October 24, 2024 • 24 mins
Ever wondered how you can make a significant impact on your local community without a massive time or financial commitment? Join us as we welcome Bob and Woody Mueller from Mueller Financial in Florence, Kentucky, who unveil the transformative "Give Where You Live, Northern Kentucky" initiative. Inspired by a similar concept and supported by Horizon Community Funds, this program is like speed dating for philanthropy, making giving back fun, accessible, and impactful. With just a $100 quarterly commitment and an hour of your time, you can be part of a vibrant community effort to support smaller, often overlooked nonprofits in Northern Kentucky.
This episode paints a vivid picture of how "Give when you Live, NKY" is fostering deeper community ties and delivering direct impact. Bob and Woody share the joy of seeing donations put to use and highlight the simplicity of the process, where every penny goes straight to the chosen nonprofit. Imagine contributing to meaningful causes while enjoying a relaxed, engaging environment with fellow residents. This initiative promises not just the pride of helping local organizations but also the rewarding experience of being part of something bigger. Tune in to find out how you can be part of this incredible journey and make a real difference in your community.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Mike Murphy.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Thank you, charlie.
Yes, I am Mike Murphy, host ofthe Good Neighbor Podcast, and
we bring in local businessowners, influencers, friends of
mine.
Sometimes they're strangers andI'm meeting them for the first
time with you, but certainly wewant you, the listeners out
there, to know the good thingshappening in northern Kentucky.
So one of the great thingshappening in northern Kentucky
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we are kind of going to spend alittle time talking about today.
I brought two gentlemen intothe broadcast booth today to
talk about something called Givewhen you Live, northern
Kentucky.
These are two friends of mine.
I've been involved for a whilewith Give when you Live and
we're going to talk about Givewhen you Live, what it is, who's
(00:59):
involved and how you can beinvolved.
So, without further ado, I'dlike to introduce two friends of
mine, bob Mueller, woodyMueller of Mueller Financial
here in Northern Kentucky, inFlorence.
They are the ones that broughtGive when you Live the concept
to Northern Kentucky, and solet's get into it.
(01:20):
Let's talk about Give when youLive, Bob and Woody.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
welcome to the show.
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Thanks for having us.
So, Bob, just briefly tell uswho you are and what you do for
a living, sir.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Okay, I'm Bob Mueller , mueller Financial.
I've been a financial plannerfor 35 years, mainly here in
Northern Kentucky.
Really enjoy the people here.
I started in Chicago and theydecided I want to come over to
Northern Kentucky and that'swhere I planted my roots here
and then, from that point on, Ibrought on some other colleagues
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, one being my son Woody.
He can introduce himself to youand tell a little bit about
what he does.
And we're a financial firm inNorthern Kentucky, out in
Florence, kentucky.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
So with that we turn to Woody.
Woody, do the same man.
Tell us a little bit aboutyourself.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Absolutely.
Thanks, mike.
Again thanks for having ustoday.
I'm really excited to talkabout Give when you Live.
My name is Woody Mueller.
I'm a partner with MuellerFinancial.
We're a father-son team inFlorence, kentucky.
We do financial planning,investment advising, and I've
been in the industry for about12 years, been with Mueller
Financial for 10 years, have ablast growing the business with
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my father and helping peoplealong the way, and part of the
fun of our job is to getcreative and find awesome things
like give where you live.
That we'll talk more abouttoday, so I'm happy to dive into
that.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So you say, helping awesome people, and there are
many ways to do that.
And, aside from the financialadvising services you guys
provide, you have found a greatway to help people here in
Northern Kentucky, specificallynonprofits in Northern Kentucky.
So Give when you Live, northernKentucky is, it's a group that
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I've come to call.
When describing it to peopleit's, I say you've heard of
speed dating.
Well, this is philanthropy.
And so they say, oh really,well, what's that look like?
And so from there theconversation just flows.
You know, that's how I piquedtheir interest, and I think
maybe you guys are the ones thattaught me that five years ago,
because I myself have beeninvolved in Give when you Live,
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northern Kentucky for about fiveyears now, I guess.
And it's such an incredibleconcept that everybody needs to
know about it.
And when people hear about itthey say how can I be involved?
I want in, what do I do next?
So that's why we're here today.
So with that in mind, woody, ifyou wouldn't mind being sort of
like the mouthpiece on thesubject, as our intro here, what
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is Give when you Live, northernKentucky?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Absolutely so.
As you mentioned, I mean greatway.
To sum it up, mike, it's speeddating, but for philanthropy,
you know, we try to make it easy.
There's so many big nonprofitsthat that attract a lot of money
, have a lot of eyeballs on themand do a lot of great work.
But sometimes the smaller localnonprofits can get overlooked.
And that's where Give when youLive, northern Kentucky comes
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into place.
We wanted to find a way, aunique way, to help smaller
grassroots nonprofits here inour own backyard, and I got to
give the credit to Bob.
He saw the concept being donein another part of the country
with a former colleague of his,and we just reached out to him
and said hey, can we replicatethis here in Northern Kentucky,
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because the work you're doing isincredible?
