June 17, 2025 • 34 mins
Kyle Goodknight welcomes Connie Davis to discuss her transition from corporate finance to her current role in Love and Authenticity. Connie explains the concept of "money movement" and its importance in promoting financial inclusion, particularly for the unhoused community. They explore the critical role digital lifelines play for vulnerable populations and highlight the mission and accomplishments of the Inspire World Foundation in its first year. A success story from a community market advisor is shared, along with the potential of podcasting to aid nonprofit growth. Opportunities for collaboration with the Inspire World Foundation are discussed, and the episode concludes with contact information and acknowledgments.
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Money only moves if people move it, right?
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So if we decide to do business, we decide tomove money into a bank account, move money out
of a bank account, spend through a debit cardor a credit card, we're moving money every
single day.
Life means, you know, to extend yourself outinto the world.
You're making decisions.
You're choosing to buy a product or a servicefrom another business owner or an institution
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or an organization.
That's how money moves.
Subscribe and share as you come into this, asyou hear this episode today.
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And if something resonates with you orresonates with someone that you know, don't
hesitate to hit that share button, get that outto them, get this information to you.
So today, I'm very excited.
I've I've met this guest about probably about amonth and a half, two months ago, and we just
hit it off great.
The first time we talked, it was like we'veknown each other forever.
We have a lot of the same align.
It actually was really hard to decide whichpodcast to come on first because I have two
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podcasts as everybody knows.
Shameless plug going into the elevate podcast.
She is a post traumatic growth specialist.
And so she could totally fit into that categoryof first responders.
But also too, she has started a nonprofitInspire World Foundation that also uses used
her entrepreneurial path.
And that's why she's on the ignition pathpodcast today.
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So today, I have Connie Davis.
Connie, how are you?
I'm good, Kyle.
Good to see you again.
Fantastic.
Well, welcome to the Ignition Path Podcast.
We may be live.
I just something just came up when I hitrecord.
It says live stream.
So I think I'm actually I think I may be goinglive somewhere.
That's If I'm live somewhere, I'm livesomewhere.
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That's fantastic.
So, you know, we'll see what the live lookslike after I edit.
You know, the live will be raw and real and andpeople can they can comment and stuff in the
chat.
I'm not sure exactly where I did the last timeI did something, I did a live inside of a
Facebook group.
But I don't think it'll actually be in thatgroup because I have to be inside of Facebook
to actually allow it to do its thing.
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So it's probably saying, hey, I want to go liveto this address, but it's really not happening.
So I'm pretty sure it's not live.
We'll just pretend that it is.
And just let We'll pretend that
it is.
I don't care.
I mean, I like like, we'd literally rightbefore we hit record, everybody, just to catch
you up on something, we're we're we have zeroscript for today, which I love, and Connie
agrees.
It keeps it real, raw, and and and and to thetruth.
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And the questions that I ask, I have no ideawhat questions I'm gonna ask.
You know, it's gonna literally go off of whatwhen she describes what she does.
I I I I think on my feet, you know, being aparamedic, I'm always willing and a needing to
think on my feet.
So the way I do my interview style is I makesure that that everything is nice and fluid and
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and nothing canned for the most part.
Once in a blue moon, I'll have like, oh, I wantto make sure I want to ask this question from
our first meeting.
But Connie, say hi to everybody and introduceyourself and let's get this started.
Hi everyone.
Thank you for having me, Kyle.
You're welcome.
Yeah, so to introduce myself, I live here inFlorida.
I am a mom, I am a widow, I am a sister, andall of the wonderful hats that we wear as
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women, right?
And I'm also a I have been on anentrepreneurial journey for about five years
where I left corporate financial services foralmost thirty years I spent a lot of time
bringing in a lot of cool payment products tomove money from place to place.
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But I started on a journey outside of thatcorporate journey to study a different type of
money movement.
It was really pretty incredible.
The opportunities that have fallen in my lapliterally to show me a different side of the
world of money movement.
That's what I'm here to really talk abouttoday.
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The other parts of my journey to align with youas an EMT, I became a Love and Authenticity
practitioner in 2021.
I've continued that journey into I thought Iwanted to be a coach.
I don't want to be a coach.
I'm a digital advocate for how do we buildsystems that see all people and serve all
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people and move money across all people.
So that's really kind of the path that I'vebeen on.
It's been really fascinating to kind of come todigital first aid for people.
That's what I resonated with when you told mewhat you do, I try to come to the rescue of
individuals that are drowning in systems,especially around money movement.
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So and having money wounds that we need toapply first aid to.
Right.
Right.
Well, and
that's you know, that really sparks a lot of Imean, I I think we're gonna fill our time with
just that sentence because there's a lot ofquestions that and a lot of statements that
that I've found through not only the firstresponder path, but the entrepreneurial path.
Entrepreneurial path is no it's no joke.
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It's there's money issues.
There's clients who drop out that pay you moneyevery month.
And all of a sudden they don't pay you for acouple of months.
And you're like, why are you not paying me?
And they're like, well, because I'm changing mydirection.
I'm like, but you gotta keep me in the loophere.
So money issues and money first aid and how tomove money around, you know, like right now,
use Stripe.
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I can't stand it.
They they knock the crap out of me when itcomes to the stuff.
But it's like the industry standard for howsomeone purchases my, you know, my services,
you know, when it comes to my podcastproductions and stuff like that.
So a little bit different on the voice overside of things.
The money can come from several differentareas, including a paper check sent to my house
or a direct deposit.
So a little bit different with that with somesome of the corporations.
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But when it comes to the stress that money putson us in the entrepreneurial world and the
first responder world, because that's a wholechapter in my first responder program is the
financial, you know, financial stuff.
Because typically first responders, whenthey're young and they get a job and they're
all of a sudden making all this money as afirst responder, they go buy a big truck.
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And then they get a then they find someone theyfall in love with and get married a year or two
later.
And all of a sudden, would get this truckweight on them, literally, financial weight.
And then they got a new wife or a kid and ahouse, and it's like all of a sudden they're in
financial ruin.
So that is a big tough topic.
I actually have spoke with you do you know theFinancial Cop?
You know No.
I don't.
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Okay.
Yeah.
I believe I can't remember where he's out of,but financialcop.com is a somebody who's gonna
be coming on my podcast for the first responderpodcast because he was a police officer, is a
police officer, but he knew money really well.
And so all of a sudden, he started helping hisfellow officers, and then people are like, hey.
Listen.
You need to take this to the management and getthis get this taught almost it's not quite Dave
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Ramsey stuff, but it's somewhere along linesof, you know, you know, tidying up your your
financial, you know, your financial well-being.
