December 3, 2024 • 36 mins
Kyle Goodknight introduces Cindy Witteman, who shares her inspiring journey and the ripple effect of her nonprofit, Driving Single Parents. Cindy discusses the motivation behind the organization and its expansion plans, emphasizing the importance of connecting with other nonprofit leaders and sharing profound moments. The conversation explores the setbacks and challenges involved in running a nonprofit, as well as the additional support needed. Cindy highlights the role of partnerships and media involvement in spreading their mission. She offers insights on manifesting and its principles, concluding with a call to action for donations and the importance of sharing their message online.
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Just, just a ripple effect and knowing that,wow, you know what?
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This is this is what I wanted.
This is what it's all about.
The circle, the ripple, the everything of itall coming full circle and showing that the
people that we help are not somebody who justtakes the car and sells it next month.
But he uses that as a tool to get to the nextlevel and then turns around and gives back.
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So today, I've got Cindy Witteeman, and, shecame to me through another networking event.
Sounded like we would like, her and I shouldmeet up and find out where we could collaborate
and find out, you know, what we could help eachother with.
And the one good thing about the Ignition Pathpodcast is this is all about the path that us
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entrepreneurs take to get to where we're at.
So Cindy had a great story, and when I had mypre call with her, as I always do, and if you
ever wanna be on the Ignition Path podcast,just know you're gonna have a pre call because
that's where I get to know you.
Right?
Yeah.
Cindy, welcome to the show.
Hi.
Thank you so much for having me.
No problem.
So real quick, just tell us who you are, whereyou you know, what a little bit about your
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path.
I know you've been an entrepreneur for quite awhile, but, you know, talk about those days
before the entrepreneur stuff and what whenwhat made you decide if you're in and if, and
what you, did prior to becoming anentrepreneur.
Great.
So, yeah, I'm Cindy.
I'm from, San Antonio, Texas.
I am the founder and CEO of Driving SingleParents, which is a nonprofit where we give
away cars to single parents in need.
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Also the founder and editor in chief of ForceMagazine, where we highlight people who are
forced to be reckoned with, the host of LittleGive TV show, and is manifesting bullshit
podcast.
I'm a 5 time international best selling authorand a beekeeper.
So that's a bit about me.
And I guess I can go on to answer your secondquestion, which is, you know, I kinda grew up
in super humble beginnings.
I didn't have a lot.
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Running water or electricity, and we very oftenwent without transportation.
Yeah.
So we went without a lot of things growing up,and that really put me on a path to really try
to not only help myself get to a better levelof success in life, but also show others that
they could do it too.
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
So were you in the corporate world prior to thenonprofit that you're running?
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Nope.
Nope.
Okay.
We've been You've
always been an entrepreneur since you wereyeah.
Yeah.
I love entrepreneurship.
It's so much fun.
I've had various jobs throughout my life.
But yeah.
No.
I love entrepreneurship is definitely my go to.
That's awesome.
What did you do entrepreneur wise prior to thethe nonprofit for the for the, Cars For Single
Mothers?
Well, I can go back to my back in the daywhenever, like I said, I was super, you know,
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poor.
We didn't have a whole lot growing up.
My first entrepreneur thing was is I would gosell plastic canvas butterflies at school that
my mom would make.
So that was my very first one.
And then when I was really young, I think Imust have been, like, 18 or 19 years old, I
actually started, Cindy's precious dachshundswhere I rehomed puppies and dachshunds.
That's Yeah.
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I know.
It's so funny.
I actually built my own website with the HTMLcoding and all this stuff back in the day.
Those days.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it was it was fun.
But, yeah, my entrepreneurship has always beenit's always been a part of me always trying to
find ways to make things better or help othersin some way, shape, or form.
Gotcha.
So, yeah, sometimes, you know, when when I havefolks on and they have that corporate job and
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they'd left that corporate job to become anentrepreneur and those, you know, those those,
stressful times and whatnot.
But if you're always been a consummateentrepreneur, you've you've just built on built
on built on built.
You know?
So you you, you got to where you are throughbuilding from all the stuff you learned through
the entrepreneurial path.
Kinda like, you know, I didn't start out inpodcasting.
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You know, I didn't even start out in voiceover.
Voice over led me to podcasting, but prior tovoice over, I helped my wife with Scentsy.
We kinda were both entrepreneurs doing theScentsy thing and a couple of other MLMs.
I did send out cards for a while, and and but Iwas always a construction worker with my dad,
so that I kinda learned it from my mom and dad.
But, you know, that's how I've I've basicallybeen an entrepreneur old enough since I was old
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enough to, you know, mow a lawn in theneighborhood is is is what I tell people.
But so what led you to the what led you to thearea of where you're at now with and how many
years has this this nonprofit been been aroundwith the with the what is it?
Cars for
how do you Yeah.
It's called Driving Single Parents.
Driving
single parents.
Actually, it'll be 8 years in March of 2025that we've been doing this.
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And how it started is kinda funny.
You know?
I I I had ended up in a domestic violencerelationship, and I escaped that situation and
really worked hard, 2 2 jobs myself throughcollege, trying to make a life for me and my
daughters.
And I always knew I was gonna find a way togive back to single parents because I myself
promised myself I would never be a singleparent, that I really felt like my mom and dad
could have done a better job at stayingtogether and all the things.
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But then whenever you end up in a situationlike I was in, I, you know, I had no choice.
Doctor Phil said it's better to come from abroken home than it is to grow up in 1.
And when I heard heard those words, I literallygot up, got a basket of clothes, a bag of
diapers of my daughters, and we re rebuilt anew life for us.
So it made me realize that being a singleparent is not something that most people
choose.
You know?
Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, youknow what I'd love to be today?
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A single parent.
It just it it will not happen.
It does not happen.
And so that's why I decided I was gonna dosomething when I got on the other side of
success.
So when I got a little bit better off, I wasbrainstorming on what I could do because the
number one thing I didn't wanna do was put aBand Aid on a gaping wound.
And there are just so many amazing nonprofitsout there that do so much.
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Like, you know, if you give somebody a meal,they need that, but they need it again
tomorrow.
If you give diapers, they need it again by theend of the week.
So it's always like you you are relying onsomeone else to get what you need.
So I was really brainstorming on what I coulddo for these single parents that would help get
them to the next level, help them have thetools they need to help themselves succeed,
help themselves get to the next level.
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And I was actually at dinner one night, and Iliterally stood up the table at the restaurant
and said, that's it.
I'm gonna give away cars to single parents.
And within 24 hours, I Yeah.
I, yeah, I built the business plan, and I builtthe website within 24 hours.
And then when less than a month later, we gaveaway the first car.
So that's how Driving Single Parents was born.
That's fantastic.
And that's what one of my questions was gonnabe what was the inspiration for that, and you
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answered that so eloquently during thatprocess.
I didn't even have to ask the question.
So, but that was a big question of how it gotstarted even when we had our pre calls.
I was like, man, I'm gonna make sure I know howthis got started because who who comes up with
that crazy and evaluate?
A car?
I'm my nonprofit is giving giving someone acar, not not I mean, and it's giving it.
Right?
It's not like, oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna let youhave it for a month, and then you take over the
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payments.
It's theirs to have.
Yeah.
It's theirs to have, and we even cover, like,tax, title, and license and everything.
The only thing the single parent has to pay foris they have to get car insurance, and that's
not a rule of ours.
That is a Texas state law.
Oh, 100%.
Yeah.
You gotta you have to have
to have to pay for.
Thing they have to pay for.
Yeah.
But and and anymore, that can be so little, andthey can just cover for, you know, liability
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and not even worry about the vehicle.
You know?
Absolutely.
Good.
I leave that choice up to them.
Yeah.
Exactly.
But but that's good.
So how many families have you how many singleparents?
And and it's both women and men.
Correct?
Have you That's correct.
Men just as much as women?
Okay.
You said single parents, and I think Iremembered earlier that it was single moms, but
it's single parents is that that incorporatesus both.
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How many people have you helped in the 8 yearsthat you've had been doing this?
You know, I don't like to say how many becauseit's, a ripple effect.
You know, it's not just the parent that we'rehelping.
It's not just the kids we're helping.
It's their community they're helping.
It's it's such a ripple effect.
So I really like to talk a lot about them aspeople and how it's really affected them and
their family as a whole.
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That's awesome.
Now when it comes to whereabouts, is thissomething that is a national, 501c3, or is this
only for local people in the Texas area?
