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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good afternoon, everybody. It is twelve o six. It is
a beautiful Sunday. We're glad you're here with us. I'm
Terry Stacy Denny Smith is here.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Good morning, and don't forget our dear niece and nephews, Little.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Kai, little coy Ky listening to, also known as witch Whisp,
Whispy Whisp, the witch of the the wind.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Do you have a lisp? Are you a whisp with
a lisp?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
No, that's at the zoo. She's at zoo book without
a lisp. Okay, let's see what else.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It is.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
October twelfth, Gang our four and one colts at home
today against the two and three Cardinals of Arizona. One
o'clock kickoff. First, twenty thousand fans get a color changing
crucial catch themed cup. We've also got Mark.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Wait a minute, color color changing by temperature. Uh huh okay.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Maybe or maybe like a mood ring, just when you
touch it it changes. I don't know, but the twenty
thousand of you are going to get him. We've got Mark.
Gris says he's the trumpet with the iso. He will
perform the national anthem and today's anvil strike is by
Indy five hundred champion, Alex Pelow.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We'll be striking. Let's go. I want to do that.
We should have our own anvil right here, and we
should just try.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
When I was playing little league, mister Floyd had a
baseball team and it was called the Cardinals, and they
all wore a shirt that it was back before we
could really decorate shirts. It was just f p C.
And nobody knew what it stood for. Just Foight's poor Cardinals.
They never won a game, and they called him FPC
Ford's Poor Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Very funny, that is very funny. What's going to be
a great game and a great day for sure at
Lucas Oil Stadium. Is I forgot to check. I'm sure
the roof is open today. The roof is open, window
to the roof is open today. I want to mention
to you, if I may forty six days until Thanksgiving
and there is an organization that you all know that
(01:57):
needs our help, I'm going to sign up, Denny. I'm
signing it myself for sure, and then I believe I've
got Kylon on three days.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
He's got me on board.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
We're gonna go over and help Hoosiers that are going
to need a hot meal on Thanksgiving Day. The Mozelle
Sanders Foundation, you know them, they serve our planning to
serve ten thousand meals once again, which is double from
last year. And to make that happen, they need eight
hundred volunteers this year compared to three hundred last year.
So they're looking for for lots more volunteers, and uh,
(02:27):
you can go to where do we go for that
they've got? I looked that you have openings every day
Monday starting Tuesday. Tuesday through Thursday, they will have openings
for volunteers.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So are they preparing green beans?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You're comparing meals and all that, and I think that
would be such a good thing to do. I can
do it. I signed you up, Denny for Wednesday. I'm
gonna go Wednesday. Kylin's got Tuesdays and Thursday. And Kylin's
on that potatoes. She's on mashed potato duty.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
The next day, Oh the corn on the next day.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You're really good at opening those number ten ten cans
with the big industrial can I'm really good at that?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Exercising, prepared him.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
He sure did. I'm looking, Kylin. Can you check real
quick and see maybe wear that where we go for that?
I do you think you go to Mozelle.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Sanders Mozelle Sanders dot org. That's z E. L. Sanders.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Don't be good? That would be good.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
What is our buddy from wish TV? Was it Bill Rafella?
I can't remember the guy that always did that, but
he was.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
On Raphael No. Rafael seems to go a lot to
Rafael Sanchez.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
We run into him every one. Bill Bill, Bill Ramika,
Bill Remika. That's it, Bill Mika.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
It's a great thing to do for your heart. And
these are just truly I mean that these are like
one hour shifts, two hour ships.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
And you get free headbands or free head well you.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Wear like a bonnet maybe and keep your hair. Really
is such a great thing to do, and we would
love to help them this year. It'll be here before
you notice I mentioned we're just forty six days away.
So if you can help the Mozelle Sanders Foundation, please
do so with signing up for a volunteer job. If
you can't do it Thanksgiving, that's okay, they can still
use you. Tuesday and Wednesday of that week we mentioned Rockville,
(04:07):
their festival headquarters. It was really at Billy Creek. Well,
it's in Rockville. The Rockville is where the for the
Park County uh covered real covered Bridge festival.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
For school, Dick Crumb went to school in Park Oh yeah.
And when I took him up in the gyro plane
and we flew over his old place, we could see
where he'd burned down this old outhouse.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I think it's kucka manga. I can't remember the name
of the manga, the treat, or the city where he
went to school.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I need to check quickly with Kylon if I may, Kylind.
I know we've got to take a break here pretty
soon because we've got a great guest shop.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Really, at least in the next one.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Okay, it's pet peeve week. This begins pet beeve week.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Oh my gosh, my biggest pet peeve.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
And so this is your opportunity at this moment, everybody
all at the same time in this room. You just
get it out the pet peeve. Danny, do you have
a pet peeve?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
People who talk too much and listen too little?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh are you talking about Pat Sullivan.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I didn't say that. I didn't say God gave us
two ears and one mouth, and they are to be
used in that proportion.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Kylin, do you have a pet peeve leaving the short
in a part that's mine?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Okay, Well I'll take a different one though.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
No, No, it's okay because I got a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Now here's the thing. We should not ask this question
of our significant others because we will hear things that
we don't want to know.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Okay, that's right, Well I will tell you on the
list here it goes Terry Stacy's when someone keeps saying
we when discussing their favorite sports teams. This seems to
bother some people that you say, hey, we're going to
win today. That seems to be at the top of
the pet peeve list. Also, when you see someone eating
pizza with a fork seems to bother a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Sometimes it's just too hot.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, you know, speaking of that. We think one of
my pet peeves was with CEOs or managers that always
said my or me instead of were truly absolutely you know,
I taught management. I used to jump their cases about that.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
This is our show, This is we our show, us
here and all of you listening our show. Okay, So
when also people don't like it that when you pretend
to listen while you're browsing your phone, whoops the car
and don't you tell me that doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Once again, we should not talk to our significant others
when we're talking about these type of things.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, you've gotten on and people who push both elevator
buttons to speed things up seems to bother people as well.
Have you ever been in the elevator and people that
don't use their turn signals is at the bottom.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Have you ever been in the elevator when it's a
multi story like thirteen stories, and some little kid comes
in and hits all the buttons and you just want
to say, I'm going to kill this kid. I'm going
to kill this yep, just for fun.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Here's something else for you to think about. This was
This is kind of one of those viral things that's
going right now. But it did make me think I thought, oh,
this is silly until it took me a minute to
think about it. And that is which TV show character
would be the most fun to change places with? Oh
for a week for a week now. Again, this is
one of those viral things going around.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I think that would have chosen Dick Van Dyke at
the time because I can't think of anybody else that
I would want to be a TV show.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah, Kylin, is there anyone you would change places with
for a week on TV?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I love Bridgerton, so I would be Daphne for you.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
That's for you.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Who's Bridgerton?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I would pick Elane from Seinfeld really to spend a
week in Elaine's place.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You remember when Elane danced? Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I love that character. I love her. All Right, We're
going to take a break because coming up, and this
is really pretty important, coming up a conversation with the
president and CEO of Wheeler Mission. Had some hard conversations
that will be in the next half hour. But coming
up next, the Indiana Women's Conference is in just a
couple of weeks. There are tickets still available, and we're
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going to talk to the executive director, Dana Cummings about
what superstar speakers are going to be here for that event.