And so he's now created a business in it, andit's it's a perfect he's he's another dual guy.
He's gonna come on Ignition Path because he'san entrepreneur through it, and he's a first
responder.
So tell us more about what you mean about moneymovement.
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You know, it's not laundering.
That's not what we're talking about.
Like, what do you mean by money movement?
Like like, explain that a little bit.
Yeah.
So money only moves if people move it.
Right?
So if we decide to do business, we decide tomove money into a bank account, move money out
of a bank account, spend through a debit cardor credit card, we're moving money every single
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day.
Life means to extend yourself out into theworld.
You're making decisions, you're choosing to buya product or a service from another business
owner or an institution or an organization,that's how money moves.
We decide as people, as human beings, to movemoney.
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Sometimes that is for our own family and ourown good.
Then sometimes there are, on the money woundside of it, are times when people move money to
do things and to inflict harm.
That's the other side of the coin.
So if we think about the money game, there's agame out there.
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There's people that are doing it to just earn awage and income and to support their family.
They're law abiding citizens and they're doingamazing things building up that community in
their home, their home out to their community,and their friends and family.
But there are other types of enterprises outthere that are doing unfortunate things with
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money, or shaming people with money, orpredatory things that really inflict harm and
it creates a ripple effect in our communities.
That is where my work as a post traumaticgrowth officer at Inspire World Foundation is
really trying to create awareness, advocatingfor different types of technology approaches to
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move money, and also to create social impactwith money.
Right.
Well, and let's also take a step back to whenit so you mentioned earlier that you worked in
the corporate world.
When did you for your entrepreneur when didyour corporate mentality switch to an
entrepreneurial mentality and want to serveyour fellow entrepreneurs because that's what
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you do.
Basically, you're out there.
Your clients are entrepreneurs that you try tohelp shape their ability to move money and and
make money and to be financially sound is how Iunderstood it from our first conversation.
So talk a little bit about that path.
Yeah, so while I was in corporate, I wasstudying the next wave of where could we build
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a new financial technology service for thefinancial institutions, for customers that need
different products.
That was about 2018, when I started the journeyof looking around going we have loans, we have
bank accounts, we have cards, we have all kindsof cards, we have all kinds of programs and
credits and debit cards, and we have ways tomove money via wires and transfers.
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Where do we have a gap in what those servicesactually support?
I landed in a place of nonprofits.
I landed in looking at the nonprofit communityand how are nonprofits actually moving money?
How do we donate?
We give money to nonprofits.
But when I happened across a Facebook communitythat was actually pay it forward whatever
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county.
I was studying the responses and the posts inthat community for probably two months and I
happened across a woman that was actuallyexplaining that she was living in her car, She
was homeless and she had no bank account, nomoney for gas, and she was using her car as a
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house- as shelter.
She was asking for gift cards, donations, orways to get money to her without those
resources to be able to receive it.
And she was using Cash App or she was sayingHey you can PayPal me.
Because those are things that I can receivemoney.
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Or if you want to meet me and give me a gascard I would really love to do that.
Or someone help me get a hotel room so I canget out of this car in the middle of summer.
It was right around that time that I reallystarted researching and following the unhoused
journey- the people that don't have homes orthose that are really living without access to
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the banking systems that we know today.
That's really what put me on this journey ofthere is a lot of individuals that are
communicating, reaching out to other humanbeings for help or for support, using these
Facebook communities and groups to connect withpeople so that they know that they're not
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alone, but there's hidden money wounds there.
So that's really what started the journey,Kyle.
Yeah.
That's fantastic.
You know, when it comes to this nonprofit andthere's a there's some questions in that inside
of the nonprofit concept too.
You know, because right now, like you said,there are nonprofits out there that are not
doing good things.
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You know, I mean, They're being their theiradministration is being paid way too much.
They're not really putting the money where theysay they're gonna be putting the money.
I I don't have any examples at in this moment,but I know I've heard other nonprofits have
very bad management, You know?
And what what did you do when you started whenyou helped co find this this nonprofit?
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What kind of discussions did you have aboutcovering expenses that are going to be things
that mean money?
You know?
Like, I I've I've I've talked to a couple othernonprofits, and they wanna start a podcast, and
that's money, you know, for them to not have todo it themselves and pay a producer.
They have to spend money to do that.
And so what is it how did when when you'rebuilding that nonprofit and you're doing some
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of the and especially in the early days, andyou're doing some of the work because you're,
you know, you're the one creating it.
How does it work when it comes to paying whatyou you know, if I started a nonprofit, but and
it was something for podcasting.
How would I what is the what is the mentalityand the concept of being able to pay for the
services but not overpay?
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You know what I mean?
So you're you're still on the up and up.
How does that work when it comes to presentingthat?
I'm sure it's all gotta be public and whatnot.
But
Yeah, we have to be really, really responsiblewith the dollars because if you think about it,
if we're gonna spend money to earn donations orto create a service, we have to be responsible
with those dollars because people are expectingimpact for the mission that we're asking them
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to support.
We have to actually be reasonable with ourservices and the fees that we actually pay.
There does need to be agreements memorandums ofunderstandings with all vendors and all
providers that we would hire, consultantsincluded and so forth, that bring visibility
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spent your dollars here to get this, you know,progression on this particular service.
So a podcast is a great idea, a great example,because, you know, social media and marketing,
and this is all part of our capacity.
So a lot of conversations stem around capacitybuilding.
Here for our nonprofit, because we came out ofan enterprise corporate for profit model, we
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took those lessons learned of those enterprisemethodologies and building products and going
slow so that you can go fast later, theinfrastructure that we needed and the systems,
and really doing a ton of work collaboratingand building up our community that were on a
shared mission so that we could collaborate, wecould pool our dollars, we could leverage
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existing audiences, and then go faster acrossthose audiences because we've all decided we're
on a common mission, we have a cultural fit, wewant to do good with the dollars that we raise,
and we want to have transformative impact thatdoesn't just keep recycling people through the
system for the communities that we serve.
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And I want to go back to the homeless gal thatyou had mentioned earlier.
And this is totally have no clue, but mean, ifyou're if you're in that world, like how when
you mentioned that she was asking for giftcards or she had she had PayPal, I mean, how
many homeless people still have a cell phone?
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Because they were probably you know, a lot ofhomeless people, you know, they they they
weren't homeless always.
You know, they didn't get born intohomelessness.
I know that there's still probably people thatare that are born whose parents are homeless.
But, you know, I'm sure that when it comes tothe people that lose their job, they have a
downfall, they become homeless somehow.
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Did they, you know, we're in such a digitalworld with our cell phones now.