So this is a 501c3, but it's only currently inBexar County, Texas.
I do plan to expand.
We are working on that as we speak.
Obviously, it's a huge feat whenever you'retrying to fund for something like giving away
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cars, so it is something that we are have awork in progress.
Gotcha.
Okay.
Well and because I was on I had a recording,that'll probably be on the week before you as
another nonprofit gal, And and, she was shewould she does a nonprofit for people that are
they have issues with the the legal system forwhatever reason.
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And I told her about you, and she wants to meetyou.
So that's what podcasting is all about isconnecting people, meeting people, making sure
that this left, you know, a b c meets d e f.
You know?
And Right.
And when I told her that you were a nonprofitthat deals with, you know, vehicles for for the
parents for single parents, she goes, oh mygosh.
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That's one area that we've been looking into.
That'd be great.
I mean so instead of instead of recreating thewheel, maybe there's a synergy involved with
her and you, and you can make it go nationalthrough the both of you or
something like that.
But either way, I wanna make sure that I wantto talk to you today and and let you know that,
you know, after we record or before we record,but I'm telling you now that I've got a name
and and, email address that I'm gonna besharing.
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She'll be expecting to hopefully hear from youso you guys can
Absolutely.
Would love to connect with her.
And that's one thing people ask me all the timeis, like, aren't you afraid someone's gonna
steal your idea?
I always say, I hope so.
Yeah.
I'll be I'll give it to you.
I and the whole mission is to help get singleparents back on the road again.
So if you wanna do it in your state, come on.
Yeah.
That's that's great for
them to help you.
You know?
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Exactly.
Exactly.
Why you know, that that's the thing.
It's it's the same when someone asks me aboutpodcasting or they don't even realize they that
podcasting can be as as straightforward as itis nowadays.
You know?
And through all the difficulty I had withpodcasting from my early days and now how
simple it is for me to podcast, I mean, I I run2 of my own podcasts, plus I help 7 other
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people with their podcasts.
And it's I just through technology and throughworkflows, and I've built that bridge over all
those pitfalls that most people go through thatI went through, and that's what I explained to
people.
I said, listen.
If you have pitfalls or you think that there'sgonna be pitfalls in podcasting, I'm your guy.
Let's talk.
Let's get down to let's get down to the nittygritty.
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Or if you've had your pitfalls, like, I have 1gal that was getting ready to quit her podcast.
I'm, like, hold on a second.
Let's just rethink this.
Tell me your struggles.
Tell me where you're hurting.
Tell me where it's a pain point.
And as soon as she opened up and she let thefloodgates flow of what her problems were, I
said, I can solve this, this, and this, andthis last problem.
Let's just think about it a little bitdifferently.
And I explained to her my philosophy forpodcasting, and she went, oh my god, Kyle.
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You just you just saved my podcast.
And I was like, oh, that feels so good.
You know?
So Yeah.
I'm sure it's the same concept when you havesomeone that you're building that bridge for
them on getting a car on, you know, or startinga 501c3.
I'm sure you've helped people do that beforetoo.
You know, that's, you know, the you know, I Ilike to tell people that I learned something
when I went through my own counseling that, youknow, when you seek wise counsel, it benefits
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everyone, and that's basically what you and Ido.
We we both seek we both have seek have seekwise counsel, and we're going to do more.
And and it's just a matter of the folks thattrust us and know us, if they're seeking us as
counsel and our wisdom, they're gonna benefit.
Right?
Yes.
Yes.
Absolutely.
That's awesome.
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So what is one what is you've mentioned earlierthat you, you you you you focus on what it did
in the ripple effect.
Talk to me about your most profound rippleeffect moment.
My goodness.
I have the best one to share with you.
So I we had given away a vehicle to Latika Simsyears back, and she was joined our board of
directors right away.
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We actually have 4 previous recipients.
We're about to have 5 on our board ofdirectors, because we feel like they have
insight that, you know, nobody else would have.
So she joined our board of directors.
She moved up the ranks to vice president ofphilanthropy.
And one day out of the blue, she just calledme, and she said, Cindy, guess what?
I got my she had graduated with her master'sdegree, was doing really good, got a fantastic
job after she received the car.
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And, she said, I'm doing so good.
I actually went and bought myself a car, and Iwanna donate the vehicle y'all gave me back to
the nonprofit.
So we actually blessed another family with thatcar, and that mom is actually actively enrolled
to become a dentist.
So just, just a ripple effect and just knowingthat, wow, you know what?
This is this is what I wanted.
This is what it's all about.
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The circle, the ripple, the everything of itall coming full circle and showing that the
people that we help are not somebody who justtakes the car and sells it next month.
But he uses that as a tool to get to the nextlevel and then turns around and gives back the
gift that they were given to them.
That's fantastic.
And is that something you just said somethingthat spoke I mean, does that something you guys
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have in the bylaws of when they accept the freecar that they can't just go out and sell it, or
is it theirs to have and do what they will?
No.
We do have a condition in there where theycannot sell it without approval from the board,
and then it has to be completely unsolvable.
Like, say, for instance, the motor were to blowor something.
We've never had this happen before.
Knock on wood.
But if it were to happen, there are ways thatpeople can sell their car if something happens
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to it like that, or they have, like, aninsurance claim or things.
You know?
You never know what could happen.
We do have those provisions.
Wow.
That's great.
And so you that's that's one success story nowjust like anybody growing a business and the
and the struggles that we have and the and theand the setbacks.
Tell us a little bit about something that was asetback or something that you struggled with,
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but it ended up being a blessing or or the thething that you needed.
Do you have one of those stories?
Absolutely.
You know, I always say when nothing goes right,go left, And there's no win or lose.
You either win or you learn, and I've done alot of both.
So, the losing part has been, you know, youstart something like this and you're like, wow.
This is a really great idea, and it feels sogood.
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Right?
Like, I know I'm on the right path.
And then you open up the donation line andnothing happens.
Mhmm.
And you're thinking, jeez, you know, like, whyisn't anybody donating?
Maybe it's a stupid idea.
And then you start to worry that, like, hey.
Maybe this wasn't a good idea after all.
There's been times where we've been fairlyshort on the funds to buy another car and, you
know, actively trying to fundraise.
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We've had things fall through.
I mean, we had a vehicle that we were givingaway, and the morning we went to go and get it
washed for the giveaway, it was full of water.
We could have in the bottom of it, we could youcould hear sloshing around water.
I mean, we've just had so many things thathappened where there's just completely insane.
You can't even imagine some of the things thatcan happen and how difficult it is to find the
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perfect car for the right family.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
Well, you know, with so real quick when itcomes to yeah.
I know it's meant for cars, but do you guys doany other support inside of the inside of the
nonprofit?
Like, do you support other things, or is itonly strictly vehicles?
Or do they if they need help and assistanceelsewhere, do you have, you know, areas that
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you can say, okay.
Well, this is what you can do for food.
This is what you can do for housing.
Do you have that stuff inside of it too, or isit just strictly cars?
We're happy to refer people if they have aquestion about some of the things you
mentioned.
But we really do try to focus on just the carsbecause we feel like we wanna do one thing
excellent and not get, you know, sidetrackedwith a bunch of other things.
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But we do have resources that we can referindividuals to if they end up in a situation
like that.
Yeah.
Fantastic.
Now is this something that when it because itis so local, is this something where local,
administration, local townships or countieswhere they've where they support you or have
been able to, you know, help you with it whenit comes to legislation or or or pitfalls that
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come about the legal system for it all, or orhow do what what what have you found with that?
So we have chief legal counsel on our board ofdirectors, so we do have the legal part figured
out.
We were awarded a proclamation, and, NationalSingle Parents Day is March 21st.
So that we were given that for driving singleparents, and that was signed by the mayor.
So, yeah, we do get a lot of local support anda lot of people who really rally behind us to
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try to help us.
And local businesses, car dealerships help us.
I mean, we really have
that question was, what car dealership do youhave?
Like, is there a single car dealership thatthat basically does all your transactions, or
is it just a matter of who benefits for thetype of car they need at the time?
It's who wherever I can get the car from or whowhoever I can get the car from that's gonna be
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perfect for the recipient is where I get it.
So, no, it's not just one.
We have had a car giveaway through Carvanabefore.
We just recently on the 21st of of this month,we actually gave away of November.
We actually gave away a vehicle through RedMcCombs Ford West.