That's after the break ninety three wibc hey Coming up
on October twenty third, the Indiana Conference for Women at
the JW Marriott Downtown. Tickets are still available. This conference
is said to be the launch pad for the next
big thing in your career and life and joining us
(08:22):
now as executive director Dana Cummings. Dana, thank you so
much for your time this Sunday afternoon. What challenges do
you see today for women in Indiana that this conference
aims to address?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well, I think that many of the women in my life, family, friends,
co workers, colleagues, neighbors, I see women just really juggling
a lot of responsibility day in and day out. And
I think one of the things that this conference does
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for so many women here in Indiana and across the
Midwest is it really offers an opportunity to come together
and sort of share space with one another with like
minded women who are having similar experiences. And as you said,
this conference really is all about professional development. However, I
would also say it's really a conference that has something
(09:17):
for everyone.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
So no matter sort of what you're up.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
To in terms of your life, what kind of career
you have, or what types of things that you're pursuing
in your life, you're going to be able to come
to this conference and really really learn and grow.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
With the women around you.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
And I think leave feeling really really good, sort of
floating out of the JW. Marriott after a day like
the one that we're going to have on the twenties.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Absolutely. I've learned from so many great speakers in the
past at the Women's Conference, and I'm pretty certain that
there will be more great speakers this time around. Anybody
you want to highlight for this year's conference, Yes.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Absolutely, this year in particular, I'm so excited about it.
I think this is going to be one of the
best lineups we've ever had. We have Hota Koppy coming.
She will be delivering one of the one of the
keynote addresses, and everyone I know is talking about this
because they're so excited to see how to And then
we also have Dan Harris. I've had a lot of
women tell me that Dan kind of changed their life
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because he wrote the book Ten Percent Happier. Really an
amazing person, amazing speaker. And then the other keynotter is
none other zan Tina Knowles, who is Beyonce's mom, among
other things, and so she wrote a book recently called Matriarch,
and I can't wait to hear from her and about
her story. And I didn't know that, Yes, it's amazing,
it's an incredible lineup.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You did good it all right this year, not that yay, Kylan.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
I would like to know about the setting up for
the conference, because you have to set up these amazing
lineups and the co founders, Like you had mentioned Billy,
she and her co founder took two years to set
up the first one. Can you talk a little bit
about that process and what you look for for the
audience to get out of it?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Well, I mean, as you might imagine a conference like this,
the largest of its kind in the Midwest, it's really
a year round planning process. So you know, kind of
we get done with one conference, we take a quick
little breath, pat ourselves on the back, and then we
get busy right away planning the next year's conference. We
have a lot of folks coming together really to plan,
(11:24):
and it takes all year. So and of course what
we're looking for really is to create an environment for
women where they're going to leave feeling inspired, empowered, ready
to go on and sort of tick on the world
and continue to yeah, keep all those balls in the
air that so many of us are juggling from day
to day.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
This is Dana Cummings. She's the executive director of the
Indiana Conference for Women. It comes up October twenty third
at the Marriott. Get your tickets right now at Indiana
Conference for Women dot com. Explain for the first time
or how it works, what the day is kind of,
how it works for you, what your day is going
to be like.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
For those of you who might be joining us for
the first time, I would say, buckle up. You're going
to be really in for an incredible ride and just
a real treat. So the day starts bright and early.
We're at the JW. Marriott Downtown Indianapolis. Registration actually begins
at six point thirty in the morning, so if you're
an early bird, you're welcome to come early and get
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checked in, and then we start with our first keynoteer
right at eight o'clock. So the conference definitely kicks off early,
and then it goes the entire day. We don't wrap
up until four o'clock, and we have two meals, which
is really nice. I think not a lot of conferences
provide that, and they're usually quite yummy. So we'll have
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breakfast and lunch, and then there are nice little breaks
in between some of the breakout sessions. We'll have passing
periods where women can definitely get to network with one another,
they can visit some of the other attractions that we have,
they can go do a little shopping. We'll have some
vendors set up. Perhaps they want to go buy a
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book from one of the keynots, get it signed, that
type of thing. So there's a lot going on all
throughout the day.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Kylin, tell us more about how how much this means
to the community, not just here in Indiana, but the
Midwest in general.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Well, yeah, as we've discussed, you know, this is really
unique for the Midwest, from the largest one day conference
for women in the Midwest. So you know, we're really
proud of that, and we feel that we're really setting
an important tone. And there are women all across the
Midwest who know about the conference, who follow us, who
even attend the conference, and I think, you know, the
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message that it says is that folks like Hoda Koppy
and Dan Harrison, Tina Knowles and others see the Midwest
as an important place to visit and visit with the
women here who are doing incredible things in their own lives.
So we're really proud of being able to bring this
caliber of talent to the Midwest to sort of to
share their stories and empower who's your women right here
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and again across the Midwest as.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Well afterwards for the organization, is there follow up conversations
to support or coaching after the conference.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I love to you asked that question, because this is
a conversation that we have quite a bit just internally.
And it is perfect because I can talk a little
bit about our Leadership Development Series that we launched a
couple of years ago, and so exactly as you said,
Billy Dragou and the board and others who were really
involved in developing the Indiana Conference for Women, they really
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wanted to figure out a way to do more to
support women. So a couple of years ago we started
the Leadership Development Series and we are in our second
year of that. So a group of women come together
and it's a two year program and so they meet
monthly and they get a lot of hands on opportunity
for leadership development. They get to hear from empowering speakers
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when they come together each month to hands on a
learning process, and then in the second year they actually
get paired with a mentor. And it's just been absolutely
remarkable to see the growth in these women. So as
they said, we're in the second year of that, so
the second cohort is undergoing their experience right now, but
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actually on the day of the conference this year, so
October twenty third, coming right up, we will open up
the application process for the third, the third year cohort.
So that is a really exciting time and I think
all women should be aware that this is coming and
it's a tremendous opportunity for folks who are interested in
really expanding and going on a leadership journey with us.
(15:40):
I would definitely be be taking a look for that
because it is open to anyone. Anyone can apply.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I think that is awesome Indiana Conference for Women dot com.
If you want to get your tickets, thank you. See
all of the information about the agenda and everything right there.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Good deal, all right, before we let you go, anything
else of importance that you think our listeners should know,
I would.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Just encourage everyone to take a look at that website
and consider buying a ticket and coming out. I know
as events get close sometimes people think, oh, there might not.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Be any tickets left, but we do still have tickets
available for this.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Incredible day, So definitely check us out and come out
and have a wonderful experience on October twenty third.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
The Indiana Conference for Women and it is again coming
up on the twenty third at the JW. Marriott Downtown.
Get your tickets again at Indiana Conference for Women dot com. Dana,
thank you so much. We'll see you there.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
It's eleven, twenty seven. This is the first day sixty
three degrees in beautiful downtown Indianapolis. I mean, it is
a gorgeous day for tailgating. We've got a cold scheme
coming up and just a little over a half hour away.
We're here with you until one o'clock two. I'm Terry
Stacey along with Denny Smith and Kylon Talley. Do we
need to take a break.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Yeah, and we'll be joined by someone else.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
And we will. We've got coming up and this is
pretty cool. The president of Wheeler Mission, he sat on
a park bench for twenty four hours, had some important
conversations and he's going to share that with us after
today's top stories. On ninety three WIBC, get it, Danny.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
The camera's on.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
YouTube.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Dance were to dance. Hey, thanks for joining us, guys.