Like, what is, like, what is the percentage ofhomeless that still have a cell phone that
could go to this digital world and it could beall done through our phones?
Because I know it's out there.
Lobster, our our Cash App, like, there's a lotof stuff now that is based through our phones.
And I really feel like in the future, we're notgonna have debit cards anymore.
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We're not gonna have cash anymore.
It's all gonna be digital, in my opinion.
I don't know how far we're out from that.
But, tell me what you found in the homelessworld or the people that you've dealt with that
still have cell phones that could actuallybenefit from having a foundation like this that
helps them out digitally.
Yeah.
And our government has actually seen to it thatwe can distribute aid through phones.
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So the homeless population and many, manyvulnerable populations have access to benefit
programs.
They're funded by the state and or the federalgovernment levels, that see to it that they do
get access to a phone.
Now, is it a top of the line Apple?
Is it a top of the line Android?
No.
But it is a phone system that comes So manypeople that
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turn in their phones that are a year or two oldthat still work just Yes.
So, you know, I think it was, you know,previous legislation, it's even called the
Obama phone, but there were programs that werecreated to ensure that vulnerable individuals
have a lifeline.
And that lifeline is actually what keeps themat least able to search for jobs, at least be
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able to find resources in their community,connect with resource centers, make a phone
call if they're in a dangerous situation.
The challenge is that most of the time we'redealing with theft of their devices, we're
dealing with broken devices, devices that areharmed in the weather, and there's a constant
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recycling of these devices just to keep thatlifeline in their hands.
Without that lifeline then you're right, theyabsolutely do kind of fall off and they're in
the wild.
Sometimes in the very cities that they live in,even though it's a city full of hustle and
bustle, they're not seen and they're not tappedinto that economy.
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Gotcha.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
That that that's so important because I reallyfeel I think, you know, I think in general,
like, when I dove into the lobster world a acouple of years ago and started looking at at
at what's gonna be happening digitally to ourworld in the years to come.
Of course, I'm I'm I'm a a lover of new adoptedthings.
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I wish we could be in to that point muchfaster, but it's hard to give up cash and bank
cards and and checks and all that stuff.
And and it and I'm I'm hopeful for a world oneday that I'm alive and I can I can I can take
part of it where, you know, I go to the store,I tap my phone, it comes out of my my my my
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wallet?
Not, you know, whatever that is, whatever bankthat is, whether that's my physical bank or
whether that's my coin bank or whatever or mymy crypto bank, what have you.
You know, how far away do you think we are froma world that we can be a 100% digital?
I don't I I don't think we're that far off toanswer the question.
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I think that it's already happening.
I think it's in different pockets of thepopulation.
So I want to go back to what you're describingis what we call, in this digital transformation
age, which was really started probably way backin 2014, when we started seeing the momentum
build for moving from physical tangible paymentfactors a debit card, a credit card, a check,
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or pooling cash into how do we get more andmore of this activity online and actually to
transform the user experience of these paymentforms to more digital forms.
I was on the project that launched Apple Pay tothe communities, right?
So we had to find ways to get a combination ofa phone plus the banks that were involved in
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holding the deposits and the credit unions tocombine with Apple and then Visa and Mastercard
to make it all work.
We brought the chip cards to the communities.
Rolling these types of technologies out is noteasy.
It takes a lot of work, lot of planning, and alot of execution.
But as we think about the financial needs ofunderserved and unbanked or underrepresented
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communities that we don't really know whattheir money movement needs are other than when
they show up at a homeless shelter or aresource center that needs support by human
beings and have an extension and a need formoney.
What's really important is we have to rememberthat they sit outside of the access to the
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banking systems large.
They have reasons and barriers that keep themfrom accessing the services, or they have
emotional barriers that keep them from evengoing into those environments because of the
credit systems, the other types of shamingmechanisms that happen that create that self
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driven awareness of I'm not good enough to bein the banking system, so I'm going to stay
outside of it.
Then it's a matter of how do you take that typeof what we call Web2 technology that's in
centralized systems with centralized rules andaccess permissions to more of a how do I reach
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the individuals outside of the system that areliving and trying to move money to help them
survive in areas where they're alreadyvulnerable?
It just increases the vulnerability in manycases.
So we were always asking individuals andorganizations to think about how do we take a
more trauma informed lens to this type ofsystem and include economic and financial
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trauma?
You have mental, you have physical, you havedisasters that happen to individuals and
families, but it happens on an individual basisevery single day as well.
So we have to think about making those systemsmore reachable and accessible and inclusive for
all.
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And that's what you do inside of Inspire World?
That's what we're working to I
gotcha.
So how many people do you work with inside ofInspire?
So Inspire is, it's a very small foundationright now.
We have a team of, we have a board of advisors.
We have an advisory board that is traumainformed researchers, practitioners across many
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different industries, and we have a nonprofitcommunity of nonprofits that we actually serve.
So we actually intend to serve other nonprofitsand help them build their Okay, help them with
their
money movement and stuff, gotcha.
Correct,
Yes.
And to help design new systems or repurposeexisting systems to serve this vulnerable
community.
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And how long has this nonprofit been around?
So we just hit our one year birthday on June 1.
We're still in infancy.
We are.
But this is built on top of a consulting firmthat I had as part of my entrepreneurial
journey.
When I left the corporate world, I started adigital commerce consulting.
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Janine and I actually really started doing thework, and we dedicated about twenty four
thousand hours of pro bono consulting work deepin the community to find the signal that we've
now built into the foundation.
And that's grounded and rooted all of ourmission work, is now in that foundation based
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on that twenty four thousand hours worth ofwork.
Wow, that's amazing.
So when people are listening to this and theywant to go see more about your foundation, how
do they find it?
Like where do they go?
They just go to inspireworldfoundation.org.
Our mission and purpose is there.
You can see about the different fuelingresiliency programs.
Everything we do is research backed andsurvivor approved.
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Gotcha.
Now, do you have a success story that you canshare from someone that, of course, I mean, I
don't know how HIPAA is.
With me in the medical world, HIPAA is theworld, right?
Like everything is HIPAA.
So I'm not sure how it works when it comes tononprofits and you sharing the stories of
success stories or even, you know, troubledtimes.
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You know, I'm sure you can't say their name,which I'm not asking you to do, but are you
allowed to share someone's story who you'vehelped and succeed?
Yeah, so we've actually been working throughother nonprofits.
So I will share a success story that isactually, she is now our, what we call
community market advisor for failed adoptionand coming out of the foster program.
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But one of the unique things that we do is weamplify survivor stories.
We don't just come and ask them to speak sothat we can get donations.
We actually create exchange of commerce withthem.
