's single,
he's older, and he's just having a hard time wondering
(12:02):
if he should be around. So I connected with the gentleman.
I wanted to make sure I can reach out to
his friend because he's done everything he can to connect
his friend to One Track Foundation to connect him to
other things to just get him out of the house.
So that's one of the things I do is I
work a lot with people who are not sure where
could go to move forward, if they should help their friend,
(12:23):
if they should lay off, if they should call someone
to get more help for the friend. And this is
one of those cases where he was genuinely concerned for
his friend's safety as far as is he going to
be here tomorrow? So I kind of walk them through
the process as far as you know you're and encourage
them because he went through his struggle with his friend
and how much he's had to really encourage him to
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stay alive, and he did great. It's tough when we
hear that situation because of course we want everyone to
be in a good place. That's just not the case
for a lot of people. So we want to make
sure the people that are keeping up with their friends
and keeping tabs and that they get the incurage they need,
because sometimes that's a daunting task to wonder, is my
friend going to beer tomorrow? Yeah, he's going to invite
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him out to the right that we're going that's going
on Saturday. So his friend also rides motorcycle. So he's
very interested in And that's one of the things is
if we could keep someone alive for one more day
and just say, hey, remember Saturday, something's coming up. That's
a few more days you just bought for that individual
to stay alive. So it's great on him for us
keeping tabs with this wren and making sure that he's good.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
I joined the Army in four and I signed up
as infantry. So everything in the Army has sort of
like a fanatic code with it.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
So you sign up and it's eleven x ray.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
But then they can sort of, you know, place you
as a regular infantry guy or indirect I can add numbers.
So they assigned me to be a mortar. So I
completed basic training at Fort Benning and after that I
went to Fort Lewis near Seattle, and I was there
probably a year and a half before we deployed to Iraq.
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We were there for fifteen months. Then we came back.
I got out and I sort of I could see
that some people who didn't have a plan they were struggling.
So I left the Army in December of seven and
I started grad school the next month. Because I didn't
want any you know, chunks of time, because you know
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that's when you know a lot of the problems arose
for people that sort of got out before I did.
So I got a master's in a PhD and social
work from the University of Texas at Arlington, and what
I did for the thesis was look at how PTSD
effects relationship satisfaction. I looked at how couples communicate, you know,
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whether it be like emails, phone or text or whatever,
how they communicate during a combat deployment, and then how
that affects them when they returned stateside.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Wow, can you give us the nutshell of your findings?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
The veterans they like to sort of deactivate and be
left alone, so it's sort of like emotional distancing, whereas
the state side significant other they preferred. It's called attachment anxiety,
and it's basically sort of things get amplified. So that's
how they processed emotions during the deployment.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
But what was.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Interesting was when they got back stateside, it wasn't the
most healthy. It worked and it was adaptive for the deployment,
but when they came back, it's sort of created interpersonal
emotional patterns that could be sometimes hard to overcome.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
And how long have you worked at one tribe?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I have been here for four years.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
And what does it mean to you to work here?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
For me personally, it's it's very it's very personal.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
For me.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
When I came to work here four years ago, I
was married to my husband who is a combat Army veteran,
and three years ago in May, he actually took his
own life to suiticide. So for me it was very
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life changing for my family, being that when I first
came here, it was very difficult in our marriage and
in our family with him being very closed off and
not wanting to talk and not communicate about the things
that he had been through and gone through and was
currently going through. And just through some training from onboarding
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to coming to work here. It taught me as a
spouse how to be able to talk to him, what
to say, what not to say, how to listen, and
things like that, And so our communication as a married
couple became better than it had ever been in our
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entire marriage, especially since he had gone to combat. He
started opening up talking about things, hearing stories that I
had never heard before, some of the things he went
through and experienced and had to do and see and
all those things. So in that aspect it helped us
tremendously now that he's not here anymore. They've been a
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very big support for our family. We really are a
family here. The amount of support that they've been there
for me and my own kids has been just I
can't say enough about it. It's just been out of
this world and outstanding. So for me, it's just been
it's a very big place. They hold a very big
place in my heart, as organization does everybody on staff,
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Jake and Ashley and now it's a personal mission more
than anything. Just not want to just don't want to
see anybody else die, you know. I don't want to
see my else die by suicide. I don't want to
have to go to any more funerals, you know. And
you're a bottom all the time, and it just gets
(18:12):
more and more and more and more prevalent. And just
bringing that awareness to people and letting them know that
it's okay to not be okay, that there are people
that understand and that are willing to listen and that
are willing to be there for them. So it means
a lot to me. It's part of my life, my
everyday life.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Now, we're going to take a quick breather. We'll be
back in a few moments. Welcome back to the good
stuff here. I am with Francisco. I feel like it
would probably be pretty easy for people to think that
an office space like this would be really heavy and
(18:54):
sort of I don't know, sad even you know, that's
not my sense of the vibes here. How would you
just tribe showing up to work, like, what is the
energy here in this building?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
They so.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
A lot of people say if you love what you do,
you'll never work a day in your life. Yeah, And
that's how I feel coming to One Tribe Foundation every
single day. I don't see it as a job. I
see it as this is what I'm called to do.