We're watching the news we're watching all that's happening around
our country right now. There is mass shooting. Was that
in South Carolina? I believe South Carolina something awful.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
It's a bar in South Carolina. Twenty people were shot.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Twenty people shot. I think we'll continue to watch that
and listen for more in Fox News. And we're also
watching what's happening with the Perhaps we pray for the
release of hostages happening in the Middle East. We've got
a really great story that I want to talk about now.
For the last twenty four hours, for the last week,
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for twenty four hours, Perry Hines, he's the president and
CEO of Wheeler Mission. He sat on a bench and
live streamed one on one conversations with community members, including
civic leaders. There were donors, former program participants. Every day
passerby that would just walk by and see him. And
we are so lucky because we want to catch up
(18:12):
and see what that experience was like. And so Perry
Hines is with us, the president and CEO of Wheeler Mission. Hi, Perry, good.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Morning, good morning to you guys. How you doing.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
We're great, and thank you so much for doing this
for us today because I wanted to hear know so
much about this experience, what it was like for you,
and we'll start there. Did you achieve what you wanted
to do in that twenty four hours?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Oh, we achieved that and way way more than we
ever expected. You know, God is good and God will
always provide for you even when you're not expecting it.
So we were hopeful for just an initial awareness and
raising the understanding and knowledge around the issues and challenges
that individuals are experiencing homelessness face every night. But we
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receive so much more than that. And yeah, we're just phenomenal,
phenomenal outpourting from the community. And it was just it
was a good time. It was tiring for twenty four hours,
but you know, we got through it and it was
it was really really special.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
That was last Thursday through Friday, and this was Perry.
This was a nationwide movement. You were you here in Indianapolis,
you were doing this on a bench, but there were
others all across the country doing this as well, right.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
That's correct. Yeah, we're part of something called Citygate Network,
and Citygate is an organization that an organization or association
for all the rescue missions in shelter organizations just like
ours throughout the country, and I think there were. We
ended up getting somewhere between seventy to seventy five different
CEOs and different cities, setting on the bench for twenty
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four hours, just like here in Indye, you know, Denver, Atlanta,
you know, Colorado, Colorado, Spring, Seattle, Fresno, California, wherever it was, Dallas,
you know. So we were all sitting on a bench
in those different cities at seventy or so across the country.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Harry, this is Denny Smith. A couple of logistics. How
did you pick the right bench or how did you
pick the bench? What did you do for meals and bathroom?
And talk about He wants to know about it, and
I want to know if did you ever feel unsafe?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
All good questions. Yeah, from a logistical standpoint, you know,
you know, I did take a potty break or two.
You know, you've got to you know, nature calls, and uh,
you know. We were in our parking lot, which was
on the corner of New York and Delaware. So we're
right there, right right on the point of mass ass
so people are coming by all hours of the night.
(20:44):
So yeah, I did dash into our building and take
a little potty break here and there. But yeah, for food,
you know, the food was right there. Uh, and the
conversation was right there. And the bench. There's a good
story about the bench. So we you know, Wheeler Mission,
we have a lot of different operations and so one
of our parts of our organization is what we call
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social enterprises. So we run a threst store up north.
We also have a pallette shop down in our camp
for a long term drug and alcohol addiction recovery guests. Uh,
they ask Kirks of Blimington. We have a pallet shop.
We make custom palettes and it's a it's a money
making enterprise for us. But we asked the guys down there,
since they're dealing with wood and stuff all the time,
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hey can you make a bench for us? So these
are the bench I actually said on was made by
the men, some of the men in our pallette shop.
Who are you know? They're they're down there recovering and
battling and trying to get over their their drug or
alcohol addiction, you know. And it's a nine month program
we have down there. But they made this special bench
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for me.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Did they stand the seed or the lea.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Come on, come on, it was real. It was a
nice product. It was you know, nice and smooth, and
they stained it and we put cushions on of It's beautiful.
I had had some cushions and pillows, I mean no,
I mean yeah, I'm old, so had I had to
have some comfort there Kiln.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Earlier this week, Indie's City Council approved a new record
budget for twenty twenty six and within that there were
there was some help for homelessness and all of the
community across many different organizations. We're looking to try and
figure out ways to help. Did any of these conversations
bring about new solutions or possible ways that we can
try and help this.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Yeah, you're right, Indianapolis is really stepping up to the plate.
And you know, for many wheelers one hundred and thirty
two year olds at one hundred and thirty two years
old next week, and we are the largest metropolitan area
in the country without a quote city shelter. Right, So
a couple of years ago there are a lot of
folks getting together and budgets approved, and so from my understanding,
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there's something called the Housing Hub and the city is
really going to step up to the plate and provide
some additional shelter space for individuals experience and homelessness, and
a lot of during my conversations with a lot of folks,
lots of different ideas and solutions came about. And it's
all going to go into the conversations and the tables
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that we set in and the conversations that we had
with city leaders and civic leaders, really innovative suggestions. I'm
so proud of the community. We're all banding together. You know,
homelessness is on the rise in Indianapolis and has been
on for the past several years. Last year of seven
percent overall and for families of a seventeen percent increase
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in individuals experiencing homelessness, and so, but the city is
they have got several initiatives, not only a housing hub,
but don't I'm not a spokesperson for the city and
I don't want to speak for them, but they have
something called Streets to Home initiative as well, you know,
and that they're helping people who are in encampments go
direct lead to apartments and get housed that way. So
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there are a lot of different ways in a lot
of different solutions, and there are many different organizations playing
a part in this in this critical critical issue for
a community.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
That's Perry Hines, President and CEO of Wheeler Mission. It founded,
as you mentioned, eighteen ninety three. Last year, Wheeler Mission
provided programs and services to eleven nine and seventy three men, women,
and child and children Wheelermission dot org. Perry, what misconceptions
about homelessness do you do you hear or encounter every day?
Speaker 5 (24:36):
There's several, but probably some of the most prevalent ones are,
you know, they're lazy, you know they did it to themselves,
they don't and that they don't want help.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I hear that often, So they don't want help.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
That's right, that they don't want help. I mean, you
have to understand, there's not one reason that an individual
finds themselves becoming homeless. It's usually a cascading I'm no effect, right,
and so one thing happens to one thing happens, and
another thing happens because of that other thing, and you
lose your job, and you know, maybe you're addicted to
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drugs or alcohol. And you know, what we see is
sixty to sixty five percent of the individuals we see
every night, and we see on average seven or eight
hundred individuals, men and women and children each and every
night that they suffer from, you know, an addiction of
some type alcohol or drugs, and there's some kind of
mental health challenge. I just blunt and put it out there.
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There's a lot of mental health challenges out there.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, absolutely, Denny or Kylin, either one of you.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
One of the things. We had a colleague here at
the station once who very honestly told us that he
was homeless, and he was homeless as a teenager. That
he said, it just happened. He said, I don't even
know how I ended up that way, but he said,
I was on the streets for two years. How many
young under the age of twenty do you see?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Quite a bit there? There are. There's an organization in
town though that is simply focused on homeless youth, and
there's a lot of homeless youth, and that organization called Outreach, Inc.