We've partnered with Service King before.
We've partnered with some smaller dealerships.
Yeah.
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So just pretty much what I do is I go on thehunt.
And in fact, this last vehicle that we gaveaway, I went to 42 different dealerships Wow.
And just searched for the perfect car.
So, finally found it at Red Mill comes FordWest, and so that's why we partnered with them
this time.
That's great.
Well, 42 dealerships in your local area.
Everybody like she said before, she's fromTexas.
We all know things are bigger in Texas,including North Car dealerships.
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Right?
No.
We probably have 42 dealerships in Columbus,but it's probably right about that.
You know?
I'm in Columbus, Ohio, but I think, you know,one of the biggest Ford dealerships is is here
in Ohio.
At least that's what they claim from what wehear.
But, but, yeah,
that's that's so focus on most people focus onthose bigger dealerships.
They'll be like, oh, you have the Forddealership.
You have this.
Yeah.
But there's so many smaller dealerships thatare out there, And I actually really like to
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partner with small dealerships just becauseit's a win win.
You know?
It's like you're putting a spotlight on themsaying we partner with this, you know,
dealership that a lot of people may not knowabout.
And then they're partnering with us.
And so it I think it's a really win win.
And no matter which, if it's a big one or asmall one, doesn't matter, but that a lot of
the ones that I look at are smallerdealerships.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well and that's you probably each time you givea car away, I mean, I'm sure you make it kind
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of a big to do, or do you kinda keep it down onthe on the lowdown?
No.
But here, we definitely make it a big to do.
We invite the media out.
They'll come out and put it on the news.
Right.
Yeah, we definitely try to make a big to do ofit because
we live.
No.
Yeah.
Yes.
Because when you think about it, if you saysomeone's gonna give away cars, people are
like, really?
No.
You get away cars.
Come on.
It seems kinda, you know, like, unreal.
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And so that really helps the news.
That's why when you said you give away cars, Iwent, like, what?
You give away cars.
I was like, oh, I definitely need to know morethis because
Yeah.
That's what most people do.
So the news really does help share what we doand then also show that, hey.
We are a real 501c3 nonprofit.
Right.
Well and I'm sure, you know, I'm I'm gettingready to drop in my my sponsor here, and and I
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mentioned that it would eventually come up.
I'm sure that, you know, my sponsor deals withanxiety and some of the some of the major
downfalls that people have from, you know, notbeing enough, not being worth not having that
self worth, And this kind of I mean, someonegetting a car so they can go and and provide
for their family and their schooling orwhatever to get places, that has to weigh on
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their self worth and and most likely theiranxiety.
Right?
I mean, tell us a little story about aboutsomebody that that just had changed everything,
not only for their life, but for their, youknow, for that that, you know, that personal
side of things.
Do you have a story?
Yeah.
Well, I have every single story of every singleperson we've ever helped, has had a story like
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that, but I'll I'll give you a really good one.
The verse the first vehicle we ever gave awaywent to a gentleman who was actually hit by a
drunk driver.
In that accident, he not only lost his car, buthe lost his wife and his leg.
So he became a single dad overnight and thenobviously had some handicap needs there.
So I made sure to get him an SUV that way hecould handle his children and then also his
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handicap needs and get him back and forth torehabilitation and the things that he needed.
But he still drives that car to this day andrefuses to sell it because it's so sentimental
to him.
But that was a really big one where you havesomebody who's can kinda stripped of a lot of
things at one time and really dealt with a lotof anxiety and stress and how am I gonna get
through this and how am I gonna work and how amI, you know, all the how am I gonna, and the
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one thing he didn't have to worry about wasthat car that could get him to wherever it is
he needed to go.
Wow.
That's fantastic.
Well, real quick, like I said, we'll take aquick, word from our sponsor, and we'll come
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what she does or or if they're if she's in ifyou're in the Texas area and need your help to
to reach out to her.
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I no longer deal with anxiety.
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What used to be a 9 or 8 or 9 or 10 out of 10,it was now I'm at that 0 or one level, and I
have the tools that he taught me to use.
So don't hesitate.
If you have one of the funky 5, please go visithis his his web page and find out more about
it.
And just, you know, like I did schedule a callwith him and and just see see how we can help
you.
So, now we're back with Cindy Wideman andtalking about her, you know, her her program
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and the cars that she gives away for, forsingle parents.
Fantastic program.
Tell us peep tell people how to get a hold ofyou, where they can go and find out more.
You know, hopefully, someone's here and tryingto you know, if they're waiting for that moment
and like, oh my gosh.
I wanna do that in my area.
She's local.
She could help.
You know, tell us all about how we can find youand and get more details on everything that you
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do.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
You can go to driving single parents dot org.
We have all the information on the site,whether it is you want to make a donation.
I always tell people a dollar or $5 can make ahuge impact.
And right now, we're trying to fund for ournext giveaway.
So if we can just get 40 people to give $100,we'll have enough to give away another car by
Christmas.
So we're working on that right now.
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And so there is where you can also find how toapply if you or someone you know needs a
vehicle.
And then if you would like to reach out to usvia email, you could reach us at info at
driving single parents dot org.
We'd love to hear from you.
We'd love to help however we can in your area.
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
And, of course, are you on Facebook?
And do you have your own Facebook, or is it aFacebook page for an Instagram, all that stuff?
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What are what are all those details?
Are they all on the website?
Yeah.
They're all on the website, but you can alsojust look up Driving Single Parents on
Instagram or Driving Single Parents onFacebook.
We're available in both places.
You can also find me everywhere on social mediaunder my name, Cindy Woodeman.
That's awesome.
Well, Cindy, let's talk a little bit about thethe Force Magazine.
I had you'd you asked me if I wanted to be inforce, and I have written an article, so we'll
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have to talk about that in deep detail maybewhen the recording's over.
But talk to us a little bit more about theForce Magazine, what it what it is, what it
does, and how that came about.
Absolutely.
So it's actually kind of a funny story.
I have a fear of public speaking, and Iabsolutely hate being on camera, but I don't
mind being on camera with you today, Kyle.
But I I marvelous, darling.
Marvelous.
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It is much less to look and to feel good.
Right?
Thank you.
I made a promise to myself that I was gonna getover this fear of public speaking as the
founder and CEO of a nonprofit.
You gotta speak.
Right?
So I made this commitment to myself.
I end up with the TV show and all the otherthings I do.
And then, somebody out of nowhere asked me onenight, hey, Cindy.
So, you know, what's next for you?
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And I'm like, are you kidding me?
I already started a nonprofit.
I already TV show.
I already have 5 best selling books.
Like, what do you want from me?
You know?
Squeezing the last straw hat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm like, what else do you need from me?
So anyway, so every night before bed for 3nights, I wrote down what's next for you.
And I really thought to myself, like, is thisit?
Is this all you have in you?
Is are you done?
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Is this this it?
And, anyways, for 3 nights in a row, I wrote itdown.
And the last night I wrote it down right beforebed, I had this dream that I found it in my own
magazine.
Force Magazine is what it was in the dream.
I actually saw the cover before the picture wasever even taken.
And, the next morning, I woke up.
I wrote it out.
I called to my publicist and said, hey.
Do y'all think y'all can help me with this?
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And they said, yeah.
We can help you with that.
And within 30 days, I had my very first editionof Force Magazine released.
That's awesome.
And what what kind of stuff do you, highlightin Force?
And is that is that a paper and online, or isit just online?
Tell us a little bit details on that.
Yes.
Yes.
It's available both in digital and paperback.
It's in available in 13 countries, And, really,what we focus on is highlighting good news.
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And if any any of you out there go and look meup at all, that's my whole mission in life is
to create opportunities for other people toshine and also showcase good news.
There's so much bad news out there.
People really seem to focus on that, and what'sreally important to me is to shine a light on
the good people like you in this world, Kyle,who are doing amazing things, trying to make
the world a better place.
So that's what force really focuses on isanybody who's a force to be reckoned with and
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wants to make this world a little better.
Every time you say the force to be reckonedwith, I I think of that I think of the Fox
Force 5 out of, Pulp Fiction.
You ever see that movie?
I don't I don't know if I've ever seen that.
Maybe.
Pulp Fiction was really popular in the midnineties, and it had Bruce Willis and, Uma
Thurman.
And it's one of those weird directors fromHollywood that always do these weird movies,
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but it's just such a cult classic.