Because we are commerce informed, traumainformed, and believe in fair and what we call
restorative commerce.
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So what Terri is doing is she is using hervoice to share information about her money
movement challenges.
In exchange, we've given her a scholarship toactually receive parts of the donations that
come into the foundation for her advocacy forchange in the foster system and in the failed
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adoption system.
She's come out of a deep area of just realmental health challenges, some real depression
and anxiety episodes that really used to justcompletely debilitate her.
She is now using her voice to speak out andmentor.
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She is on a path to become a certified advocatefor human rights with the United Nations.
She's speaking on different webinars andsharing her story and giving us insights to
where we can go and create change in thefinancial industry.
And one example is here in Florida, a localcredit union heard her story at an economic
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empowerment summit that we hosted and actuallyhas already changed appointments so that people
that need extra time, that feel like they can'tcome in and feel safe without anxiety at the
branch, can make a special needs type of anappointment to come in and get that extra time
with a community credit union representative.
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So that's an example of just being exposed tothese types of stories can help us become more
heroes for the type of jobs that we do in aneveryday world.
Well, it sounds like the networking that isinvolved within your organization is really
where the support comes to because they feelheard, someone who comes in with some form of
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financial trauma, and they've got somebodythere that will be supportive and they can
trust, and there's there's a foundationinvolved, it takes the it takes the anxiety out
of, well, they're just trying to get my money.
You know, like, oh, this is a service companythat's trying to make money off of me to help
me.
You know what I mean?
Where it's not it it seems a little bit more ofa of a more gentler way to assist someone, you
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know, and then you found a niche area for themto help.
And that's fantastic.
So fantastic.
When it comes to the foundation, you mentionedthe name earlier, we're gonna wrap things up
here.
So what else do you have?
Anything like any type of webinars that teachpeople about the foundation or that people
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listening to this want to know more about thefoundation?
Is there a central place other than thewebsite, of course?
Do you guys have weekly webinars or monthlywebinars where you try to if or, you know,
hopefully someone's hearing this and says, hey,that sounds like something I wanna and and, you
know, help out with.
Where how do they get more information thanjust this, you know, twenty minute talk that
we've had?
Oh, thank you, Kyle.
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Yeah.
We do have a YouTube channel.
So we do create some just very homegrown videosat this point.
We do have an event coming up this actuallytomorrow at 11AM Eastern.
It's really with Lavinia Osborne, who is thefounder of Women in Blockchain Talks.
We have a community collaboration partnershipwith her to talk about social impact and to
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bridge traditional finance and banking serviceswith decentralized banking services, and
talking about it from a social impact lens.
What can we do with this technology to trulyfuel doing good and making a difference in the
communities in which we work and play?
We don't have a podcast just yet.
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We've actually been looking for opportunities,hint hint, to really get the word I've
got a lot of great ideas when it comes topodcasting.
I've used it.
You know, a lot of my clients, they they've youknow, it takes a little time to get it, you
know, going.
But I've I've talked to one of my clients, andhe said that his podcast and they've already
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rebranded once in the middle of their podcastof me helping them.
They rebranded once.
And that's fine.
You know?
You know?
They're getting ready to leave my services, andI'm like, hold on a minute.
What's going on?
And they're like, well, we're gonna rebrand.
I'm like, I do that too.
And they're like, you do?
And I'm like, yeah.
So I helped them rebrand, and now they came tome and they said, wow.
Everything is we're using podcasting as ournumber one as our number one marketing tool.
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They're starting to see their brick and mortarbusiness now start to take off.
And of course, people podcast all the time fordigital businesses too.
But so, yeah.
Fantastic.
When it comes to I had a question that when youwere explaining explaining your event.
So this event that you're having tomorrow, mostlikely this will be up tomorrow.
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It is a Monday right now, and my episodes golive on Tuesday.
So most most likely this will be live beforethat 11AM eastern time, but most people will
hear it after.
Is this something that you do on a monthlybasis, weekly basis?
Where can they go find, like, maybe where thenext live event's gonna be through a calendar
system on your website or anything like that?
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Oh, we do have our events on our website.
So we did host one back in April.
We're not quite on that routine basis just yet,Kyle.
I'm certainly trying to get there, as weinterview our survivors so Terry's interview
was April.
We're getting ready to do another one withanother foster youth.
So those are absolutely individuals that youmight even wanna have on your podcast if you're
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interested.
Like, as soon as you said that, I'm like,there's your podcast.
There's the start of your podcast.
You Yes.
Interview your survivors.
You interview the people you're helping, andthat's part and then that could be interwoven
with information from other people and, youknow, experts that come in to explain blah blah
blah, to explain blockchain.
I've already got your podcast already figuredout in my brain.
Wonderful.
That's how it We would love to talk with you,Kyle, about working with us.
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And we do have, you know, we're a five zeroone(three), so it's all great pro bono services
that you can do in kind and we can give you adonation receipt for.
So those are just another way to do that as youmonetize.
But yeah, absolutely, it's part of our strategyand we'd love to have partners like you to help
us do that.
Yeah, that's fantastic.
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All right, well, we'll wrap things up.
People that are listening, all the folks outthere tuning into the Ignition Path podcast.
Please don't forget to subscribe, like, andshare any of the information.
I know that Connie and I, we've already beenspeaking.
I've been I've been on one of her webinars.
Great information.
She had a great webinar She had a great webinarthat talked about the crypto world and some
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things that I get kind of geeky about that Idon't really talk too much about on on on my
podcast.
But it was fantastic information.
I can't wait to dive deeper into thatinformation that she gave me.
Miss Connie Davis is a jack of all trades.
She has a lot of irons in the fire.
Please, please, please find her information.
If if you wanna know more about her and maybeeven want to talk to her about her other
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services that she provides, please don'thesitate to reach out to her through the
organization Inspire World Foundation or just,you know, I'm sure she'll get he'll have all of
her bio stuff in in the in the show notes, ofcourse.
And reach out to her.
She's one of the most interesting people I'vemet in a in a while.
She's a lot like me when it comes to differentthings that we try to we're we're we're people
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pleasers.
We wanna help everyone.
We wanna serve.
Like, that's really why we're doing this.
I don't podcast to have my ugly face shown tothe world.
I podcast because I want to serve people that Imeet.
And this is one of the ways that I do it isserving through podcasting and bringing big
guests on.
So thanks so much, Connie, for coming on.
Any last things that you want people to knowthat you're like, oh, crap.
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I wanna talk about this too or say this?
No.
I just would say that, you know, for us, ourmission is every person that we can serve to
your point.
If there is someone that has a serving momentof just need and love and just being seen and
heard, it means the world to them.