It's what I'm supposed to be doing. Can it be heavy? Absolutely?
There are days that I had to leave work because
it was I talked to perhaps a child or a
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mom and their child regarding finding their dad had died
by suicide in their house. It's tough to talk about
those situations at the time when when you're actually interacting
with the client. But then once that passes, you've done
your self care and you've come back to a solid place.
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The rewards of seeing that family, the daughter and the
mom come back to one tribe and get their therapy
or their counseling, to participate in our programs. That's where
the rewards sit in as we made a difference in
their life. It was tragic, but again we're able to
give back and give them some solace, give them some
hope for the future, and let them know that things
are going to look better.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
We're in a new office space with one tribe. How's
this new office treating you?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
It's fantastic. Yeah, I love the office space. The commutes
a little long for me, but that's okay. I'm the
I'm the one person who lives out in the sticks.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, the big track to the big city every day.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah. Do you have a favorite space in the office
that you like to go to?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Oh gosh, I would have to say probably the reception
area where that giant couches. That's like it's like a
bed like itself. You just lay down and it's like
it's so comfortable. Yeah, you know, really, I think any
place in the office is a good space where there's
more than one of us that we can sit and
just talk and we just we do that a lot here. Yeah,
(20:56):
just checking in with one another and being each other
therap so to speak. The space has been really good,
a lot more homey and just we have a lot
of opportunity to bring more and more people in the doors.
It's my favorite time is when we do have people
come by and stop, buy and visit and we get
to talk to those that come in the office.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah, have you had an experience recently with someone coming
in that you really connected with?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
For me, that's weekly. It's because I lead the peer
support groups on Tuesday Wednesday nights, and so every time
we get together, it's always just a special time. It's
always different. But the amount of support and the closeness
in those groups is just it's off the charts. It's
like nothing I've ever experienced before. Because even though I'm
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moderate the group or whatever, I get as much out
of it as they do every single time.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Why is it such a powerful meeting? Why are these
ones so good?