And they the one gal that was featured on theon the had a TV show called the Fox Force 5.
And during the show, they talked about what whythe name was that, and and it's Uma Thurman.
And the the way she describes it is it's a veryhilarious moment.
She said, Fox, that's because there's that shegoes, Fox, because we're foxy ladies.
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Force, because we're a force to be reckonedwith.
5, because there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of us.
And I'm like Well,
that's funny.
I've never heard that.
Yeah.
So every time I you know, when you said forcedto be reckoned with, I'm like, oh, I wonder if
she's a Pulp Fiction fan because it's like 5,you know you know, Fox Foxy because we're all
foxy.
Force because we're a force to be reckonedwith.
And 5 because there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of us.
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And she's just when she
says it's just
such a badass and I'm, like, yeah.
I believe you.
I'm gonna have to look up that clip.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Probably just put, put in a Pulp Fiction FoxForce 5 in YouTube.
I'm sure you'll find it.
Yeah.
I bet I will.
I'll check it out.
But that's great.
So so what kind of articles are do do you guyshighlight in enforce, not Fox Force 5.
Inforce
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just anybody who's out there trying to make adifference in any way.
We like, educational, inspirational, people wholike to share stories of resilience.
I mean, it could be really just anything.
People who have nonprofits, people who arebusiness owners.
I mean, we have ad space in there.
So really just anything that's positive.
We don't Okay.
Showcase the latest lipstick or, like, the bestfashion because I'm not that kind of person.
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So we don't do that part.
I know a lot of other magazines do thatalready, which is awesome for them, but we
really focus on, like, inspirational storiesand and and things that will make you smile.
When you're sitting in a waiting room and youhave nothing else to do, I would love it if
people could pick up Force Magazine and leavethat office feeling like they learned
something.
That's awesome.
Now how do we find Force Magazine?
Is it force.comorforce.org?
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Forcemagazinefeature.com Okay.
Is the best place to find it.
And, also, you can find it atforce.magazine.feature on Instagram.
Okay.
Cool.
And we'll make sure that all the links foreverything will be in the in the description
below so you guys can just click on it.
But, yeah, fantastic.
So with what you said earlier before we wrapthings up, what's next, Cindy?
What else are you gonna do?
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You have anything
to do with it?
Am I gonna do?
Do you have
anything to do with it?
No.
You already you got a podcast, so we don't haveto talk about that.
So but or we can talk about it.
We can we so, yeah, actually, tell tell us alittle bit about your podcast and how to find
that, you know, to to hear all the differentthings that you do.
Yeah.
So the podcast actually stems from a book thatI wrote with my 2 oldest daughters.
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I have 6 kiddos and 4 grandkids and one on theway.
So my 2 oldest daughters and I were talking oneday, and I had already written 2 books.
I've written in 2 books.
And, my daughter said, mom, you know, wouldn'tbe cool if we wrote a book together?
I said, sure.
What do you want it to be about?
So we kind of nailed down, manifesting.
So we're like, oh, let's talk aboutmanifesting.
So we ended up with the title as manifestingbullshit.
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And since we started writing that book and Iwould talk to people about it or, you know, do
book signings or whatever, people would alwayssay, well, is it like they genuinely wanted to
know?
And so I said, I was driving to work one dayand I was like, man, you know what?
I should start a podcast because wouldn't it becool to, like, hear all opinions, not just
people who are for it, not just people who areagainst it, but just anybody who has an opinion
or a thought or a story about manifesting.
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So that's how I was born.
So I just used the same title, created thepodcast, and it's been really fun.
You know, I've met with people from all aroundthe world who have some amazing stories to
share and some skeptics and critics, and I justthink it's a really fun thought provoking
podcast.
Yeah.
You know, and and I'm I know a little bit aboutmanifesting.
I had a friend of mine who 100% believes inmanifesting.
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And I it's not that I'm not a believer.
It's just it's one of those things I wouldn'teven wanna say just.
It's one of those things where, you know, Ifeel and and you can probably speak on this a
little bit.
You know, if you're a positive person andthings happen for you, that can be part of
manifesting because you're positive.
Because when you're negative I mean, we knowthis for a fact.
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You you can talk bad to a plant and and treat aplant like crap, and and it dies.
But if you talk positive to it, I mean, that'sthat's been proven.
There's been studies that have done that wherepeople just do normal watering and talk to it
nicely, and it thrives.
Normal watering and talk to it meanly, and itdies.
And then you're like, what is this?
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I mean, it sounds wonky, but it's there'sthere's actual documentation out there for that
that is believables.
It's it's one of the things, in my opinion,manifestation is an uber, ultimate, positive
mindset, which is all part of manifestation, isthat positive, energetic, we're all energy, we
all know we're energy because one reason why weknow that we have energy is because our heart
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beats, okay?
And I'm medical, our heart beats because of theenergy that's inside of us.
So we have energy, we can actually see it on anEKG, there's actual electricity going through
our body, and that energy can be positive ornegative.
And if you carry yourself in a positive way andthink positively, that's all part of the
manifestation stuff.
Oh, I agree a 100%.
Well, you just said it.
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I mean, if you you have to feed your brain andyou have to water your brain and you have to
talk nicely to your brain, and then a lot ofgood positive things can happen because if you
don't believe yourself that you can do it,you'll never try.
So part of manifesting to me is self belief andactually figuring out what you want.
Because if you can figure out what you want,then you could figure out a road map on how to
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get there.
So that's what I believe manifesting really isself belief.
Yeah.
Fantastic.
Alright.
Well, Cindy Witteeman, thank you so much forcoming on the Ignition Path podcast and sharing
your amazing stories about your multipledifferent areas and your what next and and what
you've done to change this world.
I love meeting positive people like you.
I'm sure that, we'll connect in other waysgoing forward.
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That's why we were introduced the very firsttime because another positive person in my life
that I had met realized that I'm a positiveperson, and they say, hey.
Let's meet all these positive people becausethat's what all it's all about.
That's what the Ignition Path podcast is about.
That's what Cindy's podcast is about.
That's what her organization is about, andthat's what the Force Magazine is about.
So you've got the trifecta here.
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So I'm just I'm I'm glad that there are, youknow, this these type of people in the world,
and, don't hesitate if anything that she saidtoday.
If you had that notion where you feel like youneed to donate even that $5 like she said would
help for that car service or or you've been asingle parent before and didn't have vehicle
services and but now you do.
You've got some place to to go and donate somemoney and have that as a tax write off for the
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end of the year.
You know, help let's help her get to let's helpher get to that car before Christmas.
That would be a fantastic Christmas present forour family, wouldn't it?
We're gonna put the seed.
That's positive manifestation.
It's gonna happen.
We're talking about it now positively.
I'm throwing it out there in the world thatit's gonna happen.
I'm actually gonna bump your episode in frontof somebody else's so we have the full month of
December.
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Thank you.
Thank you.
Because that's one thing I usually ask is,okay.
With this episode, is there anything that istime sensitive?
And and the folks that say, no.
No time sensitive, then I can move them around.
But the people that say, a little bit of timesensitive or go, I'd like this.
You get out before next week because I've gotsomething big.
So we'll do that, and we'll make sure that, wehave a few, weeks in advance for for to get
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that as a as a come to fruition when it comesto, that that vehicle for a family.
So
Thank you so much.
Else you wanna add at all?
I always like to just
let you know that.
Out there that even if you can't afford todonate to a nonprofit in your area or one that
you love, the easiest best thing you can do isfind them online and share their content
because you never know whatever post you'resharing, how that can really impact somebody
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else.
It could land in front of somebody who needsthe assistance, or it can land in front of
somebody who can help them get to their goal.
So share those posts, share those, nonprofitsout there.
It's really, really important, and it goes along way.
Fantastic.
Alright, Cindy.
Thank you so much for coming on Ignition PathPodcast.
And the folks out there, don't forget to like,share, subscribe.
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If you heard anything during this conversationthat you definitely wanna share with your
friends and family, hit that share button andlet them know, and, and let's spread the word
of the ignition path and everything that SydneyCindy is doing that is, fantastic in in her
world.
And and, don't hesitate to reach out to her.
I know she's very she was very accommodating tomeet up with me, when I wanted to get to know
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her after we were introduced, and I'm sureshe'll be the same way no matter what you need
that that you heard that for this.
So thanks again, Cindy, for coming on, and,we'll talk soon.