And he gave us a green light,said go for it, knock yourselves
out.
You know, I hope it works andwe hit the ground running and we
have a wonderful partner.
Horizon Community Funds ofNorthern Kentucky is a
foundation that helps facilitateGive when you Live, northern
Kentucky, but in essence, whatit is is a group of members in
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Northern Kentucky that commit to$100 per quarter for the year,
so it's a $400 commitment.
We get together for one houreach quarter in a fun, you know,
kind of laid back atmosphereand we all support or put our
support behind a specificnonprofit in Northern Kentucky.
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And when we attend the meetingswe all throw our names into a
big hat of the nonprofit that wewant to support.
And of those several names wedraw three out and the people
supporting the three nonprofitsget three minutes to stand up
and talk about why theirnonprofit should be awarded the
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funds that night.
And of the three we do aquestion and answer session.
We all as a, as a group, gets avote on one of those to to win
the funds that night.
So if it's a hundred dollars,we have 50 people in the room.
It's $5,000 that is beingawarded that evening to a local
nonprofit.
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No grant writing, no questionsasked goes right to them and
it's it's just so much fun.
I don't know, bob, if you wantto elaborate on it.
It's just an incredible groupthat we have.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Well, I think some of the small groups, a lot of
these.
You hit the nail on the headbecause some of these small
groups we feel like kind of getoverlooked.
And there are a lot of peoplein Northern Kentucky who are
active in philanthropy who mayhave never heard of these
organizations.
But all of a sudden we've gotorganizations we've given
several thousands of dollars to,like the Go Pantry they were
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just written up in the newspaperrecently Samaritan Car Care
Center amazing organization, Iwant you, woody, to expound on
that a little bit and LifetimeLearning Center.
I mean, those are maybe threeof the several that we've given
and I believe in the last fiveyears correct me if I'm wrong, I
think it's around $120,000,$130,000 we've given out in
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funds from this little.
I will call it the littleengine that could.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
We just keep on trucking along doing our thing.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
It's really easy.
It's an hour long and a funplace and these little I don't
want to say little, but thesesort of more obscure nonprofits
that do fantastic work in thecommunity they're now receiving
these funds and the impact isamazing.
And maybe, woody, you can nowreceiving these funds and the
impact is amazing.
And maybe, woody, you can talkabout those three and then, when
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they come back and talk aboutthe impact, how that comes into
view inside the meeting.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Absolutely yeah.
So the goal of this group is tosee change in action and to see
our dollars put to work in ourown community and a couple that
we highlight that really do somegreat work.
One is the Samaritan Car CareCenter that Bob mentioned.
There are people in ourcommunity that have to choose
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whether they put tires on theircar or feed their kids or feed
their kids, and a lot of timesit's single moms that are trying
to get a leg up in life and gettheir career straightened out
and they just can't afford carrepairs.
Samaritan Car Care Center is oneof the beneficiaries of Give
when you Live, and what theywill do is they'll work with a
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co-op of other mechanic shopsthat will discount their
services and their prices.
They'll raise fundsindependently, they'll have
these people put some skin inthe game and put some money into
the pot as well, and as a teamthey get together and they
repair cars for these peoplethat need help.
And again, a lot of times asingle mom is just trying to get
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a leg up and they can get a carrepair done so they can get
back to work and and really helptheir family.
That's a really impactful onethat that we, that we've come
across.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And that's just one example of many deserving
deserving groups.
When you attend a Give when youLive meeting, you're there
learning about all the variousdifferent nonprofits in Northern
Kentucky that may happen to berepresented that night.
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They may or may not win anymoney that evening, but along
the way you, as a person livingin and around Northern Kentucky,
get to hear these great storiesof these very deserving
nonprofits and you feel hopefulin terms of the fact that this
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is happening in our community.
So therefore, you can't helpbut want to help them out.
But let's be real.
Each of us has a finite numberof minutes in our day, hours in
our week, et cetera, and we havelimited financial resources as
well money to bless these localnonprofits with money that they
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don't have to spend a lot oftime working for, writing grants
and applying and all that stuff.
It's kind of like any givenmeeting.
They're walking in notrealizing that one of them is
about to win the lotto yes, thatone of them is about to win the
lotto yes.
And it's humbling when they winthe money because they can't
believe that they just weregifted this money yes, and they
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had to put so little work intoit.
Then people say well, it's ashame.
Only one can walk away as awinner at any given meeting, and
that's true.
But my goodness, you know, atany given meeting, and that's
true, but my goodness, peoplerealize, and you know, we talk
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amongst ourselves and we're allfriends and we all get to
witness what happens, all thegoodness at any given meeting.
Nobody walks out of there aloser.
Every single person in thatroom is a winner, for various
different reasons.
They are the best way toexperience that is to come to
one of our meetings.
And so if somebody wants tocome to a meeting and experience
it themselves, they don't haveto make a commitment to join,
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quote, unquote or have to partwith any money.