And Andrew Neil, the president CEO of that good friend
of mine. He came and said in on the bench
and talked to me for a little bit. We have
a great relationship with them. So when someone our shelter
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comes comes to us that in that age range, it Basically,
what we try to do is work with them to
get them over to outreach for the outreaches as services,
so we can provide the food, clothing, and shelter, but
all the other wrap a REMP services for that particular
age demographic. I think they serve eighteen to thirty four
young adults as well. They are much better equipped to
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do that, and so that's what so wonderful about our community,
you know. Like I said, we're all playing a part,
so we often hand off and refer and work together
to make sure we find the best solutions for the
individuals who find themselves in this unfortunate situation.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
There were so many people you got to talk with
on this bench for the twenty four hour event. Were
any of those conversations surprising to you in any way?
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Not surprising, But a lot of them were affirmational in confirming,
you know, because what we do is we see sometimes
a lot of anecdotal information and just things that happened
to us in our shelter and the people we call
them guests, And for the guests that we deal with,
we know what happens to those folks. But there are
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other people that choose not to come into our shelters.
You know, it's by choice, and I am very interested
in what happens to those individuals who choose not to
come into our shelters so that we can better learn
and understand how we can help the people who do
come to us. So not really anything surprising, but more affirmational.
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One of the things that I really learned, and i
it was a common thread with almost everybody I talked to,
was the of affordable housing. We need more high quality
affordable housing in our community, because it does no good
for them to come into my shelter or the organization
and we stabilize them and work with them and get
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them the stuff that they need, driver's license and such,
security numbers or whatever, you know, help them with their
you know, maybe their their their controls, controls, controlled substance
to these issues. It does us no good to work
with them and do all of that if we can't
get them, you know, into a safe, affordable home. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, And more and more people are saying that, you know,
they just especially young people that have gone you know,
they're they're on this right path, they're on a good path,
and then but they still can't afford to get into housing,
and uh, you know it's from it's from everywhere. And Perry,
you all are doing such a had have done such
an amazing job. Perry Heinz, President CEO of Wheeler Mission.
Before we let you go, we've got about thirty seconds.
(28:55):
It's winter months are coming. What do you need there
at the shelter.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
We first of all, we need prayers, but secondly we
could always use underwear, t shirts, blankets, anything that you
can think of that someone who is on the streets
would need when they come into the shelter. That's what
we need. And so but most of all, we need
the support of the community and end up more than anything,
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I need volunteers. We need volunteers to come in and
help us with the more than thirteen thousand people that
are eleven or twelve thousand people we see every night
or every year. So we need volunteers and we need
all those other things too.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Absolutely Wheelermission dot org. That'll tell you where they are
and what they how to get that donation to them.
But forever doing such good work here in our city.
Perry Hines, President CEO of Wheeler Mission, Thank you, my friend,
bless your heart. We appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Oh, thank you, have a beautiful day, and go colts,
Go colts.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
It's twelve forty seven. We've got food news next to
ninety three wi It's the first day show Terry Danny Kylin.
Don't forget. Heartland Film Festival continues through the rest of
this week. Lots of good stuff to see and premieres
and all kinds of stuff and go see Kai, thank you.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
They have some lovely monster nachos to eat their delicious.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Good what's a monster. It's as big as your head.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
It's just like loaded nachos with chicken and beans and whatnot.
They were delicious though, I know.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Speaking of we're going to talk about food news here
in a minute with Kylon. But there's a cookbook of recipes.
I didn't know this was happening, but the recipe booklet.
Their book is called to Die for the cookbook. It's
a cookbook of grapes dying recipes. And apparently people are
now putting recipes on their gravestones in there like they've
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taken their their whatever they made, they're putting to the
to the grave, and you know that recipe, but then
they put it on the grape.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
And then everybody can have it as they walk by.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I think it's kind of neat. I do think it's
kind of neat. Rosy Grant is the one that did
this when at Ghostly Archive on social media accounts. The
cookbook again called to Die for a cookbook of gravestone recipes.
It's kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I read a book once where a guy put something
on his gravestone and it was sort of a trail
that led them from one the clue on his headstone
led them to one thing, to another thing, another thing,
and it was a great, big ordeal and it had
a wonderful ending about the meaning of life. But you
had to follow this trail.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
And that's cool.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
It's a really good that's cool.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, all right, Kylin, we leave it to you now
for your food news.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Please, I want to mention because you talked about Heartland Film.
It is presented by Alamo Draft House and they have
a lovely food menu for fall that is happening right now.
So if you're going over there for one of your
Heartland Film Festival screenings, check it out. Delicious options. Okay,
Sweet Lorraine and Aushewitz, our guests from last week, they're
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gonna be screening there. They also have their world premiere
today at the Tobias Theater, so congratulations to them. I'm
excited for all of the reception around that movie. Maybe
not full pumpkin spice, but they've got plenty of different
drinks for you, cookies, even sandwiches, pizza, delicious, cool, delicious. Okay,
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moving on to food food news. Do you remember when
the bird flu came around?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Yeah? Remember?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Yeah, Well it's returning. Oh no, yeah, it hit a
commercial duck farm in Lagrange County.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah. Ducks, well, well ducks, well at least it's ducks.
But that's still and I don't believe me. I'm sad
about the ducks, but not very good.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
It has a flock size of more than twenty six
hundred ducks that tested positive for the flu.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
So here we go.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
We'll be on the lookout for as that kind of
makes its way around. This is the first time since May,
and that does that feels like just last month when
that all happened. Happy that that's around, but hopefully we
can get through this. Some other sad news Mochi Joey Donuts.
They've been a friend of first time.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Oh we love them.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
They're closing their doors. Yeah, they will remain open through
November second though, So if you would like to support
or try out the Mochi Joy donuts that we did,
you can do that for this last month of operation.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Visit them will Over. It's very specialty donut and we've
got a lot of donut shops around, you know, we do.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
They said they weren't making enough sales and so they
had to had to close their doors and make the
big decision. So right now it's just trying to make
ends meet for the last little bit before they do
close their doors officially. But in other news, Piedro Mexican
restaurant opened this week downtown. Pretty exciting. They have I
guess some luxury Mexican food. I don't know the difference
(33:51):
for that.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Well, oh, there's a big difference between you know, Taco
Bell Hans.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Okay, all right, it's Taco Bell.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
You move up to El Rodeo, which is really really
pretty good, then you go to Verde and then Piedra
and La Hacienda. There's there's different m h.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Yeah, they're from the ver Oh my gosh, I'm intrigued.
I'll have to go try it out and I'll let
you know. I'll report back going to some more national news.
Dominoes is refreshing their logo, not as much like cracker Barrel.
They are literally just redoing their logo to more of
an actual domino.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Does everybody want to get all outranged?
Speaker 4 (34:26):
We're gonna see.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Do we need to jump on the aage bandwag?
Speaker 4 (34:33):
They are sticking with that the boxes instead of having
both of the domino sides, it's just one square of it,
if that makes sense, one half. And then they also
came up with a new jingle for themselves and Dominos
(34:57):
and that was shaboozy on it. I think that's pretty cool,
very clever. Indeed, there's always.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
So much to get to. But Terry, how you saying
we gotta go?
Speaker 4 (35:06):
No, it's hardy time.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I hardly got it enough of my food news Steak
and shake.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
They're putting in great, big American flags at all of
their locations.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah, God bless them, God bless that is the original
smash burger people. They were doing smash burgers for you
even knew about a smash burger. And on that note,
we got go. Cald Thanks for joining us this morning.
Have a great day.