Thank you so much for having me.
I'm so grateful for you and all that you'redoing to make the world a better place.
Thank you for listening to Ignition Pack,fueling the entrepreneurial fire.
Just, just a ripple effect and knowing that,wow, you know what?
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This is this is what I wanted.
This is what it's all about.
The circle, the ripple, the everything of itall coming full circle and showing that the
people that we help are not somebody who justtakes the car and sells it next month.
But he uses that as a tool to get to the nextlevel and then turns around and gives back.
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Hello, and welcome back to the Ignition Pathpodcast.
I'm your host, Kyle Goodnight.
And before we get into our show, don't forgetto like, subscribe, and share.
If you hear something during this episode thatresonates with you or with someone else you
know, don't forget, hit that super easy sharebutton at the bottom right hand corner of most
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Share it with that friend, just just text themand or email them directly that they need to
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watch this show.
So today, I've got Cindy Witteeman, and, shecame to me through another networking event.
Sounded like we would like, her and I shouldmeet up and find out where we could collaborate
and find out, you know, what we could help eachother with.
And the one good thing about the Ignition Pathpodcast is this is all about the path that us
(01:08):
entrepreneurs take to get to where we're at.
So Cindy had a great story, and when I had mypre call with her, as I always do, and if you
ever wanna be on the Ignition Path podcast,just know you're gonna have a pre call because
that's where I get to know you.
Right?
Yeah.
Cindy, welcome to the show.
Hi.
Thank you so much for having me.
No problem.
So real quick, just tell us who you are, whereyou you know, what a little bit about your
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path.
I know you've been an entrepreneur for quite awhile, but, you know, talk about those days
before the entrepreneur stuff and what whenwhat made you decide if you're in and if, and
what you, did prior to becoming anentrepreneur.
Great.
So, yeah, I'm Cindy.
I'm from, San Antonio, Texas.
I am the founder and CEO of Driving SingleParents, which is a nonprofit where we give
away cars to single parents in need.
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Also the founder and editor in chief of ForceMagazine, where we highlight people who are
forced to be reckoned with, the host of LittleGive TV show, and is manifesting bullshit
podcast.
I'm a 5 time international best selling authorand a beekeeper.
So that's a bit about me.
And I guess I can go on to answer your secondquestion, which is, you know, I kinda grew up
in super humble beginnings.
I didn't have a lot.
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Running water or electricity, and we very oftenwent without transportation.
Yeah.
So we went without a lot of things growing up,and that really put me on a path to really try
to not only help myself get to a better levelof success in life, but also show others that
they could do it too.
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
So were you in the corporate world prior to thenonprofit that you're running?
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Nope.
Nope.
Okay.
We've been You've
always been an entrepreneur since you wereyeah.
Yeah.
I love entrepreneurship.
It's so much fun.
I've had various jobs throughout my life.
But yeah.
No.
I love entrepreneurship is definitely my go to.
That's awesome.
What did you do entrepreneur wise prior to thethe nonprofit for the for the, Cars For Single
Mothers?
Well, I can go back to my back in the daywhenever, like I said, I was super, you know,
(02:57):
poor.
We didn't have a whole lot growing up.
My first entrepreneur thing was is I would gosell plastic canvas butterflies at school that
my mom would make.
So that was my very first one.
And then when I was really young, I think Imust have been, like, 18 or 19 years old, I
actually started, Cindy's precious dachshundswhere I rehomed puppies and dachshunds.
That's Yeah.
(03:18):
I know.
It's so funny.
I actually built my own website with the HTMLcoding and all this stuff back in the day.
Those days.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it was it was fun.
But, yeah, my entrepreneurship has always beenit's always been a part of me always trying to
find ways to make things better or help othersin some way, shape, or form.
Gotcha.
So, yeah, sometimes, you know, when when I havefolks on and they have that corporate job and
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they'd left that corporate job to become anentrepreneur and those, you know, those those,
stressful times and whatnot.
But if you're always been a consummateentrepreneur, you've you've just built on built
on built on built.
You know?
So you you, you got to where you are throughbuilding from all the stuff you learned through
the entrepreneurial path.
Kinda like, you know, I didn't start out inpodcasting.
(04:00):
You know, I didn't even start out in voiceover.
Voice over led me to podcasting, but prior tovoice over, I helped my wife with Scentsy.
We kinda were both entrepreneurs doing theScentsy thing and a couple of other MLMs.
I did send out cards for a while, and and but Iwas always a construction worker with my dad,
so that I kinda learned it from my mom and dad.
But, you know, that's how I've I've basicallybeen an entrepreneur old enough since I was old
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enough to, you know, mow a lawn in theneighborhood is is is what I tell people.
But so what led you to the what led you to thearea of where you're at now with and how many
years has this this nonprofit been been aroundwith the with the what is it?
Cars for
how do you Yeah.
It's called Driving Single Parents.
Driving
single parents.
Actually, it'll be 8 years in March of 2025that we've been doing this.
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And how it started is kinda funny.
You know?
I I I had ended up in a domestic violencerelationship, and I escaped that situation and
really worked hard, 2 2 jobs myself throughcollege, trying to make a life for me and my
daughters.
And I always knew I was gonna find a way togive back to single parents because I myself
promised myself I would never be a singleparent, that I really felt like my mom and dad
could have done a better job at stayingtogether and all the things.
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But then whenever you end up in a situationlike I was in, I, you know, I had no choice.
Doctor Phil said it's better to come from abroken home than it is to grow up in 1.
And when I heard heard those words, I literallygot up, got a basket of clothes, a bag of
diapers of my daughters, and we re rebuilt anew life for us.
So it made me realize that being a singleparent is not something that most people
choose.
You know?
Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, youknow what I'd love to be today?
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A single parent.
It just it it will not happen.
It does not happen.
And so that's why I decided I was gonna dosomething when I got on the other side of
success.
So when I got a little bit better off, I wasbrainstorming on what I could do because the
number one thing I didn't wanna do was put aBand Aid on a gaping wound.
And there are just so many amazing nonprofitsout there that do so much.
(05:50):
Like, you know, if you give somebody a meal,they need that, but they need it again
tomorrow.
If you give diapers, they need it again by theend of the week.
So it's always like you you are relying onsomeone else to get what you need.
So I was really brainstorming on what I coulddo for these single parents that would help get
them to the next level, help them have thetools they need to help themselves succeed,
help themselves get to the next level.
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And I was actually at dinner one night, and Iliterally stood up the table at the restaurant
and said, that's it.
I'm gonna give away cars to single parents.
And within 24 hours, I Yeah.
I, yeah, I built the business plan, and I builtthe website within 24 hours.
And then when less than a month later, we gaveaway the first car.
So that's how Driving Single Parents was born.
That's fantastic.
And that's what one of my questions was gonnabe what was the inspiration for that, and you
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answered that so eloquently during thatprocess.
I didn't even have to ask the question.
So, but that was a big question of how it gotstarted even when we had our pre calls.
I was like, man, I'm gonna make sure I know howthis got started because who who comes up with
that crazy and evaluate?
A car?
I'm my nonprofit is giving giving someone acar, not not I mean, and it's giving it.
Right?
It's not like, oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna let youhave it for a month, and then you take over the
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payments.
It's theirs to have.
Yeah.
It's theirs to have, and we even cover, like,tax, title, and license and everything.
The only thing the single parent has to pay foris they have to get car insurance, and that's
not a rule of ours.
That is a Texas state law.
Oh, 100%.
Yeah.
You gotta you have to have
to have to pay for.
Thing they have to pay for.
Yeah.
But and and anymore, that can be so little, andthey can just cover for, you know, liability
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and not even worry about the vehicle.
You know?
Absolutely.
Good.
I leave that choice up to them.
Yeah.
Exactly.
But but that's good.
So how many families have you how many singleparents?
And and it's both women and men.
Correct?
Have you That's correct.
Men just as much as women?
Okay.
You said single parents, and I think Iremembered earlier that it was single moms, but
it's single parents is that that incorporatesus both.
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How many people have you helped in the 8 yearsthat you've had been doing this?
You know, I don't like to say how many becauseit's, a ripple effect.
You know, it's not just the parent that we'rehelping.
It's not just the kids we're helping.
It's their community they're helping.
It's it's such a ripple effect.
So I really like to talk a lot about them aspeople and how it's really affected them and
their family as a whole.
(07:57):
That's awesome.