They can come and figure outhow they can be involved in this
group at whatever level makessense for them.
So if somebody wants to comejoin us, can they come join us?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Absolutely.
We encourage visitors to comeand just check it out.
You have to see it in action.
We can talk about it all day,but if you want to feel some
excitement and optimism and hope, as you mentioned, mike, you
got to be in that room.
It's incredible, it really isincredible.
And just to hear the stories ofthese groups that are Bennett,
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that walk away with the check,you know, some five or six
thousand dollars that they mightnever see in a given year, you
know, with, with not having towrite a grant for it, it is.
It is life changing and they'redoing life changing work in the
community, with, with nothaving to write a grant for it.
It is, it is life-changing andthey're doing life-changing work
in the community too, which isincredible.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
And the.
You know you're talking abouteverybody walking away as a
winner.
The nonprofits that that nightmay not have won.
They really, again, they didwin because they're now
networking and talking to othernonprofits and other people in
the, in the within our group, atGive when you Live, and they're
creating interest for thosepeople that come and volunteer
and the other nonprofit groupswhich is amazing.
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So it's a beautifulrelationship building experience
on top of giving money away ina philanthropic manner.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, there's a ripple effect that you don't see
.
That's it.
That continues on and on and on.
We see what happens thatevening.
We don't always get to see andwitness all the goodness that
propagates outward from that,exactly, exactly.
So one thing that, as I've beenout in the community talking
about Give when you Live, onequestion I'm asked is you know,
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there's misconceptions.
Some will say to me well, Ican't join your group, I don't
represent a nonprofit, or I'mnot a head of a nonprofit, and
so that tells me I've explainedit wrong.
I'm so sorry, you don't have tobe the head of a nonprofit to
attend a meeting.
Who can attend the meeting?
Anybody?
Correct?
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And I think that as we gothrough life, as we live life,
we just sort of find, I guess,causes that are just kind of
instinctively one that we wantto support or maybe one that has
touched us.
So if that kind of sounds likeyou, if you have experience with
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a local nonprofit, or maybe ifyou've just wanted to volunteer
or you've wanted to give tononprofits but you don't know
where to begin, you don't knowhow to attach your donations to
something that is kind of closeto your heart or just kind of
what is important to you.
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This is a great way to comeinto the group in a
non-threatening environment.
It's just so much fun.
I mean it really does feel likea reunion amongst friends.
You learn and then you caneither give that night or you
can say, okay, now I get it, nowI understand it.
And then we want people to notonly come and consider joining
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us and whatnot.
We want people to go out andkind of spread our gospel, so to
speak, kind of as we're doingtoday.
Correct, so there are placespeople can go online to just
kind of take a peek behind thecurtain and learn a little bit
more.
And these places online give aschedule, sometimes a location
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of a meeting, but certainly allsorts of information, phone
numbers, things like that.
To lead back to us what's oneof those places that you would
send them to if they say are youguys online?
Where can I go?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
We absolutely are online.
We're highly visible online.
Our main website is nkygivesorg, so again nkygivesorg, it'll
have an explanation of who weare, what we're about, a brief
video about Give when you Live,and it also gives the meeting
dates the annual, the meetingdates quarterly on the website.
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And then you can also find uson Facebook.
We post pictures and videos ofthe events on Facebook on our
Give when you Live NKY Facebookpage.
You can find us there as well.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Okay, that's the standard go-to for me.
People ask me.
I say, look, it's a very coolthing and it could take me a
while to explain it.
The best way to explain it tosomebody is to send them to the
website in kygivesorg, andthere's a nice little video
there too that just kind of in aquick, concise manner, explains
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the concept.
But I don't want people to thinkthat this is going to cost them
a lot of time or money.
It's very quick and easy andit's very affordable, and when
you see the people that you'rehelping, you think my God, this
is too good to be true.
It's not, and it's because ofyou guys bringing this to
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northern Kentucky that thesenonprofits have been blessed to
the degree that they have been,but there are more out there
ready to receive their blessings.
Yes, absolutely.
Not only are you guys going tocontinue to be a part of that I
know I will be too, lord willingand we just want more of us in
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the community to come join ourgroup.
Yes, be a part of all this.
All this goodness.
I guess you know it's great forthe community.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah, and Mike, I'll say that you know you hit the
nail on the head with this is wetry to make it so noncommittal,
we?
We?
We almost make it too easy, tooeasy.
It really is an hour of yourtime once a quarter and no more,
no less.
Hour of your time once aquarter.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
We watch that time pretty closely, we do.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
We time our presenters to make sure they're
on target.
You know, we know that peopleare busy and time is precious,
so we don't ask for a lot oftime.
It's a hundred dollarcommitment per quarter.
Come, just come, see a meetingin action, I promise you'll.
You'll enjoy what you see andreally for me, the most
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impactful part is having theprevious winner from the
previous quarter come back.
Yeah, all the group how theirmoney was spent in our community
.
That is the most.
That is incredible.
That's the best part for me.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, I agree.