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Just the amount of vulnerability that goes into it. You've
got grown men in there that are first responders currently,
that are also veterans that they just come in there
and they just are vulnerable. Everything is laid out on
the table. There is nothing that has off limits to
talk about. There's no set agenda, so to speak. So
(22:16):
it's not like going to a typical like therapy session
where your counselors asking you, you know, so how would
your week and you know, well, how does that make
you feel? You know, stuff like that, which is a
very necessary thing. I think therapy is very beneficial, But
this in particular is just so open form that it
doesn't it doesn't matter. Sometimes we talk about funny things
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that happens to us during the week. A lots to
talk about, you know, family, kids, grandkids, stuff like that,
and sometimes it's you know, somebody is having a really
hard week and you know, the floor is open. There
could be thirty people in the group and the floor
is open for that one person for that hour and
a half. So it's just very just just the vulnerability,
it's just it's off the charts.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
What advice would you give anyone who might want to
follow in your line of work and also feel a
calling to this level of service.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
So it is tough, it's not for the week.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Get heart.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
It is a.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Service and it is as I mentioned, it can be heavy,
but in the end, the rewards far outweigh the heaviness
that come along with it. My advice is, if you
are right, if you're jumping into a line of work
where you're going to be dealing with people who are
in crisis or dealing with suicidal ideation, is to have
a solid plan for yourself as far as mental health goes,
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making sure that you're doing self care, so regardless of
what that looks like yoga, whether it's hiking, working out, swimming,
whatever the case is, have a solid plan because the
days that are heavy are very heavy, and if you
don't have that place that you can go to where
you feel that calm, where you feel that piece where
you can take care of yourself, it can cause some
(23:55):
future heaviness with yourself, whether it's depression or whatever the
case is. Having a plan for yourself is always good
and then relying on your support system. All the people
here at One Tripe Foundation we call ourself family because
we use each other. And days that are heavy for me,
I could I know, I could go right next door
to my office mat and talk to them and they'll
(24:15):
pull me out of a slumper though. They'll help me
make my day better. So it's having a plan for
yourself and making sure that you're practicing self care.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I know you got to get out of here and
go pick up your kids, you said, And as what
does the rest of the day look like for you?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Hang out with them, enjoy it and then head home
and always drawn some more numbers.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Thanks so much, Marin.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
So I never got to ask you because of you know,
all the things, doing all the things. But what was
your take on the office because you got to see
it the first time yesterday?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Man, well, A, it's beautiful. You guys obviously put a
ton of care into it. B it's functional. I was like, oh,
this room is clearly a perfect playroom for the kids.
This is like the arts and craft space. This is
like a like every space feels very purposeful, and an
additional level of functionality to that is like if I
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were gonna feel like I was in a moment of
crisis and I needed to talk to someone, those were
offices that I felt like I could walk into and
close the door and also have privacy. So there's this
big community aspect to it, for sure. But you guys
have built in spaces specifically like the Carneal's cove, which
is like this is, you know, to use an over
(25:31):
used phrase, a safe space, like you're going to be
good here. This is going to be between you and
whoever you feel like you need to be heard by
in the moment. So that was really really powerful and
also just it's really fun to see the level in
which different people customize their offices. You know, everyone's there
(25:51):
was a lot of like peaceful chanting music or like
essential oils, Like everyone's like this is a calm space.
It's like, yeah, you guys like whatever industry like sells
how to be common your office goods. You guys are
keeping in business. Like there's so much like smells and
(26:12):
like twirly things that are mesmerizing and peaceful.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
It's things I remember talking to you on the phone
one time and I was like, are you at the
beach and you like had your like wave machine going
or something in the background, or chanting or chimes or
something like.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
It's just this amazing effort and care about offering some
tranquility in what is very very obviously a world in
which the opposite of tranquility drives people to some really
scary despair. And you guys are just like well, this
is the opposite of that world and we meet it
head on. But like also, like here's some essential oils
(26:51):
to come down a little bit.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
You know, well there's all types of science that goes
into that too. Like, we didn't do it just because
we read a good review on the No.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I absolutely see you guys as the kind of people
that would throw away a piece of garbage that you
didn't like.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, Warren's office is one of the offices. It gives
me anxiety.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
We got to order some more essential oils. I just
went Warren's office.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
It was.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
That's the thing is that because of the work we do,
we don't want it feeling like a clinic.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I don't want it filling, having a hospital error about it. Yeah,
you know, we just want it to be this warm, inviting, calming.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I feel good here. Yeah, it absolutely is that as
a whole, and individually the offices feel that way as well.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Good, then we knowled it except my office.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
He's like, tell me about your office.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
I was like, Texas, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Ashley is the one, Like, yeah, what calms my soul
is a Texas war memorabilia.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Thank you so much for listening to the good stuff.
Next week we'll be back as Nick tags along for
a one Tribe staff meeting and I get into the
nitty gritty of what it was like in the beginning
days of starting this foundation.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
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Speaker 2 (28:15):
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Speaker 3 (28:21):
In the meantime, we invite you to check out our
episode from season one with Joaquin Romero, Francisco's brother. Scroll
back through our catalog to the episode from November seventh,
twenty twenty three, Service Above Self with Joaquin Romero.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Put on your bad ass capes and go be great
today and remember you can't do epic things without epic people.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Again, thank you for listening to the Good Stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
The Good Stuff is executive produced by Ashley Schick, Jacob Shick,
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