So having their story, every story matters.
Absolutely.
100%.
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Alright.
Thanks, Connie, so much.
For coming on the Mission Path podcast and talkto everybody later.
Bye bye.
Thank you.
Thank you for listening to Ignition Path,fueling the entrepreneurial fire.
Money only moves if people move it, right?
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So if we decide to do business, we decide tomove money into a bank account, move money out
of a bank account, spend through a debit cardor a credit card, we're moving money every
single day.
Life means, you know, to extend yourself outinto the world.
You're making decisions.
You're choosing to buy a product or a servicefrom another business owner or an institution
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or an organization.
That's how money moves.
Subscribe and share as you come into this, asyou hear this episode today.
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And if something resonates with you orresonates with someone that you know, don't
hesitate to hit that share button, get that outto them, get this information to you.
So today, I'm very excited.
I've I've met this guest about probably about amonth and a half, two months ago, and we just
hit it off great.
The first time we talked, it was like we'veknown each other forever.
We have a lot of the same align.
It actually was really hard to decide whichpodcast to come on first because I have two
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podcasts as everybody knows.
Shameless plug going into the elevate podcast.
She is a post traumatic growth specialist.
And so she could totally fit into that categoryof first responders.
But also too, she has started a nonprofitInspire World Foundation that also uses used
her entrepreneurial path.
And that's why she's on the ignition pathpodcast today.
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So today, I have Connie Davis.
Connie, how are you?
I'm good, Kyle.
Good to see you again.
Fantastic.
Well, welcome to the Ignition Path Podcast.
We may be live.
I just something just came up when I hitrecord.
It says live stream.
So I think I'm actually I think I may be goinglive somewhere.
That's If I'm live somewhere, I'm livesomewhere.
(01:54):
That's fantastic.
So, you know, we'll see what the live lookslike after I edit.
You know, the live will be raw and real and andpeople can they can comment and stuff in the
chat.
I'm not sure exactly where I did the last timeI did something, I did a live inside of a
Facebook group.
But I don't think it'll actually be in thatgroup because I have to be inside of Facebook
to actually allow it to do its thing.
(02:15):
So it's probably saying, hey, I want to go liveto this address, but it's really not happening.
So I'm pretty sure it's not live.
We'll just pretend that it is.
And just let We'll pretend that
it is.
I don't care.
I mean, I like like, we'd literally rightbefore we hit record, everybody, just to catch
you up on something, we're we're we have zeroscript for today, which I love, and Connie
agrees.
It keeps it real, raw, and and and and to thetruth.
(02:37):
And the questions that I ask, I have no ideawhat questions I'm gonna ask.
You know, it's gonna literally go off of whatwhen she describes what she does.
I I I I think on my feet, you know, being aparamedic, I'm always willing and a needing to
think on my feet.
So the way I do my interview style is I makesure that that everything is nice and fluid and
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and nothing canned for the most part.
Once in a blue moon, I'll have like, oh, I wantto make sure I want to ask this question from
our first meeting.
But Connie, say hi to everybody and introduceyourself and let's get this started.
Hi everyone.
Thank you for having me, Kyle.
You're welcome.
Yeah, so to introduce myself, I live here inFlorida.
I am a mom, I am a widow, I am a sister, andall of the wonderful hats that we wear as
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women, right?
And I'm also a I have been on anentrepreneurial journey for about five years
where I left corporate financial services foralmost thirty years I spent a lot of time
bringing in a lot of cool payment products tomove money from place to place.
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But I started on a journey outside of thatcorporate journey to study a different type of
money movement.
It was really pretty incredible.
The opportunities that have fallen in my lapliterally to show me a different side of the
world of money movement.
That's what I'm here to really talk abouttoday.
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The other parts of my journey to align with youas an EMT, I became a Love and Authenticity
practitioner in 2021.
I've continued that journey into I thought Iwanted to be a coach.
I don't want to be a coach.
I'm a digital advocate for how do we buildsystems that see all people and serve all
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people and move money across all people.
So that's really kind of the path that I'vebeen on.
It's been really fascinating to kind of come todigital first aid for people.
That's what I resonated with when you told mewhat you do, I try to come to the rescue of
individuals that are drowning in systems,especially around money movement.
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So and having money wounds that we need toapply first aid to.
Right.
Right.
Well, and
that's you know, that really sparks a lot of Imean, I I think we're gonna fill our time with
just that sentence because there's a lot ofquestions that and a lot of statements that
that I've found through not only the firstresponder path, but the entrepreneurial path.
Entrepreneurial path is no it's no joke.
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It's there's money issues.
There's clients who drop out that pay you moneyevery month.
And all of a sudden they don't pay you for acouple of months.
And you're like, why are you not paying me?
And they're like, well, because I'm changing mydirection.
I'm like, but you gotta keep me in the loophere.
So money issues and money first aid and how tomove money around, you know, like right now,
use Stripe.
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I can't stand it.
They they knock the crap out of me when itcomes to the stuff.
But it's like the industry standard for howsomeone purchases my, you know, my services,
you know, when it comes to my podcastproductions and stuff like that.
So a little bit different on the voice overside of things.
The money can come from several differentareas, including a paper check sent to my house
or a direct deposit.
So a little bit different with that with somesome of the corporations.
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But when it comes to the stress that money putson us in the entrepreneurial world and the
first responder world, because that's a wholechapter in my first responder program is the
financial, you know, financial stuff.
Because typically first responders, whenthey're young and they get a job and they're
all of a sudden making all this money as afirst responder, they go buy a big truck.
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And then they get a then they find someone theyfall in love with and get married a year or two
later.
And all of a sudden, would get this truckweight on them, literally, financial weight.
And then they got a new wife or a kid and ahouse, and it's like all of a sudden they're in
financial ruin.
So that is a big tough topic.
I actually have spoke with you do you know theFinancial Cop?
You know No.
I don't.
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Okay.
Yeah.
I believe I can't remember where he's out of,but financialcop.com is a somebody who's gonna
be coming on my podcast for the first responderpodcast because he was a police officer, is a
police officer, but he knew money really well.
And so all of a sudden, he started helping hisfellow officers, and then people are like, hey.
Listen.
You need to take this to the management and getthis get this taught almost it's not quite Dave
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Ramsey stuff, but it's somewhere along linesof, you know, you know, tidying up your your
financial, you know, your financial well-being.
And so he's now created a business in it, andit's it's a perfect he's he's another dual guy.
He's gonna come on Ignition Path because he'san entrepreneur through it, and he's a first
responder.
So tell us more about what you mean about moneymovement.
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You know, it's not laundering.
That's not what we're talking about.