Yeah, when you see how they'vebeen able to quickly use that
money and 100% of the funds thatwe collect go directly to that
nonprofit yes, 100%, so they'reable to quickly use it and it
impacts them and they're happyand excited to come back and
share with the group at the nextmeeting what they've done or
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what they're doing or veryquickly plan to do with the
funds that they've been gifted.
I say blessed with becausethat's just, I think, a nice
term to use, because it's true.
So I also want to say thank youto Woody because, generally
speaking, when we show up atthese meetings, they're always
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in a fun environment.
Maybe you know if you want toenjoy a glass of bourbon or a
beer or a wine or a soft drink,a root beer, whatever, you're
just kind of hanging out,networking, meeting with people,
and then when we get the formalpart of it started and, as Bob
said, we move quickly, woody isthe one who, along with Nancy
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Grayson at Horizon CommunityFunds, we shove the microphone
in their hands.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
They go to the front of the room.
They're the best speakers.
They go to the speaker, theyknow what to do.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, and so they keep us honest in terms of the
time they do they do.
Here's what's next.
Here's what's next, yeah, socome join us and see Woody in
action, and Bob and I will.
We'll be glad to hang out, meetyou and explain a little more,
but you just come and have funand watch.
You don't have to do anythingother than just enjoy it and
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feel proud to be a part ofsomething so good and uplifting.
It's something that's impactingthe community to such a large
degree, but in such a simple,easy way, and we've been doing
it quietly for too long.
We want to shout it from ahigher rooftop, and so we need
people there to kind of help uspropagate this message
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throughout Northern Kentucky,because it's too good of a
concept not to share.
And again, everybody wins.
You walk out of there feelingso good about yourself and so
hopeful.
We all need that these days,and Mike can I add something?
Sure.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I think you mentioned this you don't have to be a
subject matter expert in localnonprofits to be part of this
group.
If you come and your name isdrawn and you either don't like
public speaking or don't feelconfident speaking.
We have something fun where youcan pass your pitch to somebody
else that you've met that nightin the room.
Maybe it's another nonprofitthat that you know takes your
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interest and you want them topresent on your behalf.
You can pass your pitch to them, they'll take it and they'll
pitch for you and so you don'thave to get up and speak if you
don't want to.
We're not.
We're not pushing you.
We're not pressuring you to dothat.
So very, very low key.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
That's a that's a huge point, because that alone
could stop people from comingbecause they think I'm not a
public speaker.
I am terrified to speak infront of groups.
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I don't want to get pulled upto the front of the room and
talk about a nonprofit or make amistake or misrepresent them or
fumble through my words.
That doesn't happen in thisgroup.
It doesn't.
There's always somebody thereto carry the torch on your
behalf.
So many different ways, and Ijust sort of look at it as
whatever is supposed to happenat any given meeting is exactly
what happens.
We don't always know what thatis until the meeting's over, but
we're all glad that we justwitnessed what we witnessed and
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we can't wait for the nextmeeting because you feel so good
.
So, yeah, we just want beatinghearts in the room, standing
next to us and cheering on thegood work being done in northern
Kentucky.
Yes, so thank you, gentlemen,for being such a big part of it.
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I'm proud to know you guys andI'm proud to be a part of the
group myself are out therelistening to this.
Wherever you are, please go tonkygivesorg and learn more about
Give when you Live, northernKentucky, and come join us.
And if you have any questionsand you just want to pick up the
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phone and ask a question.
Gentlemen, can they call you ordo you want me to take the call
?
How do you want to handle thatone?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
We're happy for you to give us a call.
You can reach us at our office,or actually my personal cell
phone.
You can reach me as well859-992-4153.
Give me a call, shoot me a text.
I can answer any question youhave.
We're happy to talk all aboutGive when you Live.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
And Woody, I think your number is probably on that
website too, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I believe it is yes.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Okay, let's hope your phone starts ringing off the
hook, brother.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I'm happy with that.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
If you want to forward your phone to mine, then
I'll take it All right.
Well, woody Bob, thanks forjoining us today.
Thank you for having us Lettingpeople know more about Give
when you Live, northern Kentucky, fantastic.
Is there anything that wehaven't covered that you'd like
to before we sign off today?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Well, I don't know, woody, what do you think?
I think you've covered most ofit.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
You've done a pretty good job.
Go to the website and look atthe next meeting date.
In December we're going to havekind of an end of the year
celebration.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
I don't want to give you thewrong date, so check it out on
the website sometime in earlyDecember, 6 pm.
If you sign up, we'll put youon our mailing list and give you
all the information.
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But we did it last year.
It was a lot of fun Networking,just letting loose a little bit
.
So we'd love to have you as avisitor for our December meeting
.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Their evening meeting , so you can do it after work.
Absolutely Okay, perfect, allright.
Well, gentlemen, that's that,and I thank you for joining us
and letting us know more aboutGive when you Live, northern
Kentucky.
I hope and pray that we canhave double the people at this
next meeting than we had at theprevious.
The more people we have, themore money we can give and the
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more humans we can bless here inNorthern Kentucky.