Now when it comes to whereabouts, is thissomething that is a national, 501c3, or is this
only for local people in the Texas area?
So this is a 501c3, but it's only currently inBexar County, Texas.
I do plan to expand.
We are working on that as we speak.
Obviously, it's a huge feat whenever you'retrying to fund for something like giving away
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cars, so it is something that we are have awork in progress.
Gotcha.
Okay.
Well and because I was on I had a recording,that'll probably be on the week before you as
another nonprofit gal, And and, she was shewould she does a nonprofit for people that are
they have issues with the the legal system forwhatever reason.
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And I told her about you, and she wants to meetyou.
So that's what podcasting is all about isconnecting people, meeting people, making sure
that this left, you know, a b c meets d e f.
You know?
And Right.
And when I told her that you were a nonprofitthat deals with, you know, vehicles for for the
parents for single parents, she goes, oh mygosh.
(09:03):
That's one area that we've been looking into.
That'd be great.
I mean so instead of instead of recreating thewheel, maybe there's a synergy involved with
her and you, and you can make it go nationalthrough the both of you or
something like that.
But either way, I wanna make sure that I wantto talk to you today and and let you know that,
you know, after we record or before we record,but I'm telling you now that I've got a name
and and, email address that I'm gonna besharing.
(09:24):
She'll be expecting to hopefully hear from youso you guys can
Absolutely.
Would love to connect with her.
And that's one thing people ask me all the timeis, like, aren't you afraid someone's gonna
steal your idea?
I always say, I hope so.
Yeah.
I'll be I'll give it to you.
I and the whole mission is to help get singleparents back on the road again.
So if you wanna do it in your state, come on.
Yeah.
That's that's great for
them to help you.
You know?
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Exactly.
Exactly.
Why you know, that that's the thing.
It's it's the same when someone asks me aboutpodcasting or they don't even realize they that
podcasting can be as as straightforward as itis nowadays.
You know?
And through all the difficulty I had withpodcasting from my early days and now how
simple it is for me to podcast, I mean, I I run2 of my own podcasts, plus I help 7 other
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people with their podcasts.
And it's I just through technology and throughworkflows, and I've built that bridge over all
those pitfalls that most people go through thatI went through, and that's what I explained to
people.
I said, listen.
If you have pitfalls or you think that there'sgonna be pitfalls in podcasting, I'm your guy.
Let's talk.
Let's get down to let's get down to the nittygritty.
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Or if you've had your pitfalls, like, I have 1gal that was getting ready to quit her podcast.
I'm, like, hold on a second.
Let's just rethink this.
Tell me your struggles.
Tell me where you're hurting.
Tell me where it's a pain point.
And as soon as she opened up and she let thefloodgates flow of what her problems were, I
said, I can solve this, this, and this, andthis last problem.
Let's just think about it a little bitdifferently.
And I explained to her my philosophy forpodcasting, and she went, oh my god, Kyle.
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You just you just saved my podcast.
And I was like, oh, that feels so good.
You know?
So Yeah.
I'm sure it's the same concept when you havesomeone that you're building that bridge for
them on getting a car on, you know, or startinga 501c3.
I'm sure you've helped people do that beforetoo.
You know, that's, you know, the you know, I Ilike to tell people that I learned something
when I went through my own counseling that, youknow, when you seek wise counsel, it benefits
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everyone, and that's basically what you and Ido.
We we both seek we both have seek have seekwise counsel, and we're going to do more.
And and it's just a matter of the folks thattrust us and know us, if they're seeking us as
counsel and our wisdom, they're gonna benefit.
Right?
Yes.
Yes.
Absolutely.
That's awesome.
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So what is one what is you've mentioned earlierthat you, you you you you focus on what it did
in the ripple effect.
Talk to me about your most profound rippleeffect moment.
My goodness.
I have the best one to share with you.
So I we had given away a vehicle to Latika Simsyears back, and she was joined our board of
directors right away.
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We actually have 4 previous recipients.
We're about to have 5 on our board ofdirectors, because we feel like they have
insight that, you know, nobody else would have.
So she joined our board of directors.
She moved up the ranks to vice president ofphilanthropy.
And one day out of the blue, she just calledme, and she said, Cindy, guess what?
I got my she had graduated with her master'sdegree, was doing really good, got a fantastic
job after she received the car.
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And, she said, I'm doing so good.
I actually went and bought myself a car, and Iwanna donate the vehicle y'all gave me back to
the nonprofit.
So we actually blessed another family with thatcar, and that mom is actually actively enrolled
to become a dentist.
So just, just a ripple effect and just knowingthat, wow, you know what?
This is this is what I wanted.
This is what it's all about.
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The circle, the ripple, the everything of itall coming full circle and showing that the
people that we help are not somebody who justtakes the car and sells it next month.
But he uses that as a tool to get to the nextlevel and then turns around and gives back the
gift that they were given to them.
That's fantastic.
And is that something you just said somethingthat spoke I mean, does that something you guys
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have in the bylaws of when they accept the freecar that they can't just go out and sell it, or
is it theirs to have and do what they will?
No.
We do have a condition in there where theycannot sell it without approval from the board,
and then it has to be completely unsolvable.
Like, say, for instance, the motor were to blowor something.
We've never had this happen before.
Knock on wood.
But if it were to happen, there are ways thatpeople can sell their car if something happens
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to it like that, or they have, like, aninsurance claim or things.
You know?
You never know what could happen.
We do have those provisions.
Wow.
That's great.
And so you that's that's one success story nowjust like anybody growing a business and the
and the struggles that we have and the and theand the setbacks.
Tell us a little bit about something that was asetback or something that you struggled with,
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but it ended up being a blessing or or the thething that you needed.
Do you have one of those stories?
Absolutely.
You know, I always say when nothing goes right,go left, And there's no win or lose.
You either win or you learn, and I've done alot of both.
So, the losing part has been, you know, youstart something like this and you're like, wow.
This is a really great idea, and it feels sogood.
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Right?
Like, I know I'm on the right path.
And then you open up the donation line andnothing happens.
Mhmm.
And you're thinking, jeez, you know, like, whyisn't anybody donating?
Maybe it's a stupid idea.
And then you start to worry that, like, hey.
Maybe this wasn't a good idea after all.
There's been times where we've been fairlyshort on the funds to buy another car and, you
know, actively trying to fundraise.
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We've had things fall through.
I mean, we had a vehicle that we were givingaway, and the morning we went to go and get it
washed for the giveaway, it was full of water.
We could have in the bottom of it, we could youcould hear sloshing around water.
I mean, we've just had so many things thathappened where there's just completely insane.
You can't even imagine some of the things thatcan happen and how difficult it is to find the
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perfect car for the right family.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
Well, you know, with so real quick when itcomes to yeah.
I know it's meant for cars, but do you guys doany other support inside of the inside of the
nonprofit?
Like, do you support other things, or is itonly strictly vehicles?
Or do they if they need help and assistanceelsewhere, do you have, you know, areas that
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you can say, okay.
Well, this is what you can do for food.
This is what you can do for housing.
Do you have that stuff inside of it too, or isit just strictly cars?
We're happy to refer people if they have aquestion about some of the things you
mentioned.
But we really do try to focus on just the carsbecause we feel like we wanna do one thing
excellent and not get, you know, sidetrackedwith a bunch of other things.
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But we do have resources that we can referindividuals to if they end up in a situation
like that.
Yeah.
Fantastic.
Now is this something that when it because itis so local, is this something where local,
administration, local townships or countieswhere they've where they support you or have
been able to, you know, help you with it whenit comes to legislation or or or pitfalls that
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come about the legal system for it all, or orhow do what what what have you found with that?
So we have chief legal counsel on our board ofdirectors, so we do have the legal part figured
out.
We were awarded a proclamation, and, NationalSingle Parents Day is March 21st.
So that we were given that for driving singleparents, and that was signed by the mayor.
So, yeah, we do get a lot of local support anda lot of people who really rally behind us to
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try to help us.
And local businesses, car dealerships help us.
I mean, we really have
that question was, what car dealership do youhave?
Like, is there a single car dealership thatthat basically does all your transactions, or
is it just a matter of who benefits for thetype of car they need at the time?
It's who wherever I can get the car from or whowhoever I can get the car from that's gonna be
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perfect for the recipient is where I get it.
So, no, it's not just one.
We have had a car giveaway through Carvanabefore.