Like, what do you mean by money movement?
Like like, explain that a little bit.
Yeah.
So money only moves if people move it.
Right?
So if we decide to do business, we decide tomove money into a bank account, move money out
of a bank account, spend through a debit cardor credit card, we're moving money every single
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day.
Life means to extend yourself out into theworld.
You're making decisions, you're choosing to buya product or a service from another business
owner or an institution or an organization,that's how money moves.
We decide as people, as human beings, to movemoney.
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Sometimes that is for our own family and ourown good.
Then sometimes there are, on the money woundside of it, are times when people move money to
do things and to inflict harm.
That's the other side of the coin.
So if we think about the money game, there's agame out there.
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There's people that are doing it to just earn awage and income and to support their family.
They're law abiding citizens and they're doingamazing things building up that community in
their home, their home out to their community,and their friends and family.
But there are other types of enterprises outthere that are doing unfortunate things with
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money, or shaming people with money, orpredatory things that really inflict harm and
it creates a ripple effect in our communities.
That is where my work as a post traumaticgrowth officer at Inspire World Foundation is
really trying to create awareness, advocatingfor different types of technology approaches to
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move money, and also to create social impactwith money.
Right.
Well, and let's also take a step back to whenit so you mentioned earlier that you worked in
the corporate world.
When did you for your entrepreneur when didyour corporate mentality switch to an
entrepreneurial mentality and want to serveyour fellow entrepreneurs because that's what
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you do.
Basically, you're out there.
Your clients are entrepreneurs that you try tohelp shape their ability to move money and and
make money and to be financially sound is how Iunderstood it from our first conversation.
So talk a little bit about that path.
Yeah, so while I was in corporate, I wasstudying the next wave of where could we build
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a new financial technology service for thefinancial institutions, for customers that need
different products.
That was about 2018, when I started the journeyof looking around going we have loans, we have
bank accounts, we have cards, we have all kindsof cards, we have all kinds of programs and
credits and debit cards, and we have ways tomove money via wires and transfers.
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Where do we have a gap in what those servicesactually support?
I landed in a place of nonprofits.
I landed in looking at the nonprofit communityand how are nonprofits actually moving money?
How do we donate?
We give money to nonprofits.
But when I happened across a Facebook communitythat was actually pay it forward whatever
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county.
I was studying the responses and the posts inthat community for probably two months and I
happened across a woman that was actuallyexplaining that she was living in her car, She
was homeless and she had no bank account, nomoney for gas, and she was using her car as a
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house- as shelter.
She was asking for gift cards, donations, orways to get money to her without those
resources to be able to receive it.
And she was using Cash App or she was sayingHey you can PayPal me.
Because those are things that I can receivemoney.
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Or if you want to meet me and give me a gascard I would really love to do that.
Or someone help me get a hotel room so I canget out of this car in the middle of summer.
It was right around that time that I reallystarted researching and following the unhoused
journey- the people that don't have homes orthose that are really living without access to
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the banking systems that we know today.
That's really what put me on this journey ofthere is a lot of individuals that are
communicating, reaching out to other humanbeings for help or for support, using these
Facebook communities and groups to connect withpeople so that they know that they're not
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alone, but there's hidden money wounds there.
So that's really what started the journey,Kyle.
Yeah.
That's fantastic.
You know, when it comes to this nonprofit andthere's a there's some questions in that inside
of the nonprofit concept too.
You know, because right now, like you said,there are nonprofits out there that are not
doing good things.
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You know, I mean, They're being their theiradministration is being paid way too much.
They're not really putting the money where theysay they're gonna be putting the money.
I I don't have any examples at in this moment,but I know I've heard other nonprofits have
very bad management, You know?
And what what did you do when you started whenyou helped co find this this nonprofit?
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What kind of discussions did you have aboutcovering expenses that are going to be things
that mean money?
You know?
Like, I I've I've I've talked to a couple othernonprofits, and they wanna start a podcast, and
that's money, you know, for them to not have todo it themselves and pay a producer.
They have to spend money to do that.
And so what is it how did when when you'rebuilding that nonprofit and you're doing some
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of the and especially in the early days, andyou're doing some of the work because you're,
you know, you're the one creating it.
How does it work when it comes to paying whatyou you know, if I started a nonprofit, but and
it was something for podcasting.
How would I what is the what is the mentalityand the concept of being able to pay for the
services but not overpay?
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You know what I mean?
So you're you're still on the up and up.
How does that work when it comes to presentingthat?
I'm sure it's all gotta be public and whatnot.
But
Yeah, we have to be really, really responsiblewith the dollars because if you think about it,
if we're gonna spend money to earn donations orto create a service, we have to be responsible
with those dollars because people are expectingimpact for the mission that we're asking them
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to support.
We have to actually be reasonable with ourservices and the fees that we actually pay.
There does need to be agreements memorandums ofunderstandings with all vendors and all
providers that we would hire, consultantsincluded and so forth, that bring visibility
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spent your dollars here to get this, you know,progression on this particular service.
So a podcast is a great idea, a great example,because, you know, social media and marketing,
and this is all part of our capacity.
So a lot of conversations stem around capacitybuilding.
Here for our nonprofit, because we came out ofan enterprise corporate for profit model, we
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took those lessons learned of those enterprisemethodologies and building products and going
slow so that you can go fast later, theinfrastructure that we needed and the systems,
and really doing a ton of work collaboratingand building up our community that were on a
shared mission so that we could collaborate, wecould pool our dollars, we could leverage
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existing audiences, and then go faster acrossthose audiences because we've all decided we're
on a common mission, we have a cultural fit, wewant to do good with the dollars that we raise,
and we want to have transformative impact thatdoesn't just keep recycling people through the
system for the communities that we serve.
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And I want to go back to the homeless gal thatyou had mentioned earlier.
And this is totally have no clue, but mean, ifyou're if you're in that world, like how when
you mentioned that she was asking for giftcards or she had she had PayPal, I mean, how
many homeless people still have a cell phone?
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Because they were probably you know, a lot ofhomeless people, you know, they they they
weren't homeless always.
You know, they didn't get born intohomelessness.
I know that there's still probably people thatare that are born whose parents are homeless.
But, you know, I'm sure that when it comes tothe people that lose their job, they have a
downfall, they become homeless somehow.
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Did they, you know, we're in such a digitalworld with our cell phones now.
Like, what is, like, what is the percentage ofhomeless that still have a cell phone that
could go to this digital world and it could beall done through our phones?
Because I know it's out there.
Lobster, our our Cash App, like, there's a lotof stuff now that is based through our phones.
And I really feel like in the future, we're notgonna have debit cards anymore.