Good afternoon, everybody. It is twelve o six. It is
a beautiful Sunday. We're glad you're here with us. I'm
Terry Stacy Denny Smith is here.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Good morning, and don't forget our dear niece and nephews, Little.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Kai, little coy Ky listening to, also known as witch Whisp,
Whispy Whisp, the witch of the the wind.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Do you have a lisp? Are you a whisp with
a lisp?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
No, that's at the zoo. She's at zoo book without
a lisp. Okay, let's see what else.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It is.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
October twelfth, Gang our four and one colts at home
today against the two and three Cardinals of Arizona. One
o'clock kickoff. First, twenty thousand fans get a color changing
crucial catch themed cup. We've also got Mark.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Wait a minute, color color changing by temperature. Uh huh okay.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Maybe or maybe like a mood ring, just when you
touch it it changes. I don't know, but the twenty
thousand of you are going to get him. We've got Mark.
Gris says he's the trumpet with the iso. He will
perform the national anthem and today's anvil strike is by
Indy five hundred champion, Alex Pelow.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We'll be striking. Let's go. I want to do that.
We should have our own anvil right here, and we
should just try.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
When I was playing little league, mister Floyd had a
baseball team and it was called the Cardinals, and they
all wore a shirt that it was back before we
could really decorate shirts. It was just f p C.
And nobody knew what it stood for. Just Foight's poor Cardinals.
They never won a game, and they called him FPC
Ford's Poor Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Very funny, that is very funny. What's going to be
a great game and a great day for sure at
Lucas Oil Stadium. Is I forgot to check. I'm sure
the roof is open today. The roof is open, window
to the roof is open today. I want to mention
to you, if I may forty six days until Thanksgiving
and there is an organization that you all know that
(01:57):
needs our help, I'm going to sign up, Denny. I'm
signing it myself for sure, and then I believe I've
got Kylon on three days.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
He's got me on board.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
We're gonna go over and help Hoosiers that are going
to need a hot meal on Thanksgiving Day. The Mozelle
Sanders Foundation, you know them, they serve our planning to
serve ten thousand meals once again, which is double from
last year. And to make that happen, they need eight
hundred volunteers this year compared to three hundred last year.
So they're looking for for lots more volunteers, and uh,
(02:27):
you can go to where do we go for that
they've got? I looked that you have openings every day
Monday starting Tuesday. Tuesday through Thursday, they will have openings
for volunteers.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So are they preparing green beans?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You're comparing meals and all that, and I think that
would be such a good thing to do. I can
do it. I signed you up, Denny for Wednesday. I'm
gonna go Wednesday. Kylin's got Tuesdays and Thursday. And Kylin's
on that potatoes. She's on mashed potato duty.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
The next day, Oh the corn on the next day.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You're really good at opening those number ten ten cans
with the big industrial can I'm really good at that?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Exercising, prepared him.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
He sure did. I'm looking, Kylin. Can you check real
quick and see maybe wear that where we go for that?
I do you think you go to Mozelle.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Sanders Mozelle Sanders dot org. That's z E. L. Sanders.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Don't be good? That would be good.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
What is our buddy from wish TV? Was it Bill Rafella?
I can't remember the guy that always did that, but
he was.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
On Raphael No. Rafael seems to go a lot to
Rafael Sanchez.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
We run into him every one. Bill Bill, Bill Ramika,
Bill Remika. That's it, Bill Mika.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
It's a great thing to do for your heart. And
these are just truly I mean that these are like
one hour shifts, two hour ships.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
And you get free headbands or free head well you.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Wear like a bonnet maybe and keep your hair. Really
is such a great thing to do, and we would
love to help them this year. It'll be here before
you notice I mentioned we're just forty six days away.
So if you can help the Mozelle Sanders Foundation, please
do so with signing up for a volunteer job. If
you can't do it Thanksgiving, that's okay, they can still
use you. Tuesday and Wednesday of that week we mentioned Rockville,
(04:07):
their festival headquarters. It was really at Billy Creek. Well,
it's in Rockville. The Rockville is where the for the
Park County uh covered real covered Bridge festival.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
For school, Dick Crumb went to school in Park Oh yeah.
And when I took him up in the gyro plane
and we flew over his old place, we could see
where he'd burned down this old outhouse.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I think it's kucka manga. I can't remember the name
of the manga, the treat, or the city where he
went to school.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I need to check quickly with Kylon if I may, Kylind.
I know we've got to take a break here pretty
soon because we've got a great guest shop.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Really, at least in the next one.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Okay, it's pet peeve week. This begins pet beeve week.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Oh my gosh, my biggest pet peeve.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
And so this is your opportunity at this moment, everybody
all at the same time in this room. You just
get it out the pet peeve. Danny, do you have
a pet peeve?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
People who talk too much and listen too little?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh are you talking about Pat Sullivan.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I didn't say that. I didn't say God gave us
two ears and one mouth, and they are to be
used in that proportion.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Kylin, do you have a pet peeve leaving the short
in a part that's mine?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Okay, Well I'll take a different one though.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
No, No, it's okay because I got a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Now here's the thing. We should not ask this question
of our significant others because we will hear things that
we don't want to know.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Okay, that's right, Well I will tell you on the
list here it goes Terry Stacy's when someone keeps saying
we when discussing their favorite sports teams. This seems to
bother some people that you say, hey, we're going to
win today. That seems to be at the top of
the pet peeve list. Also, when you see someone eating
pizza with a fork seems to bother a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Sometimes it's just too hot.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, you know, speaking of that. We think one of
my pet peeves was with CEOs or managers that always
said my or me instead of were truly absolutely you know,
I taught management. I used to jump their cases about that.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
This is our show, This is we our show, us
here and all of you listening our show. Okay, So
when also people don't like it that when you pretend
to listen while you're browsing your phone, whoops the car
and don't you tell me that doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Once again, we should not talk to our significant others
when we're talking about these type of things.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, you've gotten on and people who push both elevator
buttons to speed things up seems to bother people as well.
Have you ever been in the elevator and people that
don't use their turn signals is at the bottom.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Have you ever been in the elevator when it's a
multi story like thirteen stories, and some little kid comes
in and hits all the buttons and you just want
to say, I'm going to kill this kid. I'm going
to kill this yep, just for fun.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Here's something else for you to think about. This was
This is kind of one of those viral things that's
going right now. But it did make me think I thought, oh,
this is silly until it took me a minute to
think about it. And that is which TV show character
would be the most fun to change places with? Oh
for a week for a week now. Again, this is
one of those viral things going around.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I think that would have chosen Dick Van Dyke at
the time because I can't think of anybody else that
I would want to be a TV show.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah, Kylin, is there anyone you would change places with
for a week on TV?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I love Bridgerton, so I would be Daphne for you.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
That's for you.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Who's Bridgerton?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I would pick Elane from Seinfeld really to spend a
week in Elaine's place.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You remember when Elane danced? Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I love that character. I love her. All Right, We're
going to take a break because coming up, and this
is really pretty important, coming up a conversation with the
president and CEO of Wheeler Mission. Had some hard conversations
that will be in the next half hour. But coming
up next, the Indiana Women's Conference is in just a
couple of weeks. There are tickets still available, and we're
(07:59):
going to talk to the executive director, Dana Cummings about
what superstar speakers are going to be here for that event.