Thank you so much.
Thanks, Mike.
With that being said, I'll justlet everybody out there know
we'll be back with anotherepisode of the Good Neighbor
Podcast.
Until then, be good to yourneighbors.
See you next time.
Bye-bye.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
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This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
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Here's your host, Mike Murphy.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Thank you, charlie.
Yes, I am Mike Murphy, host ofthe Good Neighbor Podcast, and
we bring in local businessowners, influencers, friends of
mine.
Sometimes they're strangers andI'm meeting them for the first
time with you, but certainly wewant you, the listeners out
there, to know the good thingshappening in northern Kentucky.
So one of the great thingshappening in northern Kentucky
(00:36):
we are kind of going to spend alittle time talking about today.
I brought two gentlemen intothe broadcast booth today to
talk about something called Givewhen you Live, northern
Kentucky.
These are two friends of mine.
I've been involved for a whilewith Give when you Live and
we're going to talk about Givewhen you Live, what it is, who's
(00:59):
involved and how you can beinvolved.
So, without further ado, I'dlike to introduce two friends of
mine, bob Mueller, woodyMueller of Mueller Financial
here in Northern Kentucky, inFlorence.
They are the ones that broughtGive when you Live the concept
to Northern Kentucky, and solet's get into it.
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Let's talk about Give when youLive, Bob and Woody.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
welcome to the show.
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Thanks for having us.
So, Bob, just briefly tell uswho you are and what you do for
a living, sir.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Okay, I'm Bob Mueller , mueller Financial.
I've been a financial plannerfor 35 years, mainly here in
Northern Kentucky.
Really enjoy the people here.
I started in Chicago and theydecided I want to come over to
Northern Kentucky and that'swhere I planted my roots here
and then, from that point on, Ibrought on some other colleagues
(01:50):
, one being my son Woody.
He can introduce himself to youand tell a little bit about
what he does.
And we're a financial firm inNorthern Kentucky, out in
Florence, kentucky.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
So with that we turn to Woody.
Woody, do the same man.
Tell us a little bit aboutyourself.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Absolutely.
Thanks, mike.
Again thanks for having ustoday.
I'm really excited to talkabout Give when you Live.
My name is Woody Mueller.
I'm a partner with MuellerFinancial.
We're a father-son team inFlorence, kentucky.
We do financial planning,investment advising, and I've
been in the industry for about12 years, been with Mueller
Financial for 10 years, have ablast growing the business with
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my father and helping peoplealong the way, and part of the
fun of our job is to getcreative and find awesome things
like give where you live.
That we'll talk more abouttoday, so I'm happy to dive into
that.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So you say, helping awesome people, and there are
many ways to do that.
And, aside from the financialadvising services you guys
provide, you have found a greatway to help people here in
Northern Kentucky, specificallynonprofits in Northern Kentucky.
So Give when you Live, northernKentucky is, it's a group that
(03:06):
I've come to call.
When describing it to peopleit's, I say you've heard of
speed dating.
Well, this is philanthropy.
And so they say, oh really,well, what's that look like?
And so from there theconversation just flows.
You know, that's how I piquedtheir interest, and I think
maybe you guys are the ones thattaught me that five years ago,
because I myself have beeninvolved in Give when you Live,
(03:29):
northern Kentucky for about fiveyears now, I guess.
And it's such an incredibleconcept that everybody needs to
know about it.
And when people hear about itthey say how can I be involved?
I want in, what do I do next?
So that's why we're here today.
So with that in mind, woody, ifyou wouldn't mind being sort of
like the mouthpiece on thesubject, as our intro here, what
(03:55):
is Give when you Live, northernKentucky?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Absolutely so.
As you mentioned, I mean greatway.
To sum it up, mike, it's speeddating, but for philanthropy,
you know, we try to make it easy.
There's so many big nonprofitsthat that attract a lot of money
, have a lot of eyeballs on themand do a lot of great work.
But sometimes the smaller localnonprofits can get overlooked.
And that's where Give when youLive, northern Kentucky comes
(04:21):
into place.
We wanted to find a way, aunique way, to help smaller
grassroots nonprofits here inour own backyard, and I got to
give the credit to Bob.
He saw the concept being donein another part of the country
with a former colleague of his,and we just reached out to him
and said hey, can we replicatethis here in Northern Kentucky,
(04:42):
because the work you're doing isincredible?
And he gave us a green light,said go for it, knock yourselves
out.
You know, I hope it works andwe hit the ground running and we
have a wonderful partner.
Horizon Community Funds ofNorthern Kentucky is a
foundation that helps facilitateGive when you Live, northern
Kentucky, but in essence, whatit is is a group of members in
(05:06):
Northern Kentucky that commit to$100 per quarter for the year,
so it's a $400 commitment.
We get together for one houreach quarter in a fun, you know,
kind of laid back atmosphereand we all support or put our
support behind a specificnonprofit in Northern Kentucky.
(05:28):
And when we attend the meetingswe all throw our names into a
big hat of the nonprofit that wewant to support.