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We're not gonna have cash anymore.
It's all gonna be digital, in my opinion.
I don't know how far we're out from that.
But, tell me what you found in the homelessworld or the people that you've dealt with that
still have cell phones that could actuallybenefit from having a foundation like this that
helps them out digitally.
Yeah.
And our government has actually seen to it thatwe can distribute aid through phones.
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So the homeless population and many, manyvulnerable populations have access to benefit
programs.
They're funded by the state and or the federalgovernment levels, that see to it that they do
get access to a phone.
Now, is it a top of the line Apple?
Is it a top of the line Android?
No.
But it is a phone system that comes So manypeople that
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turn in their phones that are a year or two oldthat still work just Yes.
So, you know, I think it was, you know,previous legislation, it's even called the
Obama phone, but there were programs that werecreated to ensure that vulnerable individuals
have a lifeline.
And that lifeline is actually what keeps themat least able to search for jobs, at least be
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able to find resources in their community,connect with resource centers, make a phone
call if they're in a dangerous situation.
The challenge is that most of the time we'redealing with theft of their devices, we're
dealing with broken devices, devices that areharmed in the weather, and there's a constant
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recycling of these devices just to keep thatlifeline in their hands.
Without that lifeline then you're right, theyabsolutely do kind of fall off and they're in
the wild.
Sometimes in the very cities that they live in,even though it's a city full of hustle and
bustle, they're not seen and they're not tappedinto that economy.
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Gotcha.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
That that that's so important because I reallyfeel I think, you know, I think in general,
like, when I dove into the lobster world a acouple of years ago and started looking at at
at what's gonna be happening digitally to ourworld in the years to come.
Of course, I'm I'm I'm a a lover of new adoptedthings.
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I wish we could be in to that point muchfaster, but it's hard to give up cash and bank
cards and and checks and all that stuff.
And and it and I'm I'm hopeful for a world oneday that I'm alive and I can I can I can take
part of it where, you know, I go to the store,I tap my phone, it comes out of my my my my
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wallet?
Not, you know, whatever that is, whatever bankthat is, whether that's my physical bank or
whether that's my coin bank or whatever or mymy crypto bank, what have you.
You know, how far away do you think we are froma world that we can be a 100% digital?
I don't I I don't think we're that far off toanswer the question.
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I think that it's already happening.
I think it's in different pockets of thepopulation.
So I want to go back to what you're describingis what we call, in this digital transformation
age, which was really started probably way backin 2014, when we started seeing the momentum
build for moving from physical tangible paymentfactors a debit card, a credit card, a check,
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or pooling cash into how do we get more andmore of this activity online and actually to
transform the user experience of these paymentforms to more digital forms.
I was on the project that launched Apple Pay tothe communities, right?
So we had to find ways to get a combination ofa phone plus the banks that were involved in
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holding the deposits and the credit unions tocombine with Apple and then Visa and Mastercard
to make it all work.
We brought the chip cards to the communities.
Rolling these types of technologies out is noteasy.
It takes a lot of work, lot of planning, and alot of execution.
But as we think about the financial needs ofunderserved and unbanked or underrepresented
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communities that we don't really know whattheir money movement needs are other than when
they show up at a homeless shelter or aresource center that needs support by human
beings and have an extension and a need formoney.
What's really important is we have to rememberthat they sit outside of the access to the
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banking systems large.
They have reasons and barriers that keep themfrom accessing the services, or they have
emotional barriers that keep them from evengoing into those environments because of the
credit systems, the other types of shamingmechanisms that happen that create that self
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driven awareness of I'm not good enough to bein the banking system, so I'm going to stay
outside of it.
Then it's a matter of how do you take that typeof what we call Web2 technology that's in
centralized systems with centralized rules andaccess permissions to more of a how do I reach
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the individuals outside of the system that areliving and trying to move money to help them
survive in areas where they're alreadyvulnerable?
It just increases the vulnerability in manycases.
So we were always asking individuals andorganizations to think about how do we take a
more trauma informed lens to this type ofsystem and include economic and financial
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trauma?
You have mental, you have physical, you havedisasters that happen to individuals and
families, but it happens on an individual basisevery single day as well.
So we have to think about making those systemsmore reachable and accessible and inclusive for
all.
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And that's what you do inside of Inspire World?
That's what we're working to I
gotcha.
So how many people do you work with inside ofInspire?
So Inspire is, it's a very small foundationright now.
We have a team of, we have a board of advisors.
We have an advisory board that is traumainformed researchers, practitioners across many
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different industries, and we have a nonprofitcommunity of nonprofits that we actually serve.
So we actually intend to serve other nonprofitsand help them build their Okay, help them with
their
money movement and stuff, gotcha.
Correct,
Yes.
And to help design new systems or repurposeexisting systems to serve this vulnerable
community.
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And how long has this nonprofit been around?
So we just hit our one year birthday on June 1.
We're still in infancy.
We are.
But this is built on top of a consulting firmthat I had as part of my entrepreneurial
journey.
When I left the corporate world, I started adigital commerce consulting.
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Janine and I actually really started doing thework, and we dedicated about twenty four
thousand hours of pro bono consulting work deepin the community to find the signal that we've
now built into the foundation.
And that's grounded and rooted all of ourmission work, is now in that foundation based
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on that twenty four thousand hours worth ofwork.
Wow, that's amazing.
So when people are listening to this and theywant to go see more about your foundation, how
do they find it?
Like where do they go?
They just go to inspireworldfoundation.org.
Our mission and purpose is there.
You can see about the different fuelingresiliency programs.
Everything we do is research backed andsurvivor approved.
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Gotcha.
Now, do you have a success story that you canshare from someone that, of course, I mean, I
don't know how HIPAA is.
With me in the medical world, HIPAA is theworld, right?
Like everything is HIPAA.
So I'm not sure how it works when it comes tononprofits and you sharing the stories of
success stories or even, you know, troubledtimes.
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You know, I'm sure you can't say their name,which I'm not asking you to do, but are you
allowed to share someone's story who you'vehelped and succeed?
Yeah, so we've actually been working throughother nonprofits.
So I will share a success story that isactually, she is now our, what we call
community market advisor for failed adoptionand coming out of the foster program.
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But one of the unique things that we do is weamplify survivor stories.
We don't just come and ask them to speak sothat we can get donations.
We actually create exchange of commerce withthem.
Because we are commerce informed, traumainformed, and believe in fair and what we call
restorative commerce.
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So what Terri is doing is she is using hervoice to share information about her money
movement challenges.
In exchange, we've given her a scholarship toactually receive parts of the donations that
come into the foundation for her advocacy forchange in the foster system and in the failed
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adoption system.