That's after the break ninety three wibc hey Coming up
on October twenty third, the Indiana Conference for Women at
the JW Marriott Downtown. Tickets are still available. This conference
is said to be the launch pad for the next
big thing in your career and life and joining us
(08:22):
now as executive director Dana Cummings. Dana, thank you so
much for your time this Sunday afternoon. What challenges do
you see today for women in Indiana that this conference
aims to address?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well, I think that many of the women in my life, family, friends,
co workers, colleagues, neighbors, I see women just really juggling
a lot of responsibility day in and day out. And
I think one of the things that this conference does
(08:54):
for so many women here in Indiana and across the
Midwest is it really offers an opportunity to come together
and sort of share space with one another with like
minded women who are having similar experiences. And as you said,
this conference really is all about professional development. However, I
would also say it's really a conference that has something
(09:17):
for everyone.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
So no matter sort of what you're up.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
To in terms of your life, what kind of career
you have, or what types of things that you're pursuing
in your life, you're going to be able to come
to this conference and really really learn and grow.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
With the women around you.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
And I think leave feeling really really good, sort of
floating out of the JW. Marriott after a day like
the one that we're going to have on the twenties.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Absolutely. I've learned from so many great speakers in the
past at the Women's Conference, and I'm pretty certain that
there will be more great speakers this time around. Anybody
you want to highlight for this year's conference, Yes.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Absolutely, this year in particular, I'm so excited about it.
I think this is going to be one of the
best lineups we've ever had. We have Hota Koppy coming.
She will be delivering one of the one of the
keynote addresses, and everyone I know is talking about this
because they're so excited to see how to And then
we also have Dan Harris. I've had a lot of
women tell me that Dan kind of changed their life
(10:18):
because he wrote the book Ten Percent Happier. Really an
amazing person, amazing speaker. And then the other keynotter is
none other zan Tina Knowles, who is Beyonce's mom, among
other things, and so she wrote a book recently called Matriarch,
and I can't wait to hear from her and about
her story. And I didn't know that, Yes, it's amazing,
it's an incredible lineup.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You did good it all right this year, not that yay, Kylan.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
I would like to know about the setting up for
the conference, because you have to set up these amazing
lineups and the co founders, Like you had mentioned Billy,
she and her co founder took two years to set
up the first one. Can you talk a little bit
about that process and what you look for for the
audience to get out of it?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Well, I mean, as you might imagine a conference like this,
the largest of its kind in the Midwest, it's really
a year round planning process. So you know, kind of
we get done with one conference, we take a quick
little breath, pat ourselves on the back, and then we
get busy right away planning the next year's conference. We
have a lot of folks coming together really to plan,
(11:24):
and it takes all year. So and of course what
we're looking for really is to create an environment for
women where they're going to leave feeling inspired, empowered, ready
to go on and sort of tick on the world
and continue to yeah, keep all those balls in the
air that so many of us are juggling from day
to day.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
This is Dana Cummings. She's the executive director of the
Indiana Conference for Women. It comes up October twenty third
at the Marriott. Get your tickets right now at Indiana
Conference for Women dot com. Explain for the first time
or how it works, what the day is kind of,
how it works for you, what your day is going
to be like.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
For those of you who might be joining us for
the first time, I would say, buckle up. You're going
to be really in for an incredible ride and just
a real treat. So the day starts bright and early.
We're at the JW. Marriott Downtown Indianapolis. Registration actually begins
at six point thirty in the morning, so if you're
an early bird, you're welcome to come early and get
(12:21):
checked in, and then we start with our first keynoteer
right at eight o'clock. So the conference definitely kicks off early,
and then it goes the entire day. We don't wrap
up until four o'clock, and we have two meals, which
is really nice. I think not a lot of conferences
provide that, and they're usually quite yummy. So we'll have
(12:42):
breakfast and lunch, and then there are nice little breaks
in between some of the breakout sessions. We'll have passing
periods where women can definitely get to network with one another,
they can visit some of the other attractions that we have,
they can go do a little shopping. We'll have some
vendors set up. Perhaps they want to go buy a
(13:03):
book from one of the keynots, get it signed, that
type of thing. So there's a lot going on all
throughout the day.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Kylin, tell us more about how how much this means
to the community, not just here in Indiana, but the
Midwest in general.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Well, yeah, as we've discussed, you know, this is really
unique for the Midwest, from the largest one day conference
for women in the Midwest. So you know, we're really
proud of that, and we feel that we're really setting
an important tone. And there are women all across the
Midwest who know about the conference, who follow us, who
even attend the conference, and I think, you know, the
(13:39):
message that it says is that folks like Hoda Koppy
and Dan Harrison, Tina Knowles and others see the Midwest
as an important place to visit and visit with the
women here who are doing incredible things in their own lives.
So we're really proud of being able to bring this
caliber of talent to the Midwest to sort of to
share their stories and empower who's your women right here
(14:01):
and again across the Midwest as.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Well afterwards for the organization, is there follow up conversations
to support or coaching after the conference.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I love to you asked that question, because this is
a conversation that we have quite a bit just internally.
And it is perfect because I can talk a little
bit about our Leadership Development Series that we launched a
couple of years ago, and so exactly as you said,
Billy Dragou and the board and others who were really
involved in developing the Indiana Conference for Women, they really
(14:34):
wanted to figure out a way to do more to
support women. So a couple of years ago we started
the Leadership Development Series and we are in our second
year of that. So a group of women come together
and it's a two year program and so they meet
monthly and they get a lot of hands on opportunity
for leadership development. They get to hear from empowering speakers
(14:56):
when they come together each month to hands on a
learning process, and then in the second year they actually
get paired with a mentor. And it's just been absolutely
remarkable to see the growth in these women. So as
they said, we're in the second year of that, so
the second cohort is undergoing their experience right now, but
(15:17):
actually on the day of the conference this year, so
October twenty third, coming right up, we will open up
the application process for the third, the third year cohort.
So that is a really exciting time and I think
all women should be aware that this is coming and
it's a tremendous opportunity for folks who are interested in
really expanding and going on a leadership journey with us.
(15:40):
I would definitely be be taking a look for that
because it is open to anyone. Anyone can apply.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I think that is awesome Indiana Conference for Women dot com.
If you want to get your tickets, thank you. See
all of the information about the agenda and everything right there.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Good deal, all right, before we let you go, anything
else of importance that you think our listeners should know,
I would.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Just encourage everyone to take a look at that website
and consider buying a ticket and coming out. I know
as events get close sometimes people think, oh, there might not.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Be any tickets left, but we do still have tickets
available for this.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Incredible day, So definitely check us out and come out
and have a wonderful experience on October twenty third.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
The Indiana Conference for Women and it is again coming
up on the twenty third at the JW. Marriott Downtown.
Get your tickets again at Indiana Conference for Women dot com. Dana,
thank you so much. We'll see you there.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
It's eleven, twenty seven. This is the first day sixty
three degrees in beautiful downtown Indianapolis. I mean, it is
a gorgeous day for tailgating. We've got a cold scheme
coming up and just a little over a half hour away.
We're here with you until one o'clock two. I'm Terry
Stacey along with Denny Smith and Kylon Talley. Do we
need to take a break.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Yeah, and we'll be joined by someone else.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
And we will. We've got coming up and this is
pretty cool. The president of Wheeler Mission, he sat on
a park bench for twenty four hours, had some important
conversations and he's going to share that with us after
today's top stories. On ninety three WIBC, get it, Danny.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
The camera's on.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
YouTube.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Dance were to dance. Hey, thanks for joining us, guys.