And of those several names wedraw three out and the people
supporting the three nonprofitsget three minutes to stand up
and talk about why theirnonprofit should be awarded the
(05:50):
funds that night.
And of the three we do aquestion and answer session.
We all as a, as a group, gets avote on one of those to to win
the funds that night.
So if it's a hundred dollars,we have 50 people in the room.
It's $5,000 that is beingawarded that evening to a local
nonprofit.
(06:11):
No grant writing, no questionsasked goes right to them and
it's it's just so much fun.
I don't know, bob, if you wantto elaborate on it.
It's just an incredible groupthat we have.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Well, I think some of the small groups, a lot of
these.
You hit the nail on the headbecause some of these small
groups we feel like kind of getoverlooked.
And there are a lot of peoplein Northern Kentucky who are
active in philanthropy who mayhave never heard of these
organizations.
But all of a sudden we've gotorganizations we've given
several thousands of dollars to,like the Go Pantry they were
(06:41):
just written up in the newspaperrecently Samaritan Car Care
Center amazing organization, Iwant you, woody, to expound on
that a little bit and LifetimeLearning Center.
I mean, those are maybe threeof the several that we've given
and I believe in the last fiveyears correct me if I'm wrong, I
think it's around $120,000,$130,000 we've given out in
(07:03):
funds from this little.
I will call it the littleengine that could.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
We just keep on trucking along doing our thing.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
It's really easy.
It's an hour long and a funplace and these little I don't
want to say little, but thesesort of more obscure nonprofits
that do fantastic work in thecommunity they're now receiving
these funds and the impact isamazing.
And maybe, woody, you can nowreceiving these funds and the
impact is amazing.
And maybe, woody, you can talkabout those three and then, when
(07:29):
they come back and talk aboutthe impact, how that comes into
view inside the meeting.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Absolutely yeah.
So the goal of this group is tosee change in action and to see
our dollars put to work in ourown community and a couple that
we highlight that really do somegreat work.
One is the Samaritan Car CareCenter that Bob mentioned.
There are people in ourcommunity that have to choose
(07:59):
whether they put tires on theircar or feed their kids or feed
their kids, and a lot of timesit's single moms that are trying
to get a leg up in life and gettheir career straightened out
and they just can't afford carrepairs.
Samaritan Car Care Center is oneof the beneficiaries of Give
when you Live, and what theywill do is they'll work with a
(08:22):
co-op of other mechanic shopsthat will discount their
services and their prices.
They'll raise fundsindependently, they'll have
these people put some skin inthe game and put some money into
the pot as well, and as a teamthey get together and they
repair cars for these peoplethat need help.
And again, a lot of times asingle mom is just trying to get
(08:43):
a leg up and they can get a carrepair done so they can get
back to work and and really helptheir family.
That's a really impactful onethat that we, that we've come
across.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And that's just one example of many deserving
deserving groups.
When you attend a Give when youLive meeting, you're there
learning about all the variousdifferent nonprofits in Northern
Kentucky that may happen to berepresented that night.
(09:14):
They may or may not win anymoney that evening, but along
the way you, as a person livingin and around Northern Kentucky,
get to hear these great storiesof these very deserving
nonprofits and you feel hopefulin terms of the fact that this
(09:35):
is happening in our community.
So therefore, you can't helpbut want to help them out.
But let's be real.
Each of us has a finite numberof minutes in our day, hours in
our week, et cetera, and we havelimited financial resources as
well money to bless these localnonprofits with money that they
(10:12):
don't have to spend a lot oftime working for, writing grants
and applying and all that stuff.
It's kind of like any givenmeeting.
They're walking in notrealizing that one of them is
about to win the lotto yes, thatone of them is about to win the
lotto yes.
And it's humbling when they winthe money because they can't
believe that they just weregifted this money yes, and they
(10:36):
had to put so little work intoit.
Then people say well, it's ashame.
Only one can walk away as awinner at any given meeting, and
that's true.
But my goodness, you know, atany given meeting, and that's
true, but my goodness, peoplerealize, and you know, we talk
(10:56):
amongst ourselves and we're allfriends and we all get to
witness what happens, all thegoodness at any given meeting.
Nobody walks out of there aloser.
Every single person in thatroom is a winner, for various
different reasons.
They are the best way toexperience that is to come to
one of our meetings.
And so if somebody wants tocome to a meeting and experience
it themselves, they don't haveto make a commitment to join,
(11:18):
quote, unquote or have to partwith any money.
They can come and figure outhow they can be involved in this
group at whatever level makessense for them.
So if somebody wants to comejoin us, can they come join us?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Absolutely.
We encourage visitors to comeand just check it out.
You have to see it in action.
We can talk about it all day,but if you want to feel some
excitement and optimism and hope, as you mentioned, mike, you
got to be in that room.
It's incredible, it really isincredible.
And just to hear the stories ofthese groups that are Bennett,
(11:54):
that walk away with the check,you know, some five or six
thousand dollars that they mightnever see in a given year, you
know, with, with not having towrite a grant for it, it is.