She's come out of a deep area of just realmental health challenges, some real depression
and anxiety episodes that really used to justcompletely debilitate her.
She is now using her voice to speak out andmentor.
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She is on a path to become a certified advocatefor human rights with the United Nations.
She's speaking on different webinars andsharing her story and giving us insights to
where we can go and create change in thefinancial industry.
And one example is here in Florida, a localcredit union heard her story at an economic
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empowerment summit that we hosted and actuallyhas already changed appointments so that people
that need extra time, that feel like they can'tcome in and feel safe without anxiety at the
branch, can make a special needs type of anappointment to come in and get that extra time
with a community credit union representative.
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So that's an example of just being exposed tothese types of stories can help us become more
heroes for the type of jobs that we do in aneveryday world.
Well, it sounds like the networking that isinvolved within your organization is really
where the support comes to because they feelheard, someone who comes in with some form of
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financial trauma, and they've got somebodythere that will be supportive and they can
trust, and there's there's a foundationinvolved, it takes the it takes the anxiety out
of, well, they're just trying to get my money.
You know, like, oh, this is a service companythat's trying to make money off of me to help
me.
You know what I mean?
Where it's not it it seems a little bit more ofa of a more gentler way to assist someone, you
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know, and then you found a niche area for themto help.
And that's fantastic.
So fantastic.
When it comes to the foundation, you mentionedthe name earlier, we're gonna wrap things up
here.
So what else do you have?
Anything like any type of webinars that teachpeople about the foundation or that people
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listening to this want to know more about thefoundation?
Is there a central place other than thewebsite, of course?
Do you guys have weekly webinars or monthlywebinars where you try to if or, you know,
hopefully someone's hearing this and says, hey,that sounds like something I wanna and and, you
know, help out with.
Where how do they get more information thanjust this, you know, twenty minute talk that
we've had?
Oh, thank you, Kyle.
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Yeah.
We do have a YouTube channel.
So we do create some just very homegrown videosat this point.
We do have an event coming up this actuallytomorrow at 11AM Eastern.
It's really with Lavinia Osborne, who is thefounder of Women in Blockchain Talks.
We have a community collaboration partnershipwith her to talk about social impact and to
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bridge traditional finance and banking serviceswith decentralized banking services, and
talking about it from a social impact lens.
What can we do with this technology to trulyfuel doing good and making a difference in the
communities in which we work and play?
We don't have a podcast just yet.
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We've actually been looking for opportunities,hint hint, to really get the word I've
got a lot of great ideas when it comes topodcasting.
I've used it.
You know, a lot of my clients, they they've youknow, it takes a little time to get it, you
know, going.
But I've I've talked to one of my clients, andhe said that his podcast and they've already
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rebranded once in the middle of their podcastof me helping them.
They rebranded once.
And that's fine.
You know?
You know?
They're getting ready to leave my services, andI'm like, hold on a minute.
What's going on?
And they're like, well, we're gonna rebrand.
I'm like, I do that too.
And they're like, you do?
And I'm like, yeah.
So I helped them rebrand, and now they came tome and they said, wow.
Everything is we're using podcasting as ournumber one as our number one marketing tool.
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They're starting to see their brick and mortarbusiness now start to take off.
And of course, people podcast all the time fordigital businesses too.
But so, yeah.
Fantastic.
When it comes to I had a question that when youwere explaining explaining your event.
So this event that you're having tomorrow, mostlikely this will be up tomorrow.
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It is a Monday right now, and my episodes golive on Tuesday.
So most most likely this will be live beforethat 11AM eastern time, but most people will
hear it after.
Is this something that you do on a monthlybasis, weekly basis?
Where can they go find, like, maybe where thenext live event's gonna be through a calendar
system on your website or anything like that?
(30:52):
Oh, we do have our events on our website.
So we did host one back in April.
We're not quite on that routine basis just yet,Kyle.
I'm certainly trying to get there, as weinterview our survivors so Terry's interview
was April.
We're getting ready to do another one withanother foster youth.
So those are absolutely individuals that youmight even wanna have on your podcast if you're
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interested.
Like, as soon as you said that, I'm like,there's your podcast.
There's the start of your podcast.
You Yes.
Interview your survivors.
You interview the people you're helping, andthat's part and then that could be interwoven
with information from other people and, youknow, experts that come in to explain blah blah
blah, to explain blockchain.
I've already got your podcast already figuredout in my brain.
Wonderful.
That's how it We would love to talk with you,Kyle, about working with us.
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And we do have, you know, we're a five zeroone(three), so it's all great pro bono services
that you can do in kind and we can give you adonation receipt for.
So those are just another way to do that as youmonetize.
But yeah, absolutely, it's part of our strategyand we'd love to have partners like you to help
us do that.
Yeah, that's fantastic.
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All right, well, we'll wrap things up.
People that are listening, all the folks outthere tuning into the Ignition Path podcast.
Please don't forget to subscribe, like, andshare any of the information.
I know that Connie and I, we've already beenspeaking.
I've been I've been on one of her webinars.
Great information.
She had a great webinar She had a great webinarthat talked about the crypto world and some
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things that I get kind of geeky about that Idon't really talk too much about on on on my
podcast.
But it was fantastic information.
I can't wait to dive deeper into thatinformation that she gave me.
Miss Connie Davis is a jack of all trades.
She has a lot of irons in the fire.
Please, please, please find her information.
If if you wanna know more about her and maybeeven want to talk to her about her other
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services that she provides, please don'thesitate to reach out to her through the
organization Inspire World Foundation or just,you know, I'm sure she'll get he'll have all of
her bio stuff in in the in the show notes, ofcourse.
And reach out to her.
She's one of the most interesting people I'vemet in a in a while.
She's a lot like me when it comes to differentthings that we try to we're we're we're people
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pleasers.
We wanna help everyone.
We wanna serve.
Like, that's really why we're doing this.
I don't podcast to have my ugly face shown tothe world.
I podcast because I want to serve people that Imeet.
And this is one of the ways that I do it isserving through podcasting and bringing big
guests on.
So thanks so much, Connie, for coming on.
Any last things that you want people to knowthat you're like, oh, crap.
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I wanna talk about this too or say this?
No.
I just would say that, you know, for us, ourmission is every person that we can serve to
your point.
If there is someone that has a serving momentof just need and love and just being seen and
heard, it means the world to them.
So having their story, every story matters.
Absolutely.
100%.
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Alright.
Thanks, Connie, so much.
For coming on the Mission Path podcast and talkto everybody later.
Bye bye.
Thank you.
Thank you for listening to Ignition Path,fueling the entrepreneurial fire.
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