We just recently on the 21st of of this month,we actually gave away of November.
We actually gave away a vehicle through RedMcCombs Ford West.
We've partnered with Service King before.
We've partnered with some smaller dealerships.
Yeah.
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So just pretty much what I do is I go on thehunt.
And in fact, this last vehicle that we gaveaway, I went to 42 different dealerships Wow.
And just searched for the perfect car.
So, finally found it at Red Mill comes FordWest, and so that's why we partnered with them
this time.
That's great.
Well, 42 dealerships in your local area.
Everybody like she said before, she's fromTexas.
We all know things are bigger in Texas,including North Car dealerships.
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Right?
No.
We probably have 42 dealerships in Columbus,but it's probably right about that.
You know?
I'm in Columbus, Ohio, but I think, you know,one of the biggest Ford dealerships is is here
in Ohio.
At least that's what they claim from what wehear.
But, but, yeah,
that's that's so focus on most people focus onthose bigger dealerships.
They'll be like, oh, you have the Forddealership.
You have this.
Yeah.
But there's so many smaller dealerships thatare out there, And I actually really like to
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partner with small dealerships just becauseit's a win win.
You know?
It's like you're putting a spotlight on themsaying we partner with this, you know,
dealership that a lot of people may not knowabout.
And then they're partnering with us.
And so it I think it's a really win win.
And no matter which, if it's a big one or asmall one, doesn't matter, but that a lot of
the ones that I look at are smallerdealerships.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well and that's you probably each time you givea car away, I mean, I'm sure you make it kind
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of a big to do, or do you kinda keep it down onthe on the lowdown?
No.
But here, we definitely make it a big to do.
We invite the media out.
They'll come out and put it on the news.
Right.
Yeah, we definitely try to make a big to do ofit because
we live.
No.
Yeah.
Yes.
Because when you think about it, if you saysomeone's gonna give away cars, people are
like, really?
No.
You get away cars.
Come on.
It seems kinda, you know, like, unreal.
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And so that really helps the news.
That's why when you said you give away cars, Iwent, like, what?
You give away cars.
I was like, oh, I definitely need to know morethis because
Yeah.
That's what most people do.
So the news really does help share what we doand then also show that, hey.
We are a real 501c3 nonprofit.
Right.
Well and I'm sure, you know, I'm I'm gettingready to drop in my my sponsor here, and and I
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mentioned that it would eventually come up.
I'm sure that, you know, my sponsor deals withanxiety and some of the some of the major
downfalls that people have from, you know, notbeing enough, not being worth not having that
self worth, And this kind of I mean, someonegetting a car so they can go and and provide
for their family and their schooling orwhatever to get places, that has to weigh on
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their self worth and and most likely theiranxiety.
Right?
I mean, tell us a little story about aboutsomebody that that just had changed everything,
not only for their life, but for their, youknow, for that that, you know, that personal
side of things.
Do you have a story?
Yeah.
Well, I have every single story of every singleperson we've ever helped, has had a story like
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that, but I'll I'll give you a really good one.
The verse the first vehicle we ever gave awaywent to a gentleman who was actually hit by a
drunk driver.
In that accident, he not only lost his car, buthe lost his wife and his leg.
So he became a single dad overnight and thenobviously had some handicap needs there.
So I made sure to get him an SUV that way hecould handle his children and then also his
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handicap needs and get him back and forth torehabilitation and the things that he needed.
But he still drives that car to this day andrefuses to sell it because it's so sentimental
to him.
But that was a really big one where you havesomebody who's can kinda stripped of a lot of
things at one time and really dealt with a lotof anxiety and stress and how am I gonna get
through this and how am I gonna work and how amI, you know, all the how am I gonna, and the
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one thing he didn't have to worry about wasthat car that could get him to wherever it is
he needed to go.
Wow.
That's fantastic.
Well, real quick, like I said, we'll take aquick, word from our sponsor, and we'll come
back and finish up and find out, how people canget ahold of Cindy and maybe even duplicate
what she does or or if they're if she's in ifyou're in the Texas area and need your help to
to reach out to her.
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and the cars that she gives away for, forsingle parents.
Fantastic program.
Tell us peep tell people how to get a hold ofyou, where they can go and find out more.
You know, hopefully, someone's here and tryingto you know, if they're waiting for that moment
and like, oh my gosh.
I wanna do that in my area.
She's local.
She could help.
You know, tell us all about how we can find youand and get more details on everything that you
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do.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
You can go to driving single parents dot org.
We have all the information on the site,whether it is you want to make a donation.
I always tell people a dollar or $5 can make ahuge impact.
And right now, we're trying to fund for ournext giveaway.
So if we can just get 40 people to give $100,we'll have enough to give away another car by
Christmas.
So we're working on that right now.
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And so there is where you can also find how toapply if you or someone you know needs a
vehicle.
And then if you would like to reach out to usvia email, you could reach us at info at
driving single parents dot org.
We'd love to hear from you.
We'd love to help however we can in your area.
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
And, of course, are you on Facebook?
And do you have your own Facebook, or is it aFacebook page for an Instagram, all that stuff?
(24:48):
What are what are all those details?
Are they all on the website?
Yeah.
They're all on the website, but you can alsojust look up Driving Single Parents on
Instagram or Driving Single Parents onFacebook.
We're available in both places.
You can also find me everywhere on social mediaunder my name, Cindy Woodeman.
That's awesome.
Well, Cindy, let's talk a little bit about thethe Force Magazine.
I had you'd you asked me if I wanted to be inforce, and I have written an article, so we'll
(25:12):
have to talk about that in deep detail maybewhen the recording's over.
But talk to us a little bit more about theForce Magazine, what it what it is, what it
does, and how that came about.
Absolutely.
So it's actually kind of a funny story.
I have a fear of public speaking, and Iabsolutely hate being on camera, but I don't
mind being on camera with you today, Kyle.
But I I marvelous, darling.
Marvelous.
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It is much less to look and to feel good.
Right?
Thank you.
I made a promise to myself that I was gonna getover this fear of public speaking as the
founder and CEO of a nonprofit.
You gotta speak.
Right?
So I made this commitment to myself.
I end up with the TV show and all the otherthings I do.
And then, somebody out of nowhere asked me onenight, hey, Cindy.
So, you know, what's next for you?
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And I'm like, are you kidding me?
I already started a nonprofit.
I already TV show.
I already have 5 best selling books.
Like, what do you want from me?
You know?
Squeezing the last straw hat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm like, what else do you need from me?
So anyway, so every night before bed for 3nights, I wrote down what's next for you.
And I really thought to myself, like, is thisit?
Is this all you have in you?
Is are you done?
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Is this this it?
And, anyways, for 3 nights in a row, I wrote itdown.
And the last night I wrote it down right beforebed, I had this dream that I found it in my own
magazine.
Force Magazine is what it was in the dream.
I actually saw the cover before the picture wasever even taken.
And, the next morning, I woke up.
I wrote it out.
I called to my publicist and said, hey.
Do y'all think y'all can help me with this?
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And they said, yeah.
We can help you with that.
And within 30 days, I had my very first editionof Force Magazine released.
That's awesome.
And what what kind of stuff do you, highlightin Force?
And is that is that a paper and online, or isit just online?
Tell us a little bit details on that.
Yes.
Yes.
It's available both in digital and paperback.
It's in available in 13 countries, And, really,what we focus on is highlighting good news.
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And if any any of you out there go and look meup at all, that's my whole mission in life is
to create opportunities for other people toshine and also showcase good news.
There's so much bad news out there.
People really seem to focus on that, and what'sreally important to me is to shine a light on
the good people like you in this world, Kyle,who are doing amazing things, trying to make
the world a better place.
So that's what force really focuses on isanybody who's a force to be reckoned with and
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wants to make this world a little better.
Every time you say the force to be reckonedwith, I I think of that I think of the Fox
Force 5 out of, Pulp Fiction.
You ever see that movie?
I don't I don't know if I've ever seen that.
Maybe.
Pulp Fiction was really popular in the midnineties, and it had Bruce Willis and, Uma
Thurman.
And it's one of those weird directors fromHollywood that always do these weird movies,
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but it's just such a cult classic.
And they the one gal that was featured on theon the had a TV show called the Fox Force 5.
And during the show, they talked about what whythe name was that, and and it's Uma Thurman.
And the the way she describes it is it's a veryhilarious moment.