It is life changing and they'redoing life changing work in the
community, with, with nothaving to write a grant for it.
It is, it is life-changing andthey're doing life-changing work
in the community too, which isincredible.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
And the.
You know you're talking abouteverybody walking away as a
winner.
The nonprofits that that nightmay not have won.
They really, again, they didwin because they're now
networking and talking to othernonprofits and other people in
the, in the within our group, atGive when you Live, and they're
creating interest for thosepeople that come and volunteer
and the other nonprofit groupswhich is amazing.
(12:31):
So it's a beautifulrelationship building experience
on top of giving money away ina philanthropic manner.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, there's a ripple effect that you don't see
.
That's it.
That continues on and on and on.
We see what happens thatevening.
We don't always get to see andwitness all the goodness that
propagates outward from that,exactly, exactly.
So one thing that, as I've beenout in the community talking
about Give when you Live, onequestion I'm asked is you know,
(13:01):
there's misconceptions.
Some will say to me well, Ican't join your group, I don't
represent a nonprofit, or I'mnot a head of a nonprofit, and
so that tells me I've explainedit wrong.
I'm so sorry, you don't have tobe the head of a nonprofit to
attend a meeting.
Who can attend the meeting?
Anybody?
Correct?
(13:21):
And I think that as we gothrough life, as we live life,
we just sort of find, I guess,causes that are just kind of
instinctively one that we wantto support or maybe one that has
touched us.
So if that kind of sounds likeyou, if you have experience with
(13:42):
a local nonprofit, or maybe ifyou've just wanted to volunteer
or you've wanted to give tononprofits but you don't know
where to begin, you don't knowhow to attach your donations to
something that is kind of closeto your heart or just kind of
what is important to you.
(14:03):
This is a great way to comeinto the group in a
non-threatening environment.
It's just so much fun.
I mean it really does feel likea reunion amongst friends.
You learn and then you caneither give that night or you
can say, okay, now I get it, nowI understand it.
And then we want people to notonly come and consider joining
(14:26):
us and whatnot.
We want people to go out andkind of spread our gospel, so to
speak, kind of as we're doingtoday.
Correct, so there are placespeople can go online to just
kind of take a peek behind thecurtain and learn a little bit
more.
And these places online give aschedule, sometimes a location
(14:50):
of a meeting, but certainly allsorts of information, phone
numbers, things like that.
To lead back to us what's oneof those places that you would
send them to if they say are youguys online?
Where can I go?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
We absolutely are online.
We're highly visible online.
Our main website is nkygivesorg, so again nkygivesorg, it'll
have an explanation of who weare, what we're about, a brief
video about Give when you Live,and it also gives the meeting
dates the annual, the meetingdates quarterly on the website.
(15:28):
And then you can also find uson Facebook.
We post pictures and videos ofthe events on Facebook on our
Give when you Live NKY Facebookpage.
You can find us there as well.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Okay, that's the standard go-to for me.
People ask me.
I say, look, it's a very coolthing and it could take me a
while to explain it.
The best way to explain it tosomebody is to send them to the
website in kygivesorg, andthere's a nice little video
there too that just kind of in aquick, concise manner, explains
(16:02):
the concept.
But I don't want people to thinkthat this is going to cost them
a lot of time or money.
It's very quick and easy andit's very affordable, and when
you see the people that you'rehelping, you think my God, this
is too good to be true.
It's not, and it's because ofyou guys bringing this to
(16:25):
northern Kentucky that thesenonprofits have been blessed to
the degree that they have been,but there are more out there
ready to receive their blessings.
Yes, absolutely.
Not only are you guys going tocontinue to be a part of that I
know I will be too, lord willingand we just want more of us in
(16:46):
the community to come join ourgroup.
Yes, be a part of all this.
All this goodness.
I guess you know it's great forthe community.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah, and Mike, I'll say that you know you hit the
nail on the head with this is wetry to make it so noncommittal,
we?
We?
We almost make it too easy, tooeasy.
It really is an hour of yourtime once a quarter and no more,
no less.
Hour of your time once aquarter.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
We watch that time pretty closely, we do.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
We time our presenters to make sure they're
on target.
You know, we know that peopleare busy and time is precious,
so we don't ask for a lot oftime.
It's a hundred dollarcommitment per quarter.
Come, just come, see a meetingin action, I promise you'll.
You'll enjoy what you see andreally for me, the most
(17:36):
impactful part is having theprevious winner from the
previous quarter come back.
Yeah, all the group how theirmoney was spent in our community
.
That is the most.
That is incredible.
That's the best part for me.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, I agree.
Yeah, when you see how they'vebeen able to quickly use that
money and 100% of the funds thatwe collect go directly to that
nonprofit yes, 100%, so they'reable to quickly use it and it
impacts them and they're happyand excited to come back and
share with the group at the nextmeeting what they've done or
(18:12):
what they're doing or veryquickly plan to do with the
funds that they've been gifted.
I say blessed with becausethat's just, I think, a nice
term to use, because it's true.