We're watching the news we're watching all that's happening around
our country right now. There is mass shooting. Was that
in South Carolina? I believe South Carolina something awful.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
It's a bar in South Carolina. Twenty people were shot.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Twenty people shot. I think we'll continue to watch that
and listen for more in Fox News. And we're also
watching what's happening with the Perhaps we pray for the
release of hostages happening in the Middle East. We've got
a really great story that I want to talk about now.
For the last twenty four hours, for the last week,
(17:51):
for twenty four hours, Perry Hines, he's the president and
CEO of Wheeler Mission. He sat on a bench and
live streamed one on one conversations with community members, including
civic leaders. There were donors, former program participants. Every day
passerby that would just walk by and see him. And
we are so lucky because we want to catch up
(18:12):
and see what that experience was like. And so Perry
Hines is with us, the president and CEO of Wheeler Mission. Hi, Perry, good.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Morning, good morning to you guys. How you doing.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
We're great, and thank you so much for doing this
for us today because I wanted to hear know so
much about this experience, what it was like for you,
and we'll start there. Did you achieve what you wanted
to do in that twenty four hours?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Oh, we achieved that and way way more than we
ever expected. You know, God is good and God will
always provide for you even when you're not expecting it.
So we were hopeful for just an initial awareness and
raising the understanding and knowledge around the issues and challenges
that individuals are experiencing homelessness face every night. But we
(18:58):
receive so much more than that. And yeah, we're just phenomenal,
phenomenal outpourting from the community. And it was just it
was a good time. It was tiring for twenty four hours,
but you know, we got through it and it was
it was really really special.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
That was last Thursday through Friday, and this was Perry.
This was a nationwide movement. You were you here in Indianapolis,
you were doing this on a bench, but there were
others all across the country doing this as well, right.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
That's correct. Yeah, we're part of something called Citygate Network,
and Citygate is an organization that an organization or association
for all the rescue missions in shelter organizations just like
ours throughout the country, and I think there were. We
ended up getting somewhere between seventy to seventy five different
CEOs and different cities, setting on the bench for twenty
(19:45):
four hours, just like here in Indye, you know, Denver, Atlanta,
you know, Colorado, Colorado, Spring, Seattle, Fresno, California, wherever it was, Dallas,
you know. So we were all sitting on a bench
in those different cities at seventy or so across the country.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Harry, this is Denny Smith. A couple of logistics. How
did you pick the right bench or how did you
pick the bench? What did you do for meals and bathroom?
And talk about He wants to know about it, and
I want to know if did you ever feel unsafe?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
All good questions. Yeah, from a logistical standpoint, you know,
you know, I did take a potty break or two.
You know, you've got to you know, nature calls, and uh,
you know. We were in our parking lot, which was
on the corner of New York and Delaware. So we're
right there, right right on the point of mass ass
so people are coming by all hours of the night.
(20:44):
So yeah, I did dash into our building and take
a little potty break here and there. But yeah, for food,
you know, the food was right there. Uh, and the
conversation was right there. And the bench. There's a good
story about the bench. So we you know, Wheeler Mission,
we have a lot of different operations and so one
of our parts of our organization is what we call
(21:08):
social enterprises. So we run a threst store up north.
We also have a pallette shop down in our camp
for a long term drug and alcohol addiction recovery guests. Uh,
they ask Kirks of Blimington. We have a pallet shop.
We make custom palettes and it's a it's a money
making enterprise for us. But we asked the guys down there,
since they're dealing with wood and stuff all the time,
(21:29):
hey can you make a bench for us? So these
are the bench I actually said on was made by
the men, some of the men in our pallette shop.
Who are you know? They're they're down there recovering and
battling and trying to get over their their drug or
alcohol addiction, you know. And it's a nine month program
we have down there. But they made this special bench
(21:51):
for me.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Did they stand the seed or the lea.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Come on, come on, it was real. It was a
nice product. It was you know, nice and smooth, and
they stained it and we put cushions on of It's beautiful.
I had had some cushions and pillows, I mean no,
I mean yeah, I'm old, so had I had to
have some comfort there Kiln.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Earlier this week, Indie's City Council approved a new record
budget for twenty twenty six and within that there were
there was some help for homelessness and all of the
community across many different organizations. We're looking to try and
figure out ways to help. Did any of these conversations
bring about new solutions or possible ways that we can
try and help this.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Yeah, you're right, Indianapolis is really stepping up to the plate.
And you know, for many wheelers one hundred and thirty
two year olds at one hundred and thirty two years
old next week, and we are the largest metropolitan area
in the country without a quote city shelter. Right, So
a couple of years ago there are a lot of
folks getting together and budgets approved, and so from my understanding,
(22:56):
there's something called the Housing Hub and the city is
really going to step up to the plate and provide
some additional shelter space for individuals experience and homelessness, and
a lot of during my conversations with a lot of folks,
lots of different ideas and solutions came about. And it's
all going to go into the conversations and the tables
(23:18):
that we set in and the conversations that we had
with city leaders and civic leaders, really innovative suggestions. I'm
so proud of the community. We're all banding together. You know,
homelessness is on the rise in Indianapolis and has been
on for the past several years. Last year of seven
percent overall and for families of a seventeen percent increase
(23:40):
in individuals experiencing homelessness, and so, but the city is
they have got several initiatives, not only a housing hub,
but don't I'm not a spokesperson for the city and
I don't want to speak for them, but they have
something called Streets to Home initiative as well, you know,
and that they're helping people who are in encampments go
direct lead to apartments and get housed that way. So
(24:03):
there are a lot of different ways in a lot
of different solutions, and there are many different organizations playing
a part in this in this critical critical issue for
a community.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
That's Perry Hines, President and CEO of Wheeler Mission. It founded,
as you mentioned, eighteen ninety three. Last year, Wheeler Mission
provided programs and services to eleven nine and seventy three men, women,
and child and children Wheelermission dot org. Perry, what misconceptions
about homelessness do you do you hear or encounter every day?
Speaker 5 (24:36):
There's several, but probably some of the most prevalent ones are,
you know, they're lazy, you know they did it to themselves,
they don't and that they don't want help.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I hear that often, So they don't want help.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
That's right, that they don't want help. I mean, you
have to understand, there's not one reason that an individual
finds themselves becoming homeless. It's usually a cascading I'm no effect, right,
and so one thing happens to one thing happens, and
another thing happens because of that other thing, and you
lose your job, and you know, maybe you're addicted to
(25:11):
drugs or alcohol. And you know, what we see is
sixty to sixty five percent of the individuals we see
every night, and we see on average seven or eight
hundred individuals, men and women and children each and every
night that they suffer from, you know, an addiction of
some type alcohol or drugs, and there's some kind of
mental health challenge. I just blunt and put it out there.
(25:33):
There's a lot of mental health challenges out there.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, absolutely, Denny or Kylin, either one of you.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
One of the things. We had a colleague here at
the station once who very honestly told us that he
was homeless, and he was homeless as a teenager. That
he said, it just happened. He said, I don't even
know how I ended up that way, but he said,
I was on the streets for two years. How many
young under the age of twenty do you see?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Quite a bit there? There are. There's an organization in
town though that is simply focused on homeless youth, and
there's a lot of homeless youth, and that organization called Outreach, Inc.