She said, Fox, that's because there's that shegoes, Fox, because we're foxy ladies.
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Force, because we're a force to be reckonedwith.
5, because there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of us.
And I'm like Well,
that's funny.
I've never heard that.
Yeah.
So every time I you know, when you said forcedto be reckoned with, I'm like, oh, I wonder if
she's a Pulp Fiction fan because it's like 5,you know you know, Fox Foxy because we're all
foxy.
Force because we're a force to be reckonedwith.
And 5 because there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of us.
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And she's just when she
says it's just
such a badass and I'm, like, yeah.
I believe you.
I'm gonna have to look up that clip.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Probably just put, put in a Pulp Fiction FoxForce 5 in YouTube.
I'm sure you'll find it.
Yeah.
I bet I will.
I'll check it out.
But that's great.
So so what kind of articles are do do you guyshighlight in enforce, not Fox Force 5.
Inforce
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just anybody who's out there trying to make adifference in any way.
We like, educational, inspirational, people wholike to share stories of resilience.
I mean, it could be really just anything.
People who have nonprofits, people who arebusiness owners.
I mean, we have ad space in there.
So really just anything that's positive.
We don't Okay.
Showcase the latest lipstick or, like, the bestfashion because I'm not that kind of person.
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So we don't do that part.
I know a lot of other magazines do thatalready, which is awesome for them, but we
really focus on, like, inspirational storiesand and and things that will make you smile.
When you're sitting in a waiting room and youhave nothing else to do, I would love it if
people could pick up Force Magazine and leavethat office feeling like they learned
something.
That's awesome.
Now how do we find Force Magazine?
Is it force.comorforce.org?
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Forcemagazinefeature.com Okay.
Is the best place to find it.
And, also, you can find it atforce.magazine.feature on Instagram.
Okay.
Cool.
And we'll make sure that all the links foreverything will be in the in the description
below so you guys can just click on it.
But, yeah, fantastic.
So with what you said earlier before we wrapthings up, what's next, Cindy?
What else are you gonna do?
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You have anything
to do with it?
Am I gonna do?
Do you have
anything to do with it?
No.
You already you got a podcast, so we don't haveto talk about that.
So but or we can talk about it.
We can we so, yeah, actually, tell tell us alittle bit about your podcast and how to find
that, you know, to to hear all the differentthings that you do.
Yeah.
So the podcast actually stems from a book thatI wrote with my 2 oldest daughters.
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I have 6 kiddos and 4 grandkids and one on theway.
So my 2 oldest daughters and I were talking oneday, and I had already written 2 books.
I've written in 2 books.
And, my daughter said, mom, you know, wouldn'tbe cool if we wrote a book together?
I said, sure.
What do you want it to be about?
So we kind of nailed down, manifesting.
So we're like, oh, let's talk aboutmanifesting.
So we ended up with the title as manifestingbullshit.
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And since we started writing that book and Iwould talk to people about it or, you know, do
book signings or whatever, people would alwayssay, well, is it like they genuinely wanted to
know?
And so I said, I was driving to work one dayand I was like, man, you know what?
I should start a podcast because wouldn't it becool to, like, hear all opinions, not just
people who are for it, not just people who areagainst it, but just anybody who has an opinion
or a thought or a story about manifesting.
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So that's how I was born.
So I just used the same title, created thepodcast, and it's been really fun.
You know, I've met with people from all aroundthe world who have some amazing stories to
share and some skeptics and critics, and I justthink it's a really fun thought provoking
podcast.
Yeah.
You know, and and I'm I know a little bit aboutmanifesting.
I had a friend of mine who 100% believes inmanifesting.
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And I it's not that I'm not a believer.
It's just it's one of those things I wouldn'teven wanna say just.
It's one of those things where, you know, Ifeel and and you can probably speak on this a
little bit.
You know, if you're a positive person andthings happen for you, that can be part of
manifesting because you're positive.
Because when you're negative I mean, we knowthis for a fact.
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You you can talk bad to a plant and and treat aplant like crap, and and it dies.
But if you talk positive to it, I mean, that'sthat's been proven.
There's been studies that have done that wherepeople just do normal watering and talk to it
nicely, and it thrives.
Normal watering and talk to it meanly, and itdies.
And then you're like, what is this?
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I mean, it sounds wonky, but it's there'sthere's actual documentation out there for that
that is believables.
It's it's one of the things, in my opinion,manifestation is an uber, ultimate, positive
mindset, which is all part of manifestation, isthat positive, energetic, we're all energy, we
all know we're energy because one reason why weknow that we have energy is because our heart
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beats, okay?
And I'm medical, our heart beats because of theenergy that's inside of us.
So we have energy, we can actually see it on anEKG, there's actual electricity going through
our body, and that energy can be positive ornegative.
And if you carry yourself in a positive way andthink positively, that's all part of the
manifestation stuff.
Oh, I agree a 100%.
Well, you just said it.
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I mean, if you you have to feed your brain andyou have to water your brain and you have to
talk nicely to your brain, and then a lot ofgood positive things can happen because if you
don't believe yourself that you can do it,you'll never try.
So part of manifesting to me is self belief andactually figuring out what you want.
Because if you can figure out what you want,then you could figure out a road map on how to
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get there.
So that's what I believe manifesting really isself belief.
Yeah.
Fantastic.
Alright.
Well, Cindy Witteeman, thank you so much forcoming on the Ignition Path podcast and sharing
your amazing stories about your multipledifferent areas and your what next and and what
you've done to change this world.
I love meeting positive people like you.
I'm sure that, we'll connect in other waysgoing forward.
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That's why we were introduced the very firsttime because another positive person in my life
that I had met realized that I'm a positiveperson, and they say, hey.
Let's meet all these positive people becausethat's what all it's all about.
That's what the Ignition Path podcast is about.
That's what Cindy's podcast is about.
That's what her organization is about, andthat's what the Force Magazine is about.
So you've got the trifecta here.
(33:55):
So I'm just I'm I'm glad that there are, youknow, this these type of people in the world,
and, don't hesitate if anything that she saidtoday.
If you had that notion where you feel like youneed to donate even that $5 like she said would
help for that car service or or you've been asingle parent before and didn't have vehicle
services and but now you do.
You've got some place to to go and donate somemoney and have that as a tax write off for the
(34:18):
end of the year.
You know, help let's help her get to let's helpher get to that car before Christmas.
That would be a fantastic Christmas present forour family, wouldn't it?
We're gonna put the seed.
That's positive manifestation.
It's gonna happen.
We're talking about it now positively.
I'm throwing it out there in the world thatit's gonna happen.
I'm actually gonna bump your episode in frontof somebody else's so we have the full month of
December.
(34:38):
Thank you.
Thank you.
Because that's one thing I usually ask is,okay.
With this episode, is there anything that istime sensitive?
And and the folks that say, no.
No time sensitive, then I can move them around.
But the people that say, a little bit of timesensitive or go, I'd like this.
You get out before next week because I've gotsomething big.
So we'll do that, and we'll make sure that, wehave a few, weeks in advance for for to get
(34:59):
that as a as a come to fruition when it comesto, that that vehicle for a family.
So
Thank you so much.
Else you wanna add at all?
I always like to just
let you know that.
Out there that even if you can't afford todonate to a nonprofit in your area or one that
you love, the easiest best thing you can do isfind them online and share their content
because you never know whatever post you'resharing, how that can really impact somebody
(35:22):
else.
It could land in front of somebody who needsthe assistance, or it can land in front of
somebody who can help them get to their goal.
So share those posts, share those, nonprofitsout there.
It's really, really important, and it goes along way.
Fantastic.
Alright, Cindy.
Thank you so much for coming on Ignition PathPodcast.
And the folks out there, don't forget to like,share, subscribe.
(35:42):
If you heard anything during this conversationthat you definitely wanna share with your
friends and family, hit that share button andlet them know, and, and let's spread the word
of the ignition path and everything that SydneyCindy is doing that is, fantastic in in her
world.
And and, don't hesitate to reach out to her.
I know she's very she was very accommodating tomeet up with me, when I wanted to get to know
(36:03):
her after we were introduced, and I'm sureshe'll be the same way no matter what you need
that that you heard that for this.
So thanks again, Cindy, for coming on, and,we'll talk soon.
Thank you so much for having me.
I'm so grateful for you and all that you'redoing to make the world a better place.
Thank you for listening to Ignition Pack,fueling the entrepreneurial fire.
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