So I also want to say thank youto Woody because, generally
speaking, when we show up atthese meetings, they're always
(18:33):
in a fun environment.
Maybe you know if you want toenjoy a glass of bourbon or a
beer or a wine or a soft drink,a root beer, whatever, you're
just kind of hanging out,networking, meeting with people,
and then when we get the formalpart of it started and, as Bob
said, we move quickly, woody isthe one who, along with Nancy
(18:54):
Grayson at Horizon CommunityFunds, we shove the microphone
in their hands.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
They go to the front of the room.
They're the best speakers.
They go to the speaker, theyknow what to do.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, and so they keep us honest in terms of the
time they do they do.
Here's what's next.
Here's what's next, yeah, socome join us and see Woody in
action, and Bob and I will.
We'll be glad to hang out, meetyou and explain a little more,
but you just come and have funand watch.
You don't have to do anythingother than just enjoy it and
(19:26):
feel proud to be a part ofsomething so good and uplifting.
It's something that's impactingthe community to such a large
degree, but in such a simple,easy way, and we've been doing
it quietly for too long.
We want to shout it from ahigher rooftop, and so we need
people there to kind of help uspropagate this message
(19:51):
throughout Northern Kentucky,because it's too good of a
concept not to share.
And again, everybody wins.
You walk out of there feelingso good about yourself and so
hopeful.
We all need that these days,and Mike can I add something?
Sure.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I think you mentioned this you don't have to be a
subject matter expert in localnonprofits to be part of this
group.
If you come and your name isdrawn and you either don't like
public speaking or don't feelconfident speaking.
We have something fun where youcan pass your pitch to somebody
else that you've met that nightin the room.
Maybe it's another nonprofitthat that you know takes your
(20:31):
interest and you want them topresent on your behalf.
You can pass your pitch to them, they'll take it and they'll
pitch for you and so you don'thave to get up and speak if you
don't want to.
We're not.
We're not pushing you.
We're not pressuring you to dothat.
So very, very low key.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
That's a that's a huge point, because that alone
could stop people from comingbecause they think I'm not a
public speaker.
I am terrified to speak infront of groups.
(21:09):
I don't want to get pulled upto the front of the room and
talk about a nonprofit or make amistake or misrepresent them or
fumble through my words.
That doesn't happen in thisgroup.
It doesn't.
There's always somebody thereto carry the torch on your
behalf.
So many different ways, and Ijust sort of look at it as
whatever is supposed to happenat any given meeting is exactly
what happens.
We don't always know what thatis until the meeting's over, but
we're all glad that we justwitnessed what we witnessed and
(21:30):
we can't wait for the nextmeeting because you feel so good
.
So, yeah, we just want beatinghearts in the room, standing
next to us and cheering on thegood work being done in northern
Kentucky.
Yes, so thank you, gentlemen,for being such a big part of it.
(21:51):
I'm proud to know you guys andI'm proud to be a part of the
group myself are out therelistening to this.
Wherever you are, please go tonkygivesorg and learn more about
Give when you Live, northernKentucky, and come join us.
And if you have any questionsand you just want to pick up the
(22:14):
phone and ask a question.
Gentlemen, can they call you ordo you want me to take the call
?
How do you want to handle thatone?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
We're happy for you to give us a call.
You can reach us at our office,or actually my personal cell
phone.
You can reach me as well859-992-4153.
Give me a call, shoot me a text.
I can answer any question youhave.
We're happy to talk all aboutGive when you Live.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
And Woody, I think your number is probably on that
website too, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I believe it is yes.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Okay, let's hope your phone starts ringing off the
hook, brother.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I'm happy with that.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
If you want to forward your phone to mine, then
I'll take it All right.
Well, woody Bob, thanks forjoining us today.
Thank you for having us Lettingpeople know more about Give
when you Live, northern Kentucky, fantastic.
Is there anything that wehaven't covered that you'd like
to before we sign off today?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Well, I don't know, woody, what do you think?
I think you've covered most ofit.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
You've done a pretty good job.
Go to the website and look atthe next meeting date.
In December we're going to havekind of an end of the year
celebration.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
I don't want to give you thewrong date, so check it out on
the website sometime in earlyDecember, 6 pm.
If you sign up, we'll put youon our mailing list and give you
all the information.
(23:39):
But we did it last year.
It was a lot of fun Networking,just letting loose a little bit
.
So we'd love to have you as avisitor for our December meeting
.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Their evening meeting , so you can do it after work.
Absolutely Okay, perfect, allright.
Well, gentlemen, that's that,and I thank you for joining us
and letting us know more aboutGive when you Live, northern
Kentucky.
I hope and pray that we canhave double the people at this
next meeting than we had at theprevious.
The more people we have, themore money we can give and the
(24:09):
more humans we can bless here inNorthern Kentucky.
Thank you so much.
Thanks, Mike.
With that being said, I'll justlet everybody out there know
we'll be back with anotherepisode of the Good Neighbor
Podcast.
Until then, be good to yourneighbors.
See you next time.
Bye-bye.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
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