And Andrew Neil, the president CEO of that good friend
of mine. He came and said in on the bench
and talked to me for a little bit. We have
a great relationship with them. So when someone our shelter
(26:21):
comes comes to us that in that age range, it Basically,
what we try to do is work with them to
get them over to outreach for the outreaches as services,
so we can provide the food, clothing, and shelter, but
all the other wrap a REMP services for that particular
age demographic. I think they serve eighteen to thirty four
young adults as well. They are much better equipped to
(26:43):
do that, and so that's what so wonderful about our community,
you know. Like I said, we're all playing a part,
so we often hand off and refer and work together
to make sure we find the best solutions for the
individuals who find themselves in this unfortunate situation.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
There were so many people you got to talk with
on this bench for the twenty four hour event. Were
any of those conversations surprising to you in any way?
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Not surprising, But a lot of them were affirmational in confirming,
you know, because what we do is we see sometimes
a lot of anecdotal information and just things that happened
to us in our shelter and the people we call
them guests, And for the guests that we deal with,
we know what happens to those folks. But there are
(27:30):
other people that choose not to come into our shelters.
You know, it's by choice, and I am very interested
in what happens to those individuals who choose not to
come into our shelters so that we can better learn
and understand how we can help the people who do
come to us. So not really anything surprising, but more affirmational.
(27:53):
One of the things that I really learned, and i
it was a common thread with almost everybody I talked to,
was the of affordable housing. We need more high quality
affordable housing in our community, because it does no good
for them to come into my shelter or the organization
and we stabilize them and work with them and get
(28:14):
them the stuff that they need, driver's license and such,
security numbers or whatever, you know, help them with their
you know, maybe their their their controls, controls, controlled substance
to these issues. It does us no good to work
with them and do all of that if we can't
get them, you know, into a safe, affordable home. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, And more and more people are saying that, you know,
they just especially young people that have gone you know,
they're they're on this right path, they're on a good path,
and then but they still can't afford to get into housing,
and uh, you know it's from it's from everywhere. And Perry,
you all are doing such a had have done such
an amazing job. Perry Heinz, President CEO of Wheeler Mission.
Before we let you go, we've got about thirty seconds.
(28:55):
It's winter months are coming. What do you need there
at the shelter.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
We first of all, we need prayers, but secondly we
could always use underwear, t shirts, blankets, anything that you
can think of that someone who is on the streets
would need when they come into the shelter. That's what
we need. And so but most of all, we need
the support of the community and end up more than anything,
(29:21):
I need volunteers. We need volunteers to come in and
help us with the more than thirteen thousand people that
are eleven or twelve thousand people we see every night
or every year. So we need volunteers and we need
all those other things too.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Absolutely Wheelermission dot org. That'll tell you where they are
and what they how to get that donation to them.
But forever doing such good work here in our city.
Perry Hines, President CEO of Wheeler Mission, Thank you, my friend,
bless your heart. We appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Oh, thank you, have a beautiful day, and go colts,
Go colts.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
It's twelve forty seven. We've got food news next to
ninety three wi It's the first day show Terry Danny Kylin.
Don't forget. Heartland Film Festival continues through the rest of
this week. Lots of good stuff to see and premieres
and all kinds of stuff and go see Kai, thank you.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
They have some lovely monster nachos to eat their delicious.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Good what's a monster. It's as big as your head.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
It's just like loaded nachos with chicken and beans and whatnot.
They were delicious though, I know.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Speaking of we're going to talk about food news here
in a minute with Kylon. But there's a cookbook of recipes.
I didn't know this was happening, but the recipe booklet.
Their book is called to Die for the cookbook. It's
a cookbook of grapes dying recipes. And apparently people are
now putting recipes on their gravestones in there like they've
(30:50):
taken their their whatever they made, they're putting to the
to the grave, and you know that recipe, but then
they put it on the grape.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
And then everybody can have it as they walk by.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I think it's kind of neat. I do think it's
kind of neat. Rosy Grant is the one that did
this when at Ghostly Archive on social media accounts. The
cookbook again called to Die for a cookbook of gravestone recipes.
It's kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I read a book once where a guy put something
on his gravestone and it was sort of a trail
that led them from one the clue on his headstone
led them to one thing, to another thing, another thing,
and it was a great, big ordeal and it had
a wonderful ending about the meaning of life. But you
had to follow this trail.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
And that's cool.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
It's a really good that's cool.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, all right, Kylin, we leave it to you now
for your food news.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Please, I want to mention because you talked about Heartland Film.
It is presented by Alamo Draft House and they have
a lovely food menu for fall that is happening right now.
So if you're going over there for one of your
Heartland Film Festival screenings, check it out. Delicious options. Okay,
Sweet Lorraine and Aushewitz, our guests from last week, they're
(32:01):
gonna be screening there. They also have their world premiere
today at the Tobias Theater, so congratulations to them. I'm
excited for all of the reception around that movie. Maybe
not full pumpkin spice, but they've got plenty of different
drinks for you, cookies, even sandwiches, pizza, delicious, cool, delicious. Okay,
(32:22):
moving on to food food news. Do you remember when
the bird flu came around?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Yeah? Remember?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Yeah, Well it's returning. Oh no, yeah, it hit a
commercial duck farm in Lagrange County.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah. Ducks, well, well ducks, well at least it's ducks.
But that's still and I don't believe me. I'm sad
about the ducks, but not very good.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
It has a flock size of more than twenty six
hundred ducks that tested positive for the flu.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
So here we go.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
We'll be on the lookout for as that kind of
makes its way around. This is the first time since May,
and that does that feels like just last month when
that all happened. Happy that that's around, but hopefully we
can get through this. Some other sad news Mochi Joey Donuts.
They've been a friend of first time.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Oh we love them.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
They're closing their doors. Yeah, they will remain open through
November second though, So if you would like to support
or try out the Mochi Joy donuts that we did,
you can do that for this last month of operation.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Visit them will Over. It's very specialty donut and we've
got a lot of donut shops around, you know, we do.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
They said they weren't making enough sales and so they
had to had to close their doors and make the
big decision. So right now it's just trying to make
ends meet for the last little bit before they do
close their doors officially. But in other news, Piedro Mexican
restaurant opened this week downtown. Pretty exciting. They have I
guess some luxury Mexican food. I don't know the difference
(33:51):
for that.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Well, oh, there's a big difference between you know, Taco
Bell Hans.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Okay, all right, it's Taco Bell.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
You move up to El Rodeo, which is really really
pretty good, then you go to Verde and then Piedra
and La Hacienda. There's there's different m h.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Yeah, they're from the ver Oh my gosh, I'm intrigued.
I'll have to go try it out and I'll let
you know. I'll report back going to some more national news.
Dominoes is refreshing their logo, not as much like cracker Barrel.
They are literally just redoing their logo to more of
an actual domino.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Does everybody want to get all outranged?
Speaker 4 (34:26):
We're gonna see.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Do we need to jump on the aage bandwag?
Speaker 4 (34:33):
They are sticking with that the boxes instead of having
both of the domino sides, it's just one square of it,
if that makes sense, one half. And then they also
came up with a new jingle for themselves and Dominos
(34:57):
and that was shaboozy on it. I think that's pretty cool,
very clever. Indeed, there's always.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
So much to get to. But Terry, how you saying
we gotta go?
Speaker 4 (35:06):
No, it's hardy time.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I hardly got it enough of my food news Steak
and shake.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
They're putting in great, big American flags at all of
their locations.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah, God bless them, God bless that is the original
smash burger people. They were doing smash burgers for you
even knew about a smash burger. And on that note,
we got go. Cald Thanks for joining us this morning.
Have a great day.
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